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Thanks to rthur Shippee, A.J. Wright, Dave Sowdon,
David Critchley, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein,
Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, 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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What the earliest humans looked like:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/08/22/earliest-human-ethiopia.html
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AFRICA
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A prehistoric 'weapons factory' in Tanzania:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200808190350.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we've already mentioned this seal find:

http://tinyurl.com/5tbe7k (JP)
http://tinyurl.com/5p28nf (JJ)
http://tinyurl.com/5rlkt8 (MFA)

Nice piece on wacky theories about the pyramids:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/18/middleeast.egypt

Nice photo of the pyramids of Dashur (from space):

http://www.spaceref.com/news/viewsr.html?pid=28902

Latest installment of the Maghreb Gate and/or Temple Mount saga(s):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/24/content_9678888.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1014495

... and perhaps this 'Last Supper site' is the next saga:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218613467&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

More coverage of those foetuses in Tut's tomb:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=463436&sid=FTP

More on those neolithic skulls from Galilee:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1419\
&module_id=#as

More on the antiquity of milk processing:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218625802&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

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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Troy was even larger than previously thought:

http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME09.@AM16441.html

A major Roman Villa find on the Isle of Wight:

http://tinyurl.com/6l7zus (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/6dkr66 (UPI)

Searching for sites along the Sacred Road of Didyma:

http://www.voicesnewspaper.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2114

Studying how the Parthenon survived so many earthquakes:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080822/sc_afp/greecejapanarchaeologyquakeresearch_\
080822195031
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20080820TDY03103.

Some commentary on the state of Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/57qy6y (FT)

A statue of Marcus Aurelius from Sagalassos:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/9722818.asp?scr=1

On Lycia and democracy:

http://www.adn.com/opinion/story/501701.html

Nice (but small) photo of Stobi at night:

http://d.yimg.com/us.yimg.com/p/rids/20080813/i/r1356789548.jpg

Archaeologists may have found the capital of Dacia Malvensis:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/268632.php
http://www.topnews.in/archaeologists-may-have-discovered-capital-dacia-malvensis\
-romania-260746

Review of Maria Wyke, *Caesar*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB121901942064748345.html?mod=opinion_journal_book\
s

Review of Edith Hall, *The Return of Ulysses*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Coates-t.html

More coverage of use of computer technology to recreate the Thera
frescoes:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/86/52G22/

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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A bronze age structure from Shetland was moved to prevent it from
being damaged by the sea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/7575772.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/3500yearold--39sauna39-saved-from.4420432.jp

Evidence of a major bronze age fire on the Isle of Man:

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Isle-of-Man-unearths-a.4404225.jp
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/21/archaeology

... and a bronze age burial from Wicken:

http://tinyurl.com/6ntc88

Nice piece on petroglyphs in England:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/connected/main.jhtml?xml=/connected/2008/08/23/dweb12\
3.xml

Vienna's underground synagogue:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219218610072&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Henry VIII's nicer side:

http://tinyurl.com/5mnl9u (Independent)

A metal detectorist has found a 1500 b.p. gold pendant

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/kol08/article/default.asp?article_id=46628

... while another has found a medieval gold ring:

http://tinyurl.com/5gza7m
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2594984/Treasure-hunter-finds-medieval-diamond-r\
ing.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/7574992.stm

A medieval seal from Peperikon:

http://tinyurl.com/65twy5

I hae me doots about the conclusions of this study suggesting
Oetzi's profession:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080821/sc_livescience/mummifiedicemansanci\
entjobdetermined
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080820194843.htm

A major medieval cemetery from Berlin:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,573033,00.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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Bronze- and iron age artifacts from a site in Myanmar:

http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2008/August/18-Bronze-Iron-artifacts-59433.\
asp

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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A couple of boys found an 'ancient canoe' in South Carolina:

http://www.wxii12.com/news/17231852/detail.html?rss=gws&psp=news

Why (sort of) the Vikings left Canada:

http://www.canada.com/topics/news/national/story.html?id=2d85eff3-0a38-43ff-90e4\
-173a39e7d521

Latest finds from Jamestown:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/18/america/NA-US-Jamestown-Discoveries.ph\
p

Remembering the 'battle of Brooklyn':

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-Battle-of-Brooklyn.html

... and a 1961 Colbert County dig:

http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080815/NEWS/808150303/1011/NEWS
cf:
http://www.timesdaily.com/article/20080818/NEWS/808180320/1011/NEWS

A Virgin Anasazi structure from Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_10259444

War of 1812 shipwrecks near Kingston:

http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1162260

On the effects of some archaeological assessments in Ontario:

http://dcnonl.com/article/id30143

Long-forgotten remains of a governor of Bermuda found in a
church in St. George's:

http://tinyurl.com/5jfvpf

More coverage of Canada's renewed search for Franklin's ships:

http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2008/08/18/franklin-ships.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Global_Warming/Warming_may_unlock_160-yr-old_\
Arctic_secret/articleshow/3382070.cms
http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/New-quest-solve-mystery-explorer-s-miss\
ing-ships/article-278489-detail/article.html

Celebrating an old organ:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/24colnj.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Dating a pile of items from El Manati:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1055&Itemid=150

Burials from Machu Picchu:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=9GwUOgz+kLQ=

On suicides of slaves in Sao Paolo:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9305/especiais/motivos-mais-fortes.htm

More coverage of that Mayan 'entrance to the underworld':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080822-maya-maze.html

More on tar-as-waterproofing by the Olmec folk:

http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/12205

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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They're still trying to get permission to find out how Tycho
Brahe died:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1416326.ece

On earthquakes and the rise of civilizations:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2008/822/3?rss=1

On the mysteries of dangling participles:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2008/aug/18/3

Gold plated medieval windows were air purifiers?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080822/sc_livescience/goldplatedchurchwind\
owspurifyair

Haven't had a 'history of golf' piece in a while:

http://www.corsavoo.com/golf/0,2577,430958,00.html

Latest on the Shroud of Turin:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article4596856.ece
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2008134887_turin24.html
Peru adds a twist/sequel/prequel to the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.tradingmarkets.com/.site/news/Stock%20News/1838081/

I think we had this German-family-tree-extends-to-caveman story a
few months ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7570928.stm

That recently-identified Leonardo portrait is still controversial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/23/arts/design/23leon.html

Review of Ingrid Rowland, *Giordano Bruno*:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/08/25/080825crbo_books_acocella

Some Emily Dickensiniana:

http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/d/emily_dickinson/ind\
ex.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/books/review/Seymour-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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TOURISTY THINGS
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Towton:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/england/article4572704.

Machu Picchu:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/24/travel/24COMperu.html
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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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The Kourris Valley in Cyprus is being looted:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=40932&cat_id=1

Another piece on looting in Iraq:

http://www.syracuse.com/opinion/index.ssf?/base/opinion-2/1219222618121250.xml&c\
oll=1

Those books stolen from a Safed synagoge a few weeks ago were
mysteriously returned this week:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1013700

A Jerusalem tour guide was arrested for selling ancient coins to
tourists:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1218710408521&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Coins from various periods found in a dig in Worcester:

http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/local/3606284.Roman_coin_paints_a_picture_of\
_city___s_past/

Ancient Monsters on Ancient Coins:

http://www.forumancientcoins.com/moonmoth/monster_coins.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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Hadrian:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/23/arts/melik23.php

Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25658

Joseph Wright:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/19/arts/design/19wrig.html

Society of the Dilettanti:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22anti.html

Captain Cook's boomerang is going on sale:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2590025/Captain-Cooks-boomerang-on-sale-for-6000\
0.html

John Lattimer's collection of ... well, everything:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/21/garden/21lattimer.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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New York International Fringe Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/20/theater/20fringe.html
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OBITUARIES
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George Deem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/22/arts/design/22deem.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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