Destruction of the largest Indian Mound in Alabama’s Choccolocco Vally continues. The city of Oxford’s mayor, Leon Smith, is promoting the construction project, and his “campaign has financial connections to firms involved in the $2.6 million no-bid project,” to build a Sam’s Club on the site, according to the Online Magazine of the Institute for […]

 A new genetic study of dogs suggests that they were first domesticated in Africa, and not East Asia, as had been thought. A field school at a self-sufficient medieval monastery in County Meath, Ireland, unearthed a deep defensive ditch and a thirteenth-century foundation. Waste near the foundation included animal bones and oyster shells, leading investigators […]