Archaeology and Tourism
- Question for the ArchaeoBlogospher, Chris O'Brien on North State Science
- Religious Graffiti at Historic Sites, Chris O'Brien
- Opening Archaeological Sites Up To Tourists, Afarensis
- Responsible tourism in Angkor, noelbynature in Southeast Asian Archaeology
Archaeo-Vacations
- Adventures in Angkor - Angkor Thom, the Royal City, noelbynature in Southeast Asian Archaeology continues his visits to Angkor
- Cartas (ilustradas) do Japão, Daniela Kato, a friend of Trans-Ferir sends along photos of a recent trip to Japan, captions in Portuguese
Spit that Gum Out!
- Neolithic humans had gum habit, the Guardian, via David Beard
- Scientists Find Ancient Gum in Finland, AP via NewsVine
- Student dig unearths ancient gum, BBC News
- Student Finds 5,000-Year-Old Chewing Gum, Kambiz on Anthropology.net
- Stone age chewing gum, David Pescovitz on Wired
Misc
- Mind Control, John Hawks
- Peru Quake Relief Efforts, Xeni Jardin on BoingBoing
Media
- A video science revolution?, from John Hawks, about a notion from the Public Library of Science, where researchers can upload a video of themselves talking about their papers (sort of a conference paper)
- SciVee: YouTube for Science!, Kambiz on anthropology.net
- SciVee TV, from PLOS, what Hawks speaketh of
- ArchaeoComix, from Colleen on Middle Savagery
- ArchaeoFind, from the endlessly inventive Anita Cohen-Williams, a zwicky search engine for archaeology. A zwicky is a do-it-yourself search engine, where users vote for good search results. Via David Beard
- Egyptology News Daily Photo: Karnak, usually more than one photo, but Andie at the Tour Egypt website often has some great photos of archaeological sites posted. This day was Karnak, from reader Pierre Daoust.
- Skull a Day, an artist creates a skull image a day. I don't know why, but it's interesting, in that Mexican-sugar-skull-Day-of-the-Dead kinda way. Via Xeni Jardin on BoingBoing
Anthropology
- Seeing Red Pink, from Brian Switek on Laelaps, about a new paper in Current Biology reporting the reason girls in modern societies prefer pink while boys prefer blue
- Denialists Exposed, Pharyngula on HIV-deniers
- Going bipedal, Archaeology magazine
- Interview with Bones (novelist Kathy Reichs) in Smithsonian Magazine, via Boing Boing
- DNA from Spit Helps Decode Lives of Early Settlers, on Steven LeBlanc's work on DNA, Joe Palca at NPR
Around About
- The World’s Most Overhyped Vacation Spots, Matt Rosenberg in Geography
- About Sedimentary Rocks, Andrew Alden in Geology
- Eras of Jewish History, N.S. Gill in Ancient History
- Getty Research Institute Names New Director, Shelley Esaak in Art History
- Travel Evolution: You're Planning More and Taking Longer Vacations, Aren't You?, James Martin in Europe for Visitors
Science Journalism
- Clearly, bloggers need to take over science journalism, Pharyngula raps National Geographic
- (Pharyngula's) PZ Myers sued for libel, Scientific American blog
- The Pursuit of Heirloom Tomatoes, scott Horton in Harper's
Archaeology
- Late Medieval Seal Matrix, on early forms of identification, from Aardvarchaeology
- Antiquity Photography Prize , report from Martin on Aardvarchaeology
- Observing the solstice in ancient Greece, Alun on Clioaudio
- Castanheiro do Vento, Chalcolithic period fortified village, from Trans-Ferir
- The Roman Arena, from Archaeology magazine
- Why do I do Archaeology?, Magnus Reuterdahl explains on Testimony of the Spade
- Excavation begins on Wyre Neolithic settlement, Sigurd Towrie on Orkneyjar Archaeological News
- CU team finds key evidence of Mayan crop, Rocky Mountain News reports on the latest findings from Cerén.
- Time Team: Castle Hill, Ipswitch. If you live on my side of the planet, chances are you haven't seen Time Team. Here's an example from 2004, looking for a Roman villa in Ipswitch backyards. Dang, that Tony Robinson is good. 52 minutes
Open Access
- Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting, Alun at Clioaudio describes a project that looks really interesting
- SAA 2008 “Web 2.0? Session, session proposed by Digging Digitally
- AnthroSource moves to Wiley-Blackwell, Peter Suber
- Anthrosource drops UC -Press for Wiley-Blackwell; that is, the AAA scholar research network AnthroSource has switched publishers, which has implications for the potential (or lack of it) for OA at AAA. On Open Access Anthropology
- Publishing and Values, more on the AnthroSource plans, from Scott Jaschik on Insider Higher Ed
- More on the AnthroSource move to Wiley-Blackwell
- What is peer review?, working through the problem at Bloggers for Peer-Reviewed Research Reporting, an interesting project for Open Access
Blog Carnivals
- Boneyard #3, paleoanthro carnival over at Laelaps
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