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Blackbeard's Ship? Marine Scientists Contribute To Research On Vessel Sunk Off North Carolina Coast
December 15, 1998 — Using the scientific equivalent of a fine-toothed comb, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill marine scientists are part of a state team of archeologists and university faculty painstakingly ... > full story -
Amid Albanian Turmoil, UC Archaeologists Glean Secrets Of The Stone Age
December 7, 1998 — Despite U.S. State Department warnings against unnecessary travel in Albania, a team led by University of Cincinnati and Albanian archaeologists launched a field study about 60 miles south of Tirana ... > full story -
Ancient Human Hair May Be Key To Understanding Diet Of Ancient Civilizations
October 26, 1998 — First-time studies of ancient human hair are bringing new insights to old questions about the diet and nutrition of ancient civilizations. "You are what you eat, and clues to what people ate ... > full story -
Cradle Of Chocolate? Cacao Craving May Explain 3000-Year Occupation Of Honduran Village, Archaeologists Say
October 9, 1998 — Digging through history to a time before agriculture, archaeologists from Cornell University and the University of California at Berkeley have found evidence of a village that was continuously ... > full story -
Conservation Plans Under Development To Preserve Prehistoric Salvadoran Village
October 8, 1998 — The Getty Conservation Institute of Santa Monica, Calif., has signed a contract with the Salvadoran Ministry of Education to protect the ancient buried village of Ceren, which has been under ... > full story -
New Archaeological Evidence Illuminates Inca Sun-Worship Ritual
September 30, 1998 — University of Illinois at Chicago archaeologist Brian Bauer and colleagues have unearthed artifacts from sites in South America that shed light on how the Inca organized their sun-worship rituals and ... > full story -
Evidence For Earliest Maritime-Based Societies In The Americas Reported In Science Magazine
September 19, 1998 — By unearthing ancient fragments of sea shells, cutting tools, and the bones of butchered seabirds, researchers have found what appears to be the oldest evidence of maritime-based societies in the New ... > full story -
Researchers Discover Church Submerged In Ancient Port City
August 19, 1998 — A University of Colorado at Boulder research team led by history Professor Robert Hohlfelder has discovered the remains of a 1,700-year-old Christian church submerged in shallow water in the ... > full story -
UNC-CH Archaeologists Move 1,000 Tons Of Earth To Establish Hillsborough History
July 10, 1998 — Since 1983, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill archaeologists and their students have excavated and replaced more than 2 million pounds of dirt in Hillsborough. Their purpose has been to ... > full story -
Extreme Droughts Played Major Role In Tragedies At Jamestown, "Lost Colony"
April 28, 1998 — The worst droughts of the past 800 years likely played a major role in the mysterious disappearance of Roanoke Island's "Lost Colony" and in the "starving time" endured by ... > full story -
Buried Site Created To Show Students How To Do Non-Invasive Research
April 10, 1998 — Archaeology students at the University of Illinois, with the help of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, have designed, built and buried a prehistoric domestic compound, complete with a ditch, ... > full story -
Nova/PBS Online Adventures Travels To Easter Island
March 31, 1998 — On April 17, NOVA/PBS Online Adventures travels to Easter Island with a Web site dedicated to exploring one of civilization's greatest enigmas. Secrets of Easter Island will take the Internet ... > full story
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