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2008-2012


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Wednesday, March 26
March 26, 2008

A Finnish tourist faces prison and a $19,000 fine if convicted of breaking off the earlobe of a Moai on Easter Island. A Rapanui woman witnessed the crime and identified the 26-year-old man. A second-century Roman roundhouse was unearthed during a sewer project in western England. A second dwelling may be nearby. “Finds like this are […]

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Tuesday, March 25
March 25, 2008

A new article in Science proposes that coastal migrants might have reached North America as much as 2,000 years earlier than previously thought. Ancient bison bones have been discovered on Vancouver Island and on Orcas Island in Washington State, suggesting to a team of researchers that plenty of food was available to hunters on the […]

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