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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Bob Heuman, 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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Neanderthals made decent tools:

http://tinyurl.com/58dgx4 (NS)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7582912.stm
http://blog.wired.com/gadgets/2008/08/early-humans-be.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080826/ts_afp/scienceresearchneanderthalbritainus
http://news.scotsman.com/uk/Stone-me--he39s-smart.4424738.jp
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080825203924.htm
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=319094
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/08/26/neanderthal-tools-were-a-ma\
tch-for-early-homo-sapiens
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A salvage excavation of a 3000 b.p. burial ground in northern
Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=739226

Signs of a fire at a Parthian era castle:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=176525

A pile of bronze age mounds from Iran's Kerman province:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=67546&sectionid=351020105

A joint Iranian-British team will be excavating Sheikiabad Tepe
in western Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=740523

Plans are afoot to excavate a 'mysterious city' in Turkey:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/a/ai-2337.htm

Didn't we mention this 'beehive' discovery in Israel a few months
ago?:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/36043/title/Honey_of_a_discovery

... ditto with these green-beads-as-fertility amulets?:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572113791&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

Big project in the works to put the DSS online:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/TECH/08/27/digital.scrolls/index.html?eref=ib_topstories
http://www.kltv.com/global/story.asp?s=8909027
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/category/story.cfm?c_id=301&objectid=10529446
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080827/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_digital_scrolls_1
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/middleeast/27scrolls.html?ref=world
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3275
http://www.voanews.com/english/2008-08-28-voa8.cfm
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5izvzt0at1wng7h8Tw-Rerewl6EXA
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/08/28/2348701.htm?section=world
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/28/archaeology.israelandthepalestinia\
ns
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127375
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/27/israel
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1015813
http://www.france24.com/en/20080828-dead-sea-scrolls-biblical-documents-online-a\
rchaeology-israel-scientists

A sort of 'state of the question' piece on the Mugrabi Gate:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1015514

... and the latest:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127313
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1219572115025&pagename=JPArticle/Show\
Full

More details are emerging about that city found by French archaeologists
in Afghanistan:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-dig31-2008aug31,0,2419223.st\
ory

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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Plenty of developments related to a Phoenician site in Malaga:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/10653.html

A somewhat mysterious gold wreath from the agora at Aigai:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/29/DDCB12KRIL.DTL&
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Gold-wreath-find-in-ancient.4442407.jp
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100008_30/08/2008_99972
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/080829/science/science_greece_gold_wreath_2
http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/773836.html
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6786047&maindocimg=6785998&servi\
ce=96
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26455572&afid=1
http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=3196\
24

Possible gateway to Pyla:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857&heading=Features

Latest in the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles saga:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/28432/professor-questions-legality-of-elgin-do\
cument/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4628348.\
ece

'Pagan' protests on the Acropolis:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080828/ap_on_re_eu/greece_pagans_acropolis_1
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hZDXbo2JBmt03MkBjEfDF-lVcTmAD92RFLOO0
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/08/28/europe/EU-Greece-Pagans-Acropolis.php

The hero doesn't always get the girl:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4615456.ece

Ruth Ann Besse is helping to keep Latin alive:

http://www.gazette.net/stories/08282008/laurnew131821_32476.shtml

Carol Mattusch was talking about Greek statuary:

http://www.huliq.com/13/66919/carol-mattusch-explores-role-ancient-bronzecasting\
-technology

Feature on Leona MacLeod's 'Myth into Film' course:

http://dalnews.dal.ca/2008/08/27/greekfilm.html?utm_source=dalnewsRSS&utm_medium\
=RSS

Italy is returning the Venus of Cyrene to Libya:

http://www.pr-inside.com/berlusconi-to-meet-gadhafi-on-saturday-r780198.htm

Pondering Winckelmann:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2008/08/29/fleur

More coverage of the Marcus Aurelius statue from Sagalassos:

http://tinyurl.com/6gghmh
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7582165.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/27arts-STATUEOFEMPE_BRF.html
http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=248825
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25747
http://news.theage.com.au/world/roman-emperors-statue-found-in-turkey-20080826-4\
2zm.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20080826-roman-emperor-giant-statue-marcus-aurelius-a\
rchaeology-turkey
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7580745.stm

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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Plenty of developments related to a Phoenician site in Malaga:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/10653.html

Iron Age/Roman finds from a site in Moray:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7585922.stm

A pile of 400-year-old ships found in the mud of a building
site in Oslo:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26455574/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/europe/29ships3.php

A survey has found a number of shipwrecks from various periods
in the Thames:

http://tinyurl.com/66g98y (TIL)

A stone "clock" from Bulgaria (not sure of the period of this
one):

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1858110710

Finds from various periods as the Schnidejoch Glacier recedes
(with much focus on Otzi):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7580294.stm
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/swissinfo.html?siteSect=43&sid=9580826

Pondering a Pictish stone found near Glamis:

http://www.thecourier.co.uk/output/2008/08/26/newsstory11868042t0.asp

Feature on some megalithic neolithics stone sculptures in the
Carpathians:

http://en.for-ua.com/blog/2008/08/28/140459.html

Video report on the excavation of a German 'Stonehenge':

http://www.euronews.net/en/article/26/08/2008/german-stonehenge-reveals-its-myst\
eries/

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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Latest in the homo floresiensis debate:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003015
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/35848/title/Little_big_people
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/uoo-bpd082208.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080826205936.htm

Interesting shipwrecks off Hawaii:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=8919272

The oldest Shinto shrine has been renovated/restored:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/world/asia/27izumo.html

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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Nice feature on Picture Cave:

http://tinyurl.com/5crcuo (CM)

Not sure we mentioned this 'saga' associated with the Hunley
before:

http://www.startribune.com/nation/27360289.html
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_10298981?source=rss

Slave burials near Springdale:

http://www.westbranchtimes.com/article.php?id=3458

Somewhat vague item on the discovery of a "settlement" during
pipeline construction in Indiana:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26428690/

Road construction in New Jersey is delayed due to remains of
a blacksmith's shop being found:

http://tinyurl.com/5uz8fz

Preserving a relic of George Washington's boyhood:

http://www.staffordcountysun.com/scs/news/local/article/local_treasure_to_be_reb\
uried/20415/

... and some early Bronx urbanization:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/nyregion/26landmark.html

... and more fading of Cajun culture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/us/25louisiana.html

Possible early evidence of the Franklin Expedition ships:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080827.wfranklin27/BNStory/\
National/home/
http://www.canada.com/topics/news/story.html?id=d7b7cf20-a033-458b-a0cd-ba63f4d2\
4c56
http://www.amherstdaily.com/index.cfm?sid=165738&sc=509
http://www.brantfordexpositor.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1179069

An update on the Petite-Rochelle dig:

http://tribunenb.canadaeast.com/community/article/397823
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Rethinking 'urbanization' in the rain forest:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=94104997&ft=1&f=1007
http://tinyurl.com/6r2bwg (Plain Dealer)
http://tinyurl.com/6ag8wm (New Scientist)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,700254663,00.html
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-08-28-brazil-ancient-cultures_N.htm?cs\
p=34
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080828-amazon-cities.html
http://www.physorg.com/news139151351.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-08/uof-ar082508.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/0\
8/28/sciamazon128.xml
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/b24899f6-7561-11dd-ab30-0000779fd18c.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/7586860.stm
http://environment.newscientist.com/channel/earth/dn14624-amazon-hides-an-ancien\
t-urban-landscape.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26440219&afid=1
http://features.csmonitor.com/environment/2008/08/29/pristine-environments-and-s\
ustainability/#more-461
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n28350657-amazon-villages/
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9351/divulgacao-cientifica/amazonia-antiga-\
e-urbana.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/science/AP-SCI-Ancient-Settlements.html

A number of Wari mummy burials have been found in/near Lima:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080826/lf_nm_life/peru_archaeology_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/5er3bz (Telegraph)
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hBU0t82hAt8JIl6X3OgI-BhmLNEg
http://www.pr-inside.com/peru-archaeo
logists-find-3-mummies-in-r774895.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN2636587520080826
http://in.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idINN2636587520080826
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/08/080827-tomb-video-ap.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/1300-year-old_mummy_unearthed/artic\
leshow/3410174.cms

A connection between Tahitian vanilla and the Maya?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/08/080821164558.htm

A Popoloca culture mural:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1629&Itemid=150

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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This week's Shroud of Turin coverage:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/1198467.html

The Otzi 'reward row' is coming to an end:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-08-26_126248785.html

The Odyssey Marine saga looks like it's about to heat up again:

http://tinyurl.com/6g2hyk (El Pais)

Sacred prostitution in India:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2008/08/04/080804fa_fact_dalrymple

A different approach to conservation in Leipzig:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-germany-leipzig.html

To the fleet of historical ship recreations floating around, we can
add the Nina:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/08/24/PKG7128VKR.DTL

Genetics and 'out of Africa':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/aug/31/genetics

Here's one for art teachers who want to demonstrate 'repetition' in
art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29sear.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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Corsica:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/travel/31corsica.html

Machu Picchu:

http://tinyurl.com/5mvzjv

Puy de Fou Theme Park:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/opinion/2008/0827/1219680029719.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 looting of sites in Iraq is apparently over (?!):

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=16008

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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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 Greek Book:

http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S21/98/40C00/index.xml

Queens of Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=25768

Land of the Labyrinth:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25758&int_modo=1

Chinese Memory:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/08/29/arts/melvin.php

Early Buddhist Manuscript Painting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29budd.html

Benjamin West and the Venetian Secret:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/arts/design/31bier.html

Charles Rohlf's furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29anti.html

A visit to the new Acropolis Museum:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article4628355.\
ece

A new Egyptian gallery will soon open at the BM:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=25791&int_modo=1

Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword came to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/7581735.stm

A Titian offer:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7584902.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/29arts-TWOTITIANSON_BRF.html

Recent changes at the Frick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/29/arts/design/29fric.html

The LA County MoA has reopened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/27/arts/design/27muse.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Julius Caesar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/31/theater/31ishe.html

Hamlet:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/theater/reviews/26hamlet.html

Cymbeline:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/25/theater/reviews/25cymb.html
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ON THE WEB
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Mission archéologique en Iran:

http://www.archive.org/search.php?query=mission%20arch%C3%A9ologique%20AND%20med\
iatype%3Atexts
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OBITUARIES
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John Barron:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/2641044/Professor-John-Barron.html

Michael Baxandall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/arts/26baxandall.html

Laurence Urdange:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/08/26/books/26urdang.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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