Viking Queens and Ships
- Viking News, from Melissa Snell, on news stories about the recent disinterment of the women from the Oseberg Viking burial and a new Viking boat discovered in the UK.
- What would you do with the body of a Viking queen?, asks John Hawks?
- Oseberg Skeletons Exhumed, Martin on Aardvarchaeology
Archaeology
- Dental Hygiene among Neandertals some 60,000 years ago, from Afarensis
- Mud Bricks, Part 1, Colleen Morgan on Middle Savagery
- 5,800 year old mass graves from Tell Brak, Syria, Kambiz on Anthropology.net
- Misliya Cave - Did Homo sapiens First Evolve In Israel?, Tim Jones on Remote Central
- Art in the eye of the beholder?, Alun on Clioaudio about Creswell Crags
- Aniakchak at AD 1650 - A Koniag Settlement, Brian on Old Dirt, New Thoughts
- Stonehenge trilithons are older than we thought, Tom on Past Thinking
- A presentation of settlement no 7 Magnus Reuterdahl on Testimony of the Spade has been translating the Swedish blog on the 300 BC site of Kalix, Sweden, from the Norrbottens museum
Achilles Tendon and Evolution
- What's the Deal With the Achilles Tendon Anyway?, Afarensis
- The role of the Achilles Tendon on the Origins of Bipedalism & Human Evolution, Kambiz on Anthropology.net
Miscellaneous
- The Branching Bush of Horse Evolution, Laelaps
- Many scientists unhappy about Lucy tour, David Pescovitz on Boing Boing
- HIStory - for men only? , why girls like history, from 64BakerStreet in the Little Red Omnibus
- September 2007 African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
- Expedition Mongolia, an online paleontological field trip from the Royal Tyrell Museum, via afarensis
- Eight Roman Leaders, About's N.S. Gill takes a quick look at eight Romans: Agrippa, Brutus, Camillus, Cincinnatus, Horatius, Marius, Stilicho, and Sulla
- About.com's Women's History guide, Jone Johnson Lewis, has an article on the Assyrian Queen Semiramis
- Shelley Esaak, About.com's guide to Art History, reports on the Rostropovich-Vishnevskaya Collection at Auction
- Switzerland's Cultural Landscape: Prehistoric Lake Dwellers and Stunning Railway Journeys, from James Martin, About.com's Guide to Europe for Visitors
- Indiana Jones IV update, I'm hating this title, if it's true, via Anthony at Archaeoblog. Crystal skulls, my... albatross.
- Pirates Attack Open Access Publishing, Greg Laden
Blog Carnivals
- Four Stone Hearth, at John Hawks
- Tangled Bank #88, at Behavioral Ecology Blog
Interesting Ideas
- Pangaea Day, a TED-sponsored program to collect films of hope from people around the world. The films will be edited into a four-hour film, to be broadcast live on May 10, 2008. They're looking for submissions.
- A Science Cafe in Susanville?, Chris O'Brien on the Sigma Xi concept of cafe conversations about science
- Help Find Steve Fossett with Google Earth, from Google Earth Blog, how to help in the search for the missing adventurer from your desktop computer.
- Linguistics; political language; politeness and passion... , a discussion on the political control of language from Suzette Hagen Elgin on Ozarque
MultiMedia
- The Tomb of Agamemnon , book review by Geoff Manaugh in BldgBlog
- The Lost Pyramids of Caral, 49-minute video from the BBC on the site of Caral, on GoogleVideo
- Daily Photo: Winkler’s Site 26, Eastern Desert, Rock art site in Africa, Andie on TourEgypt
- Behold: High-Quality Flickr Image Search, from the Creative Commons blog, on a search engine that looks for high-quality images on Flickr
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