Archaeology February 2010 Archive

This week's Fieldwork in Focus comes from Neill De Paoli, director of the 9th season of the ongoing excavations at the home of 17th century merchant Robert Givens, in Pemaquid ... Read More

The quadrennial athletic games called the Olympics, now going on in Vancouver, British Columbia, originated st the site of Olympia, Greece during the first millennium BC. After the Greeks, the ... Read More

In 2000, film maker Michael Bott and writer and presenter Rupert Soskin met together with a plan to make the megalithic monuments of the British Isles better known to the ... Read More

The 2010 field season for the University of North Dakota will be held in conjunction with the National Park Service, at the Elbee and Karishta sites, located within the Knife ... Read More

A recent article describing the latest recalibration of radiocarbon dating between 12,000 and 50,000 years ago gives me a great opportunity to talk about this fascinating topic.

This week's archaeology Fieldwork in Focus comes from Eileen G. Ernenwein at the Center for Advanced Spatial Technologies at the University of Arkansas, who is heading up joint investigations at ... Read More

This spring, the Brooklyn Museum will hold an exhibition of Egyptian artifacts in the Charles Edwin Wilbour collection, taken from Egyptian tombs dated between Old Kingdom and the Roman period.

When I was a little girl, my parents bought us an encyclopedia at the grocery store. You bought them one volume at a time, as I recall, they were bound ... Read More