Blog Profile / A Hot Cup of Joe
| URL : | http://ahotcupofjoe.net/ | |
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| Filed Under: | Academics / Anthropology | |
| Posts on Regator: | 121 | |
| Posts / Week: | 0.5 | |
| Archived Since: | October 4, 2008 | |
Blog Post Archive
Thinking about Neolithic Figurines: Making them
My master’s thesis is a study of anthropomorphic figurines from the Neolithic of Southeastern Europe and Southwest Asia. So I thought I’d try my hand at making a couple. Disclaimer: I’ve never worked with clay before today. And I’ve made … Continue reading ?
Walmart Endangers Cultural Site? Gets Building Permit Through Bribery?
From the I’m-shocked-to-find-bribery-and-deceit-in-Walmart’s-plans department. The New York Times is reporting in an expose a laundry list of wrong-doing on the behalf of Walmart that resulted in the building of a supercenter very, very near the grounds of a major cultural … Continue reading ?
Richard III Remains Confirmed!
I’m a little late with this, but I’ve been busy all day. The remains found at a carpark in Leicester, England have been confirmed to be that of King Richard III by Richard Buckley, lead archaeologist of the University of … Continue reading ?
Pseudoarchaeology Meets Archaeology… in court?
Simcha Jacobovici -an apparent purveyor of pseudoscientific “discovery” related to biblical mythology is suing Joe Zias for “libel.” This is a tactic skeptics have seen of those peddling in woo lately, particularly in Europe where libel laws are a bit … Continue reading ?
Native American Marker Trees. Interesting, but is the Science Sound?
Today, I had the privilege to attend a presentation by Dennis Downes at the Trinity River Audubon Center in Dallas, Texas. There were perhaps 100 or so people in attendance, many elderly or retired types, and many seemed to share interests with … Continue reading ?
Wannabe “diggers” Destroy Part of Gettysburg National Park
I previously blogged about the “American Digger” trash-TV show that features a former fake wrestler as the star of his own show digging up relics for profit and how there’s a movement via Change.org to get this show cancelled. If … Continue reading ?
Iced Joe
A new friend recently re-introduced me to an old friend. I was at the TAS (Texas Archaeological Society) Field School in June where I made a lot of new friends. One of these friends always had a iced coffee drink … Continue reading ...
‘Diggers’ are to archaeology as pro-wrestling is to sports: fake
They're stealing the possibility of understanding a culture or civilization. They're going for the loot, and leaving the data behind in the piles of dirt the discard in heaps, forever lost as contexts to the past. Continue reading ?
AT&T Blackberry Warranty Problem and Corporate Greed
This isn’t a post about archaeology, anthropology, or even science. It’s about consumer fraud, to which I’m a victim And the perpetrator appears to be a very large corporation. But I don’t think the corporate management at AT&T is aware … Continue reading ?
Grave Dowsing?
What’s a water dowser do when his method is demonstrated time and again to be nonsense on stilts? Turn to dowsing for graves, I suppose. It wasn’t mentioned if the dowser who worked for Mississippi landowner about to lose a … Continue reading ?
SciCulture – A New Site
I’ll still be blogging here, but I’ve also just launched a new site called SciCulture (www.sciculture.com) and it’s my hope to entice a few new bloggers to make it their home. So if you know anyone that might be interested, … Continue reading ?
Atlantis Rising’s Micheal Cremo and the Calaveras Skull
Michael Cremo is the author of the pseudo-archaeological tome Forbidden Archaeologist and has a regular column in that woo-woo rag Atlantis Rising. In the March/April column, Cremo revisits the so-called Calaveras skull, which was long-ago revealed as a hoax. Cremo is … Continue reading ?
Newt Gingrich: Americans are an Invented People
So, if Palestinians are an "invented people," then equally, too, are the Americans and the Israeli's. Neither the United States or Israel existed prior to 1776 and 1948 respectively. Continue reading ?
Feminism and Classism in the Context of MTVu in University Public Spaces
I came across this article today on the Serendip forum at Bryn Mawr College. The author posts photos and a transcript of several “napkin notes,” a Bryn Mawr tradition for communicating with the dining facility (which I find fascinating by … Continue reading ?
Don’t Be a Rick: Anthropology and Liberal Arts in the Republican Gunsights
So we should clue he and those who think like him in. Spread the word. If you have a blog or a site that can share it, go to the links below and embed this Prezi slide show. This is … Continue reading ?
“Mainstream” Archaeologists…?
Here’s a line I noticed on a mystery-monger site, posted by some well-meaning, if somewhat ignorant, significance-junkie. “… the often ridiculously closed society of “mainstream” Archaeologists, who sometimes prevent truths from seeing the light of day in order to save … Continue reading ?
People. Fire. Climate.
"Humans and fire are interconnected all the way back to our beginnings," said Thomas W. Swetnam, principal investigator on the grant and director of the UA Laboratory of Tree-Ring Research. Continue reading ?
The Science Forum.org
http://thescienceforum.org and http://thescienceforum.net There once was an Internet forum called The Science Forum. Then our friend, who owned the software, database, and all the writings of our community decided to move on with his life and sell to more capable … Continue reading ?
Lewis Binford has Passed
I rarely mention the passing of notable people on this blog. But I find that I have to make time and space for an archaeologist who’s been so influential on so many. Lewis Binford, 79, passed away at his home in Kirksville, … Continue reading ?
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