Vidi
…and now follows more sites including many I left out of the previous Vidi.
News
A radical plan for Stonehenge was announced over the weekend. Professor Peter Fowler has announced he wants nothing to do with the fiasco and said “Sod the lot of you” (I paraphrase) to the Quango overseeing the improvements on site. I have to agree with him that no intervention is better that the slicing and dicing of the site proposed by the various government agencies.
Apollo proves he’s way cooler than Zeus thanks to the Secret Death Chamber Found in Temple of Apollo.
UCL reinforces the stereotypes of pre-Columbian America with Humble shoelace tag carried more currency than gold on Columbus’s travels, but they do have the evidence to back it up.
Discovering Biology in a Digitial World has news of a forthcoming programme (tonight) in the post Leif Erickson vs. Columbus (via Pharyngula)
Ancient hair dye used nanotechnology reports the ABC (via Mirabilis)
A Scottish community is making Moves to keep Pictish symbol stone in Angus. How local is heritage? (via Archaeology in Europe).
Has King David’s spa been uncovered? asks Ynet, a story I found via Dr Jim West‘s site whose take on it Archaeological Misrepresentation makes clear his view.
Pouring soothing paraffin onto the flames of the Middle East is the story from Arutz Sheva British Historian Claims to Have Found the Temple Treasures a story which finishes “The treasure’s final hiding place – in the modern West Bank … deep in Hamas territory – will rock world religions.”. In a staggering coincidence you can get all the details in the authors very reasonably priced new book available at all good bookstores. Steve Muhlberger has more details in Another fantasy of the End Times.
You can also find news at Rogue Classicism and Hot Cup of Joe.
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Open Access
Coturnix offers two readings on Online publishing, new way of peer-reviewing, and blogs and opens a debate at A Blog Around the Clock.
Martin Rundkvist at Salto Sobrius talks about Greed and Buffoonery in Academic Publishing where he talks about a business deal where he hands over work to a publishing house for free and in return he promises not to mention what he said anywhere for a year.
The Stoa points to a story British Academy: “copyright is hindering scholarship”
Digging Digitally at least has some good news with an Important Development with Anthropology and FRPAA
The Tree of Life offers the Top 10 Novel ways to contribute to the Open Access movement. I have doubts about number one, because it drops fellow academics in trouble but it’s all worth reading.
Finally if you’re interested in finding out how you can be published in places where people can read your work there’s Peter Suber’s Open Access News.
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Janet Stemwedel offers advice to new students writing essays listing Historical details which, if gotten wrong, might just make me lose it. If any of the new Leicester students have found this site then there’s also Essays for 1st years.
I loved Orac’s take on the Shades of Lysistrata!
Jeremy Boggs at Clioweb has a design challenge History is…. His suggestion is History is Beta. I’d be tempted to so an ancient Greek version, but I don’t know what the ancient Greek for Beta is…
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Invisible people?
Natalie Bennett of Philobiblon says Why we need feminist archaeologists/paleontologists.
Another group of people who are usually invisible to archaeologists are children. David Tiley at Barista explains that in the Palaeolithic they may be very visible because the hands of children were in caves.
Ireneo’s Memory has yet more overlooked people and points to a download Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery In The United States From Interviews With Former Slaves.
Kevin Levin of Civil War Memory addresses another form of invisibility in Homophobia On Campus which he argues is a problem which schools and colleges refuse to see.
Someone who was unseen but come to light is Francis Lupo who repatriation was noted by Esther MacCallum-Stewart at Break of Day in the Trenches in Doughboy Returned.
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Rebecca Goetz gave the game away when she ceased (a)musings of a graduate student. Now as a Historianess (an Historianess?) she talks about Thoughts on popular and academic history.
The Proper Study Of Mankind is a blog I ought to link to more often. I’ve the perfect reason to slip it in seamlessly here by noting the post Tenacious Neanderthals.
Adrian Murdoch at Bread and Circuses explains how to catch Quails in the ancient world.
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Travel
Athena blogs from the British School at Rome and finds a library just like Oxford’s. http://ritesofpassageblog.blogspot.com/2006/10/notes-from-rome-2.html
From the EAA blog are two conference reports. One is from the UISPP (Union Internationale des Sciences Préhistoriques et Protohistoriques) conference in Lisbon, the other from the EAA meeting in Krakow. The EAA also tempts people with a trip to Aarhus for Nordic TAG.
Natalie Bennett takes A walk around Brittany…
The latest news from Israel is that Gath flourished in the Early Bronze Age.
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N.S. Gill at about Ancient History has Another Square Peg-Round Hole US-Classical World Comparison while Barista shows how it could be done with comments on torture in a historical context in ‘could ever look me in the eye again’
John Hawks adds to my list of must read books with A little game theory history. It’s one of the areas where I can see current mathematical research making a big differences to the social sciences.
Tony Keen at Memorabilia Antonina laments The end of coursework? in GCSEs, the exam for 16 year olds. I know some people who didn’t do their coursework and did get a good mark in GCSEs, so I’m less concerned, though I agree if the student were doing the work it would be a very good form of assessment.
Via ABZU I learn I’m a scientist. For a while I was indeed the only Ancient Historian in the Science Faculty at Leicester but I’ve since been moved to Arts.
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Reviews
It’s the review to end all reviews Chris Heard at Higgaion has reviewed The Exodus Decoded. I can’t say definitively as I’m near the start of the twelve parts, but it looks really good. I found it via Abnormal Interests, which has a post discussing part of it The Canaanites Were in Canaan.
Imperium by Robert Harris, review by Adrian Murdoch.
Imperium by Robert Harris, review by N.S.Gill.
Noah’s Flood: The New Scientific Discoveries About The Event That Changed History by William Ryan (Part One) (part two), review by Carl Feagans.
Imperial Possesion Britain in the Roman Empire: 54 BC – AD 409 by David Mattingly, review by Mary Beard.
Out of the Cave, Philosophical Inquiry into the Dead Sea Scrolls Research by Edna Ullmann-Margalit, reviews via Jim West.
The Jesus Dynasty by James D. Tabor, review by Tim Gebhart.
Odysseus Unbound by Robert Bittlestone et al., review by Γλαυκο̂πις.
What makes a good review by Mary Beard here too.
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Finally I don’t think I mentioned Bibliodyssey last time, which is strange because there’s always something beautiful there. This time I’m picking Ireland. There’s also a slight change at Abnormal Interests with Friday Stone Blogging which for this entry is a rock. Prison photo by thecolourblue. My folders are empty so there’ll be a lot longer gap to the next installment.
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