Barbara Mills, professor and chair of the anthropology department at the University of Arizona, we will discuss about new interpretations of ancient Chacoan society. Mills said the Chacoan society cannot be fully appreciated without understanding the social networks of the 10th through 12th centuries, including, with how these networks are created and maintained through “social memory.”

He presentation in to the 15th annual Distinguished Archaeology Lecture, will be at 7 p.m. just for the simplest travel for research from southeast of the intersection of Broadway and University Avenue in Boulder. Parking is an available on University Avenue or in the Euclid Avenue AutoPark east of the University Memorial Center at Broadway and Euclid.
Chaco Canyon, now preserved as a national historical park, is known for its large-scale public architecture and isolation in the high desert of present-day New Mexico. But from the 10th through 12th centuries, it was at the center of the Ancestral Puebloan world.

During that period, Chacoan people to be built in multistoried stone Great Houses, using then-unique masonry techniques. Some of the structures are oriented with lunar and solar events such as solstices and equinoxes. Several large roads converge upon Chaco Canyon, suggesting that the area was of central importance to the ancient Southwest.

The Archaeological discovered Stones in a circular formation along with in a possible ancient carvings have been deep below the surface of Lake Michigan Country(USA). According to BLDGBLOG, in 2007, Mark Holley is a professor of underwater archeology at Northwestern Michigan College,they have been discovered a series of stones arranged in a circle 40 feet below the surface of Lake Michigan. Only one stone outside in to the circle seems to have carvings that resemble a mastodon an elephant like animal that went extinct about 10,000 years ago.
Archaeologistshttp://www.greatarchaeology.com/archaeologist_view.php had been hired to survey the Lake of their floor near Traverse City, Michigan, an examine old boat wrecks with in a sonar device. They discovered sunken boats and cars and even a Civil War era pier. But among these expected finds was a potentially prehistoric archaeology surprise. “When you see it in the water, you are tempted to say this is absolutely real,” Holley told reporters at the time. “What we need the experts to come in and verify.”
Specialists involved in the case are skeptical and want to gather more info before making in to a judgement. They want to actually see it, said Holley. Experts in petroglyphs generally do not dive, so we are running into a bit of a stumbling block there. The formation, if authenticated, would not be completely out of place. Stone circles and other petroglyph sites are located in the area.

Base Court at Hampton Court is completed for Cardinal Wolsey in 1520. It was mainly grass, the legacy of a mistaken Victorian restoration. Research has shown to be in the time of Henry VIII the courtyard had a cobbled surface, It will be replaced around 1700 by paving,now Historic Royal Palaces in wish to pave it in stone again, completing the project in time for the 500th anniversary of Henry coronation, in 2009.
Prior to paving, OA South have to be a team of 20
archaeologists on this site, who will be there for 3 months. The archaeology is complicated and more recently surprising. A number of buildings relating to the pre Wolsey medieval manorial complex have been revealed surviving under a sequence of the Palace courtyard surfaces. The team are using techniques developed by OA at other deeply stratified sites, on a project which would stretch any archaeological organisation.
The Anne Boleyn Gatehouse, Inwhich to be separates Base and Clock Courts, underwent an extensive programme of repairs and conservation which was completed in May this year. There OA South was involved in all of the works, whether recording the diaperwork on Wolsey brickwork, providing a watching brief for the removal and eventual reinstallation of the famous Astronomical Clock or exploring turrets which had been blocked for many years. Lead and stonework removal revealed many surprises including the Wren designed ball finial and graffiti carved by workmen in 1711.

A nuclear submarine built for the Cold War 1945–1989 and an underwater remotely operated vehicle allowed oceanographers, archaeologists, and engineers in the mid 1990s to retrieve 115 artifacts from eight ships sunk to the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea, including five ancient Roman ships.

The expedition leader, oceanographer Robert Ballard of the Institute for Exploration in Mystic, Connecticut, first discovered one of the shipwrecks in 1988. Using the powerful sonar system of the U.S. Navy’s NR-1 nuclear submarine, Ballard and his research team found three more of the wrecks in 1995 and four in 1997. Artifacts on and around the wrecks indicated that one Roman sailing ship dated from the late second or early first century,verifying it as one of the oldest Roman ships ever found. The shipwrecks also included four other Roman vessels from the first few centuries C . E ., and three ships from the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

The wrecks, located west of Sicily in 762 meters at 2,500 feet of water, were the largest grouping of ancient ships ever found in deep water. The explorers believe that the five Roman ships sank in storms while following a high seas trade route between Rome and the ancient North African city of Carthage is located near the modern city of Tunis . This information corrected the previous archaeological belief that Roman ships followed coastal routes, rather than venturing out on the high seas.

The research team recovered artifacts using the ROV Jason and a remotecontrolled arm on the submarine. Items retrieved from the oldest ship, which was about 30 meters (100 feet) long, included bronze vessels; at least eight types of pottery jars “amphoras” for carrying and storing olive oil, preserved fruit, and wine; kitchen items; and two pieces of anchors.

Ballard’s team focused on mapping all the wrecks and retrieving selected artifacts from each ship. With this method, the researchers could widen their investigation and learn about all the ships, spending about the same amount of time and money as would have been involved in excavating only one wreck completely. Archaeologists say this strategy works well for deep-water wrecks that are likely to remain well preserved. Wrecks in shallow water, however, are subject to damage from looting, from coral overgrowth, and from being destroyed on reefs by waves and tides.

Philadelphia:

A venerable archaeology museum plans to lay off 18 researchers and focus on upgrading to its exhibits in an efforts to an attract more visitors and shore up its finances.
Several prominent scientists are among to the researchers being laid off from in the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, though some could keep to their jobs then if grant money to cover their salaries is found.
Museum director Richard Hodges said the institution’s finances are unsustainable, and that it must refurbish its “tired exhibits” and increase income.
“We were living beyond our means” Hodges said,
The 120 years old museum has a worldwide reputation for its scholarship and for supporting expeditions, from the tombs of Egypt to the temples of the Mayans to the remains of Babylon, Gordion and Troy.
Outside scholars questioned Hodges’ decision to cut so much research. One scientist slated for layoff, chemical archaeologist Patrick McGovern, has made headlines with his analyzes of stains on ancient vessels, some revealing the world’s oldest wines and beers.

“He is firing the very people who are making the university museum an important academic institution,” said Oscar Muscarella, a Penn museum trained archaeologist who is a retired curator from the Metropolitan Museum in New York.

The Penn museum‘s chief operating officer, Melissa Smith, said she could not disclose the size of the museum’s endowment or its deficits. She said the museum has had to dig into reserves, which are eroding fast.

The museum received $7 million from Penn to balance its $16.4 million budget in 2008, according to the annual report.

The layoffs were first reported by Penn’s student newspaper, The Daily Pennsylvanian.