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Alternative archaeology and American Antiquity
I don’t, admittedly, always read the reviews section of the SAA‘s flagship journal, American Antiquity. I am, however, quite glad that I did last month (or, more accurately, this month, since I didn’t...
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Alternative archaeology update
Well, what do you know? The title of this Forbes story that’s been going around today seemed awfully familiar, and it turns out it’s actually a review, of sorts, of the recent American Antiquity book...
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The “world’s oldest Qur’an manuscript”
You may recall seeing, back in July, the news that radiocarbon dating showed that a Qur’an manuscript at the University of Birmingham was one of the oldest, if not the oldest, in the world. The...
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Some slightly outdated news
You may or may not have noticed that, since my last post, Landscapes of the Islamic World: Archaeology, History, and Ethnography, edited by the excellent Stephen McPhillips and the equally excellent...
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That new coin hoard from the Sasanid invasion
Hello, and welcome to the latest installment of “Ian rambles about the latest archaeology news.” I’ve seen this story shared in various forms on the various Near Eastern archaeology social media...
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More on finding wood in the desert
I’ve mentioned my collaboration on Islamic period charcoal with the incredible Brita Lorentzen on this blog before. That time was to point to a short post on the PEF Blog. Note, incidentally, that the...
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The southernmost Levant in the news!
Several interesting news stories have popped up in the last few days about archaeological research in southern Jordan and Israel. First, I was excited to see that my good friend and colleague Erez...
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Posts have been a little light here for a while as I finish my dissertation, but enough things have come out in the last month or so that I should really mention them here. First, and certainly most...
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An Early Islamic papyrus fragment from Faynan
I promised previously that I would discuss Hannah Friedman and colleagues’ paper, “Fragments of an early Islamic Arabic papyrus from Khirbet Hamrā Ifdān” — published in the same issue of Arabian...
View ArticleFarewell to WordPress
I’ve decided, after much deliberation, to move this blog to my academic website, ianwnjones.com. For the moment, at least, I’m going to leave the WordPress version up, but won’t be updating it. You can...
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