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| Gold rush: The battle over sunken treasure |
| 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. |
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Archaeology News: USA Today
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01-26-09 - United States
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| Archaeology group says work at casino site could disturb relics |
| 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. |
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Archaeology News: Philly.com
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08-23-08 - Pennsylvania, United States
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| \'Virtual Archaeologist\' Reconnects Fragments Of An Ancient Civilization |
| 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. |
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Archaeology News: Science Daily
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08-23-08 - United States
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| First Humans To Settle Americas Came From Europe, Not From Asia Over Bering Strait Land-ice B |
| 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. |
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Archaeology News: Science Daily
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08-09-08 - United States
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| Exploding Asteroid Theory Strengthened By New Evidence Located In Ohio, Indiana |
| 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. |
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Archaeology News: Science Daily
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08-09-08 - Indiana, United States
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| Scholar Finds New Archaeological Sites by Googling |
| 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. |
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Archaeology News: Discovery Channel
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08-09-08 - Afghanistan
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| Lasers to Map Mayan Ruins |
| 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. |
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Archaeology News: Photonics.com
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05-24-08 - Belize
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| Center studies clues to history |
| Crow Canyon enters phase 2 at Goodman archaeological site |
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Archaeology News: Cortez Journal
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04-23-08 - Colorado, United States
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| Celebrating the UNF’s 100 years |
| The Umpqua National Forest is celebrating its 100th anniversary this year, with the party kicking off this week in Glide. |
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Archaeology News: newsreview.info
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04-22-08 - Oregon, United States
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| The Fairfield Gorget: The little white disk with a big, big history |
| One steamy afternoon 50 years ago on a bluff top in Benton County, Ray Wood was digging in a pile of dirt and rocks. The autumn sun beat down as he cleared away earth from the sides of stones. It was a hot day for digging. |
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Archaeology News: Missourian
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04-22-08 - Missouri, United States
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| Indiana Historic Properties Website Goes Live |
| The Indiana Department of Natural Resources has a new online tool to help people research state historic properties and archaeological resources. |
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Archaeology News: Inside Indiana Business
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04-22-08 - Indiana, United States
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| Site stewards help preserve Kodiak Island archaeology |
| Vandalism to many of the more than 1,000 archaeological sites in the Kodiak Archipelago has decreased over the years, though many still face damage by animals, erosion and other natural causes. |
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Archaeology News: Kodiak Daily Mirror
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04-22-08 - Alaska, United States
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| Breaking Down - Wall Of Slavery |
| Maddy McCoy’s passion for genealogical connections has some extremely personal roots. The Fairfax City resident, who is compiling a Slavery Inventory Database for Fairfax County, was influenced, in part, by a search for her own family history. |
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General Cultural Resources News: wtopnews.com
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04-05-08 - Virginia, United States
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