Trinil, Indonesia: Archaeology Video of the Week
Wednesday January 31, 2007
A handful of short videos on YouTube from Chris Turney, on the site of Trinil, Java, where "an eccentric Dutch scientist called Eugene Dubois found the first Homo erectus remains ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Lynn Meskell on Relevance
Tuesday January 30, 2007
An aware, responsible and engaged global archaeology might be a relevant, positive force which recognizes and celebrates difference, diversity and real multivocality.... Under... common skies and before divided horizons... exposure ... Read More
Introducing Archaeology: A Book Review
Monday January 29, 2007
Robert J. Muckle. 2006. Introducing Archaeology. Broadview Press, Peterborough, Ontario. ISBN 13:978-1-55111-505-4. 216 pages, plus front matter, glossary, sources, and index.
Introducing Archaeology Photo Credit: Broadview Press
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SAFE Competition 2007
Sunday January 28, 2007
The 2007 SAFE Student Illustration and Photography Competition is now open--students from all over the world are invited to enter! Detailed information about the competition is available on the SAFE ... Read More
Wikis and Archaeology
Saturday January 27, 2007
Although you might not have heard of them, a wiki is a kind of website that anybody can add to or edit--actually it's a database, but there's no need to ... Read More
TAC: Red Sand and Reynolds
Friday January 26, 2007
The latest video contribution to The Archaeology Channel is a half-hour contribution on the archaeological excavations and historical research at the John Reynolds residence in the Kanawa Valley of West ... Read More
Ethics and Archaeology
Thursday January 25, 2007
There's a new resource on Archaeological Ethics at the Society for American Archaeology webpages, developed by the SAA Ethics Committee. The page includes several link suggestions to such things as ... Read More
Archaeology Videos
Wednesday January 24, 2007
The recent blossoming of creative film and home-made video brought about by the widening access to the internet and the establishment of video sites like Google Video and YouTube has ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Harke and Arnold on Politics and Archaeology
Tuesday January 23, 2007
The various and changing attitudes of archaeologists towards migrations and ethnicity demonstrate the value of, and indeed the necessity for, constant critical examination of our own views on politically sensitive ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Tell Es-Safi/Gath
Monday January 22, 2007
Focus on the Field School
The Tell es-Safi/Gath field school will be held this year between July 8-August 3, 2007. Project director Aren Maeir sent this description along today.
The Site
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TAC: Moving Megaliths
Sunday January 21, 2007
Nearly let this one get away from me: a new video online at TAC is a 2003 film by Kurt Denzer on experimental archaeology in Germany moving megaliths. From ... Read More
Tree Rings, Culture, and Art History
Saturday January 20, 2007
Shelley Esaak, About's terrific guide to Art History, points out in her blog today called Tree Rings, Culture, and Art History that art history can also learn from dendrochronology, and ... Read More
Tree Rings and Culture
Friday January 19, 2007
Dendrochronology at Medieval Lübeck, Germany
Beech tree rings. Photo credit: Astrid Geck
Tree ring dating, called dendrochronology, is a fascinating science that uses the growth rings of long-lived trees as a record ... Read More
4SH #7: Aardvarchaeology
Thursday January 18, 2007
Martin Rundkvist at his new blog site Aardvarchaeology has the editorial reins at the blog carnival Four Stone Hearth this week:
Four Stone Hearth #7
Four Stone Hearth, the main site
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More on Kostenki: How Old is that Tephra?
Tuesday January 16, 2007
John Hoffecker replies to John Hawks
The archaeological site of Kostenki, Russia, was reported in Science magazine on January 12, 2007, and a brief article on it appeared here. Kostenki contains ... Read More
Zahi Hawass to Speak at UPenn
Tuesday January 16, 2007
Dr. Zahi Hawass, Secretary General of the Supreme Council of Antiquities of Egypt and Director of excavations at the Giza Pyramids, Saqqara, and Bahariya Oasis, offers a special public talk, ... Read More
Josh Bernstein to be on the Daily Show
Monday January 15, 2007
Josh Bernstein, the 36-year-old "host, explorer and survival expert" and guide to the History Channel's popular Digging for Truth series is going to be on Jon Stewart's Daily Show, on ... Read More
Codex - A Definition and Example
Monday January 15, 2007
A codex (plural codices) is the technical name for an ancient book or manuscript, specifically one that was published before Joseph Gutenberg's invention and popularization of the printing press in ... Read More
Indiana Jones Returns (eventually)
Saturday January 13, 2007
The latest from George Lucas is that the fourth Indiana Jones movie is in preproduction stages, scheduled to begin shooting in June and tentatively scheduled for release in May 2008. ... Read More
From Africa to Russia: Ancient Human Migrations
Thursday January 11, 2007
Pre-Aurignacian Levels Discovered at Kostenki
Archaeological and chronological data from the Kostenki site in Russia have convinced researchers that beneath a previously identified 40,000 year-old Aurignacian component representing Early Modern Humans ... Read More
What is a Field School? Archaeology FAQ
Thursday January 11, 2007
By the first part of December each year, universities, museums and cultural resource management firms in the northern hemisphere all over the world are planning the next field season. I've ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Barcombe Villa, Sussex, England
Wednesday January 10, 2007
Focus on Field School
The summer of 2007 will see the seventh season of research and training excavations, this year run by the Centre for Continuing Education at the University of ... Read More
Archaeology Quotation: Terry Hunt on the Genocide at Easter Island
Tuesday January 9, 2007
Despite repeated claims, Rapa Nui does not appear to represent a case of "ecocide." The documented population collapse for Rapa Nui occurred as a consequence of European contacts, with Old ... Read More
Google Earth and Archaeology
Sunday January 7, 2007
Google Earth, software that uses high resolution satellite images of the entire planet to allow the user to get an incredible moving aerial view of our world, has stimulated some ... Read More
Failaka, Dilmun Garden of Eden
Saturday January 6, 2007
Failaka is the name of an island, and the large settlement and sanctuary of the south Arabian civilization in what is now Kuwait, during the 1st century AD. Failaka was ... Read More
TAC: Excavating Television
Friday January 5, 2007
The latest video at The Archaeology Channel is by Amy Ramsay, at the niversity of Southern California Summer Production Workshop, an amusing tale about her search for what archaeology means ... Read More
Open Peer Review: Current Anthropology
Thursday January 4, 2007
As the call for open access in scholarly texts continues, much of the debate revolves around what to do about peer review, with some academics arguing that open access will ... Read More
Extreme Archaeology Mashup
Wednesday January 3, 2007
Ah, isn't the video world a swell one? In this mashup video, sent along by Hal Rager on blivet 2.0, archaeologists Adam Fish and Bradley L. Garrett contribute ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Maritime Archaeology in the Netherlands
Tuesday January 2, 2007
Today, Sarah Ward of the Nautical Archaeology Society provides this description of their upcoming study tour on sailing ships of the Dutch East India Company (VOC).
Fieldschool in Focus: Nautical ... Read More
Ludlow Coal Massacre
Monday January 1, 2007
In the decades before World War I, industrialists such as John D. Rockefeller had become millionaires; by the early years of the 20th century labor unrest blossomed in the United ... Read More