The University Museum’s North American collections are justly famous and owe much of their existence to Louis Shotridge, a Tlingit elder from Southeast Alaska, as well as many anthropologists and curators – among them the redoubtable Frederica de Laguna. To pioneers like Shotridge and de Laguna, the objects they collected had a greater significance than […]
North America
The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull
Crystal skulls previously thought to have been made by the Aztecs are revealed to be only 150 years old
Fossil Faeces provide America’s oldest human DNA
The dates of people living in Oregon’s Paisley caves have been worked out from analysing DNA found in fossilised faeces
Life at Harvard 1600s
Students at Harvard University are conducting excavations in their own back yard, in the grounds of Old College
Privy Digging Condemned
US heritage council tells amateur archaeologists to stop the uncontrolled digging of cesspits
Alaska’s Rock Art
The intriguing rock art from the Alaskan rock shelters of Tuxedni and Clam Cove
University of Pennsylvannia Museum
Richard Hodges remembers his first encounter with the University of Pennsylvania Museum
What Native Americans Origins?
Analysis on DNA evidence of Native American populations
Brian Fagan
Brian Fagan’s ear to the ground
Antigua
The Archaeology of Antigua in the Caribbean, once at the epicentre of slavery, empire and wealth
Caribbean Petroglyphs
Michael Chaplan follows in the footsteps of early 20th century archaeologist and surveyor, Thomas Huckerby, in search of Caribbean petroglyphs
Metropolitan Museum
A missive from the new Greek and Roman Antiquities Gallery of New York’s Metropolitan Museum