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Archaeologist Tipoffs from TNS Newsletter for Friday June 06, 2025 ( 4 items )  

Dartmouth College: Archaeologists Find Intensive Indigenous Farming in Michigan
HANOVER, New Hampshire, June 6 (TNSjou) -- Dartmouth College issued the following news: * * * Archaeologists Find Intensive Indigenous Farming in Michigan Ancestral Menominee farmers reworked the soil to create raised fields. * With its cold climate, short growing season, and dense forests, Michigan's Upper Peninsula is known as a challenging place for farming. But a new Dartmouth-led study provides evidence of intensive farming by ancestral Native Americans at the Sixty Islands archaeolog  more

Manzanola United Methodist Church Added to National Register of Historic Places
DENVER, Colorado, June 6 -- The History Colorado issued the following news release on June 5, 2025: * * * Manzanola United Methodist Church Added to National Register of Historic Places Church has a deep connection to Black homesteading history and has faithfully served its community for more than a century * History Colorado is pleased to announce that the Manzanola United Methodist Church in Otero County has been added to the National Register of Historic Places as part of the Colorado He  more

Mercyhurst University Completes Native American Remains Inventory
WASHINGTON, June 6 (TNSFR) -- Mercyhurst University, Erie, Pennsylvania, has issued a notice of inventory completion, a type of rule, through the U.S. Department of the Interior National Park Service. This action, taken in accordance with the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, signifies that the university has completed an inventory of human remains and established a cultural affiliation between these remains and various Indian Tribes. The inventory identifies human remain  more

UW Graduate Student Prepares Listing for Wyoming Archaeological Site Added to National Register of Historic Places
LARAMIE, Wyoming, June 6 -- The University of Wyoming posted the following news: * * * UW Graduate Student Prepares Listing for Wyoming Archaeological Site Added to National Register of Historic Places The Wyoming State Historic Preservation Office (SHPO) has announced a new listing on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP). And a University of Wyoming graduate student prepared the National Register listing. The Daly Petroglyphs -- an archaeological site in the Powder River Basin in  more