archaeology

Look at the size of the Storegga Landslide compared to the British Isles. This was the landslide that wiped out the mesolithic landscape of Doggerland in the North Sea. https://www.mdpi.com/2076-3263/10/7/270/htm

Ok, so I'm having this debate with a pyramidiot and the drill holes keep surfacing every now and then. It's kinda hard to argue to this specific argument because i can't find almost any scientific conclusions about stone drilling/cutting in Egypt except some pretty vague texts about bronze...

I doubt it but this video thinks otherwise: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=4e20Cq5yob4

I found this story on the Violent Metaphors blog (entry linked below) and thought it is worth bringing up, certainly the attached paper needs to be read to understand why the main piece of evidence claimed in support of the Solutrean hypothesis the 'Cinmar Point' turns out to have a...

We get a lot of threads stated about ancient aliens, lost super civilizations etc etc. But here is an article about a very enigmatic place, that so far has resisted the best research efforts to explain its purpose or its history...

Sometimes archaeologists find things that they just cannot explain directly. Often this is then filed under cultural oddity of some kind. As a thought experiment, what perfectly mundane thing in your home area would make virtually no sense to future archaeologists if your town were to be buried...

Though I'm sure this subject has been discussed before, during my arguments with Paul Bethke on a number of subjects, that of the historicity of the Exodus and the conquest of Canaan as portrayed in the Book of Joshua came up. Since I could not deal with it without derailing a previous thread, I...

The discussion about whether or not there was a global flood as described in the Bible has been split to its own thread here from its original location in the Biblical Fallacies thread, located here. There was a global flood?

This is just a shout-out for a YouTube channel that I think is woefully under subscribed. I have a mild interest in archaeology but find almost every episode of this rather prolific fellow quite fascinating. Other than being a subscriber to his channel, I am not connected to him in any other...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AFFhRMRp6J0 I wanted to share her video with the folks here at the JREF forums. So, what do you think of it?

I've tried jumping into some existing threads in the past few months, thinking that I could contribute to a lively debate in a constructive way. However, I found quickly that, for lack of better descriptions, ideological battlelines had already been drawn, the well had been poisoned, and the...

I'm assuming it was in either England, Germany or France, perhaps the US but which school issued the first degree in the field of Archaeology (Anthropology) and when?

On another thread, Avalon XQ mentioned in passing that the Bible could be judged as we would judge any historical document. Frankly, judged by history archaeology and fulfillment of prophecy, the Bible has a rather poor record for accuracy. There is absolutely no support for the Exodus and the...

Saw this article about a large Persian army, that dissapeared in ancient Egypt. Herodotus wrote about it but it seems it may have been thought of as legendary since. The photo of the skulls and bones is pretty creepy, and it's interesting to think of how the environment can make 50,000 people...

Amazing find in England. Probably the most amazing hoard found yet: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1215723/Staffordshire-hoard-Amateur-treasure-hunter-finds-Britains-biggest-haul-Anglo-Saxon-gold.html

University of Toronto archaeologists find cache of cuneiform tablets in 2,700-year old Turkish temple Of course the dates 1200-900 mean a good chunk of the 19th dynasty in Egypt and the times that Saul, David, and Solomon were supposed to be in Israel. The tablets may not say anything about...

OK, these are fascinating for many reasons. Partly that this incredibly ancient erotica gives one an instant connection to these old, old, long gone ancestors of ours… they were just like us! Oh, the shared humanity throughout the ages, etc etc… But mostly because #11 was excavated at the...

My friend made the claim that "archeology has never disproved a biblical point." I have every reason to doubt that claim, but am unsure where to find specific examples and sources to back up my thoughts about that. I have a feeling that there are many examples, with varying degrees of evidence...

I was always fascinated by Archeology. At one point I considered choosing that as a profession. Eventually I made other choices, and the world of professional archeology is safe from me. However, I still enjoy reading and thinking about history. From time to time I find an interesting story...

So a newly discovered ancient tablet that predates the supposed birth of Jesus has brought to light that the idea of a suffering messiah that is killed and resurrected is not original to Christianity but has its roots in older Jewish traditions...

But it seems legit. The guy is a professional archaeologist, and expressly states that this is not some new age bit of esotericism (probably not a word). http://www.solvingstonehenge.co.uk/page3.html ^that page features the geometry stuff. Has anyone read it, by any chance?

I have a friend who has converted to Mormonism. He's usually a pretty skeptical and straight-thinking guy, but when it comes to anything LDS I think he shuts off his brain. Anyway, I'd heard some goofy stuff about how Mormons don't accept some archaeological science with regards to Native...

Those of you who've seen Time Team may have heard of the British commercial archaeology outfit Wessex Archaeology. I was impressed to discover that they've been publishing their excavation and small finds photos on Flickr.com. A lot to wade through, but so very cool and forward thinking of them...

My brain hurts. I studied archaeology at university just about a decade ago, when postprocessualist ideas weren't really on the radar (well, mine, anyway). As I moved on to museum work I lost touch with much of what's "hip" and new, and my only real hint of theoretical/phenomenological brands of...

Apparently PEAR lab didn't just do psychokinesis, they did archaeological acoustics too. But according to this: http://www.acoustics.org/press/153rd/wright.html which addresses the eternal question 'Is a Neolithic Burial Chamber Different from My Bathroom, Acoustically Speaking?' they didn't...

Darwinian Archaeology or Cultural Evolution is the application of Darwinian principles to the study of human cultural behaviour. It defines "culture" as socially-transmissible information leading to fitness-enhancing behaviour. It claims that such fitness-enhancing behaviour will become...

In a thread about stone-age tools on another forum a couple of posters made some fairly, ah, outlandish claims. I was wondering if anyone knows the origins of any of them? I'm not looking to verify the claims (I think they're pretty safe to dismiss with some references to Britannica), just...

Just an idea I had the other day, but fundies seem to have a problem with evidence because "you weren't there". Does this have any relation to the type of archaeology you get in the US? I admit I only know of this from Time Team, but they seem to have to sift through every piece of topsoil and...

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/4100656.stm "It contained 11 items made of gold, silver, tin and hematite, covered with hieroglyphs and inscriptions in Hebrew, ancient Greek and Latin." That's not paranormal, but do people know if that is especially uncommon or unlikely to find that in...

My earlier work on the Bad Archaeology concept was halted in part due to the notion that with a free Geocities site, proper and quality content would be sorely anemic or simply impractical. I've found a little way to work with Geocities' free account limitations, and am now confident that a Bad...