Living Geography

DECEMBER 8, 2024

I've since posted regular blogs when a story appears which updates the knowledge that we have about him. The BBC Future article looks at the archaeology being revealed by melting glaciers. Thanks to Brendan Conway for sending me a link to a BBC Future page. Some years ago, I wrote a book about tzi the Ice Man.

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Sapiens

APRIL 16, 2024

ENTERING THE FRAY I agreed to discuss archaeology with pseudoarchaeologist Graham Hancock on the mega-popular but controversial podcast the Joe Rogan Experience. But reaching those outside my echo chamber demands more than my archaeological expertise. I’m distinguishing archaeology from mythology. Many people buy it.

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World History Teachers Blog

AUGUST 4, 2022

History books teach us that civilization arose with the Neolithic Revolution when hunter-gatherers first settled down because of the discovery of agriculture. Here's a clip from the History Channel about the discovery of Göbekli Tepe. Did civilization arise before religion or did religion arise before civilization?

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This Is Not a Sociology Blog

OCTOBER 12, 2017

This process is often not straightforward and indeed medicine has changed its mind over history as to what the aetiologies (causes) of various diseases are and even as to what the body looks like. Throughout most of history this interaction is what doctors have based their diagnosis and treatment pop. Foucault, M. London: Routledge.

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World History Teachers Blog

JUNE 14, 2022

Another project looks at the connection between East Africa, Asia, and Mediterranean Europe and includes an interview with Chapurukha Kusimba, an Archaeology Journal Article on Early Swahili Towns and a 3D Reconstruction of the Songo Mnara site, which is a UNESCO site.

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Women's History Network

OCTOBER 7, 2024

I quickly became a little obsessed with this dynamic and innovative woman, who made an important contribution to twentieth century British archaeology, […]

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Life and Landscapes

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

History is replete with such movements of suspicion. Reaching so far back into history? Quite an adventure in the world of archaeological mathematics! Why, then, are we so fixated on their calculation and meaning? Do we think that they have something hidden to say? Another way for God to speak to us in some secret way?

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