Three links

There will be a longer write-up but I’m making a quick note for when I get home. For now there’s just three links.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/5107912.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_east/4618209.stm
http://www.thes.co.uk/current_edition/story.aspx?story_id=2027317
If you have deja-vu I covered this earlier this year.
update 5 mins later: and a fourth link which also points to another Arnall formula I hadn’t seen.

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The Politics of Prehistory

Just making a note of where to download Adam Stout’s essay on What’s Real, and What Is Not. While we probably disagree on a lot of things he does give a very good talk on the topic. Worth catching if you can.

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The Economics of Bad Archaeology

On May 8, about 100 Town Meeting voters approved taking key parts of an approved 3-lot development on an 11-acre parcel to save what some claim is tied to an ancient Native American culture.
This land abuts the 90-acre town-owned King Philip’s Cave land off Mansfield Street. To finance this taking by eminent domain (or negotiation [...]

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When in Rome did they start doing as the Romans did?

Archived from Revise and Dissent

Julian Forum. Photo by Gauis Caecilius.
You may have noticed a the news story that the skeleton of a 30-year-old woman had been uncovered during excavations in the Julian Forum. They tend to share a headline which suggests that the skeleton is 300 years older than Rome. This is peculiar. The LA [...]

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Bryn Celli Ddu

Bryn Celli Ddu. Photo by AJ Bear.
An archaeologist has discovered that the passage into a burial mound on Anglesey was built to catch the rising sun on the summer solstice.Steve Burrow said he was “elated” when the sun filtered in through trees as he sat in the Bryn Celli Ddu chamber.
BBC NEWS | Wales | [...]

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What’s the point?

He strikes again like an academic ninja! This time Cornelius Holtorf is asking why pseudoarchaeology is a bad thing at Salto Sobrius. My comment written last night got eaten by Blogger, but the mildly re-written version has gone up tonight. I’ve left Paris Hilton in as the arbiter of reality as some ideas seem perfect [...]

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History: A Very Short Introduction by John Arnold

A post from Revise and Dissent archived here. You can add your comment on this at HNN.
At Leicester there’s a small group of people who will evangelise to whoever will listen about the Very Short Introduction series. In recent years the series, published by OUP has gained the ultimate in accolades. The format has been [...]

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More Bosnian Trigonometry

You can read an overiew of some of the other flaws in the Bosnian Pyramid saga at Revise and Dissent in the posting Bosnian Pyramids: Absence of Evidence is not Evidence of Atlantis
Thanks, if that’s the right word, go to Doug Weller for passing along a better map of the equilateral triangle connecting the peaks [...]

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The tension is killing me

There’ll be no sense out of me for next few hours. I’ve been increasingly looking forward to the day’s big event. The Satan Pit is on today, the followup to The Impossible Planet (trailer above). There’s also qualifying for the British Grand Prix which, if current form is anything to go by, will be far [...]

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THAT experiment in video

I read about the Mentos/Coke reaction about a month back and had been meaning to try it for a while. This video, which you can see in full at Eepybird, is a stunning demonstration of the effect. It also demonstrates that a certain science department could put video on the web easily if it so [...]

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