Archaeology September 2010 Archive

The Neolithic period in World History (in my opinion) is one of our strangest. Why on earth would anybody give up the hunter-gatherer existence they had led for some 2 ... Read More

The Mesolithic period was, until fairly recently, considered a stagnant period for humankind. Wedged between the glorious advances of the Upper Paleolithic—think of those fabulous cave paintings of Lascaux and ... Read More

There is more to archaeological fieldwork than the "big dig". Intensive excavation at a single site—whether that site is a tomb, temple, house or farmstead—can really only tell you about ... Read More

The Stone Age is called the Paleolithic ("old stone") period by archaeologists, and it covers a vast amount of time. The Stone Age begins when our earliest hominid ancestors started ... Read More