Comet Quest
How the Rosetta mission created a new archaeological site in space. Artist’s impression of Rosetta releasing the Philae Lander. ESA-C/Carreau/ATGmedialab A tale of two Rosetta Stones Archaeolog…
Tag: Archaeology
anthro in the news 12/26/16
Roma in Poland, Source: The New Yorker blaming Roma Al Jazeera published an op-ed by Andrzej Mirga, anthropologist and chair of the Roma Education Fund, and a…
Urban development and the resistance of archaeology #newtonloss
By some estimates, one in ten thousand people in Turkey is an unemployed archaeologist. In an alternative café while on a last-minute contract in Istanbul, I got talking…
How Tourism Reinvented Jesus’ Baptism Site
The Yardenit Baptismal Site is a pilgrimage place that many visitors say allows them to connect to events outlined in the Bible, including the baptism and ministry of…
Archaeology in Times of Trump
Archaeologists Against Trump is the name of a Facebook group. It can also be applied to the writings and actions by a large number of archaeologists concerned with…
More thoughts from the Archaeology Division of the AAA- Publications, Blogging, and Making Conversations Count
This post is the latest in the November guest blog series by the Archaeology Division of the AAA. This post is by Lynne Goldstein. Lynne Goldstein is a…
Bridging the Divide: Bringing Archaeology and Anthropology Closer through the AAA
This is the third in a series of guest blogs this November from the AAA Archaeology Division Executive Board detailing ideas generated at retreat at the Amerind Foundation…
An Interview with Jessica Richardson Smith, Museum Anthropologist and Research Services Librarian at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C.
Jessica Richardson Smith is the Research Services Librarian at the Historical Society of Washington, D.C. She pursued three majors—Anthropology, Latin and Greek, and Geology for her Indiana University…
Are explorers the descendants of our past?
by Kevin Karaca As a climber I am fascinated by the wilderness: great empty canyons or vast tundras worthy of expedition, steep tall cliff faces ready to climb.…
Trump and the Echo of Amache
The barracks that once stood at the site of Amache were home to more than 7,000 Japanese-American internees during World War II. Esteban M. Gómez In the southeastern…
American Confederates and the Origins of Archaeology in the Amazon Basin
When Confederate immigrants began growing crops in the Brazilian Amazon, they found fertile soils that offered a window into pre-contact Amerindian peoples and their way of life. Nicholas…
The AD at Amerind: Building the Next Generation of Anthropological Archaeology
This post is an introduction to the November Guest Blogging Effort by Members of the American Anthropological Association Archaeology Division Executive Board. We are looking forward to having engage…
Foundations of an Anarchist Archaeology: A Community Manifesto
This entry is part 18 of 18 in the Decolonizing Anthropology series. By The Black Trowel Collective An anarchist archaeology embraces considerations of social inequity as a critique…
Thinking about Resonant Materials: Critical heritage meets contemporary art and design in the UAE
What makes something culturally relevant in a local context? Recently, I have been thinking a lot about the relationship between form, aesthetics, and belonging. In my own archaeological…
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Glad you’re here! Check out some of our favorite episodes in any order and get to know the anthropological life. And, if you’re long-time listeners we hope you’ll enjoy…
Anthro in the news 10/10/16
Land rights are key in Colombia Indigenous people want land rights. Source: Bluedotpost.com The Washington Post published an op-ed by cultural anthropologist Omaira Bolaños, Latin America program dire…
Spirit-Monsters and the Curse of the Chicago Cubs
Superstition is a funny thing. As an anthropologist, I’m not terribly superstitious. I try to be a scientist, after all. But science is fallible, and supposedly rational behavior…
Paleolithic Ax Debunks Colonial Myth
Earlier this year, a team of Australian researchers led by Peter Hiscock from the University of Sydney published new findings about a fragment of a ground-edge ax—which might…
Is a Hand Wave a Universal Greeting?
On a recent Saturday, I took my three boys camping along the Cache la Poudre River, one of the most picturesque watersheds in all of northern Colorado. Its…
The Problem With Heritage
Last week, a variety of news outlets covered the International Criminal Court’s successful prosecution of Islamic extremist Ahmad al-Faqi al-Mahdi for destroying nine historic mausoleums in 2012 at…
Quick updates! TAL back in Boston! Burning Man mini-series, new articles, fresh episodes!
Hello dear listeners! Adam hanging with his cow friends outside Puno, Peru Just a quick update on where TAL has been and now is. Adam is back from…
Grassroots Necro-tourism in Napoli
Guest contributor Markus Bell is a lecturer in the University of Sheffield’s School of East Asian Studies. Follow him on Twitter: @mpsbell. Italy is in trouble. Big trouble. The…
An Update From Our Interns: NHHC Underwater Archaeology Branch
This post comes from one of AAA’s 2016 summer interns, Kory Cooper, an anthropology student at Missouri State University. I can’t imagine a better place to work than…
Searching for the Origins of the First Americans
Since the 1920s, scientists have debated whether the first Americans arrived from Asia—or somewhere else—some 11,000 years ago, or millennia before. Artifacts such as this Clovis spear point…