Spruce Hill Up for Auction
Thursday May 31, 2007
An important Hopewell earthworks in south central Ohio called Spruce Hill goes on the auction block on June 14, 2007, too quickly for the Archaeological Conservancy or other organizations to ... Read More
Did an Exploding Comet End Clovis?
Wednesday May 30, 2007
There was an interesting paper given at the American Geophysical Union meetings in Mexico last week that argued that there is evidence that a comet exploded over the Laurentide ice ... Read More
New Research Databases
Tuesday May 29, 2007
Two exciting new research databases have become available on line this past week of interest to Egyptologists.
The first is the Current Research in Egyptology, which includes a database of ... Read More
New at AIA Website
Sunday May 27, 2007
Recent additions to the Archaeological Institute of America's website:
Archaeology Watch, a news archive on important issues such as governmental policies, legal cases, academic research and public archaeology
Archaeology Tours, information ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #12 (Happy Towel Day)
Friday May 25, 2007
Archaeology
Ancient Maya Tomb Found: Upright Skeleton, Unusual Location Tim Jones on Anthropology.net
Egyptian Courtier Henu's "Unusual" Tomb found by stumbling upon it, Kambiz Kamrani on Anthropology.net
Alpine Archaeology and Paleopathology: Was Hannibals ... Read More
Koonalda Cave, Australia
Thursday May 24, 2007
The anciently decorated Koonalda Cave is the name given to a karst limestone cave
Nullarbor plain near Cook, Australia. Photo Credit: Beau Wade
hidden deep beneath the dry and desolate ... Read More
Cat Domestication (if that's even possible)
Wednesday May 23, 2007
The timing and evidence of domestication of the modern day cat is a tricky thing to pin down.
I IZ DOMESTIK CAT Photo Credit: way opening
The reasons for the confusion ... Read More
Quote of the Week: John Steinbeck on the Sea of Cortez
Tuesday May 22, 2007
During the 1940s, American writer John Steinbeck (definitely better known for writing The Red Pony, The Grapes of Wrath and Of Mice and Men)
The Sea of Cortez, Cabo San ... Read More
Sutton Hoo (a bibliography and amendment)
Monday May 21, 2007
Recently I received a note from a reader who chided me about my description of Sutton Hoo.
Shield from Sutton Hoo Photo Credit: WordRidden
Sutton Hoo is an
Climate Change and Archaeology
Sunday May 20, 2007
Ran into an old friend over the weekend, who commented that archaeology could do more discussing of the past history of climate change. Here's an example of what happens when ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #11
Friday May 18, 2007
There's not a lot of consistency around the web this week, at least there isn't one hot story people are conversing about. I'm guessing it's because mid-May is the high ... Read More
Readings: Searching for Sacajawea
Thursday May 17, 2007
One of the articles that made its way to my desk this month is by Wanda Pillow
(Educational Policy Studies, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana), and was published in the Spring 2007 ... Read More
Looking for a good science writer?
Wednesday May 16, 2007
Seems like a good idea, to assemble a list of science writers who have written on archaeology and anthropology for the general public, for archaeologists who might want to have ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Lyman on a Seat at the High Table
Tuesday May 15, 2007
I am not suggesting that archaeologists abandon use of ethnologically documented cultural processes as explanatory tools, nor am I suggesting that archaeologists abandon traditional ethnological and anthropological theories. What I ... Read More
Venus Figurine Variations: The Photos
Monday May 14, 2007
A couple of months ago I wrote an article on the newly discovered chipped stone versions of Venus figurines
Chipped Stone Female Figurine (style Lalinde/Gönnersdorf) from Wilczyce, Poland Romuald ... Read More
Another interesting library project
Sunday May 13, 2007
After reading about E.O. Wilson's planned biology library, I got word about this new cultural heritage library, which is closer to archaeology of course anyway and certainly worth keeping an ... Read More
Book Review: Protecting Çatalhöyük
Saturday May 12, 2007
Recently I got a big care package of books from the new Left Coast Press, Inc., which was started last year by Mitch Allen, long-respected editor at Altamira.
Protecting Çatalhöyük ... Read More
Amalgamated Fridays #10
Friday May 11, 2007
At About.com
Potassium-Argon Dating, Geology
Pharos Lighthouse at Alexandria, Ancient History
Archaeology
Trashing Tara, Afarensis on plans to develop roadways near the famous Irish site
Aurignacian cave paintings of Fumane, Tim Jones on remote central
Swedish ... Read More
Herod's Tomb, Probably....
Thursday May 10, 2007
According to news reports over the last couple of days, archaeologist Ehud Netzer, professor emeritus at Hebrew University in Jerusalem has at last discovered the tomb of the Judean King ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Ned Heite on Dirty Truths
Wednesday May 9, 2007
We ask questions of the dirt. I don't trust people. I trust the dirt. The dirt is always truthful.
Edward F. "Ned" Heite on Dirty Truths, source of the quotation
More Quotations ... Read More
The Peopling of Australia: Who, When, How, and From Where?
Monday May 7, 2007
On May 7, 2007, an international research team investigating the mitochondrial DNA of the aboriginal people of Australia and New Guinea
Lake Mungo, Australia Photo Credit: dfinnecy
reported in the Proceedings ... Read More
Archaeology Crossword Competition
Monday May 7, 2007
The British Archaeological Jobs Resource (BAJR) site has a crossword competition underway. Solve the fiendish British-style puzzle and get a free copy of Cornelius Holtorf's Archaeology is a Brand:
Archaeology ... Read More
Gault Site Visit at the SAAs
Sunday May 6, 2007
Pennsylvania archaeologist Mark McConaughy, one of Archaeology @ About.com bulletin board's constant contributors, sends along this photographic guide to the Gault Site, a well-stratified Clovis and possibly pre-Clovis archaeological ... Read More
Digging San Francisco
Saturday May 5, 2007
An interview from Archaeology magazine with archaeologist Allen G. Pastron this month describes some of his ten-year-long research project under the streets of the city of San Francisco.
Digging San ... Read More
Amalgamated Friday #9
Friday May 4, 2007
Open Access
The most chatted-about issue this week was an open access one: blogger and neuroscience PhD student Shelley Batts ran afoul of the science journal publisher Wiley when she ... Read More
Afghan Treasures in France
Thursday May 3, 2007
In CulturalKiosque late last month appeared an interview with French archaeologist Jean-François Jarrige, president of the National Museum of Asian Art "Guimet", in which he describes how his recent ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Charles Austin Beard and Hari Seldon
Wednesday May 2, 2007
If a science of history were achieved, it would, like the science of celestial mechanics, make possible the calculable prediction of the future in history. It would bring the totality ... Read More
2007 TAC Film Festival Preview
Tuesday May 1, 2007
The TAC Film Festival will be held in Eugene Oregon starting today May 1 and running through the fifth this year. TAC has uploaded a preview of the festivities, with ... Read More