... in the Burnam Classics Library.  Fellows, in the fields of philology, history and archaeology will ordinarily be at least 5 years beyond receipt of the Ph.D. ... Studies. Comprising 234,000 volumes, the library covers all aspects of the Classics: the languages and literatures, history, civilization, art, and archaeology. Of special value for scholars is both the richness of the collection and ...

... archaeology and history to cover the sub-topic of Pre-Columbian history in the Americas for my website, Archaeology @ About.com. An ideal candidate would be an archaeologist, history professor/teacher, ... willing and able to work in a collaborative environment with an editor and the current Archaeology Guide. Read more about the Contributing Writer position in Precolumbian History and ...

... of history departments.  In any event, since our department is looking to get more serious about its offerings in public history, I thought I'd make an effort to see how my work in Greece and ... plan to attack these various projects. It is important to emphasize that public history projects are almost always collaborative. That is to say that people work together to accomplish a particular ...

... quite good), StoryCorps is described by it's promoters as an oral history project, people arrive in pairs, sit for ... permanent booths and several travelling booths. Which brings me to archaeology and history. One of our recurring problems is that we miss the ... ways. Some of the stories already detail aspects of family history that are of great interest to historians and historic archaeologists. ...

... inspiring city." The Marshal Albums: Photography and Archaeology has been edited by Sudeshna Guha, with contributions from Michael ... a study exploring multiple perceptions of Indian history and related scholarship produced through archaeological field work ... historical landscapes, and the complex relationships between photography and archaeology. The book highlights major sites such as Sanchi, ...

... , and am very happy to have done so. The book offers two histories. The first half is a history of the discipline, from Flinders Petrie to Albright to Yadin to Finkelstein, with ... , because his southern campaigns have been confirmed; Israel is not exceptional when archaeology does not say the same as the written sources. It is for this reason that I was surprised by the title. Israel should not be ...

... , reports on a new online map that will be of interest to students of the archaeology of Palestine. Here is a portion of that report. A searchable map detailing ... the USC Digital Library, has won the 2009 Open Archaeology Prize from the American Schools of Oriental Research. ... Sea by A.D. Riddle and David Parker showing the history of change. We look forward to more material of this sort in the years ...

... of forthcoming and recently published books on Mormon History.  Most of those books highlighted last November have indeed found a place on ... Press Excavating Nauvoo: The Mormons and the Rise of Historical Archaeology in America by Benjamin Pykles (See also Page 47 of ... John Longhurst Millennial Press When the Saints Came Marching In: A History of the Latter-day Saints in St. Louis by Fred Woods ...

... of a book called Cultivating a Past: Essays on the History of Hadley, Massachusetts, edited by Marla R. ... of Europeans and Native Americans. I love reading about history and archaeology, but it's even more fun to have actual real-time conversations with historians and archaeologists. Both talks were really fascinating for an archaeology / history buff like me, and I learned a lot I never knew ...

... as these have been the focus of a contemporary archaeological approach at other nuclear test landscapes, such as the Nevada Test Site in the US.  In this paper, I consider the potential of archaeology to inform the stories that can be told about this brief phase in Australia’s Cold War history.

... work for Momber, who is director of the Hampshire and Wight Trust for Maritime Archaeology in Southampton, UK. His job is to search for clues to a prehistoric world lost beneath ... of a growing trend for searching the deep for clues to our distant past. The field of underwater archaeology is perhaps best known for unearthing relics from more recent history, like Henry VIII's ship the Mary Rose, ...

... of the University of Leipzig in Germany and Miriam Haidle of Senckenberg Research Institute and Natural History Museum in Frankfurt say that Boulestin's evidence better fits a scenario in which the dead ... . Work from 2005 to 2008 - led by Andrea Zeeb-Lanz and Fabian Haack of the archaeology division of Germany's Directorate General for Cultural Heritage - unearthed additional human bones, ...

National Geographic has compiled a list of the top ten archaeology finds of 2009. 10. “Extraordinary” Ancient Skeletons Found Several graves dating as far back as the early Stone Age—complete with the dog-tooth jewelry and sitting woman seen in these pictures—were discovered during extensive digs in central Germany, archaeologists announced this fall. 9. “Vampire” ...

History of Innovation The development of human mental ability can be tracked through the progressive crafting of stone tools, Van der Leeuw explained. First we learned to shape an edge—a line—then the surface, then the whole volume of the tool, then the sophisticated sequence required to make a superb spear point. It took 2 million years. But by 300,000 years ago the human ...

... ancient Mesopotamia (the cradle of civilization), and have run into some anomalies which science and history cannot explain, but which ARE described in the myths of that region. For example, the sudden "leap of civilization" ... god Enki, in Egypt by the god Osiris. Indus Valley archaeology is, unfortunately, sparse due to climate problems. There are now several ancient "myths" ...