Britain's pet problem
Guardian Unlimited
The authors of a provocative new book have bad news for animal-lovers: pets are bad for the planet. They consume vast amounts of precious resources, produce mountains of noxious waste – and they can be a disaster for wildlife Henrietta Morr...
Unusual Partners Study Divisive Jerusalem Site
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
JERUSALEM -- At the heart of this contested city, the holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, has become, for many, the epicenter of the conflict between Israel, the Palestinians an...
Clay Center to hold archaeology fun day Saturday
Charleston Gazette
The Clay Center hosts an archaeology-themed Family Fun Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. The Clay Center hosts an archaeology-themed Family Fun Day from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday. CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- The Clay Center hosts an archaeolog...
Sewer plant work reveals artifacts
Rutland Herald
Charles Knight, assistant director of the University of Vermont's consulting archaeology program, says non-native stone flakes found in the soil suggest that people occupied the river bank there, and that the number and age of them make the...
Tour will explain history, archaeology of Kawai Nui
Honolulu Advertiser
Experts will lead a history and archaeology tour in Kawai Nui Marsh and Maunawili Valley from 8:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. Saturday. Anthropologist Paul Brennan and Rick Kaimi Scudder will lead the tour of historical and archaeological features ...
Sheri L. Balko becomes bride of Joshua Crane
The Hazleton Standard-Speaker
Sheri L. Balko, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Emmanuel Balko, and Joshua Crane, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Crane, were united in marriage by Daniel Crane, brother of the groom, in Royal Oaks Wedding Garden, Love, Va. Given in marriage by her fath...
Unusual Partners Study Divisive Jerusalem Site
MalaysiaNews.net
JERUSALEM At the heart of this contested city, the holy site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as Haram al-Sharif, or Noble Sanctuary, has become, for many, the epicenter of the ...
Rise of the new treasure hunter
Times Online
In the early 1980s, archeological groups and the Council for British Archaeology formed Stop (Stop Taking Our Past), an anti-detectorist pressure group. “It is our concern to make it as shameful to use metal detectors on public property as ...
Local archaeologist published in journal
Sun Advocate
K. Renee Barlow, Curator of Archaeology at the College of Eastern Utah Prehistoric Museum, has been published in the journal, "Tree-Ring Research" along with Ronald H. Towner, Matthew W. Salzer and James A. Parks all of the ...
Stanford workshop recreates the world of Incan pottery
Stanford Report
The Inca artisans of the 1570s tried to recreate the pots their predecessors had made before the Spanish Conquest. Now Stanford's Archaeology Center retraces their steps and in doing so, rediscovers a vanished world.
'Extraordinary' skeleton of woman from early Bronze Age found in ...
New Kerala
... Platte,' a geological plate between the Saale and Unstrut river valleys, according to Ralf Bockmann, a spokesperson for the Saxony-Anhalt Office for Monument Protection and Archaeology in Saale, Germany. For example, according to the st...
County ok’s contract with archaeology firm
Fergus Falls Daily Journal
Lowering the level of Pelican Rapids-area Lake Olaf by discharging lake water toward the Pelican River won’t begin until after archaeology tests for bone fragments and other artifacts are completed. The Otter Tail County Board on Tuesday ap...
Iraqi 'bling' at Philly museum
Courier-Post
When we think of archaeological museums, terms like "razzle dazzle" don't usually come to mind. But in the case of the open-ended exhibit at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, more familiarly known as the...