WASHINGTON, June 11 (TNSFR) -- The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Charleston District, identified 1,589 associated funerary objects as culturally affiliated with the Catawba Indian Nation. The determination followed completion of an inventory conducted under the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act, a notice said. The objects were removed between 1979 and 1981 from the Swamp Site, identified as 38BK235, in Berkeley County, South Carolina. The site was excavated by the South Ca  more

NASHVILLE, Tennessee, June 10 -- Lipscomb University issued the following news: * * * The power of partnership Two master's archaeology students benefit from partner university's grants allowing them to study artifacts in Israel this summer. By Janel Shoun-Smith, 615-966-7078 This summer, two master's level archaeology students in the Lanier Center for Archaeology will get the chance to advance their research and knowledge of life in biblical times through work funded by grants from Ariel U  more

VILLANOVA, Pennsylvania, June 8 -- Villanova University issued the following news release: * * * As the Search for the Universe's Mysteries Expands, One Villanova Astronomer Turns Homeward * We live in an age where technology allows astronomers to observe objects at nearly incomprehensible distances from Earth. Distances so far, the time it takes their light to travel to our instruments is as old as the ever-expanding universe itself. Growing alongside our capabilities is the interest of a  more

ARLINGTON, Virginia, June 10 [Category: Environment] -- The Nature Conservancy issued the following news: * * * Cardwell Mountain State Archaeological Park Now Protects Region's Heritage * Warren County, Tennessee-Perched atop the rolling valleys of Warren County, Tennessee, Cardwell Mountain is one of the most important intact portions of the Cumberland Plateau. After years of work by partnering organizations, this layered capsule of human history has now been dedicated as Cardwell Mountain  more

BARCELONA, Spain, June 9 -- The Autonomous University of Barcelona issued the following news: * * * DNA of Iberians from the northeast of the Iberian Peninsula remained largely unchanged for six centuries * A study led by a UAB research team of Biological Anthropoly has analysed the genome of 54 newborns with the aim of tracking the genetic history of their culture since it developed in the Early Iron Age until the start of the Roman period, some 2,700 to 2,100 years ago. Despite being in   more

LEIDEN, The Netherlands, June 9 -- Leiden University issued the following news: * * * Grant awarded for research into prehistoric settlement in the Province of Zeeland The research project Between Land and Sea (Tussen Land en Zee) was awarded funding by the Reuvens Fund for Innovation in May. The project brings together archaeologists, earth scientists, ecologists and public and heritage-sector partners to investigate the earliest settlement history of the Province of Zeeland. It is often as  more