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Ross W Sargent, Bob Heuman, Steve Rankin, 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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Evidence of Mousterian-like artifacts from China(?):

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-05/04/content_865655.htm

On the evolution of human sexuality:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1720068.ece
http://www.news.com.au/sundayheraldsun/story/0,,21648664-663,00.html

Only a matter of time before someone made a connection between
climate change and the demise of the Neanderthals:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18492484/

Not sure why this is news ... early humans dug for food:

http://tinyurl.com/3bwydw (LiveScience via Yahoo)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Haven't had a CAT scan of a mummy in a while ... this one reveals
a possible murder:

http://tinyurl.com/2ljejh (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/yv8vj2
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/05/03/ap/tech/main2756516.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070503/ap_on_sc/mummy_scan_7
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18424249/

Haven't had a pharaoh's curse story for a while either ... so
here's one:

http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=2&id=8832

Preview of a talk about excavating a tomb of a grand vizier:

http://www.paysonroundup.com/section/frontpage_lead/story/28495

An aristocratic 'settlement' of Sassanid date near Kermanshah:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=7123

The complaints about the Ilisu dam continue to generate protests
and op-ed pieces:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=72415

Plenty of sites in Saudi Arabia:

http://www.menafn.com/qn_news_story_s.asp?StoryId=1093151712

Excavating David's palace:

http://tinyurl.com/24km93 (Sun)

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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Really a 'museum' item, but the dating controversy seems to
make it more usefully put here ... a bronze horse attributed to
Phidias' workshop (or Hellenistic) has gone on display after
decades of restoration work:

http://tinyurl.com/24vkbo (USA Today)
http://www.huliq.com/20843/capitoline-museum-displays-bronze-horse
http://www.wtopnews.com/index.php?nid=114&sid=1132996
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070504/ap_on_en_ot/art_bronze_horse_1

That gladiator graveyard at Ephesus is back in the news:

http://tinyurl.com/2agtel (BBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6614479.stm (different)
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/587242
http://tinyurl.com/yw9mtv (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/2slskp (Telegraph)

A statue of Cybele was found in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=79835

... and remains of an early Roman town:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=80062

A silver ring from Buntingford is raising hopes of a Roman hoard:

http://tinyurl.com/2d85bl (Mercury)

Latin is alive and well in Maine:

http://pressherald.mainetoday.com/news/local/070430latin.html

Tom Holland writes about the current History controversy in
the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2073009,00.html

Honours for Tim Winters:

http://tinyurl.com/297vay (Leaf Chronicle)

A marathon reading of the Iliad:

http://tinyurl.com/24ljc2 (Age)

More coverage of new finds in the Archimedes palimpsest:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/587168
http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article2496636.ece

More on the plague of Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=65444

Review of Peter Green, *The Hellenistic Age*:

http://tinyurl.com/yvfq8b (WSJ)

Review of A. Barbero, *The Day of the Barbarians*

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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A possible Celtic temple found during road construction near
Tara:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0503/m3.html
http://tinyurl.com/2z9wla (NPR)

Radio interview about recent work at Stonehenge:

http://www.voanews.com/specialenglish/2007-05-01-voa1.cfm

Medieval finds at a Kinross school construction site:

http://tinyurl.com/ys76ku (BBC)

More coverage of those Lisbon earthquake remains:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/04/30/tech/main2742547.shtml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18397931/
http://www.dailybulletin.com/ci_5777002?source=email

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 remote cave in northern Nepal has revealed some very interesting
'frescoes' of the Buddha:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070504/ap_on_re_as/nepal_buddha_s_cave_4
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6624117.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article1749991.ece
http://tinyurl.com/2al98a (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2al98a (UPI)
http://www.physorg.com/news97595579.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/181657.php
http://tinyurl.com/yqf9ub (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/23z3p9

Sites at Bardnapur are getting some restoration:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070501/48/6f7vf.html

More coverage of dam threats to Buddhist sites in Pakistan:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,479215,00.html

A pile of wrecks near VietNam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2007/04/690022/

Human remains from a Hawaiian construction site:

http://the.honoluluadvertiser.com/article/2007/May/02/ln/FP705020403.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Excavating George Washington's house:

http://tinyurl.com/2e7wjz (Daily News)
http://www.centredaily.com/129/story/85536.html

Latest on 'Yames Town':

http://tinyurl.com/28yoeb (ABC)

... and some background (probably associated with the visit
of the Queen):

http://tinyurl.com/yq3vzd (BBC)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070430/cm_csm/ejamestown_1

Fire has damaged some important sites in Washington, D.C.:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070501/ap_on_re_us/eastern_market_fire

Feature on 'Woodhenge'/The Moorehead Circle:

http://tinyurl.com/27dhen (Dispatch)

Another Walmart, another archaeological site:

http://tinyurl.com/yqteac (Comet)

All about the Alamo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/30/arts/30conn.html

A Western Center for Archaeology and Paleontology is in the
works:

http://tinyurl.com/34zbxo (Press Enterprise)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A Tiwanaku skeleton has been discovered in a much-looted
pyramid in Bolivia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070502/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_bolivia_archaeology_1
http://tinyurl.com/yta767 (SciAm)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18445624/
http://tinyurl.com/2adwhz (LAT)
http://tinyurl.com/yrnavw (EITB)
http://www.brudirect.com/DailyInfo/News/Archive/May07/040507/wn03.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18445624/

Feature on Chankillo:

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/may/sun-cult.php

... and Buena Vista:

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.com/issues/2007/may/digs-peru.php
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The Vatican Library will be closed for a while:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6617735.stm

cf:
http://www.vaticanlibrary.vatlib.it/BAVT/info/it/Informazioni/avvisi.htm

Virginia Woolf on matters Shakespearean:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/extracts/story/0,,2070468,00.html

Not sure how to classify this one ... it's a feature on Shelby White
and the antiquities trade:

http://www.nysun.com/article/53523

Assorted word origins:

http://newsminer.com/2007/04/30/6742

Another claim as to the identity of Jack the Ripper:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070502/ap_on_re_af/safrica_jack_the_ripper

Review of William Rosen, *Justinian's Flea*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/scienceandnature/0,,2072657,00.html

Review of Georgina Howell, *Gertrude Bell*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/04/29/books/review/Worth.t.html

Review of a couple of tomes about Shakespeare:

http://tinyurl.com/2yk3r7 (Inquirer)

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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Mdina:

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=276148&pid=1

Gamla:

http://www.infoisrael.net/cgi-local/text.pl?source=7/a/290420071

Apulia:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/05/06/travel/06Puglia.html
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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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This seems to be one of those 'closing the barn door' things,
but they're looking into a theft from the British Museum:

http://www.thecnj.co.uk/camden/050307/news050307_14.html

The looting of Iraq continues:

http://tinyurl.com/ypo4hl (PBS)

A boulder which was covered in petroglyphs has been stolen from
Yuma:

http://tinyurl.com/2k25yu (Sun)

An old Moravian Pottery case:

http://tinyurl.com/35won5
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NUMISMATICA
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Iron Age and Roman Coins from Wales:

http://tinyurl.com/yplsa7 (database)

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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Sacred:

http://tinyurl.com/24bco7 (Times)

Work, Rest, and Play:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2069398,00.html

Monet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/design/04mone.html

Assorted exhibitions in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/design/04wart.html

An antiques auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/design/04anti.html

The New York Times has a very nice interactive 'map' thing of
the Met's new Greek and Roman galleries:

http://tinyurl.com/yoxtbr

There's a new museum at Masada:

http://tinyurl.com/2zylc6 (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=855658

The Met has no plans to return that Etruscan chariot:

http://tinyurl.com/yo8bnp (UPI)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/59344.html

... while the Egypt-Germany thing continues to get attention:

http://www.etownian.com/article.php?id=353

cf:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=662952007
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070429/ap_en_ot/egypt_antiquities_3
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=151070
http://www.knx1070.com/pages/401681.php?contentType=4&contentId=453133
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Cymbeline:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/theater/reviews/04cymb.html

Orfeo ed Eurydice:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/04/arts/music/04orfe.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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A musical 'code' has been found carved in the rafters of
Rosslyn Chapel:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18417877/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6605767.stm
http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=6460640&nav=2aKDawoU
http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=6460640&nav=menu83_2
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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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