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Old Stones is dedicated to the art and archaeology of ancient civilizations. Its organization reflects a mixture of synchronic and diachronic approaches.
Beginning in the middle 1980's as my personal travel diary, it continues in that role into the present day.
Biography
Mike Gunther was born in 1948, grew up in Valparaiso, Indiana, and studied mathematics at Indiana University (1969), Cambridge University (1970), and Stanford (1974). Mike joined IBM in 1974, where he held a variety of management and technical positions before retiring in 2003. His interests include world travel, music, and art history.
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Mike Gunther
[last updated: November 4, 2025]
Synchronic history explores the same time at different places, while Diachronic history studies the same place at different times. We need both modalities in order to understand why things happen the way that they do.
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