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UK Heritage Bill dropped AGAIN!

bajrblog wrote 41 minutes ago: In December the Architects website reported the dropping of the Heritage Bill http://www.bdonline.co … more →

Tags: Archaeology News, Bill, Heritage, Law, UK

On Autopsying Books. Or, Wish I’d Thought of That.

flocking101 wrote 4 hours ago: One of the projects I’ve been planning to start once this year’s solo show is done is a series of ar … more →

Tags: Art, Brian Dettmer, Paper Art

Lost Aztec Tomb

beefybass wrote 7 hours ago: It’s located under Mexico City, somewhere… but where??? Read this story at The Star Can … more →

Tags: Education, News, Science, Anthropology, aztec, México, mexico city, tomb

Big Media Steve

teofilo wrote 8 hours ago: Wall Dividing East and West Plazas, Pueblo Bonito A couple of readers have brought to my attention a … more →

Tags: aztec, Chaco Canyon, Consequences, Ideas!, Lessons, Research

Too darned hot

Ruth wrote 12 hours ago: Four days of hot weather and any trace of the British spirit of  ‘mustn’t grumble’ … more →

Tags: random distractions

Finally Friday

Magnus Reuterdahl wrote 15 hours ago: This might sounds awful when one is lucky enough to get to work on an excavation but it’s been a war … more →

Tags: excavation, Historical Archaeology, Västra Götaland, Brooch, PIN, Skepplanda, Västra Götalands län

Archaeology update

Weymouth Relief Road wrote 18 hours ago: This is the latest image of the burial pit on Ridgeway, which Oxford Archaeology has been carefully … more →

Tags: weymouth relief road, Ridgeway

Chester Roman well

saesferd wrote 19 hours ago: Archaelogical excavation yields interesting finds A Roman well has been unearthed on a Chester devel … more →

The Thompson Festschrift Has Arrived!2 comments

Jim wrote 20 hours ago: I went to the post office and found there a nice box with 5 copies of the Thomas L. Thompson Festsch … more →

Tags: Biblical Studies, Books

Cooking for the Diggers

lucidephemera wrote 20 hours ago: On the whole, it wasn’t a bad first attempt. I had twenty-odd hungry archaeologists waiting expectan … more →

Tags: Food, Cyprus

Honourary Archaeologist

lucidephemera wrote 20 hours ago: I haven’t posted here for several weeks because I’m in rural Cyprus doing the cooking for an archaeo … more →

Tags: Manor Houses, summer, Cyprus

Etruscan Necropolis from Foggia

rogueclassicist wrote 20 hours ago: A brief item from AdnKronos: An ancient Etruscan cemetery has been uncovered by Italian tax police o … more →

Tags: Etruscans, Italy

Virtual Antiquity: See Qumran Come to Life

Jeffrey García wrote 1 day ago: Image from www.VirtualQumran.com Announced on Monday by the Architect and Chief Designer, Dr. Robert … more →

Tags: Books, Second Temple Period, DSS, Early Judaism

That's a SCIENCE these days?!

ct328 wrote 1 day ago: When I was 7 or 8 years old, my mother told me that if you counted the rings on a tree stump, you co … more →

Tags: Medieval History, The vikings, dendrochronology, Else Roesdahl, Oxford Dendrochronology Lab, the apocalypse

Gela Shipwreck?

rogueclassicist wrote 1 day ago: This is another one from the Italian press which I’ve been hoping would get some notice in the … more →

Tags: Crime and Trials, Italy, Underwater Archaeology

UK News

rogueclassicist wrote 1 day ago: Seems like a good time to catch up with a pile of brief news items from the UK that have accumulated … more →

Tags: Romans in Britain

CSI Ancient Greece?

rogueclassicist wrote 1 day ago: Interesting item from New Scientist which is making the rounds of Slashdot (and I just saw it float … more →

Tags: Epigraphy - Greek

A few finds

Magnus Reuterdahl wrote 1 day ago: A few finds from Skepplanda 32. The majority of the finds are different kinds of flints;   A square … more →

Tags: Cultural Heritage, excavation, neolithic, Settlements, Västergötland, Västra Götaland

They're Still Finding Interesting Things at Tel Kabri1 comment

Jim wrote 1 day ago: Like this. … more →