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The Spirit Cave mummy is the oldest human mummy found in North America. [1] [2] [3] It was discovered in 1940 in Spirit Cave, [4] 13 miles (21 km) east [5] of Fallon, Nevada, United States, by the husband-and-wife archaeological team of Sydney and Georgia Wheeler.
The oldest gun found in the continental U.S. makes for a great headline, and Seymour has been besieged by media since the paper was published. The superlative attached to the cannon is of course ...
Spearheads were found by a local artifact collector in Sharon Center, Ohio.From 1990 to 1993, the site was excavated by the Cleveland Museum of Natural History.Dr. David Brose, the former Curator of Archaeology, found the spearheads were in the style of Clovis points of the Paleo-Indians and "some of the oldest certain examples of human activity in the New World."
The Meadowcroft Rockshelter is an archaeological site which is located near Avella in Jefferson Township, Pennsylvania. [4] The site is a rock shelter in a bluff overlooking Cross Creek (a tributary of the Ohio River), and contains evidence that the area may have been continually inhabited for more than 19,000 years.
Archaeologists uncovered a 480-year-old gun in Arizona. It’s now considered the oldest firearm ever found within the continental United States.
The site, named for Henry Gault, the land's owner during the early 20th century, has produced almost 3 million artifacts during professional excavations and, sadly, decades of amateur digging that ...
[2]: 1 While diverting the river stream, in order to allow proper excavation and recovery, a medial fragment of a projectile point was discovered. [2]: 1 The discovery of this human artifact in proximity to the mammoth remains warranted a more thorough and extensive excavation than originally anticipated. Initially the Domebo site was ...
The oldest known surviving tombstone in the United States is an elaborate display of wealth — an intricately carved slab of black limestone initially laid in the floor of the second church of ...