The Destruction Of Sennacherib... and Other Poems
Saturday March 31, 2007
Faithful reader Rupert Chapman writes to remind me of a poem not in my Archaeology in Poetry collection: Lord Byron's "The Destruction Of Sennacherib". I have no excuse for ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #6
Friday March 30, 2007
Archaeology News
Bandurria May Rival Caral As Oldest Citadel In Americas, Tim Jones on remote central
Danish gold fibula and ring, Martin on aardvarchaeology
Conferences/Blog Carnivals
TAG 2006, Andrew Cochrane and Ian Russell on ... Read More
Why would anybody want to take archaeology?
Friday March 30, 2007
Matthew Collins at the University of York has collected some cogent advice for people considering an undergraduate degree in archaeology, including a selection of comments from current students and working ... Read More
Reindeer Domestication
Thursday March 29, 2007
The latest addition to the Animal Domestication page is reindeer, the last animal domesticated, or at least that's what we think.
Sami Reindeer Herd, Sweden Photo Credit: Mats Andersson
After posting ... Read More
Where the Hell is Matt?
Wednesday March 28, 2007
By accident, I meant to send an email to my nephew Matt Hirst and instead mailed Matt Harris, the GIS-Archaeology blogger guy, who was kind enough to tell me my ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Carmel Shrire on Inspiration
Tuesday March 27, 2007
Landrover in South Africa Photo Credit: Gemma Longman
I became an archaeologist because I wanted to drive around in a big Landrover, smoking, cursing, and finding treasure. (Carmel Shrire 1995)
I love ... Read More
Death of an Iceman
Monday March 26, 2007
Recent studies describing how the Bronze Age man known as Otzi or the Iceman died in the Tyrolean Alps some 5300 years ago will be published in an upcoming paper ... Read More
Pollen and the Terracotta Army
Sunday March 25, 2007
Here's an interesting story from an in-press article in the Journal of Archaeological Science, about how Chinese archaeologists are using the pollen content in the clay to identify where Qin ... Read More
Domestication of Cattle, Barley, Chili Pepper
Saturday March 24, 2007
As part of my ongoing attempts to gather as much information under one roof about what scholars believe about the various histories of the delicate dance between humans and our ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #5
Friday March 23, 2007
On Darwin, who for some reason is a hot topic this week
The Experimental Darwin, afarensis
Was Darwin a racist?, Pharyngula
Darwin myths exposed, John Hawks
Richard Dawkins reads Darwin's Origin of Species, boingboing
Miscellaneous ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: The Search for Amelia Earhart
Thursday March 22, 2007
This week's Fieldwork in Focus is from Tom King, occasional contributor to Archaeology at About.com and one of the participants in the search for the archaeological evidence for what really ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Green Grocers, Panopticans and Post-Modern Fatigue Syndrome
Wednesday March 21, 2007
In the wake of claims that much of critical human geography has succumbed to the dreaded postmodern fatigue syndrome--symptoms include unrelenting tiredness, uncritical social somnambulance, spectral hallucinations, an unnatural preoccupation ... Read More
Domestications
Tuesday March 20, 2007
With the help of Ronald Hicks at Ball State University, I finally got around to compiling dates and places for the major domesticated plants developed by humans for our peculiar ... Read More
On the Moche
Monday March 19, 2007
The Moche civilization of ancient Peru consisted of towns, villages, temples and cemeteries wedged between the Pacific Ocean and the Andes mountains between 100 and 800 AD. They were fabulous ... Read More
Mammoth Bone Dwellings
Saturday March 17, 2007
If you're going to talk about the history of houses, the issue of mammoth bone dwellings is going to come up.
Mezhirich Ukraine (Diorama display at the American Museum of ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #4
Friday March 16, 2007
Archaeology blogs
Book review of The Great Pyramid, Tim Jones on remote central
Female terracotta warriors, Cornelius on European Archaeology Journal
Rock Art: From Marginalization to Acceptance, CFeagans on Anthropology.net
Confronting Bosnian pseudoarchaeology, Rogue ... Read More
Medieval Tower Discovered in Trondheim, Norway
Thursday March 15, 2007
According to a recent news report passed along by our guide to Scandinavia for Visitors Terri Mapes, archaeologists have identified the remains of a 12th century watchtower said to have ... Read More
Four Stone Hearth #11
Thursday March 15, 2007
The anthropology blog carnival Four Stone Hearth is being hosted by Martin Rundkvist at aardvarchaeology this week.
Four Stone Hearth #11
Four Stone Hearth, the main page
More Blog Carnivals
Venus Figurine Variations
Wednesday March 14, 2007
An Upper Paleolithic (16,000-14,000 years ago) archaeological site in Poland called Wilczyce includes several examples of Lalinde/Gönnersdorf figurines, a type of Venus Figurine.
Female figurines from Wilczyce, Poland. 1-8, flint, ... Read More
Commentary on the New Movie "300"
Tuesday March 13, 2007
Our own NS Gill has been to see the bloodfest and has several salient comments to make on the new movie about the battle between the Persian king Xerxes and ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Ptahhotep on the Limits of Skill
Tuesday March 13, 2007
Do not be arrogant about your knowledge
Mural on Mereruka's Mastaba, 6th dynasty Egypt, Saqqara. Photo Credit: kairoinfo4u
Nor trust that you are one who knows.
Take counsel with the ignorant ... Read More
Social Networking for Archaeologists
Monday March 12, 2007
Last week, the ever-inventive Anita Cohen-Williams announced a social network space for archaeologists, including a group blog where members post their questions, fieldwork and news stories. Called Archaeoseek, membership is ... Read More
Chris's Collection of Quotes
Monday March 12, 2007
Faithful reader Chris M. had a complaint about the quote-a-day collections I've prepared for the About Archaeology website. Too many of the quotes were inane, and you have to click ... Read More
African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter, March 2007
Sunday March 11, 2007
This word from Editor Chris Fennell:
The March 2007 Newsletter is now available online at the African Diaspora Archaeology Newsletter website
March's newsletter features articles and essays listed below; a compiled ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #3
Friday March 9, 2007
Archaeo Blogs
Awaiting kingdom come with drainpipe, aardvark archaeology
Hannibal Barca's Theophoric Destiny and the Alps, archaeolog
DDIG Report to the SAA, Digital Digging
Nabonidus Desktop (new software report) from Nabonidus
House: some notes taken ... Read More
Jesus's Tomb? A reasoned look at the evidence
Thursday March 8, 2007
From biblical scholar Jodi Magness and online at the Archaeological Institute of America's website, a review of the evidence for the recent claims about Jesus's family:
Has the tomb of ... Read More
Sites and Photos: A Website Review
Wednesday March 7, 2007
As a web person, I am an unashamed and frequent user of Flickr and StockXchng; but even I know there are limits to how useful those photo sharing sites can ... Read More
AIA: History of Archaeology Article
Tuesday March 6, 2007
The Archaeological Institute of America has just posted an article called "Americans in the East: Francis Henry Bacon, Joseph Thacher Clarke, and the AIA at Assos" by noted historian Susan ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Seep Springs, California
Tuesday March 6, 2007
Field School in Focus
The 2007 field school for California State University Bakersfield will be held this year at Seep Springs; assistant director Rebecca S. Orfila at CSUB's Center for Archaeological ... Read More
Exhibition Catalog Review: Tutankhamun's Tomb
Monday March 5, 2007
Stan Parchin reviews Susan Allen's new book on the Metropolitan Museum's exhibition of the photographs of Harry Burton, who was a photographer at the Met's Department of Egyptian Art and ... Read More
Homeland: An archaeologist's view of Yellowstone Country's Past
Sunday March 4, 2007
A Peek into the Life of the Cowboy Archaeologist
Homeland: An archaeologist's view of Yellowstone Country's Past Photo Credit: Larry Lahren
As I was fruitlessly trying to find a link on Pricegrabber ... Read More
Word Play: Craft Specialization
Saturday March 3, 2007
Craft specialization is one of the cornerstones archaeologists use to understand how prehistoric settlements organized themselves. Which of the following describes what archaeologists mean when they use the term 'craft ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday, #2
Friday March 2, 2007
Blog Commentary
Conservapedia and Piltdown, from Afarensis
Anthropology against itself from aperey on Anthropology.net
An 'emerging problem', on the new 'e' word (that would be 'evolution'), John Hawks
The manimal will have a British ... Read More
Great Churches and Archaeology
Thursday March 1, 2007
Archaeology and religion have a long history together--many of the earliest investigators into the archaeological past were priests and priest-scholars, and much of what science is today grew out of ... Read More