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Friday, February 26
February 26, 2010

 Two anthropologists from the University of Utah speculate that people could have traveled to the Americas via Canada’s High Arctic islands and the Northwest Passage 25,000 years ago. “As neither archaeological nor genetic data have yet been able to unequivocally resolve many of the long-standing questions regarding American colonization, the generation of new models and […]

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Thursday, February 25
February 25, 2010

   After a survey of Rathnadrinna Fort in Ireland’s County Tipperary, archaeologists think that the large Bronze Age ring may have been used for athletic events. Some 65,000 colonial-era artifacts and a section of the original Battery Wall were recovered during the construction of a subway station in New York City.   Nearly half of the 250 […]

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