Archaeology July 2009 Archive

This week's Time Team America takes us to Range Creek, Utah, a remote canyon southeast of Salt Lake City, in the pinyon and sagebrush region known as the Great Basin. ... Read More

Today's Archaeology Quiz of the Week is on Pompeii, the doomed city of Italy. Beware of the Dog sign, House of the Tragic Poet, Pompeii.Photo Credit: Julie Fisticuffs Trivia Quiz: Pompeii ... Read More

Perhaps rashly, I have embarked on a mission to pull together recent research on Viking (or Norse) archaeology. This mission will take several more weeks, but I do have some ... Read More

On July 22, 2009, PBS will air an installment of Time Team America based on their visit to New Philadelphia, the archaeological ruins of a small town founded in 1830s ... Read More

Today's Archaeology Quiz of the Week is on Aksum, (sometimes spelled Axum), a famous Iron Age kingdom in Ethiopia, legendary location of the ... well, you'll just have to read ... Read More

In a highly original public archaeology event, the Iowa Archeological Society and the Iowa Office of the State Archaeologist are jointly holding their second annual "Archaeology on the Road" during ... Read More

The latest addition to The Archaeology Channel is an audio interview with archaeologist Fred Wendorf, who recently published a memoir on his life in the field as a southwestern American ... Read More

The Topper Site, an extensive and important Clovis site (likely ca 12,500-12,900 bp, no dates yet from the Clovis occupation at Topper) with a controversial preclovis occupation (bracketed between ca ... Read More

Today's Archaeology Quiz of the Week is on Otzi the Iceman, that poor old fellow discovered eroding out of a glacier in the Europeans Alps. Reconstruction of the Iceman's Clothing, ... Read More

This week, the much-anticipated Time Team America begins its premiere season on PBS, five weeks over the summer during which public television viewers will get a first-hand look at high-tech ... Read More

The About.com Archaeology Quiz of the Week is on Archaeological Dating Techniques, the methods used by archaeologists to discover how old things are. Are you ready to give it a ... Read More

George Cowgill is a Mesomericanist archaeologist, probably best known for his work at Teotihuacan. In an essay titled "How I got to where I am now: One thing after another, ... Read More