Time to get those ace blog entries written!
- On Wednesday we have a Four Stone Hearth at Clioaudio (submit archaeology and anthropology entries here). 4SH also has open hosting slots from September onward.
- On Thursday there's a Tangled Bank here at Aard (submit life-sciences entries here).
- ASAP there will be a one-off carnival here at Aard about Your Nearest Archaeological Site (more info here).
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Orac mentioned that he runs recurring De-Lurking Days on his blog. "Lurking" is to hang around a web forum or a blog without making your presence known. "De-Lurking" is to come out into the light of on-line day, however briefly.
Google Reader is an excellent blog reader, among whose strengths is that it resides somewhere off your computer. This means that you can read blogs from several machines without having to mark a lot of old entries as read.
Back in January I ran a Greatest Hits roundup for my pre-Aard blog site.
It's been a year now since I started blogging at Sb (after a bit more
Secret tomb chamber found at Xian, Indiana Jones called out of retirement to investigate.
Cool stuff. I hope they open the First Emperor's tomb within my lifetime.
A funny thing about that news item is that according to the BBC it's a 30 m deep trench, but Swedish media call it a 30 m high pyramid under the mound. Someone's made a mistranslation.
I guess the Bosnian Pyramid is not a story any more...
Earliest-known Evidence Of Peanut, Cotton And Squash Farming Found
In Peru. I knew squash was a New World development, but I didn't realize that peanuts and cotton were.
If you live in the UK you can use Archsearch at the ADS to find local archaeological sites. The only information on my closest site is a listing as "ENCLOSURE, Uncertain". It hasn't been published or released onto the ADS and now lies under a bypass, so I'll probably write about the second closest site.
Fortunately some of the records are more helpful.
Oh, isn't Tangled Bank always on Wednesdays?