TAC: Surviving Lewis and Clark
Sunday December 30, 2007
A new video uploaded this week to The Archaeology Channel is called "Surviving Lewis and Clark" and "it covers the history of the Nez Perce (or Nimiipuu in their own ... Read More
Identifying Hatched Turkey Eggs at Archaeological Sites
Friday December 28, 2007
The history of the domestication of turkeys is one of those great questions in archaeological science.
While archaeologists are certain Meleagris spp was domesticated in North America probably at least ... Read More
Presidential Debates on Science Demanded
Thursday December 27, 2007
Our Geology guide, Andrew Alden, brings the online petition ScienceDebate 2008 to our attention today. Spearheaded by congressmen Vern Ehlers, R-MI, and Rush Holt, D-NJ, ScienceDebate 2008 already has the ... Read More
Top Ten Wish List for the New Year
Monday December 24, 2007
Ten years ago, one of the first columns I wrote was on my top ten wishes for the New Year. A decade later, some of those wishes have been fulfilled, ... Read More
Archaeology's Top Ten
Thursday December 20, 2007
Archaeology magzine's editors have come up with an intriguing top ten discoveries for 2007, including many I covered here--and some interesting things that I missed. The first link in each ... Read More
Solstice to be Webcast at Newgrange
Monday December 17, 2007
This year, in honor of the fortieth anniversary of the rediscovery of the ancient observatory aspects at Newgrange, Heritage Ireland is sponsoring a live webcast of the solstice sunrise.
Curbstone ... Read More
Beeswax Shipwreck Project (TAC)
Sunday December 16, 2007
This week from TAC is another episode of Anthropology Field Notes from Central Washington University. Faith Haney interviews archaeologist Scott Williams about his work investigating a Spanish galleon wreck off ... Read More
Museum Exhibit: Lewis and Clark's Trail Revisited
Friday December 14, 2007
If you are anywhere near Philadelphia this winter, the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has a new exhibit on photographs of the Lewis and Clark Trail, called ... Read More
Blogging Archaeology
Thursday December 13, 2007
Over on the Ancient World Bloggers Group, Bill Caraher has assembled an interesting history of blogging in archaeology. Take a look!
Blogging Archaeology, from Bill on Ancient World Bloggers Group
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Capacocha Ceremony and Inca Child Sacrifice
Wednesday December 12, 2007
Archaeologists are fortunate when it comes to the Inca civilization--we not only have archaeological data, but since the empire was up and running when the literate Spanish arrived in the ... Read More
Cannibalism More Common than We Thought?
Monday December 10, 2007
I recently ran across an interesting paper of a few years ago arguing that our genetic propensity to resist prion diseases--Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease, kuru, and scrapie--came about as a result of ... Read More
Medieval Archaeology
Friday December 7, 2007
The Archaeological Data Service, that wonderful project from the UK, just announced that they have volumes 1-50 of the journal Medieval Archaeology (through 2006) available for free download; a great ... Read More
Blog Carnival: Four Stone Hearth XXIX
Thursday December 6, 2007
Tim Jones takes the driver's seat for the Anthropology blog carnival Four Stone Hearth over on Remote Central....
Four Stone Hearth XXIX
Geomythology and the Burckle Crater
Wednesday December 5, 2007
In a new article called Recent Cosmic Impacts on Earth: Do Global Myths Reflect an Ancient Disaster?, contributor Thomas F. King takes a look at a recent work by archaeologist ... Read More
Baltic Amber
Tuesday December 4, 2007
Baltic amber (known as succinite) is a specific subset of natural amber that is found only in northern Europe.
Amber Room, St. Catherine's Palace, Tsarskoye Selo (Russia) Photo Credit: ... Read More
Recent Books in Archaeology
Sunday December 2, 2007
I have been so busy this last six months or so, that I simply haven't had time to look at the new books that have been coming out in the ... Read More