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April 2012
Archaeology: You don’t have to dig far to find love for this man - More than 100 of Richard Daugherty’s former archaeology students, tribal partners, academic associates and family members gathered Friday at South Puget Sound Community College to celebrate his 90th birthday.
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February 2012
Archeology: Is the "Anglosphere power elite" keeping a lid on archeological discoveries? - Woe betide any archeologist who discovers something that is much out of the mainstream of current archeological thought. Even discoveries that can be scientifically documented are apparently routinely ignored if they don't fit into the larger archeological pattern that has been established and presented in academically approved texts. Why this resistance to new discoveries about ancient history?
Archeology: Human jawbone found along Columbia River is Native American - A human jawbone found lying in shallow water of the Columbia River in October is Native American, according to the Army Corps of Engineers. It hired an independent physical anthropologist to make the determination, said Bruce Henrickson, Corps spokesman. The lower jawbone with six teeth is believed to date to about 150 to 200 years ago.
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December 2011
Archeology: Expert calls Manis find 'highly significant' - The bone point fragment found embedded in a mastodon rib from the the Manis site in Sequim shows that hunters were present in North America around 13,800 years ago. That's at least 800 years before "Clovis Man," previously thought to be the earliest hunters in the Americas.
Archeology: Museum workers take unique approach to art conservation - Using a combination of science and history, a team of specialists at the Seattle Art Museum is taking unique approach to conserving art. For example, instead of using a simple magnifying glass, chief conservator Nicholas Dorman uses infrared light to study ancient art, such as Native American masks.
Archeology: Latest MAC exhibit shows off impressive collections from tribes
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November 2011
Archeology: 1,000 year old Bronze Artifact Found on Alaska's Seward Peninsula
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October 2011
Jawbone found in Columbia River probably historic
Mastodon discovery in Sequim made history twice
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1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus: In this groundbreaking work of science, history, and archaeology, Charles C. Mann radically alters our understanding of the Americas before the arrival of Columbus in 1492. Pre-Columbian Indians lived in huge numbers of Indians and actively molded and influenced the land around them. Challenging and surprising, this a transformative new look at a rich and fascinating world we only thought we knew.
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1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created: From Charles C. Mann, the author of 1491—the best-selling study of the pre-Columbian Americas—a deeply engaging new history of the most momentous biological event since the death of the dinosaurs. The Columbian Exchange, as researchers call it, is the reason there are tomatoes in Italy, oranges in Florida, chocolates in Switzerland, and chili peppers in Thailand. This underlies much of subsequent human history. Mann shows how this fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for two centuries made Mexico City the center of the world.
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The Columbian Exchange: Thirty years ago, Alfred Crosby published a small work that illuminated a simple point, that the most important changes brought on by the voyages of Columbus were not social or political, but biological in nature. The book told the story of how 1492 sparked the movement of organisms, both large and small, in both directions across the Atlantic. This changed the history of our planet drastically and forever.
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1421: The Year China Discovered America: On March 8, 1421, the largest fleet the world had ever seen set sail from China to "proceed all the way to the ends of the earth to collect tribute from the barbarians beyond the seas." Chinese ships had reached America seventy years before Columbus and colonized America, transplanting the principal economic crops that have since fed and clothed the world.
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