Quote 193: Charan on Digging Up Holy Places
Wednesday August 31, 2005
Daily Quote for the day is from Anubha Charan in a 2004 article in History Today.
Failaka (Kuwait)
Wednesday August 31, 2005
Failaka is the name of an island, and the large settlement and sanctuary of the south Arabian civilization in what is now Kuwait
Fanshan (China)
Wednesday August 31, 2005
Fanshan (Fan Hill) is the name of an archaeological settlement and cemetery of the Liangzhu culture in China, 3300-2200 BC.
Unconquered Lacandon Maya - Book Review
Wednesday August 31, 2005
Joel W. Palka’s book, Unconquered Lacandon Maya, discusses the current and historical conditions of the various groups of people collectively called the Lacandon.
Archaeology Quiz: Deir el Medina
Wednesday August 31, 2005
Today's trivia quiz is on Deir el-Medina, also spelled Dayr al Madinah. What do you know about that?
Quote 194: Chris Ballard Holding Out Against Closure
Tuesday August 30, 2005
The DQ for today is from a 2003 article in Archaeology in Oceania by Chris Ballard.
Experimental Archaeology
Tuesday August 30, 2005
Experimental archaeology is a branch of archaeological study that replicates or attempts to replicate past processes to understand how the deposits came about.
Evolution
Tuesday August 30, 2005
Evolution is the study of change. In its most basic sense, evolution is the scientific theory that all animals and plants have their beginnings in preexisting types.
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop
Tuesday August 30, 2005
My favorite bar in New Orleans is Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, on Bourbon Street
Lafitte's Blacksmith Shop, 18th Century Architecture in New OrleansPhoto Credit: Joe Dykes
, built sometime before 1772, and one ... Read More
Dolni Vestonice (Czech Republic)
Tuesday August 30, 2005
The Gravettian site of Dolní Vĕstonice is located near the modern town of Brno in the region of Moravia in the eastern part of what is now the Czech Republic.
Vitruvius (Marcus Vitruvius Pollio)
Tuesday August 30, 2005
The first century AD Roman engineer and architect Vitruvius (or, Marcus Vitruvius Pollio), is best known in archaeological circles for his description of the Greek temple Ionic and Doric structural ... Read More
Quote 195: Praetzellis on Having Too Much Fun
Monday August 29, 2005
Today's Daily Quote is from archaeologist Adrian Praetzellis's 2003 book, Dug to Death.
Michael Ventris [1922-1956]
Monday August 29, 2005
British linguist Michael Ventris is credited with the beginnings of the decipherment of Linear B, the ancient Greek written language of the Mycenaeans.
Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow [1821-1902]
Monday August 29, 2005
German archaeologist, biologist and doctor Rudolf Virchow was interested in many different things, among them cellular biology and archaeology.
Thomas Geoffrey Bibby [1917-2001]
Monday August 29, 2005
English archaeologist T. Geoffrey Bibby was best known for his finally successful search for Dilmun
Dumpokjauratj (Sweden)
Monday August 29, 2005
Dumpokjauratj is the name of an Early Mesolithic (Komsa complex) dwelling located on Lake Dumpokjauratj in the Lappland region of inland Sweden.
R. E. Taylor on Two Cultures
Sunday August 28, 2005
Daily Quote from the day is from archaeologist R.E. Taylor's 2003 article in The Review of Archaeology "The Two Cultures in American Anthropological Archaeology".
University of Capetown - Archaeology Graduate School
Sunday August 28, 2005
The University of Capetown has strengths in the study of human evolution, archaeology of Africa from early hominid to colonialism, archaeometry, and cultural resource management.
Lepenski Vir: Change and Resistance
Sunday August 28, 2005
Lepenski Vir is a series of Mesolithic villages located on a high sandy terrace of the Danube River, on the Serbian bank of the Iron Gates Gorge. The site of ... Read More
Archaeology Quiz: Battle of the Little Bighorn
Sunday August 28, 2005
How many movies have you seen about this famous American conflict? Try this little big quiz and find out how well you've been paying attention.
Quote #191: Foley and Lahr on Sweet Studies
Saturday August 27, 2005
DQ for today is from Robert Foley and Marta Mirazon Lahr's article in Evolutionary Anthropology, "On Stony Ground".
Scenes from Paradise: Jewish Roman Mosaics from Tunisia
Saturday August 27, 2005
A collection of images from an upcoming exhibition of 1st through 3rd century AD mosaics from the site of Hammam-Lif, Tunisia.
Capelinha (Brazil)
Saturday August 27, 2005
The site of Capelinha is a Paleoindian site in the Ribeira do Iguape Valley of Sao Paulo state in Brazil, and it is a shell midden with six human burials.
Numantia (Spain)
Saturday August 27, 2005
The ruins of Numantia are located in the Upper Duero valley of northern Spain, about 7 kilometers from the modern town of Soria.
Warren DeBoer on Experiencing Cahokia Archaeology
Friday August 26, 2005
DQ for today is from an article in 2003 Reviews in Anthropology by archaeologist Warren DeBoer.
Ephesus (Turkey)
Friday August 26, 2005
The archaeological ruins of the Ionian city of Ephesus are located in western Turkey at the mouth of the Cayster River as it enters the Aegean Sea.
History of Dog Domestication
Friday August 26, 2005
The partnership of dog and humans has included assistance with herding and hunting, an early alarm system, and a source of food in addition to the companionship many of us ... Read More
Nazca Lines (Peru)
Friday August 26, 2005
The Nazca Lines are large geometric animal and abstract geoglyphs from rocks in a desert in northern Peru.
Varna (Bulgaria)
Friday August 26, 2005
The Balkan Copper Age cemetery site of Varna is located near the resort town of the same name, on the Black Sea in coastal Bulgaria.
Susan Sontag on vanishing beauty
Thursday August 25, 2005
Today's Daily Quote is from the late writer and essayist Susan Sontag.
Jaguar Cave (USA)
Thursday August 25, 2005
Jaguar Cave is a karst cave located in north central Tennessee, where about 300 human footprints were found, possibly dated to 4500 years ago.
Casualties of War: The Truth about the Iraq Museum
Thursday August 25, 2005
From Matthew Bogdanos in the the American Journal of Archaeology, a report on the current status of the looting in the Iraq Museum since the coalition forces arrived in April ... Read More
Regensburg (Germany)
Thursday August 25, 2005
The modern city of Regensburg, Germany, located at the confluence of the Danube and Regen rivers in Bavaria, has the largest Iron Age Roman fortification in the region.
Minanha (Belize)
Thursday August 25, 2005
Minanha was the name of a Maya petty kingdom, located on the north Vaca Plateau of west-central Belize.
Michael Ondaatje on Unsafely Settled Places
Wednesday August 24, 2005
Today's DQ is fromMichael Ondaatje, the author of the English Patient, although the quote is from something else of his.
Abric Romani (Spain)
Wednesday August 24, 2005
The rockshelter of Abric Romaní is located in a cliff outside of the village of Capellades, 50 kilometers west of Barcelona, Spain, and in Catalonia.
This brief blog listing for ... Read More
Archaeology Quiz: Aksum
Wednesday August 24, 2005
What in the world is Aksum and who do I ask?
Mary Webb on what is Invisible and Mute
Tuesday August 23, 2005
The DQ for today is from British writer Mary Webb.
Ras Budran (Egypt)
Tuesday August 23, 2005
Ras Budran is the name of an Old Kingdom fort, located in the el-Markha Plain on the west coast of the South Sinai peninsula.
Luna (Italy)
Tuesday August 23, 2005
The ruins of the Etruscan, Roman and post-Roman trading port of Luna are located on the coast of northern Italy; they illustrate the end of the Roman empire.
Deer Lake Beach (Canada)
Tuesday August 23, 2005
Deer Lake Beach is a multicomponent Beaches, Beothuk and Recent Indian site, located on an inlet with coastal access in Newfoundland.
Usujiri (Japan)
Tuesday August 23, 2005
The archaeological site of Usujiri is located in the Hokkaido region of Aomori prefecture on the island of Japan.
Tommaso Marinetti on our most dangerous prevaricator
Monday August 22, 2005
Today's quote is from Italian playwright Tommaso Marinetti
Dura-Europos (Syria)
Monday August 22, 2005
Duro-Europos is the name of a Greek colony on the Euphrates River near the modern town of Salhiyé in Syria, and the site of the earliest known Jewish diaspora synagogue.
Etiolles (France)
Monday August 22, 2005
Etiolles is the name of an Upper Paleolithic (Magdalenian) site located on the Seine River near Corbeil-Essonnes about 30 kilometers south of Paris, France.
Ethnoarchaeology
Monday August 22, 2005
Ethnoarchaeology is the use of ethnologic (anthropological) data from living groups as an analogy for understanding people of the past.
Ertebolle-Ellerbeck culture
Monday August 22, 2005
The Ertebolle-Ellerbeck culture is the name given to the Late Mesolithic/Early Neolithic communities of northern Europe.
Quote 185: Baudelaire on the pleasure we derive
Sunday August 21, 2005
Another literary quote today, from French writer Charles Baudelaire.
Erlitou (China)
Sunday August 21, 2005
Erlitou is a very large Bronze Age site (probably Xia Dynasty) located 9 kilometers southwest of Yanshi City in Henan Province of China, dated between 1900-1500 BC.
Epidauros (Greece)
Sunday August 21, 2005
Epidauros is the name of a small city and Greek sanctuary dedicated to Asklepios located on an Mediterranean Sea inlet.
Archaeology Quiz: Rock Art
Sunday August 21, 2005
As far as I'm concerned, rock music is not art. Oh, not Rock Music, Rock Art? Well, that's different. Try this quiz and see what you know about the universal ... Read More
Enlightenment
Sunday August 21, 2005
The Enlightenment is the name given to the period in European history during the 18th and early 19th centuries, when there was a re-birth of interest in science and nature.
Herman Melville on the Textbook of Tyrants
Saturday August 20, 2005
Herman Melville, author of Moby Dick, is the source of today's DQ.
Real Alto (Ecuador)
Saturday August 20, 2005
The archaeological site of Real Alto is a Valdivia culture site, located on the Chanduy Valley less than 3 kilometers in from the coast of southwestern Ecuador.
Vegas (Ecuador)
Saturday August 20, 2005
The Vegas site is located on the coast of Ecuador and is a semi-sedentary habitation site where fisher-hunter-gatherers lived between about 8000 and 6000 years ago.
Vedbaek (Denmark)
Saturday August 20, 2005
The archaeological site of Vedbaek is an Ertebølle culture Mesolithic cemetery site located in Denmark, with early evidence of social stratification.
Archaeology the Comic: A Book Review
Saturday August 20, 2005
Johannes Lubser’s "Archaeology--The Comic" is an introductory archaeology text that uses the graphic novel medium to elucidate many of the trickier technical discussions in archaeology.
B. S. Johnson on the Future of Architecture
Friday August 19, 2005
Pat Reynolds uses this quote from Terry Pratchett's Men at Arms as a signature block, and was kind enough to suggest it to you as the DQ.
Vandals
Friday August 19, 2005
The Vandals were a rowdy people living on the Rhine River in the 5th century AD, who swept through raiding and pillaging most of what is now France and Spain ... Read More
Vallonet Cave (France)
Friday August 19, 2005
Vallonet Cave is a paleolithic cave in the maritime Alps of southeastern France, near the Mediterranean coast near Nice.
Valley of the Kings (Egypt)
Friday August 19, 2005
The Valley of the Kings refers to a long dry valley or wadi running parallel to the Nile River on the west bank opposite Luxor, Egypt.
Valdivia Culture
Friday August 19, 2005
Valdivia culture is the name given by archaeologists to the beginnings of settlement life in Ecuador, South America, between about 3500-1500 BC
Quote 182: Bob and Ray on Keeping a Tidy Museum
Thursday August 18, 2005
I'm a huge fan of the radio comedians Bob and Ray, and so I was delighted to find this appropriate quote to use as the DQ today.
Valcamonica (Italy)
Thursday August 18, 2005
Valcamonica is the name of a valley in northern Italy that is home to numerous rock art sites, some as early as the Upper Paleolithic and into the Iron Age.
Garcilaso de la Vega [1539-1616]
Thursday August 18, 2005
Peruvian-born Garcilaso de la Vega was the son of a conquistador and an Incan princess, and an intellectual and historian of the Inca peoples.
Nikolai I. Vavilov [1887-1943]
Thursday August 18, 2005
Russian biologist Nikolai Vavilov studied plant geneticists and provided much of the background research on which early theories on the origins of agriculture were based.
Madho Sarup Vats
Thursday August 18, 2005
Indian archaeologist Madho Sarup Vats excavated at Harappa in the 1920s and 1930s, under the aegis of the Archaeological Survey of India.
Quote 181: Davies on archaeologists and domestic architecture
Wednesday August 17, 2005
Daily Quote for today is from Robertson Davies odd novel, Murther and Walking Spirits, published in 1991.
Henri Victor Vallois [1889-1981]
Wednesday August 17, 2005
Henri V. Vallois was a French paleontologist who is known most for his work with Marcellin Boule at the Neandertal site of La Chapelle aux Saintes in the early decades ... Read More
Archaeology Quiz: Tenochtitlan
Wednesday August 17, 2005
Tenochtitlan is a heck of a name for an archaeological site. What do you know about it? Try this quiz and find out.
Inca Civilization
Wednesday August 17, 2005
The Inca civilization was the largest pre-hispanic empire of South America when it was 'discovered' by the Spanish conquistadors in the 16th century AD.
Egtved Girl (Denmark)
Wednesday August 17, 2005
Egtved is an extremely well-preserved burial of a Bronze age woman (ca. 1370 BC) located in south Jutland, Denmark.
Andrew Jones on perceiving the Neolithic
Tuesday August 16, 2005
DQ today is from Andrew Jones' 2001 book, Archaeological Theory and Scientific Practice.
Uraha (Malawi)
Tuesday August 16, 2005
The paleontological site of Uraha is located in Malawi, east Africa, and was discovered in the early 1990s by the German archaeologist Friedemann Schrenk.
Sol Tax [1907-1995]
Tuesday August 16, 2005
American Anthropologist Sol Tax was a true innovator in anthropological studies.
Urartu
Tuesday August 16, 2005
Urartu is the ancient name for the region called Ararat in the Judeo-Christian bible, located in parts of what are now the modern day countries of Turkey, Armenia and Iran.
Jules Sébastien César Dumont d'Urville [1790-1842]
Tuesday August 16, 2005
French explorer Dumont d'Urville traveled widely through the world, and made visits to New Zealand, Indonesia, Australia, New Guinea and Antarctica during the early 19th century.
Praetzellis on tolerating ambiguity
Monday August 15, 2005
The quote for today is from Adrian Praetzellis' hilarious introduction to theoretical archaeology (and how many people can say that?), Death by Theory.
El Castillo (Spain, Mexico, and Belize)
Monday August 15, 2005
The name El Castillo ("the Castle" in Spanish) has been given to at least four sites that I'm aware of.
Elmina (Ghana)
Monday August 15, 2005
Elmina is the name of a Portuguese colony built in 1482 in coastal Ghana.
El Tajin (Mexico)
Monday August 15, 2005
El Tajín is the name of the principal metropolitan Classic period Maya site in Veracruz, Mexico.
El Sec (Spain)
Monday August 15, 2005
El Sec is the name given to an unknown Punic shipwreck off the coast of Majorca, Spain, 450 BC.
Grahame Clark on wasting one's life
Sunday August 14, 2005
Today's DQ is from Grahame Clark, quoted in Brian Fagan's biography of the archaeologist dated 1993.
El Paraiso (Chile)
Sunday August 14, 2005
El Paraíso is the name of an early preceramic or Cotton Preceramic site in the Chillon River Valley of coastal Chile.
El Nino Southern Oscillation
Sunday August 14, 2005
El Niño Southern Oscillation (ENSO) is the name given to a climatological effect that has caused havoc in the present and in the past.
Archaeology Quiz: Inca Civilization
Sunday August 14, 2005
The Inca Civilization? Is that where ink comes from? You'll need to know better than that for the trivia quiz this week.
Egolzwil (Switzerland)
Sunday August 14, 2005
Egolzwil is an Alpine Neolithic (late 5th millennium BC) lake dwelling site in Canton Lucerne, Switzerland on the shores of Lake Wauwil.
Henry David Thoreau on what to do with ambitious boobies
Saturday August 13, 2005
The Daily Quote for the day is from Henry David Thoreau, with an amazing lack of interest in the ancient wonders of the world.
Economic Archaeology
Saturday August 13, 2005
A subdiscipline of archaeology or maybe just a byproduct, economic archaeology is the study of how people control their economic resources, most particularly but not entirely, their food supply.
Eastern Agricultural Complex
Saturday August 13, 2005
The Eastern Agricultural Complex refers to the whole range of plants that were selectively tended by Native Americans in eastern North American and the American midwest before corn and beans ... Read More
Easter Island (owned by Chile)
Saturday August 13, 2005
Easter Island is a tiny dot of volcanic matter floating in the South Pacific Ocean, and currently owned by Chile.
Earthlodge
Saturday August 13, 2005
An earthlodge is the name given by archaeologists to refer to a kind of permanent house, built of wattle and daub construction and covered over with sod.
Quote 176: Tarlow on negotiating between a rock and a whirlpool
Friday August 12, 2005
The DQ for today is from Sarah Tarlow's 2000 article in Current Anthropology, Emotion in Archaeology.
Gamla Uppsala (Sweden)
Friday August 12, 2005
The modern town of Uppsala about 45 miles northwest of Stockholm, Sweden, and adjacent to it is a Viking period site called Gamla.
Ust-Mil 2 (Russia)
Friday August 12, 2005
The archaeological site of Ust-Mil is a Dyuktai cultural site located on the Aldan River in the Yakutia region of Siberia.
Uruk (Iraq)
Friday August 12, 2005
The ancient Mesopotamian capital of Uruk is located on an abandoned channel of the Euphrates river about 155 miles south of Baghdad.
Urewe Culture
Friday August 12, 2005
The Urewe Culture is the name given to the first group of iron producers in the Lake Victoria region of eastern and central Africa.
Urnfield Cemetery
Thursday August 11, 2005
An urnfield cemetery, or jar burial, is a type of secondary burial that involves placing the cremated body of a deceased person into a large jar or urn, within a ... Read More
African Cultures - Culture Histories of Africa
Thursday August 11, 2005
The political boundaries of the countries in Africa do not always match the older cultural groups. Here is a selection of the important inter-national cultural groups known for the continent ... Read More
Cracking the Khipu Code: Deciphering the Ancient Incan Writing System
Thursday August 11, 2005
In an August 2005 article in Science magazine, researchers Gary Urton and Carrie Brezine report on the early successes of the Khipu Database Project, in which they believe they have ... Read More
Urbanism
Thursday August 11, 2005
Urbanism is the word used by archaeologists to describe the process that drove people to live in cities.
Urban Revolution
Thursday August 11, 2005
Archaeologists use the term Urban Revolution to refer to the suite of behaviors that seem to occur at the same time as people begin to move into cities.
Clarice Stasz Stoll on collective forgetfulness.
Wednesday August 10, 2005
Today's Daily Quote is from feminist Clarice Stasz Stoll, author of Female & Male.
Urban Archaeology
Wednesday August 10, 2005
The branch of archaeological science called urban archaeology is concerned with the study of cities.
Indigenous Archaeology: Cultural Resource Management by Native Americans
Wednesday August 10, 2005
One of the more exciting trends in archaeology today is the growing active participation of indigenous people in the federal bureaucracy of protecting cultural resources. In this email interview, archaeologists ... Read More
Ur (Iraq)
Wednesday August 10, 2005
The archaeological ruins of the Mesopotamian capital city of Ur, also known as Tell al-Muqayyar, is located near the modern town of Nasiriya in southern Iraq.
Ghana World
Wednesday August 10, 2005
Ghana World contains image-rich information on the history and culture of Ghana. Available in many languages, including English.
Quote 173: Lekson on influential mythologies
Tuesday August 9, 2005
Today's DQ is a pointed comment from Stephen Lekson, in his 1999 book called The Chaco Meridian.
Abysso
Tuesday August 9, 2005
The Abysso site is an Italian site dedicated to diving. The writer named Giammario has compiled photographs of over 900 shipwrecks in the Mediterranean.
Lejre Experimental Centre/a>
Tuesday August 9, 2005
The Lejre Experimental Centre has a reconstructed Iron Age (Viking) village, and conducts replicative experiments on everything from boat construction to the Egtved burial. Danish and English.
Kush Civilization
Tuesday August 9, 2005
After classical Egypt, the first civilization in Africa was called Kush or Kushite, located on the third cataract of the Nile River in what is now the Sudan.
Kastri Group
Tuesday August 9, 2005
The Kastri Group is the name given by Aegean scholars to a cultural group of the Early Cycladic period in the Greek islands and Crete
Poyer and Kelly on Mystification of the Mikea
Monday August 8, 2005
The daily quote for today is from a 2000 article by Lin Poyer and Robert Kelly, in the Journal of Archaeological Research.
Dorian Culture
Monday August 8, 2005
The Dorians were an Iron Age ethnic group in classical Greece
Dorestad (The Netherlands)
Monday August 8, 2005
Dorestad is the name of a Medieval coastal trading site located in the delta region of the Rhine and Maas rivers in the Netherlands, occupied between about 675-875 AD.
Daoism - Taoism
Monday August 8, 2005
Daoism is a belief system that arose in China during the Han dynasty, developing from the primitive shamanism of the Ba culture into a formal Daoist religion during the second ... Read More
Gabon Culture History and Archaeology
Monday August 8, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of Gabon.
Daily Quote: Charles Austin Beard
Sunday August 7, 2005
Today's Daily Quote is another from historian Charles Austin Beard.
Daxi (China)
Sunday August 7, 2005
The Daxi site is a large Neolithic period settlement and cemetery located in Wushan county within Qutang Gorge of the Yangzi River valley, China.
Bruce G. Trigger
Sunday August 7, 2005
Canadian archaeologist Bruce G. Trigger has had one of those careers that make him difficult to summarize in a brief paragraph.
Alfred Marston Tozzer [1876-1954]
Sunday August 7, 2005
Alfred Tozzer was an American archaeologist and anthropologist, passionately interested in the Maya civilization.
Kenyan Culture History and Archaeology
Sunday August 7, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the modern country of Kenya.
Daily Quote: Stephen Spender
Saturday August 6, 2005
Today's DQ is from poet Stephen Spender.
Podgoritsa (Bulgaria)
Saturday August 6, 2005
Podgoritsa is an eneolithic tell site in northeastern Bulgaria.
Ethiopian Culture History and Archaeology
Saturday August 6, 2005
Culture history, archaeological sites, and other information related to the past of the modern country of Ethiopia.
King David's Palace Found?
Saturday August 6, 2005
Eilat Mazar claims to have found the palace of King David in Jerusalem. Her excavations have revealed a wall from a large building that supposedly dates to the time of ... Read More
Fake Mummy to be Reburied
Saturday August 6, 2005
A fake mummy that made an international furor involving Pakistan and Iraq and was on the market for millions of US dollars before being exposed as a fake by Archaeology ... Read More
Cuneiform
Saturday August 6, 2005
One of the earliest forms of writing, cuneiform was (probably) invented in Uruk, Mesopotamia around 3000 BC.
Daily Quote: Glyn Daniel
Friday August 5, 2005
Today's DQ is from British archaeologist Glyn Daniel, from an editorial he wrote in Antiquity.
Culture-People Hypothesis
Friday August 5, 2005
The culture people hypothesis is the theory that specific material culture and characteristics (like pot decorations and projectile point types, etc.) can be associated with a particular cultural group.
Cultural Evolution
Friday August 5, 2005
The theory of cultural evolution was proposed by British archaeologist A.H.L. Fox Pitt-Rivers in the early 20th century.
High-Tech Mummy Investigations
Friday August 5, 2005
Investigators at Stanford University assisted by the computer imaging company Silicon Graphics Inc. have completed a new high-tech image of a 2000-year old Ptolemaic Egyptian mummy without unwrapping her first. ... Read More
Jarigole Pillar (Kenya)
Friday August 5, 2005
The Jarigole Pillar site is a Neolithic pastoralist site located at the foot of the Jarigole Hills in Kenya.
American Megafaunal Extinctions Reconsidered
Friday August 5, 2005
A news story from researchers at the University of Florida suggests megafaunal extinctions may have been the result of human predation, rather than climate change.
Daily Quote: Donald Crabtree
Thursday August 4, 2005
DQ for today is from stone tool specialist Donald E. Crabtree
Dowth (Ireland)
Thursday August 4, 2005
Dowth is the name of a Megalithic passage tomb in the Brugh na Bóinne valley of Ireland, dated to the Early Neolithic period.
Predicting the Location of Hominin Sites in Africa and Asia
Thursday August 4, 2005
Researchers from the University of Bristol have formulated a method of predicting where well-preserved paleolithic archaeological sites might be located, using geomrphology, climate, and vegetation. From the ever-creative Archaeological Data ... Read More
The Adelaide Baker
Thursday August 4, 2005
The PAST foundation conducted underwater research at the wreck of the Adelaide Baker, an 1860s bark that was lost in 1889, and is part of the National Marine Sanctuary's Shipwreck ... Read More
Dongshanzui (China)
Thursday August 4, 2005
Dongshanzui is the name of a Hongshan culture site in Kazuo county, Liaoning province, China, occupied between 4700-2920 BC.
Daily Quote: Laurence Flanagan
Wednesday August 3, 2005
Today's DQ is from archaeologist Laurence Flanagan's Ancient Ireland: Life Before the Celts.
Dong Son Culture
Wednesday August 3, 2005
The Dong Son culture is a Bronze age culture including all of southeast Asia and into the Indo-Malaya Archipelago from about 1000 to 1 BC.
Dong Dau (Vietnam)
Wednesday August 3, 2005
The site of Dong Dau is a deeply stratified Neolithic and Bronze Age archaeological site, located in the coastal plains of the Red River of central Vietnam.
DOI Reverses NAGPRA Position
Wednesday August 3, 2005
Dr. Judith Bense of the Society for Historical Archaeology reports that the Bush Administration's Department of Interior now opposes the McCain amendment altering the definition of Native American, as reported ... Read More
Domestication
Wednesday August 3, 2005
Domestication is the process of genetically adapting an animal or plant to better suit the needs of human beings; this page includes a definition of domestication and a table of ... Read More
Exit Interview: Why People Quit Archaeology
Wednesday August 3, 2005
While a career in archaeology as a field technician sounds like an exciting and fulfilling career, the demands it places on one's personal life may not add up to a ... Read More
Dmanisi (Georgia)
Wednesday August 3, 2005
Dmanisi is the name of a very old archaeological site located in the Caucausus of the Republic of Georgia, about 85 kilometers southwest of the modern town of Tbilisi.
Daily Quote: George Orwell
Tuesday August 2, 2005
DQ for today is from George Orwell, British writer of Nineteen Eighty Four, which seems like an amazing novel today.
Diuktai Cave (Russia)
Tuesday August 2, 2005
Diuktai Cave is an archaeological site on the Aldan River, a tributary of the Lena in eastern Siberia, occupied by a group that may have been ancestral to some Paleoarctic ... Read More
Diring Yuriakh (Russia)
Tuesday August 2, 2005
Diring Yuriakh is a controverial early hominid site in the Siberian region of Russia, believed to have been occupied around 300,000 years ago, with an Olduvai-like pebble tool assemblage.
Dinggong (China)
Tuesday August 2, 2005
Dinggong is a Longshan village site in Zhouping County of Shandong Province, China, dated to the Late Neolithic period.
Diffusion
Tuesday August 2, 2005
Archaeologists use the word "diffusion" to mean the movement of ideas over space and time.
Daily Quote: Alexander Dumas
Monday August 1, 2005
This DQ is from Alexander Dumas, writer of the Count of Monte Cristo and the Three Musketeers; it is one of my favorite insults of all time.
Diaspora
Monday August 1, 2005
Archaeologists use the term 'diaspora' to refer to any large scale migration, whether voluntary or forced.
Dian Kingdom
Monday August 1, 2005
The Dian Kingdom is the name of a Chinese Bronze Age culture and dynasty with evidence of iron-forging, in eastern Yunnan province of southwestern China (ca. 1000-1 BC).
Dhar Tichitt (Mauritania)
Monday August 1, 2005
Dhar Tichitt is the name of a group of villages located along the edge of a limestone cliff in south central Mauritania from between 2000-800 BC.
Dendrochronology
Monday August 1, 2005
Dendrochronology is the name given to the archaeological dating technique which uses the growth rings of long-lived trees as a calendar.