My del.icio.us bookmarks between the 12th of May and the 13th of May

These are things I’ve bookmarked between the 12th of May and the 13th of May. I may not have read them all yet.

• Political Archaeology and Holy Nationalism: Archaeological Battles over the Bible and Land in Israel and Palestine from 1967-2000 – A free PDF book listed by ABZU. Another one for me to read before I stick my foot in my mouth on the Herodium digs.

• Book Review: Protecting Ã?atalhöyük – Book review and useful links about Ã?atalhöyük. I hadn’t realised there was a Ã?atalhöyük in Second Life. Though to be honest I’ve never tried Second Life so I don’t know how useful it is.

• TAG in New York | European Journal of Archaeology – This made me pause. I thought TAG was moving to North America, and I can rarely get the the UK events. In fact it’s a North American off-shoot of TAG, like Nordic TAG is for Scandinavia. I’ll be interested to see how low cost a North American low-cost con

• remote central: Hunt For Real Life ‘Were-Rabbit’ – Be vewy vewy quiet. They’re hunting wabbits. In particular a mean ol’ wascally wabbit that’s been digging up turnips and leeks. If it had any sense of alliterative irony it would have concentrated on the wadishes.

• Bosnia: Digging Up the Secrets of the Dead – Newsweek: International Editions – MSNBC.com – Not everything dug up in Bosnia is nonsense. DNA analysis is enabling forensic anthropologists to identify bodies in mass graves from the civil war. It’s cutting edge science, but the context makes it much more sad than exciting.