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Archaeology Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Thursday July 11, 2024 ( 3 items )  

Field Museum: Ancient Temple and Theater Discovered in Peru
CHICAGO, Illinois, July 11 (TNSres) -- The Field Museum issued the following news release: A team of archaeologists, led by Field Museum scientist Luis Muro Ynonan, has unearthed the remains of what appears to be a four-thousand-year-old temple and theater in coastal Peru. "It was amazing," says Muro Ynonan, a research scientist in the Negaunee Integrative Research Center at the Field Museum in Chicago. "This discovery tells us about the early origins of religion in Peru. We still know very li  more

National Park Service Awards $1.18 Million to Preserve Sites of Armed Conflict
WASHINGTON, July 11 -- The U.S. Department of the Interior's National Park Service issued the following news release on July 10, 2024: The National Park Service (NPS) today awarded $1,183,993.50 to eight recipients of Preservation Planning Grants through the American Battlefield Protection Program, helping recipients from the metropolitan edge of New York City to the grasslands of Las Animas County, Colorado, preserve battlefields and other sites of armed conflict. "The diverse grant opportun  more

Unlocking the Mysteries of Spiro Mounds
TULSA, Oklahoma, July 11 -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers-Tulsa District issued the following news: By Stacey Reese, U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Tulsa District Spiro Mounds is a significant archaeological site in LeFlore County, Oklahoma, managed under the Tulsa District U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' archaeology mission. Under a permit from Tulsa District and in coordination with the Caddo Nation of Oklahoma and Wichita and Affiliated Tribes (Wichita, Keechi, Waco, & Tawakonie), Universi  more