Unlocked Landscapes of Northern Ireland
Friday November 30, 2007
An interesting webpage turned up this week from the BBC educational outreach program called Landscapes Unlocked. It uses flyovers and other visual media to illustrate combined geography and archaeology of ... Read More
TAC: A Viking Landscape
Wednesday November 28, 2007
A sixteen minute video presented on The Archaeology Channel this week describes investigations in the Mosfell valley of Iceland, where Vikings first established a colony in the 9th century AD. ... Read More
Site of the Day: Pedra Furada (Brazil)
Monday November 26, 2007
Pedra Furada, Brazil, is a stratified rockshelter located in the Serra de Capivara Park. It has a Paleoindian occupation about 11,000 years old, and some ancient cave art dated at ... Read More
Black Friday Shopping: Museum Gift Shops
Friday November 23, 2007
A good gift for the holidays for your archaeologist pal or relative (or yourself) is a reproduction or related gewgaw. There are several places on the internet to find such ... Read More
Science Fair Project: Ancient Roadways
Tuesday November 20, 2007
This science fair project includes making a study of an ancient roadway or transportation network, that could include a map, a plan or cutaway drawing to show how the road ... Read More
The Inca Ceque System
Sunday November 18, 2007
One interesting aspect of the Inca civilization is the ceque system, a series of lines connecting shrines in a distinct physical pattern around the principal cities of the Inca world. ... Read More
New Dating Technique Tested at Lene Hara Cave
Friday November 16, 2007
An international team lead by Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University and reported in a recent article in the Journal of Archaeological Science have developed a new rock art ... Read More
Kerkenes (Turkey) - Site of the Day
Thursday November 15, 2007
The archaeological site of Kerkenes is thought to be Pteria,
Head of a Griffin (Kerkenes, Turkey) Photo Credit: Kerkenes Archaeological Project (c) 2003
a capital city of the Median Empire mentioned ... Read More
Cyrus the Great's Royal Road
Tuesday November 13, 2007
The Achaemenids were the founding dynasty of the Persian Empire. Led by Cyrus the Great and his grandson Darius, they annexed most of Anatolia, and their empire eventually included Libya, ... Read More
Material of Interest: Ochre
Sunday November 11, 2007
Ochre (or ocher, or hematite, or limonite)
Iron Oxide Outcrop, Alligator Gorge, Flinders Range, South Australia Photo Credit: John Goodridge
is one of several versions of iron oxide compounds that occur ... Read More
Site of the Day: Aguateca (Guatemala)
Thursday November 8, 2007
Today's site of the day is Aguateca, a Late Classic period Maya site in Guatemala, where causeways mark the edge between elites and the rest of the population. Archaeological investigations ... Read More
Site of the Day: Fukui Cave (Japan)
Wednesday November 7, 2007
Today's site of the day is Fukui Cave, a rockshelter in Japan where, so far, the earliest pottery made on the planet have been discovered, dated by secure radiocarbon dates ... Read More
Quote of the Week: Kenneth Weiss on Defining Evolution
Tuesday November 6, 2007
This week's quotation comes from Pennsylvania State University paleontologist Kenneth Weiss, who frequently writes literate essays on current issues for the journal Evolutionary Anthropology. In this quote, he offers a ... Read More
Glass Ceiling Exposed: Double-Blind Peer Review
Monday November 5, 2007
A forthcoming paper in Trends in Ecology and Evolution reports on a statistical inquiry into the effects of double blind peer review, something that academics and researchers of all stripes ... Read More
Archaeology Project Blogs
Monday November 5, 2007
Over the weekend, I received an email from April Beisaw about her blog for the archaeological site of Port Tobacco, an 18th and 19th century town in Maryland. I have ... Read More
Shovel Bum Joins the Army
Sunday November 4, 2007
In the latest video from Trent deBoer and The Archaeology Channel, the Shovel Bums conduct archaeological survey on the Yakima Training Center in Washington.
Shovel Bum Joines the Army
An Interview ... Read More
Material of Interest: Obsidian
Sunday November 4, 2007
The flatout favorite raw material for anybody making stone tools at any time in our human past has got to have been obsidian,
Obsidian Outcrop, Obsidian Trail in Newberry Volcanic Monument, ... Read More
Searching for Amelia Earhart V: Return to Nikumaroro
Saturday November 3, 2007
One of the enduring mysteries of recent history is the disappearance of pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart, who dropped out of sight while circumnavigating the globe in July of 1937.
Amelia ... Read More
Site of the Day: San Blas (Mexico)
Thursday November 1, 2007
The town of San Blas Mexico today is a fairly quiet village in Nayarit state on the Pacific coast of Mexico, where tourists can wander the Spanish colonial ruins, such ... Read More