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Author Archives: cfeagans
A Romantic Adventure-Tale of Treasure and Archaeology
You know how you start googling for information on one thing but end up going down a completely different rabbit hole from the one you started on? This happened to me over the weekend and I found myself looking for … Continue reading
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Tagged Franklin D. Roosevelt, Google Earth, Hondo, House (TV series), New Mexico, U.S. Army, Victorio Peak, World War II
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The Pseudoarchaeology of Glenn Beck
It should be no surprise that, since he has little grasp on the rest of reality, that Glenn Beck would fare any better at understanding archaeology. embedded by Embedded VideoYouTube Direkt In the first few seconds of that video, Beck … Continue reading
Four Stone Hearth 99 is Up
At A Very Remote Period Indeed! And its the last double-digit edition! Next time around is #100 hosted by Martin at Aardvarchaeology. So send him your submissions. Don’t forget! I got lucky this time around and Julian picked up on … Continue reading
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The Pseudoarchaeology of Saint John the Baptist
Image via Wikipedia Yet another example of religiously (and probably nationalistically) motivated pseudoarchaeology has emerged in the news. A Bulgarian archaeologist and at least one overly nationalistic politician with a bad mouth claim to have discovered the remains of Saint … Continue reading
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Tagged Archaeology, Bulgaria, John the Baptist, Near East, Saint John, Saint John the Baptist, Shroud of Turin
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Now the dust is starting to clear…
I’ve sorted out some of the behind the scenes woes with the WP 3.0 upgrade. They actually put out an update last night to 3.0.1 and that upgrade went smoothly… without the Internal Server Error 500 I was getting previously. … Continue reading
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Tagged .htaccess, Access control, Authoring, FAQs Help and Tutorials, Servers, Web Design and Development, Website, Wordpress
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4,000 year-old brain surgery?
An archaeologist from from Ankara University, Fikri Kulako lu, reports the discovery of a 4,000 year old skeletonwhich has evidence of “a successful brain operation” in which the patient survived. This sort of trephination isn’t unheard of in the ancient world, … Continue reading
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Tagged Archaeology, Brain, Conditions and Diseases, Health, Neurological Disorders, Seizure, Subdural hematoma, Trauma and Injuries
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Dead Sea Scrolls: were the authors Jewish or Jewish?
Image by Randall Niles via Flickr The Dead Sea Scrolls were discovered in 1947 caves near Qumran on the Dead Sea by a Bedouin shepherd. Stored for nearly 2 millennia in clay jars or pots, the scrolls survived with the help of the dry … Continue reading
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Okay… a little sawdust here and there…
Image via Wikipedia I’ve been working on the blog behind the scenes the last few days where I can get an hour or so from work and sleep. The theme looks pretty plain-jane right now, but its the new “Twenty … Continue reading
The Pseudoscience of Homeopathy
I am not responsible for any keyboards for those who tried reading this with their morning hot cup of joe! If you’ve never visited xkcd, you should!
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