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August 10, 2017 -- Most Archaeologists Think the First Americans Arrived by Boat. Now, They’re Beginning to Prove It. [Science]

June 23, 2017 -- Scientists Recreate Ancient Bitumen-Lined Water Bottles. [Archaeology]

June 23, 2017 -- Study Shows Ancient California Indians Risked Toxins from Bitumen-coated Bottles. [Smithsonian Insider]

April 26, 2017 -- Humans Lived in North America 130,000 Years Ago, Study Claims. [New York Times]

April 26, 2017 -- Humans in California 130,000 Years Ago? Get the Facts. [National Geographic]

June 8, 2016 -- Tracking Paleocoastal People in California's Channel Islands. [Archaeology]

January 29, 2016 -- Tribes' Win in Fight for La Jolla Bones Clouds Hopes for DNA Studies. [New York Times]

November 2, 2015 -- Nearly 9,000 Artifacts Uncovered in California Desert, Spanning 11,500 Years of History. [Western Digs: Dispatches from the Ancient American West]

October 16, 2015 -- Polished Skull Caps Unearthed at Marsh Creek Site. [Archaeology]

October 15, 2015 -- Ancient California Burials Show a Macabre Way to Honor the Dead. [Ancient Origins]

October 1, 2015 -- The American Wild West had been Wild for Thousands of Years. [Ancient Origins]

June 4, 2015 -- UO's Erlandson Answers Plea from California's Chumash Indians. [AroundtheO]

May 24, 2015 -- Lake County Time Capsule: Archaeology and Anderson Marsh State Historic Park. [Lake County News]

March 1, 2015 -- Artifacts Highlight Lone Woman Story. [San Diego Union-Tribune]



December 23, 2014 -- Artifacts Stolen from Lake Oroville State Recreation Area Recovered. [Sierra Sun Times]

May 26, 2014 -- Archaeology's Poisonous Past. [High Country News]

April 28, 2014 -- Native American Tribe, Archaeologists at Odds over Indian Remains. [Washington Post]

April 24, 2014 -- Site of Rare Indian Artifacts Paved Over in California. [USA Today]

April 23, 2014 -- Archaeologists Lament Loss of Indian Artifacts at Larkspur Development Rose Lane. [Marin Independent Journal]



December 16, 2013 -- Archaeological Investigation of Prehistoric Ohlone Village Site (CA-CCO-356) in Pinole, CA. [East Bay]

July 19, 2013 -- Navy Archeologists Find Rare Artifact. [Military.com News]

May 24, 2013 -- Archaeologist Digs Islands' History . [Camarillo Acorn]

May 16, 2013 -- Caltrans Dig near Novato Unearths Miwok Artifacts. [Marin Independent Journal]

April 1, 2013 -- California's Historic Artifacts to Get New Home. [San Diego Union-Tribune]

March 16, 2013 -- Appointments to California's State Historical Resources Commission. [eNews Channels]

March 1, 2013 -- Tobacco Smoked in Ancient California, Researchers Find. [Silicon Valley MercuryNews]



November 20, 2012 -- What Will Climate Change Do to Our Past?. [KQED newsfix]

November 18, 2012 -- Petroglyph Thefts near Bishop Stun Federal Authorities, Paiutes. [Los Angeles Times]

September 8, 2012 -- Professor David Allen Fredrickson Dies. [San Francisco Chronicle]

July 29, 2012 -- Rising Seas Threaten California's Coastal Past. [KQED News]

May 10, 2012 -- Navy Evicts Museum Foundation from Point Loma Base. [East County Magazine]

April 24, 2012 -- Discovery of Indian Artifacts Complicates Genesis Solar Project. [AAAS Science]

April 1, 2012 -- Unearthing Catalina History Using Skeleton Clues. [Los Angeles Times]



June 1, 2011 -- Asphalt may have Poisoned Ancient Americans. [New Scientist]

May 6, 2011 -- For UCLA Expert on Chumash Indians, Roughly Hewn Beads are Child's Play. [UCLA Newsroom]

March 3, 2011 -- California Islands Give Up Evidence of Early Seafaring. [University of Oregon]

March 3, 2011 -- This Seafood Buffet was Held 11,000 Years Ago: Archaeologists Unearth Tools, Bone and Shell Fragments on Channel Islands. [MSNBC]



August 23, 2009 -- For Early Man, It wasn't Easier Being Green. [National Public Radio]



March 23, 2008 -- Ancient Bird Killed by People: Prehistoric Humans Pushed Flightless Fowl to Extinction, Experts Find. [Press-Democrat]

March 18, 2008 -- Clovis-age Overkill Didn't Take Out California's Flightless Sea Duck. [ScienceDaily]



May 23, 2007 -- Prehistoric Behavior and Ecology of Northern Fur Seals Reconstructed. [ScienceDaily]



October 5, 2006 -- Early Humans Followed the Coast. [BBC News]



July 5, 2005 -- Footprints Rewrite History of first Americans. [NewScientist.com]

July 4, 2005 -- Ancient "footprints" found in Mexico. [News@Nature.com]



September 23, 2004 -- Signs of an Earlier American. [csmonitor.com]

September 7, 2004 -- Tribe Challenges American Origins. [BBC On-Line]

April 20, 2004 -- Rock Art Hints at Whaling Origins: Stone Age People May Have Started Hunting Whales as Early as 6,000 BC, New Evidence from South Korea Suggests. [BBC News ]

April 8, 2004 -- NASA Radar Aids High-Tech Digs. [SpaceDaily.com]

February 26, 2004 -- Seafaring Clue to First Americans. [BBC News]



July 22, 2003 -- Date Limit Set on First Americans. [BBCNews]

July 17, 2003 -- Baja California Rock Art Dated to 7,500 Years Ago. [NationalGeographic.com]

June 28, 2003 -- Brian Fagan Shows How Life in California Has Always Been a Struggle, Even for Indians. Review of: Before California: An Archaeologist Looks at Our Earliest Inhabitants, by Brian Fagen. [SFGate.com]

February 24, 2003 -- Evidence Acquits Clovis People of Ancient Killings, Archaeologists Say. [EurekAlert]

January 12, 2003 -- How Weather Brought Down Mayan Empire. [Guardian Unlimited]



December 9, 2002 -- Archaeology should be a Science of History. [On-line Forty-Niner (CSU Long Beach)]

December 3, 2002 -- Human Skulls are 'Oldest Americans.' [BBCNews]

November 20, 2002 -- Urban Renewal atop Sacred Past: Ohlone Protest Emeryville Project. [SFGate.com]

November 14, 2002 -- New Evidence that El Nino Influences Global Climate Conditions on a 2,000-Year Cycle. [ScienceDaily.com]

November 1, 2002 -- Health of American Indians on Decline Before Columbus Arrived in New World. [ScienceDaily.com]

October 17, 2002 -- Archaeologists Split Hairs over First Arrivals. [Guardian Unlimited]

July 22, 2002 -- Bison Kill Site Sheds Light on Ice Age Culture. Jake Bluff Site, Oklahoma. [Nationalgeographic.com]



November 12, 2001 -- Climate Change Caused Extinction of Big Ice Age Mammals, Scientist Says. [nationalgeographic.com]

October 26, 2001 -- Did Humans Cause Extinctions? Archaeologist Says No [UniSci.com]



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