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explorator 10.32 December 2, 2007
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, D. Buck, 'Duke Jason',
Dorothy King, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew,
Ross W. Sargent, Sally Winchester, Barney Selavan, Steve Rankin,
Susan Jaslow, Patrick Swan, and W. Richard Frahm for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a somewhat quiet week ...

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EARLY HUMANS
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On the dating habits of early humans:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22028113/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071129-ancient-harem.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2968548.ece
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AFRICA
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Pre-Axumite antiquities from Ethiopia:

http://jimmatimes.com/article.cfm?articleID=17454
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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On the use of 'biological warfare' by the Hittites and
Arzawans:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/11/28/biological-warfare-rams.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2007-11-26_126149669.html

Traces of a fire at Pasargadae:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=594569

Ptolemaic mummies from Al-Fayum:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=410340&sid=FTP
http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/5272/
http://tinyurl.com/385qwb

That purported 'Wall of Nehemiah' is back in the news again:

http://www.sanluisobispo.com/health/story/206421.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/11/071130-AP-israel-jerusalem.html
http://tinyurl.com/3x3zn6 (JPost)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/11/29/africa/ME-GEN-Israel-Jerusalem-Dig.php
http://tinyurl.com/2ngjm3
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071130/ap_on_sc/israel_jerusalem_dig

Interesting infant burial from Palmyra:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/071201/world/syria_antiquities_1
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0712010602165130.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071201/ap_on_re_mi_ea/syria_antiquities_2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22055576/

Some Tamil Brahmi script has been found in Egypt:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/11/21/stories/2007112158412400.htm

Smithsonian Magazine has a nice article on the Ark of the Covenant:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/people-places/ark-covenant-200712.html

How the Temple Mount thing is playing in the Arabic press:

http://www.imemc.org/article/51732

On archaeological vacationing:

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2007/nov/24/24d01israel/

Petroglyphs in Egypt are threatened:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7009268149

More coverage of that Byzantine synagogue find:

http://tinyurl.com/34p6sj (Israel Times)

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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Growing skepticism about that recent 'Lupercal' find:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,520440,00.html
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22813219-12377,00.html
http://www.rp-online.de/public/article/aktuelles/wissen/503291

Roman remains found at one of London's Olympic sites:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22008567/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7117040.stm

A followup piece to that recent discovery of Roman burials in
Wiltshire:

http://tinyurl.com/27kjyk

Feature on the Pisa Ships:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2937145.ece

Review of N. Ostler, *Ad Infinitum: A Biography of Latin*:

http://tinyurl.com/3xnwm5 (LA Times)

Review of *Great Moments in Greek Archaeology*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/Coates-t.html

Review of Colleen McCullough, *Antony and Cleopatra*:

http://www.news.com.au/couriermail/story/0,23739,22842282-5003424,00.html

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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Latest movie at the Archaeology Channel is on the Mosfell
Archaeological Project (Iceland):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A number of Napoleonic soldiers were reburied:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071125/ap_on_re_eu/napoleon_s_soldiers

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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Remains of an ancient city in China's Zhejiang province:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/071201/139/6nxtu.html
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6312228.html
http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200711/30/t20071130_13772946.shtml

Photos of finds from burials recently found in Henan province:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-11/28/content_6285804.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On the DNA front, the latest study suggests Native Americans
descend from Siberian folk:

http://tinyurl.com/2vtqxt (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/38xx55 (Journal article)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-11/uomh-gss112607.php

Don't tell me the Kennewick Man thing is reemerging from its
slumber:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071201/ap_on_go_co/kennewick_man_4
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/071201/9/2ufs.html
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=441391

Some old maps of Vermont are going online:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20071125/ap_on_re_us/old_maps

On Amerigo's map:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/magazine/02wwln-lede-t.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The Gospel of Judas is back in the news (actually an OpEd piece):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/opinion/01deconink.html

... see also:

http://www.aprildeconick.com/gospelofjudas.html

A very strange Gunpowder Plot artifact (artifiction? articoincidence?):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=4969\
36&in_page_id=1770
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/south_yorkshire/7115174.stm

Washington's Masonic past:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20071129/lf_afp/entertainmentusfreemasonsbooks

William Safire's column has assorted items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/magazine/02wwln-safire-t.html

That whole race/IQ thing is bubbling up again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/books/01race.html

Reviewish thing (with interview) of Umberto Eco's *On Ugliness*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/books/review/Finnerty-t.html

Followup to the granting of tenure to Nadia Abu El-Haj:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=929660

On 'black vernacular music':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/arts/music/02warr.html

Did human activities alter bear genetics?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/11/071126115307.htm

Reviewish sort of thing of the shorter OED:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/26/arts/26conn.html

Review of Katherin Ashenburg, *The Dirt on Clean*:

http://sacdcweb01.salon.com/mwt/feature/2007/11/30/dirt_on_clean/index_np.html

Review of Paul Johnson, *Heroes*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/11/30/AR2007113000075.\
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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TOURISTY THINGS
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Canada Park (Israel):

http://tinyurl.com/327tcw (JPost)
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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 positive story on efforts to recover looted Iraqi antiquities:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/29/2105564.htm
http://www.arabtimesonline.com/client/pagesdetails.asp?nid=8665&ccid=18

A Greek court has dismissed the charges against Marion True:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2007/11/27/true-greece-court.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_29/11/2007_90594
http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/11/27/getty.court.ap/
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-getty28nov28,0,789009.story?coll\
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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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Art and Emancipation in Jamaica:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/02/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/02artsct.html

Peutinger Map:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUKL2650393720071126
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7113810.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071126/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_austria_map

The Guennol Lioness is coming to auction and expected to reach
a nice price:

http://tinyurl.com/39ug5m

A sort of 'state of the negotiations' piece on Italy's attempts
to recover artifacts from U.S. museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/arts/design/01anti.html

An upcoming display/sale of Roman items at Phoenix Art:

http://biz.yahoo.com/bw/071129/20071129005213.html

More coverage of 'Spartan' help in Iraq:

http://www.defenselink.mil/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=48127

Feature on the Eldridge Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/01/arts/design/01eldr.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Iphigenie en Tauride:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/11/29/arts/music/29iphi.html
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OBITUARIES
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J. Richard Steffy (ancient ship reconstructionist):

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/5344814.html
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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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