Four Stone Hearth: Late Night Election Night

Well, it’s 11:59 November 4th, 2008, Election Night in the US.   Barack Obama has just been declared the 44th president within the last hour.   And Live From New York It’s Four Stone Hearth…
That’s right, it’s time again for the anthropology blog carnival that brings together the best posts of of the last two weeks or [...]

Carnivalesque for September

One of the great things going around the internet are Blog Carnivals.  These posts travel from blog to blog every so often, bringing new traffic to the host site and allowing people to find out about all the recent events and posts having to do with a specifici topic.
This month, I am happy to bring [...]

Going to the Field

Tomorrow I leave for the field.  I will be excavating in Turkey at Güneytepe, the outer town of Ayanis.  I will be returning in mid August.  Until then, there are a few scheduled posts that will come up, but little chance of any writing from the field.   I will bring back some stuff to write [...]

Four Stone Hearth #35, Giants are Real Edition

Good morning how are you?
Welcome to another edition of Four Stone Hearth, the blog carnival for anthropology, from physical to cultural, from archaeology to linguistic, and everything between the corners. There are a lot of great articles to spotlight this edition, and so I will cut to the chase, and do [...]

Archaeology Article Round Up

Two interesting articles about archaeology and looting in N. America:
First, an Ohio man found a Clovis point in a local field, and it has subsequently been dated to 15,000 YA.  While I am no expert,  the article I linked to yesterday from the AIA about Clovis points, does state that they no farther than about [...]