Albania Archaeology
Thursday June 29, 2006
Continuing on our tour of the world's archaeology (and I'm not going to promise it will be at this rate), today we're going to visit Albania, one of the Balkan ... Read More
Archaeology of South Africa
Wednesday June 28, 2006
Continuing with our theme of archaeology of the world as seen through the currently-under-reconstruction World Atlas of Archaeology, today let's take a visit to South Africa's archaeology on the web. ... Read More
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter for June 2006
Tuesday June 27, 2006
Just heard from editor Chris Fennell, who reports that the latest newsletter for the African Diaspora Archaeology Network is available online, and includes articles and essays by Jerome S. Handler, ... Read More
Sureyya's Journey, Part 4: Sometimes Life Intervenes
Monday June 26, 2006
Sureyya Kose, an sysop in Australia, wants to become an archaeologist, but has learned the hard way that despite having a good idea on what you want, life seems to ... Read More
India's Archaeology
Sunday June 25, 2006
Back to the World Atlas of Archaeology; this time a visit to India. I went cruising around on the Internet and discovered a wealth of great sites on the history ... Read More
Archaeology of Belize
Saturday June 24, 2006
The lovely country of Belize (formerly known as British Honduras) has been a tourist destination for a very long time; and part of the Maya civlization for longer than that. ... Read More
So You Want to Apply to Graduate School?
Thursday June 22, 2006
To be a professional archaeologist, that is to say, a teacher, a full-time cultural resource management archaeologist, or an archaeologist attached to a museum or historical society, you need an ... Read More
Top Ten Space Hoaxes in History
Wednesday June 21, 2006
A little entertaining reading from our Space and Astronomy guide, Nick Greene: an introduction to a few of the not-quite-ancient hoaxes in history, starting with the Letter of Toledo.
Top ... Read More
Open Context: Sharing Archaeological Data Digitally
Tuesday June 20, 2006
A new tool in the open source arsenal announced its beta launch last week. Called Open Context, the project involves scientists from Cambridge University (UK), Harvard University, the Smithsonian Institution, ... Read More
A Walking Tour of Olympia, Greece
Tuesday June 20, 2006
The ancient Greek classical site of Olympia,
Olympia, Greece Photo Credit: Aschwin Prein
which was the original location of the Olympic Games upon which our modern games are based. Olympia ... Read More
A Glass Making Workshop for Ramses the Great
Monday June 19, 2006
Although we have come to take glass for granted--as windows, dishes and spectacles--it is really a mysterious interesting substance when you think about it. Created out of super-heated sand, glass ... Read More
A Couple of Figgy Questions
Saturday June 17, 2006
I was browsing around the internet this morning when I ran across a personal blog that linked to my original fig tree and origins of agriculture story and asked two ... Read More
Society for Historical Archaeology's New Website
Saturday June 17, 2006
The Society for Historical Archaeology just released its newly refurbished website, in the same place as always http://www.sha.org. This new permutation has several useful things for the casual reader, including ... Read More
Archaeology of Early Buddhism
Friday June 16, 2006
When the Buddha died, says tradition, his fellow monks burned his body and divided up his ashes, sending parts of the great philosopher’s remains to eight monasteries in the Ganges ... Read More
Lars Fogelin on Tempering the Imagination
Thursday June 15, 2006
The 203rd archaeological quotation is from Lars Fogelin's book Archaeology of Early Buddhism, which I just reviewed this week.
Two hundred and three? How can that possibly be?
Lars Fogelin ... Read More
In Katrina's Wake
Thursday June 15, 2006
Archaeologist Mike Toner, writing in the August 2006 issue of Archaeology magazine, describes her stint as a FEMA volunteer in New Orleans last winter after Hurricanes Katrina and Rita got ... Read More
Tour Guide in a Cellphone
Thursday June 15, 2006
What a fabulous idea this is! It's a recognized syndrome--pyramid burnout. You're walking along taking in the ruins of an archaeological site, and gradually it all looks the same. A ... Read More
AAA's Opposition to Open Source Publishing
Wednesday June 14, 2006
A very interesting discussion started (I think) by Kambiz Kamrani at Anthropology.Net is going on in several of the anthropology-related blogs right now. The discussion begins with the US Senate ... Read More
Advice for the Prospective Graduate Student in Archaeology
Wednesday June 14, 2006
To become a professional archaeologist--that is, a person with a full time, year-round benefited job in the field--you have to get a graduate degree. Although there are excellent professional archaeologists ... Read More
Amelia Earhart and Archaeology
Tuesday June 13, 2006
Amelia Earhart's disappearance in 1937 has long been a fascinating mystery. Thomas F. King, Senior Archaeologist of The International Group for Historic Aircraft Recovery (TIGHAR, pronounced Tiger) project and occasional ... Read More
Michael "Smoke" Pfeiffer's Never-Ending Projectile Point Bibliography
Sunday June 11, 2006
This amazing bibliography of projectile points and typologies prints out to about 1200 references and 14,000 words long and was put together by the amazing Michael A. (Smoke) Pfeiffer several ... Read More
TAC: The Amphora of Eleusis
Saturday June 10, 2006
The latest video from The Archaeology Channel is a short Greek film by Eleni Stoumbou, featuring the enormous proto-Attic period funerary jar and the story from the Odyssey of the ... Read More
Peru and Archaeology
Friday June 9, 2006
Part of the never-ever-ever completed refreshing of the World Atlas of Archaeology is this newish page on Peruvian archaeology:
Archaeology of Peru
World Atlas of Archaeology on the Web
Antique Reproductions and Artifact Replicas: Before You Buy
Friday June 9, 2006
Artifacts are something collected the world over, much to the professional archaeologist's chagrin. Still, even the stodgiest of us understands the magic of touching a little piece of ancient history. ... Read More
Social Science Fiction
Thursday June 8, 2006
One of the things an archaeologist really needs is a good imagination. Let's face it; every day we start with a few pottery sherds, burnt and blackened seeds, bone splinters ... Read More
Ancient Chinese Dynastic History
Wednesday June 7, 2006
From About's guide to Ancient History, a wonderful new resource with a little taste of what you wanted to know about Chinese history, beginning with the Neolithic period of 12,000 ... Read More
Wessex Archaeology and Flickr
Tuesday June 6, 2006
If you're a frequent reader of this column, you know how crazy I am about Flickr, a site where people share photographs of all kinds. I've used many photographs from ... Read More
The Perfect Shovel
Monday June 5, 2006
Proving that I'm not the only archaeo-geek in the world, archaeologist Rene Botts of the Nebraska State Historical Society is willing to pay up to $US50 for any and all ... Read More
Art History v Archaeology
Sunday June 4, 2006
Art historian Karen Mack wrote an interesting comment on my blog of a couple of weeks ago comparing 'provenience and provenance'. She takes exception to my saying that art historians ... Read More
Ancient E-Mail Unearthed
Saturday June 3, 2006
According to this exciting article in the latest issue of The Onion, archaeologists have uncovered an email dating to 1995 of all things, proving unheard-of insight into life as ... Read More
More Figgy News: The Earliest Domesticate?
Friday June 2, 2006
The ancient fig story (namely evidence of fig tree propagation in the Mediterranean pushed back to between 10,500 to 11,700 years before the present), although definitely early and interesting, ... Read More
Digging Digitally
Friday June 2, 2006
Just got word about the new blog from the Society for American Archaeology's Digital Data Interest Group. I got to attend their session at the San Juan meetings in April, ... Read More
Evidence for Early Domestication of Figs
Thursday June 1, 2006
The fig tree, long a symbol of Western culture, may also be one of the earliest domesticated plants in the world. In an article in the June 2, 2006 issue ... Read More