Archaeology

Jericho- The World's First Skyscraper

If you've been to Bible study classes, you know the story of Jericho.   Actually, if you're an atheist you may know it even better, since on quizzes atheists seem to know The Bible better than many religious people.  In the story, Joshua, success ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 18 2011 - 3:45pm

Get My Fedora! We Need To Beat The Germans To Lost Treasure

A group of German archaeologists have set off to find a priceless ancient treasure and I'd rather they not get it.    Sounds like the plot of "Raiders of the Lost Ark" right? As smashing as I look in a Stetson fedora, the reality involves no ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 2 2011 - 9:14pm

Lost City Of Atlantis Found? In Spain?

Tsunamis are big news for the last few days and there may be an ancient reason along with a current one.  A group of researchers are saying a tsunami likely destroyed the fabled lost city of Atlantis... and it is underneath mud flats in southern Spain.  Th ...

Blog Post - Hank Campbell - Mar 14 2011 - 4:16pm

Clovis Culture Not The Oldest In North America- Study

The Clovis people, Paleo-Indians whose tools were known for their distinctive 'fluted' points, were once thought to be the original settlers of North America about 13,000 years ago.    The name originates not from the 5th century Frankish king bu ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 24 2011 - 3:43pm

Tablet Discovery Pushes Earliest European Writing Back 150 Years

A clay tablet discovered Greece changes what is known about the origins of literacy in the western world, obviously a good thing, and, unfortunately, also about the origins of bureaucracy.    Measuring 2 inches by 3 inches, the tablet fragment is the earli ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 30 2011 - 11:17am

Evolutionary Biology Takes On Ayurveda

Ayurveda, the most ancient and important system of medicine in India,  is important to modern natural medicine proponents (1) because it regards preserving health and curing diseases as fundamental in providing meaning to our lives.   For thousands of yea ...

Article - News Staff - May 30 2011 - 2:38pm

A Bronze Age In Alaska? Ancient Buckle Discovered

A prehistoric bronze artifact made from a cast has been found in Alaska, apparently a buckle. There was no Bronze Age in Alaska, though it existed several thousand years earlier in Europe and Asia.  Perhaps  some of the earliest Inupiat Eskimos in northwe ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 14 2011 - 5:50pm

Practical Jewelry: 25,000-Year-Old Pendant Also Sharpened Tools

Swiss Army Jewelry? The recent discovery of a pendant at the Irikaitz archaeological site in Zestoa in the Basque province of Gipuzkoa may be as old as 25,000 years, which would make it the oldest on the Iberian Peninsula.   This stone is nine centimeters ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 27 2011 - 8:00pm

The Trefael Stone And Neolithic Burial Ritual In Wales

The Trefael Stone is an ancient monument in south-west Wales.  ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 13 2012 - 11:43am

Spaniards Ate Elephant Meat 80,000 Years Ago

During the Middle Palaeolithic, between 127,000 and 40,000 years ago,  humans that lived along the banks of the river Manzanares (now Madrid, Spain) ate pachyderm meat and bone marrow, according to a study that found percussion and cut marks on elephant r ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 24 2012 - 7:30pm