HILTON HEAD ISLAND, S.C. -- Clues about the culture of the Yemassee Indian tribe that settled several towns in colonial Carolina may lie beneath the packed sand of a parcel of land Beaufort County hopes to purchase for preservation.
County officials voted to purchase a 100-acre parcel this month from the LandPlan Partnership, a company developing luxury homes on the 615-acre property. The Trust for Public Land, the nonprofit organization that manages Beaufort County's $40 million land-buying program, plans to purchase and conveyed to the county this summer, officials said.
Family Discovers Ancient Bones During Construction
A family adding to their Southern Indiana home have discovered bones and Native American artifacts that could be more than 2,000 years old. Contractors started digging last week to build the home addition in Spencer County, east of Evansville.
By Saturday, bones, stone artifacts and a piece of a skull had been found. Homeowner Russ Meyer said he first thought the bones were from an animal, but he and his family called authorities to check.
Indiana Department of Natural Resources Archaeologist Jim Mohow says it's an important discovery. He says there's evidence of at least two human burials. It could take several months for all the forensic testing to be completed.
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Why can't we ever find those. . .3000-year-old tomb found by accident
Chinese archaeologists accidentally discovered a cemetery that may include the oldest tomb ever discovered of the Western Zhou Dynasty (11th century to 771 BC).
This week's find in Qishan County, Northwest China's Shaanxi Province may shed light on the mystifying history of the dynasty.
The four centuries of its rule mark the basis for ancient China's political and cultural systems.
The systems that originated then prevailed until the 19th century, said Li Xueqin, a historian with the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
To date, historians have mainly depended on documents rather than relics as no other large-sized tombs from the period are known except for a few that were raided and empty.
Remains shed light on the northern `barbarians'
In ancient times, northern Honshu and southern Hokkaido were considered untamed lands inhabited by mysterious barbarians who refused to be ruled by Japanese emperors.
Much remains a mystery about the northern ``Emishi'' people, but a recent excavation in Aomori Prefecture sheds some light on the tribes that had a long history of conflict.
Researchers have dug up an unprecedented number of iron arrowheads, as well as human remains-one with its hands bound-from the Hayashinomae ruins near Hachinohe. The discovery suggests a fierce war was fought at the settlement site in the 10th or 11th century.
Looking for miracles
Findings unearthed at the ancient city of Bethsaida near the Sea of Galilee - where Jesus and his apostles ostensibly lived, and where the grand capital of a First Temple period kingdom was located - have excited tremendous attention all over the world for 17 years. Everywhere, that is, except in Israel.
The Polish priest stood opposite archaeologist Prof. Rami Arav at the heart of the excavation site of the ancient city of Bethsaida, on the north shore of Lake Kinneret (the Sea of Galilee). It was the summer of 2000, recalls Arav, director of the dig.
"Could it be that we are now standing in the house of the apostle St. Peter?" the priest asked him.
"It could be, but it's also possible that we're not," replied Arav. "We don't know exactly who lived in every home here ..."
The first section of this article is unbearably funny. One can readily sympathize with the poor archaeologist who can't really say anything definitive, but whose answers are taken as definitive anyway.