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Archaeology Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Saturday April 06, 2024 ( 2 items )  

Hendrix Odyssey Program Announces Latest Funding for Student and Faculty Projects
CONWAY, Arkansas, April 6 -- Hendrix College issued the following news release: The Hendrix College Committee on Engaged Learning has announced $84,428.06 in Odyssey Program funding awarded to 14 projects in the February 2024 funding cycle. These projects involve a range of academic, professional, and personal explorations, from tying fishing flies to joining archeological digs to researching PFAS interactions with microplastics to establishing a sustainability garden on campus. Since 2005, t  more

Newcastle University: Prehistoric Henge Reveals Centuries-Old Sacred Site in Lincolnshire
NEWCASTLE UPON TYNE, England, April 6 (TNSres) -- Newcastle University issued the following news on April 5, 2024: * * * Archaeologists from Newcastle University have unearthed evidence for an evolving sacred landscape spanning centuries in Crowland, Lincolnshire. * * * Crowland today is dominated by the ruins of its medieval abbey. However, local tradition holds that the area was the site of an Anglo-Saxon hermitage belonging to Saint Guthlac, who died in the year 714 and was famed for his   more