[HN Gopher] This week's archaeological news: Underground stone c...
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This week's archaeological news: Underground stone circles and
ancient trade
Author : jamesofthedrum
Score : 44 points
Date : 2022-05-21 11:46 UTC (11 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (ancientbeat.substack.com)
(TXT) w3m dump (ancientbeat.substack.com)
| personlurking wrote:
| It'd be great if there was an entire network of these kinds of
| services, so as to skim what's going on in any field. I've long
| been interested in summaries + news curation and worked for many
| years doing just that but I've also had some tiny personal
| projects (years ago) where I tried doing something similar to
| Ancient Beat but on niche topics.
|
| Another thought: There could also be a differentiation between
| news article curation and research curation, though I understand
| they'd intersect at times. Often, looking at the research as it's
| published gives you good lead time on any news articles that will
| be published about said research, though it requires a lot of
| reading.
|
| In the professional news curation I did, a "lead time" approach I
| used for the industry we dealt with was to locate and skim non-
| English news and publish summaries on what's happening worldwide,
| which put us ahead of the pack (ie, English-language news sites
| picking it up) by at least a few days, if not a week.
| jamesofthedrum wrote:
| Whoa, those are super interesting suggestions, thanks for the
| feedback! Never considered getting a head start with non-
| English curation, good thinking.
|
| Re the research, I've actually been toying the idea of doing a
| paid version of the newsletter that analyzes/summarizes the
| latest scholarly research (most of which is behind a paywall).
| vishnugupta wrote:
| Adam Tooze does this for economics:
| https://adamtooze.substack.com/s/chartbook-top-links
|
| It is paid however. He also has a unpaid one-topic-per-week
| Substack: https://adamtooze.substack.com
|
| Chartbook is free, deep dive and Chartbook Top Links is paid
| and a weekly summarised econ news.
| jamesofthedrum wrote:
| Interesting, thanks! Seems like a solid model.
| flenserboy wrote:
| Not a network, but this site has been my go-to for decades for
| recent archaeological news --
| https://www.archaeologica.org/news.
| jamesofthedrum wrote:
| Hadn't heard of that one before - thanks! I'll keep an eye on
| it.
| jamesofthedrum wrote:
| Hi all, I'll just nip this in the bud: Long-time lurker, first-
| time poster. Hoping to provide value now that I've decided to
| stop lurking. I'm curating archaeological news for a project and
| figured I'd share.
| ggm wrote:
| Good stuff! Keep it up
| jamesofthedrum wrote:
| Thanks!
| metadaemon wrote:
| This is amazing! I've been looking for something just like this
| for a while.
| jamesofthedrum wrote:
| Thanks! Really glad you like it
| downsidesabound wrote:
| Love the format, love the writing style. Inline images would
| also be helpful, though I could understand wanting to keep a
| more minimal presentation.
| jamesofthedrum wrote:
| Really appreciate the feedback, thanks! Yeah, I've been
| debating images for a while now...
| bennyp101 wrote:
| Oh cool, my wife and her family are super into archaeological
| stuff - I'll send it their way :)
|
| Weirdly, we were just planning our route to Minehead and added
| Stone Henge and Avebury as points (me and the kids have never
| been) and then this popped up!
| jamesofthedrum wrote:
| Thanks Benny, I appreciate you sharing it! Have an awesome time
| at Stone Henge and Avebury - I'm pretty jealous right now
| jamesofthedrum wrote:
| Interesting tidbit about Avebury that I covered a few weeks
| back, in case you (or our wife) are interested:
|
| Non-descript stones found at Avebury Henge were carried by
| humans from 280 miles away. Interestingly, these specific
| stones have only been found at one site. Why the people of
| this time would take pebbles on their journey is a mystery.
| Perhaps they simply wanted to bring a piece of home with
| them, but regardless of why, this discovery speaks to
| interconnectedness and the amount of travel taking place in
| ancient times. Summarized from source:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RxcY28W3F6M
| bennyp101 wrote:
| Thats cool! Not gonna lie though, I was a little
| disappointed that it isn't about rocks from Krypton ;)
|
| The whole area seems to be some sort of ancient "thing"
| that I guess is pretty much lost to time now - definitely
| interesting!
| jamesofthedrum wrote:
| Haha, yeah me too. And I think calling the area an
| ancient "thing" is about right. We don't understand it.
| But it's something.
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