Eric H Cline

I have it on good authority (from the anesthesiologists) that when they were trying to wake me up after I was put under for 90 minutes during this morning’s biopsy, the exchange went as follows:

Anesthesiologists: “Eric, Eric. Wake up. Can you hear us?”

Me: “Stop bothering me. I’m reading!”

:-)

Lecturing today at the BAS weekend seminar, along with Christopher Rollston , Jennie Ebeling , and Elizabeth Schrader.

We're #1 !!! 👍😎

If you are asking whether this sequel volume “After 1177 BC” will be translated into French, it already has been. It came out last year: www.amazon.fr/-/en/Eric-H-...

The new German translation of “After 1177 BC” has a nice review in “Damals” (the German scientific history magazine). Not sure if the first sentence is a reference to this book or to the original “1177 BC”, but the final sentence is clearly a reference to this new book: “absolutely worth reading”…

Happy National Ice Cream Day!

It has been brought to my attention that a phishing scam is apparently using my name and career details. If you have received an email that looks like the following, rest assured that it is not from me and do not click on the link provided.

Bitty, flaunting his new summer haircut…

An iconic 4th of July pic, taken by Josh Cline at the fireworks show in Rockville, MD. Stars&Stripes; can of Coke; two great bands (on the shirt); and everything slightly out of focus… 😎👍

At dinner I was wishing for a rainbow…We got a double one plus one of the strangest views I’ve ever seen…

in my Intro to Archaeology class each Fall. Such a small world and such a great book…. /end

I used to play in “Ishi’s forest” and “Ishi’s cave,” which were located at the end of our street, Edgewood Avenue (behind UCSF, where my father worked at the time). Little did I know then that Ishi and the Kroebers would become an integral part of a lecture /3

and I learned that the “K” stands for “Kroeber” — her parents were both anthropologists (Alfred and Theodora), famous (infamous?) for befriending and writing about Ishi…as a child growing up in San Francisco in the 1960s and early 1970s, /2

What a joy it is to reread this masterpiece, close to fifty years after I read it for the first time. In the intervening five decades, we came to know her husband Charles, who taught in the History Dept at Portland State University (Diane’s first job), /1

It had been so long, I was beginning to forget what my office at GW looked like!

Dark chocolate and cheese cake swirl. Mmmm…

Retail therapy.

Replacing the things that I left behind in Jerusalem. Got three shirts at Old Navy for the price of one at REI, but not unexpected. Also new comfy Teva’s.

Things that I did not know before today: an anagram for “Eric Cline” is “Nice Relic”… somehow that seems appropriate.

Fun to see three new foreign translations. On the left is the Chinese translation of Three Stones Make a Wall; in the middle is the German translation of the graphic version of 1177 BC by Glynnis Fawkes and myself; and on the right is the Turkish translation of After 1177 BC.

Now that I’m home two weeks early, after being suddenly exfiltrated courtesy of the US Embassy and the Fulbright program, I’ll return to posting pictures of our cats to help brighten everyone’s day a little bit. One of ours doesn’t want me to leave again; the other one thinks he’s a meatloaf.

The chirping birds have him all excited.

Felix, the cat, and I are having a quiet lunch in the Albright courtyard.

Fulbright board resigns citing interference by Trump administration All members of the board that oversees the U.S. State Department's Fulbright Program, which facilitates international educational exchanges, have voted to resign over alleged political interference from President Donald Trump's administration, the board said on Wednesday.

I may currently be on the last of the Fulbright grants as we’ve known them:

www.reuters.com/business/med...

Keeping an eye on things...

This is the other cat, Jimothy. He’s not as fluffy, or as friendly, as Bitty. Also, he drools. But he is handsome.

Yay! Glad you liked it!

What goes around comes around; Jerusalem at night, with an almost identical shot to Jaffa by day several weeks ago.

Some days research leads me down interesting rabbit holes, but on other days it feels like I’m just swirling around and around a bathtub drain and need to pull the plug……
(although, technically, if one is swirling around and around, one must have already pulled the plug, yes?)

Sometimes life really is a

Wrote 1500 words today.
Deleted 500 of them.
Not sure it works to delete every third word…