Vidi
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
Alan Cann has a helpful screencast on the difficulties of finding normality in small data sets.
“Immigrants who want to become British and settle permanently in the UK will need to pass more tests to ‘prove their worth’ to the country under new plans”…says the BBC. That’s great news, so long as we can also apply it to other UK citizens as well as immigrants. All those people involved in the ‘even cheaper car insurance’ adverts – let’s put them through the test with a one-way ticket to Sangatte if they fail. Cliff Richard, Noel Edmonds, Chris Tarrant… it could create so much joy.
Now available on Google Maps, this is probably the most complex stone circle in the British Isles when seen from the air.
How justice works.
To be honest I think I’d prefer the medieval cheese he was offering.
Comments on the difference between dates and reliable dates from archaeological contexts. Useful, and not just for the Pleistocene.
Survey should be simple. You go out look at stuff and record what you find. Bill Caraher introduces some of the problems with that, like where do you look? Is that your survey really related to ancient practice, or is it more a product of the modern landscape? After all you cannot fieldwalk a carpark – unless you really hate your survey crew.
It’s about making research available to the people studied. How many journals won’t be OA by 2010?
The one with the archaeoastronomer in it. Watch online or download as an avi. I’d far rather watch it from 4od, but they don’t have a Mac-friendly option.
BAJR reports on a mapping tool which could be a major aid to archaeology in the UK. If the pricing can be sorted out.
Work starts on exhuming 50 Victorian corpses from a spot next to Somerset’s county cricket ground. You can make your own joke about watching cricket.
John Hawks has an example of archaeogenetics which I can get interested in. As he says it’s the historical awareness that allows me to take the genetics seriously.
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