Curtin Archaeological Consulting Inc.

05/21/2026

We’ve all been there

I hate them so much. Parody of Stick Season by Noah Kahan, reworked by Emery Major. For entertainment purposes only. The videos I posted in my backyard got o...

05/18/2026

“Cíbola in Chacoan & Post-Chacoan Times” with Keith Kintigh, PhD. Since 1896, the ruins in Chaco Canyon have been a focus of Southwest archaeologists’ attention. However, the recognition of Chaco as a regional system with outliers and roads only began about 50 years ago. Drawing on our limite...

05/14/2026

A centuries-old skeleton discovered beneath a church floor could be tied to one of literature’s most famous names.

Researchers are now using DNA testing to investigate whether the remains belong to the real-life d’Artagnan, the French soldier who inspired the “fourth musketeer” in The Three Musketeers. While the discovery has drawn significant interest, concerns about the excavation and the condition of the DNA could make it difficult to prove the remains are really his: https://on.natgeo.com/LoNR5B

05/14/2026

A face from the Revolutionary War has been brought back to life.

Created by forensic artist Jenny Kenyon, this reconstruction honors one of more than 40 soldiers whose disturbed graves were carefully recovered and studied at the New York State Museum after their discovery in 2019. Research suggests these young soldiers died in 1776 at a makeshift hospital in Lake George after contracting smallpox or other disease while serving in the American Revolution.

The Museum will be part of a dignified transfer on May 20, 2026 and the soldiers will be further honored during a public reinterment ceremony at Lake George Battlefield Park on May 22, 2026.

05/14/2026

Archaeologist Steve Anderson will tell the backstory of the Hudson Bay Company’s progress across North America and of Fort Nisqually in Washington State.

05/09/2026

05/09/2026

Author Mark Twain spent much of his life in Elmira, New York and is buried in the town's Woodlawn Cemetery. Find out about his life and legacy in the Finger Lakes.

05/09/2026

05/08/2026