More on PreClovis from Tony Baker
Tuesday March 31, 2009
Amateur archaeologist and flint meister extraordinaire Tony Baker discovered a copy of Emma Lou Davis' The Ancient Californians (1978) and is of the opinion that we ought to all go ... Read More
Quiz of the Week: Easter Island
Sunday March 29, 2009
Today's Quiz of the Week, your weekly painless (and possibly funny) quiz based on some fairly well-known archaeology topic or other, is on Easter Island. Be sure to cheat; I ... Read More
Teaching Evolution in Middle and High School
Friday March 27, 2009
Here are some resources I found that are excellent sources for teachers who want to teach evolution in the classroom, whatever the Texas Board of Education decides today.
National Science ... Read More
Creationism in Science Classes? Just say no
Friday March 27, 2009
The Texas Board of Education may do an amazing thing today: vote to change the way Texas science classes have been taught for the past 20 years. For two decades, ... Read More
Earliest Corn Domestication
Tuesday March 24, 2009
An astonishing discovery in the Rio Balsas region of Mexico has pushed the domestication of corn—or rather, American corn or maize—back to at least 7,000 BC. Maize (Zea mays—and decidedly ... Read More
Human Migrations from Africa
Monday March 23, 2009
One of the great ongoing debates in human paleontology is how we evolved out of Africa. Traditionally, two polar opposite pathways from Africa have been discussed: the Out of Africa ... Read More
Spring Equinox Images at Loughcrew
Monday March 23, 2009
Every equinox, the rising sun illuminates the passage and chamber of the 5,000-year-old monument of Loughcrew, and every year, weather permitting, the folks at the Knowth.com go out and record ... Read More
Quiz of the Week: Bog Bodies
Sunday March 22, 2009
Every Sunday from now on, I'm planning on posting a Quiz of the Week, a painless (and possibly funny) quiz based on some archaeology topic or other. Because I hate ... Read More
Archaeology Fieldschool 2009: Bamburgh Castle
Thursday March 19, 2009
In this week's fieldwork in focus, Gerard Twomey of the Bamburgh Research Project gives us a little insight into his ongoing project, excavations at the stunning medieval castle of Bamburgh, ... Read More
Peking Man and the Use of Fire
Tuesday March 17, 2009
Recent radio-isometric dating of quartzite artifacts found in layers in which the Peking man Homo erectus fossils at the Locality 1 at Zhoukoudian were recovered have indicated a date of ... Read More
TAC: Visit with Respect
Saturday March 14, 2009
The latest video from The Archaeology Channel explores how people from the Pueblo feel about visitors to their ancestral lands.
TAC: Visit with Respect, video 9:53
Archaeology Fieldschool 2009: Pemaquid Farmstead
Friday March 13, 2009
This week's fieldwork in focus is ongoing historical investigations in Maine, submitted by Neill De Paoli:
Overview
The scenic mid-coast community of Bristol is home to one of Maine's earliest European ... Read More
More on Screaming Mummies
Friday March 13, 2009
Mark Rose of Archaeology magazine has a great piece on screaming mummies, why they're so fascinating to us and what history and science has shown us about what a scary ... Read More
How to Become an Archaeologist
Tuesday March 10, 2009
The single most frequent question I get from people is "How do I become an archaeologist?". Over the years I've written several articles on the various aspects of being and ... Read More
Advances in Evolutionary Science
Sunday March 8, 2009
National Geographic asked leading scientists to name the most important fossilized species identified since Darwin's birth. The list includes one of our direct ancestors—Homo ergaster—and is a broad scale look ... Read More
New Evidence of Horse Domestication
Thursday March 5, 2009
Evidence supporting the current theory of horse domestication as having occurred in Kazakhstan between about 5,000-5,500 years ago was reported on March 6, 2009, in the journal Science. Horse domestication ... Read More
Global Warming Nutshell Sheet, and the F/R Ratio
Wednesday March 4, 2009
This tidbit comes straight from Mini-Annals of Improbable Research for March 2009, and, although it's not precisely archaeology, it made me laugh this morning, and there's not a lot ... Read More