A palimpsest of artifacts on a glacial landscape
As in many places in northern or alpine Europe, the warming climate has been shrinking glaciers in Norway. As the ice melts away, artifacts that were left on...
All posts tagged with Iron Age
Link: Archaeomagnetism in Iron Age contexts in southern Africa
Michael Greshko in National Geographic has written a neat story about the hunt for southern hemisphere records of Earth’s magnetic field: “What Ancient Afric...
Link: Desert kites from ancient hunters
National Geographic is running a fascinating story about “desert kites”, ancient structures dating to the Iron Age or earlier in Central Asia and the Levant:...
The anthropologist and the kurgans
There are many stories from my travels last summer that I haven’t yet told here. I’ve been thinking that I need to get them written down, so that I’ll have m...