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explorator 9.28 November 5, 2006
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, Dorothy King,
R.M. Howe, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein,
Jim Lockmiller, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
Kris Curry, Louis A. Okin, Mata Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rick Pettigrew, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
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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More evidence of interbreeding of modern humans and Neanderthals:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/wuis-mhm110206.php
http://tinyurl.com/yjkw8w (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/061030_neanderthal_hybrid.html

Romanian fossils come from some of the earliest modern humans
to settle in Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6099422.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I'm sure most folks have already seen the 'Egyptian Girls Gone
Wild' coverage:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15475319/

Not sure whether this is the same Syrian tomb as the one we
mentioned last week ... interesting details about sacrifices of
various beasties:

http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/0610/075.shtml

... this is the one we mentioned last week:

http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2006/30oct06/30syria.html

Babylonian cuisine:

http://homepage.mac.com/toke_knudsen/cuneiform_cuisine/Personal84.html

Time for the annual too-many-tourists-are-damaging-Egyptian-sites
coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yxwfyv (SMH)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6109582.stm

Searching for Parthian remains near Ecbatana:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1033.html

A Chinese connection for the Dead Sea Scrolls? (this should probably
be Elmer material ...):

http://tinyurl.com/yj8q7j (Toronto Star)

cf. some previous blogposts by Jim Davila:

http://tinyurl.com/yzju2a
http://tinyurl.com/ya6nnh

and elsewhere:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/dss/marks/review.html
http://tinyurl.com/yb2tjz

Locating Sodom and Gomorrah:

http://www.elpasotimes.com/living/ci_4556577

An inscription of the general who took Masada:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=782058

Much coverage of the return of the Reisner Papyri to Berkeley:

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_307151221.html
http://tinyurl.com/y3u3jo (Union Tribune)
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/01_papyri.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/ygz6ta
http://dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=22095
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6106098.stm

Not sure how you "stumble upon" something while swimming, but
a lifeguard has found a 4000 b.p. iron anchor near Netanya:

http://tinyurl.com/y6dbb6 (JPost)

Plans are afoot to repair earthquake damage at Bam:

http://tinyurl.com/t7q7b (Union Tribune)

Celebrating World Heritage status for Bistoun:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1046.html

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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Reburying a Roman villa to protect it:

http://tinyurl.com/yj76zt (Lynn News)

Major Roman find in the heart of Colchester:

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

A Roman villa find in Spain is holding up road construction:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_7187.shtml

A Roman stud:

http://tinyurl.com/yakvsm (CEN)

A Roman chamber tomb from Turkey:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/02/content_5282058.htm

No digging at the Kerameikos:

http://tinyurl.com/yjl76q (Kathimerini)

The Dendra armour needs some conserving:

http://tinyurl.com/yco8nc (Kathimerini)

On politics and graffiti:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/15917714.htm

Can't remember if we mentioned this study on why crimson in
Pompeiian frescoes is fading:

http://www.esrf.fr/news/pressreleases/pompeii
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061030120603.htm

Plenty of coverage of a project to xray a statue of Venus at
the Michael C. Carlos museum with a view to reuniting body and
head:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/04/content_5289241.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_on_sc/x_raying_venus
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15537678/

Plenty of coverage/reviews of Fagles' Aeneid translation:

http://www.goshennews.com/entertainment/local_story_307131235.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061030/ap_en_ot/books_classic_translator_3
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/books/30fagl.html
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1834067,001100040001.htm
http://washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20061103-090306-6393r.htm
http://www.nysun.com/article/42644

Not sure if we've mentioned this article by Alan Massie on the
popularity of Roman-themed novels:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7889

Folks might be interested in the way this Latin Fest is set up:

http://tinyurl.com/y93n57 (Statesman)

Another view of the Latin Mass:

http://tinyurl.com/yhpzc7 (Boston Globe)

More coverage of the Delphic Oracle stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/y3p5dy (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226504,00.html

More coverage of the Lupanare reopening:

http://www.kthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=36072

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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Time for the annual "Stonehenge is threatened" piece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6112476.stm

Finds from various periods at Kintbury:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1939933,00.html

Viking era coins from Sweden (is it my imagination, or are most
finds in this part of the world made by schoolkids?):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15520771/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226231,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061030/od_afp/swedenarchaeology

... a blogpost tells of other finds too:

http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/4279/44/

A 'new' Viking inscription with runes:

http://www.jp.dk/english_news/artikel:aid=4051990/

Mysterious burials in Leith:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1610722006

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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The discovery of some tunnels near X'ian are being linked to
a Han Dynasty power struggle:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=44104
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/01/eng20061101_317254.html

Another neglected monument in India:

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/10/30/stories/2006103014270200.htm

Meanwhile, efforts to save a World Heritage site in VietNam
have been halted -- get this -- due to the discovery of
archaeological artifacts (if that doesn't cramp your brain,
nothing will):

http://www.thanhniennews.com/travel/?catid=7&newsid=21601

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A large communal grave has been found at Louisbourg:

http://tinyurl.com/y5kl5s (G&M)
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=901&sc=1

A sort of 'state of the dig' piece on the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061030/us_nm/life_blackbeard_dc
http://tinyurl.com/yxtvjw (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/yf55bb (ABC)

Evidence for an autopsy 400 years ago on St. Croix:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061101/ap_on_sc/early_autopsies
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15511638/

Interesting item on 'Inscription Rock' in New Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/ya8ac7 (ABQ Journal)

Promoting Fort St. Joseph:

http://www.dowagiacnews.com/articles/2006/11/02/news/dnnews2.txt

Review of David Naswaw, *Andrew Carnegie*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/books/30gord.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about the various
peoples who have called Hell's Canyon (Idaho/Oregon) home:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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This is different (and I'm somewhat skeptical) ... examination
of a fingerprint purported to belong to Leondardo da Vinci
suggests he may have "Middle Eastern" roots:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/28/leonardoprint_his.html

Strange trial of a 92-year-old archaeologist in Turkey (it's
interesting that no one seems to be questioning the claim
itself):

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20061103&hn=37887
http://tinyurl.com/ykfu68 (G&M)
http://tinyurl.com/ymcjsu (JPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6106098.stm

Hallowe'en and the 'cross quarter' days:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15485365/

Also on the Hallowe'en front ... a sort of archaeological
Hallowe'en piece:

http://tinyurl.com/ybpx92 (Daily Campus)

Some saints weren't so 'saintly':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/opinion/01martin.html

Changes to the chimney sweep industry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/world/europe/30sweep.html

A burial at Emily Dickinson's house:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_en_ce/dickinson_grave
http://tinyurl.com/yhjsa5

Most haunted roadways in Britain (in the spirit of Hallowe'en,
of course):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,1935459,00.html

Another copyright case I don't quite understand:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6036755.stm

More coverage of that early horse domestication story:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061023192518.htm

Review of Ole Benedictow, *The Black Death*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25340-2432149,00.html

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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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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There's some questions about some Turners recovered by the Tate:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23569-2433045.html

Another arrest in Greece -- this time four people in Larissa
who were trying to sell a small collection of antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/y4ml3t (Kathimerini)

A recovered art show in Rome (doesn't the policeperson look like
she posed for the painting?):

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

Looting churches in Italy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1936267,00.html

A Roman ring kerfuffle comes to an end:

http://tinyurl.com/yc7s2u (Advertiser)

Operation 'Bring 'em back' in Oregon:

http://tinyurl.com/yg75yz (Oregonian)
http://tinyurl.com/yngsqz (Oregonian)
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NUMISMATICA
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A rare coin investment scam:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06300/733364-28.stm

New Jersey paper currency:

http://www.frontierguard.org/Research/NJFG2B09.html

Interesting George Washington skull and crossbones funeral
medal (make sure you look at the reverse):

http://www.stacks.com/lotdetail.aspx?lrid=AN00041293&side=R

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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Upcoming auction news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/arts/design/02auct.html
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ON THE WEB
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Vidimus ... an online magazine devoted to medieval stained
glass:

http://www.vidimus.org./
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OBITUARIES
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Clifford Geertz:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/obituaries/01geertz.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Latest Bosnian pyramid update:

http://tinyurl.com/y2jttw (ABC)
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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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