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Modern Abandonment, Squatters, and Late Antiquity
This blog has always had a soft spot for stories and images of abandonment (ruin porn, as it has become known; just Google it). In general, the recent interest in abandoned places has emphasized their...
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St. Ambrose and Milan
I’ve spent the past two days wandering the streets of Milan. We’ve done the best we can to retrace the steps of St. Ambrose and paid particular attention to his 4th century foundations. While little of...
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The Rough Roads of Corinth
Readers of this blog know that the arrival of a new Hesperia is not quite a good as Christmas, but probably as fun as a close relative returning home after a long trip. (You know the feeling, when you...
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A Byzantine Roof
My post today is a modest contribution to some work that Kostis Kourelis is doing over at his blog. On Monday, he offered a brief post on Byzantine roof construction. My colleagues and I at the...
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Barbarians at the Gate
One reason I love Corinthian Matters is that David Pettegrew’s loyal bots constantly crawl the web looking for new academic articles on Corinth. As anyone who attempts to keep abreast of new...
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The Abandoned Periphery
The recent fascination with abandonment porn has tended to emphasize the decline of urban areas and the decay and collapse of the once monumental urban infrastructures that supported centralized...
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More from the Abandoned Periphery
This last week, the popular(-ish) blog Ghosts of North Dakota has announced a Kickstarter to fund a book based on their photographs of abandoned and declining towns in North Dakota. Here’s a link to...
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Archaeological “Signatures” of Byzantine Churches
This springs Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium is titled Byzantine Survey Archaeology: Reflections and Approaches. The symposium will feature speakers covering a range of topics central to discussions...
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Man Camps in May: Some More Observations
This past week I spent a few days scouting in the Bakken in advance of the North Dakota Man Camp Project’s first field season of the summer at the end of the month. He will be going out to the Bakken...
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The Persistent Memory of a Soviet Mining Town
I was pretty excited to finally get my hands on E. Andreassen, H.B. Bjerck, and B. Olson’s Persistent Memories: Pyramiden, a Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic (Trondheim 2010). This book is an...
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A Byzantine Roof
My post today is a modest contribution to some work that Kostis Kourelis is doing over at his blog. On Monday, he offered a brief post on Byzantine roof construction. My colleagues and I at the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Barbarians at the Gate
One reason I love Corinthian Matters is that David Pettegrew’s loyal bots constantly crawl the web looking for new academic articles on Corinth. As anyone who attempts to keep abreast of new...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Abandoned Periphery
The recent fascination with abandonment porn has tended to emphasize the decline of urban areas and the decay and collapse of the once monumental urban infrastructures that supported centralized...
View ArticleClik here to view.
More from the Abandoned Periphery
This last week, the popular(-ish) blog Ghosts of North Dakota has announced a Kickstarter to fund a book based on their photographs of abandoned and declining towns in North Dakota. Here’s a link to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Archaeological “Signatures” of Byzantine Churches
This springs Dumbarton Oaks Spring Symposium is titled Byzantine Survey Archaeology: Reflections and Approaches. The symposium will feature speakers covering a range of topics central to discussions...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Clik here to view.
Man Camps in May: Some More Observations
This past week I spent a few days scouting in the Bakken in advance of the North Dakota Man Camp Project’s first field season of the summer at the end of the month. He will be going out to the Bakken...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Persistent Memory of a Soviet Mining Town
I was pretty excited to finally get my hands on E. Andreassen, H.B. Bjerck, and B. Olson’s Persistent Memories: Pyramiden, a Soviet Mining Town in the High Arctic (Trondheim 2010). This book is an...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Images from the Bakken
I don’t usually just post pictures (oh, wait, I guess I do), but I thought I would today as I recover from a few days of Bakken adventures. An abandoned man camp near Tioga: Another near Wheelock, ND:...
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