Posted in Ancient History, featured, tagged ross scaife on March 20, 2008 | No Comments »
I’m still working through my RSS backlog and wouldn’t have known about this if I hadn’t noticed a post from Rogue Classicism. I’m not really qualified to talk about him personally. We only exchanged a few of emails, but he was always helpful. I can’t really comment academically either, his professional influence was extraordinarily wide [...]
Posted in Archaeology, featured, tagged crime, iraq on March 19, 2008 | 4 Comments »
It shouldn’t be news. I mentioned the possibility in 2005, and again late last year. When you buy unprovenanced antiquities you don’t know who you’re buying them from.
Now the Ashland Daily Tidings reports on the work by Matthew Bogdanos, which he says shows that the connection between the trade in illicit antiquities and Islamic [...]
Posted in Philosophy, Religion, Science, featured, tagged economics, freakonomics on March 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
The Choice of Heracles, Paolo di Matteis, 1712
What is it that makes a happy life? People have been asking that for millennia and I have a few minutes while I wait to collect someone, so I might not have a comprehensive answer. The reason I’m asking is that Religion ‘linked to happy life’ is one [...]
Posted in Archaeology, Politics, Science, featured on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
A series of written answers concerning the Portable Antiquities Scheme came out this week.
David Taylor (Labour) asked what redundancies are going to happen given that the finances were only going to ‘maintain the level of support’. The reply was that the Minister doesn’t know and it’s not the government’s problem.
Hwyel Williams (Plaid Cymru) asked how [...]
Posted in Archaeology, Science, featured, tagged data, mathematics, statistics, web 2.0 on March 8, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I’m falling behind on my reading of RSS feeds, so the news that the Portable Antiquities Scheme has put some of its data on Swivel is new to me, even though the post is a week old. Swivel seems to be a graphing website. People upload data and then you can draw your own graphs [...]
Posted in Philosophy, featured on March 4, 2008 | No Comments »
Good news for pomophobes, Julian Baggini has a new game poking fun at certain critical postures in academia: Žižuku. I much prefer this to the postmodernism generator as a satirical tool.
The postmodernism generator is something that follows language rules to produce gibberish. This is funny, so long as you don’t read the sort of material [...]
Posted in Archaeology, Politics, featured, tagged publishing on February 16, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Rundkvist, M. 2007. Scholarly Journals between the Past and the Future: The Fornvännen Centenary Round-Table Seminar, Stockholmm 21 April 2006. Konferenser 65. Kungl. Vitterhets Historie och Antikvitets Akademien.
It’s a measure of the quality of this book that I have delayed putting up a review until I have thought it could get the audience it deserves. [...]
Posted in Antiscience, Life, Philosophy, Politics, Religion, featured, tagged creationism, Darwin day, evolution, fundamentalism, pseudoscience on February 12, 2008 | 2 Comments »
‘Christians’ showing the love. Photo (cc) Jordan Thevenow-Harrison
Ed Darrell has set a tough problem. How do you solve the Texan education crisis? If you haven’t been following this, the Texas Education Authority has forced an employee to resign because she sent round details of a talk debunking Intelligent Design. The TEA has stated it’s neutral [...]
Posted in Blogging, featured on February 6, 2008 | 4 Comments »
[Cross-posted to the Ancient World Bloggers Group.]
If you’re not familiar with the term a Blog Carnival is a series of blog posts which are collections of links to other blog posts. An example would be the History Carnival or Four Stone Hearth. The carnival aspect comes from the fact that each post is compiled by [...]
Posted in Archaeology, Politics, featured, tagged crime, destruction, heritage on January 31, 2008 | No Comments »
Vandalism, Lajuad. Photo (cc) Western Sahara Project.
Via the Megalithic Portal comes news of vandalism of rock art. The culprits are soldiers, but in a twist they’re not American. From the graffitti scrawled over the walls of the shelter they’re Russian, Croatian, Kenyan and Egyptian. Along with name and rank the perpetrators also left tags saying [...]
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