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The Guam Preservation Trust will hold its first Guam Community Archaeology Day on Friday at the University of Guam, a free ...

Gregson Schachner has been a professor of anthropology at UCLA for more than a decade. His scholarship focuses on ancient farming societies and transformations in leadership and social structure ...