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CHUMASH -- CALIFORNIA INDIANS -- HEALTH MAY HAVE DECLINED FROM EVERYDAY USE...
A long-term health decline among prehistoric Indians in California (USA) may be linked to their everyday use of tar, which served as glue, waterproofing, and even chewing gum.The Chumash lived in dense...
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Open Access Journal: Manuscripta orientalia
Manuscripta orientalia : international journal for Oriental manuscript researchPublished by: Russian Academy of Sciences, Institute of Oriental Studies, St. Petersburg Branch. Institut vostokovedeniia...
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US Company Sends Italian Statues Home
.US private collectors of antiquities may be willingly joining their dealers to fight for the "right" to buy artefacts without documentation of legal export, but we should note that not all US concerns...
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EBay Fails to Enforce its Own Policies on Antiquities
.SAFECorner has a text on eBay "EBay: Lip service is not enough!". As the holiday shopping season goes into full force, eBay - the leading online auction and shopping site – once again offers a...
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A Matter Of Procedure
Several weeks ago I emailed a request to a very prominent scholar. Without going into the details, I asked if he would arrange for me to see some information to which I believed he had access. I...
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Open Access Journal: The Societas Magica Newsletter
The Societas Magica Newsletter The Societas Magica is an organization dedicated tofurthering communication and exchange among scholars interested in thestudy of magic, both in the positive contexts of...
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The "Dundas Leda"
."That? Oh, that's been in the family for years" was the reply Sotheby's antiquities specialist Dr Florent Heintz got when he enquired about a 4ft 5in statue of Leda and the Swan which he spotted...
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Pagan Prayer in Schools (and Various Pagan Humor)
I saw this cartoon on the blog Pantheon and thought I should share it:The post in which it appeared is a collection of pagan humor. You absolutely must click through and read the pagan version of the...
View ArticleLe sanctuaire de Claros
Titre: Le sanctuaire de ClarosLieu: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée / LyonCatégorie: Colloques, journées d'étudesDate: 13.01.2012 - 14.01.2012Heure: 14.00 h - 16.00 hDescription: Information...
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Focus on the CCPIA: Where do these coins Blong (sic)?
.Thomas Albert, reckons that restricting the import into the US market of coins that lack documentation of lawful export is "insane" (coins circulated in the past, don't ya' know) "I do not think -...
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By their Christmas decorations shall ye know them?
Italy may be collapsing, but -- so far as I have seen in the last week -- it doesn't actually look as if it is collapsing quite as much as the UK does. I am sure that there must be areas of Italy...
View ArticleProf. Matthew Morgenstern on the History of Jewish Aramaic
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New Viking Ruler?
A hoard of coins has identified a previously unknown Viking ruler in England ... This is what I love about archaeology - a chance find can give us new information about history....
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Focus on the CCPIA: US Dealer Stubbornly Flogs a Dead Horse
.In addition to his earlier suggestion that the 1970 UNESCO Convention is actually about something other than what its title and contents proclaim, "[offensive pejorative term deleted]" Dave Welsh "...
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Miss Kim’s Class Gets a Loan Box
Erin Jensen, from our Community Education Department, sent me a few photos to post on the Loan Box webpage and I couldn’t resist giving these two young gentlemen a place of honor on the blog. Erin...
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"Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory"
A new online journal has just started publishing. "Hau: Journal of Ethnographic Theory." According to its mission statement, the journal:"aims to situate ethnography as the prime heuristic of...
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Digitisation Studio Setup
I was asked recently about guidelines for setting up a digitisation suite. I'm a bit rusty on the very latest guidelines for this, so turned to the twitters, where a discussion surround #digstudio...
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I wish I were a German
Well, maybe I don’t. But I’m still OCR’ing the annotations to Ibn Abi Usaibia — page 32 of the 62. Those annotations mention translations of various Arabic works. And, you guessed it, they were...
View ArticleAPA Blog : Norma Wynick Goldman (1922-2011)
October 11, 2011 was a remarkably beautiful afternoon to celebrate a remarkably beautiful soul at the Community Arts Auditorium at Wayne State University in Detroit. And I was honored to be there to...
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