Bulgarian Plovdir
Saturday April 29, 2006
The latest video from The Archaeology Channel was produced by Jordan Detev of the Bulgarian MultiMediaArts Society, on the archaeology of the 8000 year old site of Plovdir. In Bulgarian, ... Read More
Metallurgy Bibliography
Saturday April 29, 2006
An extensive bibliography of articles on metallurgy in archaeology has been compiled by Chris Salter and the electronic discussion group Arch-Metals, is stored at Oxford and available for viewing:
Arch-Metals ... Read More
2006 Field School: Jamestown, Nevis
Saturday April 29, 2006
The Institute for Advanced Interdisciplinary Studies is continuing investigations at the ruins of a Caribbean sugar estate in two sessions this year, July 9-30 or July 23-Aug 13, 2006. Jamestown ... Read More
Notes from the SAAs: Bloggers on Site
Friday April 28, 2006
Lots of conversations, lots of interesting papers to talk about; but all a whirl. In the meantime, there are fellow bloggers here on the island, and I will attempt to ... Read More
Jerusalem's Volatile Archaeology
Thursday April 27, 2006
Malcolm Billings, writing for the BBC's website, has a piece on the archaeology of Jerusalem and the political problems involved with conducting archaeological research in the city sacred to three ... Read More
International Lychnological Association
Wednesday April 26, 2006
The International Lychnological Association (ILA) is an association that studies the history of pre-modern lighting devices--lamps, in other words, and their association began having conferences in 2003. The ILA's website ... Read More
From the SAA
Wednesday April 26, 2006
Today is the first day of the Society for American Archaeology meetings--well, no, the papers don't start until tomorrow, but today is the first day for gossip and chat. They ... Read More
Civil War Battlefield Study
Wednesday April 26, 2006
According to this story in today's LJWorld, archaeologist Douglas Scott is leading a team to examine the site of the Black Jack battle, which took place in Douglas County Kansas ... Read More
Voices of the SAA
Wednesday April 26, 2006
At last year's Society for American Archaeology meetings, I collected a bunch of sound files and photographs of various attendees describing what they liked (or didn't like) about the SAA ... Read More
Word of the Day: Garbology
Tuesday April 25, 2006
One of my secret passions is words, and I've been a subscriber to Anu Garg's Word of the Day for more years than I care to admit. Today's word is ... Read More
The Dawn of Angkor - A Photo Gallery
Tuesday April 25, 2006
While I was working with Charles Higham on his paper here on the southeast Asian cemetery site of Ban Non Wat, he mentioned that he had a collection of photographs ... Read More
Should the AAA go Electronic?
Monday April 24, 2006
On Savage Minds, Rex comments how swell it would be if, for example, the American Anthropologist would work on getting electronic copies available, and move away from paper. Many of ... Read More
Timing is Everything: Dating Techniques in Archaeology
Monday April 24, 2006
How old is that? The science of archaeology has developed several ways to tell how long ago a site was occupied or an artifact used. Here's an introduction to several ... Read More
KV-63: New Photos from Egypt
Sunday April 23, 2006
Via Archaeoblog, there are new photographs of the excavations in Egypt into a previously unknown tomb:
KV-63
The website built for KV-63, the first Egyptian tomb discovered since 1922, has loads ... Read More
Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology
Sunday April 23, 2006
On the blog called GIS for Archaeology and CRM, Matt reports on the occurrences at the Computer Applications and Quantitative Methods in Archaeology (CAA) meetings, held last week in no-doubt-delightful ... Read More
Get Ready for the SAAs: Caribbean for Visitors
Saturday April 22, 2006
For folks headed to the Society for American Archaeology meetings, to be held in Puerto Rico next week, you can't find a better source of information on what you'll need ... Read More
Megalithic Portal Spring Photographic competition - Vote Now!
Saturday April 22, 2006
The Megalithic Portal site has closed its Spring Photo competition and it's time to vote for your favorite photograph of an historic or prehistoric archaeological site or structure. Winners get ... Read More
The Dawn of Angkor: Ban Non Wat
Friday April 21, 2006
The archaeological site of Ban Non Wat is a cemetery, used by Neolithic, Bronze Age and Iron Age people of the Mun Valley of Northeast Thailand between about 2100 BC ... Read More
Cultural Resource Management: A Definition
Friday April 21, 2006
When an American archaeologist tells you she works in CRM, what she (generally) means is she conducts archaeological research in advance of federally-funded construction projects. But that's not all that ... Read More
American Cultural Resource Firms Conducting Archaeology Projects
Wednesday April 19, 2006
At long last, an updated listing of cultural resource firms based in the United States who conduct archaeological surveys and investigations in the country. I've had this listing kicking around ... Read More
Diggin' in Virginia V: Unearthed War Relics See Battle Again
Tuesday April 18, 2006
According to the story Unearthed War Relics See Battle Again", by Brigid Schulte in the Washington Post, relic hunting has taken a whole new turn on the Civil War battlefield ... Read More
Have Trowel, Will Travel
Monday April 17, 2006
Every spring, hordes of archaeologists and students of archaeology sharpen up their trowels and take to the agricultural fields and outskirts of cities, prepared to dedicate their summers to the ... Read More
Archaeology Table of Contents, May/June 2006
Sunday April 16, 2006
Archaeology Table of Contents, May/June 2006
All kinds of great stuff in the upcoming issue of Archaeology magazine this month, including online content on some of the more interesting reports of ... Read More
X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology of Piracy
Sunday April 16, 2006
The archaeology of piracy—the peg-legged, exotically-clothed, fancy-hat-with-a-feather, black-eye-patched sort of piracy—is the subject of a new book from the University Press of Florida called X Marks the Spot: The Archaeology ... Read More
The Gospel of Judas Interactive Document
Saturday April 15, 2006
Just heard it was possible to download the newly reported gnostic Gospel of Judas Iscariot, discovered at near El Minya, Egypt in the 1970s and recently translated. The Tchados Codex, ... Read More
Special Exhibition Review: Tree of Paradise
Friday April 14, 2006
Gail Myhre, special correspondent to the Art History page here at About, went to see the fabulous Tree of Paradise exhibition at the Brooklyn Museum. About Archaeology got a glimpse ... Read More
Colleges with Underwater Archaeology Programs | Syddansk, Denmark
Friday April 14, 2006
The University of Southern Denmark (Syddansk University) starts a new master's level program of maritime archaeology in September 2006. The two-year program is based in Esbjerg, with an international focus; ... Read More
Rosemary Joyce on the Illusory "Ancient Maya" - An Archaeology Quotation
Thursday April 13, 2006
In a recent article in Reviews in Anthropology, Rosemary Joyce looks at four recent publications in Maya archaeology and argues that the term "Ancient Maya" is an umbrella term that ... Read More
Branding in Archaeology
Thursday April 13, 2006
On the bulletin board, archaeologist Anna Simandiraki describes her notion of 'branding' in archaeology--meaning, I think, the classifications of objects, theories, and individuals in ways that restrict or define what ... Read More
Savage Minds: The Four Subjects of Anthropological Research
Tuesday April 11, 2006
Goofy but entertaining game going on at Savage Minds today, involving all-too-successful attempts to summarize all anthropological research in four topic sentences (but at least we still have four separate ... Read More
Real World Archaeology: When Preservation Issues Break the Heart
Tuesday April 11, 2006
Just about twenty years ago, I was a young whippersnapper archaeologist, leading my first large highway survey project, surveying 25 miles of a 400 foot wide corridor over hills and ... Read More
The Archaeology Channel - Arizona Videos
Tuesday April 11, 2006
Five new streaming-media videos on archaeological excavations in Arizona have been uploaded to The Archaeology Channel this week. Among the videos include an exploration of the pueblo ruins of Besh-Ba-Gowah; ... Read More
Forensic Archaeology: Facial Reconstruction
Monday April 10, 2006
From the New York State Museum and artist Gay Malin (and via Giavasan), the Facial Reconstruction page is a a step-by-step description of how artists go about rebuilding the features ... Read More
Personal Blogs about Archaeology: ArchaeoTech (Brady W)
Monday April 10, 2006
Brady W. is an archaeological field technician working in the southeastern United States, and reading his blog brings that experience right to life. Food, alcohol, and field work jobs that ... Read More
Devoted to making discoveries - Yosihiko Sinoto
Monday April 10, 2006
This interview and biography of Hawaiian archaeologist Yosihiko Sinoto is by Mary Kaye Ritz in the Honolulu Advertiser, and was posted by Paul Kekai Manansala of the Quests of the ... Read More
Smithsonian's Deal with Showtime
Sunday April 9, 2006
What must be one of the largest repositories of artifacts and information about American history and prehistory is the Smithsonian Institution, or SI. Founded in the 19th century by a ... Read More
New Pyramid Discovered in Mexico City
Friday April 7, 2006
Archaeologists investigating a Catholic shrine in the Mexico city suburb of Iztapalapa have discovered a 60 foot tall pyramid, part of the ancient Teotihuacan (150 BC-700 AD) culture. Said to ... Read More
The Atlas of the Human Journey
Thursday April 6, 2006
Reader Trevor F. passed along this terrific website from National Geographic's Genographic Project. The Atlas of the Human Journey is a map-based exploration of human migration and evolution and an ... Read More
Boing Boing: Jesus maybe walked on ice, scientist suggests
Wednesday April 5, 2006
Oh c'mon, do we have to do this? A story making the blog rounds attempts to explain one of the miracles of Jesus, explaining that when the folks of the ... Read More
Early Dentistry: Evidence for Neolithic Dental Techniques
Wednesday April 5, 2006
Evidence of dentistry has been identified at a cemetery in the Neolithic site of Mehrgarh, Pakistan, on eleven teeth from different individuals between 7500 and 9000 years ago.
Mehrgarh is ... Read More
Visualizing Neolithic (Archaeology Project Blog)
Tuesday April 4, 2006
Visualizing Neolithic
This is a new blog I just heard about, that includes black and white photographs of the ongoing excavation and laboratory work at the Neolithic site of Dispilio, Greece. ... Read More
Smoke Pfeiffer's Directory of Archaeological Societies: Regional
Tuesday April 4, 2006
Since 1997, a version of a fabulous text directory of archaeology societies and journals and newsletters from (the fabulous!) Smoke Pfeiffer has resided on this website. The list contains addresses ... Read More
Special Exhibition Review: Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
Tuesday April 4, 2006
Special Exhibition Review: Hatshepsut: From Queen to Pharaoh
Stan Parchin, Senior Correspondent for Museums and Special Exhibitions at About's Art History site, is a specialist in Ancient Egyptian art with a ... Read More
Archaeological chemistry featured at American Chemical Society symposium, March 26-27
Monday April 3, 2006
According to this EurekAlert, there were several papers of interest to archaeologists at the upcoming American Chemical Society meetings last week, including too little information on the news that redates ... Read More
Bibliography of Agriculture Updated
Monday April 3, 2006
The About.com Bibliography of Archaeological Studies in Agriculture has been updated, for the first time in about six years, although it's hard to believe it's been that long. There are ... Read More
Why I Don't Trust Wikipedia
Sunday April 2, 2006
Jone Johnson Lewis, guide for Women's History on About, describes what she doesn't like about the Wikipedia as a source of information. I've been looking at the archaeology portal at ... Read More
Mehrgarh (Pakistan)
Sunday April 2, 2006
Mehrgarh is a Neolithic (7000-3200 BC) site on the Kachi plain of Baluchistan, Pakistan, and one of the earliest sites with evidence of farming (wheat and barley) and herding (cattle, ... Read More
Shipwreck Archaeology: CSS Alabama
Sunday April 2, 2006
The CSS Alabama was a Confederate gunboat, built in Liverpool, England, that captured 65 Union during the American Civil War before being sunk in 1864. The investigations of the wreck, ... Read More
Changing a Lightbulb
Saturday April 1, 2006
Hal Rager on the archaeology blog blivet 2.0 has a list of archaeology jokes, passed along from 'Christian Think Tank' which makes me wonder just what the heck Hal is ... Read More
Spring Photo Competition
Saturday April 1, 2006
The Megalithic Portal and Megalithic Map site just announced their annual Spring photo competition. The contest includes two categories (best Megalithic ore prehistoric site photo and best Historic or landscape ... Read More
Preventing Archaeological Disasters
Saturday April 1, 2006
Every year, or so it seems, there are at least one or two horrible political and public relations disasters in archaeology. The Kennewick Man was just such a disaster, in ... Read More
Readings: Fear & Loathing of the Imagination in Science
Saturday April 1, 2006
A literate essay by Lorraine Daston in Daedalus addresses why many scientists shun the use of the imagination as a research tool. Plumbing the writings of the Enlightenment scholars, Daston ... Read More
Archaeology Zombies
Saturday April 1, 2006
Archaeology Online today posts an interview with Max Brooks, internationally-recognized expert on the undead, about the evidence for 60,000 years of human interaction with zombies as expressed in prehistoric art:
Archaeology ... Read More