Archaeology as a vital US strategic interest
An opinion piece by me on the above subject on Fox News, and on why US National Science Foundation (NSF) funding of archaeology should be (i) supported, and (ii) if anything increased (rather than reduced in real terms), is at: http://www.foxnews.com/opinion/2014/07/08/archaeology-as-vital-us-strategic-interest/ The current specific problem or issue is the FIRST Act (Frontiers in Innovation, Research, […]
Thera/Santorini date debate: what’s new, and why is it important?
The Thera (or Santorini) volcanic eruption in the southern Aegean is the largest known of the past 12,000 years (Johnston et al. 2014) and sent ash (tephra) and tsunami over a large area of the east Mediterranean (the latter reached the Levant: Goodman-Tchernov et al. 2009). The eruption buried, Pompeii-like, a large Bronze Age town […]
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