Friday Varia and Quick Hits

I am under brutal, continuous assault by allergies this month so I had a slow, headachy, mucus-filled morning at Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Headquarters.

But, the blog must go on and my readers deserve their quick hits and varia on this springlike Easter weekend.

• Social practice and archaeology in the Naples catacombs.

• Some cool archaeology at Late Roman Ostia.

• The ancient theater at Florence.

• Drones and archaeology in Jordan.

• This is mildly disturbing (that someone could express this in public).

• Curious consequences of British Open Access rules.

• Chris Ware on numismatics.

• Mass in Famagusta.

• Reopening of the Iraq Museum.

• An American listening map.

• A film on Gertrude Bell.

• A 13-year old girl in Mongolia hunts with a golden eagle.

• RIP Gabriel Garcia Marquez.

• The commercial value of the 1980s (and some notes on the Atari dig). FiveThirtyEight chimes on the relative crappyness of E.T.

• Clearly there is a lot of misinformation about the power of beards in the scientific community.

• Little boy with a big trashcan.

• Some will be more upset about the risk to quinoa than others.

• This will be my tour vehicle.

• What I’m reading: W. Rathje and C. Murphy, Rubbish! The Archaeology of Garbage. (1992).

• What I’m listening to: EMA, The Future’s Void.

Maiden Flight