February 2012
133 posts
Provenience, Provenance, Let's Call the Whole... →
“Provenience: The precise location where an artifact or archaeological sample was recovered archaeologically. Provenance: The detailed history of where an artifact has been since its creation. Take as an example a Roman coin. The provenance of that coin could include its creation in a mint in Italy, its loss in a shipwreck off Alexandria, its recovery by shell divers, its purchase first by an...
Somatosphere: Science, Medicine, Anthropology →
literary-ethnography:
A great website for medical anthropologists.
Archaeological News: Stonehenge Inspired by Sound... →
archaeologicalnews:
Theories about the purpose of Stonehenge range from a secular calendar to a place of spiritual worship. Now, an archaeologist suggests that the Stonehenge monument in southern England may have been an attempt to mimic a sound-based illusion.
If two pipers were to play in a field, observers…
Ancient Olympia Antiquities Museum Is Robbed,... →
archaeology:
Two masked armed robbers tied up a museum guard at the birthplace of the ancient Olympics in southern Greece and made off with dozens of artifacts, authorities said Friday.
Greece’s Culture Minister Pavlos Geroulanos submitted his resignation after the robbery at the antiquities museum in Ancient Olympia, but it was unclear whether it had been accepted by Prime Minister Lucas ...
franzboas:
every time you tag a dinosaur with #archaeology a baby unicorn dies
I asked my professor if it was possible to get...
sayitlikeitisdamnit:
You are a brave sir or madame.
“Dear everyone who works as a professional archaeologist or consultant in the...”
– -a formerly disgruntled archaeologist
(just don’t take any jobs I want)
“basically what archaeologists do is dig through people’s shit…and sometimes it’s...”
– my eloquent archaeology professor (via justthetwoofusacrosstheuniverse)
“Landscapes are culture before they are nature; constructs of the imagination...”
– Landscapes and Memory, Simon Schama (1995: 61)
“Culture hides much more than it reveals, and strangely enough, what it hides, it...”
– Edward Hall, The Silent Language (via connectnothing)
Archaeological News: Magic Sounds of Peru's... →
archaeologicalnews:
New findings of a recent archaeoacoustic study suggests that the ancients of the 3,000-year-old Andean ceremonial center at Chavín de Huántar, in the central highlands of Peru, practiced a fine art and science of manipulating sound with architecture to produce desired sensory effects….
This isn’t really NEW news, is it?
For people interested in careers in... →
jangojips:
Click the link^ The SAArchaeological Record has an article about average wages for field technicians in the USA. That info is on page 7. There are a lot of nice articles included in the pdf, though. Well worth a browsing.
“Perhaps through realizing human nature in a shape very distant and foreign to...”
– Bronislaw Malinowski (via elmmegan)
The ancient Egyptians recommended mixing half an...
I don’t know how true this is, but it sounds foul.
