Archaeology February 2008 Archive

Machu Picchu: Exploring an Ancient Sacred Center Photo Credit: Cotsen Institute of Archaeology Johan Reinhard is currently Explorer-in-Residence at the National Geographic Society and a Senior Research Fellow at The Mountain ... Read More

In 1904, the Sacred Cenote of Chichén Itzá was dredged by archaeologist Edward H. Thompson. Thompson recovered one hundred human skeletons and hundreds of objects sacrificed by the Maya between about ... Read More

A new video uploaded last week on The Archaeology Channel is a seven minute visit to the Shri Shiva temple in Chidambaram, India, produced in 2008 by Raja Deekshithar. Shri Shiva ... Read More

I've been poking around in the Upper Paleolithic these days, and while I was there I discovered that Erik Trinkaus, whose papers are always interesting anyway, has recently been chasing ... Read More

Alun Salt, one of the Ancient World Bloggers Group and a long time blogger under his own Archaeoastronomy blog, has begun a rather interesting project making access to selected blog ... Read More

Can functional changes in Polynesian canoes tell us about how culture evolves under adaptive forces? Outrigger canoes at shoreline, Honolulu, Hawaii, c. 1922 Photo Credit: US Library of Congress Cultural ... Read More

The study of plants in the past is called archaeobotany. While much of archaeobotany involves the investigation of macroscopic remains---seeds, tubers, rinds, and the like---of late, that study has included ... Read More

One of the things I do all the time is look for academic articles on particular subjects. Although I do have access to a university library, many times I can ... Read More

I received an email recently from Doug Weller, who is one of the great resources of our profession. Doug is the moderator of the long-lived "Doug's Archaeology Site: Skeptical Views ... Read More

The 2008 field school for the Department of Social Sciences, Southern Maine Community College will be held between July 28 and August 15, 2008, at the late 18th century estate ... Read More

This week on TED, illustrator David Macauley (beloved by archaeologists for his Motel of the Mysteries) describing the creative process which generated his latest book, Rome Antics, an homage to ... Read More

A field technician (aka shovel bum) is a person hired to do archaeological fieldwork associated with a cultural resource management (primarily non-academic) project. It is the first job many archaeologists ... Read More

Glass just fascinates me, but I've never really thought about why, so when it was time to update my history of glass making, I decided to use appropriate photographs where ... Read More