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Shipwrecks! Treasure! Gold, gold, gold! The hallmarks of treasure-hunting are the stuff of adventure stories, more than fun enough to make archaeologists, who are mounting increasing complaints against the pillaging of sunken ships, seem like wet blankets.
The sight of backhoes and dirt piles at the SugarHouse casino site this week has angered a group of local archaeologists and historians, who say the excavation work could disturb potentially important relics.
For several decades, archaeologists in Greece have been painstakingly attempting to reconstruct wall paintings that hold valuable clues to the ancient culture of Thera, an island civilization that was buried under volcanic ash more than 3,500 years ago.
Research by a Valparaiso University geography professor and his students on the creation of Kankakee Sand Islands of Northwest Indiana is lending support to evidence that the first humans to settle the Americas came from Europe, a discovery that overturns decades of classroom lessons that nomadic tribes from Asia crossed a Bering Strait land-ice bridge. Valparaiso is a member of the Council on Undergraduate Research.
Geological evidence found in Ohio and Indiana in recent weeks is strengthening the case to attribute what happened 12,900 years ago in North America -- when the end of the last Ice Age unexpectedly turned into a phase of extinction for animals and humans – to a cataclysmic comet or asteroid explosion over top of Canada.
David Thomas, a Ph.D. student in La Trobe University\'s archaeological program in Melbourne, has used Google Earth to safely uncover historic sites in a remote part of war-torn Afghanistan.
After decades of men digging holes in the ground looking for clues to Texas\' past, it turns out that what the state\'s history needed was a woman\'s touch.
Archaeology -- often slow-paced, precise work unless your name is Indiana Jones -- is going high tech, with lasers set to unlock the secrets of the Maya civilization hidden by dense forest canopy.
William Self Associates, Inc. WSA, Inc. since 1988 has conducted large infrastructure projects (pipelines, transportation, mining, land development) throughout the U.S. WSA currently has 4 regional offices conducting historic, prehistoric, maritime and architectural research, assessm
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04-28-09
Logan Simpson Design Inc. LSD is an environmental planning and landscape architecture firm that offers a full range of cultural resources services throughout the Intermountain West. In addition to historic and prehistoric archaeologists, our staff includes professional historic p
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Daly & Associates Qualified Architectural Historian with Master of Science degree in Historic Preservation.
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ANNOUNCEMENTS
Cultural resource industry events and announcements
ARCHAEOLOGISTS WANTED FOR HISTORY CHANNEL TV SERIES! This expert and the students will be a part of a small team that will travel to several digs in Egypt with the infamous Dr. Zahi Hawass. (If the expert and/or the students have experience in Egyptology even better, but this is not a requirement.)
06-30-09
Statewide Historic Preservation Contractors to Conduct Activity II, III and IV Studies (Kansas) The Kansas Department of Transportation [KDOT] is required by federal and state regulations to identify and document historic/architectural (cultural) and archeological resources which may meet the criteria of significance for listing in the National Register of Historic Places, and which may be affected by proposed state and local highway systems improvement projects.
06-05-09
HCN to Tweet From Historic Preservation Projects Heritage Conservation Network, a non profit that offers volunteer vacations at heritage sites, will be tweeting from its projects this summer. You can follow them at www.twitter.com/handsonhistory.
05-12-09
