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New Archaeological Areas open to the Public at Pompeii and Stabia
New Archaeological Areas open to the Public at Pompeii and StabiaBy Holly Willmotton August 5, 2015 | 7:10 am | 0 CommentIt was a great week for archaeology in Campania as 3 major initiatives were completed, and restored ruins were returned to the public at Pompeii and Stabia.At Pompeii, as part of the Grande Progetto […]
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Genome analysis pins down arrival and spread of first Americans: Comparing current and ancient genomes shows Siberian migration no earlier than 23,000 years ago — ScienceDaily
This is an artist’s representation of the ice age landscape that early Native Americans would have encountered.Credit: Artwork by Sussi BechThe original Americans came from Siberia in a single wave no more than 23,000 years ago, at the height of the last Ice Age, and apparently hung out in the north — perhaps for thousands […]
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11,500-Year-Old Bison Butchering Site Discovered in Oklahoma | Western Digs
11,500-Year-Old Bison Butchering Site Discovered in OklahomaPosted by Blake de Pastino on June 8, 2015 in anthropology, archaeology, bison, Clovis, hunting, Indians, news, Oklahoma, Paleoamericans, Paleoindians | 560 Views | Leave a responseA stretch of floodplain in northwestern Oklahoma, already known for its profusion of prehistoric hunting sites, has turned up new find: a scatter […]
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Blogging Pompeii: More from the Jashemski Archives …… and a query
More from the Jashemski Archives …… and a queryWe are progressing through adding the Stanley A. Jashemski photos to pompeiiinpictures.There are now just over 400 spread across pompeiiinpictures and we are only up to 1964.Here are some of Stanley’s photos of the House of Fabius Rufus from 1961 and 1964.We hope the comparison with some […]
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Video: Torn – Recovering California’s Stolen Cultural Heritage | Watch ViewFinder Online | KVIE Public Television Video
Torn – Recovering California’s Stolen Cultural Heritage+ADD Aired: 08/20/2014 27:10 Rating: NRIn the desolate Owens Valley, looters have been stealing or destroying ancient artifacts, including petroglyphs thousands of years old. Join archeologists, Native American tribal members, and federal land officials as they try to recover these priceless pieces of the past, while restoring and protecting […]
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First inhabitants of Arctic not related to the Inuit : Archaeology News from Past Horizons
First inhabitants of Arctic not related to the InuitArticle created on Friday, August 29, 2014PrintShare on Facebook0Tweet about this on Twitter0Share on LinkedIn0Share on Reddit0Share on StumbleUpon0Share on Google+0Email this to someoneWe know people have lived in the New World Arctic for about 5,000 years. Archaeological evidence clearly shows that a variety of cultures survived […]
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Utah Friends of Paleontology Events
HOMEEVENTSSTATEWIDECHAPTERSPALEO INFO Upcoming EventsAugust 27, 2014Gastonia Chapter MeetingDr. Randall Irmis, Curator of Paleontology at the Natural History Museum of Utah will present Southeast Utah 300 million Years Ago: Life in a Coastal Desert, about field work on a Permian site in the Indian Creek area of San Juan County.6:00 PM at Zions Bank, 330 South […]
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Evidence of Hobbling, Torture Discovered at Ancient Massacre Site in Colorado | Western Digs
he site of a gruesome massacre some 1,200 years ago in southwestern Colorado is yielding new evidence of the severity, and the grisly intensity, of the violence that took place there. First excavated in 2005 near the town of Durango, the site known as Sacred Ridge was in some ways a typical early Pueblo settlement, […]
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Grisly Mass Grave in Utah Cave Is Evidence of ‘Prehistoric Warfare,’ Study Says | Western Digs
Nearly a hundred skeletons buried in a cave in southeast Utah offer grisly evidence that ancient Americans waged war on each other as much as 2,000 years ago, according to new research.Dozens of bodies, dating from the first century CE, bear clear signs of hand-to-hand combat: skulls crushed as if by cudgels; limbs broken at […]
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Recapping the Recapture Canyon ATV protest | Friends of Cedar Mesa
Posted on May 13, 2014 A first hand report by Executive Director, Josh Ewing Frustrated with years of delay from the BLM in deciding the fate of a proposed ATV trail in Recapture Canyon, protestors rode their machines into the Canyon on Saturday, May 10th. Because of recent events where BLM employees had been threatened […]
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America’s only Clovis skeleton genome offers clues to Native American ancestry (Update)
Nearly 13,000 years ago, a baby boy died in what is Montana today. Mourners stained his tiny body with red ochre and entombed him with artefacts that had likely been in his family for generations. After lying undisturbed for millennia, the infant’s body was dug up by accident at a construction site in 1968—the oldest […]
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What Killed the Great Beasts of North America? | Science/AAAS | News
Until about 11,000 years ago, mammoths, giant beavers, and other massive mammals roamed North America. Many researchers have blamed their demise on incoming Paleoindians, the first Americans, who allegedly hunted them to extinction. But a new study fingers climate and environmental changes instead. The findings could have implications for conservation strategies, including controversial proposals for […]
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Americas’ Natives Have European Roots – Scientific American
The 24,000-year-old remains of a young boy from the Siberian village of Mal’ta have added a new root to the family tree of indigenous Americans. While some of the New World’s native ancestry clearly traces back to east Asia, the Mal’ta boy’s genome — the oldest known of any modern human — shows that up […]
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Poles discovered an over 8 thousand years old grain storage in Turkey | News | Science & Scholarship in Poland
The largest so far known in the Middle East amount of grain of the Neolithic period in a perfect state of preservation has been discovered by Polish archaeologists in Çatalhöyük, a famous archaeological site in Turkey.Çatalhöyük is one of the largest urban centers of first farmers and one of the most famous archaeological sites in […]