TV alert The History Channel has a new series called Digging for the Truth. Haven't seen anything else about it, so we can't report on the quality. But really, do we need yet another program on Who Built the Freakin' Pyramids???
Pristine Utah sites update Utah site reveals a new past
About 1,000 years ago in eastern Utah, someone stashed a quiver of arrows under a rock ledge. He - for the owner was almost certainly a man - had crafted them carefully from reeds, twigs and stone, held together with sinew. One was striped with black paint.
The man, a member of the Fremont culture, never came back - archaeologists found the quiver under a partly collapsed ledge last summer. Now, researchers are trying to figure out why he and the Fremonts disappeared.
Pretty good article on the sites and the disappearance of the Fremonts. Let's hope they spend and AWFUL lot of time surveying before they start digging stuff up. Maybe this would be a good place to leave be for future generations.
Key to boost tourism 'lies in the past'
MSPs are being urged to intervene to help unlock the tourism potential of one of Scotland’s most ancient historic areas.
Cramond has been shown by archaeologists to have been the site of human settlements as far back as 8500BC, through Roman times and up to the present.
And the future of the area was the subject of one of the earliest petitions to be considered by the Scottish Parliament.
Veteran campaigner Ronnie Guild succeeded in getting MSPs to launch an investigation when he made his plea five years ago.
Congratulations! CUC instructor unearths archaeology award
It’s about time--six thousand years, in fact.
Larry Herr, professor of religious studies at Canadian University College (CUC) in Lacombe, recently won the G. Ernest Wright Award during an American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) reception in San Antonio, Tex.
The archaeology award recognizes Herr’s work as author and editor of the fifth volume chronicling the Madaba Plains project, an ongoing excavation in the Middle East.
Madaba Plains, an area south of Jordan’s capital city of Amman, was Ammonite territory during ancient Biblical times--between 3000 and 400 BC. The Ammonites were often at war, but were sometimes allies with the Israelites. Madaba Plains was located along a key communications and commercial corridor
Chaos in Kashmir! Lost treasure
The research library of the department of Archives and Archaeology is in shambles. Thanks to the indifference of the officials, the library with thousands of rare books and manuscripts has turned into a heap of rags. While the books lie buried here and there under heaps of dust, the cupboards house the cups, saucers and spoons used to make and serve tea to the staff.
It's an editorial.