Sunday, April 27, 2025

Italian archaeological toponymy

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It has occurred to me, observing the writing of some colleagues and people-on-the-internet (not naming names) that the different ways of ref...
Saturday, February 08, 2025

The lithic turn

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This began as a claim, that stones are microcosmic ruins. (“Rocks” would have worked better alliteratively, but in my professional jargon th...
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Sunday, November 10, 2024

Museum Capsule Reviews (and thoughts) 3: Venosa

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The beginning of the first gallery Yesterday I visited the Museo Archeologico Nazionale "Mario Torelli" in Venosa for the first ti...
Friday, September 20, 2024

The most beautiful of worlds? (or, sarma police)

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Because today was part of a long weekend in Naples—yesterday was the feast of San Gennaro, the city's patron, known among other things f...
Sunday, July 14, 2024

The Quantity of Antiquity

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Prompted by a passage in Maurizio Bettini's 2023  Chi ha paura dei Greci e dei Romani? Dialogo e cancel culture (my broader thoughts on ...
Sunday, February 11, 2024

But why? And thieving some joy

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I mean, obviously, the project is too big. It's incomplete, and incompletable. It's anachronistic, a one-man band in an era of colla...

Autoarchaeology, or, retrointrospection

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 Since I've been blogging again, I took some time to read back through my previous posts. I started this darn thing nearly 20 years ago,...

More on Flickr: tags and timelines

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The Etruscan ritual calendar called the Tabula Capuana ; see more here . In addition to the collections approach detailed in yesterday's...
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Saturday, February 10, 2024

A guide to using my Flickr resources using collections

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It has often occurred to me over the past several years that the structure of my Flickr account (dedicated mostly to archaeological sites an...