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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Dave Sowdon,
Croman mac Nessa, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Jay Craddock, Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Mike Ruggeri,
Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,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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The latest DNA thing suggests a jawbone initially identified as
coming from a modern human might be from a Neanderthal (and
possibly the earliest one in Britain):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2383429,00.html

Interesting theory that early humans followed the coast when
they migrated:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5398850.stm

Already someone is questioning the claims about 'Lucy's baby':

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uop-acs100206.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061002214649.htm

cf:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/10/lucys_baby_news.html

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/october/news_9647.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5392134.stm
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AFRICA
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On the desert origins of the pharaohs:

http://tinyurl.com/fxjdg (AramCo World)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An 11 000 b.p. (or thereabouts) house from Syria:

http://tinyurl.com/ktv78 (Australian)
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061004-045017-4695r

A 3000 b.p. burial from Narges Tappeh (Iran):

http://tinyurl.com/k96m6 (Iranmania)
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0610020146102932.htm

King David's spa?:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3312035,00.html

More coverage of the need for repairs at sites in Lebanon:

http://tinyurl.com/hkj7x (Taipei Times)
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=29&ContentID=8835
http://tinyurl.com/kw3mz (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ztvf2 (Detroit Free Press)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_on_sc/mideast_ancient_sites

DNA analysis on a mummy is revealing the origins (perhaps) of
Leishmaniasis:

http://tinyurl.com/g72kz (SciAm)

Allianoi update:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,1887394,00.html

Semi-touristy piece on the sculpture of Hercules at Bistoun:

http://tinyurl.com/hqgqa (Iranmania)
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1054.html (photo)

An interview with Bart Ehrman on the Gospel of Judas:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/living/religion/15701139.htm

More coverage of those silver anomalies in Jerusalem pottery:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060927201202.htm#

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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Roman mosaics from Somerset:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/5406236.stm

A major coin hoard was found by a digger on at a Kent construction
site:

http://tinyurl.com/z7l6b (24 Dash)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/5408262.stm

More theories about gases at Delphi:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/1002/2

Allianoi update:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,1887394,00.html

Somewhat extravagant claims of knowledge of nanotechnology among
the Greeks:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/02/hairdye_his.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5412410.stm

Thracian trepanation:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=70535

A 'radically new' Greek dictionary is in the works:

http://www.physorg.com/news79192540.html

A Roman site lies beneath a proposed skatepark in Horncastle:

http://tinyurl.com/kt5re (Horncastle Today)

In case you missed Robert Harris on Pompey:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/01/opinion/edharris.php

Josiah Ober delivered the Brigance Forum lecture:

http://www.wabash.edu/news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=3907

What Thomas Sienkewicz is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/kvt5a (Register)

Semi-touristy piece on the sculpture of Hercules at Bistoun:

http://tinyurl.com/hqgqa (Iranmania)
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1054.html (photo)

Latin in the fish market:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/71441.html

Cicero Speaks:

http://tinyurl.com/zgp3y (Daily Astorian)

Classics on the rise in Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/j5l8a (Australian)

Review of Adrian Goldsworthy, *Caesar ...*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20061007-104913-2482r.htm

Reviews of Robert Harris, *Imperium*:

http://tinyurl.com/jat8t (Sun)

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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Neolithic wooden boats from Macedonia:

http://tinyurl.com/hb6sy (MPT)

... and a followup to that Bronze Age canoe find which was holding
up pipeline construction in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/jsskx (icWales)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/5401838.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2389056,00.html

A farmer in Wales discovered one of his outbuildings is actually
a medieval dining hall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5399670.stm

A Jewish cemetery in the heart of Bohemia:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/83914

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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Not sure if this is the same Dong Son bronze drum from VietNam
which we mentioned before:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2006/10/618317/

6000 b.p. house from Shaanxi:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/04/content_5168717.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/200610/04/eng20061004_308940.html

Hawaiian shipwreck:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2713.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Archaeologists believe they have found the Illinois home of the
founder of St. Louis:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoia-ros100406.php
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/columnists/15674163.htm

A tome honouring the work of Bruce Trigger:

http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/39/04/trigger/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Aztec ruins in the heart of Mexico City:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5409510.stm
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2528256
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1471142006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061004/wl_nm/mexico_aztecs_dc
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15131348/

Archaeologists in Peru have found a cave with 600 b.p. burials
of the warrior Chachapoyas people:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1757142.htm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1816823.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061005/sc_nm/peru_mummies_dc
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15147928/
http://tinyurl.com/hh6ad (Reuters)

A 700 B.C./B.C.E. monolithic sculpture of a calendar suggests
a high position for women?:

http://tinyurl.com/k8h3f (AP via Yahoo)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650196503,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/gguyx (IOL)

Instead of the Columbus-bashing we usually get around this
time of year, here's a story about something Columbus' men seem
to have valued more than gold:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5403012.stm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/ucl-hst100306.php

On the role of theatre in Maya political organization:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uocp-nse_1100206.php

National Geographic has a nice set of photos of finds from the
Temple of the Moon at Teotihuacan:

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0610/feature5/index.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Classical language status for Kannada?:

http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/04/stories/2006100411010100.htm

Freemasons are giving up some of their secrets:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/nyregion/04masons.html

Last week we mentioned a manuscript of Kierkegaard's Either/Or,
but all the coverage was Danish ... here's some in English:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/detail.asp?onNews=&GRP=H&id=91528

Afghan art restorers are being trained in Italy:

http://english.people.com.cn/200610/03/eng20061003_308410.html

On Pythagoras, the masculinity of numbers, and the lack of
females in the upper echelons of science:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/science/03comm.html

Interesting item on the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1880284,00.html

On the history of the funerary violin:

http://tinyurl.com/ghtxy (NPR)

I guess we'd better start holding our breath in church:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5406048.stm

Genghis Khan (TM)?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5412410.stm

More coverage of the opening of MU's Center for Studies in the
Oral Tradition:

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=22071

Review of a couple of books on petroglyphs:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19435

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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Parthenon:

http://tinyurl.com/gk9uk (Sun Times)

Kempsey (UK):

http://tinyurl.com/jyoe5
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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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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eBay in the UK is (finally) clamping down on sales of illicit
ancient coins:

http://tinyurl.com/gokq9 (Mirror)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5401588.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART40747.html

Very interesting 'story behind the story' thing on that
Greek icon theft:

http://tinyurl.com/zkcgt (Mainichi)
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NUMISMATICA
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On the Mexican Peso and Roman Denarius:

http://news.silverseek.com/SilverSeek/1159808598.php

Wookey Hole Mill Watermark collection:

http://www.csaquotes.com/wookeyholemillcollection.html

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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Clearly the younger set need some training in how to behave in
museums:

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

... while 'their' parents seem to be unaware of what museums are
about:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/education/30teacher.html

Newsweek's coverage of Italy's exhibition of items recently
recovered from the Getty:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15175628/site/newsweek/

... and other coverage of an upcoming one regarding the Boston MFA:

http://tinyurl.com/f85fk (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/kt4td
http://tinyurl.com/gl9rm (GNN)

... while Cleveland may be next on Italy's list:

http://tinyurl.com/f26v9 (Plain Dealer)

... and Greece is drafting legislation:

http://tinyurl.com/ke3dd (ANA)

... and talking some more with the Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/hz9yz (IHT)
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5492024

The Louvre at the High Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/jfavk (AP via Yahoo)

Silver coins from Iasos:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55012

Antique false teeth:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5410408.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2025204.html

More Columbus news ... tangentially ... a 'copy' of Ptolemy's
Cosmographia is coming up for auction:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1816886.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2392578,00.html

Phoenix Art is displaying a pile of ancient art at its gallery:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061005/nyth129.html?.v=68
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Eurydice:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/theater/reviews/03eury.html
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ON THE WEB
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Lost and Hidden Christianity:

http://tinyurl.com/gnf9w (BBC)
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OBITUARIES
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Norma Lorre Goodrich (Arthurian scholar):

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06275/726707-122.stm
http://tinyurl.com/kv8fl (IHT)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Haven't heard much about Bosnian pyramids for a while, so here's
a bit of an update:

http://travel.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1887835,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1887640,00.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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