Archaeology March 2013 Archive

Decoding Neanderthals is a 2013 video from Public Broadcasting Services' NOVA program, and further proof, if you needed it, that PBS continues to provide us with terrific scientific videos, featuring ... Read More

The Chichimec people migrated into the valley of Mexico in the 12th century AD, and built their capital city at Tenayuca, located a few kilometers north of Mexico City. Stone Sculpture ... Read More

In 2007, a rockshelter was rediscovered in southwestern Arnhem Land, Australia, by Ray Whear and Chris Morgan, members of the Jawoyn Association survey team. What they found there amazed them, ... Read More

The Shapwick Project was a ten-year-long landscape archaeology program set in Somerset county of southwest England, intensively studying the town of Shapwick and the surrounding fields: Interpreting the English Village ... Read More

There is more to archaeological fieldwork than the "big dig". Intensive excavation at a single site—whether that site is a tomb, temple, house or farmstead—can really only tell you about ... Read More

While I was gathering information about Anuradhapura in Sri Lanka, I kept running into papers about stupas, the great brick monuments built to honor the Buddha beginning in the 3rd ... Read More

Anuradhapura is the name of the massive archaeological ruins of an ancient city, the original capital of what is today Sri Lanka, built at least as long ago as the ... Read More

In Alexandria, Egypt, was a library, which was both a collection of nearly a million scrolls on science and philosophy from all over the known world, and a university where ... Read More