Archaeology

The May 6 op-ed by Israel Finkelstein, “In the Eye of Jerusalem’s Archaeological Storm” underscores some problems and misconceptions surrounding the “City of David” in the Palestinian village of Silwan.

AURORA -- Do you want to know about that arrowhead you found last summer or identify the collection of beads, scrapers or sherds of pottery or the "what is it?" found down by the creek.

Cynthia Delaney/Elko Daily Free Press Elijah Green practices using a pump drill, which was a common tool in the Great Basin, on Saturday during the Nevada Archaeology Association’s annual fair at Northeastern Nevada Museum.

The Fort Collins Museum & Discovery Science Center will host "Dig It: Archaeology Night" from 6 to 9:30 p.m. May 20 during Kids Night Out at 200 Mathews St.

KENNEWICK -- Kennewick Community Education plans an archaeological look at the past 11,000 years at

The El Paso Museum of Archaeology will have its annual archaeology camp this summer for children age 7 to 12.

Motion capture of superimposed images of a moving pole (Étienne-Jules Marey c.1900) Fluid interdependence “While the body moves, movement is not only in the body, but in the world around ...” (Posted by Oscar on Oct 15/2009 04:17AM) Fluid...

Maria O'Connell, Texas Tech University maria.oconnell@ttu.edu In the video clip, a team examines an underground structure somewhere in Brazil. The team is preparing for excavation. Bert Hölldobler and his crew are about to examine the abandoned ruins of a

Sara Perry (University of Southampton) s.e.perry@soton.ac.uk Ian Kirkpatrick (University of Southampton) iankirkpatrick@shaw.ca OUTPOST Curators: Ian Kirkpatrick & Sara Perry University of Southampton 18-19 April 2011 Deadline for proposals: 23 March

Mhairi Maxwell (AGES, University of Bradford) m.l.maxwell@brad.ac.uk Patrick Hadley (Enkyad Heritage Media) patrick@enkyadheritagemedia.co.uk This archaeolog reviews the session ‘An Artful Integration: Possible Futures for Archaeology and Creative Work’ w

To mark the first Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory (CHAT) conference to take place outside of the British Isles, the 2011 conference theme will explore people and things in motion in both the historical and contemporary pasts

(Potsdamer Platz: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Bundesarchiv_Bild_102-00843,_Berlin,_Verkehrsturm_auf_dem_Potsdamer_Platz.jpg) IN-BETWEENESS and CHIASMA “... it is an aspect of time (as you say), but also boundaries and definitions - things don’t end

Discussion of cities and urbanism from a broad historical and comparative perspective. Can ancient cities help us understand modern urban issues? What is universal about cities and what is particular to individual cities or regions or time periods?

Informal reports from current archaeological research at Calixtlahuaca. Calixtlahuaca was a large urban center of the Matlatzinco culture, closely related to the Aztecs.

Jönköping County museum has started a blog (in Swedish), that seems promising. There are several interesting projects that are on the go in Jönköping at the moment. One is the search for a battle field site at Dumme mosse. A battle held in 1567 where as m

What do an archaeologist do when he isn’t excavating? We do quite a lot of things – some obvious some less so. We write reports on the field works, we analyze the finds we’ve made, we attend meetings, we write survey and excavation plans, we attend meetin

Then this year filed season has started. A few days in Västervik – a few search trenches and a couple of excavated cultivation cairns – not much but a nice start in the sunshine. Now a short period indoors; writing a report on the mentioned field wo

This post will follow in English. Som arkeolog är man tvungen att flytta runt, att jobba som projektanställda och att hela tiden planera framåt. Vad händer efter nästa jobb, projekt eller kurs? Nu är inte allt negativt med detta, man får möjlighet att se

Tomorrow I’m off to Kalmar and Kalmar County Museum for a five month tour, hopefully longer. So it’s packing and finding out what I need for my first week. On Wednesday I’ll be part of a Nordic TAG panel on social media and archaeology –

Found this on-line and urge all archaeologist and others within the cutural heritage trade to jump on the wagon and give evidence of what you do on july 29th for Day of Archaeology 2011. “Archaeologists taking part in the project will document their day t

A field archaeologist’s view of building in the ancient world, especially the archaeology of the lost timber built environment of Southern England. It is new research into of prehistory of architecture, available in a series of articles that are designed

The great American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe was one of the fathers of modern architecture, and for that I am immensely grateful. I love the sleek, clean, powerful lines of Mies’s buildings, the fearlessness simplicity of his skyscrapers.  But ev

It was not so very long ago that many archaeologists regarded the Ancestral Puebloan people–or the Anasazi, as researchers once called them–as a rather peaceful, mystical group of astronomers, artists, priests and farmers. They based this idea

Today, Science magazine published my news article on how archaeologists are now using Google Earth to peer into clandestine worlds.  At Stanford University in Palo Alto, California, Ph.D. student Adrian Myers employed Google Earth satellite images to map

Yesterday, British blogger Ed Yong put out a call in cyberspace asking science writers to fess up publicly to how they had arrived at their chosen line of work. As you can see over at Not Exactly Rocket Science, dozens of my colleagues began instantly pou

Hats off to Dave Crisp, a hospital chef who just discovered a hoard of some 52,500 3rd century A.D. Roman coins. Crisp found them in a field in southwestern England using his metal detector. By all accounts, Crisp realized that he had found something exce

We’re all familiar with the usual perils faced by archaeological sites: commercial or residential development, inundation by a dam, looting, and so forth. But there are offbeat enemies of our ancient heritage as well. I was reminded of this when I receive

Marabouts are West African con men & fortune tellers who market their services in Europe with little flyers printed on coloured paper. In France, there's an ongoing collectors' craze for these notes. I found one under my windshield wiper the other day.

Here's a fun find, courtesy of my buddy Claes Pettersson. As detailed on Jönköping County Museum's blog, a funny little cast-brass trinket came to light during fieldwork at Odensjö ("Odin's Lake"), where recently a very fine Roman era weapon burial has

I've reported before [1 - 2] on the on-going discoveries in the Tjust area of NE Småland province. Here Joakim Goldhahn is employing the country's best rock-art surveyors to work through an area that is turning out to be extraordinarily rich and diverse

One of the stranger concepts in Tolkien's writings is that of "High Elves". Why are these elves high? It has nothing to do with drugs, though in the Tolkien Society we used to joke about them smoking lembas. And it has nothing to do with stature, though n

My colleague Karl-Magnus Melin specialises in ancient and modern woodworking and has a major paper in Fornvännen's summer issue about well fittings made from hollowed-out tree trunks. He's kindly sent me some post-conservation pics of a Viking Period wo

In the car yesterday I listened to two excellent narrations of Lovecraft short stories. And I marvelled upon re-encountering the opening paragraph of "The Picture in the House" from 1919.Searchers after horror haunt strange, far places. For them are the c

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