The January 22, 2010 episode of the public radio program “This American Life” is about “Stories of filling in the blank.” The program’s second act is the story of two underwater archaeologsts:
Act Two. He Shapes Ship Shapes by the Sea Shore.
Fred van Doorninck and George Bass were unlikely candidates for pioneering underwater Byzantine archaeology—Fred hates water, and George found the Byzantine era boring. But that’s exactly what they did, when they devoted 50 years to uncovering the mysteries of a shipwreck. Along the way they changed how we think about a thousand years of history. Planet Money’s Adam Davidson tells the story. (12 minutes)
Listen to the whole program, at http://www.thisamericanlife.org/Radio_Episode.aspx?sched=1336
Category: In the News (Page 4 of 5)
In response to a recent discussion on Language Log on naming people after gods, one visitor wondered about how “Artemis” came to be a men’s name. His post cites “the Brown University archaeologist/chancellor Artemis Joukowsky”. For the full text of his post, and the full discussion, visit http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1949#comments .
In its October issue, Science Magazine reports that “Archaeologists Alarmed by Turkey’s Proposed Dig Rules.” Turkey’s Culture and Tourism Ministry is considering implementing rules that could require that excavation seasons last at least 4 months and that a Turkish co-director be appointed for each dig. The full story is at http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/326/5952/510-a .
And, the New York Times featured an article entitled “When Ancient Artifacts Become Political Pawns”, published October 23rd, examining Egypt’s demand that the Neues Museum in Germany return a bust of Nefertiti. For the full story, visit http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/24/arts/design/24abroad.html?_r=1&emc=eta1 .
Two bits of looting news are making today’s headlines. National Public Radio has been following the story of two-year federal sting aimed at a black market in ancient Native American artifacts. Read or listen to the latest at http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106376598.
And today’s New York Times features a story by Michael Kimmelman on the sixth-century B.C. red-figure krater by the Greek artist Euphronios, which the Metropolitan Museum of Art recently returned to Italy and which is now on display at Villa Giulia in Rome. For the full story, go to http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/arts/design/08abroad.html?th&emc=th.
Time Team (and their bulldozers) have arrived in America – soon to begin airing on PBS. First stop: Raleigh, NC. Visit their website, and watch a preview episode:
http://www.pbs.org/opb/timeteam/
Click on the link below to read an article in the Brown Daily Herald about the Joukowsky Institute’s time capsule burial at Rhode Island Hall on November 19, 2008.
Brown Daily Herald
A cement factory is planned to be built on the ancient city of Hierapolis Castabala in Plain Cilicia, at present Çukurova Plain, Turkey. Local interested parties and NGOs have already taken action filing complaints againts the company of the cement factory Universal Çimento A.Ş. -(In July 2008 merged into Spanish Essentium Group).
Please visit the new web page for more info set up by the Protest Campaign in Turkish. http://www.osmaniyearkeolojikmiras.com For those who wish to support the campaign please sign the petition http://www.osmaniyearkeolojikmiras.com/kastabala.html
