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More criticism of language origin in Southwest Africa paper (Hunley et al....
The second co-author, Claire Bowern, writes to me: Language is great for looking at the Holocene, but it changes too fast for it to be useful for more remote relations. The point is not to question...
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CFP: Hierarchy/ies in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama
Seen on the Classicists list: 12th ANNUAL POSTGRADUATE SYMPOSIUM ON ANCIENT DRAMA, JUNE 2012: ‘Hierarchy/ies in the Theory and Practice of Greek and Roman Drama’ CALL FOR PAPERS We are happy to...
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Interedition Symposium – Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure
Interedition Symposium – Scholarly Digital Editions, Tools and Infrastructure Huygens ING, The Hague, The Netherlands, 19-20 March 2012 Program online Huygens ING is pleased to host a symposium to...
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Athens Coin Collections Under Attack
It appears that Greece's two major coin collections, those of the Alpha Bank and National Numismatic Collection, were subject to attack during the recent spate of rioting, but they are probably safe...
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TEXTUS: an open source platform for collaborating around collections of texts
Textus is an open source platform for working with collections of texts. It harnesses the power of semantic web technologies and delivers them in a simple and intuitive interface so that students,...
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Archaeology in the News!
A British excavation has struck archaeological gold with a discovery that may solve the mystery of where the Queen of Sheba of biblical legend derived her fabled treasures. An enormous ancient...
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The Best Evidence for the Documentary Hypothesis is in the Psalms
Students of the Bible learn about the Documentary Hypothesis, the view that the Pentateuch was put together using multiple earlier written sources, traditionally identified using the abbreviations...
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The videos of Michael Jursa's lectures at the Collège de France are available online
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Christopher Ratté, Lydian Architecture: Ashlar Masonry Structures at Sardis, Archaeological Exploration of Sardis, Report 5, Cambridge MA / London 2011.
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Penn students gain a window into current Museum research
How many undergrads get to see current archaeological research up close—as in, under a microscope? The 15 Penn undergraduates taking Dr. Marie-Claude Boileau’s new Spring semester course “Archaeology...
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Germany in charge of Greece...the history
To vary the diet of misery stories about Greece and Germany, newspapers have turned an occasional backward glance to World War II. It's hardly surprising, so the argument goes, that the Greeks --...
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Phil not as Exciting as they Say
.The BBC carries a breathless story about another "ancient treasure" found by those awfully nice chaps with metal detectors. This is a coin of William the Bastard (known to his friends as P[h]illiam)...
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First look at Turkish and Kyrgyz data from Hodoğlugil & Mahley (2012)
The authors of the recent paper on Turkish population structure were kind enough to share their data with me. I will be sure to use this data in future experiments, such as the ChromoPainter and...
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Call for Proposals: Gerda Henkel Foundation M4HUMAN Fellowship programme
The Gerda Henkel Foundation is offering fellowships for experienced researchers in the humanities – including Archaeology, Art History, Prehistory and Early History. Applications close 15 June 2012....
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FORGOTTEN KINGDOM OF TUWANA BEING UNCOVERED IN SOUTHERN CAPPADOCIA -- TURKEY
Numerous archaeological excavations are underway at a huge site in Anatolia which will uncover an ancient and richyet forgotten kingdom known as Tuwana from the darkness of history, which will be...
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A NEWLY TRANSLATED ANCIENT TABLET (3,500 YEARS AGO) READS OF SEX, POLITICS...
Millennia before modern-day Americans made fun of their politicians or cracked crude jokes over a cold one, people in ancient Mesopotamia were doing much the same thing. The evidence of sex, politics...
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RIP Dato Adi Taha
This sad news is a little late – I learnt from the EurASEAA 14 Facebook page that Dato’ Adi Taha passed away earlier this month: Please see this sad message from Peter Bellwood: I have just been...
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Questions About Two Bearded Blokes: The Montreal Thefts
.I have been looking at that Egypto-Roman head stolen last October from the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, and wondering where it came from. What actually is it? It is described in the media reports as...
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