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EARLY HUMANS
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On variations among European Neanderthals:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061222092638.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ua49f

Review of Gregory Curtis, *The Cave Painters*:

http://tinyurl.com/y7b97y (WPost)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A major prehistoric site near Bam:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1188.html

semi related?:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6877

A recently-found inscription is shedding light on some folks
associated with Karnak:

http://tinyurl.com/y2sf8e (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.physorg.com/news85636600.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/18/eng20061218_333522.html
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/579612

More coverage of that Essene latrine story:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/803283.html

Digging Khirbet al-Yahud:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801792

Report on Beit Ha-Kerem:

http://tinyurl.com/v84be (IAA)

Somewhat vague item on the discovery of a 1500 b.p. bathing
complex in Turkey:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=156494

Radio show on Sean Kingsley's theory about the whereabouts of
the Temple Treasure:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2006/1809700.htm

I think we've seen this Dakhla glass story before:

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

Digging Al-Khidr (Kuwait):

http://tinyurl.com/ya8ele (Kuwait Times)

King David was on trial:

http://tinyurl.com/vmy77 (Sun)

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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They're going to remove some metopes from the Parthenon because
of pollution:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=25437
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/12/22/parthenon-metopes.html

The Domus Aurea is reopening:

http://tinyurl.com/w9z8y (Reuters)
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20061222/101117.shtml
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=74443

Technology has revealed some old decrees at Herculaneum:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/20/oldgarbage_arc.html

In case you missed the analemma over the temple of Zeus photo:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061223.html

More Antikythera Mechanism coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/y5e6oz (El Pais ... Spanish)

More Paul's tomb coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yyw7gb (El Pais ... Spanish)

More reviews of Fagles' *Aeneid* translation:

http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=20070115&s=wilson011507
http://tinyurl.com/y8bbjz (Globe and Mail)

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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A metal detectorist has come across some medieval coinage:

http://tinyurl.com/w7ygc (This is Bradford)

Solstice at Newgrange:

http://tinyurl.com/tc63z (AFP via Yahoo)

Vikings will soon sail again to Ireland:

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/99623.html

On the web: the plan of the monastery of St. Gall:

http://www.stgallplan.org/

Review of Judith Zinsser, *La Dame D'esprit: Biography of the
Marquise du Chatelet*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/books/review/Weber.t.html

Review of Thomas Cahill, *Mysteries of the Middle Ages*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/books/review/Rowland.t.html

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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How humans reached Australia:

http://www.fijivillage.com/artman/publish/article_34614.shtml

Some Australian petroglyphs are going to be removed to make
way for an oil and gas project:

http://tinyurl.com/yhlguf (CBC)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/061220/2/11uf3.html

Techy stuff going on with a mummy of a shaman from China:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/22/eng20061222_335179.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Looking for the Michigan land bridge:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16280930/

Another side of Clement Clarke Moore:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/books/review/Collins.html

Review of Douglas Wilson, *Lincoln's Sword*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/books/19kaku.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Heavy rains have damaged the ruins at Chan Chan:

http://tinyurl.com/y2rz5f (AP via Yahoo)

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Donny George at Stony Brook U:

http://tinyurl.com/y4k2zn (Newsday)

More coverage of that Joan of Arc bone thing:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16257470/

Honouring Sweden's role in Cypriot archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

Plans are afoot to 'digitally reunite' the Codex Sinaiticus:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=100403

Interesting item on plagiarism in the age of Google:

http://www.slate.com/id/2153313/

... and one on soldiers' rescuing of assorted art works during
WWII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/books/19monu.html

Reading Shakespeare is good for your brain:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061218122613.htm

On that Genographic Project ... which seems to be building up
to something:

http://www.db2mag.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193105321

Rapping Chaucerian:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061218/ap_en_mu/chaucer_rapper

Review of David Christian, *How Language Works*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/books/18dick.html

Review of Andrew Hussey, *Paris: The Secret History*

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/books/21ridi.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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TOURISTY THINGS
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City of David:

http://tinyurl.com/u8a3h (JPost)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology (Jan/Feb 2007):

http://www.archaeology.org/curiss/index.html

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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Suzan Mazur's latest ... this time on a Bronze Boy which will
likely be in the news soon:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00326.htm

More eBay in the UK coverage:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2510018,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yxu4yx (This is London)
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NUMISMATICA
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On the web: Medieval Coinage:

http://www.medievalcoinage.com/

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://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16257440/
http://tinyurl.com/yyy9ae (AP via Yahoo ... slide show)
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/12/15/ap3260011.html

Discovering Tutankhamun:

http://www.nysun.com/article/45604

Stories in Stone: Conserving the Mosaics of North Africa:

http://tinyurl.com/ymojjf (ArtX)

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IS/GOLB/dead_sea_scrolls.html

Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1201/p16s01-alar.html?s=hns

Rubens and Bruegehl:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/arts/design/23rube.html

The Getty's dispute with Italy is heating up again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/arts/21gett.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061220/en_nm/italy_getty_dispute_dc
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/22/content_5520590.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6654604

cf: http://tinyurl.com/y5npmo (Courier)

... as is Greece's dispute with the Cleveland Museum:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=25360

Assorted arts items of interest from the NYT's Arts Briefly
column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/arts/18arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/arts/20arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/arts/21arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/arts/22arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/arts/23arts.html

A new home for some of Norway's Viking ships:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061221/en_nm/vikingships_norway_dc
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061220-042652-5422r

A year in review piece on repatriated art and the like:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/arts/design/24kimm.html
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OBITUARIES
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Robert Rosenblum (Art Historian/Curator):

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2091823.ece

Lynne Abel (classicist):

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec06/Abel.obit.html

Lillian Ray Martin (Nautical Archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/y2jbbo (BTF)

Samuel Devons (Physicist/Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/nyregion/17devons.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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