Additions to Archaeology at About.com for the week ending 11/02/05: 

About Indeed
http://archaeology.about.com/b/a/215433.htm
A brand new very useful little search engine from About that aggregates all
job postings across the internet, by keyword or location or what have you. I
ran a test today on 'archaeology' and got back 120 jobs active in the list,
from all over the net. At this moment, these are just job listings in the
United States. 

Mummies of Bronze Age Scotland
http://archaeology.about.com/od/mummies/a/parkerpearson.htm?nl=1
Mummies, that rarified form of ancestor worship, have been found in a Bronze
Age site in Scotland. In the September 2005 issue of the journal Antiquity,
researchers describe how using techniques established by forensic
anthropology to study the breakdown and fossilization of bone, they found
evidence of mummification far from the previously known cultures which
practiced it in Egypt and South America.

Top Signs of Domestication: 
http://archaeology.about.com/od/domestications/tp/dom_signs.htm?nl=1
The mechanism of domestication is an evolutionary one, and so slow; the
evidence for domestication of a particular animal may be difficult to
ascertain. Here are some ways archaeologists use to determine if an animal
has been domesticated.

New Glossary Entries: 
http://archaeology.about.com/od/glossary/?nl=1
Windmill Hill (United Kingdom), Pasargadae (Iran), Wine - the Origins of
Wine, Martin's Hundred (USA), Woodhenge (UK), Bog Bodies, Feminist
Archaeology, La Ferrassie Cave (France), Feudalism, Fiction, Pastoralism,
Maya Blue, Lepenski Vir (Serbia), Funnel Beaker Culture

News Stories Being Chased Down: 
	Smugglng and the Museums
http://archaeology.about.com/b/a/215312.htm

	Topper Site
http://archaeology.about.com/b/a/215308.htm

	Stable Isotopes used to source Turkish carpets
http://archaeology.about.com/b/a/215439.htm

Quiz of the Week Çatalhöyük: 
http://archaeology.about.com/library/games/blcatal.htm

Quote of the Week 
The century-long minority status of prehistoric archaeology, while embedded
within American anthropology, has generally meant that archaeologists have
accommodated and positioned themselves within the context of the existing
dominant reality of the disciplinary structure. This dominant reality was
most often focused on a sociocultural anthropology whose focus was, at best,
incidental and, at worst, hostile to topics and issues of relevance to the
pursuit of archaeological scholarship. R.E. Taylor 2003 The "Two Cultures"
in American Anthropological Archaeology. The Review of Archaeology
24(1):1-11.

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K. Kris Hirst
About Archaeology
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