Category: Archaeology World

In a letter sent to the City of Evanston Land Use Commission Friday, a representative of the Pokagon Band of the Potawatomi Indians Tribal Historic Preservation Office expressed concerns over Northwestern’s tentative plans to rebuild Ryan Field.
Evanston and NU sit on the traditional homelands of several Indigenous nations, including the Potawatomi Nation. Friday’s letter, signed by Tribal Historic Preservation Officer Matthew Bussler, said the office was only recently…
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Source: https://dailynorthwestern.com/2023/10/09/lateststories/spokesperson-from-pokagon-band-of-the-potawatomi-indians-raises-concerns-about-archaeological-sites-around-ryan-field-rebuild/

Archaeological discoveries across the Americas have shaped our understanding of when and how humans first reached the so-called New World. The story told by artifacts unearthed from sites all the way from Alaska to Chile is hotly debated.According to the Clovis First theory, people crossed from Siberia into North America just over 13,000 years ago via the Bering Land Bridge — a mass of land that emerged when the last ice age lowered sea levels — and spread across the Americas.But in…
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Source: https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/the-oldest-archaeological-sites-in-the-americas

LifestylePosted Twelve fragmented skulls were found in the Montegrande archaeological site near the spiral-shaped prehispanic temple that marked the beginning of religion in the Peruvian Amazon, the discovery leading archaeologist said on Friday (October 6).
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Source: https://www.reuters.com/video/watch/idRW814009102023RP1

4 hours agoImage source, Gareth BealeImage caption, The coin hoard was found at a site associated with the MacDonalds of GlencoeCoins found under a fireplace may have been hidden there by a victim of the infamous Massacre of Glencoe, according to archaeologists.Almost 40 members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed in February 1692 by soldiers acting on the orders of the British government.A student discovered the money at the site of a house linked to the clan’s chief.Lucy Ankers was on…
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Source: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-67031984.amp

6 minutes agoImage source, Gareth BealeImage caption, The coin hoard was found at a site associated with the MacDonalds of GlencoeCoins found under a fireplace may have been hidden there by a victim of the infamous Massacre of Glencoe, according to archaeologists.Almost 40 members of Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were killed in February 1692 by soldiers acting on the orders of the British government.A student discovered the money at the site of a house linked to the clan’s chief.Lucy Ankers was…
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Source: https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-67031984.amp

Mike Bliem, assistant crew chief with Northeast Archaeology Research Center, looks for artifacts as he sifts through dirt collected from a test pit at the site of the former Ely Copper Mine in Vershire, Vt., on Wednesday, Sept. 20, 2023. Photo by Alex Driehaus/Valley News

This story by Frances Mize was first published by the Valley News on Oct. 3.

VERSHIRE — For much of the 19th century, plumes of sulfur dioxide settled over the community of workers living at…
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Source: https://vtdigger.org/2023/10/08/archeologists-seek-clues-to-the-past-at-ely-mine-site-in-vershire/

THE “biggest ever geophysical study in Jersey” began this week, looking into the area where the world’s largest Celtic coin hoard was found.
The three-day, non-invasive study across almost 30 acres of Grouville fields, was carried out by French archaeologists and overseen by the Field Archaeology Department of the Société Jersiaise.
It will try to explain why coins from the Le Câtillon hoards were stored in that particular position, to uncover information about daily life in the…
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Source: https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2023/10/08/hunting-for-the-history-behind-jerseys-famous-celtic-coin-hoard/