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explorator 9.34 December 17, 2006
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon,
David J. Critchley, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli,
John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, Ron Thompson, Ross W. Sargent, Rick Pettigrew,
Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow, 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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Humans apparently migrated out of Africa ... then some returned:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/15/eng20061215_332906.html
http://tinyurl.com/y6n5mb (NG)

Rescanning a Neanderthal jawbone:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/6171325.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 4800 b.p. artificial eyeball:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6857

On the ethnic diversity of ancient Egypt:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/16194424.htm

A connection has been made between artifacts from Ur and the
Burnt City:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=421712
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1161.html

A stone slab is believe to be the gateway to Cambyses' tomb:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1150.html

Another cuneiform inscription from Rabat Tepe:

http://tinyurl.com/yye64a (Iranmania)

35 "ancient aqueducts" have been found on Iran's Khark Island:

http://tinyurl.com/ururz (Iranmania)

... some Palmyrene tombs have been found there too:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6872

Excavations at Hegmataneh are 'proving' a legend (I have
never heard of) about Alexander the Great:

http://tinyurl.com/yc5aau (Iran News)

Blasting operations have damaged a Sassanid fort:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6870

Brief item on the discovery of an ancient bathing building in
Turkey:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/13/eng20061213_332124.html

Al-Ahram has a feature on the Deir Al-Surian library:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/824/he1.htm

Renewed concerns that a Temple Mount ramp is going to collapse:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=117536
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801410
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=801542

Someone is doing the revisionist thing with the story of
Channukah:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801409

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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The Pope has been asked to return a chunk of the Parthenon he
probably doesn't even know is in one of the Vatican Museums:

http://tinyurl.com/y8a9dr
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/world/europe/15briefs-greekbishop.html
http://tinyurl.com/yekmsf (WPost)

More on that St. Paul's tomb discovery:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID=061216_Ne_A13_Tombb33874
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=24615
http://tinyurl.com/y7h7w4 (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/wxd8f (AP via Yahoo ... photo)
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061212/1058428.asp (photo)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2109936.html
http://tinyurl.com/yd3pec (NG)
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=7007
http://tinyurl.com/ymm8zt (IHT)

... and they're floating trial balloons about opening it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16155676/

More Antikythera Mechanism coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/ykgfgk (WPost)

Yet another NYT review of Fagle's translation of the Aeneid:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/review/Leithauser.t.html

... and an Opeddish thing arising therefrom:

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

Review of Andrew Dalby, *Rediscovering Homer*:

http://www.slate.com/id/2155360/?nav=tap3

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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Haven't heard about Seahenge in a while ... so:

http://tinyurl.com/yyvyz4 (King's Lynn Today)

National Geographic has a very interesting online feature on
artifacts from various periods found during an excavation in a
Slovenian river:

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0701/feature6/
also:
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0701/backstories1.html

London's slave port past:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6177073.stm
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/579424

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 pile of noble tombs from various periods from Sichuan:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/11/eng20061211_331158.html

... not sure if these are associated with the above:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/14/eng20061214_332562.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/11/eng20061211_331162.html

Another site threatened by neglect in India:

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14351738

A South Seas 'Adam and Eve' tale?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/fm-fms121206.php
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/175574,CST-NWS-turtle17.article
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061213104214.htm

Some early(ish) Christian burials from the Ukraine:

http://en.for-ua.com/news/2006/12/15/111805.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The ongoing search for oil in Wyoming has led to a boom in
archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/y8ws4r (Gazette)

Finds from various periods in Norristown:

http://tinyurl.com/yy88zx (Times)

They've identified the Swamp Fox's personal servant:

http://tinyurl.com/yyq52y (News Daily)

An 1849 shipwreck in Lake Ontario:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_on_sc/shipwreck_found
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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That Genographic project to collect DNA from all the various
peoples of the world has hit a snag:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/us/10dna.html

... while another dna study tells us about the development of
lactose intolerance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/opinion/14thu4.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/arts/design/15voge.html

Historians and anthropologists are all over Apocalypto:

http://tinyurl.com/uenhg (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/y2efdn (CPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ye5r9w (Chronicle)
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/articles/061218crci_cinema

While looking for St. Paul's tomb, archaeologists came across
a life size (!) drawing of the dome:

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

Sheet music of all of Mozart's works is available online:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061212/ennew_afp/afpentertainmentmozart

Some relics of Joan of Arc are probably not:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061217/ap_on_sc/france_joan_of_arc_2

CNN offers advice to budding archaeologists:

http://tinyurl.com/y3rwx5

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at the role of
archaeology in investigating human rights abuses:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

More coverage of that Etna-caused tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/yhks4u (New Scientist)

On the web: interesting Cultural Property Advice site from the
UK:

http://www.culturalpropertyadvice.gov.uk/

Reviews of a couple of books about Satan:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25349-2501661,00.html

Review of David Standish, *Hollow Earth*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25549-2501663,00.html

Review of Max Boot, *War Made New*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/review/Bunting.t.html

Review of Robert Kagan, *Dangerous Nation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/review/Bunting.t.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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I think this is the first mention we've had of tomb robbing in
China (if not the first, the first in a long time):

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/16/t20061216_9778766.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/15/eng20061215_332965.html

Some statues are (finally) returning to India:

http://tinyurl.com/y5sqw8 (GNN)

... and a stolen one found in Spain is returning to Italy after
quite a long time (why do these things take so long?):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_ot/stolen_art_3

A professor was busted for possession of illegal antiquities in
Greece:

http://news.ert.gr/en/12/22324.asp
http://tinyurl.com/yg9d8l (makfax)

... and the professor had a second apartment to house his stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/tm6xb (Kathimerini)

An Op-eddish sort of thing on the illegal antiquities trade:

http://tinyurl.com/yywsw6 (CNN)
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NUMISMATICA
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Nickel Arts Museum:

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nickle/collection/index.shtml

Massachusetts Historical Society:

http://www.masshist.org/objects/2006april.cfm

Hellenic Numismatic Society:

http://www.coins.gr/hellenum

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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Egypt's Sunken Treasures:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Entertainment/547545.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061215/ap_on_sc/underwater_treasures_2
http://www.physorg.com/news85470327.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aAO3h3rdtB_U
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/12/15/ap3260011.html
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/entertainment/16249577.htm

Bactrian Gold:

http://tinyurl.com/yxr44w (Inquirer)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16127616/site/newsweek/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16160636/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6612928
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/arts/design/14guim.html

Imperial Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/ylfr5v (go DeKalb)

Now the Getty has agreed to return a couple of more items to
Greece:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4841263
http://tinyurl.com/yxv7zb (CBC)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1970877,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/arts/design/12gett.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/arts/design/11arti.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2500140,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1841652006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6169331.stm
http://tinyurl.com/yf8tfx (IHT)

Trying to keep an Eakins in Philadelphia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/arts/design/15voge.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626805
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6622315

On the newly-restored Yale Art Gallery:

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

On the Mayme Agnew Clayton Collection ... black history in
search of a home:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/arts/14clay.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Some humour from the Onion on archaeologists' efforts to protect
the dwindling mummy population:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/56266?utm_source=slate_rss_1
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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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