Herzog's Cave of Forgotten Dreams
Thursday April 28, 2011
This Friday, Werner Herzog's 3-D documentary of Chauvet Cave, "Cave of Forgotten Dreams", premieres in select movie theaters in New York City, Chicago, and Los Angeles. This is plenty reason ... Read More
Video News from The Archaeology Channel
Wednesday April 27, 2011
The Archaeology Channel, the long-running websource for free archaeology videos, began a monthly half-hour long Video News report last October, and made available on the 15th. This month's offering includes ... Read More
AD/CE Revisited: What do the journals say?
Saturday April 23, 2011
Several years ago now, my colleague N.S. Gill (guide to Ancient History here) started a discussion about whether archaeologists and historians should use the abbreviations of BC and AD when ... Read More
Bodies in the Bog: A Book Review
Wednesday April 20, 2011
When I was at the Society for American Archaeology meetings in Sacramento last month, I kept hearing about this book, Bodies in the Bog and the Archaeological Imagination. Bodies in ... Read More
Mesopotamian Over-Kill? Desert Kites in Syria
Monday April 18, 2011
Archaeological excavations at a Mesopotamian site have provided indirect evidence that several herd animal species were hunted to near-extinction in the Levant between 4000 and 1000 BC.
Scholars have long ... Read More
Mayapan: A Walking Tour
Friday April 15, 2011
Mayapan, located in the Yucatan peninsula, is one of the largest of the ancient cities attributed to the Maya civilization, and a popular destination for tourists. But the site has ... Read More
Archaeology Field Photos and Geotagging Privacy
Wednesday April 13, 2011
The latest smart phones and digital cameras have terrific capabilities these days, among which is geotagging. Geotagging would seem to be a boon for archaeological studies: you can take ... Read More
Sureyya the Shovel Bum
Sunday April 10, 2011
Several years ago, Australian Sureyya Kose decided to switch her boring (but well-paid) information technology career as a systems operator for a life in archaeology. She's been telling us her ... Read More
Blogging Archaeology: Post-Session Comments
Friday April 8, 2011
At the 2011 SAA conference, I was privileged to be asked by organizer and Berkeley PhD candidate Colleen Morgan (who writes the popular Middle Savagery blog) to act as chair ... Read More
A Walking Tour of Palenque
Monday April 4, 2011
Palenque is surely one of the prettiest Maya civilization sites, located in the foothills of the Chiapas mountains of southern Mexico, within a lush and well-watered landscape. This week, Contributing ... Read More
Blogging Archaeology and Peer Review #blogarch
Friday April 1, 2011
For the last week in Colleen Morgan's blog carnival Blogging Archaeology, she asked "For our last question, I would like to ask you to consider the act of publication for ... Read More