Articles with keyword "Archaeology"
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Impertinent Questions with Susan Heuck Allen
Classists become spies for OSS in World War II Greece.
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Artists Rule
How a feathered serpent god presided over a forgotten golden age of Mexican art.
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Comanche Robe
This painted Comanche hide, which dates from the mid nineteenth century, served as a robe for a child.
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Time Travels
Some thirteen thousand years ago, when most archaeologists agree that humans first populated North America, a Paleo-Indian tribe left a cache of stone weapons in southern Iowa, maybe to be finished an
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University of Denver Archaeological Collections
Fashioned from yucca fibers, the sandal pictured here was probably worn over five thousand years ago and is one of the oldest artifacts found at Franktown Cave in southern Colorado.
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First, Count to Ten...In Pescadora
Archaeologists from Harvard University’s Peabody Museum working in Peru have unearthed a piece of paper used in the early seventeenth century by a Spanish priest to conduct an interview and record num
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Worshipped, Plundered, and Digitized
It’s easy enough to wander through the Asian art wing of a large museum and skim over the fine print.