Archaeology

Ancient Archipelago: Haadala Gwaii-ai

A wreck with tales to tell at Naikoon in Haida Gwaii. The islands have gone by many names. To the people who call the islands home, Haida Gwaii means “island of the people,” it is a shortened version of an earlier name, Haadala Gwaii-ai, or “taken out of ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 16 2019 - 12:17pm

First Nation Middens: History In The Bones

Many First Nations sites were inhabited continually for centuries. These sites were both home, providing continuity and community and also formed a spiritual connection to the landscape. The day to day activities of each of these communities would much li ...

Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 20 2019 - 9:38am

Mount Zion Archaeological Evidence Confirms First Crusade Attack

In 637, a few years after the founder of Islam, Muhammad, died, one of his military commanders completed the Arab conquest of Jerusalem, prior to that a holy city for Jews and Christians. It was over 400 years before Christians were able to take it back. ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2019 - 12:01pm

Nordic Bronze Age Metallurgy: Metal Trading Networks Of The Late Neolithic To The First Bronze Age

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Article - Heidi Henderson - Jul 24 2019 - 6:10pm

Archeologists Uncover The Church Of The Apostles

While traveling around the Sea of Galilee, visiting Tiberias, Magdala, Capernaum and Kursia in 725 A.D., a Bavarian bishop named Willibald passed through a place called Bethsaida where he saw a church built over the house of the Apostles Peter and Andrew, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 30 2019 - 5:06pm

Australopithecus Africanus

Two views of a natural endocranial cast articulated with a fragmentary skull of  Australopithecus africanus, an early hominid living between 2-3 million years ago in the late Pliocene and into the early Pleistocene-- and the first pre-human to be discover ...

Blog Post - Heidi Henderson - Aug 3 2019 - 1:29am

Humans Adapt: During The Last Ice Age, Ethiopians Lived On Rats In Thin Mountain Air

It's a mystery why humans would go to a place even colder during an ice age, and live on giant rats. Yet they did. Most people don't associate Africa with mountain living today, but Ethiopians moved to the Bale Mountains during the Palaeolithic p ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 9 2019 - 9:34am

Archaeological Findings On Babylonian Conquest Of Jerusalem

An archaeological excavation on Mount Zion in Jerusalem has found clear evidence of the Babylonian conquest from 587/586 B.C.  The discovery is of a deposit including layers of ash, arrowheads dating from the period, as well as Iron Age potsherds, lamps an ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2019 - 10:11am

Not Savages: England Had Advanced Trade In 1100 BC

If you read the Anglo-Saxon history of England, the island was a backwater savage place populated by sacrificial druids worshiping angry spiritual gods before Rome paved the way for the arrival of modern inhabitants, but that me just be invading victors wr ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 26 2019 - 6:36pm

Before Clovis? The Original Native Americans May Have Arrived 1,000 Years Before Previously Believed

Artifacts from an archaeological dig at the Cooper's Ferry site located along the Salmon River, a tributary of the larger Columbia River basin in western Idaho, suggest that the original native Americans were here 1,000 years earlier than previously ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 30 2019 - 12:31am