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Breaking News! is
predominantly advance "gleanings" from the NEARA Transit,
abstracted by Ros Strong, with additional items from Susie
Thompson and Terry J. Deveau. The NEARA Transit is
a twice yearly NEARA publication of archaeological news and abstracts.
Suggestions and comments welcome: Email Terry J.
Deveau.
Archive:
Why and how did Native Americans build mounds?
March 7th, 2010
Oxford Journal: When Scholarship and Tribal
Heritage Face Off Against Commerce
March 12th, 2010
Ohio
and Kentucky both lay claim to Indian Head Rock
January 26, 2009
Thousand-year-old
Burial Mounds Near Longview, Texas, under investigation
January 25, 2009
Backgrounder
Web Article on the Carnac, France, Megalithic Stone Circle
January 23, 2009
Prehistoric
Ceremonial Sites Many Thousands of Years Old Found in Finland
January 22, 2009
Prehistoric
Rock Art (400-1000 years old) found in Tennessee Rock Shelter
January 22, 2009
New
development in 9,500 year ago Black Sea flood study
January 22, 2009
New
research into language evolution suggests most Pacific populations originated
in Taiwan around 5,200 years ago
January 22, 2009
An
analysis of bacteria in the guts of modern humans shows that two major
migrations from Southeast Asia populated the islands of the Pacific
January 22, 2009
New
Book Coming on Canada’s Stonehenge
January 17, 2009
Prehistoric
Orkney Stone Circle to be featured on Scottish currency
January 16, 2009
Pre-Clovis
evidence (13,500 years old) found at Gault site in Texas.
January 16, 2009
If you haven’t already seen them, check out these YouTube
videos on Native American lithic sites here
and here.
January 16, 2009
Rock
art (5000 years old) found in Northumberland, England.
January 15, 2009
Remote
Sensing Technology used to uncover undisturbed remains of a 1300 year old
Ancestral Puebloan community near Las Vegas
January 9, 2009
Native
American Sacred Stonework protected from airport development project at
Turner Falls, MA. See also here,
here, and here.
January 6, 2009
Acoustic
properties of ancient sites being investigated (see another article here)
January 6, 2009
Analog
in New Guinea may suggest some Ohio mounds were defensive works.
January 4, 2009
4,300-year-old
tombs found in Egypt
December 22, 2008
Prehistoric
grave mounds in Denmark exhibit astronomical alignments
December 19, 2008
New article
on the ancient stone circle of Oshoro, Japan
December 14, 2008
Newport
Tower Featured as U-Haul Truck Graphics
June 20, 2008
Ancient
cave linked to early Christians in Jordan
June 11, 2008
Ancient
laborer burial ground excavated near Rome
June 10, 2008
A
Time Before New Hampshire & Vermont -- Workshop Offered This Summer
June 10, 2008
Ancient
Greek grave found during subway work
June 9, 2008
Gathering of
World Experts on the Possibility of Early Trans-Atlantic Contact
June 5, 2008
Egypt
uncovers 'missing' pyramid of a pharaoh
June 5, 2008
Beringia:
humans were here
May 17, 2008
Egyptians
farming New World corn thousands of years before Columbus?
May 17, 2008
Remote Ontario
Lake Reveals Mysterious Ancient Structure
March 5, 2008
Explore
Oak Island Days 2008 will be held June 20 - 22
March 1, 2008
Ancient
pyramid found in central Mexico City
December 28, 2007
First
map to mention America goes on permanent display in US
December 13, 2007
Tamil
Brahmi script in Egypt
December 3, 2007
Strange
medallion found in Antigua, West Indies
November 13, 2007
Ancient
temple and mural unearthed in Peru
November 11, 2007
Norwegian
rune stone deciphered
October 5, 2007
Stone
cairns in Nipsachuck Woods, RI, a complex issue for developers
August 15, 2007
Enigmatic
Stone Holes of South Dakota
July 27, 2007
Incan bones
found in Østfold, Norway
June 26, 2007
First
Chickens in Americas Were Brought From Polynesia
June 5, 2007
Ancient
Rhode Island Burial and Memorial Site Threatened
May 18, 2007
Stone
cairns under investigation in Nipsachuck Woods, RI
April 15, 2007
Paper
challenges 1491 Amazonian population theories
March 6, 2007
Gilbert
Stuart birthplace displays “Leaching Stone”
March 3, 2007
Peruvian
citadel from 400 BC is site of ancient solar observatory (Connecticut researchers claim it is the oldest in the Americas. We
need to invite them to a NEARA meeting and a tour of Mystery Hill.)
March 1, 2007
More
Norse sites claimed to have been found in Newfoundland
February 28, 2007
New
C14 dates restrict Clovis culture time window
February 22, 2007
Minnesota
artifacts could date up to 15,000 BP.
February 14, 2007
5000-year-old
skeletons discovered in an embrace
February 12, 2007
5,000
year old mounds under study in Louisiana
February 7, 2007
New
research on navigation using birefringent crystals
February 7, 2007
Neolithic site
found near England's Stonehenge
January 30, 2007
Deciphering
of earliest Semitic text
January 23, 2007
Lecture
explores Newport Tower's origins
January 23, 2007
A
new study proposed for the Upton Chamber
January 21, 2007
Ancient
Weapons Discovered in Syrian Ruins
January 16, 2007
Send the
Westford "boat stone" to a lab for forensic investigation?
(including video)
January 15, 2007
Stone
Tools found in Minn. may be 14,000 years old
January 13, 2007
Maine
Petroglyphs Under Study
January 7, 2007
13th
century text hides words of Archimedes
December 26, 2006
Incised
slabs from mounds in Tennessee making news
December 24, 2006
Religious Snake
Carving in Botswana 70,000 Years Old
November 30, 2006
Antikythera
Mechanism from c.100 BC was an Astronomical Computer
November 29, 2006
Ancient
Roman Shipwreck Dazzles Archeologists
November 14, 2006
New edition of
Ptolemy's second century AD "Geography"
September 30, 2006
Archaeological dig
planned for Newport Tower vicinity starting October 15.
September 30, 2006
3000
year old inscription found in Mexico
September 14, 2006
In
Memoriam: James W. Mavor, Jr.
August 30, 2006
Neolithic men in
Greece had their own sheds
August 27, 2006
Vandalism
damages 1500 year old Arctic petroglyphs.
August 26, 2006
Remains
of Jacques Cartier settlement of 1541 unearthed.
August 22, 2006
No
Chinese settlement on Cape Breton Island say archaeologists after visiting
the claimed site
July 27, 2006
Town
of Upton to vote on purchase of chamber site
July 14, 2006
New
Astronomical Alignments Found
July 4, 2006
Archaeologists
to investigate near Newport Tower
June 22, 2006
Origins
of agriculture pushed back to 11,000 BP, and more widespread.
June 18, 2006
Solstice
alignment found at Welsh Bryn Celli Dhu chamber
June 18, 2006
New
Rock Art News BLOG — and an International Cupule Conference
June 17, 2006
Opportunity
to visit Oak Island
June 14, 2006
Web
site and book launch for claimed Chinese settlement in Cape Breton, Nova
Scotia.
May 2, 2006
Stone
celt found in southern India with Indus script on it.
May 1, 2006
Were
North American mammoths and other mammals killed off by humans 12,000 years
ago?
May 1, 2006
The
eruption of Santorini now dated about a century earlier than previously
thought.
April 28, 2006
Article
scorns report of Bosnian pyramids. (also here)
April 27, 2006
Kennewick
Man Skeletal Find May Revolutionize Continent's History
April 26, 2006
New
treasure hunt may begin on Oak Island in a few months.
April 25, 2006
Personified
disk unearthed at 4,000 year old temple in Peru
April 25, 2006
Archaeologist:
people were at South Carolina's Topper site 50,000 BP. (also here
and here)
April 24, 2006
Japanese
researchers find new giant picture on Peru's Nazca Plateau (scroll down to
the bottom)
April 20, 2006
Gloria
Farley honored by Oklahoma State Senate
April 18, 2006
Three ancient
pyramids discovered in Bosnia. (also here, here, here,
here, and here)
April 14, 2006
Were
Polynesians in California before Columbus?
April 6, 2006
Chinese
exposition to celebrate the 600th Anniversary of Zheng He's voyages
(1405-1433 AD)
April 5, 2006
Trove
of Sumerian tablets found dating to 2700-2100 BC
March 28, 2006
Public
presentation on research of ancient Chinese explorations
March 23, 2006
Who
Were The First Americans?
March 13, 2006
Century-old
Columbus mystery nearly solved
March 10, 2006
World's
oldest ship timbers found in Egyptian desert
March 6, 2006
Norumbega
Reconsidered: Mawooshen and the Wawenoc Diaspora
March 2, 2006
"Kelp
Highway" finding lends strength to the coastal migration theory
February 19, 2006
Did first
Americans come from Europe?
February 19, 2006
NASA,
University Scientists Uncover Lost Maya Ruins -- From Space
February 15, 2006
Newly discovered
French prehistoric cave art may be 27,000 years old
February 6, 2006
Vikings
Filed Their Teeth, Skeleton Study Shows
February 3, 2006
Evidence
of earliest African slaves brought to new world
January 31, 2006
Sunken
Warship from 1694 sets off a new Mediterranean battle
January 28, 2006
Newfound
Ancient Chinese map of America: a fake?
(also here
— scroll down for English)
January 26, 2006
Neandertals
were good hunters
January 25, 2006
New Information
on Glozel
December 16, 2005
Ancient
Humans Brought Bottle Gourds To The Americas From Asia
December 11, 2005
Stone
tools found in southern England have been dated to 700,000 years ago
(also here)
December 14, 2005
Did two
distinct populations settle the Americas more than 12,000 years ago?
(also here)
December 13, 2005
Australian
Petroglyph Site Under Threat by Industrial Development
December 5, 2005
Flints
give Cyprus oldest seafaring link in Med
November 22, 2005
Map
of Southern Tip of Italy, 500 BC
November 18, 2005
Ancient
Ohio Earthworks Used for Astronomical Observations of the Moon (also here)
October 29, 2005
Tiny
chinless wonders threaten anthropology rift
October 11, 2005
Aboriginal
petroforms under threat by land developers
September 26, 2005
Enthusiast
uses Google to reveal Roman ruins
September 14, 2005
Ancient phallus
unearthed in cave
July 25, 2005
Seafloor
survey buoys Atlantis claim
July 22, 2005
Peruvian
‘writing’ system goes back 5,000 years
July 20, 2005
8,000-year-old
relics found in Miss.
July 18, 2005
Claimed
find of second Viking site in Newfoundland
July 11, 2005
After
9,300 years, Kennewick Man's exam begins
July 6, 2005
Footprints of 'First
Americans'
July 7, 2005
Unexplained Underwater
Stone Structure found in Ontario
July 2, 2005
Oak Island in the News
(two items)
July 2, 2005
Did
ancient Polynesians visit California?
June 20, 2005
Ruins
found in Cape Breton claimed to be Chinese
June 7, 2005
Europe's
Oldest Script Found in Bulgaria
May 18, 2005
'Original men'
of Malaysia tell story of migration
May 13, 2005
Ancient
Metalworking Sites Recreation
April 26, 2005
Genetic
testing reveals awkward truth about Xingiang's famous mummies
April 19, 2005
Evidence
of early urbanization in Turkey
April
18, 2005
Ancient Maya Entrepreneurs Made
Salt
April
5, 2005
Owner of Upton Chamber property
willing to sell to the town
April 3, 2005
Minas
Basin "footprints" made by ancient fish?
March 29, 2005
Itinerant
Irish may be remnants of pre-Celtic culture? (also here and here)
March 27, 2005
Bayers Lake mystery wall
baffles archeology buffs
March 21, 2005
Ancient
tombs found in Loubu desert, China
March 18, 2005
Archaeologist
discovers ancient ships in a cave in Egypt
March 18, 2005
2100 year old
skeleton found under Geneva cathedral
March 14, 2005
Chess
piece of walrus ivory, late 11th or early 12th century, similar to 1841 find
on Isle of Lewis
March 14, 2005
Novel
Babylonian inscription discovered in Iran
March 14, 2005
A
2,400-year-old British warrior leader found buried in his chariot
(also here)
March 10, 2005
Viking
sagas read through the lens of climate change
March 9, 2005
Divers
find Bronze Age artifacts off Devon coast
March 8, 2005
King Tut 'died from a
broken leg'
March 8, 2005
700-year-old
tunnels dug out on farm in Scotland
March 7, 2005
How
prehistoric farmers saved us from new Ice Age
March 6, 2005
New Hominid
Fossils Found in Ethiopia Predate "Lucy."
March 5, 2005
Ruins
of 1,000-year-old palace discovered in Nepal
March 4, 2005
Egyptologists
Uncover one of the Best-Preserved Mummies.
March 3, 2005
FSU
anthropologist leads incredible journey through 'hobbit' brain
March 3, 2005
The High-Tech of
Prehistory
March 3, 2005
Ancient
Mesopotamian city built in desert for metallurgical industry
March 2, 2005
Found:
first-ever complete example of an Iron Age kiln
March 2, 2005
Prehistoric artifact
found in Scallop Drag (video)
March 1, 2005
Toys 7000 years old
unearthed in Florida
February 18, 2005
Underwater
arrowheads, tools dazzle Maritime historians
(also here,
and video)
February 17, 2005
The
Origin of Prehistoric Polynesians
February 2005
American
Geological Institute Article on Kensington Rune Stone
January 2005
Rock
Art Hints at Whaling Origins
April 21, 2004
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Scientists
Win New Battle Over Skeleton
April 20, 2004
UW
Student Considers Mound a Key Archaic Site
April 18, 2004
Old
Stones Reveal their Age
April 14, 2004
.
Review
of "The Island at the Center of the World"
April 5, 2004
Astronomy
Study Reveals Ancient Places of Healing
April 4, 2004
Teeth
Unravel Anglo-Saxon Legacy
March 17, 2004
A
Biological Dig for the Roots of Language
March 16, 2004
.
Scientists
Discover Lost World
February 15, 2004
.
Kennewick
Man Ruling - Politics or Science?
February 14, 2004
City
Preserves Historic Tribal Observatory
January 26, 2004
.
7,500
Year Old Settlement Found in Norwell Mass
January 22, 2004
.
Big
Chill Killed Off the Neanderthals
January 21, 2004
.
Canadian
Finds Signs of Ancient Greek Battle
January 21, 2004
.
Archeologists
Mistake 1940's Patio for Viking Village
January 8, 2004
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Prehistoric
Cave For Sale
January 5, 2004
.
New
World Link to Arctic Find
January 2, 2004
SALU
Moot Sheds New Light on Harappa Civilization
December 31, 2003
.
Treasure
Hunter Solves Oak Island Puzzle?
December 29, 2003
.
Calusa
Built Round Homes
December 23, 2003
.
Site
Turns Up 1000's of Ancient Artifacts
December 21, 2003
.
Archeologist
Finds Treasure of a Lifetime
December 14, 2003
10,000
Stolen Relics From American West Recovered
December 12, 2003
.
German
"Stonehenge" Marks Oldest Observatory
December 8, 2003
.
Firefighters
Find Unearth Ancient Indian Camp
December 6, 2003
.
Stone
Age Research Center Opens in Indiana
December 5, 2003
.
What
(and why) is Serpent Mound?
December 2, 2003
.
New
Study Deems Vinland Map Authentic
November 24, 2003
.
Ancient
Hearth Tests Carbon Dating
November 17, 2003
.
Etruscan
Demons, Monsters Unearthed
November 5, 2003
.
Seed
Study Breaths Life In Old Remains
November 3, 2003
.
Company Expansion
Threatens Culture Site
November 2, 2003
.
Is
This Where Jesus Bathed?
October 22, 2003
.
Amazonian
Find Stuns Researchers
September 20, 2003
.
Mohicans
Oversee Dig Into Their Past
September 15, 2003
. .
Tribes
vs. Scientists in Court over Ancient Remains
September 11, 2003
.
Find
Gives Insight Into Northeast 9,000 Years Ago
September 10, 2003
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Baja
Skulls Shake up American Ancestry
September 6, 2003
.
2,100
Year Old Fish Trap Found in Alaskan River
September 6, 2003
.
Lion
Man takes Pride of Place as Oldest Statue
September 4, 2003
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Past
Centuries Emerge from Miami Parking lot
September 3, 2003
.
DNA
Study to Settle Inuit/Viking Mingling Mystery
September 1, 2003
.
Stone
Circle Found On Remote Scottish Island
August 28, 2003
.
Haffenreffer
Seeks NEARA help w/Viking Weekend
August 25, 2003
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Date
of Early Human Site Debated
August 22, 2003
.
String,
and Knot, Theory of Inca Writing
August 12, 2003
..
Archeologist
Unearth German Stonehenge
August 8, 2003
.
New
World Ancestors Lose 12,000 Years
July 25, 2003
.
Make
Way for Duckies
July 18, 2003
.
Petroform
Destroyed in the Name of Progress
July 10, 2003
.
Extinct
Language Reveals Celtic Origins
July 2, 2003
.
A&M
Method Challenges Cave Painting Claims
July 2, 2003
A
Wellspring of Ancient Manuscripts
June 25, 2003
.
Early Heartland of
Agriculture found in New Guinea
June 24, 2003
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Orkney
Discovery May be First Farm in Britain
June 20, 2003
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Y
Chromosomes Rewrite British History
June 19, 2003
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NEARA
Seeks Assistant Webmaster
June 17, 2003
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An
Archeological Tour in the Upper Midwest
June 16, 2003
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Archaeologists
Unearth Britain's First Cave Pictures
June 15, 2003
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In
Ancient Skulls From Ethiopia, Familiar Faces
June 12, 2003
Stone
Faces Found in Southbridge
May 11, 2003
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Kaskaskia Illinois
-to-French Dictionary
May 6, 2003
Doubt
Cast on Age of Oldest Human Art
April 18, 2003
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Ancient
Drawing May Shed Light on Andean Religion
April 15, 2003
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For Kon-Tiki Theory, Ray
of Hope is Dashed
April 1, 2003
"King of
Stonehenge" was a settler from the Alps
February 11, 2003
The Pinta, Santa
Maria, and a Chinese Junk?
January 29, 2003
Black Sea Yields Ship from
Greece in Glory Days
January 16, 2003
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In the Wake
of Zheng He
January 15, 2003
Making Waves Over Noah's
Flood
January 14, 2003
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Shroud Lifts on Unearthed
Ancient Relics in Acton
January
5, 2003
An Ancient
Link to Africa Lives on in Bay of Bengal
December 10, 2002
New Evidence of Early
Form of Writing in Mexico
December 6, 2002
Skull
Proves First Americans Came from Europe?
December 3, 2002
NEARA Fall Conference A Success!
November 16, 2002
Kennewick Man Court
Decision
August 30, 2002
Standing
Stones on Wild Hill Remain a Puzzle
February 2, 2002
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