Australian Rock Art shows evidence of long-standing-contacts
There are several reasons I appreciate rock art. It's beautiful. It's a type of art which can be added to and modified over generations. And like all indigenous art, it represents the time it was created in. Traditions are not static ( Read more... )

Here's a blog about stonehenge in the NY Times. It gives a little more information, including pointing out that the area was used for burials BEFORE any stones ever got carted in. Which goes back to that changing-use-over-time point. But the wack-a-dos over there want to sell the supposed healing-water from the bluestone region to raise money for ( Read more... )

Experts 'solve' mystery of Stonehenge
I'm sorry, I don't believe this is how science works. These guys haven't 'solved' anything. These archaeologists have developed an interesting hypothesis about the reason for the initial creation stonehenge. They have suggested that the stones that the original henge were created of were believed to have ( Read more... )

I was Thrilled today when I heard the announcement that up to 125,000 gorillas have been found in an uncharted swampy area of the Congo. This doubles the number known and leaves me much more optimistic that they may avoid extinction (though Ebola is still a serious threat). They were western lowland gorillas, which have the fantastic subspecific ( Read more... )

Wow. I just found some websites that could keep you occupied and screaming in frustration at the computer for days. Conservapedia is good, but has anyone else seen the CreationWiki? I wouldn't mind if they stuck to a biblical view of creation, but they claim to be an encyclopedia of creation science, so there's all sorts of information about ( Read more... )

While looking for other information on the University of Chicago's website, I spotted this article about paying to immigrate to the United States. The researchers, including the University's Nobel Prize winning economist Gary Becker say that some people may find the idea 'repugnant' and they'd be right. They argue that people should pay $50,000 ( Read more... )

I participated in my first blog carnival today, The Giant's Shoulders, and it's available here at A Blog Around the Clock. The purpose was to blog about 'classic' papers in your field.

I wrote about the importance of Radiocarbon Dating in Anthropology. One other person wrote about archaeology - selecting the ever important article Archaeology as ( Read more... )

Archaeologists are notorious moochers. Or maybe I should be nice and just say we’re ‘highly adaptive’. Either way, we constantly pick up new techniques from other disciplines, such as using G.I.S. and performing DNA analysis on ancient skeletons. Even our trowels were designed for masonry work. So for this month’s blog carnival, I decided to ( Read more... )

I've been enjoying books about bizarre 'scientific' beliefs lately. Blame it on Indiana Jones and his 'creatures that travel between spaces'.

For fiction I'm reading Raising Atlantis, in which Atlantis is buried under the Antarctic Ice Shelves, and archaeologists have come in to help the United States Army rediscover it - we'll see what happens!
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I saw the Hulk tonight with A., it was pretty fun. I am looking forward to future Marvel Movies.

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