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	<title>The Do It Yourself Scholar &#187; Archaeology</title>
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		<title>Reading Homer as an anthropologist</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/11/20/reading-homer-as-an-anthropologist/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:41:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[What happens when you stop thinking of the Iliad as a work of fiction but instead see it as a primary text to help explain an ancient society?
That&#8217;s what archaeologist Tara Carter does in lecture 21 and lecture 22 of her great UC San Diego course Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization (feed).
She presents the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2267&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why we stopped foraging and started farming</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:00:24 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The invention of agriculture was probably the most important change in human history but scholars argue about why it happened, and propose three main conflicting theories.
These theories, and the difficulties in domesticating plants and animals are the subjects of lectures 14 and 15 in UCSD anthropologist Tara Carter&#8217;s great course, Prehistory and the Birth of [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2205&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeologist Isabelle Pafford teaches new course</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/archaeologist-isabelle-pafford-teaches-new-course/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 00:03:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[
University of Santa Clara archaeologist Isabelle Pafford is back with a new course about heroic narratives, Heroes &#38; Heroism (iTunes). The course covers heroic figures in ancient works like the Iliad, the Gilgamesh epic, and the Bhagavad Gita, and explores the historical background behind these tales.
Pafford has many fans among my readers who have praised [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2197&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Two great new anthropology classes</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 18:58:53 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[MMW1 Prehistory and the Birth of Civilization (feed), Tara Carter, UC San Diego.
UCSD is presenting three different versions of this course, but Carter&#8217;s is my hands-down favorite.  She relates the story of hominid evolution and the birth of social organization with infectious enthusiasm.  So far the course has brought us up to the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=2124&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abraham&#8217;s hometown and other archaeological tales</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/07/09/abrahams-hometown-and-other-archaeological-tales/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 10 Jul 2009 00:04:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a heads up for all you archaeology groupies: the archaeology museum at the University of Pennsylvania has an excellent lecture series on iTunes U, Great Sites of the Ancient World (iTunes).
Leading off the series, archaeologist and curator Richard Zettler tells the fascinating tale of Ur of the Chaldees (iTunes), the hometown of the biblical [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1905&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The fall of Rome</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/01/17/the-fall-of-rome/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 17 Jan 2009 23:39:41 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Book Review: The Fall of Rome: And the End of Civilization by Bryan Ward-Perkins.
I was surprised to learn that many historians are writing a history in which the Roman Empire never fell,  and of a late antiquity that was a mostly peaceful &#8220;accommodation&#8221; with Germanic tribal culture.
Oxford University historian Ward-Perkins offers an antidote to this [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1420&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The World of the Hebrew Bible</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/01/12/the-world-of-the-hebrew-bible/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 Jan 2009 22:04:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We know a lot about the ancient Israelites because an anthology of their literature, the Old Testament or Hebrew Bible, is still part of our culture.
But who were the writers of these ancient texts and why did they shape their stories the way they did? What was the mental world of their listeners, their background [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1366&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Archaeology sheds light on the Dark Ages</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/01/05/archaeology-sheds-light-on-the-dark-ages/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 05 Jan 2009 19:29:17 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We&#8217;re used to a world of dense economic networks, advancing technology and rapid communication. It is similar in many ways to the late Roman Empire, with its roads and aqueducts and long-distance trade.
So, what happened to that world when barbarians sacked the city of Rome in 410 AD?  Oxford University historian and archaeologist Bryan [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1325&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Top 50 Ancient History Blogs</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2009/01/01/top-50-ancient-history-blogs/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jan 2009 23:52:40 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Learn-gasm has a list of the Top 50 Ancient History Blogs. Many are dormant blogs, with the latest posts 1 or 2 years old. Others  are dead-ends with &#8220;file not found&#8221; messages.   Still, they&#8217;re fun to browse.  Check out Ancient Transportation, which has photos of models of ancient Roman wagons.
(Hat tip to Paleojudaica.)
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		<title>Knowledge tidbits</title>
		<link>http://diyscholar.wordpress.com/2008/12/31/knowledge-tidbits/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 31 Dec 2008 23:54:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Dara</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[ I often chance upon tasty tidbits of knowledge as I browse the web&#8217;s buffet of podcasts, academic courses and blogs. In this new feature I will serve up some of these intellectual hors d&#8217;oeuvres. I invite you to serve up your own tidbits in the comments. I only ask that you provide a reference [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=diyscholar.wordpress.com&blog=2351935&post=1247&subd=diyscholar&ref=&feed=1" />]]></description>
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