ARENA
Tuesday November 30, 2004
Another wonderful resource from the Archaeological Data Service, ARENA includes an abundance of information and original documents of sites all over Europe. In several languages, and with maybe a ... Read More
China Before China
Monday November 29, 2004
The book China before China describes the history of the archaeological investigations of Swedish geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang, intellectual and scholar of the newly established Chinese republic ... Read More
Estopadas Arqueo(b)logicas
Sunday November 28, 2004
From long-time news collector Pedro Barros, an archaeology news blog; in Portuguese.
Archaeology Glossary: R Terms
Saturday November 27, 2004
The first of the R terms includes: Ras Hafun, Ras Mkumbuu, Ranking and social inequality, David Randall-MacIver, Johan Georg Ramsauer, the Ramasseum, Ramapithecus, Zdzislaw Rajewski, al Rafiqa, Radiocarbon dating, A. ... Read More
Ancient Conqueror, Modern Devotees
Friday November 26, 2004
In what sounds like a post-modernist critique, Emily Eakin in the NYT points out that what we might learn from the Alexander the Great movie has more to do with ... Read More
Toulouse in Paperback
Friday November 26, 2004
Just heard you can get a copy of the classic "Bottle Makers and their Marks" by Julian Toulouse for $70US at Blackburn Press, which is a steal: .
Bottle Makers and ... Read More
Kandahar of the Arab Conquest
Friday November 26, 2004
From a special issue of World Archaeology on Islamic Archaeology published in 1983, an article on the Islamic site of Qandahar from S. W. Helms, on the Khyber website.
Sakkara Pyramid Texts
Thursday November 25, 2004
Samuel Mercer's translation of the pyramid texts at Sakkara dated 1952 and entirely on the web, which may or may not be an infringement of Mercer's copyrights depending on what ... Read More
Pylos Regional Archaeological Project
Wednesday November 24, 2004
The internet edition of the work of the joint American-British-Greek-German project provides a wealth of information on their investigations into the history of the area in Greece centered on the ... Read More
Archaeology Books Designed for Children
Tuesday November 23, 2004
While there are not many books for children on archaeology or archaeological topics, some very excellent samples are available.
New P and Q Terms
Monday November 22, 2004
This weekend, it's the end of the P terms (Pylos, Pyramid Texts, Pyramids) and all of the Q terms (for the moment, anyway: Qandahar, Qinglian'gang Culture, Quimbaya culture, Quebrada de ... Read More
Alexander the Great
Sunday November 21, 2004
This Thanksgiving, Oliver Stone's new biopic, Alexander the Great, finally arrives in movie theatres. Alexander was the Macedonian fellow who set out and conquered pretty much all of the ... Read More
Movies and Cinematic Explorations of Archaeology
Saturday November 20, 2004
Any archaeological fan of movies today knows about the Indiana Jones films; but for the true afficionado, that's only the beginning of a slew of great (and not so great) ... Read More
Biographies of Archaeologists and Related Scientists
Saturday November 20, 2004
Archaeologists do live interesting lives, at least some of us. Here's a collection of recent biographies to sink your teeth into; and some other historically interesting titles.
New Tests for Tutenkhamen
Friday November 19, 2004
BBC News is reporting on some work to be done on the boy king's mummy by the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo:
Tests may end Tutankhamun mystery
Books on Ancient Civilizations
Friday November 19, 2004
If you're looking for some interesting in-depth books on the ancient cultures of the world, whether the Greeks, Romans, Maya, Inca, Indus Valley, or other cultures really fascinate you, here's ... Read More
Topper Site Dates!!!!
Thursday November 18, 2004
CNN is reporting that the preClovis site excavated by Albert Goodyear in South Carolina called Topper has finally gotten radiocarbon dates back: and they're reported to be 50,000 years old. ... Read More
Graveyard of the Pacific
Thursday November 18, 2004
This website, subtitled The Shipwrecks of Vancouver Island, is produced by the Virtual Museum of Canada, and includes pictures and information on the various wrecks along the British Columbia coast. ... Read More
For that Roman Complexion
Wednesday November 17, 2004
Story in Nature News reports on the chemical components of a Roman cosmetic:
Recreating a 2,000-year-old Cosmetic
Photo Essay: Restoration at Kiva F
Tuesday November 16, 2004
During the Summer of 2004, architectural conservator Marc LeFrançois oversaw the restoration of the building known as Kiva F at Gran Quivira, the ancient ruins of a pueblo city in ... Read More
Site Stabilization at Gran Quivira
Tuesday November 16, 2004
Conservators of archaeological sites open to the public must maintain a balance between the physical integrity of the ruined buildings, keeping them robust enough to withstand traffic and weather, maintaining ... Read More
Archaeological Remote Sensing
Monday November 15, 2004
From Kenneth Kvamme at the University of Arkansas, a page on remote sensing projects the Archeo-Imaging Lab has conducted.
Archaeology Glossary: P Terms
Sunday November 14, 2004
Getting close to the end of the P's; aren't you excited? Pu'u Ali'i, Frederic Ward Putnam, Punuk Culture, Pueblo Culture, Pucara Culture, the Ptolemies, Ptolemy, Pseudo-archaeology, Przeworsk Culture, Przeczyce, James ... Read More
Caribbean Amerindian Centrelink
Saturday November 13, 2004
A wealth of information about the Native American communities of the Caribbean Islands, including history and current and past archaeological excavations.
Blinded by Science
Friday November 12, 2004
A long thoughtful essay by Chris Mooney in the Coumbia Journalism Review on how journalists chuck out the baby with the bathwater by providing so-called 'balanced' articles on science: On ... Read More
Wadi Hammeh 27
Friday November 12, 2004
Brief news report in the New Scientists on recent excavations at Wadi Hammeh 27
Article: Garbage betrays date of earliest village life | New Scientist
Digital Archaeology
Thursday November 11, 2004
The German visual computer firm Digital Archaeology, led by archaeologist Dietrich Rothacher, is working on some wonderfully vivid 3-dimensional representations of places in the past.
CAARI
Wednesday November 10, 2004
The Cyprus American Archaeological Research Institute is a research institute on archaeological work in Cyprus, and the site is a clearing house for information on the various studies.
Flores a New Step on the Ladder
Tuesday November 9, 2004
Nicholas Wade writing in the NYT highlights the problems paleoanthropologists are having in fitting the Little Lady of Flores into previously understood evolutionary schemes:
Miniature People Add Extra Pieces to Evolutionary ... Read More
African Burial Ground
Tuesday November 9, 2004
A very pretty website from the New York Public Library on the African Burial Ground found in New York City some years ago. Several photos, good text, in a nifty ... Read More
Visit Glen Canyon Now
Monday November 8, 2004
Edward Abbey's the Monkey Wrench Gang was about a plan to blow up the Glen Canyon Dam. Not that that's what anybody's done, but drought conditions in Colorado severely dropping ... Read More
Lost Trails
Monday November 8, 2004
The Lost Trails site has a number of really excellent photographs of archaeological sites and places to go visit, sort of a visual art workshop. The artists (photographers, musicians, painters) ... Read More
Investigations at the USS Arizona
Sunday November 7, 2004
This fall, the US National Park Service will conduct an investigation of the wreck of the American battleship sunk during the attack on Pearl Harbor, Hawaii in December of 1941.
University of Barcelona
Saturday November 6, 2004
The University of Barcelona's Department of Prehistory, Ancient History and Archaeology has a large varied staff with interests in Classical Archaeology, Late Antiquity, Egyptology, Ancient History of Late Antiquity, ... Read More
Romancing the Maya: Book Review
Friday November 5, 2004
Romancing the Maya is about ownership of the past, and an intriguing book and I think a rather important one, for all of us who think about the past and ... Read More
Rock Art Sites Endangered
Thursday November 4, 2004
Albuquerque voters on Tuesday easily approved a $52.5 million road bond package that includes the controversial Paseo del Norte extension. Unofficial results showed roughly 60 percent of the voters supported ... Read More
Place of Rings: Poverty Point
Thursday November 4, 2004
Jon L. Gibson's recent book on the archaic period earthwork called Poverty Point reads a bit like a memoir--not a memoir for Gibson, who has studied Poverty Point for nearly ... Read More
Chronological Methods
Wednesday November 3, 2004
This piece of courseware is from George Michaels and Brian Fagan at UC Santa Barbara, and it's a wonderful primer on various dating methods in archaeology, complete with notes, movies, ... Read More
Election Day
Tuesday November 2, 2004
If you hold an American citizenship, act like it today and vote. Who I'm going to vote for doesn't matter--who we do does. Together we need to decide how the ... Read More
Archaeology Glossary: P Terms
Monday November 1, 2004
Poverty Point, Pottery, Potassium-Argon dating, Post-modernism, post-processual archaeology, processual archaeology, Pontnewydd Cave, Pont du Gard, Pompeii, Polybius, Karl Polanyi, Pohanska, Pliny the Elder, Plimouth Plantation, Pleistocene epoch, Plato, Plantation archaeology, ... Read More