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Meyer,Hernan Astudillo, Gene Barkley, Janica Hindle, Joan
Griffith, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young,Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe,
Rochelle Altman, Ross W Sargent, Richard Pettigrew, Bob Heuman,
Sally Winchester,Tony Jackson, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm,
Edward Rockstein,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A hominid find older than Lucy (maybe):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4322687.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5znaj (Reuters)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050223122209.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=555140
http://tinyurl.com/5kd8t (Observer)

An Australian team has found one of the best-preserved mummies
ever found in Egypt (2500 b.p.):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/732/he1.htm (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/69ov5 (Independent)
http://www.jordantimes.com/thu/news/news5.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4aeon (Philly Inquirer)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1315567.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7052262/?GT1=6305
http://www.startribune.com/stories/1556/5269130.html (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/3twud (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/459je (AP via Yahoo ... slideshow)
http://tinyurl.com/5rl3j (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3203007a12,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3k7sh (Guardian)

Why the Mesopotamians built Mari:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=12860
http://tinyurl.com/4ep9v (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5x5lc (Daily Star)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1316547.htm

Interesting things are happening at Izmir's agora:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=7133

A pile of Macedonian warrior graves were found in Pella:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=53313

Updates on Bulgaria's 'Valley of the Kings':

http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=45212
http://novinite.com/view_news.php?id=45246

A Roman oven was found on the site of a future shopping mall
in Wigan:

http://tinyurl.com/3jodg (Manchester Online)

Nice piece on the discovery of Mamertion a couple of decades
ago:

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20050302/AE/103020019

An update on the excavations at Bam:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1022.html

A complete Iron Age kiln and other items have been found at
Ryton-on-Dunsmore:

http://tinyurl.com/7yfp3 (IC Coventry)
http://tinyurl.com/664wr (BBC)

Remains of a 1000 b.p. palace have been found in Nepal:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/04/content_2648590.htm

'Rice pudding' or 'sticky rice' apparently was used in
conjunction with mortar in many ancient Chinese structures:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-02/27/content_2626135.htm
http://tinyurl.com/52h7c (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/456zz (CNN)

A preview of an upcoming dig near Bamiyan:

http://tinyurl.com/6u6kd (Japan Times)

Clumsy 'historians' stumbled upon a civilization in India
recently:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1263454,0006.htm

The foundation of Norwich's medieval Market Cross has been
located:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/4312711.stm

A major medieval coin hoard from Finland:

http://www.helsinginsanomat.fi/tuoreet/artikkeli/1101978676562
(in Finnish)
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THE AMERICAS
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Giant figures which apparently predate the Nazca lines have been
found in the mountains of Peru:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7048008/
http://tinyurl.com/3r69u (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5ajqf (Sun Sentinel)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=537201

A piece in anticipation of a documentary in the UK ponders the
fate of the Moche:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4311153.stm
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Was Ice Age art religious?:

http://tinyurl.com/65wr5 (Telegraph)

What did Neanderthals sound like?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-1462226,00.html

Another mummy autopsy (of a sort) is about to get under way:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050224101315.htm

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram this week addresses the Tut
autopsy issue:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2005/732/he2.htm

An archaeologist in Austria was buried alive this week while
working at a Roman farm site:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050304/325/fdpga.html
http://tinyurl.com/5qxyb (Reuters)

A varied selection of recent items on homo floresiensis:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4522345
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/science/04skull.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050304175249.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7078973/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4308751.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5n8pe (Independent)
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/medicalnews.php?newsid=20686
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/wuso-fl022805.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-03/fsu-fal030205.php
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2005/s1315628.htm
(transcript of a radio program)

Some odd/old medical advice (these are about different things):

http://tinyurl.com/4wyvf (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=547841

Apparently David is a bit walleyed:

http://tinyurl.com/4htl4 (ABC)

The campaign is on to declare the Antonine Wall a World
Heritage site:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/34317.html

Nice little history of Istanbul:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=6755

It was bound to happen ... the Nebra Star disc is now being
said to be a modern forgery:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1427546,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/4cxap (Taipei Times)

Nice coverage of a lecture by William Dever on the historicity
of ancient Israel:

http://www.bpnews.net/bpnews.asp?ID=20259
http://tinyurl.com/6bvrx (Biblical Recorder)

A project to put the Codex Sinaiticus on the web:

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2004/01.22/17-codex.html
http://www.heute.de/ZDFheute/inhalt/30/0,3672,2267870,00.html
(German)

Nice piece on Aron Dotan's work with the history of Hebrew:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=544803

A brief history of boxing:

http://tinyurl.com/45qv9

The Tomes of Timbuktu:

http://tinyurl.com/6zjzm (Washington Post)

Are we tired of hearing about the Aksum Obelisk yet?:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7052889/
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-ob02.html

Look what's missing from the British Library:

http://tinyurl.com/5v9ff (Telegraph)

I think we've mentioned this "What the Ancients Knew" series:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050228/dcm028_1.html

Looking for the Magdalene in France:

http://tinyurl.com/4fglj (Chronogram)

High tech of prehistory:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0303/p16s01-stss.html?s=hns

Ancient humans apparently prevented another Ice Age:

http://tinyurl.com/3tl5h (Observer)

Human action and landscape change:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050224123922.htm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Journal of GIS in Archaeology:

http://www.esri.com/library/journals/archaeology/index.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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Christopher A. Rollston and Heather Dana Davis Parker,"Responses
to the Epigraphic Forgery Crisis":

http://tinyurl.com/6m3zq (Bible and Interpretation)

The New York Public Library's digital gallery is definitely
impressive (and a site you can spend hours perusing):

http://digitalgallery.nypl.org/nypldigital/index.cfm

NYT review: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/books/03libr.html

A pair of nice sites devoted to Greek archaeology and history:

http://www.fhw.gr/
http://www.macedonian-heritage.gr/

Some good Black History Months links to file away for future
use:

http://qcpages.qc.cuny.edu/bhm/bhisthist.html
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ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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A Journey Through Time: Archaeology at St. Johns

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Egypt recovered some antiquities-about-to-go-to-auction at
Bonham's this week:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o250225f.htm

A couple of pre-Columbian art dealers have been indicted for
fraud:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/03/nyregion/03indict.html

A good feature on the upcoming trial of Oded Golan:

http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/225818-2946-047.html
http://tinyurl.com/4yc8z (Jewish News Weekly)

I think we've mentioned the piles of artifacts recovered from
a Cairo apartment already:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4848
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BOOK REVIEWS
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John Kelly, *The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the
Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/books/04BOOK.html

The Atlantic Monthly has a nice feature entitled 'What to Read
this Month':

http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200504/schwarz

Okasha El Daly, * Egyptology: The Missing Millennium. Ancient
Egypt in Medieval Arabic Writings*:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/feature/newsitem.shtml?cleopatra
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Controversy of Valladolid:

http://tinyurl.com/5glkd (NYT)

Rape of Lucretia:

http://www.statepress.com/issues/2005/03/04/news/692295

Beowulf:

http://tinyurl.com/6xtw8 (BDP)

Women of Troy:

http://www.citypages.com/databank/26/1265/article13022.asp

A Very Naughty Greek Play:

http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=2427
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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This week, we're back to looking for Atlantis near Cuba:

http://tinyurl.com/59ojz (Free Internet Press)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The Power of Conversation: Jewish Women and Their Salons:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/04/arts/design/04SALO.html

People of the River: Native Arts of the Oregon Territory:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/visualart/214059_riverart02.html

Wu Family Shrines:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/104-03032005-458143.html

Peru: Indigenous and Viceregal:

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2005/032005/03032005/1687524

Olhando o Céu da Pré-história - Registros arqueoastronômicos
no Brasil:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=3214

Turks: A Journey of a Thousand Years, 600-1600:

http://tinyurl.com/4n2pl (Daily Star)

Nefertiti has a new (temporary) home:

http://tinyurl.com/3ktxn (AP via Yahoo)

Trying to preserve Qin's terra cotta army:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/03/content_2646235.htm
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Learning from the Classics:

http://www.swans.com/library/art11/cmarow10.html

Biggs Lecture:

http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/4822.html

Classical Cottage School:

http://tinyurl.com/679ky (Winchester Star)

Classics Bee coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/5564n (Review Atlas)

Ilaria Marchesi has won an NEH fellowship:

http://tinyurl.com/7x95m (Chronicle)

Robin Lane Fox on Pompeiian gardens:

http://tinyurl.com/549yo (FT)

The lessons of the Iliad and the Odyssey:

http://www.mb.com.ph/I2005030429962.html

Nice piece on Sulpicia:

http://tinyurl.com/6lex2 (Redlands Daily Facts)

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
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Sumner Gerrard (marine archaeologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/01/national/01GERARD.html
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REPEATS
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Ancient Perfumery on Cyprus:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/050301/21/tagi.html

Dating Edom:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/02/050222113412.htm

Manuscripts as Fossils:

http://tinyurl.com/4z7ug (National Geographic)
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology in Europe (blog):
http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.com/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:
http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/Topiltzin-2091/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Stone Pages Archaeo News:
http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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