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2012 End-of-the-World Prophecy Discredited (Again)

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Agnes Portalewska
Cultural Survival Quarterly, vol. 36, no. 3, Defending Life First, September 2012, p. [?]
Discusses the mural in a chamber in Xultún that confirms the Mayan calendar does not predict that the world will end.
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Ancient DNA Methodology: Thoughts from Brian M. Kemp and David Glenn Smith on "Mitochondrial DNA of Protohistoric Remains of an Arikara Population from South Dakota"

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Brian M. Kemp
David Glenn Smith
Human Biology, vol. 82, no. 2, April 2010, pp. 227-238
Discusses the classical stringent standards to retrieve and authenticate DNA from ancient remains and puts forth recommendations for future discoveries and progression of the ancient DNA field.
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An Anthropology of Repatriation: Contemporary Physical Anthropological and Native American Ontologies of Practice

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Ann M. Kakaliouras
Current Anthropology, vol. 53, no. S5, The Biological Anthropology of Living Human Populations, April 2012, pp. S210-S221
Examines the social, cultural and political issues surrounding the repatriation of historical materials, sacred and significant objects, and human remains.
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Archaeological Research in the North American Arctic

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Henry B. Collins
Arctic, vol. 7, no. 3 & 4, 1954, pp. 296-306
Presents overview of archaeological work in the Arctic and relationships between early Inuit culture patterns of the Aleutian, the Old Bering Sea Culture, and the Ipiutak culture.
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The Archaeology of the Caddo

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
Don G. Wyckoff
American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 198-199
Book review of: The Archaeology of the Caddo edited by Timothy K. Perttula and Chester P. Walker.
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The Archeology of Cape Denbigh

Book Reviews
Author/Creator
W. S. Laughlin
Arctic, vol. 18, no. 1, March 1965, pp. 61-64
Book review of: The Archeology of Cape Denbigh by J. L. Giddings.
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Aspects of Thule Culture Adaptations in Southern Baffin Island

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Sabo
John D. Jacobs
Arctic, vol. 33, no. 3, September 1980, pp. 487-504
Looks at artifactual, faunal and midden deposit information in the study of fall and winter settlements by examining eight Thule winter houses around Lake Harbour.
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Back from the Brink: Canada's First Nations' Right to Preserve Canadian Heritage

Alternate Title
Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Part I: Cultural Protection: The Story of a Saanich Bowl
Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Diana Henry
University of British Columbia Law Review, Special Issue: Material Culture in Flux: Law and Policy of Repatriation of Cultural Property, 1995, pp. [5]-11
Member of the Saanich Native Heritage Society describes efforts to prevent the sale of an ancient West Coast Saanich bowl to an American dealer, and to have this cultural property returned to their people.
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Caddo Populations in Northeast Texas: A Response to Taylor and Creel

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Timothy K. Perttula
American Antiquity, vol. 78, no. 1, January 2013, pp. 195-196
Questions findings about the relationship between Late Prehistoric Caddo farmers and earlier Archaic and Woodland foragers because their findings did not include non-metric dental traits.
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Cahokia Mounds Site Was America's First City

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Pamela D. Toler
American History, vol. 43, no. 1, April 2008, pp. 20-21
Examination of the extinct city of Cahokia Mounds, outside of Collinsville, Illinois, its historical decline and excavation it.
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Canadian Archæology

Alternate Title
Canadian Archaeology
E-Books
Author/Creator
Stanley C. Bagg
Reprinted from the Montreal Transcript.
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A Canadian Shield Pictograph Classification Design

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John Dee Maurer
James Patrick Whelan
American Antiquity, vol. 42, no. 2, April 1977, pp. 196-202
Discusses cataloguing and development of computer oriented categories for rock paintings.
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A Carved Stone from D'Arcy, Saskatchewan

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Vladimar Alfred Vigfusson
American Antiquity, vol. 5, no. 4, April 1940, pp. 334-335
Distinctively carved stone with three faces found by Bad Lake, Saskatchewan suggests possibility of prehistoric occupation or early migration from the south.
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Central New Mexico Paleo-Indian Cultures

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
George Agogino
Frank C. Hibben
American Antiquity, vol. 23, no. 4, April 1958, pp. 422-425
Evidence of Paleoindian cultures in sandia, clovis fluted and folsom points in the Rio Grande valley and other areas in New Mexico as well as hearths, milling stones manos etc.
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Changing Physical and Ecological Landscapes in Southwestern Manitoba in Relation to Folsom (11,000-10,000 BP) and McKean (4,000-3,000 BP) Site Distributions

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Matthew Boyd
Prairie Forum, vol. 25, no. 1, Spring, 2000, pp. 23-44
Examines two archaeological complexes to discover the impact of landscape evolution and the environment on settlement strategies of the First Nations peoples who lived during that time period.
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Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History - Part One: An Alternate Reality

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Kenneth Feder
Bradley T. Lepper
Terry A. Barnhart
Deborah A. Bolnick
Skeptical Inquirer, vol. 35, no. 5, September/October 2011, pp. [38-45]
Offers a critical review of the documentary The Lost Civilizations of North America, examining the way ‘civilization’ is defined and the evidence of pre-contact trade and settlement in North America presented in the film.
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Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History - Part Three: Real Messages in DNA

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
Deborah A. Bolnick
Kenneth L. Feder
Bradley T. Lepper
Terry Barnhardt
Skeptical Inquirer, vol. 36, no. 1, January/February 2012, pp. [48-51]
Offers a critical review of the documentary The Lost Civilizations of North America; examines and responds to claims make in the documentary about DNA evidence of pre-Columbian contact between Indigenous peoples of North America and those from other continents.
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Civilizations Lost and Found: Fabricating History - Part Two: False Messages in Stone

Articles » General
Author/Creator
Bradley T. Lepper
Kenneth L. Feder
Terry A. Barnhart
Deborah A. Bolnick
Skeptical Inquirer, vol. 35, no. 6, November/December 2011, pp. [48-54]
Offers a critical review of the documentary The Lost Civilizations of North America; examines specific artifacts referred to in the film and discusses their authenticity and/or controversy surrounding them.
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The Colonization of Beringia and the Peopling of the New World

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
John F. Hoffecker
W. Roger Powers
Ted Goebel
Science, vol. 259, no. 5091, New Series, January 1, 1993, pp. 46-53
Recent discoveries suggest settlement during the Pleistocene glacier pause 12,000 to 11,000 years before present.
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Context and Chronology of Early Man in the Americas

Articles » Scholarly, peer reviewed
Author/Creator
William N. Irving
Annual Review of Anthropology, vol. 14, October 1985, pp. 529-555
Differing views regarding the evolutionary growth of human population in the Western Hemisphere.
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