Baltimore Illegal Coin Import Stunt Case: Not Going at all Well for ACCG...
.Real Cultural Heritage Lawyer Rick St. Hilaire has a very revealing text on his blog: Federal Attorneys File Appellate Brief in Baltimore Coin Case (January 18, 2012). Nicely coincident with the date...
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Peruvian Corn. Photo: Jenny Mealing (Flickr)People living along the coast of Peru were eating popcorn 1,000 years earlier than previously reported and before ceramic pottery was used there, according...
View ArticleSumerian Beer May Have Been Alcohol-Free | Beer Brewing
Sumerian Beer May Have Been Alcohol-Free | Beer Brewing | Archaeology | LiveScience
View ArticleNew Open Access Journal: Spicae: Cahiers de l'Atelier Vincent de Beauvais
Spicae: Cahiers de l'Atelier Vincent de BeauvaisSpicae, Cahiers de l'Atelier Vincent de Beauvais est une revue en ligne destinée à la publication de travaux érudits concernant l’encyclopédisme médiéval...
View ArticleTwo treasure hunters at Beit Shemesh, Israel
Two treasure hunters were apprehended at an archaeological site near Beit Shemesh (a northern district of Jerusalem) in Israel which they trashed in their search for gold.The robbers, both Bedouin...
View ArticleProposal for Peter Tompa
.In his oral presentation before the CPAC on Wednesday, January 18, 2012 (which he subsequently published) concerning the proposed renewal of the cultural property MOU with Cyprus, Peter Tompa made a...
View ArticleChasing Aphrodite: The Weiss Case and the Getty Connection
.The Chasing Aphrodite blog authors seem to be getting their teeth into the "Weiss" affair (Arnold Peter Weiss’ Coin Partner and The Getty Connection). They are digging up some of the details of some...
View ArticleThe Making of the Cretan Countryside
Landscape around Knossos, Crete. Image: Randy Peters, FlickrBy Dr. Doniert Evely (Curator for the British Holdings at Knossos, British School at Athens) Just over a century ago, Arthur Evans began his...
View ArticleMedieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users. A Special Issue of Viator in...
Medieval Manuscripts, Their Makers and Users. A Special Issue of Viator in Honor of Richard and Mary Rouse, Turnhout, 2011. Éditeur : BrepolsVI+321 p., 88 b/w ill.ISBN : 978-2-503-53894-590 € The...
View ArticleDoctor Who: The Awakening
“The Awakening” is another relatively short episode (by the classic series’ standards, not by today’s, when most episodes are roughly an hour long). In it, the Doctor, Tegan and Turlough go to visit...
View ArticleTeaching Thursday: Reflective Writing
The great philosopher of history, R.G. Collingwood, famously argued that all history is the history of thought. In Collingwood’s estimation, the historian re-enacts that past in his (for Collingwood,...
View ArticleArchaeology & Being “Game”
Between digging up wedges of wind-blown sand and anhydrite stub walls I’ve been thinking about archaeology and reflexivity quite a bit lately–what we are allowed to do and think while we are...
View ArticleConfirming Ibaloi history through archaeology
A Philippine archaeologist suggests that archaeology has the potential to confirm events in Ibaloi oral history. One such event includes the Spanish massacre of an Ibaloi village in the 18th century....
View Article"Trabajamos más horas que un esclavo romano"
Así vivimos. La sociedad actual nos convierte en engranajes, máquinas productivas que anhelan continuamente hacer algo, incluso en su tiempo libre...Hacer y hacer, lo único que provoca es que el...
View ArticleOpen Access Journal: Canadian Classical Bulletin (CCB)
[First posted in AWOL 1 November 2009. Updated 19 January 2012] Canadian Classical Bulletin (CCB) The Canadian Classical Bulletin (CCB) is the official electronic bulletin of the CAC and is published...
View ArticleMinelab Owner on Metal Detecting in Turkey
.I mentioned earlier Peter Tompa's postulated future metal detecting escapades in the "unregulated" eastern Mediterranean. I also discussed the story of the theft of three hundred "site wrecker" depth...
View ArticleFeed Aggregator for Antiquities Trade and Looting
Doug Rocks-Macqueen's blog: Doug's Archaeology presents a very interesting list of 17 Great Archaeology Blogs on the Antiquities Trade and Looting That YOU Should Read.What makes it even more useful...
View ArticleBlogosphere ~ Greek knowledge of India before the fourth century B.C
History of the Ancient World: Greek knowledge of India before the fourth century B.C.
View ArticleAPA Blog : Papyrological Institute at the University of Chicago
July 2 - 31, 2012 An intensive summer institute in papyrology, jointly sponsored by the Departments of Classics of the University of Chicago and the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, will be...
View ArticlePAS and the "Shafting" of the Archaeologists
.Unable to answer the question about his views on disturbing battlefield archaeology by metal detecting, and the difference between artefact hunting and artefact hunting, US artefact hunter Dick Stout...
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