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The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has contracted with the Mississippi Valley Archaeology Center to monitor cultural resources on about 24 acres of the 75.4-acre Mathy tract on Brice Prairie.
On Friday night, a group of girls, ages 6 to 12, spent the night among the ancient artifacts in the University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. The girls were participating in “40 Winks with the Sphinx,” a sleepover program that introduces children to the more fun aspects of the University Museum. The program occurs sporadically throughout the year. Participating campers go on an ...
Modern methods are breathing new life into this more than 500-year-old masterpiece.
The makers of luxury watches, in today's challenging market, are promoting their product as much as an idea or metaphor as has a fashion statement.
QUINCY — Did you know that the Quincy Cemetery is almost 10 acres in size and currently contains approximately 2,139 graves? How about the fact that it was first platted in 1905, and all of the graves lay in an east-west orientation?
MARCIE MELENDEZ / The Valley Chronicle INVESTIGATION: Hemet police investigate the house at 1440 Blue Jay Way in Hemet on Wednesday morning after bones found in the yard on Nov. 18 were identified as human.
Arthur Vokes of the Arizona State Museum goes through some of his backed inventory of artifacts. He is in the process of moving the inventory into more archival and acid free storage.
As the namesake college of the most diverse county on earth, Queens College (QC) will soon broaden its academic horizons with the Asian American Pacific Islander Community Studies (AAPICS) program.
Theories that the world is going to end provide the basis for new disaster film 2012, by acclaimed director Roland Emmerich, which was released in the UK on 13th November 2009.
Claude Lévi-Strauss, often referred to as “the father of modern anthropology,” was renowned in life for his unifying theories and sociological bridging between tribal and “civilized” cultures. The French anthropologist, who died on Oct. 30 at the age of 100, was honored in a panel discussion of his life’s work yesterday in the Kroch Library Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections.
Signs for the streets laid out by General George Rogers Clark in his original Southern Indiana settlement more than 200 years ago will be a feature of the Old Clarksville Historic District proposed for 279 acres of the town near the Ohio River.
TREMONT — A survey crew searching Monday for century-old shipwrecks in the area of the federal Bass Harbor dredging project came up empty-handed, clearing the way for the project to move forward unimpeded.
WENATCHEE — The Okanogan-Wenatchee National Forest is looking to fill two vacancies on its 15-member Resource Advisory Committee. The committee meets three or four times each year to discuss and recommend projects to be funded with federal money through the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act.
The British Museum says a massive haul of Anglo-Saxon gold found this summer by an unemployed amateur treasure-hunter has been valued at 3.285 million pounds ($5.435 million).
SILVER CITY -- Master American Indian weaver Crane Day will be at the Blue Dome Gallery today, in conjunction with an exhibit opening of his work. Gallery owner Linda Brewer first discovered Day's work about 10 years ago at the Tucson Art Museum show and fell in love with it.
BY KATHY REMILLARD Anthropologist Margaret Mead once wrote, “Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful people can change the world.” Students at Ross J. Lurgio Middle School will see if that’s true this year as they embark on a new community service project. It’s called “Pay It Forward,” and it’s loosely based on the Hollywood movie of the same name. The premise is simple: Students will go ...
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