Kfar HaHoresh, Mortuary Site?

For the last week or so I have been very quite as far as posts go. This is largely because of my end of semester work load, which is at present quite heavy. Today, I finished a paper for my Neolithic in the Near East class on the PPNB site of Kfar [...]

A Note on Archaeology and the Supernatural

Archaeologists are constantly faced with questions concerning the nature of evidence, and what material remains allow for specific assumptions. Recently, while reading a 2001 paper by Peltenburg et al, I came upon such a situation. The paper deals with the dispersal of the Neolithic to Cyprus, including the site of Mylothkia, which [...]

Repost on Raw Food Magic

I rather liked PalMD’s recent post on raw foods over at the denialism blog, and left a large comment. It’s generally a mirror of some stuff I have been thinking of posting lately, so I thought I would throw it up here as a real post.
First, as Alton Brown discussed during one episode of [...]