Archaeological Site Restoration at Gran Quivira
Monday July 26, 2010
Most of the archaeological sites owned by national governments have undergone some level of restoration. We don't call 'em ruins for nothin', as one colleague put it. Governments prefer to ... Read More
Matt Ridley on Trade and Exchange
Friday July 23, 2010
There's a terrific video on TED this week from science journalist Matt Ridley, whose recent book The Rational Optimist is making some waves among the community. Ridley's video "When Ideas ... Read More
More Atacama Glyphs
Wednesday July 21, 2010
Stephanie Garcia, writing in the Garcias2Chile blog, took a trip this month to Chile's Painted Hills and came back with some great photos of the ancient geoglyphs in the Atacama ... Read More
What is Public Archaeology?
Monday July 19, 2010
Public archaeology, also called community archaeology in some places, is the passing along of information discovered in academic archaeology to people outside of the profession, whether that information is passed ... Read More
Archaeology and the Oil Spill
Sunday July 11, 2010
According to a news report making a very faint splash last week, concern has been raised about the impact of the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico to the ... Read More
Millstones and Trade in the Roman Empire
Monday July 5, 2010
Milling--the grinding of grains to produce flour--is an interesting technological study in and of itself. Rudimentary mills are known from the Neolithic; and by the Roman Empire of the last ... Read More