Vidi
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
There’s a bit more to archaeological survey than just picking up anything you like the look of. It may not be as glamourous as digging or running away from huge boulders, but fieldwalking is a hugely important tool for examining landscapes.
The humanities have traditionally been the core of a classical university education, equipping graduates both culturally and morally. Today, however, humanities academics are increasingly questioning their purpose, and striving to strike a balance between canonical reverence and contemporary relevance. Matthew Reisz reports
Study suggests that metrics-based assessment may radically alter results. Zoe Corbyn reports.
Lower-rated departments could rise substantially under the REF, which replaces peer-review judgments in science subjects with a system of metrics, including a count of the number of times researchers’ published work is cited by their peers.
Seems reasonable.
I’m beaten in finding the new IJ trailer on YouTube, but the best reason to visit is for the final image.
It looks incongruous across the dank, misty farmland north of Ypres. A large party marquee erected amongst the winter stubble; but it marks one of the most ambitious battlefield archaeology projects ever attempted.
Get the lowdown on why American condoms are useless if you want to repel Germans from the Eastern Front.
This is exciting and gruesome. Archaeozoology has details remains found in the Sudan dating back to the Neolithic.
Are we in for another round of the ‘frame’ wars. PZ on why a problem doesn’t disappear when there’s a nicer frame around it.
Jonathan Jarrett on a book by authors who think that interdisciplinarity means being sound in more than one discipline.
News on fulacht fiadh. Fulacht Fiadh are mounds of burnt rock found in Ireland dating from the Bronze Age. I’ve no real ideas what they might be, so I’m interested in the brewing experiments.
CARL PYRDUM finds an absolutely SENSATIONAL OFFER on eBay which must the DEAL OF THE CENTURY. After all there’s no way THIS COULD BE FAKE, with so many CAPITAL LETTERS being used is there? 🙂
More thoughts on OA and the AAA. I didn’t know about the ‘request e-print button’ on eprints. That, to me, seems like genius.
Tim Jones has news of a free paper from one of the most consistently interesting anthropological journals.
“The process of natural selection can act on human culture as well as on genes, a new study finds.” I’ll have to work out how to get papers from PNAS. I’ve had no luck yet, and I know my university has access to it.
When ignorance is bliss insults lose impact.
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