Göbekli Tepe: Houses, Shrines or Both?
Wednesday November 30, 2011
A terrific article by E.B. Banning in September's Current Anthropology discusses the Pre-Pottery Neolithic (PPN) site of Göbekli Tepe, interpreted by investigator Klaus Schmidt as a set of temples and ... Read More
Sites to Know: Nazlet Khater
Monday November 28, 2011
At the western edge of the Nile valley in Egypt about 200 kilometers north of Luxor is a cluster of eight Upper Paleolithic sites, containing evidence of chert mining activities ... Read More
Dating Upper Paleolithic Cave Paintings
Friday November 25, 2011
The artistic efforts of our Upper Paleolithic ancestors some 20,000-30,000 years ago are mostly dated by the recognition of style types as defined by modern-day western scholars. These stylistic definitions ... Read More
The Aurignacian at Franchthi Cave
Monday November 21, 2011
Franchthi Cave is an enormous cave in the Argolid of Greece, where continuous human occupation between 35,000 and 3,000 years ago were documented in the 1970s. Recently, the lowest levels ... Read More
E-Group
Friday November 18, 2011
An E-Group is an arrangement of buildings found on upwards of 70 ancient Maya cities located primarily in the lowland Maya region of Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Attributed to the ... Read More
The Temples of Malta - A Photo Essay
Wednesday November 16, 2011
Malta and its smaller colleague Gozo are tiny islands in the Mediterranean Sea, 150 miles from Europe, 180 miles from North Africa and 90 miles from its nearest neighbor, Sicily. ... Read More
Salt Production in Prehistory
Monday November 14, 2011
Salt has a very bad reputation lately, and rightly so. Its excessive use has led to chronic high blood pressure and a raft of related diseases. But, some 4500 years ... Read More
The Neolithic Lake Dwelling of La Draga
Friday November 11, 2011
La Draga is a Neolithic Lake Dwelling, occupied about seven thousand years ago, on the shores of this pretty lake in the Catalonia region of extreme northeastern Spain.
Lake Bayoles, Catalonia, ... Read More
Human Sacrifice at Royal Cemetery of Ur
Wednesday November 9, 2011
A recent study of skulls from the Royal Cemetery of Ur in Iraq has shed a little light on the Mesopotamian elite burials discovered by C. Leonard Woolley back in ... Read More
Nabta Playa and the Predynastic of Egypt
Monday November 7, 2011
Everybody knows about the Pyramids of Giza in Egypt: they are, after all one of the original "seven wonders" of the world, and have been for the nearly 5,000 years ... Read More
When Did Early Modern Humans Get to Europe?
Friday November 4, 2011
Two re-analyses of hominid skeletal material from sites dated to the transition between Middle and Upper Paleolithic in Europe reported in the journal Nature on Thursday have added to the ... Read More
Thule Tradition and Climate Change
Wednesday November 2, 2011
An interesting article in the journal Geoarchaeology lends some evidence of the Thule tradition adapting to climate change, particularly global warming, on the Hudson Bay area in Canada.
The Thule tradition ... Read More