Dug to Death: A Review
Wednesday March 31, 2004
Adrian Praetzellis's new book Dug to Death is a yakkety little murder mystery written with a deep affection for some of the myriad ways that things can go horribly awry--and, ... Read More
The Kingdom of Aksum
Tuesday March 30, 2004
The Kingdom of Aksum (first through sixth centuries AD) was one of the most powerful kingdoms in sub-Saharan Africa, connecting the Roman empire and the rest of the world in ... Read More
National NAGPRA
Monday March 29, 2004
From the US National Park Service, a long-needed resource guide to the Native American Graves and Repatriation Act, with information tailored to the Native American community, museums, agencies, the public, ... Read More
Quote 29: Bird-David on Hunter-Gatherers
Sunday March 28, 2004
From a 1992 article on the Nayaka in Man, Nurit Bird-David makes some critical observations on trying to push people into cute little boxes.
Archaeologist Makes Good
Saturday March 27, 2004
Not every archaeologist can claim to have a film at Sundance. In the film credits to Patricia Cardoso's film Real Women Have Curves, she says she left archaeology because she ... Read More
Journal of African Archaeology
Friday March 26, 2004
New journal (beginning 2002) from the J.-W. Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany on pan-African topics with high quality illustration.
Quote 67: Berger on the Effects of Postmodernism
Thursday March 25, 2004
An archaeology-related quote from writer John Berger's 1991 book "Keeping a Rendezvous", if you believe post-modernism is related to archaeology, and god knows I do!
Before You Go: Antietam Battlefield
Wednesday March 24, 2004
The turning point of the American Civil War was the bloodbath of Antietam. There were 23,000 casualties; and the impact of such a toll on the American president was to ... Read More
European Lemba Lithic Field School (Cyprus)
Tuesday March 23, 2004
26 July - 4 August 2004. University of Edinburgh. The substantial assemblage of chipped stone belonging to the Cypriot Aceramic Neolithic site of Mari-Mesovouni provides the basis for direct contact ... Read More
Quote 46: Bettinger on the Cost of Doing Business
Monday March 22, 2004
From a 1998 SAA paper on the visibility of crackpots of archaeology, Robert L. Bettinger makes a pithy comment on why we continue to deal with them
Delaware Town (Missouri, USA)
Sunday March 21, 2004
June 7 - July 16, 2004. Southwest Missouri State University. The third season at 23CN1, the first archaeological site recorded for Christian County, and the possible location of Chief Anderson’s ... Read More
Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage
Saturday March 20, 2004
A story on the effects of the war on the cultural resources of Afghanistan, from the AIA:
AIA News - The Impact of War upon Afghanistan's Cultural Heritage
The Passion of the Christ: An Archaeological Critique
Friday March 19, 2004
From AIA news, and archaeologists Andrea Berlin and Jodi Magness, a review of the controversial Mel Gibson movie:
AIA News - Movie Commentary: Two Archaeologists Comment on The Passion of ... Read More
Iklaina (Greece)
Thursday March 18, 2004
May 31 to June 18, 2004. Iklaina Archaeological Project, University of Missouri-St. Louis. Survey, GPS/GIS, geophysics; investigate the major area around Iklaina, one of the district capitals of the ancient ... Read More
Berry Site Field School (North Carolina, USA)
Thursday March 18, 2004
June 21-July 16, 2004. Warren Wilson College. In 1566, Juan Pardo left the Spanish town of St. Elena on the South Carolina coast and traveled into North Carolina in ... Read More
Top Picks: Books on South American Archaeology
Wednesday March 17, 2004
There are lots of books on South American archaeology which have been published in the last few years; here's a sample.
Destination: Culloden Battlefield, Scotland
Wednesday March 17, 2004
April 16th, 1746; 3 miles southeast of Inverness, Scotland. The Jacobites, led by Bonnie Prince Charlie, are finally defeated on the bloody battlefield, number 4 on our all-time greatest battlefields: ... Read More
Moche Portraits: A Book Review
Tuesday March 16, 2004
Christopher Donnan's new book, Moche Portraits from Ancient Peru, gives a great introduction and insight into this most personal of prehistoric ceramic art.
Olloy-sur-Viroin (Belgium)
Monday March 15, 2004
July, 2004. ArcheoStage. Excavations at a late Bronze Age fort near Viroinval, Belgium. Three sessions.
Sunday March 14, 2004
For the past thirty years, ArcheoStage has been conducting field-work training sessions for teenagers and college students. Attached to the Free University of Brussels, they conduct field excavations at historic ... Read More
Quote 185: Baudelaire on the pleasure we derive
Thursday March 11, 2004
This archaeological quote is from 19th century French writer Charles Baudelaire, describing the pleasure we derive from viewing the past.
Quote 25: Bassett on the new intellectual
Wednesday March 10, 2004
An archaeology-related quote from a 1996 article by geographer/economist Keith Bassett in Environment and Planning D: Society and Space, entitled Postmodernism and the crisis of the intellectual.
Destination: Little Bighorn Battlefield
Wednesday March 10, 2004
The first intensive battlefield archaeology studies were conducted between 1985 and 1989, by Richard Allan Fox, Douglas Scott and Melissa Connor who investigated the dry hills of southeastern Montana for ... Read More
Early Seafaring NW Americas
Tuesday March 9, 2004
The BBC has a report on Mark Raab and Knut Fladmark's recent research, originally reported in American Antiquity:
BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Seafaring clue to first Americans
Top 5 Battlefield Sites
Tuesday March 9, 2004
Battlefield archaeology is a relatively American phenomenon: but there are some pretty interesting battlefield sites to visit around the world. Here is a short selection of the best.
Quote 34: Ballard on the suburb of the soul
Tuesday March 9, 2004
From an interview with science fiction writer and visionary J. G. Ballard, a quote on just how pessimistic he had become by 1982.
Quote 122: Austen on history
Monday March 8, 2004
From one of Jane Austen's masterpieces, 1803's Northanger Abbey, comes a quote on the past from little miss Catherine Morland.
Quote 119: Arioti and Oxby on predation and production
Sunday March 7, 2004
From their 1999 article in Nomadic Peoples, "From hunter-fisher-gathering to herder-hunter-fisher-gathering in prehistoric times (Saharo-Sudanese region)," a quote on the reality of hunting and gathering from Maria Arioti and Clare ... Read More
Quote 129: Butler on letting the past go
Saturday March 6, 2004
From Octavia Butler's 1998 book Parable of the Talents, comes a quote from her book within a book, Earthseed: The Book of the Living, by Lauren Oya Olamina.
Quote 4: Max Mallowan on Older Wives
Friday March 5, 2004
A quote from archaeologist Max Mallowan, widely attributed to his mystery novelist wife Agatha Christie, is on of our favorite archaeology-related quotes.
Quote 109: Sinclair Lewis on Authenticity
Thursday March 4, 2004
From Sinclair Lewis' 1924 classic novel Arrowsmith, comes this not-so-archaeology-related quote about how to tell a real scientist.
Scotland Resources
Wednesday March 3, 2004
From the World Atlas of Archaeology on the web, Scotland resources, newly updated.
Excavations at Malloura, Cyprus
Wednesday March 3, 2004
June 4 to July 25, 2004. Davidson College Athienou Archaeological Project. The Project involves excavation at the site of Malloura (occupied from the Archaic through Ottoman periods - 7th century ... Read More
Quote 173: Lekson on influential mythologies
Wednesday March 3, 2004
In his 1999 book entitled The Chaco Meridian: Centers of Power in the Ancient Southwest, Stephen Lekson quotes what he considers the most influential archaeologists of our time: Indiana Jones. ... Read More
Royal Treasures of Mesopotamia
Tuesday March 2, 2004
Leonard Woolley excavated Ur (also known as Tell al-Muqqayar) in the early decades of the 20th century. His fabulous collection is soon to be on display at the University of ... Read More
Quote 56: Harke and Arnold on political influences in archaeology
Tuesday March 2, 2004
The two quotations that make up Archaeology Quote 56 come from an article in Current Anthropology by Heinrich Harke, and the response to that article by Bettina Arnold, disputing the ... Read More
Quote 3: W.R. Inge on being an historian
Monday March 1, 2004
Quote 3 is a 1929 quote from the then-dean of St. Paul's, William Ralph Inge, on why being an historian is such a great job.