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... another done-in-the-fog-of-an-allergy-attack issue ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Another DNA thing from a Neanderthal gives evidence on when
humans and Neanderthals 'diverged':

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15732243/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1949475,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6146908.stm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p01s02-usgn.html?s=hns

Interesting implications from a child(ren) burial from Upper
Paleolithic times:

http://tinyurl.com/yj6u79 (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/y8adjl (SciAm)

Review of Gregory Curtis,*The Cave Painters*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1114/p16s01-bogn.html?s=hns
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The tenth season of excavations at the Burnt City is under way:

http://www.irna.com/en/news/view/line-16/0611165400171914.htm

Another dam ... more ancient sites threatened, this time in
Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1161.html

Jiroft rock tombs:

http://tinyurl.com/w9jeu (Iran News)

A feature on the finds from Tel Megiddo:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=789534

... and one on the Bronze Age burials at Bayit Vagan:

http://tinyurl.com/ykfcm2 (JPost)

Another piece on finds from Temple Mount rubble:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15770197/from/RS.3/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061118/ap_on_sc/israel_temple_trove_2
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Israel_Temple_Trove.html
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/59106.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/y5zml5 (IHT)

More on Qumran latrines:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15689591/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uonc-rlr110306.php
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1984457.ece
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003425387_scrolls14.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-5.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14find.html (JNW ... this has
the headline that I thought was 'obvious')

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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A talk on the ancient religion of Malta [not quite sure where
to classify this one]:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=42143

Plenty of coverage of the find of a Roman shipwreck laden with
garum:

http://tinyurl.com/y52ygf (LA Times)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1790706.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y8fe2w (CNN)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6146592.stm
http://tinyurl.com/svnk2 (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/y7velu (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/14/world/main2180091.shtml
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/134941,CST-NWS-spain14.article
http://tinyurl.com/yx3v5x (WPost)

... and some on a major Roman coin horde from the Netherlands:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15705411/
http://tinyurl.com/yazblb (IHT)

A Roman tombstone/inscription is staying in Lancaster:

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=336281&sid=FTP

First review I've seen of Anthony Everitt, *Augustus*:

http://tinyurl.com/yez8dz (Post Dispatch)

Review of Cartledge, *Thermopylae*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article1996765.ece

More reviews of Fagles Aeneid translation:

http://tinyurl.com/tpggz (Boston Globe)
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/11/16/arts/16612.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/y6v94l (LA Times)

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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Stonehenge as a 'Lourdes of the ancient world':

http://tinyurl.com/yx85ag (AlphaGalileo)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1996338.ece
http://www.physorg.com/news82898170.html

Digging for Spain's hidden Jewish heritage:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/05/news/spain.php

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 sort of 'state of the excavation' piece on work at Chang'an:

http://english.people.com.cn/200611/19/eng20061119_323087.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

Road construction in Hanoi has revealed an 800 b.p. altar:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=22198

Britain's Natural History Museum is returning some human remains
to Tasmania:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15765362/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6157572.stm
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NORTH AMERICA
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North America's "Stonehenge":

http://tinyurl.com/ybv9tn (Seacoast Online)

The search for Tuscarora artifacts in Wilson County:

http://www.wilsondaily.com/Wil_region/Local_News/287500020505005.php

Female burials from pre-Hispanic New Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061112094745.htm

An antebellum southern tannery:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15996678.htm

Protecting an 'ancient oak':

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/16043180.htm

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is on the Manacan people's
attempts to reclaim their heritage:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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This one will get a lot of attention, I bet ... remains from
an Aztec site at Tecuaque show signs of ritual cannibalism:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14485960/

That recently-discovered stone monolith in the heart of Mexico
might be a big 'tombstone':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_sc/mexico_aztec_tomb_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_sc/mexico_dig_2
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=167769
http://tinyurl.com/ymcouf (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15757468/
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1703602006
http://tinyurl.com/v6mlo (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/y4xkjs (LA Times)

The pre-Columbian site of Chan Chan (Peru) is the latest to be
threatened by the forces of nature:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/2744
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Well, if nothing else, Tom Cruise's impending nuptials have
brought some attention to Odescalchi Castle, which has an
interesting history:

http://tinyurl.com/yes7wm (AP via Yahoo)

Interesting piece on our penchant (or at least academe's) for
"literary gossip":

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2454013,00.html

First it was Greek hair dye, now it's Damascus steel which is
said to have benefitted unbeknownstedly from nanotechnology:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-11.html
http://tinyurl.com/ymokod (Telegraph)

On climate change, the rise of civilizations and human migration:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1785941.htm

Some hitherto unknown/missing Fra Angelicos have been found and
will be coming to auction (of course):

http://tinyurl.com/yejkzx (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15713482/

Kluge prize recipients:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/books/15klug.html

On the anniversary of the stock ticker:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6490325

On the history of the periodic table:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoc--ucp111706.php

Assorted arts notes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/13/arts/13arts.html

This one on digital imaging techniques being used on 700 year
old Sanskrt manuscripts is making the rounds again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6149702.stm

Life Sciences techniques meet Art Conservation:

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/36518/

The hype officially begins for Mel Gibson's Apocalypto:

http://prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb480167.htm

Chocolate as an ancient treatment for hypchondria (works for
me!):

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1785948.htm

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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Greece:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p18s02-hfes.html?s=hns

Istanbul:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/16/news/tristan.php
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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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Customs officials in Pakistan prevented a major antiquities
smuggling attempt:

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/19/top10.htm
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NUMISMATICA
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Interesting article on Alexander coinage from Ptolemy:

http://tinyurl.com/y3g64a (Saudi Aramco World)

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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In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/yz9a4u (Blade)

Amarna:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15720389/

History of early Judaism and Christianity:

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Museum_of_Art_Fort_Lauderdale.html

The Met's refusing to show a (rather recent) painting which is
the subject of an ownership dispute:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/arts/design/15gros.html
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OBITUARIES
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S. Lane Faison (art historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/obituaries/14faison.html

Technically not an obituary, but an announcement of the death of
Yizhar Hirschfeld from Jim West's blog:

http://tinyurl.com/ydsu6q
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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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