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Edward Rockstein, Francis Deblauwe, Hernan Astudillo, Joan
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Sargent, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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AFRICA
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Zanzibar's Stone Town is facing conservation issues big time:

http://tinyurl.com/ca6m3 (AP via Yahoo)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Flint stones (not the Flintstones) from Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/nov/1258.html

Neolithic wine making?:

http://www.unlvrebelyell.com/article.php?ID=879

Okay overview of the debate raging over Eilat Mazar's recent
finds:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/10287349/ (photos)
http://tinyurl.com/8ptad (Sun-Sentinel)
http://tinyurl.com/ak28d (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ad5n2 (Washington Post)

... while recent finds are causing questions about the site of
Ecbatana:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=260757

Results of the fifth dig season at Dahaneh-Gholaman:

http://tinyurl.com/bgnt6 (Iranmania)

... and implications arising from the dig at Shahar Yeri:

http://tinyurl.com/c5kyf (Iranmania)

A pile of ovens have been found behind Iran's Shian Dam:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1532249/posts

Remains of what are believed to be prison cells have been found
during excavations of the basilica at Tiberias:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=650578

A race to save a 2000 b.p. burial in Bahrain:

http://tinyurl.com/d7ngq (Gulf Daily News)

Coverage of Bill Dever's talk (and reactions thereto) at the
recent SBL meeting:

http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/magazine/daily/13272729.htm

The director of the Jordanian Antiquities Department has been
awarded the German Order of Merit:

http://www.petra.gov.jo/nepras/2005/Nov/27/29093100.htm

This is just strange ... some Australian theologian has taken
archaeologists and historians 'to court' in regards to claims
about the Ancient Near East:

http://www.prweb.com/releases/2005/12/prweb318005.htm

Hype for an Agatha Christie film festivalish sort of thing:

http://www.leguide.be/Guide/cinema/page_5371_390665.shtml
(French)

Repeat of the account of the rush to excavate sites in Iran
prior to dam construction:

http://tinyurl.com/angqa (Chronicle)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A couple Neolithic sites near Ptolemaida:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10250526/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-Greece-Archaeology.html

Ancient shipwrecks near Cyprus:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

... meanwhile there are concerns that too much digging is going
on on Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=23075&archive=1

Overviewish thing on 'the Golden Age of Thrace':

http://news.ft.com/cms/s/dd397b5a-622f-11da-8dad-0000779e2340.html

Barry Cunliffe on Pytheas the Greek (audio ... not sure how long
it will last ... look on the right side of the page under
'Wednesday'):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/index.shtml?logo

James Wright was talking at UTenn about the Myceneans:

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=49338

Interesting item on Antiochus Epiphanes:

http://www.lewrockwell.com/case/case11.html

A 2600 b.p. tomb from Matelica:

http://tinyurl.com/de82g (Adnkronos ... Italian)

A villa from Rome belonging to the gens Valeria:

http://tinyurl.com/8bfh2 (Adnkronos ... Italian)

Roman anchors from the Dead Sea:

http://tinyurl.com/9wnsp (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/df55f (Hindustan Times)
http://tinyurl.com/8lvz7 (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/bg2g8 (Newsday)

A tomb at Corvaro which belonged to some member of the Aequi:

http://www.telefree.it/news.php?op=view&id=20235 (Italian)

Coverage of Castra Romana 2005 (check out the goggles!):

http://tinyurl.com/9lpq4 (Charleston City Paper)

Christian Wildberg has become master of Forbes College:

http://tinyurl.com/bo5hs (Daily Princetonian)

Honours for Kurt Raaflab:

http://tinyurl.com/9utmr (Brown Daily Herald)

Claudian letters:

http://caelestis.info/sauvagenoble/2005/11/litterae-claudianae.html

Socrates for kids:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/516382/

New url for Didaskalia:

http://www.didaskalia.net/

Profile of Albert Ammerman, who was part of the team who found that
'beach site' on Cyprus:

http://tinyurl.com/7czc4 (Colgate University News)

cf: http://tinyurl.com/74j2l (ME Times)

More coverage of the Soleto Map:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20051128/firstmap_his.html

More coverage of the latest developments in the push for the
return of the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:

http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=556635
http://tinyurl.com/c23kg (Ellada)

Review of Atwood's *Penelopiad*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/1202/p13s01-bogn.html

Review of Bettany Hughes Helen of Troy tome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04alexander.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Neolithic site in North Yorkshire:

http://tinyurl.com/96yod (Yorkshire Post)

Skeletons on Iceland have been dated to before 1000 A.D.:

http://tinyurl.com/afvsy (Iceland Review)

The Lakenheath Warrior may stay in Suffolk:

http://tinyurl.com/bzj7u (EADT)

Interesting overview of the history of Canongate (as revealed
by archaeology, of course):

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=2321522005

Possible discovery of the tomb of Edward the Confessor:

http://tinyurl.com/7jvsx (Telegraph)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4489842.stm
http://tinyurl.com/celbr (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/btdze (AP via Yahoo)

Here's more (and more responsible, it seems) coverage of that
'Bosnian pyramid' story:

http://tinyurl.com/c3a3p (ABC)
http://www.picayuneitem.com/articles/2005/12/03/news/26pyramid.txt

Plans are afoot to stabilize Silbury Hill:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/4477192.stm

Review of Edvard Radzinksy, *Alexander II: The Last Great Tsar*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04lourie.html

Review of Carolly Erickson, *The Hidden Diary of Marie Antoinette*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04warner.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 4th-millenium B.C. mound from Azerbaijan:

http://tinyurl.com/8ev7p (Azertac)

A Baekje dynasty tomb from Japan:

http://english.donga.com/srv/service.php3?biid=2005120368128

A bit old, but worth reading again ... aerial photography
confirms descriptions of Kublai Khan's palace:

http://english.people.com.cn/200510/09/eng20051009_213386.html

Chinese archaeologists have located the gate of Daming Palace:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200512/s1523254.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting item on the Newark earthworks/mounds:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/national/28mounds.html

Is Kokopelli actually Kokopelli, or some Hopi divinity?

http://www.sltrib.com/utah/ci_3258089

Hurricane Charley's legacy: the excavation of Chadwick Mounds:

http://tinyurl.com/7vn8g (News-Press)

Another preservation v. development situation ... at Putnam's
Hill-Agor Homestead:

http://tinyurl.com/8euqn (Journal News)

At the auctions, a couple of portraits of George Washington
didn't quite make the expected hammer price:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/arts/design/01auct.html

The latest video from the Archaeology Channel is about digging
in Arizona (but it nicely shows the whole 'archaeological process'):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Review of Tom Lewis, *The Hudson: A History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04sullivan.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Scientists are skeptical of claims that footprints from Mexico
are 40 000 years old:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10266684/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4488490.stm
http://tinyurl.com/bcac8 (Eurekalert)
http://tinyurl.com/cucdz (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/11/051130232517.htm
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=4700 (Portuguese)
http://tinyurl.com/8vczg (Discovery.com)
http://www.physorg.com/news8657.html

... while some very old canals from Peru are adding some weight
to theories about early civilizations there:

http://www.terradaily.com/news/farm-05r.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/516405/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A sampling of the coverage of the kidnapping of German
archaeologist Susanne Osthoff in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/7w59w (adnkronos)
http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29699839.htm
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,1796621,00.html

... and the latest:

http://tinyurl.com/dn6bx (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/bnhs6 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/culqs (AFP via Yahoo)

While a petition has been set up appealing to the kidnappers to
release her and her fellow hostages:

http://www.petitiononline.com/bajr2000/petition.html

Smithsonian mag has a piece on the use of aerial photography
in archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/exujm

Another technology-and-ancient-texts piece:

http://www.physorg.com/news8636.html
http://tinyurl.com/9plyt (1st Results)

The emerging discipline of Geomythology:

http://tinyurl.com/9x6y5 (Observer)

At the auctions, a score handwritten by Beethoven (I think we
mentioned this a while back) fetched a nice price:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/arts/02arts.html

First Trafalgar, now Austerlitz is causing paroxysms of
some sort:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4491668.stm

cf:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/4495616.stm (slide show)

Acrostics, ancient and modern:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1898644,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/cntxl (Australian)

Feature on Thor Heyerdahl:

http://tinyurl.com/8elrf (Norway Post)

Hype for a television program about DaVinci:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2005/12/03/arts/television/03bell.html

Review of Walter Gratzer, *Terrors of the Table: A Curious History
of Nutrition*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04stern.html

Review of Evelyn Welch, *Shopping in the Renaissance*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04schillinger.html

Review of Henry Hitchings' tome on Dr. Johnson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04mcgrath.html

Review of Paul Levy (ed.), *The Letters of Lytton Strachey*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/04/books/review/04ellmann.html

Review of Jonathan Harr, *The Lost Painting*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/books/02book.html

Review of Juliet Barker, *Wordsworth: A Life*:

http://tinyurl.com/9cg88 (New Yorker)

Review of Jeremy Seal, *Nicholas: The Epic Journey from Saint
to Santa Claus*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/30/books/30grim.html

Alas, Art Daily has closed;

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Thebes:

http://tinyurl.com/btufw (Tribune-Review)

Iran:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3497795a34,00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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KMT (Fall 2005):

http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/fall2005/index.html (toc)

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Police recovered a number of items from a private residence
in Porto Torres (Italy) ... must be an unknown site(s) nearby:

http://tinyurl.com/cscje (AGI ... English!)
http://tinyurl.com/8sq7g (AGI ... Italian)

... while near Florence, a pile of purloined (and important)
Etruscan works were recovered:

http://tinyurl.com/bvua3 (La Nazione ... Italian)

Op-Ed piece on the Museum Case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/11/28/opinion/28bell.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/11/28/opinion/edbell.php
http://tinyurl.com/7g6ox (Bee)

... and another excellent bit of investigative journalism by
Suzan Mazur on the role of Sotheby's in some of this:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0512/S00017.htm

... while the Met denies Italy has any proof in regards to
claims on some of their items:

http://tinyurl.com/b7pfr (Bloomberg)

... while Newsweek finally gets on the bandwagon:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10315883/site/newsweek/

Meanwhile, it does seem the case is having spinoff effects
elsewhere ... Peru is suing Yale for return of artifacts from
Machu Picchu:

http://tinyurl.com/d9xyu (Reuters via Yahoo)

Looters hit a pit house near Flagstaff:

http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=4195686&nav=HMO6

Indian authorities recovered a number of stolen Jain statues
this week:

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2005/20051203/haryana.htm#13

... while some treasure hunters in Bulgaria were arrested:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=55988

Some divers who attempted to pillage a sunken Spanish Galleon
are going to be charged:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article330665.ece
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Pearls of the Parrot of India:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2005/12/02/arts/design/02mini.html

Berlin's Bode Museum renovations are complete:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/12/01/arts/01arts.html (fifth item)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Libertine:

http://tinyurl.com/7osm4 (New Yorker)
http://tinyurl.com/7re6v (NYT)

The Gentleman Dancing-Master:

http://tinyurl.com/bn2qn (NYT)
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ON THE WEB
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Massachusetts Historical Society:

http://masshist.org/library_collections/artifacts.cfm

The Real Story of Thanksgiving:

http://www.manataka.org/page269.html
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OBITUARIES
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Peter Brunt:

http://tinyurl.com/d545q (Telegraph)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1884200,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/c743r (Guardian)
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http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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