Old Stone Fort State Archaeological Park is hosting a Knap-In, a “3-day celebration of Flintknapping, Atlatl, and Stone Age Skills”, this weekend, May 4, 5, and 6, at 732 Stone Fort Drive, Manchester, Tennessee. They’ll also have basket weaving and other native crafts. For more information please contact the park office at 931-723-5073 or email keith.wimberley@tn.gov. Old Stone [...]
May 042012
Bryan Sykes, Professor of Human Genetics at the University of Oxford, in a panel discussion yesterday on msnbc.com’s Dylan Ratigan Show, said that recent research shows that a small number of Native Americans, mainly from around the Great Lakes, have a cluster of genes that most likely originated from a group of Europeans that migrated across the [...]
On April 2, 1781, during the Native American war of resistance against the occupation of Middle Tennessee by a young United States of America, a force led by the great Cherokee war leader Dragging Canoe attacked Fort Nashboro, the founding site of the city of Nashville, located on a bluff overlooking the Cumberland River. The fight [...]
In recent days, I’ve recieved countless e-mails and Facebook posts about archaeological issues that continue to cause great controversy. At the forefront are two Television shows that to professional archaeologists, promote the destruction of archaeological resources by amateur metal detector hobbyists. This recent article stands at the heart of all I believe about what responsible archaeology is all about. In [...]
Could a Bit More Rain Have Saved the Mayas?
New York City Asked To Memorialize Ancient Indian Trail
Historic & Sacred Sites, History
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Mar 302011
The Greenwich Village Society for Historic Preservation (GVSHP) has sent a letter to the Public Design Commission of the City of New York asking for a permanent commitment to memorialize a pair of historic roadbeds, one of which is “one of the only reminders of the early Native American settlement” of New York. The city [...]
Mar 302011
Research by Biola University archaeology professor Paul E. Langenwalter shows that the close, personal bonds between humans and their dogs date back centuries in California. Dogs were working animals who defended the people and helped in hunting and were also family pets, and were buried with ceremony with their owners. Read the story in the [...]
NPS Could Withhold LA Museum Grant Over Indian Remains
Historic & Sacred Sites, History
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Mar 262011
The National Park Service has sent a letter to Los Angeles County in California saying $104,000 in federal grant money could be withheld from the $24,000,000 La Plaza De Cultura Y Artes , a Mexican-American cultural museum being built in Los Angeles, unless concerns of American Indian tribes about remains found during the project’s construction are settled. [...]
15,500 Year-Old Artifacts Found In Texas
History
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Mar 252011
Dr. Michael R. Waters, leader of the team researching the Buttermilk Creek site, says “This is the oldest credible archaeological site in North America,” and that it “confirms the emerging view that people occupied the Americas before Clovis and provides a large artifact assemblage to explore Clovis origins.” Read the story in the New York Times [...]
2011 Native American $1 Coin
History, North America
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Mar 252011
The new 2011 “Sacagawea” $1 coin recognizes Ousamequin, the Massasoit (a title meaning head chief) of the Wampanoag and the Wampanoag Treaty of 1621. The treaty established an alliance between the Wampanoag and the Pilgrims at Plymouth colony in what is now Massachusetts and may be the first written treaty between Native Americans and Europeans. The [...]
Bering Strait Questions
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Mar 242011
Indian Country Today examines the Bering Strait migration theory: Bering Strait into Controversy
Choctaw Gift To Ireland
History
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Mar 182011
Here is a good article at the National Museum of the American Indian on the Choctaw donation to Ireland’s famine relief in 1847 mentioned in yesterday’s post: Happy St. Patrick’s Day from the National Museum of the American Indian: A Gift from the Choctaw Nation
