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Music in Archaeology: Earliest Instruments
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program LeadIt is hard to imagine a world without music. In the modern world, it is rare to be in a place that is truly quiet. Music is always in the background of movies and videos, it is played in public spaces like...
Humans and Animals: Religion and Spirituality
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program LeadStarting with domestication around 14,000 years ago, dogs became a part of everyday human life. Millinea later all around the world, more animals were domesticated for their wool, meat, or strength. Much...
Humans and Animals: Traditional Knowledge
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program Lead Modern humans and animals have lived together for tens of thousands of years. In that time, people have spread and adapted to almost every biome on the planet—even those that archaeologists thought were far...
Humans and Animals: Tools
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program LeadHumans use animals for far more than just food, wool, and companionship. Long before the advent of domestication, humans hunted animals and harvested every usable part from them. In addition to meat, hide,...
Humans and Animals: Domestication
By Katherine Hodge, Program Archaeology Interim Program Lead Humans and animals have a long relationship that stretches back over fifteen thousand years. Some of the oldest human art on cave walls feature animals and some of the oldest carvings that have survived are...
National Parks: Rocky Mountain National Park
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program LeadThis week is the last post in the National Park series. In this series, we have covered a vast range of climates, ecosystems, and cultures that are all protected in the National Park System. They are some of...
National Parks: Acadia
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program LeadAcadia National Park may be small, but within less than 50,000 acres there is a massive amount of biodiversity, ecosystems, and cultural history. This week, we will dive into the first National Park east of...
National Parks: Mesa Verde
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program LeadMesa Verde is one of America’s most recognizable parks with its spectacular cave palaces. Since its creation in in June of 1906, the park has had millions of visitors and has consistently remained one of the...
National Parks: The National Park of American Samoa
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program LeadGates of the Arctic may have sounded like the most remote National Park in the U.S., but the one to actually win that prize is the National Park of American Samoa. Located almost 5000 miles from the coast of...
National Parks: Mammoth Cave
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program LeadSo far in the National Park blog series, we’ve discussed parks like Gates of the Arctic, which is known for tall mountains and gorgeous valleys, as well as the Everglades, which is known for its grass seas...
National Parks: The Everglades
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program LeadDark-stained, shallow waters with grass as far as the eye can see is one of the signature views within the 22nd National Park. The Everglades are well known for how its unique, fragile, and incredibly...
National Parks: Gates of the Arctic
By Katherine Hodge, Project Archaeology Interim Program LeadGates of the Arctic is the northernmost National Park within the United States and is located in north-central Alaska. It is the second-largest National Park in the states, covering 8.5 million acres of land....
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