Governor Granholm gave her State of the State address tonight. It was realistic, which is good, but still hard to hear.
( She's proposed... )

Some people scoff about the term 'contemporary archaeology', and sometimes their claims are legitimate. A lot of contemporary archaeology, the study of recent past material culture, can get a bit off the wall, or even be unnecessary. But as with all research fields, some of the work can also be quite interesting.

( There's a fascinating story coming out of Germany right now, about an architect who )

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 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... )