The View From Kalamazoo

(Via Got Medieval):

The Shaft theme in Middle English!

Iron Age skeleton found on isle
Lion Skulls from Tower of London Dated Back to 13TH Century

And behold! Great link! Spooooooky: Haunted Paper Toys

lots from the Google archaeology keyword lately:


Scientist has found spider trapped and preserved in amber 20 million years ago. (Blood! DNA tests! cool!)

Mysterious grave found in Gohar Tepe, Iran

Archaeologists Unearth Bronze Haul

Medieval farm uncovered under Edinburgh hotel (thanks to Cronaca for the link)

Have so much blogging to catch up on – so many things I have in neat little piles, ready to cover. But busy – oy. Work is thirteen flavors of nutz. Brief update: Mother Soprano still recovering in nursing home; Boy pooped in potty (first time – hey, it thrilled me, I’m not saying it has to do much for you); Girl swan dived off of playground equip., complete with resulting drama; iris bulbs still unplanted; working on (Xmas) orders for my knotwork tree tile and am cranking small pitchers out – I think I’ll make a kyusu/yunomi set…yay clay; I haven’t gotten any farther on my paper for Congress than a title, but dude, my WoW char. levels this weekend and I’ll get my mount. suh-weet! (in other words – pathetic as usual. rinse, repeat.)

Bas-reliefs of winged goddesses found in W.Iran
Ancient Road Uncovered on Moors

Hole in the wall yields treasure
500-year-old warshipÂ’s anchor raised
Greek archaeologists unravel 1,400-year-old grave tragedy
and via Cronaca:
Cannibalism, in Yorkshire: Bone finds in Yorkshire caves finally throw light on stone age life after breakthrough in radio-carbon dating
Stumbling across a Bronze Age boardwalk

Founding document of mathematics published in digital form for the first time

Tuesday was the feast day of Feast of St. Francis of Assisi. Between the sheer insanity at work, Mother Sporano’s surgery and the need for time and attention there, and life’s usual mishaps and misadventures I planned to, but failed to, post this then. I’ll post it now, there is no day it does not seem appropriate to re-visit it, and despite my heathen-ness it speaks to me.

Lord, make me an instrument of your peace;
where there is hatred, let me sow love;
when there is injury, pardon;
where there is doubt, faith;
where there is despair, hope;
where there is darkness, light;
and where there is sadness, joy.

Grant that I may not so much seek
to be consoled as to console;
to be understood, as to understand,
to be loved as to love;
for it is in giving that we receive,
it is in pardoning that we are pardoned,
and it is in dying that we are born to eternal life.

Lost island home of Odysseus found after 3,000 years
Iron Age woman’s skeleton found in Denmark
Archaeologists Unearth Secrets of the Earliest Scottish Settlers at Mesolithic Site
Statues of Goddesses Unearthed in Crete
Ancient Greek text ‘digitalised’
Czech archaeologists excavate Ancient Greek town flattened by Bohemian Celts
New archaeological discovery in Kiev
Dig unearths 1,500 year old ‘Tarbat Man’

And tales of frustration, via Cronaca:
Where are the cameras in other rare library holdings? What are librarians thinking?
Sh*t of get off the pot, maestro.