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If you are a digger, by choice or merely accident, you may find dinosaur bones or fossilized plants. Waiting until an archaeologist can examine your find is vital. Wait to photograph your find until the examination. Every country, and most states, have ...

Stolen Greek period statue returns home to Egypt from CanadaThe Egyptian antiquities department says a stolen Greek-era statue that was confiscated in Canada is on its way home.Thursday's statement said the marble bust was seized by Canadian customs after it was illegally ...

OTTAWA (Reuters) - Canadian archeologists have discovered the wreckage of the ship that has been credited with discovering the fabled Northwest Passage, saying the vessel remains in good condition after being abandoned more than 150 years ago in the Arctic ice.Archeologists were ...

Jordan has complained to the United Nations in a bid to acquire the Dead Sea Scrolls from Israel, saying the Jewish state seized the ancient texts during the 1967 Six-Day war, an official said on Monday. "Harahsheh did not say when the ...

Jordan has complained to the United Nations in a bid to acquire the Dead Sea Scrolls from Israel, saying the Jewish state seized the ancient texts during the 1967 Six-Day war, an official said on Monday. "The kingdom has filed a complaint ...

Seed collecting is conventionally perceived to have been an irrelevant activity among the Pleistocene foragers of southern Africa, on the grounds of both technological difficulty in the processing of grains and the belief that roots, fruits, and nuts, not cereals, were the ...

Underwater archaeologists said Monday they have found a virtual time capsule of life during Canada's Klondike Gold Rush: a sunken Yukon River sternwheeler so well-preserved that researchers can document the last minutes of the five-man crew as well as their life aboard ...

In light of the realities of US imperialism, Geiger (film and American studies, U. of Essex, UK) traces the American fascination with all things Polynesian from Frederick O'Brien's 1920 travel account. $28.95 (pa) Paul (sociology, Macquarie U., Austraha) paints a critical portrait ...

Bill Fitzhugh knew he'd found something when he stepped off his research boat in the summer of 2001 at Quebec's Hare Harbor and saw red tiles beneath wet moss.. Previous archaeologists had found evidence of Basque outposts at Red Bay on the ...

The end of the Pleistocene epoch brought with it widespread extinctions of large mammals, such as saber-toothed cats and mammoths. Beth Shapiro of Oxford University and her colleagues analyzed mitochondrial DNA from 352 bison fossils recovered from eastern and western Beringia (the ...

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What to do if you find dinosaur bones

Stolen Greek statue to return home to Egypt

Canadian archeologists find lost ship in Arctic

Jordan wants the Dead Sea Scrolls back from Israel

Jordan complains to UN over the Dead Sea Scrolls

Mozambican Grass Seed Consumption During the Middle Stone Age

Sunken Alaskan Sternwheeler is an Underwater Time Capsule

NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS US HISTORY

The Basques Were Here

DNA Evidence Weighs In on Ice Age Extinction Debate

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