Category Archives: Archaeology
Alien skull in Peru? Mystery of giant-headed mummy found in city of Andahuaylillas | Mail Online
Skull has soft spot, found in infants, yet also two large molars, found in older humans Three anthropologists agree: ‘It is not a human being’ By Paul Milligan Last updated at 7:59 PM on 24th November 2011 cross-posted via WordPress … Continue reading
BBC News – Archaeologists make new Stonehenge ‘sun worship’ find
The pits are positioned on celestial alignment at the site and may have contained stones Two previously undiscovered pits have been found at Stonehenge which point to it once being used as a place of sun worship before the stones … Continue reading
Archaeologist traces Pocahontas wedding site – Yahoo! News
Archaeologist traces Pocahontas wedding site By Fabienne Faur William Kelso, Director of archeology for Association for the Preservation of Virginia … Archeologist William Kelso is certain he’s discovered the remains of the oldest Protestant church in the United States, standing … Continue reading
Archaeology of Punk Rock: The Sex Pistols | Monty’s World
Archaeology of Punk Rock: The Sex Pistols | Monty’s World. (Cross-posted from WordPress “ShareThis” app. View link above for Author’s article) Archaeology of Punk Rock: The Sex Pistols Photo: The University of York Archaeologists from The University of York have … Continue reading
Cornwall Witchcraft Excavations 2011
Cornwall Witchcraft Excavations 2011, a set on Flickr. Via Flickr: Assisting with the Saveok Water Archaeology Fieldschool for the summer of 2011. Photos from my time there – June 1st through August 16th, 2011. www.archaeologyonline.org
Australian National Museum
National Museum of Australia * Lawson Crescent * Acton Peninsula, Canberra ACT 2601 * (02) 6208 5000 * One of Australia’s most brilliant and diverse museums is the National Museum of Australia in Canberra within the heart of the Australian … Continue reading
Boomerangs and Throwing Sticks
Australian National Museum, Canberra, ACT, Australia Boomerangs One of the popular icons of Australia, the “boomerange” is a throwing weapon with a curved shape used for hunting, battle, or sport. Most commonly made of wood or bone, some modern boomerangs … Continue reading
Ochre
Australian National Museum, Canberra, ACT, Australia Ochre A common denominator amongst indigenous cultures around the globe is the use of ochre in ritual magic, painting, and funerary customs. You can find this intriguing use amongst the Australian Aborigines, the Native … Continue reading
Pukamani Poles
Pukamani Poles The Australian Aborigine “Tiwi” people of the Bathurst and Melville Islands of the Northern Territories have symbollic material cultural artifacts littering their landscape similar to the use of headstones or grave markings in Western culture. These are called … Continue reading
“Haitian Horror” by Thomas Baurley
Haitian Zombification A treatise in 1989 on “Haitian Zombies”. Exploring Wade Davis’ work in Haiti with the compound made from tetrodotoxin utilized by witch doctors in creating real-life zombies as slaves. Baurley, Thomas: 1989 Haitian Horror: Zombification as Myth or … Continue reading