Vidi
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
An entertaining post on the rivalry between Newton and Hooke.
An attempt to make a reality TV show around Geology.
Seeing as I don’t have children, this is useful reading for me.
History is where you make it, so while a petrol station might seem an odd thing to record, it still part of people’s lives. Magnus Reuterdahl gives some of his memories of where he used to work.
It would be cynical to feign shock at the news that the occupation of Iraq is more about oil than anything else. Mehiyar Kathem gives reasons why failure of occupation still matters. I’d also add that a healthy market in illicit Iraqi antiquities puts Coalition soldiers at risk – unless the criminals looting the archaeological sites in the dangerous parts of Iraq are ENTIRELY unrelated to the people making those parts of Iraq dangerous.
You’ll have to visit if you want to find out, but it might not be quite what you think.
Yet more evidence that H.Erectus wasn’t stupid.
David Gill shows why collectors records simply aren’t good enough if they’re serious about the past.
It seems they had fun in 18th Century Sweden.
via the Stoa, this looks like it could be a really clever way of showing how digital-based scholarship could create new opportunities in Classics. It’s a conference you can attend without being there, or even in a similar timezone.
Steve Muhlberger has news of the new Brian Fagan book.
There’s a skill to fieldwalking that can be easily overlooked by people who haven’t tried it. Martin shows some of the difficulties. It’s also well worth reading the comments, because there’s another question: “How do you know that what you’ve found was intentionally made?”
Is there something to be said for including bombing in urban planning?
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