Thy, Denmark
Sunday February 29, 2004
July 3 — August 6, 2004. SUNY-Buffalo. Our research, which focuses on how decentralized societies become states, is set in the later Iron Ages-Early Medieval periods of Denmark, where between ... Read More
Delaware Valley, New Jersey USA
Sunday February 29, 2004
May 17-June 29, 2004. Temple University. The Experimental Archaeology field school will
take place in a variety of outdoor classroom settings in the Delaware Valley including an introduction to experimental archaeology ... Read More
Quote 90: Kaiser on the politics of archaeology in the Balkans
Sunday February 29, 2004
Quote 90 is from an article by archaeologist Timothy Kaiser from his chapter "Archaeology and ideology in southeast Europe" in Nationalism, Politics, and Archaeology, published in 1994 by Cambridge University ... Read More
Top Picks: Books on Central American Archaeology
Sunday February 29, 2004
Several recent books on the history and prehistory of Central America make it clear that exciting things are happening in Mesoamerican archaeology.
Quote 89: Jackson on why there's always been a lottery
Saturday February 28, 2004
Another literary quote can be found as Quote 89, this time from the short story called "The Lottery" written by Shirley Jackson in 1948 and familiar to every high school ... Read More
Cobble Circles and Standing Stones: A Review
Saturday February 28, 2004
Jeffrey Quilter's latest book, Cobble Circles and Standing Stones, is a wonderful introduction to the science of archaeology, and to Central American prehistory.
Quote 142: Gabaccia on the immigrant paradigm
Friday February 27, 2004
Quote 142 comes from historian Donna Gabaccia's 1999 article in the Journal of American History, "Is everywhere nowhere? Nomads, nations, and the immigrant paradigm of United States history."
Kentucky Resources
Friday February 27, 2004
Recently updated with new site information.
Camp Grafton, North Dakota USA
Thursday February 26, 2004
June 1 - July 9, 2004. University of North Dakota. Archeological sites located within two National Guard training areas in eastern North Dakota; (1) block excavations at prehistoric archeological site ... Read More
Quote 40: Fagan on Owning the Past
Thursday February 26, 2004
Quote 40 was taken from Brian Fagan's introduction to the encyclopedic Oxford Companion to Archaeology
Invasion of the Kennewick Men
Thursday February 26, 2004
From Tech Central Station (of all places), an article about the repercussions of the Kennewick Man case: Invasion of the Kennewick Men
Quote 159: T.S. Eliot on history's cunning passages
Wednesday February 25, 2004
From T.S. Eliot's 1920 poem called Gerontion, comes Quote 159, on whispering ambitions of the past.
Kansas Resources - Archaeology
Tuesday February 24, 2004
Newly embellished and updated, archaeological resources for the state of Kansas, in the midwestern part of the United States. From the World Atlas of Archaeology on the Web.
Quote 115: Hallett Carr on history's dialogue
Tuesday February 24, 2004
Archaeology Quote #115 is from historian Edward Hallet Carr's 1961 book, What Is History?
Looting Akhmim
Monday February 23, 2004
Article in the NYT talks about the wholesale looting of the Akhmim site in Egypt
Loot | Along the Antiquities Trail: An Illicit Journey Out of Egypt, Only a Few Questions ... Read More
Quote 156: Bahn bluffs his way in archaeology
Monday February 23, 2004
Quote 156 is from archaeologist Paul Bahn, from his hilarious 1989 book "Bluff your way in archaeology."
The Ice Free Corridor Revisited
Monday February 23, 2004
An article in Geotimes discussing the unlikeliness of the Ice Free Corridor being a thoroughfare for people entering the North American continent during the late Pleistocene.
For an update on ... Read More
Caenan and Paul Sites (Kansas USA)
Sunday February 22, 2004
June 7-July 2, 2004. Kansas State University. Both sites, located adjacent to each other in Stranger Creek valley about 20 miles northeast of Lawrence, have yielded evidence of occupation during ... Read More
Quote 181: Davies on archaeologists and domestic architecture
Sunday February 22, 2004
Quote 181 is from novelist Robertson Davies, who in 1991 wrote a very peculiar murder mystery called Murther and Walking Spirits.
Quote 15: Adams on the importance of subsistence
Sunday February 22, 2004
An archaeology quote from Douglas Adams' classic Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, on the historical importance of a good diet.
Crete in Pictures
Sunday February 22, 2004
A collection of very nice photographs of archaeological ruins on the island of Crete, from Ian Swindale.
Quote 41: Howard Carter on the Good Old Days
Saturday February 21, 2004
This quote comes from the quintessential Egyptologist Howard Carter, who in 1920 discovered Tutenkhamen's tomb; from a technical report on the boy king's tomb.
Quote 127: Darwin on Useful Observations
Friday February 20, 2004
This quote was taken from an 1861 letter from Charles Darwin to Harry Fawcett; and it shows how the (r)evolutionary scholar contemplated his findings
Quote 37: Paul Bahn on Paleolithic Art
Thursday February 19, 2004
Quote 37 is from archaeologist Paul G. Bahn from his 1995/1996 article in Evolutionary Anthropology called "New developments in Pleistocene art."
Quote 87: Lord Acton on what makes a country truly free.
Wednesday February 18, 2004
Quote 87 is from John E. E. Dalberg, Lord Acton, in his adress to the Members of the Bridgnorth Institute, Frebruary 26, 1877.entitled The History of Freedom in Antiquity.
A Plea to Save Peruvian Rock Art
Tuesday February 17, 2004
Melissa Massat, a Peace Corps volunteer and student of the world, expresses her dismay at the destruction of one of Peru's national treasures, resulting from the conflicting demands of development ... Read More
St. Leonard's Hospital (York, UK)
Tuesday February 17, 2004
14 June-5 September 2004. Informal but intensive excavation and finds training, designed for beginners upwards. The fourth and final season will concentrate on the defences of the Roman legionary fortress ... Read More
Maiolica from Northern New Spain
Tuesday February 17, 2004
From the prolific Anita Cohen-Williams and Jack S. Williams, a website from Center for Spanish Colonial Research including a paper on maiolica from northern New Spain. Can't we just call ... Read More
Catlin in the Classroom
Monday February 16, 2004
Artist George Catlin wandered a lot of the North American continent in the 1830s, visiting with the residents and painting and writing about the cultures he found there. This site ... Read More
Quote 176: Tarlow on negotiating between a rock and a whirlpool
Monday February 16, 2004
From Tarlow's 2000 article in Current Anthropology called Emotion in Archaeology.
Science Fair Projects E-Course
Sunday February 15, 2004
From Nick Greene, your guide to Space and Astronomy, a new e-mail course on developing science fair projects:
Great Science Fair Projects
Cemetery Found at Oxford Castle
Sunday February 15, 2004
This USA Today story reports on excavations at Oxford Castle of executed criminals in the 16th through 18th centuries. Oxford scientists make grim discovery
The whole story can be found in ... Read More
Quote 36: Maurizio on the Oracle at Delphi
Friday February 13, 2004
A quote on how to keep the mystery while not losing the science on the Oracle at Delphi, from Lisa Maurizio's 1997 article in Classical Antiquity, Delphic Oracles As Oral ... Read More
Quote 64: Beck Kehoe on Tolerance for Ambiguity
Thursday February 12, 2004
A quote concerning a most crucial tool in an archaeologist's kit; from Alice Beck Kehoe's 1998 book The Land of Prehistory.
Quote 35: Woolley on the effects of CRM
Wednesday February 11, 2004
Leonard Woolley, excavator of Ur and knighted by the Queen of England, peers into the future and comments on the effects of the Cultural Resourcement Management movement.
Woolley on the effects of business
Tuesday February 10, 2004
From Woolley's 1963 classic "Excavations at Ur: A record of 12 years' work".
BBC's Battlefield Sites
Monday February 9, 2004
For the BBC, military archaeologists Neil Oliver and Tony Pollard describe how archaeologists investigate a military battlefield, using Flodden and Culloden as examples. Some discussion of the work at Little ... Read More
Quote 80: Singer on the Thread Holding Us Together
Monday February 9, 2004
From an interview with the neuroscientist now the president of the Carnegie Institution, Maxine F. Singer.
Kennewick Man Case
Sunday February 8, 2004
Judge Gould's opinion is that Kennewick Man is not Native American and therefore the remains are not subject to NAGPRA:
Friends of America's Past: The Kennewick Man Case: Government's Shell ... Read More
Calvin on why he'll not choose to be an archaeologist
Sunday February 8, 2004
Bill Watterson's comic brat, Calvin, comments on the science of archaeology in a strip from 1988.
Talbott on the iceman
Saturday February 7, 2004
A 1997 entry to the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest (for terrible sentences)
David Hurst-Thomas on the meaning of discovery
Friday February 6, 2004
From Hurst-Thomas' 1989 book, Archaeology.
Sellar and Yeatman on what history is
Thursday February 5, 2004
From the preface to their 1930 book, 1066 and All That
Quote 194: Chris Ballard Holding Out Against Closure
Wednesday February 4, 2004
Chris Ballard, of Australian National University, comments on using narratives in archaeological explanations, and the pioneering work of Jack Golson, in Ballard's 2003 article in Archaeology in Oceania.
Saving Cambodia's Treasures
Tuesday February 3, 2004
NYT article by Alan Riding on the efforts to preserve the ancient archaeological sites of Angkor Wat and other temples:
Saving Cambodia%u2019s Treasures
Quote 193: Charan on Digging Up Holy Places
Tuesday February 3, 2004
In a 2004 article in History Today, writer Anubha Charan discusses the logic of destroying a building to right something that might have occurred half a millennium ago.
Top 5 Destinations: Megalithic Sites
Monday February 2, 2004
As destinations go, megalithic sites are among the most ancient and mysterious places to visit. Places like Stonehenge and the temples at Malta are so ancient that we have no ... Read More
Keith Bassett on the new media
Monday February 2, 2004
From his 1996 article in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space entitled "Postmodernism and the crisis of the intellectual."
Guatemala Resources
Sunday February 1, 2004
Newly updated, a list of archaeological sites and investigations in Guatemala from the World Atlas of Archaeology.
Laurence Flanagan on the rationality of our forebears.
Sunday February 1, 2004
From his 1998 book, Ancient Ireland: Life Before the Celts.