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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Croman mac Nessa,
Donna Hurst, Dave Sowdon, Dorothy King, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Pat Wary,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W Sargent,
Ross Scaife, Rick Pettigrew, Stan Nadel,Stephen Goranson,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one
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EARLY HUMANS
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Neanderthals couldn't handle the cold?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6341987.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A double wooden statue from Saqqara is getting a lot of press:

http://tinyurl.com/2npx2k (LA Times)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070219/sc_nm/egypt_statues_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/2uj7a4 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2nvcnd (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/2t8ewj (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL1930532920070219

A mudbrick tomb therefrom as well (connected to the above):

http://tinyurl.com/2khaz5 (USA Today)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/02/19/tech/ap/main2492446.shtml
http://www.physorg.com/news91114301.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17229453/
http://www.heraldsun.com/nationworld/14-821161.cfm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070220/ap_on_sc/egypt_tomb_discovered_3
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/healthscience/abox/article_1585627.php
http://tinyurl.com/yv3fbb (AP via Yahoo)
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_252699824,00.html

cf:

http://dilbertblog.typepad.com/the_dilbert_blog/2007/02/mummy_dearest.html

Overview pieces about all recent finds from Saqqara:

http://tinyurl.com/32rxbt (Reuters)
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/833/eg11.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/International/popup?id=2889572 (slideshow)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6379431.stm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2012923420070221

A 5000 b.p. artificial eye:

http://tinyurl.com/33c859 (Daily Mail ... photo)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,253221,00.html
http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2006/December2006/11-12.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article1415400.ece

A Persian-era temple from Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/2f7xks (Reuters)

This week's edition of the the Temple Mount Saga has claims that
IAA authorities are hiding the discovery of a Muslim 'prayer
room' found near the infamous ramp:

http://www.cjp.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=208729
http://tinyurl.com/3dltmg (ABC)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_holy_site_1
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/02/18/10105244.html
http://www.dawn.com/2007/02/19/top18.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/827435.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/827296.html
http://tinyurl.com/22s7xy (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/26c4uz (IHT)

cf:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=11648
http://tinyurl.com/37uapt (JPost)

... not getting as much press attention is a story about Muslim
construction of a minaret on the site:

http://www.wnd.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=54316

This is a story that first surfaced a decade ago and now is making
the rounds again as hype for a book ... ossuaries with the names
of Jesus, Mary, and Joseph (apparently from the same tomb) in
a museum storage room:

http://tinyurl.com/3yvhyj (Daily Mail)
http://www.gulfnews.com/region/Middle_East/10106901.html
http://www.cjp.org/content_display.html?ArticleID=210067
http://tinyurl.com/yroxaa (Telegraph)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3368731,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2wxnql (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/274t7n (Globe and Mail)

... not sure if we had this James Ossuary update:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/823215.html

Interview with the director of the Netherlands Institute in
Turkey:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=103287

On pronouncing Babel:

http://tinyurl.com/2d345d (Chronicle)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.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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Vague news about some sort of significant discovery at
Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=77078
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_271801046

Similarly-vague news of the discovery of temples older than the
pyramids in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=76855
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1628380697 (misleading photo)

More coverage of that Acharnes theatre find:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070221/stage_nm/greece_theatre_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/2t65p5 (Reuters)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21267568-1702,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,21267568-23109,00.html
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/20070222-010536-4031r/
http://tinyurl.com/2b5fhm (Kathimerini)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=281582007
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=sci_tech&id=5039898
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_253022535,00.html

... and some fallout therefrom:

http://tinyurl.com/2fgr75 (Kathimerini)

Haven't heard about the Amazons in a while:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=66653

Trying to turn Knidos into something more touristy:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=66606

More on DNA studies and the Etruscans (I can't get this one
to come up this a.m. ... ymmv):

http://tinyurl.com/18r

Review of a couple of books about Pythagoras:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v29/n04/burn02_.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

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A missing altar stone from Stonehenge may have been located:

http://tinyurl.com/ypncoj (Western Mail)
http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=279972007

Medieval coin find by a father-son metal detectorist team:

http://tinyurl.com/2s9hrl (This is Lancashire)

Vague item about a collapsed tomb in Wilton:

http://tinyurl.com/2ge7yw (Newsquest)

Another recurring search ... lost Jacobite gold:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/6375219.stm

Druids are hopping on the reburial bandwagon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6385675.stm

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 1800 b.p. tombs from northern China:

http://www.hongkongnews.net/story/230203

Interesting underwater finds at Dwaraka:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/02/23/stories/2007022301242200.htm

Time for the annual there's-too-many-tourists-at-Angkor-Wat
piece:

http://www.dailytidings.com/2007/0222/stories/0222_bp_cambodia.php

Suing the British Museum of Natural History to prevent DNA
testing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070219/ap_on_sc/aboriginal_remains_1
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2283981.ece

An award for preserving the Gilgit Manuscript:

http://tinyurl.com/yuvesx

Survey of sites in the Punjab:

http://tinyurl.com/2cwfqh

Review of Frank Pope, *Dragon Sea*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/25/travel/25armchair.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Migrations before Clovis?:

http://tinyurl.com/2l5olv (SciAm)
http://tinyurl.com/3d227d (Miami Herald)
http://www.ocregister.com/ocregister/healthscience/article_1589473.php
http://tinyurl.com/2xeytq (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070222/sc_nm/clovis_culture_dc_2
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7565568
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2296859.ece
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17298212/

Remember that guy in Utah who had a chunk of land with a treasure
trove of ancient sites (an explorator reader recently asked me
about this ... sorry, I misplaced your address)? Seems he's not
happy with how it's all being managed:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660198618,00.html

A potentially interesting potential cave burial (?) from
Kentucky:

http://tinyurl.com/yvogdj (Courier Journal)

Finds from downtown New Paltz:

http://oracle.newpaltz.edu/article.cfm?id=2908

Cleaning up (excavating?) a shell midden near Savannah:

http://savannahnow.com/node/230712

That burial mound that was for sale is off the market (it seems):

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16763464.htm

Interesting frame restoration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/arts/design/19fram.html

A missing piece of George Washington's tent has been found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/science/20tent.html

Searching for the steamboat Nellie:

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=6105637&nav=S6aK

The latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at the rise
and fall (sort of) of a Virgina family:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Review of 'Amazing Grace':

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/movies/23amaz.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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(Very) early agriculture in Panama:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-02/uoc-pof021507.php

Interesting study of Columbus' first settlement:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070223143515.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/527363/
http://tinyurl.com/2folqg (NG)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17242028/

An Amazonian 'Stonehenge':

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13582228/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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More on the antiquity of hot peppers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/science/20obse.ART.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1849778.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3yp77t (Reuters)

Tile patterns reveal medieval muslim mathematician mastery:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070222/sc_nm/architecture_patterns_dc_1
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/science_technology/article2296841.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6389157.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17282496/

A descendant of Franz Ferdinand is trying to recover the family
castle:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2287032.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/19/world/europe/19castle.html

Interesting climate study in Australia:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/s1848641.htm

Social guidance for the unread?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/24/books/24read.html

Michelangelo slept in the Vatican:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/20/arts/20arts.html (scroll down)

Review of Yale Book of Quotations:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/070219crbo_books_menand

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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Athens:

http://www.startribune.com/1513/story/1019358.html

Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/3xnu3d (JPost)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New magazine ... Ancient Warfare:

http://www.ancient-warfare.com/cms/

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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... wow ... no crime this week?
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NUMISMATICA
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Can coin descriptions in auction catalogs be copyrighted?:

http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/articles/mar07/copyright0307.htm

The 'Crime' of 1873:

http://www.micheloud.com/FXM/MH/Crime/

Coins and Currency in Colonial America:

http://www.history.org/history/museums/coinExhibit/

Roman Provincial Coinage Online:

http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/

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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Discovering Tutankhamon:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/23/features/melik24.php

From Above (aerial photography):

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5297822

Final Farewell:

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=24358

Armenia Sacra:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_252664666,00.html

George Stubbs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/arts/design/23stub.html

Noble Silver:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/arts/design/23anti.html

An export ban on a neolithic jadeite axe head from the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/34kfm8 (GNN)

The 'Greenland Example' and the Parthon/Elgin Marbles dispute:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=576

Weekend strikes at assorted Italian museums:

http://tinyurl.com/3d6d5x (IHT)

Greece admits pressuring the Louvre in regards to the Cleveland
Apollo:

http://tinyurl.com/328pzg (Plain Dealer)

More coverage of the Getty returning some objects to Greece:

http://www.huliq.com/11540/getty-museum-sign-returns-objects-to-greece

A pile of recovered Nazi loot is heading to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/22/arts/design/22heir.html
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OBITUARIES
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Frank Snowden (Classicist):

http://tinyurl.com/2twkc9 (WPost)
http://www.caas-cw.org/snowden.html

Doris Kays (Latin Teacher):

http://obits.mysanantonio.com/story.cfm?type=0&id=60772

Bruce Metzger:

http://tinyurl.com/2j8cdz (Seattle Times)
http://www.towntopics.com/feb2107/obits.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Graffiti from Hadrian's wall presages Mel Gibson:

http://www.thespoof.com/news/spoof.cfm?headline=s5i15182
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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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