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Marshall, Mo. (November 10, 2009)-- Missouri Valley College, along with Missouri's Civil War Heritage Foundation, will host a reception to honor Doug Scott, forensic archaeologist from the University of Nebraska- Lincoln, Nov. 13, from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Ferguson Center's R. Wilson Brown room on the MVC campus.
Trujillo, Peru - Life will punish those who react too late is a quote by Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev that could easily apply to archaeologists in Peru. Grave robbers, or Huaqueros as they are known here, often plunder ancient tombs before archa...
Montana has a new dinosaur, a species that's been compared to an army tank. The new ankylosaur, Tatankacephalus cooneyorum, is described below by the Buffalo Museum of Science: New dinosaur species from Montana BUFFALO, NY (October 30, 2009) -- A ...
A man accused of murdering his girlfriend turned himself in to authorities Monday night, according to Charlotte-Mecklenburg police.
Japanese manga artist Hoshino Yukinobu has brought his popular character Professor Munakata to London's British Museum, featuring some of the collection's most famous treasures in his drawings.
18th century-style coffeehouse opening at Colonial Williamsburg
Don't expect soy lattes or Internet access for your laptop, but your next visit to Colonial Williamsburg could include a stop in a coffeehouse.
A million dollars of federal transportation-enhancement money that was intended to be spent on land acquisition for a park at Lauxmont Farms in Lower Windsor Township will now likely be used for other improvements, such as a river walk and parking.
He was known as the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly intellectually from modern ones. Claude Levi-Strauss, the French philosopher widely considered the father of modern anthropology because of his then-revolutionary conclusion that so-called primitive societies did not differ greatly ...
Claude Levi-Strauss, widely considered the father of modern anthropology, has died.
The presentations take place Nov. 18 and Nov. 19.
Egypt's famous Tomb of Tutankhamun will undergo a project to clean and restore the lavish wall paintings in the underground chambers
In 1974, when I was a graduate student in anthropology at Columbia University, I wanted to organize a discussion of universals. At the time, I was working for Margaret Mead as one of her assistants.
Turkish novelist Orhan Pamuk turns anthropologist of experience in his new work, “The Museum of Innocence.” He does this by encapsulating the world's beauty, childhood and happiness with a master writer's control of an obsessive personality.
HUAMPAMI, Peru — In his first year at San Marcos University, Hermenegildo Espejo barely spoke, and certainly not in class. His Spanish was rudimentary, his accent an embarrassment. Classmates in Lima, a two-day trip from his Amazon home town, laughed at his grammatical stumbles, his odd pronunciation.
Debra Green, 55, has been the Director of the Fred C. Fischer Library in Belleville for 22 years.
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