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Sueono's Stone
The panels surrounding Sueno's Stone in Moray, Scotland have been damaged earlier this week (BBC News). The 7m high stone dating from the 10th century is in the care of Historic Scotland (HES).
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Accuracy vs. Precision in the Mycenaean Atlas Project
"You're traveling through another dimension, a dimension not only of sight and sound but of mind. A journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination. That's the signpost up ahead -...
View ArticleA fresh look at Cultural Racketeering in Egypt
"Cultural Racketeering in Egypt — Predicting Patterns in Illicit Activity: Quantitative Tools of the 21st-Century Archaeologist" Katie A. Paul of The Antiquities Coalition has been looking into recent...
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New Thoughts on Japan’s Inariyama Burial Mound
GYODA, JAPAN—The Asahi Shimbun reports that Motoyuki Sato of Tohoku University and researchers from the Museum of the Sakitama Ancient Burial Mounds used radar technology to study the round section of...
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“Ancient” Standing Stones May Commemorate Medieval Victory
STIRLING, SCOTLAND—The Herald Scotland reports that archaeologist Murray Cook obtained radiocarbon dates for the foundation of one of two stones that stand near the entrance to the Police Scotland...
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Athenian Archaeological Society journal is online
It looks like the journal of the Athenian Archaeological Society: Πρακτικα της εν Αθηναις Αρχαιολογικη Εταιρειας is now online here.
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Tholos in a landscape: Gritsa Hill (C1280) and Cemetery
Gritsa Hill habitation and cemetery: C1280The Mycenaean complex of the Gritsa Hill habitation in what is now Phthiotis has been known since the early 1950s. It is a little hill of about 54 m. rising...
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SIAC Newsletter 123 (26/2016)
Les noms des membres de la SIAC sont en gras. – I nomi dei membri della SIAC sono in grassetto. – Names of SIAC members are written with bold characters.I. CICERONIANA1 – PUBLICATIONS / PUBBLICAZIONI /...
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How should the humanities make the news?
It is very hard to know how you get humanities research in the headlines. My recent brush with the Henry VIII tapestries is a case in point. I was extremely excited to find a specimen of what I think...
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What Did Humans Eat 780,000 Years Ago?
780,000 year old remains of edible fruits and seeds discovered in the northern Jordan Valley. CREDIT – Yaakov LangsamHebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar Ilan University archaeologists have uncovered...
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Open Access Journal: Veleia: revista de prehistoria, historia antigua,...
[Frst posted in AWOL 26 February 2012. Updated 30 December 2016]Veleia: revista de prehistoria, historia antigua, arqueología y filología clásicasISSN: 0213-2095Revista anual del Instituto de...
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Looking back over 2016
Source: Schinousa ArchiveThis has been a year when more of my focus has been on the economic impact of heritage including an analysis of the economic contribution of UNESCO World Heritage Sites in...
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Did early hominins use toothpicks?
Researchers say they've found evidence that ancient human relatives used toothpicks. Wood fibers were found on a tooth in a 1.2-million-year-old hominin jawbone discovered at an excavation in northern...
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Ancient Chaco Canyon population likely relied on imported food
The ancient inhabitants of New Mexico's Chaco Canyon, the zenith of Pueblo culture in the Southwest a thousand years ago, likely had to import corn to feed the multitudes residing there, says a new...
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Buildings and Temple dated to 3,000 BC unearthed at Tel Zurghul in Iraq
The Italian archaeological campaign carried out by Sapienza University of Rome and Perugia University from 10 October to 1 December 2016 at Tel Zurghul, the site of ancient Nigin, one of the three main...
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The caves that prove Neanderthals were cannibals
Deep in the caves of Goyet in Belgium researchers have found the grisly evidence that the Neanderthals did not just feast on horses or reindeer, but also on each other. Belgian archaeologist Christian...
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Etruscan necropolis of Vulci continues to offer extraordinary discoveries
Archaeologists of the Vulci Foundation, coordinated by the Superintendence of Archaeology, Fine Arts and Landscape for the Metropolitan Area of Rome, and Provinces of Viterbo and Southern Etruria, had...
View ArticleEtiam capillus unus umbram suam habet
The lowest trees have tops, the ant her gall, The fly her spleen, the little spark his heat; And slender hairs cast shadows though but small, And bees have stings although they be not great; Seas have...
View ArticleTop 10 Posts of 2016
Counting down the top ten posts in 2016 (some of which were actually written in years past, but they continue to get traffic): #10 The Novelty of the Personal Relationship with Jesus #9 Silent Night...
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December Pieces Of My Mind #3
If you’re a bricklayer with unusually high qualifications, being unemployed is frustrating. But very few customers in the construction business make any kind of public promise to always employ the most...
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