Archaeology
- Ancient Maya Tomb Found: Upright Skeleton, Unusual Location Tim Jones on Anthropology.net
- Egyptian Courtier Henu's "Unusual" Tomb found by stumbling upon it, Kambiz Kamrani on Anthropology.net
- Alpine Archaeology and Paleopathology: Was Hannibal’s Army also decimated by epidemic while crossing the Alps?, from Patrick Hunt on ArchaeoLog
- Consumption, deposition and social practice: a ceramic approach to intra-site analysis in late Iron Age to Roman Britain, Martin Pitts in Internet Archaeology
- Gravely Mistaken, Marc Abrahams's
BBCGuardian column this week begins "When a stranger says he wants to dig up a corpse that might be buried beneath the pews of your church, should you let him?" and if that doesn't sound like archaeology, maybe you aren't paying close enough attention...
Anthropology
- Genghis Khan's genetic influence on descendants in northern Eurasian populations, Kambiz Kamrani on Anthropology.net
- Ultimate Causes, Proximate Mechanisms, Greg Laden on non-kin based altruism
- Selling Stuff with Liberal Chic, from Martin Rundkvist on Aardvarchaeology, with a survey of advertising in the magazine Seed.
Intelligent Design/Evolution Debate
- Intelligent Design and Engineering, Afarensis on Dembski's dream to do away with evolutionary departments
- Jerry Falwell Deconverted on Deathbed, from Kristine on Amused Muse, who was in the Galapagos with Richard Dawkins when Falwell died, another find from Pharyngula
- Creation Museum - Adam and Eve In The Land Of the Dinosaurs from Tim Jones on Remote Central
Around About.com
- Pictures of Apollo 11 Moon Landing, Jen Rosenberg, 20th Century History
- Hurricane Preparedness Week, Matt Rosenberg, Geography
- Rock Forming Minerals: A Quick Guide, Andrew Alden, Geology
- Periods and Dynasties in China, N.S. Gill, Ancient History
- Medieval and Renaissance Writers Quiz, Melissa Snell, Medieval History
- Before You Write an Essay on Impressionism, Shelley Esaak, Art History
- Romantic Italy Travel: Bed, Breakfast and a Vespa, James Martin, Europe for Visitors
Blog Carnivals
- Four Stone Hearth 15 on Greg Laden's blog this week
- Tangled Bank #80 at The Geek Counterpoint
- Carnivalesque 27 on Aardvarchaeology
New Media
- YouTube and Authenticity, Becky Roth on Digital Ethnography, with a thoughtful 7 minute video essay on the social contract issues surrounding the outing of the fictive LonelyGirl videoblogger
- Interview with Lim Chen Sian, Singaporean archaeologist, podcast linked on Southeast Asian Archaeology
- The Helvetica Hegemony, a slide show on the 'off-white' font type and how it got there, on Slate
- JSTOR is considering OA, Peter Suber gives us all something to hyperventilate about
Miscellaneously Interesting
- Framing Science, several blogs on the Intersection about how science is discussed (thanks to Pharyngula for pointing this out).
- Researching Food Habits: Methods and Problems, book review from xnoybis from Anthropology.net
- The Riddle of the Stones at the Whitby, Tim Jones on Anthropology.net
- Happy Towel Day
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