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Humans and saber toothed tiger met at Schoningen 300,000 years ago
Scientists of the Lower Saxony Heritage Authority and of the University of Tübingen excavating at the Schöningen open-cast coal mine in north-central Germany have discovered the remains of a...
View ArticleNewly Open Access Journal: Hebrew Annual Review
Hebrew Annual ReviewISSN: 0193-7162"A journal of studies of Hebrew language and literature." The Melton Center for Jewish Studies Department of Judaic and Near Eastern Languages and Literatures, The...
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Classicists and the 9/11 Monument
Didn’t know there was a controversy raging over the quotation from Vergil on the 9/11 monument … perhaps there isn’t, but the New York Times asked three classicists (Helen Morales, Llewelyn Morgan, and...
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Bronze S- shaped brooch 4cm by 2.6cm by 1.4cm ( 1 9/16 by...
Bronze S- shaped brooch 4cm by 2.6cm by 1.4cm ( 1 9/16 by 1 by 9/16 inch.) Roman, Imperial period, 2nd - 3rd century AD. Source: Metropolitan Museum
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The Search for Cleo’s Tomb is on Again!
Brief item from CDN (dated February 14) … just the concluding bit:[...]Explicó que en su visita al presidente Medina le contó de su experiencia, y le informó que ha recibido los permisos de lugar para...
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'Looted' artefacts removed from auction
Two ancient artefacts have been withdrawn from auctions after suspicions were raised that they had been illegally smuggled out of Italy.Christie’s had been due to sell a Greek glass jug thought to date...
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Terracotta vase in shape of a rooster The inscription is the...
Terracotta vase in shape of a rooster The inscription is the Etruscan alphabet and is it likely that the vase contained ink. It is 10.3cm high (4 1/16 inch.) Etruscan, Archaic Period, 650 - 600 BC....
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First Evidence Of French Colonial Homes Discovered Under Poplar Street Bridge
Archeologists from the Missouri Department of Transportation are ecstatic over a discovery beneath the Poplar Street Bridge in St. Louis. They’ve uncovered the first physical evidence dating to when...
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Byzantine Mosaics Uncovered in Israel
HURA, ISRAEL—A Byzantine monastery with intact mosaics on the floors of the prayer hall and dining room was discovered during salvage excavations in the Negev Desert. The mosaics, made up of blue,...
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Egregious Misuse of Archaeology
Yesterday I became aware of an article that illustrates the dubious way Biblical inerrantists use (and that is the appropriate word, rather than something like “engage in”) archaeology. It included...
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Contested Artifacts Will Be Returned
NEW YORK, NEW YORK—BBC News reports that two artifacts thought to have been smuggled out of Italy have been withdrawn from auctions in London. A Greek glass jug dating to the second or first century...
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First Traces of Colonial St. Louis Unearthed
ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI—Archaeologists from the Missouri Department of Transportation have recovered the first physical evidence of a French colonial home in St. Louis beneath layers of concrete and...
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Terracotta vase At the top two mythological creatures. At the...
Terracotta vase At the top two mythological creatures. At the shoulders we see two people lying at a banquet. Underneath a frieze of flowers and geometrical decoration. Lastly a man herding bulls. This...
View ArticleStatues Stolen From Museum in Sudan
KHARTOUM, SUDAN—Three statues dating to 450 B.C. have been stolen from a remote museum near the World Heritage site of Jebel Barkal in northern Sudan. “They are small statues, about 10 to 15...
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Anzu and “the chicken from …”
Upon hearing of the newest dinosaur – the Anzu wyliei– I grew slightly more excited than your average dinosaur fan. The paleontologists gave a shout out not only to a trustee’s grandson (Wylie) but...
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May Contain Nuts and BS
Jim Linville mentioned on his blog that he has had a paper accepted for the Blogger and Online Publication session at next November’s annual meeting of the Society of Biblical Literature. The title...
View ArticleOpen Access Archaeology Digest #376
Today’s list of Open Access (free to read) articles:The archaeological use of Kernel Density Estimateshttp://bit.ly/1pOaYom Unrecorded Scottish Wood Carvings.http://bit.ly/1273WQe Notes: (2) An Unusual...
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Bones - Season 9, Episode 19 (Review)
The Turn in the UrnEpisode SummaryBooth and Brennan attend a funeral for Todd Mirga, a billionaire Romani hedgefund manager who funded Brennan's research in the past and was found in his safe room,...
View ArticleUnclassified Archaeological Remains Piling Up in Storage
BBC News Northern Ireland has reported that"Hundreds of thousands of archaeological items recovered from historic sites in Northern Ireland are lying unclassified in plastic bags and boxes."One wonders...
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Native American petroglyphs at Hot Springs County, Wyoming,...
Native American petroglyphs at Hot Springs County, Wyoming, USA.Archaeologists attribute many of these petroglyphs to the ancestors of the Shoshone people, whom live in Wyoming today.Photos courtesy...
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