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 ArticleMongooses 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 ArticleBronze 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 ArticleSecrets 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 ArticleTextile 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 ArticleDilmun: 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 Article1540 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 ArticleMaking 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 ArticleThe 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 ArticleThe 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...
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