Top Myths about the Mayan Civilization
Sunday March 27, 2011
According to rumors you may have read on the Internet and in popular books, in addition to predicting the end of the world in 2012, the Mayan civilization was peaceful ... Read More
Pre-Clovis in Texas: the Debra L. Friedkin Site
Thursday March 24, 2011
In the March 25th, 2011 issue of Science magazine, Michael R. Waters and associates report on the discovery of the Debra L. Friedkin site, a multicomponent archaeological site in Texas ... Read More
The Iron Age in Europe
Sunday March 20, 2011
In central Europe beginning about 400 BC, barbarian cultures known to the Greeks and Romans as Celts or Gauls created a great deal of trouble along the Mediterranean coasts. Known ... Read More
Lower Paleolithic Controlled Use of Fire? Not so much
Wednesday March 16, 2011
In Monday's issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Early Edition, paleontologists Wil Roebroeks and Paola Villa reported on their examination of the evidence for the habitual ... Read More
A Ramble Around Teotihuacan
Monday March 14, 2011
Archaeologist Richard A. Diehl, currently professor emeritus at the University of Alabama at Tuscaloosa, worked at the massive ruins of Teotihuacán in the basin of Mexico when he was a ... Read More
Blogging Archaeology
Monday March 7, 2011
The Society for American Archaeology meetings will be held the end of this month in Sacramento, California. One session of particular interest will be Blogging Archaeology, organized by Colleen Morgan ... Read More
2011 Fieldwork in Focus: Kincaid Mounds
Saturday March 5, 2011
Today's archaeological Fieldwork in Focus comes from Corin Pursell, 2011 field director of the excavations at Kincaid Mounds, Illinois.
The 2011 field school for Southern Illinois University at Carbondale (SIUC) ... Read More
What's a Crescent?
Friday March 4, 2011
In an article published in Science today, Jon Erlandson and associates report on the extensive work they've done on Paleoindian (Erlandson calls them "paleocoastal") sites on the Channel Islands off ... Read More