Archaeology October 2010 Archive

On Wednesday, November 3, 2010, Public Broadcasting will air The Silver Pharaoh, an hour-long video blending a tale of the history of archaeology in WWII and that of Psusennis I, ... Read More

Evidence supporting a sophisticated level of flint knapping has been discovered in a Middle Stone Age cave on the south coast of Africa, 25,000 years earlier than previously known.

One type of pioneer cabin is a dugout, built on a deep hole excavated into the side of a hill. Dugouts were used by 19th century European pioneers as first ... Read More

Although the stereotypical cave man was a meat eater, several recent archaeological studies have shown that, at least by 30,000 years ago, modern human diets had to include a substantial ... Read More

Cold Earth is a new novel (well, new to the United States--it was published in the UK in 2009) about an archaeological expedition to the west coast of Greenland, which ... Read More

Nicoletta Maestri, contributing writer for Archaeology here at About.com, has assembled a 'top ten' list of archaeological sites in Mexico that you shouldn't miss.

As an archaeologist, I read a little sociology. Sociologists study people, like archaeologists do; and they rely on statistics, like we do; but, unlike us, sociologists have informants they can ... Read More