Hittite Capital City of Hattusha - A Walking Tour
Wednesday July 27, 2011
Two different types of "Hittites" are mentioned in the Hebrew Bible (or Old Testament): the Canaanites, who were enslaved by Solomon; and the Neo-Hittites, Hittite kings of northern Syria who ... Read More
Norse and Thule in Greenland
Monday July 25, 2011
Recently I ran across a couple of articles on Sandhavn, the most likely location for the "Atlantic Harbor" reported as a Norse trading center on the southern coast of Greenland ... Read More
Buffalo Soldiers, the Apache Wars, and Archaeology
Wednesday July 20, 2011
In Guadalupe Mountains National Park of West Texas lie the archaeological remains of the Pine Springs Camp, a site which has been investigated by Howard University and the National Park ... Read More
Terra Preta
Monday July 18, 2011
Terra Preta, or Amazonian Dark Earth(s), is human-created, organic-rich soil, formed from food waste, animal bone, human excrement, ash and charcoal from fires, and other waste materials. Sort of a ... Read More
The Statues That Walked: Easter Island Reconsidered
Friday July 15, 2011
The Statues that Walked is a brand new popular science book by Easter Island researchers Terry Hunt and Carl Lipo. For the last decade or so, the two scholars have ... Read More
Stephens and Catherwood: Maya Explorers
Monday July 11, 2011
John Lloyd Stephens was a writer, diplomat and entrepreneur; Frederick Catherwood an artist and architect. Together, they introduced the western world to the Maya in a series of books lavishly ... Read More
History of Bananas
Friday July 8, 2011
A new article in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences encouraged me to delve into the history of bananas this week, and while I didn't get quite ... Read More
Mayan Jade
Monday July 4, 2011
Jade is a raw material that was used to make exotic luxury goods for royalty in prehistory throughout Asia, Europe and the Americas. Oddly enough, we modern sorts only recognize ... Read More