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Rob Bozell, associate director of the Archeology Laboratory of Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., will talk about pre-European Native Americans of Eastern Nebraska at the monthly Friends of Wilderness Park meeting Sunday.
City Councilman Kirkman Finlay, who is running for mayor of Columbia, said he raised $100,000 during his first fundraiser Nov. 3.
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. Visitors will be able to experience an 18th century-style coffeehouse when R. Charlton’s Coffeehouse opens Nov. 20 on Duke of Gloucester Street at the historic site. Free coffee, tea and hot chocolate inspired by 18th-century recipes will be ...
French academic Claude Levi-Strauss, the creator of structural anthropology, passed away at the age of 100, his publisher Plon announced on Tuesday.Levi-Strauss, famous from his 1955 memoir, "Tristes Tropiques," passed away on Saturday.
What’s so special about the prehistoric rock art found in the region? Dr. Carolyn Boyd is inviting area residents to find out by attending the Texas Archeological Society Public Forum.
Items for the City Calendar should be brought in or telephoned (765-3311) to Bob Patterson, at the Ponca City News, by Thursday noon, or sent to calendars@poncacitynews.com.
Debra Green, 55, has been the Director of the Fred C. Fischer Library in Belleville for 22 years.
The U.S. Forest Service has begun to uncover the remains of a fort used to temporarily house the migrating Cherokee on the Trail of Tears to Oklahoma more than 170 years ago.
The city’s Department of Parks & Recreation and the Historic House Trust have taken ownership of Flushing’s Bowne House, the oldest structure in Queens and one of the oldest in the city.
An enthusiast with a metal detector has unearthed a £1 million hoard of Iron Age gold necklaces from a field near Stirling in a discovery that is set to revolutionize the way that historians view some of Scotland’s ancient inhabitants.
No one knows why the ancient Mayans decided to end their long calendar on winter solstice, 2012.
More than a year into an excavation project of the men's gymnasium that was destroyed by the 1906 earthquake, university archaeologist Laura Jones' team has found evidence to suggest why the building fell.
Serena Nanda and Joan Gregg , Professional Staff Congress at CUNY (retired) recently published an anthropological murder mystery, The Gift of a Bride: A Tale of Anthropology, Matrimony and Murder.
There's a right time for everything, a natural ebb and flow; a time for new beginnings and, just as certainly, one for endings. Now is the time for this column to end, and this change comes purely at my request.
Here are a selection of brief news items from this week’s paper edition, and possibly a few news briefs that didn’t make it in the paper.
TheGrio: Sammy Sosa's move to lighten his skin highlights an ugly truth.
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