Excavate!: June 2007

Squash Seeds Show Andean Cultivation Is 10,000 Years Old, Twice as Old as Thought - New York Times

Greetings Members and Friends of the AIA!

Welcome! Here you’ll find updates on our events as well as links to news on cool, current topics in archaeology. Please consider joining the AIA and supporting our local society. As an AIA member affiliated with our local society, you get to vote on what lecture topics we choose each year. A significant portion of your membership gets refunded to our local society to support our activities. You’ll have greater access to all our speakers—more chances to ask questions and hear the inside scoop on new discoveries! Our society receives two FREE lecturers because we maintain a membership of fifty. AIA headquarters pays their airfare and honorarium and our local society provides a venue and hospitality. As a local society we invite an additional four to six speakers and host other events such as our annual archaeology fair and our biannual wine tasting. Your support directly impacts the number of fascinating archaeologists we bring to North Alabama. Thanks again for your support and enthusiasm!

Lillian Joyce, PhD
President, AIA North AL Society

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News and Notes

30.6.07

'First west Europe tooth' found

29.6.07

The Human Family Tree Has Become a Bush With Many Branches

The return of the Viking warship

Squash Seeds Show Andean Cultivation Is 10,000 Years Old, Twice as Old as Thought

Middle Eastern origin of domestic cat

27.6.07

'Find of century' for Egyptology: Hatshepsut!

Egyptians: Mystery mummy is lost female pharoah

26.6.07

WWI 'grave' revives forgotten battle

25.6.07

Calendar question over star disc

21.6.07

New World's 'Earliest gunshot victim' found

20.6.07

Another Deck of Cards for U.S. Troops in Iraq

Aborigines burn the way to climate control

Pipe blunder robs Trevi's supply

Ancient Rome brought back to life

Iceman 'bled to death on glacier'

Ancient gold unearthed in Sudan