Turning Lead into Gold: the Alchemy of Lustreware
Friday November 30, 2012
The decorative ceramic style known as lustreware is a shiny metallic visual effect that flickers back and forth when light is played on it.
Monochrome Lustreware Cup - 10th Century Iraq. ... Read More
Wild Emmer Wheat
Wednesday November 28, 2012
News that the genome for bread wheat (Triticum aestivum) had been sequenced made me take a closer look at its originating plant: wild emmer wheat (described in the literature in ... Read More
Human Ancestors You Should Know: Toumaï
Monday November 26, 2012
The oldest possible human ancestor yet identified is Toumaï, known as Sahelanthropus tchadensis, who was collected from the Toros-Menalla locality of Chad, considerably west of the Rift Valley, where most ... Read More
Swahili Coast Town of Songo Mnara
Thursday November 22, 2012
Surely the coolest name ever for an archaeological site is Songo Mnara: and it happens to have been a trading center for the Swahili culture, a society of cosmopolitan merchants ... Read More
500,000 Year Old Spearpoints at Kathu Pan
Monday November 19, 2012
Last week, researchers writing in Science magazine reported that they had unearthed evidence that our ancient hominid ancestors had been making spearpoints about 500,000 years ago, 200,000 years earlier than ... Read More
The Human Family Tree on National Geographic
Wednesday November 14, 2012
National Geographic's Human Family Tree is a 90 minute DVD covering the results of the ongoing Genographic Project. The program features the research of Spencer Wells and colleagues, The program ... Read More
A Plant Eating Ancestor: Australopithecus bahrelghazali
Monday November 12, 2012
The 3.0-3.5 million year old hominin called Australopithecus bahrelghazali made news today, when the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences reported solid evidence that this ape-like fellow from ... Read More
Motul de San José: A Book Review
Friday November 9, 2012
Motul de San José is a classic period Maya site, located in the Lake Petén region of Guatemala near Tikal. The site has been the focus of archaeological investigations since ... Read More
Neolithic Canoes of Bercy
Wednesday November 7, 2012
Bercy is a Neolithic site, located on the banks of the Seine River in Paris, France. Back in the early 1990s, excavators recovered the remains of ten canoes carved out ... Read More
Pinnacle Point
Monday November 5, 2012
Pinnacle Point is an important Middle Stone Age site located on the southern coast of South Africa.
Overview of Pinnacle Point on the south coast of South Africa. © Science/AAAS
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