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Herculaneum...
Herculaneum Archeology
www.herculaneum.ox.ac.uk/?q=newsletters
A publication put out by the The Friends of Herculaneum Society. Pretty good information about classical archaeology in Italy.
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Utah archaeologist tries to fight state layoff
Utah archaeologist tries to fight state layoff:
Former State Archaeologist Kevin Jones is appealing his firing from the state last June in a major restructuring. But the state is fighting him all the way, saying — to start with — that he retired and has no appeal available.
Bob Thompson, administrator of the Utah Career Service Review…
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Issue 17 of Arqueologia is out and OPEN ACCESS Read Here-...
Issue 17 of Arqueologia is out and OPEN ACCESS
Read Here- http://sites.google.com/site/revistaarqueologia/tomo-17-2011
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(Assyrian) Guardian Lion at British Museum From Temple of...
(Assyrian) Guardian Lion at British Museum
From Temple of Ishtar in Nimrud.
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Ancient Maya Center Saved from Destruction
Ancient Maya Center Saved from Destruction:
If you want to save an ancient archaeological site from impending destruction, here is one way to do it: Buy it.
That is exactly what happened in 2011 as the monumental remains of a Classic period Maya kingdom located in northwestern Belize faced destruction from bulldozing.
Read More Here: http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/ancient-maya-center-saved-from-destruction
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Amateur archaeologist unearths 'Roman prostitute's pendant'
Amateur archaeologist unearths 'Roman prostitute's pendant' :
Bob Dix found the rarity in the back garden of his former home and, without any further thought, tucked it away for safe-keeping.
But he only realised the pendant could be special after a similar brothel token appeared in the press earlier this month.
Read More Here: http://www.metro.co.uk/news/887932-amateur-archaeologist-unearths-roman-prostitutes-pendant
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thedailyfeed: The set of ‘The Finder’ turns into a gym...
The set of ‘The Finder’ turns into a gym for Geoff Stults and Michael Clarke Duncan when the cameras aren’t rolling, as Flash reporter Soo Youn discovered during her visit.
(Don’t miss the video tour or our 360 degree photo!)
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Greece, the 10 most important discoveries of 2011
Greece, the 10 most important discoveries of 2011 :
Visit the link for all ten.
1) A small 2,500-year old wooden statue in perfect conditions. The impressive find was made in the Sanctuary of Artemis in Vravrona during building works on the archaeological site’s drainage well. Other objects were found alongside the statuette, all of them dating from the 5th century BC.
2) A square jasper stamp, dark red in colour and bearing incisions in Minoan hieroglyphics, the oldest Minoan texts of Crete. The find, which the archaeologists Iris Tsachili and Eleni Papadopoulou say is very important, was made at the peak sanctuary of Mount Vrysinas in Rethymno, on the island of Crete.
3) The tombs of men buried alongside their animals, which came to light in the village of Mavropigi in Eordaia. The tombs contain 11 men and 16 animals (horses, dogs, oxen and a pig). The director of the office of Antiquities, Georgia Karamitrou-Mentesidi, says that the distinguishing feature of the necropolis is the large number of animals placed alongside the dead men.
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What’s on my bucket list
What’s on my bucket list
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The Heroic Age http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/ “The Heroic...
The Heroic Age
http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/
“The Heroic Age is a fully peer-reviewed academic journal.
The Heroic Age focuses on Northwestern Europe during the early medieval period (from the early 4th through 13th centuries). We seek to foster dialogue between all scholars of this period across ethnic and disciplinary boundaries, including—but not limited to—history, archaeology, and literature pertaining to the period.”
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"The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”-Saint Augustine"
““The World is a book, and those who do not travel read only a page.”-Saint Augustine”
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Reaching Back 2,000 Years to Unravel a Curse
Reaching Back 2,000 Years to Unravel a Curse:
A vegetable seller named Babylas was the target of an alarming curse nearly 2,000 years ago. Written on a lead tablet found in Antioch, one of the largest cities in the Roman Empire, the curse calls on the gods to tie up the hapless greengrocer, then “drown and chill” his soul.
The curse is described in the German journal Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik by Alexander Hollmann, a classicist at the University of Washington who studies Greek and Roman magic.
The curse was written on both sides of the tablet. One side calls upon the god Iao to bind Babylas; the other side addresses multiple gods and calls for the tablet to be thrown down and “killed” in a well — followed, in the same way, by Babylas.
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Open call to all undergrad archaeologists, anthropologists, etc:
Open call to all undergrad archaeologists, anthropologists, etc::
“The University of Michigan is having the Third Biennial Undergraduate Archaeology conference. The abstract is posted below.
I’m the Executive Secretary for the Archaeology Club, which is hosting this event at the Kelsey Museum of Archaeology and the Michigan League.
want to stress that if you submit an abstract, you have a very high chance of making it into the conference. This is a fantastic opportunity for anyone who hasn’t done a conference before to get experience, as this isn’t a severely fancy event!
And if you’re worried about housing, we will provide you with a hotel list: hotels, motels, we can even just offer you a spot on the floor at one of the co-ops here in Ann Arbor that the President of the Club lives in. If you are interested in this event but are worried about not being able to afford coming here, myself and others in the club are willing to work with you to get you here and allow you to present.
All we ask is that you submit your abstract by the deadline, February 1st of 2012, to the email umarchconf-submit-12@umich.edu.
And feel free to contact me if you have any questions. I’d love to hear from some of you that I follow or you follow me through tumblr, or anyone you know who you’d think would be interested can contact me through here as well.
Again, I’d love to hear from any of you about any interest in our conference.
Chelsea”
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Shit Anthropologist Say When Going Through The Anthro...
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Shit Anthropologist Say When Going Through The Anthro Tag
Okay, so franzboas dared me to make a video in the style of all the recent “Shit ______ Say” videos specifically for anthropologists who are going through the Anthropology Tag. I hope you are entertained.
Ugh, sorry you all had to find out how gross your mod looks on a Sunday night.
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SUMERIAN STELE, ALL ...
SUMERIAN STELE, ALL 3RD-2ND MILL.BCE
Drummer; fragment of a stele, from Tello. Period of King Gudea (around 2100 BCE. Limestone, 30,5 x 36,5 cm AO 457)
At Louvre Museum.
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