Ted Dan Gardiner, 52, was the informant who helped federal officials in the Utah artifact sting. He reportedly died of a self-inflicted gunshot wound on Monday.  “He had a passion for Southwestern archaeology and Native American culture. It was something he didn’t want to see destroyed or disrespected,” said his son, Dustin Gardiner.  The 4,000-year-old burial […]

 A cache of ostrich eggshells etched with geometric patterns has been uncovered in South Africa. The shells date to about 60,000 years ago. “The diversity of design motifs is impressive. It is an important new addition to the corpus of evidence for the development of modern human symbolic and artistic expression in Africa,” explained Stanley […]