The Archive for the Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Volume 4 (2013)
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The Archive for The Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Volume 4 (2013) William R. Caraher University of North Dakota New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World by William R. Caraher is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License. 2013 Title Date Views Per Day Page Man Camps in May: Some More Observations 5/20/13 2,185 10.21 243 The Real and Imagined Mount Athos 12/11/13 133 14.78 540 MOOCs at the University of North Dakota 12/12/13 107 13.38 542 The Archaeology of Religion and Culture in Late Antique Greece 11/26/13 126 5.25 519 Some Thoughts on Digital Dissertations 7/29/13 713 4.95 347 Does a University Need a Library? 9/24/13 277 3.18 436 Three Dimensional Imaging in Mediterranean Archaeology: A Short Introduction to a Blog Project 9/5/13 323 3.05 414 Ten Tips for a New Graduate Student 4/25/13 702 2.94 202 An Open Letter to our new Provost and Dean 8/19/13 341 2.77 385 Does a University Need a Library: A Response to a Response 9/25/13 167 1.94 438 Three-Dimensional Modeling in Mediterranean Archaeology: An Open Invitation 7/24/13 275 1.85 340 A New Article on 3D Imaging in Archaeology 7/22/13 268 1.77 336 Imagined Battlefields on the Dakota Prairie 10/13/13 120 1.76 460 Teaching Thursday: Five Tips for Every College Student 8/29/13 172 1.52 401 Fitness and the Archaeologist 8/12/13 185 1.42 372 Writing the past in photographs 10/7/13 102 1.38 452 Some 3D Models from Cyprus 7/23/13 187 1.25 338 iPads in the Field and Reflections on Archaeology’s Digital Future 5/24/13 236 1.12 250 Managing Archaeological Data in the Digital Age: Best Practices and Realities 1/31/13 360 1.11 57 Churches in Greece or Why my Dissertation is not a Book 7/8/13 179 1.08 312 Teaching Thursday: Teaching Byzantine History 8/15/13 105 0.83 379 Mapping North Dakota Man Camps 1/29/13 253 0.78 53 The Summer of Two Archaeologies 5/27/13 141 0.68 256 What’s Next in Archaeology? 4/22/13 138 0.57 195 A Few Thoughts on Open Access in Archaeology 1/17/13 180 0.53 34 A Pedantic Post on Giving Papers 3/13/13 149 0.53 126 A Late Roman Farmhouse near Metaponto 3/12/13 146 0.52 124 North Dakota Man Camp Project Update 6/4/13 100 0.50 266 Mapping the North Dakota Oil Boom 2/20/13 123 0.41 93 Punk Archaeology Recap and Reflections 2/4/13 128 0.40 64 Some More Thoughts on Digital History 1/7/13 133 0.38 18 A Very Short Introduction to Late Antiquity 1/15/13 112 0.33 30 A Last Second Holiday Gift http://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/a-last-second-holiday-gift/ Thu, 20 Dec 2012 13:51:27 +0000 Bill Caraher Like last year, I know many of my friends with a passion for Mediterranean archaeology and other, random bits of interesting stuff are desperately searching for last second Christmas presents. Well, you picked a perfect day to read my blog! Behold Volume 3 of the New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Archive. It contains 200 blog posts from 2012 and runs to close to 350 pages and over 115, 000 words. (For those feeling nostalgic, feel free to gift [http://www.scribd.com/doc/76046493/The-Archive-Volume-2-2011] Volume 2 or [http://www.scribd.com/doc/45687170/The-Archive] Volume 1 (2007-2010)). Like last year the title page is in brilliant Futura font, but the text is now in the legible Garamond. I've replaced the table of contents in Volume 2 with an index of the 50 most popular posts (in page views per day) in Volume 3. I've also done a bit more to remove more of the web mark-up. As before, I recommend binding the print version of this [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIL3fbGbU2o] in rich Corinthian leather. I can hear all my more sage friends and colleagues already pointing out to me that if I had the energy to write 100,000+ words a year, I certainly had the energy to converts that pesky dissertation into a monograph. But, the issue, as always, is fun. Converting a dissertation to a monograph is not fun. Writing a daily blog on whatever passes through my mind is. Since getting tenure, I've decided to commit 25% of my time to doing things that are fun. So my blog, creating a digital scholarly press (shhhh), Punk Archaeology are all fun. Working on a decade old dissertation that is freely available on the internets is not fun. So, share in my fun this holiday season and enjoy the New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World Archive: [scribd id=117493442 key=key-bb3gorh48nd3l33n5s9 mode=scroll] 1 Friday Varia and Quick Hits http://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2012/12/21/friday-varia-and-quick-hits-50/ Fri, 21 Dec 2012 16:02:51 +0000 Bill Caraher It's the holiday season and the world did not end (so everyone has to finish their Christmas shopping this weekend!). On the other hand, people will also have time to read these Friday quick hits and varia. • Tomorrow will be the 10th anniversary of Joe Strummer's death. In his honor, check out [http://www.npr.org/2012/12/20/167651279/joe-strummers-life-after-death] this NPR story and [http://www.openculture.com/2012/12/the_clash_live_in_tokyo_1982_watch_the_comple te_concert.html] this Clash concert from Japan in 1982. And turn up London Calling or Streetcore really loud sometime tomorrow. (And notice the parallels between Strummer and E.P. Thompson…) • [http://www.academia.edu/2307004/OXREP_Indo-Roman_Trade_Bibliography] A sweet bibliography on Roman trade with India (again for Strummer and Thompson). • [http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2012/12/17/cia-officially- denies-that-it-is-trying-to-erase-a-letter-from-the-russian-alphabet/] The CIA officially denied attempting to erase a letter in the Russian alphabet. Well, that's nice of them. • [http://www.architizer.com/en_us/blog/dyn/68732/costa-concordia-wreckage-to- become-seaside-public-space/#.UNRaW4njlRv] The coastal wreck of the Costa Concordia cruise ship will become a pretty awesome park (via [http://www.whitewashedtomb.com/] Richard Rothaus). • More Rothausia: [http://www.inforum.com/event/article/id/383413/] An unknown bidder beat out the expected victor in buying the Nekoma, N.D. Safeguard Missile complex. So we have officially scrapped our effort to buy this amazing site for the future global headquarters of [http://www.trefoilcultural.com/] Trefoil Cultural and Environmental and the New Archaeology of the Mediterranean World. • Elsewhere in North Dakota: [http://www.flickr.com/photos/heritagerenewal/sets/72157632269025284/] Ukrainian Homestead Houses. • [http://www.eh-resources.org/podcast/podcast.html] A really nice (and Australian) collection of Environmental History podcasts. • For folks who followed [http://uchicagoadmissions.tumblr.com/post/37809971913/indiana-jones-mystery- package-we-dont-really] the bizarre, Indiana Jones inspired, package received by the University of Chicago admissions office, [http://uchicagoadmissions.tumblr.com/post/38161122385/mischief-managed-for-those- of-you-who-have] this is how it was resolved. 2 [http://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2012/12/20/a-last-second-holiday-gift/] Wait, did you look at the 2012 archive already?• [http://detroiturbex.com/content/schools/cass/index.html] Schools make particularly compelling subjects for abandonment porn. Consider the difference between how a closed school is commemorated on the web and [http://www.theverge.com/2012/12/20/3776210/electric-funeral-death-of-mmo] the end of virtual worlds. • [http://dashes.com/anil/2012/12/the-web-we-lost.html] The web we have lost. • If you haven't been reading [http://corinthianmatters.com/] Corinthian Matters recently, now is a great time to catch up and check it out. David Pettegrew has posted a ton of good stuff lately and some really useful datasets. • [http://doconversations.wordpress.com/2012/12/14/metadata-101/] Dumbarton Oaks talks about Metadata. • [http://www.theatlanticcities.com/technology/2012/12/new-highly-detailed-image- north-koreas-lack-electrical-infrastructure/4201/#] North Korea at night. • What I'm reading: G. Bowker, [http://www.worldcat.org/title/memory-practices-in-the- sciences/oclc/60776866] Memory Practices in the Sciences. MIT 2005; R. Neuwirth, [http://www.worldcat.org/title/shadow-cities-a-billion-squatters-a-new-urban- world/oclc/55286007] Shadow Cities: a billion squatters, a new urban world. Routledge 2005. • What I'm listening to: The Clash, London Calling; Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Streetcore."ChristmasCamel.jpg" [http://mediterraneanworld.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/christmascamel.jpg]"ChristmasC amel"] The Christmas Camel steals the show 3 Cold Walk Home http://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2012/12/22/cold-walk-home/ Sat, 22 Dec 2012 14:26:50 +0000 Bill Caraher I like to [http://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/reflections-on-100- walks/] walk in the North Dakota cold, but it generally involves [http://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2011/02/02/what-to-wear/] preparing oneself properly. And the first walk of the year in genuinely cold weather (i.e. low single digits with blustery winds) is always colder than I think it will be. In fact, it was this cold: "ColdWalkHome.jpg" [http://mediterraneanworld.files.wordpress.com/2012/12/coldwalkhome.jpg]"ColdWalkHo me] 4 Aurora Borealis http://mediterraneanworld.wordpress.com/2012/12/24/aurora-borealis/ Mon, 24 Dec 2012 13:43:05 +0000 Bill Caraher On a frigid walk home from a friend's house, watched the sky around the North Pole prepare for Santa's annual trek through the heavens.