DNA from Ancient Parchment
Thursday December 28, 2006
An interesting article currently online and set to appear in the May 2007 issue of the Journal of Archaeological Science suggests that DNA may be obtained from ancient manuscripts written ... Read More
Academic Peer Review on the Internet: What is Peer Review, Anyway?
Wednesday December 27, 2006
Before I wax rhapsodic about how ad hoc peer review is presently working in archaeology on the Internet, it will probably be useful to talk about what peer review is ... Read More
Seeing the Light: Peer Review on the Internet
Tuesday December 26, 2006
This week the Public Library of Science announced, with little fanfare, that it was publishing a new journal without the benefit of peer review. The implications of that decision are ... Read More
PLOS One: Peer Review Begone!
Sunday December 24, 2006
One of the things holding back the spread of open access---that is to say, the open publication of scientific articles free for the download---particularly in long-established academic journals and organs ... Read More
Butabu: Architecture in Mud
Saturday December 23, 2006
In general, those of us who are fascinated by the past are drawn to the permanent structures, the ruins that last generations, the long-lasting monuments to past glories. Isn't that ... Read More
The Lapita Face and its Cultural Context
Thursday December 21, 2006
Is the Lapita Face a Turtle?
In a paper to be published early in 2007 in the Cambridge Archaeological Journal, researchers John Edward Terrell and Esther M. Schechter report on their ... Read More
Winter Solstice 2006 at Newgrange
Thursday December 21, 2006
Michael Fox at Knowth.com was out at Newgrange on sunrise this morning and has some nice foggy photos of the Neolithic site to show this year:
Winter Solstice 2006
Carl Sagan: Ten Years Gone but Not Forgotten
Wednesday December 20, 2006
The 10th anniversary of the death of that great public scientist, Carl Sagan, is today, and Cornell University has announced an honorary blog-a-thon. Since Sagan is one of the reasons ... Read More
4 Stone Hearth #5 and Tangled Bank #69
Wednesday December 20, 2006
Will at Nomadic Thoughts takes on Four Stone Hearth today:
Four Stone Hearth
and Martin at Salto sobrius takes on Tangled Bank #69:
Tangled Bank #69: War on Christmas
Quote of the Week: Schlesinger on Global Changes
Tuesday December 19, 2006
In some corners of the globe, policy makers and politicians pay close attention to the science that shows what will happen to a planet under inattentive stewardship. In much of ... Read More
Solstice Celebrations
Monday December 18, 2006
Our prehistoric cultural past is pretty much closed to us, at least in terms of the physical and mental sensations of what it was like to be human in the ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Freedman's Town National Historic District
Sunday December 17, 2006
Field School in Focus
Help preserve a part of Houston's heritage as the Rutherford B. H. Yates Museum Community Archaeology Project (YCAP) explores the Freedmen's Town National Historic District.
Houston's Freedman's Town ... Read More
New at The Archaeology Channel
Saturday December 16, 2006
Several new things online at TAC this week, including a video on forensic archaeology and human rights abuses called "Following Antigone", a 2002 film slide show with narration by Witness ... Read More
Apocalypto: More Heat from the Anthro Community
Friday December 15, 2006
Since I first blogged about Mel Gibson's new adventure/action movie called "Apocalypto" ("Apocalypto: Bloody, violent, and not what you might call accurate"), a lot more of the anthropology community has ... Read More
3D Imaging and Archaeology
Friday December 15, 2006
Software to produce three-dimensional images of old buildings has been around for a few years, but the technology just gets better and better. Case in point is the new website ... Read More
Quantifying Butchery by Handaxe
Thursday December 14, 2006
Oh, of course this isn't about serial killers (but maybe it would make a good title for a movie), but Archaeological Data Service has a new article on experimental archaeology ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Fort Vancouver, Washington
Wednesday December 13, 2006
Field School in Focus
Today, in our most recent Field School in Focus, project director Doug Wilson reports on the upcoming Fort Vancouver field school, scheduled for June 19--August 4, 2007. ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Jane Austen on Tiresome History
Tuesday December 12, 2006
History, real solemn history, I cannot be interested in.
I read it a little as a duty, but it tells me nothing that does not either vex or weary me. The ... Read More
African Diaspora Newsletter December 2006
Monday December 11, 2006
In December's African Diaspora Newsletter is featured articles and essays by Jerome Handler, Marsha Robinson, Madia Thomson, Daniel McNeil, Sarah Croucher, Stephanie Wynne-Jones, Lisette Roura Alvarez, Alicia B. Valentino, and ... Read More
Holiday Shopping for Archaeologists: Tips for Buying Artifact Replicas
Sunday December 10, 2006
Ever had a hard time finding a perfect gift for that archaeologist--professional, teacher, student, or simply a fan? How about an artifact reproduction? Most academically-trained archaeologists will tell you that ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Hazor, Israel
Saturday December 9, 2006
Field School in Focus
In the summer of 2007 the Selz Foundation Hazor excavations in Memory of Yigael Yadin, headed by Amnon Ben-Tor from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem will resume ... Read More
'Apocalypto': Bloody, violent, and not what you might call accurate
Friday December 8, 2006
Well, I must confess right up front that I haven't seen Mel Gibson's new movie 'Apocalypto' yet; my location in Iowa has precluded a visit to a press screening, and ... Read More
Four Stone Hearth #4
Thursday December 7, 2006
Yann Klimentidis has the wheel today on the fourth edition of the anthropology blog carnival called Four Stone Hearth.
Four Stone Hearth 4.0: Yann Klimentidis
Four Stone Hearth
Archaeology Dig 2007: West Point Foundry
Wednesday December 6, 2006
Field School in Focus: West Point Foundry
During the summer of 2007, Michigan Technological University's field school will again be based at West Point Foundry, an industrial archaeological site located at ... Read More
Bruce Trigger [1937-2006]
Tuesday December 5, 2006
Anthropologist, archaeologist, historian
Canadian archaeologist Bruce Trigger died late last week, and although I didn't know him personally, I feel a keen personal and professional loss. Over the past forty years ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Tel Rehov, Israel
Monday December 4, 2006
Next summer's excavations at Tel Rehov, Israel, will be held between June 25-August 2, 2007. Project staff member Nava Panitz-Cohen sent along this description and photographs of the proposed research. ... Read More
Neanderthal vs Neandertal
Sunday December 3, 2006
With the recent spate of news articles about our nearest human neighbor, much discussion has been up about how you should spell the name, with a 'th' or with a ... Read More