Chickens and Crossing the Pacific

• Kon Tiki Fried Chicken?, Eric Powell on Archaeology magazine
• Nobody but us chickens, from John Hawks
• Pre-Columbian Polynesians in Chile, from Martin Rundkvist on Aardvarchaeology
• Chickens prove Polynesians crossed the Pacific, from noelbynature on Southeast Asian Archaeology

The Death of Otzi

• What Killed Otzi?, Afarensis
• "Ice man bled to death on glacier", remote central

Archaeology

• Ice Age Ends Smashingly: Did a comet blow up over eastern Canada?, Tim Jones on remote central
• Vandalizing Petroglyphs with Guns, Afarensis
• Evidence From Ancient Graves Raises Questions About Ritual Human Sacrifice Among Hunter Gatherers In Europe, Tim on remote central
• Planning Temples, on drawing plans of Greek temples, from Alun on Clioaudio
• Younger Dryas was a Blast?, Greg Laden
• Shell beads at three corners of the earth, John Hawks on the 80,000 year old site of Grotte des Pigeons, Morocco.
• Caving in to the splendour of Niah on Niah cave, from noelbynature on Southeast Asian Archaeology
• What comes after Post-processualism?, something I've always wanted to know, from Cornelius on Archaeolog
• Please let us tear down our church, an interesting CRM dilemma from Martin on Aardvarchaeology
• Acheulean handaxe at Boxgrove, Tony Baker

Archaeologists

• The Man with the Keys to the Prison, David Bush talks about his excavations at Johnson's Island Civil War POW Camp on the AIA website
• Interview with Mark Lehner, on Egyptology Blog
• William Kendrick Pritchett, RogueClassicism
• Mary Douglas, Richard Fardon
• Great Diagrams in Anthropology: Mary Douglas Edition, Strong on Savage Minds

Anthropology

• Evolution is Everything, an entertaining rant on AK 47s, Microsoft and minestrone, from PZ Myers

Heads

• Skeleton found with ceramic head, a Nazca period burial reported in BoingBoing (of course!)
• Damien Hirst's diamond skull (not a relative of mine, probably) but interesting piece of art and archaeology, in BoingBoing

Around About.com

• The Madagascar Plan, from Jen Rosenberg, 20th century history, on Hitler's little known alternate plan
• An Introduction to Wall Inscriptions, a book review from N.S. Gill, Ancient History
• The Museum, on Art History, Stan Parchin reviews the new ten part television special in the British Museum
• A New Spin on Rome: Panoramic Earth Interactive Maps, from James Martin on Europe for Travelers

Blog Carnivals

• Four Stone Hearth #16, on Testimony of the Spade
• Tangled Bank #81, at Behavioral Ecology Blog
• Gene Genie in Mendel’s Garden at Eye on DNA

Beauty

• Underwater Sculpture, a riff on underwater archaeology, by golly, via BoingBoing

Technology

• Robot Scans Ancient Manuscript in 3-D, examining a 10th century copy of the Iliad, in Wired.