The following lists, presented in reverse chronological order, provide links to interesting articles and discussions elsewhere on the web.
- Radiologists Help Provide Worldwide Access To Ancient Art
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 30 November 2004Using computed tomography (CT) and 3-D modeling, radiologists are assisting in the restoration and display of a 5,300-year-old Egyptian mummy mask ...
- The Digital Encyclopedia blog gets Suber’d
from The Stoa on 30 November 2004Says Chris Blackall of the welcome new blog Digital Encyclopedia (about pay-for-view and open-access digital encyclopedias): Suber'd * Definition: To be blogged in Peter Suber's Open Access News; the open access equivalent of being slashdotted, that is, mentioned in http://slashdot ...
- new from Edward Ayers: The Academic Culture and the IT Culture
from The Stoa on 30 November 2004The Academic Culture and the IT Culture: Their Effect on Teaching and Scholarship A year ago, my colleague Charles Grisham and I wrote an EDUCAUSE Review article entitled "Why IT Has Not Paid Off As We Hoped (Yet) ...
- Inscriptions from the land of Israel
from The Stoa on 30 November 2004I am writing to announce a new web site, "Inscriptions from the Land of Israel." The primary goal of this site is to create a searchable database of inscriptions, along with their contextual information (e ...
- Archaeologists studying lifestyles of the Achaemen
from ArchaeoBlog on 30 November 2004Archaeologists studying lifestyles of the Achaemenid era The National Museum of Iran will temporarily loan a number of Achaemenid era clay inscriptions unearthed in Persepolis to the Parseh and Pasargadae Research Foundation for research, the director of the foundation announced on Saturday ...
- Geography Olympics knocks US off sporting map (Independent Online World News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 30 November 2004New York - America may dominate the world in sports and culture but in one arena where size doesn't matter, the "Geography Olympics", the United States was 88th behind minnows such as Madagascar and the Marshall Islands ...
- ARENA
from About Archaeology on 30 November 2004Another wonderful resource from the Archaeological Data Service, ARENA includes an abundance of information and original documents of sites all over Europe ...
- Blogging Conference Encouragement @ Rogueclassicism
from NT Gateway Weblog on 30 November 2004On RogueClassicism, David Meadows commends the bibliobloggers for their blogging of the recent SBL Annual Meeting, adding that this is the kind of thing he has been encouraging his fellow classicists to do for some time ...
- The Civil War of 68-69 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 30 November 2004 - Ancient campsites near Canyon (The Tucson Citizen
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 November 2004LAS VEGAS - Ancient American Indian campsites have been found in and between the million-acre Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument and the 300,000-acre Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, said Peter Bungart, a Flagstaff, Ariz ...
- Mommsen
from About Ancient/Classical History on 30 November 2004The ancient historian Theodor Mommsen was born this day in 1817. You may read his history of Rome online on this site:The History of Rome....
- DR MARILYN J. LUNDBERG, whom I saw last week in S
from PaleoJudaica.com on 30 November 2004DR. MARILYN J. LUNDBERG, whom I saw last week in San Antonio, has a cool career as an Old Testament scholar ...
- Searching Smarter, Not Harder (Wired News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 30 November 2004When it comes to searching, more is not always better. Data experts are honing topic maps to better classify the information that's out there ...
- Ancient farm tools on display this week at public library Leaf Chronicle
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 November 2004History enthusiasts and local artifact collectors will display their treasures Saturday during the annual Cumberland River Archaeological Society's free Artifact Show ...
- Roman Rest Stop Found
from rogueclassicism on 30 November 2004This item originally was reported in the Telegraph this past weekend, but the page kept coming up empty for me ...
- Blogging Scholarly Meetings
from rogueclassicism on 30 November 2004So, as I was saying yesterday before my fingers decided once again to demonstrate their sausageness ...
- Radiologists help provide worldwide access to ancient art (Medical News Today
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 November 2004Using computed tomography (CT)and 3-D modeling, radiologists are assisting in the restoration and display of a 5,300-year-old Egyptian mummy mask.
- Ancient Indian campsites discovered (Billings Gazette
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 November 2004LAS VEGAS - American Indian campsites have been found in and between the 1 million-acre Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument and the 300,000-acre Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, said Peter Bungart, a Flagstaff, Ariz ...
- Ancient campsites found in monuments (Corvallis Gazette Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 November 2004LAS VEGAS American Indian campsites have been found in and between the 1 million-acre Grand Canyon-Parashant National Monument and the 300,000-acre Vermillion Cliffs National Monument, said Peter Bungart, a Flagstaff, Ariz ...
- Protection sought for ancient Indian sites (Reno Gazette Journal
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 November 2004LAS VEGAS (AP) An archaeologist and conservation group volunteers plan to ask the Bureau of Land Management to set up a management and protection plan for two vast new national monuments in the Arizona Strip ...
- New Method To Measure Ancient Land Elevation Developed By Field Museum Scientist (Science Daily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 30 November 2004A Field Museum scientist has developed a novel way to determine land elevation as continents moved around the Earth through geological ages ...
- Ancient sites unearthed (Khaleej Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 29 November 2004FUJAIRAH — New archaeological sites have been unearthed in Al Bathna, near Fujairah, said Ahmad Khaleefa Al Shamsy, Director of the Heritage and Antiquities Department ...
- New Method To Measure Ancient Land Elevation Developed By Field Museum Scientist
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 29 November 2004A Field Museum scientist has developed a novel way to determine land elevation as continents moved around the Earth through geological ages ...
- Nero 54 - 68 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 29 November 2004 - The battle for the Hobbit: professor stuns world of science by locking it up Independent
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 29 November 2004She may have only been a midget but her bones have generated a huge row in the world of human palaeontology, already reeling from the dramatic implications of her discovery ...
- Geography not the best subject for Americans (Independent Online World News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 29 November 2004New York - America may dominate the world in sports and culture but in one arena where size doesn't matter, the "Geography Olympics," the United States was 88th behind minnows such as Madagascar and the Marshall Islands ...
- Hobbit woman remains spark row among academics (The New Zealand Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 29 November 2004LONDON - She may have only been a midget but her bones have generated a monumental row in the world of human palaeontology, which is still reeling from the dramatic implications of her discovery ...
- Overkill update Ancient hunters off hook for biso
from ArchaeoBlog on 29 November 2004Overkill update Ancient hunters off hook for bison Big game hunters could be off the hook in the latest effort to explain the steep decline of bison populations thousands of years ago ...
- Gallic war treasures discovered in sourthern France
from Roman Archaeology on 29 November 2004Five almost complete carnyx, Celtic war trumpets, are among the some 470 objects, or fragments of objects, found during a dig at Naves, in the department of Correze in southern France, in a ditch hollowed out of a Gallic-Roman temple ...
- Documenting ancient sites in Arizona strip a monumental task KESQ
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 29 November 2004LAS VEGAS A conservation group plans to ask the federal B-L-M to protect ancient American Indian sites in two vast new national monuments in the Arizona strip ...
- Welcome back from the long (for all you US readers
from ArchaeoBlog on 29 November 2004Welcome back from the long (for all you US readers) holiday weekend. And look, no lame stories on The First Thanksgiving from an archaeological perspective ...
- US bombs out in Geography Olympics NEWScomau
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 29 November 2004AMERICA may dominate the world in sports and culture but in one arena where size doesn't matter, the "Geography Olympics," the US was 88th behind minnows such as Madagascar and the Marshall Islands ...
- China Before China
from About Archaeology on 29 November 2004The book China before China describes the history of the archaeological investigations of Swedish geologist Johan Gunnar Andersson and Ding Wenjiang, intellectual and scholar of the newly established Chinese republic between 1914 and 1925 ...
- Bulldozing an ancient site: Turkish Cypriot deve
from Archaeology in Europe on 29 November 2004Bulldozing an ancient site: Turkish Cypriot developers say they’re willing to bring in the archaeologists THE row over whether a Turkish Cypriot construction company should be allowed to build on the site of a Bronze-Age necropolis in the village of Kazafani outside Kyrenia resurfaced yesterday with the company at the centre of the debate calling on the north’s authorities to join them in excavating the site ...
- TIMBUKTU MANUSCRIPTS: I could have sworn I had me
from PaleoJudaica.com on 29 November 2004TIMBUKTU MANUSCRIPTS: I could have sworn I had mentioned this story already, but I can't find any reference to it in my archive, so I guess not ...
- A Conversation With Huang Weiwen: Reflections on Asian Paleolithic
from geography News feed on 29 November 2004RedNova.com, TX -... You need to understand the geology and geography to understand the archaeology ...
- Indian campground might be excavated (Amarillo Globe News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 29 November 2004FORT WORTH - An ancient Indian campground in the path of a proposed highway likely will have to be excavated before the roadway can be built, a state archaeologist said ...
- Tiberius 14 - 37 A.D. Caligula, 37 - 41 A.D. Claudius, 41 - 54 AD
from Stoa Image Gallery on 29 November 2004 - AVRAHAM NEGEV, Nabatean scholar, has died. Haar
from PaleoJudaica.com on 29 November 2004AVRAHAM NEGEV, Nabatean scholar, has died. (Ha'aretz - scroll down for the story.) Avraham Negev, archaeologist, dies at 81 Avraham Negev, professor emeritus at the Hebrew University's Institute of Archaeology, died on Saturday in Jerusalem, following a severe illness ...
- A Conversation With Huang Weiwen: Reflections on Asian Paleolithic Research (Red Nova
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 29 November 2004HUANG WEIWEN is PROFESSOR OF PALEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Academia Sinica, Beijing ...
- A Conversation With Huang Weiwen: Reflections on Asian Paleolithic Research (Red Nova
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 29 November 2004HUANG WEIWEN is PROFESSOR OF PALEOLITHIC ARCHAEOLOGY at the Institute of Vertebrate Paleontology and Paleoanthropology (IVPP), Academia Sinica, Beijing ...
- Roman Necropolis in Modena
from rogueclassicism on 29 November 2004From IOL comes this news: Alongside his racy German sedans, car dealer Antonio Barbieri has decided to exhibit the rare second century Roman sarcophagi which were discovered when the foundations were being dug for his new high-tech headquarters outside the northern Italian city of Modena ...
- Keyhole and World Wind
from The Map Room on 29 November 2004Joel takes a look at a couple of software packages that do neat things with satellite imagery: Keyhole, which was taken over by Google a while back; and NASA World Wind ...
- Gallic war treasure discovered in southern Franc
from Archaeology in Europe on 29 November 2004Gallic war treasure discovered in southern France French archaeologists said this week they had discovered an exceptional Gallic war treasure in the south of the country, including rare war trumpets and ornate helmets ...
- Reviews from BMCR
from rogueclassicism on 29 November 2004Claude Calame, Myth and History in Ancient Greece. The Symbolic Creation of a Colony. (this is a different review of the same text posted t'other day) Alexiou on Wright on Alexiou ...
- Malta participants in ANSER project
from Archaeo-News-Blog on 29 November 2004Over the past two and a half years the University of Malta, through the Foundation of International Studies, participated in the EU project Anciennes Routes Maritimes Méditerranéennes (ANSER), financed under the Interreg IIIB Medocc programme ...
- Pharaohs legacy lives on (USA Today
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 29 November 2004In nearly seven decades of ruling ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh Rameses II aka Rameses the Great scattered dozens of temples, tombs and sons across the land of the Nile ...
- Pharaohs legacy lives on (USA Today
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 29 November 2004In nearly seven decades of ruling ancient Egypt, the Pharaoh Rameses II aka Rameses the Great scattered dozens of temples, tombs and sons across the land of the Nile ...
- Vatican exhibition shows colors of ancient sculpture sculpture (Pittsburgh Post Gazette
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 29 November 2004VATICAN CITY -- For those who envision the ancient world of sculpture as a monotonous palette of muted grays, the Vatican Museums are offering an eye-opening exhibit of how the ancients viewed their art -- in dazzling and rich shades of greens, ochres and blues ...
- Ancient curse hides Arabian desert tombs Swissinfo
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 28 November 2004Middle East conflict, a spectacular ruined city lies almost hidden in the northern deserts of Saudi Arabia ...
- Ancient curse hides Arabian desert tombs (Reuters via Yahoo! Asia News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 28 November 2004MEDA'IN SALEH, Saudi Arabia (Reuters) - Sheltered from the world by an ancient religious curse and modern Middle East conflict, a spectacular ruined city lies almost hidden in the northern deserts of Saudi Arabia ...
- World Sunlight Map
from The Map Room on 28 November 2004The World Sunlight Map is a neat trick: it shows which parts of the Earth are currently in daylight and which are in darkness ...
- Indian campground may be excavated (Houston Chronicle
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 28 November 2004FORT WORTH -- An ancient Indian campground in the path of a proposed highway likely will have to be excavated before the roadway can be built, a state archaeologist said ...
- Iran Bans National Geographic Publications
from About Geography on 28 November 2004Iran has banned the sale of National Geographic Society publications to protest the use of the name "Arabian Gulf" in their Eighth Edition Atlas of the World ...
- Indian campground may be excavated (Plainview Daily Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 28 November 2004. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed."/> An ancient Indian campground in the path of a proposed highway likely will have to be excavated before the roadway can be built, a state archaeologist said ...
- Découverte dun trèsor de guerre gaulois Des
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 November 2004Découverte d'un trèsor de guerre gaulois Des archéologues viennent de révéler la découverte faite fin septembre lors de fouilles archéologiques en Corrèze, d'un véritable "trésor de guerre" gaulois, composé de pièces uniques comme des trompettes utilisées au cours de batailles et des casques richement ornés ...
- NDLO objects to National Geographic over distorting Persian Gulf on maps
from Payvand Iran News on 28 November 2004The name of the Persian Gulf originated from historical, geographical and scientific documentations ...
- At Mexico Citys core beats an Aztec heart
from Christian Science Monitor | All Stories on 28 November 2004A knockout exhibition of Aztec artifacts at New York's Guggenheim Museum reveals a rich culture.
- Motorway protesters march through Dublin (Ireland On Line
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 28 November 2004Almost 200 people have marched through Dublin's O'Connell Street to protest against the proposed construction of the M3 motorway through ancient remains near the hill of Tara ...
- Estopadas Arqueoblogicas
from About Archaeology on 28 November 2004From long-time news collector Pedro Barros, an archaeology news blog; in Portuguese....
- Pylos Regional Archaeological Project
from About Archaeology on 28 November 2004The internet edition of the work of the joint American-British-Greek-German project provides a wealth of information on their investigations into the history of the area in Greece centered on the Bronze Age palace of Nestor at the Mycenaean site of ...
- Bangladeshs ancient site faces encroachments: (New Kerala
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 28 November 2004[World News]: Dhaka, Nov 28 : Archaeological ruins dating back to more than 2,300 years are being lost to encroachments in Bangladesh as the government says it does not have the funds to conserve them ...
- Indian campground may be excavated (Star-Telegram via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 28 November 2004FORT WORTH - An American Indian campground that lies in the path of the proposed Southwest Parkway is probably significant enough to require excavation before the parkway is built, a state archaeologist said ...
- 3000 Jahre Würzburg Kelten und Franken am Main
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 November 20043000 Jahre Würzburg Kelten und Franken am Main 24. 11. 2004 – 17. 4. 2005 Sonderausstellung des Mainfränkischen Museums Würzburg Freilich ist sie älter, die Stadt, deren Name erstmals in einer Urkunde aus dem Jahr 704 erscheint ...
- Ancient relics on the showroom floor (Independent Online World News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 28 November 2004Rome - Alongside his racy German sedans, car dealer Antonio Barbieri has decided to exhibit the rare second century Roman sarcophagi which were discovered when the foundations were being dug for his new high-tech headquarters outside the northern Italian city of Modena ...
- A New Website for London Archaeology Christia
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 November 2004A New Website for London Archaeology Christian Allen, of the Hendon and District Archaeological Society, has recently created a new website for London Archaeology ...
- 5000 year old settlement found Archaeologist
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 November 20045,000-year-old settlement found Archaeologists believe that ancient artifacts uncovered at a Cambridge village college are evidence from a 5,000-year-old settlement ...
- PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES LEICESTERSHIRE: TEMPLE TREA
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 November 2004PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES LEICESTERSHIRE: TEMPLE TREASURE This is the last in a series of seven introductory features about the Portable Antiquities Scheme (PAS) Roadshows, happening nationally on November 27 2004 ...
- Stone me! Jaks rock is 4,000-year-old axe Wh
from Archaeology in Europe on 28 November 2004Stone me! Jak's rock is 4,000-year-old axe When Jak MacDonald picked up a pebble on a beach, he had no idea he was holding an artefact shaped by a Stone Age craftsman 4,000 years ago ...
- Port Angeles: Sides to sit down to discuss graving yard vs. Tse-whit-zen this week (Peninsula Daily News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 28 November 2004PORT ANGELES -- State, federal and tribal leaders will meet this week at the graving yard to talk about how to complete the archaeological excavation and construct the concrete dry dock ...
- Malta participants in ANSER project (Times of Malta
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 28 November 2004Over the past two and a half years the University of Malta, through the Foundation of International Studies, participated in the EU project Anciennes Routes Maritimes Méditerranéennes (ANSER), financed under the Interreg IIIB Medocc programme ...
- Gulf renaming riles up Iranians (Pioneer Press
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 28 November 2004For thousands of years, the people of ancient Persia and their descendants in modern Iran have called it the Persian Gulf.
- Online geography quiz gets global involvement (The Philadelphia Inquirer
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 28 November 2004NEW YORK - America may dominate the world in many realms but in one arena where size doesn't matter, the "Geography Olympics," it trails such minnows as Madagascar and the Marshall Islands ...
- Online geography quiz gets global involvement
from geography News feed on 28 November 2004Philadelphia Inquirer (subscription), PA -... he created a jigsaw puzzle with pieces shaped like the countries of the world and launched what he calls the"world's biggest ongoing geography puzzle" on the ...
- Welcome to the Little Chef of the ancient world Telegraphcouk
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 27 November 2004The first Roman service station has been unearthed in Germany - complete with forecourt, chariot workshop, restaurant and an area to give horses water and hay ...
- Unicode Lament
from NT Gateway Weblog on 27 November 2004In Sansblogue, Tim Bulkeley rightly laments some technical problems I reported on at the SBL,When, oh when, will we hear the last of scholars who - through stubborn determination NOT to learn the first few things about the "new" technology (computers replacing the "older" technology of ink on paper) - ensure that their work is only accessible if others assist them!? People, there is this "new" thing called Unicode, it means that we are no longer font dependent in the same way ...
- Preservation of Heritage in Sinai
from Egyptology News on 27 November 2004http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/718/heritage.htm Quite a long article about the Egyptian Environmental Affairs Agency’s work to preserve historical monuments in Sinai ...
- King Tut will not be removed for examination
from Egyptology News on 27 November 2004http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/wed/nov24w28.htm "The mummy of the ancient King Tutankhamun will not be removed from its tomb in the southern city of Luxor for examination and restoration due to local opposition, Egypt's chief archaeologist told parliament Monday" ...
- News Item - French Amateurs vs. Zahi Hawass
from Egyptology News on 27 November 2004http://news.independent.co.uk/low_res/story.jsp?story=585377dir=69 An Independent article looking at the Great Pyramid row that has beenbatting to and fro between Zahi Hawass and retired estate agent Jean-YvesVerd'hurt and the architect Gilles Dormion ...
- INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE LAND OF ISRAEL is a new onli
from PaleoJudaica.com on 27 November 2004INSCRIPTIONS FROM THE LAND OF ISRAEL is a new online project just getting underway. The description opens: The Inscriptions from the Land of Israel project seeks to collect and make accessible over the Web all of the previously published inscriptions (and their English translations) from the Land of Israel from the Persian period through the Islamic conquest (ca ...
- 32 Americans win Rhodes scholarships: South Florida Sun-Sentinel (El Sentinel
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 27 November 2004CHICAGO· Ian Desai was so curious about maps he found in a book that he retraced the ancient voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, one of the most enduring Greek fables ...
- A diagnosis for a biblical plague? (Salt Lake Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 27 November 2004LUXOR, Egypt - Out of the blinding light of a fall morning here in the Valley of the Kings, American archaeologist Kent Weeks led the way down a narrow, stone passageway and into the entrance of a tomb ...
- Never heard of Nauru? Join "Geography Olympics" (Reuters via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 27 November 2004America may dominate the world in sports and culture but in one arena where size doesn't matter, the "Geography Olympics," the United States was 88th behind minnows such as Madagascar and the Marshall Islands ...
- Australia lags behind in online geography quiz (Australian Broadcasting Corporation
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 26 November 2004Australia may have finished fourth on the medal tally at the Olympics in Athens this year but in the online 'Geography Olympics', it is running 24th behind countries such as Ukraine and Antigua ...
- A spit in us Iranians faces" by national distorted geographic
from geography News feed on 26 November 2004Persian Journal, Iran -... the 8th Edition of the society's influential Atlas of the World to include ...
- Berkeley Daily Planet
from geography News feed on 26 November 2004Berkeley Daily Planet, CA -... and the community for her strong track record of commitment to education ...
- Forget chaps and read maps
from geography News feed on 26 November 2004The Times, UK -... But there is a more serious reason for inserting geography into the heart of education ...
- Never Heard of Nauru? Join Geography Olympics
from geography News feed on 26 November 2004Reuters, NY -... he created a jigsaw puzzle with pieces shaped like the countries of the world and launched what he calls the"world's biggest ongoing geography puzzle" on the ...
- hobbit hominids - data property rights
from Michael Shanks on 26 November 2004Hobbits locked away as scientists argue - Science - www.theage.com.au It has been a plague of archaeological research since the beginnings of the discipline in the eighteenth century, and a contemporary scandal, though few speak out about it ...
- Unearthed: ancient burial pit shows how Bronze A
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 November 2004Unearthed: ancient burial pit shows how Bronze Age Scots prepared for afterlife Archaeologists have hailed the discovery of an early Bronze Age cemetery as one of the most significant in Britain after new technology enabled them to pinpoint the date of graves ...
- Shipworm threatens marine archeological remains
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 November 2004Shipworm threatens marine archeological remains in the Baltic Shipworm has spread to the Baltic Sea ...
- 24 August 79 Pompeji. Die Stunden des Untergang
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 November 200424. August 79 Pompeji. Die Stunden des Untergangs Als am 24. August 79 der glühende Ascheregen des Vesuvs über die Stadt Pompeji fiel wurden die Menschen buchstäblich "in ihren alltäglichen Verrichtungen" überrascht ...
- Stone age relics found off coast The site of
from Archaeology in Europe on 26 November 2004Stone age relics found off coast The site of a stone age settlement, preserved under layers of silt, has been discovered off the coast of the Isle of Wight ...
- THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS NOW STABLE, according to the I
from PaleoJudaica.com on 26 November 2004THE TEMPLE MOUNT IS NOW STABLE, according to the IAA: Temple Mt. wall now said stable (Jerusalem Post) By ETGAR LEFKOVITS The eastern wall of the Temple Mount is no longer in danger of collapse, following repair work carried out by Jordanian engineers inside the compound, Israel's Antiquities Authority said Tuesday ...
- NEWS ON THE NEW 1 ENOCH FRAGMENT: Yesterday eveni
from PaleoJudaica.com on 25 November 2004NEWS ON THE NEW 1 ENOCH FRAGMENT: Yesterday evening after the Qumran session, Esther and Hanan Eshel gave an impromptu presentation on the new 1 Enoch fragment, whose story broke on PaleoJudaica some time ago ...
- YESTERDAYS NOVA PROGRAM, "ANCIENT REFUGE IN THE H
from PaleoJudaica.com on 25 November 2004YESTERDAY'S NOVA PROGRAM, "ANCIENT REFUGE IN THE HOLY LAND," is now available in transcript on the Nova website.
- Bronze Age Site Discovered at Gas Company Dig
from Archaeology in Europe on 25 November 2004Bronze Age Site Discovered at Gas Company Dig Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the most comprehensively-dated Bronze Age site in Britain, it emerged today ...
- When the dead speak (Times of Malta
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 25 November 2004Fondazzjoni Wirt Artna is holding a public lecture in English with the theme The Phoenicians and Death, by Nicholas Vella, lecturer in archaeology, at the Gallerija Couvre Porte in Vittoriosa today at 6 ...
- the ancients: now available in colour
from Michael Shanks on 24 November 2004John Hooper in the Guardian reviews the "Colours of White" exhibition at the Vatican museums, Rome (until January 31) - Guardian Unlimited | Arts features | The ancients: now available in colour ...
- Mapping True Nature of Political Borders
from Brain Off on 24 November 2004Mapping True Nature of Political Borders? Most any map of the political division of the planet use heavy thick lines to designate borders ...
- Bronze Age Site Discovered at Gas Company Dig A
from ArchaeoBlog on 24 November 2004Bronze Age Site Discovered at Gas Company Dig Archaeologists have discovered what they believe is the most comprehensively-dated Bronze Age site in Britain, it emerged today ...
- Archaeologists Discover Bronze Age Site AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 24 November 2004AP - Archaeologists said Wednesday they have comprehensively dated the contents of a Bronze Age site in Scotland, probably the first time such a site has been dated in its entirety ...
- Local firm wins British Archaeology Award (Coleraine Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 24 November 2004THE Coleraine-based Kennedy Group has won a leading archaeological award for work carried out on a Bronze Age settlement.
- Children failed in geography (BBC News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 24 November 2004Geography is the worst-taught subjects in primary school and fewer and fewer teenagers are studying it, inspectors say.
- ‘DNA based archaeology’ helps scientists discover what makes us unique (Santa Cruz Sentinel
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 24 November 2004SANTA CRUZ — Scientists are optimistic computers can help them unravel the mystery of what sets humans apart from other mammals ...
- Unplundered Mycenean Tomb
from rogueclassicism on 24 November 2004From Kathimerini: An unplundered family grave, dating back over 3,000 years, has been discovered in the southern Peloponnese, the Culture Ministry said yesterday ...
- Athens Subway
from rogueclassicism on 24 November 2004Nice piece in the Telegraph about balancing archaeology and progress in the construction of the Athens subway: Yards from the backed-up traffic on one of Athens's busiest commuter streets, rough hewn cobblestones the size of a man's fist are posing George Leoutsakos a problem ...
- Roof Collapse at Iraklion Museum
from rogueclassicism on 24 November 2004The CBC picks up a brief AP Wire story: A section of the roof of the Archaeological Museum of Iraklion on the island of Crete collapsed, authorities said Tuesday, reportedly damaging artifacts more than 3,000 years old ...
- Experts: Skeleton that of ancient Indian (Casper Star Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 24 November 2004County, state and federal officials search the scene of Friday's discovery of a skeleton near Rock Springs.
- Experts: Skeleton that of ancient Indian (Casper Star Tribune
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 24 November 2004County, state and federal officials search the scene of Friday's discovery of a skeleton near Rock Springs.
- Mycenaean tomb found in southern Greece Athe
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 November 2004Mycenaean tomb found in southern Greece Athens - Archeologists have discovered an unraided tomb with various artifacts dating from the Mycenaean period more than 3 000 years ago in southern Greece, officials said in Athens on Monday ...
- Flint find is historic first A Forest archaeo
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 November 2004Flint find is historic first A Forest archaeologist is still full of excitement after stumbling across a find which could re-write Forest history books ...
- Swiss help bring Roman Pompeii back to life V
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 November 2004Swiss help bring Roman Pompeii back to life Visitors to Pompeii will now be able to see and hear life as it unfolded in Roman times, thanks to a computer project spearheaded by Geneva University ...
- Eagle secret of Bronze Age burial ARCHAEOLOG
from Archaeology in Europe on 24 November 2004Eagle secret of Bronze Age burial ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Scotland have made a "hugely significant" discovery by unearthing the best and most comprehensively-dated Bronze Age site in the UK, The Scotsman has learned ...
- Eagle secret of Bronze Age burial (The Scotsman via Yahoo! UK & Ireland News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 23 November 2004ARCHAEOLOGISTS in Scotland have made a "hugely significant" discovery by unearthing the best and most comprehensively-dated Bronze Age site in the UK, The Scotsman has learned ...
- Metro men tread gently on ancient Greeces Sacred Way Telegraphcouk
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 23 November 2004The ancient Sacred Way linking Athens to Eleusis where, from 1500BC, initiates sought a glimpse of the mysteries of the afterlife with sacrifices to the goddess Demeter and to Hades, god of the Underworld has been unearthed by a mechanical digger ...
- Plumbing the Accuracy of Alexander
from NPR Programs: All Things Considered on 23 November 2004Director Oliver Stone's upcoming film Alexander stars Colin Farrell as the great conqueror. NPR's Robert Siegel talks with Daniel Mendelsohn, lecturer in the classics at Princeton University, about the film's accuracy and the man's life ...
- Greek museum roof collapses, reportedly damaging ancient artifacts (CBC News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 23 November 2004IRAKLION, Greece (AP) - A section of the roof of the Archaeological Museum of Iraklion on the island of Crete collapsed, authorities said Tuesday, reportedly damaging artifacts more than 3,000 years old ...
- Archaeology Books Designed for Children
from About Archaeology on 23 November 2004While there are not many books for children on archaeology or archaeological topics, some very excellent samples are available....
- Google launch the Scholar search, Megalithic Por
from Archaeology in Europe on 23 November 2004Google launch the Scholar search, Megalithic Portal links in Google announces: We have just launched the beta version of Google Scholar ...
- PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES : FIELD WALKING IN WALES
from Archaeology in Europe on 23 November 2004PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES : FIELD WALKING IN WALES This is the fifth in a series of seven features we are writing in the run up to the forthcoming PAS Roadshows ...
- Newgrange and Dowth under threat? A proposal
from Archaeology in Europe on 23 November 2004Newgrange and Dowth under threat? A proposal to build an incinerator in Cork Harbour to handle toxic waste has raised fears about its effect on the UNESCO designated World Heritage Site which includes the passage tombs of Newgrange and Dowth ...
- TerraSAR X - New Quality Of Earth Observation SpaceDaily
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for cartography on 23 November 2004TerraSAR-X, the German all-weather satellite project, has entered its decisive phase. At the Friedrichshafen-based space company EADS Astrium, the final spurt for the development team has now begun with the start-up of the integration activities ...
- The Epoch Times | So how was Machu Picchu? (The Epoch Times
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 23 November 2004So how was Machu Picchu? I ve always enjoyed gazing at world maps and globes, especially globes, because you can give them a swing and stop their rotation with an almighty finger, daydreaming about your future destinations ...
- Westwoods Rhodes Scholar to study archaeology at Oxford (The Daily News Transcript
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 23 November 2004W ESTWOOD -- Teachers who worked with Catherine Frieman said they are not surprised the Westwood High graduate is among the nation's 32 Rhodes Scholars for 2005 ...
- New Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses
from NYT > Science on 22 November 2004An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
- New Tools to Help Patients Reclaim Damaged Senses
from NYT > Science on 22 November 2004An astonishing new technology allows one set of sensory information to substitute for another in the brain.
- Heh Amateur archaeologists curse pharoahs guard
from ArchaeoBlog on 22 November 2004Heh. Amateur archaeologists curse pharoahs' guardian Dr Zahi Hawass is one of the most powerful men in history - at least of archaeology - and he is angry ...
- LifePlus computer sim brings Pompeii to life
from Roman Archaeology on 22 November 2004Swiss Info: The ruins of a bar come to life as visitors wearing 3D glasses watch the waiter pouring out spiced wine for customers ...
- Port Angeles dig update Ancient village, graveyar
from ArchaeoBlog on 22 November 2004Port Angeles dig update Ancient village, graveyard torn apart by bridge project In a makeshift morgue, handmade cedar boxes are stacked row upon row, each holding the ancient remains of the ancestors of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, all facing east toward the sunrise ...
- Prince William At 22 (CBS News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 22 November 2004(CBS) At 22, Britain's Prince William is finishing his university degree in geography and comtemplating what to do next ...
- 32 U.S. Students Chosen As Rhodes Scholars (AP via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for maps on 22 November 2004Ian Desai was so curious about maps he found in a book that he retraced the ancient voyage of Jason and the Argonauts, one of the most enduring Greek fables ...
- Exeter announces subject cuts
from geography News feed on 22 November 2004EducationGuardian.co.uk, UK -... as well as with contacts throughout the higher education community and ...
- Amateur archaeologists curse pharoahs guardian (The New Zealand Herald
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 22 November 2004Dr Zahi Hawass is one of the most powerful men in history - at least of archaeology - and he is angry ...
- Geography library first to face erosion (Oxford Student
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for geography on 22 November 2004University-wide library reshuffles look set to leave Geography students severely inconvenienced academically, as the future of their faculty library hangs in the balance ...
- Playing with Google Scholar
from rogueclassicism on 22 November 2004I haven't mentioned Google Scholar in these pages yet, primarily because I figured the webworld was so deluged with mentions of it last week that mention on my part was unnecessary ...
- Stonehenges past brought to light Pictures
from Archaeology in Europe on 22 November 2004Stonehenge's past brought to light Pictures dating back 150 years show how site has developed The sign advises the solitary car pootling down the deserted road, past the reassuring AA phone box, to "fork left for Exeter" - unless the driver decides to fork right onto the infant A344, park on the grass verge, and pop in for a quick wander among the towering columns of Stonehenge, or for a nice cup of tea and a Bath bun in the newly built Stonehenge Cafe ...
- The ancients: now available in colour For hu
from Archaeology in Europe on 22 November 2004The ancients: now available in colour For hundreds of years, Caligula's handsome, marble face has stared out at a fascinated world ...
- Rhodes Scholars
from rogueclassicism on 22 November 2004An AP report from Newsday gives an interesting little tidbit into the life of one of the recipients of a Rhodes scholarship this year: [ ...
- Experts Conduct DNA Tests on Ancient Skeletons in Tabriz
from Payvand Iran News on 22 November 2004Iranian archeologists have managed for the first time to conduct DNA tests on skeletons found in the ...
- New Study on the Theban Necropolis
from Egyptology News on 22 November 2004http://crmc.cofc.edu/magazine/Egypt%20feature.pdf Thanks to Tony Cagle's blog for the link to this PDF which describes how combining modern technology, geology and history has cast new light on the spatial distribution of tombs in the Theban Necropolis ...
- Virtual Reconstruction of Kalabsha
from Egyptology News on 22 November 2004http://www.cs.bris.ac.uk/Publications/Papers/2000136.pdf A PDF paper discussing what should go into creating a virtual reconstruction of cultural heritage site, as a tool for Cultural Resource Management ...
- 4200 Year Old Sinai Fortress Excavated
from Egyptology News on 22 November 2004http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1101050674076_7/?hub=SciTech Dating to the last years of the Old Kingdom, publication about this fortress is expected to reveal information about events taking place at this time: "The existence of the fort, and its short-term occupation, supports a theory popular among Egyptologists that ancient Egypt's war in the Sinai as well as with the Nubians in the modern Sudan was an important factor in the collapse of Egyptian civilization by 2200 BC ...
- More on 13th Dynasty Wooden Sarcophagus
from Egyptology News on 22 November 2004http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/eg1.htm More on the 13th Dynasty sarcophagus found at Luxor's Dra'a Abul-Naga necropolis, next to the remains of King Nub-Kheper-Re Intef's brick pyramid ...
- Coin Museum, LCHS Open House
from Stoa Image Gallery on 21 November 2004 - Pyramid wars Independent
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for archaeology on 21 November 2004A challenge by two plucky French amateurs to Egypt's self-styled 'guardian of the pharaohs' has unearthed a scandal of ambition, greed, pride and television ratings in archaeology's top echelons ...
- Vatican exhibit explores colourful world of ancient sculpture Canadacom
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 21 November 2004VATICAN CITY (AP) - For those who envision the ancient world of sculpture as a monotonous palette of muted greys, the Vatican Museums are offering an eye-opening exhibit of how the ancients viewed their art - in dazzling and rich shades of greens, ochres and blues ...
- REMAINS OF FOOD SHED LIGHT ON ANCIENT WAYS Ex
from Archaeology in Europe on 21 November 2004REMAINS OF FOOD SHED LIGHT ON ANCIENT WAYS Exotic spices unearthed beneath the Bath Spa show military administrators lived in the lap of luxury in the city's early days ...
- Menhir Alleys found in Russia Last Septembe
from Archaeology in Europe on 21 November 2004'Menhir Alleys' found in Russia Last September, Alexander Ludov, a student of local lore, made a strange discovery not far from a burial mound on the basin of the Aksai river (Russia) ...
- Ancient village, graveyard torn apart by bridge project (The Seattle Times via Yahoo! News
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for ancient on 21 November 2004PORT ANGELES — In a makeshift morgue, handmade cedar boxes are stacked row upon row, each holding the ancient remains of the ancestors of the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe, all facing east toward the sunrise ...
- Biographies of Archaeologists and Related Scientists
from About Archaeology on 20 November 2004Archaeologists do live interesting lives, at least some of us. Here's a collection of recent biographies to sink your teeth into; and some other historically interesting titles ...
- Books on Ancient Civilizations
from About Archaeology on 20 November 2004If you're looking for some interesting in-depth books on the ancient cultures of the world, whether the Greeks, Romans, Maya, Inca, Indus Valley, or other cultures really fascinate you, here's the place for you ...
- New Tests for Tutenkhamen
from About Archaeology on 20 November 2004BBC News is reporting on some work to be done on the boy king's mummy by the Egyptian Museum in central Cairo: Tests may end Tutankhamun mystery...
- Arthur Robinson
from The Map Room on 20 November 2004This past week the media reported the death of Arthur Robinson, whose eponymous projection was adopted by the National Geographic Society for its world maps ...
- Oxford University Press, Primary Sources, & U.S. Middle Schools
from About Ancient/Classical History on 20 November 2004Oxford University Press is launching a series of textbooks on ancient history for middle school students that will be based on primary sources, which correlate with greater interest and better scores in ancient history, according to World's Oldest Publisher Enters ...
- Trojan Tourism
from rogueclassicism on 20 November 2004Longtime readers of rogueclassicism will recall that, back when Troy first came out, there were a pile of articles citing Turkey's hopes that there would be a bump in tourism as a result of the flick; that seems to have been borne out (possibly in a less-than-satisfactory way) ...
- Review from BMCR
from rogueclassicism on 20 November 2004J.J. Wilkes (ed.), Documenting the Roman Army. Essays in Honour of Margaret Roxan.
- PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES YORKSHIRE: COMMUNITY ARCHAE
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 November 2004PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES YORKSHIRE: COMMUNITY ARCHAEOLOGY Simon Holmes, Finds Liaison Officer for North and East Yorkshire is something of a champion of community archaeology ...
- Archaeologist receives top honour A retired
from Archaeology in Europe on 20 November 2004Archaeologist receives top honour A retired Cambridge archaeologist has been given a top award for his work ...
- Epigrafía y Sociedad en Hispania
from Inscriptiones-l at Yahoo! Groups on 19 November 2004Está em distribuição o volume de actas da mesa-redonda que, em 10 e 11 de
- Before popping off for the weekend, we thought we
from ArchaeoBlog on 19 November 2004Before popping off for the weekend, we thought we'd toss this site out for your perusal: Internet Archaeology, which bills itself as "The first fully refereed e-journal for archaeology" ...
- New Atlas Edition Reflects a Changing World
from geography News feed on 19 November 2004Voice of America, DC -... brand new view of the world just in time for Geography Awareness Week ... traditional maps, the book contains country-by-country profiles of political and economic ...
- North Carolina Award: Gilmore Receives States Top Honor
from geography News feed on 19 November 2004Southern Pines Pilot, NC -... degrees in journalism and political science from the University of North Carolina, where years later he earned masters and doctorate degrees in geography ...
- This may be the only entry today as the entire sta
from ArchaeoBlog on 19 November 2004This may be the only entry today as the entire staff of ArchaeoBlog is engaged in several ongoing research projects and meetings ...
- Medieval Arab Scholars on Cleopatra
from Egyptology News on 19 November 2004http://www.rnw.nl/science/html/041108rf.html An article discussing Okasha El Daly's research into the work of medieval Arabic scholars, comparing their findings and views with those of modern Egyptologists ...
- Another Stonehenge Found in Russia? Russian a
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 November 2004Another Stonehenge Found in Russia? Russian archaeologists have announced that they have found the remains of a 4,000-year-old structure that they compare to England's Stonehenge, according to recent reports issued by Pravda and Novosti, two Russian news services ...
- Tall Bronze Age skeletons found in Bulgaria A
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 November 2004Tall Bronze Age skeletons found in Bulgaria Archaeologists working near the village of Moguila in the district of Yambol, Bulgaria, have uncovered 3,000 year-old skeletons ...
- Iron Age Cornish hill fort for sale A hill fo
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 November 2004Iron Age Cornish hill fort for sale A hill fort in Cornwall, south-west England, will go on sale next month ...
- PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES DEVON: THE METAL MUSHROOM M
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 November 2004PORTABLE ANTIQUITIES DEVON: THE METAL MUSHROOM MYSTERY What kinds of objects land on the desk of a Finds Liaison Officer? If Nicky Powell, the FLO for Devon is anything to go by, the answer is everything from Roman brooches, coins and musket balls to…mushrooms and slugs ...
- Photos of the Kokino megalithic observatory in M
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 November 2004Photos of the Kokino megalithic observatory in Macedonia As presented to the recent "Archaeology of World Megalithic Cultures" conference in Greece, the Portal caught up with the researchers to give us an exclusive look at this unique archeostronomical site ...
- Archaeology: Exotic Life of Ancient Thrace A
from Archaeology in Europe on 19 November 2004Archaeology: Exotic Life of Ancient Thrace A series of spectacular discoveries at three sites in central and eastern Bulgaria has highlighted the exotic lifestyle of the ancient Thracians as never before ...
- How Geographics New Atlas Reflects a Changed World
from National Geographic News on 19 November 2004Some 17,000 changes have been made since the previous edition of the National Geographic Atlas of the World ...
- NASA Satellite Data To Aid Global Conservation
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 18 November 2004The World Conservation Union, the world's largest environmental knowledge network, signed a joint declaration today in Bangkok, Thailand, to use NASA satellite data to help in worldwide conservation efforts ...
- Scientists Explore Atomic Mysteries Of Ancient Pigment
from ScienceDaily Headlines on 18 November 2004University of California scientists from the National High Magnetic Field Laboratory, Pulsed Field Facility at Los Alamos National Laboratory, have discovered an ideal candidate for Bose-Einstein condensation in the ancient Chinese pigment, Han Purple ...
- Pompeian Households
from Stoa Image Gallery on 18 November 2004Images to accompany An On Line Companion to Pompeian Households, by Penelope M. Allison(For text, houseplans, and database of finds see www ...
- OUP Sale
from Christian Origins Blog on 18 November 2004Oxford University Press currently has a holiday book sale. Among other items, the new pair of books by Bart Ehrman, Lost Christianities and Lost Scriptures, can be purchased for $15 ...
- 50k site Early Dates, Real Tools? Key paragrap
from ArchaeoBlog on 18 November 2004Another link on the Topper >50k site Early Dates, Real Tools? Key paragraphs: Archaeologists unaffiliated with the Topper project contacted by ARCHAEOLOGY today were cautious in their assessment of the announcement ...
- Good news! Treasure Trove of Culture Recovered
from ArchaeoBlog on 18 November 2004Good news! Treasure Trove of Culture Recovered They were priceless artifacts, and the Kabul Museum curators wrapped them carefully, some of them in pink toilet paper, others in newspaper, and put them in metal boxes ...
- A few more stories on the 50k year old "site" in S
from ArchaeoBlog on 18 November 2004A few more stories on the 50k year old "site" in South Carolina: S.C. site topic of lectures Shards of history Evidence Hints at Earlier Humans in Americas (NY Times) This is what we were talking about yesterday: "Dr ...
- Topper Site Dates
from About Archaeology on 18 November 2004CNN is reporting that the preClovis site excavated by Albert Goodyear in South Carolina called Topper has finally gotten radiocarbon dates back: and they're reported to be 50,000 years old ...
- This regional centre, which is headquartered in Tunis, aims at enlarging through this workshop its activity, in (وكالة الأنباء الجزائرية
from Yahoo! News - Search Results for cartography on 18 November 2004[Aps 18/11/04] Tunis - The remote-sensing air centre for the North African countries will organise from 17 to 19 November in Tunisia, a workshop for training in this field, in collaboration with a Belgian partner specialised in cartography ...
- New Google Feature: Google Scholar
from Hypotyposeis on 18 November 2004Mirabilis (who credits metafilter) has pointed out that Google has a new feature, Google Scholar (Beta) ...
- Fire Pit Dated to Be Over 50,000 Years Old AP
from Yahoo! News: Science News on 18 November 2004AP - In the growing debate about when people first appeared on this continent, a leading archaeologist said Wednesday he has discovered what could be sooty evidence of human occupation in North America tens of thousands of years earlier than is commonly believed ...
- Future events
from geography News feed on 18 November 2004Weston Town Crier, MA -... It is political, economic and territorial. The focus is on the creative and unique aspects of map making ...
- Geobears a world-class project
from geography News feed on 18 November 2004Lexington Herald Leader, KY -... The students use maps of the United States and the world to track the ...
- Innovative Geomatics Projects to Receive Funding
from geography News feed on 18 November 2004LBS (Location-Based Service) Zone (press release), MD -... technology of managing geospatial information information about the geography, environment and ...
- First Americans may have crossed Atlantic 50,000 years ago
from Christian Science Monitor | All Stories on 18 November 2004A new archaeological discovery suggests humans migrated to the hemisphere far earlier than previously thought.
- Property developer wrecks ancient ruins
from IOL: SciTech on 18 November 2004Construction workers in eastern China have blown up almost 60 percent of a 2 000-year-old stone quarry near Xuzhou - and archaeologists are up in arms about it ...
- the database imaginary - another reason for the importance of categories and databases
from Michael Shanks on 18 November 2004One of my interests is the way we use databases to organise and administer the collections that are at the core of our archaeological lives ...
- Evidence Hints at Earlier Humans in Americas
from NYT > Science on 17 November 2004Archaeologists in South Carolina announced radiocarbon dates suggesting that people made tools near the Savannah River about 50,000 years ago.
- Evidence Hints at Earlier Humans in Americas
from NYT > Science on 17 November 2004Archaeologists in South Carolina announced radiocarbon dates suggesting that people made tools near the Savannah River about 50,000 years ago.
- Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars
from NYT > Technology on 17 November 2004Google Scholar is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports ...
- Google Plans New Service for Scientists and Scholars
from NYT > Technology on 17 November 2004Google Scholar is intended as a first stop for researchers looking for scholarly literature like peer-reviewed papers, books, abstracts and technical reports ...
- Breaking news! Scientist: Man in Americas earlier
from ArchaeoBlog on 17 November 2004Breaking news! Scientist: Man in Americas earlier than thought An archeologist from the University of South Carolina today announced radiocarbon dating results of burned plant material dated the first human settlement in North America to 50,000 years ago ...
- GEsource Timeline Expands to 1,100 Items
from GEsource News on 17 November 2004A range of new entries for Polar exploration and sustainable development have swelled the GEsource timeline to 1,100 entries ...
- Hot Topic on GIS
from GEsource News on 17 November 2004A hot topic focusing on Geographical Information Systems is now available
- Open Source or Online Collaborative Scholarship
from Hypotyposeis on 17 November 2004I'm almost out of the woods with my SBL paper (more later). Rubén Gómez at the Bible Software Review Weblog and Eric Sowell, the Coding Humanist, are having an interesting back-and-forth discussion about open source, or, perhaps more appositely, online collaborative scholarship ...
- Blogspot was terribly finicky yesterday so we were
from ArchaeoBlog on 17 November 2004Blogspot was terribly finicky yesterday so we were unable to get through to post anything past mid-morning ...
- For that Roman Complexion
from About Archaeology on 17 November 2004Story in Nature News reports on the chemical components of a Roman cosmetic: Recreating a 2,000-year-old Cosmetic...
- UCincinnati Papyrological Summer Institute
from rogueclassicism on 17 November 2004Papyrological Summer Institute Depar