Charles Sturge

This week's activities involved finding a gardener to mind my plants when I am out of town, and looking at workstations for when I'm in London next year. I am getting far too adult.

Yea I'd have to see it up close, but if it's not a specific site then could be any period

It's hard to tell from a picture tbh - the jar could be? Where did you see them? You get surface finds from all periods littering Crete...

Not since they published that 2021 colloquium

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Remains, of course, indecipherable.

Well guess I'm back here. Need to think of some pottery stuff to whatever it is we do here about.

Anyone got Minoan pottery questions?

I think it's impossible to know whether it might or might not have happened, and ridiculous to speculate.

Again, I'm not disputing that Trump is behaving in his usual pathetic way in response, but I think *blaming* him for an accident is ridiculous.

Yes, it is. Accidents happen. We don't need to be like Trump and politicize everything. No doubt the changes you outlined will make everyone less safe, but they are not to blame for what happened last night.

Look. We all agree Trump is a bellend, but I really think trying to link what is a horrific accident to him is precipitate and kneejerk, and underplays the sadness of what happened.

How do you reason this?

The ideology of Knossos is that of Mycenae, but only if one looks backwards. Mycenae was invented at Knossos.

After all if you can even redirect one person towards it surely that's a good thing?

Also do the Lancashire league's now live stream their games? (that I don't know)...

@jonathanliew.bsky.social I enjoyed your piece on Jomel Worrican today but it contained an error "you cannot crack open a beer and watch the West Indies four day Championship".

Like the County Championship, it's been on youtube for years.
Can you amend and perhaps *advertise* that fact?

We're back on the wheel.

But anyhow, suffice to say there is little in Knossian drinking customs, viewed holistically, that looks like emulation of the Peloponnese "Mycenaeans".

So, anyone still believe in "Mycenaean Crete"?

Or the "Mycenaean Invasion"

Or that (ethnic) "Mycenaeans" (Or "Minoans") exist?

Why?

Right, back in Greece, time for a final push on this thesis.

I have never understood the current trend in some places of introducing thematic courses not scaffolded after a basic narrative overview of the period in question. It seems like such a basic structure.

Do you not consider it an iconic word? 😂

Oh great, now to edit as much as I can out of the 40k word soup that I am euphemistically calling a 'chapter'. It's really two in one, maybe even 3, but still time to trim the flab.

Surely the answer is always Silius Italicus?

Sounds just like the iliad haha.

Colin Renfrew has passed away. A hugely influential figure in archaeology throughout the 20th and early 21st centuries.
Here are a few photos of him from about 15years ago, when I was working on his Keros Project.

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This might be of interest to #maritimehist folks, a great video about how braking windlass technology shaped sea chanty rhythms. The Charles W. Morgan at Mystic Seaport Museum where I work has this kind of windlass, which was a major innovation that made sailors' lives easier. vimeo.com/809286479

One of the best things about mastering your data is you can spot transcription mistakes in pot dimensions a mile off, but the worst thing is then finding, fixing and dealing with them...fortunately not too common but there goes the last hour re-calculating LM I bell cup capacities...

One of the interesting things about Minoan (and other) pottery are the unwritten, but often pretty rigid, 'rules' about what shapes receive what surface treatment, and certain motifs.

It's something I'd like to explore cross culturally as people must have thought about iy. Anyone want to team up?

Does 'sector leaders' mean wildly overpaid failed scholars who vaulted to administration to cover their intellectual deficiencies and greedy corporate types who have no place in education at all. Oh and no doubt the hoardes of 'consultant' leaches paid to tell them it's all broken, who do nothing.

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Of course India should play the CT. Any other view is allowing craven political bullying and interference into a game where the BCCI's malign influence already heavily influences the way things are reported.

The greatest moment in our history was arguably the first ever game of cricket in 911 CE, documented in Egil's Saga. The match ended in a huge battle between the fans, in which 7 were killed. In recent years, we have stamped out violence in our matches. Nobody has been killed in a match since 2019.

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