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Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America
The New York Times
Earliest Known Human Footprints in North America
Paleolithic stones snag 21st-century attention
The Ring
A groundbreaking discovery by UVic paleoanthropologist April Nowell has provided the first direct evidence of exploitation by our Stone Age ancestors of specific animals for subsistence.
Syrian artifacts under threat
The Ring
Protecting and learning from Middle Eastern antiquities When news broke in August that Syrian archaeologist Khaleed al-Asaad had been killed by ISIS for trying to protect his country’s cultural legacy from destruction and looting, it sent a chill through the heart of Art History and Visual Studies professor Marcus Milwright. An archaeologist and professor of Islamic art and architecture, Milwright has worked extensively in Syria—including the ancient city of Palmyra, the UNESCO World Heritage Site for which Khaleed al-Asaad was the head of antiquities.
13,000-year-old footprints
The Ring
Family gatherings around a fire pit—an ancient custom that’s still with us today—may have been practiced as long as 13,000 years ago along BC's central coast. Footprints from what appear to be a man, woman and child circling a hearth were found last month below the tideline.
Underwater archaeological discovery
The Ring
Using some of the newest technologies in underwater archaeology, Quentin Mackie (anthropology) and Alison Proctor (engineering) may have discovered one of the oldest archaeological finds in Canada. Right now all they know for sure is that they’ve discovered a line of basketball-sized rocks on the seafloor. Those rocks may well add to the mounting evidence about the ingenuity of an ice age people who lived and thrived on the west coast of Canada while much of Europe was still under ice. It’s a tantalizing possibility.
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