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Archaeology, History & Culture

Archaeology, history, and culture are united here not by a single period or method, but by an interest in how people have lived in, understood, and shaped their worlds. Many of these pieces come out of a long-standing personal interest, involving travel, reading, and field observation. Material remains, dress, images, and everyday practices offer ways of reading the past that complement written sources and environmental evidence.

Posts in this category range widely in time and place, from prehistoric cave art to early and medieval archaeology. They focus on particular objects, customs, or moments, but a recurring theme is Identity.

Taken together, these posts form a personal exploration of culture.

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    Of Wolves, Ibex and Mongolian Petroglyphs

    by Mike Pole November 18, 2017
    by Mike Pole November 18, 2017

    In all my outings in Mongolia, I never saw a wolf – I only heard them howling while camping out one night …

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    Fifty, 500, or 5,000 years old? Ancient cultural landscape in the hills of Central Turkey

    by Mike Pole October 7, 2017
    by Mike Pole October 7, 2017

    ‘Fox-holes’ perhaps? Did snipers crouch in these to fire down on an enemy below? What were these little rings of rocks strategically …

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    ‘Woman with nails in both sides of skull’ – the Nanjing Massacre Memorial

    by Mike Pole September 23, 2017
    by Mike Pole September 23, 2017

    Arguably, the most shocking part of Iris Chang’s book ‘The Rape Of Nanking’, comes in its Epilogue. During my 12 months living …

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    Nomadic Women’s Underwear – in Greek Tanais on the Russian Don

    by Mike Pole July 9, 2017
    by Mike Pole July 9, 2017

    You’ll see the chick with red and green silk bloomers at Tanais… The River Don is one of Europe’s big ones. Even …

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    How to see the Porthole Dolmens of Russia’s Caucasus

    by Mike Pole July 7, 2017
    by Mike Pole July 7, 2017

    Travelling in Russia last year I got a chance to see some of it’s famous prehistoric ‘Porthole Dolmens’.  Now there is a …

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    Aboriginal Paintings of the Kimberley- very old Pleistocene or not so old Holocene?

    by Mike Pole January 22, 2017
    by Mike Pole January 22, 2017

    Many of the real advances in science seem to come from a sudden ‘insight’ ( think Archimedes and “Eureka!”) – and there …

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    The Log Cabin at the Heart of St Petersburg, Russia

    by Mike Pole December 20, 2016
    by Mike Pole December 20, 2016

    The most famous ‘little log cabin in the woods’ is probably the one in which Abraham Lincoln grew up in Kentucky. It …

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    The Day I Walked Around the Roman Empire

    by Mike Pole October 13, 2016
    by Mike Pole October 13, 2016

    When Emperor Constantine woke up on May 28, 1453, it would have been to the depressing thought that it was likely his last …

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    Tim Flannery and Megafaunal Extinction Shuffle-puck

    by Mike Pole February 21, 2016
    by Mike Pole February 21, 2016

    Are Australian lives and property being burnt as a result of something that happened tends of thousands of years ago? In 1994 …

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    (Both) Battles of Breitenfeld – a day’s walk near Leipzig

    by Mike Pole July 28, 2015
    by Mike Pole July 28, 2015

    It is a macabre thought that in these days of GIS and databases, someone could probably come up with a map of …

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