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Angel Mounds dig uncovers a major find

June, 19 2009

Evansville Courier & Press

Aleece Weave and Bob Zerface use a fine screen to filter dirt from the larger matter that has been dug by fellow archaeology students from the summer dig at Angel Mounds on Wednesday, the last day of the dig. An archaeology dig normally results in little more than dirt, rocks and pottery chards. So, when the Indiana University Field School found an intact jar during a dig at Angel Mounds State Historic Site this spring, the group was really happy.

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Early Human Is Ape After All, Discoverer Decides

June, 19 2009

National Geographic

Nearly 15 years ago Russell Ciochon shook our family tree when he announced that a fossil found in a Chinese cave was evidence of a new form of early human.

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Major Archaeological Find in Kent County

June, 19 2009

WBOC News

Major Archaeological Find in Kent County A rare find in Delaware is giving archaeologists a look at how Native Americans used to live in that state. After months of digging at a site near Frederica, dozens of tools and artifacts used by Native Americans have been found.

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Bulgarian Archaeologists Find Remains of Medieval Book in Veliko Tarnovo

June, 19 2009

Novinite.com

Prof. Ovcharov (right) and Dr. Vachev (left) are doing excavations in a church yard in Veliko Tarnovo. Bulgarian archaeologists have discovered the silver and gold casing of a medieval book in the yard of the St. Peter and St. Paul church in the city of Veliko Tarnovo.

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Megalithic age cave discovered

June, 19 2009

Zee News

Megalithic age cave A cave believed to have been built during the Megalithic Age has been discovered at a private land near Taliparamba here.

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Remains of Lincoln tank found in France

June, 19 2009

Lincolnshire Echo

This photo shows two tank wrecks. The F6 Fea de Artifice is the one at the back. Fragments of Lincoln's pioneering military heritage have been unearthed in a field in northern France.

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Artefacts found at nature reserve

June, 19 2009

BBC

Human remains have been found at the nature reserve Human remains and Roman artefacts have been unearthed in an Iron Age ditch at a new nature reserve in Cambridgeshire.

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Ancient tomb found in Machu Picchu archaeological park

June, 18 2009

Andina

Ancient tomb found in Machu Picchu Archaeological Park Archaeologists at the National Institute of Culture (INC) have found a pre-Inca tomb in the Salapunku archaeological site, located inside the Machu Picchu Archaeological Park in Cusco, southeastern Peru.

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New discovery suggests mammoths survived in Britain until 14,000 years ago

June, 18 2009

EurekAlert

Research which finally proves that bones found in Shropshire, England provide the most geologically recent evidence of woolly mammoths in North Western Europe publishes today in the Geological Journal. Analysis of both the bones and the surrounding environment suggests that some mammoths remained part of British wildlife long after they are conventionally believed to have become extinct.

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CU-Boulder study shows Maya intensively cultivated manioc 1,400 years ago

June, 18 2009

EurekAlert

CU-Boulder anthropology Professor Payson Sheets and his team uncovered a manioc field one-third the size of football field buried under 10 feet of ash by the eruption of a volcano about 1,400 years ago that blanketed the Mayan farming village of Ceren in El Salvador. Evidence found at ancient village of Ceren in El Salvador buried by volcanic ash about 600 A.D.