Friday Varia and Quick Hits

With the onset of sabbatiquol looming, I’m slipping faster into panic as I try to wrap my head around 40+ weeks of uninterrupted research and writing time. I hope someone calls a meeting soon so I have something to structure my schedule.

On the other hand, that means at least 40 weeks worth of diligent web surfing to provide you with a wondrous gaggle of quick hits and varia!

• An exciting blog post summarizing the Western Argolid Regional Project 2014 field season!

• Drones in archaeology (who could’ve thought of such a thing!).

• A really really big (and undoubtedly important) tomb in Macedonia.

• The Alan Simmons Project uncovered an Early Neolithic burial on Cyprus. Some love for Western Cyprus!

• The Loebs have gone digital. What is this world coming to?

• The legacy of Ludlow in photographs. The archaeological work at Ludlow inspired our work on the North Dakota Man Camp Project.

• Punk rock drummer preserving Syrian chants.

• Iranian architecture.

• The dark undertone to cricket journalism and the long shadow of cricket’s imperial past.

• Crowd sourcing to help a local business.

• Some cool maps of second and third languages in the U.S.

• And where people in your state were born.

• Microsoft website from back in the day. 

• What I am reading: Luke Lavan ed., Local Economies? Production and Exchange of Inland Regions in Late Antiquity. Late Antique Archaeology 10. Leiden 2013.

• (What I’m really reading, thanks to Kostis Kourelis: Amy Leach, Things That Are. Minneapolis 2012)

• What I’m listening to: Beck, Morning Phase.

Sometimes everything is just too much effort.