The First Gold Working in Peru
Monday March 31, 2008
Archaeologists working at the site of Jiskairumoko, an archaic period site located in the Rio Ilave drainage of southern Peru, have identified what they report as the earliest cold hammered ... Read More
Experimental Archaeology and the Shroud of Turin
Monday March 31, 2008
The Shroud of Turin is really a neat artifact. Seriously. The 'shroud' (as if you didn't already know) is a sheet of linen cloth impressed with the three-dimensional front and ... Read More
Written in Bone: Doug Owsley on the History Channel
Thursday March 27, 2008
This weekend the History Channel's series Save Our History will broadcast a special called "Written in Bone", featuring forensic anthropologist Doug Owsley. Owsley is department head of Physical Anthropology at ... Read More
Sima del Elefant: Oldest Human Remains in Western Europe
Wednesday March 26, 2008
The Sima del Elefante site is a karst rockshelter located in the Sierra de Atapuerca mountain range of northern Spain. The cave measures 18 meters deep and up to 15 ... Read More
Sourcing Turquoise
Tuesday March 25, 2008
Since the 1970s, researchers have attempted to pin down the source of turquoise--that lovely blue-green mineral aka hydrated copper aluminum phosphate, cherished and used as jewelry and inlay by so ... Read More
Archaeology Books for Kids: Reading the Bones
Friday March 21, 2008
Very few archaeology books for children make their way to my desk--and although based on that I can't really say for sure, it may be that there are only a ... Read More
TAC: Saving the Cradle of Maya Civilization
Wednesday March 19, 2008
Latest video from The Archaeology Channel is a 2007 video on the Mirador Basin of Guatemala:
Saving the Cradle of Maya Civilization: the Mirador Basin Project
Fieldwork in Focus: Yeaton-Walsh House, New Hampshire
Tuesday March 18, 2008
This week's Fieldwork in Focus is about the late 18th century Yeaton-Walsh House, in Portsmouth New Hampshire. Archaeologist Sheila Charles sent this note along:
Strawbery Banke Museum’s 2008 Archaeology Field ... Read More
Brian Fagan on The Daily Show
Tuesday March 18, 2008
Last night, archaeologist Brian Fagan visited The Daily Show to talk about his latest book, The Great Warming: Climate Change and the Rise and Fall of Civilizations. Fagan brings his ... Read More
What Folks are Saying about Journey to 10,000 BC
Sunday March 16, 2008
I hear tell that there was a special on the History Channel this week called Journey to 10,000 BC that is supposed to be better than the recent 10,000 BC ... Read More
Past Horizons: Free Online Archaeology Magazine
Sunday March 16, 2008
A new way to get the latest archaeological news and stories is Past Horizons, to be published six times a year in a free online format. This latest venture is ... Read More
Peopling the New World--The Current Status
Friday March 14, 2008
Today, the journal Science published an article by Ted Goebel, Michael Waters, and Dennis H. O'Rourke, arguing that the Clovis first argument is dead in the water.
Excavation of the ... Read More
SAFE Global Candlelight Vigil 2008
Thursday March 13, 2008
SAFE Candlelight Vigil for the Iraq Museum in Beirut, Lebanon (April 12, 2007) Photo Credit: Saving Antiquities for Everyone (SAFE) Used with permission
For the fifth year running, SAFE (Saving Antiquities ... Read More
Fieldwork in Focus: North Dakota Badlands
Wednesday March 12, 2008
The Department of Anthropology, University of North Dakota, invites students to attend its
Rates of Domestication: The Donkey
Monday March 10, 2008
The more archaeologists learn about the processes of domestication--that is, how animals and plants were changed to fit human needs and vice versa--the more thorny and complex the process seems. ... Read More
TAC: Anthropology Field Notes #6: Shipwreck Archaeology
Monday March 10, 2008
The Archaeology Channel hosts Anthro Field Notes #6, with Faith Haney of Central Washington University (CWU) discussing shipwreck archaeology, taking a tour of the Odyssey Marine Exploration museum and interviewing ... Read More
Prehistoric Fiction: Swigart, Lessing, and 10,000 BC
Thursday March 6, 2008
Prehistoric fiction gives me the creeps. In fact, prehistoric fiction--that is to say, stories set in the prehistoric past, whether books or movies--has always given me the creeps, but I ... Read More
World's Oldest Animation
Wednesday March 5, 2008
Now this is deeply cool. The Cultural Heritage, Tourism and Handicrafts Organization (CHTHO) in Iran has made a short film using the images on a bowl from the Burnt City. ... Read More
Early Human Fire Usage
Monday March 3, 2008
The history of human use of fire is an old one, as you might imagine. The earliest evidence for using fire is by Homo erectus, at least 400,000 years old, ... Read More