Saving Antiquities for Everyone
Tuesday February 28, 2006
The organization SAFE (Saving Antiquities for Everyone) is a nonprofit organization based in New York and dedicated to "ending the destruction of our shared cultural heritage and undiscovered past by ... Read More
Octavia Butler on letting the past go
Monday February 27, 2006
Octavia Butler died over the weekend. This African American science fiction writer spoke a lot about tradition, family, and overcoming obstacles, and while she was not an archaeologist, many of ... Read More
Mount Sandel: The Earliest Human Settlement in Ireland
Monday February 27, 2006
Mount Sandel is the name of a small cluster of the oldest houses in what is today Ireland, first built during the Mesolithic period about 9,000 years ago. The seven ... Read More
New Statue of Ramses II Found
Sunday February 26, 2006
Egypt's Supreme Antiquities Council is reporting the recovery of a new statue of Ramses II (known as Ramses the Great, and famous as the Pharaoh of the Hebrew bible):
Egypt announces ... Read More
A Good Neanderthal....
Sunday February 26, 2006
From the NYT's John Noble Wilford, an essay today on the possible interaction of Neanderthals and Modern humans
A Good Neanderthal Was Hard to Find - New York Times
Titanic's Last Moments: History Channel
Sunday February 26, 2006
The History Channel conducted an expedition to the Titanic wreck in August of last year, to produce new footage and historical information about this most famous of sailing tragedies. The ... Read More
Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History - Book Review
Saturday February 25, 2006
Frederick Smith's new book titled Caribbean Rum: A Social and Economic History details the story of rum making within the context of the African and European culture, both at home ... Read More
Kennewick Man Intentionally Buried
Friday February 24, 2006
Physical anthropologist Douglas Owsley, in a paper at the Amerian Academy of Forensic Sciences this week in Seattle, reports his interpretations of the Kennewick Man burial as an intentional burial, ... Read More
Revisions to Human Settlement of Europe
Friday February 24, 2006
The story making the rounds based on Paul Mellars' article in Nature about the redating of human settlement of Europe didn't get me too excited, and here is that excellent ... Read More
New Harappan City Found
Friday February 24, 2006
Recent news from India suggests a new city belonging to the ancient Indus civilization has been found, in the Rohtak district near Meham, India. The site, called Daksh Khera, ... Read More
William Wordsworth's The Thorn
Thursday February 23, 2006
In an essay entitled "From Relics to Remains", Boston University literature professor Charles J. Rzepka discusses the influences of Stonehenge and early 18th century archaeologist William Stukeley on the poet ... Read More
Ur Exhibit Opens in Houston
Thursday February 23, 2006
According to the Houston Chronicle, the fabulous exhibit from the University of Pennsyvlania on the Royal Tombs of Ur has arrived at Houston's Museum of Natural Science and will stay ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2006: Mitrou, Greece
Wednesday February 22, 2006
The University of Tennessee's Classics department will conduct a field school in Greece this year, from June 15-August 2, 2006. The aim of the field school is to explore the ... Read More
Sureyya's Journey: A Bump in the Road
Wednesday February 22, 2006
Every road in life has its obstacles, and obtaining a career in archaeology is no different. In this third installment of Sureyya's Journey, aspiring archaeologist Sureyya Kose discovers that her ... Read More
A Visit to Cahokia
Tuesday February 21, 2006
Blogger John Daly (UNESCO News: Education and Culture) reports on a day trip he took to the World Heritage Site of Cahokia Mounds, in the state of Illinois, American middle ... Read More
Megalithic Portals: Peirre Levée au Bois Bouéry
Tuesday February 21, 2006
Megalithic Portals has a new listing today, a French dolmen with a mushroom-shaped capstone:
The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Pierre Levée au Bois Bouéry [dolmen de Bouéry, la Pierre aux ... Read More
CSA Newsletter, Winter 2006
Tuesday February 21, 2006
The Center for the Study of Architecture and Archaeology just released the Winter 2006 issue of the CSA Newsletter, Computing Technologies for Archaeologists and Architectural Historians. CSA's newsletter, edited ... Read More
Blogging for Archaeology Outreach: The Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project Blog
Monday February 20, 2006
The Official and Unofficial Tell es-Safi/Gath Archaeological Project Blog is an innovative use of the weblog for public outreach, dedicated to describing research at the Tell es-Safi archaeological site (Biblical ... Read More
Man the Hunted
Saturday February 18, 2006
Did social connections evolve to protect us from being on somebody's menu? A panel session at the St. Louis American Association for the Advancement of Science going on in St. ... Read More
Teenage Cave Art
Saturday February 18, 2006
According to this news story in Live Science, paleobiologist Dale Guthrie believes that cave art was the result of teenage male behavior. Hmmm. I wonder if they cut their hair ... Read More
Writing Archaeology - A book review
Saturday February 18, 2006
Writing Archaeology is prolific writer Brian Fagan's introduction to authoring books and articles on general archaeological topics that fairly bursts with information on everything from considering your market to writing ... Read More
Super-Aerial Archaeology
Friday February 17, 2006
Recent information on the use of NASA satellite imagery to peer into the jungly darkness of the Guatemala to help William Saturno map ruins associated with the San Bartolo site, ... Read More
Visible Proofs: Forensic Archaeology
Friday February 17, 2006
The Visible Proofs website from the National Institutes of Health describes more than a dozen cases where forensic archaeology studies have solved mysteries, using DNA and other laboratory techniques made ... Read More
Tell es Safi/Gath Archaeology Project Blog
Friday February 17, 2006
The Tell es-Sath project blog contains live and running commentary on the processes of archaeology field and laboratory work, from the site director Aren Maeir. I believe this is the ... Read More
Butrint: City of Mosaics - the Architectural Gem of Butrint
Friday February 17, 2006
The World Heritage site of Butrint, located in southwest Albania on the Mediterranean Sea, is a unique blend of Greek and Roman and Byzantine and Venetian architecture, a result of ... Read More
Archaeology Definitions - A Dictionary of Pithy Quotes
Thursday February 16, 2006
The word 'archaeology' has been defined in many ways by many different people, including numerous working archaeologists struggling to encapsulate this most strange profession with its primary emphasis on garbage. ... Read More
Popham Colony
Wednesday February 15, 2006
Archaeology magazine has a story this month on Jeffrey Brain's Popham Colony, located on the coast of Maine in the northeastern United States.
The Little Colony That Couldn't
Unknown Egyptian E
Wednesday February 15, 2006
Another interesting article in the online version of Archaeology magazine this month concerns investigations by mummy expert Bob Brier into the identity of an Egyptian mummy excavated by Gaston Maspero ... Read More
Artful Surgery
Wednesday February 15, 2006
New additions to Archaeology magazine's online version this month includes this article on the evidence for skilled surgical techniques on a Thracian woman from the Clazomenean colony at Abdera (7th ... Read More
New at The Archaeology Channel
Wednesday February 15, 2006
The Archaeology Channel - Utah Videos
Two new videos from TAC this week include the Secrets of the Lost Canyon, on Fremont Culture archaeological sites at the Range Creek and a ... Read More
Baltic Amber Trade
Tuesday February 14, 2006
Baltic amber is an exotic lithic material made from the sap from pine trees some 35-40 million years old, amber was (and still is) a highly tradeable item; and the ... Read More
Archaeology Digs 2006: Angel Mounds, Indiana
Tuesday February 14, 2006
May 9-June 15, 2006. Indiana University (Glenn Black Laboratory). An archaeological field school at the Angel Mounds State Historic Site near Evansville Indiana. This project will focus on the excavation ... Read More
Persepolis Stairway Revealed
Tuesday February 14, 2006
According to the latest from CAIS (Archaeological and Cultural Daily News from Iran), an archaeological team at Persepolis has identified the original design of one of the destroyed staircases ... Read More
An Olympic Excavation
Tuesday February 14, 2006
The existence of the modern Olympic games is due in part to the efforts of one determined archaeologist. In 1875, German archaeologist Ernst Curtius realized one of his life long ... Read More
Images from the New Kingdom Tomb
Monday February 13, 2006
By now there are several images floating around on the Internet of the New Kingdom tomb reported by the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities on Friday. Here's what I've found ... Read More
Yeti Researcher - Society for Cryptic Hominid Investigation
Monday February 13, 2006
The Yeti Researcher, a quarterly journal dedicated to the study of cryptic hominids such as Big Foot and Sasquatch, is a serio-comic riff on academic and amateur scientist journals, by ... Read More
Digital Preservation Training
Saturday February 11, 2006
This one-week residential course at the University of Birmingham in the UK is to help companies and institutions move documents and other data to digital format, and was the 2004 ... Read More
Newly Discovered Tomb in Egypt's Valley of the Kings
Friday February 10, 2006
Anouk Zijlma, Africa for Visitors, has the latest on the first intact New Kingdom tomb found in the Egyptian Valley of Kings since Howard Carter found Tutankhamun in 1922. Early ... Read More
New Kingdom Tomb Found
Thursday February 9, 2006
Although the whole news story is scheduled for release tomorrow, Reuters is leaking a little information about a recently discovered Egyptian tomb dating to the New Kingdom and roughly contemporaneous ... Read More
Charles Darwin's 197th Birthday Celebration
Thursday February 9, 2006
The University of Pennsyvlania Museum is celebrating Charles Darwin's 197th birthday this Sunday with a teach-in by Dr. Janet Monge, pictured here with hominid fossil casts from the University of ... Read More
Medieval Kootwijk
Wednesday February 8, 2006
A small 6th-11th century settlement in what is now the Netherlands provides a window into the early Medieval farming communities of the Lowlands.
Dig 2006: Elbee Site (North Dakota, USA)
Wednesday February 8, 2006
June 5-July 14, 2006 (4- and 6-week sessions). University of North Dakota. The Elbee Site is a multi-component site located along the Knife River, the most prominent being a Plains ... Read More
On Being a Scientist
Tuesday February 7, 2006
What does being a scientist mean? Archaeological chemist Nikolaas van der Merwe (Professor of Natural History, University of Cape Town) has given some thought to the question; and he recently ... Read More
HB139: Archaeologist (not) Wanted
Monday February 6, 2006
A bill is up for consideration in the Utah state legislature to do away with the state archaeologist, transferring authority over the permitting process for excavation of archaeological sites to ... Read More
Prehistoric Flint Flakes of the Forest
Monday February 6, 2006
Prehistoric Flint Chips is an illustrated guide to what archaeologists look at when they see a 'welter of flint chips' or, as your run of the mill archaeologist would have ... Read More
Women in Archaeology: Jacquetta Hawkes
Monday February 6, 2006
From Christine Finn, an online biography of pioneer public archaeologist and poet Jacquetta Hawkes. And what a great idea this is!
Early Africans in the New World - Archaeology and Isotope Analysis at Campeche, Yucata
Sunday February 5, 2006
Stable isotope analysis has assisted in identifying what may be among the earliest Africans in the New World, and perhaps indications of slavery in the early 16th century between West ... Read More
A Study Guide to the Neanderthals
Saturday February 4, 2006
A study guide to our distant cousins, the Neanderthals, including an overview, important facts, archaeological sites, suggestions for further reading and study questions.
Bibliographies in Archaeology by Topic
Friday February 3, 2006
Two new bibliographies have been posted this week, part of Archaeology 101's background research section, including one on Aztecs and one on Neanderthals. Yippee! (okay, maybe bibliographies are an acquired ... Read More
Archaeology Digs 2006: Torre d'en Galmès, Spain
Wednesday February 1, 2006
Boston University will take a student group to dig in Spain in May and June this year, excavating an Iron Age structure later used during the Roman occupation.
Archaeology Digs 2006: Mount Lowe, California
Wednesday February 1, 2006
Stanford University is conducting its second season of the Mount Lowe project between June 19-July 26, 2006. The goal this year is to explore the archaeological potential of Mount ... Read More