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Results of field school to be given
ELKHART - Jay VanderVeen, associate professor of anthropology at Indiana University South Bend, will present a public program at 6:30 p.m. May 7 at the Havilah Beardsley House, 102 W. Beardsley Ave. In the program, 'Unearthing the Story of the...Tags: Indiana University South Bend, Arts and Culture
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New Jamestown exhibit explores colonist cannibalism
Nobody knows exactly when a nameless 14-year-old English girl met her end during the deadly Starving Time at Jamestown — or when she was butchered by a desperate fellow colonist driven to unthinkable extremes by hunger. She was already forgotten...
Tags: Smithsonian Institution, England, James River, Jamestown (Jamestown, Virginia), Arts and Culture
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Evidence suggests Maya roots more tangled than previously thought
The classic Maya civilization, which flourished in Central America for more than 600 years, has been celebrated for its vast city states adorned with monumental pyramids and for its technological feats such as the development of an elaborate written...
Tags: Guatemala, Architecture, State University of New York, Mexico, Geography
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Guest column: Anthropologists should do a better job of promoting their field
Anthropology has been in the news quite a bit lately. The New York Times recently profiled Napoleon Chagnon on the eve of the publication of his memoir, "Noble Savages: My Life Among Two Dangerous Tribes — The Yanomamo and the Anthropologists."...Tags: Zora Neale Hurston, Sports Illustrated, CBS Corp., Rick Scott, World Bank Group
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Oaxaca temple complex hints at archaic Mexican state
Much of what we know about past civilizations in Mexico comes from the writings of colonial Europeans -- Spanish conquerors and priests -- who arrived in the Americas in the 1500s. But archaeological evidence from recent excavations at a site called El...
Tags: Mexico, Religion and Belief, Arts and Culture, Museum of Natural History
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Ancient undersea stone structure was made by man; what was it?
Archaeologists in Israel have discovered a mysterious stone monument weighing 60,000 tons and rising 32 feet above the bottom of the Sea of Galilee. Scientists don't know who built the structure, or why, but in a recent paper in the International...
Tags: Arts and Culture, Science and Technology
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Civil War sailors laid to rest, 151 years later
Eleven years ago, Navy Capt. Barbara "Bobbie" Scholley dived more than 230 feet into the ocean to help bring back the past: two sailors killed when their Civil War battleship sank in 1862. On Friday, the Annapolis woman joined the crew members'...
Tags: Chestertown, Aberdeen Proving Ground, Chemical Industry, Unions, Career and Workplace
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Preserving the memory of the Monitor sailors
Long before the start of the expedition that recovered the USS Monitor gun turret from the bottom of the Atlantic in 2002, Navy divers and NOAA archaeologists working to save the historic Civil War ship knew they might run into the remains of lost...
Tags: Hatteras, USS Monitor Center, Human Interest, USS Monitor, Arts and Culture
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River exploration, archaeology and more at Robinson Nature Center camps
Summer break finds many kids sleeping in, riding bikes and splashing in the pool. But it’s not every day you come across a pastime like Autumn Boit’s. “Yesterday I skipped lunch to clean artifacts,” the Ellicott City fourth-...
Tags: Ellicott City, Arts and Culture
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Mexico finds fire-god figure at top of Pyramid of the Sun
MEXICO CITY -- Did the rulers of the ancient city of Teotihuacan dedicate their largest pyramid to the god of fire, the so-called old god with a signature beard and fire atop his head? Mexican archaeologists announced this week that a figure of the god,...
Tags: Mexico, Arts and Culture
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Richard III horror story: Axed in head, stabbed in rear, bones dug up
Hero Complex - movies, comics, pop culture - Los Angeles TimesThis post has been updated. Please see note at the bottom for details. King Richard III has not been treated ...... -
Getty Museum to return Hades terracotta head to Sicily
A terracotta head depicting the Greek god Hades that the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired in 1985 is being voluntarily sent back to Sicily, the museum has announced. Getty officials said that the museum has worked with officials from Sicily during the last...
Tags: Artists, The Getty, Greek Gods and Goddesses, Italy, Arts and Culture
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