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and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
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The travails of Neanderthal mothers:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2008/09/09/neanderthal-mothers-had-it-\
tougher-than-modern-moms

The Times was reprinting/revisiting Piltdown Man (in reverse order):

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times\
-1953-11-21-06-010&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1953-11-21-06
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times\
-1912-12-19-04-008&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1912-12-19-04
http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/viewArticle.arc?articleId=ARCHIVE-The_Times\
-1953-11-23-08-007&pageId=ARCHIVE-The_Times-1953-11-23-08
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AFRICA
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More coverage of that Portuguese shipwreck:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080928/lf_afp/namibiaportugalarchaeologyshipping_0\
80928203712
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hzSqBb-JxvrY4OJ-W2TS8Pau0LxQ
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting satellite/atlas project:

http://www.physorg.com/news142012612.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/544745/

Not sure why this Zekediah courtier's seal is back in the news:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/01/clay-seal-connects-to-bible/

Those Egyptian skulls dug up in a Manchester garden last June
have been returned to Egypt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/7644151.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080930/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_ancient_skulls_1
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/223275.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/30/ap/europe/main4489663.shtml
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3110823/Egyptian-skulls-discovered-in-Man\
chester-garden.html
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-09-30-Ancient-skulls-returned-to-Egy\
pt

A pile of phallic figurines from near Nazareth:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2008/09/08/archaeological-surprise-g\
rave-site-full-of-phallic-figurines/

Nice feature on Eilat Mazar:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017388261&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

More/followup on malls near the Mount of Olives:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127827

What Elain Pagels is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/4pevb4

The Aleppo Codex search story still has legs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26941871/

Another 'early Christian Church' claim/find:

http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=253684

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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Greco-Roman sculptures found in a submerged wall in Kythnos:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/03/DDUK13ACDQ.DTL
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-10-02-greece-sculpture_N.htm?csp=34
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/10/02/6956741-ap.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/3125501/Roman-statues-fo\
und-under-Aegean-Sea.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=71265&sectionid=3510212

Evidence for the English coastline in Roman times:

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/kent-news/Dig-unearths-our-Roman-coastline--newsinkent\
16666.aspx?news=local
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-10-02-Roman-coastline-and-medieval-d\
ock-dicovered-at-Richborough-Roman-Fort
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/7648033.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART61315.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1066712/Uncovered-lost-beach-Roma\
ns-got-toehold-Britain.html
http://www.ryeandbattleobserver.co.uk/latest-south-east-news/Archaeologists-unco\
ver-stretch-of-Roman.4552718.jp

Interesting finds from Tavsan Island:

http://www.voicesnewspaper.com/modules.php?name=News&file=article&sid=2248


... and a very interesting burial from Punta Secca:

http://www.publicaffairs.ubc.ca/ubcreports/2008/08oct02/mystery.html

... which certain editors messed up (see more below):

http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-29714.html

A Mycenean burial with an imported sword:

http://howrah.org/sci_tech_htm/32359.html

That dia chrestou cup find by Franck Goddio is hitting the English
press:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-5788.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26972493/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/01/jesus-bowl.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/3122902/Hidden-Roman-coastline-unearthed-\
by-archaeologists-in-Kent.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article4870491.ece

Lisbon's Roman cellars:

http://www.portugalresident.com/portugalresident/showstory.asp?ID=29576

A gate from Pelinna:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6896548&maindocimg=4539150&servi\
ce=98

Garum is being used to "date" the eruption of Pompeii (I think they
really mean "confirm the date we've known for ages"):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/29/pompeii-fish-sauce.html

I think we've had this Dionysus sanctuary find before:

http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/targovishte/news/20081002/dionysus_sanctuary.htm\
l

Apparently Troy has been found (but competent editors have not):

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-5536.htm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/HealthSci/Epics_help_experts_in_finding_Troy/\
articleshow/3542072.cms

... this appears to be the source article the foregoing messed up:

http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2008/09/28/hidden_histories/

The New York Times has a nice item (with a slideshow) on Ostia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/arts/design/01fres.html

Charlotte Higgins has written a book about Greek which looks fun/useful:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/oct/01/philosophy.history
cf:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2008/oct/01/ancient.greek\
.literature?commentpage=1

More coverage of that beneficial (maybe) bacteria found in the
catacombs:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924192443.htm

Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Cleopatra: Last Queen of Egypt*:

http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/books/30190989.html

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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Remains of a prehistoric village on Ustica:

http://tinyurl.com/3s5c63 (ASCA)

An Iron Age mausoleum from Armenia:

http://armenianow.com/?action=viewArticle&AID=3282&CID=3168&IID=1203&lng=eng

First they tracked Vikings with cod, now with mice:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7645908.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080930/sc_afp/sciencehistoryvikings_080930233727;_\
ylt=Ag02TgJTdxB8yCRxsYCEToLPOrgF

... so it seems a good thing to test some Danes too:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1471685.ece

Nice articles on Stonehenge:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/light-on-stonehenge.html
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2008/2375540.htm

Brief item on the discovery of a "pirate hoard" in London:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23561443-details/Pirate+hoard+fou\
nd+in+East+End/article.do

Saxon remains might hold up supermarket construction:

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Ancient-Saxons-hold-supermarket/article-3\
59601-detail/article.html

More on the cause of the Vasa's deterioration:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080925083203.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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DNA is revealing the diverse origins of those who worked on Qin's
tomb:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0003275

A 2300 b.p. pot of 'paddy grain':

http://www.colombopage.com/archive_08/September2901745KA.html

Interesting finds shedding light on Stone and Bronze Age
Viet Nam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/041008/culture_e.htm

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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Remember the fire in the Cutty Sark? They finally figured out
the cause:

http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/europe/09/30/cutty.sark.fire/index.html

Review of Annette Gordon-Reed, *The Hemingses of Monticello*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/05/books/review/Foner-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Satellite imagery has revealed a pyramid structure in Peru:

http://www.newkerala.com/fs/f/a-6208.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/03/peru-cahuachi.html
http://www.estense.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=42144&format=html

The varied population of Machu Picchu:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/37043/title/Machu_Picchu%E2%80%99s_fa\
r-flung_residents

Those scepters found in a Mexican volcano a year or so ago have
been conserved and restored:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2367&Itemid=150

Item on the Temple of the Sorcerer:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

Evidence on the ancient use of Yucca by the Maya:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2368&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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Nice item/reviewish thing on John Stuart Mill:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/10/06/081006crat_atlarge_gopn\
ik

Justice in the ancient World:

http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.jsp?articleId=281474977462886

Cave paintings appear to have been touched up over thousands of
years:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/10/05/eacaveart105.x\
ml

The 2008 IgNobel Recipients (some archaeological content!):

http://improbable.com/ig/winners/

Short item on the history of dictionaries (sort of):

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article4\
878346.ece

Russia has 'rehabilitated' Nicholas II and his family:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20081001/wl_afp/russiahistoryroyalscourt
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/world/europe/02czar.html

Oetzi's finders have finally been compensated:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/austria/3105153/Oetzi-the-icema\
ns-discoverers-finally-compensated.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-29_129237279.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7643286.stm

Interesting comparanda in this piece on 'hidden Kosovar Christians':

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-us-kosovo-catholics.html

A previously-unknown Brueghel the Younger may have been found:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/30/brueghel-antiques-show.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!]

Fort Royal:

http://www.fortroyal.blogspot.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

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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A professorial couple in Greece are accused of trading in
antiquities (books?):

http://news.ert.gr/en/c/10/35610.asp

A bust in Yemen:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news164957.htm

This brief item suggests Kom Peak might have been the target of
illegal excavations:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n154313

A Renoir stolen 33 years ago has been recovered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29arts-ARENOIRISREC_BRF.html

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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From the Land of the Golden Fleece:

http://www.cambridgenetwork.co.uk/news/article/default.aspx?objid=52058

Arctic Peoples:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=26426&int_modo=1

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ad3ZeXmvBOUo&refer=muse

Van Gogh:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/04/arts/melik4.php

A couple of exhibitions focussing on Trent:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/04/arts/conway.php

Italy is looking for a 'museum czar':

http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-35749820081001

The Queen is lending a Mantegna to the Louvre:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aHTjKeyDSy9I&refer=muse

The Tut exhibition moves to Dallas:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/092908glkingt\
ut.190785c.html

The LA County MoA is getting some nice funding:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/arts/design/29muse.html

... while Sotheby's is the subject of a lawsuit (not sure I
get this one):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/02/arts/design/02arts-SUEDARTCOLLE_BRF.html
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OBITUARIES
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William Woodruff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/books/29woodruff.html

Marc Raeff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/29/education/29raeff.html

Benny Kraut:

http://www.jta.org/cgi-bin/iowa/breaking/110605.html

Elinor Guggenheimer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/01/nyregion/01guggenheimer.html

Margot Gayle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/30/nyregion/30gayle.html

Robert E. Lee:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0119.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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