Bad news from Toronto
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Toronto recently decided to cancel its revolutionary Archaeological Resource Center despite its phenomenal success both locally and in inspiring similar programs abroad. Launched in 1983 with a guarantee of support for 20 years, it has given nearly 100,000 students a multicultural education and elicited their help in year-round actual archaeological work, excavating sites and handling finds. The Board has unexpectedly zeroed out the program's budget and told the director, Karolyn Smardz, to seek private-sector funding.
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 1995
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A finite Iroquoian legacy
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A boom in Toronto, Ontario's housing development threatens investigation of Iroquois archaeological sites. Toronto is growing faster than any Canadian city. Canadian archeologists know of hundreds of prehistoric Iroquois and Huron sites, but their resources are insufficient to challenge the bulldozers' advance. Poor preservation conditions and rapid development lower the opportunity for thorough archeological analysis.
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 1996
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The new Maya
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Archaeologists disagree about whether the Maya population reached a density of 600 people per square mi across 36,000-square-mile area in northern Guatemala and parts of Mexico and Belize. Population estimates reveal that by 650 A.D., two-thirds of the people were gone, and most of the remainder disappeared by 1100. Archaeologists continue to research the class structure of the Maya sites.
Publication Name: Archaeology
Subject: Anthropology/archeology/folklore
ISSN: 0003-8113
Year: 1998
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