There's not a lot of consistency around the web this week, at least there isn't one hot story people are conversing about. I'm guessing it's because mid-May is the high point for college graduation activities and bloggers from universities are busy with other things. Still some interesting bits and pieces to be found, however...
Archaeology
- South Carolina: Ancient Artifacts Provide Insight To Upstate History, Tim Jones on Remote Central
- Wolf Cave, Finland, Most Northerly Neanderthal Site? Or Something Earlier Still...
- The Unbearable Abstruseness of Archaeology, on Aardvarchaeology, Martin muses about the painfully regional aspects of our beloved field
- Archaeologists to peer into Silbury Hill, from Alun Salt on ClioAudio, including a handful of lovely photos of the site
- Vietnam’s Ancient Son, photos and a travel story on the My Son sanctuary from noelbynature on Southeast Asian Archaeology
Video
- Chronicle of Higher Education and Web 2.0, the CHE interviews Michael Wesch about the Digital Ethnography project
- Penn and Teller on Exorcism, posted on Greg Laden's site, NSFW
- Modelling Mesa Verde, 3D models of Spruce Tree House and other buildings at Mesa Verde from CyArk via The Archaeology Channel
- Salvador Dali on What's My Line, on YouTube, via BoingBoing (but not, sad to say, with the very recently late Kitty Carlisle Hart)
Creationism/Evolution Debate
- Discovery Institute Doomed to Extinction?, review of the film "Flock of Dodoes" by Greg Laden
About.com
- Phosphate in a nutshell, Andrew Alden in Geology
- Saving the Ancient History A-Levels, N.S. Gill in Ancient History
- New World archaeology and Old World Technology, on Jamestown, Melissa Snell, Medieval and Renaissance History
- Made for Manufacture: Drawings for Sculpture and the Decorative Arts, Stan Parchin on the Getty Museum's exhibition, with Shelley Esaak on Art History
- Benelux and Beyond, on what to do with a short European vacation, from James Martin on Eutope for Visitors
Carnivals
- Four Stone Hearth will be at Greg Laden's place on May 23rd.
Anthropology
- Religion, philosophy, homeopathy, acupuncture…which one doesn't belong?, Pharyngula on Lewis Wolpert's interview on Salon
- No Neandertal in You?, John Hawks comments on some recent talks by Svante Pääbo.
- Are Humans Polygamous?, from Martin on Aardvarchaeology (Somewhat NSFW)
Meetings
- Association of Social Anthropologists 2007 – A Highlight, Andrew Cochrane and Ian Russell on Archaeolog provide some notes.
- Some Highlights of the Society for American Archaeology meetings, Austin, Texas – April 25-29, 2007. , Krysta Ryzewski does the same for the SAA meetings
- Kalamazoo! Medieval Studies mega-congress, from David at Cronaca
Images and Imaging
- The American Southwest in 3-D, from Flickrite Jason Ordaz, a collection of excellent stereoscopic pairs
- Smithsonian images migrated to Flickr for fair-er use, on BoingBoing, and although it seems to have been a completely legitimate thing to do under the current copyright, it's not the Smithsonian doing the migrating
Jamestown
- What do Jamestown + 28 Weeks Later have in common? BRRRAINS., Xeni Jardin on BoingBoing
Wikipedia/OA/Dull Doings
- Why does Wikipedia suck at science?, on Epidemix
- “How to Write Consistently Boring Scientific Literature”, from Kaj Sand-Jensen on Annals of Improbable Research
- Why the AAA hasn't embraced OA, in Peter Suber's column
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