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Basketmaker II Cave 7: Massacre or Cemetery?
Mass graves can lead to quite fantastic conclusions: they can be the remains of victims of a deadly disease, sacrifice, warfare or massacre. Looking at the broader contextual evidence, both historical...
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The Domestication of Cattle
In a new paper, “Modern Taurine Cattle descended from small number of Near-Eastern founders," Ruth Bollongino, Joachim Burger, Adam Powell, Marjan Mashkour, Jean-Denis Vigne1 and Mark G. Thomas present...
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Donkeys and Horses Acting Badly
Truly abnormal readers might enjoy two equid omens from Assur. They comprise the first two readable lines of tablet VAT 10505 +, as publisjhed in Heessel’s, Divinatorische Texte I, # 6. Heessel, 27,...
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End Unilateral Trade Sanctions on Coin Collectors
The Huffington Post has published an editorial by Wayne Sayles attacking import restrictions on ancient coin collecting. Coin collectors across the U.S. are tired of being singled out with unilateral...
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The "Dubai Connection" Apparently Still Active
.Nevine El-Aref, 'Two ancient Egyptian sarcophagus covers seized in Jerusalem', Al-Ahram Tuesday 3 Apr 2012 reports: The Israel Antiquities Authority (IAA) has seized two painted sarcophagi covers...
View ArticleTech Attack! Google Art Project Takes Over the World (and my inbox)
Google Art Project, piloted by a few museums more than a year ago, has now (like its parent company) conquered the world. Some 151 institutions in 40 countries (including 29 in the U.S.) have now...
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Cuba Arqueológica : Revista Digital de Arqueología de Cuba...
Cuba Arqueológica : Revista Digital de Arqueología de Cuba y el Caribe. de acceso abiertohacia fuera. Cuba Arqueológica : Revista Digital de Arqueología de Cuba y el Caribe New Open Access issue out....
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Humans Tamed Fire by 1 Million Years Ago
Humans Tamed Fire by 1 Million Years Ago | Observations, Scientific American Blog Network
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They’ve Never Seen Star Trek!
I discovered a very serious issue in one of my classes today. Perhaps it is inappropriate for a professor to share something of this nature on their blog, but with a problem this serious, I’m at a loss...
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Syriac Reference Portal Wiki
[First posted in AWOL 3 October 2011. Updated 3 April 2012] Syriac Reference Portal Welcome to the Syriac Reference Portal Demo Page!Below are links demonstrating the reference tools we are...
View ArticleArchaeology Day at Cabela's
Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission and Society for Pennsylvania Archaeology Exhibition Saturday, October 20, 2012
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Craster's daughters
The second season of Game of Thrones has started and the series has become the topic of some fun discussion, I thought I'd give my €0.02 on the topic of genetic improbabilities. (A warning: I have only...
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looting, the subsistence digging economy in Mali; and stemming the flow of...
I’d been planning on blogging about looting in Mali later, but Donna Yates asked if I was going to comment on the U.S. State Department’s Cultural Property Advisory Committee’s call for comments on its...
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Cryptic distant relatives are common in genetic samples
Table S1 has some statistics on different populations. PLoS ONE 7(4): e34267. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0034267 Cryptic Distant Relatives Are Common in Both Isolated and Cosmopolitan Genetic Samples...
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German Commanders of the Roman Empire
In the last few posts we have been exploring the period atthe end of the Roman Empire. I plan to continue down this road until we have laidit all out and analyzed it using several posts. It remains for...
View ArticleQuote of the Day (Scot Miller)
I hope I am prejudiced to value human beings over moral or theological principles.When Jesus was caught breaking the Law by gathering grain on the sabbath, Jesus said to his accusers, “The sabbath was...
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Free access to Journal of Field Archaeology
I just got an email from Jennifer Agar at Maney Publishing, publishers of the Journal of Field Archaeology. They are making 3 years of the journal free to download until May 15th (see the text of her...
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Focus on Metal Detecting: What Are they "Preserving and Restoring"?
.US Metal Detectorist "Chinchillaman" in a comment sent to another post seems not really to understand why I have severe reservations about artefact hunting ("metal detecting") in its present form, he...
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