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Freedom in the Swamp: Unearthing the Secret History of the Great Dismal Swamp
May 16, 2011 — Anthropologists have been researching maroons (African-Americans who permanently escaped enslavement) and other communities in the Great Dismal Swamp's approximately 200 square miles of densely ... > full story -
Student Archaeologists on Trail of Yorkshire Gem's Hidden Past
May 10, 2011 — Archaeologists are revealing intriguing traces -- hidden for more than two centuries -- of the forerunner of one of Yorkshire’s great country houses in ... > full story -
Battle Scars Found on an Ancient Sea Monster
May 4, 2011 — Scars on the jaw of a 120-million-year-old marine reptile suggest that life might not have been easy in the ancient polar oceans. The healed bite wounds were probably made by a member of the same ... > full story -
Loch Fossils Show Life Harnessed Sun and Sex Early on
April 13, 2011 — Remote lochs along the west coast of Scotland are turning up new evidence about the origins of life on land. A team of scientists exploring rocks around Loch Torridon have discovered the remarkably ... > full story -
South America's Oldest Textiles Identified With Carbon Dating
April 13, 2011 — Textiles and rope fragments found in a Peruvian cave have been dated to around 12,000 years ago, making them the oldest textiles ever found in South America, according to a new ... > full story -
Tourism Does Not Harm All Caves, Study Suggests
April 11, 2011 — Unlike the situation in other caves, damage caused by tourists at the Aguila cave in Avila, Spain is "imperceptible", despite it receiving tens of thousands of visitors each year, according to new ... > full story -
iPad Helps Archaeologists
April 7, 2011 — A new approach to conducting archaeological research is revolutionizing methods of recording history, a field that is steeped in ... > full story -
Protein from Bones of 600,000-Year-Old Mammoth Extracted Successfully
March 30, 2011 — Researchers from the University of York and Manchester have successfully extracted protein from the bones of a 600,000-year-old mammoth, paving the way for the identification of ancient ... > full story -
Why Ancient Mayan Communities Were 'Living on the Edge' of What Is Now a Massive Wetland
March 28, 2011 — Archeologists are investigating why a highly sophisticated civilization decided to build large, bustling cities next to what is essentially swampland. The research zeroes in on why larger and ... > full story -
Scientists Trace Violent Death of Iron Age Man
March 28, 2011 — An Iron Age man whose skull and brain was unearthed during excavations at the University of York was the victim of a gruesome ritual killing, according to new ... > full story -
Artifacts in Texas Predate Clovis Culture by 2,500 Years, New Study Shows
March 24, 2011 — Researchers in Texas have discovered thousands of human artifacts in a layer of earth that lies directly beneath an assemblage of Clovis relics, expanding evidence that other cultures preceded the ... > full story -
Native Americans Modified American Landscape Years Prior to Arrival of Europeans
March 21, 2011 — A new study shows that Native Americans' land use nearly a century ago produced a widespread impact on the eastern North American landscape and floodplain development several hundred years prior to ... > full story
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