The View From Kalamazoo

Good lord, I have been busy. Crazy, even. Program is mostly out in the mail system (or already recieved, for the USPS Priority Mail folks), should be totally gone by Wed. or Thurs. The pace here is frenetic, meetings up the wazoo (and I tell you, it’s uncomfortable to have a meeting in your wazoo!)

Have been keeping a list of links-o-interest, although I imagine most of this is old news to most of you, here they are:

Angel hidden for 1,200 years

Carving of ‘northern god’ found

Trove of Teutonic weapons uncovered in Krusne Hory region

TownÂ’s medieval bridge unearthed

14th Century wreck found in Stockholm waters

Lucky coin found in medieval ship

$600M Grafenwöhr housing project is on site of medieval village

Inscriptions point to horizontal social formations during medieval era

Archaeologists discover Saint Chad’s Burial Place and Shrine

Catalonia region reviving Jewish past

Mathematician asks: is our history wrong?: Dates ascribed to ancient events may be off by 1,000 years

Bronze Age Sky Disc Deciphered

Aaaand for those of us geeky about archaeology, even non-medieval:

Archaeologists Find Massive Tomb in Greece

Typhoid May Have Caused Fall of Athens, Study Finds

Ancient Greek shipwreck surveyed

Archaeologists unearth Alexander the Great era wall

3,000-year-old tombs found in China

2200-year old graveyard of children discovered in Inner Mongolia

Ancient village found in China

Team to excavate 600-year-old ship

3,000-year-old cliff painting found in Yunnan

8,000-year-old drill to make fire found in Zhejiang

Archaeologists Find New Ancient Egyptian Tomb

Tutankhamen dead of knee infection

And Yes, a real update is in order. Such news. Oy. Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow… Right now I need to Get Back To Work, there’s barely time to take my ‘smoking break’ to cut-and-paste..gah.