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In Afghanistan, a Rush to Save Buried Treasure - WSJ.com
In Afghanistan, a Rush to Save Buried Treasure - WSJ.com: For 1,500 years, the sandstone cliffs of afghanistan's Bamiyan valley encased two towering Buddhas peering sleepily from their caves onto...
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Open Access Journals: Syrian Studies Association Newsletter
[First posted in AWOL 7 September 2009. Updated 27 January 2012]Syrian Studies Association Newsletter The Syrian Studies Association (SSA) is an international association organized to encourage and...
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Treasure Hunting Village Priest Arrested
After receiving complaints of loud noises coming from the chancel of the church of the Prophet Elijah Greek police investigated and found a 6ft by 3ft hole in the chancel of the church. The priest and...
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Planet Princeton Comments
Source: MiBAC Planet Princeton comments on the return ("Princeton University Returns Art to Italy", January 26, 2012). But what is more interesting is the response from Robert Steven Bianchi and I...
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An orphan in the larger picture
I have been reflecting on the announcement of fragmentary Greek pots to Italy. And it strikes me that a fragment acquired by the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1984 and its relationship to other fragments of...
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Broughton Coin Theft
I know that a number of numismatists read LM ... so perhaps they could do their bit to help solve the theft of some coins from a house in the Scottish Borders.
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Chris Stringer, "Rethinking Out of Africa"
Over at the Edge: I'm thinking a lot about species concepts as applied to humans, about the "Out of Africa" model, and also looking back into Africa itself. I think the idea that modern humans...
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Rejected by Science !!
I just got a rejection for a manuscript sent to the journal Science. That's strike two for me with Science (I sent them my paper on agricultural terraces, back in the early 1990s; it ended up in JFA)....
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"Master Builders of Lancaster," my methods seminar on architectural history had its second meeting. Last week, we spent sometime in Lancaster's cemetery, where students took measurements of assigned...
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Quick stroll through Lancaster cemetery before the rain broke out. Picked out one funerary monument, vaguely related to the steeple type discussed previously. First, I was tempted to sketch the grave...
View ArticleIn Your Mouth And In Your ????
Claude Mariottini reminded me of an abnormally interesting paper by Nathan Wasserman and Michael Streck, "Dialogues and Riddles: Three Old Babylonian Wisdom Texts,” Iraq 73, 2011, 117-26. There are a...
View ArticleNeanderthals and their contemporaries engineered stone tools
New published research from anthropologists at the University of Kent (UK) has scientifically supported for the first time the long held theory that early human ancestors across Africa, Western Asia...
View ArticleUnderwater archaeology: The elusive Minoan wrecks
Brendan Foley, a marine archaeologist at the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, USA, and his colleagues at Greece's Ephorate of Underwater Antiquities, made a four-week survey of the waters around...
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Wall Mile 36
Leaving Milecastle 37, we head east towards the plantation and a rare treat: the only chance to actually walk on the wall. Once upon a time, walkers merrily yomped along the top of the curtain wall in...
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2012.01.45: Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse
Review of Mabel Lang, Thucydidean Narrative and Discourse. Ann Arbor: 2011. Pp. xxiii, 219. $65.00. ISBN 9780979971341.
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Recent Archaeomags
British Archaeology #122 (Jan/Feb) has a good feature on the origins of Roman London, presenting and collating evidence from excavations in the 90s and 00s for a military camp immediately post-dating...
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Which academics have turned down honours?
It's a dilemma which most of us aren't going to have to face. But I'm sure many of have enjoyed this particular "what if...." question. "What if I was awarded an 'honour'...MBE? CBE? Knighthood? .......
View ArticleThree strikes, and Carotta is out!
Readers may have noticed that I devoted January's postings to reviewing the eccentric theory (I use the adjective advisedly -- Merriam-Webster defines it as "deviating from conventional or accepted...
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Open Access Journal: The European Archaeologist
[First posted in AWOL 6 October 2010. Updated 28 January 2012] The European Archaeologist - Internet EditionISSN 1022-0135 The European Association of Archaeologists (EAA) is a membership-based...
View ArticlePrinceton University returning six works of art to Italy
Fieldnotes: News Briefs Princeton University returning six works of art to Italy The Trentonian - January 27, 2012 The Princeton University Art Museum has returned six artifacts to Italy. Read...
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