Silkworms and Silk Making
Monday April 30, 2007
Ever wonder where and when the silkworm species Bombyx was domesticated in order to produce cloth? Now's your chance to find out...
Silk Worms and mulberry leaves Photo Credit: Ksionic
The ... Read More
The Geoglyphic Art of Chile's Atacama Desert
Sunday April 29, 2007
There are over 5,000 prehistoric geoglyphs in the Atacama Desert of northern Chile, and like the Nazca lines of Peru, they are mysterious, beautiful and awe-inspiring.
Atacama Giant, Cerro Unita, ... Read More
Kilwa Kisiwani - Medieval Trade Center of Africa
Saturday April 28, 2007
On a small island off the coast of the modern country of Tanzania, eastern Africa, lies the site of Kilwa Kisiwani, also called Kilwa, the most important of about thirty-five ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Stara Zagora Heritage Volunteer Workcamp, Bulgaria
Friday April 27, 2007
Fieldwork in Focus: Stara Zagora
Location: Stara Zagora, Bulgaria - a mid-size Bulgarian town (170 000 inhabitants) with an ancient history and heritage (older than 8000 years). It is also a ... Read More
Tangled Bank #78
Wednesday April 25, 2007
The Blog Carnival Tangled Bank is one of the longest running blog carnivals in science. Held every two weeks or so, the carnival mostly covers biological and anthropological sciences, of ... Read More
Archaeology's Interactive Dig 2007: Hierakonpolis
Tuesday April 24, 2007
An international expedition to the ancient Egyptian site of Hierakonpolis is being featured in Archaeology magazine this month. Renée Friedman of the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, Egyptologist Jane ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Theroux on Evolution's Little Joke
Monday April 23, 2007
Man sprang out of the faulty world, Charlie. Therefore, I’m imperfect. What’s the use? It’s a bad design, the human body. Skin’s not thick enough, bones aren’t strong enough, too ... Read More
How to Build a Pyramid
Sunday April 22, 2007
Archaeology magazine has an interesting online feature this month from that entertaining Egyptologist Bob Brier, describing in detail the various theories that people have suggested the Great Pyramid at Giza ... Read More
Cyark Pompeii
Saturday April 21, 2007
A new video posted on The Archaeology Channel illustrates the uses of the three-dimensional plotting technique being used by Cyark on the site of Pompeii.
Pompeii A Cyark Case Study, ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Avgusta Traiana-Beroe-Borui, Bulgaria
Friday April 20, 2007
Fieldschool in Focus: Avgusta Traiana-Beroe-Borui Rescue Excavations Project
Location: Stara Zagora, Bulgaria - a mid-size Bulgarian town (170 000 inhabitants) with an ancient history and heritage (older than 8000 years). It ... Read More
Copán: City of the Mist
Thursday April 19, 2007
Over a century of archaeological investigations and explorations have assembled a wealth of information about the beautiful Maya civilization site of Copán, Honduras.
Hieroglyphic Staircase, Copán Photo Credit: David Rivera
Copán, ... Read More
Tangled Bank to be Hosted Here
Wednesday April 18, 2007
No Amalgamated Friday this week or next, because I'll be hosting the blog carnival Tangled Bank #78 on April 25th and heading for the Society for American Archaeology meetings in ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Von Igelfeld on German Archaeology
Tuesday April 17, 2007
People were used to the Germans discovering all sorts of things; most of Mycenaean civilisation had been unearthed by Schliemann and other German scholars in the nineteenth century, and the ... Read More
Another Tragedy of War
Monday April 16, 2007
Today, environmental lawyer and writer Kate Elliot provides a signed commentary on the continuing cultural destruction resulting from the Iraq conflict.
Another Tragedy of War: Commentary on the Cultural Costs ... Read More
What the Heck is Cultural Resource Management?
Sunday April 15, 2007
A term often bandied about by archaeologists and others in the commercial end of the field of archaeology is 'cultural resource management' (often abbreviated CRM).
Save Pasargadae and Persepolis. Photo ... Read More
The Domestication of Chickpeas
Saturday April 14, 2007
Chickpeas (aka garbanzo beans) are those tasty little tidbits that you run across in Mediterranean, Indian and African cuisines. But who knew they had such an interesting history of domestication? ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #8
Friday April 13, 2007
Archaeology
Early Evidence of Maize Cultivation in Tabasco, Mexico, Afarensis
Bandurria, Peru, Megalithic Portal
Diffusion versus migration in North African prehistory, John Hawks
Did Earliest Human Ancestors Have More Apelike Faces?, Remote Central
Blogging from ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Nicodemus Kansas
Thursday April 12, 2007
The 2007 Kansas Archeology Training Program (KATP) field school has the potential to produce new and valuable information about the everyday lives and extraordinary struggles of a post-Civil War African ... Read More
Searching for Amelia: The Interview
Wednesday April 11, 2007
The Archaeology Channel this week has an audio file of a half-hour interview with Ric Gillespie and Tom King, the guys leading the search for archaeological evidence of the legendary ... Read More
Bassett on the New Intellectual
Tuesday April 10, 2007
This quote from geographer Keith Bassett is over ten years old, but today it seems prescient:
....[T]he rapid development of the new media and computer technologies... have the potential to ... Read More
Daryl L. Habel 1941-2007
Monday April 9, 2007
The About.com Archaeology page experienced a shocking personal loss this week, when news of the passing of Dar Habel was sent along. Dar was a constant and abiding presence on ... Read More
Archaeology Dig 2007: Kaloyanovets Cataloging Project
Monday April 9, 2007
Balkan heritage (BH) has three new field school projects in Archaeology and Art History and one heritage workcamp in 2007, and BH officer Kostadin Kostov sent along descriptions of all ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday--er Saturday, #7
Saturday April 7, 2007
Due to a personal computing meltdown this week, I couldn't get to AF until today, but ... lots of good stuff going on out there:
Recent Archaeology Posts
Headless Bodies May ... Read More
Remote Sensing vs Geophysical Survey
Saturday April 7, 2007
Recently I received an email from Geoff Jones of ArchaeoPhysics, taking exception to my conflating the two concepts of Remote Sensing and Geophysical Survey. As is my wont, I asked ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Bruce D. Smith on Ecosystem Engineers
Tuesday April 3, 2007
Currently, research on domestication is carried out on two largely disconnected scales—at the level of individual plant and animal species to document the "what, when, and where" of domestication worldwide, ... Read More
Early Date for Tianyuan Cave, China
Monday April 2, 2007
A paper published today in the Early Edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences by Erik Trinkaus and Hong Shang and colleagues from the Chinese Academy of ... Read More
John Romer's Great Pyramid
Monday April 2, 2007
John Romer's book The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited was published this spring by Cambridge University Press.
The Great Pyramid: Ancient Egypt Revisited Photo Credit: Cambridge University Press
I'm no egyptologist, ... Read More
Spencer Lake Mounds Hoax
Sunday April 1, 2007
In honor of April Fool's Day, a story about an archaeological prank that succeeded all too well:
No Vikings in Wisconsin? The Spencer Lake Mounds Hoax