Archaeology May 2012 Archive

A new study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences this week connects some dots between strontium isotope readings in human teeth belonging to the first farmers ... Read More

Last week, news broke concerning the identification of a new set of art work at Abri Castanet, now firmly dated to the Early Aurignacian period of the Upper Paleolithic of ... Read More

A new research study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on May 21, 2012, reports that the long and varied history of dogs and humans has ... Read More

I am not a huge sports fan (having been traumatized by an early fascination with the Chicago Cubs), but I am a huge fan of ballcourts. Ballcourt at Xcaret, Yucatan ... Read More

An article in PNAS published on May 14, 2012, describes a fundamental reassessment of the Upper Paleolithic Aurignacian site of Abri Castanet, in the Dordogne region of France, which pushes ... Read More

A fascinating report in Science today, and featured in an upcoming issue of National Geographic, is that of a newly discovered mural including astronomical tables at the classic Maya site ... Read More

New DNA evidence published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences earlier this week supports the domestication of horses as having occurred one time, somewhere in the western ... Read More

In one of the Time Team programs I reviewed last week, the team investigated a Roman mansio--the Empire's version of a way station or roadside hotel. Mansio ruins in Staffordshire, ... Read More

An important concept used in archaeological and anthropological study for the past 150 years or more is that of exchange systems or trade networks. Exchange systems are the way consumers ... Read More