The weekend is nearly here and that means (hopefully!) gathering together with loved ones and sharing a meal or a feast. Watch out for the hare though, they are already tucking into the delicious grapes 🍇
On this day in 1808, Rose Cunningham Fitzpatrick died aged 63. See this and other gravestone inscriptions from Clonbroney, Co. Longford, in the Journals: https://tinyurl.com/fitzp1808
📕 Nona Palincaş and Ana Cristina Martins are the editors of the book "Gender and Change in Archaeology. European Studies on the Impact of Gender Research on Archaeology and Wider Society", published by Springer Nature.
The book shows various ways in which the study of gender makes a difference in archaeological research, in academia and in the public's thinking about gender.
BIBLE OATH. Supposed by the vulgar to be more binding than an oath taken on the Testament only, as being the bigger book, and generally containing both the Old and New Testament.
A selection from Francis Grose’s “Dictionary Of The Vulgar Tongue” (1785)
Donella Meadows book Thinking in Systems is a good (but dated) introduction to feedback modeling and systems design in ecology. I've always held-out hope that Agent-Based stimulative modeling would advance sufficiently to simulate the behavior of actors governed by these broad systems patterns. And in a way that could include spatial processes in the modeling. Our computers are big enough now.🙂
The return of long-lost Sumero-Akkadian heritage and modern disorders: rediscovering Gilgamesh, Victorian tension, and aftermath
“The rediscovery of the Mesopotamian epic complicated centuries-old and on-going debates about time and history: The major archaeologists of the period utilized it to return the field to its earliest arguments and better understand what time and history meant at the end of the nineteenth century, the Historians, Hebraists, and Biblicists began to question the originality of the Bible and verify its reliability, and figures specialized in literature and/or the arts got access to the primary sources of prehistory to update existing literature or create new fictional arts.”
Olmsted, The Newspaper Axis: Six Press Barons Who Enabled Hitler
“Kathryn Olmsted’s work provides a timely and incisive analysis of four American and two British press lords, united in their isolationism, appeasement towards fascism, and proclivity to use their media apparatus and larger-than-life personalities to forcefully promote their politics.”
“Where do national myths originate? They do not emerge by happenstance. Rather their creation and spread are an exercise of power. Influential historical actors, from antebellum slaveholders to the moguls of Hollywood and those Slotkin calls the ‘political classes’, have attempted to develop and disseminate broadly acceptable myths to serve their own interests.”