Archaeological News: First Nations group outraged at destruction of ancient rock art sites →
NANAIMO, B.C. — Members of a Nanaimo First Nations group are outraged after crews contracted by BC Hydro damaged a documented ancient rock art site during work last week.
Douglas White, chief of the Snuneymuxw First Nation said the damage is disrespectful of native heritage and he doesn’t…
Fantastic Google Doodle today! Happy 138th birthday, Howard Carter!
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Today I went to a lecture entitled ‘The Archaeology of Middle Earth’
It was quite possibly the greatest lecture I’ve been to in my entire undergraduate career.
This is essentially my lecturer, and the class:
Archaeological News: Remains of dark ages princess found in field in Cambridge →
The remains of a mysterious Anglo-Saxon princess, who died thirteen and a half centuries ago, have been found in a field three miles south of Cambridge.
Aged just 16 when she died, and buried lying on a special high status funerary bed, she was laid to rest with a small solid gold,…
Who just turned in their Undergraduate Dissertation?
This girl! I seriously cannot stop smiling. I’m sure the panic of it being graded will set in soon, but for now I’m just going to celebrate!
I’m like the rebel of the Archaeology department.
The department here specializes in Archaeology of the North, so everyone is writing their undergraduate dissertations on archaeology in the north. Then I come along, and write mine about rock art in South Africa.
I think that’s why my dissertation supervisor likes me so much. I’m quietly rebellious.
Archaeological News: Stone-age toddlers had art lessons, study says →
Stone age toddlers may have attended a form of prehistoric nursery where they were encouraged to develop their creative skills in cave art, say archaeologists.
Research indicates young children expressed themselves in an ancient form of finger-painting. And, just as in modern homes, their…
Native American Love Was Not So Easy
Indigenous Americans may have had a harder time making a long-distance love connection or returning to an ancestral homeland to marry the descendant of grandfather’s girl-next-door because of the difficulty of traveling along the north to south axis of the Americas.
