Cliopatria Awards 2008: Best Series of Posts
Here we’re moving out of my depth slightly. I haven’t been following enough blogs that intently to mention more than a couple of series of posts.
So instead of a comprehensive overview, I’m going to grab the ‘highlight work that others might not have seen’ baton and point to Le Site d’Irna as my nomination for Best Series of Posts. I’m nominating with mixed feelings, because I’m not really interested in giving the subject any more publicity. So the write-up is oblique to try and avoid a certain phrase and drawing in more visitors who get angry when you rule out alien intervention as an explanation for archaeological remains, purely due to lack of evidence. To a large extent the world is bored. It’s old news. Yet still he keeps digging and destroying more and more of the irreplaceable past. Irna with her series of posts has kept a chronicle of what has been going in the Balkans (clue if you don’t know what I’m talking about). It’s a thankless task, at least for now but I’m entirely serious when I say her posts are of historic importance. This will be valuable material when someone wants to talk about the ‘equal validity of different ways of knowing.’ It’s the only place I know of where the extra-terrestrial hunting pseudoarchaeologists have been given carte blanche on a site of archaeological importance.
The posts are:
It’s a shame she’s had to write them, but she has written them well and they deserve recognition.
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