Fixin' Vanilla
Saturday January 31, 2009
I really have no excuse for goobering up some science now and again, but fortunately, I do have some hard-headed and generous readers who act as editors.
Can I Get a Quote?
Thursday January 29, 2009
Once upon a time, I had a quote of the week feature—hard to believe I could keep that up for any long-standing period, but I did for quite a while, ... Read More
Sustainable Ancient Wonders
Monday January 26, 2009
Over on WebEcoist is an interesting blog entry discussing seven ways people in the past developed green architecture for energy use:
7 Ancient Wonders of Green Design & Technology
Well worth ... Read More
Kuttamuwa Stele
Sunday January 25, 2009
One of the top archaeology stories of last year was the discovery of the Kuttamuwa Stele, found in a private shrine in a house in the Neo-Hittite city of Zincirli ... Read More
TAC Channel Video: Gujarat, India
Friday January 23, 2009
New video from The Archaeology Channel on Indus Valley, especially Gujarat, India.
Saving the Indus Valley: Gujarat, India 5 minutes
Free Online Access to Edinburgh Journals
Wednesday January 21, 2009
Just heard that Edinburgh University Press is offering free access to its journals for all of January and February, including the Scottish Archaeological Journal:
Scottish Archaeological Journal
Edinburgh University Journals List
Edinburgh ... Read More
Inauguration Day Readings
Tuesday January 20, 2009
I've been working through a stack of academic articles I picked up in October last year; I'm behind in my reading this quarter, but today, oddly enough, the top article ... Read More
Easter Island Moai in their Landscape
Monday January 19, 2009
There's something truly fascinating about the moai on Easter Island.
Variations on a Pig
Saturday January 17, 2009
A paper on pig (Sus scrofa) genetics published in January 2009 in the journal PLoS Genetics (and therefore yippee! open access) points out that, although wild Asian and European boars ... Read More
More on Otzi the Iceman and Moss
Friday January 16, 2009
This is going to seem so self-referential, but I'm delighted to say that archaeologist Reinhard Maag added such an immensely useful chunk to my blog on the story about Otzi ... Read More
4 Stone Hearth #58
Friday January 16, 2009
Is a fatty this month, hosted at Corvus moneduloides, which the ever-present Wikipedia tells me is the latin name for New Caledonian Crow.
UNESCO, Underwater Archaeology, and Treasure Quest
Thursday January 15, 2009
It is not my practice to comment on videos I haven't seen, but editor Zach Zorich of Archaeology magazine says that the Discovery Channel series "Treasure Quest" which begins tonight, ... Read More
Making String in Prehistory
Tuesday January 13, 2009
There was an interesting paper in Antiquity last summer written by Karen Hardy, discussing how making string is an often overlooked but incredibly important, tiny skill useful to human beings. ... Read More
Two Paths into the Americas?
Sunday January 11, 2009
An interesting paper posted in Current Biology last week describes geographical distributions of two separate mitochondrial DNA sequences among Native Americans. The results suggest that the first Americans arrived from ... Read More
TAC: Iraq Museum Update
Friday January 9, 2009
The Archaeology Channel has uploaded a video this week on a presentation given at the TAC film festival this past summer by Donny George, former director of the Iraq Museum. ... Read More
"Ancient Empires", Indeed!
Thursday January 8, 2009
I received an excellent question today from a reader who wanted to know if he could use the "human history" outline I developed, and if it wasn't mine, where did ... Read More
Sheep Manure and Rye Agriculture in Portugal
Wednesday January 7, 2009
For all those of you who are interested in identifying the archaeology of past agriculture, you might take a look at the Spring/Summer 2008 issue of the Journal of Ethnobiology. ... Read More
Part Time Studies in Archaeology - Sureyya's Journey, Part 6
Tuesday January 6, 2009
Sureyya Kose was a systems operator until a couple of years ago, when she decided she had to follow her dream to be an archaeologist. She's been sharing her story ... Read More
Nano-Diamonds and Clovis Sites
Monday January 5, 2009
A brief paper published in Science on January 2, 2009, revealed data supporting an hypothesis about the abrupt end of the Clovis culture which was originally reported in 2007, and ... Read More
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugli
Saturday January 3, 2009
Kenneth Weiss is the Evan Pugh Professor of Biological Anthropology and Genetics at Pennsylvania State University. His regular column "Crochets and Quiddities" is one of the main reasons I read ... Read More