Reddit Fantasy Writer of the Day, Perfect Hunter-Gatherer Pita, Roman mosaics show potty humor

From my fantasy writing desk:

Here’s the link to my Fantasy Writer of the Day on Reddit.  Come ask lots of questions. Upvote the questions and answers you enjoy (upvote by clicking on the upward facing daggers). If you don’t have a Reddit account, it will ask you to create one. That’s simple and no spammy email will ensue. Benign process.

If you My news this week: I’ll be on Reddit Fantasy on Monday December 17, 2018 as the Writer of the Day (to celebrate the launch of Priestess of Ishana). I’ll be answering any questions anyone wants to ask (AMA–ask me anything!). I’m going to take a wild guess that many of you aren’t accustomed to checking in on Reddit’s fantasy threads, but I’d love it if you went there this Monday and asked me a question. The more traffic I have the more visible my discussion will be to the dedicated fantasy readers there. So ask away. On Monday (I can’t do it sooner, sorry that’s how it works) I will make this easy and leave the direct link right here on this post on my website (and on Facebook and Twitter), so you can click on it and go direct to where you can type in a question. And then I’ll do my best to think of a creative answer. I promise. We’ll have fun. In the meantime, should you want to check out reddit’s fantasy conversations, here’s the link to Reddit.com/r/fantasy.  It’s pretty fascinating and entertaining.

Archaeology Posts I enjoyed:

One of Year’s Top 10 Archaeology: Perfect Very Old Pita 

One of the year’s Top 10 Archaeological discoveries: The perfect pita 14,400 years ago (and well before agriculture). I loved this find—hunter gatherers called Natufians in what is now northeastern Jordan were making flat bread from wild cereals and tubers way, way before anyone would have expected bread-making. We’ve only now discovered this information because archaeobotanists are collecting samples from hearths that would have been ignored previously. Apparently, beer brewing also happened before agriculture made grains staple parts of human diet. Aren’t we an industrious species? Click here for Archaeology Magazine “The First Bakers”

Punny Potty Mosaics in a Roman Latrine

Roman potty humor. Latrine mosaics uncovered in ancient city of Antiochia ad Cragum (modern Turkey) show jokes based on universal familiarity with Greek myths. Narcissus, this time out, falls in love with a particular part of his anatomy. Zeus’s cupbearer, Ganymede, assists with a toilet sponge instead of the various motifs he’s usually shown with (cups, toys to show his youth, etc.). There you have it. What made a Roman chuckle in the 2^ndcentury CE. Ancient art, particularly Roman, shows a high comfort zone with naked human body and sexual imagery and downright bawdy fun in very public, open to everyone environments with none of later prudishness. Click here for Live Science “Dirty Jokes in Latrine Mosaics Entertained Ancient Romans”