February 2012 Archeology - The Americas

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Mexico
A trio of Aztatlan urns from Sinaloa:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/247-historia/5616-cultura-aztatlan-habito-en-navolato-revela-hallazgo

Video report on that Calmecac exhibition in Mexico City:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-16762217

More on Maya tobacco use:
http://www.buffalonews.com/life/article722949.ece

Peru
Not really within our purview, but here's info on the latest 'uncontacted tribe' ... this time, from Peru:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-16816816

United States
140 years b.p. shipwreck is exposed on the shores of Lake Michigan:
http://www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?id=715186#.Ty5_p4E8euI
 
Feature on Castle Rock/Canyons of the Ancients (CO):
http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20120205/NEWS01/702059922/-1/news01&source=RSS

More on the Hunley (SC):
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/01/pictures/120131-hunley-civil-war-first-submarine-science-nation/

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Mexico
Remains of pre-Aztec housing from Amecameca:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-mexican-experts-ancient-home.html
 
cf: http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-mexico-road.html

United States
An archaeological 'treasure trove' in a ditch near San Gabriel Mission in/near Los Angeles:
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-me-artifacts-found-20120206,0,1801757.story

Hopes of confirming a shipwreck off Rhode Island is the USS Revenge:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9071959/USS-Revenge-Mystery-of-200-year-old-shipwreck-found-off-US-coast.html

Hmmm ... Fort William Henry's skeletons weren't buried after all:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=53471
 
Honouring Yale's earliest women PhDs:
http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/publications/news/201202/first-yale-women-phds.html

More on that Magna Carta restoration completion:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-charter-encasing-magna-carta.html

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Canada
They're restoring/restored the Bluenose II:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/in-lunenburg-a-new-bluenose-gets-set-for-sea/article2338710/

Mexico
Aztec tablets found near the Templo Mayor:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2012/02/14/big-find-made-at-aztec-temple-in-mexico/

Peru
Acoustic studies aren't confined to Stonehenge this week ... Chavin de Huantar is also in the news therefor:
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/magic-sounds-of-peru-s-ancient-chavin-de-huantar

United States
Petroglyphs from a possible paleo-Indian solstice site in Virginia:
http://www.clarkedailynews.com/archaeologist-says-rockart-found-at-local-paleoindian-site/29289

They're still digging at Monticello (VA):
http://www.nbc29.com/story/16964715/excavating-what-jefferson-left-off-his-maps

A project to locate and identify 13 British transport ships that sank in Newport Harbor in the 18th century (VA):
http://www.jamestownpress.com/news/2012-02-16/Front_Page/Sunken_British_ships_are_focus_of_Newport_archaeol.html

More on that 'rich' WWII shipwreck (S.S. Port Nicholson) off Boston:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2012/02/08/modern-treasure-hunters-claim-theyve-found-billions-in-sunken-ship-off-boston

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Brazil
Oldest petroglyph in the Americas found in Brazil (10 000 years b.p.):
http://www.livescience.com/18602-horny-man-rock-carving-giant-phallus.html

Equador
Reviving a new species of yeast from a pre-Incan tomb:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=new-species-resurrected-ancient-andean-tomb

Mexico
Drought as the cause of the collapse of the Maya again in the news:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17149812

... and some apparently unrelated (?) water management/climate change/Maya studies:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-02/uoc-rrw022112.php

A Patolli game board find from Dzibilnocac:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/16-antropologia/5685-hallan-qpasatiempoq-prehispanico-en-el-area-maya

United States
Latest from that Provo Tabernacle dig (UT):
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=19257263&autostart=y

What the Mimbres culture can teach us about climate change:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-02-southwest-pueblo-dwellers-key-modern-climate.html

They've finally finished the Dictionary of American Regional English:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/25/books/dictionary-of-american-regional-english-reaches-last-volume.html

What $650 000 buys you these days, heritage house-wise:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/23/greathomesanddestinations/real-estate-for-650000.html