January 2012
36 posts
To My Old Master →
this is wonderful.
gorphiss:
this is something i felt like sharing
Not from this world: Anthropologists clarify link... →
www-outerspacepi:
A tiny mountainous region in southern Siberia may have been the genetic source of the earliest Native Americans, according to new research by a University of Pennsylvania-led team of anthropologists.
Lying at the intersection of what is today Russia, Mongolia, China and Kazakhstan, the region…
oh my god
YES. http://archaeologistryangosling.tumblr.com/
Archaeological News: Archaeologist works to... →
i did some CRM work with neill. he’s a cool dude.
archaeologicalnews:
SOUTH BERWICK, Maine — Usually there’s a negative connotation when a person says they’ve been stonewalled.
Not so for historian and archaeologist Neill DePaoli of Portsmouth. The wall — or, more accurately, stone foundation — was discovered at the end of last summer where, for the past…
Study suggests ancient Peruvians 'ate popcorn' →
we talked about this when we had our weekly archaeo-bitch session tonight. quite interesting. who doesn’t like popcorn!
tlatollotl:
A new study suggests that people living along the coast of northern Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously thought.
Researchers say corncobs found at an ancient site in Peru suggest that the inhabitants used them for making flour and...
Rituals & Archaeology MLK's Two Burial Places →
gwebarchaeology:
By definition, archaeologists do not have access to data on the full range of the culture of the people who left behind the remains they investigate.
Archaeological data is particularly unlikely to preserve details about the rituals* of past peoples. Some aspects of rituals may be preserved, but most are cultural—they are behaviors and beliefs, and not things—and in particular...
Archaeological News: WW2 letter discovered in... →
archaeologicalnews:
For 67 years, a message from Nazi-occupied France remained hidden in a secret drawer of a desk that belonged to France’s 18th century King Louis XV.
Restorers at the Chateau of Versailles recently discovered the letter, written by a World War II-era colleague who last restored the…
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Archaeological News: Veteran archaeologist takes... →
archaeologicalnews:
Reading The St. Augustine Record articles on Saturday and Sunday about history, archaeology and treasure hunting, I am both dismayed and depressed. Having worked as an archaeologist committed to St. Augustine for the past 40-plus years (a fact I would normally never reveal), I feel compelled to…
