[UPDATE: See comment # 5 for clarification and added detail about the Childs talk that I discuss below. Now I wish more SW archaeologists would weigh in…but most of them don’t read blogs, as far as I can tell.] Craig Childs advising archaeologists on how to write for a popular audience is about as useful…Continue Reading…
That’s the only way to describe this post by Joe Romm. I’m serious. The man has tied himself in knots over a wild, unsubstantiated claim he made a few weeks ago: Now that they have shut down his original blog, Roger Pielke, Jr., is desperately trying to remain relevant in the blogosphere. Any reasonable person…Continue Reading…
Nothing pisses off archaeologists more than being equated with pothunters. Last year, this piece by Craig Childs upset many SW specialists. (Childs is giving a talk at the annual Pecos conference later this week; somebody please record this. Or blog on it. How about you, Gambler’s House, if you’re attending?) As this recent column in…Continue Reading…
It sounds perverse, but there’s no denying it. Yes, some of us may well end up as edible wafers. The Russians, however, are feeling giddy about their future prospects in a hotter world, as Bradford Plumer notes here. So too are nomads in the Sahara, it seems, according to this dispatch from National Geographic News….Continue Reading…
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