Science news articles about 'earthworks'

Rushing to salvage fossils from the Panama Canal earthworks, Aldo Rincon, paleontology intern at the Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, unearthed a set of fossil teeth. Bruce J. MacFadden, ...

... "dark earth" that indicate past human waste dumps or farming, concentrations of pottery shards and earthworks. Also assisted by satellite imagery and GPS technology, the researchers spent more than a ...

... and the second is that the cultural priority of engaging in such a massive undertaking as building these earthworks by hand was done by this culture not because of military motivations but for a more ...

... to virtually reconstruct ancient Troy, sites in ancient Greece, the Midwest's lost monumental earthworks built by ancient Native American cultures and other lost or inaccessible art and architecture. ...

Every earthwork, building, road and hedge tells us something about lost places and forgotten times. Objects in the landscape such as these are the pieces of one enormous archaeological puzzle. However ...

... site in ancient times – and historically they were the society given credit for constructing the earthworks at Shawnee Lookout. It was also obviously known that the Shawnee and others were at the site ...

... on studies of locations of large landmarks in Britain, such as stone structures, hill forts and earthworks, suggests they were part of a grid used for navigation around 5,000 years ago, which implies ...