Archaeological Finds in WWI Trenches
Discovery in the Western Front Trenches has accounts from World War I soldiers of archaeological finds during wartime. Only a…
The Kaleva Incident and the Death of Henry Antheil, Jr.
The name Henry Antheil, Jr, is on a tombstone in Riverview Cemetery, but he is not buried there. Henry, the…
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…
Who Really Discovered the First Paleoindian Sites in Vermont?
In 1927, the Folsom site in New Mexico, which contained the distinctive fluted stone points of the same name directly…
“Women who have really done things:” The Jazz Age Founders of The Society of Woman Geographers
You may known Marguerite Harrison from the silent-film era documentary Grass: A Nation’s Battle for Life, which she made with…
Frans Ferdinand Blom: Danish Dixie Bohemian Archaeologist
“My first encounter with a cave filled with human skulls and bones occurred in 1928 at Huxjal.” Frans Ferdinand Blom…
Annie Alexander’s Contribution to Passenger Pigeon Research
An eyewitness account of trapping passenger pigeons in New Jersey in the early 1800s is one of only two publications…
Birdie Parker, a Woman of the Mother Road
Trowelblazing archaeologist/ethnologist Birdie Parker, a.k.a. Bertha Parker Cody, is also a Woman of the Mother Road.
The Field Trip that Founded, and Filled, the Oriental Institute
In 1919, James Henry Breasted, archaeologist and founder of the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago, embarked on a…
The Jazz Age in Britain: New Exhibit at Two Temple Place, London
Rhythm and Reaction: The Age of Jazz in Britain has opened at William Waldorf Astor’s former Mansion, Two Temple Place,…