Jamestown Palisade Found
Sunday August 31, 2003
A news story in the Daily Press reports that a Ciil War palisade wall has been traced at Jamestown.
Fort's footprint found
Heroic Age Issue 6
Sunday August 31, 2003
Volume 6 of the internet journal The Heroic Age is called Connections and
Interconnections: The British Isles and the Continent 400-1000
Policy Support Officer, Winchester
Sunday August 31, 2003
Hampshire County Council is looking for a ALGAO Rural Development Policy Support Officer.
Llandysul
Sunday August 31, 2003
The BBC news is reporting on excavations by the Welsh Development Agency at the Bronze Age site near Llandysul, in an article called Bronze Age farm is discovered
Asst Archaeologist, Winchester
Sunday August 31, 2003
Hampshire County Council's Environmental Department is looking to fill a temporary appointment for an Assistant Archaeologist begining imediately and ending March 2005.
Asst Dir, Ctr for Arch Research: UTexas
Saturday August 30, 2003
University of Texas at San Antonio is looking for an Assistant Director for their Center for Archaeological Research.
Geoarchaeologist: Washington State
Saturday August 30, 2003
Tenure track position in the Department of Anthropology at Washington State University beginning August 2004 (pending budget approval).
Archaeology & Public Education Newsletter
Saturday August 30, 2003
The SAA has just published the latest Archaeology and Public Education contains a news story on the Archeology Film Festival, a high-school program in archaeology in Quebec, and how to ... Read More
Grants to Assist Publication
Saturday August 30, 2003
Mediterranean Archaeological Trust is looking for grant applications to publish results from fieldwork in the Mediterranean world.
Des Moines Science Center
Saturday August 30, 2003
Ongoing discussions about a NASA-funded science center in the city of Des Moines, Iowa raises questions about what kinds of science are important to the city and what kind aren't. ... Read More
Superconductivity Dating
Friday August 29, 2003
According to a news release from the Institute of Physics, Israeli researchers have come up with an interesting new dating technique using superconductivity. Archaeology turns to superconductivity
Ayodhya: Hindustani Times
Friday August 29, 2003
An excerpt from a book by Vinay Lal provides some background to the recent excavations at Ayodhya and some of the controversy. The article is in the Hindustani Times and ... Read More
Excavations at Merv
Thursday August 28, 2003
According to a recent AP article by Bert Herman, called Turkmenistan Ruins at Risk of Crumbling, work at the Seljuk Empire capital has revealed some damage.
18th Dynasty Quarry
Thursday August 28, 2003
During a lecture tour in the US, Supreme Council of Antiquities Zahi Hawass reports on some recent investigations in a quarry apparently used during the 18th dynasty. Graffiti on the ... Read More
Contested Ground
Thursday August 28, 2003
The archaeological site of Ayodhya is once again the target of religious fervor, this time over the report by the Archaeological Survey of India that there might have been a ... Read More
AMNH: Petra
Wednesday August 27, 2003
The American Museum of Natural History will have a special exhibit this fall on the archaeological site of Petra. Here's a public information release, entitled
Petra: Lost City of Stone
James Henry Breasted 1865-1935
Wednesday August 27, 2003
American Egyptologist James Henry Breasted was born on August 27, 1865.
Ethnomathematics
Wednesday August 27, 2003
Interesting article from the Australian Academy of Science comparing western counting methods to non-western, called Ethnomathematics
The Ayodha Issue
Tuesday August 26, 2003
From Rediff, a collection of articles on the recent---no, no, make that continuing---controversy on the presence of a Hindu temple site at the Ayodhya site in northern India. The Ayodhya ... Read More
DNA Interactive: Applications
Tuesday August 26, 2003
From Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory and the DNA Interactive website, Macromedia modules on DNA studies, including investigating the Romanovs and Human Origins studies. These interactive modules step you through the ... Read More
Real Muckraking
Tuesday August 26, 2003
Article in the NYT this week reports on sediment studies in Long Island Sound where researchers planning to compare alluvial deposits for the past 1000 years discovered evidence of that ... Read More
Archaeology
Tuesday August 26, 2003
A workshop is planned at the upcoming 4th international conference on paleoclimatogy meetings on "Paleoclimate Proxy Data for Holocene East Mediterranean and West Asia".
The End of Evolution?
Monday August 25, 2003
An interesting article in the NYT by Nicholas Wade compiles opinions from several researchers on what causes evolutionary changes and why humans don't seem to be behaving that way any ... Read More
A Little Stress is Good for You
Monday August 25, 2003
A new article in ScienCentral describes neuroendrocrinologist Bruce McEwen's research on the health benefits of stress in Good and Bad Stress
NIH Study on Obesity/Osteoporosis and Race
Monday August 25, 2003
An Ameican National Institute of Health study is looking at bone density in American females of various ancestry, trying to figure out what roles culture or nature have at play. ... Read More
Wreck of the Mary Rose
Sunday August 24, 2003
From the Guardian, an article on excavations the Tudor-period shipwreck Mary Rose called Crucial new find in wreck of Mary Rose. More shipwreck and underwater archaeology.
Meadowcroft Rockshelter Update
Sunday August 24, 2003
A summary article on CNN describes the still-ongoing controversy over whether Meadowcroft Rockshelter is pre-clovis or not. The article quotes Rob Bonnichsen and Mark McConnaughy in support. Date of early ... Read More
Helis Found?
Sunday August 24, 2003
A brief article in Novinite reports Totko Stoyanov's excavations at Sveshtari, Bulgaria, which he believes are the ruins of the capital city of Thrace called Helis in
Another Unique Discovery at ... Read More
Pioneer Explorer Routledge Spotlighted
Sunday August 24, 2003
Archaeology magazine's September/October issue has an article by Jo Anne Van Tilburg on Katherine Routledge's 1914 visit to Easter Island. called Spirited Explorer
Extreme Sport
Saturday August 23, 2003
An article in Archaeology magazine on ulama, the descendant game of the ancient game of Maya kings and Aztec warriors, called
Extreme Sport
Solstice at Stonehenge
Saturday August 23, 2003
New article in Archaeology magazine's September/October issue called
Solstice at the Stones is from Eric Powell, describing the pagan movement in the UK.
Classics Faculty: San Francisco State
Friday August 22, 2003
San Francisco State is looking to fill a tenure track position in Classics starting in Fall 2004.
Cloak and Trowel
Friday August 22, 2003
A new article in the September/October issue of Archaeology magazine called
Cloak and Trowel discusses the espionage activities of archaeologist Sylvanus Morley during World War I.
Jews in American Classical Studies
Friday August 22, 2003
Judith Hallett at the University of Maryland is looking to identify Jewish teachers of classics at the college and secondary school level for a roundtable discussion at the upcoming Classical ... Read More
Bronze Age site found in Israel
Thursday August 21, 2003
Archaeological excavations in advance of the new Trans-Israel highway in Israel are being conducted at Ptora, a Bronze Age village, according to this article in Ha'aretz: Bronze Age village uncovered ... Read More
Elgin Marbles Creating a New Stir
Thursday August 21, 2003
According to an article in the BBC News, the Greek government is building a special museum for the Elgin marbles, hoping that the UK will return them in time for ... Read More
Donner Party Site Found?
Thursday August 21, 2003
From the Reno Gazette, a report on preliminary findings concerning a campsite excavated by the University of Nevada at Reno, called Archaeologists might have found Donner camp
NYT: Lice Studies
Wednesday August 20, 2003
Nicholas Wade of the NYT also wrote an article on Stoneking's research this week, called
Why Humans and Their Fur Parted Ways
Lice Genes--Are you sure you want to read this?
Wednesday August 20, 2003
An intriguing article appears in Nature Science Update this week on Mark Stoneking's research into the intersection between African lice and humans called
Lice genes date first human clothes: Garments appeared ... Read More
El Pamillo Hides Zapotec Tomb
Wednesday August 20, 2003
Gary Feinman's excavations in the Valley of Oaxaca have identified a new tomb beneath the foundations of the Zapotec site called El Pamillo. This article, Field Museum archaeologists discover tomb ... Read More
Archaeology Magazine: James Ossuary
Wednesday August 20, 2003
Archaeology Magazine also has some commentary on the James Ossuary, in an online article by Neil Asher Silberman and Yuval Goren:
Faking Biblical History
Final Reports on the James Ossuary
Tuesday August 19, 2003
The Israeli Authority has published their final findings on the so-called "James Ossuary":
Final Reports on the Yehoash Inscription and James Ossuary from the Israeli Antiquities Authority.
Thanks to Mark McConaughy for ... Read More
Digressus
Tuesday August 19, 2003
A fairly new journal on Classical archaeology and history, complete downloadable articles from the University of Birmingham. Issue No. 3 iincludes the proceedings of the "Romanization"? Post-graduate conference held in ... Read More
Quote #191: Foley and Lahr on Sweet Studies
Tuesday August 19, 2003
Robert Foley and Marta Mirazon Lahr provide Archaeology Quote #191, taken (with permission) from their recent article in Evolutionary Anthropology.
Salvaging the Republic
Tuesday August 19, 2003
In 1865, the steamship Republic went down off the coast of Georgia with something on the order of 200,000 gold coins. A couple of weeks ago, the for-profit Odyssey Marine ... Read More
Six Degrees or More?
Tuesday August 19, 2003
Interesting article in Nature discusses how researchers at Columbia University are exploring how connected we are today via email, compared to the original experiment. He argues that Perception and motivation ... Read More
Peer Review System under Review in Britain
Monday August 18, 2003
A new story in the BBC News reports on a new inquiry by the Royal Academy of Science into how the peer review systems works (or rather, doesn't), called
Scientific research ... Read More
Lake Agassiz Blamed for Climate Change
Monday August 18, 2003
Remember how it seemed to be cooler than normal, oh around 8,200 years ago? According to this news story from Paul Recer of the AP, based on a recent article ... Read More
New World Entrada Fueled by Dung?
Monday August 18, 2003
An article in Science News Online based on research by David Rhode of the University of Nevada discusses his hypothesis that migrants into the Americas used dung as a heating ... Read More
Wolfram's Revolution
Monday August 18, 2003
An article in Science News Online titled In Search of a Scientific Revolution discusses the impact Stephen Wolfram's 2002 book called "a New Kind of Science" has had on the ... Read More
Nefertiti of Amarna
Sunday August 17, 2003
Nefertiti is the focus of a Discovery channel special; here's why the lovely queen of Egypt remains an ancient fascination 3,000 years after her death.
Somerford Keynes
Sunday August 17, 2003
From Oxford Archaeology, a "post-excavation" project researching the Iron Age and Roman landscape of the Cotswold Water Park, funded by English Heritage.
Clovis Site in Quebec
Sunday August 17, 2003
An article in the Global Gazette titled Artifacts hailed as major find reports on the relatively recent discovery of a Clovis site in the Lac Mégantic region of Quebec province, ... Read More
Aerial Photographs of Archaeological Sites in Germany
Sunday August 17, 2003
A very painterly-looking collection of photographs of archaeological sites in the Baden-Wurttemburg region of Germany, from Otto Braasch.
Latest About Otzi
Saturday August 16, 2003
A new CNN story from Reuters called Prehistoric iceman put up a fight reports investigation results of the molecular analysis of Otzi, the Bronze Age fellow found frozen up in ... Read More
NYT on the Titanic
Saturday August 16, 2003
Rusticles on the Titanic is an opinion from the New York Times editorial page on the deterioration of the famous shipwreck.
Amesbury Archer
Friday August 15, 2003
From Andrew Fitzpatrick in the BBC News, an article on the guy buried at Stone Henge, known as The Amesbury Archer: The King of Stonehenge?
John Gilbert Hurst [1927-2003]
Friday August 15, 2003
British archaeologist John Gilbert Hurst was born on August 15, 1927.
Humanizing Australopithecines
Friday August 15, 2003
An article from Ohio State's publicity arm describes Clark Spencer Larsen's research into hominid behavior. See the article, called Early Hominids May Have Behaved More "Human" Than We Had Thought
Adi Badri Excavations Report
Thursday August 14, 2003
A story in the Indian Express called Search for lost river throws up 300 AD site in Haryana discusses the results of the Archaeological Survey of India's excavations at Adi ... Read More
Historical Archaeology of the NE US
Thursday August 14, 2003
A call for papers for the October 2003 meetings of the Annual (New Jersey) Highlands Conference.
Megafaunal Extinctions in Australia
Wednesday August 13, 2003
Don't know about this, but a recent article in the New Scientist called
Big Beast Extinction Blamed on Prehistoric Fire Starters suggests that megafaunal extinctions were caused by humans, in Australia ... Read More
Athabaskan Bastards?
Wednesday August 13, 2003
Archaeologist Randy McGuire recalls when he first heard "Them Athabaskan Bastards"; and reader Maria Alvarado-Ladd defends her homies.
Khipu in the NYT
Tuesday August 12, 2003
A new article in the New York Times describes results from Gary Urton's new book on the khipu. The article, called String, and Knot, Theory of Inca Writing, is written ... Read More
Newport's Medieval Ship
Tuesday August 12, 2003
Excavations on the River Usk in South Wales have identified the wreck of a ship dated to 1465. The article in IC Wales is titled Mystery of Newport's mediaeval ship
Edith Hamilton, b. 1867
Tuesday August 12, 2003
Today is the 136th anniversary of the birthday of educator and historian (not to mention myth-maker) Edith Hamilton.
Archaeological Proof of Fruitcake
Monday August 11, 2003
Investigations near Caligula's ancient palace in Rome have led researchers to believe that they have concrete evidence that the Roman emperor was off his rocker. Sounds a little weak to ... Read More
St. Augustine: America's Ancient City
Monday August 11, 2003
A website from the Florida Museum, focused on the European settlement of the city beginning in 1545 (but by no means the only ancient city in Florida).
Warren DeBoer on Experiencing Cahokia Archaeology
Monday August 11, 2003
Archaeology Quote #190 is from Warren DeBoer; taken (with his permission) from an article in Reviews in Anthropology.
Privatizing US National Parks
Monday August 11, 2003
A Macromedia animated comic from Mark Fiore called National Parks illustrates one possible scenario for the privatization of the US National Parks might mean.
Lewis and Clark Editorial
Sunday August 10, 2003
In the New York Times editorial pages this morning was an opinion piece called
The Land of Lewis and Clark. In it, the editors plead Congress to protect what natural resources ... Read More
Possible New Primate Species
Sunday August 10, 2003
According to a recent CNN Story, called Seeking answers to big 'mystery ape', there may be a long-lost cousin of ours wandering around the Democratic Republic of the Congo.
Seahenge to Go on Display
Sunday August 10, 2003
According to an EDP24 news story, the Bronze Age timber circle found in 1999 off the coast of Holme in Norfolk could be opened to the public in 2005.
Sites & Monuments Asst: Gloucestershire
Sunday August 10, 2003
Gloucestershire County Council is looking for a full time Sites and Monuments record assistant, Pay Scale F.
Australasian Society for Historical Archaeology
Sunday August 10, 2003
Society for historical archaeology website contains links to contents of monographs, papers, and the journal Australasian Journal of Historical Archaeology; and complete issues of the AHSA newsletter.
Titanic in Trouble Again
Saturday August 9, 2003
In a peculiar twist of fate, according to an article in the New York Times, the wreck of the Titantic, hidden and believed lost for 70 years in the ... Read More
Prepare for a Viking Raid!
Saturday August 9, 2003
August 9th and 10th are the dates of the latest adventure at Archaeolink, where Celts, Romans, and Vikings plan on battling themselves silly. If you're not a stickler for historical ... Read More
Finds Database Offr, Norfolk
Saturday August 9, 2003
Norfolk Museums and Archaeology Service are looking for a temporary full time finds database officer, for their museum in Gressenhall.
Intl Cong Medieval Studies: St. Oswald
Saturday August 9, 2003
Michelle Ziegler is looking for paper contributions for a session on St. Oswald, King of Northumbria, to celebrate the 1400th anniversary of his birth.
SAA 2004: Trade as a Social Activity
Saturday August 9, 2003
Anna Agbe-Davies and Alexander Bauer of the University of Pennsylvania are looking for potential paper-givers on Rethinking Trade as a Social Activity.
Instructor: University of Akron
Friday August 8, 2003
The University of Akron is looking for a non-tenure track instructor in Classical Studies, to begin January 12, 2004.
SAA 2004: Agency and Culture
Friday August 8, 2003
Ethan Cochrane and Elizabeth de Grummond of the SAA Student Affairs Committee are looking for abstracts from students for a sponsored electronic symposium called "Active, Passive, Interactive: Rethinking Agency and ... Read More
Adjunct Teachers: Montclair State
Friday August 8, 2003
Montclair State University is looking for one or more Adjunct Instructors for a multisection Mythology course beginning the first week in September.
Social Commemoration of Warfare
Thursday August 7, 2003
Volume 35 of
World Archaeology is out; and the topic this issue is the Social Commemoration of Warfare, well worth a peek.
SAA: Digital Access Archaeol Collections
Thursday August 7, 2003
Wendy Giddens Teeter at UCLA's Fowler Museum of Cultural History is putting together a session on digital access to archaeology collections for the 2004 Society for American Archaeology meetings.
Louis S. B. Leakey. b. 1903
Thursday August 7, 2003
Today is the centenary of the birth of paleontologist Louis S. B. Leakey, arguably the father of paleontological research in Africa.
Lecturer: Dalhousie University
Wednesday August 6, 2003
The Classics Department at Dalhousie University is looking for a tenure-track appointment in Roman History and Latin Studies, to begin July 1, 2004.
Adolph Bandelier: b. 1840
Wednesday August 6, 2003
American archaeologist (historian, ethnographer, novelist, pick one) Adolph Bandelier was born this day in 1840.
Did Humans Domesticate Themselves?
Wednesday August 6, 2003
A new article by Helen Leach in
Current Anthropology is worth a peek. Leach argues that we ought to consider human beings as having been domesticated (or domesticating ourselves) as a ... Read More
Them Athabaskan Bastards
Tuesday August 5, 2003
After seeking high and low for the lyrics to the old Archaeology Song sung to the Wabash Cannonball, I finally stumbled on them by accident---in a copy of the newsletter ... Read More
Jacquetta Hawkes, b. 1910
Tuesday August 5, 2003
On this day in 1910 was born British archaeologist Jacquetta Hawkes.
Mark Benecke Forensic Research
Tuesday August 5, 2003
Mark Benecke, world-famous forensic anthropologist, has a hoot of a website, in addition to several papers in German and English.
Ancient Religious Associations i Context
Tuesday August 5, 2003
The University of Pennsylvania Graduate Programs in Ancient History, Art, and Archaeology of the Mediterranean World, Classics, and Religious Studies is holding a graduate student conference in October 2003.
Andean and Tiwanaku Archaeology
Monday August 4, 2003
A new location for this terrific page from Alvaro Higueras on his work and other information on the Andes and Tiwanaku. Newest addition to the page includes several Flash introductions ... Read More
Art from Kennis & Kennis
Monday August 4, 2003
Dutch artists Adrie and Alfons Kennis use the past as a starting point for art. Links to several of their works on exhibition around the world, incluidng their facial reconstructions ... Read More
Several Positions: Odyssey Marine Explorations
Monday August 4, 2003
Odyssey Marine Exploration is looking to fill several positions, including Curatorial Assistant, Archaeological Data Logger, and Archaeological Illustrator. (for-profit)
Field Asst: Nova Scotia Shipwreck
Sunday August 3, 2003
R2 Underwater Consultants is seeking a field assistant for some underwater archaeology off the coast of Nova Scotia, between August 1 and 15 October 2003.
VAST 2003: Virtual Reality & Archaeology
Sunday August 3, 2003
Call for Papers, for the 4th International Symposium on Virtual Reality, ARchaeology, and Intelligent Cultural Heritage, in Brighton UK, November 2003.
Studentship: Scientific Methods, Bradford
Sunday August 3, 2003
University of Bradford's Department of Archaeolgoical Sciences is looking for applicants for a funded MSc in scientific methods, beginning September 2003.
Part-Time Teaching, Univ. Reading
Saturday August 2, 2003
University of Reading is looking for someone to teach a module on Post-Roman and Medieval period for the Certificate of Higher Education in Archaeology.
Historic Environment Record Officer
Saturday August 2, 2003
Worcester City Museum is looking for a Historic Environment Record Officer, located at the Commandery Museum.
Archaeol. Asst, Stoke-on Trent
Saturday August 2, 2003
Stoke-on-Trent Archaeology Service is looking for several archaeological assistants, very quickly; closing date is August 8th.
Asst Archaeologist, Scotland
Saturday August 2, 2003
The West of Scotland Archaeology Service is looking for an assistant archaeologist for a one-year fixed term. Closing date August 18, 2003.