Anthropology News

Did the Donner Party really practice cannibalism? Did the father of the American navy truly grow up in poverty? As a historical archaeologist, Julie Schablitsky's job is to investigate questions whose answers seem lost to history.

PRECIOUS archaeological treasures could be destroyed by a proposed 12,000-home development to the east of Swindon.

On a rocky hillside in central Afghanistan, men in visored helmets and protective blue smocks gently scratch the earth for land mines - or shards of pottery from the sixth century.

Kevin Mullen is the jack-of-all-trades at the Crispin Porter + Bogusky office in Boulder.

Chesterfield -- Archaeologists digging at a site in west St. Louis County believe it was once a major market center for Mississippian Indians.

Two treasure hunters face a legal battle over how they are going to split a reward of up to 500,000 for finding a rare hoard of more than 800 Celtic gold coins.

A ROMAN well has been unearthed on a Chester development site that will soon house a new Travelodge hotel.

Laos News.Net Friday 3rd July, 2009 Washington, July 3 : An archaeological excavation in southern Vietnam of a site more than 3000 years old has shed new light on how the death of young children was viewed by community members and uncovered the oldest clear evidence of rice agriculture in the region.

Ed Spaeth was researching his family tree when he discovered an 18th-century ancestor likely was buried in the woods just down the hill from his Hudson Valley home.

The skull and reconstructed face of a girl killed in a Bronze Age settlement near Stuttgart, Germany.

To Donald Nelson, a Hopi who grew up in Prescott, Homolovi is not just another state park.

York residents and visitors are invited to take part in a range of events being held to celebrate this year's Festival of British Archaeology.

Any doubt that remains found in the Utah wilderness were those of Everett Ruess, a legendary wanderer of the 1930s, seemed to be erased by a battery of forensic and genetic tests a few months ago.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS will comb through rubbish pits, the old town rampart and more when they return to Wallingford on Saturday - but only on condition they don't leave a mess.

RISE up, O Macintosh computer comrades of Melbourne, rise up and wave your fist with indignation! Raise your tastefully designed fist, in aesthetically pleasing indignation.

Dawn of the Dinosaurs": They were just hanging out in a tropical land slightly under the Earth's icy crust, waiting for our favorite mastodons and their furry pals to drop in for some wacky adventures.

All non-Chinese people will get free access to 12 major tourist sites in Anyang city, Henan province, under a new policy, which the country's citizens believe "fawns over foreigners". The program, which will continue until the end of the year, is designed to attract more foreign tourists, who are smaller in number than domestic travelers to the ...

An historic discovery of the fossilized remains of the first European humans was made in Spain, and revealed they liked to chomp on children By Virginie Grognou AFP , ATAPUERCA, SPAIN Thursday, Jul 02, 2009, Page 14 The remains of the first Europeans discovered at an archaeological site in northern Spain have revealed that these prehistoric men ...

Israeli archaeologists unveiled one of the largest and best preserved mosaics ever found in the country Wednesday, for only the second time since it was discovered more than a decade ago.

The picturesque Cheshma-e-Shafa gorge in the northern province of Balkh is just one of several ancient sites faced with destruction by a post-Taliban push for development, they say.