Tag: Archaeology
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CSU center and Anthropology students work to recover remains of American WWII pilot in France
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Read More: CSU center and Anthropology students work to recover remains of American WWII pilot in FranceCSU center and Anthropology students work to recover remains of American WWII pilot in France CSU SOURCE | August 23, 2021 Tim Schommer This year marks the 77th anniversary of the crash of an American bomber in Northern France that occurred in the summer of 1944. The pilot’s remains have…
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Archaeology Field School breaking all sorts of ground this summer
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Read More: Archaeology Field School breaking all sorts of ground this summerArchaeology Field School breaking all sorts of ground this summer Joshua Zaffos While the Coronavirus has closed and quieted universities across the country this year, a small but historic piece of Colorado State University campus is buzzing with the sounds of students – and shovels – this summer. The CSU…
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Anthropology PhD student Ray Sumner’s research featured on Council of Graduate Schools’ GradImpact project
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Read More: Anthropology PhD student Ray Sumner’s research featured on Council of Graduate Schools’ GradImpact projectAs appearing on Council of Graduate Schools | 05.09.19 Grad Impact: Using Traditional and Emerging Technology to Better Understand U.S. History As a first-year doctoral student in anthropology at Colorado State University, Ray Sumner believes public outreach and public archaeology are important aspects of his research. Sumner’s doctoral project is…
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Chris Fisher: City of the Jaguar
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Read More: Chris Fisher: City of the JaguarAs appearing on Chautauqua | Fall 2016 Date: Thursday, February 16, 2017 Time: 7:00 PM Location: Chautauqua Community House Over the past year, the excavation of an ancient city in Honduras has yielded a trove of remarkable stone artifacts from a mysterious, unnamed Pre-Columbian civilization. A joint American-Honduran team of archaeologists led…
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An interview with Chris Johnston, History Colorado’s new Assistant State Archaeologist
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Read More: An interview with Chris Johnston, History Colorado’s new Assistant State ArchaeologistChris Johnston, Department of Anthropology alumnus, recently accepted the position of Assistant State Archaeologist with History Colorado. Receiving his M.A. in archaeology in the Spring of this year, Chris completed his thesis research, “Running of the Buffalo: Investigations of the Roberts Ranch Buffalo Jump (5LR100), Northern Colorado,” with Dr. Jason LaBelle…
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Revisiting 1969: retracing an early CSU archaeological survey of the Wind River Range, Wyoming
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Read More: Revisiting 1969: retracing an early CSU archaeological survey of the Wind River Range, Wyomingby Richard Adams1 and Connor Johnen2 In the summers of 1969 and 1970, two Colorado State University students (Vaughn Hadenfeldt and Phillip Foss, Jr.) prospected for high altitude archaeological sites in Wyoming’s Wind River Range. They recorded 19 prehistoric high altitude sites and wrote a 100 page term paper on the project in…
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Center for Mountain and Plains Archaeology 2015 Field Research
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Read More: Center for Mountain and Plains Archaeology 2015 Field Researchby Dr. Jason LaBelle, Hallie Meeker, and Aaron Whittenburg Dr. LaBelle’s Center for Mountain and Plains Archaeology (CMPA) had an active summer, conducting archaeological research in a variety of ecosystems in central and northern Colorado. The crew was composed of Department of Anthropology students, Hallie Meeker, Aaron Whittenburg, and Kelton Meyer, alumna…
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Archaeology Field School 2015
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Read More: Archaeology Field School 2015During the summer 2015 field season, Dr. Mark Mitchell, Research Director of the Paleocultural Research Group, was asked to run the Department of Anthropology Archaeology Field School with the assistance of Chris Johnston and Julia Kenyon, two graduate students working with Dr. Jason LaBelle, Associate Professor of Archaeology in the…
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Archaeologists discover cemetery in Mexican city with clues to ancient civilization
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Read More: Archaeologists discover cemetery in Mexican city with clues to ancient civilizationAs Appearing in Heritage Daily | April 2014 THE SUBLIME SOUNDS OF A JINGLING RATTLE SILENCED FOR MORE THAN 500 YEARS HELPS TELL THE STORY OF AN ANCIENT CIVILIZATION IN WESTERN MEXICO AND TIES TOGETHER MORE THAN SEVEN YEARS OF DISCOVERY BY A TEAM OF RESEARCHERS LED BY A COLORADO STATE UNIVERSITY…