Dialogue littéraire et interactions verbales
Titre: Dialogue littéraire et interactions verbalesLieu: Maison des Sciences de l Homme / Clermont-FerrandCatégorie: Colloques, journées d'étudesDate: 10.02.2012Heure: 20.00 hDescription: Information...
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Looters, Black Archaeology, Collectors and the archaeological record in...
.According to Katerina Ivanova writing in today's "Standart" ('Crisis Inspires Investing in Stolen Antiques'), a side effect of the current economic crisis, the instability of the financial markets and...
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Sumerian gold jar, other relics returned to Iraq | Reuters
Sumerian gold jar, other relics returned to Iraq | Reuters:A 6,500-year-old Sumerian gold jar, the head of a Sumerian battle axe and a stone from an Assyrian palace were among 45 relics returned to...
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Germany Returns More(?) Stolen Artefacts to Iraq
.Today in a ceremony at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs Germany turned over to Iraqi officials45 relics stolen from Iraq's museums and archeological sites in the mayhem that followed the U.S.-led...
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Who ya gonna call? DH Winebuyers
Claire Warwick has blogged about the, erm, adminstrative snafu that meant no wine appearedafter her inaugural. So its probably ok to post this pic of the team undertaking the wine run to the nearest...
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A checklist for writers
Technology both shapes and reflects our values. What do we value in scholarly writing, and how well do our technological choices match those values?I look for software that supports four necessary or...
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mtDNA of domestic horses: Ancestral Mare ~130-160 thousand years old
The paper is open access. PNAS doi: 10.1073/pnas.1111637109 Mitochondrial genomes from modern horses reveal the major haplogroups that underwent domestication Alessandro Achilli et al. Archaeological...
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Actualité de l’Antiquité / 9 : spécial BD
Bulles d’Antiquité à Bavay (et ailleurs). La bande dessinée est à l’honneur : le Musée de Bavay présente une exposition sur la BD alors que le palmarès du Festival d’Angoulême 2012 vient de tomber....
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Apply now for the Andante archaeology award
Do you have an archaeological project in need of funds? Some post excavation work requiring specialists? A field survey lacking vital equipment? An excavation without tools? Or indeed almost any sort...
View ArticleCIL to be digitised at last?
Via Ancient World Online I learn of an initiative here to scan in the out-of-copyright volumes of the Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum. This is very welcome news, so long as we get PDF’s out of the end...
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NEW PICTURE OF HUMAN ORIGINS -- DENISOVANS, NEANDERTHALS AND HOMO SAPIENS!
The tip of a girl’s 40,000-year-old pinky finger found in a cold Siberian cave, paired with faster and cheaper genetic sequencing technology, is helping scientists draw a surprisingly complex new...
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Germany Returns Looted Afghan Sculpture
.This week, Germany returned an ancient pre-Islamic sculpture looted during Afghanistan's civil war. The 30 cm high limestone relief shows eight figures, and dates from the second century AD,. The...
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Chinese challengers to Sothebys and Christies
.In the past five years, there has been a massive expansion in the market for Chinese art as China's millionaires and billionaires begin to invest in art and rediscover the heritage of their homeland....
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ASOR assistant discovers fun of field archaeology
My experience in Israel this summer was amazing. As ASOR’s Assistant to the Executive Director, I only ever hear about the other side of archaeology, excavation in the field, but had not yet...
View ArticleA portrait of a damned soul
An old college friend died a couple of years ago. I only found out a week or so ago, when I did something that I never do — I logged into Friends Reunited. A menu highlighted that someone that I knew...
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Doctor Who: The Tenth Planet (and the First Regeneration)
The episode “The Tenth Planet” marks an important turning point in the history of Doctor Who – and not only because it introduced the Cybermen who would feature perennially throughout the show’s...
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The Latest on the Indiana Creationism Bill: Adding Still Other Views on...
“Unconstitutional Crusade Hurts Critical Thinking” is the title of a letter to the editor which appeared in today’s Indianapolis Star about the creationism bill that is going before Indiana’s senate....
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The American Anthropological Association opposes open science
Why am I surprised? This is the same group of people who wanted to remove "science" from the definition of anthropology. Apparently, not only do they think that science might not be "inclusive" enough...
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What's the problem? Nail technology or league tables?
I've heard quite enough about 'Mickey Mouse' qualifications today -- and what Mr Gove and his friends are doing to clean this little mess up. No longer will schools be able to count a BTEC in Fish...
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Changement d’adresse !!!
Chères lectrices, chers lecteurs, Archéo Facts a déplacé son blog à l’adresse http://archeofacts.ch/blog/ Nous vous souhaitons beaucoup de plaisir à continuer à nous lire !
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