Archeology

Taliban suffocate Pakistan Buddhist heritage (AFP)

AFP/File – A Pakistani man looking at Buddha sculptures at a museum in Peshawar in October 2009. Archaeologists … by Sajjad Tarakzai Sajjad Tarakzai – 24 mins ago TAXILA, Pakistan (AFP) – Archaeologists warn that the Taliban...

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Hadrian's Academy unearthed?

After the discovery of the building that perhaps supported Nero's rotating dining room on the Palatine, excavations for Line C of Rome's subway brought to light a building that, according to the first hypotheses made by...

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Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology

Innovation in Cultural Systems: Contributions from Evolutionary Anthropology Edited by Michael J. O'Brien and Stephen J. Shennan Leading scholars offer a range of perspectives on the roles played by innovation in the evolution...

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Mr Plint and the PreRaphaelites

The Victorian Society (West Yorkshire Branch) AGM will take place in Leeds Parish Church. Celebrating the 10th anniversary Irish Post-Medieval Archaeology Group Conference at Group Space, Ulster Hall, Belfast. To share some of...

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Tales from beyond the grave

Skeletons unearthed in Old Montreal will allow archeologists to travel back in time to learn more about the common-man residents of Montreal in the 1700s By RENE BRUEMMER, The GazetteNovember 20, 2009 4:05 AM Photograph by:...

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Archeologist recreates Stonehenge at Ness Botanical Gardens in Wirral

Nov 20 2009 by Richard Down, Liverpool Daily Post AN ARCHEOLOGIST has recreated the country’s most famous prehistoric landmark in a Merseyside park. University of Liverpool student John Hill built his version of Stonehenge at...

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Scuba diving to the depths of human history

It's dark - This is all in a day's work for Momber, who is director of the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology in Southampton, UK. The field of underwater archaeology is perhaps best known for unearthing relics...

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The Enduring Vision - Archeologists Discover Cache Of Pre-2003 Pornography On Ancient Laptop

While combing through the ruins of an old, pre-latest-recession era office building yesterday, a team of archeologists in San Francisco unearthed a laptop that dates as far back as circa 2002. But what really made the find...

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Cornell Prof Helps Protect Native American Burial Ground

Local farmland alleged to be a Native American burial ground was partially bulldozed to make way for a manure storage tank, but work in the area has been halted thanks in part to the work of a Cornell professor.

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Digging for History at the Williams Creek Campground (Crater Lake - Mt. Mazama)

ROSEBURG, Ore. -- Mount Mazama's catastrophic volcanic eruption created Crater Lake over 7,600 years ago. But it also created a sort of time capsule for Oregon scientists. Now researchers from the Umpqua National Forest and the...

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