links for 2007-04-01

• Space Age Archaeology: Danger Will Robinson: can space junk make aeroplane travel unsafe? What goes up must come down. If it doesn’t then the problems really start. (tags: spacearchaeology)

• RandomAlex » Blog Archive » Spicy history A review of “Spice: The History of a Temptation”. Sounds like an interesting read. (tags: historyarchaeogastronomypopular+culture)

• Why do we need feminist archaeology? – Philobiblon A good example of how data are theory laden [hand gestures omitted]. (tags: feminismarchaeologytheory)

• Muhlberger’s Early History: Chaucer’s Knight by Terry Jones A book I’ve never got round to reading, but clearly I should. (tags: medievalhistoryliterature)

• BibliOdyssey: Century 21 Exposition Retro-futuristic is fantastic (tags: arthistory)

• Legendary Greek Mothers Wot no Medea? (tags: ancient+historyfeminism)

• A Don’s Life – Times Online – WBLG: In a rut Mary Beard on forthcoming research into Pompeii (tags: classicsancient+historyroman+archaeologyclassical+archaeologyarchaeologypompeii)