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| Nurturing Neandertals |
A pathological human jaw found in France shows that early Neandertals cared for those who were incapacitated. |
| Archaeologists On Call |
A list has been compiled for the FBI of archaeologists willing to volunteer in the World Trade Center recovery effort. |
| Sherlock Holmes Canino |
Eagle, a "death investigation dog," worked over mass grave sites from Panama City to the Costa Rica border searching for human remains. |
| Quality Cargo |
Off the rugged coast of northwest Scotland, new finds are shedding light on the Spanish Armada's failed effort to conquer Britain. |
| All That Glitters... |
Peru's Museo de Oro has closed under intense academic and public scrutiny. |
| This Dung's For You |
Merryn Dineley, who brews beer using a Bronze Age recipe, was shocked to find that newpapers had reported that her beer was brewed with animal excrement. |
| Early Arctic Adventurers |
New evidence suggests that modern humans--or perhaps even Neandertals--were present in the Arctic about 22,000 years earlier than thought. |
| Gold Rush Wreck |
A mid-nineteenth-century sailing ship was recently found in waterfront landfill in San Francisco's financial district during foundation work for a new hotel. |
| Beach Party A.D. 503 |
Archaeologists have discovered evidence of "Dark Age" trading activities and feasting on the southwest coast of England. |
| Summer Sacrifice |
By analyzing soil, pollen, and animal remains from four kurgans, archaeologists have been able to reconstruct the annual life-cycle of Bronze Age nomadic herdsmen on the north Caucasus steppe. |
| The Acquisitive Curator |
A former curator at the Wisconsin Historical Society Museum has been convicted of pilfering the museum's ethnographic collection. |
| Towering Temple |
An Aztec shrine dating from the fifteenth century has been found some 14,000 feet up Mexico's tallest mountain. |
| Okie Patrimony |
Weedpatch Migrant Camp will soon be the site of a museum devoted to Okie history. |
| Boyhood Home |
Archaeologists using remote-sensing equipment have located the charred remains of the childhood home of James Madison. |
| Royal Tomb Robbery |
A Greek archaeologist taking government officials through the royal Macedonian tombs at Vergina discovered that at least seven marble figurines had been taken from the "tomb of Eurydice." |
| Cold Hard Cache |
An unassuming, 900-year-old village in Illinois has yielded an unprecedented cache of stone axheads. |
