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Zahi Hawass never thought he'd be working anywhere but at the pyramids and thereabouts, where he has worked for more than 20 years and where plenty remains to be discovered. Then, three years ago, the eminent archaeologist, who also serves as Egypt's Undersecretary of State for the Giza Monuments, got wind of a new, unsuspected burial site at the Bahariya Oasis, some 230 miles southwest of Cairo. When he arrived, recalls Hawass, "one of the tomb ceilings had fallen in and the sun shone through it. I went in and looked at the mummies in the rays...
This wasn't just tool use; it was technology. Explains archaeologist Sileshi Semaw, a postdoctoral researcher at Indiana University in Bloomington, who helped find a huge cache of 2.6 million-year-old tools at Gona in the early 1990s: "The Gona hominids [carefully] selected workable raw materials." Since there are no local sources of such materials at Bouri, where the A. garhi fossils were found, the hominids must have carried their tools with them when they traveled there...
...thousand-year-old Mayan artifact will be returned to Guatemala next week thanks to the efforts of Harvard archaeologist Ian Graham...
William J. Whatley, the Pueblo of Jemez's archaeologist, a National Park ranger, and two members of the Pueblo Jemez tribe followed the truck in a rental van. Saturday's burial will end not only their journeys but also theculmination of a nine-year effort by the tribe toreturn their ancestor's remains to their rightfulresting place...
...there the story might have ended but for the tireless efforts of Johan Reinhard, an independent archaeologist funded by the National Geographic Society. Reinhard's specialty is scaling the Andes in search of sacrificial remains; he had already located 15 bodies, including the famed ice maiden he found in 1995. But these three, whose discovery he announced last week, are by far the most impressive. They were frozen solid within hours of their burial. Two of the bodies are almost perfectly preserved; the third was evidently damaged by lightning. The children's internal organs are not only intact but also...