Thad at Archaeoporn and Alun at Archaeoastronomy have alerted me to an upcoming new journal: the Past Discussed Quarterly.
"PDQ is a journal designed to provide a bridge between blogging and academia. It will provide stable citeable references for selected weblog posts focussed upon or of interest to the pre-Renaissance past. It is compiled from articles submitted by bloggers on a quarterly basis."
And imagine me thinking that P.D.Q. were just the initials of classical music humorist P.D.Q. Bach, and that the acronym meant Pretty Damn Quick.
[More blog entries about archaeology, journals; arkeologi, tidskrifter.]
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