| Archaeologist Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Saturday June 22, 2024 ( 2 items ) |
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Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory: Study Challenges Popular Idea That Easter Islanders Committed 'Ecocide'
NEW YORK, June 22 (TNSres) -- Columbia University's Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory issued the following news:
By Kevin Krajick
Some 1,000 years ago, a small band of Polynesians sailed thousands of miles across the Pacific to settle one of the world's most isolated places-a small, previously uninhabited island they named Rapa Nui. There, they erected hundreds of "moai," or gigantic stone statues that now famously stand as emblems of a vanished civilization. Eventually, their numbers ballooned
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NYCEDC, Harlem African Burial Ground Initiative and Harlem Community Come Together to Pay Respect at the Harlem African Burial Ground
NEW YORK, June 22 -- The New York City Economic Development Corp. issued the following news release on June 21, 2024:
Today, the New York City Economic Development Corporation (NYCEDC), the Harlem African Burial Ground Initiative (HAGBI), and the Harlem Community gathered to pay respects to the legacy of African descendant contributions to the founding of Harlem. The ceremony marks the start of the next phase of archaeological work within the site of the decommissioned 126th Street Bus Depot in
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