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View ArticleBlogosphere ~ Earliest manuscript fragment of Mark rumour
Mark Goodacre: Earliest manuscript fragment of Mark rumour.
View ArticlePresentación Actas I Coloquio de Arqueología e Historia Antigua de Los Bañales
Por si os interesa, el próximo Sábado 18 de Febrero de 2012, a las 19:30 horas, en el Salón de Congresos de San Miguel (Uncastillo) tendrá lugar la presentación de las Actas I Coloquio de Arqueología e...
View ArticleWhat's new on the Italian Middle Paleolithic?
I'm traveling this week, participating in the Roundtable of the Middle Palaeolithic of Italy hosted by the Center for Ancient Mediterranean and Near Eastern Studies(http://camnes.org), which takes...
View ArticleArtefacts as Nodes in a Network
I’m working on a paper for a conference next month. In it, I consider artefact copresence at various sites as a means for generating networks, in an effort to get at some of the ideological or social...
View ArticleEgyptian Odyssey AIA Tour with Prof. Lobban: Aswan and Abu Simbel
Aswan is one truly gorgeous and extraordinary Nile River town. It is located at the lower end of the first cataract or rapids in the Nile and the site of the old Low Dam and the newer High Dam that...
View ArticleVan Halen vs an immaterial cultural heritage
I sat listening to Van Halen the other day – going through my old albums, on vinyl – anyone remember those big old round things? When I got to the 1984 album and the hit Jump – something hit me. This...
View ArticleBahamian Death in its Cultural Context
Interpreting mortuary patterns of the deceased requires not only archaeological evidence, but an understanding of the broader cultural patterns. Funerary rites and burial practices are shaped by the...
View ArticleComplete Denisova Genome Released
We’ve covered the mitochondrial genome of the Denisova individual 2 years ago, back in March 2010. For those not familiar with the Denisova hominin, this specimen represents an archaic human species...
View ArticlePacific Coast Regional SBL Meeting In March
A preliminary program and an online registration system is now available for this year’s (March 25-26) Pacific Coast regional Society of Biblical Literature meeting in Santa Clara. Chris Heard...
View ArticleThe Iranian Genome Project
Yesterday, my father emailed me a link to the Iranian Genome Project that caught my eye. Ironically, Razib over at Gene Expression also highlighted this project in a recent post. Much like the...
View ArticleThe Getty and Almagia
It is now reported by Chasing Aphrodite that the J. Paul Getty Museum acquired an Attic red-figured cup attributed to the Marley painter from Edoardo Almagià in 1986 (inv. 86.AE.479 [Beazley Archive...
View ArticleOpen Access Journal: Kikah = كيكا
Kikah = كيكاBegan in 2003?"Kikah is an independent electronic cultural journal founded by the Iraqi writer Samuel Shimon in March 2003. Its primary objective is to encourage the dissemination of new...
View ArticleBoston and Almagia
Boston's Museum of Fine Art has the following objects listed as linked to Edoardo Almagià (and noted back in 2010): Roman imperial marble portrait statue. Inv. 1991.534. "By 1991: with Edoardo Almagià,...
View ArticleOpen Access Journal: Turkic Languages
Turkic LanguagesISSN : 1431-4983Publisher Harrassowitz VerlagStart Year: 1997Frequency: Semi-annuallyText in: German, Turkish, French, EnglishAlphabetical List of Open Access Journals in Middle Eastern...
View ArticleBibliographies: Hadrian’s Wall
The following have been added to the Zotero Group for Ancient World Open Bibliographies and the Ancient World Open Bibliographies Wiki. Roman Britain (other bibliographies on this topic) Bibliography...
View ArticleThe Return of CultureGrrl: Resuming (occasional) Posting
I have been deeply moved by the letters and verbal comments that I've received over the last month from devoted CultureGrrl fans (including some artworld luminaries). Some expressed distress over my...
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