April 6, 2000
The Birth of Archaeology In the last 250 years, archaeologists have changed the basic understanding of time and human existence. T...Read more
April 13, 2000
Archaeology Turns from Passion to Plunder Archaeology was born of treasure-seeking, but it became the stimulus for rampant pillagi...Read more
April 20, 2000
The Fallacy of Diffusionism When explorers examined the remains of an advanced Mexican culture, they concluded that a superior rac...Read more
April 27, 2000
Program Archaeology While most read Homer’s Iliad as an entertaining epic, one man believed it was more than a story and could act...Read more
May 4, 2000
Archaeology as Political Tool In 1940, Hitler’s archaeologists excavated sites in Poland to try to prove that Germans had lived th...Read more
May 11, 2000
What are the concerns of archaeology today? How will improved methods and scientific technology shift perspective on the past? The...Read more