Essays on Archaeology

In Robin W. Dennell’s article, “Archaeobotany and Early Farming Europe”, he speaks on techniques for recovering plant remains that allow archaeologists to test samples from different parts of an ancient settlement without it having to slow down their excavations and research. Dennell’s preferred technique while...

Grave Robbing – or tomb raiding – is called the world’s second oldest profession because records have always existed containing trails or the discovery of a tomb raider. For millennia, people made a living on stealing from those idle in their place of rest. The...

The Sterkfontein Caves in the Cradle of Humankind is one of the world’s richest hominid fossil sites and also the site of the longest continuous paleoanthropological dig in the world, with excavations having begun here in 1935. located in Gauteng province, about 40 kilometres Northwest...

It is believed by archaeologists that sometime around 1000 B. C. E. to 800 B. C. E. , Rome became a settlement built in the hills near the Tiber River. There are many different myths about the founding of Rome, the most popular being the...

I am archeologist. I am just arriving back in the United States after 2 years of being in Catalhoyuk, A very small ancient town where the first humans lived in towns. I am here to share and report to you my findings of artifacts. As...

Lucanian conquest of the Greek colony of Paestum [Poseidonia] in c. 425 BCE develops a new cultural level to the local system of change. From that moment, Lucanians controls the area. Despite the change of the city details, the Greek influence seems to last. One...

It is quite unlikely that anyone studying or working in the field of archaeology has not heard the name of Vere Gordon Childe referenced or mentioned in passing at least once. Indeed, he is a scholar adhered to even today, 61 years after his death...