Due to a personal computing meltdown this week, I couldn't get to AF until today, but ... lots of good stuff going on out there:

Recent Archaeology Posts

• Headless Bodies May Aid in Understanding the Peopling of the Pacific, Afarensis
• Tianyuan, John Hawks' take on the early modern human found in China story
• Curves were best for stone age women, remote central
• The pigeon holes of time, a report on the Ottarshögen barrow, from aardvarchaeology
• New 3D Tomb of King Tutankhamun for Google Earth, GIS & Archaeology
• CHIVATEROS: primeros habitantes costeños, Arturo Gómez on Los Primero Habitantes del Peru
• Rome and China, what looks to be a Roman column in a Han Dynasty (3rd century BC China) tomb, from David Meadows on Rogue Classicism

Around About

• Theft at the National Archives, 20th Century History
• The Great Wall of China, Geography
• 1857 Segment of the Andreas Fault, Geology
• Gallery of Ancient Poets, Ancient History
• The Tudors, Medieval and Renaissance History
• Theodora, Byzantine Princess, Women's History

Miscellaneous Interesting Things

• What if the right role for science is to shatter the frame?, Pharyngula
• Harpending on Neo-Liberal Genetics: So, so wrong Rex on Savage Minds
• A petition for ancient history, on the proposed abolishment for A-levels in ancient history, Archaeoastronomy
• Graffiti Archaeology, Timothy Webmoor on Archaeolog
• More on licenses and scientific data, from Digging Digitally
• New Orleans Pre- or Post-Katrina, an uproar over Google Earth images, from the Google Earth blog
• Broadcast Denied: It's easier than you think (or even than it ought to be) to get your video pulled from YouTube, Robert X. Cringely
• Remember Iraq's Heritage: Our Heritage, TAC

Gigglesworthy

• Old Joan and the Sniff Test, from Annals of Improbable Research