Amid the flap surrounding a set of human remains found last week at the Wal-Mart construction site that were improperly moved, yet another set of remains was found Thursday, the state Department of Land and Natural Resources has confirmed.
Wal-Mart spokeswoman Cynthia Lin said construction has stopped in both areas of the Ke'eaumoku Street site where remains were most recently found.
Lin said the site has been fenced off, and the remains — one set found July 17 and the other on Thursday — covered.
That settles it: Ancient peoples buried their dead according to the spatial configurations of future construction sites.
And. . . . .Skull could be talk of school
An exciting but gruesome discovery made by two Auckland schoolboys will be examined by an archaeologist tomorrow.
The boys were digging in their parents' Mount Roskill garden yesterday when they uncovered a human skull.
Detective Senior Sergeant Mark Benefield says the boys took the find to their parents, who called in the police.
He says the kids were pretty excited, and not traumatised by the find at all.
He says it will make a good story for school tomorrow.
Mark Benefield says initial enquiries would suggest the bones are at least a hundred years old.
Yet another update on the Port Angeles excavation Non-Native skeleton found on graving yard property will be investigated, tribe says
A Lower Elwha Klallam tribal official says the discovery of complete skeletal remains of a non-tribal woman found on the graving yard site will be investigated in more detail.
The remains were discovered in an isolated grave early last week during the archaeological excavation of the former Klallam village to recover Native remains and artifacts.
Port Angeles police were called to the 22-acre graving yard Tuesday to determine if they had a crime scene.
News with photos! Earliest palace city discovered in Henan
Archaeologists said that the palace city discovered last spring at the Erlitou site in Yanshi City, central China's Henan Province, may be the earliest palace city ever discovered in China.
"The design of the city had erected a model for later dynasties in designing their capital," said Dr. Xu Hong, who leads the archaeological investigation team at the Erlitou site of the Institute of Archaeology, the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences.
The rectangular city is 300 meters wide from the east to the west, and 360 to 370 meters long from the north to the south.
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Biblical Archaeology update Two American cultural titans share thoughts about the Bible
They are titans in their respective fields who have taught within miles of each other. But they never met until a journalist brought them together to talk about the Bible.
The talkers were Frank Moore Cross, 82, the distinguished professor of Hebrew literature at Harvard University since 1957 (now emeritus); and Boston University’s Elie Wiesel, 75, Holocaust survivor, author and winner of the 1986 Nobel Peace Prize. Their chat was arranged by Hershel Shanks for the magazine he edits, Biblical Archaeology Review.
The origins of their interest in the Bible are quite different.
Biblical archaeology is. . . .a bit on the odd side of archaeology. We will discuss this at some length later on, for in the meantime, the sun is shining and awaits us outside. For lunch.