A fascinating item today in the Guardian – History of modern man unravels as German scholar is exposed as fraud Flamboyant anthropologist falsified dating of key discoveries Luke Harding in Berlin It appeared to be one of archaeology’s most sensational finds. The skull fragment discovered in a peat bog near Hamburg was more than 36,000…
Author: Michael Shanks
The Brick Testament
In the light of my recent posts about creationism [Link], contemporary culture and the science wars [Link] and then the Barbie Doll Bronze Age [Link], Cornelius (Holtorf) has put me on to The Brick Testament. Yes – the Bible in lego bricks … The death of Jacob by The Reverend Brendan Powell Smith
surreality – Barbie dolls in Minoan Crete
Stringy Carter has put me on to an extraordinary web site – Minoan Culture, a Discussion by Frederick John Kluth of Kent, Ohio Barbie as prehistoric matriarch He has created a series of scenes from his reading of Minoan Crete using Barbie dolls … not the usual gendered interpretation of Minoan culture and society! But…
organizing memories – the example of Flickr
For some time I have been promoting collaborative information building and sharing. Philip put me on to Flickr – a photo store and share site. You can upload your pictures from camera phone or computer and organize them, keep them private or share them with others. You can “tag” them or part of an image…
the end of the Neanderthals – biology and culture
photo – BBC – amended There is an item today on the BBC web site connected with what sounds like a comprehensive TV treatment of the now classic puzzle of the end of the Neanderthals – BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | The icy truth behind Neanderthals. What happened to the Neanderthals? Did they die out?…
landscape messaging – weaving collective stories
Randommedia, the UK based games/web design people, have a fascinating virtual world called Dreamdomain. You design yourself a “drone” – a flying insect, with a “blindwatchmaker” genetic algorithm and then off you go to fly round some very weird landscapes. The dots are messages – text, and video! But you are not at all alone…