Pigs and the LBK
- Pigs and the Spread of Farming in Europe, Afarensis
- A New Study of Pig DNA Clarifies Farming Pre-History, Kambiz on Anthropology.net
European domestic pigs, descendants of the European wild boar.
Photo Credit: Jeff Veitch, Durham University
Archaeo-Vacations
- Tunisia, more photos on Trans-Ferir, captions in Portuguese
- EEF News, via Tony on Archaeoblog
- To Dig or Not to Dig: Archaeology Vacations, advice from Phil Scott on the AARP website
- La Quemada, Patt Meeples' photo tour of the site ruins near Zacatecas, Mexico
Open Access
- Why open education needs open access, Peter Suber
About.com
- Tentative ID for Chicxulub culprit, Andrew at About.com Geology
- Asterisk/Vercingetorix Palace May Have Been Found, N.S. Gill at About.com Ancient History
- Reader Poll: Why is this skull laughing? , on Damien Hirst's new artwork, from Shelley Esaak at About.com Art History
Anthropology
- Ancestry.com introduces DNA.Ancestry.com, Kambiz on Anthropology.net
- Religious moonshine, an essay on religion from Alun at Clioaudio
Misc
- AIA Lesson Plans
- Radiocarbon Palaeolithic Database Europe v.7 Downloadable db (Windows Access 2000) covering the European Late Pleistocene Isotopic stages 2 +ACY- 3:
New Books
- The War To Rescue "Biblical" Archaeology, Chris O'Brien on Eric Cline's From Eden to Exile
Archaeology Notes
Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), Ethiopia Lucy (Australopithecus afarensis), Ethiopia
Photo Credit: David Einsel / Getty Images
- Tel Rehov Reveals the First Beehives in Ancient Near East, Kambiz on Anthropology.net
- Challenging Previous Theories on the Origins of Urbanization, Kambiz on Anthropology.net
- Towards a definition of the Aurignacian, Tim on Remote Central
- Wessex: Practical Archaeology Course, Wessex Archaeology began their Practical Archaeology Course this week, excavations at Down Farm in Dorset
- Living Angkor Road Project, noelbynature on SEAArch on a new web project on Angkor
- Hadrian at Sargalassos, Archaeology online
- Lucy Stirs Up Quite a Conversation, Kambiz on Anthropology.net
Museums and Exhibitions
- Octagon Earthworks Open House, Brad Lepper on Ohio Archaeology
- Exhibition: Excavating Egypt, at the New Mexico Museum of Art, report by Andie on TourEgypt
Media
- Petra, six minute video tour of the site and city, from Trans-Ferir
- eydimork goes to Petra, a collection of some pretty interesting photos of the site by Emma Oxenby Wohlfart
- Erasing Memory: The Cultural Destruction of Iraq, 28 minute video produced by Suzy Salamy of Deep Dish TV in 2005, on TAC
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