Salvete omnes, There looks like there are some talks here that would be of interest to list members so am forwarding it along. Valete, SallyW ... [Non-text...
Thank you, Judith, for a persuasive blog post about prehistoric handprints. I love it when someone breaks down our preconceptions, whichever ones they are. ...
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I thought this might of interest. -Stephanie Budin From <http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-06-56.html>: ========================================== Bryn Mawr...
Etruscan women rule! And have nice skin! -Stephanie Budin From <http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/10/ancient-ointment.html>: [Go there for pictures and...
Ich bin bis Ende Juli abwesend. Die Mails werden nicht weitergeletet. Stefan Fischer...
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Dear All, Please find attached a CFP for the 2010 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society. The APS is keen to receive submissions connecting ancient...
Biting, and interesting. -Stephanie Budin From <http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-07-46.html>: ========================================== Bryn Mawr Classical...
Ich bin bis Ende Juli abwesend. Die Mails werden nicht weitergeletet. Stefan Fischer...
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Dear All, Please find below the CFP for the 2010 meeting of the Ancient Philosophy Society. The APS is keen to receive submissions connecting ancient...
The inaugural issue is now ready! A new journal devoted to ethnoarchaeology.from Left Coast Press, Inc. Ethnoarchaeology: Journal of Archaeological,...
Greetings everybody, I thought this might be of interest to members. It sounds like it might be a good place to have a paper on a topic that's not discussed...
Of interest for many reasons. -Stephanie Budin The 'Mission Archéologique Française du Bubasteion' and its director, Dr. Alain Zivie, are happy to announce...
Left Coast Summer Hardback Sale This is one of those publisher problems that can be good for people like you. Because of the way our printers work, we must...
Apologies as always for the necessity of cross-posting... ************************************************************************************* To those...
A brilliant review by Nicoletta Momigliano, well worth reading read in its own right: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/2009/2009-08-20.html All good wishes, Judith -- ...
... This is just incorrect. Jarmo figurines of northeastern Iraq are as much as 3000 years older. Then there's Mureybet in Syria, with figurines 8th mbce and...
I was thinking that someone needed to correct that when I saw it on Archeology Daily News. I knew it was wrong, but of course I am no Max with everything on...
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... Certainly, but these are fired. See for example on the Hassuna-Samarra complex The Baked Clay Figurines from Tell es-Sawwan in style and technique of some...
Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps it's a matter of the journalism, and not the scholarship. Giving the benefit of the doubt to Erek, the archaeologist,...
From <http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1108761.html>: ============================================= Dig unearths ancient cult figurines of Aphrodite By Ofri...
... That could well be, you have a good point. I'm also seeing reports of 16,000 years old, not 6000, and know from personal experience that reporters get it...
A picture of the statuette can be found here: http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1108854.html It does appear to be late classical, although I think the...
The difficulty has been that it is in fact 16,000 years old and not 6000. So the claim that there are no others in sw Asia of such an early date is true, even...
The cool thing about this to me, is that this puts it to before the development of agriculture and the domestication of almost all animals. (Oldest estimate...
All dates for the advent of agriculture are guesstimates based on scientific analysis. If we have not found anything yet from the ice-covered period of the...