Ind. circle believed to be ancient site
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A circular formation discovered in a wooded area next to a highway slated for widening is likely some sort of an earthen enclosure built by prehistoric Indians, Ball State University archaeologists say. Workers with the Delaware County Office of Geographic Information System found the earthen structure more than a year ago while studying contours on a large topographical map.
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Our heavy-browed competitors lasted 2,000 years longer than previously thought, a new cave find suggests&#151;though not everyone agrees on the dates.
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By Cathy Locke, The Sacramento Bee, Calif.  Jun. 7--It's not often that a pipeline project spawns an archaeological dig.
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Bones found at a prehistoric burial site indicate they belonged to victims of an Neolithic Age massacre, say scientists.
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Archaeologists said Wednesday they have comprehensively dated the contents of a Bronze Age site in Scotland, probably the first time such a site has been dated in its entirety.
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By Dennis Lien, Pioneer Press, St. Paul, Minn.  Sep. 25--It's one of the oldest historical sites in Minnesota. But that doesn't mean folks are lining up to own it.   A decade after the federal government closed the U.S.
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Science & environment: Up and down the country ice rinks are brimming but skate use was very different nearly 4,000 years ago
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KIBBUTZ TZUBA, Israel - Archaeologists said Monday they have found a cave where they believe John the Baptist anointed many of his disciples - a huge cistern with 28 steps leading to an underground pool of water.    During an exclusive tour of the cave by The Associated Press, archaeologists presented wall carvings they said tell the story of the fiery New Testament preacher, as well as a stone they believe was used for ceremonial foot washing...
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New excavations near the mysterious circle at Stonehenge in South England have uncovered dozens of homes where hundreds of people lived -- at roughly the same time 4,600 years ago that the giant stone slabs were being erected.
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An ancient walled city complex inhabited some 1,300 years ago by a culture later conquered by the Incas has been discovered deep in Peru's Amazon jungle, explorers said on Tuesday.
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The village was home to the ancient British monument's builders and the site of mass rituals that may link Stonehenge with another "henge," archaeologists announced.
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Arrowheads that turn up in the mud after a heavy rain are common here, but now archaeologists are digging up broken bits of fine china, parts of military uniforms and even charred firewood, relics of one of the biggest Army camps in the earliest days of the republic that went unnoticed for two centuries.
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A study of an ancient human pest -- head lice -- suggests that the ancestors of today's American Indians may have met and fought with pre-humans long extinct elsewhere, scientists said on Tuesday.
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Archaeologists have uncovered what may have been a village for workers or festival-goers near the mysterious stone circle Stonehenge in England. The village was located at Durrington Walls, about two miles from Stonehenge, and is also the location of a wooden version of the stone circle.
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The oldest solar observatory in the Americas has been discovered pointing to the existence of ancient Sun cults, scientists report.
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The earliest-known human ancestors  to migrate out of Africa possessed a surprising mix of  human-like and primitive features, according to scientists who  studied remains dug up at a fossil-rich site in the former  Soviet republic of Georgia.
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A Finnish research team has made a remarkable archaeological find linked to a prehistoric culture which predates the Incas.