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- Sea Shadow to be Scrapped
- Photojournalism at its Finest
- Your Memory is not a Hard Drive
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- Liberalism as an Ideology
- Inflatable Stonehenge
- High Trestle Bridge, Madrid, Iowa
- Doors of Frederick, Maryland
- Republicans are the Problem
- Paul Kriwaczek, Babylon
- Meet the Archaeologist
- Leafing Out
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- Spiral Lava Flows on Mars
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- The Reproducibility Project: Science Done Right
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- Gun Control in the Wild West
- Gianluca Mantavani
- And the Martin Luther Random Insult Generator
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- Iran's Bizarre Theocracy
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- About that Team-Building Exercise
- What Secret Service Scandal?
- An Etruscan Bronze Chariot
- Guy Rose: California Impressionism
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- The Whalers' Secret Weapon
- Sticks (A very short story)
- Fingerprints are Bunk
- How a Real Man Decorates
- Charles Colson's Prison Conversion
- Sarcophagi from Deir el Balah, ca. 1300 BC
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- Tsuchiya Rakusan
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- No Dark Matter Here
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- Why Nutrition Science is Bunk
- All You Need to Know about Conservatism
- No, America, Iran is not a Serious Threat
- Taxes and Space Flight
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- Votive Idols of Ancient Sardinia
- Joan of Arc
- The New Apocalypse
- A Pit Full of Broken Buddhas
- The Gold Alexander Medallions of Abukir
- Worrying about Romney's Foreign Policy
- The End of the Latest Archaeological Venture
- Yet More Archaeology along the Potomac
- Blooming Black Locust, Today
- Liberals Walk, Conservatives Drive
- The Army of Darkness
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- Freedom, Interstate Highways, and Mitt Romney
- Rembrandt's Etchings
- Runic Inscription found on Ancient German Comb, Sa...
- Chinese Calligrapher Xu Wei
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- Inkblot of the Day
- What I Need is a Good Nemesis
- The World is Actually Pretty Flat
- The Mosaics of Heraclea Lyncestis
- Alfred Kubin
- A Great Day for Archaeology
- North Korean Rocket Failure
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- Rethinking the Problem of Illegal Drugs
- The Naryshkin Treasure
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- Today's Adventure in Archaeology
- Another Reason why Libertarianism is Stupid
- Treasure Hunt 2012
- In Which Thomas Kinkade, once an Artist, Gives it ...
- Alabastron: Perfume Bottles of the Ancient World
- Come Trembling
- Break, Break, Break
- Easter Egg Hunt 2012
- Gustav Klimt's Drawings of Women
- Alexander Kosnichev
- The Treasure of Nahal Mishmar
- Kabaservice, Buckley, and the Tea Party
- Camels in the Western Mountains
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- John Bedell is an archaeologist, historian, and father of five living in Maryland. He has self-published two novels and is writing a third.
2 comments:
I learn so much by just reading your posts; they're all really interesting! Thank you for updating so frequently. I was just wondering, do you know what this mask was used for?
No, nor does anybody else. It was found in a pit. However, around the world masks are most often worn in religious rites, or at special festivals.
This mask looks scary to me. Can I push that interpretation back 8,000 years and say that this must represent an angry or avenging spirit, one that had to be placated in ritual or driven away? I don't know, but I would like to think so.
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