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  • Argentine Archaeologist Dr. Constanza Cerruti sifts through site of an Inca rest house below   22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where she helped to find the world’s highest mummies from an ancient sacrifice.
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  • An archaeologist climbs up to a rare unlooted pre-Incan tomb.
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  • Archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where he later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
    AR 0959.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh studies 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones and khirigsur burial mounds Ulaan Tolgoi near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-011.jpg
  • Smithsonian Museum archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh & Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR), a famed pioneer of Monolian archaeology, study a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-045.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh take compass bearing on the orientation of an ancient horse skull in a 2700+ year-old, bronze age  "khirigsuur" burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-010.jpg
  • Smithsonian Museum archaeologist  Christina Leece studies a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-049.jpg
  • An archaeologist inspects an ancient Chachapoyan circular house.  at Talape, Peru.
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  • An expedition led by archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard establishes a base camp below 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where the team later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
    AR 0705.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skull at a site above Delger River near Muren, Mongolia.  This may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-042.jpg
  • Smithsonian Museum archaeologist  Christina Leece studies a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-047.jpg
  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
    AR 1049.jpg
  • An archaeology expedition led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where the team later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.  Behind are lonely mountains of the vast South American Altiplano.
    AR 0937.jpg
  • An archaeology team let by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
    AR 0927.jpg
  • A vehicle drives below 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, the world’s second-highest historically active volcano, on the vast South American Altiplano.
    AR 0659.jpg
  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice. In the background are other lonely mountains and volcanoes of the vast South American Altiplano.
    AR 0934.jpg
  • An archaeology expedition led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
    AR 0923.jpg
  • An Argentine Unimog vehicle climbs the lower slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, as part of an expedition where that found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
    AR 0613.jpg
  • An archaeology expedition led by Dr. Johan Reinhard approaches 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where he later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
    AR 0550.jpg
  • MONGOLIA.  Mongolian archaeology student, Batjargal Khadbaatar ("Khada") in a bug hat to keep away swarming gnats and insects.
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  • An archaeology team led by Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice. Behind are arid mountains and valleys of the vast South American Altiplano.
    AR 1037.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh studies 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stones and khirigsur burial mounds Ulaan Tolgoi near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-012.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-021.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age vertebrae at site above Delger River near Muren.  Bone may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-006.jpg
  • Smithsonian Museum archaeologist Christina Leece & Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR), a famed pioneer of Monolian archaeology, unearth a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-042.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skull may be 3700+ years old.  <br />
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    MGe 060629-088.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, & Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearth a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.g
    MGe 060629-060.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich (center) unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia.  His colleague, Dr. William Fitzhugh (L), was studying nearby deer stones from the same period.
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  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) replants vegetation at a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone site at Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.  Christina Leece bkg.
    MGe 060626-021.jpg
  • Archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh points out carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone to visitors to his site at Ulaan Tolgai,  near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia. <br />
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  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) studies carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.   Sasha is a renowned pioneer of Mongolian archaeology, some of it pursued & published during Soviet era.
    MGe 060626-018.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-017.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.   <br />
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  • An archaeologist holds up a broken arrowhead at an early Native American settlement in the White Mountains of California,
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  • Archaeologist Robert Bettinger points out a layer of volcanic ash that was laid down by a nearby volcano, 750 years ago, helping to date artifcacts that are above or below it.
    CAe 201019-375.jpg
  • Archaeologist Robert Bettinger examines an arrowhead at 12,400' in California's White Mountains, the highest Native American settlement in the United States.
    CAe 201019-175.jpg
  • An expedition led by archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
    AR 0920.jpg
  • Archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard meets with his team during an expedition to 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where they later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
    AR 0774.jpg
  • An expedition led by archaeologist Dr. Johan Reinhard hikes up the slopes of 22,110-foot Volcan Llullaillaco in northern Argentina, where he later found the world’s highest mummies from an ancient Inca sacrifice.
    AR 0576.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skull may be 2700+ years old.  <br />
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#MS0702_060708_0562.NEF
    MGe 060708-049.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  The skull may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-037.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skull at a site above Delger River near Muren, Mongolia.  This   may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-035.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, examines a bronze-age skull at an archaeology site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. This  may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-091.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, examines a bronze-age skull at an archaeology site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. This  may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-090.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 3700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-083.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 3700+ years old.  <br />
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#MS0702_060629_0180.NEF
    MGe 060629-072.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, & Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearth a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-063.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, & Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearth bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.  <br />
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#MS0702_060629_0062.NEF
    MGe 060629-054.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, & Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearth a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-049.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-076.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.  <br />
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#MS0702_060628_0235.NEF
    MGe 060628-063.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-059.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-057.jpg
  • An archaeologist investiigates a grinding stone at an early Native American settlement in the White Mountains of California.  Tiny scratches show where stone blades were used to chop something.
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  • Archaeologist Micah Hale investigates a broken arrowhead at an early Native American settlement in the White Mountains of California,
    CAe 201019-463.jpg
  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Peruvian archaeologist Ives Bejar uncovers pre-Columbian (and probably pre-Incan) knife at Corihuayrachina site on Cerro Victoria.
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  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Peruvian archaeologist Miguel Colque and American cartographer Madison Roswell investigate ancient Incan aqueduct that carried water to Qoriwayrachina, a long-vanished commercial center on the slopes of Cerro Victoria.
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  • Peruvian archaeologist Dr. Peter Lerche examines ancient patterns he believes to symbolize eyes that are built into many walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • Gordon Wiltsie stands beside an ancient temple built in a Chachapoyan (pre-Inca) ceremonial site that he and archaeologist Dr. Peter Lerche found lost in the upper Amazon cloud forests of Peru's Cordillera Central.
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  • An archaeologist holds ancient Nabatean pottery shards he found in Jordan's mysterious Petra.
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  • ARGENTINA. Archaeologist carries load up Volcan Lllullullaico, third highest peak in South America, where expedition would discover world's highest Inca mummy.
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  • Eroded gullies mark the Flaming Gorge at Bayanzag in Mongolia's Gobi Desert, where famed archaeologist Roy Chapman Andrews first discovered dinosaur eggs in 1922.
    MGe 080713-103.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skull at a site above Delger River near Muren, Mongolia.  This   may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-040.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.  <br />
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#MS0702_060708_0475.NEF
    MGe 060708-031.jpg
  • Smithsonian Museum archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh & Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR), a famed pioneer of Monolian archaeology, study a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-033.jpg
  • Smithsonian Museum archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh & Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR), a famed pioneer of Monolian archaeology, study a 2700+ year-old khirigsur burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi site near Lake Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-032.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist Dr. William Fitzhugh studies a 2700+ year-old, bronze age Deer Stone at Ulaan Tolgoi, near Lake  Erkhel & Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060630-020.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skull at an archaeology site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. This  may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-085.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at an archaeology site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. This  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-082.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at an archaeology site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. This  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-070.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-073.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-072.jpg
  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060628-069.jpg
  • MONGOLIA. Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, unearths bronze-age skeleton at site above Delger River near Muren.  Skeleton may be 2700+ years old.  <br />
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    MGe 060628-068.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.  Sasha is a pioneer Mongolian researcher, who did much work and publication during the Soviet era.   <br />
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  • Mongolian archaeologist Tovuudorj Sanjmyatov ("Sasha") (MR) sketches carvings on a 2700+ year-old, bronze age deer stone monument at Ulaan Tolgai archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.  Sasha is a pioneer Mongolian researcher, who did much work and publication during the Soviet era.  <br />
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    MGe 060626-013.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan ("Bayaraa") unearths ancient horse skull in a 2700+ year-old, bronze age  "khirigsuur" burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia.
    MGe 060626-008.jpg
  • Dr. Robert Bettinger shows early Native American artifacts to fellow archaeologist Micah Hale at a Native American settlement that was used around AD 750.
    CAe 201019-434.jpg
  • Archaeologist Robert Bettinger stands  at 12,400' in California's White Mountains, the highest Native American settlement in the United States.  Behind is the spectacular Owens Valley and eastern escarpment of the Sierra Nevada, hidden by wildfire smoke.
    CAe 201019-264.jpg
  • Cordillera Vilcabamba, Andes Mountains, Peru. Peruvian archaeologist Ives Bejar examines a pre-Columbian miniature sculpture from site at Corihuayrachina on Cerro Victoria that might be Incan or even earlier in origin.
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  • Peruvian archaeologist Dr. Peter Lerche sits below a narrow entrance between the imposing fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan Chachapoyan culture.
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  • Peruvian archaeologist Dr. Peter Lerche examines a narrow entrance between the imposing fortress walls at Kuelap, a stronghold of the pre-Incan, Chachapoyan culture.
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  • Smithsonian archaeologist & forensics specialist, Dr. Bruno Frohlich, & Amgalantugs Tsend, a Mongolian archaeology student, unearth a bronze-age skeleton at a site above the Delger River near Muren, Mongolia. The  skeleton may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060629-056.jpg
  • Mongolian archaeologist Jamsranjav Bayarsaikhan ("Bayaraa") unearths ancient horse skull in a 2700+ year-old, bronze age  "khirigsuur" burial mound at Ulaan Tolgoi archaeological site near Lake Erkhel, north of Muren, Mongolia., Mongolia., Mongolia.  A deer stone of similar age is in the background.
    MGe 060626-009.jpg
  • Archaeologists from the Smithsonian Museum unearth a Bronze-age skeleton at a site near Muren, Mongolia. These bones may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-022.jpg
  • Rural herders and an archaeology team mingle after wrestling matches at a naadam festival on a remote pass near Muren, Mongolia. The winner on right, was one of the archaeologists, much to the locals' dismay.
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  • Wildflowers grow above an archaeologists' camp at Ulaan Tolgoi ("Red Hill"), west of Lake Erkhel and north of Muren, Mongolia.
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  • Dr. Robert Bettinger shows early Native American artifacts to fellow archaeologists at a Native American settlement that was used around AD 750.
    CAe 201019-449.jpg
  • Dr. Robert Bettinger shows early Native American artifacts to fellow archaeologists at a Native American settlement that was used around AD 750.
    CAe 201019-440.jpg
  • Dr. Robert Bettinger shows early Native American artifacts to fellow archaeologists at a Native American settlement that was used around AD 750.
    CAe 201019-436.jpg
  • Archaeologists investigate artifacts at an early Native American settlement in the White Mountains of California,
    CAe 201019-429.jpg
  • Archaeologists investigate artifacts at an early Native American settlement in the White Mountains of California.  LtoR: Robert Bettinger, Luke Barton & Micah Hale.
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  • Archaeologists excavate an ancient Incan aqueduct that once carred water from the glacier behind to fields below them.
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  • Archaeologists from the Smithsonian Museum unearth a Bronze-age skeleton at a site near Muren, Mongolia. These bones may be 2700+ years old.
    MGe 060708-026.jpg
  • Dr. Robert Bettinger shows early Native American artifacts to fellow archaeologists at a Native American settlement that was used around AD 750.  L to R: Robert Rober, Luke Barton , Micah Hale. & Bettinger.
    CAe 201019-443.jpg
  • Archaeologists investigate artifacts at an early Native American settlement in the White Mountains of California.  LtoR:  Luke Barton & Micah Hale.
    CAe 201019-425.jpg
  • Archaeologists Micah Hale investigates artifacts at an early Native American settlement in the White Mountains of California,
    CAe 201019-423.jpg
  • En route to an Incan burial site, archaeologists hike along the Yonan River in the upper Amazon cloud forests of Peru's Cordillera Central.
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