Archaeology News from Around the World

(gleanings from various sources across the internet)

Falling Into a Splendid Maya Ruin/Archaeologist stumbled onto site b...  (S.F. Gate/ San Francisco Examiner & Chronicle) 71% When Arthur A. Demarest, a Vanderbilt University archaeologist, fell up to his armpits through a tangled mass of vegetation in Guatemala last winter, he unexpectedly uncovered one of the most splendid ... U.S. News: Did consumerism sustain the Mayans? (9/18/00)  (US News) 71% By Rachel Hartigan Earlier this summer while walking on a hill in the Pet n rain forest in Guatemala, Vanderbilt University archaeologist Arthur Demarest found himself sinking through the ground.  Books: Who Were the First Americans?  (Archaeology Magazine) 66% Historia Natural y Moral de las Indias that the Americas were initially settled by people from Asia. He also proposed overland and coastal migrations as possible routes of entry. In 1648, ... Stonehenge Skeleton Mystery  (Archaeology Magazine) 66% skeleton recently rediscovered in London's Natural History Museum provides the first evidence that a ritual sacrifice may have taken place at Stonehenge. The remains, which show evidence of beheading, may also ... The Earliest Mummies  (Discovering Archaeology) 63% Women mourning deceased children 7,000 years ago may have been the first to mummify their dead, according to studies of South America's mysterious Chinchorro culture. Hundreds of preserved bodies, the earliest ... A Community's Heart  (Discovering Archaeology) 62% African Americans left a prominent and poignant imprint on Massachusetts' Nantucket Island: the African Baptist Society Meeting House, one of the oldest surviving public buildings in the United States that was ... A New Way South  (Discovering Archaeology) 62% A stone tool fished out from under 53 meters (174 feet) of seawater boosts the theory that early colonizers followed a coastal route from Alaska into the Americas. The tool apparently ... Royal Maya palace centerpiece of novel restoration effort  (EurekAlert!) 61% Photo Christopher Talbot National Geographic Society A piece of an altar and a stela, or marker, left by the Maya people at a site in Guatemala known as Cancu n. Archaeologists ... ABCNEWS.com : Prehistoric Instruments May Have Been Stone  (ABC News) 58% — The sound is like a gentle rain of quick, high-pitched notes, accented by an occasional “ping.” It’s played from an unlikely source and scientists believe it could be a model ... 1,200-year-old Mayan palace found  (Seattle Post-Intelligencer) 57% In a remote jungle of Guatemala, among the remains of a little-known ancient city with a name meaning Place of Serpents, archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest and most splendid ... Multimedia: Web Links to the Past  (Archaeology Magazine) 56% n 1953, archaeologist O.G.S. Crawford ominously prophesied that "Future archaeologists will perhaps excavate the ruined factories of the 19th and 20th centuries, when the radiation effects of atom bombs have died ... Tattoos & Time  (Discovering Archaeology) 55% When William the Conqueror vanquished English King Harold at the Battle of Hastings in 1066, the body of the losing monarch was identified by the name of his wife, "Edith," tattooed ... Introducing Kids to the Past  (Discovering Archaeology) 54% Mixing the curiosity and enthusiasm of kids with archaeology is a natural, and the new Montana-based P.A.S.T. Foundation (Partnering Anthropology with Science and Technology) is doing just that. The nonprofit foundation ... Archaeology Live!  (Discovering Archaeology) 51% It's midnight in the middle of the eastern Sahara Desert. Cairo lies some 230 miles to the northeast — and in-between is nothing but four hours of sand. The asphalt ribbon ... Cretan Shrine Discovered  (Archaeology Magazine) 51% B.C. , has revealed four megara (great halls), one a shrine containing clay statuettes of goddesses and other ritual items. Discovery of the megara revealed a clear social distinction in architecture ... Caribbean Archaeology  (Discovering Archaeology) 50% National Park Service archaeologists are exploring the rich and varied history of the U.S. Virgin Islands — from pre-Columbian inhabitants through the brutal years of slavery to the forts of World ... Cultural Revolutionary  (Archaeology Magazine) 49% ixty-seven-year-old Yu Weichao has been known to stay up all night chain-smoking and drinking tea while discussing Chinese archaeology, history, and politics. When I met him last summer at the Poly ... ABCNEWS.com : Ancient Human Feces Points to Cannibalism  (ABC News) 48% — A dried clump of human feces and the traces of human muscle protein on a cooking pot are proof of prehistoric cannibalism in the American Southwest about 850 years ago, ... American Scene: Hounding the Dead  (Archaeology Magazine) 48% ose skimming the moist earth, Eagle moves in ever-narrowing swoops. The ground is muddy in these days of Michigan's erratic spring, a near quagmire, but the sleek, black dog is obsessed, ... A History of Medieval Violence  (Discovering Archaeology) 47% The Chateau de Mayenne in northwestern France is a dark, forbidding structure. Massive and unadorned, it looks every inch the bleak prison it was in the eighteenth century. Mayenne bears no ... Heroes of Ancient Athens  (Discovering Archaeology) 46% Bones of soldiers felled 2,400 years ago in the Peloponnesian War are being studied in New York for clues to the size, health, diet, and medical care of ancient Greeks. Pericles ... Resurrecting a Chinese Tower  (Discovering Archaeology) 46% One of China's grandest ancient pavilions, destroyed by warfare in A.D. 1272, is being restored to its former glory. The Guanque (Stork) Pavilion of Yongji City, in the northwestern province of ... THE REAL VIKING LEGACY  (Discovering Archaeology) 45% The Vikings stormed out of Scandinavia a millennium ago and carried terror around the coastal kingdoms of Europe and deep into Russia. With their remarkable longships, the Norse pioneered the lightning ... Troubled Waters  (Archaeology Magazine) 45% n March, snakes and rats fled to higher ground on the banks of the Euphrates. Water rose in wells that had been dry for decades. The villagers of Belkis in southeastern ... Insight: Beirut in Transition  (Archaeology Magazine) 45% ow do you provide for the permanent protection of ancient remains once they have been unearthed? Such remains are particularly vulnerable in times of armed conflict, since the protection of antiquities ... At the Museums: Subway Art  (Archaeology Magazine) 45% hen construction of two new lines for Athens' Metropolitan Railway was announced a decade ago, it prompted concern in the international archaeological community. Plans called for digging more than 13 miles ... A Grand Palace Sheds New Light on the Maya  (International Herald Tribune) 44% NEW YORK - In a remote jungle of Guatemala, among the remains of a little-known ancient city with a name meaning Place of Serpents, archaeologists have uncovered one of the largest ... The Jerusalem Post Newspaper : Online News From Israel - News Articl...  (Jerusalem Post) 44% The Antiquities Authority yesterday strongly denied that Israel is undertaking any archeological excavations under the Western Wall. Refuting an article that appeared in Tuesday's Ha'aretz, the authority issued an unequivocal statement ...

updated Sept 10th 2000

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