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SAFE Website Relaunched
SAFE: Saving Antiquities for Everyone SAFE is pleased to announce the relaunch of our web site (still http://savingantiquities.org) and blog, now fully integrated as part of the site. All the posts...
View ArticleASOR Funding for Regional Lectures
Exciting New Funding Opportunity from ASOR The American Schools of Oriental Research (ASOR) has recently decided to allocate funds in support of members who are organizing lectures and events...
View ArticlePublishing Kenan Tepe with Open Context
We’re very pleased to announce the publication of a significant portion of the Kenan Tepe excavations. Excavations at Kenan Tepe, directed by Bradley Parker (University of Utah) and co-directed by Lynn...
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New Data at Open Context: Kenan Tepe
Publishing Kenan Tepe with Open Context We’re very pleased to announce the publication of a significant portion of the Kenan Tepe excavations. Excavations at Kenan Tepe, directed by Bradley Parker...
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William Willetts Lecture 2012: Art of Angkor: Monuments and their Dating
Readers in Singapore may be interested in this upcoming lecture at the National Library, held in conjunction with the Southeast Asian Ceramic Society AGM. photo: thaths SEACS 43rd AGM & William...
View ArticleParoles menaçantes et mots interdits
Né de réflexions mûries au sein des axes « le politique dans les cités grecques », « logiques de genre dans les mondes grec et romain » de l’équipe ANHIMA (UMR 8210) et de l’axe « controverses, débats...
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Longing for a Post-Racial Society
The ways that people in the United States talk about race and skin color troubles me. I have long wanted to blog about this, and as I have thought about it time and time again, I kept returning in my...
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What do end users want from Pelagios widgets?
'Ancient mashup' (thanks to flunitrazepam)We weren't 100% sure so we asked a few (and some of them weren't sure either, but that's understandable and useful to know). The 23 people we asked were...
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Emperors of Rome: Theodosius
Adrian Murdoch continues the series with a rather destructive fellow: Theodosius: Emperors of Rome
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Manuel Albaladejo Vivero, Léxico de Topónimos y Etnónimos del Noroeste de la...
Manuel Albaladejo Vivero, Léxico de Topónimos y Etnónimos del Noroeste de la Península Ibérica en la Antigüedad, Madrid, 2012. Éditeur : CSIC. Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas224...
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News article: Pompei, scavi senza pace: sequestrata area a rischio amianto
From Il Mattino, news that asbestos was deliberately buried under lapilli outside the scavi. Not sure what to make of this ... Pompei, scavi senza pace: sequestrata area a rischio amianto «C’è amianto...
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Coin Elves, Warlocks and Trolls
.The ConventionFor coin dealer Wayne Sayles, the year 1970 ('Witches, Warlocks and Trolls', Mar 26, 2012) "witnessed the apogee of [...] cultural extremism in the world". By this he means that the 1970...
View ArticleGreek Apocryphal Gospels in Digital Form
My employer, Logos Bible Software, recently put the Greek Apocryphal Gospels on pre-pub. My colleague, Rick Brannan, blogged today over at the Logos blog about that product and those gospels. These...
View ArticleSherman Surrender: Akron to Auction Cindy’s Iconic "Centerfolds" Image
If a museum owns two major works from the same period by the same artist, can one of them---by far, the more celebrated of the two---be deemed redundant and expendable?That seems to be the thinking...
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Linux Latīnē
I’ve just jettisoned Windows XP from my ten year old PC and installed Linux Mint. I was pretty excited to learn how easy it was to designate a Compose key, which — together with a hyphen before the...
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Cristopher Kelty on Virtual Libraries: shutting down knowledge?
An interesting article by C. Kelty, author of Two Bits: The Cultural Significance of Free Software (Experimental Futures) on virtual libraries and their role in shaping knowledge: The disappearing...
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Cranial variation and the transition to agriculture in Europe
Students of physical anthropology won't be surprised that Pinhasi and von Cramon-Taubadel find that the Neolithic and pre-Neolithic populations in Europe were differentiated cranially as they were...
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As Brit-TV Celebrates PAS and Treasure Act, Cranks Come Out to Throw Stones
It's a bit amazing that purportedly serious journalists sometimes take cranks seriously. See http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2012/mar/26/tv-show-most-important-archaeological-find?CMP=twt_fdI guess its...
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The Jesus SeM&Minar
Today in my Historical Jesus class we did one of the fun activities I have incorporated into the course each time I have taught it. To give students a sense of what the Jesus Seminar has done, and what...
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New Open Access Issue of Fragments- Interdisciplinary Approaches...
New Open Access Issue of Fragments- Interdisciplinary Approaches to the Study of Medieval and Ancient Pasts http://quod.lib.umich.edu/f/frag?page=home
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