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Things, Places, & the Archaeology of Eurasia

February 28, 2012

    Should auction houses be able to claim that there is "no proof that an object was obtained illegally"  Or should they be required to provide positive proof...

February 26, 2012

The role that Venice and Cilicia have played in Armenian arts and letters is the subject of a new exhibition  The New York Times has a thoughtful review here: The Key to...

February 23, 2012

A two-and-a-half-year-long suspected archaeological fraud involving thousands of forged Greek and Etruscan artefacts, a hospital x-ray machine, a philanthropic aristocrat and a...

February 20, 2012

In February 2011, Kevin Kelly, founding editor of Wired made the following assertion: "I say there is no species of technology that has ever gone globally extinct on this...

February 8, 2012

A new online portal for Georgian archaeology has recently gone live  The site has an expanding database of archaeological sites, information on restoration projects, and a...

February 5, 2012

A useful new tool for Near Eastern archaeological research now online: Atlas des Sites du PRoche-Orient via [Maison de l’Orient et de la Méditerranée] : Atlas des Sites...

January 4, 2012

This new revelation raises a number of interesting questions  What art is the CIA supporting now and why  Did it (or does it) also support other artistic genres  What does the...

January 4, 2012

I was very sorry to read today that Liz Brumfiel passed away last week I saw Liz give the 1991 distinguished lecture at the AAAs in Chicago  I was halfway through my first...

January 4, 2012

The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Workshop at the University of Chicago is hosting two upcoming events related to the archaeology of the Caucasus Thursday January 5, 2012 at...

December 21, 2011

Michael Shanks discusses two recent studies of the archaeology of socialist worlds: World Crisis in Ruin: The Archaeology of the Former Soviet Missile Sites in Cuba by Mats...

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