The Indians of Iowa: A Book Review
Saturday October 31, 2009
Lance Foster is an academic and a member of the Ioway tribe, and beginning in 1996, he started an ambitious web project (now defunct) called Native Nations of Iowa.
The ... Read More
Archaeology CryptoQuote 8
Wednesday October 28, 2009
The effect of spending your life studying the ancient past changes people, in ways that are quite surprising. Today's cryptoquote nails the creation of the archaeological other very well indeed.
Archaeology and Halloween
Tuesday October 27, 2009
Archaeology magazine this month has a special feature on the archaeology of Halloween, witches, witchcraft and all sorts of spooky topics. Lots of online content includes articles on Samhain, the ... Read More
Royal Cemetery at Ur: A Photo Essay
Sunday October 25, 2009
Today, the University of Pennsylvania's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology opens a new exhibit entitled Iraq's Ancient Past: Rediscovering Ur's Royal Cemetery. Ur was a Mesopotamian city-state dated to the ... Read More
Tara Symposium to be Webstreamed
Friday October 23, 2009
A scholarly symposium on the archaeology of Tara, the legendary seat of Irish kings, will be streamed live across the Internet between October 23 and 26, 2009.
Chichén Itzá: The Walking Tour
Thursday October 22, 2009
The archaeological site of Chichén Itzá is not only one of the best known Maya sites in the Yucatan peninsula of Mexico, it reflects political change in the contrasting styles ... Read More
Archaeology CryptoQuote 7
Wednesday October 21, 2009
Archaeologists often have justifiably sharp pangs of self-doubt, wondering if we can ever truly understand the distant past. Today's cryptoquote speaks to why that should be so.
Fieldwork in Focus: New Philadelphia
Tuesday October 20, 2009
The New Philadelphia Archaeological Project (NSF-REU) is a fieldschool in archaeology and laboratory techniques, held at the townsite of New Philadelphia, a 19th century multi-racial farming community in central Illinois. ... Read More
Midwest Meetings and the State of Archaeology
Monday October 19, 2009
At the Midwest Archaeological Conference this weekend, I learned a handful of interesting things. First, the state of the job market for the archaeological profession in the American Midwest is ... Read More
Archaeology Job Prospects: A non-scientific survey
Friday October 16, 2009
I'm spending some time at the Midwest Archaeological Conference this week, and one of the things I'm doing is quizzing my colleagues on the state of the profession in the ... Read More
Archaeology CryptoQuote 6
Wednesday October 14, 2009
Today's archaeology cryptoquote has nothing to do with Uxmal, pictured in the image below, but everything to do with its attraction.
Archaeology Quiz: Megafaunal Extinctions
Sunday October 11, 2009
Today's Archaeology Quiz of the Week is on the planet's ecological disaster called Megafaunal Extinctions.
Woolly Mammoth at London's Horniman Museum.
Photo Credit: Jim Linwood
Trivia Quiz:
Megafaunal Extinctions Trivia Quiz
Cheat Sheets:
Megafaunal Extinctions
Mammoths ... Read More
Ardi on the Discovery Channel
Sunday October 11, 2009
Tonight, the Discovery Channel features a special on Ardipithecus ramidus called "Discovering Ardi". Although I haven't seen the video, the website for the project has a dozen video clips featuring ... Read More
The Romanovs and Hemophilia B
Thursday October 8, 2009
The Romanovs were the ruling family of Russia in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, and they were closely related to many of the ruling families in Europe, including ... Read More
Archaeology CryptoQuote 5
Wednesday October 7, 2009
The archaeology cryptoquote today is associated with this handsome young fellow.
Achill Archaeological Field School
Tuesday October 6, 2009
The first archaeology Field School in Focus for the 2009/2010 school year is Achill Island in County Mayo, Ireland, where incredible landscapes and fascinating archaeology compete for the student's attention. ... Read More
Archaeology Quiz: We Three Kings
Sunday October 4, 2009
Today's Archaeology Quiz of the Week is called We Three Kings, no, no, not those three kings, but three kings of ancient history just the same: Pachacuti of the Incas, ... Read More
Science Reporting on Ardi
Saturday October 3, 2009
When the substantially complete Ardipithecus ramidus was reported in Science this week, science reporters all over the world chimed in, as well they might. Since the story was so widely ... Read More
Ardipithecus ramidus, a Photo Essay
Thursday October 1, 2009
In Science this week is a stunning array of articles describing the latest information on the 4.4 million year old hominid Ardipithecus ramidus, a hominid which is considered ancestral to ... Read More