Now, a 3,300-year-old Egyptian text preserved in the British Museum is once again fueling one of the Bible's most controversial debates: were the giants of the Old Testament rooted in real historical ...
Skateholm’s importance is not only that it is large, but that it preserves a long span of hunter-gatherer life and death. The Swedish History Museum notes the area around the lagoon was used for ...
Nearly 250 years after 6,000 American and French soldiers marched together through Connecticut to Yorktown to deal the final blow in the Revolutionary War, 29 high school students from both countries ...
Jessica Goon ’19 applies all she learned inside and out of the classroom at SUNY Cortland to her work of making the Thomas Cole National Historic Site in Catskill, N.Y. come alive for its numerous ...
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An ode to archaeology - why the past still matters

Archaeology reconstructs ordinary lives that rarely appear in written history. Artifacts, buildings, and traces of daily routines preserve the experiences of people who built, worked, socialized, and ...
Brixham Cave and the antiquity of man (1965) / Jacob W. Gruber -- Introduction and polemic (1968) / David Clarke -- Perspectives of a sentimental journey : V. Gordon Childe in Australia 1917-1921 ...
(See Cover) Even as his spaceships reach toward the future and the stars, modern man is more concerned than ever with his past on his own planet. From China to Peru, diggers are everywhere. And ...
MOSCOW, Idaho – Archaeology, often thought the purview of exotic locales and ancient history, can also investigate the recent past close to home. To make the field more accessible, University of Idaho ...
Portland State University’s Archaeology Roadshow aims to make the historical past relevant through the examination of found objects. It started on the downtown Portland campus in 2012, at the same ...
Note: The following transcript was transcribed digitally and validated for accuracy, readability and formatting by an OPB volunteer. Dave Miller: This is Think Out Loud on OPB. I’m Dave Miller. Over ...
Introduction : The crisscrossed past -- The beginnings of archaeology in Peru -- The foundation (Western) of Peruvian archaeology : Max Uhle and cultural evolutionism -- Archaeology and nationalism in ...
FORT STOCKTON, Texas — Fort Stockton had some researchers and students from Texas Tech on Oct. 21, but they weren't there just to visit. They were there to conduct research. This was all in an effort ...