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Dosio’s pictures of Roman ruins (1569) also online
Searching the collection at UB Heidelberg for words like “Romae”, “Romanae” produces some excellent results, if you know a few of the artists of the period. The drawings of G. A. Dosio have been...
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A few more pictures from Heidelberg
The Digital Library at the University of Heidelberg is a little difficult to use at first. But if you go to the search page and enter “romae”, you will get a list of books. If you click on one of...
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War of the Roses Cannonball Recovered
NORTHAMPTON, ENGLAND—The Eagle Drive Cannon Ball, thought to be the oldest surviving cannonball in England, has been rediscovered at the site of the Battle of Northampton. “It is highly likely that the...
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Fieldwork opportunities in Southeast Asia
I am frequently contacted by people interested in doing fieldwork in Cambodia. For reasons I detail here, this is often difficult. However, there are several schools running fieldwork projects this...
View ArticleReview: ‘From Ancient to Modern’ Ponders the Origins of Sumerian Artifacts
What happens to ancient artifacts after they’re dug up by archaeologists is more complicated than...
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Native American petroglyphs at the Valley of Fire State...
Native American petroglyphs at the Valley of Fire State Park, Nevada, USA.The span of human occupation of the Valley of Fire has been dated from 300 BC to 1150 AD. The Prehistoric uses of this...
View ArticleEmbracing corpses from 3,800 BCE found in a Greek Cave
A rare Neolithic-era find of the skeletons of a couple embracing was found in excavations by the northern entrance of the Alepotrypa ('Foxhole') cave in southern Greece, on the Peloponnese...
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Why do East Asians have more Neandertal ancestry than Europeans?
This is quite the paradox, because even though Neandertals are now known to have existed all the way to the Altai, they were still overall a West Eurasian-distributed species. As far as I can tell,...
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Online free book: The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture in the Middle...
Full access to a major resource for the study of Byzantine art:The Glory of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle Byzantine Era, edited by Helen C. Evans, William D. Wixom:
View ArticleOpen Access Archaeology Digest #693
Your Open Access (free to read) Archaeology daily:Roman London Bridge: A View from both Bankshttp://bit.ly/101gubI [TRANSITIONS TO AGRICULTURE IN THE EASTERN OLD WORLD] A shell-midden on the island of...
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Portrait Bust of a GirlRomanc. 250-275 A.D.This image was...
Portrait Bust of a GirlRomanc. 250-275 A.D.This image was originally thought to be a boy because of its short-cropped hair. Recent scholarship suggests that the type of tunic and the cord were worn by...
View ArticleMysterious Indo-European homeland may have been in the steppes of Ukraine and...
What do you call a male sibling? If you speak English, he is your “brother.” Greek? Call him...
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8,000-Year-Old Cult Sites Surveyed in the Negev Desert
HEVEL EILOT, ISRAEL—Stone structures, circles, and artifacts that may symbolize death and fertility have been found at some 100 prehistoric sites in Israel’s Eilat Mountains. The stone circles,...
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Open Access Journal: Kervan: International Journal of Afro-Asiatic Studies
[First posted in AWOL 4 June 2011. Updated 13 February 2015] Kervan: International Journal of Afro-Asiatic StudiesISSN: 1825-263XOnce a caravan could have traveled (at least, ideally) from Farghana to...
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Hittite Epigraphic Findings In The Ancient Near East
[First posted in AWOL 30 December 2012, updated 13 February 2015] Hittite Epigraphic Findings In The Ancient Near EastThe present web-site has been developed with the purpose of creating a general...
View ArticleNew York Times reviews new ISAW exhibition
New York Times art critic Ken Johnson reviewed ISAW's new exhibition in today's paper. A first for ISAW, the exhibition combines ancient objects with modern works of art. Johnson writes of the...
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Seven favourite(and not so favourite) notices
When we are teaching our students about literacy in the ancient world, we spend quite a lot of time explaining that public writing in the ancient world is not necessarily meant to be read, and so a...
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Today’s Europeans Rooted in Ancient Migration From Russia
BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS—According to a report in Nature News, a study of nuclear DNA from the remains of 69 individuals who lived across Europe between 8,000 and 3,000 years ago, and the genome data of...
View ArticleASU researcher uses new tools to explore ancient life
Mummies excavated nearly a century ago are yielding new information about past life-ways through...
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New Thoughts on the Bones from Bluefish Caves
MONTRÉAL, CANADA—Lauriane Bourgeon of the University of Montréal used a stereomicroscope to examine more than 5,000 bone fragments from Cave 2 of the Bluefish Caves site, which is located near the...
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