Amalgamated Friday #16

Nobody Expects the Spanish Inquisition

Okay, I may be the only person who links the Spanish Inquisition to Cortez Pizarro and the Inca civilization. That said, news about the first American victim of a shooting made the rounds:

• Earliest Known American Gunshot Victim Found, Afarensis
• Earliest Gunshot Victim in New World Is Reported, John Noble Wilford in the NYT
• Video on Gunshot Victim, from National Geographic, via Andie on Archaeoblog

More Archaeology

• Scholars Race to Recover a Lost Kingdom on the Nile, John Noble Wilford in the NYT, on Kush civilization sites endangered by the proposed Merowe dam (Meroe being the name of a Kushite capital)
• 35,000 year old figures from SW Germany, Greg Laden on Vogelherd Cave, with pics
• Slovak Chamber Grave Perfectly Preserved, Aardvarchaeology
• The ancient script of Southeast Asia - Part 1, noelbynature on Southeast Asian Archaelogy
• The ancient script of Southeast Asia - Part 2, noelbynature on Southeast Asian Archaelogy
• Excavations at Johnson's Island, an update from Archaeology magazine's online dig.
• Spruce Hill safe, for now, from Archaeology magazine.

On About

Seriously. How can I not keep doing this?

• Origin of the Etruscans, NS Gill on Ancient History
• 16th century Abbey map discovered, Melissa Snell on Medieval History
• Hagia Sophia signatures uncovered, Melissa Snell on Medieval History
• The Essential Tutankhamun Art Bibliography, Stan Parchin, for Shelley Esaak on Art History
• Following Europe's stinking rich, James Martin on Europe for travelers

Blog Carnivals

• Four Stone Hearth #17, on Hominin Dental Anthropology
• Tangled Bank #82, from Greg Laden

Creation Museum

• Field trip to the Creation Museum, Aetiology
• Creation Museum Video, from RedStateUpdate.com and Greg Laden

Other Anthropology

• More on the Hadza, Chris O'Brien
• NOVA: Bone Diggers, from John Hawks
• Pig extinctions in Polynesia, John Hawks
• Scandal at the Smithsonian, several articles gathered by David at Cronaca about the continuing political battles at the Smithsonian Institution
• Hooray for secrecy (and murder), more on the Smithsonian problems from Improbable Research
• Nepali "Living Goddess" is rather into gadgets, from Xeni Jardin on Boing Boing, is interesting because of the anthropology/urban-legend-like aspects of the reporting
• Google Earth Helping Amazon Indians, by keeping track of rainforest status

Pedagogy

• SciTalks, a new collection of free-for-the-downloading education lecture videos by scientists; news about it came from Peter Suber
• Citation Plagiarism, a tricky situation, from Kerim on Savage Minds
• Question for the academic types--interview requests, Tara Smith on Aetiology
• Framing Junk, from Greg Laden on the Junk DNA story in Wired
• Iraq Archaeology Playing Cards, David on Cronaca

Passages: Peter Ucko

• Peter Ucko Obituary, from Mark Morgan on the Egyptology blog
• Peter Ucko, from Andie on Egyptology News
• Peter Ucko passed away, from Cornelius on the European Journal of Archaeology

Open Access

• Required Reading: the next 10 years, Larry Lessig's iCommons iSummit 07 speech is on his blog along with some explanation: he stunned the audience by announcing that he is changing a big part of his creative focus from the Creative Commons project (he's CEO) to trying to affect international legal rules protecting copyright.
• Lessig switches from copyright to corruption, Cory Doctorow on Boing Boing comments on Lessig's new project.
• Nature Precedings is Live, announcement on the Nature blog about the new OA pre-publication storage place.
• More on Nature Precedings, comments from science blogs forwarded along by Peter Suber.
• Open Access Dissertations at ProQuest are in progress, according to Peter Suber

Snicks

• Friday cat bloggin', Alun on Clioaudio

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