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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Dorothy King, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Patrick Harvey,
Ian Evans, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Karl Wittwer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Hernan Astudillo, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Steve Rankin, and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Some Neanderthal humour:

http://www.creators.com/comics/42/16857_image.gif
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AFRICA
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Remains of a medieval Moroccan city near Fez:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=22292&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO

Efforts being made to keep African artifacts in Africa:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080407162341.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 3000 b.p. anchor from somewhere around Kyrenia (?):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=101452

Israeli and Palestinian archaeologists have drafted an accord
with a view to preserving historical sites:

http://tinyurl.com/57g9l6 (JPost)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080411123057.htm

The arched gate at Ashkelon has been restored:

http://tinyurl.com/6xksph (JPost)

Recreating an Egyptian boat:

http://tallahassee.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080407/NEWS01/804070311

More coverage of Assyria's corporate attitudes:

http://tinyurl.com/5fu9ar

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 fragment of an equestrian statue from the Colosseum:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.2056023971
http://cavallomagazine.quotidiano.net/2008/04/09/79225-statua_equestre_imperiale\
.shtml

A Roman altar in Manchester:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1044666_roman_soldiers_gift_found

A pile of Greek theatres are in need of repairs:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/theatre/story/2008/04/12/greece-theatres.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080410/lf_nm_life/stage_greece_ancient_theatres_dc_\
1
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23521657-38200,00.html?from=public_rss
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL1074878120080410

... and the Appian Way is threatened by development:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/06/europe/appian.php
http://tinyurl.com/5u6qk9 (Independent)

cf:

http://guide.dada.net/latino/interventi/2008/04/327276.shtml

The pace of restoration on Parthenon metopes is to increase (maybe):

http://news.theage.com.au/pace-of-parthenon-restoration-sped-up/20080410-25c2.ht\
ml
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5nnOnhHQxEPwxOgJ22WqjrkmNCw

An Allianoi update:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7340499.stm

A mass grave of victims of 'Justinian's plague':

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=1.0.2059849995

Pytheas visited the Isle of Man (maybe):

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Pytheas-visited-the-Isle-of.3958675.jp

A response to Berlusconi's ability-in-Latin claim:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/charlotte_higgins/2008/04/the_glory_that_was\
_rome.html

... in case you missed the claim itself:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7333788.stm

Remembering Fagles and Goheen at Princeton:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/04/07/20764/

... and Fagles alone:

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/a-closer-feel-for-virgils-latin/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/books/30fagl.html

A new sculpture of Aristotle in New York:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/athena-and-socrates-meet-aristotle/

Review of a couple of recent works on women in ancient Rome:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e3713243.ece

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 mini-Stonehenge at Rochdale?:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1044424_rochdales_stonehenge

Those skeletons found in Oxford may be executed criminals from
Saxon times:

http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.2175214.0.experts_bone_up_on_grisly_relics\
.php

A Viking coin hoard from Sweden:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080408-viking-hoard.html

Plans for Famagusta:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?FrontPageNewsID=304_4

More coverage of the new dig at Stonehenge:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89421332&ft=1&f=1004
http://www.newsweek.com/id/131413

... with some potentially interesting results already:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7337292.stm
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=50948&sectionid=3510212
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080409/sc_afp/britainarchaeologyhistoryheritagesto\
nehenge_080409204216
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24049973&afid=1

More coverage of that Russian whaling scene in ivory:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/229543.php/3000-year-old-ivory-carving-depicts-wh\
aling-scene
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080404160335.htm

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 35,000 b.p. aboriginal tools site in Western Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/6d8qjo (Age)
http://news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23496520-5005361,00.html
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/080406/9/4s6p.html
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=146&ContentID=66519
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080407/sc_nm/australia_aborigines_dc_1
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4602334
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23994531/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/04/07/ancient-tools-australia.html

Interesting 2500 b.p. 'trading centre' site in Bangladesh:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/230841.php/Bangladeshi-artifacts-reveal-2500-year\
-old-craftsmanship

Remains of a 10th century temple in Karchana:

http://tinyurl.com/66vtcc (HT via Yahoo)

A 'burial cave' in the Philippines (I think):

http://www.yehey.com/news/Article.aspx?id=209172

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On the disappearance of the Anasazi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/08/science/08anasazi.html

A copper ax blade from Wisconsin (!):

http://www.record-eagle.com/statenews/local_story_100095019.html

Brief coverage of a dig at Wakulla Springs (Florida):

http://www.wctv.tv/news/headlines/17481829.html

An interesting dig is adding to what we know of the history
of the Welland Canal:

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=976762

A different sort of cannon burial:

http://www.wptz.com/news/15815655/detail.html

More coverage of those Oregon feces:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080403/sc_afp/scienceanthropologyus

Review of Scott Reynolds Nelson, *Ain't Nothing But a Man*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/18/books/review/Downes-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An important recent Mayan sculpture (including possibly one of
the first Maya king) find:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080407-maya-video-ap.html

Early Mixtec cremations:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080409-cremations.html

Searching for Montezuma's treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/6zomh9 (El Pais)

More coverage of Aztec math/taxation:

http://tinyurl.com/69unyr (ToI)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The fascist origins of the Olympic Torch run:

http://tinyurl.com/5skceh (Independent)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/photogalleries/torch-pictures/

... and on W.G. Hardings' 'roots' (maybe):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/magazine/06wwln-essay-t.html

The National Trust has saved William Caxton's prayer book:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/07/ncaxton107.xml

More on DaVinci's Arab origins:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2273051,00.html

On 'heart burials' at Westminster Abbey:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/12/do1207.xml

A gynecologist rethinks Mary Queen of Scots:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3695007.ece

On hoodies and medieval juvenile delinquents:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/08/nhoodie108.xml

Reading a rought draft of the US Declaration of Independence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/arts/design/12libr.html

Some Pulitzer Prizes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/07/arts/2008Pulitzer.html

Bringing historical figures to the kiddies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/13osbornect.html

Review of George Johnson, *The Ten Most Beautiful Experiments*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/books/review/Dizikes-t.html

Review of Clive James, *Cultural Amnesia*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/roundupstory/0,,2272992,00.html

Review of Katherine Ashenburg, *Clean*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2272878,00.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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Oxford pub crawl:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/04/13/travel/13Journeys.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The Times has an extensive piece revisiting the sacking of
Baghdad's Museum (it's the fifth anniversary):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/iraq/article3721584.ece

... in the same vein:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-na-antiquities9apr09,1,372955.s\
tory
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=amiZWYUJIHeI&refer=muse

... see also:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IRAQ/iraq.html

Lead thieves are targeting church roofs in England:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/04/03/business/metal.php

Some important antiquities were recovered from a boathouse in
Fiumicino:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-04-11_111212604.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/12/arts/12arts-ANEMPERORFOU_BRF.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/234026
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7455694
http://www.pr-inside.com/italian-police-recover-rare-statue-of-r531835.htm
http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/nationworld/story/227123.html

... while Spanish authorities also made a major bust:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080412/ap_on_re_eu/spain_treasure_plunder
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=24068480&afid=1

A theft at a site in Saba was thwarted:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news151187.htm

Supposedly some marble from the Parthenon was for sale on the
Internet (this is the only reference to it all week):

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/492

The head of one of Greece's big environmental and cultural
organizations was charged with possession of illicit antiquities:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100012_09/04/2008_95301

More coverage of that Easter Island ear chipper:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7337927.stm

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A Roman coin exhibition (hmmmm):

http://www.ksn.com/news/local/17555249.html

Perspectives in Numismatics:

http://www.chicagocoinclub.org/projects/PiN/

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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Lindow Man:

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=3524

DaVinci:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/7289729.stm

Newseum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/11/arts/design/11news.html

The key to the Kaaba fetched a handsome price:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/7341248.stm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aTAHGhTZm.lY&refer=muse
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article3716308.ece

... as did the gold dagger of the guy who built the Taj Mahal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7337978.stm

The National Museum of Scotland is going to return some
Aborigine skulls:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7341046.stm

Interesting items from the Philpott Collection:

http://libraries.uta.edu/SpecColl/crose04/Philpott.htm
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OBITUARIES
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Nicolas Coldstream:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article3707107.ece
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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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