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explorator 10.43 February 17, 2008
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Donna Hurst, Dorothy King, Doug Weller,
Edward Rockstein, fireflye, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Richard Campbell,
Ross W. Sargent, and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... kind of slow this week ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Rethinking Olduvai:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?ez_search=1&fuseaction=readrelease&release\
id=527154

Kris Hurst has updated her CroMagnon page:

http://archaeology.about.com/od/earlymansites/a/cro_magnon.htm

More coverage of the mobility of Neanderthals:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/m-mn021508.php
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AFRICA
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Oldest evidence of human sacrifice in Africa:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080215/sc_afp/sudanfrancearchaeology_080215201642
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080215110917463C724344&click_id=31\
&set_id=1
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The earliest known farming settlement in Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/science/12egyp.html
http://tinyurl.com/3b6bdf (LAT)
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=21940
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080211-egypt-farming.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-02/uoc--utu021208.php

A Middle Kingdom 'warrior tomb' is causing some excitement:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=23284
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080215-egypt-coffin.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=43374&sectionid=3510212

The Nile threatens Luxor:

http://tinyurl.com/2eqhck (El Pais)

Not sure if we've mentioned this Tel Zayit 'alphabet' stone before:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05314/603769.stm

Nice overviewish thing on Qurna and its necropolis:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/883/feature.htm

... and one on the pyramids:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/884/heritage.htm

Politics and archaeology in east Jerusalem:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/world_news&id=5948366
http://www.semissourian.com/story/1310504.html
http://tinyurl.com/37maf2 (LAT)
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jvEspc9hQCfyXHP4EclLWdzi11KgD8UNKNVG0

... others on the same subject:

http://www.thejc.com/home.aspx?ParentId=m11s19&SecId=19&AId=58045&ATypeId=1
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=4842.3107.0.0

An Ottoman sea wall at Jaffa will be buried for 'safety':

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/953641.html

Nice overviewish blog post on excavating Byzantium:

http://barista.media2.org/?p=3329

cf:

http://www.cronaca.com/archives/005264.html

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 Maltese cistern is actually a Roman or Punic tomb:

http://tinyurl.com/2udcc6 (ToM)

How the replanting of Olympia is going:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080212/world/olympia_beijing_flame_1

A pair of Roman 'porti' in Libya:

http://tinyurl.com/3898m9 (ANSA)

Plans for a visitor centre at Arbeia Roman Fort have been shelved:

http://tinyurl.com/2v9hck

Catullus was featured at NPR this past week:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18958585

Honours for Caroline Vout:

http://www.huliq.com/50446/cambridge-classicist-wins-inaugural-book-award

They're still arguing about the 'Lupercale':

http://tinyurl.com/2l93h7 (ANSA)

More on Mount Lykaion:

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/225032
http://www.ilreporter.com/articolo.aspx?LANG=ITA&IDCAT=5&IDART=876&PAGE=1
http://www.redorbit.com/news/business/1254416/ua_experts_help_find_prezeus_relig\
ion_in_greece/

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 druid burial (?):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/02/11/druid-grave.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=21459
http://tinyurl.com/2wkfz4

The Domesday Book is now on the internet (I thought it was already!):

http://tinyurl.com/3b8uy6 (Telegraph)

They've found the 'Great Gate' of Langthorne Abbey:

http://tinyurl.com/2wvx8z (NR)

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 17th century Japanese village in Cambodia (?):

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20080216f2.html

Remains of a major 2500 b.p. city in Orissa (although I think
the Athens comparison is quite a bit off):

http://tinyurl.com/29ojwl (ToI)
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23195459-663,00.html
http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080211094710327C183772&click_id=31\
&set_id=1

Learning the lessons of Angkor:

http://tinyurl.com/2vvjlj (DD)

Seoul's historic 'Great South Gate' was destroyed by fire:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/080211/2/15spm.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080211/sc_nm/korea_gate_dc_1
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/2008-02/11/content_6448893.htm
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/international/2008/02/768276/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/world/asia/12korea.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-SKorea-Landmark-Fire.html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-korea-gate.html
http://tinyurl.com/2jgrya (El Pais)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/rtrs/20080211/tts-uk-korea-gate-7e8fd03_3.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A possible Chumash site near Santa Barbara:

http://tinyurl.com/2tq83n
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/breakingnews/story/273563.html
http://www.ksby.com/global/story.asp?s=7852477

Possible native remains near Cody (WY):

http://billingsgazette.net/articles/2008/02/14/news/wyoming/18-remains.txt

Rather more people may have inhabited Beringia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080213090524.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Interesting item about a 'lake excavation' in Peru:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=19115833

More coverage of that Nazca iron mine:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080211-nasca-mine.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A missing manuscript page has been found among the fragments of
the Deir al-Surian monastery:

http://tinyurl.com/2nl4zn (Independent)

... while a couple of other manuscripts have been restored:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20080211/local/two-ancient-manuscripts\
-restored

Indiana Jones hype was rampant this week:

http://www.kansas.com/entertainment/story/312770.html
http://www.abcnews.go.com/GMA/Oscars2008/popup?id=4273326
http://tinyurl.com/2o33n4
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/showbiz/showbiznews.html

... because of the trailer:

http://blogs.denverpost.com/celebritybull/2008/02/14/new-indy-jones-trailer/

Plenty of Viking DNA in northern England:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080208105851.htm

Napoleon wasn't poisoned (wow ... you mean that paper I wrote
as an undergrad actually had some merit?):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080212/sc_nm/italy_napoleon_dc
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080211131357.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3a5eed (Telegraph)

Harvard is pondering a new publishing model:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/books/12publ.html

Review of Coleridge's translation of Faust:

http://tinyurl.com/37ykq2 (ToL)

Review of a handful of tomes on historical scandals:

http://tinyurl.com/39ptn2 (ToL)

Review of Judith Herrin, *Byzantium*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0212/p15s01-bogn.html

More coverage of lice and migration patterns:

http://tinyurl.com/39zz38 (LS via Yahoo)

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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Cukurcuma:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/02/10/travel/10dayout.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Alas, the AJA has gone to a payfer model for articles:

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc

Discover Magazine has a top 100 (?) sort of thing happening;
here are the ones within our purview (the urls give the subjects):

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/andean-crops-cultivated-almost-10-000-years\
-ago
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/angkor-was-a-vast-city
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/tablets-of-unknown-ancient-script-surface
http://discovermagazine.com/2008/jan/did-a-tsunami-wipe-out-a-cradle-of-western-\
civilization

... there's also something about those early skates:

http://discovermagazine.com/2008/feb/ancient-finns-saved-energy-by-skating

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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Italian police recovered a pile of artifacts:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Altro/?id=1.0.1870608139

A drug raid in Greece turned up some antiquities too:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_15/02/2008_93360

More on that forgery family:

http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=589efd96-7ca6-4058-be32-156b13\
7c500c

A major art theft in Switzerland:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/feb/11/swiss.art.theft
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/12/world/europe/12swiss.html

I think this is the first word of charges being laid in the
Asian/Native American antiquities case:

http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_8224541

... and other coverage of the ongoing story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/17/arts/design/17fink.html

Greece returned a couple of purloined statues to Albania:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=apbICdWyflic&refer=muse

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Texas banknote history:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/5520647.html

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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Poussin and Nature:

http://www.timeout.com/newyork/articles/art/26181/scape-artist
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/arts/design/15pous.html (slideshow!)

Mystery of the Mayan Medallion:

http://nwaonline.net/articles/2008/02/15/entertainment/021508entmayanexhibit.txt

Land of the Labyrinth:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23279

The British Museum is trying a new online approach:

http://news.zdnet.co.uk/software/0,1000000121,39292872,00.htm
http://www.designweek.co.uk/Articles/137572/British+Museum+website+revamp+.html

A Monet in Cologne now appears to be a forgery:

http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h4h_RxgMj_X8-W61sNF_qRFWiKZw

The origins of the Apollo Sauroktonos are being questioned again:

http://tinyurl.com/2kjgcm (PD)
http://tinyurl.com/34d7ck (PD ... different)

They're extending the exhibition of those recently-returned
-to-Italy-from-the-Met-etc. items:

http://www.pr-inside.com/popular-rome-exhibit-of-returned-ancient-r441732.htm
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Macbeth:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/02/15/theater/reviews/15macb.html

Oroonoko:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/02/11/theater/reviews/11oroo.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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