excavations continue at Jiroft while war drums beat

Yep... as Jiroft further emerges as one of the more important centers of early civilization, the march continues for America to start a war with Iran. (Here's some photos of the Konar-Sandal site.) Bush would probably direct tactical nukes on the site, just because he's a clueless asshole. Kermān Province seems to be economically important.

On the bright side, i ran across this post this morning dissecting how disingenuously misleading that Zogby poll is that declares that 52% of Americans support an airstrike on Iran to prevent it acquiring nuclear capabilities. No, "disingenuously misleading" is not quite right... it's more like an outright lie. Read that post. Zogby is a shill for the strange hawkish forces that continue to mire the U.S. in losing wars, destroying our military and needlessly creating new enemies.

Jiroft

It's times like this that i curse the real Orbis Quintus blog only exists as a series of zip files. Metafilter had a roundup of links on Jiroft. Most of these links are obviously old news. It seemed barely worth even mentioning the conference about the area between Mesopotamia and Indus River Valley being inhabited by a relatively advanced civilization because at this point, it seems self-evident.