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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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I don't think we had this one before (although it's a bit old)
... the earliest evidence for domestic herding in the Negev
Desert has been found:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/uocp-eeo040605.php

Lots of coverage of what Zahi Hawass is referring to as the
'most beautiful mummy' ever found in Egypt (2300 b.p.):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4510433.stm (photos!)
http://tinyurl.com/88bz3 (Washington Post)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7719701/
http://tinyurl.com/c99sm (AP via Yahoo ... with photos)
http://www.dailystar.com/dailystar/news/73480.php
http://tinyurl.com/bev5j (ABC)
http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-mummy04.html
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3165881
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/03/content_2913093.htm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/05/03/tech/main692727.shtml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1596798,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=475712005
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20050503/D89RM6A82.html

A discovery of a shrine dedicated to Eshmun is lending weight
to the theory that he was the precursor to Aesculapius:

http://tinyurl.com/cw33u (Romagna Oggi ... Italian)

A major Parthian site is being excavated in Turkmenistan:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/line-16/0505070932184403.htm

An update on the 'identity' of one of those 'salt men' found
in Iran recently:

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

The latest from the archaeological side of Temple Mount:

http://www.townhall.com/news/politics/200505/FOR20050506d.shtml

A nice 'state of the research' type thing on the site of Meron:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=572477

Andrea Carandini talks about his recent finds in the Roman
Forum:

http://tinyurl.com/a8vr4 (NYT)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/05/06/news/rome.php
http://tinyurl.com/atx36 (Indy Star)

Roman remains from Carlisle:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=206884

Norfolk is apparently the best place to play with your
metal detector:

http://tinyurl.com/9ffzn (EDP24)

A 3000 b.p. bronze sword from China's Henan province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200505/04/eng20050504_183715.html

A 1700 b.p. fort from China's Anhui province:

http://tinyurl.com/885o3 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-05/04/content_2915094.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200505/s1360080.htm

A pre-European Maori dog burial:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/index.cfm?c_id=1&ObjectID=10123727

... while loss of a site on New Zealand's coast is causing some
controversy:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/0,2106,3270585a6510,00.html

... and apartment/retail construction has revealed yet another
site:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/0,2106,3271829a6510,00.html

Sewer construction on Guam is also in conflict with a site:

http://www.kuam.com/news/13611.aspx

A 200 b.p. mummy from Hanoi:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/050507/ap/d89u67704.html

A pile of medieval (and possibly earlier) skeletons from Scotland:

http://tinyurl.com/8h9we (Scotland Today)
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=476052005
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/38511.html
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THE AMERICAS
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Possible prehistoric skull from Durango:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7734034/

A Woodland burial site in Minnesota:

http://www.wkbt.com/Global/story.asp?s=3290901

Early native Americans were drawn to a cranberry bog in
Pennsylvania:

http://tinyurl.com/7zrsw (Tribune-Review)

Sketchy news on sites found prior to airport construction in
Atlantic, IA:

http://tinyurl.com/au5pa (News Telegraph)

Early cookbooks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/dining/04libr.html

Nice piece on the CSS Chickamauga:

http://tinyurl.com/ccvj6 (Bladen Journal)
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On the DNA front, a study suggests a 'migration back' from Asia
to populate Madagascar occured a couple of millennia ago:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7724855/

... and Neanderthals were 'mobile' earlier than previously
thought (the DNA side of this is marginal):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-05/wuis-nfs042805.php

cf. the spin the National Geographic put on the same story:

http://tinyurl.com/e3xp6

On the homo floresiensis front, scientists have "discovered"
a village of "pygmy people" near the place where the skeleton
was found:

http://tinyurl.com/czsqs (Advertiser)

cf:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/04/28/60minutes/main691775.shtml
http://www.geotimes.org/may05/NN_hobbit.html

Another CT Scan of a mummy:

http://tinyurl.com/amsmu (SF Chronicle)
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/news/050605_nw_mummy.html

Interesting op-ed piece on the evolution of the U.S. judiciary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/opinion/06chernow.html

Here's an interesting twist to the whole DaVinci Code hype:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/07/arts/07code.html

NPR has a bunch of interviews etc. related to the abolitionist
John Brown:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4633323

Apparently they can tell from Napoleon's pants that he wasn't
poisoned:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4512289.stm

... while Christopher Columbus appears to have died because
of 'reactive arthritis':

http://tinyurl.com/96krz (Washington Post)

Slide show of the reburial of the remains of soldiers who
fell at Trafalgar:

http://tinyurl.com/cepdg (Reuters via Yahoo)

Two halves of a Gaugin (which the artist sliced in half) have
been reunited:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1594247,00.html

An Harappan amusement park?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1594247,00.html

Touristy thing on Kalymnos:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7752233/

... and Turkey:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-1601801,00.html

An upcoming historical Jesus debate:

http://tinyurl.com/7ryb2 (Gazette-Times)

The campaign to have the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles returned to
Greece continues:

http://tinyurl.com/crwnz (SMH)

... and a different example of 'repatriation' (sort of):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050502/ap_on_sc/sweden_skull_burial

The beginning of what appears to be a series on the history of
archaeology in Iran:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=5205

There's going to be a 'protected wreck' study in Cornwall:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4501794
cf: http://www.lizardiver.co.uk/HistoricWrecks/Rag/rag.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

CSA Newsletter (Spring, 2005):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring05
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ON THE WEB
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Archaeology Data Service (recently updated):

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/greylit/

Jews in America:

http://www.jewsinamerica.org/

Jodi Magness, "Ossuaries and the Burials of James and Jesus."
JBL 124/1 (2005) 121–154:

http://www.sbl-site.org/Publications/JBL/Current/6magness.pdf

netserf (medieval portal):

http://www.netserf.org/

Stone Circles of Scotland:

http://tinyurl.com/bas3s

Cuneiform Tablets:

http://international.loc.gov/intldl/cuneihtml/
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CRIME BEAT
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"How British Imperialism Looted Ethiopia in 1868" (a piece
which accompanies a story on the return of the Axum obelisk ...
see the repeats section)

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6394

A general piece (which might be a repeat) on tomb robbers in
Italy:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=5192

A pile of thefts in India have parliamentarians wondering about
security:

http://tinyurl.com/ajmch (Telegraph)

Looting of sites in Missouri:

http://www.keloland.com/News/NewsDetail4514.cfm?ID=22,39416

A followup to China's call for a halt to sales of antiquities:

http://www.ipsnews.net/africa/interna.asp?idnews=28552

I'm somewhat surprised that this isn't a rather more common
way to prevent/trace antiquities theft:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/4517133.stm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Malcolm Allen, *Mirror of the Gods: Classical Mythology in
Renaissance Art*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1597094,00.html

Sarah Vowell, *Assassination Vacation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/books/review/08HANDYL.html

Hadassa Ben-Itto, *The Lie That Wouldn't Die*:

http://tinyurl.com/dsoye (JPost)

Mark Mazower, *Salonica, City of Ghosts: Christians, Muslims
and Jews, 1430-1950*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/books/review/08KAPLANL.html

Judith Flanders, *A Circle of Sisters*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/books/review/08FOREMAN.html

Victoria Newhouse, *Art and the Power of Placement*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/08/books/review/08ELKINSL.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Perseus:

http://tinyurl.com/9ltrq (NYT)

Margaret Garner:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4633538

Nefertiti: the Musical:

http://nefertitithemusical.com/
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Robert Sarmast is building the hype for his upcoming expedition
to find Atlantis off Cyprus this summer:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=19707&cat_id=1

cf:
http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=5338
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Recarving China's Past: Art, Archaeology and Architecture
of the 'Wu Family Shrines' (nice slide show):

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/04/arts/design/04cott.htm

Persian Glory:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-234/0505011148194855.htm

Israel Museum:

http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?ref=tarnopolsky20050504845

French and Indian War:

http://tinyurl.com/7m8bw

Some 18th century cabinet makers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/05/06/arts/design/06anti.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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A new Classics major at UDallas?:

http://tinyurl.com/a6f2f

What to do with a Classics degree:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/4506769.stm

How dysfunctional is your department?:

http://chronicle.com/jobs/2005/05/2005050401c.htm

A somewhat shaky application of Epicureanism to modern times:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/5-5-5/28447.html

Opinion piece suggesting the return of the office of Censor:

http://www.americanthinker.com/articles.php?article_id=4472

Please visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/

Please visit Classics Central for job listings, etc. in the
field of Classics:

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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REPEATS
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Axum Obelisk:

http://www.socialistworker.co.uk/article.php4?article_id=6393
http://tinyurl.com/8jj6s (ME Times)

Creswell Petroglyphs Dated:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/uob-cra042105.php

Egyptian Sea-Going Vessels:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2005-04/bu-esv042105.php
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050507/fob7.asp

More on POxy (and 616 v 666):

http://tinyurl.com/7anfp (National Post)

Tut Not Murdered:

http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2005/04/30/news/20tut.txt
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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://iwa.univie.ac.at/

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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