Kimberly Munro
Kimberly Munro is an archaeologist with seven years experience working for the United States Forest Service and the National Park Service. With excavation experience throughout the Southeastern United States and the Northern Coast and Central Highlands of Peru, Kimberly received her B.A. in Anthropology and Religious Studies, and her M.S. in Geographic Information Sciences from Florida State University. She has been involved with the PIARA Archaeological Field School located in the highlands of Peru since 2011, and will be returning to work as a crew chief for PIARA in the summer of 2012. With interests in GIS applications in Archaeology, remote sensing, landscape and settlement patterns, and coastal/highland interaction in central Peru, Kimberly will be starting work on her PhD at Louisiana State University in the fall of 2012.
The Forgotten South: Exploring the Middle Woodland Period in the Deep South
Wed, Dec 15, 2010
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Prehistoric Macaws of The American Southwest
Tue, Mar 01, 2011
The colorfully plumed macaw was nothing to ignore among the ancient inhabitants of the Americas. The archaeological and ethnographic record provides indisputable evidence that, in many ways, this bird was king.
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Ancient Peru: The First Cities
Fri, Mar 18, 2011
The first installment of our Ancient Peru series relates what archaeology has revealed about its first cities and civilizations.
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Ancient Peru: The Origins of Culture
Sun, Aug 28, 2011
New developments in agriculture, architecture and art marked emerging new cultures and a turn toward the country interior.
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Ancient Peru: The First Horizon
Mon, Dec 05, 2011
Archaeologists have found that the Chavin culture of ancient Peru set a religious and artistic foundation that reverberated through the great civilizations that followed.
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Solving the Mystery of the English China Wreck
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
A well-preserved 18th century shipwreck was identified off the U.S. coast in southern Florida. What is the story behind the find?
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Ancient Peru: The Early Intermediate
Thu, Mar 01, 2012
New cultures emerge, marking advances in technology and a shift in social order.
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Experience where fiction meets fact at the exciting new exhibition, Indiana Jones and the Adventure of Archaeology, beginning April 28, 2011 at the Montreal Science Center. This will be like an amusement park of learning for the whole family, with a rare collection of artifacts on loan from the National Geographic Society and the Penn Museum.
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Researched and written by Spanish colonial coin expert Carol Tedesco, the succinct, 40 page Treasure Coins of the Nuestra Senora de Atocha and the Santa Margarita answers all the most frequently asked questions about the fascinating and “most coveted and widely traded money on earth,” including what the coins look like when first discovered, the meanings of the various markings, how they are cleaned, conserved and graded, what they were worth in the 17th century, and the most up-to-date information on the names and periods of office of the men who made them. To order, see www.lostgalleons.com.
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