Why I Hate Dinosaurs, is one of the great Dig It articles by Herman Smith. You really owe it to yourselves to read this stuff.
- posted by Chris @ 12:26 PM

 
I can't vouch for the truth of the story at DIY Archaeology that this letter was sent out by the smithsonian museum, but it is bloody funny.
- posted by Chris @ 12:21 PM

 
Got the shop up and running on www.newarchaeology.com which has been a fun challenge. I hope it's of help.
- posted by Chris @ 12:11 PM

 
... Which resulted in no less than 5 emails telling me that the plural of tegula is tegulae. Got to go and fix that error, but just wanted to say thanks for pointing out the mistake.
- posted by Chris @ 5:53 AM

 
I was looking out of the window at the neighbours house and realised I didn't know how his roof was built. Then I thought about the Roman roof tile fragments in the shed and realised I didn't know how the ancient romans put their roofs together either.

Clearly something needed to be done, so I did a little investigation and wrote it up (with pictures no less)!
- posted by Chris @ 10:12 AM

 
Two different taxi drivers told me something about Egypt on the same day.

First off was that the Sphinx was 40,000 years old and that Dr Hawass was covering up the truth of this because it would embarass Islam!...? No, I couldn't work that one out either.

Later the same day a different cabbie tells me there is 'a great evil' under the great pyramid at Giza which they excavated during the 60s and that is why we suddenly got computers!

So now we know. Still not as good as the theory that heiroglyphics aren't actually writing at all, but a popular ancient strip cartoon about a cute little character called 'sphinxy'.
- posted by Chris @ 11:04 AM

 
Aaarrrggghhh
- posted by Chris @ 10:18 AM

 
Nightmare 6 hour standing on the train. www.thetrainline.com are utter shites! Meetings canceloled, email broken, thoroughly peed off and to top it all the Museum of Roman Stuff is shut (according to the taxi driver). Don't know why I bothered.
- posted by Chris @ 9:14 AM

 
Been spending time recently working on a 'shop' for newarchaeology.com. We will offer over 20,000 titles related to history and archaeology. Latest estimate is that this will be up and running by the beginning of October. Meantime, I am off to Newcastle this evening for a bit of work and hopefully to get round the museum, trains permitting.
- posted by Chris @ 8:12 AM

 
Turns out that the The Museum of Antiquities is the joint museum of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne and the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Their website says it is the principal museum of archaeology in north east England. So, my midweek trip is looking up.
- posted by Chris @ 4:29 PM

 
Being sent to Newcastle this week. I had better find out about any Roman remains worth viewing.
- posted by Chris @ 4:21 PM

 
Found a great chapter on samian pottery in "Archaeology of the Roman Economy" by Kevin Greene. He goes into detail of ways archaeologists have analysed quantities and typologies to help understand Roman Britain.
- posted by Chris @ 4:08 PM

 
Welcome to newarchaeology blog
- posted by Chris @ 4:05 PM