links for 2007-02-24

• New evidence — Clovis people not first to populate North America The Clovis period has been re-dated to b both younger and shorter than expected. (tags: archaeologypalaeoindianprehistoric)

• Medieval Islamic designs reveal breakthrough in tiled pattern-making One for Phil I think. (tags: archaeologytileceramic+building+materialhistorical+archaeologyscience)

• Skeptico: SETI finds something A reason to run SETI@home, even if you don’t think there’s life out there. (tags: science)

• Japanese TV Show Admits Faking Science: BLOG: SciAm Observations It doesn’t take a Brainiac to work out some science shows are faked, with potentially lethal consequences. (tags: scienceethics)

• GBS on the KOB Brett Holman on the speed of surrender. (tags: historymilitary+historyhistory+of+science)

• ARLT :: Ermine Street Guard pictures gathered in one place Photos of the best Roman reenactment team. (tags: roman+historyarchaeologyroman+archaeology)

• Clovis No Longer First K. Kris Hirst puts the new Clovis findings into context. (tags: archaeologypalaeoindianprehistoric)

• CFP: Invented Civilizations | European Journal of Archaeology The archaeological equivalent of the forthcoming Classics Hell conference? (tags: archaeologytheorypopular+culture)

• Afarensis: World’s Oldest Artificial Eyeball Found Personally I’m surprised that so many people survived prehistoric medicine (tags: archaeologyprehistoryhistory+of+science)

• Reconstructing Roman Wagons « Ancient Transportation Kristian Minck finds some full-scale reconstructions of Roman wagons. (tags: archaeologyroman+archaeologyclassical+archaeologyroman+history)

• remote central: New Evidence — Clovis People Not First To Populate North America Tim Jones on the Clovis story. (tags: archaeologypalaeoindianprehistoric)

• Aardvarchaeology : Book Review: Lönn, Uppdragsarkeologi och forskning On the relationship between ‘academic’ and contract archaeology. (tags: archaeologytheoryacademia)

• Carnival of Feminists #32 « Bumblebee Sweet Potato Not just about the Edwards bloggers. (tags: blog+carnivalfeminism)

• LRB | Pythagoras via Blogographos an excellent review of how our opinion of Pythagoras has changed over the past half century. (tags: ancient+historyclassicsphilosophyhistory+of+science)