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Edward Rockstein, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, 'doelion',
Simon Stoddart, 'Duke Jason', Rick Heli, Gene Barkley,
John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Lampros F. Kallenos,
Les Skeates, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W Sargent, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, 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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Okay ... this one's been kicking around for weeks and really
isn't news as far as I can tell, but 'cavemen' apparently
preferred full-figured 'cavewomen':

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/27/fullfigured_hum.html

Last week we had something about early hominids not liking
hairy babies ... this article seems to question the timeline:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17542627/site/newsweek/

Technology is causing a rethink of the implications of homo
rudolfensis:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17873752/

On the web: Blombos Cave:

http://www.svf.uib.no/sfu/blombos/
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AFRICA
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Remains of a 'lost' Islamic kingdom in Ethiopia?:

http://tinyurl.com/yv957f (IOL)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Latest from KV-63:

http://www.kv-63.com/

More inscriptions from Jiroft:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=4160&sectionid=351020105

Something lost in translation here, I think ... remains of
'Raidan Temple' have been found in Yemen:

http://www.sabanews.net/view.php?scope=f9129&dr=&ir=&id=128691

The latest how-the-pyramids-were-built theory (although I think
we've heard this one before, no?):

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/585544
http://tinyurl.com/2dmwvw (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/2dgzqp (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17873984/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070331/ap_on_sc/france_pyramid_theory_8

Remains of a First Temple wall in the City of David:

http://tinyurl.com/228u7j (JPost)

... while we get new accusations in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=3926&sectionid=3510101

More coverage of the 'standoff' in Gurna:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=504302007

More coverage of that Second Temple village in Jerusalem find:

http://tinyurl.com/2wds3m (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070331-062931-5245r

More coverage of those funerary flowers from Luxor:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/838/he2.htm

Some 'Jesus Tomb' addenda:

http://www.hebrewyeshua.com/articles/yeshua_tomb.html

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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Nice feature on that Etruscan chariot at the Met (which has been
and will be in the news more I suspect):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/29/arts/design/29char.html

The search for Ithaka continues:

http://tinyurl.com/3yk2ax (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/2cv3g4 (USA Today)
http://biz.yahoo.com/ap/070326/greece_finding_ithaca.html?.v=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070327/ap_on_sc/greece_finding_ithaca_4
http://tinyurl.com/2dhxs8 (Kathimerini)
http://www.centredaily.com/225/story/51612.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17804766/

Roman remains in Cotswald:

http://tinyurl.com/2vwy4u (Journal)

More Rome-India links:

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=229176
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200703291653.htm
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/87947.asp

A section of the Eridanos river bed is on display:

http://tinyurl.com/2me3rx (ANA)

Hmmm ... a claim that Classical languages actually hurt modern
language learning:

http://tinyurl.com/2ny7md (Telegraph)

... hot on the heels of the news that Ancient History is
being dropped from A-Levels:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article1593767.ece
http://education.independent.co.uk/news/article2407984.ece
http://education.guardian.co.uk/alevels/story/0,,2046860,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/6511747.stm

The perfume-from-Cyprus story continues to get coverage:

http://www.physorg.com/news94190703.html
http://tinyurl.com/2y646h (USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070326/ap_on_sc/ancient_perfume_2
http://tinyurl.com/2w9ddv (NG)
http://www.centredaily.com/220/story/54780.html
(the anachronistic headline is obviously a pun attempt)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17802536/

What Jo-Ann Shelton is up to:

http://www.hamilton.edu/applications/calendar/detail.cfm?ID=20666

What Richard Thomas is up to:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4012818a4501.html

More details on that Heinrich Schliemann film:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/3591/

Review of Peter Parsons, *City of the Sharp Nosed Fish*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2046517,00.html

Review of Peter Green, *The Hellenistic Age*:

http://tinyurl.com/2z42bv (WPost)

Review of Pagels and King, *Reading Judas: The Gospel of
Judas and the Shaping of Christianity*:

http://tinyurl.com/33vkcv (WPost)

... cf. this reviewish thing about Judas revisionism:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article2391224.ece

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.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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Medieval burial under a driveway in Wiltshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6504061.stm

Evidence for early 'science' in Medieval York:

http://tinyurl.com/2za3nc (Press)

The latest in the HMS Sussex saga:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,2042722,00.html

... and the Stonehenge visitor centre saga:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6507963.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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Interesting Neolithic burial from South Korea:

http://english.chosun.com/w21data/html/news/200703/200703280025.html

Some 800 b.p. tombs from China's Hebei province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/30/content_5917327.htm

I think we've had this before ... pollen is being used to trace
the origins of Qin's army:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6494851.stm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Excavating Fort Gibson:

http://www.kotv.com/news/local/story/?id=123716

... while no excavation will be done at a site where a Clovis
point was found:

http://www.malibutimes.com/articles/2007/03/28/news/news5.txt

A nautical dimension to the Underground Railroad?:

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2007703270452
http://www.fox28.com/News/index.php?ID=15830

OpEd piece on conserving Native American artifacts and sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/opinion/31moe.html

Native burial site at the Madison Landing building project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/01/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/01ctmain.html

Early Charleston furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/30anti.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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'Head squishing' at El Trigal:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070328_cranial_squish.html

Crystal skull stuff:

http://www.thestar.com/Travel/article/196456

Mexico has interesting plans to improve access to inaccessible
sites:

http://tinyurl.com/256q9k (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/28h72w (ABC)

Doomsday in 2012, according to the Maya calendar?:

http://tinyurl.com/2hlrxy (USA Today)

What dung mites tell us about the rise and fall of the Inca:

http://tinyurl.com/2kp47a (Times)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6490389.stm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front ... I can't remember if we've had this bit of
Thomas Jefferson DNA results before:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/03/070328111115.htm

... and the genetic origins of this Viking woman are interesting:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1709020.ece

Microsoft joins the efforts to save Romansch:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aMIDIGeScPZg

Interesting item on how quickly dogs may have been domesticated:

http://tinyurl.com/2jgea7

The 'secret gospel' of Mark is back in the news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/31/us/31beliefs.html

Evidence of early swimmer's ear?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/03/23/surfers_arc.html

Darwin apparently did not 'hold back' his theory:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6500887.stm

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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Vague item on 'antiquities' found in some house in Chicago:

http://tinyurl.com/383949 (Tribune)

... a later update is enlightening, I supposed, but I'm still
confused:

http://tinyurl.com/2mfnfn (Tribune)

Iran has lost a court case to recover items from Barakat
Galleries:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/legal/article2405107.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2jq8ol (WPost)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2045851,00.html

... while Egyptian representatives are off to France to recover
a lock of Ramses II's hair:

http://english.people.com.cn/200703/30/eng20070330_362400.html

Some smugglers were caught in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/3aeppn (IOL)

The looting continues in Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/3a89cq (AFP via Yahoo)

... and Afghanistan:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070326-074538-8592r

... and Yemen is being targeted as well:

http://tinyurl.com/yqerxx (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070326-075520-8346r

Interesting feature on stolen art and the lawyers who get
involved in recovery efforts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28law.html

A study of 'nighthawking' is afoot in the UK:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/584731
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NUMISMATICA
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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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Kindred Spirits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/design/30dura.html

Praxiteles:

http://tinyurl.com/2vkh8m (Bloomberg)

Apocalypse Then:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/design/30apoc.html

Venice and the Islamic World:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/design/30veni.html

More coverage of the Getty returning items to Greece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6505971.stm
http://www.hostelbookers.com/info/news/18104753
http://english.people.com.cn/200703/30/eng20070330_362370.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-03/30/content_5914500.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2ju6gr (ANA)
http://tinyurl.com/2sz6gu (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/yq7h98 (Kathimerini)

They're trying to make a connection between the Getty sending
items back to Greece and the Elgin/Parthenon marbles:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1593772.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2w97pp (Globe and Mail)
http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/197631
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/03/29/greece.britain/
http://tinyurl.com/3y64wm (IHT)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=492302007
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-03-29-greece_N.htm?csp=34
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070329/en_nm/greece_elgin_dc_1

... and the rhetoric level is rising:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2046278,00.html

... not sure if this is connected:

http://www.addpr.com/articles/christian/16386.html

... meanwhile, remember a while back when the Vatican was asked
to return some items from the Parthenon in its collection?
They've decided not to do so:

http://www.cwnews.com/news/viewstory.cfm?recnum=50188

The New York Times has a special section on museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/

... some highlights:

On renovations to the Denver Art Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28build.html

... and the 'globalization' of museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28global.html

... and the packing of items being shipped:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/28/arts/artsspecial/28getty.html

An earthquake has caused some damage to the museum at
Cephalonia:

http://tinyurl.com/2b2ate (AFP via Yahoo)

... while improper storage at a museum in Turkey has led to
damage of a statue of Mars:

http://tinyurl.com/2o4msk (TZ)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Trio Medieval:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/03/30/arts/music/30merk.html
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OBITUARIES
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Anthony Nuttall:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/obituaries/story/0,,2043723,00.html

Riccardo Francovich:

http://tinyurl.com/235ecw (Italian)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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In honour of the day ... the ancient Israelites snacked on
pizzoh:

http://www.weeklyworldnews.com/stories/98
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http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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