Well, it’s time again to spotlight some blog carnivals for everyone.
First, Greg Laden, over at Science Blogs, has got the most recent installment of Four Stone Hearth.
You should definitely go check it out, especially the article on Archaeoastronomy about Aborigines and UFOs and Archaeozoology’s post about Neolithic funerals.
Next, head on over to Podblack Cat’s blog, and check out Skeptic’s Circle. There is a lot of good stuff over there this week, including Skeptical Surfers’ post on autism and White Coat Underground’s entry about the fad of Detoxing.
Finally, Biblicalia has the Biblical Studies carnival up, which has a bunch of stuff about the Talpiot Tomb, as well as other less commercialized topics.
(I should note that I have since removed my citation of Dr. Dever as the origin of the word archaeoporn, as there is a lot of disagreement online, but it does seem that Dr. Reed was the one behind it).
Filed under: Archaeology, Blog Carnivals, Metadata, Politics, Pseudo-Science, Religion
Oh, I thought maybe you knew that it had come from Dever and that Reed had just used it on TV. Please don’t think there’s any argument there. The first time I’d personally heard it was when Reed did in that Discovery program, but that doesn’t mean it wasn’t around before. I wonder if there’s a way to track that down?
Truthfully, I could not remember which had said it in the Discovery interview, and when I originally began using the term for the title of this site, all the citations and definitions of it I could find online listed Dever as a source.
I just saw that too, on a breeze through Google. I did manage to find this, though:
“It’s like a romantic game and treasure hunt,” noted Jonathan Reed, professor of religion at the University of La Verne and author of Excavating Jesus: Beneath the Stones, Behind the Texts. He added that it seemed that the conclusions of the film were already drawn in the beginning.
“I call it ‘archaeoporn,’” added Reed. “It’s exciting, but in the end, it’s wrong. It isn’t a long lasting relationship.”
Since that same quote is attributed to Dever, oddly, it seems that Reed really is the source, and the mixup came after that.
Thanks for the mention.
Why not simply send an email to Jonathan and ask? I’m sure he will tell you where he got it, just as he told me…