Archaeology & Museum Studies Blog Posts
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The Genius of Kinship: Human Kinship Systems and the Search for Human Origins
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 15:07:41 -0700
Thank you, Kambiz, for letting me introduce my new book to the Anthropology.net community. The story behind The Genius of Kinship is an interesting one. In 1991, then a student of history at the St. Petersburg State University, I wrote a course paper on the traditional social organization of the Shoshone Indians as could be gleaned from ethnographies and trappers’ accounts. Why would a Russian student be interested in the Shoshone Indians is an entirely different story to be told on a differe
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posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 14:23:17 -0700
the year: 2525 the scene: two women, wearing elaborate yellow flamenco dresses, talking to each other in the powder room of a restaurant One woman: I don’t know what our ancestors were thinking back in 2425 when they made these elaborate yellow flamenco dresses hadn’t become our new uniform across the world! Other woman: Oh, I know! They’re so hard to move around in!
Just so there’s no confusing fact with fiction when watching “Indiana Jones and The Kingdom of the Crystal Skull”…
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:36:24 -0700
This was recently posted to the Museum Securities Network Mailing-list re-posted from the Times Online UK, so I’ve decided to post it yet again for you guys to read: Secrets of the crystal skulls are lost in the mists of forgery With Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull about to erupt across our cinema [...]’“”…
Gilgamesh Movie Project
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:34:32 -0700
Gilgamesh Movie Project Posted in Ancient Near East, Archaeology, Teaching on May 12, 2008 by jimgetz A colleague at Temple sent around the following video adaptation of Gilgamesh. While it has some obvious flaws, it could make a fun little writing prompt for students: Where does this video adequately portray the text? Where has the video taken liberties with the story? Why might these changes have been made?
Painted Siphnian Treasury Frieze
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 10:33:01 -0700
I wrote my thesis on architectural sculpture, so know that friezes - other than the Parthenon one - tend to be the poor relations of Greek sculpture. Often they are highly weathered, and by the Hellenistic period there was a realisation that they were not all that visible from the ground, so they tend to be rather monotonous and simple in design. Now lost coloring would have made them easier to understand, and on the Siphnian Treasury at Delphi the designer even added labels to clarify exactly w
Tested, Working And Ready To Play.
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:28:43 -0700
It took longer than expected, but it appears that I'm almost done with the Archaeorama center in Second Life. Everything is there -- tested, working and ready to play. I just need some finishing touches before the official opening. I'm pleased to inform you that Archaeorama, the 3D extension of this blog, will open to the public on Sunday, May 18 at 9:00 am Second Life/ PDT Time. I'm particularly proud of "The Secret Chamber", a free adaptation of the "Amduat - the Book of the Secret Ch
A case of the general for the specific and for not getting it at all...
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 08:22:15 -0700
So I just read this article about the AbiSource project in the Google Summer of Code. The article as a whole was neither here nor there, but the joke headline: "AbiWord developers show strong support for OOXML" and closing paragraph: "Interestingly, we did receive quite a few applications about improving OOXML support, while we got zero OpenDocument related proposals. Apparently the support for the OpenDocument ISO standard isn't strong enough in the F/OSS community to actually make an effor
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More Julian Cope...
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 07:53:00 -0700
Quite looking forward to seeing St Julian at Latitude in July. I like him loads, have never seen him live and over the years have heard great things about his gigs. In the meantime, I've got this to look forward to: The Birmingham Town Hall website says this about it: Cope will present one of his infamous lectures, based on his years of study of the occult, mythology and Britain’s pre-history. Followed by a screening of cult film Haxan (1922 dir: Benjamin Christensen)-an other worldly vision
Everyone say, "Pazyryk"
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 07:38:30 -0700
Kate writes, "I thought I'd send you a photo of my tattoo. I guess it fits into the 'anthropology' category although I'm actually a vet (I've seen exactly one deer in a professional capacity since I graduated). It's a copy...
A Palpable Silence
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 07:23:56 -0700
Up the little trail, cave in the distance I came across this phrase in a book--a palpable silence--that stopped me right there on the page. There it was, the perfect way to describe what I feel sometimes, in some places, here in New Mexico. On our very first trip out from New Hampshire to take a look around New Mexico with the idea of living here, we drove up into the Sandia Mountains outside of Albuquerque. About four miles up from Placitas, we saw a smallish sign saying "Sandia Cave" and too
Medieval shipwreck found in downtown Barcelona
posted on Mon, 12 May 2008 07:00:51 -0700
The wreck of a 13th or 14th century ship has come to light on a construction site in Barcelona’s Barceloneta district - beside the Balaurd del Migdia and behind Francia train station - that used to be under water. The remains were discovered at around seven metres below sea level on the site of a new residential apartment block being built by the Sacyr Vallehermoso company on a plot previously owned by Renfe. () A related story at Typically Spanish.
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