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Structural Anthropology
By exploring the structural record and construction methodology, and corroborated by the DNA record, it is possible to trace a single group of humans from Southeast Asia, across the island chains of the Pacific to Chile and Peru, and up the spine of the Americas all the way to Chaco Canyon, New Mexico.
Hemingway Underwater Site, Western Caribbean
In 1954 Leicester Hemingway, brother of Ernest Hemingway, saw from an airplane window an ancient, “City of marble,” under the Caribbean Sea. He spent the next 40 years searching for it again, and never found it. In 2008, pioneering the use of satellite imagery, LiDAR, and the low beam infrared spectrum in aerial archaeology, I located the site sitting on the sea floor less than three miles from the Cuban coast, in less than 100‘ of water.
Fort Henry, Virginia
Fort Henry was the second permanent fort in the Virginia Colony after Jamestown. Situated on the banks of the Appomattox River across from the Powhatan summer village at Petersburg, it was the only place for 100 years where the colonists could could trade freely with the Native Americans. The true location of the Fort Henry site was lost to history for 150 years until I found it.
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