November 12, 2013 As a follow up to my October 2 post regarding Eric Cantor and Lamar Smith's USA Today op-ed on NSF funding for archaeological research, Rosemary Joyce, James Doyle, and I...
October 18, 2013 Were Earliest Humans All 1 Species New research on the early hominid remains from Dmanisi have revived the fortunes of paleoanthropology's lumpers in their age old battle...
October 2, 2013 In a September 30 op-ed in the USA Today, Eric Cantor and Lamar Smith question the use of NSF funds for social, behavioral, and economic sciences when those funds could be used to...
September 23, 2013 Leonid Yablonsky reports on his new research into the Sarmatians based on a kurgan excavated in the Southern Urals The gigantic cauldron alone is worth a look, but the...
August 4, 2013 With the close of the 2013 field season, Project ArAGATS found a fitting way to celebrate 15 years of...
August 2, 2013 In the last day of the 2013 field season at Tsaghkahovit, Lori Khatchadourian and her team recovered a remarkable artifact from Room S of the Iron 3 town The object is a ceramic...
July 17, 2013 The last few days on Gegharot’s West Citadel have brought a flurry of new information about the Early Bronze Age occupation of the site The complex stratigraphy is still being...
July 4, 2013 An unfinished operation on Gegharot’s East Citadel has already yielded interesting results In an area not far from the East Citadel shrine that we documented in 2011 we have...
June 30, 2013 Today is the fourth day of fieldwork for the 2013 Project ArAGATS excavations We are working at three sites this year: Gegharot Fortress, the Gegharot Kurgans, and the town at...
May 15, 2013 National Geographic posted a brief piece on the butchered dog remains from David Anthony and Dorcas Brown's work at Krasnosamarskoe in the Volga You can read it at this link...