On the Lighter Side: Archaeology Today
Monty Python style! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc9WLMCygTU] Flaming Star! The Story of One Man’s Search For Vengeance in the Raw and Violent World of International Archaeology
View ArticleRecent News In Mesoamerican Archaeology
The King Has Left The Building Apparently Maya elites and royalty weren’t the only ones building temples and pyramids. And the mystery of the blue pigment used in Maya pottery and murals has been...
View ArticleStolen and Looted: an interesting article
This is part of my on-going “Stolen and Looted” series in which I examine cultural resource management practices, looting of archaeological sites, and out-right theft of artifacts. In an online...
View ArticleStolen & Looted: $5-6 Billion in Stolen Artifacts?
This is part of an on-going series dealing with the theft, sale, and trade of artifacts and archaeological finds that are abruptly removed from their contexts, destroying valuable data that can be...
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People. Fire. Climate.
Using a $1.5 million NSF grant, a team led by the University of Arizona plans to study the how humans in the American Southwest responded and reacted to forest changes due to wildfire and climate....
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Grave Dowsing?
Survey of possible graveyard site along a highway destined to be four-laned. What’s a water dowser do when his method is demonstrated time and again to be nonsense on stilts? Turn to dowsing for...
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Walmart Endangers Cultural Site? Gets Building Permit Through Bribery?
Walmart exteriorcropped (Photo credit: Wikipedia) English: View of the Avenue of the Dead and the Pyramid of the Sun, from Pyramid of the Moon (Pyramide de la Luna) (Photo credit: Wikipedia) From the...
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5,000 year old tokens are game pieces?
The title of a news article at io9 is Archaeologists Unearth Pieces from a 5,000 Year-Old Board Game. A Turkish archaeologist, of Haluk Sa?lamtimur of Ege University in ?zmir, Turkey, discovered the...
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Archaeologists Add Drones to Their Survey and Remote Sensing Toolbox
Peruvian archaeologist Luis Jaime Castillo flies a drone over Cerro Chepén, one of thousands of ancient ruins across Peru. Photograph: Mariana Bazo/Reuters Originally developed with a military purpose...
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You Can Now Find the Source of Obsidian Artifacts in the Field in Under 10...
Archaeologists using the portable XRF to obtain chemical data of pigments in Texas rock art. Frahm et al (2013) have recently demonstrated the ability to source obsidian artifacts in the field in just...
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Were the Terracotta Warriors of China Inspired by the Greeks?
Could this (or something like it): A 2500 year-old Greek statue, photo from Reuters 2012. Have inspired this?: Terracotta warriors of Qin Shi Huang. Flickr user: travelourplanet.com Lukas Nickel, of...
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Vampires in the Archaeological Record?
No. Not really. But the folks of Kamien Pomorski in northwestern Poland thought so in the 16th century. You can’t get blood from a rock. Find the story and at least one more photo at Kamienski.info....
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[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=THWho43RLEI] Here’s an interesting video that I stumbled across in YouTube today. This YouTuber just posted it 1 day ago and its his first video. [...] The post...
View ArticleOn the Lighter Side: Archaeology Today
Monty Python style! [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qc9WLMCygTU] Flaming Star! The Story of One Man’s Search For Vengeance in the Raw and Violent World of International Archaeology The post On...
View ArticleRecent News In Mesoamerican Archaeology
The King Has Left The Building Apparently Maya elites and royalty weren’t the only ones building temples and pyramids. And the mystery of the blue [...] The post Recent News In Mesoamerican Archaeology...
View ArticleDaily Mail Click-baits with Pyramid Math
Floating around some of the archaeology and science groups is a new “discovery” of a pyramid “older than those of Egypt” found in Kazakhstan. And [...] The post Daily Mail Click-baits with Pyramid Math...
View ArticleStolen & Looted: $5-6 Billion in Stolen Artifacts?
This is part of an on-going series dealing with the theft, sale, and trade of artifacts and archaeological finds that are abruptly removed from their [...] The post Stolen & Looted: $5-6 Billion in...
View ArticlePeople. Fire. Climate.
"Humans and fire are interconnected all the way back to our beginnings," said Thomas W. Swetnam, principal investigator on the grant and director of the UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. The post...
View ArticleWalmart Endangers Cultural Site? Gets Building Permit Through Bribery?
From the I’m-shocked-to-find-bribery-and-deceit-in-Walmart’s-plans department. The New York Times is reporting through an expose a laundry list of wrongdoing on the behalf of Walmart that resulted in...
View Article5,000 year old tokens are game pieces?
The title of a news article at io9 is Archaeologists Unearth Pieces from a 5,000 Year-Old Board Game. A Turkish archaeologist, of Haluk Sa?lamtimur of [...] The post 5,000 year old tokens are game...
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