Updates to the [log in to unmask] webpage for the two weeks ending 27
July 2005:
Articles:
Desperately Seeking Atlantis
http://archaeology.about.com/od/controversies/a/atlantis05.htm
A search for the lost continent of Atlantis includes a bathymetric
investigation of an island in the right place, under the right
circumstances--but at the wrong time. With a response by Marc-Andre
Gutscher.
South America's Oldest Writing System
http://archaeology.about.com/od/ancientwriting/a/caralquipu.htm
Archaeological evidence of quipu recovered from an archaeological site
belonging to the ancient civilization of Caral in coastal Peru is nearly as
old as Mesopotamian cuneiform and has the potential to rewrite the history
of human civilization on planet earth.
New Glossary Entries
http://archaeology.about.com/od/glossary/
Da But (Vietnam), Tell el Dab'a (Egypt), Dadiwan (China), Dahaneh Gholaman
(Iran), Dahshur (Egypt), Dali Cranium (China), Dalton Culture, Danebury
(UK), Danger Cave (USA), Daoism - Taoism, Dara (Egypt), Dadianzi (China),
Darra-i-Kur (Afghanistan), Dartmoor (UK), Dawenkou Culture, Daxi (China),
Tutankhamun's Tomb (Egypt), Uan Muhuggiag (Libya), Uaxactun (Guatemala),
Ubeidiya (Israel), Ubaidian Culture, Ugarit (Syria), Ukhaidir (Iraq),
Uluburun (Turkey), Decipherment, Debitage, Deir el-Medina (Egypt), Delos
(Greece), Delphi (Greece), Denbigh Flint Culture, Dendrochronology, Dhar
Tichitt (Mauritania), Kastri Group
New Biographies
http://archaeology.about.com/od/biographies/
Edward Burnett Tylor [1832-1917], Tatiana Avenirovna Proskouriakoff
[1909-1985], Marija Alseikaitė Gimbutas [1921-1994], Max Uhle [1856-1944],
Ofer Bar-Yosef [b. 1937], Peter J. Ucko [b. 1938]
Quizzes:
Tutankhamun's Tomb
http://archaeology.about.com/library/games/bltut.htm?nl=1
Olorgesailie
http://archaeology.about.com/library/games/blolorgesailie.htm
Please distribute at will, and thanks! For reading...
K. Kris Hirst
Guide for Archaeology @ About.com
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Quote of the Week: Culture is the jam in the sandwich of anthropology. -
Robert Foley and Marta Lahr
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