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- July 17, 2008
- 02:00 PM
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The End of the Minoans: A Cretan Insurrection?
by Kris Hirst in Archaeology @ About.com
Since the first excavations at Knossos by Arthur Evans, the end of the Late Bronze Age Minoan civilization on Crete in the Aegean Sea [ca 1470/1490 BC] has been attributed...... Read more »
A NAFPLIOTI. (2008) “Mycenaean” political domination of Knossos following the Late Minoan IB destructions on Crete: negative evidence from strontium isotope ratio analysis (87Sr/86Sr). Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(8), 2307-2317. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.03.006
- June 21, 2008
- 12:00 PM
- 1,755 views
Mapping Ostionoid Maize Agriculture
by Kris Hirst in Archaeology @ About.com
The history of maize agriculture in the Dominican Republic between about AD 500-1500 is examined through analysis of lake bed sediments in a new paper by researchers Chad S. Lane,...... Read more »
C LANE, C MORA, S HORN, & K ORVIS. (2008) Sensitivity of bulk sedimentary stable carbon isotopes to prehistoric forest clearance and maize agriculture. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(8), 2119-2132. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2008.01.019
- April 28, 2008
- 01:01 PM
- 1,666 views
Clovis, Black Mats, and Extra-Terrestrials
by Kris Hirst in Archaeology @ About.com
Although a lot of the hot news in archaeology these days is centered on Pre-Clovis, many scholars are focused on the end of the Clovis big game hunters.
Since the...... Read more »
Jay Quade, Richard Forester, William Pratt, & Claire Carter . (1998) Black Mats, Spring-Fed Streams, and Late-Glacial-Age Recharge in the Southern Great Basin. Quaternary Research, 49(2), 129-148. DOI: 10.1006/qres.1997.1959
- March 25, 2008
- 12:01 PM
- 1,678 views
Sourcing Turquoise
by Kris Hirst in Archaeology @ About.com
Since the 1970s, researchers have attempted to pin down the source of turquoise--that lovely blue-green mineral aka hydrated copper aluminum phosphate, cherished and used as jewelry and inlay by so...... Read more »
S HULL, M FAYEK, F MATHIEN, P SHELLEY, & K DURAND. (2008) A new approach to determining the geological provenance of turquoise artifacts using hydrogen and copper stable isotopes. Journal of Archaeological Science, 35(5), 1355-1369. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.10.001
- February 26, 2008
- 10:00 PM
- 1,507 views
Maya Blue: Rituals and Recipe
by Kris Hirst in Archaeology @ About.com
In 1904, the Sacred Cenote of Chichén Itzá was dredged by archaeologist Edward H. Thompson.
Thompson recovered one hundred human skeletons and hundreds of objects sacrificed by the Maya between...... Read more »
Dean Arnold, Jason R. Branden, Patrick Ryan Williams, J. P. Brown, & . (2008) The first direct evidence for the production of Maya Blue: Rediscovery of a technology. Antiquity, 151-164. http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/082/ant0820151.htm
- February 24, 2008
- 05:00 PM
- 2,061 views
The Invention of Shoes
by Kris Hirst in Archaeology @ About.com
I've been poking around in the Upper Paleolithic these days, and while I was there I discovered that Erik Trinkaus, whose papers are always interesting anyway, has recently been chasing...... Read more »
E TRINKAUS. (2005) Anatomical evidence for the antiquity of human footwear use. Journal of Archaeological Science, 32(10), 1515-1526. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2005.04.006
E TRINKAUS. (2008) Anatomical evidence for the antiquity of human footwear: Tianyuan and Sunghir. Journal of Archaeological Science. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2007.12.002
- December 29, 2007
- 11:24 PM
- 2,302 views
Identifying Hatched Turkey Eggs at Archaeological Sites
by Kris Hirst in Archaeology @ About.com
The history of the domestication of turkeys is one of those great questions in archaeological science.
While archaeologists are certain Meleagris spp was domesticated in North America probably at least...... Read more »
EB BEACHAM, & S DURAND. (2007) Eggshell and the archaeological record: new insights into turkey husbandry in the American Southwest. Journal of Archaeological Science, 34(10), 1610-1621. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.11.015
- November 23, 2007
- 11:39 AM
- 2,574 views
New Dating Technique Tested at Lene Hara Cave
by Kris Hirst in Archaeology @ About.com
An international team lead by Sue O'Connor of the Australian National University and reported in a recent article in the Journal of Archaeological Science have developed a new rock art...... Read more »
Maxime Aubert, Sue O'Connor, Malcolm McCulloch, Graham Mortimer, Alan Watchman, & Marc Richer-LaFleche. (2007) Uranium-series dating rock art in East Timor. Journal of Archaeological Science, 991-996. DOI: 10.1016/j.jas.2006.09.017
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