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Holly Pittman is a Near Eastern art historian and archaeologist, and an expert in Near Eastern glyptic art.She is the Bok Family Professor in the Humanities and a Professor in the History of Art Department of the University of Pennsylvania and serves as a curator in the Near East Section of the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology.
In 2023 the Ancient Art Archive launched The Mural of America, an initiative to document, share, and provide cultural and scientific context for ten landmark sites across North America. [1] According to Alvarez, the project seeks to "reframe American History to include the first 20,000 plus years of human habitation of the American continents."
The Anzick Site (registered as 24PA506) at about the elevation of the bottom of the hillside below the arrow, is the only known Clovis burial site in North America In 1961, while hunting marmots at a sandstone outcrop on the Anzick family property, about one mile south of Wilsall , Montana, Bill Roy Bray found a stone projectile point and bones ...
In 1932, George Palmer, a pilot flying between Las Vegas, Nevada and Blythe, California noticed the Blythe geoglyphs. [7] His find led to a survey of the area in the same year by Arthur Woodward, Curator of History and Anthropology at the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County. [8]
The most elaborate and artistic painted pictographs being the Rock art of the Chumash people, and petroglyphs those of the Coso people in the Coso Rock Art District. [12] Ancient Northwest Coast art features formline painting on woven items and wood; however, few of these items survived the centuries the temperate rainforest climate.
History in the New World stretches back well before 1492, and these enduring landmarks are proof of complex and accomplished civilizations that were established centuries before.
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They were presented by some to be evidence that people of an ancient Near Eastern culture had lived in North America and the U.S. state of Michigan, which, is known as pre-Columbian contact. Many scholars have determined that the artifacts are archaeological forgeries. The Michigan Relics are considered to be one of the most elaborate and ...