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The sight of backhoes and dirt piles at the SugarHouse casino site this week has angered a group of local archaeologists and historians, who say the excavation work could disturb potentially important relics.
For several decades, archaeologists in Greece have been painstakingly attempting to reconstruct wall paintings that hold valuable clues to the ancient culture of Thera, an island civilization that was buried under volcanic ash more than 3,500 years ago.
Research by a Valparaiso University geography professor and his students on the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, a discovery that overturns decades of classroom lessons that nomadic tribes from Asia crossed a Bering Strait land-ice bridge. Valparaiso is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research.
Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America -- when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned into a phase of extinction for animals and humans – to a cataclysmic comet or asteroid explosion over top of Canada.
David Thomas, a Ph.D. student in La Trobe University\'s archaeological program in Melbourne, has used Google Earth to safely uncover historic sites in a remote part of war-torn Afghanistan.
After decades of men digging holes in the ground looking for clues to Texas\' past, it turns out that what the state\'s history needed was a woman\'s touch.
Archaeology -- often slow-paced, precise work unless your name is Indiana Jones -- is going high tech, with lasers set to unlock the secrets of the Maya civilization hidden by dense forest canopy.
Directory of cultural resource and historic preservation firms.
William Self Associates, Inc. WSA is a 20-year old full-service CRM firm working in the Far West, Southwest, Intermountain West and adjoining states with offices in San Francisco area and Tucson, Arizona.
California -
11-28-07
SWCA SWCA is one of the largest environmental consulting companies with a focus solely on environmental consulting. Our employee-owned company of cultural and natural resource experts, and planners works for clients in both the public and private sectors.
Arizona -
11-21-07
Daly & Associates Qualified Architectural Historian with Master of Science degree in Historic Preservation.
California -
04-22-05
ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cultural resource industry events and announcements
Call for Issue Papers and Case Studies Designing the Parks Part II will culminate in highly interactive, discussion-based work sessions. Our goal is to provide an energetic, thought provoking discourse surrounding the current state of and future vision for public park policy, planning and design.
08-05-08
Cultural Resource Survey Essays A series of cultural resource essays that provide users with guidance on the id, evaluation, and inventory of groups of historic and archeological properties worthy of preservation.
08-04-08
