Vidi
Links that I’ve bookmarked in the past few days should be below the fold.
Blogs are not papers and making them so loses what makes a blog a blog argues Bill Caraher.
BibliOdyssey is as stunning as ever. I can’t help thinking a comment needs a bit more than that, but I’m stuck for words. As I said it’s stunning.
The battle over who is able to exploit Peru’s past continues. Would foreign investment in property near ancient sites be a good thing or not?
Margaret Hodge is still taking the line that the DCMS cannot interfere in PAS funding crisis. This would be more plausible if the DCMS were not ringfencing budgets elsewhere. If the DCMS cannot protect British heritage who can?
Gas chromatography and mass spectrometry reveal that the Bamiyan Buddhas may have also been among the world’s oldest surviving oil painting. In Spanish, but with links to Anglophonic sites.
A tale of how Colleen Morgan became an archaeologist. It is beautifully excavated and it’s well worth following through to her photos.
A post on the usefulness of rats in archaeology. It shouldn’t be that surprising for people who sift through other people’s rubbish. This technique should start leading to some interesting results elsewhere.
RandomAlex on the first Lara Croft film. Giving Ms. Croft a bungee cord and bouncing her up and down sounds tacky, but I agree it is a good scene. There’s more blur than bounce.
Possibly the second biggest archaeological event of the summer, after Crystal Skull.
“With this move we are highlighting out political philosophy and we hope people in other countries will follow suit,” Liapis said after meeting with his Albanian counterpart Ylli Pango.
I’m linking to the site I found this link from, rather than directly to the Real Eolith. Partly as a hat-tip and partly as a warning.
“Think of the Roman legacy to Britain and many things spring to mind – straight roads, under-floor heating, aqueducts and public baths.
“But they were also pioneers in the health arena – particularly in the area of eye care, with remedies for various eye conditions such as short-sightedness and conjunctivitis.”
Tim Jones on the ongoing problems for Iraqi heritage.
What’s in a name? An awful lot it seems in this question.
A couple of useful links to things I’ve missed, including more museum CC photography.
Interesting thoughts on how Web 2.0 is or isn’t used. I think one issue is a question of marking authorship, which is why Flickr may be more acceptable than a Wiki.
After three years, the Jerash Hinterland Survey returns to Jordan.
My RSS subscription to DC keeps failing to take hold. It’s a shame because I could miss these thoughts on Zeus at Mount Lykaion.
Thoughts on the turf war between archaeologists and classicists. I tend to do a bit of both. Hence the self-loathing.
Antoninus Pius discovers an unexpected Roman fort in Croatia.
“Where objects were obtained by right of conquest at a time when the country of origin was weak (e.g. Benin bronzes, Ashanti gold, Burmese treasures, much from India in the Army Museum),the ex-imperial country in retaining these items is denying part of the independence ‘granted’ to such countries; and this is a neo-colonialist policy.”
Kwame Opoku argues that mass plunder is a European trait. I’m not sure that’s true. I suspect trophy gathering is universal trait and that the British were particularly good at it. I don’t think that changes much of his argument though. European powers have a lot of African material in their museums, and the quote above is a serious question about what independence means.
He has another good line in another of his articles. Something along the lines that African heritage is kept because of a universal humanity, but African people are kept out at the borders. You can ask why universal humanity doesn’t extend to humans.
Excavations at site in Galway has revealed what appear to be early Christian burials.
The establishment of a professional army was a huge innovation for Rome. The closest equivalent I can think of is Sparta, but this was a completely different scale.
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