April 2012 Archeology - The Americas

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Scientists have confirmed the source of Maya Blue (didn't we hear of this a while ago?):
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-04-...rces-maya.html

Penn Museum posted a video of Loa Traxler's talk on Maya human sacrifice:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bGWZY...re=uploademail

Mexico
Burials from Cholula with artifacts from various periods:
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/bol...-hace-800-anos



Peru
Very old animal mounds from Peru:
http://www.livescience.com/19372-ani...eru-nazca.html

A Moche altar from Peru:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lif...found-in-peru/

United States
Rethinking the casualty count in the Civil War:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17604991

A 19th century shipwreck in Lake Michigan near Grand Haven:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/2...ar-Grand-Haven

Feature on three centuries of scandal in New York City:
http://nymag.com/news/features/scandals/

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Scientists have confirmed the source of Maya Blue (didn't we hear of this a while ago?):
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-04-...rces-maya.html

French Guiana
Evidence of 800 years b.p. sustainable farming in the Amazonian savannas of French Guiana:
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00254.html

Peru
Remains of 13th century Lambayeque priestesses from Peru:
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews....in-peru/15191/

Interesting feature on the ‘Big Bird’ mummy bundle:
http://www.cipstudies.org/wallace.htm

More on animal mounds from Peru:
http://www.3news.co.nz/Ancient-anima...6/Default.aspx

United States
Feature on a dig at the Donner Party camp site:
http://www.archaeology.org/1205/lett...ek_washoe.html

Possible Native American burial site from Oklahoma:
http://www.ktul.com/story/17375013/h...-discovered-in

Another mining company v. First Nations dispute, this time in Montana:
http://green.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/...-ore-deposits/

Interesting feature on identifying a hitherto unknown Civil War soldier:
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/11/150288...il-war-soldier

Scans are finding shipwrecks at the bottom of Lake Minnetonka (MN):
http://www.startribune.com/local/147405865.html

There’s a new state archaeologist in Georgia:
http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia...e-archeologist

Feature on the Boettcher Mansion (CO):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/ga...-mansions.html

Feature on a 19th century Alutiiq kayak (AK):
http://newsminer.com/view/full_story...laskan-culture

More on that shipwreck off Grand Haven:
http://www.grandhaventribune.com/con...sing-138-years

Review of Jonathan Sarna, *When General Grant Expelled the Jews*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/04/05/bo...n-d-sarna.html

Review of assorted tomes on Lincoln:
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/10/149871...hts-on-lincoln

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Canada
Possible evidence of early ritual at the Crowfield site (near Strathroy):
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stor...ly-ritual.html

Haiti
Feature on Haiti’s Sans-Souci Palace:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17567230

Honduras
Penn Museum video in which Dr Loa Traxler talks about tunnels at Copan:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TSiNC...re=uploademail

Peru
Burial of a Sican princess at at the Chotuna-Chornancap site:
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews....in-peru/15191/

Pondering whether Naymlap was a real person:
http://today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/arch...te-230460.aspx

United States
A possible pre-Clovis site at Lamb Springs near Denver (CO):
http://www.denverpost.com/entertainm...-human-history

Brown University has discovered a rare print by Paul Revere:
http://www.npr.org/2012/04/15/150630...t-rediscovered

Wondering whether a stovepipe hat really belonged to Lincoln:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/1...-lincolns.html

OpEddish thing on the ongoing question of ownership of Native American bones:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/ar...-owns-the-past

Review of Richard Zacks, *Island of Vice*:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...RV061N885D.DTL

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Canada
The Canadian military is going to explore the HMS Breadalbane:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...ane-wreck.html

Some burials (400-1000 years b.p.) found in the North West Territories:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/...rk-graves.html

Chile
Evidence of human activity in Chile some 14 000 years b.p.:
http://www.santiagotimes.cl/chile/sc...n-chiles-south

Mexico
An Aztec headress might return (temporarily) to Mexico from Austria:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17878130

Peru
Using DNA to track migrations in pre-Columbian Peru:
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-forensi...bian-peru.html

United States
Plans to excavate the remains of what is believed to be the USS Scorpion (MD):
http://www.gazette.net/article/20120...mplate=gazette

Possible remains of a military fort at the US Naval Academy firing range (MD):
http://www.navytimes.com/news/2012/0...apolis-042512/

Recent finds from Monticello (VA):
http://www.newsplex.com/home/headlin...149226435.html

Not sure where Fort Ann’s Battle Hill is any more (NY):
http://poststar.com/news/local/surve...9bb2963f4.html

A long lost figurine (maybe) show up in the mail (UT):
http://www.heraldextra.com/news/stat...219b7e2f5.html

The discovery of native artifacts is interfering with the Genesis solar project (CA):
http://phys.org/news/2012-04-discove...s-genesis.html

Review of Jonathan Sarna, *When General Grant Expelled the Jews*:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/articl...RVIF1M54DS.DTL