My del.icio.us bookmarks for 5th of May
These are things I’ve bookmarked on 5th of May. I may not have read them all yet.
The Stoa Consortium » Blog Archive » Type Greek – The Stoa points to a staggeringly useful tool for people like me who are too lazy to fire up Antioch or remember hex codes.
Digging Digitally » The Digital Past: Where is it going? – Eric Kansa with thoughts and links on the future of the digital past.
Classics Reloaded: Archimedes’ Death Ray – I think the Death Ray first appears in medieval records, but it’s an excellent story nonetheless. Could it work?
Notes Archive: How dare you, sir – If I deploy extended lexical structures instead of short words does that make me more clever? Some people think so, but how would they know if they’re right?
John Hawks Anthropology Weblog : Paleontology in the classical world, reviewed – Helpful comments on a helpful review of a book that I still haven’t got round to reading.
Afarensis: The First Fossil Hunters: Paleontology in Greek and Roman Times – A helpful review of a book I’ve never got round to reading.
Iconoclasm » The Gortyn Code as Monument – As always, excellent photography.
JWSR Journal of World-Systems Research (JWSR) – A possible OA journal to submit to – found via ABZU.
kenodoxia: Hegesias – If you ever have to talk someone down from a ledge on a skyscraper and you want to get them down as rapidly as possible then quote some Hegesias. If you want to get the person down safely, then quote someone else. A very depressing philosopher.
remote central: Native American DNA Found In UK – Tim Jones on the story that Native American DNA is in the UK. It’s mtDNA, so anyone connected to that lineage through a father wouldn’t know about it. It raises problems with the apology for colonisation issue. Would I be apologising for having some of my
Aardvarchaeology : You Can’t Grok Its Multiplicity – Rundkvist in positive comment about post-modernism shock! Does it make sense to talk about religious belief as if it is a coherent unit? Not if it changes over time. The Neo-processualist revolution is underway.
Are the dinosaur publishers waking up? « Neurophilosophy – Interesting comments on weblogs being recognised as a useful tool for discussion. Smart people show be getting themselves discussed.
Comment is free | All roads lead from Rome – Tom Holland on the plans for the Ancient History A-Level. The argument that non-profitable A-levels should be scrapped does remind me of Tarquin and the Sybilline Books.
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