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history-and-shit: Low stone walls crisscrossing the deserts of...
history-and-shit:Low stone walls crisscrossing the deserts of Israel, Egypt and Jordan have puzzled archaeologists since their discovery by pilots in the early 20th century.The chain of lines — some up...
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thesherd: How do you create weapons for 7000 terracotta...
thesherd:How do you create weapons for 7000 terracotta warriors? Use mass production methods 2000 years before modern companies. (via Terracotta army craftsmen pioneered Toyota-style industry : Past...
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australianarchaeologyblog: This book provides a comprehensive...
australianarchaeologyblog: This book provides a comprehensive examination of Aboriginal rock art. It also asks how and why archaeologists study prehistoric art. M.J. Morwood reviews the techniques,...
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socialsciencedaily: Team leader Diana Gergova said that among...
socialsciencedaily:Team leader Diana Gergova said that among the artifacts, dating back to the end of the fourth or the beginning of the third century B.C.E., were gold jewelry and applications for...
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ancientart: Ancient Mesopotamian childerns toy. Little is known...
ancientart:Ancient Mesopotamian childerns toy. Little is known about this artifact.Courtesy & currently located at the Brooklyn Museum, USA. Photo taken by meechmunchie.
View ArticleA fascinating reading assigned for my osteology course:
jamesthepious:American Anthropological Association Statement on “Race” (May 17, 1998) The following statement was adopted by the Executive Board of the American Anthropological Association, acting on a...
View ArticleAnthropologist finds large differences in gait of early human ancestors
Anthropologist finds large differences in gait of early human ancestors: deconversionmovement:(Phys.org)—Patricia Ann Kramer, professor of anthropology at the University of Washington, has found that...
View Article"The human sciences are only sciences by way of a self-flattering imposture....
“The human sciences are only sciences by way of a self-flattering imposture. They run into an insurmountable limit, because the realities they aspire to understand are of the same order of complexity...
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medievalistsnet: The Ancient Egyptian Sed-Festival and the...
medievalistsnet:The Ancient Egyptian Sed-Festival and the Exemption from CorveeGalán, José M.( Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas, Madrid)Journal of Near Eastern Studies, Vol. 59, No. 4...
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ancientwisdomneedednow: 2,000 year old analog computer, used to...
ancientwisdomneedednow:2,000 year old analog computer, used to predict lunar eclipses and and astronomical positions. Found in a shipwreck off the coast of Greece. About a century ago, pieces of a...
View Article"Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you what you are. Not only biography and...
“Tell me what you eat and I’ll tell you what you are. Not only biography and genealogy but the whole field of anthropology could, if one knew the code, be deduced from food.”-Poppy Cannon” - (Quoted in...
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history-and-shit: Sacrificial remains of humans and animals,...
history-and-shit:Sacrificial remains of humans and animals, believed to be at least 2,700 years old, have been found in central China’s Luoyang city , Chinese archaeologists say.The bones are part of a...
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artisawaynotathing: Golden discovery: Archaeologists discover...
artisawaynotathing:Golden discovery: Archaeologists discover astonishing haul ‘linked to Alexander the Great’ in network of tombs in BulgariaArchaeologists have unearthed ancient golden artefacts,...
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Archaeological News: Piece of Surf City history emerges after Sandy
Archaeological News: Piece of Surf City history emerges after Sandy: archaeologicalnews:A piece of history unique to Surf City emerged on the beach when Hurricane Sandy skirted Topsail Island’s shore,...
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Archaeological News: Digging up scandalous nuns' past
Archaeological News: Digging up scandalous nuns' past: archaeologicalnews:UNCOVERING the history behind supposedly scandalous nuns has helped fuel interest in archaeology projects in Oxford.About 500...
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Archaeological News: United States returns to Peru last Machu Picchu artefacts
Archaeological News: United States returns to Peru last Machu Picchu artefacts: archaeologicalnews:The last of the artefacts taken from Machu Picchu by American archaeologist who rediscovered the Inca...
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theweekmagazine: “I would wager that if an average citizen from...
theweekmagazine:“I would wager that if an average citizen from Athens of 1000 BC were to appear suddenly among us, he or she would be among the brightest and most intellectually alive of our...
View Article"As the most egotistical of all species, we humans tend to think of ourselves...
“As the most egotistical of all species, we humans tend to think of ourselves as the inevitable consequences of some inherent process of evolution that preordained our existence. This has led to the...
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history-and-shit: The world’s oldest purse may have been found...
history-and-shit:The world’s oldest purse may have been found in Germany—and its owner apparently had a sharp sense of Stone Age style.Excavators at a site near Leipzig uncovered more than a hundred...
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