WASHINGTON, Sept. 4 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service has issued a notice, published in the Federal Register on July 30, 2024, entitled "Inventory Completion: Tennessee Department of Conservation and Environment, Division of Archaeology, Nashville, TN." The notice was issued by Melanie O'Brien, Manager, National NAGPRA Program. * * * SUMMARY: In accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), and in response to claims from the C  more

ABERDEEN, Scotland, Sept. 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Aberdeen issued the following news: A 'remarkable' Pictish ring with an intricate setting has been uncovered at a Moray fort previously thought to have been 'archaeologically vandalised' by the construction of a new town. The kite-shaped ring with a garnet or red glass centre had lain undiscovered for more than a thousand years at the Burghead fort before it was uncovered by a volunteer in a dig led by the University of Aberdeen. Altho  more

KOLN, Germany, Sept. 5 (TNSres) -- The University of Cologne issued the following news release: * * * Researchers at the University of Cologne have developed a model that captures the dynamics of human dispersal across the continent during the last Ice Age in unprecedented detail / publication in 'Nature Communications' * * * An interdisciplinary research team from the University of Cologne's Institute of Geophysics and Meteorology and the Department of Prehistoric Archaeology has developed   more