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08 Nov

Finding Bosutswe: Modern Archaeology vs. Indiana Jones

To most of the world, the image of an archaeological dig comes from the movies. You remember: in the first Indiana Jones movie, there's an iconic moment when Indy is standing at the archaeological site in Tanis, peering through a theodolite, with hundreds of Nazi-paid workmen around him. He is al...

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Claude Levi-Strauss Dies at 100

Claude Levi-Strauss Dies at 100

Belgian anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss died on October 31, 2009, at the ripe old age of 100. His impact on anthropology (and archaeology as a subset of anthropology) was so earth-shattering that it's hard to remember what anthropology was like before him. Claude Levi-Strauss, drawi...


Beer and Archaeology

Now, don't get me wrong. Archaeologists do have a reputation for drinking an ocean of beer at the end of their working day, but that is besides the point. I recently heard about an inventive public archaeology venue, being carried out in Milwaukee, Wisconsin—surely one of the beer-making ca...

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Environmental Collapse of the Nasca

Environmental Collapse of the Nasca

According to a little press release I received late last week, David Beresford-Jones from the McDonald Institute for Archaeological Research at Cambridge has been leading a team investigating the environmental impacts of agriculture on the Nasca civilization in Peru. ...

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Woolley at Ur

From 1922-1934, archaeologist C. Leonard Woolley excavated at the Sumerian city of Ur, an ancient tell located in what is today very southern Iraq, funded by the British Museum and the University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. ...

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The Indians of Iowa: A Book Review

The Indians of Iowa: A Book Review

Lance Foster is an academic and a member of the Ioway tribe, and beginning in 1996, he started an ambitious web project (now defunct) called Native Nations of Iowa. The Indians of IowaPhoto Credit: Lance Foster and the University of Iowa Press (c) 2009 The project assembled what histories...

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