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Translations of Primary Sources, c.300-c.800: A Handlist
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Monday, 16 October 2023
Reflections on the End of Western Antiquity: 2. The supposed ‘Rupture’ of the Ancient Mediterranean, Part 2.
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In the previous post I was arguing, ultimately, that explaining ‘the end of Mediterranean unity’ is not a question of finding an ‘event’ tha...
Wednesday, 4 October 2023
Reflections on the ‘End of Western Antiquity’: 1. The supposed ‘Rupture’ of the Ancient Mediterranean, Part 1
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Re-cap Readers of this blog will be all-too-wearily aware that I have been working on the changes that took place in western Europe betw...
Thursday, 15 December 2022
Professor Grumpy's tips on how to write a lecture quickly (not counting PowerPoint)
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Don’t write a script that will take you 50 minutes to read out: this will be far too much information for the students to take in 1 : D...
Archaeology, History and Bad Science: A critique of the analysis of DNA at Szólád (Hungary) and Collegno (Italy). Part 3 (Conclusions)
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Conclusions The aDNA analyses of Szólád and Collegno were combined with study of stable isotopes in the skeletons and then compared with t...
Archaeology, History and Bad Science: A critique of the analysis of DNA at Szólád (Hungary) and Collegno (Italy). Part 2 (Method; Results).
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Method Imagine a historical study that claimed that a general north-south division was visible in, for the sake of argument, the prologues...
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