Time equals Truth: Robert Caro’s Archives
Author Robert Caro’s personal archives will go to the New York Historical Society. Caro is still writing the final volume…
Massive and Free Archaeology Book on the Onondaga Iroquois
The New York State Museum has just published James W. Bradley’s new book, Onondaga and Empire; An Iroquoian People in…
How did Lamoka Lake get its name?
Lamoka is a word that you don’t see used much other than for the lake itself, and the prehistoric archaeological…
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.
Assunpink Firewalk
Scenes from the first Assunpink Firewalk, part of the City of Trenton’s Patriots Week, which celebrates George Washington’s revolutionary victories…
Radiotelephone Service to Europe and Beyond: The Pole Farm in Lawrence, New Jersey
The original telephone system connected phones by copper wire strung up on poles. These “land-lines” faced a problem when confronted…
1970s London Archaeologist Culture
Hobley’s Heroes is an online archive that shows something of life as an archaeologist digging in London in the 1970s…
Open Access: Kangaroos and California, Peanut Butter and Jelly
The University of California Press has made all their journal articles freely available for the month of April. UC Press,…
Ain’t No Nuns Like Colorado Frontier Nuns (Actually, Most Nuns Are Probably Like That)
“Their supposed status as the most poor, obedient women made it easy to overlook their decidedly “unfeminine” feats, like camping,…
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.