EurekAlert! - ArchaeologyThe premier online source for science news since 1996. A service of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.NC State researcher finds El Nio may have been factor in Magellan's Pacific voyage- May 15, 2008 (North Carolina State University) A new paper by North Carolina State University archaeologist Dr. Scott Fitzpatrick and University of Calgary researcher Dr. Richard Callaghan shows that Ferdinand Magellan's historic circumnavigation of the globe was likely influenced in large part by unusual weather conditions -- including what we now know as El Nio -- which eased his passage across the Pacific Ocean, but ultimately led him over a thousand miles from his intended destination.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/ncsu-nsr051508.php Archaeologist uses satellite imagery to explore ancient Mexico- May 13, 2008 (Rochester Institute of Technology) Satellite imagery obtained from NASA will help RIT archaeologist Bill Middleton peer into the ancient Mexican past. In a novel archaeological application, multi- and hyperspectral data will help build the most accurate and most detailed landscape map that exists of the southern state of Oaxaca, where the Zapotec people formed the first state-level and urban society in Mexico. National Geographic funding will help look at how climate and vegetation patterns...http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/riot-aus051308.php New evidence from earliest known human settlement in the Americas- May 8, 2008 (Vanderbilt University) New evidence from the Monte Verde archaeological site in southern Chile confirms its status as the earliest known human settlement in the Americas and provides additional support for the theory that one early migration route followed the Pacific Coast more than 14,000 years ago.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/vu-nef050208.php X-rays power discoveries at Chicago's Field Museum- May 7, 2008 (Field Museum) Digital medical imaging and information technology is helping The Field Museum discover and analyze secrets hidden within its world-class collections. A computed radiography system enables the museumfor the first timeto capture, archive and share digital x-ray images from more than one million priceless artifacts in its Anthropology collection. The museum is also using a picture archiving and communications system (PACS) to manage, view and store the growing collection of digital.http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/fm-xrp042908.php |