Is it All Loot?
Friday March 31, 2006
Acting on a tip from James Sinclair on the Subarch mailing list, I found this transcript of a discussion from March 6, at the New School in New York, on ... Read More
Readings: Archaeology at Strangways Springs Sheep Station
Friday March 31, 2006
In a recent article in Historical Archaeology called "Early Pastoral Landscapes and Cultural Contact", Alistair Paterson (University of Western Australia) describes archaeological investigations into a sheep station in central Australia. ... Read More
Archaeology Quotations
Thursday March 30, 2006
Looking for that perfect quote for an upcoming speech, an epigram for a dissertation, or something to engrave on your tombstone? Over the years, I've collected over 200 pithy quotes ... Read More
Hatshepsut Found?
Wednesday March 29, 2006
Andrew Cagle's Archaeoblog has the story today about the discovery of the 18th dynasty Egyptian queen Hatshepsut's mummy, on the third floor of the Egyptian Museum in Cairo, of all ... Read More
Penelope Lively on Howling Landscapes - Archaeology Quotations
Wednesday March 29, 2006
Archaeology Quote #200 is from British novelist and children's writer Penelope Lively's latest book, Making it Up. In this series of short stories, Lively describes what her life might ... Read More
Global Warming - Most Americans Believe Global Warming is a Threat
Wednesday March 29, 2006
Our environmental issues guide Larry West reports on the latest Time magazine poll on global warming in this interesting article.
Most Americans Believe Global Warming is a Threat
Readings: Fair Trade and Indigenous Peoples
Tuesday March 28, 2006
Last fall's issue of Cultural Survival Quarterly was dedicated to the 'fair trade' issue; how the idea works among indigenous peoples, and what it takes to get that cup of ... Read More
Readings: Sacrifices of the Moche
Tuesday March 28, 2006
An article by Richard Sutter and Rosa Cortez in Current Anthropology made it across my desk this winter, discussing the several ideas about who it was that the Moche sacrificed. ... Read More
Magic Flutes: Neanderthal Bone Flutes in China
Tuesday March 28, 2006
An article in Natural History by Zhang Juzhong and Lee Yun Kuen describes bird bone flutes recovered from the Neolithic site of Jiahu, dated to at least 8,000 years ago. ... Read More
Peter Brown and the Hobbit
Tuesday March 28, 2006
The latest video from The Archaeology Channel is an interview with archaeologist Peter Brown, who with his colleagues found the hominid Homo floresiensis, or the Hobbit, as it has come ... Read More
Smoke Pfeiffer's Directory of National and International Archaeological Societies
Monday March 27, 2006
Smoke Pfeiffer has had a directory of archaeological associations and clubs on this site, and many others for that matter, for a number of years. The detail that he provided ... Read More
Raised Field Agriculture
Sunday March 26, 2006
Kelly Hale on Anthropology.net discusses the University of Pennsylvania project on the reconstruction of ancient raised field agriculture, and what that has the opportunity to do for the future.
Archaeology in ... Read More
The Ancient Japanese City of Nara
Sunday March 26, 2006
The ancient city of Nara, Japan, is nearing its 1300th anniversary, and the beauty of its intact architecture and the continued integrity of the ancient city's ruins is the result ... Read More
Desert Pavement Theories
Thursday March 23, 2006
Most deserts aren't sandy, but stony. Most theories explain this through geologic processes that blow away the sand or winnow out the rocks. But a recent theory turns them upside-down: ... Read More
The Irritable Heart: Increased Risk of Physical and Psychological Effects of Trauma in Civil War Veterans
Wednesday March 22, 2006
Psychologists working with the federally-funded database of Civil War records called the Early Indicators of Later Work Levels, Disease, and Death Project, have discovered evidence of health and mental problems ... Read More
In Search of Attila
Wednesday March 22, 2006
On the bulletin board, Porus thinks he knows of a site in Romania that might be a 5th century fortification of Attila's. He just heard back from a Romanian archaeologist; ... Read More
NOVA: America's Stone Age Explorers
Tuesday March 21, 2006
Public Broadcasting's NOVA series has a new program on the peopling of America and the Clovis/preClovis debate. The website includes resources for teachers, a couple of interactive features and some ... Read More
The Sphinx: A Poem by Ralph Waldo Emerson
Tuesday March 21, 2006
During the 19th century, many of the planet's great writers and poets wandered into the ruins of the ancient world. The American transcendentalist Ralph Waldo Emerson was one of them. ... Read More
Results for the TAC Film Festival
Tuesday March 21, 2006
Competitive results are available from the International Film Festival of TAC held in Oregon last week.
AlphaGalileo.Org | TAC Film Festival Awards
The Heart of Whiteness
Tuesday March 21, 2006
Interview of writer and journalism professor Robert Jensen on his most recent book called The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism, and White Privilege touches on some interesting issues about ... Read More
Homer, in Color
Tuesday March 21, 2006
A 2,500 year old coffin discovered at the site of Palaepaphos on the island of Cyprus, is lavishly decorated with images of the Greek hero Ulysses in scenes from the ... Read More
The American Antiquities Act
Tuesday March 21, 2006
The online version of Archaeology magazine has a special feature on the 100th anniversary of the American Antiquities Act, including a book review of the new book out called A ... Read More
Inuit, and Bad News
Monday March 20, 2006
Kambiz Kamrani, writing in Anthropology.net, describes the extensive changes which have taken place in Inuit lives recently, beyond the tricky use of GIS discussed here:
Inuit News | Anthropology.net
A Handful of Dust
Monday March 20, 2006
Science fiction writer J.G. Ballard writes an intriguing column on the architecture of the modern age of the late 1920s and early 1930s, and why it seems fitting that you ... Read More
Goofy in Rome
Monday March 20, 2006
Writing on the blog for the journal European Journal of Archaeology, Troels explains why visiting the Disney store in Corso is an archaeological experience not to be missed.
Archaeological Pastiches ... Read More
The Case against Flores
Sunday March 19, 2006
Kelly Hale writing on the AnthropologyNet blog provides notes collected during a lecture by Robert Martin of the Field Museum, who argues that the Flores hominid (called the Hobbit in ... Read More
Google Earth: Find the Archaeology
Saturday March 18, 2006
Find the Archaeology is a game on the Google Earth community bulletin board where people post an aerial photograph of an archaeological site and users must figure out where it ... Read More
Satellite Aerial Photography
Saturday March 18, 2006
In the Harvard University Gazette yesterday was this story on archaeologist Jason Ur's research using satellite imagery to track water control in the ancient Near East. Ur believes he has ... Read More
More on Curious George
Friday March 17, 2006
This kind of smart-alecky news report is why the cultural heritage community sometimes looks like a bunch of humorless gits. You have a beloved children's book (heavens! it was even ... Read More
Atlatl May Be Approved for Hunting
Friday March 17, 2006
The Pennyslvania Game Hunting Commission gave preliminary approval to the use of the atlatl and dart, a hunting weapon first used about 20,000 years ago, for use by game hunters ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2006: Fort Vancouver, Washington
Friday March 17, 2006
The sixth season of excavations at the Fort Vancouver National Historic Reserve will be conducted June through August 2006. Jointly run by the National Park Service, Portland State University, and ... Read More
Maya Glyphs
Thursday March 16, 2006
This feature story in the University of Texas Press corner is a nice piece on the discovery of very early Maya glyphs at the Guatemalan site of San Bartolo, courtesy ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2006: Briquetage de la Seille (France)
Thursday March 16, 2006
July 16 to 26 August 2006. Projet Briquetage de la Seille. The Briquetage Field School, Moselle, France, is a training school for all students with an interest in archaeology, anthropology, ... Read More
Machteld Johanna Mellink [1917-2006] - A Passionate Involvement
Thursday March 16, 2006
The Dutch archaeologist Machteld Mellink, who died in February 2006 at the age of 88, was an expert in Anatolian archaeology with a 40-year career teaching and practicing archaeology at ... Read More
Imperfect Multi-Tasking
Thursday March 16, 2006
It was pointed out to me this morning that I gave a faulty link to "blogger extraordinaire" John Hawks' site, and I can only confess to flawed multi-tasking on my ... Read More
How African Are You?
Wednesday March 15, 2006
An article on the online Slate magazine by John Hawks, blogger extraordinaire, describes why DNA testing is not going to tell you precisely what your family origins are. Way to ... Read More
Ancient Beer and Modern Day Beer Tasting
Wednesday March 15, 2006
From the blog of Carolyn Smagalski (BellaOnline) comes this article on the visit of British beer expert Michael Jackson (not the same guy) to University of Pennsylvania Museum's exhibit on ... Read More
Antiquities Act Centennial
Tuesday March 14, 2006
Archaeology magazine has a special on the 100th anniversary of the American Antiquities Act, discussed at length on the National Park Service website:
Antiquities Act Centennial, Archaeology magazine
National Park Service: American ... Read More
Ancient Sound Recording from Pompeii?
Tuesday March 14, 2006
One story making some blogs around the country is that a piece of pottery from Pompeii was found to have had sound recordings inadvertently embedded in it during construction. The ... Read More
1000 Uses for Your Trowel
Monday March 13, 2006
When I was in graduate school, and driving around in the American midwest planning my MA research with a fellow graduate student, we got stuck in the mud. I left ... Read More
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter
Monday March 13, 2006
The online quarterly African Diaspora Newsletter, edited by Christopher Fennell, just published its March issue, featuring articles and essays by Carol McDavid, Kelley Deetz, and Matthew Reeves, a compiled list ... Read More
Kennewick Man: Latest News and Information
Sunday March 12, 2006
Although there has been no formal publication as of yet, some information concerning the findings of the scientific team allowed to examine Kennewick Man has come out, in the form ... Read More
The Master Plan: Himmler's Scholars and the Holocaust - a Book Review
Sunday March 12, 2006
Science writer Heather Pringle’s new book, The Master Plan: Himmler’s Scholars and the Holocaust, describes the role archaeologists—and the study of archaeology—played in the ideas and the execution of the ... Read More
The First Humans in America
Saturday March 11, 2006
Time magazine had a special on the first colonists of the Americas this week, and on Friday, National Public Radio's On Point program featured archaeologists David Meltzer and Dennis Stanford ... Read More
Whatever Happened to the Hobbit
Saturday March 11, 2006
On the Scientific American blog, science writer Kate Wong brings us up-to-date on the Flores Man hominid discovery. It was about two years ago now that skeletal material dating between ... Read More
Cleopatra Study Guide
Friday March 10, 2006
Cleopatra was the last pharaoh of Egypt, and in 30 BC she committed suicide and the Romans took over Egypt. But did you know she was a Greek? N.S. Gill, ... Read More
An Archaeologist's Life: Tony Klesert in the American Southwest
Friday March 10, 2006
What is an archaeologist's life really like? Tony Klesert, former director of the Navajo National Archaeology Department's Cultural Resource Program, describes a typical day for a working archaeologist in the ... Read More
More Myths about Arrowheads
Friday March 10, 2006
Faithful reader Chris R. Loendorf (Archaeologist at Gila River Indian Community) wrote recently about my article "Top Little Known Facts and Myths about Arrowheads" to suggest some additional myths that ... Read More
Readings: GPS and Inuit Wayfinding
Thursday March 9, 2006
An article in the December 2005 issue of Current Anthropology by Claudio Aporta and Eric Higgs called "Satellite Culture: Global Positioning Systems, Inuit Wayfinding, and the need for a new ... Read More
Readings: Death and Commemoration
Wednesday March 8, 2006
In Industrial Archaeology Review (volume 27) late last year was an interesting paper by Sarah Tarlow called "Death and Commemoration". Tarlow, lecturer in archaeology at the University of Leicester, has ... Read More
Start your own Anthro Blog!
Wednesday March 8, 2006
Savage Minds is offering advice on starting your own blog today, take a look:
Savage Minds: Notes and Queries in Anthropology: A Group Blog » Start your own Anthro Blog!
The Windover Bog Site
Wednesday March 8, 2006
The Windover Bog Site is an Archaic period cemetery in Florida, where at least 168 people were buried in a pond between 7000-8000 years ago. The site, now a peat ... Read More
Harris' Hawk Protects Casa Grande
Tuesday March 7, 2006
According to this story passed along by Andy B at the Megalithic Portal, the site of Casa Grande, a Hohokam village site and National Monument located in central Arizona has ... Read More
Archaeology Blogs
Tuesday March 7, 2006
I've been doing a little exploring in the blog-o-sphere and have discovered some truly interesting archaeology blogs, including blogs that are simple news feeds; some that are educational, with articles ... Read More
Archaeology Book Note: Byron Cummings, by Todd Bostwick
Saturday March 4, 2006
A new biography of archaeologist Byron Cummings [1860-1954] has been published by the University of Arizona Press. Written by Todd W. Bostwick, Byron Cummings: Dean of Southwest Archaeology chronicles the ... Read More
TAC: Film Festival 2006 Preview
Friday March 3, 2006
The Archaeology Channel's latest is a preview of the upcoming annual film festival, to be held next week (March 7 through 11, 2006) at the McDonald Theatre in Eugene, Oregon. ... Read More
Curious George and Archaeology
Friday March 3, 2006
There's an opinion piece in the Seattle Stateman by archaeologist Ann M. Nicgorski concerning the movie Curious George, in movie theatres right now. Nicgorski argues that along the way of ... Read More
Talking Sherds?
Friday March 3, 2006
Savage Minds contributor Alex Golub has an interesting piece on the odd little news story making the rounds about researchers recovering voices from ancient pottery sherds. 'Rex' traces back the ... Read More
KV-63: New Tomb in the Valley of the Kings
Friday March 3, 2006
Via ArchaeoBlog, the newly discovered Egyptian tomb located a few feet from Tutankhamun's tomb has its own stand-alone website now, with numerous pictures and a blog from site director Otto ... Read More
Archaeology Book Note: Xibalba Gate
Thursday March 2, 2006
Rob Swigart. 2005. Xibalba Gate: A Novel of the Ancient Maya. ISBN 0-7591-0878-1 AltaMira Press, Walnut Creek California.
Xibalba Gate arrived on my doorstep late last year, and is a ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2006: Crescent Bay Hunt Club, Wisconsin
Thursday March 2, 2006
The 2006 University of Wisconsin (Milwaukee) archaeology field school at the Crescent Bay Hunt Club site in Wisconsin will be conducted this year between May 30-July 7, 2006. Excavations at ... Read More
Women in Archaeology
Wednesday March 1, 2006
March is Women's History Month, and to celebrate, please explore this collection of biographies of more than forty women who have influenced the course of archaeology. This collection is admittedly ... Read More
Andrew Sherratt [1946-2006]
Wednesday March 1, 2006
Andrew Sherratt was a terrifically influential archaeologist, in Britain and in the rest of the world. Probably best known for his work on the Secondary Products Revolution, Sherratt was also ... Read More
AMNH Darwin Exhibition
Wednesday March 1, 2006
Wired magazine's Jeff Howe takes in the new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History on Charles Darwin, accompanied by a crowd of noisy children and E.O. Wilson, the ... Read More