TAC: Archaeology Film Festival Preview
Wednesday April 30, 2008
The Archaeology Channel's annual Film Festival this year will be held 20-24 May 2008 in the Soreng Theater at the Hult Center for the Performing Arts in Eugene, Oregon, ... Read More
Clovis, Black Mats, and Extra-Terrestrials
Monday April 28, 2008
Although a lot of the hot news in archaeology these days is centered on Pre-Clovis, many scholars are focused on the end of the Clovis big game hunters.
Since the ... Read More
Electronic Monographs in Archaeology: A discussion
Friday April 25, 2008
Harrison Eitlejorg II is one of the pioneers of electronic publication of archaeological research. His CSA Newsletter, now in its 20th year, has discussed--and implemented--several enhancements to scholarly communication, such ... Read More
The Lost Legions: British Imperialism and Australian Sheep Stations
Wednesday April 23, 2008
What do I know about cattle and sheep ranches in the Australian outback of the late 19th, early 20th centuries?
The Lost Legions: Cultural Contact in Colonial Australia Photo Credit: ... Read More
Stable Isotopes and the Medieval Cod Trade
Monday April 21, 2008
Have you noticed what an enormous role stable isotopes are taking in archaeological research these days?
Cod Drying on a Rack Near Lofoten, Norway Photo Credit: Andrea Raviglione
The reason that ... Read More
AIR Limerick Contest: Grauballe Man's Intestines
Saturday April 19, 2008
The Annals of Improbable Research is (er, are?) must reading for the scientist who spends too much time in her laboratory. The humor magazine is in its 14th year of ... Read More
New Scientist: 24 Myths about Evolution
Thursday April 17, 2008
An open source article in New Scientist this week lists 10 shared misconceptions and 14 creationist myths about evolution, definitely worth a peek.
24 Myths About Evolution
The one that worries ... Read More
A Career Change to Archaeology: Sureyya's Journey
Thursday April 17, 2008
About three years ago now, I had the great good fortune to meet, electronically that is, a 22-year-old systems operator from Australia named Sureyya Kose. Sureyya had been finding herself ... Read More
TAC: Paisley Caves Interview
Wednesday April 16, 2008
This week, Rick Pettigrew of The Archaeology Channel interviews Dennis Jenkins about the excavations at Paisley Caves, Oregon, where a preclovis site with well-preserved coprolites was discovered during a field ... Read More
The Neanderthal Speaks!
Wednesday April 16, 2008
It might be a bit of hocus pocus, but an article in the New Scientist this week has a little sound byte of what (perhaps) a Neanderthal might sound like. ... Read More
Calibration Follies: Or Why I Still Haven't Finished the Peopling America Article
Monday April 14, 2008
For the past six weeks or so, I've been attempting to get up to speed on the current status of what scholars believe about the timing of the first human ... Read More
Four Stone Hearth #38...
Thursday April 10, 2008
The anthropology blog carnival 4SH is at A Very Remote Period Indeed this week:
Four Stone Hearth #38
Generalist versus Specialist: The Eastern Mediterranean Late Bronze Age
Wednesday April 9, 2008
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses II. Marc Van De Mieroop. 2007. Blackwell Publishing, Malden Massachusetts.
The Eastern Mediterranean in the Age of Ramesses IIPhoto Credit: Blackwell Publishing
It's ... Read More
Marvin McCormick: Flintknapper Extraordinaire
Monday April 7, 2008
Tony Baker sent along this piece on Marvin McCormick, a flintknapper in the mid-twentieth century who could flint knap a Folsom point, a rare thing indeed.
Folsom point, unknown provenience Photo ... Read More
PLOS Biology: What Killed the Woolly Mammoth
Friday April 4, 2008
An open source (yes, indeed, you can read it too simply by clicking on the link) article in PLOS Biology this week addresses the issue of what killed the woolly ... Read More
TAC: Preservation at Elk Run Church
Friday April 4, 2008
On The Archaeology Channel this week, a short film on the archaeological investigations of the 18th century Elk Run Church in Virginia:
Finding Our Foundation: The Preservation of the Elk ... Read More
Paisley Caves: The Discovery of PreClovis Human DNA
Thursday April 3, 2008
According to a report in Science Express published online on April 3, 2008, a field school from the University of Oregon found a preclovis site this past summer, containing the ... Read More
1,000,000 Years BFE: Exiled to the Pleistocene
Tuesday April 1, 2008
A modern anthropologist is exiled to the Pleistocene, poor thing, but is still determined to be a "strong, lithe, deadly, noble, cave-woman type figure", helped along by her training in ... Read More