links for 2007-04-23

• remote central: Egypt Vows “Scientific War” If Germany Doesn’t Loan Nefertiti Hawass wants Nefertiti for his new Museum and he doesn’t plan on letting anyone stop him. (tags: heritagepolitics)

• John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : Notes on “Darwinian agriculture” Can agriculture be explained in an evolutionary system? The ever interesting John Hawks has some thoughts on selection (tags: evolutionarchaeologyarchaeogastronomy)

• Back Garden Archaeology: Bereft of Finds! This is fascinating. A guy conducting his own small scale archaeological excavation and research project. (tags: archaeologymedieval)

• Northstate Science: Of Puppies, Christians and Evolutionists Christopher O’Brien with a historical perspective of how when Christians get dogmatic about their morality it’s the dogs that get hurt. (tags: religionhistoryethicspolitics)

• kenodoxia: Wittgenstein and Socrates James Warren finds a paper with an intriguing analysis of Plato Socrates and Wittgenstein. Is Philosophy homosexual, or do they simply dress stylishly. (tags: philosophy)

• Roman Food – What Foods Romans Ate at Their Meals N.S. Gill on a periennial question, what did Romans eat? Staples of Italian cuisine like tomatoes and pasta had yet to arrive in Europe. (tags: classicsancient+historyroman+historyarchaeogastronomy)

• remote central: Wollemi Find An Aboriginal Seat Of The Gods Australia is one of the great areas of opportunity in archaeological research. Here’s news of what could be a major find. (tags: archaeologymyth)

• Digging Digitally » WOW! News from the AIA (Archaeological Institue of America) The AIA is one of the scholarly organisations that really seems to be thinking hard about how to promote the discipline. The CBA in the UK is another that seems to be keen on improving public access to publications. Excellent news. (tags: archaeologypublishingopen+access)

• We may have inherited our brain from an ancient worm « Neurophilosophy This would explain a lot about me. (tags: neurosciencebiology)

• Frog in a Well – Maps and Empire Alan Baumler demonstrates some of the early promise of the China Historical GIS (tags: archaeologymapscartographyGIS)

• Back Garden Archaeology: Test Pit 2 Excellent pictures. I’m going to have to get myself a different garden. (tags: medievalarchaeology)