Archaeology for the Timid
Wednesday May 31, 2006
From one of my guilty pleasures, the Annals of Improbable Research, a quote from Earle Spamer on why archaeology is a good answer for students who want to be scientists, ... Read More
Dugout Dwellings: Pioneer Housing in 19th Century Minnesota
Tuesday May 30, 2006
Dugouts were a type of housing used by European pioneers as first homes as they established their farmsteads in the upper middle west of the United States. When first arriving ... Read More
Archaeology v Looting
Monday May 29, 2006
Petty Piper, blogging on the Progressive U website believes that when artifacts are taken away from the original countries, both archaeology and looting are similar in that they disrespect the ... Read More
Bosnian Pyramid (Alun Salt)
Sunday May 28, 2006
Alun Salt (on the Archaeoastronomy blog) has taken on the step-by-step debunking of the Bosnian Pyramid (including a lovely photoshopped addition), and garnered numerous responses as a result:
Bosnian Pyramid? ... Read More
AD vs CE Battle Rages On
Saturday May 27, 2006
N.S. Gill, About's guide to Ancient History, wrote a blog recently, remarking on a post of a post of an article in the Spectator discussing the use of AD (Anno ... Read More
New BBC Game Show to be Filmed in the British Museum
Friday May 26, 2006
About's guide to American History, Jen Rosenberg, reports on a new game show borne of the new puzzle craze out of the Da Vinci Code, hosted by (and at) the ... Read More
TAC: Florida's Lost People
Thursday May 25, 2006
The latest video from The Archaeology Channel is on the Tequesta Indians of Florida.
Shadows and Reflections: Florida's Lost People.
Teaching Ideas: Integrating Archaeology in the High School Classroom
Wednesday May 24, 2006
Pennsylvania high school teacher MaryPat Evans has been integrating archaeological techniques in the classroom as individual student projects and special modules in her Chemistry, Biology, and General Physical Science classes ... Read More
Short Course 2006: Quantitative Methods (Italy)
Tuesday May 23, 2006
Even if you're not fond of statistics, I can't think of a better place to take in some more learning about them than in the southern Tuscany region of Italy. ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2006: Tiberias, Israel
Monday May 22, 2006
Volunteers are being sought to help with an archaeological dig in Israel, to be held in October and November of this year. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem will be conducting ... Read More
A Duping? Or Standard Operating Procedures?
Sunday May 21, 2006
Our European History guide, Robert Wilde, picked up on this story in the Hornsby and Crouch End Journal, where a group of archaeologists are berated for .... gasp! making an ... Read More
More on the Hobbit
Saturday May 20, 2006
An article laying out an argument against the hominid found in Indonesia a couple of years ago, named tentatively Homo floresensis and christened 'the Hobbit' has appeared in Science magazine ... Read More
Uncommon Sense: Anthony Aveni's Latest Book
Friday May 19, 2006
Archaeo-astronomer Anthony Aveni's latest book Uncommon Sense: Understanding Nature's Truths Across Time and Culture from the University Press of Colorado is part memoir, part history of science, part travelogue: in ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2006: Schaefer Farm Sites
Thursday May 18, 2006
The 2006 University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley archaeology field school is scheduled for June 6 through 23, and will take place at several Late Paleo-Indian and Archaic archaeological sites on a ... Read More
On Ancient Walls, a New Maya Epoch
Tuesday May 16, 2006
An article in the New York Times today by John Noble Wilford discusses the repercussions of the discovery of early glyphs at the San Bartolo site in Guatemala, which pushed ... Read More
Provenience, Provenance, Let's Call the Whole Thing Off
Tuesday May 16, 2006
After my poll concerning whether one uses 'provenience' or 'provenance' to refer to the origin location of a particular object, I've received a fairly interesting response. The evidence is a ... Read More
South American Observatories
Monday May 15, 2006
Two different astronomical observatories pushing the art of astronomy in South America back a few thousand years have been reported over the past couple of days, one in the Peruvian ... Read More
The DaVinci Code Debut
Sunday May 14, 2006
The DaVinci Code movie opens today, as if you didn't know. Many people have commented on the feasibility of author Dan Brown's argument, or claimed that he stole the idea ... Read More
Tamtoc Monolith 32: Olmec Connection in San Luis Potosi?
Friday May 12, 2006
A new carved stele (called Monument 32) has been reported from the Huastec site of Tamtoc (also spelled Tamtok, Tantoc, el Tantoque, or Tantocob), located in San Luis Potosi state ... Read More
Archaeology Trivia Quizzes
Thursday May 11, 2006
Because I have a vastly trivial mind, I created a bunch of trivia quizzes a few years ago on various archaeological subjects. I discovered them again lately and tried them ... Read More
Ancient Observatories
Wednesday May 10, 2006
From Space Imaging, a collection of satellite photographs of archaeological sites associated with astronomical observatories, including Abu Simbel, Angkor Wat, Dzibilchaltun, Machu Picchu and Pueblo Bonito among others. You can ... Read More
TAC: Atapuerca
Tuesday May 9, 2006
The latest video from The Archaeology Channel is by Javier Trueba on the Atapuerca region in Spain, where several karst topography caves have included very early hominid fossils, including the ... Read More
Provenience or Provenance? A poll
Tuesday May 9, 2006
One important concept in archaeology is that of provenience (also called provenance)--meaning the original location of an artifact, where it was recovered, its context. An artifact found within a grave ... Read More
An Archaeologist's Tools
Monday May 8, 2006
The tools an archaeologist uses during the progress of an excavation vary, and include everything from a garden trowel to a computer database. This photo essay, called
Bosnian Pyramids
Friday May 5, 2006
I admit I haven't been following this cockamamie story too closely, but a faithful reader recently emailed me about it, and I thought I might pass along some resources for ... Read More
Recreating Raised Field Agriculture
Thursday May 4, 2006
Experimental archaeology is a study in which archaeologists attempt to understand the events in the past by recreating the events themselves. There are all kinds of experimental archaeology, such as ... Read More
More on Relic Hunters
Thursday May 4, 2006
While I was looking for blogs about the Biblical Archaeology Review 'Statement of Concern' story, I discovered some additional discussion of the recent stories on the Diggin in Virginia crowd. ... Read More
The Role of Looted Artifacts in Scholarly Research
Wednesday May 3, 2006
One of the thorniest ethical issues in archaeology today has to do with the repercussions of rampant looting over the past several hundred years. Artifacts without provenience--that is, ones that ... Read More
Health and Safety: Tick, Tick, Tick
Wednesday May 3, 2006
Anybody who wanders the forests of North America or Europe in the spring and summer months (whether you're shovel testing for an archaeological survey or just having fun) should be ... Read More
Irish Insight: Sheela-Na-Gigs
Tuesday May 2, 2006
The latest issue of the online magazine Irish Insight has an interesting article by Shae Clancy on the monuments called Sheela-Na-Gigs. Sheela-Na-Gigs are carvings peculiar to Ireland, and although difficult ... Read More
The First Human: The Race to Discover Our Earliest Ancestors
Monday May 1, 2006
The First Human is a new book written by science writer Ann Gibbons, describing the discoveries and personalities involved in the past hundred years or so of the race to ... Read More