{"id":2039,"date":"2014-06-05T09:30:26","date_gmt":"2014-06-05T09:30:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/memetechnology.org\/2014\/06\/05\/the-past-in-pieces-lego-and-lost-civilisations\/"},"modified":"2014-06-05T09:30:26","modified_gmt":"2014-06-05T09:30:26","slug":"the-past-in-pieces-lego-and-lost-civilisations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2014\/06\/05\/the-past-in-pieces-lego-and-lost-civilisations\/","title":{"rendered":"The Past in Pieces: Lego and Lost Civilisations"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wpcom-reblog-snapshot\"><div class=\"reblogger-note\"><p class=\"reblogger-headline\"><img alt='' src='http:\/\/2.gravatar.com\/avatar\/247591a218ff1f3215cfd7c3b78cd734?s=32&#038;d=identicon&amp;%23038;r=G' class='avatar avatar-32' height='32' width='32' \/><a href=\"http:\/\/memetechnology.org\/author\/memetech\/\">Matthew Tyler-Jones<\/a>:<\/p><div class='reblogger-note-content'><blockquote><p>A great post and the second time this week that the Antikythera Mechanism has been brought to my attention<\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div><\/div><div class=\"reblog-post\"><p class=\"reblog-from\"><img alt='' src='http:\/\/0.gravatar.com\/avatar\/c61f7ad0634bcac234dbc30a4f053c3a?s=48&#038;d=identicon&amp;%23038;r=G' class='avatar avatar-48' height='48' width='48' \/>Originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/resgerendae.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/27\/the-past-in-pieces-lego-and-lost-civilisations\">res gerendae<\/a>:<\/p><div class=\"reblogged-content\">\n<p>As I think I may have <a href=\"http:\/\/resgerendae.wordpress.com\/2013\/01\/10\/via-memoriae-classicae-iia-classics-and-doctor-who-the-sixties\/\">mentioned once or twice<\/a>, I was a Lego-mad child. Of all the things under the tree on Christmas morning, Lego was always the most prized. Like many, I \u2018grew out of\u2019 Lego in my teens, only to come back to it as I\u2019ve got older and had more disposable income. That distinctive rattle of a cardboard box full of little plastic bricks still has a Pavlovian effect on me, equal measures calming and relaxing. The cares of the world slip away and the inner ten-year-old is unleashed.<\/p>\n\n<p>I\u2019ve always concentrated my Legoine affections primarily on Space and Castle Lego, with occasional forays into Pirates. When I visited my mum last December, I dragged eight boxes of Lego from the shed and spent Christmas afternoon rebuilding a Space-themed Christmas present of 20 years earlier. By last week, the Castle itch was reasserting itself and\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div><p class=\"reblog-source\"><a href=\"http:\/\/resgerendae.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/27\/the-past-in-pieces-lego-and-lost-civilisations\">View original<\/a> <span class=\"more-words\">680 more words<\/span><\/p><\/div><\/div><br \/>  <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/gocomments\/memetechnology.wordpress.com\/3104\/\"><img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.wordpress.com\/1.0\/comments\/memetechnology.wordpress.com\/3104\/\" \/><\/a> <img alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=memetechnology.org&#038;blog=43249545&amp;%23038;post=3104&amp;%23038;subd=memetechnology&amp;%23038;ref=&amp;%23038;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\" \/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Originally posted on <a href=\"http:\/\/resgerendae.wordpress.com\/2014\/02\/27\/the-past-in-pieces-lego-and-lost-civilisations\">res gerendae<\/a>:<br \/>As I think I may have mentioned once or twice, I was a Lego-mad child. Of all the things under the tree on Christmas morning, Lego was always the most prized. Like many, I &lsquo;grew&hellip;<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/pixel.wp.com\/b.gif?host=memetechnology.org&amp;blog=43249545&amp;post=3104&amp;subd=memetechnology&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":337,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[848],"class_list":["post-2039","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized","column","threecol"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>The Past in Pieces: Lego and Lost Civilisations - Archaeology Blogs<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"http:\/\/generic.wordpress.soton.ac.uk\/archaeology\/2014\/06\/05\/the-past-in-pieces-lego-and-lost-civilisations\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"The Past in Pieces: Lego and Lost Civilisations - Archaeology Blogs\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Originally posted on res gerendae:As I think I may have mentioned once or twice, I was a Lego-mad child. 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