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1997 in archaeology Jump to: navigation, search 1997(MCMXCVII) is a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Importance and applicability Most of human history is not described by any written records. ...

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Anne Stine Ingstad (1918-1997), Norwegian archaeologist that along with her husband, Dr. Helge Ingstad, discovered the remains of a Viking settlement at LAnse aux Meadows in the Canadian province of Newfoundland and Labrador in 1960. ...

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Archaeology - Office of Cultural & Historical Programs (3396 words)
The fourth annual Florida Archaeology Week is planned by the Florida Anthropological Society with its various chapters and members throughout the state, along with the Florida Archaeological Council and private, state, and federal agencies to reach the broadest audience possible.
The curators and staff of the FLMNH Department of Anthropology are actively involved in the prehistoric and historic archaeology of Florida and the Carribean.
Archaeology Lab Field Trip is arranged by the Kissimmee Valley Archaeological and Historical Conservancy as a tour of the lab at the Florida Museum of Natural History.
African-American Archaeology Newsletter, Fall 1997 (7606 words)
While historical archaeology, as practiced in North America consists primarily of the archaeology of European expansion, in Africa it is a combination of oral history, documents, and archaeology which are being used to provide a sense of the diversity of Africa's past as the presenters at this conference fully exhibited.
Over the past decade that I have been conducting research and writing in historical archaeology, I have been made continually aware that we are not, or at least should not be, "prehistoric archaeologists." In many ways this statement is true.
Rankin-Hill situates her study by discussing the difficulty of studying the history of a people who are essentially invisible in the documentary record and the importance of cemetery archaeology as a source of information on demography, health, and disease in such populations.
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