ArcheoThoughts

About three years ago, archaeologist Lee Berger and a number of colleagues published a group of papers claiming that Homo naledi, one of our cousins who lived in southern Africa around 300,000 years ago, intentionally buried their dead, and created engrav…

Life is change How it differs from the rocks I’ve seen their ways too often for my liking New worlds to gain My life is too survive And be alive for you From Crown of Creation, Jefferson Airplane A couple of weeks ago, we had the release of “Einstein Comp…

John Hawks recently published a post on the “uniquely American controversy” on the place of evolutionary ideas in education.

Like all great empires, the American Empire is concerned with the fate of its predecessors (literally, those that went, retired, or died before).

My colleague Ruth Gruhn, Emerita in our department, recently showed me a critique of Chariots of the Gods?

The Joe Rogan Experience lately seems to have become one of the epicentres of pseudoarchaeology.

There has recently been renewed interest in a 2001 Mars Orbiter photo that shows a rectangular feature on the surface of the red planet.

In S12 E8 of The Curse of Oak Island presents us with a new glass trade bead recovered from the increasingly interesting Lot 5 structure.

Graham Hancock was again a guest on the Joe Rogan Experience on October 17th, presumably in support of the release of season two (The Americas) of his Netflix series Ancient Apocalypse on October 16th.

Tony Trupp recently asked this question on twitter.