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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... )

In case you haven't heard of him, one of the coolest dudes ever is the late great Jesuit good-for-nothing Anathasius Kircher. Every time I rediscover him I can't get over how cool he was.

The Chronicle of Higher Education called him the 'Dude of Wonders'Kircher lived during the Seventeenth Century. He was a professor of mathematics, ethics, ( Read more... )