Link: The archaeology of Yellowstone
Smithsonian magazine has a feature article by Richard Grant describing the archaeology of Yellowstone National Park: “The Lost History of Yellowstone”. The s...
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Link: Interview with Annalisa Heppner
Secrets of the Dead on PBS is a series that shows some strong documentaries from a range of sources, mostly about archaeology or history. The site has a blog...
A pre-Clovis tradition from the Gault site, Texas
The Gault site, on Buttermilk Creek near Austin, Texas, is one of the most significant early American archaeological sites. The whole site covers an enormous...
Notable: A mass grave and hunter-gatherer warfare in California
Notable paper: Eerkens J et al. 2016. Isotopic and genetic analyses of a mass grave in central California: Implications for precontact hunter-gatherer warfar...
Bone of the victim mastodon
Michael Waters and colleagues Waters:Manis:2011 report on the date of a mastodon kill site from Manis, Washington. At 13,800 years old, it’s not the earliest...
Early New World archaeology news
The initial habitation of the Americas has gotten a lot of press attention in the last couple of weeks.
Man's best friend
Here’s a quote you don’t see every day:
The Younger Dryas impact fizzle?
In 2007, R. B. Firestone and colleagues published evidence of an extraterrestrial impact, roughly coincident with the onset of the cold climate event known a...
Steve Lekson profile
The NY Times profiles Southwest archaeologist Steve Lekson, “Scientist Tries to Connect Migration Dots of Ancient Southwest”: