Four Stone Hearth #30
Thursday January 31, 2008
The anthropology blog carnival Four Stone Hearth is at Greg Laden's hangout this week:
Four Stone Hearth #30
Book Sale: Council for British Archaeology
Thursday January 31, 2008
Dan Hull of the Council for British Archaeology writes: "We’ve recently decided to put a whole series of our publications out at discounted prices in order to make way for ... Read More
Quotations: Alexander McCall Smith and Anthropologists
Thursday January 31, 2008
Alexander McCall Smith is a writer of humorous novels, most famously for his Precious Ramotswe and her No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency. He began the 44 Scotland Street series as ... Read More
More on "Or Was" and NAGPRA
Tuesday January 29, 2008
My last post on the proposed wording changes for NAGPRA garnered a couple of surprising responses (well, surprising to me), commenting that not all archaeologists were opposed to the wording ... Read More
Two Word Change in NAGPRA Sneaks In
Monday January 28, 2008
In October of last year, the United States Senate Indian Affairs Committee sneaked a controversial wording change into the Native American Graves Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) as part of a technical ... Read More
TAC: Kuwoot yas.ein: His Spirit Is Looking Out from the Cave
Friday January 25, 2008
The Archaeology Channel has added a 30 minute video about On Your Knees Cave, a Paleoindian burial site in Alaska:
Kuwoot yas.ein: His Spirit Is Looking Out from the Cave
Chronic Disease and the Archaeologist
Wednesday January 23, 2008
A faithful reader writes:
Could you address the ergonomic issues archaeologists face in the field, especially chronic illnesses- musculoskeletal disorders and cumulative trauma disorders? My company is in a ... Read More
In the journals...
Tuesday January 22, 2008
I've been trying to catch up on my reading from the end of the year; here's a handful of recent articles that are worth mentioning.
Faulkner, Neil 2007 Childe fifty ... Read More
Remains
Friday January 18, 2008
Nothing's perfect. The archeologist
who finds my bones cannot articulate
a poet out of ribs
uplifted like a broken apple crate.
How could he know (or she) these molars felt,
and are the sole remains ... Read More
Photos of Chankillo Astronomical Observatory
Tuesday January 15, 2008
Archaeologist Ivan Ghezzi passed along a handful of photographs of the newly identified astronomical observatory at the site at Chankillo, Peru, built between 2000 and 2350 years ago.
The sun ... Read More
Quote of the Day: History in Seven Words
Monday January 14, 2008
Harvard historian Jill Lepore presented the lecture on history at the 2007 Ignoble Awards last year, all of which appeared in the last issue of the Annals of Improbable Research ... Read More
Videos: Sphinx of India and How do ants know what to do?
Friday January 11, 2008
A couple of interesting videos:
TED: Deborah Gordon: How do ants know what to do?
TAC: Sphinx of India, 3 1/2 minutes on the Indian version of the human-headed lion
The Mummy's Curse: Having a Journalist Drop By Your Site
Wednesday January 9, 2008
In Harper's magazine for January 2008 is a 100,000 word essay from Gregory Jaynes on his March 2006 visit to the excavations of the Egyptian tomb KV63/KV10, called The Mummy's ... Read More
Field School in Focus: Field Methods in Rock Art
Tuesday January 8, 2008
May 12-29, 2008. Shumla School. Investigate and record rock art in the Lower Pecos canyons of Texas.
Carolyn Boyd Leads Shumla Students in Field Methods in Rock Art Photo ... Read More
Archaeology Field Schools for 2008
Monday January 7, 2008
This is the time of year universities begin announcing their upcoming field seasons for the year, most of which (but by no means all) occur in the summer (or in ... Read More
Science and the Next U.S. President
Thursday January 3, 2008
What are the scientific issues we'd like to see the candidates for US President address? Here's my short list:
What are you going to do about climate change?
Should ID be ... Read More
Viking Treasure!
Wednesday January 2, 2008
During the Viking expansion (AD 800-1150), people stockpiled silver coins and objects in iron boxes and bowls and holes in the ground, all over Scandinavia and northern Europe and, for ... Read More