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Paleolithic Stone Artifacts Found in China
Sci-News.Com: Breaking Science News e-Magazine
Chinese archaeologists have unearthed a collection of 37 stone artifacts at three new localities near the Liuhuaishan, an important early Paleolithic site in the Bose Basin. The new finds, described in the latest issue of Acta Anthropologica Sinica, [more]
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Stone artifacts with handaxes and picks found in Danjiangkou ...
Phys.Org
In October, 2004, Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, conducted a survey ... [more]
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'Bronze Age' boat is nearly history...
Thanet Times, Isle of Thanet Gazette (thisiskent.co.uk) - Margate,England,UK
A REPLICA Roman boat put together by a team of time detectives from Canterbury Archaeological Trust sank as soon as it was put into water for sea trials. The disaster happened as Tony Robinson, who played Baldric in the TV series Blackadder, ... [more]
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BLM seeks help to stop rock art vandalism
St. George Daily Spectrum - St. George,UT,USA
SANTA CLARA — The Bureau of Land Management is responding to vandalism at rock art sites located on public lands, including the archaeological and historic site of Land Hill. Land Hill is part of the Santa Clara River Reserve – a 6500-acre area of .. [more]
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Iraq drills under Hanging Gardens
The Australian
As Baghdad is working to get the UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) to list Babylon as a World Heritage Site, archaeologists and oil ministry officials are in a battle over a pipeline that one side insists threatens the sit [more]
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Musqueam ancestral land a heritage site
Vancouver Courier - British Columbia,Canada
Except, in this case, the blue and white tarpaulincovered tents on the land aren't there to protect crews from the elements; the shelters are the work of archaeologists hired by the property's owners and the developer. Their digging has proven ... [more]
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Paul Scholes may have to play until he is 68 as austerity plan bites
Guardian - UK
You may think such practices would have ended long ago – replaced by more scientific approaches to ensuring our physical and psychological wellbeing such as immunisation, or bingo – but, according to a friend of mine who's an archaeologist and ... [more]
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Vernon students in archaeological study
NorthJersey.com
BY JANET REDYKE Last week, 300 eighth graders from Glen Meadows Middle School were able to take part in an archaeological dig and study at the Black Creek Historic site located next to Maple Grange Park. Sponsored by the Vernon Historical Society, .. [more]
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200-Year-Old Shipwreck Discovered in Gulf of Mexico
ABC News - United States
“This discovery was part of a larger mission to look at unknown or poorly-known areas in the Gulf of Mexico,” said Frank Cantelas, a maritime archaeologist with NOAA's Office of Ocean Exploration and Research. According to NOAA, “the 56-day expeditio [more]
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New Maya Mural debunks Doomsday Myths
PR Web (press release) - Ferndale,WA,USA
The Maya of Belize and the entire Mundo Maya region welcome new facts coming from recently unearthed murals at Guatemala's Xultún archaeological site because they serve to further debunk myths while opening the real Maya culture to the world, ... [more]
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19th Century Shipwreck Discovered In Gulf Of Mexico (PHOTOS)
Huffington Post - New York,NY,USA
"Artifacts in and around the wreck and the hull's copper sheathing may date the vessel to the early to mid-19th century," Jack Irion, a maritime archaeologist with the BOEM, said in the press release. "Some of the more datable objects include what .. [more]
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Thursday, May 17
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Standard-Speaker - Hazleton,PA,USA
"Artifacts in and around the wreck and the hull's copper sheathing may date the vessel to the early to mid-19th century," Jack Irion, a maritime archaeologist with the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), said in a statement. [more]
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Thursday, May 17
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USA Today - McLean,VA,United States
Smith's new graphic novel Sullivan's Sluggers puts together an all-star creative team of the New Brighton Archaeological Society scribe and Orc Stain artist James Stokoe. What was planned as an Image Comics release a couple years is now a bigger deal [more]
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Thursday, May 17
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Wall Street Journal - USA
Archaeologists have been brought in to remove the remains and transfer them to Buffalo's Forest Lawn Cemetery for reburial. Officials say the remains were found on the former site of the Erie County Almshouse and Poor Farm, which closed in 1909. [more]
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Thursday, May 17
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Phys.Org
In December 2008, Scientists from the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Chinese Academy of Sciences, and Youjiang Museum ... [more]
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Thursday, May 17
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Cambridge Evening News
A mass archaeological dig led by a famous face took over a field in Clavering on Saturday. Dr Carenza Lewis, of Channel 4's TimeTeam, brought her Access Cambridge Archaeology team to the Uttlesford village's Christian Centre in Stortford Road to carr [more]
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Thursday, May 17
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TribLocal
By Naper Settlement Monday at 11:18 am The new Archaeology Camp at Naper Settlement offers campers a chance to learn about the science behind archaeological discoveries. What are your kids doing this summer? Are they uncovering the past as an ... [more]
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Thursday, May 17
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Redding Pilot - Georgetown,CT,USA
With a 16-unit apartment building approved for 593 Main Street under state affordable housing law Tuesday night, investigations of the one-acre site by a specialist in “battlefield archaeology” should soon begin. The property, across the Main Street [more]
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Thursday, May 17
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Buffalo News - Buffalo,NY,USA
Archaeologists are completing the removal of the remains and transferring them to Forest Lawn for reinterment, said Joseph Brennan, associate vice president for university communications. “It's an interesting part of our history in Buffalo,” Brennan [more]
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Thursday, May 17
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The Star - UK
Now Sheffield-based archaeologist Kenneth Aitchison is telling the story of how they were discovered as part of a hi-tech new publication - available exclusively as an e-book. The 42-year-old's volume, Breaking New Ground: how archaeology works ... [more]
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Thursday, May 17
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Rome News Tribune - rome,ga,USA
In the process, the fraud cast a dark shadow on the emerging scientific field of paleoanthropology, the study of human origins. [more]
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