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11,000 Year Old Seafaring Indian Sites Discovered on California Island

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 18 Comments • 9 years ago

11,000-Year-Old Seafaring Indian Sites Discovered on California Island Blake de Pastino Jan 06,2014 26 Comments Just offshore from the chock-a-block development of...

Are humans Earth’s biggest enemy? Debate over whether we have destroyed the planet since mankind's birth rages at conference

Via: larry-crehore • Anthropology & Archeology • 9 Comments • 9 years ago

The Earth was once populated with enormous beasts, the likes of which we have never seen from mammoths to giant beavers, and sabretooths to horned tortoises. Over the last two million years...

Tribe seeks return of artifacts taken from abandoned Alaska village

Via: larry-crehore • Anthropology & Archeology • 8 Comments • 9 years ago

A prominent Southeast Alaska cultural leader says that Yale University's museum that has held onto a pair of Tlingit carvings taken from an abandoned village more than a century ago should...

Enormous Sauropod Fossils Found in Argentina

Via: ambivalent • Anthropology & Archeology • 9 Comments • 9 years ago

F http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-27441156 Wowsa!

Die Hard

Via: larry-hampton • Anthropology & Archeology • 7 Comments • 9 years ago

There are open caskets and then theres in the case of Miriam Burbank. It seems the New Orleans woman was so full of life that her two daughters wanted her to depart this world the way she...

Remains of 'end of the world' epidemic found in ancient Egypt

Via: nona62 • Anthropology & Archeology • 14 Comments • 9 years ago

A photograph of the tattoo found on the mummified remains of a Sudanese woman. Archaeologists have uncovered the remains of an epidemic in Egypt so terrible that one ancient writer...

White Man’s Borders and the Sacred Lands, Sites & Tribes They Affect

Via: larry-crehore • Anthropology & Archeology • 8 Comments • 9 years ago

White Mans Borders and the Sacred Lands, Sites & Tribes They Affect Vincent Schilling 8/14/14 With the signing of the Guadalupe Hidalgo Treaty in 1848 and the...

Ancient Egyptian woman with 70 hair extensions discovered

Via: nona62 • Anthropology & Archeology • 11 Comments • 9 years ago

Ancient Egyptian woman with 70 hair extensions discovered The remains of a 3,300-year-old woman who wore a complex hairstyle with 70 hair extensions was discovered in the ancient city of...

Mystery of Jordan's Big Circles: Ancient Stone Rings in the Desert Have Archaeologists Baffled

Via: jerry-verlinger • Anthropology & Archeology • 1 Comments • 9 years ago

Eight big circles have been recorded in west central Jordan, between Wadi el-Hasa and the edge of Shara escarpment There is a second group, made of four Big Circles just north of...

Tracking the First Americans

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 20 Comments • 9 years ago

First Americans Photography Genetic data and new archaeological discoveries offer clues to the mystery of early Americans origin. Video Seeking Answers Archaeologist James C....

Archaeologists Discover 13,800 - Year - Old Underwater Site at Haida Gawaii (Canada)

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 14 Comments • 9 years ago

Alex Jacobs 12/18/14 An archaeological discovery from this past September could put the earliest inhabitation in Canada at around 13,800 years ago, reported CBC News . Right...

12,500-year-old remains providing science with more theories about the First Nations in America

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 19 Comments • 9 years ago

12,500-year-old remains providing science with more theories about First Nations in America February 15, 2014 - 12:21pm | by brianbeaton From TheStar.com What a 12,500-year-old toddler...

Earliest Use of Chocolate in America discovered, suggesting Ancient Immigrants

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 2 Comments • 9 years ago

Posted by Blake de Pastino on June 17, 2013 in anasazi , ancestral pueblo , archaeology , cacao , Cahokia , Chaco Canyon National Park , chocolate ,...

''Twin'' Ice Age Infants Discovered in 11,500 Year Old Alaska Grave

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 4 Comments • 9 years ago

Posted by Blake de Pastino on November 10, 2014 in Alaska , anthropology , archaeology , artifacts , burials , dead , death , excavation , family , food ,...

New Study Shows Native Americans Traveled to Easter Island Before European Contact

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 4 Comments • 9 years ago

AP Photo/Karen Schwartz This August 2012 photo shows heads at Rano Raraku, the quarry on Easter Island. The sculptures have bodies attached, but they are buried under the dirt and...

Time Capsule From 1966 Found in Altar of Florida Church

Via: nona62 • Anthropology & Archeology • 11 Comments • 9 years ago

Time Capsule From 1966 Found in Altar of Florida Church A time capsule from 1966 was found this week in the altar of a church in Florida. When the altar at the...

Ancient Mayan Mural -- It's a Photobomb!

Via: dowser • Anthropology & Archeology • 16 Comments • 9 years ago

Original article here . Archaeologists working in Guatemala have discovered a well-preserved mural depicting the ruling class of the ancient Mayan people. The mural show a ruler, dressed as the...

Have archaeologists discovered the 'Lost City of the Monkey God?'

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 25 Comments • 9 years ago

Have archaeologists discovered the 'Lost City of the Monkey God?' PRI Christopher Woolf, PRI's The World 1 hr ago Credit: Doug Yoder/National...

Discoveries Challenge Beliefs on Humans' Arrival in he Americas

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 25 Comments • 9 years ago

Discoveries Challenge Beliefs on Humans Arrival in the Americas By SIMON ROMERO MARCH 27, 2014 Inside Continue reading the main story Video Play Video | 4:52 Humans...

Scientist 'killed Amazon Indians to test race theory'

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 17 Comments • 9 years ago

Scientist 'killed Amazon indians to test race theory'Geneticist accused of letting thousands die in rainforestThousands of South American indians were infected with measles, killing hundreds, in...

Stone Tool Unearthed in Oregon 'Hints' at Oldest Human Occupation in Western U.S.

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 13 Comments • 9 years ago

Stone Tool Unearthed in Oregon Hints at Oldest Human Occupation in Western U.S. Posted by Blake de Pastino on March 7, 2015 in anthropology , archaeology , artifacts , caves ,...

2,500-Year-Old Bison-Kill Site Offers New Clues Into Ancient Culture of Northern Plains.

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 8 Comments • 9 years ago

2,500-Year-Old Bison-Kill Site Offers New Clues Into Ancient Culture of Northern Plains Posted by Blake de Pastino on March 11, 2015 in Alberta , anthropology , archaeology ,...

10,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Site Discovered in Suburban Seattle

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 16 Comments • 9 years ago

10,000-Year-Old Stone Tool Site Discovered in Suburban Seattle Posted by Blake de Pastino on March 18, 2015 in anthropology , archaeology , artifacts , Clovis , excavation ,...

13,500-Year-Old Tool-Making Site Uncovered in Idaho Forest

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 9 Comments • 9 years ago

13,500-Year-Old Tool-Making Site Uncovered in Idaho Forest Posted by Blake de Pastino on May 8, 2014 in anthropology , archaeology , artifacts , Clovis , excavation ,...

Prehistoric site in Alberta centuries older than previously thought - Predates the Clovis People

Via: kavika • Anthropology & Archeology • 15 Comments • 9 years ago

Prehistoric site in Alberta centuries older than previously thought Scientists have re-dated an ancient hunting site in southern Alberta that pushes back the date for the earliest culture in...

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