New Light on the Antikythera Mechanism
Wednesday July 30, 2008
Reading Archaeology News
Tuesday July 29, 2008
There are many many ways to keep up on the news of the archaeological world these days, far more than when I started this page eleven years ago. Here are ... Read More
Louise Leakey on TED
Saturday July 26, 2008
The latest generation of paleoanthropologists in the Leakey family is Louise, daughter of Maeve and Richard, granddaughter of Louis and Mary; and this week she's featured in a TED video, ... Read More
Archaeology of the World Photo Essays
Thursday July 24, 2008
Off and on over the past eleven years, I've thought about how cool it would be to have photo galleries on the archaeological sites of different countries.
Camera lens Photo ... Read More
More on White Horses: Not Quite a Wordless Wednesday
Wednesday July 23, 2008
TAC: The Water Witch
Tuesday July 22, 2008
The Archaeology Channel has a new video up, this one from the Georgia Department of Transportation, on recent investigations searching for a 19th century side-wheel steamer called the USS Water ... Read More
Lyme Disease a European Import
Monday July 21, 2008
Lyme disease (aka lyme borreliosis) is a plague suffered by many archaeologists, and anybody else who spends part of each spring and summer wandering about in forested areas. The disease ... Read More
Bicycles and Archaeology
Monday July 21, 2008
An innovative way to do archaeology outreach is bicycling its way across Iowa this week. Follow Team Archaeology on the Register's Annual Great Bike Ride Across Iowa (RAGBRAI), a marathon ... Read More
White Horses and Genetics
Sunday July 20, 2008
The history of white horses is given a little illumination today, in a study released in Nature Genetics on July 20, 2008.
A picture of the late actor Clayton Moore ... Read More
The End of the Minoans: A Cretan Insurrection?
Thursday July 17, 2008
Since the first excavations at Knossos by Arthur Evans, the end of the Late Bronze Age Minoan civilization on Crete in the Aegean Sea [ca 1470/1490 BC] has been attributed ... Read More
Wordless Wednesday: Amber Room, St. Catherine's Palace
Wednesday July 16, 2008
Which Greek Goddess are You?
Tuesday July 15, 2008
About.com's Ancient History guide wants to know, so she's put a quiz together to let us find out.
Which Greek Goddess Are You?
Pssst: I'm Athena, no surprise there, I'm ... Read More
Bonekickers: Archaeology meets CSI
Sunday July 13, 2008
Now, I live in the United States and so haven't seen it, but I'm reliably told that there is a brand new television series on BBC One that has fictional ... Read More
TAC: Shovel Bum in Alaska
Sunday July 13, 2008
Trent de Boer is the author of the ShovelBum comic, which follows his life and adventures as a field technician. In this latest video on The Archaeology Channel, Trent illustrates ... Read More
Where the Hell is Matt? 2008
Thursday July 10, 2008
Still dancing that goofy dance of his all over the world (including Teotihuacan), and this time he's got company...
Where the Hell is Matt 2008
FAQ: What does cal BP mean?
Wednesday July 9, 2008
Faithful reader Carol W. writes: "In your article The Domestication of Maize, under the paragraph heading "Theories of Maize Domestication," I found this sentence, with a form of dating I ... Read More
Sweet Potato Domestication
Tuesday July 8, 2008
When and where was the sweet potato domesticated?
Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea batatas) Photo Credit: luxes
In South or Central America, probably around 2500 BC.
But that's not all of the ... Read More
TAC: Interview with Donny George
Sunday July 6, 2008
TAC has a new video up, a conversation with Donny George, former Chairman of the Iraqi State Board of Antiquities and Heritage, talking about his experiences during and after ... Read More
Artifact Collectors and Professional Archaeology
Saturday July 5, 2008
Should artifact collectors be encouraged to report their discoveries?
Recently, amateur archaeologist Tony Baker has teamed up with the Paleoindian Database of the Americas to encourage artifact collectors to report information ... Read More