Updates to the Archaeology page at About.com, week ending 7/6/05
Articles:
Mighty White of You: Are American Archaeologists White Supremacists?
http://archaeology.about.com/od/ethics/a/harpers.htm?nl=1
In the July 2005 issue of Harper's magazine, contributing editor Jack
Hitt accuses archaeologists looking for preclovis sites as searching for
proof of the superiority of the European race.
News Items:
38,000 year old Footprints in Mexico
http://forums.about.com/n/pfx/forum.aspx?webtag=ab-archaeology&nav=messa
ges&lgnF=y&msg=3152.1&nl=1
News story making the rounds Wednesday has to do with possible human
footprints on a lake bed in Mexico that are positively dated to 38,000
years ago or more. I haven't seen the original paper (which will be
printed in an upcoming Quaternary Science Review), but folks are mostly
questioning whether the footprints are human or not. This link will take
you to several news stories and comments from researchers.
Glossary Entries:
http://archaeology.about.com/od/glossary/?nl=1
Knossos (Greece), Cochise Culture, Maya Codices, Codex, Cognitive
Archaeology, Coles Creek Culture, Colha (Belize), Collections
Management, Copán (Honduras), Coptic Christianity, Corded Ware Culture,
Corinth (Greece), Constantinople (Turkey), Corlea Trackway (Ireland),
Cortaillod-Est (Switzerland), Cosmology, Crickley Hill (UK), Cro-Magnon,
Ctesiphon (Iraq), Cuerdale Hoard (UK), Cuicuilco (Mexico), Cultural
Ecology, Cultural Evolution, Culture, Cultural-Historical Method,
Culture-People Hypothesis, Curriboo Plantation, Cuneiform.
And of course, can't do without a quiz:
http://archaeology.about.com/library/games/bldeadseascrolls.htm?nl=1
The Dead Sea Scrolls.
Feel free to distribute at will; and thanks for reading!
Kris
K. Kris Hirst
The Wasteflake Project
http://www.wasteflake.com and
Guide for Archaeology @ About.com
http://archaeology.about.com
The woods held danger at every dark, haunting corner, and Indiana Jones
decided it was too risky to continue; he had already been attacked by a
mound of fire ants, had a brush with poison ivy, and faced a terrifying
encounter with the Forest Ranger's vicious beagle, Muffin. - Christine
Sullivan (Winner, 1999 Bulwer Lytton Contest)
More Quotes: http://archaeology.about.com/od/quotations/
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