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ANI Archaeological cemetery dating back to Romanian era unearthed in Syria The Syrian national archaeological team has unearthed an important and unique archaeological cemetery dating back to the Romanian era at the village of Marin al-Jabal, southeast of the city of Hama in central Syria.

Current Archaeology's December issue offers one of the mag's signature feature write-ups of new books, this time The Complete Ice Age: how climate change shaped the world by Brian Fagan et al.

Just north of I-20 on Moreland Avenue in Atlanta sits an intersection on a low hill.

If there's a war on Christmas, no one has told the publishing industry about it; the deluge of new Christmas-related books has been under way since well before Halloween.

MARQUETTE, Mich. -- Thousands of years of human activity along the Upper Peninsula's Lake Superior shoreline have come into sharper focus after three years of research.

Just north of I-20 on Moreland Avenue in Atlanta sits an intersection on a low hill.

There are places here where the desert floor is so speckled with artifacts, it is difficult to find a step that will not fracture history.

Artist Iris Haussler's fictitious archaeological excavation in the basement of the Grange, part of the Art Gallery of Ontario, has caused a stir among the city's art patrons For years, darkness was cast over Toronto's oldest brick manor.

Archaeologists are preparing to excavate the site of Shakespeare's final home to find out more about the history of the building.

Walking along the bluff of an island off Chatham County, archaeologist Chris McCabe keeps his eyes on the ground looking for the stories the artifacts there can tell him.

Contractors are working to determine if more ancient artifacts exist on the site of a Richmond facility where archaeological treasures were unearthed ten years ago.

Amira Edan, the director of Iraq 's National Museum, says that soon she will no longer have to worry so much that the famous institution remains closed to the public for fear of violence.

A strip of gold bearing a Biblical inscription, part of a hoard of Anglo-Saxon treasure named 'The Staffordshire Hoard', is held by a member of museum staff at the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery in Birmingham, central England September 24, 2009.

Marine archaeologist Billy Morris sets up a pump for the dredge that Florida Public Archaeological Network divers used to explore a wreck off Bayport Park.

About halfway through a dig Tuesday in search of history, the archaeologists at Battery Park in Burlington had unearthed one hand-wrought nail.

The discovery of more human remains at a Guttenberg hospital construction site has shut the project down temporarily.

Authorities in Cleveland have asked a leading anthropologist and a forensic artist to help identify the remains of an 11th woman found inside the home of a suspected serial killer.

The British Museum says a massive haul of Anglo-Saxon gold found this summer by an unemployed amateur treasure-hunter has been valued at 3.285 million pounds .

From countless depictions of "Dracula" to recent movies like "Twilight" and "New Moon," the vampire has been a staple in books and film.

A Colonial-era skull believed to belong to a Revolutionary War soldier is set to be reburied Saturday with military honors.

Long before early American colonists in New England sat down with the natives to share a Thanksgiving feast in 1621, tribes of American Indians were enjoying their own feasts on river shores in Eastern North Carolina.

Like archaeologists who dig through the layers of dirt to unearth crucial pieces of the history of mankind, astronomers have been gazing through the thick layers of interstellar dust obscuring the central bulge of the Milky Way and have unveiled an extraordinary cosmic relic.

A centuries-old skull suspected to be that of a Revolutionary War soldier who died in Connecticut will be reburied with full military honors.

Archaeologists with the University of Tennessee say it will take another four weeks to finish excavating a woodland Indian village.

Automakers conduct all sorts of studies to determine which colours consumers will pick when buying a new car, but, sometimes, according to DuPont, psychology, cultural influences and science also play roles in colour preference.

After sheriff's deputies discovered human bones scattered around private property in Houston County recently, they turned to the Southeast Texas Applied Forensic Science Facility, also commonly referred to as STAFS or "the body farm" for help.

Maya murals found on the Yucatan peninsula, about 1,300 years old, bear images of commoners handling maize, clay vessels, and salt, rather than images of royalty and mystical animals.

In my July 2002 column and the preface to the revised and abridged version of my 1988 book, The Hindu Equilibrium, I noted the astonishing post-modern turn in Indian history, whose canonical book Imagining India by RB Inden claimed that caste was an invention of the colonial British Raj.

A new study provides "incontrovertible evidence" that the volcanic super-eruption of Toba on the island of Sumatra about 73,000 years ago deforested much of central India, some 3,000 miles from the epicenter, researchers report.

A Blanding man accused of threatening an FBI source who was an informant in an archaeological artifacts bust earlier this year pleaded guilty in federal court Friday.

International gong festival disappoints with pop-style concert that neglects tradition.

There's a new show opening up at the New Mexico History Museum . Okay, actually, it sounds really cool.

Archaeologists warn that the Taliban are destroying Pakistan's ancient Gandhara heritage and rich Buddhist legacy as pilgrimage and foreign research dries up in the country's northwest.

A hundred pieces arrived in Mexico as part of the exhibition Pompeii and the Roman Villa: Art and Culture Around the Bay of Naples.

Abstract Feminist Anthropology: A Reader surveys the history of feminist anthropology, a field that was inspired by the womena s movement of the late 1960s and has since emerged at the forefront of efforts to make anthropology more responsive to the concerns of disempowered people around the globe.

Slate ponders how to communicate the danger of radioactive waste to the far future.

Melbourne archaeologist Dr Vincent Clark at work. While the ageing Indiana Jones, played by Harrison Ford, proves fossils are still very much in demand, many real-life archaeologists in Victoria are undergoing a popularity surge of their own.

CUSCO, Peru-Cusco, the golden city of the Incas, sprawls across the hillsides of the high Andes Mountains.

The Collective Imagination is designed to explore some of the most compelling issues facing the world today and the ways that science and technology can help us address them.

Artifacts from the shipwreck of what's believed to have been Blackbeard's flagship will be shown off in an eastern North Carolina lab.

I grew up wondering through the woods of the Northeast Kingdom on an endless search for arrowheads, old bottles and rusted metal.

Archaeologists trying their luck at the future site of a Philadelphia casino have hit it big.

A proposed jail facility west of Palm Springs would pose few significant risks to the local area, according to an environmental assessment released today by Riverside County officials.

The resting place of the USS Westfield is being disturbed to retrieve what's left of the Civil War-era vessel from a Texas ship channel.

The boat, authorities said, went over a small dam and overturned. The men, both in life vests, plunged into the 38-degree water.

An ancient Persian stone relief in Persepolis, Iran. Corbis ENLARGE + In 525 BC, the Persian Emperor Cambyses dispatched 50,000 of his soldiers to lay waste to an oasis temple in the Sahara desert because its oracle had spoken ill of his plans for world domination.

An archaeologist applies magnetic survey to an Iowa cornfield revealing a prehistoric village 8 feet below the ground in Plymouth County.

A 7-day Belize trip lets women discover Mayan ruins, explore an eerie ceremonial cave, snorkel with sting rays, meet village locals, and more.

One hundred and fifty-three years ago, in a quarry in the Neander Valley in Germany, quarry-workers stumbled on a strange skeleton.

The Mesolithic site may date from as early as 9000 BC, by which time hunter-gatherers had reoccupied the region after the last ice age.

"Terra Cotta Warriors: Guardians of China's First Emperor" featuring the largest number of terra cotta figures ever to travel to the United States for a single exhibition, will open on Nov.

The Collective Imagination is designed to explore some of the most compelling issues facing the world today and the ways that science and technology can help us address them.

Northern Mexico's Yaqui Indians buried their lost warriors after a two-year effort to rescue the remains from New York's American Museum of Natural History, where the victims of one of North America's last Indian massacres lay in storage for more than a century.

The secret is out: Man and gomphotheres once coexisted in Sonora. Tools and spear tips found with fossil bones at a remote Sonoran site suggest that Clovis-era hunters butchered two juvenile specimens of the elephantlike megafauna about 13,000 years ago.

"Tell me something good" at the Santa Monica Museum of Art is a collaboration between Kim Schenstadt and Rita Mcbride that takes its inspiration from an event at the Museum of contemporary art in Chicago in 1969 "Phoning it in." The exhibitions both address conceptual art, where the artists value process over product, experience over possession.

The U.S. Federal Emergency Management Agency is ready to help American Samoa assess and fund an island-wide siren alert system, which has to be initiated by the local government, says a top FEMA official.

Abstract Partly due to the failure of anthropology to productively engage the fields of psychology and neuroscience, investigations in cultural neuroscience have occurred largely without the active involvement of anthropologists or anthropological theory.

Archaeological digs in two Washington national parks continue to reveal artifacts that debunk the myth that indigenous people didn’t gather food and plants from the upper reaches of the Cascades.

A dig near Cascade Pass in North Cascades National Park has revealed evidence that humans used the area 9,600 years ago. At Mount Rainier National Park, a site on the northern slope of the mountain has produced artifacts dating back 7,600 years.

Under the leadership of Dr. David Addison, a research archaeologist at the Samoan Studies Institute at the American Samoa Community College, a study is in progress to assess damages to archaeological sites on Tutuila exposed by the Sept.

LIMA .- Peruvian archaeologists have reached the conclusion that the Incas decapitated their enemies to use their heads as offerings after finding three skulls in a ceremonial vessel in the southeastern city of Cuzco.

At the heart of this contested city, the holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, has become, for many, the epicenter of the conflict between Israel, the Palestinians and the wider Muslim world.

One person not singing its praises is Mayan elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun, who says he's tired of the whole idea of a 'Mayan apocalypse,' and suggests that doomsday theories actually spring from Western rather than Mayan ideas.

Marine researchers have found a pair of Imperial Japanese Navy submarines on the sea floor off Hawaii's Oahu Island - vessels so advanced for their day they would provide plenty of fodder for a fresh novel by Tom Clancy.

Known by their vessel numbers, the I-14 was a 375-foot submarine aircraft carrier - its crew capable of assembling and launching two float-plane bombers in roughly 20 minutes. The other craft, the I-201, was an attack submarine, twice as fast as any in the US fleet and faster than subs in any other Navy during World War II.

Abstract There is a great need for medical anthropology within medicine. Anthropology's influence on medicine was examined by library and electronic searches of the medical and medical anthropological literature in the past two decades.

A New Yorker book review by Jill Lepore explores the question " Why is American history so murderous? " Fascinating stuff.

ANI ANI ANI Roman ruins found under British theatre An ancient Roman ruin has been discovered by builders working on the 25.6 million pounds redevelopment of the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury, UK.

It's possible that you could call writer/director Brant Sersen a cultural anthropologist.

On Thursday, before the full details of the tragic mass shooting at a processing center at Fort Hood by one of their own comrades were even known, the American-Statesman's Web site published a quote from an Army spouse named Kris Starr.

From the desk of Thomas F. Bertonneau on Wed, 2009-11-11 16:33 Eric L. Gans I have addressed Eric L. Gans and his theory of language and culture previously in The Brussels Journal, and with enough of a response that revisiting the topic seems justified.

The hypothesis of the grave of St Agnes of Bohemia having been found in St Hastal Church in Prague centre must be further explored, experts and church representatives, addressed by CTK, agreed yesterday.

Nearly four decades after serial killer Dean Corll tortured and killed more than two dozen young boys in Houston, another of his victims may have been found.

Israel displayed for the first time Wednesday a collection of rare coins charred and burned from the Roman destruction of the Jewish Temple nearly 2,000 years ago.

Were dinosaurs "warm-blooded" like present-day mammals and birds, or "cold-blooded" like present day lizards? The implications of this simple-sounding question go beyond deciding whether or not you'd snuggle up to a dinosaur on a cold winter's evening.

Archaeologists have dated cacao as chocolate being eaten by the Mayan Indians of Mexico as early as 600 CE. The cocoa bean had been worshipped by the Mayans as a heavenly gift. The beans were put on a pedestal and worshipped as an idol. In its raw form, chocolate is more addictive than heroin. Scientists currently study how chocolate addiction changes the brain, and which chemicals are released by the brain by eating chocolate.

Breaking news -- the world won't be ending soon. So then, what's with all the 2012 fretting? It's all hocus-pocus, and a little good old capitalist hustling.

Later this month Egyptian archaeologists will travel to the Louvre museum in Paris to five ancient fresco fragments stolen from a tomb in the Valley of the Kings in 1980s, but there are many other "stolen" antiquities which they also want back, reports the BBC's Yolande Knell in Cairo.

The passing of Claude Levi-Strauss marks the end of an era in the study of human culture.

Aside from the standard books and laptop found on the desks of most students, Jason Cohen's desk also holds a Chinese tea set.

Egypt and the Getty Conservation Institute announced Tuesday a five-year project to restore the Tomb of Tutankhamun, the boy king whose golden mask and artifacts have long awed the world.

The ASCC Samoan Studies Institute recently released the educational coloring book "Samoa Anamua a which features contributions from archaeology instructor Dr.

Herodotus wrote of a 50,000-man strong army that set out on foot into the Egyptian desert in 525 B.C. and was never heard from again ... until today.

DANVILLE, Ky. - Part of Danville's history has started to emerge from the layers of soil behind the Willis Russell House.

Recently excavated Mayan murals are giving archaeologists a rare look into the lives of ordinary ancient Maya.

French anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss passed away on October 30 at the age of 100.

East Berlin citizens crowd the new passage at Bernauer Strasse in Berlin on Saturday, Nov.

ICA, Peru - A small grove of huarango, the storied Peruvian tree that can live over a millennium, rests like a mirage amid the sand dunes on this city's edge.

The circus is still in town. A big tent. They like him. Or at least they like him enough.

COKER CREEK, Tenn. - The U.S. Forest Service has begun to uncover the remains of a fort used to temporarily house migrating Cherokee along the Trail of Tears more than 170 years ago.

Maria Teresa Tersigni-Tarrant donned a harness, clipped it to a rope and made her way down Lookout Mountain to the spot where someone found human skeletal remains last April.

Long-hidden art and artifacts from the ancient Mediterranean are on display for the first time in years at the University of Michigan's newly expanded Kelsey Museum of Archaeology.

Sick of being portrayed as helpless victims, indigenous peoples are now picking up the camera themselves.

Appletorte is the perfect way to finish off a dinner that might have been eaten by Temperance Brennan, the detective in mysteries by author Kathy Reichs.

A sewer plant expansion project has turned up some unlikely things in Hartford -- including artifacts that could be thousands of years old.

London, November 7 : A bust of Julius Caesar, recovered from the Rhone riverbed, is now on display as part of an exhibition of artefacts discovered in the bed of the Rhone river over the last 20 years, at a museum in southern France.

London, November 7 : An archaeology professor has discovered the missing legs of a 900-year-old Buddhist statue deep in the Cambodian jungle, rewriting history in the process.

A Travis County murder trial ended in a hung jury Thursday after a defense lawyer argued that his client shot a man in defense of his home, according to lawyers in the case.

The beginning of chocolate is the cacao tree, known by ethnobotanists as "theobroma cacao." According to the article, " Introduction: Chocolate's History at a Glance ," chocolate in its raw state grows in a pod like a pea, but on trees 40-60 feet tall.

Three men, including the board member of an auction house, have been arrested on Gotland in connection with the plunder of hundreds of Viking -era silver artifacts from the Baltic Sea island, Sveriges Radio reports.

CHRIS CAROLA Archaeologists digging at proposed NY-Vt. ferry site, home to 18th-century military ruins ALBANY, N.Y. - ALBANY, N.Y. a ' A New York archaeological team began work Friday on a state-owned campground at an 18th-century military site where a temporary ferry service is being considered to replace the closed Champlain Bridge, officials ...

PEOPLE are being invited to have a dig at Crawley as a man who thinks the town's not so famous history still rocks plans to open its first ever archaeology course.

State Police are still unsure what killed a man who's decomposed body was found along Rt.

Archaeologists claim to have found the oldest known artefact in the Americas, a scraper-like tool in an Oregon cave that dates back 14,230 years.

When Degi, a 24-year-old web designer in Mongolia's capital, Ulaanbaatar, hit a pedestrian in July 2008 with his Daewoo sedan, his luck took a turn for the worse.

Earlier this week, France learned that Claude Levi-Strauss, a leading anthropologist and a member of the elite Academie Francaise, had died aged 100.

GENOA -- Forget Indiana Jones. Professor Artie Facts and his archaeological expedition are coming to Genoa Civic Theatre this month in the comedy/mystery, 'Evil Doings at Queen Toot's Tomb.' The play, which is the first in the season's 'Death by Laughter' series, opens Friday.

An archaeologist says excavations in southern Georgia have turned up more artifacts that he believes pinpoint part of the trail of the 16th century Spanish explorer Hernando de Soto.

With Napoleon Dynamite and Nacho Libre, Jared Hess established himself as a director with a distinctive visual style, a fixation on oddball characters and a love of awkward comedy.

It has sun, history and a certain air of adventure. But you don't often find Iraq on the list of a holidaymakers' dream destinations.

Entry sign on King Tut's tomb. Photo by Molly McCahan. It was 87 years ago today when British archaeologist Howard Carter discovered the entrance to King Tut's tomb in the Valley of the Kings near Luxor, Egypt.

Hereford United are waiting to find out the results of an archaeological dig underneath the Blackfriars End at Edgar Street.

The French philosopher and anthropologist Claude Levi-Strauss, who's credited with helping shape Western thinking about ancient civilisations, has died at the age of 100.

TWO sixth-form pupils from King Alfred School in Highbridge took part in an archaeology project near Kilve.

A neighborhood group has given up efforts to save a small Cincinnati house that once served as the home base for a major archaeological operation.

The hoard of booty unearthed from the Staffordshire fells will go on display today at the British Museum.

The Academie Francaise says that Claude Levi-Strauss, an influential French intellectual who was widely considered the father of modern anthropology, has died.

A metal-detecting enthusiast has unearthed a 2,000-year-old treasure hoard worth an estimated A 1 million.

Some of the vessels uncovered in the new Thracian tomb by the team of archaeologist Veselin Ignatov near Karanova.

ARCHAEOLOGISTS believe the former Radcliffe Infirmary site was the burial area for Oxford's great and good 4,000 years ago.

Pieces of a British destroyer that was badly damaged by Albanian mines in 1946, straining relations between the two countries for decades, appear to have been discovered in a waterway near Greece, U.S. and Albanian researchers said Monday.

Excavations in recent decades in downtown Santa Fe and other parts of the region have taught archaeologists a lot about northern New Mexico's history.

An ancient South American civilisation which disappeared around 1,500 years ago helped to cause its own demise by damaging the fragile ecosystem that held it in place, a study has found.

I hope I don't get any of this wrong. Writing about someone else's culture is more than a little daunting.

Sensemaking KM and CoPs , engaging and embedded KM, and a competitive vs collaborative culture Thought I'd share a few slides from a presentation I'm giving at work on Communities of Practice from a knowledge management perspective.

An ancient huarango tree. The Nasca cut down the keystone species in the desert of Peru's coastal plains to make way for crops enlarge At the height of their power, the Nasca had mastered the craft of weaving elaborate textiles and the art of painting fine, multicoloured pottery.

Battle Ground, Ind. - Tippecanoe County officials want to create a computer-assisted map of a historic battlefield that could yield clues about archaeological remnants buried there.

In the same issue of Science as Kaplan's review of Sex and War, there is a News/Focus article on the evolutionary history of Neanderthals and Homo sapiens.The standard view has been that Neanderthals and modern humans shared a common ancestor, most likely in Africa, something less that 500,000 years ago.

A new study reveals the important role inherited wealth plays in sustaining economic inequality in small scale societies.