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4 – A 1,200-year-old tomb of the Gran Coclé culture containing the remains of an elite lord, as many as 31 sacrificial victims, and gold artifacts has been discovered in Panama’s El Caño Archaeological Park. [10] The top half of a statue of Ramesses II was found in an archaeological site at the ancient city of Hermopolis, now Al-Ashmunin ...
The Coyote Canyon mammoth dig site near the Tri-Cities is looking for volunteers and also is scheduling group tours. The remains of a Columbian mammoth likely killed in an Ice Age flood 17,000 ...
Volunteers on an archaeological dig in the ruins of an ancient Gaulish village high above the cliffs in northern France this week uncovered a small glass vial —and within it a neatly rolled, 200 ...
Archaeological stratification or sequence is the dynamic superimposition of single units of stratigraphy or contexts. [16] The context (physical location) of a discovery can be of major significance. Archaeological context refers to where an artifact or feature was found as well as what the artifact or feature was located near. [17]
Sir Mortimer Wheeler laid out the Box-grid method in his 1954 book, Archaeology from the Earth. [19] Sir Mortimer was the sole author of this volume, due to Tessa Wheeler’s death in 1936. [ 20 ] In the volume, Wheeler asserts that his square unit based method of excavation is the only method that satisfies the majority of an area-excavation ...
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Cowboy Wash is a group of nine archaeological sites used by Ancestral Puebloans (previously known as Anasazi) in Montezuma County, southwestern Colorado, United States. Each site includes one to three pit houses, and was discovered in 1993 during an archaeological dig. The remains of twelve humans were found at one of the pit house sites ...
Volunteer during archaeological excavation finds 'remarkable ...