A bunch of odds and ends at the end of the week:
- The Pyla-Koustopetria Archaeological Project got some press this past week in Cyprus Weekly. While the article doesn't get everything right, the University of North Dakota got some press from it:
"The Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project, as it is called, is jointly under the direction of Professor William Caraher, University of North Dakota, Professor R. Scott Moore, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Professor David K. Pettegrew, Messiah College, and Dr Maria Hadjicosti. Experts from Europe also assisted in the excavations.
Maria Hadjicosti said that each participant contributed their own expertise and specialty in evaluating the archaeological excavations and survey."
- Edward L. Ayers, the new President at my alma mater, the University of Richmond, continues to contribute to the field of digital history. His History Engine has gone live and public and is getting some good press. This is exactly the kind of collaborative enterprise possible in a Web 2.0 environment and the kind project to which Digital History at the University of North Dakota could someday contribute.
- Luke Lavan's and Axel Gering's Berlin-Kent Ostia Excavations Blog is now being updated. It will be fascinating to watch their project work to uncover the Late Antique city of Ostia. Archaeological Project blogs is such a booming field that it might warrant more extensive treatment...
- Finally, a little advertisement for myself. Brandon Olson, over at Historical Archaeology in the Ancient Mediterranean, deserves a good bit of credit for helping get this book done. He performed the preliminary edits on nearly all the contributions. Scott Moore, at Ancient History Ramblings, was a co-editor. Kostis Kourelis, at Buildings, Objects, Situations, was a contributor as was Sam Fee at Arranged Delirium. It's the blogosphere in print form!
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