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Aug 18, 2010
An article in the Pittsburgh Post Gazette on 8/18/10 entitled "Bones in woods may be those of man slain 9 years ago" mentions Dr. Dennis Dirkmaat and his graduate students excavating a scene in Fayette County where human remains were found.
Jul 14, 2010
Forensic anthropologist Dennis Dirkmaat and graduate students excavated a site where human remains were found in Murrysville, PA. The article published in the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette was titled: "Officals working to identify remains found in Murrysville".
Jun 07, 2010
Recent graduates of the master’s degree program in anthropology at Mercyhurst College made a strong showing at the 79th annual meeting of the American Association of Physical Anthropologists, held earlier this spring in Albuquerque, N.M.
May 13, 2010
Dr. J.M. Adovasio was the plenary speaker for the 94th Annual Meeting of the New York Society of American Archaeology held April 23-25. His lecture was titled “Early Populations in the New World: A Biased Perspective.”
Apr 30, 2010
Jim Adovasio scoffs at the bigger-than-life Indiana Jones image that he invariably conjures up; this rugged archaeologist is, after all, a scholar of international renown with well over 500 publications to his credit.
