Archaeology November 2009 Archive

Last month, a new exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History opened, called "Traveling the Silk Road". The exhibit features Silk Road artifacts and displays about that vast network ... Read More

Faithful reader Norah writes: "I read in the paper this week about the disappearance of woolly mammoth and other large-bodied animals at the end of the Ice Age, and how ... Read More

Vinland is the name of the legendary place described in the Viking sagas that was said to have been founded by Leif Ericson on the North American continent. But its ... Read More

I admit right up front that I haven't seen the video "Deep Secrets: The Ballard Gallipoli Expedition", because it wasn't made available to us journalist types prior to the program, ... Read More

On Tuesday, November 17, 2009, National Geographic's Expedition Week presents a new video documenting the underwater archaeology discovery of three imperial Japanese submarines, all scuttled by the American forces off ... Read More

This year, like last year, National Geographic Channel plans to dedicate this coming week to airing new exploration videos. This year, like last year, they were kind enough to send ... Read More

Today, a new article in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences revealed evidence from the Maya civilization site of Calakmul, a Late Classic period capital in Campeche state ... Read More

To most of the world, the image of an archaeological dig comes from the movies. You remember: in the first Indiana Jones movie, there's an iconic moment when Indy is ... Read More

Belgian anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss died on October 31, 2009, at the ripe old age of 100. His impact on anthropology (and archaeology as a subset of anthropology) was so earth-shattering ... Read More

Now, don't get me wrong. Archaeologists do have a reputation for drinking an ocean of beer at the end of their working day, but that is besides the point. I ... Read More

According to a little press release I received late last week, David Beresford-Jones from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge has been leading a team investigating the environmental ... Read More

From 1922-1934, archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley excavated at the Sumerian city of Ur, an ancient tell located in what is today very southern Iraq, funded by the British Museum and ... Read More