Levee work at Oakville, Iowa, has prompted excavation of a 1,700-year-old village site near the confluence of the Iowa and Cedar rivers. “They ate a huge number of fish, and we also found turtle and deer bones,” says archaeologist Dave Benn.

A summary of why archaeologist Chris Stevenson believes the eco-collapse on Easter Island wasn’t as simple as chopping down all the trees.

More than 40 years after the first discoveries at Little Salt Spring, archaeologists are still recovering artifacts from the site, a flooded sinkhole south of Sarasota.

A study led by the U.S. Geological Survey shows that Alaskan coastal erosion along a 40-mile stretch of the Beaufort Sea more than doubled in the 5-year period ending in 2007, with cultural and historical sites lost as a result.

The Culture Ministry and the Ministry of State for Tourism and Antiquities are at loggerheads over the reopening of Iraq’s National Museum.

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