Previously Recorded Site Now Appears to be Missing
A series of American Indian wooden shelters located about 20 miles northwest of Billings, Montana has been discovered missing from the BLM landscape where they once stood. The structures had been...
View ArticleLocal Teenagers Thought to Have Damaged Petroglyph Site
On May 23, local news reporter and “story teller” Kevin Torres did a segment on the recent vandalism at a Native American petroglyph site near Del Norte, Colorado. In the video, Torres went to the...
View ArticleChampion of Hopewell Archaeology Passes at 63
Images and text courtesy of NPS Midwest Archaeological Center Facebook page. It is with sad and heavy hearts that we must announce that Dr. Mark Lynott passed away last week. Mark was the former...
View ArticleLocals Dispute Over Guinea Community Artifacts
In a local dispute over artifact ownership, The Dutchess County Historical Society (New York) is now seeking the return of artifacts from the Bard College professor that was hired to oversee an...
View ArticleExcavations at Chatsworth Plantation in Louisiana
A recent excavation of the old sugar mill at the 575-acre Chatsworth Plantation in south Baton Rouge has revealed an array of artifacts that help provide clues to archaeologists to what life was like...
View ArticleExcavations Underway for Site with Mysterious Shell Ring
University of North Florida archaeologists and students have begun excavations on a site where the First Coast Native American Timucuan tribe’s ancestors left behind a 65-meter-wide ring of shells....
View Article37 Historic Preservation Grants Awarded to Tennessee Projects
Bill Haslam, governor of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Historical Commission announced Tuesday that 37 Historic Preservation Fund grants have been awarded to community organizations from the Historic...
View ArticleExcavations at Grand Contraband Slavery Camp
Archaeologists are now digging on the site known as the Grand Contraband Camp where low-cost housing was torn down two years ago in downtown Hampton, VA. The crew started with three test plots. In...
View ArticleInteresting Discoveries at Adair Cabin
On May 29th, we reported on the beginning of an excavation project at Adair Cabin in Kansas. Today, we learn about the findings from the field school: Silver-plated fork with the initials FBA (Florella...
View ArticleTuberculosis is Newer Than Thought, Study Says
Summary of Tuberculosis Is Newer Than Thought, Study Says Researchers now hypothesize that Tuberculosis first came to the New World with Seals. A new study published in Nature on August 20th...
View ArticlePreviously Recorded Site Now Appears to be Missing
A series of American Indian wooden shelters located about 20 miles northwest of Billings, Montana has been discovered missing from the BLM landscape where they once stood. The structures had been...
View ArticleLocal Teenagers Thought to Have Damaged Petroglyph Site
On May 23, local news reporter and “story teller” Kevin Torres did a segment on the recent vandalism at a Native American petroglyph site near Del Norte, Colorado. In the video, Torres went to the...
View ArticleChampion of Hopewell Archaeology Passes at 63
Images and text courtesy of NPS Midwest Archaeological Center Facebook page. It is with sad and heavy hearts that we must announce that Dr. Mark Lynott passed away last week. Mark was the former...
View ArticleLocals Dispute Over Guinea Community Artifacts
In a local dispute over artifact ownership, The Dutchess County Historical Society (New York) is now seeking the return of artifacts from the Bard College professor that was hired to oversee an...
View ArticleExcavations at Chatsworth Plantation in Louisiana
A recent excavation of the old sugar mill at the 575-acre Chatsworth Plantation in south Baton Rouge has revealed an array of artifacts that help provide clues to archaeologists to what life was like...
View ArticleExcavations Underway for Site with Mysterious Shell Ring
University of North Florida archaeologists and students have begun excavations on a site where the First Coast Native American Timucuan tribe’s ancestors left behind a 65-meter-wide ring of shells....
View Article37 Historic Preservation Grants Awarded to Tennessee Projects
Bill Haslam, governor of Tennessee, and the Tennessee Historical Commission announced Tuesday that 37 Historic Preservation Fund grants have been awarded to community organizations from the Historic...
View ArticleExcavations at Grand Contraband Slavery Camp
Archaeologists are now digging on the site known as the Grand Contraband Camp where low-cost housing was torn down two years ago in downtown Hampton, VA. The crew started with three test plots. In...
View ArticleInteresting Discoveries at Adair Cabin
On May 29th, we reported on the beginning of an excavation project at Adair Cabin in Kansas. Today, we learn about the findings from the field school: Silver-plated fork with the initials FBA (Florella...
View ArticleTuberculosis is Newer Than Thought, Study Says
Summary of Tuberculosis Is Newer Than Thought, Study Says Researchers now hypothesize that Tuberculosis first came to the New World with Seals. A new study published in Nature on August 20th...
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