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The Ultimate Archaeology Christmas List!

Dec 9, 2009
What to get? Its getting late! I hate the holidays! ...actually I love the holidays, but shopping for gifts can be a pain! Here are some ideas that are sure to please that person on your list who's into archaeology: (click on the blue words for...

Buffalo Bill's Defunct

Nov 22, 2009
Mystery, intrigue, petroglyphs, the Columbia River Gorge...what else could anyone interested in archaeology and fiction ask for? Just check out the cover...stylized Pacific Northwest rock art galore. Vancouver, WA author Sheila Simonson has blended...

America's Oldest Artifact: Another First for Paisley Cave

Nov 6, 2009
Dr. Dennis Jenkins and the team working at Paisley Cave in Oregon can now claim to have found the oldest known artifact in the Americas. The tool is a bone scrapper that has been definitively radiocarbon dated at 14, 230 years, significantly older...

Cupules on the Columbia

Oct 24, 2009
Upriver of Vancouver, Washington the Columbia River bank is edged with thousands of rounded basalt boulders. Ripped from the up-river bedrock thousands of years ago by massive ice-age floods these rocks, once part of the volcanic landscape, were...

Kennewick Man II: Anthropologist Argues That Corps of Engineers Acted Properly

Sep 24, 2009
In a Seattle Times opinion piece Dr. James Nason, a retired University of Washington anthropology professor and emeritus curator at the Burke Museum (where the original Kennewick Man is kept), argues that the Corps of Engineers is properly handling the...




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