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.
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