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 […]
Archaeology
4,000 year-old brain surgery?
An archaeologist from from Ankara University, Fikri Kulako lu, reports the discovery of a 4,000 year old skeletonwhich has evidence of “a successful brain operation” in […]
Dead Sea Scrolls: were the authors Jewish or Jewish?
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 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, […]
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 […]
Application of Cognitive Archaeology
Patterns of thought can be effectively inferred from the material remains of the past. Nicholas Toth ((Toth, Nicholas (1985). Archaeological Evidence for Preferential Right-Handedness in […]
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 […]
Call for Submissions: Four Stone Hearth
Will be right here on Wednesday! Send me your posts or links to posts if you have an idea that fits the subject of anthropology. […]