I did it. I made an author website.There's not much on there yet, but you can sign up for a newsletter coming soon, and read a little summary of my book!
I went to a really cool webinar about Neolithic archaeology in Turkey. The lecturer discussed sites at Boncuklu (pronounced bahn-joo-clue) and MAN! Did they have some really cool cultural practices! My favorites were:
- Building animal skulls into the walls of the home so that the can be seen/used as an alcove.
- Buried family under the floors of their home.
- Practiced skull removal, where an individual’s skull is removed (postmortem of course) and displayed elsewhere.
- Their houses were rebuilt in a ritualistic kind of way, removing the roof/collapsing the walls done in a specific order and parts used in the next house the family built next to it.
- One individual was buried in a corprolite pile and a skull (likely not the same individual) was found on a midden pile. I’d like to think of this as being the same person whose body was buried in poop and skull displayed on a pile of trash.
I need to make a sticker of this little poem and put it at the front of all my books. Well, and change the name I guess.
“This boke is myne, Eleanor Worcester An I yt lose, and yow yt fynd I pray yow hartely to be so kynd That yow wel take a letil payne To se my boke is brothe home agayne.”
— [Inscription in a Book of Hours
belonging to the Duchess of Worcester,
ca. 1440]
Finally finished is epic book. Lots of notes to take! Yes, I plan to count the flags I used. I have already canabalized some from the front to be able to finish the book, but thus far I have taken notes from 30 flags. More to come!
Book: A History of Private Life: Revelations of the Medieval World. Ed. Georges Duby. Trans. Arthur Goldhammer.
You know you’re in deep when you accidentally buy a book you’ve already got... Oh well, I guess I just have to hand it over to my partner for his own collection.