The uses of the past
I have been thinking about public history and the uses of the past a bit lately, and reading Craig Clunas’ Superfluous Things: Material Culture and Social...
Category: Archaeology
Open sesame
Click over to Nick Kapur’s post at Frog Japan for news on new plans to allow archaeologists to access Japanese imperial tombs (kofun). Depending on how fa...
Imperial Tombs Finally Opened to Archaeologists…Sorta
It was quietly announced this week that researchers would be allowed to examine 11 ancient Japanese tombs, said to be the final resting places of Japan’s ...
For the want of a Monsoon
According to Yahoo Asia Nature will be publishing an article tomorrow that claims that climate change was the cause of the fall of the Tang dynasty. A team of G...
Shine on you crazy diamond
Have you been to the British Museum? One of the best museums in the world, largely because it contains the loot of empire, stuff the Brits brought back from all...
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History Carnival #38
“For both nations and inviduals have sometimes made a virtue of neglecting history; and history has taken its revenge on them.” — H. R. Trevor...
History news round-up (brought to you by the Korea Times)
For some reason the Korea Times seems to be quite a decent source of history news these days, so in the absence of a more heavyweight post, here’s a round...
Miscellany
Via HNN It’s a 270-year old antique building! It’s a brothel! Monument or Disgrace? Neolithic astronomy: Big Dipper in ancient stone. Paper Producti...
Finding historical riches
A few items from the news, blogs, etc. The Reverend Corwin & Nellie Taylor Collection at the Korean Heritage Library, part of the USC digital image collect...
A simple Miscellany
Ralph Luker‘s uncovering of the wonderful linguistic debunkings of 1421 by Bill Poser and friends (in two parts; note: Is Menzies just making up words in ...
Satire, self-parody and court jesters
I was looking for a good way to announce my new position as a member of the Carnival of Bad History team, when Geoff Wade sent this to H-Asia, and Prof. Goodman...
Tombs on Tuesday
Apparently, failure to follow sterile work protocols have resulted in damaging molds in the Takamatsuzaka tomb. I don’t understand why, in situations like...
Tombs on Tuesday
It’s been a good week for archaeology in the news, it seems: Liao tombs in Mongolia, of course Ming-era Imperial (eunuch) tombs near Beijing
Read the Bones
Forensic anthropologists who got a look at the earliest known human remains found in North America think he looks Ainu rather than Native American. Some Ainu’s ...
Monumental Repatriation
A Korean stone memorial commemorating victories over Hideyoshi’s armies has been returned [via] After decades of negotiations, the Bukgwan Victory Monument was ...