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Breaking News! is predominantly advance "gleanings" from the NEARA Transit, abstracted by Rob Buchanan, with additional items from Ros Strong, Susie Thompson and Glenn Kreisberg.  The NEARA Transit is a twice yearly NEARA publication of archaeological news and abstracts. Suggestions and comments welcome: Email Terry J. Deveau.

Treasure hunter hopes new law clears path to gold
Province to replace old rules with Oak Island Act
By BRIAN MEDEL Yarmouth Bureau
Thu. Jul 15 - 4:54 AM

Dan Blankenship says he’s growing impatient waiting for a green light to resume exploration for buried treasure on Oak Island.

News the province plans to repeal the Treasure Trove Act and create an Oak Island Act is interesting at best, the 87-year-old said Wednesday.

He and his American partners applied two years ago for a licence to dig for treasure believed to be buried on Oak Island. And even though they’re paying "over $30,000 a year in taxes (on property), we can’t get a treasure trove licence," he said.

He and his partners own about 78 per cent of Oak Island, including the money pit, the spot where treasure is said to be hidden. Link to full story click here

3,350-year-old fragment of text found

July 13th – Bloomburg News

Israeli archeologist Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University of Jerusalem held a fragment bearing an ancient form of writing.Israeli archeologist Eilat Mazar of Hebrew University of Jerusalem held a fragment bearing an ancient form of writing. (Sebastian Scheiner/Associated Press

 

JERUSALEM — A tiny clay fragment dating from the 14th century BC discovered outside Jerusalem’s Old City walls contains the oldest written document found in the city, researchers say.

 

The 3,350-year-old clay fragment was uncovered during sifting of fill excavated from beneath a 10th-century BC tower, dating from the period of King Solomon in an area near the southern wall of the Old City, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem said yesterday in an e-mailed statement. Details of the find appear in the current Israel Exploration Journal.

Link to full article click here

 

Skulls show New World was settled twice: study

JUNE 14th, 2010

http://www.physorg.com

Paleoanthropologists from Brazil, Chile and Germany compared the skulls of several dozen Paleoamericans, dating back to the early days of migration 11,000 years ago, with the more recent remains of more than 300 Amerindians.

"We found that the differences between Early and Late Native American groups match the predictions of a two-migration scenario far better than they do those of any other hypothesis," they said.

"In other words, these differences are so large that it is highly improbable that the earliest inhabitants of the New World were the direct ancestors of recent Native American populations."

Their landmark research found differences in the cranial morphology that could only be explained by the fact that the last common ancestor of the Early and Late Native American groups came from outside the continent. Link to full article click here

Who Were the First Americans?

by STEPHEN FRIED

Parade

June 13, 2010

Who really discovered America? If you think the earliest Americans were Christopher Columbus and his crew, or even the Native Americans they met here, you’d be off by thousands of years. The debate over just how many years—and how people lived after arriving here—is one of the most important in ancient U.S. history. The hunt for “the American Adam,” says David Meltzer, a professor of prehistory at Southern Methodist University, is a “search for insight into how our species adapted to a truly new world.”http://www.parade.com/images/-v5/news/2010/0613/default-first-americans.jpgLink to full article Click here

Archaeologist Dennis Jenkins displays cordage, netting, and basketry from the Paisley Caves in central Oregon.

A 12,000-year-old find in Keene

By MELANIE PLENDA
Union Leader Correspondent

KEENE – Just beyond the grind of machinery and trucks working to build a state of the art middle school in Keene lays the remnants of the life that used to be there. Before machines, before planes and cars, before the first settlers from strange lands, people were here. They built fires and carved tools, had families, and most of all, existed. Link to article click here

Discoveries might reveal origins of Southeastern N.C.'s first inhabitants

Sunday, May 9, 2010 at 3:30 a.m.

By Cece Nunn
Cece.Nunn@StarNewsOnline.com

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WRIGHTSVILLE BEACH | A local captain and his crew have discovered a unique rock and nearby artifacts that might help reveal how the first people came to Southeastern North Carolina thousands of years ago. Click Here for full article

Markings of Vikings discovered in Lawrence?

April 26, 2010

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LAWRENCE — Al and Joyce Sunskis think they have proof the Vikings passed through Tower Hill six centuries ago.

They believe a rock that sets in the backyard of their Maurice Avenue home next to an ancient wellspring bears markings that may have been carved or chiseled by Norsemen who sailed up and down the Merrimack River. Link to entire article - click here

 

 America's architectural heritage: Native American mortuary temples 

March 24th,  2010  

Some mortuary temples contained smoke houses that preserved bodies in the same manner as hams!

Archaeologists believe that many Native American cultures were obsessed with death and the hereafter.  The most obvious evidence is the abundance of burial mounds containing human remains with grave openings.  However, certain cultures not only built burial mounds, but also earthen complexes contain burial mounds, geometric patterns and mounds, which did not contain burials.  North of the Southern Highlands, these ceremonial complexes contain few or no houses.  This means that people traveled to these sites from distant villages in order build, worship, trade and socialize.  There is evidence that some cultures even brought the remains of their love ones to be treated with rituals or cremated.  Link to entire article - click here

Why and how did Native Americans build mounds?  

   March 7th,  2010  

Why and how did Native Americans build mounds?

The Great Temple Mound at Ocmulgee & acropolis dominated a 12 mile long cluster of villages.When English and Scottish settlers first arrived in what was to become the United States, they encountered literally thousands of abandoned earthen and shell mounds that seemed not to be associated with occupied Indian villages. Full Article click here.

 

Oxford Journal:  When Scholarship and Tribal Heritage Face Off Against Commerce   March 12th, 2010 

 

When Scholarship and Tribal Heritage Face Off Against Commerce

 

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OXFORD, Ala. — Overlooking the Interstate and an outdoor shopping mall here stands a sad little hill, bald but for four bare trees and a scattering of stones.

That the stones are there is beyond argument. But everything else about them — whether somebody put them there, how long they have been there and what should be done with them — became a matter of fierce debate last summer and has continued to yield surprising twists into recent weeks. Full Article click here

 

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