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July 19 is 'Ask an Archaeologist Day.' TPR's Kayla Padilla sat down with San Antonio-based Maya archaeologist Jennifer Mathews to talk about the field.
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The more than half mile long wall, called the Blinkerwall, was likely used by Stone Age hunter-gatherers to herd reindeer toward a shooting blind.
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Artifacts recovered during excavation efforts of the 300-year-old structure include Spanish Colonial ceramics, Goliad ceramics, musket balls, lithic debitage, and gunflints.
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The arrow was found at a site on Mount Lauvhøe that was previously covered in ice. The new discovery adds new "time depth" to the research site.
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In Alpine on Tuesday, U.S. and Mexican officials gathered for a repatriation ceremony of ancient artifacts that were stolen from a museum in northern Mexico in 2008.
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The implications are potentially enormous, says history professor Kimberly Hamlin: 'The myth that man is the hunter and woman is the gatherer ... naturalizes the inferiority of women.'
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The fossilized remains are believed to be from an extinct marine reptile called a plesiosaur. The discovery of the fossils is solid evidence of Jurassic life in the state.
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The city of Antakya, known in antiquity as Antioch, was at the crossroads of civilizations for centuries. After the Feb. 6 earthquake, many of its centuries-old monuments and sites lie in ruins.
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The Manis point is the earliest evidence of bone weaponry in the Americas.
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A ProPublica investigation sheds light on the failures to return Native American remains and items