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- No Vikings in Wisconsin? Prank at Spencer Lake MoundsUpdated: Tue Jul 22 19:35:04 2008
Although rumors of an ancient horse skeleton buried in a Native American burial mound have persisted among amateur archaeologists for decades, the real story behind the Spencer Lake Mound is very f… - CamelsUpdated: Sun Jul 20 19:52:12 2008
There are two species of quadruped animal of the deserts of the world, both of which have implications for archaeology… - Workshops - Archaeological Evidence of Ancient WorkshopsUpdated: Sun Jul 20 17:36:52 2008
Workshops are archaeological sites, or parts of archaeological sites, where specialized crafts were practiced, whether pottery, glass, stone tools, or textiles. … - Nausharo - Indus Civilization Workshop of NausharoUpdated: Sat Jul 19 18:43:20 2008
The archaeological site of Nausharo is a small Harrapan or Indus civilization site, located in the Baluchistan Province of Pakistan, within about six kilometers of the capital of Mehrgahr. … - Acheulean Tradition - What is the Acheulean TraditionUpdated: Fri Jul 18 20:48:41 2008
The Acheulean Tradition is an Old World Lower and Middle Paleolithic culture, dated from 1.4 million years ago to 100,000 years ago. … - Hominin - What is a HomininUpdated: Fri Jul 18 20:42:52 2008
Over the last few years, the word "hominin" has crept into the public news stories about our human ancestors. This is not a misspelling for hominid; this reflects an evolutionary change i… - Lokalalei - Lower Paleolithic Complex of LokalaleiUpdated: Fri Jul 18 20:40:00 2008
The Lower Paleolithic archaeological sites called Lokalalei are located in the Lake Turkana region of Kenya, and are dated between 2.3 and 2.4 million years old. … - Gona - The Lower Paleolithic Site of GonaUpdated: Fri Jul 18 20:37:48 2008
At 2.6 million years old, the Lower Paleolithic site called Gona or Kada Gona in Ethiopia is the earliest site yet to contain evidence of chipped stone tool making… - Oldowan Tradition - The Lower Paleolithic Oldowan TraditionUpdated: Fri Jul 18 20:36:51 2008
The Oldowan Tradition is the name given to a pattern of stone-tool making by our hominid ancestors, some 2.5 million years ago. … - Knossos - The Minoan Settlement of KnossosUpdated: Fri Jul 18 13:05:51 2008
The location of Knossos, reported by Homer to be the site of the palace of the legendary King Minos, Daedalus, and the Labyrinth, is on the island of Crete. … - Wine - the Origins of WineUpdated: Wed Jul 16 14:12:09 2008
Wine, an alcoholic beverage made from grapes, was probably first made about 7,500 years ago. … - Uluburun - What and where is UluburunUpdated: Tue Jul 15 01:50:50 2008
Uluburun is the name of a Late Bronze Age ship, wrecked off the coast of Turkey near Kas in the 14th century BC and about 50 meters below the water's surface and six miles from the coast. … - Mammoths and Mastodons - What are Mammoths and MastodonsUpdated: Mon Jul 14 22:19:12 2008
Mammoths and mastodons are both extinct forms of elephant that roamed the world before the end of the Pleistocene period… - Chili Peppers - When and where was the domestication of chili peppersUpdated: Mon Jul 14 22:12:48 2008
Chili peppers, the beloved and hot spice of the Americas, has a domesticate history reaching back some 6,000 years. … - Omo Kibish - What and Where is Omo KibishUpdated: Mon Jul 14 22:02:00 2008
Omo Kibish is an ancient rock formation in Ethiopia where excavations by Richard Leakey and others have recovered Homo sapiens remains as old as 125,000 years before the present. … - Pine Nuts - Archaeology and Pine NutsUpdated: Mon Jul 14 21:01:26 2008
The harvest of tasty and calorie-rich pine nuts in the mountains of the American southwest has been going on for nearly 10,000 years; and I think I can guess why. … - The Windover Bog SiteUpdated: Mon Jul 14 13:32:58 2008
At the Early Middle Archaic Windover Bog site, a pond cemetery on Florida's Atlantic coast near Cape Canaveral, site conditions have preserved a wealth of information about the use of fiber seven t… - Wootz Steel - What is Wootz SteelUpdated: Mon Jul 14 12:51:22 2008
Wootz is the name given to an exceptional grade of iron ore steel first made in southern and south central India and Sri Lanka perhaps as early as 300 BC. … - Tula - Where is the Toltec Site of TulaUpdated: Sun Jul 13 14:01:10 2008
The archaeological ruins of Tula (also called Tula de Hidalgo), are located in the Mexican state of Hildalgo about 50 kilometers northwest of Mexico City. … - Blombos Cave - South African Middle Stone Age Blombos CaveUpdated: Sun Jul 13 13:59:57 2008
Blombos Cave is a Middle Stone Age (MSA) site located in the southern Cape, South Africa, that contains excellently preserved MSA deposits that date to older than 70,000 years. … - Lost Race Myth - The Moundbuilder or Lost Race MythUpdated: Sun Jul 13 13:57:11 2008
The lost race or moundbuilder myth is one created by incoming European settlers of the North American continent who could not, or did not want to, believe that the mounds had been built by the Nati… - Blombos Cave - Early Modern Humans at Blombos CaveUpdated: Thu Jul 10 19:44:02 2008
Great strides in understanding the development of modern human beings are being taken at the very southern tip of Africa these days. … - Archaeology Around the WorldUpdated: Thu Jul 10 02:44:14 2008
Archaeology is practiced in all of the seven continents and most of the countries in the world. Archaeologists come from many of these countries as well. Here you'll find resources both to the cult… - Along the Silk RoadUpdated: Wed Jul 9 17:02:40 2008
Archaeological investigations extend the known age of the ancient road connecting Asia and central Europe known as the Silk Road… - Olorgesailie (Kenya)Updated: Wed Jul 9 14:47:35 2008
The archaeological site known as Olorgesailie is an Acheulean site in Kenya, East Africa, and dated to about 7.5-1 million years ago. … - Blackwater Draw - The Archaeological Site of Blackwater DrawUpdated: Sun Jul 6 19:06:19 2008
Eleven thousand years ago, a small lake near Clovis, New Mexico, was populated with extinct forms of elephant, wolf, bison, and horse, and the people who hunted them. … - Deir el Medina - The New Kingdom Workmen's Village of Deir el-MedinaUpdated: Sun Jul 6 19:04:54 2008
Deir el-Medina is a New Kingdom (18th dynasty) residential village of the workmen who built and decorated Egyptian tombs in the Valley of the Kings. … - Caral: The Earliest Civilization in the New WorldUpdated: Sat Jul 5 21:49:11 2008
A collection of sites in the Supe Valley of Peru are proving to be the ancestral source of the Inca and other later civilizations of South and Central America. Caral and the other Supe Valley sites… - Hisarlik - The Ancient Site of Troy - HisarlikUpdated: Fri Jul 4 20:01:52 2008
Hisarlik is the modern name for the ancient site of Troy, located in what is now Turkey… - Temples - What Archaeologists call Shrines or TemplesUpdated: Fri Jul 4 14:37:51 2008
Basically, archaeologists think of the word temple as meaning one of three kinds of shrines… - The Parthenon - What is the ParthenonUpdated: Fri Jul 4 14:25:15 2008
The archaeological site called the Parthenon was a monument to the Greek Goddess Athena, built during the 4th century BC… - Dating in Archaeology - Timing is Everything, A Short Course in Dati…Updated: Tue Jul 1 12:08:19 2008
A short course on the various dating methods used in archaeological science over the centuries. Part 1: Relative Dating… - Minoan Civilization - Timeline and Description of the Minoan civiliz…Updated: Sun Jun 29 21:54:40 2008
The Minoan civilization is what archaeologists call the early part of the prehistoric Bronze Age of Greece. … - Australian Settlement - When was the Australian SettlementUpdated: Sun Jun 29 19:54:15 2008
New mitochondrial data reported in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences on May 7, 2007, supports the somewhat still controversial Australian colonization as having occurred at about … - Danger Cave - Paleoindian Site of Danger CaveUpdated: Sun Jun 29 14:39:05 2008
Danger Cave, located in western Utah in the American southwest, contains evidence of 11,000 years of occupation in the desert southwest… - Phaistos Disk - What is the Phaistos DiskUpdated: Sun Jun 29 12:59:33 2008
The Phaistos Disk is the name given to a pottery disk, both sides impressed with mysterious symbols and said to have been discovered by Italian archaeologist Luigi Pernier at the Minoan palace of P… - Pyramid Text of Saqqara - What are the Pyramid TextsUpdated: Sat Jun 28 14:27:19 2008
The pyramid texts are among the oldest religious writings in the world, found carved on the walls of the Egyptian tombs at Saqqara, and likely dated to the late 5th or early 6th dynasty (about 2435… - Erlitou - What and Where is ErlitouUpdated: Sat Jun 28 12:59:08 2008
Erlitou is a very large Bronze Age (Shang or Xia Dynasty) site located 9 kilometers southwest of Yanshi City in Henan Province of China. … - Piltdown Man - What is the Piltdown ManUpdated: Fri Jun 27 14:47:44 2008
The perpetrators of the infamous Piltdown hoax of the early 20th century have never been satisfactorily identified. … - Linear A - Undeciphered Writing System of the Minoans Linear AUpdated: Fri Jun 27 12:12:11 2008
Linear A is the name given to the as-yet-undeciphered written language of the Minoan people on the island of Crete, and it is one of two used during the Proto-palatial period (1900-1700 BC). … - Lustreware - Medieval Islamic Pottery Technique called LustrewareUpdated: Thu Jun 26 01:24:48 2008
Lustreware is a decorative technique invented by the 9th century AD Abbasid potters of the Islamic Civilization in what is today Iraq… - Paviland Cave - Aurignacian Burial in Wales Paviland CaveUpdated: Thu Jun 26 00:47:46 2008
Paviland Cave is a cave in South Wales dated to the Early Upper Paleolithic period between 30,000-20,000 years ago. … - Pinniped - Why Archaeologists Care about the PinnipedUpdated: Wed Jun 25 20:09:53 2008
A pinniped is a marine mammal, such as a seal or sea lion. They were an important food source to early coastal residents of the New World… - Pikillacta - the Wari Empire site of PikillactaUpdated: Wed Jun 25 16:43:32 2008
The site of Pikillacta is an enormous set of ruins of the Wari Empire. … - Monte Loreto - Copper Mines of Monte LoretoUpdated: Wed Jun 25 15:41:09 2008
The copper mines in the valleys and side walls of Monte Loreto in the Liguria region of Italy are some of the earliest known copper mines in the Iberian peninsula…