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  Ancient America

  Why a Rare Intact Pot Found at Mission San Francisco De Potano Near Gainesville Is Reshaping What Archaeologists Know About a 17th Century Florida Spanish Mission

  August 12, 2026 - By Amy Erickson

  Students at a University of Florida field school uncovered a small, intact vessel at a mission site that has yielded more than 7,000 artifacts since 2006.

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  Lost Places

  Smoke From Mount Hood’s Grasshopper Fire Leaves Government Camp Nearly Empty as Crews Battle a 39,000 Acre Blaze Near Highway 35

  August 12, 2026 - By Amy Erickson

  Wildfire smoke is thinning business in the Mount Hood village even as firefighters hold the line on the nearby fire.

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  Lost Places

  How Hoover Dam Buried St. Thomas, Nevada, in Lake Mead and Then Revealed Its Streets and Foundations Again as Water Levels Fell Decades Later

  August 12, 2026 - By Amy Erickson

  A Mormon desert town vanished under the reservoir in 1935, then reappeared when Lake Mead dropped in the 2000s.

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  Lost Places

  Ghost Town Trail in Cambria County Could Become Pennsylvania’s First Trail System With a Nonporous Pathway Designed to Stop Repeated Stormwater Washouts

  August 12, 2026 - By Amy Erickson

  Crews are testing a new surface beneath a bridge in Ebensburg to curb erosion that has troubled the trail for more than a decade.

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  Ancient America

  At Tree Hill Farm Outside Richmond, Virginia Tribes Are Fighting a 523 Acre Landscape Said to Be Chief Powhatan’s Birthplace and Sacred Indigenous Ground

  August 12, 2026 - By Amy Erickson

  Native leaders say the Henrico County property holds more than 13,000 years of history and should be protected from a large housing plan.

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  Lost Places

  How the Mormon Settlement of St. Thomas Vanished Under Lake Mead After Hoover Dam, Then Reappeared as Drought Exposed Its Streets and Foundations

  August 12, 2026 - By Amy Erickson

  A desert town once lost to Hoover Dam’s reservoir is visible again when Lake Mead falls.

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  Ancient America

  At the Siletz Powwow in Oregon, Thousands Gather for Free Salmon, Fry Bread and Traditional Dancing During the Annual Nesika Illahee Celebration on Government Hill

  August 11, 2026 - By Amy Erickson

  The Confederated Tribes of Siletz Indians turn their summer powwow into a public gathering of dance, drumming, food and family.

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  Ancient America

  How a New Pueblo Mural Inside the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center Uses Route 66’s 1937 Realignment and Augmented Reality to Recast the Mother Road’s Indigenous History

  August 11, 2026 - By Amy Erickson

  The Old Road traces Route 66 through Pueblo lands, mixing painted history with augmented reality at the Indian Pueblo Cultural Center.

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  Ancient America

  Wyoming Bison Bones Help Scientists Trace 20,000 Years of North American Gene Flow and Reveal How Ancient Herds Stayed Linked Before European Expansion

  August 11, 2026 - By Amy Erickson

  A new genetic study used Wyoming and Montana bones to show how deeply connected bison once were across the continent.

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  Ancient America

  Why the Southeast Lake Cahuilla Cultural District Along the Salton Sea Is Drawing Historic Protection Efforts Before Lithium Development Expands Across 11,162 Sacred Acres

  August 11, 2026 - By Amy Erickson

  Native leaders and conservation groups are seeking federal historic protections for a geothermal landscape tied to regional tribes and threatened by proposed lithium development.