Ancient stone walls and power: what data science tools can reveal in African archaeology: Visibility has always been important in people’s decisions about where to live and how to arrange their spaces. People make connections with what they can see. Being able to see prominent landmarks, such as certain mountain peaks, rivers or ancestral sites, …
Archaeology shows how hunter-gatherers fitted into southern Africa’s first city, 800 years ago: Archaeologists excavate inside and outside Little Muck Shelter, in the Mapungubwe National Park, South Africa. Photo: Tim Forssman Where the Limpopo and Shashe Rivers meet, forming the modern border between Botswana, South Africa and Zimbabwe, lies a hill that hardly stands out …
What makes archaeology useful as well as exciting? It offers lessons from the past: Great Zimbabwe Shutterstock Archaeology is fun. It’s so much fun that sometimes people do not treat it with the seriousness it deserves. Studying the past, through what people leave behind, can offer insights into some of the world’s challenges – like …
Ancient cave art: how new hi-tech archaeology is revealing the ghosts of human history: Author provided New details of our past are coming to light, hiding in the nooks and crannies of the world, as we refine our techniques to go looking for them. Most lauded is the reconstruction of the evolution of humanity since …
What archaeology can tell us about the lives of children in England 1,500 years ago: krugloff/Shutterstock Following the collapse of the Roman Empire in the early fifth century, groups from northwest Europe made their way to British shores. Germanic peoples settled in what is now England between the fifth and seventh centuries AD. The traditions …
Six reasons to save archaeology from funding cuts: Archaeology is in trouble. The UK government recently announced plans to cut its subsidy for university teaching of the subject (along with many arts courses) by 50% because it is not part of the government’s “strategic priorities”. Education secretary Gavin Williamson framed this in terms of encouraging …
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Archaeology sheds light on the persistence of Muslim cuisine after the Catholic conquest of Granada: Andalusi communal dining bowls known as 'ataifores' in El Legado Andalusí, Museum of the Alhambra, Granada. Author provided Granada, in southern Spain’s Andalusia region, was the final remnant of Islamic Iberia known as al-Andalus – a territory that once stretched …
Archaeology in West Africa could rewrite the textbooks on human evolution: shutterstock Our species, Homo sapiens, rose in Africa some 300,000 years ago. The objects that early humans made and used, known as the Middle Stone Age material culture, are found throughout much of Africa and include a vast range of innovations. Among them are …
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Join Archaeology for a Discussion with Dan Hicks – a Culture interest event taking place on 2020-11-13 12:00:00 in United States Please join us for a discussion with Dan Hicks about his forth coming book "The Brutish Museums: The Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution." Dan Hicks, Professor of Contemporary Archaeology, University of Oxford; Curator, Pitt …
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What archaeology tells us about the music and sounds made by Africa’s ancestors: Shutterstock Music has been part and parcel of humanity for a long time. Not every sound is musical, but sound has meaning and sometimes the meaning of sound is specific to its context. But when it comes to archaeology there is scant …
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Archaeology is changing, slowly. But it’s still too tied up in colonial practices: More room should be made for archaeologists who do things differently. Robyn Walker/HERI For many people, the mention of archaeology makes them think of Indiana Jones. He’s the hero of the 1980s movie franchise – but any archaeologist will tell you that …
Archaeology Lecture Series:Hernando de Soto’s Tribulations in the Interior Southeast – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-01-17 19:00:00 in United States Join the Central Gulf Coast Archaeological Society (CGCAS) in partnership with the Alliance for Weedon Island Archaeological Research and Education (AWIARE) for this annual lecture series on the third Thursday of every …
Volunteer Archaeology Lab – a Culture interest event taking place on 2019-01-25 10:00:00 in United States Ever wonder what archaeologists do with all that stuff they dig up at archaeological sites once the fieldwork is finished? Join the Florida Public Archaeology Network in their Volunteer Lab and you can find out for yourself! Learn how …
Somali songs reveal why musical crate digging is a form of cultural archaeology: Mogadishu's Waaberi Theatre Troupe back in the 1970s when Somalia was a cultural hub. Supplied by Ostinato Records Crate diggers are cultural archaeologists who dedicate their time, money and energy to collecting musical artefacts that provide alternative histories from the fringes of …