Stonehenge…Live! The post-mortem

I’m writing this up June 23. Yes, I write some entries that far in advance. It’s how the daily updates happen at 9:00 exactly. I file a bunch at once and let the computer auto-post. It means I can work on my PhD with no distractions, or at least no blog related distractions. It also [...]

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The SEAC Conference starts

Today is the first session of the SEAC conference. They started with a meet ‘n’ greet last night. I’m not there, I have work to do. This will be the first year in quite a while when there isn’t a new book published at the meeting. Normally the proceedings of a conference are refereed and [...]

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More Mysticism

I’m told that yesterdayJune 26’s post wasn’t my first experience with the New Age at West Kennet. I don’t remember my first trip there, which was when I was five. My Da does though.

Inside the West Kennet long barrow
We went on a family trip one summer. I went running off and climbed up the barrow [...]

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Graffiti Archaeology?

I won’t mention Athena’s blog and how she’s taking apart alternative archaeology claims because I’ve got a post on Graham Hancock lined up for July 2.
Instead I’ll point out Savage Minds again where Suspirium Puellarum Celadus Thraex points out archaeology blogs I didn’t know of A Visible City and Graffiti Archaeology News.

Underwater Spinning by Eric [...]

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Isn’t Kraftwerk Wonderful?

Kraftwerk have just released a new live album Minimum Maximum which pretty much underlines the obvious. They’re geniuses. Live albums can be awful, with the band dropping the guitar, singing off key or at their worst taking the opportunity for terminal drum solos to see if the song can outlive a fair proportion of the [...]

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Odds and Ends

The Inner Circle of Foamhenge by the light of an Artificial Moon
I’m more or less ready for shutting down the computer now. I’ve uploaded the last of the Foamhenge photos. I’m also surprised by some of the stuff I’ve found as I’ve been packing things up. There may be some more entries in the future [...]

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I may be away for a while

I live next door to my grandparents in a semi-detached house. They’ve decided they really need the chimneys removed which means that so do I. This makes life difficult as the main computer I write on is installed next to one of these chimneys. It is possible that I therefore won’t be online much over [...]

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I get on with some Pagans

A photo carefully angled to hide most of the tourists outside West Kennet Long Barrow, because I hadn’t planned on writing up the visit this way.
I decided to take some time to tour Avebury recently. Along the way I stopped off around Silbury Hill and took the short trek up to West Kennet. It’s a [...]

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Archaeology on TV could be worse

Rex at Savage Minds has had a jaw about The Indiana Jones thing, which raises some serious questions about the image of anthropology in the US. The comments are also worth reading. Fortunately this isn’t such a problem in the UK. One is that archaeologists are thought of as grubby historians in the UK. Even [...]

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The Trireme Veterans for Truth are back too! Hurrah!

I’ll have to remember to add them both back into the link panel. Their return is heralded by an analysis of Michael Shanks’s hit count. They argue from a very mathematically sound position that 409,908 hits divided by eleven months does not equal 60k hits a month, but rather 37,264. I think their analysis is [...]

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