Henry ‘Opukaha’ia (ca. 1792–1818), Native Hawaiian, and Itankusun Wanbli (ca. 1879–1900), Oglala Lakota, lived almost a century apart. Yet the cultural circumstances that led them to leave their homelands and eventually die in Connecticut have striking similarities.  Nicholas Bellantoni, PhD, Emeritus Connecticut State Archaeologist, and Military Veteran at UConn oversaw the archaeological disinterment, forensic identifications, […]

It is well known fact that populations called as the Celts inhabited Central and Western  Europe as far as the British isles. Not many know that Celts made also military excursion toward the classical Mediterranean and shaked the local structures. Archaeologist Pavel Titz will take you to the Apenine peninsula, Balkans and the Asia Minor to look […]