Around 1860, the rocky bluff above a stretch of beach between Stanford Hopkins Marine Station and the Monterey Bay Aquarium known as Point Alones was the home to hundreds of Chinese Americans villagers. In 1906, a mysterious fire burned most of the village to ashes. In the August 17 issue of Stanford Report, Sam Julian writes about Anthropology graduate student Bryn Williams and how he has spent the last several years excavating and examining the artifacts from Point Alones as part of his dissertation work on Chinese diaspora.

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A recent research on plague outbreak in prairie dog population done by Jamie Jones and his colleagues sheds light on an alternative perspective on plague's ecology. That is, disease transmission can be exacerbated by alternative hosts. Furthermore, abundance thresholds of alternate hosts may be a key phenomenon determining outbreaks of disease in many multihost-disease systems.

3rd year PhD student Adrian Myers' Whitewater PoW Camp Project blog was named one of the top five archaeological bloggers by Archaeology Magazine's Weekly Blog on June 28, 2010. Read Archaeology Magazine's Weekly Blog or go directly to the Whitewater PoW Camp Project Blog.