Archaeology August 2010 Archive

The environment of the arctic was perhaps more of a challenge in the past than it is today, with our new technologies for keeping warm: but the rich cultures that ... Read More

According to a couple of news releases from the Florida Aquarium, new archaeological excavations are underway at the Little Salt Spring site near Sarasota in southwest Florida. Little Salt Spring ... Read More

The 2011 season's first FIF comes from director Richard Yerkes, who tells us there is an exciting opportunity for five students or post-docs to join the Koros Regional Archaeology Project, ... Read More

Today, the journal Nature reports on the findings of the Dikika Research Project, providing evidence that Australopithecus afarensis butchered animals with stone tools a full 800,000 years earlier than previously ... Read More

An olive is a lovely thing; or rather, at least 2,000 different lovely things, in a huge variety of colors, shapes and flavors of fruit developed since the olive's domestication ... Read More

A new mitochondrial DNA study from an international team led by Connie Mulligan at the University of Florida suggests that wild donkeys were descended from solely the Nubian wild ass, ... Read More

The archaeological data analysis technique called Seriation was first used, and probably invented, by the Egyptologist William Flinders Petrie in the late 19th century.