Bercy (France)
Saturday April 30, 2005
The archaeological site of Bercy is an Early Neolithic settlement (4500-2000 BC) located on the Seine River within the city limits of Paris, France.
Click on through to read more ... Read More
Berbers
Saturday April 30, 2005
The Berbers are the name of a modern ethnic group in north Africa and Europe, with a deep history going back to the 3rd century BC.
The 1996 book on ... Read More
William Stukeley [1687-1765]
Saturday April 30, 2005
British doctor and clergyman William Stukeley is most frequently associated with Stonehenge, because he was the first to consider the structure as potentially aligned with the solstice.
Stuart Struever [b. 1931]
Saturday April 30, 2005
American archaeologist Stuart Struever is undoubtedly best known for his investigations at the Koster site.
More information on Struever is available on the main glossary entry.
Structuralism
Friday April 29, 2005
Structuralism, which started out as a theory of language, ended up impacting most of the social and historical scieces including archaeology during the latter half of the twentieth century.
Bent Pyramid (Egypt)
Friday April 29, 2005
The Bent Pyramid is one of the Old Kingdom Pyramids at Giza, Egypt; built in the 4th Dynasty, 2680-2565 B.C. by that wizard of architects, Imhotep. What was I thinking???
Read ... Read More
Benin (Nigeria)
Friday April 29, 2005
The modern city of Benin is named after the kingdom in what is now Nigeria.
Bell Beaker Culture
Friday April 29, 2005
The culture known as Bell Beaker is the largest portion of the loosely grouped Beaker Folk, named for a very particular type of ceramic vessel, shaped like an upside-down bell.
Belkachi Culture
Thursday April 28, 2005
The Belkachi culture is the named given to a Middle Neolithic culture in the northern Baikal region of Siberia, between 5000-3900 years before the present.
William Duncan Strong [1899-1962]
Thursday April 28, 2005
Pioneer American archaeologist William Duncan Strong was educated at the University of California at Berkeley and was, for most of his career, associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology at ... Read More
David Stronach
Thursday April 28, 2005
British archaeologist David Stronach is recognized as a pioneer of archaeology in Iran.
Christopher B. Stringer [b. 1947]
Thursday April 28, 2005
British paleoanthropologist Chris Stringer has taken a leading role in many of the earliest human origins debates.
Stratigraphy
Wednesday April 27, 2005
In archaeology, the study of stratigraphy involves looking at the geological and archaeological layers that make up an archaeological deposit to better understand the processes that created the site.
Harris Matrix
Wednesday April 27, 2005
The Harris Matrix is a tool developed by British archaeologist Edward Cecil Harris in 1973 to assist in the examination and interpretation of the stratigraphy of archaeological sites.
Stonehenge (United Kingdom)
Wednesday April 27, 2005
Stonehenge is a megalithic rock monument of 150 enormous stones set in a purposeful circular pattern, located on the Salisbury Plain of southern England, the main portion of it built ... Read More
Denisova Cave (Siberia)
Wednesday April 27, 2005
The archaeological site of Denisova Cave is located on the Anui River, in the Altai region of Siberia and cut into the face of a steep limestone cliff.
Paolo Orsi [1859-1935]
Tuesday April 26, 2005
Italian archaeologist Paolo Orsi was director of the Museum of Sicily in Syracuse for thirty years.
Beaker Folk
Tuesday April 26, 2005
The Beaker folk is the name given to a cultural group widespread throughout western Europe, from the Late Neolithic to Early Bronze age (4000-2000 BC).
Basketmaker Culture
Tuesday April 26, 2005
The Basketmaker culture is the name archaeologists have given to a southwestern United States cultural group, ancestral to the Anasazi.
Battlefield Archaeology
Tuesday April 26, 2005
Battlefield archaeology is the archaeological investigations of the sites of military battles.
Archaeology Quiz: The Rosetta Stone
Tuesday April 26, 2005
What do you know about the Rosetta Stone? Here's how to find out...
Hominin
Tuesday April 26, 2005
Over the last few years, the word ‘hominin’ has crept into the public news stories about our human ancestors. This is not a misspelling for hominid; this reflects an evolutionary ... Read More
Be'er Sheva (Israel)
Monday April 25, 2005
Be'er Sheva is a modern town in the Negev Desert of Israel, and also the name of a Chalcolithic settlement dated to the 4th millennium BC.
To learn more details of ... Read More
Bat Cave (US)
Monday April 25, 2005
Bat Cave is an archaeological site consisting of a complex of rockshelters in New Mexico, in the American southwest, with early evidence for maize agriculture.
Bashidang (China)
Monday April 25, 2005
Bashidang is an early walled settlement belonging to the Pengtoushan culture, dated between 5540 and 5100 BC near Wufu village in the Yangtse River basin, Hunan province in China.
Barrow
Monday April 25, 2005
A barrow is the archaeological term for a specific type of burial mound belonging to the Neolithic period structures in western Europe.
Behistun Inscription
Sunday April 24, 2005
The Behistun inscription is a "rosetta stone" for Old Persian, Elamite, and Akkadian language.
Beixin Culture
Sunday April 24, 2005
A precursor to Dawenkou Culture, the Beixin Culture has recently re-dated between 4300-4100 BC
Henge or Stone Circle
Sunday April 24, 2005
A henge is the term given to a large prehistoric earthwork, usually but not always circular, whether of stones, wood, or earth.
Stone Age
Sunday April 24, 2005
The Stone Age is the name first given by Danish museum director Christian Jurgensen Thomsen to the earliest period of artifacts in his museum (the others were Bronze and Iron ... Read More
Public Outreach and Students
Sunday April 24, 2005
A letter in Nature from Pablo Jensen of CNRS in France, discussing the participation of scientists in public outreach:
Who's helping to bring science to the people? : Nature
Imhotep
Saturday April 23, 2005
The architect, vizier, wizard, doctor, and scribe named Imhotep is a most maligned and mysterious figure of Egypt's Old Kingdom, and one of the few non-royal people known from the ... Read More
Julian Haynes Steward [1902-1972]
Saturday April 23, 2005
American anthropologist Julian Steward was a leader of the cultural ecology movement, who actively incorporated ecology and archaeology into his theories.
Vincas P. Steponaitis
Saturday April 23, 2005
American archaeologist Vincas Steponaitis is probably best known for his work on settlement patterns and site catchment analysis
John Lloyd Stephens [1805-1852]
Saturday April 23, 2005
American adventurer and author John Lloyd Stephens led a varied life, and is perhaps best known to archaeology for his travel to the exotic places of the world and his ... Read More
Los Adaes, Louisiana
Saturday April 23, 2005
The 18th century Spanish outpost of Los Adaes was located five miles west of Natchitoches, Louisiana, and is being investigated by the Louisiana Division of Archaeology. The site is in ... Read More
Julie K. Stein
Friday April 22, 2005
American archaeologist Julie K. Stein is probably best known for her active embrace of the modern brand of empirical geological theory as a basic underpinning of archaeology.
Matthew W. Stirling [1896-1975]
Friday April 22, 2005
American archaeologist Matthew W. Stirling was associated with the Bureau of American Ethnology at the Smithsonian Institution pretty much his entire professional career.
Report on Section 106 Debate
Friday April 22, 2005
Testimony summary from April 21 on the proposed changes to Section 106. Sounds like the committee is spinning the changes to be a property rights issue:
Unintended Consquences of National ... Read More
John F.G. Stokes
Friday April 22, 2005
John Stokes was an American photographer, genealogist and archaeologist at the Bishop Museum in Hawai'i between 1899 and the mid-1920s.
Sterkfontein (South Africa)
Friday April 22, 2005
The ancient early man site of Sterkfontein is a cave in a dolomite hill of the Blaaubank River Valley, about 10 kilometers northwest of Krugersdorp, South Africa.
Underwater Field School, Florida Keys
Friday April 22, 2005
July 19-August 9, 2005. Anglo~Danish Maritime Archaeological Team. Under a NOAA permit, the ADMAT team will investigate the remains of an unknown wooden shipwreck situated about 5 miles off shore, ... Read More
Step Pyramid of Djoser
Thursday April 21, 2005
The Step Pyramid of Djoser was one of the earliest of the pyramids built in Egypt, during the Old Kingdom's 3rd Dynasty about 2800 BC.
Stentinello culture
Thursday April 21, 2005
Stentinello culture is the name given to a Neolithic site and related sites in the Calabria region of Italy, Sicily and Malta, dated to the 5th and 4th millennia BC.
Statue-Menhirs
Thursday April 21, 2005
Statue-menhirs are a kind of megalithic standing
stone consisting of a carved human or human-like statue of life or larger size.
Statistics
Thursday April 21, 2005
Statistics are used in archaeology to help us see patterns in the data we might not otherwise identify.
Latino Resources
Wednesday April 20, 2005
From Indiana University at Bloomington, a wide range information, most of it original, on archaeological, historical and modern-day Central American cultures.
Indians of North America (oops)
Wednesday April 20, 2005
I deeply apologize, the link for this great new online course was broken in today's newsletter. Thanks to reader Greg J for pointing this out.
Pennsylvania State University is offering ... Read More
Bibliographies in Archaeology by Topic
Wednesday April 20, 2005
Several excellent bibliographies are available on the Internet, some of which were created especially for Archaeology@About.com.
Lakota Winter Counts
Wednesday April 20, 2005
This wonderful on-line exhibit from the Smithsonian Institution is an introduction to the historical records of the Lakota (or Teton) Sioux, who maintained a record of past events in pictures ... Read More
Andean Diaspora: Tiwanaku Colonies: A Book Review
Wednesday April 20, 2005
Paul Goldstein's 2005 book called Andean Diaspora, subtitled The Tiwanaku Colonies and the Origins of Empire, is an intriguing look at the Tiwanaku empire of South America and its colonies ... Read More
Flotation Method
Tuesday April 19, 2005
Archaeological flotation involves using water to process soil or feature fill to recover tiny artifacts.
Basilique de St-Denis (France)
Tuesday April 19, 2005
The Basilique de St-Denis is the most recent structure of several churches built on the top of a Gallo-Roman cemetery where St. Denis is said to have been buried.
Ostraca
Tuesday April 19, 2005
The term ostraca (singular ostracon) is from a Greek word 'ostrakon' meaning 'shell.'
Masterpiece or Forgery?
Tuesday April 19, 2005
According to this story in the NYT (free log in needed), scholar Lynn Catterson argues that the sculpture called Laocoon, unearthed in 1506 was actually sculpted by Michelangelo:
The New ... Read More
Lachish (Israel)
Tuesday April 19, 2005
The archaeological site of Lachish (also called Tel el-Duweir) is located approximately 40 kilometers south of Jerusalem.
Hochschild on True Science: Archaeology Quotation
Tuesday April 19, 2005
Political scientist Jennifer Hochschild muses on what makes a science, even a social science, a real gain in knowledge and insight.
Banyan Valley Cave (Thailand)
Monday April 18, 2005
Banyan Valley Cave is located in Pang Ma Pha province of upland Thailand, with occupations dated beginning in the Hoabinhian period of the late stone age, up into the metal ... Read More
Banpo (China)
Monday April 18, 2005
The archaeological site of Banpo is a Neolithic village and cemetery on the Wei River in Shaanxi Province, China, belonging to the early Yangshao culture, dated 5000-4000 BC.
Ban Na Di (Thailand)
Monday April 18, 2005
Ban Na Di is a Copper Age settlement and cemetery in Thailand (1313-903 BC), including sixty burials.
Ban Chiang (Thailand)
Monday April 18, 2005
The archaeological site of Ban Chiang is a Bronze Age village and cemetery site in Udon Thani province of Thailand.
Archaeologists and Related Scientists: Biographies
Monday April 18, 2005
Archaeologists come from all walks of life and make all kinds of career choices. These are mini-biographies of some of the archaeologists throughout history who have contributed significantly to the ... Read More
Ballana Culture
Sunday April 17, 2005
The Ballana (or X-Culture) is the name given to a pre-Christian, post-meroitic culture of Egypt and Nubia, dominant in Lower Egypt and Nubia between about A.D. 250-550.
Baker Cave (US)
Sunday April 17, 2005
Baker Cave is a rockshelter located in the Lower Pecos region of southwest Texas of the south central United States, with occupations dated between 9,000-6800 years before the present.
Balma de l'Abeurador (France)
Sunday April 17, 2005
Balma de l'Abeurador is a rockshelter that contains a Mesolithic period site, located fifty kilometers from the Mediterranean Sea in France.
Bagor (India)
Sunday April 17, 2005
The archaeological site of Bagor is a Late Mesolithic (pre-Harappa) archaeological site in the Bhilwara District of the Rajasthan region of western India.
Star Carr (United Kingdom)
Saturday April 16, 2005
The early mesolithic archaeological site of Star Carr is probably one of the best known sites in England. Read more about this fascinating site.
John Grahame Douglas Clark [1907-1995]
Saturday April 16, 2005
British archaeologist Grahame Clark was one of those rare individuals who know they want to be in archaeology at age 10, publishing professional papers for the Natural History Society while ... Read More
James Leslie Starkey [1895-1938]
Saturday April 16, 2005
British archaeologist James Leslie Starkey is best known for his work at Lachish, where he excavated between 1932 and 1938, when he was robbed and killed on his way to ... Read More
Pennsylvania State University - Archaeology Graduate School
Saturday April 16, 2005
Penn State's master's program is designed to train students in general Anthropology. The doctoral program is structured to train students in archaeology, with subspecializations in cultural ecology, analytical approaches, technological ... Read More
Ephraim George Squier [1821-1888]
Friday April 15, 2005
American journalist and diplomat Ephraim Squier became interested in the prehistoric American earthworks known as mounds while working as a clerk in the Ohio House of Representatives.
David E. Stannard
Friday April 15, 2005
American historian David Stannard's tremendously influential 1992 book, American Holocaust, highlighted the true cost of the colonization of the American continent by settlers from Europe.
Online Course: Indians of North America
Friday April 15, 2005
Pennsylvania State University is offering an online course this year, covering Native American groups north of Mexico, during the period just prior to, during, and immediately after contact with non-Indian ... Read More
Alexander Spoehr [1913-1992]
Friday April 15, 2005
American archaeologist Alexander Spoehr conducted research in the Pacific Islands during the 1950s and 1960s, and is best known for defining the prehistoric ceramic culture known as Lapita.
Lost Treasures of Iraq
Thursday April 14, 2005
In the days and weeks following the conquest of Baghdad by the United States, the Iraqi Museum was looted of many of the treasures belonging to the heritage of the ... Read More
The Roman Gask Ridge Project
Thursday April 14, 2005
The Gask Ridge project is being conducted by the University of Liverpool and the Perth & Kinross Heritage Trust, to investigate the Roman fortifications including Hadrian's Wall, in Scotland.
Pyramids of Giza (Egypt)
Thursday April 14, 2005
The Pyramids of Giza consist of three Old Kingdom burial structures and the Sphinx, all built during the 4th dynasty of ancient Egypt.
Click through to read more on the Pyramids ... Read More
The Statistics Lesson: Archaeology and Statistics
Thursday April 14, 2005
Archaeology has a continuing romance with statistics. Are we a science, or merely social science looking for some credibility? Fellow graduate students Luke and Katie helped this student of archaeology ... Read More
Oswald Arnold Gottfried Spengler [1880-1936]
Thursday April 14, 2005
German historian Oswald Spengler's 1926 book, The Decline of the West, discussed his suspicions that Western civilization expressed by Europe was in a steep, inevitable decline.
Ephraim Avigdor Speiser [1902-1965]
Wednesday April 13, 2005
Polish-born Ephraim Speiser was an expert on Middle Eastern and Mesopotamian archaeology at the University of Pennsylvania, and was one of only a few scholars of the day that spoke ... Read More
Albert Clanton Spaulding [1914-1990]
Wednesday April 13, 2005
American archaeologist Albert Spaulding was one of the first and staunchest users of statistics and quantitative methods in archaeology.
Qin's Tomb (China)
Wednesday April 13, 2005
Recent archaeological investigations at Qin's tomb led by Filippo Salviati (and not yet reported on line, as far as I can tell) include some more incredible artwork.
Catalhöyük at Cody's
Wednesday April 13, 2005
On Monday, April 18, Michael Balter, Ruth Tringham and Ian Hodder will appear together at Cody’s Telegraph Avenue Bookshop in Berkeley California to discuss
NAGPRA changes cause concern
Wednesday April 13, 2005
From NAGPRA-L, proposed wording changes in NAGPRA are causing alarm among scientists:
Bill Status
Kennewick Man scientists lobby against bill April 08, 2005, MSNBC
Kennewick Man scientists protest bill; April 08, ... Read More
Spiro Mounds (USA)
Wednesday April 13, 2005
The archaeological site of Spiro Mounds is a Caddoan tradition site, located in the Arkansas Valley of eastern Oklahoma, in the southern plains region of the United States.
Prehistoric Wells at Archaic Sites in the High Southern Plains
Wednesday April 13, 2005
Archaic wells dug during the mid-Holocene period on the high southern plains speak to the resilience of the hunter-gatherer lifestyle, and the elastic human response to adverse conditions.
Spirit Cave (Thailand)
Tuesday April 12, 2005
The Spirit Cave is a group of inter-connecting caverns in a karst topography region of northern Thailand, with a substantial Hoabinhian occupation.
Sphinx (Egypt)
Tuesday April 12, 2005
The ancient Egyptian sculpture called The Sphinx is located on the Giza plateau, and was probably carved at the request of the 4th dynasty pharaoh Khafre (or Cheops).
Spatial Analysis
Tuesday April 12, 2005
The study of spatial analysis in archaeology concerns examining the pattern of archaeological artifacts or sites as they appear in relation to one another.
Sparta (Greece)
Tuesday April 12, 2005
Sparta was one of several city states that arose in Greece during the Classical period (others include Athens, Corinth, and Thebes)
Shanidar Cave (Iraq)
Monday April 11, 2005
Excavations were conducted at the Neanderthal site of Shanidar Cave during the 1950s by Ralph S. Solecki and Rose L. Solecki.
United States Cultural Resources Laws in Jeopardy
Monday April 11, 2005
Last week, members of the United States House Resources Subcommittee on National Parks proposed a language change to long-standing legislation protecting archaeological resources that may well affect the way cultural ... Read More
Kumbi Saleh (Mauritania)
Monday April 11, 2005
The Iron Age archaeological site of Kumbi Saleh was built by the west African Soninke society about AD 600, and was probably used as a capital city for the Ghana ... Read More
The Megalithic Map
Monday April 11, 2005
Andy Burnham's latest creative homage to megalithic structures, the Megalithic Map site lets the user build a map of Europe showing barrows, megalithic tombs, standing stones, stone circles, trackways, and ... Read More
Stanley A. South
Monday April 11, 2005
American archaeologist Stanley A. South, currently at the University of South Carolina, has advanced the study of historical archaeology in the application of statistics.
Ralph Stefan Solecki [b. 1917]
Monday April 11, 2005
American archaeologist Ralph Solecki is most frequently associated with the excavations at the Neanderthal site of Shanidar Cave.
Wilhelm Gerhard Solheim II [b. 1924]
Sunday April 10, 2005
American archaeologist Wilhelm Solheim II (Wilhelm I was a famous botanist in his own right) has spent his career studying southeast Asian archaeology.
Robert R. Sokal
Sunday April 10, 2005
Robert R. Sokal's research has included tracing the diffusion of farming by using genetics and blood groups.
Mean Ceramic Date
Sunday April 10, 2005
A mean ceramic date is a method of determining the age of a historical artifact assemblage using the average dates of the pottery sherds collected from the site.
Etowah (USA)
Sunday April 10, 2005
The Etowah mounds site is located on the Etowah River in northern Georgia in the southeastern United States.
BP (or B.P.)
Saturday April 9, 2005
Archaeologists use the term 'BP' to mean 'years before humans began to screw up the atmosphere by testing nuclear devices'.
BCE (or B.C.E.)
Saturday April 9, 2005
BCE stands for "Before the Common Era" and it is basically equivalent to "BC", except that it doesn't have the Christian religious connotations of BC.
BC (or B.C.)
Saturday April 9, 2005
The term B.C. is used by nearly everyone in the United States to mean dates in the Julian Calendar before the birth of Christ, or at least before the date ... Read More
Baden Culture
Saturday April 9, 2005
The Baden culture is the name archaeologists have given to a culture of the central European Copper Age, related to the Bell Beaker culture and dated between about 3500-3000 BC.
Southeastern Ceremonial Complex
Friday April 8, 2005
The Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (also known as the Southern Cult) is the name given to a broad, regional similarity of artifacts, iconography, ceremonies and mythology of the Mississippian period between ... Read More
Besant-Sonota Complex
Friday April 8, 2005
The Sonota Complex (also called Besant-Sonota) is the name archaeologists have given to Woodland bison hunters in the American Great Plains in Canada and the United States
Sonoran Agricultural Complex
Friday April 8, 2005
The Sonoran Agricultural Complex is the general name given to the suite of crops grown in the American southwest and documented in sites such as Bat Cave beginning about 4,000-3,500 ... Read More
Soninké Society
Friday April 8, 2005
The Soninké were (and are) traders of west Africa with an oral history tradition dating back nearly 1000 years.
Songhai Empire
Thursday April 7, 2005
The Songhai Empire was established in western subsaharan Africa by Sonni 'Ali Ber in AD 1464.
Click on through to read more about the Songhai Empire.
Song Dynasty
Thursday April 7, 2005
The Song Dynasty in China was established in 960 AD, after the fall of the Tang Dynasty and fifty years of chaos.
Son Vi Culture
Thursday April 7, 2005
The Son Vi culture is the name given to the Upper Paleolithic lithic tradition of highland Vietnam.
Badarian Culture
Thursday April 7, 2005
The Badarian culture is the name archaeologists have given to the Neolithic period in Egypt and the Sudan between 4400-4000 BC
Chwezi Dynasty
Wednesday April 6, 2005
The Chwezi Dynasty (also called Bachwezi or Kitara Dynasty) is the possibly mythical, certainly legendary, kingdom of Uganda, who are said to have ruled between 1300 and 1500 AD.
Babylon (Iraq)
Wednesday April 6, 2005
The archaeological site of Babylon was the capital of a small city state of Mesopotamia, named Babylonia, located in what is now Iraq, near the modern town of Hilla.
Sobiejuchy (Poland)
Wednesday April 6, 2005
Sobiejuchy is a small urnfield cemetery and lakeside village site in central Poland, occupied between about 750-500 BC
William "Strata" Smith [1769-1839]
Wednesday April 6, 2005
English surveyor William "Strata" Smith was one of the rocks upon which Darwin built his theory of evolution (pardon the pun).
Slavic Cultures
Tuesday April 5, 2005
The Slavic culture is the collective name given to several nomadic tribes of Poland and Moldavia between the 6th and 11th centuries AD
George Smith [1840-1876]
Tuesday April 5, 2005
English Assyriologist George Smith spent much of his early years in the British Museum, teaching himself cuneiform, where he came to the attention of Henry Rawlinson.
Slavery
Tuesday April 5, 2005
a focus on past rulers and other elite persons to the study of less-fortunate people, including the relationship between slaves and their masters.
Grafton Elliot Smith [1871-1937]
Tuesday April 5, 2005
British Medical anatomist Sir Grafton Elliot Smith was a hyper-diffusionist; and a skilled and ground-breaking anatomist who worked on important paleontological studies including Piltdown and the Taung Baby.
Skhul Cave (Israel)
Monday April 4, 2005
Skhul Cave is a rockshelter located on the slopes of Mount Carmel in Israel, with evidence for occupations dating between about 80,000 and 100,000 years ago.
Bruce David Smith [b. 1946]
Monday April 4, 2005
Bruce D. Smith is currently the curator of North American Archaeology at the Smithsonian Institution, one of several other leadership roles Smith has taken in the fields of archaeobiology and ... Read More
Social Evolutionism
Monday April 4, 2005
The several theories known broadly as Social Evolutionism were born out of ideas created during the 18th century Enlightenment, and reworked in the mid-19th century.
Forum on Koguryo
Monday April 4, 2005
The Korea Institute at Harvard University will be hosting an international forum titled The Harvard Conference on < a href=http://archaeology.about.com/library/glossary/bldef_koguryo.htm>Koguryŏ History and Archaeology, a two and one-half day symposium featuring ... Read More
Shameless Self-Promotion
Monday April 4, 2005
The CSA Newsletter, edited by Nick Eiteljorg, has just published a review by Susan Jones comparing this site to the Yahoo archaeology web portal and the AIA portal:
CSA Newsletter, ... Read More
Soan Valley Tradition
Monday April 4, 2005
The archaeological sites in the Siwalik region of Pakistan and India called the Soan Valley Tradition date to the Lower Paleolithic (circa 500,000-125,000 years ago), and are roughly equivalent to ... Read More
Social Organization
Sunday April 3, 2005
Social organization of a group includes how people interact, and archaeologists look for clues to the social organizations in artifact patterns.
Click on through to read more on Social Organization as ... Read More
Olga Soffer [b. 1944]
Sunday April 3, 2005
American archaeologist Olga Soffer came to archaeology from a diverse background, to say the least.
Aztec Civilization
Sunday April 3, 2005
The Aztec civilization is the collective name given to seven Chichimec tribes of northern Mexico.
For more information, see the Aztec civilization definition, or the Aztec Study Guide.
Soil Resistivity
Sunday April 3, 2005
The geophysical prospection technique of investigating archaeological sites called soil resistivity was first used for archaeology by Richard Atkinson in the mid-1940s.
Invitation to Cultural Evolutionism
Saturday April 2, 2005
From Robert Graber at Truman State University, a terrific introduction to the concepts of cultural evolution, including excellent succinct descriptions of founding figures such as Marx and Morgan, recent theories, ... Read More
Aztalan (USA)
Saturday April 2, 2005
Aztalan is a large Mississippian site located near Lake Mills in the state of Wisconsin of the midwestern USA.
Louis Siret
Saturday April 2, 2005
Belgian engineer Louis Siret first identified and excavated the Chalcolithic site of Los Millares, Spain.
Eastern Pequot Field School, Connecticut USA
Saturday April 2, 2005
July 5-August 5, 2005. University of Massachusetts at Boston. In collaboration with the Eastern Pequot Tribal Nation, the field school will undertake a third year of intensive survey of tribal ... Read More
Aymara Culture
Friday April 1, 2005
The Aymara are a modern cultural group of the Andes in Peru, and the descendants of the Tiwanaku Empire in the Lake Titicaca region of Bolivia and Peru (400-1500 AD).
... Read More
Yoshiko H. Sinoto
Friday April 1, 2005
American archaeologist Yoshiko H. Sinoto has conducted excavations and surveys throughout Polynesia
Arlington Springs (USA)
Friday April 1, 2005
The Arlington Springs site is located on an island in the North Channel Islands off the coast of southern California in the western United States.
Axumite Civilization
Friday April 1, 2005
The Axumite civilization is a Coptic pre-Christian state in Ethiopia, from about AD 100-800.
Spiro Mounds: A Ceremonial Center of the Southern Cult
Friday April 1, 2005
Way out at the very far western edge of the late prehistoric cultural manifestation archaeologists call the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex lies the earthworks known as Spiro Mounds.