Early African Slaves
Tuesday January 31, 2006
This article in the New York Times today discusses work by T.D. Price and others on a site in Mexico where evidence of African slaves--people born in West Africa and ... Read More
The World in Ancient Times: Primary Sources and Reference Volume: a book review
Sunday January 29, 2006
The World in Ancient Times: Primary Sources and Reference Volume is an excellent introduction for middle school students to the literature of the world's ancient civilizations, and the final volume ... Read More
Intelligent Designs on Evolution
Sunday January 29, 2006
From American RadioWorks, this website by Mary Beth Kirchner provides an hour-long documentary and transcript concerning the ongoing discussion about teaching intelligent design alongside evolution in science classes.
Ancient Houses
Saturday January 28, 2006
Establishing shelter outside of a cave or rockshelter is one of the oldest inventions of humans. These are the types of ancient houses built by our ancestors; part of the ... Read More
Colours of Ancient Egypt
Wednesday January 25, 2006
Colour (Ancient Egyptian name 'iwen') was considered an integral part of an item's or person's nature in Ancient Egypt, and the term could interchangeably mean colour, appearance, character, being, or ... Read More
Ancient American Civilizations
Tuesday January 24, 2006
The continents of North and South America were 'discovered' by the European civilizations in the late 15th century AD, but their ancient civilizations were vast and thriving long before the ... Read More
A realm of dragons and dinosaurs
Monday January 23, 2006
On the Mountains of Kaf weblogger Genie reveals in a poetic well-measured essay why she diverted her professional career towards the practice of archaeology in cultural resource management, despite early ... Read More
Was the Plague of Athens Typhoid?
Monday January 23, 2006
In 426-430 BC, according to Thucydides, the ancient cosmopolitan city of Athens, Greece was devastated by a plague. The plague decimated the population and was one of the major ... Read More
American Museum of Natural History Pictures
Monday January 23, 2006
A collection of great photographs from several exhibits at the American Museum of Natural History, from About's guide to New York City, Heather Cross.
The First Emperor: The Man Who Made China
Monday January 23, 2006
On the Discovery Channel this coming Sunday, January 29, 9-11 PM ET/PT, is a new special on the first emperor of China, Emperor Chin (also spelled Qin). Emperor Chin or ... Read More
Monte Alban and the Zapotec Civilization
Sunday January 22, 2006
Monte Alban was the capital city of the Zapotec Civilization, sited 1400 meters above sea level in the Valley of Oaxaca of central Mexico. The Zapotecs and their amazing city ... Read More
Plagiarism and Copyright
Sunday January 22, 2006
About's Ancient History guide N.S. Gill has a timely article on plagiarism and copyright this weekend, well worth a read.
Why the Neanderthals Failed
Saturday January 21, 2006
About 35,000 years ago, our distant cousins the Neanderthals died out. What advantage did Homo sapiens have that allowed us to survive this early Darwinian conflict? Researchers working in a ... Read More
Tomb Raiders: Iraq Museum
Friday January 20, 2006
Despite reports of the return of artifacts to the Baghdad Museum, looting and destruction of archaeological sites within the country of Iraq continues, partly resulting from construction processes led by ... Read More
Doing Archaeology: A Cultural Resource Management Perspective
Thursday January 19, 2006
Tom King's Doing Archaeology is one of the first from the new archaeology publishing company Left Coast Press and an excellent introduction to what the career of an archaeologist working ... Read More
Wreck of the Joseph S. Fay (Michigan USA) Dig 2006
Thursday January 19, 2006
The PAST Foundation is conducting terrestrial archaeology documentation of this early 20th century shipwreck between June 19-30, 2006. The steamer Joseph S. Fay was lost on October 19, 1905. A ... Read More
Wreck of the Slobodna: Underwater Dig 2006
Thursday January 19, 2006
Another underwater field school by the PAST foundation is this one, to be held between July 30-August 11, 2006 and including underwater archaeology survey of the wreck of the late ... Read More
Forensic Archaeology Field School, Lincoln Nebraska
Wednesday January 18, 2006
If you're a CSI fan and between the ages of 16 and 20, spend a couple of days in June at the PAST Foundation's forensic archaeology field school, being held ... Read More
Dig 2006: Bahia del Campo, Dominican Republic
Wednesday January 18, 2006
The PAST Foundation is also holding two weeks of an underwater archaeology dig in the Dominican Republic between May 23-June 9, 2006. The field school begins looking at the indigenous ... Read More
Old Town St. Charles - Archaeology Digs 2006
Wednesday January 18, 2006
The PAST Foundation is running six archaeology digs this summer, including one at Old Town St. Charles, Missouri in the American midwest, running from May 28-June 10, 2006. Old ... Read More
Domestication of the Dog
Tuesday January 17, 2006
This month's Journal of Archaeological Science contains Darcy F. Morey's survey of data of prehistoric dog burials and the implications for the timing of the domestication of the dog. Morey ... Read More
How (Not) to Engage with Alternative Archaeologies
Tuesday January 17, 2006
The Hall of Ma'at news group discusses the 2005 article by Cornelius Holtorf in World Archaeology entitled 'Beyond Crusades' about how alternative archaeology theories ought to be treated--better than they ... Read More
Dental Art on Vikings Related to Native American Style?
Monday January 16, 2006
David Beard writing in Archaeology in Europe has the story on several examples of dental art carved into several Viking men's teeth in Sweden and Denmark that are comparable to ... Read More
Dig 2006: Parole, Maryland
Monday January 16, 2006
June 5-July 14, 2006. University of Maryland. Excavations within the city will take place in Parole, the site of a Civil War prison camp, and a working- and middle-class African ... Read More
Dig 2006: Say Kah, Belize
Sunday January 15, 2006
May 16, 2006–June 13, 2006. University of New Brunswick. Fieldwork will be done in and around the site of Say Kah, a "minor centre" of significant architectural complexity and is ... Read More
History of Archaeology: The Series
Sunday January 15, 2006
The history of archaeology is a long and checkered one. If there is anything archaeology teaches us, it is to look to the past to learn from our mistakes and, ... Read More
Kampsville Illinois: Archaeology Digs 2006
Sunday January 15, 2006
As usual, a wide array of archaeology dig opportunities at Kampsville (southwestern Illinois) during the summer 2006 run by the Center for American Archaeology. Field schools scheduled for 2006 are ... Read More
Winners of the Taung Child Limerick Contest
Sunday January 15, 2006
The recent news about the australopithicus Taung Baby, whose skull had holes attributed to being carried off by an eagle, was originally suggested in a 1996 article in Nature. In ... Read More
Five Top Myths and Unknown Facts about Arrowheads
Saturday January 14, 2006
Arrowheads are among the most easily recognized artifact in the world. These little tools are often the subject of a number of myths, legends and misconceptions; here is a description ... Read More
Archaeology Digs 2006: Apple Creek, Missouri
Saturday January 14, 2006
This year's excavation at the Delaware historic Native American site at Apple Creek by the Southwest Missouri State University will be held
June 12-July 21, 2006. Summer excavations will be undertaken ... Read More
New-McGraw Site, Kansas: Archaeology Dig 2006
Friday January 13, 2006
Kansas State University's field school this summer will be conducted from June 5-June 30, 2006. The archaeology dig will focus on the New-McGraw site, a newly discovered Plains Woodland occupation ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2006: Collier Lodge, Indiana
Friday January 13, 2006
The 2006 archaeology dig from the University of Notre Dame once again combines archaeology with geophysical survey (remote sensing) at both historic and prehistoric sites. Running from May 30-July 15 ... Read More
Eastern Pequot Archaeology Field School
Thursday January 12, 2006
The annual archaeology dig for Summer 2006 run by U Mass at Boston will be held June 28-August 4, 2006. As in previous years, in collaboration with the Eastern Pequot ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2006: Deerfield Mass
Thursday January 12, 2006
The 2006 excavations at the Deerfield, Massachusetts site conducted by UMass Amherst will be June 13 through July 15, 2006. Historic Pocumtuck Native American site, investigating evidence of Queen ... Read More
Was the Taung Baby Bird Food?
Thursday January 12, 2006
News story making the rounds today reports on paleoanthropologist Lee Berger's contention that the Taung Baby was the victim of an attack by an eagle. The Taung baby or Taung ... Read More
Lost Star of Myth and Time: A Book Review
Thursday January 12, 2006
Walter Cruttenden's book Lost Star of Myth and Time is well written, a lively text and obviously heavily researched. According to my latest book review, The Lost Star is a ... Read More
The Hittite Empire
Thursday January 12, 2006
The Hittite empire ruled much of Anatolia--roughly what today is Turkey--between about 1340-1200 BC. This glossary entry from the Dictionary of Archaeology describes the culture and a timeline of its ... Read More
New Videos at TAC
Tuesday January 10, 2006
Two new videos at The Archaeology Channel this week, both from California, called The Obsidian Trail on obsidian sourcing studies and the other an introduction to field work in ... Read More
The Sea Kings: The Prophecy
Monday January 9, 2006
This first book in Les Cole's Sea King Trilogy is an exciting, detailed romance of the high seas of the Mediterranean Sea during the Bronze Age. The hero, Tanuati, a ... Read More
Spear Pressure
Sunday January 8, 2006
Last week, Jon Stewart's the Daily Show did some fake news on the movement in Pennsyvlania to legalize atlatl throwing as a legally acceptable method of hunting deer. Even though ... Read More
Marcajirca, Peru Field School 2006
Friday January 6, 2006
A field school run by Bebel Ibarra
of the University of Paris will be held July 15-August 30, 2006., at the site of Marajirica, in the Huari province of Ancash ... Read More
Who They Were: World Trade Center and Forensic Anthropology
Thursday January 5, 2006
A new book on the intensive DNA and forensic research it took to identify physical remains of 58 percent of the World Trade Center victims has been published by the ... Read More
Reporting from the Middle Awash
Thursday January 5, 2006
Today anthropology blogger John Hawks remarks on a paper in Nature on archaeological fieldwork at the paleontological sites in the Afar region in Ethiopia; he includes a few snippets of ... Read More
Maurice Beresford
Wednesday January 4, 2006
A note via David at the Cronaca archaeology blog brings this sad news about Maurice Beresford, economist and archaeologist at the University of Leeds. Beresford is best known in archaeological ... Read More
Indus Civilization, Not Indus Valley Civilization
Wednesday January 4, 2006
Blogged yesterday on the ArchaeoBlog page is a discussion of an article in the Hindustan Times by internationally recognized Cambridge University scholar Dilip Chakrabarti. In it, Dr. Chakrabarti points out ... Read More
Archaeology and New Orleans Clean Up
Tuesday January 3, 2006
The New York Times today has a profile of Shannon Lee Dawdy, an archaeologist with a long professional relationship with the city of New Orleans. Dr. Dawdy, an assistant professor ... Read More
New Dates for Vindija Cave
Monday January 2, 2006
Vindija Cave, an archaeological site in Croatia, has since 1999 been considered evidence for Neanderthals living in Europe as recently as 28,000 years ago, and certainly proof for humans and ... Read More
Aptera, Crete
Sunday January 1, 2006
The Minoan culture site of Aptera is located near the modern port city of Paleokastro on the island of Crete. This English language website from Nectarios Mavromatakis contains information about ... Read More