Author Topic: May 2016 Archeology – The Americas (Read 1117 times)

Aisling · « **on:** May 01, 2016, 01:35:54 pm »

Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

On pre-Columbian water storage in Amazonia:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160428103155.htm

Belize
More on child sacrifice among the Maya:
http://thescienceexplorer.com/humanity/grim-discoveries-point-child-sacrifice-and-human-trafficking-ancient-maya-civilization

Canada
Latest from the Erebus:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/parks-canada-erebus-wreck-exploration-1.3549005

Plans to dig an early industrial site of some sort in Edmonton:
http://www.edmontonexaminer.com/2016/04/27/phd-student-conducting-archaeological-dig-in-mill-creek-ravine-this-summer

Mexico
Funding to study a Maya port at Quintana Roo:
http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php/news/latest-news/8937-nsf-awards-232k-to-study-environmental-impacts-on-ancient-maya-port.html

Peru
A 4500 years bp mummy find from Peru:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/4500-year-old-female-mummy-discovered-in-peru-a6999051.html

Studying some mysterious holes in Peru’s Pisco Valley:
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-archaeology-overlooked-inca-wonder-109386

On ‘authoritarian structures’ among Peru’s Chavin people:
https://news.stanford.edu/2016/04/25/stanford-archaeologist-traces-origins-authority-andes-peru/

United States
Some 2000 years bp spear points from California:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-geography-student-year-old-native-american.html

A possible grill find from Jamestown:
http://wydaily.com/2016/04/29/local-news-jamestown-unearthed-common-cooking-grill-a-rare-find-for-archaeologists/

Some major rethinking going on at the site of James Monroe’s home:
http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2016/science-rewrites-history-at-the-home-of-president-james-monroe.php

Finds from a tavern site in St Augustine:
http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2016-04-27/ancient-tortoise-shell-found-milltop-site

Back when Explorator began, Kennewick Man was the big controversy … seems they’ve finally decided he’s a Native American:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-corps-kennewick-native-american.html

Studying middens made by the Calusa people:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-shells-interdisciplinary-unraveling-mysteries-calusa.html

Remembering the Circleville Massacre:
http://www.good4utah.com/news/local-news/circleville-massacre-remembered-with-monument-dedication?m

A burial ground dispute in Utah:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/3796302-155/no-new-utah-school-near-ancient?fullpage=1

Reconstructing Native American history from 19th century ledger books:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/arts/design/american-indian-narratives-in-picture-form.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&_r=0

Feature on the first map to mention America:
http://www.historytoday.com/dean-nicholas/putting-america-map

A Taft letter coming to auction:
http://m.jpost.com/International/Under-the-hammer-Tafts-1916-letter-against-pick-of-1st-Jewish-Supreme-Court-justice-Brandeis-452258#article=6017OTAyQzdDMjVDMzI3QTE3REQ0RTBFMERFMzg5QzY2OTA=

Yale is resisting renaming Calhoun College:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/28/nyregion/yale-defies-calls-to-rename-calhoun-college.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fnyregion

On preserving historic murals in Hyannis:
http://www.capecodtimes.com/news/20160428/collaborative-effort-preserves-historic-murals-in-hyannis

More on the possible pieces of DeSoto’s cross find in Arkansas:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3557071/Arkansas-archaeologists-believe-remains-Spanish-conquistador-s-Christian-cross-erected-1541-Native-American-village.html

Aisling · « **Reply #1 on:** May 15, 2016, 07:17:31 pm »

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Interesting finds of pre Columbian Amazonian settlements:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-storage-prehistoric-settlement-expansion-amazonia.html

Canada
The DND is going to be looking for Innu artifacts on its former base:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/innu-first-nation-aboriginal-uashat-archaelogy-native-artifacts-1.3581905?cmp=rss

Colombia
Spain suggests leaving the wreck of the San Jose alone:
http://news.co.cr/spain-suggests-leaving-shipwreck-billions-dollars-gold-silver-colombian-seafloor/47238/

Mexico
Plenty of excitement over claims that a Canadian teen had used ‘space archaeology’ to locate a lost Maya city:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-teen-satellite-imagery-ancient-mayan.html

… then came the doubts:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/william-gadoury-quebec-teen-mayan-experts-question-1.3576829?cmp=rss

They’re digging at Plaza de la Luna at Teotihuacan:
http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/05/12/digging-for-clues-in-pre-aztec-city?videoId=368473564&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=LatestVideosUS&videoChannel=1004

Peru
A ‘new’ geoglyph in Peru:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-2000-year-old-geoglyph-spotted-peru-180958968/

Residents are concerned for huaca Tambo Inga:
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-residents-take-stand-to-protect-historical-site-109493

United States
The Page-Ladson sinkhole site in Florida suggests that humans and mastodons were contemporaneous some 14 500 years (give or take) bp:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/14/science/humans-mastodons-florida.html?_r=0

… while remains of an extinct species of bison turned up at the Old Vero Man site:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-archaeologists-uncover-year-old-bones-ancient.html

Plenty of artifacts show up at a proposed golf course site on Lake Michigan:
http://www.wisn.com/news/study-finds-thousands-of-artifacts-at-proposed-golf-site/39450958

A 900 years bp village from New Mexico:
http://westerndigs.org/900-year-old-village-recorded-in-volcanic-badlands-of-new-mexico/

Interesting pre-Valley-Forge campsite in New Jersey:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-jersey-hillside-clues-revolutionary-war.html

Ages ago we heard a claim that the Endeavour had been found off the coast of Rhode Island … the claim is back:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-captain-cook-ship-rhode-island.html

… and the doubts are back:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/20160504-Cook-Endeavour-shipwreck-discovery-Newport-underwater-archaeology/

… and of course, there’s a funding issue:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/americas/79635609/researchers-closing-in-on-captain-cooks-endeavour–but-need-12m-to-continue.html

… some background:
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/04/captain-cook-endeavour-ship-found-rhode-island-revolutionary-war

On the artificial islands of the Calusa:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-shells-interdisciplinary-unraveling-mysteries-calusa.html

A 300 years bp bowl from St Augustine:
http://www.kagstv.com/news/national/300-year-old-bowl-found-in-st-augustine/166995587

A ‘long lost’ slave cemetery from Virginia:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/house-divided/wp/2016/05/02/long-lost-slave-cemetery-discovered-and-preserved-in-rural-virginia/

A War of 1812 gravestone turns up in a basement:
http://boston.cbslocal.com/2016/04/05/war-of-1812-soldier-gravestone-found-basement-bridgewater/

We seem to be getting ‘wrap up’ pieces on Kennewick Man now:
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/05/05/476631934/a-long-complicated-battle-over-9-000-year-old-bones-is-finally-over

Recovering lost languages in Massachusetts:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/five-lost-languages-rediscovered-massachusetts-180959043/

Concerns for a midden in Berkeley:
http://www.mercurynews.com/bay-area-news/ci_29878501/berkeley-criticized-shellmound-protection

Excavating Emily Dickinson’s house/gardens:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/science/emily-dickinson-lost-gardens.html

Plans to rebury some former slaves:
http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2016/05/12/84269040/

Pondering ‘My Old Kentucky Home’:
http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/05/06/476890004/churchill-downer-the-forgotten-racial-history-of-kentuckys-state-song

On early voting proposals which might have had an effect on American democracy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/opinion/sunday/how-majority-rule-might-have-stopped-donald-trump.html

Review of Philbrick, *Valiant Ambition*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/13/books/review-nathaniel-philbricks-valiant-ambition-revisits-benedict-arnold.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

Review of Blumenthal, *A Self=Made Man*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/15/books/review/a-self-made-man-the-political-life-of-abraham-lincoln-1809-1849-by-sidney-blumenthal.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

Aisling · « **Reply #2 on:** May 22, 2016, 11:40:40 am »

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Canada
A mystery ship (maybe) in Halifax harbour:
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/mystery-ship-halifax-harbour-070000819.html

Mexico
An Olmec style feline bas relief from Chalcatzingo:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/es/boletines/5261-descubren-en-chalcatzingo-morelos-un-bajorrelieve-con-la-representacion-de-un-felino

Feature on the use of human mandibles as jewellery at a Oaxaca Valley site:
http://www.livescience.com/54783-painted-human-jawbones-used-as-ancient-jewelry.html

The ‘secret tunnel’ under Teotihuacan is back in the news, but I’m not sure why:
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/secret-tunnel-discovered-in-mexico-may-finally-reveal-the-mysteries-of-teotihuacan

More reflections on the (non) discovery of a Maya city by a Canadian teen:
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mulder-maya-lost-city-20160519-snap-story.html

United States
A ceremonial site of some sort from Ohio:
http://www.livescience.com/54750-prehistoric-native-american-ceremonial-site.html

Plans to look for an early homestead site on Cape Cod:
http://www.capenews.net/sandwich/news/archaeologists-to-search-for-settler-s-homestead/article_37e7b14a-da98-5503-b0c7-372f6671a05f.html

Archaeologists revealed a pair of predecessor sites to the Alamo:
http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/archaeologists-reveal-probable-sites-of-two-missions-that-predate-the-alamo

Plans to expand the Greenfield Plantation dig:
http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/news/dig-to-recover-artifacts-from-greenfield-site-to-expand/article_61010e01-8863-5e37-94f5-fe2d38126691.html

A reward offered to catch looters in SE Utah:
http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20160517/NEWS01/160519883/Reward-offered-to-catch-looters-in-SE-Utah

… while elsewhere in Utah, volunteers are ‘patrolling’ petroglyphs:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865654415/Volunteers-to-go-on-patrol-for-Utah-petroglyphs.html

Looking at some mass graves in NYC:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/15/nyregion/new-york-mass-graves-hart-island.html

Searching for the graves of the ‘Bear Flag’ rebels:
http://www.pressdemocrat.com/news/5604205-181/grave-search-underway-in-santa?artslide=0

Digging is about to resume at the site of Malcolm X’s home in Boston:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-archaeological-resume-malcolm-home-boston.html

A possible Native American site might delay pipeline construction in Iowa:
http://www.startribune.com/construction-underway-in-3-states-on-3-8b-oil-pipeline/380244141/

Feature on Curtis’ Native American photos:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archive-native-americans-portraits-taken-century-ago-spurs-further-exploration-180959167/?no-ist

More pieces on the Kennewick reburial:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-kennewick-reburied-quandaries-human-wont.html

Concerns for the preservation of a lot of bones found at an Unalaska site in 2003:
http://www.thebristolbaytimes.com/article/1620aleutian_animal_bones_may_end_up_in_canadian

Interesting animated map showing a couple of centuries of American immigration:
http://boingboing.net/2016/05/17/animated-map-shows-two-centuri.html

More on Georgetown’s slavery connections:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/05/20/us/-descendants-of-slaves-sold-to-aid-georgetown.html

Review of Resendez, *The Other Slavery*:
http://www.latimes.com/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-native-american-slavery-20160505-snap-story.html

More on the Page-Ladson site:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-evidence-humans-southeastern-earlier-previously.html

Aisling · « **Reply #3 on:** May 29, 2016, 09:02:18 pm »

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Interesting study of African American DNA:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/science/african-american-dna.html

On the role of fire in the peopling of the Americas:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160523084058.htm

Mexico
Pondering masked skulls from the Templo Mayor:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/05/26/mystery-of-morbid-aztec-skull-masks-solved-by-archaeologists/#61e203a50f1c

Peru
Plans to study Senora de Cao:
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-senora-cao-to-be-investigated-by-harvard-experts-109589

Rapanui
Concerns about climate change and Easter Island sculptures:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/28/world/un-climate-easter-island/index.html

United States
The latest from the Topper site is suggesting it’s really old:
http://www.postandcourier.com/20160521/160529887/topper-site-find-reveals-people-were-here-long-before-previously-thought

Plenty of excitement about a 19th century shipwreck find during construction in Boston:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-shipwreck-1800s-uncovered-boston-seaport.html

Plenty of finds from the Museum of the American Revolution construction site:
http://philly.curbed.com/2016/5/24/11759822/museum-of-american-revolution-archeology-dig

I think we mentioned the find of the site of the Bear River Massacre:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/science-technology/article79284517.html

Latest from the dig at Malcolm X’s childhood home:
http://www.livescience.com/54863-malcolm-x-home-archaeological-dig.html
A survey reveals some more sites in the Florida Keys:
http://keysnews.com/node/75192

Looting at Petersburg National Battlefield:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/28/an-affront-to-the-memory-of-people-who-fought-looters-dig-up-a-civil-war-battlefield/

Feature on Yellowstone Park:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36362634

On the history of Memorial Day:
http://www.syracuse.com/vintage/2016/05/waterloo_celebrates_its_150th.html

Alexander Hamilton warns today’s voters:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/05/22/the-modern-populist-mutiny/

More on earlier incarnations of the Alamo:
http://tpr.org/post/archaeologists-may-have-found-first-location-alamo

More on sites in Iowa delaying pipeline construction:
http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_29920269/possible-burial-site-delays-dig?source=rss

More on the Florida Page-Ladson site:
http://www.livescience.com/54735-mastodon-remains-in-underwater-site.html

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