World’s Largest Rock Art Studies Literature Database Now Available Online
With over 10,500 citations to the world’s rock art literature, Rock Art Studies: A Bibliographic Database, is the world’s largest rock art bibliographic database. Available for the first time for use by researchers and students, the database can be found at the University of California, Berkeley, Bancroft Library Web Site (bancroft.berkeley.edu/collections/rockart.html). Rock Art Studies are primarily concerned with prehistoric and historic images created by indigenous peoples from all around the world who have pecked, painted, and carved on rock surfaces found in natural landscape settings. Both academic and non-academic interest in indigenous rock art has exploded in recent years resulting in a rich and expansive literature.

Vermont Posts Teachers’ Guide
Rock River Valley: Pathways to the Past, a Vermont standards-based educators’ guide for grades 5-8 is now available as a .pdf file on-line at www.vermontgas.com/EDUCATORS%20GUIDE%20.pdf.

Great Flood Web Site Guides Students
A web site on the Great Flood on the Black Sea (users.bergen.org/~timcas/greatflood/) has been designed for use in the middle and high school classroom. The site ties in with a PBS broadcast, National Geographic article, and research articles that incorporate history, geology, robotics, and archaeology. Lesson plans and resources are provided on-line.

The Archaeology Channel Continues to Grow
New additions to The Archaeology Channel, the steaming video web site are now available at www.archaeologychannel.org, as follows:

• The Acropolis is explored through its history, from Neolithic times through the Classical Period to the present, illustrating its many structures and artifacts.

• Adena—The ancient Adena Culture of Kentucky and surrounding states is renowned for its massive burial mounds and exquisite art works, but the lives of Adena people are shrouded in mystery because only three habitation sites have been found. In this video, Dr. Berle Clay examines the search for rare Adena settlements, which could tell archaeologists much abut the life in Kentucky over 2000 years ago.

• Saving a Kentucky Time Capsule—Native Americans deep inside a Kentucky cavern inscribed dozens of symbols into the soft wet clay. After its rediscovery in the 1980s, this precious and fragile legacy became the target of vandals, despite the best efforts of the private property owner. The inspiring effort to protect these mud glyphs is the subject this video.

• The Parthenon—Recognized in Classical and modern times as the perfect synthesis of science and art, the Parthenon symbolizes the ideals of Athenian democracy and Classical Greek culture. This video is a pictorial essay that describes the Parthenon in detail, tracing its history through the ages.

• Archaeology of the Modern World: Lessons for Sustainable Development, the second Audio Commentary on sustainability, is by Dr. Don Hardesty of the University of Nevada Reno. Dr. Hardesty reviews cases of human-environment interactions illuminated by historical archaeology to show how people have both caused and reacted to environmental change.

• Archaeology, History and Sustainability, the third Audio Commentary on sustainability, is by Dr. Joseph A. Tainter (Rocky Mountain Research Station, USDA Forest Service). Dr. Tainter, who has specialized in the study of complex societies with an emphasis on sustainability issues, describes three distinct strategies followed by different civilizations over the past 2000 years.