Building for the future at the U.S. Army's Fort Drum is helping unveil the past.
The newest discovery at the northern New York Army post is a prehistoric boat-building site near what would have been the shoreline of Glacial Lake Iroquois.
A team of Fort Drum archaeologists surveying a wooded hillside near where the Army is putting a new National Guard training site unearthed an unusual looking stone tool. With the help of a U.S. Marine archaeologist, the team was able to identify it as a triangular-pointed reamer, a typical prehistoric boat-building tool. They also found a punch and other three-dimensional blade tools.
Hmmmmm. No info on how this thing was dated to 11k BP. Seems rather early. We're suspicious that a "5,000-year old village" site was nearby. But we'll wait on more word.
Sex! Drugs! Ancient Egypt! Sex experts head to Wales to talk Egyptian
SEX, drugs and music, cosmetic surgery, gay hairdressers, desperate housewives and a mysterious sex manual ... is it a new TV offering aimed at overshadowing the BBC's sex and swords drama Rome?
No; welcome to the world of the ancient Egyptians - and their music, sex lives and cosmetic foibles are just some of the topics to be debated at Swansea University's Sex and Gender in Ancient Egypt conference at the campus' Egypt Centre this month.
The conference, the third the centre has organised, will welcome leading egyptologists and experts in gender from academic institutions across the world.
It actually sounds like an interesting conference. Like someone in the article says though, one must be careful when interpreting ancient symbols and texts, taking care not to interpret solely on the basis of our modern views.
Archaeology buff: Donors can save site
Ken White dreamed of finding evidence of ancient civilizations in the White Mountains.
He was hiking with one of his sons two years ago on Father's Day when his dream came true.
He said he found a piece of a stone artifact and was confident he was onto something big. His intuition proved right.
He discovered, within weeks of his initial find, a site archaeologists have agreed was used by prehistoric people to quarry hornfels, a black volcanic rock prized for its hardness and ability to be shaped. The quarry is located on privately owned land on Mount Whittier's north face.
Fort Clatsop update Traces of Lewis and Clark sought
Scientists from the National Park Service used remote sensing devices such as a magnetometer and ground-penetrating radar to seek soil irregularities that might signal a post hole, or a fire pit or anything else man-made. They dug about a foot to the "plow zone" farmed beginning in the 1850s then down about another foot to the sediments that were intact before that and probably contemporary with the explorers' Corps of Discovery.
Where some previous searches used backhoes -- a method that makes today's scientists cringe -- this effort used trowels and paintbrushes, taking things a centimeter or less at a time.
The few artifacts found -- ceramic bits, a piece of a child's ceramic doll -- can be traced to later pioneers or to Indian tribes.
Newer research has exposed a clearer picture of what the original winter encampment looked like, so it can be rebuilt with greater accuracy.
Discovery of a staircase in historical city of Gour
Archaeological excavations in the historical site of Gour city led to the discovery of staircases and floorings which date back to the Sassanid era, according to CHN.
Historical city of Gour, located near Firuz Abad in Fars province, is the first circle-shaped city of Iran. The city was constructed during the third century A.D. by the order of Ardeshir Babakan, the founder of Sassanid dynasty, and was consisted of four main gates.
A team of German-Iranian archaeologists are carrying out excavations in the historical site of Gour under the supervision of the German professor, Prof. Dietrich.