Archaeology November 2010 Archive

New Mexico as a travel destination is famous for many reasons. From an archaeological standpoint, you can't get much more interesting ruins to visit than Chaco Canyon. But, Chaco has ... Read More

Cotton (Gossypium spp), is, according to the USDA, the single most important textile fiber in the world, and accounts for some 40% of all the fibers produced. Karachi Cotton Vendor, ... Read More

This week's Archaeological Fieldwork in Focus comes from Ernst "Skip" Lohse, field director for the 2011 excavations at the famous Gault site.

Tracy Chevalier's Remarkable Creatures is a fictional tale of the friendship between Mary Anning and Elizabeth Philpot, two early 19th century women whose obsession with fossils added much to the ... Read More

As we have come to expect from them each year, Balkan Heritage has planned ten interesting opportunities for archaeology field and laboratory work scheduled for the 2011 season. The academic-credit ... Read More

The November 17 episode of the PBS series Secrets of the Dead follows along with Timmy Gambin, an underwater archaeologist at the Aurora Trust, as he investigates a handful of ... Read More

When you think of the American southwest, you instantly think of chili peppers: chili rellenos and huevos rancheros, yum! But archaeologists have long been aware that the people of the ... Read More

A new entry into the archaeo-fiction genre, Creekside combines the story of a modern CRM-based archaeological excavation in Kentucky, woven around the stories of the people who lived in the ... Read More

The term Neolithic was coined in the 19th century, and it referred specifically to the period in Europe after that "Old Stone Age" when people first started using ground stone ... Read More