Anthropology News

NEW DELHI - International researchers attempting to sail 600 miles in a Bronze Age-style reed boat had to be rescued from the Arabian Sea after the vessel started to capsize, an Indian navy official said ...

African Diaspora Archaeology Network From Christopher Fennel at the University of Chicago, a website dedicated to the archaeological study of the African diaspora.2.7

After several discoveries in Prague, including the original burial chamber of Emperor Charles IV, and a thousand-year-old bronze hoard of treasure uncovered two weeks ago in the town of Mlada Boleslav, ...2.9

A series of archaeology talks is being held over the next few weeks, with the first being held at Aberdeen Art Gallery on Tuesday.2

A reed boat modeled by researchers on vessels in the Bronze Age was swamped by water, postponing an attempt to sail 600 miles on what was believed to be an ancient trade route across the Arabian Sea from Oman ...3.2

The El Paso Archaeological Society, which was instrumental in the construction of the city's Archaeological Museum in the mid-1970s and has made the museum its official home ever since, is being evicted.3.1

An expanse of land near Brooksville was home to one of the first Creek Indian settlements in Florida and holds clues to the beginning of the Seminole Tribe.2.9

In the land of Mayan genius, where sophisticated cities flourished while Europe scrabbled bleakly through the Dark Ages, I was having a Leonardo moment.2.7

Known formally as a memorandum of understanding, the five-year-old agreement is intended to reduce the flow of illicitly excavated Italian antiquities to the United States in return for heightened cultural ...2.7

The recently ended season of excavations at the top of the City of David slope was accompanied by much excitement.2.9

As the days pass since Hurricane Katrina struck areas of the nation's Gulf Coast, Hurricane Rescue efforts are turning into Recovery efforts.

Relax, speeders, the radar activated this week in the Brooklyn-South Square Historic District isn't aimed at you.2.9

In celebration of Archaeology Month, Arrow Rock State Historic Site in Arrow Rock will host a lecture entitled "Archaeological Studies of the Missouri, Osage and Illini" on Saturday, Sept.2.7

By Dr. M.S. Nagaraja Rao, Former Director General, Archaeological Survey of India, Government of India and Director of Archaeology and Museums , Government of Karnataka.3.1

Archaeologists are investigating two Notts fields to see if folklore about a lost settlement is true.2.7

David Samuels, who's now a 48-year-old professor of anthropology at UMass, was 15 when he first went to the San Carlos Apache Reservation, a roughly Delaware-sized reservation about 100 miles north of Tucson.2.9

Archaeologists discovered several ancient artifacts dating to 6,000-4,000 B.C. from an old farm that now is a construction site for the new Clifton Park-Halfmoon library, state officials announced Wednesday.2.7

Lifestyle: 8 September 2005, Thursday. An ancient silver medallion has been found in northern Bulgaria.2.7

Workers stand near parts of an early 1800s shipwreck discovered at a construction site in downtown San Francisco.2.7

Tossing a handful of dirt on the two cast-iron coffins, the Rev. Michael Singer intoned the timeless words uttered at graveside services throughout Christendom: "Earth to earth, ashes to ashes, dust to dust." ...4

By Raja G. Mattar A few weeks ago I received by email an article by a Dr. Walid Phares titled "Arab Christians who are they?" Initially I brushed it off as rather inconsequential, but it subsequently came to my ...2.7

Nothing lasts forever. Only the wind inhabits the cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde in Colorado, birds and vines the pyramids of the Maya.2.7

An American explorer says an ancient, pre-Incan metropolis discovered by his father in Peru's remote cloud forest on an earlier expedition has been plundered by tomb robbers.3.4

Tehran, Sept 7, IRNA-Iran's Cultural Heritage and Tourism Organization announced on Tuesday that once Sivand Dam is filled with water, part of Tanghe-Bolaghi containing historical relics of various eras will be ...2.7

ARDEBIL PROVINCE A REFUGE FROM HUE-AND-CRY OF URBAN LIFE Islamic Republic News Agency, Iran Sept 6 2005 Ardebil province in northwestern Iran known for its marvelous natural beauties and memorable historical ...

Syrian archaeologists have discovered a sarcophagus with the best-preserved mummy ever in a tower tomb in Palmyra.2.7

SEOUL: South Korean archaeologists said yesterday they had excavated an 8,000-year-old log boat believed to be the oldest in the world.3.1

The discovery of the first fossil chimpanzee in Kenyas Rift Valley is reported in a paper co-authored by UConn professor of anthropology Sally McBrearty in the Sept.

Provocative new evidence sprang from several features in the north corner of James Fort this past week, prompting archaeologists to raise their hopes for the significance of what had been routine excavations.2

Arguably the most prominent man in Egyptian archaeology will visit Incline Village Wednesday ... It makes the heart tremble when you open an undiscovered tomb," Hawass said in a phone interview from Dayton, Ohio, a stop on a tour sponsored National Geographic.2.7

Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument archaeologist Matthew Zweifel holds up a Clovis point found on the monument.2.7

This is an exhilarating read. Taylor, a leading planetary researcher, has tried to demonstrate why none of the planets in our solar system resemble one-another. Taylor's conclusion is that chance collisions on ...2.7

While sifting through troughs of dirt in search of pre-18th century stone artifacts such as ... During the activity, children will learn about 10,000 years of San Diego County history through the stone tools and other artifacts preserved at the center.2.7

London and Beijing capped their status as Olympic cities yesterday by announcing an unprecedented exchange by loan of archaeological treasures over the next five years.2.7

Destroyed by war, buried under encroaching cities, drowned in rising waters--what would be left of most of the world's archaeological sites if images had not immortalized their beauty? Since its invention in ...2.7