Updates to Archaeology @ About.com, week ending 8/31/05

Articles: 

Missing New Orleans
http://archaeology.about.com/od/americansoutheast/a/katrina.htm
The cultural costs of Hurricane Katrina have yet to be accounted for; but
the loss of New Orleans to North America is a dear one.

Unconquered Lacandon Maya
http://archaeology.about.com/od/5/fr/palka.htm?nl=1
Joel W. Palka's book, Unconquered Lacandon Maya, discusses the current and
historical conditions of the various groups of people collectively called
the Lacandon.

Glossary Entries
Viru Valley Project, Rudolf Ludwig Karl Virchow [1821-1902], Viracochapampa
(Peru), Vindolandia (UK), Vinca (Serbia), Villanova Culture, Vijayanagara
(India), Vergina (Greece), Venus Figurines, Dolni Vestonice (Czech
Republic), Linear B, Michael Ventris [1922-1956], Fauresmith Industries,
Farnham Castle Keep (United Kingdom), Fanshan (China), Vikings, Ribe
(Denmark), Failaka (Kuwait), Thomas Geoffrey Bibby [1917-2001], Megafaunal
Extinctions, Experimental Archaeology, Evolution, Vitruvius (Marcus
Vitruvius Pollio), Visigoths

Quizzes: 
http://archaeology.about.com/library/games/bldeirelmedina.htm Deir el Medina
http://archaeology.about.com/library/games/bllittlebighorn.htm Little
Bighorn Battle
 

K. Kris Hirst
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Quote of the Week:  Tolerence for ambiguity [in American archaeology] is as
essential as the Marshalltown trowel. - Alice Beck Kehoe
 
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