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- ...that the Eva archaeological site in Tennessee was inhabited from about 6000 to 1000 BC, but it is now below water?
- ... that the fossil sawfly species Eriocampa tulameenensis was found along the Canadian Pacific rail line near Princeton, British Columbia?
- ... that Bertha Parker Pallan (pictured) was one of the first female Native American archaeologists?
- ... that both Fordilla and Pojetaia, Cambrian members of the extinct bivalve family Fordillidae, are part of the Turkish small shelly fauna?
- ... that the type specimen of the extinct bulldog ant Macabeemyrma ovata is the fossilized remains of an adult queen preserved in shale?
- ... that occupation of the La Soledad de Maciel archeological site in Guerrero, Mexico, lasted for over 3,000 years?
- ... that squash remains at Guilá Naquitz Cave are the oldest known evidence of crop domestication in the Americas?
- ... that the ruins of the Maya city of Mixco Viejo in Guatemala received their name because they were believed to be the remains of another city entirely?
- ... that Gerard Fowke spent much of his life studying ancient burial mounds, trying to prove the existence of a civilization that predated what we currently understand to be the Native Americans?
- ... that the Wishram Indian Village Site is believed to have been occupied for at least 10,000 years?