You remember that scene in Godfather III, where Pacino complains that "every time I think I'm out, they pull me back in!" Well, the love of the ancient world is in my blood, for all I have forsaken the field, and I'll be poaching some of the panels at this meeting next week. Here is the schedule. Go on, try to tell me that you're not utterly absorbed by the idea of hearing about the latest discoveries in Cypriot rural sanctuaries and Canaanite/Minoan interaction in Middle Bronze Age Palace culture.

But perhaps more relevant to what we normally talk about here: a couple of sessions on the state of archaeology in the age of Bush's wars of choice. Here's a short list of what I expect to be very interesting speakers on a forbidden subject: the archaeology of Palestine: Read more…