Tag: Fossils
2 article(s) found with this tag.
Bones of contention
Summer 2012
Thirty-five years ago, Carl Gustafson, an associate professor of
archaeology at WSU, rubbed his fingers over a muddy bone and found what
looked and felt like a projectile tip. That simple discovery, and the
eventual realization that humans hunt...
Categories: Archaeology
Tags: Fossils, Bones, Paleontology, Mastodon
The Laguna’s Secrets
Winter 2001
Some of the best clues to climatic history lie at the bottoms of lakes.WE ARE GATHERED on an eight-by-12-foot raft with a hole cut in
the center of its floor, in the middle of a lagoon in the mountains 30
kilometers out of Copan, Honduras, driv...
Categories: Social sciences, Archaeology
Tags: Maya civilization, Fossils, Paleoecology