Archaeology April 2012 Archive

According to legend, archaeologist Mick Aston is reported to have boasted that given three days, he could assess any archaeological site. In 1994, the reality TV program Time Team was ... Read More

Five thousand years ago in what is today southern Sweden, two cultures lived side-by-side. Farmers, known to archaeologists as the Funnel Beaker Culture (TRB), resided in settlements in the center ... Read More

Huaca Colorada ("Red Temple") is a late Moche temple (~600-800 AD), located in the arid coastal region of Peru. Like other temples built by what archaeologists have called the Moche ... Read More

I've always had a thing about roads, probably because when I was a working archaeologist, I worked for the state department of transportation conducting surveys along them. The only reason ... Read More

In 1998, I was in my first - no, it was my second year of working on this site for what was then known as the Mining Company, and I ... Read More

A paper published in the early edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on April 9, 2012, reported the results of computer models on ocean currents affected ... Read More

Several years ago, I wrote an article on the history of rice, detailing the current scholarly understanding of how rice was domesticated and spread throughout the world. Since that time, ... Read More

The history of the plantation system and the Yucatán Peninsula during and after the Spanish colonial period is covered in a new book by Allan Meyers, one of the excavators ... Read More

Maple sugaring season got cut short in Wisconsin this year, due to an unseasonably warm spring, but let's face it: any time we humans can think about sweet stuff is ... Read More