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Playing with PELAGIOS: Dealing with a bazillion RDF files
Latest in a Playing with PELAGIOS series Some of the PELAGIOS partners distribute their annotation RDF in a relatively small number of files. Others (like SPQR and ANS) have a very large number of...
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Archaeology in the News!
Recent stories from the world of archaeology! The Penn Museum celebrates its 125th anniversary year by placing an arguably incomparable collection of ancient artifacts online for the world to see. The...
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U.S. court backs Spain over Odyssey Treasure
U.S. court backs Spain over $500M sea treasure - CNN.com:The 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Atlanta on Tuesday turned aside another motion from the U.S.-based company, Odyssey Marine...
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Equality and Diversity Training: Cambridge University's Own Goal
I have just scored 100% on the most worthless exam I have ever sat -- the Cambridge University "Equality and Diversity Essentials" test online. I have had some experience of the futility of online...
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Marine Odyssey Exploration Loses Spanish Treasure Trove
Florida based Odyssey Marine Exploration has been ordered by an Atlanta judge to return to Spain the half million gold and silver Spanish coins recovered off the coast of Spain from the wreck of the...
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Camels in Greece? Really Gizmodo? Source?
A potentially interesting item in Gizmodo begins thusly: The ancient Greeks called the thapsia garganica plant “deadly carrot,” because their camels would eat it and quickly die. The Roman emperor Nero...
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Angkor Wat Minecraft project
Any readers playing Minecraft? I don’t play it myself (I hardly have any time to play games on my phone for that matter!), but if you’re playing the award-winning game of construction and creativity,...
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CFP: Theories of the Past
Via Dan Diffendale: Theories of the Past: The Role of History in Archaeological Approaches An Interdisciplinary Graduate Student Conference Sponsored by the University of Michigan Collaborative...
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Roman Numerals and that Big Game on Sunday ~ A Different Spin
Every year I get more and more bored with the apparently obligatory rants from sports writers about the use of Roman numerals in regards to the Super Bowl (to say nothing of my annual conversation with...
View ArticleNow The President
Stop it. Just Stop it. Stop citing the Bible and/or Jesus in favor of (or against) anything. It says exactly nothing that might directly inform our modern world about anything and that includes tax...
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Describing a single folio of E4: 188 recto
Folio 188 recto of the manuscript of the Iliad known as E4.In this post I will give some basic information about the Iliad manuscript known as E4 (Allen, = West F, Escorialensis Ω.I.12), and then...
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Metrical Book-Summaries on Two Byzantine Manuscripts
Metrical Book-Summaries on Two Byzantine ManuscriptsBook 1 (“Alpha”) Summarized with one line of Greek in dactylic hexameter, on the Venetus A and the Escorialensis 4Each Byzantine manuscript of the...
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The dog of Orion
In a previous post, I attempted to describe folio 188r of the eleventh-century manuscript of the Iliad known as E4, in order to make some preliminary observations about the manuscript and its...
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Public Lecture: Pots and How They are Made in Southeast Asia
Readers in Singapore may be interested in this talk about ceramics production in Mainland SEA by Louise Cort and Leedom Lefferts. Click on the image to download the flyer (pdf). No registration is...
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Who Said It?
According to Diogenes Laertius, who compared ©Clipart.com the educated and uneducated by saying the former were superior ...Read Full Post
View ArticleVideos as visual aids in presenting experimental archaeology
For reasons that should become clear fairly soon, I've had experimental archaeology videos on my mind lately. In many cases, actually seeing segments of an experimental study play out can convey so...
View ArticlePlaying for Change: Rebetika Performance in Troubled Times
February 08, 2012 - 1:01 AM - Lecture Dr. Yona Stamatis, Ethnomusicologist
View Article4,000-year-old artifact found in Connecticut
An ancient spearpoint was found at an excavation site in Connecticut (USA) during a Norwalk Community College-sponsored archaeology dig. Chelsea Dean, senior at Fairfield Ludlowe High School, took the...
View ArticlePragmatique et philologie grecque à propos des excerpta des Antiquités...
Titre: Pragmatique et philologie grecque à propos des excerpta des Antiquités romaines de Denys d'HalicarnaLieu: Université Paris Diderot - Paris VII / ParisCatégorie: Séminaires, conférencesDate:...
View ArticleNeanderthal mammoth hunters in Jersey?
Archaeologists are investigating the truth behind the story that Ice Age Neanderthals in Jersey would push mammoths off cliffs in St Brelade for food. About 30 years ago, evidence suggested...
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