Anthropology and Archaeology

Learn about archaeology from Guam Museum (Pacific Daily News)

11 Oct 2008

The Guam Museum Foundation will present its Museum Educational Series on archaeology in Guam starting later this month at the University of Guam.

Photographs by Samoan Multimedia Artist On View at Metropolitan Museum (Art Daily)

11 Oct 2008

Fa'a Fafine: In a Manner of a Woman, Triptych 1, Fa'a Fafine: In a Manner of a Woman series, Chromogenic print on "Fujicolor Professional Paper", 2004-2005, Overall: 23 5/8 x 31 1/2 in. (60 x 80 cm), Purchase, Evelyn A.J. Hall Charitable Trust and Stephanie H. Bernheim Gifts, 2007 (2007.357). Courtesy of artist Shigeyuki Kihara and photographer Sean Coyle.

Elizabeth Eames: Influential, widely published archaeologist whose expertise was in medieval floor-tiles (Independent)

11 Oct 2008

In 1949 Elizabeth Eames became Special Acting Assistant Keeper in the Department of British and Medieval Antiquities in the British Museum. She had been appointed to unwrap and catalogue the department's collections, which had been sent away to safe places for the duration of the Second World War. But before long she was invited to work on the collection of medieval floor-tiles that the ...