Vidi
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
They’re missing one. Tsch!
The best discussion of the problems with the name Macedonia that I’ve read for a long while. There are precedents elsewhere in the EU. The Belgian region bordering Luxembourg is called Luxembourg. If I recall my history correctly the region controlled from the castle at Luxembourg City was a lot larger than the region which eventually became independent as the Grand Duchy of Luxembourg. At the same time the GDL has no claims on the Belgian region and vice versa. Dienekes brings out some of the reasons why it’s not so simple in the Balkans.
You have to admire the skill with which some people shoot themselves in the foot. I was pretty ambivalent on Scottish claims to the Lewis chessmen. I’m still not convinced, but it seems to be evidence for claims that national heritage policy is arranged for the benefit of London rather than the UK. I’m hoping it’s a few idiots sending these emails rather than an endemic attitude.
Some relatively positive news on efforts to protect rock art in the Western Sahara from vandalism.
Love and gore in medieval England – or why when someone asks if they can draw you it’s terribly important to check they’re an artist.
Peru is going to remain a hotspot for anyone wanting to make a name for themselves in archaeology for a long while.
Staggeringly useful
Steve Muhlberger points to an interesting article about a druid grave.
My very limited knowledge of Axum meets my complete ignorance of Yemeni archaeology here, so I can’t say how likely this is. Nonetheless it is an extremely interesting idea. There’s certainly large scale interaction between East Africa and the Arabian peninsula, so I wouldn’t rule it out.
The only sensible reaction is to club together to buy Brett air tickets to other interesting places.
Thoughts on the human scale of landscape survey with a link to a useful .kmz file of Attic Border forts.
Julien Riel-Salvatore on a problem which I’ve seen Brian Fagan and very few other people worry about. The impact of tourism on the erosion of archaeological sites. I’ll have to check out the new issue of Antiquity.
Basically without a receipt from the smuggler confirming the artefact is illicit, it’s legal under US law.
Lack of time, money and crippling problems with infrastructure. Why me might never uncover the Sudan’s past.
The Ministry of Justice in the UK is to clamp down on archaeology following reports that some archaeologists may study human bones.
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