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History

Revising and Re-sizing History: New Work Shows Ohio Site to Be Ancient Water Works, Not a Fort

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Date: Carey Hoff­man, Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati News
Dis­cov­er­ies made by Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati researchers this sum­mer at a hill­top site west of Cincin­nati turn a long-accepted his­tor­i­cal inter­pre­ta­tion of how the site served the Shawnee peo­ple upside down.
The site known as Miami Fort is no fort at all, and it is also much larger than pre­vi­ously believed  –  so […]

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Shawnee Lookout May Be Largest Continuously Occupied Hilltop Native American Site In United States

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Sci­enceDaily (Sep. 4, 2009)
The dis­cov­er­ies con­tinue to sur­prise for a team of Uni­ver­sity of Cincin­nati stu­dents dig­ging in Ohio’s Shawnee Look­out Park, with a major new mound being located and a rare kiln used to fire pot­tery exca­vated in recent weeks, along with even more evi­dence emerg­ing to sup­port the the­ory that the site could […]

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Underwater Expedition Delivers Key Findings In Search For Evidence Of Early Americans

by Tommy Manuel

Source: Sci­enceDaily (Sep. 1, 2009)
In one of the more dra­matic moments of an under­wa­ter archae­o­log­i­cal sur­vey co-led by Mer­cy­hurst Col­lege archae­ol­o­gist James Adova­sio along Florida’s Gulf Coast this sum­mer, Andy Hem­mings stood on an inun­dated river’s edge where man hasn’t set foot in more than 13,000 years.Donning full scuba gear, Hem­mings stood in 130 feet of […]

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Pyramids in China?

by Tommy Manuel

Leg­end tells us that near the city of Xi’an, China, there lies a gigan­tic white pyra­mid  –  far larger than any Egypt­ian pyra­mid  –  that has remained undis­cov­ered for mil­len­nia. The story goes that this pyra­mid is encased in “pure shim­mer­ing stone” and “capped with an enormous jewel”…

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Ancient civilization discovered on the bottom of a lake

by Tommy Manuel

Ancient civ­i­liza­tion dis­cov­ered on the bot­tom of a lake
Lake Issyk Kul (Image: http://www.kgs.bishkek.gov.kg/)
Archae­ol­o­gists have dis­cov­ered the remains of a 2500-year-old advanced civ­i­liza­tion at the bot­tom of Lake Issyk Kul in the Kyr­gyz moun­tains in Rus­sia. The team con­sisted of Kyr­gyz his­to­ri­ans, led by Vladimir Ploskikh, vice pres­i­dent of the Kyr­gyz Acad­emy of Sci­ences, and other […]

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Urban Archeology through a Dark Passage

by Tommy Manuel

On the heels of my inter­view with Har­ald Fin­ster, I dis­cov­ered this inter­est­ing orga­ni­za­tion based right here in New York City.

The descrip­tion from their web­site follows:

Dark Pas­sage was con­ceived in 1998 with the pur­pose of per­pet­u­at­ing the spirit of the long-defunct San Fran­cisco Suicide Club.

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