Category Archives: Archaeology

A Romantic Adventure-Tale of Treasure and Archaeology

You know how you start googling for information on one thing but end up going down a completely different rabbit hole from the one you started on? This happened to me over the weekend and I found myself looking for … Continue reading

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4,000 year-old brain surgery?

An archaeologist from from Ankara University, Fikri Kulakolu, reports the discovery of a 4,000 year old skeletonwhich has evidence of “a successful brain operation” in which the patient survived. This sort of trephination isn’t unheard of in the ancient world, … Continue reading

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Dead Sea Scrolls: were the authors Jewish or Jewish?

Image by Randall Niles via Flickr The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 caves near Qumran on the Dead Sea by a Bedouin shepherd. Stored for nearly 2 millennia in clay jars or pots, the scrolls survived with the help of the dry … Continue reading

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The Pseudoscience of Homeopathy

I am not responsible for any keyboards for those who tried reading this with their morning hot cup of joe! If you’ve never visited xkcd, you should! var __external_use_page_url = “http://ahotcupofjoe.net/2010/07/the-pseudoscience-of-homeopathy/”; var __external_use_page_summary = “The Pseudoscience of Homeopathy”; var __buzrr_style … Continue reading

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Independence Day: Let Freedom Ring

In a nation so divided, we often forget where true freedom comes from: the human spirit and the hearts and minds of men and women who wanted more for themselves and their families. As we celebrate our nations Independence on … Continue reading

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An idiot called. He’s looking for your village.

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Application of Cognitive Archaeology

Patterns of thought can be effectively inferred from the material remains of the past. Nicholas Toth[1]Â Â conducted experiments in flintknapping in which he discovered patterns he proposed as evidence of right-handedness in hominids reaching into the archaeological record as … Continue reading

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About Cognitive Archaeology

Image via Wikipedia The questions of what people of the past thought, how they arrived at these thoughts, and to what extent did the thoughts of people affect the world around them fall under the auspices of cognitive archaeology. In … Continue reading

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Two new archaeologists added to the blog roll!

I just wanted to share two blogs I found via a recent Google search: The Dig Girl and Bioarchaeologists: We Dig Bones! They both seem to be blogs of the more personal experience type, which is great. I love reading … Continue reading

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Future Archaeologists

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