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Index of Newsbriefs
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Volume 50 Number 5, September/October 1997
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(Click on the title of a newsbrief to see the full text.)
Latest News
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Check out the latest news from ARCHAEOLOGY Online.
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Resurgent Resurgam
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The British government's Archaeological Diving Unit (ADU) has completed a survey of the Resurgam, the first successful engine-powered submarine, lost while under tow in a storm off Wales in 1880.
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Neolithic Surgery
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A 7,000-year-old burial at Ensisheim, in the French region of Alsace, has yielded the earliest unequivocal evidence for trepanation.
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New Mosaic
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A late first-century A.D. mosaic discovered in the town of Vasto, in Abruzzo, may be the largest one of Roman date in Italy.
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Shandong Discoveries
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Two cemeteries at the Shang-period (ca. 1700-1100 B.C.) site of Qianzhangda, 15 miles south of Tengzhou in Shandong Province, eastern China, have yielded bronzes, jade, pottery, and intact chariots.
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Benedict Arnold Gunboat
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A vessel that was part of a 15-ship squadron led by Benedict Arnold in a Lake Champlain engagement with a superior British fleet on October 11, 1776, has been found in the lake.
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A New Species?
| Fossils from the Gran Dolina railway cut in northern Spain's Sierra Atapuerca are possibly from a hitherto unknown species of early human. |
Neandertal DNA
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DNA study provides important information about when Neandertals and modern humans diverged from a common ancestor.
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New Import Agreements
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The United States has signed an agreement with Peru to help protect that country's archaeological and ethnological heritage.
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Anasazi Cannibalism?
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Human remains found at a twelfth-century A.D. site near Cowboy Wash in southwestern Colorado provide further evidence of cannibalism among the Anasazi.
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Sotheby's
Chastened
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Sotheby's has transferred its regular sales of antiquities and Indian art from London to New York, prompting the heads of the company's Antiquities and Indian and Islamic Art departments to resign.
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