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A team from UCLA in cooperation with the Tigrai Culture and Tourism Agency and the Authority for Research and Conservation of Cultural Heritage of Ethiopia has completed two excavation seasons at the site of Mai Adrasha located about 70 kilometers west of the ancient capital of Aksum. With the information gathered in these excavations, we can now begin to compare Mai Adrasha to neighboring sites and place it within its regional framework. Radiocarbon dates from the first season of excavation...
A Tale of Two Sites: the Connections Between Poverty Point and Tick Island (2015)
Poverty Point and Tick Island were two of the most important sites in the southeast during the Late Archaic period. Previously we have demonstrated a probable connection between the sites, which are separated by over 700 miles, through the identification of Lower Mississippi Valley loessal PPOs at Tick Island, and St Johns pottery, likely from the area of Tick Island, found at Poverty Point. In this paper we identify an additional set of artifacts that are found at both sites but are not know...