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explorator 10.38 January 13, 2008
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Dexter Hoyos, Diana Wright,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,
John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Angie Telepenko, Richard
Price,Mata Kimasitayo,Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths,
Ross W. Sargent,Steve Rankin, Susan Jaslow, and W. Richard Frahm
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a quiet week
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EARLY HUMANS
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The oldest human footprints are eroding:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/13/archaeology.oldest.human.tracks.er\
oding
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting/conventional piece on Masada:

http://www.ngb.army.mil/news/archives/2008/01/011108-al_masada.aspx

The Temple Mount saga continues:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=942970

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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Interesting item on ash from the 79 A.D. eruption of Vesuvius
being found in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/2s9qhh (ANSA)
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/170723.html
http://tinyurl.com/2m4mwh (Kathimerini)

This one seems appropriate in this category ... remains of a
'civilization' at the bottom of a Russian lake:

http://en.rian.ru/analysis/20071227/94372640.html
http://tinyurl.com/ynmz3x

Roman remains in Croydon:

http://tinyurl.com/35werz (Guardian)

... and a Roman lamp from Tadcaster:

http://tinyurl.com/yo76tw

A hoard of Roman coins from Bath:

http://tinyurl.com/37c9x4
http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=3657

Reconstructing a Roman bridge:

http://tinyurl.com/ytmo7g

Thomas Hines is documenting ancient theatres:

http://www.collegenews.org/x7724.xml

Virtually reconstructing the Via Flaminia:

http://www.pr-inside.com/virtual-reconstruction-of-roman-road-r376540.htm
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gAVehmVnYXDelGSIDUKimvuE3SGwD8U1RRR00
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22558223/
http://www.physorg.com/news119027431.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/BusinessTravel/story?id=4115263&page=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080108/ap_on_hi_te/italy_virtual_roads_to_rome

On the state of Classics in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/942930.html

Plans are afoot to touristify the agora of Izmir:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=92842

Is Latin on the rise in the UK?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/education/7172077.stm

... and an interview with Nancy Erickson on the benefits of Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/2w2y9l

Judith Hallett is offering information on Roman romance:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/536839/

That salad-dressing-amphora-dna story is making the rounds again:

http://tinyurl.com/2tl2ev (Telegraph)

More coverage of those villas found on the grounds of the Palazzo
Valentini:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/22/arts/design/22vill.html

More coverage of that Roman marching camp in Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Roman-fort--is-revealed.3643430.jp
http://tinyurl.com/25pk54 (Advertiser)

... and the 'Lupercal' story is still kicking around:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4a96040a-be10-11dc-8bc9-0000779fd2ac.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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They're digging at Salisbury Cathedral:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/7173889.stm

Overviewish thing on some recent excavations in Edinburgh:

http://tinyurl.com/36egaz

A Saxon 'execution cemetery':

http://tinyurl.com/2bnro6 (YP)

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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Nice feature in Time on efforts to save Afghanistan's ancient
art:

http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1701306,00.html

A Tongan site:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/4349525a12.html?source=RSSworldnews_20080110

Dating items found at Pattanam:

http://tinyurl.com/35fjbe
http://en.rian.ru/science/20080109/95815008.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is on the Sphinx of India:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A Nguyen-Tay Son coin hoard:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/01/763254/

More on those spear-killed remains:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695241936,00.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080101193653.htm

More coverage of that Chinese shipwreck raising:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20071222/sc_nm/china_ancientship_dc_1

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some pottery was found during construction of a Target store in
Illinois:

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2008/01/07/local/22871851.txt

... while human remains found during LRT construction in Edmonton
caused a bit of controversy:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Canada/2008/01/07/4756321-sun.html
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/edmonton/story/2008/01/08/lrt-archeologist.html
http://tinyurl.com/2vjhuw

On the DNA front ... searching for Native American dna in 'quids':

http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/54039/

Interesting finds from Hovey Lake:

http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1532&Item\
id=116

More coverage of evidence for DeSoto's trail:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jewn5kK4IMZuv-_-rHQk352PDSVQ
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An ancient fortress find in Peru:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/page/2 (scroll down)

That Mayan Market find gets the John Noble Wilford treatement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/science/08maya.html

More on the impending 'ct-scan' (really a muon scan) of the
Temple of the Sun in Teotihuacan:

http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=40754

More on that Aztec pyramid in Mexico City:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKN2742810220071228?rpc=401&
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Folks might be interested in this item on 'Janus words':

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0104/p18s02-hfes.html

OpEd piece on justifying funding for humanities:

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/01/06/will-the-humanities-save-us/

Interesting item on audience relations (for want of a better
description, although I'm sure there is one):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/arts/music/08audi.html

Latest in the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/01/12/2137004.htm

On satellites and archaeology:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/node/1764

Ancient documents have led to a theory about the Quadantrid
meteor shower:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/01/08/quadrantid_meteors/

Latest 'boat reconstruction' story revolves around a Phoenician
boat which will sail from Tyre to Europe:

http://tinyurl.com/2m6hb9 (Daily Star)

Here's a reconstructed Viking voyage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7171577.stm

Review of Geraldine Brooks, *People of the Book*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/07/books/07maslin.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Janiculum Hill:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=62929

Rome:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2236945,00.html

Yemen:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/01/travel/yemen.php?WT.mc_id=travelalert
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology Magazine (January/February 2008):

http://www.archaeology.org/0801/

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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Theft of a coin collection going to auction:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article3111669.ece

Another bust in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/3829qj (Kathimerini)

Those stolen Vishnu statues have turned up in a garbage dump:

http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2248758,00.html

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NUMISMATICA
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Interesting 18th century calendar medal:

http://www.bmagic.org.uk/objects/1970N233

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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Tapestry in the Baroque:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3132791.\
ece

The Art of Time:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/design/11time.html

The Hand Drawn Negative:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/design/11gall.html

Canova, Bernini:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/08/arts/design/08cano.html

That sculpture of Artemis and the Stag is now at the Met:

http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/245700.html
http://www.buffalonews.com/home/story/246130.html
http://www.nysun.com/article/69142
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/10/arts/10arts-ARTEMISANDST_BRF.html

The Hearst Museum is the latest to be embroiled in a controversy
about its treatment of human remains:

http://tinyurl.com/2l96m7 (LAT)

... and there's one about the British Museum returning/lending out
the Lindisfarne Gospels too:

http://tinyurl.com/32exfy
http://tinyurl.com/3yna3r

The North Carolina MOA has just received a nice endowment for Classical
collection purposes:

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080109/NEWS/80109063

On the upcoming Egyptian Revival sale at Bonham's:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=22869

... and the Riordan (Americana) collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/design/11anti.html

Plenty of coverage of Montebello's retirement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/arts/design/09futu.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/arts/design/09kimm.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/09/arts/design/09muse.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a6nPr8K5Ic80&refer=home
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aj8WgohxsyOw&refer=home
http://tinyurl.com/2q69bd

Hadrian's head is on the move as part of a major exhibition:

http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5jnmFJz3DS1O45oqwb_ylEsVEL6gQ
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aV39geU0LmGs&refer=muse
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7181168.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article3328406.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/11/nart111.xml
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2238935,00.html

The Met's 'compensation' for returning the Euphronios Krater:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=alqf9OfDp81M&refer=muse
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aoMnCedvDxOQ&refer=muse
http://www.nysun.com/article/69386
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/11/arts/design/11voge.html
http://tinyurl.com/2onvjx

More on those UVa returns:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7172152.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3ah73r (Daily Progress)
http://www.pr-inside.com/university-of-virginia-to-return-looted-r371380.htm

More on the Lewis Chess pieces:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2239705,00.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland/Whose-king-40rook-pawn-.3644958.jp
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ON THE WEB
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Rome Reborn:

http://www.romereborn.virginia.edu/
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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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