Friday Varia and Quick Hits

It’s Memorial Day weekend in the US, and we have just survived the a frost warning (although I’m sure there were pockets that got frost last night). That said, we’re supposed to get to proper springtime weather today and it should warm over the weekend until it gets downright hot by the end of next week.

Memorial Day weekend means the Indy 500 and the Charlotte 600 back-to-back on Sunday. I am tempted to try to catch the Haney-Linares fight on Saturday night. The Phillies have a tough series against the Rays and the Sixers continue to grind their way through the Wizards. 

Of course, I have the usual pile of work to navigate this weekend, some of which I’m actually looking forward to doing and some, not so much, but hopefully more of the former in the end.

In the meantime, here’s a little gaggle of quick hits and varia:

• Rural Complexities: Comparative Investigations at Small Iron Age Sites in South-Central Cyprus

• Baugeschichte von Nauplia.

• Doing Classics on Indigenous Land.

• Creating Community and Engaging Community: The Foundations of the Estate Little Princess Archaeology Project.

• Selective Memory and the Legacy of Archaeological Figures in Contemporary Athens.

• What the “Nefertiti Hack” Tells Us About Digital Colonialism (with additional bibliography here).

• A New English-Ancient Greek Dictionary. 

• Reasons to Save Archaeology from Funding Cuts.

• Oil as Solution to the Problems of Oil.

• Machal Gardoz on being BIPOC in Classics.

• Reappraising the Silk Road: Byzantium and Ancient China

• Joy Harjo on Words as Maps

• Sundown Sirens.

• The Filing Cabinet.

• What I’m reading: Edward J. Watts, Mortal Republic: How Rome Fell into Tyranny. New York 2018.

• What I’m listening to: The Bill Dixon Orchestra, Intents and Purposes.