Fewkes and Field Workers Fight Florida Mosquitoes
From the National Anthropological Archives at the Smithsonian: Jazz Age archaeologist Jesse Walter Fewkes and co-workers showing off their anti-mosquito…
Scholarship for New York Archaeology Undergraduates
For New York state undergraduates interested in a career in archaeology, the Daniel H. Weiskotten Scholarship Fund 2018 awards $750…
New Book Review: Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats: Extinct Mammals and the Archaeology of the Ice Age Great Basin by Donald K. Grayson
Book review of Donald K. Grayson’s Giant Sloths and Sabertooth Cats: Extinct Mammals and the Archaeology of the Ice Age Great…
Iron in New York – New Open Access Book from the NYSM
The New York State Museum has just released Iron in New York, edited by Martin Pickands, a collection of eight…
Paleo-Indian Science Cafe in Albany, New York
From the NYSM: Coming in to the Country: The First New Yorkers and the Ice Age Landscapes of New York…
“I published everything I ever dug up”
Beginning in the early 1920s, William Augustus Ritchie dedicated his career to digging archaeological sites in New York state, but…
Archaeology Month in Pennsylvania
Pennsylvania Historic Preservation has a list of upcoming activities, including an experimental archaeology workshop at Meadowcroft rockshelter, for the state’s…
Everyday Carry, Anthropology Edition
Multiple cameras, two pairs of reading glasses, one Munsell soil color book, and a plastic trombone: six anthropologists on the…
Archaeological Sites Along the Assunpink
Dam archaeology in New Jersey: 1970s archaeology along Assunpink Creek, and modern creek daylighting efforts in Trenton: Assunpink Creek Dam Site…
The Late Archaic Site by the Parking Garage: More on Coralville, Iowa
The redevelopment of that Coralville, Iowa wetland park/restaurant/hotel complex uncovered a prehistoric archaeological site officially known as the Edgewater Park…