August 2011 Archeology - The Americas

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Canada
More on that Uncle Tom's Cabin investigation in Ontario ... with a techy focus:
http://www.chathamdailynews.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=3242795

Chile
The 'hombre de cobre' is being remembered on the anniversary of Chile's mine rescue/accident:
http://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/cultura/2011/08/05/chile-quiere-recuperar-al-hombre-de-cobre-el-primer-minero-atrapado/

Mexico
An Olmec (maybe) 'three cat monolith' from Chalcatzingo:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/110801-three-cat-carving-felines-triad-olmec-mexico-science/
 
A pair of partially-mummified burials (no date assigned yet) from Chihuahua:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49527

More on 'what war is good for':
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/science/02warfare.html

Panama
A possible find of a Captain Morgan-associated shipwreck:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-14391855

Peru
Searching for the 'lost city' of Paititi:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-14387741

United States
Purportedly 16000 years b.p. artifacts from central Texas:
http://www.ntdaily.com/?p=55809

Resurrecting the Tunica language (LA):
http://www.thetelegraph.com/articles/language-57566-tunica-tribe.html
 
The Mariemont serpent mound might be the world's largest (OH):
http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20110731/NEWS01/110801008/Mariemont-serpent-mound-discovered

Hype for a conference about assorted aspects of Great Plains peoples' lives:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2091357/new_technologies_and_tires_reconstruct_ancient_bison_hunts/index.html

Interesting OpEd on slave families in the ante- and postbellum south:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/02/opinion/putting-an-antebellum-myth-about-slave-families-to-rest.html

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Canada
A 10 000 years b.p. village from Calvert Island (British Columbia) ... maybe:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/british-columbia/anthropologist-believes-he-has-found-bc-village-that-may-be-10000-years-old/article2122298/

Mexico
Another Olmec (style) monument from Chalcatzngo:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5174-descubren-altar-precolombino-en-morelos

Panama
More on that 'Captain Morgan' shipwreck:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centralamericaandthecaribbean/panama/8689215/Captain-Morgan-shipwreck-found.html

Puerto Rico
UConn is going to digitize a pile of Puerto Rico historic records:
http://www.wshu.org/news/story.php?ID=9013

United States
Possible remains of slave quarters at William and Mary (VA):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/education/possible-slave-quarter-found-at-william-and-mary/2011/08/09/gIQANhUP5I_story.html

Civil War bullets from a Gettysburg Oak (PA):
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49738

Last week we mentioned Ken Tankersley's thoughts about the Mariemont Serpent Mound ... here's another view (OH):
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/local/2011/08/03/prof-claims-hes-found-even-greater-serpent-mound.html

What's happening with the USS Monitor (NY):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/09/science/09monitor.html

Finds from various periods prior to road construction in Utah:
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/news/52313490-78/sites-hansen-area-pit.html.csp

Edgar Allan Poe house is having financial problems (MD):
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/08/arts/edgar-allan-poe-house-in-baltimore-faces-closing.html

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NPR interview with Hugh Thomas about his *Golden Empire* tome:
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/19/139799442/exploring-the-spanish-empire

Bermuda
The wreck of the Mary Celestia also had some 150 year-old perfume:
http://bernews.com/2011/08/150-yr-old-perfume-found-in-shipwreck/

Panama
Panama isn't too pleased with the BBC coverage of that Morgan shipwreck:
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2011/08/11/cultura/a06n1cul

Peru
I think we've had variations on this Peruvian-desert-was-once-a-breadbasket story before:
http://news.discovery.com/earth/peruvian-desert-once-a-breadbasket-110816.html

Evidence of pre-Incan (Chimu) child sacrifice near Chan Chan:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Archaeology-Children-found-sacrificed-in-pre-Incan-ritual/tabid/1160/articleID/222764/Default.aspx

United States
Pig Point (Maryland) carbon dates to almost 9300 years b.p.:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/bs-md-pig-point-archaeology-20110814,0,3824207.story
 
A 7000 years b.p. site from Des Moines (Iowa):
http://thegazette.com/2011/08/18/ui-archaeologists-find-7000-year-old-site-in-des-moines/

Did George Washington use 'bioweapons'?:
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2011/08/george-washington-biowarrior.html

A Civil War POW camp in southeast Georgia:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49943

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Sunflowers were domesticated in the U.S., not Mexico:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-sunflower-domesticated-mexico.html

Bermuda
More on perfume and wine from the Mary Celestia (slideshow):
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/08/pictures/110817-civil-war-wine-mary-celestia-shipwreck-science-bermuda-perfume/?now=2011-08-17-00:01

Interview with folks working on a 17th century shipwreck off Bermuda:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/11233/1168455-37-0.stm?cmpid=travel.xml

Canada
Still coming up empty in regards to the Franklin Expedition:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2011/08/26/nunavut-franklin-ships.html

On which, coincidentally, a review of Anthony Brandt, *The Man Who Ate His Boots*:
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/books/the-man-who-ate-his-boots-the-doomed-quest-for-the-northwest-passage

Mexico
Remains of a wall/fortress complex from Temixco dating to 650 - 900 A.D.:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5206-inah-investiga-fortaleza-prehispanica-en-morelos

A Tlaloc vessel from Morelos:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/5200-descubren-ofrenda-a-tlaloc-en-sierra-de-morelos

United States
An update on the dig at Fort Recovery (OH):
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2011/08/21/scientists-find-more-secrets-at-ohio-fort.html

Latest on repatriation efforts from the shores of Tripoli:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/08/22/american-legion-sailors-libya_n_933342.html