Best. Publicity Stunt. Ever. (Holy Grail category)
Visitors swamped the museum at the San Isidro Basilica in Spain after two authors published a book claiming a goblet…
Small Vehicles for Overlanding?
A thought-piece on small crossover SUVs for overland travel has some interesting tidbits of information, such as: The diminutive Lada…
Goblin Rock Topplers Avoid Prison
These guys got off easy: Men Charged With Toppling 170-Million-Year-Old Rock Formation Avoid Jail Time
Shooting “doves” in Florida, A.D. 1565
An earlier record of Europeans shooting passenger pigeons (“doves”) that Joel Greenberg found but was not able to get into…
Where Could You Buy a Passenger Pigeon in 1908?
In 1908 the New York State Museum purchased a passenger pigeon from Ward’s Natural Science Establishment in Rochester, NY (NYSM…
Arthur, Beulah, and Bertha: The Extended Parker Family
Discovered another Trowelblazers post with a Lamoka connection, which led me into the interesting and complex family history of Arthur…
DIY Data Mining
Following a trail from Open Access Archaeology led to this practical guide to extracting data from documents, whether paper or…
Jack’s Reef Points
A Jack’s Reef point was found at the Lamoka Lake site during the Buffalo Museum of Science excavations. These pentagonal…
Drought, floods, reveal sites, but archaeologists lack the resources to take advantage of them.
Mike Toner, in the Spring 2014 issue of American Archaeology, writes about the threats to American archaeological sites posed by…
Trigger on Northeastern Archaeology
The archaeology of the Northeast has not been characterized by any spectacular breakthroughs in the study of prehistoric social or…