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Some interesting World Wide Web sites on New World archaeology include the National Park Service's 'Links to the Past'; a site on Chaco Canyon from the software company Chaco Communications; a site on the Jamestown Rediscovery Project; the CSS Hunley Update; Florida Archaeology Underwater Archaeological Preserves; a site on the archaeology of Teotihuacan, Mexico; one on El Pilar Archaeological Reserve from the Belize River Archaeological Settlement Survey Project; MayaQuest; and National Geographic Online. Online indexes devoted to archaeology are also listed.
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The original James Fort built by English settlers in Virginia has been located, and excavations have been made covering about five percent of the fort. The Fort, built in 1607 on Jamestown Island, had long been thought to have been eroded into the James River. An accurate 17th-century chart recently found in the Dutch National Archives gives the original fort's location and indicates that there has been less erosion of the island than expected. Over 90,000 artifacts have been uncovered at the site, as well as the skeleton of a male European.
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The Serpent Mound in south-central Ohio was probably built around 1070 AD, about 2,000 years later than had previously been thought, according to new radiocarbon dating. The revised dating associates the mound with the Fort Ancient culture, a Mississippian culture from between 900-1600 AD, rather than the Adena culture of 1000-100 BC. The mound appears to align with the solstices and may be associated with astronomical events that occurred not long before 1070 AD, a supernova or an appearance of Halley's Comet.
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