The Mahaffy Cache
Friday February 27, 2009
A couple of news stories on the new blood residue studies on the Mahaffy Clovis point cache were sent on to me by faithful readers. The Mahaffy Clovis cache is ... Read More
Ancient Human Footprint Discovery in Kenya
Thursday February 26, 2009
A new discovery of a set of ancient human footprints near the town of Ileret, Kenya, the second oldest set ever found, and likely made by Homo erectus about 1.5 ... Read More
Mayan Civilization Guide
Sunday February 22, 2009
The Mayan civilization refers to the group of loosely organized city states that dominated central America from about 200-900 AD. Interestingly enough, archaeologists prefer the term "Maya Civilization"; but most ... Read More
Ancient Greek Pottery
Tuesday February 17, 2009
About.com's guide to pottery, Beth Peterson, has built a photo gallery of 50 gorgeous Greek pots that is worth a long look:
Ancient Greek Pottery
TAC: Saving the Temple of Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia
Tuesday February 17, 2009
The Archaeology Channel this week has a 7 minute video on the temple of Banteay, Chhmar:
Saving the Temple of Banteay Chhmar, Cambodia
Why 50,000 bp is a "Crazy Date" for Topper
Saturday February 14, 2009
Later this year, the first peer-reviewed report on the geostratigraphy of the Topper site in South Carolina will be published in the Journal of Archaeological Science. I got to ... Read More
Cunliffe: Europe Between the Oceans
Wednesday February 11, 2009
Europe between the Oceans: 9000 BC to AD 1000, is the latest overview of European archaeology produced by Barry Cunliffe. My favorite bookstore, Prairie Lights in Iowa City, Iowa, passed ... Read More
Easter Island Statue Project Awarded $94,000
Tuesday February 10, 2009
On January 5, 2009, the Archaeological Institute of America awarded a $94,000 grant to the Easter Island Statue Project. The grant will help the project develop preservation techniques to arrest ... Read More
Percy Fawcett and The Lost City of Z
Monday February 9, 2009
Percy Fawcett was a Victorian-minded explorer in the early 20th century.
Credit: Doubleday (c) 2009
Mad and manly, Fawcett was certain there was a lost civilization in the lush green hell of ... Read More
Darwin and Lincoln Turn 200
Thursday February 5, 2009
Charles Darwin turns 200 next week. Isn't that amazing? So does Abraham Lincoln, oddly enough, on the same day, but be that as it may, I fully intend on blathering ... Read More
Rethinking Human Burials
Thursday February 5, 2009
Alun, over on Archaeoastronomy, has started an interesting thread about the ethics of excavating human burials, a topic of great fascination to most of us:
The Ethics of Studying Human ... Read More
TAC: Choquequirao, The Cradle of Gold
Thursday February 5, 2009
New 12 minute video on Inca site of Choquequirao
Choquequirao, The Cradle of Gold
Human Migrations #2: Australia
Tuesday February 3, 2009
Yesterday, I wrote about a couple of papers on the possible Taiwanese origins of the Lapita culture. What struck me was the way these two separate studies—historical linguistics and DNA ... Read More
Tracking Human Migration: The Lapita Culture
Monday February 2, 2009
Two papers published in Science a couple of weeks ago combined DNA bacterial studies and historical linguistic data to make some new conclusions on how and when the Lapita settled ... Read More