Archaeology February 2011 Archive

Aztec gods are known to us from the Spanish chronicles written by horrified and fascinated clergyman, such as Fray Diego Duran, and from Aztec codices, colorful bark paper books, only ... Read More

Joint investigations by University of Alaska archaeologists and Alaskan Natives at the Upward Sun River Mouth site in central Alaska have identified a Paleoindian burial in Beringia, one of the ... Read More

I have to say, I've never run across a domestication history that included the "cuteness" argument. But Hans-Peter Uerpmann did that in his history of sheep domestication in the 2008 ... Read More

This week's archaeological Fieldwork in Focus comes from Dr. E. Charles Adams, at the University of Arizona.

The Caribbean Sea is a body of water located off the eastern coasts of South and Central America. Within it lies several islands collectively called the Greater and Lesser Antilles, ... Read More

Over the last month or so, I read and reviewed a book called Outies, written by archaeologist Jennifer Pournelle as her entry into the social science fiction genre. My major ... Read More

Outies is a science fiction novel, written by archaeologist Jennifer Pournelle, as a sequel to the classic A Mote in God's Eye, published in 1974 by Pournelle's father Jerry Pournelle, ... Read More

Even without a cinematic romance, shipwrecks are fascinating to archaeologists, because they are archaeological sites that represent a single moment in time. Wrecks can illustrate international trade, piracy, exploration, and ... Read More