My del.icio.us bookmarks between the 15th of May and the 17th of May

These are things I’ve bookmarked between the 15th of May and the 17th of May. I may not have read them all yet.

• AJCs Virtual Frogroom: Sexing Phelsuma klemmeri – You never know when you might need to do this. It’s easy to spot the difference. The male is the one who doesn’t know how to pose for the camera.

• Early Modern Notes » Wikification: what can wiki do for you? – A wiki is not the same as Wikipedia. Blindingly obvious, but only if you work with them. Sharon Howard points out that an awful lot of people don’t realise this and as a result are missing out on what could be a very powerful collaboration tool. A thought

• Google Earth Community: Atlantis? again – …and here’s the Tartessos / Atlantis link.

• Satellite Discoveres- Eye in the Sky Search for Legendary city of Tartessos in Marsh, Satellite Images Reveal Strange Circular Structures – Comments on how you can spot recently discovered archaeological features using Google Earth.

• The Megalithic Portal and Megalith Map: Review of An Archaeology of Natural Places, Richard Bradley – One of the interesting ideas a lecturer at Leicester has about Mesolithic landscapes is that they have architecture. It’s not an idea that would have occurred to me, but the idea of imbuing meaning into place is fascinating. Natural landscape as architect

• remote central: Wolf Cave, Kristiinankaupunki, Finland – Most Northerly Neanderthal Site? Or Something Earlier Still… – If this is sound, and I’ve no reason so far to think it isn’t, then this could be a treasure trove of information.

• Higgaion » Political Archaeology and Holy Nationalism, chapter 2a – Chris Heard with more extensive comments on the book, which you can download for free.

• Higgaion » Political Archaeology and Holy Nationalism, chapter 1 – Chris Heard with extensive comments on the book, which you can download for free.