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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein,
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Ross W. Sargent, 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 problem of DNA contamination and early hominids:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080715204741.htm
http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0002700

On the acoustics of assorted caves:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080702-cave-paintings.html

Item on cave art:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/06/23/080623fa_fact_thurman
cf.: http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/letters/2008/07/21/080721mama_mail3
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of early use of irrigation in Yemen:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=86866
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080716140918.htm

Plans are afoot to rebuild an Egyptian boat found near the
pyramids a while back:

http://www.denverpost.com/ci_9928765?source=rss
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/07/19/6208281-ap.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008061124_apegyptancientboat.\
html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1824608,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080719/ap_on_re_mi_ea/egypt_ancient_boat_2
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jkmbFophZH5NVfKiD_XTZ7pZVPDgD920TVT00
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jsHGQZ0zRD7NKFiQ4faIEvx9RaiQ
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-boat20-2008jul20,0,3835672.s\
tory
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=27003
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080719/ap_on_sc/egypt_ancient_boat_1

An overview of digs going on in Turkey:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=147770&bolum=101

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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An overviewish thing on the excavations at Sardis:

http://www.zaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=147956&bolum=101

Plenty of hype about some guys (somewhat unrealistic) plans to return
chariot racing to Rome:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/2/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10521989
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-07-15_115220566.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,566242,00.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2302705/Roman-chariots-to-thunder-around-Circus-\
Maximus-once-more.html

Nice photo of Jupiter over Ephesus (good wallpaper potential):

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0807/EphesusHadrianus_pan.jpg

More coverage of Phaistos Disk authenticity skepticism:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28092/american-archaeologist-doubts-authentici\
ty-of-phaistos-disc/

More on that ship-discus find:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1054353,CST-NWS-israel14.article
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/07/13/ap/world/main4256748.shtml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080713/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_ancient_relic_1
http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_2356863,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/126823
http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/109440.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1215330955367&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/07/13/africa/ME-Israel-Ancient-Eye.php
(clumsy ...)

More on the ongoing threat to Pompeii:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25735606/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080718/lf_nm_life/italy_pompeii_dc_1
http://www.reuters.com/article/inDepthNews/idUSL1848994520080718
http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=8d3bed34-bfce-4e23-af76-eab\
100fb35ba
http://uk.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUKL1884748620080718
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ale.ebWSOpdg&refer=muse

More coverage of the hippodrome in Olympia:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20080715/114036407.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714145253.htm
http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2008/07/052.shtml
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
0881

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.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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Finds from various periods during bus station construction in
Warwick:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/coventry_warwickshire/7513400.stm

Interesting finds from Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/5b3tt5

I suspect this Bayeux Tapestry conference is what was actually
being hyped by the 'ownership dispute' a few weeks ago:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2291107,00.html

Update on the Stonehenge visitors' centre:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2291084,00.html

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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Remember that Cambodian temple at the centre of a border dispute
last week? The dispute is growing:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080720/wl_afp/cambodiathailandculturemilitary_0807\
20042644
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Troops-face-off-over-temple.4306208.jp
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080719-0532-cambodia-thailand-temple.\
html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0719/p99s01-duts.html

... and this week's threatened-by-tourists-site: Angkor:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-angkor20-2008jul20,0,4999267\
.story

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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Here's a bizarre twist/suggestion about the peopling of the
Americas:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080701193203.htm

Archaeologists may have located the site of La Petite-Rochelle:

http://www.canada.com/windsorstar/news/story.html?id=8d3bed34-bfce-4e23-af76-eab\
100fb35ba
http://timestranscript.canadaeast.com/news/article/358279

Arrowhead find on a Massachusetts beach:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080714/hl_nm/palestinians_israel_tuberculosis_dc_3
http://www.sunjournal.com/story/274547-3/NewEnglandNews/Man_finds_ancient_arrowh\
ead/
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/regional/general/view.bg?articleid=1107187&srvc\
=rss

Interesting stuff from a dig at St. Louis Cathedral (New Orleans):

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2008/07/16/6176166-ap.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080716/ap_on_re_us/cathedral_dig

8000 b.p. (maybe) knife from Florida:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/25692018/
http://www2.tbo.com/content/2008/jul/15/6000-year-old-knife-unearthed-safety-har\
bor-park/

They're digging Crown Point Fort:

http://www.timesargus.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080718/NEWS02/807180355/1\
003/NEWS02

Civil War artifacts from the Harding House site (Tenn.):

http://murfreesboropost.com/news.php?viewStory=12008

Complaints about not finding enough in Bath:

http://www.wdnweb.com/articles/2008/07/13/news/news02.txt
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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PreColumbian mummies with ulcers:

http://www.livescience.com/history/080714-mummy-ulcer.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/07/080714192606.htm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
0730

Nice feature (with video) of a Chancay mummy find:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/080717-new-mummy-missions.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/07/photogalleries/peru-mummy-photos\
/index.html

DNA is shedding light on Athapaskan migrations:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-07/uoia-ycs071508.php

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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OpEd thing on archaeological ethics:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/0715/1215940930850.html

Pondering 1625 and New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/opinion/17thu4.html

They've identified/confirmed the remains of the tsarevich:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l15195448-russia-tsar/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/world/europe/17briefings-ROMANOVREMAI_BRF.html

Stanley Fish on the Milton Symposium:

http://fish.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/happy-birthday-milton/

DNA connects German villagers with 'cave men' (Bronze Age, actually):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article4333514.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/07/15/scidna115.xml

Alnwick Gardens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/garden/17northumberland.html

Wikimania 2008:

http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/wikipedia-goes-to-alexandria-home-of-ot\
her-great-reference-works/index.html

More coverage of Jericho bones and TB research:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7510334.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/16/2305738.htm
http://theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,24026038-30417,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jul/13/medicalresearch.health
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1002211
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1002420
See also http://www.news-medical.net/?id=40023
http://www.israel21c.org/link.jsp?enDispWho=Articles^l2199&enZone=Health
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l14578915-palestinians-israel-tuberculosis/
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=53\
0871

Interesting royal funeral in Bali:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/world/asia/16indo.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 Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

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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Vandalism is a major problem at Nevada sites:

http://www.lasvegasnow.com/global/story.asp?s=8680825

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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The Darwin-Wallace medal:

http://www.linnean.org/index.php?id=344

Stewart Collection:

http://www.rowan.edu/library/policies_services/special_collections/stewart.htm

John Chapman's collection is up for sale:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/07/11/2300747.htm

Nice Victoria Cross collection is going on view:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/2270310/World's-largest-VC-collection-to-\
go-on-show.html

Someone accidentally 'spent' some very valuable coins:

http://hopelessutopian.com/2008/06/19/18-rare-coins-mistakenly-returned-to-gener\
al-circulation.aspx

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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Hadrian:

http://tinyurl.com/6rrjr8 (Telegraph)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article43384\
12.ece
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=11745577
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25203&int_modo=1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/07/20/do2009.xml

Muraqqa:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/arts/design/18mugh.html

Tombs of Paestum:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25165

Yeats:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/20/arts/design/20dwye.html

Arts of Islam:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/world/europe/17briefings-LOUVRETOADDI_BRF.html

Some interesting skeletons in the Museum of London:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7509348.stm

Brooklyn Museum Fakes:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/brooklyn-to-exhibit-fake-art/81900/

Egyptian Revival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/11/arts/design/11anti.html

Andrea Riccio:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/arts/design/18voge.html

Texas Collects Asia:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/travel/5891852.html

Brian Rose can add Director of the UPenn Museum to his CV:

http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v55/n01/Rose.html

The Royal Academy of Arts in London has a new director of
exhibitions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/17/arts/17arts-MUSEUMNOTES_BRF.html

Assorted auction news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/arts/design/16crui.html

Storing the art that doesn't fit in the museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/realestate/commercial/16art.html

Interesting item on Regency furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/18/arts/design/18anti.html

More coverage of the AAMD guidelines for antiquities
acquisition:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=8076

More coverage of Shelby White's returns:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aIACdZ7p1E6k&refer=muse
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OBITUARIES
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William T. Sanders:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/16/us/16sanders.html

David H. Greene:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/13/books/15greene.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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