Ancient Chesapeake site challenges timeline of humans in the Americas
PARSONS ISLAND, Md. - With the Chesapeake Bay sloshing at his knee-high boots, Darrin Lowery stood back and squinted at a 10-foot-tall bluff rising above a narrow strip of beach.
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PARSONS ISLAND, Md. - With the Chesapeake Bay sloshing at his knee-high boots, Darrin Lowery stood back and squinted at a 10-foot-tall bluff rising above a narrow strip of beach.
What started as a routine survey for a new apartment complex in Sao Luis, Brazil, turned into a jaw-dropping archaeological extravaganza, revealing 43 human skeletons and over 100,000 artifacts!
Traces of algae on teeth found at archaeological sites suggest that seaweeds may have been a staple part of European diets from the Mesolithic until the Middle Ages
Reissued from Jan. 18, 2012.
Colorado’s story does not start with settlers, miners, and colonists but with the deep history of the Native American inhabitants.