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explorator 10.28 November 4, 2007
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Ales Bukovsky,
Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Dorothy King, Edward Rockstein,
Erica Stewart, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,
John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Karl Wittwer, Richard
Tyndall, Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent,
Bob Heuman, Steve Rankin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Richard C.
Griffiths, and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Nice feature on the excavation of the "House of Millions of
Years":

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/egyptiantemple-200711.html

The Gospel of Judas is back in the news (for different reasons):

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2007/112007/11032007/330158
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/ru-rup110107.php


Interesting item about the fate of a prehistoric site in Jordan:

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=19435

Can't remember if we've mentioned this cuneiform tablet find
before:

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/news/local/story/233828.html

Another 'Biblical Archaeology' piece:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/07302/829332-85.stm

An interview with Lee Levine on the effects of the destruction
of the Temple on Jewish communal life:

http://reformjudaismmag.org/Articles/index.cfm?id=1294

Road construction in Iran has destroyed some significant sites:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2007/October2007/30-10-overnight.htm

Zahi Hawass sold some of his hats:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/10/31/africa/ME-GEN-Egypt-Hawass-Hat.php

Latest Temple Mount developments:

http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=36629

Stanford has acquired a major Egyptology library:

http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2007/october31/erichsen-103107.html

More coverage of Jezebel's seal:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071026210336.htm

More on Tut and his death (and other things):

http://tinyurl.com/3y2msh (Daily Mail)

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 section of the Aurelian Wall collapsed in heavy rain:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695224168,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/news/2007-11-02-rome-wall-collapse_N.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071102/ap_on_sc/italy_ancient_wall_3

A Roman tombstone from Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7066539.stm
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1791961.0.0.php

Searching for Artemis Amrysia:

http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=2485

Semi-touristy thing on Pompeii:

http://deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,695215210,00.html

More on Deborah Felton and Hallowe'en:

http://tinyurl.com/3xlcra

More on impending resumption of digging at Herculaneum:

http://tinyurl.com/364cmq (Athens News)

Plenty of coverage of a dna study on some shipwreck cargo:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071102/ts_nm/shipwreck_dna_dc_2
http://www.physorg.com/news112978421.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN0228463120071102

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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An Iron Age chain from Scatness:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/7073020.stm

Searching for evidence of a medieval fire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/6993087.stm

A 'giant' burial in Norway:

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/iriks/article2065664.ece

The Red Lady is older than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/7069001.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3c6hel
http://www.physorg.com/news112978558.html

Review of Graham Robb, *The Discovery of France*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/books/02book.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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Some good coverage of a Vanuatu burial of some headless skeletons:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071102-headless-skeleton.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21531485/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071030/sc_nm/vanuatu_skeletons_dc_1

Plans are afoot to raise a Southern Song Dynasty shipwreck:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/6295336.html

Renovations are afoot at the Terracotta Warriors site:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6293091.html

Evidence of ancient Polynesian seafaring skills:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071101/139/6mp6v.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Just when you thought you'd heard the last about Kennewick Man:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003988146_webkennewickman01m.ht\
ml

High tech methods to trace Southeastern pottery:

http://www.cdispatch.com/articles/2007/10/31/local_news/area_news/area04.txt

An archaeological site holds up road construction in Montgomery
County:

http://tinyurl.com/3b5ldk (WPost)

Interesting bit of New York Subway history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/nyregion/02plaque.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A major pre-Taino/Taino settlement on Puerto Rico:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071029-puerto-rico.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071028/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/puerto_rico_archaeological\
_find
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/world/AP/story/287610.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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In case you were wondering, Nadia Abu El-Haj was granted tenure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/nyregion/03barnard.html
http://www.nysun.com/article/65748

A different approach to Wikipedia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/techbit_wikipedia_term_papers

Nice feature on the dendrochronology projects at Cornell:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/10/071027172611.htm

On the 'rise of the salvagers':

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/politics/article3106909.ece

The oldest Bratwurst recipe:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071101/od_nm/germany_bratwurst_dc

Latest movie on the Archaeology Channel: Shovel Bum Joins the
Army:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Explorator 2177:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=3025645929721292107

Wanna be part of a Viking ship crew?:

http://www.havhingsten.dk/index.php?id=979&L=1

Liz Taylor gets to keep her vanGogh:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-art-vangogh-taylor.html

A sort of history of bartending:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/31/dining/31cock.html

Not sure if this is a new deck or just renewed coverage:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/10/31/iraq.archaeology.cards.ap/index.html

More on that High-Res "Last Supper":

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/10/071029-supper-picture.html

Review of Jason Goodwin, *The Snake Stone*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/29/books/29masl.html

Review of Elizabeth Samat, *Soldier's Heart*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/books/review/Pinsky-t.html

Review of Jonah Lehrer, *Proust Was a Neuroscientist*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/books/review/Max-t.html

Review of Barry Smith, *Questions of Taste: The Philosophy of
Wine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/books/review/Steinberger-t.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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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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A number of purloined Neolithic items were returned to Greece this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/2qrgt5 (ANA)
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aPK9Gj3xrKNI&refer=muse
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21549124/
http://www.ydr.com/newsfull/ci_7322141

OpEd piece on Italy's pursuit of antiquities:

http://www.startribune.com/1513/story/1522726.html

More coverage of Princeton's returning of items to Italy:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/10/30/italy-looted-princeton.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=29045&sectionid=3510212
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ap6mDgeP4kqE&refer=home
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5is_bcmuTOwPCXlYk6aWb_ugCT9RgD8SJHEOO0

... on which, it is also worth perusing David Gill's blogposts
for the past week or so:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com

I don't think we've had this sort of 'looting of India' piece
before:

http://tinyurl.com/2lzugz

The (U.S.) National Archives has acquired a couple of catalogs
of WWII looted art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02nazi.html

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NUMISMATICA
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ACE:

http://ancientcoinsforeducation.org/

Interesting story about a find of piles (literally) of old
coins:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071027/ap_on_re_us/odd_hidden_coins_1
http://apnews.myway.com//article/20071027/D8SHP3B00.html

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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Pompeii: Tales from an Eruption:

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20071028/NEWS/710280303/-1/NEWS03

Drawing Connections:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/arts/design/01draw.html

Pompei Batoni:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3112821.ece

Buddhist Sculpture from China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02xian.html

Gabriel de Saint Aubin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02fric.html

Gifts for the Gods:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/03/arts/design/03temp.html

The Impressionists:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02voge.html

A feature on the Getty Villa:

http://www.startribune.com/1513/story/1522723.html

A different spin on the Tut exhibition:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2204697,00.html

... and more coverage of the impending exhibition of Tut's
mummy:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7077423.stm

The Prado has some new exhibition space:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/31/arts/prado.php

Never knew there was such a thing as a 'print fair':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02prin.html

An upcoming auction of Napoleonic style furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/02/arts/design/02anti.html

Assorted auctions:


http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/arts/design/04voge.html

More press coverage for the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/10/28/arts/design/28ouro.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/10/29/arts/arch.php
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antigone:

http://tinyurl.com/34bqdg

Hamlet:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/11/01/theater/reviews/01haml.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/theater/04gure.html

Henry VI:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/04/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/04theatnj.html
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ON THE WEB
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Article on assorted online historical resources:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/2007/11/05/071105on_onlineonly_grafton

1905-1907 Breasted Expeditions to Egypt and the Sudan:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/museum/collections/pa/breasted/
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OBITUARIES
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James Michie:

http://tinyurl.com/35nxph
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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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