Category Archive
The following is a list of all entries from the Archaeology category.
Art on the Walls?
Filed in Archaeology, Human Evolution, March 15, 2009, 1:35 pmThe blog’s new banner is of a scene in Lascaux Cave, a complex of caverns painted with some of the most beautiful animal imagery of the Upper Paleolithic, as well as enigmatic geometric figures and a single possible human. The caves and their imagery were considered so important they were declared a UNESCO World Heritage [...]
Iran, Archaeology, and Ethics
Filed in Archaeology, Science Issues, July 11, 2008, 8:24 pmThe employment of anthropologists in time of war is a subject that has become deeply controversial since World War II, in lock step with the application of greater ethical scrutiny to all sciences. The essential conflict is between an anthropologist’s duty to her country and her government, her duty to her discipline and humanity as [...]
Review: Lucy’s Child, Don Johanson and James Shreeve
Filed in Archaeology, Book Reviews, Human Evolution, July 8, 2008, 5:36 pmThe Anthropoid Origins series is taking longer than I anticipated, largely because I’m lazy and rediscovered Civilization IV there briefly (ironically, while taking a break from working on my paper on Adapoid Theory), which destroyed a few days of my life. I’ve also made a few false starts at blog posts that never ended up [...]
Review: The Jesuit and the Skull, Amir Aczel
Filed in Archaeology, Book Reviews, History, Human Evolution, March 19, 2008, 8:02 pmI finished Amir Aczel’s The Jesuit and the Skull: Teilhard de Chardin, Evolution, and the Search for Peking Man today, and I decided to write up a review/reflection sort of thing. I haven’t decided exactly which yet. I’ve thought about adding a feature like this before and I enjoyed doing it, so you might conceivably [...]
Our Poor Geographical Minds
Filed in Archaeology, Rambling, February 11, 2008, 9:12 pmI had to read Book XI of The Epic of Gilgamesh tonight for my Western Lit class. What really struck me was the depiction of the Flood. For those who aren’t familiar with The Epic, it is a Sumerian myth about a semi-legendary king and his travels, culminating in a journey to visit Utnapishtim, an [...]
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