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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Tim Parkin, Hernan
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Joseph Lauer, Edward Rockstein, Mata Kimasitayo, Mark Morgan,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Susan Jaslow,
and W. Richard Frahmfor headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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What did early hominids eat?:

http://www.dispatch.co.za/2006/11/11/Features/e2.html
http://tinyurl.com/y66z7a (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/y8dgdt (Telegraph ... very good)
http://tinyurl.com/ybbtuu (Guardian ... different spin)
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4635546?source=rss
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2446395,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y45wlh (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/y8jtym (Health Day via Yahoo)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoca-vdo110606.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uou-abf110306.php
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15640434/

More evidence of human-neanderthal interbreeding:

http://www.physorg.com/news82311440.html
http://tinyurl.com/yablbq (CNN ... strange photo)
http://www.hhmi.org/news/lahn20061006.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061103083616.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061107/sc_nm/science_neanderthals_dc
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15611031/
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6290
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/science/09gene.html (JNW)
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AFRICA
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Trying to preserve ancient texts in Timbuktu:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061110/sc_nm/mali_manuscripts_dc_1
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Skulls from "various races" have been found in burials near
the Iranian city of Semnan:

http://tinyurl.com/yxhkph (Iranmania)
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=403654

A Bronze Age graveyard where that Second Temple model once was:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=115003
http://tinyurl.com/wzg3b (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/yjk3od (ME Times)

Problems raising a Persian shipwreck:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=11/11/2006&Cat=10&Num=2
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1117.html

Online book: Herbert Verreth, *The northern Sinai from the 7th century BC
till the 7th century AD. A guide to the sources*:

http://www.trismegistos.org/sinai/

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 and Punic finds from Pantelleria:

http://tinyurl.com/ykm7ka (ANSA)

Roman artifact found in a burial in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=5450
http://www.physorg.com/news82319502.html
http://tinyurl.com/yy2szu (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/y4edwg (SD)

A Roman inscription from Bitola:

http://tinyurl.com/v85r9 (makfax)
http://tinyurl.com/yneotl (mrt)

Chlorine and Pompeiian frescoes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/science/07observ.html

A dig in the heart of Canterbury may shed light on Roman Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6128294.stm

A tiny piece of the Erectheion was returned this week:

http://tinyurl.com/yf2jcv (Kathimerini)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6138214.stm
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061107-035315-6443r
http://tinyurl.com/ydj7pf (ANA)
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/11/eng20061111_320567.html

Father Foster is teaching Latin again:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2006/11/foster-ing-latin-once-again-in-rome/

On Oedipus and Bush:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15642593/site/newsweek/

An Aeneidathon:

http://tinyurl.com/w2hhc (Maroon)

More coverage of that xrayed Venus:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/125089,CST-FTR-venus06.article
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2006-11/06/content_726009.htm

Reviewish thing of Craig Barnes, *In Search of the Lost Feminine:
Decoding the Myths That Radically Reshaped Civilization*:

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/51961.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

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Discovery of a (n undated) quern stone has brought a development
of land near Glasgow do a halt:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1663002006

Finds from various periods at a Berwick site:

http://tinyurl.com/yyooo6 (Berwick Today)

High tech equipment may have located the Fairfax Entrenchment:

http://tinyurl.com/tg93n (This is Bradford)

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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2700 b.p. bronze artifacts from Shaanxi:

http://english.people.com.cn/200611/11/eng20061111_320520.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/11/content_5316230.htm

More (?) Warring States burials from Henan:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/Archaeology/188205.htm

Interesting 500 b.p. "corpse" from Shanghai:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-11-9/47957.html

Neolithic petroglyphs near Kalpetta are threatened by neglect:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=46253

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 19th century cast iron sarcophagus from Richmond:

http://tinyurl.com/yyjym4 (Register)

Borderline touristy piece on Pueblo Bonito:

http://www.chieftain.com/life/1162720881/1 (nice pix)

They've concluded work on the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://tinyurl.com/y8ttqj (Sun News)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Controversy about a bridge to Machu Picchu:

http://tinyurl.com/y2ddc7 (IHT)
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_237296373,00.html

Looking for evidence of slave life in the Caribbean:

http://tinyurl.com/vkv2s (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/y6ya6o (ABC)
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=165830
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, they're finding bits of all sorts of retroviruses
in our genome (does this mean we'll soon be getting another
Athenian Plague story?):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/science/07virus.html

Global warming is now threatening sites around the world:

http://tinyurl.com/y54tqf (Mail and Guardian)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061107/ap_on_sc/kenya_climate_talks

That Google-Earth-reveals-sites story is popping up again:

http://tinyurl.com/yy6guq (NG)

Review of Judith Summers, *Casanova's Women*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/books/10book.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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New online journal ... Rosetta:

http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_01/Issue01_home.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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Nice 'thought piece' on ongoing looting of sites on the San
Carlos reservation (Arizona):

http://tinyurl.com/yftyx2 (Republic)

related article about some guy who got caught:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1112looters-tidwell1112.html

Meanwhile, according to Marion True, the antiquities market is
corrupt:

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

An historic cemetery in Gebze (Turkey) was looted:

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20061104&hn=37942

Christie's stopped the sale of some Bulgarian silver this week:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72244

I suspect this sale of items on a Bulgarian website is crime
connected:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72420

Followup to that big bust on Schinoussa a while back:

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

Interesting followup to that destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas,
suggesting Osama bin Laden was involved:

http://tinyurl.com/yjl34x (ME Times)

Some woman was caught trying to sell a mummy on eBay:

http://tinyurl.com/yzh5fo (Times-Union)
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NUMISMATICA
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The Coinage of the Americas Conference features a (rather pricey)
webcast of the sessions:

http://www.numismatics.org/COAC2006.htm

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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Ancient Bibles at the Smithsonian:

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

The Quest for Immortality tour is stopping in Portland:

http://tinyurl.com/yc6qu5 (Oregonian)

Clash of Empires:

http://media-newswire.com/release_1039043.html

Greek Revival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/design/10anti.html

Neanderthals:

http://tinyurl.com/yctk5d (le monde)

Icons at the Getty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/arts/design/12fink.html

Masterpieces of European Painting From the Cleveland Museum of Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/design/10clev.html

An art gallery in Buffalo is auctioning off stuff it has that
doesn't fit within its 'mission':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/design/10voge.html

A roundup of various exhibitions in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/yazby7 (ANSA)

Italy is threatening to break 'cultural ties' with the Getty,
apparently because talks are going nowhere:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/arts/design/09gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/ynaa6u (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/y423pd (LA Times)

The archaeological museum at Heraklion is closing for a while:

http://tinyurl.com/ycl7ng (AP via Yahoo)

The Vatican is promoting Laocoon:

http://tinyurl.com/ygmbs2 (ANSA)

And folks wonder why there's an antiquities market:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/arts/design/09christies.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Argonautika:

http://tinyurl.com/y7j4nq (Daily Southtown)

Music from the time of Henry VIII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/arts/music/07tudo.html

Twelfth Night:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/theater/reviews/09twel.html
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ON THE WEB
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Temple Mount Archaeological Destruction:

http://www.har-habayt.org/
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OBITUARIES
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James Barr:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1963268.ece
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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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