That’s No Dog
Another example of why you should always hire a professional zooarchaeologist when you find animal bones on your site (in…
A Point from the Ellison Site
Haven’t had too much archaeology on the Ledger recently, so a here’s a projectile point from the Ellison Site, which…
Visiting Paint Mines Interpretive Park
There’s some cool geology on display at Paint Mines Interpretive Park, operated by El Paso County on the plains of…
A Career in Classics and Anthropology, in and out of Academia
One person’s experience in and advice on combining classics, anthropology, and human osteology in a career: The Skeleton in My…
Early Images of the Classical World: Daguerreotypes of the Monumental Journey
In the 1840s, Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey, a French photographer and architectural historian, took thousands of photographic images of monuments…
Free Books from the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology
Several archaeology books from the backlist at the Cotsen Institute at UCLA are available for free download: An Archaeologist’s Guide…
Archaeology at Petra 1929
The site of Petra in Jordan had been a tourist destination for almost a century when two British archaeologists, George…
A Brief History of Alberta Archaeology
By Mike Donnelly at RETROActive, with appearances by William Wintemberg, H.M. Worthington, Junius Bird, and Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump.
1969 Murder of Jane Britton, Harvard Archaeology Grad Student, Solved by DNA Testing – No Primitive Rites Necessary
“Remember me any way you like, but remember me” -Jane Sanders Britton Almost 50 years after her murder, police in…
“Tall, Dark, and Tweedy”: Jazz Age Artist John Held Jr. was also an archaeological illustrator – and a World War I spy
In the 1920s, John Held, Jr., became famous for his drawings in Life, Vanity Fair, and other magazines that enshrined…