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Shipwrecks! Treasure! Gold, gold, gold! The hallmarks of treasure-hunting are the stuff of adventure stories, more than fun enough to make archaeologists, who are mounting increasing complaints against the pillaging of sunken ships, seem like wet blankets.
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.
Cultural Resource Analysts Inc. Cultural Resource Analysts, Inc. (CRA) serves as a specialized consulting firm with headquarters in Lexington, Kentucky. The company became incorporated in 1983 and opened satellite offices in Hurricane, West Virginia, in 1994; Longmont, Colorado, in 2005
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07-06-10
Mitigation Monitor Training Session The Fall 2010 Mitigation Monitoring Class has been scheduled for Sept 4 and /or 5th 2010 in Redlands CA. If you are interested in attending the class please request a application via email and return it to Leslie Irish, 951-681-6531(fax) or Lirish@llenviroinc.com. Class is first come first served and may be canceled at the owner’s discretion. To attend you must have a confirmation in hand at the door. A limited number of seats are available.
08-29-10
International Seminar on Heritage Tourism: Prospects & Challenges The Department of History of our college is organising an International seminar on “Heritage Tourism : Prospects and Challenges” on Sep 1-2, 2010 for which papers are invited from the teaching faculty, researchers, students and above all experts in the field.
07-20-10
HOPI Basketry Collection HOPI culture evident in Basketry Collection at The College of Idaho's Orma J. Smith Museum
05-03-10
