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mtDNA haplogroup HV4a1a from Franco-Cantabria
PLoS ONE 7(3): e32851. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0032851 Genetic Continuity in the Franco-Cantabrian Region: New Clues from Autochthonous Mitogenomes Alberto Gómez-Carballa et al. Abstract Background...
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Open Access Journal: ENIM: Égypte nilotique et méditerranéenne
[First posted 18 June 2009, most recently updated 20 March 2012]ENIM: Égypte nilotique et méditerranéenneISSN 2102-6629 ENiM est la première revue française numérique d’égyptologie. Elle est...
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The Man Who Cried "Van Gogh"
Dirk Hannema was a well known museum curator and an art collector of the 20th century who was mocked by his peers for his grandiose opinions of his art collection. Mr. Hannema believed at one time...
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New Open Access Fasti Article- Via Consolare...
New Open Access Fasti Article- Via Consolare Project http://www.fastionline.org/folderindex.php?view=serieshome&ste_cd=FOLDER-it
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Better Archaeology Outreach- Record and Podcast Your Talks
Every year hundreds of talks and presentations are given around the world on archaeology yet how many people listen? Maybe a couple dozen and if you are lucky a few hundred. This is not because people...
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Back to Dio Chrysostom
Another straightforward little item which reveals all kinds of less straightforward things. The item: the transcription of the Greek original of Dio Chrysostom’s 62d Discourse, joining the English...
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ACCG: Arrogance, Cretinism, Calumny, Going-too-far
.The words of Wayne: Today, some archaeologists know so little about ancient coins that they see their only function as a means to date an archaeological site. These misguided academics lobby against...
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Confirming Van Gogh
Here we have a historically disputed painting from the collection of the Kroeller-Mueller Museum some believe was painted by Vincent Van Gogh while other critics have long disagreed saying that the...
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Turkey and the Met
A report by Benjamin Sutton ("More Antiquities Woes for U.S. Museums Loom, As Turkey Demands 18 Artifacts From the Metropolitan Museum", Artinfo March 20, 2012) discusses the post on Chasing Aphrodite...
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Norbert Schimmel as the model collector
News that Turkey has requested the return of part of the Norbert Schimmel collection is likely to have repercussions. I note Shelby White's comment: "Norbert Schimmel set a high standard for us as...
View ArticleJoin me for WizIQ’s first Wednesday Webinar!
Join me for WizIQ’s first Wednesday Webinar! Catchy, right? WizIQ Wednesday Webinars…you know, WWW, like the World Wide Web, only different… OK, well, even if you’re not as impressed with my...
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Servius, Commentaire sur l'Énéide de Virgile, Livre VI
Servius, Commentaire sur l'Énéide de Virgile, Livre VI, Paris, 2012. Édité, traduit et commenté par Emmanuelle Jeunet-Mancy Éditeur : Les Belles LettresCollection : Collection des universités de...
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More Evidence 1970 No Safe Harbor
Turkey's demand that the Met return artifacts from a collection formed as far back as the 1960's again demonstrates that 1970 is no safe harbor for museums as the AIA claimed to induce the AAMD to...
View ArticleNew Look for PaleoBabble
I was having some formatting trouble on the blog so I changed the WordPress theme. I like the look better, to be honest.
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Bart Ehrman on the Existence of a Historical Jesus
Preparing for the appearance of his new book, Did Jesus Exist?: The Historical Argument for Jesus of Nazareth, which is now in stock on Amazon.com, Bart Ehrman has published an article on the topic in...
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…Why Is There Still Dust?
Inspired by a comment shared on Jerry Coyne’s blog. Presumably most will grasp that this is satire of the foolish question sometimes asked by opponents of mainstream science, “If humans evolved from...
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"Archaeologists only..."
.Superficial cephalopods who want to justify no-questions-asked collecting may very well think "archaeologists know so little about ancient coins that they see their only function as a means to date an...
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The Schimmel Collection
.The Turkish government is currently seeking the return of 18 objects from the Ancient Near East Galleries of New York's Metropolitan Museum of Art (initially reported by Martin Bailey in the Art...
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Archaeology and cultural history of the Roman toilet
Papers from the Ancient Roman Toilet Workshop, held at the Royal Dutch Institute in Rome and the American Academy in Rome in 2007 reviewed at BMCR by Jane Draycott at the British School at Rome: A...
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Revue Antiquité tardive 19/2011 : Christianisation et images
Source : Brepols Publishers, via Compitum.Éditeur : BrepolsCollection :Antiquité Tardive405 p. pagesISBN : 978-2-503-54370-3€ 79ÉditorialIn Memoriam – Yves Modéran (Hervé Inglebert) Christianisationet...
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