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July 2011 Archeology - The Americas
« on: July 02, 2011, 08:57:12 pm »
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Canada
The search for the remains of the Franklin Expedition has resumed:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/8609951/Canada-unveils-plan-to-find-Franklin-Expedition-ships.html

Mexico
A ninth century burial ground in Tabasco:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48684
 
A Clovis point and other items from Chihuahua:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5109-descubren-sitio-paleontologico-en-chihuahua

More on camera peeks inside a tomb at Palenque:
http://theweek.com/article/index/216766/the-stunning-peek-inside-an-ancient-mayan-tomb

More on that staircase at Tlatelolco:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48479

United States
They're finding plenty of Oneida artifacts at a dig in Holmen (Wisconsin):
http://www.wsaw.com/home/headlines/La_Crosse_Students_Find_500-Year-Old_Artifacts_124768869.html

Archaeologists have been called in to investigate bones revealed during a levee break in Missouri:
http://www.kcci.com/news/28383036/detail.html
 
Developers were apparently warned that they'd find Native American remains during work at Oak Harbor (WA):
http://heraldnet.com/article/20110624/NEWS01/706259943
 
... and archaeologists are now on their way:
http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/whidbey/wnt/news/124675714.html

... in case you missed the story:
http://wenatcheeworld.com/news/2011/jun/25/native-american-remains-found-in-oak-harbor/

They've raised a cannon from a 'mystery shipwreck' off St Augustine (FL):
http://www.news4jax.com/news/28385224/detail.html
 
The NOAA and Navy are surveying a couple of Civil War shipwrecks in Hampton Roads (VA):
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/06/survey-civil-war-shipwrecks-james-river-continues
 
Civil War memorials in NYC:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/comment/2011/05/09/110509taco_talk_gopnik
http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissues/2011/05/civil-war-memorials.html
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2011/06/06/110606mama_mail2

Spanish coins from the wreck of the San Miguel de Arcangel (FL):
http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2011/06/29/Rare-Spanish-coins-found-in-shipwreck/UPI-84111309364453/

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Re: July 2011 Archeology - The Americas
« Reply #1 on: July 10, 2011, 10:59:45 am »
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El Salvador
Feature on the 'Pompeii of the Americas' in El Salvador:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/07/08/in-el-salvador-pompei-americas-gives-up-its-treasures/

Honduras
Plans to look for a lost city in Honduras (tv hype):
http://washingtonexaminer.com/entertainment/music/2011/07/ky-professor-gets-grant-search-lost-city

Mexico
Photoset of evidence of human sacrifice at Chichen Itza:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/pictures/110706-human-sacrifice-bones-maya-chichen-itza-ancient-science-mexico-cenote/

Depictions of captive Copan warriors from Tonina:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48884
 
A pile of Aztalan culture petroglyphs fro Nayarit:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5116-descubren-petrograbados-en-el-occidente-de-mexico

What Maya glyphs tell us:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/07/06/glyphs-document-1000-years-mayan-leaders-intrigues-wars/

Peru
Marking the centennial of the rediscovery of Machu Picchu (these are all different):
http://www.latimes.com/travel/deals/la-trb-machu-picchu-fact78-20110623,0,2051127.story
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2011/07/07/peru-celebrates-machu-picchu-anniversary/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-14057296 (photos)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14060341
http://www.elpais.com/fotogaleria/cultura/Machu/Picchu/anos/despues/elpgal/20110707elpepucul_3/Zes/1

United States
A 1000 years b.p. "effigy" from Franklin County (PA):
http://www.livescience.com/14913-embargoed-tiny-clay-head-ancient-effigy.html
 
Starting them digging young in Brunswick (GA):
http://www.thebrunswicknews.com/open_access/local_news/FREDERICAN-w-brkout-979811-HR#

Students dig the Gallows Hill Road site (CT):
http://www.acorn-online.com/joomla15/thereddingpilot/news/localnews/98371-students-dig-history-gallows-hill-road-site-offers-hands-on-archaeological-experience-at-dig-.html

Interview with Solveig Turpin about some Texas petroglyphs:
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/08/137704350/archaic-texan-rock-art-reveals-prehistoric-culture

Latest on efforts to repatriate remains of soldiers from the Intrepid:
http://hereandnow.wbur.org/2011/07/04/remains-sailors-tripoli

Feature on the Martin House Complex (NY):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/design/martin-house-seeks-original-frank-lloyd-wright-windows.html

More on rings from the Atocha (FL):
http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/22147/breathtaking-treasure-discovered-in-atocha-shipwreck/

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Re: July 2011 Archeology - The Americas
« Reply #2 on: July 17, 2011, 12:15:30 pm »
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Mexico
An 8th century monolith of the Aztec rain god:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Mexico-unearths-monolith-of-Aztec-God/tabid/1160/articleID/218358/Default.aspx

United States
A possible Russian site from Alaska:
http://newsminer.com/bookmark/14673005
 
A Native American burial along the Tennessee River (TN):
http://www.wrcbtv.com/story/15074715/riverbank-project-uncovers-american-indian-remains

... and an account of a dig at the Hollywood Mounds (MS):
http://www.abc24.com/news/local/story/Archaeologist-Digging-Up-Signs-of-Early/f_O-NQfzAEyRWXWkn3KVcA.cspx?rss=59

 They've found the wreck of the Queen of the Lakes in Lake Ontario:
 http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/3-masted-canadian-schooner-that-sank-in-1906-is-found-by-shipwreck-explorers-in-lake-ontario/2011/07/15/gIQARXd7FI_story.html
 
... and the survey behind the find:
http://morningjournal.com/articles/2011/07/16/news/mj4810512.txt

Meanwhile, Project Shipwreck was finding wrecks in Lake Huron:
http://www.mlive.com/news/saginaw/index.ssf/2011/07/high_school_student_calls_ship.html

A major survey is underway off the coast of Maryland:
http://www.mdcoastdispatch.com/articles/2011/07/15/Top-Stories/Major-Shipwreck-Survey-Off-Coast-Underway

... and there's a survey of Civil War shipwrecks in the James River going on too (VA):
http://hamptonroads.com/2011/06/survey-civil-war-shipwrecks-continues-james-river

... and they're looking for the USS Scorpion (MD):
http://mptscorpion.blogspot.com/
 
Using DNA to identify some Joseph Smith descendants:
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700150651/DNA-solves-a-Joseph-Smith-mystery.html

Workers in Connecticut came across some 18th century graffiti:
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_london_cty/workers-uncovers-ancient-graffiti

Budget cuts shut down a realllllllllllllllly old ferry in Connecticut:
http://www.courant.com/community/rocky-hill/hc-ap-ct-ferryclosingjul15,0,43014.story
 
Theory about some strangely-bent trees in Georgia:
http://www.gainesvilletimes.com/section/199/article/52953/

Review/interview with Lori Ginzberg about *Elizabeth Cady Stanton*:
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/13/137681070/for-stanton-all-women-were-not-created-equal

More on the shores of Tripoli:
http://grasstopconcepts.com/e/8565/t.php?b=203&c=3&e=rogueclassicist@gmail.com&p=http://tinyurl.com/6zbo2gs

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Re: July 2011 Archeology - The Americas
« Reply #3 on: July 24, 2011, 03:48:18 pm »
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Did the Mayans mess with turtle DNA?:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2011/07/22/18457476.html
 
Canada
10000 years b.p. First Nations artifacts from New Brunswick:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/story/2011/07/21/nb-first-nation-archaeology.html

Bones from Gaspe might belong to victims of a 19th century shipwreck:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/quebec/bones-found-on-gasp-coast-could-be-of-1847-shipwreck-victims/article2102896/?from=sec431

Mexico
Evidence of cannibalism in Maguey Cave?:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2011/07/22/mexican-anthropologists-find-evidence-cannibalistic-tribe/
 
An Azlatlan culture burial from Zacatecas:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5139-descubren-rica-ofrenda-funeraria-en-zacatecas

Peru
Marking the anniversary of the discovery of Machu PIcchu:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=machu-picchu-bingham-centennial
 
A Lambayeque culture executioner burial:
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/07/20/ancient-peruvian-tomb-points-to-human-sacrifice/

United States
A 600 years b.p. Nez Perce artifact from Hells Canyon (ID):
http://www.ktvb.com/news/local/600-year-old-Artifact-found-in-Hells-Canyon--125954468.html

Skeletons from a New Haven construction site might be from a long forgotten cemetery (CT):
http://www.countytimes.com/articles/2011/07/21/news/doc4e2428df2fd21501158599.txt
 
Cleanup from that Gulf oil spill has revealed a pile of sites:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2015631160_apusgulfoilspillindiandiscoveries.html

Feature on using microdebitage to locate sites and/or ancient coastlines:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2011/07/17/debris-points-to-lost-lake-sites.html?sid=101
 
 Teddy Roosevelt was apparently infatuated with Irish folklore:
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Revealed-President--Teddy-Roosevelt--was-infatuated-with-Irish-mythology-126004803.html
 
Feature on conservation of Blackbeard's shipwreck (NC):
http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20110721/ARTICLES/110729913/1004/sitemaps

Pondering the fate of the first Bull Run prisoners (VA):
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/22/private-conant-and-the-first-bull-run-prisoners/?hp

... and a memorial for three sailors:
http://www.npr.org/2011/07/20/138482457/a-memorial-for-three-mysterious-sailors

Review of Gordon Wood, *The Idea of America*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/24/books/review/the-idea-of-america-by-gordon-s-wood-book-review.html

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Re: July 2011 Archeology - The Americas
« Reply #4 on: July 31, 2011, 10:59:37 am »
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Canada
A somewhat hidden 'dig-and-lab' blog of students working on an 18th century Inuit excavation near Cartwright, Labrador:
http://www.mun.ca/labmetis/lisablog/

They're going to look for lost graves at the Uncle Tom's Cabin site in southern Ontario:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/story/2011/07/28/wdr-uncle-toms-cabin-graves-probed.html

Mexico
A 2800 years B.C. Olmec relief from Chalcatzingo:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/191174.html

The site of Tancama is now open to the public:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/7-zonas-arqueologicas/5158-abre-tancama-en-el-corazon-de-la-sierra-gorda

Peru
On developing theories about war and the emergence of states from evidence in the Titcaca basin:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/07/110725162529.htm

More on Machu Picchu centennial celebrations:
http://news.yahoo.com/machu-picchu-celebrates-discovery-centennial-191500820.html
 
More on that 'sacrificer's tomb' from Peru:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/07/100728-ancient-human-sacrifice-peru-tomb-executioner-science/

United States
They're back digging at Fort William Henry (NY):
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2011/07/29/archaeology_team_returns_to_historic_ny_fort_site/
 
Remains of a 19th century village beneath Central Park (NY):
http://news.columbia.edu/columbia-archeologist-unearths-19th-century-village-beneath-central-park

Using GIS to map out Civil War sites:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/arts/geographic-information-systems-help-scholars-see-history.html
 
The oldest pizza joint in the US:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/27/a-pizzeria-from-jersey-now-claims-to-be-the-nations-oldest/

Review of James Grant, *Mr Speaker*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/books/review/mr-speaker-biography-of-thomas-reed-by-james-grant-book-review.html

Venezuela
They've exhumed Simon Bolivar and are not sure what he died of:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14286902

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Re: July 2011 Archeology - The Americas
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United States
They're back digging at Fort William Henry (NY):
http://www.boston.com/news/education/higher/articles/2011/07/29/archaeology_team_returns_to_historic_ny_fort_site/
 

 
Fort William Henry is a cool place. I've been there a few times. It's also gotten a lot of attention lately since Ghost Hunters did a TV investigation there. If I'm not mistaken, I think TAPS also did a paranormal boot camp there.
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