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Archaeology
Interviews with archaeologists about their new books.
November 24, 2024
The Gravity of Feathers
When the last 36 inhabitants of St Kilda, 40 miles west of the Scottish Hebrides, were evacuated in 1930, the archipelago at ‘the edge of the world’ l…
October 28, 2024
Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas
In Cattle in the Postcolumbian Americas: A Zooarchaeological Historical Study (University Press of Florida, 2024), Nicolas Delsol compares zooarchaeol…
September 30, 2024
Desert Ascetics of Egypt
Egypt is revered as the home of the famous Desert Ascetics, who first embraced a monastic life and established homosocial communities on the borders o…
September 29, 2024
Hoof Beats
From the Rockies to the Himalayas, the bond between horses and humans has spanned across time and civilizations. In this archaeological journey, Willi…
September 15, 2024
Wicked Problems for Archaeologists
'Wicked Problems' are those problems facing the planet and its inhabitants, present and future, which are hard (if not impossible) to resolve and for …
September 14, 2024
How to Fit All of Ancient Greece in an Elevator
Two strangers meet in a trapped elevator. One is an archaeologist, the other isn’t. A simple question, ‘What do you do?’, becomes the springboard for …
September 7, 2024
Time and Its Adversaries in the Seleucid Empire
In the aftermath of Alexander the Great’s conquests, the Seleucid kings ruled a vast territory stretching from Central Asia to Anatolia, Armenia to th…
July 30, 2024
Where Men No More May Reap Or Sow
Drawing together the evidence of archaeology, palaeoecology, climate history and the historical record, this first environmental history of Scotland e…
May 19, 2024
Shaping Archaeological Archives
Archaeology as a discipline has undergone significant changes over the past decades, in particular concerning best practices for how to handle the vas…
May 1, 2024
Xiongnu
In Xiongnu: The World’s First Nomadic Empire (Oxford UP, 2024), Bryan K. Miller weaves together archaeology and history to chart the course of the Xio…
April 3, 2024
The Invention of Prehistory
Books about the origins of humanity dominate bestseller lists, while national newspapers present breathless accounts of new archaeological findings an…
March 15, 2024
This Is Our Home
The cultural memory of plantations in the Old South has long been clouded by myth. A recent reckoning with the centrality of slavery to the US nationa…
March 2, 2024
Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts
Mpho Ngoepe and Sindiso Bhebhe's Indigenous Archives in Postcolonial Contexts: Recalling the Pasts (Routledge, 2024) revisits the definition of a reco…
January 17, 2024
What Can We Learn From A Pottery Shard?
Some people are good at what they do, some are enthusiastic about their work. This guest brings both to bear in his exploration of the ancient past.…
January 7, 2024
Building Mid-Republican Rome
Building Mid-Republican Rome: Labor, Architecture, and the Urban Economy (Oxford University Press, 2018), offers a holistic treatment of the developme…
January 5, 2024
American Vikings
A vivid and illuminating new history--separate fact from fiction, myth from legend--exploring the early Vikings settlements in North America. Vikings…
December 30, 2023
Beardmore
In 1936, long before the discovery of the Viking settlement at L'Anse aux Meadows, the Royal Ontario Museum made a sensational acquisition: the conten…
December 17, 2023
A Jew in the Roman Bathhouse
Public bathhouses embodied the Roman way of life, from food and fashion to sculpture and sports. The most popular institution of the ancient Mediterra…
November 5, 2023
Contested Cures
In the ancient Mediterranean world, individuals routinely looked for divine aid to cure physical afflictions. Contested Cures: Identity and Ritual Hea…
November 3, 2023
Why Men?
How did humans, a species that evolved to be cooperative and egalitarian, develop societies of enforced inequality? Why did our ancestors create patri…