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Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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On the DNA front, it looks like they're going after some more
Neanderthal genetic material:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1451622006

Neanderthal 'butcher shop' from France:

http://tinyurl.com/rl2k9 (Topix)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Neolithic remains from near Izmir:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54909
http://english.people.com.cn/200609/26/eng20060926_306333.html

Neolithic decorated skulls from Tell Aswad:

http://tinyurl.com/fyh3b (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.post-trib.com/news/71296,OldDude.article
http://www.ttc.org/200609241343.k8odht419690.htm

4000 b.p. mills from Kultepe:

http://english.people.com.cn/200609/30/eng20060930_307651.html

A British archaeologist thinks he knows what happened to the
stuff looted from the Temple by the Romans:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2373355,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3308449,00.html
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004984901
http://www.cathnews.com/news/609/144.php

9th century B.C./B.C.E. temple from Syria:

http://tinyurl.com/gax6f (Canada Now)

A 3rd century A.D./C.E. synagoge near Maoz Haim:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3309730,00.html

Report of the 2006 excavation season at Old Nisa:

http://parthia.com/nisa/nisa2006.htm

Latest on the 'salt men' of Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/sep/1313.html

More coverage of damage to sites in Lebanon during the recent
hostilities:

http://tinyurl.com/mcw76 (Mail and Guardian)

Traces of silver in Second Temple pottery hints at Jerusalem's
wealth:

http://tinyurl.com/gnmzx (JPost)
http://www.physorg.com/news78598479.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/dbnl-saf092706.php

Ongoing concerns for artifacts of Iraq's pre-Islamic history:

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Style/168049/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Schoolkids are part of the crew at a dig searching for a Roman
camp in Leeds:

http://tinyurl.com/gu6sv (Leeds Today)

Remains of a Roman dog were found in a well at Liss:

http://tinyurl.com/krmll (Petersfield Today)

Poppaea's villa is to be restored:

http://tinyurl.com/re45t (ANSA)

Kirk Summers sacrifices:

http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/09/29/451ccc989cb08

A short history of Classics at UVa:

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=27879&pid=1483

Roman soldiers scrapping in the bath house:

http://tinyurl.com/f6bwf (Telegraph)

Robert Harris on Pompey, piracy, and related matters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/opinion/30harris.html
http://tinyurl.com/z82vk (Amherst Times)

Reviews of Robert Harris, *Imperium*:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06274/725935-148.stm
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4415187?source=rss
http://tinyurl.com/r5fam (USA Today)

Review of Barry Strauss latest on Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/nh3em (Herald)

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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3000 b.p. boat from Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=1111362006

5th century Christian tomb from Niis:

http://tinyurl.com/m7bw7 (B92)

A medieval 'lost village' in North Warwickshire?:

http://tinyurl.com/e5xsw (icCoventry)

Assorted sites revealed during the heat wave this summer in
Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=1240882006

Trying to save an 18th century lighthouse in Orkney:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=1132192006

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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Sa Huynh burial jars:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=20619

3rd century B.C./B.C.E. 'hero stones' from India:

http://www.thehindu.com/2006/09/24/stories/2006092406750300.htm

Review of Thomas Keneally, *Commonwealth of Thieves*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/books/review/McCulloch2.t.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A Texas teen found a 1000 b.p. bowl (almost intact) in New
Mexico while on a field trip:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060930/ap_on_sc/prehistoric_bowl_1
http://tinyurl.com/ojpnk (WPost)

Cataloging Utah petroglyphs:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/194185/

Latest film at the Archaeology Channel: Texarcana Archaeology
Blues:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A Woodland site near Danbury (Ohio):

http://tinyurl.com/flj2m (Plain Dealer)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More coverage of those pet burials in Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/hrote (Sun Sentinel)
http://tinyurl.com/pceuu (ABC)
http://www.physorg.com/news78418199.html
http://tinyurl.com/p7tg2 (NG ... nice photo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5374748.stm

More on priestly involvement in the Nazca lines:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/148052
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Controversy over what Confucious really looked like:

http://english.people.com.cn/200609/26/eng20060926_306323.html
http://tinyurl.com/n5zfz (Telegraph ... photo)

The technology used to restore the Archimedes Palimpsest has
been used on a 750 b.p. Hindu manuscript:

http://www.rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=42392&rnews_story_type=18

The Derveni papyrus is also still making news:

http://tinyurl.com/s77gl (GreekNews)

Was the Mona Lisa pregnant?:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Mona-Lisa.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/arts/design/27mona.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5384822.stm
http://tinyurl.com/huz86 (Globe and Mail)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15002161/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15016124/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15029288/

Christopher Columbus and Ptolemy's Geography:

http://tinyurl.com/p6adp (Swiss Info)

Interesting article on Freud's antiquities collection:

http://tinyurl.com/g75h2 (Age)

... and one on the Jesuits:

http://tinyurl.com/s73oh (Australian)

Nice item on Alfred Nobel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/health/26docs.html

A second edition copy of Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or
dedicated to Hans Christian Anderson:

http://www.jp.dk/kultur/artikel:aid=3980810/
(Danish, but with photos)

Using imaging techniques to locate and preserve petroglyphs:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060925084617.htm

More on the reburial of the mother of Russia's last Tsar:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5387572.stm

Dr. Evil in Scotland?:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1432692006

Review of a new t.v. series on ancient engineering:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/engineering/index.html

Robin Hood was Welsh?:

http://tinyurl.com/n7au9 (Daily Mail)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Chaco Canyon:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/travel/escapes/29chimney.html

Olympos:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55471

Kilmartin:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=848142006

Ardvreck:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=1359422006

Petra:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/11/travel/trpetra.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeological Diggings (Australian):

http://www.freewebs.com/diggingsmag/currentissue.htm

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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Plenty of coverage of the Boston MFA's return of a baker's
dozen of antiquities to Italy:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1777822.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060928/ap_en_ot/looted_antiquities_1
http://tinyurl.com/klhz3 (Bloomberg)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29mfa.html
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=159782
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/art/4222548.html
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060929-070052-4237r
http://tinyurl.com/s95ne (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/q23gx (WPost)

Related ... the 'Flying Medea' vase is now in Cleveland:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00366.htm

Greek police recovered some items purloined from around
Thessaloniki:

http://tinyurl.com/hguzu (Kathimerini)

That Medici on trial for antiquities smuggling is offering to
tell the whereabouts of 'object x' to bring the trial to an
end:

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

French police have seized a Romano-Dacian bracelet which was
up for sale in a gallery:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060929/od_nm/france_jewel_dc_1

Greek police have recovered a 700 b.p. icon:

http://tinyurl.com/jxtng (Kathimerini)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/europe/24greece.html

Bulgaria is trying to protect its sites from less-than-
savoury elements in its society:

http://tinyurl.com/guw8p (Echo)

India's press is catching on to the seriousness of antiquities
theft in that nation:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2033281.cms

... while 18 Buddhas were stolen from a Bihar museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5384408.stm

Interesting 'treasure dispute' involving the S.S. Central
America ... this one doesn't appear to have hit the mainstream
press yet:

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=18421
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NUMISMATICA
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Possible threat to educational programs like Ancient Coins in
Education:

http://tinyurl.com/p3lcz (blog)

Numismatic Index of Periodicals:

http://www.harrybassfoundation.org/search_numlit.asp

Napoleonic Medals:

http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Leonardo:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/design/26leon.html

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/jjvvb (Herald)

Bibles Before the Year 1000:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/living/15641177.htm

Through the Valley of the Shadows:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/83611

Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/noguz (ANSA)

Set in Stone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29medi.html

Review of the Ara Pacis Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/design/25paci.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/26/features/meier.php

The trials and tribulations of the National Museum of Cambodia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/design/26angk.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/26/features/museum.php

'Phases' an interior decorator went through:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29anti.html

A Cimbue 'reunion' at the Frick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Semele:

http://nymag.com/arts/classicaldance/classical/reviews/21654/index.html

Richard II:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/criticsTheatre

Somewhat strange item on the (non)staging of part of the Idomeneo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/arts/music/30idom.html
http://tinyurl.com/mnlrz (Chronicle)
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ON THE WEB
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Archaeology Magazine's interactive digs:

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/

Cyprus' Department of Antiquities has a new website:

http://tinyurl.com/h4n5u
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OBITUARIES
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Norma Lorre Goodritch (Arthurian scholar):

http://tinyurl.com/edzyy (LA Times)

Alfred Mann (Musicologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/obituaries/27mann.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

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