Quantcast
Channel: About Archaeology
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

New Support for the Southern Dispersal Route

A new article in the journal Proceedings of the National Science this week provides support for the Southern Dispersal Route, the most-recently identified migration route for human beings out of...

View Article



Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Mongooses in Iberia

Mongooses (Herpestes spp) are kind of like cats, in that they really never became what you could call domesticated, but they do make great pets. Like cats, they also make for an interesting story on...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Bronze Age Innovation and Trade

A handful of Steppe Society archaeological sites in central Eurasia have produced evidence for the international connection and spread of plant domestication in the Bronze Age of the late third...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Secrets of the Dead: the Lost Gardens of Babylon

Next Tuesday, May 6th, the PBS series Secrets of the Dead will air a new video from Channel Thirteen and Bedlam Productions, called the The Lost Gardens of Babylon, and in my opinion a vast improvement...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Textile History at Guitarrero Cave

Guitarrero Cave is a rockshelter in the inter-mountain region of Ancash province in Peru. The cave has evidence of human occupation back to 12,100 years ago, and in the cave were found cords and...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Dilmun: Trading with Mesopotamia

Dilmun was an important trading center on the Persian Gulf, connecting the great civilizations of Mesopotamia (modern-day Iraq) and Meluhha (the Indus Valley of modern day Pakistan and India). Location...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

1540 Battle at Mabila, Alabama

Mabila was the Mississippian town where a great battle was fought in 1540, between the Spanish conquistador and explorer Hernando de Soto and the Mississippian chief Tascaluza. De Soto at Tampa Bay,...

View Article

Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

Making String in Prehistory

Making string is an often overlooked but incredibly important, tiny skill useful to human beings: but it is a building block for what would become textiles. Inuit Sculpture of Girl with Cat's Cradle,...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Sampul Tapestry

A pair of 2000-year-old trousers was reported in Antiquity this quarter; and you wouldn't think it, but the story of their construction is a fascinating one that illustrates the crossing of cultures in...

View Article


Image may be NSFW.
Clik here to view.

The Popol Vuh

This is the account of when all is still silent and placid. All is silent and calm. Hushed and empty is the womb of the sky. First page from the 18th century Popol Vuh in the Ayer Collection of the...

View Article
Browsing latest articles
Browse All 10 View Live




Latest Images