Grad school proposal notes, part 1
I lost my previous graduate school proposal when my old laptop took a nosedive and the hard drive died. So rather than try to recreate that proposal, I’ve been giving some thought as to what makes a...
View ArticleLascaux cave (video)
Well, I don’t know about everything in this video, but it’s interesting nevertheless.
View ArticleHow did Palaeolithics perceive time?
Here’s a question: how did Upper Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers perceive the passage of time? The short answer is that we don’t know, but it may not have necessarily been the same as the modern,...
View ArticleLascaux is sick
This article is from December 2007, but I’ve only just come across it: Fungus is threatening France’s most celebrated prehistoric paintings, the mysterious animal images that line the Lascaux cave in...
View Article“Ancient ivory figurine deserves a more thoughtful label”
Reader Anna McDonnell of Santa Monica, California writes in this week’s Nature that perhaps we should be more thoughtful in how we describe ancient artifacts such as the recently discovered Venus...
View ArticleDIY hand stencils
Anybody ever done this? In discussing the methods by which Palaeolithics created the famous hand stencils that adorn many art caves, Guthrie (2005) notes that all that is needed is to nibble off a bit...
View ArticleZombie archaeology: give us more brains!
I’m not allowed to watch archaeology-related documentaries on cable anymore—my partner doesn’t think it’s healthy for me to argue with the TV—but I was thinking today about one of those kind of...
View ArticleMore on Lascaux’s woes
Some more news about Lascaux’s ongoing preservation battle via @jholmus on Twitter: Lascaux: Human pathogens threaten ancient cave art http://bit.ly/HWB3T #archaeology #
View ArticleUpper Palaeolithic bone flutes from Germany
This is somewhat old news by this point, but a new report in the journal Nature reports that a nearly complete Upper Palaeolithic bone flute (and fragments of several others) dating from around 35,000...
View ArticleJean Clottes discusses rock art conservation
Prof. Clottes returns to the Bradshaw Foundation podcast to discuss rock art and cave painting preservation. Get the episode on iTunes here.
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