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New Open Access Article- New Developments in Lithic Analysis:...
New Open Access Article- New Developments in Lithic Analysis: Laser Scanningand Digital Modeling http://www.saa.org/AbouttheSociety/Publications/TheSAAArchaeologicalRecord/tabid/64/Default.aspx
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Morning After
Reading this article about a robbery early this morning at the Kunsthal in Rotterdam has got me thinking: how does a museum carry on after being the victim of such a terrible crime? You need to decide...
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NEWS: ‘Insights into Ancient Egypt’ allows the blind to experience prized...
The Penn Museum has started a new touch tour program, where visually impaired visitors can interact with exhibits in new ways (Source: The Daily Pennsylvania). “Doug Trinidad runs his hands over a...
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ARTICLE: Ancient Egypt City Aligned With Sun on King’s Birthday
“The Egyptian city of Alexandria, home to one of the seven wonders of the ancient world, may have been built to align with the rising sun on the day of Alexander the Great’s birth, a new study finds” –...
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Support for Christopher Rollston: Update
Since I last blogged about the topic of Christopher Rollston’s situation at Emmanuel Christian Seminary, a lot has appeared not only on blogs, but in Inside Higher Ed, which carried a story about what...
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NEWS: Alan Billis, Ex-Taxi Driver, Mummified Using Ancient Egyptian...
Alan Billis, Modern Mummy (Source: Huffington Post). “He may not spend the afterlife in a pharaoh’s tomb, but for Alan Billis, that was never the point. The 61-year-old taxi driver from England made...
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NEWS: Northampton council’s decision to sell £2m Egyptian statue reviewed
The statue of Sekhemka (Source: BBC News). “Councillors have agreed to think again about the sale of an Egyptian 2400 BC statue, discovered to be worth £2m during an insurance inspection at Northampton...
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Archaeology & Ada Lovelace Day: Mrs. Janet Taylor and the Dividers
I always protest a little too much when I say that I’m not really all that interested in historical archaeology. It is true, the Anatolian/Aegean Neolithic still holds me firmly in thrall. It’s more...
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Heritage Fellow Ground Truthing on Cyprus
By: Micaela Carignano, 2012 Heritage Fellow This summer, thanks to an ASOR Heritage Fellowship, I traveled to Cyprus to participate in the Kalavasos and Maroni Built Environments Project (KAMBE). The...
View ArticleSutler Shop excavations, Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park
Camp Nelson Civil War Heritage Park and Kentucky Archaeological Survey National Archaeology Day Saturday, October 20, 2012 - 9:00am - 4:42pm
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Kentucky Archaeological Survey National Archaeology Day Friday, October 19, 2012 - 10:00am - Sunday, October 21, 2012 - 4:40pm
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Compasses would have pointed south for 440 years ~41 thousand years ago.
Recent research indicates that when the Campanian Ignimbrite event occurred, the Neandertals were already on the way out. I'd say that the circa 40ka period would make the ideal setting for some good...
View ArticleHunters, Heroes, Kings: Interview with Hallie Franks
Hallie Franks’s first book, Hunters, Heroes, Kings: The Frieze of Tomb II at Vergina takes a fresh, contextual look at a major work of art from the crossroads of Greece, Persia, and Thrace.
View ArticleCity Review Process: First Look (with video) at Cornell’s Tech Campus and...
Rendering of the planned first academic building of Cornell Tech, designed by architect Thom Mayne's firm, Morphosis. Dan Huttenlocher, dean of the new school, calls it "very 21st-century architecture"...
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New Open Access Article-Nasal floor variation among eastern...
New Open Access Article-Nasal floor variation among eastern Eurasian Pleistocene Homo https://www.jstage.jst.go.jp/browse/ase/advpub/0/_contents
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From Whence and Wherefore Were the Trees? Some Critical Thoughts on the...
From Whence and Wherefore Were the Trees? Some Critical Thoughts on the Ustrinum Domus Augustae By Christopher Villeseche Published Online (2012) “Earth and heaven intersect at the pyre…” - Paul Rehak...
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Visits to the Carminiello ai Mannesi site in Naples
GIOVEDI' 18 E VENERDI' 19 APRE IL COMPLESSO ARCHEOLOGICO DI CARMINIELLO AI MANNESI Giovedì 18 e venerdì 19 ottobre apre in maniera straordinaria il COMPLESSO ARCHEOLOGICO DI CARMINIELLO AI MANNESI,...
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Kaloomte, the 'Supreme Warrior' Queen
Meet Lady K'abel, Snake of Snakes. Sometime in the 7th century CE, in the city of el-Peru, -- a Maya kingdom in the northernmost province of today's Guatamala -- there ruled a Supreme Warrior Queen,...
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“Pause” de la Toussaint 2012
Horaires aménagés … Durant la Pause pédagogique de la Toussaint, la BSA sera ouverte uniquement l’après-midi du lundi 29 au mercredi 31 octobre 2012 (de 13h45 à 17h15) et sera fermée le jeudi 1er...
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