Exploring the dense jungles, with wild pigs, pythons, monitor lizards and strange, large-footed chickens, they found remnants of ancient structures and burial urns, with bones and artifacts.
Sand excavating in 1899 and 1900 uncovered skeletons, bones and artifacts that showed Manorhaven was once the site of an Indian village.
Carbon-14 also revolutionized archaeology, allowing precise dating of bones and artifacts.
The archaeologists wrote of uncovering ample horse bones and artifacts from which they derived "three independent lines of evidence demonstrating domestication" of horses by the semi-sedentary Botai culture, which occupied sites in northern Kazakhstan for six centuries, beginning around 3600 B.C.
Andrewsarchus, which will be prominently displayed, is one of the ways the museum is ensuring that the whale exhibit is very much its own, and it also draws on the richness of the American museum's vast collections of bones and artifacts.
SEATTLE--Newly dated fish bones and artifacts reveal that early Archaic Indians were basking in the Florida sun almost 10,000 years ago.
When researchers first dated animal bones and artifacts in this layer, the results varied widely, between 30,000 to 50,000 years ago.
Analysis of newly recovered fossil bones and artifacts has shown that the bones of large animals are largely the product of felid hunting and feeding behavior, followed by hyena gnawing and breakage of some bones.
The well-preserved bones and artifacts add detail to this picture of Bronze Age sophistication, pointing to the existence of a trained warrior class and suggesting that people from across Europe joined the bloody fray. .
Herb Maschner, an Arctic archaeologist at the University of South Florida in Tampa, agrees and says the careful excavation methods and analysis serve as a good example of what archaeologists need to do to answer questions about ancient people living in central Alaska where the conditions for preserving bones and artifacts are "notoriously" bad.
