Reviews

• Castles & Fortresses, Melissa Snell reviews the new book by Robin S. Oggins on Medieval and Renaissance History at About.com
• ‘Most Haunted Live: Pirates’ Curse’. An Archaeology of Haunted Houses?, review of the television programme by James Dixon on Archaeolog

Anthropology

• Hadzabe Tribe's 'Great Victory' Over Commercial Hunters - Adam James, on Anthropology.net
• Red-haired Neanderthals, Kambiz on Anthropology.net
• Ancient DNA Reveals Neandertals with Red Hair, Fair Complexions, Elizabeth Culotta in Science (for-pay download)
• Inside Higher Ed on anthropology and war, Rex on Savage Minds

Blog Carnivals

• Four Stone Hearth #26, on the Primate Diaries
• Tangled Bank #91, on The Radula

Archaeology

• Taking the "re" out of repatriation, John Hawks on the repatriation of human remains from the 10,000 year old On Your Knees cave site in Alaska.
• Domestication of Barley, Diekekes posted an abstract of an upcoming paper on barley domestication
• In Pictures: Inside Silbury Hill, Tim on Remote Central reports on the BBC story with interior images of the megalithic tombsite
• Archaeologist Uncovers 11,000-year-old Artefacts At Djade-al-Mughara In Syria, Tim on Remote Central
• Laos: Filling up the gaps in Southeast Asian Prehistory, on U Penn's Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology project on Laos

Open Access

• How can you lead the Open Access revolution in the USA?, suggestions from Alun on ClioAudio

On About.com

• Comparing Katrina vs. California Fires, Matt Rosenberg, About.com's guide to Geography, argues that the comparison 'worse than Katrina' is a bogus one
• Persian Empire: The Battle of Marathon, from N.S. Gill in Ancient History
• How to Shoot Your Works of Art, Shelley Esaak on About.com's Art History
• 5 Countries, 4 Languages: A Northern Europe Travel Itinerary

The Incantation Bowls

• University Suppresses Report on Provenance of Iraqi Antiquities, Michael Balter in Science (for-pay download)
• UCL and the Incantation Bowls: new revelations, David Gill on Looting Matters

Video and Other Amusements

• Curse of the Stolen Artifact, a bizarre little video from the BLM, brought to our attention by Colleen Morgan on Middle Savagery
• If you are a Bill Watterson (Calvin & Hobbes) fan, you will love this page of rare Bill Watterson cartoons mostly from his college days, on the official Calvin & Hobbes webpage, brought to us via Cory Doctorow on BoingBoing

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