Weekly Websites

In fact, the most time I've spent on any single website is one that gives brilliant instructions on how to reformat a hard disk without the usual pain. Take that, you bad-tempered Dell Precision M60! Having wasted most of two days fighting with said machine, before giving in to the inevitable and spending another day reformatting its hard drive and reinstalling all drivers and software, I've spent rather less time on the Web than usual, so its a rather short list of websites.

First, here are some of Tony Cagle's masterpieces available online (hello Tony - Kat pointed out a couple of your papers so I thought I'd put together a small collection):

http://www.acagle.net/dissertation/disspage.html:
The Spatial Structure of Kom el-Hisn: An Old Kingdom Town in the Western Nile Delta, Egypt (PhD dissertation)
http://www.acagle.net/KeHBurials.pdf:
Human Burials at Kom el-Hisn
http://www.acagle.net/fayum94/narce.html:

http://www.acagle.net/ARCE2002/PigPaper2Refs.html
Differential Consumption of Pig vs. Sheep/Goats at the Old Kingdom Site of Kom el-Hisn

Developing an AMS Radiocarbon Based Chronology for the Predynastic Egyptian Cemetery, N7000, at Naga-ed-Dêr - A Successful National Science Foundation Proposal by Dr. Stephen Savage
http://archaeology.asu.edu/Jordan/nsfprop.html
This is a fascinating document from beginning to end, but if anyone has ever wanted a clear explanation of how the Predynastic period is divided up, and how these divisions and naming conventions have changed over time, this is the best explanation that I have seen online.

Satellite photo and political map of Egypt
I look at a lot of satellite views of Egypt, but this one is particularly nice:

http://geology.com/world/egypt-satellite-image.shtml

Page down to see the political map of Egypt, with Governorate boundaries clearly marked.

Columbia University Survey and Excavation Reports 2006: Amheida
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/amheida/html/2006_field_reports/%202006_report.html

"This season the work mostly concentrated on the northern side of sub-area 2.1 in an area of approximately 14.2 x 8.4 m. Sub-area 2.1 constitutes the Late Roman villa and its immediate surroundings. At the northern end of the insula in which the villa is located, a large walled space already tested in the previous season was largely excavated (room 9). The adjoining rooms 10 and 15, forming part of the northern part of the insula were also partly excavated. Rooms 16 and 17, forming the corridor from the central part of the villa to the north were investigated as well. Furthermore, two test trenches were dug in the southern part of the villa: one through floor level of room 1, the main painted room, and one on the suspected location of the southern wall of room 14, the probable boundary between the villa under excavation and its southern counterpart.
This year's excavations have presented a more complex picture of the villa and its surroundings than could be guessed from the results from previous campaigns. Especially the northern part shows that various building phases are present in the area, both reused in the architecture now still standing and buried under the floor levels from the last periods of occupation present at this part of the site."
A Glossary of Terminology can be found at:
http://www.learn.columbia.edu/amheida/html/2001_field_reports/glossary.html

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