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CALIFORNIA PREHISTORY NEWS
Includes anything we can find that might be of interest.
Older stories are removed (hopefully) when the links go bad.
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CALIFORNIA PREHISTORY NEWS
Includes anything we can find that might be of interest.
Older stories are removed (hopefully) when the links go bad.
September 5, 2006 -- Scientists Use Obsidian for Temperatures. [TheDailyBeaconOnline]
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 14, 2004 -- Tribe Conducts War Dance to Stop Dam Expansion: Last such dance was in 1887. [CNN.com]
September 13, 2004 -- Developer, Tribe in Dispute over L.A. Burial Site: Millions spent to remove remains. [SignOnSanDiego.com]
September 10, 2004 -- Ancient Skeletons Found Near Caribbean. [www.iol.co.za]
September 7, 2004 -- Tribe Challenges American Origins. [BBC On-Line]
September 6, 2004 -- Study: Native Americans Weren't the First. [Discoverychannel.com]
September 6, 2004 -- Did the First Americans Come From, Er, Australia? [Yahoo!News]
September 3, 2004 -- Massive LA Development Unearths Indian Grave Site, Controversy. [sanluisobispo.com.]
August 25, 2004 -- Scientist digs into Chumash background: Using a $34,000 federal grant, Terry Jones is looking at fish and animal bones dating back 9,000 years that were first discovered 36 years ago at Diablo Canyon. [sanluisobispo.com.]
July 23, 2004 -- Mystery Surrounding Indian Bones Deepens: Remains found on Yerba Buena Island went to secret location, not Cal museum. [sanmateocountytimes.com.]
July 21, 2004 -- Caltrans Discovers Ancient Ohlone Site: Yerba Buena Island find won't slow $4 billion Bay Bridge work. [sanmateocountytimes.com.]
July 16, 2004 -- Tribes Quit Long Fight Over Kennewick Man's Remains: The case appears to be over and the stage set for scientific study, barring a federal appeal to the Supreme Court. [The Oregonian; registration may be required.]
April 25, 2004 -- Archaeological Evidence Shows Ancient Coastal Life. [Diablo Canyon revisited, same article as below but slightly longer; marinij.com]
April 25, 2004 -- Excavated Garbage Suggests Earliest Americans Hugged West Coast. [Diablo Canyon revisited; SanLuisObispo.com]
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 20, 2004 -- Scientists Win New Battle Over Skeleton. [Kennewick Man; Yahoo!News]
April 12, 2004 -- Archaeologist Talks About Oregon's Early Natives. [TheWorldLink.com]
April 12, 2004 -- Indian Curator Hopes To Tell All Sides of Mission Story. [AZCentral.com]
April 12, 2004 -- New Method for Determining Age of Artifacts Fills Chronological Gap for Scientists. [Today@UCI]
April 8, 2004 -- NASA Radar Aids High-Tech Digs. [San Clemente Island; SpaceDaily.com]
February 26, 2004 -- Seafaring clue to first Americans. [Mark Raab, San Clemente Island; BBC News]
February 24, 2004 -- Invasion of the Kennewick Men. [Tech Central Station]
February 18, 2004 -- The first copies of California Archaeology, by Michael J. Moratto, have arrived (reprinted by Coyote Press, 2004). Click for details. [CoyotePress.com]
February 14, 2004 -- Kennewick man ruling - politics or science? [NewScientist.com]
February 5, 2004 -- Scientists win Kennewick Man ruling: Court rejects tribes' appeal to bury ancient bones. [SeattlePI.com]
February 4, 2004 -- Court: Scientists Can Study Kennewick Man. [Yahoo! News]
January 29, 2004 -- Centuries-old murals revealed in Mission Dolores: Indians' hidden paintings open window into S.F.'s sacred past. [SFGate.com]
January 28, 2004 -- Pacific Dictates Droughts and Drenchings. [NASA/Goddard]
January 25, 2004 -- Global warming will plunge Britain into new ice age 'within decades'. (Like California's "Little Ice Age") [Independant / UK]
January 24, 2004 -- L.A.'s Oldest Tourist Trap: At Rancho La Brea, death has been the pits for millennia. [Science News Online]
December 18, 2003 -- Goodbye Sunshine (Now for something completely different to worry about). [GuardianUnlimited]
December 15, 2003 -- Theft Hampers Archaeology Site Protection (Wyoming). [bnewsday.com]
December 12, 2003 -- 10,000 Stolen Relics from American West Recovered In Probe. [billingsgazette.com]
December 11, 2003 -- Prehistoric Man Began Global Warming. [smh.com]
December 7, 2003 -- Firefighters Unearth Ancient Indian Camp (USFS, San Bernardino Mountains). [PasadenaStarNews.com]
September 14, 2003 -- Sacred Sites Bill Defeated (about half way down the article). [MercuryNews.com]
September 6, 2003 -- Continental Survivors: Baja Skulls Shake Up American Ancestry. [ScienceNewsOnline]
September 3, 2003 -- Skulls Found In Mexico Suggest the Early Americans Would Have Said 'G'day Mate'. [Independent.co.uk]
August 27, 2003 -- Glaciers Dominated Los Angeles Skyline. [DiscoveryNews.com]
August 26, 2003 -- Sacred Sites Bill Could Create A Monster. [SignOnSanDiego.com]
August 4, 2003 -- Discovery Casts Doubt on Bering Land Bridge Theory. [ContraCostaTimes.com]
July 28, 2003 -- Editorial: Still a Bad Bill: New sacred sites bill is too broad, unneeded. [sacbee.com]
July 25, 2003 -- New Questions About Migration of First Americans: Doubts resurface about land route through Siberia. [SFGate.com]
July 22, 2003 -- Date Limit Set on First Americans. [BBCNews]
July 19, 2003 -- House Votes to Save Jobs of Park Service Archaeologists. [washintonpost.com]
July 17, 2003 -- Baja California Rock Art Dated to 7,500 Years Ago. [NationalGeographic.com]
July 1, 2003 -- Rock of Ages: Method developed at A&M challenges claims over cave paintings. [HoustonChronicle.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]
June 22, 2003 -- New Device Offers a Peek at Our Deeply Buried Past [Miami; New type of ground-penetrating radar]. [Herald.com]
June 21, 2003 -- Archaeology Goes Wireless: CSUMB group searches for Carmel Mission's lost wine cellar. [CalifornianOnline.com]
June 19, 2003 -- Dig Yields Archaeological Treasure: Small cannon may have been used to fortify mission in late 1700s or early 1800s. [SanLuisObispo.com]
June 16, 2003 -- Going Deep [Profile of James Allan]. [ContraCostaTimes.com]
June 9, 2003 -- Coordinator Preserving Sites: Apple Valley Woman Doing Her Part with the San Bernardino County Museum. [vvdailypress.com]
May 4, 2003 -- Archaeologists are Looking at Land Sites Reservoir Might Flood. [ChicoER.com]
May 1, 2003 -- Archaeology Professor Says Campus Project Botched Historic Site. [ChicoER.com]
April 6, 2003 -- Middle Ages Were Warmer Than Today, Say Scientists. [News.telegraph.co.uk]
February 24, 2003 -- Evidence Acquits Clovis People of Ancient Killings, Archaeologists Say. [EurekAlert]
February 20, 2003 -- Court Blocks Study of Ancient Bones Pending Appeal. Kennewick Man again. [SFGate.com]
February 14, 2003 -- Historians Find Source of Drake Hoax: Team dedicates 11 years of research into uncovering identities of brass plate creators. [PressDemocrat.com]
February 8, 2003 -- Scientist Softened Summary of Site. Des Moines, Iowa; illustrates a common archaeological problem. [DesMoinesRegister.com]
January 31, 2003 -- City Antes Up To Resume Archaeological Study: 1800s Chinese site yielded trove. Stockton; not prehistory but... [Stockton RecordNet]
January 23, 2003 -- Vandals Destroy, Deface Badlands Pictographs. Oregon. [BendBulletin.com]
January 17, 2003 -- Grave Robber Accused of Plotting to Kill Authorities. Same fellow as in the December 13, 2002 article, below. [OregonLive.com]
January 12, 2003 -- Meshing History, Progress: Plans for thousands of homes must allow for old structures. Lathrop area. [Stockton RecordNet.com]
January 12, 2003 -- How Weather Brought Down Mayan Empire. [Guardian Unlimited]
January 9, 2003 -- Tribes Fail to Halt Study of Ancient Skeleton [Kennewick Man]. [The Oregonian]
January 7, 2003 -- Critics Say New Book Is All Junk: A British author claims the Chinese, not Columbus, found America first. Features Greg White. [sacbee]
December 22, 2002 -- Epic Drought Could Strike Again, Scientists Warn. Minor notes on Late Period doughts. [SacBee.com]
December 13, 2002 -- Nevada Indian Cave Looter Hit with $2.5 Million Civil Penalty. [Las Vegas Sun]
December 9, 2002 -- Archaeology Should Be a Science of History [Dunnell's speech at CSU Long Beach]. [On-line Forty-Niner (CSU Long Beach)]
December 8, 2002 -- Big-money Dreams Drive Indian Casinos to Cities. [sacbee]
December 6, 2002 -- Blue Planet: Lessons of a Mammoth Past [Pleistocene extinctions]. [UPI.com]
December 5, 2002 -- Mexican Skull May Explain Indigenous Origins. [Yahoo!News]
December 3, 2002 -- Human Skulls Are 'Oldest Americans.' [BBCNews]
December 3, 2002 -- Does Skull Prove that the First Americans Came from Europe? [Independent.co.uk]
November 25, 2002 -- Humans in Oregon 10,000 Years Ago? [Newsday.com]
November 25, 2002 -- Scientists Ponder Prehistoric Mystery of Mega-Mammal Extinction. [FortWayne.com]
November 21, 2002 -- Archaeologists Date Oldest Coastal Site (Oregon): Deposits are thought to be about 10,400 years old. [The Daily Barometer Online]
November 20, 2002 -- Urban Renewal Atop Sacred Past: Ohlone protest Emeryville project. [SFGate.com]
November 17, 2002 -- Conversations: Last Word on Kennewick Man? A court ruling on the controversial remains pleases archaeologist James Chatters. [Archaeology.org]
November 14, 2002 -- New Evidence that El Nino Influences Global Climate Conditions on a 2,000-Year Cycle. [ScienceDaily.com]
November 10, 2002 -- Sacred Struggle: Native Groups and Scientists Join to Preserve Sites from Development (Orange County). [OCRegister.com]
November 10, 2002 -- Ancient Ties Still Bind: Despite Hardships, Prehistoric Orange County Natives Lived a Good Life, Much Like Today's Residents. [OCRegister.com]
November 1, 2002 -- Health of American Indians on Decline Before Columbus Arrived in New World. [ScienceDaily.com]
October 22, 2002 -- Chemical in vials found at Presidio injures staff archaeologist. [SacBee.com]
October 17, 2002 -- Archaeologists split hairs over first arrivals (Oregon). [Guardian Unlimited]
October 11, 2002 -- Native American Origins Debated: Scientists say DNA evidence points to central Siberia while Native Americans say mythology and beliefs are more important. [TucsonCitizen.com]
October 1, 2002 -- Kennewick Man pits scientists against tribes. [DenverPost.com]
September 29, 2002 -- [West Virginia] Cave skeleton is European, 1,300 years old, man says. Archaeologist group wants a look at evidence. [Sunday Gazette-Mail Online ]
September 21, 2002 -- California Native Americans Want Law Preserving Some Land as Sacred. [Fox News.com]
August 31, 2002 -- Judge: Group Should Get Skeleton. [yahoo! news]
August 31, 2002 -- Kennewick Man is awarded to scientists. [seattletimes.com]
August 31, 2002 -- Judge's Ruling on Kennewick Man (73 pages, pdf format).
August 31, 2002 -- Kennewick Man information site compiled by the Tri-City Herald.
August 11, 2002 -- Kumeyaay News: Ancient Village in Ramona "Exciting." [Kumeyaay.com]
July 27, 2002 -- Diggers find Indian pieces. Experts Think Site was a Village 8,000 Years Ago; Discovery made in 1999, but news just being shared. Near Watsonville, California. [californianonline.com]
July 22, 2002 -- Bison Kill Site Sheds Light on Ice Age Culture. Jake Bluff Site, Oklahoma. [Nationalgeographic.com]
June 27, 2002 -- Two Seeking Spiritual Enlightenment Die in New-Age Sweat Lodge [El Dorado County]. [San Francisco Chronicle]
June 18, 2002 -- Coalition Sues to Halt Calpine Plant. Fourmile Hill geothermal project, northeast of Redding. [bayarea.com]
June 18, 2002 -- San Jose Golf Club Restores Vandalized Site. [bayarea.com]
June 17, 2002 -- Kennewick Man Saga Lives On. [tri-cityherald.com]
April 30, 2002 -- Reburied Treasure. No California data but this article illustrates a nationwide problem. [philly.com]
April 15, 2002 -- Bones Reveal Some Truth in 'Noble Savage Myth.' Includes good California data. [washingtonpost.com]
April 6, 2002 -- Rob Edwards (right) was presented with the Lifetime Achievement Award at the 36th Annual Meeting of the Society for California Archaeology, in San Diego. The presentation was made by Gary S. Breschini, co-editor of this website.
March, 2002 -- The March, 2002 ACPAC Newsletter notes the passing of two California archaeologists, Francis A. (Fritz) Riddell and David M. Abrams. The brief obituaries from the Newsletter are linked here. [acpac.org]
November 12, 2001 -- Climate Change Caused Extinction of Big Ice Age Mammals, Scientist Says. [nationalgeographic.com]
October 28, 2001 -- 12,000-Year-Old Human DNA Has No Match with Modern Humans [central Oregon]. [Earthfiles.com]
October 26, 2001 -- Did Humans Cause Extinctions? Archaeologist Says No! [UniSci.com]
July 31, 2001 -- First Americans Linked to Ancient Japanese. [iSee iSay]
April 12, 1999 -- Ancient Bones Revive Debate on Earliest Americans. [San Francisco Chronicle]
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