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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dan Kiernan, Diana Wright,
Donna Hurst, Dorothy King, Edward Rockstein, 'Duke Jason',
Hernan Astudillo, Geoffrey Fishburn, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Les Skeates, Mike Ruggeri, Tom Wukitsch,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Bob Heuman, 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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Humans began wearing shoes 40 000 years ago:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080605/sc_livescience/firstshoesworn40000y\
earsago

Plenty of coverage of a site suggesting prehistoric/neolithic
man fought (to the death) over women:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-06/du-mfo053008.php
http://tinyurl.com/4g8m7b (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/5ronot
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gxjTxX0X_O43S3zUpq9bXSB7AHdA
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080602214132.htm
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/news-feed/2008/06/03/cavemen-sex-wars-86908-20\
592941/
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=58563&sectionid=3510212
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/7432306.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2066554/Neolithic-men-were-prepared-to-fi\
ght-for-their-women.html
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AFRICA
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More coverage of plans for the Axum Obelisk:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=67770
http://www.france24.com/en/20080605-famous-ethiopian-obelisk-be-relocated-axum-u\
nesco
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Trying to figure out what happened to Atlit-Yam:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/989977.html

Some missing sections of the 'Sphinx road' and a bit of Menkauhor's
pyramid have been found:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/04/content_8308074.htm
http://www.afrol.com/articles/29209
http://www.topnews.in/sphinx-road-missing-sections-discovered-egypt-245912

... later in the week, more details about the pyramid were being
revealed:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=58870&sectionid=351020502
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnL05866560.html
http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-33922020080605
http://tinyurl.com/56zl4e (JPost)
http://www.mercurynews.com/nationworld/ci_948 9033
http://www.pr-inside.com/egypt-s-chief-archaeologist-claims-rediscovery-r627237.\
htm
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/650711.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/printedition/world/ny-world065715773jun06,0,985474.s\
tory
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601082&sid=al1RoDcn9FRw&refer=canada
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080605-new-pyramid.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080605-pyramid-video-ap.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7566094
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/06/05/AR2008060503656.\
html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24985028/
http://tinyurl.com/5au6e3 (AP via Yahoo)
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/06/05/missing.pyramid.ap/index.html
http://tinyurl.com/5f33hp (El Pais)

... photos:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/photogalleries/pyramid-photos/

... and I can't get this one to come up right now, but it's Al Ahram's
coverage of the above, with the added detail that they admit they have
not found Cleopatra's tomb:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/900/he2.htm

Remember that Egyptian fortress found a week or so ago? There's
an Achaemenid one there too, apparently:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=59121&sectionid=3510212

... here's more coverage of the Egyptian one:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=68340
http://www.ktva.com/ci_9405852?source%253Dmost_viewed.20F88DA3D7D369F5BB70F37298\
7EAE1F.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080602-egypt-fort.html

Some more mummies are off for DNA testing:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080606-egypt-mummies.html

Some hype for the Tel Kadesh dig:

http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=6593

This week's salvos in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=65919

More coverage of that Hellenistic-inspired structure in Iran:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=67779

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 temple of Dionysus in Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/66yjme

A burial found in Thessaloniki during subway construction:

http://www.physorg.com/news132056741.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iXsNLIuRTKsvjjFNQlcTTWSsxkXgD914O4VO0
http://www.lcsun-news.com/apcontent/ci_9502830
http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/256/story/340960.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080606/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_grave_2

The Nemean games are coming up:

http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2008/06/04_nemea.shtml

A sort of summary of recent finds in Rome (we've covered most
of these) during subway construction and elsewise:

http://www.findingdulcinea.com/news/science/Mythical-Cave-of-Rome-s-Founders-Dis\
covered.html

Some ancient Olympics stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/6k2bbz (BBC)

Philip Freeman has a new book out on Julius Caesar:

http://publicinformation.luther.edu/2007_08/june/facultystaff/freemancaesarbook.\
html

In case you missed Boris Johnson's pronouncements about the benefits
of Classics:

http://tinyurl.com/6ycrou (Telegraph)

... and some reaction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/06/classics.boris

Assorted NLE results (all different schools):

http://www.muskogeephoenix.com/features/local_story_153175513.html
http://www.postcrescent.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080602/APC0101/80602044\
2/1979/APCbusiness
http://www.zwire.com/site/news.cfm?newsid=19738040&BRD=1698&PAG=461&dept_id=2184\
9&rfi=6

More coverage of the Mazotos shipwreck 'dig':

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/The-2000yearold-39supertanker39.4162421.jp
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article40840\
02.ece
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25021552/

More coverage of those rather iffy claims about the status of
Mycenean women:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=67747
http://www.physorg.com/news131634720.html
http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=3696

... and Discover Magazine designated it as the worst
science article of the week:

http://tinyurl.com/6bmy7l

More coverage of cabernet having Greek origins:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=67810
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=446728&sid=ftp

Review of Kitty Ferguson, *The Music of Pythagoras*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121099042973500689.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia [technical problems]:

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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Remains from various periods (mostly Roman?) at an infirmary
site in Worcester:

http://tinyurl.com/5hyqyz

Remains of a medieval church which 'tumbled into the sea' (along
with other bits of Dunwich) may have been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7441759.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article4069386.ece

More on Stonehenge being a cemetery:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL295858620080529
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/32729/title/Domain_of_the_dead
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/05/31/2261257.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91072897&ft=1&f=1007

... and some interesting commentary on Stonehenge theories:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/jun/01/heritage

Meanwhile, the 'Stonehenge of Sevilla' may have to make way for
supermarket construction:

http://www.theolivepress.es/2008/06/02/stonehenge-of-sevilla-to-become-a-burial-\
site/

More coverage of that Greenland migration thing:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/05/080529141347.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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An 11th century Jain statue was found during excavations in
Pushkar:

http://tinyurl.com/6mkw2z

Interesting temple-building material in Bangladesh:

http://www.freshnews.in/ancient-temple-material-found-in-bangladesh-4539

A Maori massacre site:

http://tinyurl.com/5jcckx

... and proof that the Maori were the first 'New Zealanders':

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/06/03/maori-new-zealand.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/06/03/ap/tech/main4149698.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/5zvhk9 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/06/080603162919.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080603/ap_on_sc/sci_new_zealand_human_arrival

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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There are some digs going on in the Grand Canyon:

http://www.thespectrum.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080603/NEWS01/80603008

A site in Idaho is in danger of being washed away:

http://www.fortmilltimes.com/124/story/186169.html

Moving the Grange:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/nyregion/07grange.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A human sacrifice site in Peru:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080604-human-sacrifice.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/photogalleries/Peru-photos/index\
.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=69306

Remains of Montezuma's palace:

http://tinyurl.com/6x78zt (El Pais)

Still wondering why those Mexican footprints are back in the news:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/06/080606-ancient-footprints.html

Brief feature on the Ichic Willcahuain site:

http://www.andina.com.pe/ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=ppB5nvpUwrI=

Was Machu Picchu found forty years earlier than previously thought?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7439397.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7566017

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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Nice feature on Fran(c)k Goddio:

http://tinyurl.com/56cra8 (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/5flbb5 (El Pais)

On the unpopularity of AE Housman:

http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/06/lately_unfashionable_ae_housma.html

They've done the infrared thing to Gallego's 'Raising of Lazarus':

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2008/06/08/arts/20080608_CLOSE_GRAPHIC.html

More coverage of Odyssey Marine's recent finds:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/02/content_8302652.htm

More coverage of the Shroud of Turin going on display:

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0802940.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL025228720080602
http://eursoc.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/2526/Turin_Shroud_On_Display.html
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/5659
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gc_RcZXPueQ3yPvuZ6wtiFM71xsA
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5g_ts0zM8jDnCZXGmEdteRNxmKD5w

In case you couldn't access that Chronicle article on the Gospel
of Judas fiasco last week:

http://chronicle.com/free/v54/i38/38b00601.htm

Bar-Ilan University is putting together the 'Jewish digital bookstand':

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=990417

Another reviewish sort of thing of James Cuno, *Who Owns Antiquity?*:

http://www.chicagoreader.com/features/stories/thebusiness/080605/

Review of Simon Winchester, *The Man Who Loved China*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/books/review/Becker-t.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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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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For those of you with university access to journals, the latest
Science Magazine has a number of items of interest:

http://www.sciencemag.org/current.dtl

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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They're investigating a possible antiquities theft in New
Mexico:

http://kob.com/article/stories/S467344.shtml?cat=519

A Bulgarian 'treasure hunter' was caught this week:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=93844

Italian police recovered a pile of looted artifacts (but didn't
make an arrest?):

http://www.pr-inside.com/italian-police-recover-3-500-looted-artifacts-r629416.h\
tm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/06/news/Italy-Looted-Art.php

Confusion about some purloined pieces from the Hermitage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/arts/07arts-WHATPAINTING_BRF.html

... while some paintings stolen from a museum in Nice are being
returned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/world/europe/05briefs-PAINTINGSRET_BRF.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A pile of medieval coins were found in Bulgaria:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/news/20080602/gold_coins.html
http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1522016209

A feature on the Thornbury hoard:

http://tinyurl.com/64scqo

German Banknotes:

http://www.germannotes.com/

Not sure why, but there's a feature on those Carausius coins
found a long time ago:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=4606


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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Chinese Stone Sculpture from the Sackler Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/07/arts/design/07wall.html

Goya:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/arts/design/06gall.html (scroll down)

Renaissance Faces:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/visualart/story/0,,2283549,00.html

Comer collection of Inuit artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/08/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/08captainct.html

A call to protect Greek museums from earthquakes:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_1_04/06/2008_97369

Museums have set new (but they don't really seem different)
guidelines for acquiring antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/04/arts/design/04coll.html
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-antiquities5-2008jun05,0,54\
27107.story
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--museums-guideline0604ju\
n04,0,4128948.story
http://www.nysun.com/arts/museums-adopt-new-antiquities-guidelines/79307/
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/06/04/america/NA-GEN-US-Museums-Guidelines.p\
hp
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/437302

... some reaction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/opinion/l06museum.html

... meanwhile, the Getty has acquired a 3rd-century sarcophagus:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-sarcophagus5-2008jun05,0,35\
35749.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/arts/design/05gett.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23819612-23109,00.html

... and you can't help but wonder about these lekythoi:

http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2008/jun/06/two-vases-are-indeed-ancient/

Mark Twain House and Museum are in financial difficulties:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/nyregion/03twain.html

What that 'junkman's' double-faced Achaemenid cup reached at
auction:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/05/auction.cup/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/england/somerset/7437348.stm
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=58874&sectionid=351020105
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2284255,00.html
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/06/05/auction.cup/index.html?section=cnn_la\
test

Haven't heard about this Iran v UChicago dispute in quite a while; here's
the latest:

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/may/1305.html

Almost-review, pondering the Elgin Marbles:

http://www.newstatesman.com/books/2008/06/british-museum-elgin-marbles

The latest piece on the Monteleone Chariot:

http://tinyurl.com/5zqqh8 (Independent)

The Met is planning a tribute show for outgoing Montebello:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aGXZawATmGU0&refer=muse

Big bucks for a first folio Shakespeare:

http://tinyurl.com/6yycoo (Telegraph)

Charles Dickens' chair and desk came to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/arts/06arts-DICKENSDESKA_BRF.html

Coverage of the Olympia International Art and Antiquities fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/06/arts/design/06anti.html

Can Randolph College sell some art?:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=91208908
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Homer in Cyberspace:

http://www.smmirror.com/MainPages/DisplayArticleDetails.asp?eid=7960
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OBITUARIES
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Klaus Perls (art dealer):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/05/arts/design/05perls.html

Anne d'Harnoncourt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/arts/design/03dharnoncourt.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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