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About Cognitive Archaeology

May 14, 2010 Carl Feagans 11

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 […]

Four Stone Hearth #88 is up

March 17, 2010 Carl Feagans 2

At Ad Hominin. has a St. Patrick’s Day special edition of this blog carnival, which is dedicated to the four fields of anthropology. Topics covered […]

Vampire Forensics: A Book to Sink Your Teeth in

March 6, 2010 Carl Feagans 7

Vampire Forensics: Uncovering the Origins of an Enduring LegendAuthor: Mark Collins JenkinsPublisher: National Geographic Pages: 304ISBN: 1426207301Price: 14.95 (paperback) Vampire Forensics presents the lore and […]

Robert J. Braidwood: More Than Just One Man

February 26, 2010 Carl Feagans 0

You can’t study prehistoric archaeology without encountering the name Robert J. Braidwood. An innovator of archaeological method and inquiry, Braidwood pioneered new ways of investigating […]

A Decade of Pseudoarchaeology

December 23, 2009 Carl Feagans 1

Here are six pseudoarchaeological topics that I encountered on the internet since the beginning of the millennium. I think most of them I dealt with […]

Artificial Cranial Modification: Head Shaping

May 17, 2009 Carl Feagans 3

In addition to cranial surgery, another artificial modification of the human skull present in the archaeological record, which is perhaps better known, is skull shaping. […]

Artificial Cranial Modification: Trephination

May 16, 2009 Carl Feagans 3

Image by Luciana Christante via Flickr The practice of artificially modifying the human skull has been a part of human culture as far back as […]

How to make casts of bone and stone

April 10, 2009 Carl Feagans 5

In the United States, the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act of 1990 ([slider title=”NAGPRA“]Many groups, especially indigenous peoples, have profound concerns about the […]