Plaza at Uxmal From archaeology.about.com/ Yucatan, Mexico A large community is one that is made up of people who don't know each other, and yet the group nevertheless requires some level of cohesion, some glue that keeps people together and working for the same values, traditions and identifies that don't remain static but must be practiced. A small community at its beginnings about 600 AD, Uxmal became one of the largest urban centers of ancient Mexico, reaching its height of importance during the latter part of the classic period...

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Vikings did not dress the way we thought From www.archaeology.eu.com/vikings/weblog/ The Viking Archaeology Blog is concerned with news reports featuring Viking period archaeology. Their clothing was designed to be shown off indoors around the fire," says textile researcher Annika Larsson, whose research at Uppsala University presents a new picture of the Viking Age. She has studied textile finds from the Lake Malaren Valley, the area that includes Stockholm and Uppsala and was one of the central regions in Scandinavia during the Viking Age.

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South Africa: A Marathon Journey From Archaeology to Bosnia From AllAfrica.com BRUCE Fordyce arrives for our lunch in a hurry, walking past the restaurant's open French doors at a rate that has me jogging to catch him by the elbow. The years Fordyce spent at Wits as a student in the 1970s appear to have shaped many of his ideas and passions, as well as his passion for rock art. The killings and a chance meeting with another Wits student, John Leger, who had achieved a silver medal running the Comrades, and a TV documentary on the ultramarathon, all came together and...

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City honors Washington's slave - and 'power of archaeology' From Philadelphia Inquirer Activist Michael Coard addresses supporters in front of the Presidents House grounds on Independence Mall during a ceremony honoring the 160th anniversary of the death of Oney Judge, a Washington slave. Oney Judge died 160 years ago yesterday, 52 years after she cast off her bonds, 52 years after fleeing Philadelphia to escape the man and woman who owned her and who wanted to give her away as a wedding bauble - George and Martha Washington. President's House excavation last year, said that...

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Tuesday, February 26 From www.archaeology.org/news Lisa Lucero of the University of Illinois thinks that the different building materials in the six Maya temples at Yalbac indicate that they were built by royals and non-royals alike between 550 and 850 A.D. A Swedish Viking woman who had been buried in the Russian region of Pskov was reportedly provided with a blue silk dress and ornaments for the afterlife.

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