{"id":1857,"date":"2007-01-21T11:22:23","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T11:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1857"},"modified":"2007-01-21T11:22:23","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T11:22:23","slug":"simple-explanations-are-often-the-best","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=1857","title":{"rendered":"Simple explanations are often the best"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just found out about a new carnival, of anthropology, called the <a href = \"http:\/\/fourstonehearth.net\/\">Four Stone Heath<\/a>, the latest on the delightfully named <a href = \"http:\/\/scienceblogs.com\/aardvarchaeology\/2007\/01\/four_stone_hearth_7.php\">Aardvarcheology<\/a>. I was particularly taken by the link about <a href = \"http:\/\/hotcupofjoe.blogspot.com\/2007\/01\/forbidden-archaeology.html\">out-of-place artefacts post<\/a> &#8211; and particularly its account of the &#8220;Baghdad battery&#8221;,  from the 3rd century BC &#8211; &#8217;tis amazing what the human imagination can come up with. (Actually a pot for storing papyrus&#8230;)<\/p>\n<p>Hat-tip to Sharon on <a href = \"http:\/\/www.earlymodernweb.org.uk\/emn\/\">Early Modern Notes<\/a>, who incidentally is looking for hosts for the history carnival &#8211; particularly female hosts to get some gender balance. Now I know there are women&#8217;s history bloggers who visit here who would be ideal (you DON&#8217;T have to be a professional historian! &#8211; I&#8217;m not and I&#8217;ve hosted it twice &#8211; although you can be of course&#8230;) You know who you are &#8211; please volunteer (or I might just send Sharon a list of suggestions!)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just found out about a new carnival, of anthropology, called the Four Stone Heath, the latest on the delightfully named Aardvarcheology. I was particularly taken by the link about out-of-place artefacts post &#8211; and particularly its account of the &#8220;Baghdad battery&#8221;, from the 3rd century BC &#8211; &#8217;tis amazing what the human imagination can come [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1857","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogging","category-history","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1857"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1857\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1857"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1857"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1857"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}