Online Education in Archaeology
Tuesday October 31, 2006
Faithful reader Chris M writes: "Perhaps I have missed it, but is there a section on the Archaeology website regarding online graduate courses? There was an interesting forum on ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Melville on the Textbook of Tyrants
Tuesday October 31, 2006
The Past is dead, and has no resurrection; but the Future is endowed with such a life, that it lives to us even in anticipation. The Past is, in many ... Read More
Space Archaeology!
Monday October 30, 2006
Space Archaeology is a new website at the intersection of extraplanetary science and archaeology, designed for science fiction fans and visionaries who are interested in what alien archaeology might be ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Marcajirca, Peru
Friday October 27, 2006
The third season of excavations of the Huari-Ancash Archaeological and BioArchaeological Project is scheduled to run next summer between 15th July and 15th August, 2007. Run by Bebel Ibarra of ... Read More
Four Stone Hearth: An Anthropology Blog Carnival
Thursday October 26, 2006
There are 55 million weblogs in the world as of today, according to Technorati, and 157 of them use the word 'archaeology' as an index keyword. That's just today, tomorrow ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Agatha Christie Said What?
Tuesday October 24, 2006
An archaeologist is the best husband any woman can have; the older she gets, the more interested he is in her.
This quotation is widely attributed to mystery writer Agatha Christie, ... Read More
Stable Isotopes for Dummies
Tuesday October 24, 2006
Stable isotope analysis has become among the most important types of study used in archaeology today---and in many other related fields as well. Applications of stable isotope analysis have focused ... Read More
Horse Corrals at Krasnyi Yar?
Monday October 23, 2006
According to a news release from the ongoing Geological Society of America meetings in Philadelphia, a research team from the Carnegie Museum led by archaeologist Sandra L. Olsen today is ... Read More
Ancient Egyptians Used Rock Fractures for Tomb Construction
Monday October 23, 2006
A paper given Sunday at the Geological Society of America meetings in Philadelphia by photographer and geologist Katarin A. Parizek described research identifying rock fracture traces in the walls and ... Read More
Remote Sensing in Archaeology: Some Resources
Saturday October 21, 2006
Tony Cagle of Archaeo-Blog writes: "A reader asked about any recent general books on remote sensing in archaeology. I haven't seen anything really related to that, mostly just journal articles ... Read More
25th Andean Conference, Philadelphia October 21-22, 2006
Friday October 20, 2006
The 25th Andean Conference is being hosted by the University of Pennsylvania Archaeology and Anthropology Museum in Philadelphia this weekend. This annual conference is a 2-day series of lectures and ... Read More
Survey Planned for SS Pericles
Thursday October 19, 2006
The opulent White Star Line cruise ship SS Pericles sank off the coast of Cape Leeuwin, south Western Australia in 1910; the Pericles Project from the Museum of Underwater Archaeology ... Read More
2nd National Symposium of Rock Art in Peru
Wednesday October 18, 2006
The second National Symposium of Rock Art in Peru will be held in Trujillo at the end of October. Melissa Massat, long time advocate for the preservation of archaeological sites ... Read More
Cheney House Comics
Tuesday October 17, 2006
Flickrite Colleen Morgan has been working on a historic excavation at Cheney House on the University of California Berkeley campus and started this comic book/online zine of her adventures in ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Gerald t'Hooft and Paranormal Phenomena
Tuesday October 17, 2006
Scientists are often accused of not being open enough to paranormal phenomena. As scientists they should be open to them, it is said. But it wouldn't be very open-minded if ... Read More
The Domestication of Goats
Monday October 16, 2006
Domestic goats (Capra hircus) were among the first domesticated animals, adapted from the wild version Capra aegargus. Beginning about 10,000-11,000 years ago, Neolithic farmers in the Near East began keeping ... Read More
Megalithic Tomb at Newgrange: A Personal Travelogue
Sunday October 15, 2006
Ferne Arfin, guide to Senior Travel at About, spent some time in Ireland, among other things exploring the megalithic tomb called Newgrange in the Brú na Bóinne valley during one ... Read More
Archaeological Mapping Techniques: Discovering Jamestown
Saturday October 14, 2006
The September 2006 issue of The American Surveyor included a report on the Jamestown Discovery project. The archaeological site of Jamestown in what is now Virginia in the American southeast ... Read More
Chaco Canyon Supernova Rock Art: A Poem by Paul Young
Friday October 13, 2006
In Chaco Canyon, in what is now the state of New Mexico, there is an unusual Anasazi rock painting, consisting of a hand print and the night sky. Although the ... Read More
TAC: Ground Zero, Sacred Ground
Thursday October 12, 2006
This week, The Archaeology Channel has a nine-minute animated film produced by Karen Aqua in 1997, which uses the juxtaposition of rock art and missile range in the American southwest ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Maritime Archaeology at Flinders
Wednesday October 11, 2006
Flinders University's Maritime Archaeology Program is now accepting applications to participate in the Maritime Archaeology Field School at Victor Harbor, South Australia, 1-18 February 2007. The field school may study ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Edward Bruner on Interpreting Tourism
Tuesday October 10, 2006
In postmodern writings, contemporary American tourist attractions tend to be described in ways that replicate elements of the theory of postmodernism, emphasizing the inauthentic constructed nature of the sites, their ... Read More
Free Access to Historical Archaeology Back Issues
Sunday October 8, 2006
All the articles published in the professional journal Historical Archaeology between 1967 and 2000 are available for free download in a pdf format on the Society for Historical Archaeology website. ... Read More
The Dead Sea Scrolls: A Photo Essay
Friday October 6, 2006
A new exhibit at the Pacific Science Center in Seattle, Washington, called Discovering the Dead Sea Scrolls, will include fragments of ten scrolls discovered in Cave 4 and 11 at ... Read More
Tel Tsaf, Israel
Wednesday October 4, 2006
The archaeological site of Tel Tsaf is a Middle Chalcolithic site located near Beth-Shean in the Jordan Valley of Israel, occupied between the Late Neolithic to the Ghassulian-Beer Sheva Chalcolithic ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Peter Bleed on Living in the Human Niche
Tuesday October 3, 2006
"Recent Sámi reindeer herders and other boreal folk find reindeer so docile it seems that they 'like' people. They like having people pet and groom them. They allow themselves to ... Read More
Archaeology Tours the Big Apple
Monday October 2, 2006
An online feature in Archaeology magazine this month is a tour of the colonial pieces of New York City. Written by Sarah Pickman, the article is a very entertaining walking ... Read More
Racemization Dating
Sunday October 1, 2006
Matthew Collins of the Department of Biology and Archaeology at the University of York wrote recently to point out that in my short course Timing is Everything: Scientific Dating in ... Read More