Daily Quote: Mahatma Gandhi
Sunday July 31, 2005
DQ for today is from that rabble rouser and saint, Mahatma Gandhi, who ought not to need any introduction.
Denbigh Flint Culture
Sunday July 31, 2005
The Denbigh Flint Culture is the name given to one of two patterned stone tool complexes of the arctic region around 2500 BC to 800 BC (the other is Pre-Dorset).
Delphi (Greece)
Sunday July 31, 2005
The site of Delphi is the location of a classic Panhellenic sanctuary of Greece, first occupied in the early Archaic period.
Delos (Greece)
Sunday July 31, 2005
Delos is the name of an island in the Aegean Sea, which according to the Greek legends, is the birthplace of Apollo and Artemis.
Deir el-Medina (Egypt)
Sunday July 31, 2005
Deir el-Medina is a New Kingdom (18th dynasty) residential village of the workmen who built and decorated Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings.
Daily Quote: Ralph Waldo Emerson
Saturday July 30, 2005
Today's DQ is from that supreme transcendentalist, R. W. Emerson.
Debitage
Saturday July 30, 2005
Debitage is the collective term used by archaeologists to refer to the sharp-edged waste material left over when someone creates a stone tool
Decipherment
Saturday July 30, 2005
The word decipherment is used by archaeologists to refer to the translation of ancient script forms into modern day language.
Max Uhle [1856-1944]
Saturday July 30, 2005
German archaeologist and linguist Max Uhle is often said to be the father of Andean archaeology.
Peter J. Ucko (b. 1938)
Saturday July 30, 2005
British archaeologist Peter Ucko has concentrated his career on the study of images and artwork at Neolithic sites
Daily Quote: Max Beerbohm
Friday July 29, 2005
Today's DQ is from British playwright Max Beerbohm.
Tatiana Avenirovna Proskouriakoff [1909-1985]
Friday July 29, 2005
Russian born Tatiana Proskouriakoff was a pioneer archaeologist, who combined her facility in ethnohistory, art, architecture and archaeology to produce a remarkable written documentation of the Maya civilization.
Uan Muhuggiag (Libya)
Friday July 29, 2005
The cave of Uan Muhuggiag contains an occupation and rock art, located in the Acacus massif of the central Saharan desert of Libya.
Uaxactun (Guatemala)
Friday July 29, 2005
Uaxactun (pronounced Washackton) is an important Maya center, located in the Peten region of Guatemala.
Ofer Bar-Yosef (b. 1937)
Friday July 29, 2005
Israeli archaeologist Ofer Bar-Yosef has worked extensively in Israel and the Levant on numerous sites.
Daily Quote: Randall Jarrell
Thursday July 28, 2005
Today's DQ is from another poet, Randall Jarrell. Can't tell I used to be an English major, can you?
Ubeidiya (Israel)
Thursday July 28, 2005
Ubeidiya is an early paleolithic archaeological site located on a low rise in the Jordan Valley of Israel--and at 1.4-1.6 million years in age, it is one of the oldest ... Read More
Ubaidian Culture
Thursday July 28, 2005
The Ubaidian culture is a prehistoric Mesopotamian culture first identified by Jacques de Morgan around the turn of the 19th century.
Ugarit (Syria)
Thursday July 28, 2005
Ugarit is the ancient name of a Canaanite city represented by the archaeological site of Ras Shamra, on Syria's Mediterranean coastline.
Ukhaidir (Iraq)
Thursday July 28, 2005
The Abbasid palace of Ukhaidir is located in Iraq, 75 miles southwest of Baghdad.
Daily Quote: Henry David Thoreau
Wednesday July 27, 2005
The Daily Quote today is from Henry Thoreau's somewhat lesser known work, A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers.
Uluburun (Turkey)
Wednesday July 27, 2005
Uluburun is the name of a Late Bronze Age ship, wrecked off the coast of Turkey near Kas in the 14th century BC and about 50 meters below the water's ... Read More
Copán (Honduras)
Wednesday July 27, 2005
The archaeological site of Copán is located in western Honduras, and represents a major Classic period Maya temple and regional center.
Clovis Culture
Wednesday July 27, 2005
The Clovis culture is the earliest well-established human culture in the North American continent
TAC: WPA Archaeology
Wednesday July 27, 2005
New at The Archaeology Channel is a video on WPA archaeolgy in Kentucky.
The Archaeology Channel - Welcome
Archaeology Quiz: Olorgesailie
Wednesday July 27, 2005
Just spelling Olorgesailie is a challenge for me. Do you have the nerve to take this quiz about it?
Daily Quote: T.S. Eliot
Tuesday July 26, 2005
Today's DQ is from poet T.S. Elliot's Geronion, published in 1920.
Dawenkou Culture
Tuesday July 26, 2005
The Dawenkou culture is the name given to the Late Neolithic period of Shandong Province, China, between 5000-3000 BC.
Dartmoor (UK)
Tuesday July 26, 2005
Dartmoor is an extensive agricultural field system in Devon, southwest England, dated to the latter part of the 2nd millennium BC; now a national park in the UK.
Darra-i-Kur (Afghanistan)
Tuesday July 26, 2005
The cave called Darra-i-Kur is a Middle Paleolithic site in Badakhshan province of Afghanistan
Dadianzi (China)
Tuesday July 26, 2005
Dadianzi is an early Bronze Age site located near Xiajiadian in Chifeng city of Inner Mongolia.
Daily Quote: Philip Sidney
Monday July 25, 2005
The DQ for today is from 16th century poet Philip Sidney's Apology for Poetry, which explains why there are lots more poets than historians.
Dara (Egypt)
Monday July 25, 2005
Dara is the name of a site in central Egypt near the modern town of Asyut and outside the Dahklah Oasis.
Guns, Germs, and Steel
Monday July 25, 2005
Science writer Michael Balter reviews the American Public Broadcasting Service special on the colonization of the New World, called Guns, Germs, and Steel.
Archaeology
South America's Oldest Writing System: Ancient Quipu Found at Caral
Monday July 25, 2005
Archaeological evidence of quipu recovered from an archaeological site belonging to the ancient civilization of Caral in coastal Peru is nearly as old as Mesopotamian cuneiform and has the potential ... Read More
Danger Cave (USA)
Monday July 25, 2005
Danger Cave, located in western Utah in the American southwest, contains evidence of 11,000 years of occupation in the desert southwest.
Oldest Quipu Found
Monday July 25, 2005
There are a few stories in the press today concerning the findings of Ruth Shady at one of the sites of the recently discovered ancient civilization of Caral, found on ... Read More
Spartel Island Not Atlantis
Monday July 25, 2005
Marc-Andre Gutscher replies to a recent article on this page concerning a possible location for the legend of Atlantis:
Spartel Island Not Likely Atlantis: Marc-Andre Gutscher Responds
Danebury (UK)
Monday July 25, 2005
Danebury is the name of an Iron age hillfort in Nether Wallop, Hampshire, England, built during the 6th century BC.
Daily Quote: Charles Austin Beard
Sunday July 24, 2005
The DQ for today is a quote from historian Charles Austin Beard, who seems to be thinking of Isaac Asimov's Foundation Trilogy, 8 years before it was begun.
Dalton Culture
Sunday July 24, 2005
The Dalton culture is the name given to one of the cultures dated to the Late Paleoindian, early Archaic (10,500-10,000 years BP) period in the North American continent
Dali Cranium (China)
Sunday July 24, 2005
The Dali cranium is a Homo erectus skull found in 1978 in Jiefang Village, Dali County of Shaanxi Province, China
Dahshur (Egypt)
Sunday July 24, 2005
The archaeological site of Dahshur is an Old Kingdom 4th dynasty Egypt site where some of the oldest pyramids in Egypt were built.
Dahaneh Gholaman (Iran)
Sunday July 24, 2005
The site of Dahaneh Gholaman is an Achaemenid period Persian site in Sistan-Baluchestan province in Iran and north of Zahedan, on the border of Iran and Afghanistan.
Daily Quote: Paul Bahn
Saturday July 23, 2005
Today's Daily Quote is from British rock art specialist Paul Bahn, from his 1989 book, "Bluff Your Way in Archaeology".
Dadiwan (China)
Saturday July 23, 2005
The Middle Neolithic archaeological site of Dadiwan is located within the upper reaches of the Yellow River near Shaodian in Qi'nan county, Gansu province of China.
Tell el Dab'a (Egypt)
Saturday July 23, 2005
Tell el Dab'a is the modern name of the capital city for the Hyksos in the Nile delta region of Egypt, called Avaris.
Da But (Vietnam)
Saturday July 23, 2005
The archaeological site called Da But is an early Neolithic cemetery and shell midden in coastal region of Thanh Hoa province of Vietnam, recently radiocarbon dated to 5085 BC.
A Visual Sourcebook of Chinese Civilization
Saturday July 23, 2005
A tour de force by Patricia Buckley Ebrey, with lots of great photos and discussions of various Chinese cultural elements, funded by the American and Chinese governments.
Daily Quote: Voltaire
Friday July 22, 2005
DQ for today is from the French writer and philosopher, Voltaire.
Trafficking
Friday July 22, 2005
The illegal trafficking of artifacts and antiquities is a multi-billion dollar industry, third in terms of dollars earned behind the illegal traffic in drugs and weapons.
Trenton Gravels (USA)
Friday July 22, 2005
The Trenton Gravels is the name of a quarry site in the American northeastern state of New Jersey where early American archaeologists such as C.C. Abbott and Frederick Ward Putnam ... Read More
TAG: Damming the Euphrates
Friday July 22, 2005
The latest from The Archaeology Channel is a video on the flooding of the Euphrates River in southeastern Turkey and the subsequent flooding of Zeugma.
The Archaeology Channel - Welcome
Trundholm Sun Chariot (Denmark)
Friday July 22, 2005
The Trundholm site refers to a single artifact pulled out of a Danish bog near Sjćlland in 1902; but what an artifact!
Tula (Mexico)
Friday July 22, 2005
The archaeological ruins of Tula are located in the Mexican state of Hildalgo about 50 kilometers northwest of Mexico City.
Daily Quote: Walt Whitman
Thursday July 21, 2005
The Daily Quote for today is from American poet Walt Whitman's classic from 1900, Leaves of Grass.
Turnover Pulse Hypothesis
Thursday July 21, 2005
The Turnover Pulse Hypothesis was constructed by paleoanthropologist Elizabeth Vrba to explain the appearance of an extensive evolutionary shift world wide, that led to early hominin forms in Africa.
Tutankhamun's Tomb (Egypt)
Thursday July 21, 2005
The archaeological site of Tutankhamun's Tomb must surely be one of the most famous burials on the planet. You can remember to spell it Tutankhamun (not Tutenkahmun) because at the ... Read More
Edward Burnett Tylor [1832-1917]
Thursday July 21, 2005
British anthropologist E.B. Tylor was the quintessential cultural evolutionist.
Edward R. Tufte [b. 1942]
Thursday July 21, 2005
American artist and statistician Edward R. Tufte wrote a book called "the Visual Display of Quantitative Information", published in 1983.
Daily Quote: William Least Heat-Moon
Wednesday July 20, 2005
Today's Daily Quote is from the 1983 bestseller, Blue Highways.
Christos Tsountas [1857-1934]
Wednesday July 20, 2005
Greek archaeologist Christos Tsountas was a classical archaeologist who followed Heinrich Schliemann and completed much of the most important investigations at the site of Mycenae
Erik Trinkhaus
Wednesday July 20, 2005
American archaeologist and paleontologist Erik Trinkhaus is probably best known for his work on Neanderthals and archaic and modern Homo sapiens sites.
Ruth E. Tringham
Wednesday July 20, 2005
British archaeologist Ruth Tringham's career has been primarily focused on the neolithic and chalcolithic communities of eastern Europe
Archaeology Quiz: Tutankhamun's Tomb
Wednesday July 20, 2005
Everybody knows about Tuankhamun's Tomb, right? Try this week's quiz and test your trivia knowledge about the boy king.
Arthur Dale Trendall [1909-1995]
Tuesday July 19, 2005
New Zealander Arthur Dale Trendall was an art historian whose work on identifying the work of individual artists on Etruscan ceramic vessels earned him international prizes and a knighthood.
Margaret E. Ashley Towle [1902-1985]
Tuesday July 19, 2005
Margaret Towle was a pioneer ethnobotanist, who in 1961 published the classic book called The Ethnobotany of Precolumbian Peru, providing information on the plants used by cultures of the north ... Read More
Peterson's Pottery Blog
Tuesday July 19, 2005
Peterson's Pottery is a historic period site in Salt Lake City Utah, excavated by Michigan Technical Institute during the summer of 2005. A daily blog by director Timothy Scarlett tracks ... Read More
Central African Republic Culture History and Archaeology
Tuesday July 19, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the Central African Republic.
Dailty Quote: Oscar Wilde
Monday July 18, 2005
Today's DQ is from Oscar Wilde, critic, playwright, and wit, on our duty to history.
Cape Verde Culture History and Archaeology
Monday July 18, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the modern African country of Cape Verde.
Libyan Culture History and Archaeology
Monday July 18, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the modern culture of Libya.
Yemen and the Incense Trade
Monday July 18, 2005
Caravan Kingdoms is a webpage built in support of an exhibit from the Sackler Museum on artifacts associated with international trade in frankincense and myrrh in control of the kingdoms ... Read More
Gambia Culture History and Archaeology
Monday July 18, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the modern country of the Gambia.
Daily Quote: George Walden
Sunday July 17, 2005
Let's do a Daily Quote, shall we? There are several hundred hanging around the old Archaeology website, we might as well enjoy them. Today's DQ is from the British Conservative ... Read More
Teleilat Ghassul (Israel)
Sunday July 17, 2005
The archaeological site of Teleilat Ghassul is a Chalcolithic site located in the Jordan Valley about 50 miles northwest of the Dead Sea.
Opovo (Serbia)
Sunday July 17, 2005
The site of Opovo is a Late Neolithic village site in the province of Vojvodina on the Tamis River in what is the modern day country of Serbia.
Clearwater Creek (Arizona)
Sunday July 17, 2005
The Clearwater site is a pithouse site from the Early Agricultural Period (2100 BC to AD 5), excavated by Desert Archaeology Inc and on line at the CDARC website.
Funnel Beaker Culture
Sunday July 17, 2005
The Funnel Beaker Culture, called TRB for the abbreviation of its German name (Tricherrandbecher), is a subset of the Beaker culture.
Stone Pages Pod-Cast
Saturday July 16, 2005
It was bound to happen; a weekly archaeology podcast, from Stone Pages and the British Archaeological Jobs Resource, updated Mondays or Tuesdays. Cool!
Galisteo Basin Archaeology
Saturday July 16, 2005
The American Bureau of Land Management's Galisteo Archeology Project includes information about the archaeology and cultures of the Galisteo Basin of New Mexico.
Egyptian Culture History and Archaeology
Saturday July 16, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the modern country of Egypt.
Alexander Marshack [1918-2004]
Saturday July 16, 2005
American independent scholar Alexander Marshack began his professional life as a journalist, but in 1963, a chance introduction to Ice Age art led him into archaeology.
Dutch East Indies Shipwrecks
Friday July 15, 2005
Information about the 100 or so shipwrecks of the VOC, compiled by Koen van den Dries.
Cimmerian Culture
Friday July 15, 2005
The Cimmerian culture were nomadic horse-riding people of the Russian steppes beginning about 1200 BC.
Maya Codices
Friday July 15, 2005
There are three surviving Maya codices known in the world: Dresden, Madrid, and Paris, named because that's where the codices ended up, in museums in those cities.
Seeking the Lost Continent of Atlantis
Friday July 15, 2005
A search for the lost continent of Atlantis includes a bathymetric investigation of an island in the right place, under the right circumstances--but at the wrong time.
Knossos (Greece)
Thursday July 14, 2005
The location of Knossos, reported by Homer to be the site of the palace of the legendary King Minos, Daedalus, and the Labyrinth, is on the island of Crete.
Fishtail Points
Thursday July 14, 2005
Fishtail points are to South America what Clovis points are to North America: associated with the earliest occupations in South America that everybody agrees on.
Curriboo Plantation (USA)
Thursday July 14, 2005
Curriboo Plantation is the name of an 18th century farming operation in South Carolina, in the southeastern United States.
A New Case for Atlantis
Thursday July 14, 2005
Geologists gathering this month on the Greek island of Milos have been looking into the geological possibilities of a society dropping into the ocean resulting from earthquakes and tsunami. A ... Read More
Kante 'el: Precious Forest
Thursday July 14, 2005
The Archaeological Channel's latest video is on the ruined Maya city of Waka or El Peru.
Kante 'el: Precious Forest
A Cooler Takamatsuzuka
Wednesday July 13, 2005
According to this news story from The Japan Times, curators have come up with a possible method of preserving the fabulous wall paintings in the Takamatsuka tomb in Nara prefecture: ... Read More
Culture
Wednesday July 13, 2005
To anthropologists (and many archaeologists), culture refers to the way of life of a group of people.
Cultural Historical Method
Wednesday July 13, 2005
The cultural-historical method is a way of conducting anthropological and archaeological research developed by V.G. Childe and Franz Boas.
Cultural Resource Management
Wednesday July 13, 2005
Cultural Resource Management is the term generally used to mean government-sponsored preservation and study of archaeological and historical resources, including archaeological sites, historical buildings.
The Clearwater Site (US)
Tuesday July 12, 2005
The Clearwater site is a pithouse site from the Early Agricultural Period (2100 BC to AD 5), excavated by Desert Archaeology Inc and on line at the CDARC website.
Cultural Ecology
Tuesday July 12, 2005
Cultural Ecology is an anthropological theory put forward by Julian Steward, that considers adaptation to environment as the paramount driver in cultural change.
Cuicuilco (Mexico)
Tuesday July 12, 2005
Cuicuilco is the name of a Late Formative period site (300-1 BC) located in the Basin of Mexico, located in the Distrito Federale of Mexico City.
Cuerdale Hoard (UK)
Tuesday July 12, 2005
The Cuerdale Hoard is an enormous Viking cache of 8000 silver coins and bullion discovered in Lancashire
Ctesiphon (Iraq)
Monday July 11, 2005
Ctesiphon is the name of a very old city at the confluence of the Tigris and Diyala rivers near Baghdad in what is now Iraq.
Cro-Magnon
Monday July 11, 2005
Cro-Magnon is a now-outmoded word meaning early Homo sapiens sapiens, circa 35,000 to 10,000 years before the present.
Crickley Hill (UK)
Monday July 11, 2005
Crickley Hill is an important Neolithic and Iron Age site in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire.
Cosmology
Monday July 11, 2005
Cosmology is the intersection between astronomy and religion; many if not most prehistoric cultures studied the movement of the stars and planets as part of a religious rituals.
Cortaillod-Est (Switzerland)
Sunday July 10, 2005
The site of Cortaillod-Est is an Alpine Lake palisaded village in a lake in Switzerland, dated to the Late Bronze Age (1009-955 BC).
Corlea Trackway (Ireland)
Sunday July 10, 2005
Corlea Trackway is an Iron Age roadway that measures one kilometer long and four meters (12 feet) wide, and was built of massive oaken planks
Corinth (Greece)
Sunday July 10, 2005
The archaeological site of Corinth was an ancient capital city of Greece, first occupied during the Neolithic period, and most famous for its Greek and Roman occupations.
Corded Ware Culture
Sunday July 10, 2005
The Corded Ware culture or complex is the name given to a wave of people in the Neolithic period, originating from the Carpathian mountains and the area now called the ... Read More
The Egyptologist - A Book Review
Saturday July 9, 2005
Arthur Phillips' The Egyptologist is blackly funny, evocative of both the roaring twenties of Boston and the working conditions of the Valley of the Kings under the British, and I ... Read More
Coptic Christianity
Saturday July 9, 2005
The Coptic church is a form of Christianity developed in Egypt, said to have been started by one of Christ's apostles, Mark, in the 1st century AD
Constantinople (Turkey)
Saturday July 9, 2005
Constantinople is the old name for Istanbul, the great city located in what is now Turkey.
Collections Management
Saturday July 9, 2005
Collections management attempts to identify the best method of keeping archaeological material preserved and accessible to archaeologists for further study, and/or the general public for educational purposes.
Colha (Belize)
Friday July 8, 2005
The archaeological site of Colha is a Maya occupation located in Belize about 60 kilometers north of Belize City.
Coles Creek Culture
Friday July 8, 2005
The Coles Creek culture is the name given to sites created by a group of pottery-making farmers in the Lower Mississippi Valley of the United States.
Cognitive Archaeology
Friday July 8, 2005
Cognitive archaeology is a theoretical underpinning of archaeological research that is interested in the material expression of human cognitive concepts.
Codex
Friday July 8, 2005
A codex (plural codices) is the technical name for an ancient book or manuscript
Cochise Culture
Thursday July 7, 2005
The Cochise culture is the name given to preceramic cultures of the American southwest, particularly Arizon, between 12,000 and 2,000 years ago.
Oxyrhnchus Papers
Thursday July 7, 2005
The POxy project is a website on the papyrus texts recovered from the Egyptian, Hellenistic, and Roman occupations of Oxyrhynchus; from Oxford University.
CLIMAP Project
Thursday July 7, 2005
The CLIMAP Project was developed in the 1970s by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
London Bombings: Through Bloggers Eyes
Thursday July 7, 2005
Shai Collins, guide to Weblogs, reports on information coming in about the bombings in London from webloggers around the world.
Cliff Dwellings
Thursday July 7, 2005
The term "Cliff dwellings" generally refers to Anasazi culture sites such as Mesa Verde, Colorado in the United States that have residences built right into the sheer cliffs of mountains.
Classical Archaeology
Wednesday July 6, 2005
The term classical archaeology generally refers to the study of ancient Greece and Rome and their immediate forebears.
Clactonian Tradition
Wednesday July 6, 2005
The Clactonian Tradition refers to the stone tools of the Lower Paleolithic period (ca. 500,000 to 100,000 BP) in Europe, made by Homo erectus.
Cishan (China)
Wednesday July 6, 2005
Cishan is the type site for the Cishan culture, an early Neolithic culture in the Yellow River of China, occupied from about 6500-5000 BC.
Archaeology Quiz: The Dead Sea Scrolls
Wednesday July 6, 2005
The Quiz for July 5, 2005 is on the Dead Sea Scrolls. Test your trivial knowledge on our trivial quiz...
Cuzco (Peru)
Wednesday July 6, 2005
The modern day city of Cuzco in the Andes Mountains of Peru was founded, according to legend, by Manco Capac, the founder of the Incan Civilization.
Cycladic Culture
Tuesday July 5, 2005
The Cycladic Culture is the term used to refer to the ancestral Greek culture of the Cycladic islands of the southern Aegean Sea
Doumenzhen (China)
Tuesday July 5, 2005
Doumenzhen was a capital of the Chou (or Zhou) Dynasty, China (1050-256 BC).
Chronological Analysis
Tuesday July 5, 2005
Archaeologists use the term 'chronological analysis' to refer to the analysis of an object, set of objects, archaeological site or set of sites in terms of its temporal characteristics
Footprints rewrite history of first Americans
Tuesday July 5, 2005
Very interesting story making the rounds reports on the discovery of human footprints in a volcanic ash in lake sediments in Mexico dated to +38,000 years, which if true, promises ... Read More
Chou Dynasty
Tuesday July 5, 2005
The Chou Dynasty (also spelled Zhou) ruled China for over 700 years (1050-256 BC).
Chorrera Culture
Monday July 4, 2005
The Chorrera culture is the name given to the Late Formative period in Ecuador's Andes and coastal areas
Cholula (Mexico)
Monday July 4, 2005
Cholula is the name of an archaeological site in the Puebla-Tlaxcala Valley of the central highlands in the state of Puebla, Mexico
Taphonomy
Monday July 4, 2005
The study of taphonomy in general is interested in how animals and plants become part of the fossil record.
Amenhotep's Bad Teeth
Monday July 4, 2005
In an article in New Scientist, Egyptologist Judith Miller reports her research into dental science (or the lack thereof) in dynastic Egypt.
New Scientist Why the pharaohs never smiled - ... Read More
Nicholas P. Toth
Monday July 4, 2005
Nicholas Toth is one of the foremost practitioners of experimental archaeology and taphonomy.
Kathy Diane Schick
Sunday July 3, 2005
Kathy Schick is one of the pioneers of the study of taphonomy and related investigations of the Oldowan culture of Africa.
Quiahuiztlan (Mexico)
Sunday July 3, 2005
Quiahuiztlan is the name of a fortified settlement located on the lower slopes of a volcanic mountain on the gulf coast of Veracruz state, Mexico.
Tower of London (United Kingdom)
Sunday July 3, 2005
London's famous Tower has been used for a number of different things during the 1000 years it's stood on the river Thames in London.
Toutswe Tradition
Sunday July 3, 2005
The Toutswe Tradition is the name given to an African iron age cultural group in the Limpopo River valley of Botswana from about AD 700 and 1300
Tournai (Belgium)
Saturday July 2, 2005
Tournai is a Frankish town in Belgium, and the site of the royal tomb of Childeric, who died about AD 480.
Totonac Culture
Saturday July 2, 2005
The Totanac Culture was a rival city state to the Aztecs, who had ruled most of what is now Veracruz in Mexico.
Torralba and Ambrona (Spain)
Saturday July 2, 2005
The paleontological sites of Torralba and Ambrona are located on the Ambrona River, two kilometers apart in the Soria region of Spain, 150 kilometers northeast of Madrid.
Comoros Culture History and Archaeology
Saturday July 2, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the three island nation called Comoros off the African coast.
Chad Culture History and Archaeology
Friday July 1, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the African country of Chad.
Chichen Izta (Exploratorium)
Friday July 1, 2005
From the Exploratorium, a flash-enhanced visit to the Maya center of Chichen Itza, including a webcast in Spanish and English of the vernal equinox, hosted by Isabelle Hawkins of the ... Read More
Raid on Deerfield: 1704
Friday July 1, 2005
This interesting website from the Pocumtuck Valley Memorial Association describes the daily life for the five cultural groups living in Deerfield Massachusetts (English, French, Kanienkehaka or Mohawk, Wendat or Huron ... Read More
Cameroon Culture History and Archaeology
Friday July 1, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the modern country of Cameroon.