links for 2007-01-31

• Romans on the Right: The Art and Archaeology of Roman Traffic by Eric Poehler [PDF] A discussion of Roman traffic based on a survey of kerbs at Pompeii. (tags: roman+archaeologyarchaeologypompeii)

• Astronomy – Roman portents probe the Sun A write up of research on the visibility of aurorae in Roman times. (tags: archaeoastronomyastronomyroman+history)

• Gentium — a typeface for the nations A polytonic and free font. Useful for displaying ancient greek. (tags: ancient+historygreek+historyfontsopenSourceunicode)

• Yankee Fog: Best Websites of 2004 One doesn’t like to boast (tags: highly+unlikely)

• Holocene Varnish Paper (pre-print) It might soon be possbile to date rock art. I’ll need to go through this paper with a Geologist (tags: archaeologydatinggeologysciencerock+artart)

• Nomadic Thoughts: Break out the champagne! Will Klinger on Stonehenge making the top of CNN before being replaced by ‘proper news’. Boo! Hiss! 🙂 (tags: archaeologyprehistoricarchaeoastronomystone+agestonehenge)

• A taste for scholarship and beer A news story on the oldest beer in Canada. via Glaukopidos. (tags: ancient+historysciencearchaeologyarchaeogastronomy)