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Are terrorist cells really so hard to infiltrate?
For nearly a year, a middle-aged woman from suburban Philadelphia used her computer to fashion a new, frightening identity, federal court documents say. The stream of Internet messages in which she sought assistance to...
Italy embraces library digitization
The Italian government has signed a deal with Google to put the contents of two national libraries on the internet. Up to one million antiquarian books - including works by Dante, Machiavelli and Galileo...
Researchers have produced a mobile phone that could be a boon for prying bosses wanting to keep tabs on the movements of their staff. Japanese phone giant KDDI Corporation has developed technology that tracks...
A dozen centuries-old shipwrecks — some of them unusually well-preserved — have been found in the Baltic Sea by a gas company building an underwater pipeline between Russia and Germany. The oldest wreck probably...
Researchers have found that eggshells of extinct bird species are a rich source of preserved DNA. An international team isolated the delicate DNA molecules of species including the massive "elephant birds" of the genus...
Summer 1937. What could be more fitting in the cool afternoon of an English country lane than a group of cycling tourists steadily pedalling their way from one historic site to another, stopping to...
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Assessing the Future Landscape of Archaeological Communication
Put your meta-mega education nerd hats on! A couple of months ago the Center for Studies in Higher Education here at UC Berkeley (with help from the Mellon foundation) conducted an intensive survey about digital media in education. It’s titled: Assessing the Future Landscape of Scholarly Communication: An Exploration of...
The Virtual World of Çatalhöyük (Turkey): Okapi Island in Second Life
This is the talk that Ruth and I are giving this Wednesday here in the department. It will mostly be an overview with some machinima added in and bits from my Archaeologies paper. If you happen to be in the Bay Area, come and bring your lunch! ...
Is this your archaeological deposit?
Isthisyourluggage.com purports to be the product of a person’s hobby–buying lost luggage from the airlines, photographing the contents, and putting the photos online. At first I was suspicious–the photos haven’t changed since 2009, the design work is really clean and the domain name is registered through an anonymizing proxy. But...
Where is Single Context Archaeology?
When I first walked onto site at Çatalhöyük in 2006, I felt pretty confident of my excavation abilities. While I wasn’t an old field hand, I had more excavation experience than most grad students and had worked as a professional archaeologist as well. To my great chagrin, I found out...
“With archaeology we stake our claim to the future by finding our past”
I’m taking Ruth’s Archaeology and Film seminar this semester and our first assignment was: A themed mini-project in one medium. Due 9 February. The common theme among all the projects will be: “With archaeology we stake our claim to the future by finding our past”. You can choose any medium that...
A Mild Retraction – BBC’s 100 Objects
Over the weekend I was listening to more of the BBC’s History of the World in 100 Objects and I feel that I have to take back some of my enthusiasm for the series. The broad generalizations that the host makes about the artifacts and the conclusions drawn about modern...
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Photos of the Re-Wrapping of Anonymous Man
The re-wrapping of the mummy of the Anonymous Man was carried out in early February by the team from the Brooklyn Museum. We saw some of the live coverage of the re-wrapping here on Talking Pyramids. Today they’ve released the batch of photos from the fourth day of the re-wrapping...
Friday Photo: Making Way for the GEM at Giza
Work is underway at Giza to complete the Grand Egyptian Museum by 2012 This week we return once again to the Giza plateau with this recent observation. Talking Pyramids reader and explorer Leszek Zadlo snapped this photo of some large earth moving trucks on the south-west corner of the plateau....
Deciphering the Pyramid Texts of Behenu
Following on from Thursday’s post I’d like to focus a bit more on the Pyramid Texts found in Queen Behenu’s recently discovered burial chamber. Offering texts on the north wall of the Unas sarcophagus chamber. Photo by Helmut Satzinger. I’ve been investigating the particular way in which the Pyramid Texts are arranged...
Astronaut Sends Pyramid Photo via Twitter
Astronaut Soichi Noguchi is currently flying through space aboard the International Space Station and he is using Twitter to communicate with us Earthlings. He goes by the name: @Astro_Soichi He has just posted a photo of the pyramids at Dahshur. The Red pyramid and the Bent pyramid can easily...
Friday Photo: Pyramid Texts – Unas Blue
The Pyramid Texts were first discovered in 1880 inside the Pyamid of Unas by Gaston Maspero. Unas was the first pyramid to be inscribed with the famous corpus of texts and of the inscribed pyramids, Unas is considered to contain the most complete form of the texts. Maspero published...
Burial Chamber with Pyramid Texts Discovered
Pyramid Texts from the north wall A burial chamber containing a pink granite sarcophagus with a black basalt lid has been discovered at South Saqqara by a French archaeological mission. Although badly damaged, the walls are covered in texts which contain the name of the tomb’s owner, ‘Behenu’, thought to...
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Returning from London and the meeting with MAP
The Yangshao project (me and my associate Johan Klange) went to London on Thursday and returned late last night for a conference with MAP (Museo Arti Primarie aka. the Museum of Primary Arts) at the British museum. The trip to London went well, the weather was fine and the...
Today we’re off to London, but first a brief visit to the Museum of Far Eastern Antiquities in Stockholm, then it’s off to the airport and London. In London we’ll attend the conference held by MAP (Museum of Primary Arts) in the Raymond and Bevery Sackler Rooms at...
Archaeology in Stockholm County part 3
It has taken me a little longer than planed but here comes the notes the from the final three (6-9) seminars held at “Archeology in Stockholm County 2009” at the County Administrative Board of Stockholm 2010. Link to part one and two. On the marine archaeological work at the harbour of Birka Johan Rönnby, Department of Culture...
As part of the Yangshao project I and my associate Johan Klange has been invited to a conference at British Museum held by Museo Arti Primarie (MAP), the Museum of Primary Art, on March 5th. So it seems I am off to London next week. Magnus Reuterdahl ...
A thesis on Harbours and hinterlands, Corinthian Gulf (600-300 B.C.)
On Saturday, February 20th, Anton Bonnier defends his thesis Harbours and hinterlands: Landscape, site patterns and coast-hinterland interconnections by the Corinthian Gulf, c. 600-300 B.C. at Stockholm University, 10.00, in auditorium D8. I plan to attend, if I ain’t held up by the coming snowstorm. The abstract is available here. I will return...
Archaeology in Stockholm County part 2
I’ll continue with the notes[i] from next three (3-6) seminars held at “Archeology in Stockholm County 2009” at the County Administrative Board of Stockholm 2010[ii]. Link to part one. At Jarlabankes home – Are the individuals buried at Brobybro grave field, in Täby parish, related? Lars Andersson, Stockholm County Museum The Brobybro grave...
Archaeology in Europe
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Controversy over Shropshire woman not declaring find
On 25 February a Ludlow woman became the first person in the UK to face the full wrath of the Treasure Act for failing to report an ancient artefact find.Kate Harding, 23, pleaded guilty to breaching the act, was given a three month conditional discharge and ordered to hand over...
Exciting find for museum bosses
A ROMAN quern stone discovered near Chaigley has sparked excitement in archaeological circles.The stone was taken into Ribchester Roman Museum's 'Finds Day' on Saturday by a local woman and Curator Patrick Tostevin says it was definitely "the highlight of the day.""It is the sort of object that would suggest there...
How the Alphabet Was Born from Hieroglyphs
To the Asiatics, as they were called, the lush Nile Delta, with its open marshlands rich with fish and fowl, was a veritable Garden of Eden. From earliest times, Canaanites and other Asiatics would come and settle here. Indeed, this is the background of the Biblical story of the famine...
Archaeologists survey Roman road
The history of the road, which runs from Winchester to Chichester, is to be investigated and people are invited to get involved in a field visit.People wanting to get a closer look at the ancient road should attend a workshop on Saturday March 20, held at the Milburys Pub in...
Staffordshire Hoard team wins award
Birmingham City Council Cabinet Member for Leisure, Culture and Sport, Cllr Martin Mullaney, today congratulated the Staffordshire Hoard team after it scooped a top archaeology award.The team that recovered the Anglo-Saxon treasure, including staff from Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, have won the Current Archaeology award for ‘The Best Rescue...
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Giant stone head of ancient Egypt's King Amenhotep III discovered
A colossal red granite head of ancient Egypt's King Amenhotep III (circa 1390-1352 BC) has been discovered in his funerary temple of the Kom El-Hettan area on Luxor's West Bank....
Archaeological treasures are being brought to life by new software. Real images are enriched with digital information on a virtual tour through ancient buildings, creating a more vivid experience for the museum visitor....
Archaeological 'time machine' greatly improves accuracy of early radiocarbon dating
Researchers have produced a new archaeological tool which could answer key questions in human evolution. The new calibration curve, which extends back 50,000 years, is a major landmark in radiocarbon dating -- the method used by archaeologists and geoscientists to establish the age of carbon-based materials....
Lost Roman law code discovered in London
Part of an ancient Roman law code previously thought to have been lost forever has been discovered. The breakthrough was made after piecing together 17 fragments of previously incomprehensible parchment....
Cave reveals Southwest's abrupt climate swings during Ice Age
Ice Age climate records from an Arizona stalagmite link the Southwest's winter precipitation to temperatures in the North Atlantic, according to new research. The stalagmite yielded an almost continuous, century-by-century climate record spanning 55,000 to 11,000 years ago, a time the Southwest flip-flopped between wet and dry periods. The finding...
Fossil footprints give land vertebrates a much longer history
The discovery of fossil footprints from early backboned land animals in Poland leads to the sensational conclusion that our ancestors left the water at least 18 million years earlier than previously thought....
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Churches, whether they are synagogues, cathedrals, basilicas, mosques, or temples, hold a special interest to archaeologists. ...
Tracing Emperor Qin at Lang Ya Shan
Archaeological survey in Shandong province, China, has revealed some on-the-ground evidence of the historic movements of Qin dynasty emperor Shihuangdi. Shihuangdi (ruled 221-210 BC) is best known for his army of terracotta soldiers, but also for being the first to unite much of the landmass that today makes up China....
Art of the Islamic Civilization: Lustreware Pottery
One of the many inventions of the great Islamic civilization was lustreware, a metallic pottery decoration technique. When the lustreware technique is done properly, exposure to light sets a mysterious gold flicker to dance on the surfaces of the pots. Small cup. Earthenware with polychromic lustre decoration painted over opaque...
Fieldwork in Focus 2010: Pemaquid Falls, Maine
This week's Fieldwork in Focus comes from Neill De Paoli, director of the 9th season of the ongoing excavations at the home of 17th century merchant Robert Givens, in Pemaquid Falls, Maine. Overview The scenic mid-coast community of Bristol is home to one of Maine's earliest European settlements. In the late...
The quadrennial athletic games called the Olympics, now going on in Vancouver, British Columbia, originated st the site of Olympia, Greece during the first millennium BC. After the Greeks, the Romans took up the games; but in the 4th century AD, the games were abolished as pagan rituals by the...
Standing With Stones - A Video Review
In 2000, film maker Michael Bott and writer and presenter Rupert Soskin met together with a plan to make the megalithic monuments of the British Isles better known to the public. ...
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Oxford Journal: When Scholarship and Tribal Heritage Face Off Against Commerce
Overlooking the Interstate and an outdoor shopping mall here stands a sad little hill, bald but for four bare trees and a scattering of stones....
Family history as Sacramento archaeology- African American family life in the early 1900s
Collards, a staple of the 1900s in Sacramento African-American homes. Flickr.com Sacramento archaeologists dig up African-American family history from the turn of the century--the early 1900s....
Warmington's buried treasure may reveal what the Romans did for us
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Beheaded Vikings found at Olympic site
They were 51 young men who met a grisly death far from home, their heads chopped off and their bodies thrown into a mass grave....
Bulgarian Archaeologists Make Breakthrough in Ancient Thrace Tomb
A coin found nead the Starosel tombs shows the doubleheaded labrys, the coat of arms of the family of Amatokos II....
Dead Sea Scrolls on display at Science Museum of Minnesota
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls is regarded as one of the most significant archaeological finds of the 20th century....
Beyond Stone and Bone
Archaeology can sometimes balance views of past events based on documentary evidence, a recent case in point being the study of remains of more than 50 young Vikings who were apparently captured while raiding in southern England and brutally executed. A thousand years later, we know of the terror Vikings...
I first met Zahi Hawass back in the early 1990s, when he and colleague Mark Lehner contributed several excellent articles to ARCHAEOLOGY dealing with excavations of support facilities and tombs of the workers at Giza, as well as an attempt to date the Great Pyramid of Khufu using radiocarbon. Hawass...
The Monkey, the Whale and the Nasca Lines
I read with great sadness this morning of a small plane that crashed yesterday while taking tourists on an aerial tour of famous Nasca Lines in Peru. According to the online report, seven people—three Chileans and four Peruvians—perished aboard a small Cessna aircraft. Witnesses said that the plane was destroyed...
Amazing Underwater Sites and Tales
For anybody who feels that discoveries are the heart and soul of archaeology, the website of the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, NOAA for short, is a great place to explore. Politics and archaeology, repatriation of looted artifacts, preservation of threatened sites, differing perspectives of faith and science on the...
This is an overdue and overlong entry, but I have been watching the British Museum-Iran controversy unfold over the past couple of days and wanted to cover it here… Nowadays, headlines about Iran tend to be about the detention or arrest of opposition leaders, students, and journalists following the contested June...
If you are not Catholic, you may not have heard yet that the Vatican has decided to put the very famous Shroud of Turin on public display for six weeks, beginning on April 10th. Exhibitions of the controversial shroud–believed by many devout Catholics to be the winding cloth that...
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Amateur archaeologist to be awarded top honors (Belleville News-Democrat)
When Larry Kinsella was farming the land that now is Pleasant Ridge Park in Fairview Heights, he used to get the tractor and cultivator going straight on a row and then jump off and look for arrowheads in the fresh-turned ground....
When Scholarship and Tribal Heritage Face Off Against Commerce (Pittsburgh Post-Gazette)
OXFORD, Ala. -- Overlooking the Interstate and an outdoor shopping mall here stands a sad little hill, bald but for four bare trees and a scattering of stones....
Lost in time (Bangkok Post - Thailand's English news)
With an adventurous spirit and love for his community, Prabhassara Chuvichean, a lecturer at Silpakorn University's Faculty of Archaeology, set out in search for deserted temples in Thon Buri. He was looking for artistic and archaeological evidence to confirm that temples in Thon Buri on the west bank of the...
'Art in Bloom' on display (KRCG Jefferson City)
It was the 6th Annual Art in Bloom flower festival at the Museum of Art and Archaeology on the University of Missouri campus Saturday....
Community Briefing (Arizona Range News)
FORT BOWIE CELEBRATE ARIZONA ARCHAEOLOGY and Heritage Awareness Month by attending the special programs offered at Fort Bowie National Historic Site:...
Centre of archaeology controversy (The Age)
He was either one of the most industrious and productive forgers ever known or, as his supporters claimed, a victim....
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Preah Vihear and Google – a roundup
Remember last month when Cambodia complained to Google about its incorrect maps at the Preah Vihear border? Ogle Earth has a nice roundup about the disputed maps and a little background to the border spat. I found it quite interesting that when the temple was awarded to Cambodia by the...
Cambodia’s red list of artifacts
Cambodia has published a red list of artefacts aimed at stemming the looting of artefacts from the country, to be distributed to museums, auction houses and border checkpoints. You can help, too, by supporting local businesses when in Cambodia and not buying marketplace antiquities! New List Aims to Stem Tide of...
Inscribed stones in danger of being rubbed away by human hands
The steles of Hanoi’s Temple of Literature listing the doctoral candidates between the 15th-18th centuries are in danger of being literally erased from history as visitors run their fingers through the names. Van Mieu steles endangered by human touch Thanh Nien News, 01 Mar 2010 Eighty-two stone steles at Van Mieu – Quoc...
Taking a walk through Niah caves
A news feature showing you why you should skip the malls for the Niah Caves. photo credit: amanderson2 Abandoning the malls and discovering the Caves Brunei fm, 28 Feb 2010 At least fifty spine-tinglingly ancient discoveries have been made in Sarawak’s caves, which are suspected to have been in use by the indigenous...
Malaysian museum opens ceramics exhibition
Ceramics from Malaysia’s sunken shipwrecks are exhibited at the National Museum. Ceramics from sunken ships on display at National Museum New Straits Times, 27 February 2010 Ceramics found in a Sung Dynasty ship, which sunk off Tanjung Simpang Mengayau in the northern tip of Sabah, will be among artefacts to be displayed at...
CFP: Global Crossroads – The Port Clusters of Southeast Asia and the Middle East
The Port Clusters of Southeast Asia and the Middle East Dates: 27-29 July 2010 Venue: Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, Institute of Southeast Asian Studies, Singapore This 3-day conference will examine these two Indian Ocean port zones in various respects – the specific natures and the roles of these zones as well as comparisons between these; mutual perceptions...
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Search on to decipher Gothic text
Experts at Salisbury Cathedral are asking for help to identify the meaning of Gothic text found behind a monument....
Memorial service for Moors victim
The "lost" victim of the Moors murderers Ian Brady and Myra Hindley is remembered at a memorial service, more than 45 years after he was abducted and killed....
Pros and coins of treasure finds
A row breaks out after a woman is prosecuted under the Treasure Act over a coin that is not a coin....
Beatrix Potter museum rescue bid
An MP calls on the government to help save a Cumbrian museum which holds a collection of Beatrix Potter paintings....
Chance meeting reunites chalice
A chance conversation results in a 16th Century church chalice being reunited with its lid lost decades ago....
Lottery support for museum revamp
Major development plans for St Fagans national history museum, to be part-funded by lottery cash, take a step forward....
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History of the British School at Athens
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Four Stone Hearth: Call for Submissions
The 88th Four Stone Hearth blog carnival will run at Ad Hominin on Wednesday. Submit great recent stuff to Ciarán, your own or somebody else's. Anything anthro or archaeo goes! The next open hosting slot is on 12 May. If you're a blogger with an interest in the anthro/archaeo field, drop...
Baby Christened, Dad Unhappy and Surprised to Learn
Here's an interesting case. A woman took her baby to Danderyd church (where I once took first communion) and had the child baptised -- against the father's wishes, as it turned out. He isn't happy. And the priest admits that he should have checked with the dad but that he...
Whale Bones Trawled Up From Bottom of Baltic Sea
I've written before about a recent whale vertebra that someone had dropped into a lake far from the sea in northern Sweden. This past summer, fishermen trawling off the country's southern coast caught two old whale bones, and they've turned out to belong to a grey whale, a species that's...
University Degrees that Lead to Jobs in Sweden
A recurring theme here on Aard is my complaints about how useless certain kinds of higher education is if you want a job. For a change, let's take a look at what kind of degree is most likely to get you a job in Sweden over the coming decade. The...
French Soft Drink Promises to Change Your Sexual Orientation
Christian fundamentalists like to believe that homosexuality is an illness that can -- and should -- be cured. The factual belief is contradicted by a solid scientific consensus, and the value judgement is widely considered to be a repressive holdover from the Bronze Age. The makers of the French orange-based soft...
Last week was skiing break for my kids. I couldn't find anywhere good to stay in the mountains, so we didn't go off on holiday. Here's what we did for fun instead. Dinner at the home of a Chinese friend. It was one of those no hablar parties that spouses in...
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Archaeologies of Placemaking is the outcome of a WAC-5 session at Washington, D.C. in 2003. The following review of this volume is divided into two parts. The first part provides a summary of the nine chapters, and the second offers......
The realities of the past: archaeology, object-orientations, pragmatology
I have been fascinated by the implications of the speculative turn for archaeology for some time now (Graham Harman's blog provides a conduit to the world of speculative realism; Harman currently has several books in press on the topic). I......
RUIN MEMORIES: Materiality, Aesthetics and the Archaeology of the Recent Past
Numerous studies have focused on modernity’s destructive effect on traditional life- worlds, the desertion of villages and the ruination of rural areas. However, the fact that the modern condition also produces its own ruined materialities, its own marginalized pasts,......
Yes we can! But so what? Some observations on contemporary archaeology
James Symonds (University of Oulu, Finland) For more than 150 years archaeology has had a clear purpose, to sketch out the topography of the past from the pinnacle of the present. Like the traveller’s gaze in Shelley’s Ozymandius, archaeologists have......
Fields of artifacts: archaeology of contemporary scientific discovery
The times when artifacts come to light - the moments of discovery as it were - are crucial moments in that they precipitate discussion and argument amongst scientists about what is real and what is not, what is natural and what is artificial, how the artifacts got to be...
Contemporary and Historical Archaeology in Theory Conference 2009
John M. Chenoweth (UC Berkeley) From October 16 to 18, participants met at Keble College, Oxford, for the 2009 CHAT conference. Over 30 papers engaged with the theme “Modern Materials: the archaeology of things from the early modern, modern, and......