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EARLY HUMANS
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Plenty of coverage of the most recent investigation into Oetzi's
cause of death:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-06/e-mo5060607.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_sc/iceman_9
http://tinyurl.com/3242ep (IHT)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070607/139/6gr0e.html
http://tinyurl.com/2lsd8a (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6727665.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2a8pod (News.com)
http://tinyurl.com/ystkv5
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070606-095141-2660r
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19071721/
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=888932007

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AFRICA
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Oldest decorative shells found ... in Morocco:

http://www.suntimes.co.za/News/Article.aspx?id=484595
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19071731/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The vague description of this 2300 b.p. chamber tomb find from
Turkey suggests it might be Hellenistic, but I'm not sure:

http://english.people.com.cn/200706/08/eng20070608_382397.html

Polish archaeologists have found a wealthy, 5000 b.p. tomb at
'Chicken Hill':

http://tinyurl.com/yv3wvg (PAP)

A Spanish team has uncovered a 1st Intermediate Period cemetery:

http://tinyurl.com/2tccm5 (SIS)

Interesting item on recreating pigments found on walls of
Egyptian tombs:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/70491.html
http://movie.moldova.org/stiri/eng/51633/
http://tinyurl.com/2lr9f8 (UPI)

On food and kitchens in ancient Egypt:

http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=7488

A mummy at the Berkshire Museum is the latest to get the CT Scan
treatment:

http://www.berkshireeagle.com/headlines/ci_6063034

Satellite technology has located remains of a 400 AD/CE settlement
in Egypt:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070605_satellite_egypt2.html
http://tinyurl.com/33tomy (ditto, via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19071980/

Another Salt Man from Iran:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/June2007/04-06.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2abyvr (Iranmania)

Overviewish thing on digging anywhere in Jerusalem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/05/world/middleeast/05jerusalem.html

I'll repeat this one since last week I mistakenly placed it in Gaza ... it's
actually the Giza plateau:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/847/he2.htm

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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A Torrenueva (Spain) site turns out to be Roman, not Phoenician:

http://tinyurl.com/377p35 (TS)

A pile of amphoras from a Pula site:

http://www.javno.com/en/croatia/clanak.php?id=49918

Excellent article on gladiators, incorporating some recent
discoveries:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1369

An ancient 'training manual' inscription:

http://tinyurl.com/2du4kd (Age)

Scanning Homer:

http://www.wired.com/gadgets/miscellaneous/news/2007/06/iliad_scan

A Latin program in Southern Ontario gets some press attention:

http://tinyurl.com/2xydek (LFP)

Princeton Commencement coverage:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S18/10/64K00/index.xml

... and Robert Fagles received an honourary degree:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S18/10/64S75/index.xml

I guess I need to mention the crabs-thriving-in-Roman-monuments
thing:

http://www.physorg.com/news100094217.html

Investment advice from Aristotle:

http://www.fool.com/investing/beginning/2007/06/04/what-would-aristotle-buy.
aspx

More on those finds in Trafalgar Square:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6700149.stm

That Pompeii fast food story appears to still have some legs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/18983078/

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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Assorted Bronze Age finds during construction of a bypass in
Cornwall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/6712111.stm
http://tinyurl.com/32qwf4 (Packet)

A Bronze Age cemetery on Barra:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.1444240.0.0.php

Bronze Age life in La Mancha:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070605121009.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/news5.php?action=fullnews&id=36586

An Iron Age Mickey Mouse (!):

http://www.thelocal.se/7544/20070608/

Plans are afoot to exhume some bodies from some Viking burials
in Norway to preserve them:

http://tinyurl.com/36tfo5 (SD)

Tara is on the World Monument Fund's 'crisis list':

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2636185.ece

A WWI mass grave near Fromelles:

http://tinyurl.com/38ofxx (BBC)

Review of Tim Blanning, *The Pursuit of Glory: Europe*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2098452,00.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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An octopus led to the find of a Kyoro Dynasty shipwreck:

http://tinyurl.com/3b4tjg (AFP via Yahoo)

Qing Dynasty tombs are threatened by mining:

http://tinyurl.com/2g5twu

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Analysis of some Native American bones from Utah are shedding
light on an 1853 incident:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_6090275

More (and varied) coverage of what they're finding in Lake
Okeechobee:

http://tinyurl.com/yp7bw6 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/3aqcn8
http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/134730.html
http://tinyurl.com/25d9to (UPI)
http://www.miamiherald.com/569/story/130131.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19046682/

An update on what they've found during the George Washington
house excavation in Philadelphia:

http://www.examiner.com/a-769260~Slave_Passage_Found_at_Washington_House.htm
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19100886/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070607/ap_on_re_us/washington_s_slaves

Some interesting stuff about Sitting Bull:

http://tinyurl.com/2tt9dx (Forum)

Modern medicine would have likely saved Lincoln:

http://www.ama-assn.org/amednews/2007/06/11/prsc0611.htm

... while a recently-found note from Lincoln underscores one
of the great 'missed opportunities' of the Civil War:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19095440/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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On chickens and when folks reached the Americas:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/chicken/
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20070609/fob4.asp
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003736035_chickens06.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ww6rf (LA Times)
http://www.livescience.com/history/070604_polynesian_chicken.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19035306/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/opinion/09sat4.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_sc/fowl_finding250
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn11987-polynesians-beat-columbus-to-the
-americas-.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/sci_tech/article2614581.ece

A 1200 b.p. burial ground from Costa Rica:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_273103590,00.html

A burial from ca 1500 a.d. found in Chile during condo
construction:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5666_273139534,00.html

On climate change and the origins of agriculture in Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/06/070601173931.htm

More coverage of that human-sacrifice-in-Peru story:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/06/070606-head-jar.html
(very interesting photo)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Spain is ramping up the pressure in the Black Swan thing:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/070606/2/13odd.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4085785a12.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19058333/
http://tinyurl.com/2wyw78 (El Pais)

Looks like the dangers-of-climate-change lobby is going to be
pushing the damage-to-ancient-monuments angle:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070606/ap_on_re_us/endangered_monuments
http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/world/article/0,1406,KNS_351_5577972,00.html

Nice 'department' piece from Archaeology on the problem of
treasure hunting (in a nautical archaeology context):

http://www.archaeology.org/0707/etc/insider.html

...and an oped piece in the same vein:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/opinion/08kurson.html

A Botticelli fresco in Hungary?:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19112886/

How MAGIS is helping archaeologists:

http://www.depauw.edu/news/index.asp?id=19577

The World Monument Fund has come out with its annual list of
most endangered sites:

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

One of the last hunter-gatherer peoples on earth is
disappearing:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19148779/

Assorted arts notes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08voge.html

Sean Connery has apparently turned down a role in the new
Indiana Jones flick:

http://tinyurl.com/37cazx

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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Sofia:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=81652

Choquequirao:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/06/03/travel/03inca.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Ancient Egypt (June/July Preview):

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/

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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Iraq's antiquities are also increasingly falling victim to
militant attacks:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,2098255,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3dex8c (Age)

... but this one has a slightly different spin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,2098057,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2098272,00.html

Check out the stolen art etc. found at convicted crime boss
Terry Adams' place:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/6730925.stm

Vandals hit some petroglyphs in Utah:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660226133,00.html

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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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Journey to the Copper Age:

http://tinyurl.com/39664m (Union Tribune)

Genghis Khan and his Heirs:

http://www.budapestsun.com/cikk.php?id=26615

The Great Cover Up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08rugs.html

The Israel Museum has on display a 'silent era' manuscript of
a chunk of Exodus:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/867003.html
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20468
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070604/ap_on_sc/israel_rare_manuscript

... while the Getty has put the Northumberland Bestiary on display:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2095548,00.html

A German archaeologist will be running Berlin's museums:

http://tinyurl.com/38b7mv (Bloomberg)
http://www.eux.tv/article.aspx?articleId=9558

How all the current controversy about repatriation etc. is
causing museums to 'reinvent' themselves:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2007-06-09-museums_N.htm

Latest testimony etc. from the Marion True trial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/09/arts/design/09gett.html

Interesting controversy about plans to exhibit the Bactrian Gold:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/06/07/arts/afshow.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/06/arts/design/06muse.html

Coverage of Sotheby's auction of all that Albright-Knox Museum
stuff:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,660227674,00.html
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/93865.html
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=20512
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-06/08/content_6217171.htm
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/06/08/auction-bronze-artemis.htm
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http://tinyurl.com/2nng99 (IOL)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aSTconzZk_mo&refer=home

Napoleon's sword is coming to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6737909.stm

London antiques fair coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08anti.html

A virtual museum of Achaemenid art:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=12377&sectionid=351020105

More on that Venetian Customs House being turned into a museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/arts/design/08voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Shakespeare in the Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/06/08/theater/08shak.html
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ON THE WEB
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Sphakia Survey:

http://sphakia.classics.ox.ac.uk/

The Parthenon:

http://www.dkv.columbia.edu/vmc/acropolis/
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OBITUARIES
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W.K. Pritchett:

http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=25202
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2007/06/05_pritchett.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/yralqt (Chronicle)
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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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