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Ancient->General: Poop fossil proves human habitation in North America 14,340 years ago
Posted on Sunday, April 06 @ 16:21:50 CDT (2033 reads)

AUTHOR: Randolph E. Schmid

New evidence shows humans lived in North America more than 14,000 years ago, 1,000 years earlier than had previously been known.

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Law->NAGPRA: Kenewick Man back in the news
Posted on Friday, September 07 @ 21:13:13 CDT (2686 reads)

AUTHOR: Knute Berger

Five years ago this July, an ancient skeleton was found on the banks of the Columbia River during a hydroplane race near Kennewick, Washington. When the bones turned out to be a major archaeological find, the remains of a 9,000 year-old prehistoric man, a political, legal, cultural, and racial battle ensued. Just who was Kennewick Man, who owned his bones, and what should be done with them?

The Indians and Federal government have argued that the law -- specifically, the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act -- gives local tribes, including the Umatilla, Colville, Yakama, and Nez Perce, the right to have the bones, and the right to dispose of them in any way they choose.

The Indians have dubbed Kennewick Man "the Ancient One" and claim the right to rebury him according to their traditional practices with or without further study. But a group of prominent scientists has disagreed, choosing instead to challenge the law in Federal court, where arguments are being heard this week and a ruling is expected later this summer.

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Ancient->Incan: The Inca built first suspension bridges
Posted on Tuesday, May 08 @ 17:28:28 CDT (3432 reads)

AUTHOR: John Wilford

Suspension bridges were familiar and vital links in the vast empire of the Inca, as they had been to Andean cultures for hundreds of years before the arrival of the Spanish in 1532.

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Ancient->AztecMexica: Aztecs Tortured, Ate Spaniards, Bones Show
Posted on Sunday, August 27 @ 12:14:05 CDT (6310 reads)

Evidence of capture and rituals is unearthed at a site near Mexico City.

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News->Legal: Kennewick Man's bones provide window to past
Posted on Tuesday, July 25 @ 16:23:11 CDT (5231 reads)

By Anna King, Herald staff writer Ten years isn't long. Not in a history that began 9,000 years ago.

But the discovery of Kennewick Man on July 28, 1996, is dramatically reshaping beliefs about how humans populated the Americas. And his skeleton may continue to raise more questions about the past than it answers.

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Extinct Indians->Flo: The Timucua Indians - After the Europeans Came - (1562 - 1767)
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 23:05:11 CDT (16832 reads)

When Columbus sailed the ocean blue in 1492, and "discovered" the Americas, he brought many changes. Over the next seventy years, the Spanish sent ships up the east coast of North America, but focused on Florida’s west coast and Central and South America. Although the Spanish did meet the Timucuas, much of our information about these Native Americans comes from the French. The French explorers lived in the Jacksonville area, near Chief Saturiwa and his people, for a little over a year.

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Extinct Indians->Flo: Woodland Period - St. Johns Cultures - 500 BC to 1500 AD
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 22:59:46 CDT (9549 reads)

By 500 BC, the St. Johns culture has become firmly established. A change in pottery-making methods marks this shift. Pots are made by coil construction rather than by simply forming pots from a slab, and the tempers have changed. Pelotes Island is affected by Georgia styles and Florida styles. Up in Georgia, sand was used as a temper to harden the clay. Sometimes pottery with both sand and fibers are found, demonstrating the slow shift to new technology. The Florida style required the potter to use clay from fresh water sources containing fresh-water sponges.

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Extinct Indians->Flo: Late Archaic Period - Orange Culture -2000 - 1000 BC
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 22:57:36 CDT (10186 reads)

The earliest hard evidence we have for Native American occupation of Pelotes and Pinders Islands dates from about 2000 BC. Both islands possesses shell middens (giant oyster trash piles) which are full of fiber-tempered pottery. This pottery was made by mixing clay with fibers from Spanish moss or saw palmetto and firing it. The fibers function as a temper and keep the pot from cracking during the firing process.

Firing makes the pot hard and waterproof. This pottery is usually plain, but sometimes decorated with incising (lines scratched into the wet clay). The pottery shards found are approximately 1/2 inch thick, and would have made very heavy pots. This fiber-tempered pottery, called Orange Period wares, was first invented along the Florida-Georgia Coast. It was used from 2000-1000 BC.

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Extinct Indians->Flo: Who Were the Tocobago Indians?
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 22:54:30 CDT (11989 reads)

The Tocobago Indians were a group of prehistoric and historic Native Americans living near Tampa Bay, Florida up until roughly 1760. The archaeological name for this and adjacent groups in late prehistoric (pre-European) times is the Safety Harbor culture. In the Tampa Bay area, Pinellas Plain is the usual pottery style. These artifacts may have had handles, as well as incising around the rims, but no complex designs (unless found in burial mounds.) Spanish records often refer to villages, chiefs, and chiefdoms (groups of subservient villages) with the same name. So, Tocobago, may refer to one man, a single village, or an extended alliance of villages, based on the context of the sentence.

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Extinct Indians->Flo: What happened to the Timucua?
Posted on Sunday, April 17 @ 22:48:06 CDT (12993 reads)

AUTHOR: Dr. Jerald T. Milanich

In the early sixteenth century native people who spoke the Timucua language occupied most of the northern one-third of peninsular Florida (east of the Aucilla River), apparently not including the Gulf of Mexico coast. The Timucua also inhabited southeastern Georgia as far north as the Altamaha River. In 1492 this large area, about 19,200 square miles, was home to approximately 200,000 people.

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Ancient->AztecMexica: Twenty Days of the Aztec Month
Posted on Friday, November 26 @ 01:27:05 CST (6672 reads)

20 Days of the Aztec Month.. KEYWORDS: aztec calendar names of days on aztec calendar month

Here are the names of the days of a month on the Aztec calendar and what they mean.

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Ancient->AztecMexica: Aztec history overview and timeline
Posted on Friday, November 26 @ 01:20:30 CST (32656 reads)

Aztec history overview and timeline.. KEYWORDS: aztec history aztec timeline

The center of the Aztec civilization was the Valley of Mexico, a huge, oval basin about 7,500 feet above sea level. The Aztec empire included many cities and towns, especially in the Valley of Mexico. The largest city in the empire was the capital, Tenochtitlan.

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Ancient->AztecMexica: The Aztec Gods and Goddesses
Posted on Friday, November 26 @ 01:10:45 CST (28367 reads)

The Aztec Gods and Goddesses... KEYWORDS: aztec god aztec goddess aztec sun god aztec war god

It is estimated that the Aztecs had over 1,700 gods and goddesses, many of whom required human sacrifices.

Based on the number of sacred temples located, scientists have estimated approximately a quarter million humans were sacrificed every year, roughly equivalent to 1% of the population.

Here is a partial list of the Aztec gods and goddesses.

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Ancient->AztecMexica: The Known Aztec Emporers
Posted on Friday, November 26 @ 00:29:35 CST (8056 reads)

The Known Aztec Emporers.. KEYWORDS: aztec emporers

The Aztecs established a lineage of emperors. Each emperor was elected from the royal lineage by a council made up of priest, warriors, and nobles. The reigns would first pass from brother to brother before they were passed to the next generation . Below is a list of known Aztec emperors and the probable dates of their rulership.

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Ancient->AztecMexica: Aztec vs. Mayan calendars
Posted on Thursday, November 25 @ 23:22:56 CST (11773 reads)

Aztec vs. Mayan calendars.. KEYWORDS: aztec calendar mayan calendar aztec vs. mayan

The Aztec Calendar was basically similar to that of the Maya. The ritual day cycle was called Tonalpohualli and was formed, as was the Mayan Tzolkin, by the concurrence of a cycle of numerals 1 through 13 with a cycle of 20 day names, many of them similar to the day names of the Maya.

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