Ancient Chihuahuas Once Roamed, and Eaten, in Southeastern U.S.?
The origins of the Chihuahua have been lost in the mists of time yet new research reveals they once roamed
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Ancient Chihuahuas in Southeastern U.S.?
Do three dog effigy pots excavated in Georgia in the 1930s at the Bull Creek Site and one from
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Origin of Ancient Jade Tool Baffles Scientists
A composite photograph of the front and back of the jade gouge shown with a centimeter scale. CREDIT: Les O’Neil,
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Were the Maya Mining Gold in Georgia?
Is there evidence that the Maya were in Georgia and Florida? If so, why were they there? Were they mining
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Spiro started upward spiral in 700 A.D.
This engraved conch shell was unearthed in Craig Mound at Spiro Mounds in Oklahoma. LeFlore County, often referred to as
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The Hidden World of the Maritime Maya
Ancient port site was used periodically between 800 B.C. and 1521 A.D. Explorers sit atop the ancient Maya pyramid at
Read morePolynesians beat Columbus to the Americas
Prehistoric Polynesians beat Europeans to the Americas, according to a new analysis of chicken bones.
The work provides the first firm evidence that ancient Polynesians voyaged as far as South America, and also strongly suggests that they were responsible for the introduction of chickens to the continent – a question that has been hotly debated for more than 30 years.
Read moreAncient Mexicans Took Sacrifice Victims From Afar
Ancient Mexicans brought human sacrifice
victims from hundreds of miles (km) away over centuries to sanctify a
pyramid in the oldest city in North America, an archaeologist said on
Wednesday.
DNA tests on the skeletons of more than 50 victims discovered in 2004
in the Pyramid of the Moon at the Teotihuacan ruins revealed they
were from far away Mayan, Pacific or Atlantic coastal cultures.
Turquoise suggests new trade routes between ancient America and Mexico
Thirty years ago the archaeological scientists Garman Harbottle and Edward Sayre used neutron activation analysis to show that turquoise mosaics from Mexico, found as far away as the great Maya city of Chichén Itzá in Yucatan and dating back to around AD900, used raw material originating in the Cerrillos mines between Albuquerque and Santa Fe in New Mexico, an overland distance of some 3,200 km (2,000 miles).
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45-Foot Ancient Canoe Stuck In The Muck Of Weedon Island
A 45-foot canoe, buried for more than a thousand years and used by a long-dead culture of Native Americans was used to paddle over the open waters of the bay — unlike the other ancient canoes uncovered in Florida which were used to ply the calmer waters of lakes and rivers.
Read moreA complex people lived here 7,000 years ago
A study of ancient human remains and artifacts found in the Guadalupe
River floodplain of south Victoria County shows that a relatively advanced people who had contacts with others living hundreds of miles
away populated the area.
Oakville excavation raises more questions
OAKVILLE, Iowa — The prehistoric Indian village that was excavated near here a year ago has been covered up again,
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