The Oldest Pottery in the World
Saturday June 30, 2012
One of the top ten inventions of the world, as far as I'm concerned, is ceramic containers. The earliest of these are bag-shaped, and a good guess (unsubstantiated because, of ... Read More
Shieling and the Viking Colony Failures
Monday June 25, 2012
The Scandinavian pasturage system called shieling has been practiced since at least the Norse expansion period, and perhaps as early as the first century AD, but it is best known ... Read More
New Evidence for the Pacific Coastal Migration Theory
Friday June 22, 2012
A new study of soil sediment cores on the Aleutian island of Sanak lends support to the Pacific Coast Migration Model of the original colonization of the American continents.
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Toba Super Eruption
Monday June 18, 2012
About 74,000 years ago, the Toba volcano in what is today Sumatra, exploded in a violent eruption. It was by all measurements a horrific explosion, spewing over 600 cubic miles ... Read More
New Dates on European Paleolithic Art
Saturday June 16, 2012
A new set of Uranium/Thorium dates on the flowstone covering cave paintings in the Cantabrian region of Spain has pushed the date for inception of art back to the earliest ... Read More
Conserving Wood Artifacts from Oseberg
Monday June 11, 2012
Some amazingly well-preserved wooden artifacts have been found in water-logged environments over the past couple hundred years, and the technology to keep them well-preserved has continued to improve. The only ... Read More
Old Smyrna and Homer
Friday June 8, 2012
According to an ancient Greek epigram, the famous poet Homer, author of the Iliad and the Odyssey, was born in one of seven different cities. No, one is not named ... Read More
Whatever Happened to Amelia Earhart? The Archaeological Evidence
Monday June 4, 2012
Pioneer aviator Amelia Earhart and her co-pilot Fred Noonan disappeared somewhere over the Pacific Ocean in July of 1937, and people have been looking for her ever since. The latest ... Read More
Ancient Flutes and the Kulturpumpe Model
Friday June 1, 2012
A new suite of radiocarbon dates associated with two ancient flutes at the Geißenklösterle site in the Swabian Jura of Germany continues to strengthen the viability of the so-called Kulturpumpe ... Read More