Anthropology and Archaeology News
With a charge from President Matthew Holland for students to be engaged in their learning, anthropology and archaeology students from Utah Valley University and their teacher are heeding the call. TheAncient Israeli burial site suggests that feasts were important to building first communitiesTHE Australian Museum has been accused of allowing valuable relics to go missing due to the archaic way it manages its collection.Ashwin Shandilya To the Class of 2014: Greetings from beyond the grave! I?m not actually dead of course, but I?ve recently graduated and entered ?The Real World,? a strange, mysterious place. No doubt you?re excited to begin your Penn experience. To help you along the way, I offer you 14 bits of advice: 1. Meet as many people as you can. Now. For the next few months and especially during NSO ...WASHINGTON, Aug. 30 (UPI) -- Communal feasting on significant occasions goes back in human history at least 12,000 years, say researchers investigating an ancient burial site in Israel. Israel - Archaeology - Burial - Social Sciences - Middle EastBy Jaipal Sharma, Dharwar (Karnataka), Sep 1 : Around 60 to 75 human skeletons were recovered from the outskirts of Annagiri town in Karanataka's Dharwar District.Student interest in three programs at UM has spiked more than 60 percent above last year's enrollment levels. Based on applicant numbers, students are flocking to chemistry, history and media arts.Six students from Lee University participated in a summer archaeology field school at the site of Fort Armistead, a Cherokee removal fort in Cherokee National Forest near Coker Creek, Tenn.In a counter-intuitive finding, new research from North Carolina State University shows that a species of shellfish widely consumed in the Pacific over the past 3,000 years has actually increased in size, despite - and possibly because of - increased human activity in the area.Work at Government Shipyard of Conwayborough stopped when the steam-driven vessel Maggie burned up at a dock on the Waccamaw River during an early May night in 1897.Yahoo! News Search Results for Anthropology Archaeology
