Conflicting reports on bones from Madagascar. Does one debunk the other?
Back in September, a paper published in the journal Science Advances concluded that humans might have settled, or at least visited, Madagascar about 6,000 years […]
Archaeology
The National Museum of Brazil Fire – a tragedy for all
On their website today, the banner with the words, “1818-2018 momento de união e de reconstuir” (1818-2018 a time of union and rebuilding) takes on […]
Neolithic Amber Trade
Neolithic amber from Sicily was being traded on the Iberian Peninsula at least 2,000 years before Baltic amber made its way to the Western Mediterranean […]
What is Pseudoarchaeology?
Simply put, pseudoarchaeology is fake archaeology. The suffix, pseudo-, which comes from the Greek word pseudein (and means “to cheat” or “to lie”) is added to the word archaeology.
The Gilgamesh Epic and its Relationship to Other Mesopotamian Myths – part 2 –
In my last post, I discussed both the Old Babylonian and the Akkadian versions of the Gilgamesh Epic and some of their similarities and differences. […]
Using Software with LiDAR to Find Precontact Sites
On the Forest where I work, the vegetation from about mid-April until early-November makes pedestrian survey in anything but a plowed field next to impossible. […]
Preservation in Cultural Resource Management
I recently listened to some discussions on preservation on the Archaeology Podcast Network, and it inspired me to write a little about “preservation” as I […]
Radiocarbon Dating and How Mystery-Mongers Appeal to the Significance-Junkie with Hyperbole and Lies
One of the biggest purveyors of pseudoarchaeological nonsense, Ancient-Origins, recently plagiarized Science Daily, which ran a short article based on a study in PNAS (Proceedings […]
Ancient Child Sacrifice and Modern Sensibilities
A brief warning: this post contains a few images of sub-adult skeletal remains. The photos, however, are instructive and help to offer context. I subscribe […]
Earliest Figurative Art in Crete and Greece
The earliest known figural art from Greece was once thought to be from the Neolithic (8,500 to 5,000 years ago). New research on old data […]