Archaeology February 2012 Archive

The Yanghai Tombs is the name of an enormous cemetery located near an oasis in the Turpan (or Turfan) Basin of western China, at the far eastern edge of the ... Read More

The Late Bronze Age (~3200-1200 BC) horse-back riding cultures of Asia, sometimes called Andronovo culture, have always been an interest to me. But I admit, I haven't written much to ... Read More

Mammoth Bone Settlements, thankfully abbreviated MBS, consist of between one to six huts built of mammoth bone coupled with hearths and storage pit features. Located in central Europe--most are in ... Read More

Ongoing excavations at Kharaneh IV, an Early Epipaleolithic site in the Azraq Basin of Jordan, have revealed the remains of some early hut structures within deposits dated between 20,000-16,000 years ... Read More

Chenopodium is a plant with a dozen different names (lamb's quarters, goosefoot, taak, fat hen, huantzontle, quinoa among many others), and it was domesticated a half-dozen different times in various ... Read More

Bolomor Cave is a Middle Paleolithic (Middle Stone Age) site, located in the beautiful Valencia region on the Mediterranean coast of Spain. Those Neanderthals had some good taste in locations! ... Read More

The tasty dried meat product called jerky, available nearly everywhere, and made of nearly every conceivable kind of meat, has a name which is derived from the South American version ... Read More

I don't know about you, but I've always been confused about llamas and alpacas. In zoos I've visited, they looked pretty similar to me, and never having done much study ... Read More

Abri Pataud is an important Upper Paleolithic cave site located at the base of a bluff in the Dordogne valley of south central France, one of several sites in this ... Read More