Mesoamerican Pottery
Tuesday April 28, 2009
Beth Peterson, About.com's guide to pottery, has assembled this terrific image gallery of Mesoamerican pottery:
Pre-Columbian Mesoamerican Pottery
SAA Meetings in Atlanta
Tuesday April 28, 2009
Mark A. McConaughy has provided a summary of the sessions at the US national Society for American Archaeology meetings on the bulletin board today.
SAA Conference in Atlanta
Quiz of the Week: Little Bighorn Battle
Sunday April 26, 2009
Today's Quiz of the Week is on the The Battle of the Little Bighorn, an icon of truly bad American military policy, bad in so many ways I can't count ... Read More
eBay and Looting
Saturday April 25, 2009
Charles Stanish has been tracking the antiquities trade on eBay for the past decade, and what he's learned about what eBay has done to the market is pretty darned interesting. ... Read More
Is the Indus Script a Language? A Photo Essay
Thursday April 23, 2009
The ancient Indus Civilization took up 1.6 million square kilometers of eastern Pakistan and northwestern India between about 2500 and 1900 BC. It had huge cities like Mohenjo-Daro and Harappa ... Read More
TAC Video: Festival 2009 Preview
Tuesday April 21, 2009
This half-hour video from The Archaeology Channel is a preview of the upcoming TAC International Film Festival, to be held May 19-23, 2009 in Eugene Oregon. The keynote speaker this ... Read More
Archaeology in Three Dimensions
Monday April 20, 2009
Archaeology magazine this month features, among other things, an article on CyArk, a company that is making three-dimensional images of archaeological ruins all over the world, to permit their close ... Read More
Quiz of the Week: The Rosetta Stone
Sunday April 19, 2009
Today's Quiz of the Week is on the Rosetta Stone, one of the crucial keys to our being able to read the literature of the Egyptian civilization. As usual, the ... Read More
Waking the Baby Mammoth
Friday April 17, 2009
On Sunday, April 26, 2009, National Geographic will premiere a documentary video on the discovery and investigation of Lyuba, a female woolly mammoth of about one to two months in ... Read More
Quiz of the Week: Hunter-Gatherers
Sunday April 12, 2009
Today's Quiz of the Week is on Hunter-Gatherers, one of my favorite topics! By the way, the image I've chosen to illustrate this post is a strong hint, as when ... Read More
Four Stone Hearth #64
Friday April 10, 2009
The 64th (!) issue of the anthropology Blog Carnival called Four Stone Hearth can be found at Quiche Moraine this time:
Four Stone Hearth at Quiche Moraine
And what a ... Read More
Is Archaeology a Really Bad Main Career?
Wednesday April 8, 2009
Martin Rundkvist, Internet pal of mine and archaeologist/blogger/etc etc in Scandinavia, had a bleak, bleak response to the standard 10 questions sent by high school students. He cites a lousy ... Read More
Climate Change and Archaeology
Tuesday April 7, 2009
On its online avatar, Archaeology magazine has posted an important article by Andrew Curry on the effect climate change is having on archaeological sites and cultural heritage around the world. ... Read More
Lego Archaeology Field Report
Tuesday April 7, 2009
This set of blog entries from Colleen Morgan's "Middle Savagery" is a hilarious exploration of archaeology using Lego blocks. Part 1 shows what a Lego site reconstruction might look like; ... Read More
Shamans and Archaeology
Monday April 6, 2009
What are the archaeological signatures of shamans? An interesting paper by Christine VanPool appearing in the Journal of Anthropological Archaeology in the nearish future gives us a framework for answering ... Read More
Quiz of the Week: Tenochtitlan
Sunday April 5, 2009
Today's painless Quiz of the Week is dedicated to the Aztec capital city of Tenochtitlan. Even if you don't cheat, you just got one right!
Wall of warrior skulls, Templo ... Read More
TAC Video: Great Sage Plain
Friday April 3, 2009
Today's 19 minute video newly uploaded to The Archaeology Channel is called Cultural Heritage of the Great Sage Plain, produced by the Anasazi Heritage Center and Paradox Productions in 2000. ... Read More
How Do You Choose a Field School?
Wednesday April 1, 2009
A field school is an archaeological training class, run by universities and historical societies the world over. Many of them are a perfect testing ground for the person who is ... Read More