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This week, on a bit of a lark, we're going to discuss the most common weapon, by far, in the Iron Age Mediterranean (focusing on the period from the 8th to the 1st centuries BC): the humble, effective and ubiquitous thrusting spear. In particular, I want to discuss the striking fact that despite the wide…
Studies of cat migration reveal that domesticated felines were at home in Pre-Neolithic Poland around 8,000 years ago.
In 209 BC Hannibal was the master of Italy, rampaging across the peninsula and threatening Rome itself. It fell to Scipio Africanus to recognize the strategic situation and take the fight to Hispania. There he would mastermind the overthrow of New Carthage and reorient the Roman war effort.
Nighthawk Press (2020, 177 pp.) Conversations beginning with "Where are you from?" don't interest these authors, longtime Taoseños Richard and Annette Rubin. They have moved beyond worrying about who is Native, born here or carpetbagger, and after 50 years in New Mexico working as physician (Richard), educators and community activists, the couple affirm rather, that "identity includes consciousness as well as origin facts." Usefulness, then, is their theme, and this honest work is about sharing the fruits of one's labor with community. Or, as Rumi is quoted in an epigraph: "The heart is co...