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23 min ago | Hollywood Reporter

Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian: Cannes Review

Mathieu Amalric plays the ideal analyst to Benicio Del Toro's Blackfoot patient in the competition film exalting the work of ethno-psychoanalyst Georges Devereau An American story that only the French could make, Jimmy P., Psychotherapy of a Plains Indian cries out for its own niche, one it will hopefully find beyond festival appreciation.

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Related Topix: Topeka, KS, Science, Entertainment

4 hrs ago | Cleveland.com

Kasich signs legislation designating 2,000-year-old ceremonial pipe as official state artifact

Gov. John R. Kasich was surrounded by students from the Columbus School for Girls as he signed legislation they sought to name the Adena pipe as the official state artifact.

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Related Topix: Adena, OH, Ohio, US Governors, John Kasich, Chillicothe, OH, Archaeology, Science

8 hrs ago | SFGate

Archaeology curator applicant to give talk

An anthropologist seeking a job as archaeology curator at the University of Alaska Museum of the North will speak at a public seminar on prehistoric subsistence next week.

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Related Topix: Science, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK

12 hrs ago | Sofia News Agency

Bulgaria Probes Illegal Construction in Thracian Sanctuary

Employees of Bulgaria's Directorate for National Construction Control, DNSK , are conducting Saturday an emergency probe in a Thracian sanctuary .

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Related Topix: Europe, Bulgaria, World News, Archaeology, Science

17 hrs ago | Science Daily

Agriculture in China predates domesticated rice: Discovery of ancient ...

They have uncovered evidence for the first time that people living in Xincun 5,000 years ago may have practised agriculture -- before the arrival of domesticated rice in the region.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Science, Agriculture

18 hrs ago | Evansville Courier & Press

Archaeology CSI brings hundreds of area students to Angel Mounds | VIDEO

Photographs by DENNY SIMMONS / Courier Press G. William Monaghan, Ph.D., offers students from South Middle School in Henderson, Ky., a lesson Friday morning in using carbon dating to find out how old the mounds at Angel Mounds State Historic Site are.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Science, Bloomington, IN, Education Etc., Evansville, IN

Fri May 17, 2013

Earth Times

Minoans and genes

Long after that first Neolithic colonisation, the flowering of the, "Great Island" led to a dominating Bronze Age culture.

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Related Topix: Minoa, NY, Archaeology, Science

Cryptomundo

Sasquatch Ancestors and Monkeys Diverged 25 Million Years Ago

Artist's reconstruction of two new Oligocene primates, the ape Rukwapithecus and the Old World monkey Nsungwepithecus .

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Related Topix: Science, Ohio University, Athens, OH

Salisbury Journal

Druid bid to have remains re-buried fails

A DRUID leader has lost his High Court bidto force the re-interment of ancient bones dug up by archaeologists at Stonehenge .

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Related Topix: Druid, Religion, Archaeology, Science, Pagan/Wiccan

Sofia News Agency

Bulgarians Feel Like Abandoned Kids - Social Anthropologist

Excerpts from Euronews interview with prominent Bulgarian social anthropologist Haralan Aleksandrov on the ongoing social and political crisis in Bulgaria .

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Related Topix: Science

Sherwoodgazette.com

Road work waits for answers - Friday, 17 May 2013 10:00

Although a major road project remains in limbo, it will be a bit longer before anyone knows for sure whether there are tribal and/or pioneer burial sites along a rustic stretch of 253rd Avenue in Hillsboro.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Science

Hampshire Chronicle

King Richard's head goes on display

The facial reconstruction of King Richard III is going on display in Leicester's Guildhall on the first stop of a nationwide tour A facial reconstruction of King Richard III is going on display in Leicester's Guildhall on the first stop of a nationwide tour.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Science, Leicestershire County, England, United Kingdom

The Telegraph

Action hope at last

Bhubaneswar, May 15: The state government has asked the Khurda district administration to prepare a land status report for areas in and around Sisupalgarh so that a permanent conservation plan of the historic monument can be put in place.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Science

Thu May 16, 2013

Chicago Magazine

Five Great Food Vacations for Chicago Travelers With an Appetite

The best summer getaways for the city's foodies are on the west coast, around our region, and in Canada.

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Related Topix: Life, Food, Dining, Archaeology, Science, Beer, Drink

Windsor Journal

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A dig in the past showed once again that one man's trash can be another man's treasure - if the second man lives a few centuries later than the first, that is.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Science

On An Overgrown Path

Classical music can learn a lot from our feline friends

This cat lives in the house in Assas that was the home of the legendary harpsichordist Scott Ross from 1984 until he died of an Aids related illness five years later.

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Related Topix: Classical, Science

CBS News

Video: Intel's cultural anthropologist talks life and technology

With a father who was an engineer and a mother who was an anthropologist, Dr. Genevieve Bell's career as a cultural anthropologist at tech company Intel Labs was almost preordained.

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Madison Publishing

SLCC Carving project celebrates past and present

Four local master carvers have been working diligently since late 2012 on crafting traditional yellow cedar welcome figures.

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Related Topix: Archaeology, Science

WTOP-FM Washington

Army general facing sex charges had porn on laptop

An expert in Afghan culture testified Wednesday that pornography found on the computer of a U.S. Army general then deployed to the Muslim country would be highly offensive to local residents.

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Related Topix: US Military, Fort Bragg, US Army, Science, US Marine Corps

Wed May 15, 2013

Examiner.com

Where is the published PhD dissertation by Leslie Knapp?

There are standards in culture , paradoxes and absurd. In western culture it is a standard the PhD dissertation to be published.

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