Visitors swamped the museum at the San Isidro Basilica in Spain after two authors published a book claiming a goblet at the basilica is the Holy Grail. It’s not clear…

A thought-piece on small crossover SUVs for overland travel has some interesting tidbits of information, such as: The diminutive Lada Niva was the first vehicle to drive to the North…

These guys got off easy: Men Charged With Toppling 170-Million-Year-Old Rock Formation Avoid Jail Time

An earlier record of Europeans shooting passenger pigeons (“doves”) that Joel Greenberg found but was not able to get into his book: A second voyage left France in 1564 under…

In 1908 the New York State Museum purchased a passenger pigeon from Ward’s Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, NY (NYSM 1908:134). The late date of this acquisition is interesting. By…

Discovered another Trowelblazers post with a Lamoka connection, which led me into the interesting and complex family history of Arthur Parker. Bertha “Birdie” Parker Pallan Thurston Cody  was the daughter…

Following a trail from Open Access Archaeology led to this practical guide to extracting data from documents, whether paper or digital. Whether you want to get the numbers from one…

A Jack’s Reef point was found at the Lamoka Lake site during the Buffalo Museum of Science excavations.  These pentagonal or corner-notched pentagonal points date to the Kipp Island Phase…

Mike Toner, in the Spring 2014 issue of American Archaeology, writes about the threats to American archaeological sites posed by extreme weather. Forest fires in the southwest, Drought from Texas…

The archaeology of the Northeast has not been characterized by any spectacular breakthroughs in the study of prehistoric social or political organization. Bruce Trigger 1981