Four Stone Hearth #45
Friday August 29, 2008
An interesting collection of articles from Tim Jones on Remote Central:
Four Stone Hearth: Caves, Graves, and AudioFiles
Clovis Comet Theory at Pecos Conference
Friday August 29, 2008
The Clovis Comet theory argues that a comet exploding over the Laurentide ice sheet about 12,900 years ago caused--or worsened--the megafaunal extinctions and led to the end of the Clovis ... Read More
Newgrange Pictures
Thursday August 28, 2008
Our guide to Europe for Visitors, James Martin, is an ex-archaeologist, and he has put together a new photo essay on Newgrange! Enjoy...
Newgrange in Pictures
Camel Domestications
Tuesday August 26, 2008
There are two species of quadruped animal of the deserts of the world called "camel", both of which have implications for archaeology.
On the Domestication of Camels
Bactrian Camels
Dromedaries
Olmec Bloodletting Spoons and ... Weaving?
Sunday August 24, 2008
Vanilla Orchids and the Maya
Friday August 22, 2008
A new article on the origins of vanilla inspires me to add it to the Plant Domestication Table, despite the fact that it really wasn't domesticated.
Not a vanilla orchid ... Read More
Oetzi's Clothing
Thursday August 21, 2008
News broke yesterday about a new mass spectrometry inspection of the clothing belonging to Oetzi. You'll recall, no doubt that Oetzi, also known as the Iceman or Simalaun Man, was ... Read More
Wordless Wednesday: Green Sahara
Wednesday August 20, 2008
Who was Pietro Psaier?
Monday August 18, 2008
Shelley Esaak, About.com's guide to Art History, has uncovered what strikes her as a very peculiar mystery: an artist about whom a documentary is in pre-production, but whom Shelley is ... Read More
New Dates on Archaeology of Thule Migration
Monday August 18, 2008
In AD 998, the Viking Leif Ericson (or Leifr Eirķksson) established a post on what he called Vinland, what we call Labrador in eastern Canada. The archaeological site where he ... Read More
Experimental Archaeology: Iron Smelting
Saturday August 16, 2008
A great article on an iron smelting experiment made its way to my desk from Expedition, the organ of the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology (a.k.a. Penn ... Read More
Big Foot vs Indiana Jones
Friday August 15, 2008
In honor of the breaking news release about two guys in Georgia displaying their yeti in a box, Archaeology magazine has started an enormously silly poll, wondering if, in a ... Read More
Colossal Head of Roman Empress Discovered
Thursday August 14, 2008
Excavations at the site of Sagalassos in Turkey have uncovered the remains of an enormous Roman era statue of the Empress Faustina. Sagalassos is a Roman metropolis that has been ... Read More
Four Stone Hearth #47
Thursday August 14, 2008
Is at Stephanie Zvan's Almost Diamonds blog this week..
Four Stone Hearth #47--Unasked Questions Edition
Humans and Neanderthals Not Related
Wednesday August 13, 2008
Birthplace of the Olympics
Saturday August 9, 2008
The ancient Olympic games were held in the Greek city of
Politics, Naļve Archaeology and Israel
Thursday August 7, 2008
"My interpretation," says Greenberg, "is that archaeologists are naļve children in their political perception.... They just don't want to know. They want to dig in the ground, get their hands ... Read More
Science Fair Projects
Tuesday August 5, 2008
It's never too early to start looking for great science fair projects. Here are a few ideas for projects with an archaeological bent.
Rock Art and Archaeology
Modeling an Ancient Village
Ancient ... Read More
Chickens and Trans-Pacific Crossings, Part 2
Sunday August 3, 2008
Last year, there was a paper in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences that argued that a site in Chile had chicken bones within a prehistoric context. Basically, ... Read More
Is archaeology an 'inherently sexy profession" ?
Friday August 1, 2008
Amy Biancolli in the Houston Chronicle thinks so, in her comment on the new Brendan Frasier "Mummy" movie:
Why do archaeologists get to have all the fun?: Hollywood ignores accountants, ... Read More