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Fellowships and grants

January 29, 2012, 12:45 am

SOME FUNDING OPPORTUNITIES for various relevant areas of research are gathered below. Click on the links for further details for each.3 POSTDOCTORAL RESEARCH FELLOWSDEPARTMENT OF HISTORYHUMBOLDT...

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Busy Gap from Sewingshields Crags, looking towards Housesteads The curtain wall, beneath the by-now-familiar field wall, descends into Busy Gap and is breached by a modern gateway called the King’s...

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2012.01.46: Proclus, Commentaire sur le Parménide de Platon. Tome II, livre...

January 29, 2012, 1:18 am

Review of Concetta Luna, Alain-Philippe Segonds, Proclus, Commentaire sur le Parménide de Platon. Tome II, livre II. Collection des universités de France. Série grecque, 476. Paris: 2010. Pp. cxliv,...

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2012.01.48: Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and the...

January 29, 2012, 1:18 am

Review of Claudia Bolgia, Rosamond McKitterick, John Osborne, Rome across Time and Space: Cultural Transmission and the Exchange of Ideas, c. 500-1400. Cambridge; New York: 2011. Pp. xx, 351. $99.00....

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2012.01.47: Harvest Texts in the British Museum. Rivista degli studi...

January 29, 2012, 1:18 am

Review of Annunziata Rositani, Harvest Texts in the British Museum. Rivista degli studi orientali, nuova serie. Supplemento, no 1, vol. 82. Pisa; Roma: 2011. Pp. 209 p., CD-ROM. €220.00 (pb). ISBN...

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Early Neandertals used red ochre

January 29, 2012, 1:30 am

I have never quite understood the fascination of archaeologists with red ochre. As far as I can tell, this fascination stems from the fact that it is a pigment that survives in time, and had been used...

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Tur Abdin

January 29, 2012, 2:12 am

(NEO-)ARAMAIC WATCH:Exploring the Tur Abdin a forgotten treasure of southeastern Turkey29 January 2012 / PAT YALE , MARDİN (Sunday's Zaman)Imagine a landscape of narrow country roads hemmed in by dry...

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A Herod's Tomb theme park?

January 29, 2012, 2:21 am

CONTROVERSY OVER HEROD'S TOMB:Top archeologists condemn Israeli plan to rebuild ancient tombThe plan, promoted by the Israel Nature and Parks Authority and the Gush Etzion Regional Council, includes...

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Thony Christie on Hevelius

January 29, 2012, 3:35 am

If you have any interest in the history of astronomy you should be following The Renaissance Mathematicus blog and this post, The last great naked eye astronomer, is a perfect example of why. This is a...

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Open Access Journal: Histria Archaeologica

January 29, 2012, 4:45 am

[First posted in AWOL 28 October 2009. Updated 29 January 2012]Histria ArchaeologicaISSN: 0350-6320 Časopis Histria archaeologica izlazi periodično od 1970. godine. Nastao je kao potreba objavljivanja...

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Digital Library of the Istria Archaeological Museum

January 29, 2012, 5:01 am

Arheološki Muzej Istre Histria archaeologicaMonografije i katalozi 20 volumesKatalozi arheološkog muzeja Istre 87 volumesKatalozi pedagoške službe 8 volumesPosebno izdanje Histria archaeologica

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Dungeon Dudgeon Gudgeon Bludgeon

January 29, 2012, 7:14 am

Dungeon: a massive inner tower in a Medieval castle or a dark usually underground prison or vault. Traceable back to Latin dominus, lord. Dudgeon: a wood used especially for dagger hilts or a fit or...

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