Eighteenth-century letters discovered in the British Library suggest that a man-made mound in southwest England was once topped with a 40-foot-tall pole. “This is important, lost information dug out of the library, rather than through field work,” said David Dawson, director of the Wiltshire Heritage Museum.    An adobe perimeter wall at Peru’s Chan Chan archaeological […]

 Turkeys were domesticated by both the pre-Aztec people in south-central Mexico and the Ancestral Puebloans on the Colorado Plateau, according to studies by Camilla Speller and Dongya Yang of Washington State University. The birds were initially kept for their feathers, and only became an important food source for the Ancestral Puebloans around 1100 A.D. A […]