His championing of radiocarbon dating and other new scientific approaches demonstrated the untenability of the conventional ...

Colin Renfrew played a key part in transforming archaeology into a problem-oriented, theoretically explicit and ...

Archaeology and Long-Term Change’, Journal of European Archaeology 3, 1995, pp. 1–32. 6Colin Renfrew, Before Civilization: The Radiocarbon Revolution and Prehistoric Europe, Harmondsworth 1973. 7John ...

PAUL BAHN is the bestselling author of Bluff Your Way in Archaeology. In his more sober moments he is co-author (with Professor Colin Renfrew) of Archaeology: Theories, Methods & Practice and the ...

Organized by archaeology students and faculty, the mobile library offers two things: books and sandboxes. The organizers transport the books on a two-wheel trailer hitched to a bamboo bike.

Experts just found a 3D map that was carved into quartz sandstone likely 13,000 years ago. Located within the famed Segognole 3 rock shelter, researchers believe the map shows the local landscape ...

A pilot project to scan the surface material of an Iraqi desert revealed 850 different artifacts from the Old and Middle Paleolithic eras. Included in the finds were ancient stone hand axes that ...

As a professor of Christian archaeology and director of the Studium Biblicum Franciscanum’s museum, he’s part of a 700-year-old Franciscan mission to look after and protect ancient religious ...

Nov. 21, 2024 — Archaeology studies the human past through the excavation of things people made and used thousands of years ago -- from architecture to objects like pottery bowls and animal ...