Press release from the Ministry of Culture in the UK UK National Museums Get New Powers To Return Human Remains Nine national UK museums, including the British Museum and the Natural History Museum, have this week acquired powers to move human remains out of their collections as the Government brought section 47 of the Human…
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“Heritage USA”
Abram (Stern) has put me on to the recent Boing Boing link to photos of the rotting Jesusland built by Jim Bakker. Illicitohio.com spcializes in urban exploration in and around Ohio, photographing abandoned buildings and structures. They have a gallery devoted to “Heritage USA” and the PTL Club – 2000 acres of a Christian evangelist…
Tucson
Davis Monthan Airforce Base – the boneyard of mothballed aircraft.
Chillingham – UK borders
The tomb of Sir Ralph Grey. In the south transept of St John’s church, Chillingham, Northumberland.
gravestone, Bamburgh, Joyous Garde
Northumberland UK In the graveyard of Saint Aidan’s church – built in the 13th century. Founded c635.
Neanderthals ’sang and danced’
Steve Mithen of Reading University is in the news again about his forthcoming book – another on cognitive archaeology and evolution. The BBC have picked up on his argument about neanderthals, language and symbolic behavior [Link] Prof Mithen thinks the cave- dwellers would have enjoyed the rhythms and sounds made by rap artists. He said:…