Top 20 Archaeology Blogs by Google Rank
I was curious about how Google ranked the top 20 blogs about archaeology, so I did some searches. Here’s the results of the most basic, […]
Month: April 2017
130,000 year old Californians?
This is a review of an article that just ran in the journal Nature, titled, “A 130,000-year-old archaeological site in southern California, USA.” The core of the […]
8 Mysteries of the Ancient World That Aren’t So Mysterious
1. Mysterious eight-sided Great Pyramid? If you look at the Great Pyramid from above, particularly when the light is just right, you might see what looks like […]
The Temple of Karnak and Possibly its Worse Tour Guide
I found myself somewhat amused by Brien Foerster’s video that highlights a few moments of a tour he guided in Luxor, Egypt at the Temple […]
The Elongated Skulls Mystery Really isn’t a Mystery at All
In this article, I’m doing something a lot of archaeologists aren’t necessarily comfortable with: showing the remains of an indigenous people, in particular: their skulls. […]
Photographs are not Data
With the advent of modern digital photography, it’s easy to take as many photographs as you want. No film to process means no film buy […]
A Misrepresentation of Two Sarcophagi by Brien Foerster
Brien Foerster is clearly ignorant of genuine archaeological method and theory. He took a video of two Egyptian sarcophagi at the University of Pennsylvania Museum in Philadelphia recently […]
Beg, Borrow, and Steal: The Archaeologist’s Lament
Ask any archaeologist what they consider the most iconic tool of the archaeological trade and they’ll probably say the trowel. And many an archaeologist has […]