Archaeology, Sociology, & History:
This week I have found that my cup runneth over with work. Several things around the web have caught my eye which deserve substantial commentary. That's what you pay for, right? Unfortunately, today they get a link. First, here is...
Posted on May 8, 2008 9:56 AM • 2 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Findings by Daniel Odess, curator of archaeology at the University of Alaska Museum in Fairbanks, suggest that whale hunting dates back at least 3,000 years. Odess's team found a piece of walrus ivory inscribed with scenes of hunters in boats...
Posted on May 6, 2008 8:57 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Given the comments on the last post, I thought it time to give almost-a-religion-major Craig a work out. The origin of the word coral is traced to Greek korllion and Latin coralium probably both derived from the early Hebrew goral...
Posted on April 27, 2008 12:01 PM • 3 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Research and exploration into our deep oceans has resulted in a magnitude of benefits to society from medicinal compounds to improved navigation and mapping equipment. It is not often you hear about connections between the deep sea and sports though....
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Posted on March 8, 2008 10:54 PM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Since my posts about the Black Swan, I have somehow made it on the Odyssey email list. Once a month or so I get an email about buying goods and artifacts. Admittedly, I find these emails extremely irritating. Like...
Posted on February 20, 2008 3:30 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Via my weekly reading of the unopen access journal Science, there is an interesting story about beeswax, huge freakin' chunks of it, that occasionally wash ashore in Oregon's Nehalem Bay. At low-low tides, a wooden hull is revealed in the...
Posted on January 13, 2008 6:13 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This is a notice that DSN has changed names to The Davy Jones News Report. Kidding...Because of the slowness of end-o-year, deep-sea related news, I decided to end the week with a discussion, with the thanks of Wikipedia, of the...
Posted on December 20, 2007 9:08 AM • 1 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
This week's TGIF video comes from Marine geologist Masaaki Kimura who says he has identified the ruins of a sunken city off the coast of Japan. If you SCUBA dive, you'll love it. If you don't, you'll wish you did. Could this be "another Atlantis"?
Posted on August 31, 2007 7:59 AM • 5 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
No that's not real and neither are the others in the post! Argonauta Argo, National Museum& Gallery, Cardiff Spending time at the Museum Comparative Zoology at Harvard (MCZ), a Museum of a Museum, I realize the potential for items...
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Posted on July 26, 2007 3:53 PM • 4 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
More on the continuing saga that surrounds the Black Swan reported at the New Straits Times. This is going to get pretty confusing so I will provide it as sequential list time series. Volvo launches a media spectacle that...
Posted on July 2, 2007 2:08 PM • 0 Comments • 0 TrackBacks
Craig is temporarily a post-doctoral fellow at the Monterey Bay Aquarium Research Institute who is looking for a permanent position. He spends most of his time balancing his overwhelming geekdom with normalcy so he can function in the real world. Luckily his wife likes his geekiness.
Peter Etnoyer is a Graduate Research Associate at the Harte Research Institute for Gulf of Mexico Studies, Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. He studies deep corals and ocean fronts, and he loves to be on the water.
Kevin Zelnio is a Graduate Student Researcher at Penn State studying the ecology of hydrothermal vent and methane seep communities. He raises awareness of the plight of the spineless through folk music.
