News tagged with archaeological artifacts

New technology for dating ancient rock paintings

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

Mar 11, 2009 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0

A new dating method finally is allowing archaeologists to incorporate rock paintings — some of the most mysterious and personalized remnants of ancient cultures — into the tapestry of evidence used to study life in prehistoric ...

Ancient Humans Left Evidence from the Party that Ended 4,000 Years Ago

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Jul 21, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (9) | 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- The party was over more than 4,000 years ago, but the remnants still remain in the gourds and squashes that served as dishware. For the first time, University of Missouri researchers have ...

Prehistoric tools discovered at Isles of Shoals

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Aug 27, 2009 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Summer students in Cornell's new Archaeology Field School at Shoals Marine Laboratory, Cornell's marine field station, have discovered the first prehistoric archaeological site in the Isles ...

NASA Announces Screening of Space Shuttle Artifacts

Space & Earth / Space Exploration

Sep 14, 2009 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0

NASA is inviting eligible educational institutions, museums and other organizations to begin registering to screen potential space shuttle artifacts.

Ancient British artifacts to be displayed

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 30, 2006 | 4.5 / 5 (6) | 0

An ancient curse inscribed on a sheet of lead is one of several treasures going on display from a British archaeological dig.

Ancient handle with Hebrew text found in Jerusalem

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

May 20, 2009 | 4.8 / 5 (6) | 1

(AP) -- Archaeologists digging on Jerusalem's Mount of Olives have discovered a nearly 3,000-year-old jar handle bearing ancient Hebrew script, a find significantly older than most inscribed artifacts unearthed ...

Underwater exploration seeks evidence of early Americans

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

Jul 09, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (4) | 0

Where the first Americans came from, when they arrived and how they got here is as lively a debate as ever, only most of the research to date has focused on dry land excavations. But, last summer's pivotal underwater exploration ...

Drought threatens Indian artifacts

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Dec 20, 2007 | 2.8 / 5 (4) | 0

North Carolina officials warned that taking advantage of the drought to look for American-Indian artifacts on lake bottoms is against the law.

Keeping African artifacts in Africa

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Apr 07, 2008 | 1 / 5 (1) | 0

It is common for professional archaeologists and paleoanthropologists working in Africa to populate western museums with foreign artifacts by excavating and permanently removing them from history rich communities in Africa. ...

Team tracks infamous conquistador through southeast

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Nov 05, 2009 | 3.3 / 5 (3) | 0

Archaeologists at Atlanta's Fernbank Museum of Natural History have discovered unprecedented evidence that helps map Hernando de Soto's journey through the Southeast in 1540. No evidence of De Soto's path ...

New study finds first inhabitants of Caribbean brought drug heirlooms with them

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 20, 2008 | 3.8 / 5 (14) | 0

A new study led by North Carolina State University's Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick is the first to show physical evidence that the people who colonized the Caribbean from South America brought with them heirloom drug paraphernalia ...

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