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Discovered another Trowelblazers post with a Lamoka connection, which led me into the interesting and complex family history of Arthur Parker. Bertha “Birdie” Parker Pallan Thurston Cody was the daughter…
Following a trail from Open Access Archaeology led to this practical guide to extracting data from documents, whether paper or digital. Whether you want to get the numbers from one…
A Jack’s Reef point was found at the Lamoka Lake site during the Buffalo Museum of Science excavations. These pentagonal or corner-notched pentagonal points date to the Kipp Island Phase…
Mike Toner, in the Spring 2014 issue of American Archaeology, writes about the threats to American archaeological sites posed by extreme weather. Forest fires in the southwest, Drought from Texas…
The archaeology of the Northeast has not been characterized by any spectacular breakthroughs in the study of prehistoric social or political organization. Bruce Trigger 1981
Spray paint and bullets were used to deface Hidden Cave, a major archaeological site on BLM land in Nevada. A $1,000 reward is being offered, and public tours of the…
Thoroughbred racehorse Native Diver, who was buried at the Hollywood Park racetrack in California after his death in 1967, is being excavated by archaeologists from the University of Southern California. …
Just discovered this site, and it looks to be quite good. Start with their post on paleontologist Hildegarde Howard, because she identified fossil passenger pigeons out west: Photo from Trowelblazers,…
Artifacts from the early Spanish site in St. Augustine, Florida (associated with Pedro Menendez de Aviles, not Ponce de Leon) are being donated to the Florida Museum of Natural History…
Archaeologist William Ritchie (left) in 1949 at what is now the Rochester Museum and Science Center. Photo source: Monroe County Library System image number m0000426