NSF-FUNDED EXHIBITS
Surviving: The Body of Evidence at the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/surviving/index.shtml
This exhibition is about you—and all your fellow humans. Your body carries evidence of many distinctively human features that changed in your ancestors through the process of evolution.
RESOURCES
Audio Blog Provides Ongoing Scoop on Archaeological Dig
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/005273.shtml
Researchers from Maine's Bowdoin College are maintaining an audio blog during the summer of 2008 as they excavate two 19th-century winter houses on northern Greenland's Cape Grinnell to recover animal bones and artifacts.
Links to Archaeology Web sites and other resources at the NSF-funded National Science Digital Library
http://nsdl.org/search/?verb=Search&s=0&n=10&q=Archeology
New Philadelphia: A Field School in Archaeology and Laboratory Techniques at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
http://www.histarch.uiuc.edu/NSF/fieldschool.html
Sponsored by NSF's Research Experiences for Undergraduates Program, the project focuses on an African-American family in Pike County, Illinois, in the 1830s.
The Feathered Serpent Pyramid Site at the University of Arizona
http://archaeology.asu.edu/TeO/fsp/Others/fspgnrl.htm
NSF supported the university's archaeological work at Teotihuacan, Mexico, which was the largest pre-Columbian city in the Americas.
The Story of Pech: An Archeological Investigation at an Ice Age
Neanderthal Site
http://pech.museum.upenn.edu/
With NSF support, researchers from the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology recently returned to Pech de l'Azé IV, a Neanderthal site in southern France, to excavate with today's sophisticated technologies. The multimedia Web site tells the story in detail.
Archaeology Technologies Laboratory
http://atl.ndsu.edu/home/
The laboratory at North Dakota State University was created, in part, through a grant from the NSF-funded North Dakota Experimental Program to Stimulate Competitive Research (EPSCoR).
Center for Desert Archaeology
http://www.cdarc.org/
The Center is a private nonprofit organization that promotes the stewardship of archaeological and historic resources in the American Southwest and Mexican Northwest. NSF funded a CDA project on ancient population declines.
Society for American Archaeology's Archaeology for the public Web site
http://www.saa.org/public/home/home.html
The site is designed for members of the public who want to know more about archaeology, as well as for archaeologists who want to know more about working with the public.
NEWS RELEASES AND DISCOVERIES
May 22, 2008
Getting to the Roots of Sunflower Cultivation
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111595
Genetic information from ancient stocks could help address effects of global warming on valuable food crop
May 8, 2008
Ancient Beachcombers May Have Travelled Slowly
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111530
Earliest known human settlement in the Americas raises new questions
April 30, 2008
Ancient "Nutcracker Man" Challenges Ideas on Evolution of Human Diet
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111457
Human ancestor's teeth yields new clues
October 17, 2007
Seafood Makes Waves: Humans Leave Home
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=110395
Shellfish allowed humans to relocate to Australia and New Guinea 40,000 years earlier than first thought
May 18, 2007
The Surprising Truth Behind the Construction of the Great Pyramids
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=109692
Were the stone blocks carved from natural limestone or cast with an early version of concrete? A materials science research team provides evidence to answer this age-old mystery
March 13, 2007
Modern Technology Reveals Ancient Footpaths Buried in 2,500 Years Worth of Volcanic Ash
http://www.nsf.gov/discoveries/disc_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108471&org=NSF%20
Central-American villagers created sacred burial customs despite volcanic eruptions
December 4, 2006
Genetic Archaeology Finds Clues to Pregnancy in Male Pipefish, Seahorses
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=108183
Gene found in liver and kidney takes on additional work
February 16, 2005
New Clues Add 40,000 Years to Age of Human Species
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=102968
Follow-up to 1967 expedition links climatic and radiometric dating to controversial Ethiopian bones
June 11, 2003
Earliest Homo Sapiens Fossils Discovered in Ethiopia
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/03/pr0365.htm
May 23, 2002
First Primate Archaeological Dig Uncovers New Tool Development Links
http://www.nsf.gov/od/lpa/news/02/pr0242.htm
April 26, 1999
Archaeologists Find Milder Arctic Climate May Have Aided Aleutian Settlement
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=103001
IN THE MEDIA
Archaeologists Uncover King Solomon's Copper Mines
IsraelNN.com
October 30, 2008
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128149
DNA tests will seek links to Point Barrow bones
The Arctic Sounder
July 3, 2008
http://www.thearcticsounder.com/news/show/2641
Scientists Race to Rescue Cemetery from Ocean
Palm Beach Post.com
June 27, 2008
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/nation/content/nation/epaper/2008/06/27/m1a_alaska_0628.html
Science Foundation Compares UMD Prof. to Indiana Jones
Duluth (Minn.) News Tribune
June 5, 2008
http://www.duluthnewstribune.com/articles/index.cfm?id=67904§ion=homepage&freebie_check&CFID=42997741 &CFTOKEN=76344544&jsessionid=883079a25acda541b27a
CU Prof, other scientists compared to Indiana Jones
Anthroplogy Teacher among Foundation's Picks for Comparison to Character
The Boulder (Colo.) Daily Camera
May 23, 2008
http://www.dailycamera.com/news/2008/may/23/cu-prof-other-scientists-compared-to-indiana/
Fiction by the shovelful: Real-life archaeology features more analysis, less gallantry
Northwest Arkansas Times
May 22, 2008
http://nwanews.com/nwat/News/65421/
SPEECHES
April 17, 2008
"The Criticality of Proof: Not Just Words, But Bones"
http://www.nsf.gov/news/speeches/bement/08/alb080417_upenn.jsp
A speech by NSF Director Arden L. Bement, Jr., given at the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Philadelphia, Pa. |
