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One small slip for man, one giant mistake for space heritage?
A comment on Who owns space history, the public or the astronauts? posted by +Universe Today. There’s a checklist from the Apollo XIII mission owned(?) by Jim Lovell. It’s an interesting puzzle from an...
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What’s the difference between archaeology and grave-robbing?
Loss of HMS Victory, 4 October 1744 by Peter Monamy The HMS Victory (not that one) is set to be recovered according to the BBC and many other sites. You could say speed. Archaeology is an enormously...
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Thony Christie on Hevelius
If you have any interest in the history of astronomy you should be following The Renaissance Mathematicus blog and this post, The last great naked eye astronomer, is a perfect example of why. This is a...
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What lies beneath Achill-henge?
Achill-henge. Photo by Seequinn It’s good to see Achill-henge being picked up by the BBC. This is a story that’s been around for a while. I think RTÉ’s video report is accessible worldwide. The BBC...
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If your Stonehenge theory is nonsense, is mine rational because it’s not yours?
Sound at Stonehenge I’m currently working with a group of bloggers on a site to be launched somewhere in the next few months. I’m not sure where yet. One of the features of the site is an informal rule...
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Collaborating with Aliens
Alun Salt / FlickrThe Treasury of the Athenians at Delphi. Nothing to see here. I’ve been kicking around an idea for a paper for a couple of years. Every so often Stephen Hawking will announce that...
View ArticleWhere can you find out more about the UNESCO Astronomy World Heritage...
For anyone searching for my name today, here’s the information you’re after. The bit I’m working with is the Portal to the Heritage of Astronomy. This is the part where all the public information is....
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Mick Aston
Mick Aston was probably the best-known archaeologist in the UK. I’d also go so far as to say that he was the most influential archaeologist of the last 25 years. Mick Aston (centre). Photo by Wessex...
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How did being buried for 36 hours become three days?
Something that puzzled me about the resurrection was how a period of thirty-six hours or so became three days. There are other things too, but the period from death to Easter morning isn’t even...
View ArticleSilencing the Echo
The black clouds unleashed their rain, pelting Adlais’s face. The drops melted into her tears. Now, in the centre of the circle, the priests gripping her, she understood what happened to her friend...
View ArticleThe uncommonly decent politics of reburial
To add a little context to the previous post: I’ve taken a course in short story writing, and Silencing the Echo might have been an entry for a short story competition in Wales — but I decided against...
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The ancients and meteors
There are all sorts of cyclical events that ancient peoples are thought to be interested in, solstices, lunar cycles and eclipses. What rarely seems to get attention are meteor showers. It might seem...
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More ways to date a Neanderthal?
This is useful information for archaeologists. Carbon Dating would be fantastic if the production of Carbon-13 were constant. It’s not. This means that archaeologists need samples of known date to...
View ArticleHow much is Stonehenge worth?
You can now use English law to work out what Stonehenge is worth in this blog post from Ulla Rajala. Someone has been fined for destroying a quarter of one of the Priddy Circles in Somerset and you can...
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The opposite of Open Access
Here’s an interesting paper I found while looking for information on a topic: EVALUATING THE STATUS OF UNESCO WORLD HERITAGE SITES IN EGYPT. I’ve no idea if the content is interesting. However, the...
View ArticleTentative Astronomical World Heritage Sites
I’m making a note for myself here, but other might be interested. It’s occurred to me there’s a very easy way to list sites on the tentative world heritage lists with an explicit astronomical...
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Does history feel better when it has no connection to the past?
The BBC’s Stargazing LIVE recently showed how you could predict eclipses using Stonehenge. It’s true but also really boring because there’s next to no evidence for it. How convincing it is depends on...
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I clearly don’t understand what an academic review is for
There’s a bit of a puzzle in American Antiquity recently, a section of reviews of pseudoarchaeology books and after reading it, the biggest mystery is why? Donald H. Holly Jr is worried that people are...
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