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Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers out there, redneck and otherwise ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Neanderthals have big mouths:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080502-neandertal-mouth.html

... and this week they have been put on a different part of the
hominid family tree:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080505/ts_afp/scienceanthropologyneanderthals
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080504/tsc-science-anthropology-neanderthals-c2ff\
8aa.html
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AFRICA
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85,000 b.p. "finery" from Morocco:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9183\
1

Possible discovery of the remains of the Queen of Sheba's palace
at Axum (I'm confused ... wasn't Saba in Yemen?):

http://tinyurl.com/5scvee

More coverage of that shipwreck off the coast of Namibia:

http://www.thetimes.co.za/PrintEdition/Article.aspx?id=759788
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20080508/FOREIGN/651933122/1003
http://www.namibian.com.na/2008/May/national/081362442.html
http://www.financialpost.com/story.html?id=482773
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Recent (?) finds in Aswan (we may have covered these already):

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=14353_0_1_0_M

Latest finds at Yazdegerd Fortress include some Parthian period
residences:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2008/May2008/08-05-discovery.htm

High tech equipment is heading to the dig at Persepolis:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=54295&sectionid=351020105

I suspect we'll be hearing more about the Talpiot Tomb:

http://www.chroniclejournal.com/stories_local.php?id=107684

An article on the first "Iranian" satraps:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_25026.shtml

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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The latest Roman-statuary-in-colour piece:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/264928/136/

More Etruscan tombs found at Tarquinia:

http://news.scotsman.com/world/Italian-builders-uncover-2000yearold-tombs.406128\
3.jp
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Science/2008/05/07/etruscan_tombs_uncovered_in_ital\
y/2865/
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=4434

Gladiatrices or footwear or something like that:

http://www.nationalpost.com/life/story.html?id=504449

Nice feature on Latin teacher J.D. Munday:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/local/20080506_Teacher_instills_love_of_Latin.htm\
l

Folks are all excited about the Vatican adding a Latin section to
its website:

http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/the-vatican-tries-a-little-web-ii0/?\
hp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7393548.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/world/New-website-for-latin.4071455.jp

... and here it is:

http://www.vatican.va/latin/latin_index.html

Helene Foley has been elected to the AAAS:

http://www.barnard.edu/newnews/news050508.html

A feature on Daniel Mendelsohn:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/981968.html

A feature on Christine Bruns-Ozgan and her dig at Knidos:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=103984

Lessons from David Potter:

http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?BRD=2303&dept_id=478844&newsid=19671978&PAG=4\
61&rfi=9

More coverage of those Roman burials at Gloucester:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART56936.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/1915073/Mass-Roman-grave-discovered-in-Glouceste\
r.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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Dredging off Yarmouth has brought up a pile of flint tools:

http://www.maritimejournal.com/archive/2008/june/dredging/dredging_industry_assi\
sts_mammoth_discovery

A Coventry metal detectorist has found a medieval gold ring:

http://tinyurl.com/436c4j

... while on the Isle of Man, metal detectorists have found a
Viking sword:

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Metal-detectorists-thrilled-at-Viking.4052052.jp

... while a Viking trading site is emerging in Ireland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/7385237.stm

... and the Viking cod trade is back in the news:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/05/archaeology.heritage

Finds from various periods are getting in the way of construction
at Granborough:

http://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/39Roman39-threat-to-stud-farm.4066221.jp

More coverage of the recent dig at Stonehenge:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2008/05/05/scientists_chip_away\
_at_mystery_of_stonehenge/

Digging in a car park in Cheshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/7391694.stm

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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Denying last week's claim about further damage to the Bamiyan
Buddhas:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/1/story.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=10507966

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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An ancient canoe from Florida:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24468049/
http://www.tampabays10.com/news/local/article.aspx?s=rss&storyid=79704
http://www.tbnweekly.com/content_articles/050608_pco-01.txt

Potentially interesting burials on the Plains of Abraham:

http://www.canada.com/ottawacitizen/news/story.html?id=b48b0cb3-61ea-4dcc-9e61-7\
74195bdb6af
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/05/07/skeletons_found_at_quebec_histo\
rical_site/5988/

Interesting/strange story of a skull found in a colonial-era house
near Albany:

http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=8277561
http://www.dailygazette.com/news/2008/may/06/0506_skull/

On comets and North American extinctions:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080506-comet-extinct.html

More coverage of DNA results from Canada's 'Ice Man':

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080504/world/dna_link_1
http://www.adn.com/news/alaska/rural/southeast/story/396277.html
http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=8269113
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Remains of chewed-up seaweed is helping to further date Monte
Verde:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUKN0839099920080508
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080508/sc_afp/uschileanthropologyarchaeology_08050\
8205343
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24525317/
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-seaweed10-2008may10,0,4255279.story?t\
rack=rss
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004404789_seaweed10.html?synd\
ication=rss
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_summ.jsp?cntn_id=111530&org=NSF&from=news
http://www.vanderbilt.edu/exploration/stories/monteverde.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080508143324.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/features/kids/2008-05/aaft-sas050208.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080508-first-americans.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/31865/title/Slowpoke_settlers

On Aztec turquoise:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article3872341.\
ece

I think we mentioned this very interesting burial site from
Columbia before:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080509-colombia-tombs.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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An interesting medieval mosaic has been restored at Westminster
Abbey:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/may/05/archaeology.art

We should mention the legal case percolating on Lesbos:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/who-are-the-real-lesbians-821610.html

Assorted news from the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSN0650456920080506
http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2008/05/05/daily23.html

... but this seems to be the important stuff:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1738445,00.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hyEiC0HHpp2oUF24ZFrVqgxck2OQ
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Spain-lays-claim-to-250m.4070282.jp

Waltzing Matilda was not a socialist:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/7384056.stm

They still 'beat the bounds' at St. Albans:

http://tinyurl.com/6ajtw8

On the desertification of the Sahara:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/05/080508-green-sahara.html

Paleoanthropologist Holly Dunsworth is the latest 'This I Believe'
subject at
NPR:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=90311455

More coverage of the not-Schiller's-skull story:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,3310327,00.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/05/08/europe/journal.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24453831/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/05/arts/design/05arts-WHERESSCHILL_BRF.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/world/europe/09skull.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080505/sc_nm/germany_schiller_skull_dc_3

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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Ostia:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/05/09/TRLTVTRSP.DTL&feed=r\
ss.travel

Rossville:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/11/realestate/11livi.html

Jam:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/7380050.stm

Capuchin Catacombs:

http://tinyurl.com/5zut4z (Daily Mail)
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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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A French engineer is busted at Yemen's airport:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=9172\
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http://tinyurl.com/6xut7w
http://tinyurl.com/6daczd

... but he got bail (it seems) because most of the objects were
fake:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080505/twl-yemen-france-justice-culture-3cd7efd.h\
tml
http://www.yobserver.com/front-page/10014190.html

... and a Canadian was similarly caught at the airport:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news153652.htm

Meanwhile, a trial of smugglers in Yemen was adjourned:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news153399.htm

Italian police recovered a stolen Roman bath:

http://technology.iafrica.com/news/science/889298.htm

I think we mentioned this medieval crucifix found in an Austrian
garbage can a few months ago ... if it is the same one, it turns out
to have been Nazi loot:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L06926779.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSL0692677920080506
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4514413a12.html

More looted Iraqi antiquities are being returned:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-05-06%5Ckurd.htm

More coverage of those recovered pre-Columbian artifacts in
Spain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7385775.stm
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/18690409.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Nice profile of a Vietnamese coin collector:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/profiles/2008/04/780789/

More coverage of that Swedish kid's coin hoard find:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,550406,00.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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The BBC has a video preview of the new Acropolis Museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/7381738.stm
cf: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7380279.stm

Cyprus is toying with tax incentives to help repatriate
antiquities:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=39043&cat_id=1

Chicago's Field Museum has a shiny new xray machine:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-05/fm-xrp042908.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080507083944.htm

An update on the progress at the Baghdad Museum:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1738136,00.html

Italy has reached a deal with the Cleveland Museum of Art:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/05/09/europe/EU-GEN-Italy-Looted-Art.php
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5i5B_fXzh1mZDgNkcHj02v20kUp6A
http://www.cftktv.com/news/55/716003

... or have they:

http://www.cleveland.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2008/05/negotiator_cleveland_mu\
seum_of.html

Results of the latest 'big auction' at Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/07/nyregion/07auction.html

... while some Roccoco stuff is coming to both Christie's and
Sotheby's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/design/09anti.html

The latest in the Yale-Peru saga:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_05/lv_machupicchu.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Macbeth(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/music/09macb.html

Ariadne Unhinged:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/05/09/arts/dance/09aria.html
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ON THE WEB
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Old Bailey:

http://www.oldbaileyonline.org/

Background (if you missed it last week):

http://www.economist.com/world/britain/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11294471

Yale Daily News historical archive:

http://images.library.yale.edu:2007/cdm4/browse.php
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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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