Mi chiamo Stefano, vivo a Genova e faccio l’archeologo. Questo è il blog dove scrivo.
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The Annales Regni Francorum are a (rather boring) official chronicle of the early Carolingians, covering the years from 741 to 829. I remember studying the historiography of this period in the two classes of Medieval Latin Literature I’ve been following…
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New Planning Policy: cambia anche l’archeologia inglese
L’archeologia italiana ha un debito nei confronti dell’archeologia inglese, maturato nel corso degli anni 1970 e ancora in crescita, anche se ad un ritmo non paragonabile a quello del periodo 1970-1990. Per questo, e forse anche per altre ragioni, quello…
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L’archeologia nell’archivio Luce
9452 balli, 7700 gambe, 5608 miss, 33813 sfilate, 20451 sport, 8326 pasti … insomma, c’è veramente di tutto nei 29537 video che l’Istituto Luce ha messo a disposizione tramite YouTube. Ma quanta archeologia c’è? Senza dubbio, tantissima, vista l’importanza che…
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Total Open Station packaged for OpenSUSE
Thanks to Angelos Tzotzos (Remote Sensing Laboratory, National Technical University of Athens) Total Open Station has an installable package for OpenSUSE, since a few weeks. Installing is as easy as: $ sudo zypper ar http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/Application:/Geo/openSUSE_12.1/ GEO $ sudo zypper refresh…
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New GPG key
I’ve had a GPG key since 2001 (laughing at my e-mail address at that time is allowed, but not encouraged). My current GPG key was created in 2004, and the keysize is 1024 bits. While not urgent, it is a…
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CulturaItalia passa al pubblico dominio, salvo controindicazioni
Riprendendo uno scambio di e-mail avvenuto ieri, ricopio alcuni commenti che ho fatto sulla bozza della nuova licenza per i fornitori dei contenuti di CulturaItalia. In breve, CulturaItalia raccoglie metadati su tutto il patrimonio culturale italiano da una molteplicità di…
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Ten days in Athens, part 1: Levantine Ceramics
I am currently based in Amsterdam until sometime in mid-2012, but in February I have been in Athens for ten days, doing a few interesting things. During the first weekend of February I’ve been attending the First Workshop on Levantine…
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Joining the Advisory Board of the Journal of Open Archaeology Data
I’m joining the Advisory Board of the Journal of Open Archaeology Data. The Journal of Open Archaeology Data (JOAD ‒ @up_joad) is an open access, peer reviewed journal for data papers describing deposited archaeological datasets. JOAD is published by Ubiquity…
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Rural population in the Early Middle Ages: again historians vs archaeologists!
On 24th February 2012 I attended a lecture by Frans Theuws (Faculteit der Archeologie – Universiteit Leiden) about The Free and Unfree of the Historians and the Rural Population of the Archaeologists. It was part of a day-long conference held…