Wednesday, March 23, 2005
Homo Forensis - Its getting nasty
"We have a big dispute with Professor Jacob," says Tony Djubiantono, chief of the Indonesian Center for Archaeology. Last year's discovery of the 'hobbit' bones has been overshadowed by an almighty row over who has rights to investigate them and who broke a lot of them. Reading between the lines, it seems that (according to the team who found the bones) the venerable Teuku Jacob of Gadjah Mada University, who is not in any way associated with the discovery came and took the bones away to his lab, dismissed them as fakes and sent them back in a less than perfect condition. Jacob denies this and an unholy spat has broken out.
Read more about the messy affair
"We have a big dispute with Professor Jacob," says Tony Djubiantono, chief of the Indonesian Center for Archaeology. Last year's discovery of the 'hobbit' bones has been overshadowed by an almighty row over who has rights to investigate them and who broke a lot of them. Reading between the lines, it seems that (according to the team who found the bones) the venerable Teuku Jacob of Gadjah Mada University, who is not in any way associated with the discovery came and took the bones away to his lab, dismissed them as fakes and sent them back in a less than perfect condition. Jacob denies this and an unholy spat has broken out.
Read more about the messy affair
Tuesday, March 15, 2005
The International Conference on Conservation Management in the Built Environment. will be held in london between 6th and 8th September 2005
This three day event is being sponsored by the University of Westminster and the Chartered institute of building.
Day three promises much with Jason Wood from Heritage Consultancy Services, UK. presenting case studies to compare and contrast the British and French approaches to conservation management of Roman remains.
In addition, Peter Gaskell, University of Gloucestershire, UK.
will be looking at a photographic monitoring system developed to monitor the changes taking place to the listed farm building resource.
Lots of info available at www.iccmbe.com
This three day event is being sponsored by the University of Westminster and the Chartered institute of building.
Day three promises much with Jason Wood from Heritage Consultancy Services, UK. presenting case studies to compare and contrast the British and French approaches to conservation management of Roman remains.
In addition, Peter Gaskell, University of Gloucestershire, UK.
will be looking at a photographic monitoring system developed to monitor the changes taking place to the listed farm building resource.
Lots of info available at www.iccmbe.com
