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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Kate Brown, Edward Rockstein,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Mark Spicer, Bob Heuman,
Kris Curry, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Analysis of some ochre from Blombos Cave suggests modern human
behaviour emerged about 100 000 years b.p.:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/44668/title/Engraved_pigments_point_t\
o_ancient_symbolic_tradition
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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"Late Stone Age" finds from Abu Dhabi:

http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=32586

65 human and animal figurines are the latest finds from the Burnt
City:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=97321&sectionid=351020105

A roundup of recent finds from Egypt:

http://www.travelvideo.tv/news/egypt/06-09-2009/antiquity-news-from-egypt-june-2\
009

Zahi Hawass will offer documentary proof that the famous bust of
Nefertiti was stolen:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/273050,egyptian-tells-berlin-paper-hell-\
prove-nefertiti-was-stolen.html

In case you were wondering about those folks who were forced to
leave Qurna:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6488897.ece

Haven't heard much from the Oded Golan trial of late; Golan is
still proclaiming his innocence:

http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=25412
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371080800&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

Latest in the Raphael Golb case:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gznCOrQo0Iw8H1s_BUyqyDXHcO8AD9\
8OJQIO0
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ny-deadseascrolls,0,5075179.story

Dan Bahat was in Toronto talking about the DSS:

http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17091&Itemid=101

Tourism to Petra seems to have taken a hit:

http://www.ameinfo.com/199678.html

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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In North America, it seems a Walmart is always being built on
an archaeological site ... in the UK, it's increasingly a
Tesco shop in that category, this time on a Roman road:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/8092931.stm

Quite a bit of (varied) coverage of a burial pit full of skulls
near Dorset found during Olympic road construction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jun/11/skulls-dorset-road-burial-pit>
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20090611/tuk-olympic-builders-unearth-iron-age-wa-45d\
bed5.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090612/lf_nm_life/us_britain_skeletons_1
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE55B3LJ20090612?feedType=RS\
S&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/13/2597514.htm?section=world
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5509061/Mass-Roman-war-g\
rave-found-by-2012-Olympic-road-builders.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8094935.stm
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4436175.Dorset_grave_site_reveals_dark_sid\
e_of_Romans/
>

Much less coverage for a pair of Roman burials found in a Mowmacre
garden:

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Roman-skeletons-unearthed-garden/arti\
cle-1064726-detail/article.html

Another Thracian Tomb find (I don't think the accompanying photo
is of the find, alas):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=104657

... and this appears to be yet another Thracian tomb:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n183849

Some more chunks fell out of the Aurelian Wall:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3410412560

Paul Cartledge believes Socrates got a fair/justified trial:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/5469193/Socrates-trial-a\
nd-execution-was-completely-justified-says-new-study.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/arrogance-of-socr\
ates-made-a-compelling-case-for-his-death-1699215.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gYkdfEXHq0b7XBbpmTiji4U7b\
GXA

Cicero's contribution to comedy:

http://www.chortle.co.uk/correspondents/2009/06/12/9075/ladies_and_gentlemen,_gi\
ve_it_up_for_your_headliner..._cicero

The Olympic Games as a sort of ancient Woodstock:

http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=18529

Art Robson has joined the rank of Emeriti:

http://www.beloit.edu/publicaffairs/news/2009/jun/08_robson_commencement.php

Anthony Snodgrass is getting an honourary degree:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/090611/honorary.shtml

There's a new translation of Cavafy's poems:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105082310
http://www.tnr.com/politics/story.html?id=3b71573d-5752-4732-9b95-54b9f3d5df5d

A spelling mistake from antiquity (what? only one?):

http://www.examiner.com/x-3315-Word-Geek-Examiner~y2009m6d12-A-spelling-mistake-\
from-antiquity
>

More coverage of Pavlopetri (don't think there's anything new
here yet):

http://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_09_06_08_en.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52172.html

More on the high tech efforts to read Herculaneum papyri:

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/lifestyles/health_med_fit/article/I-VESU0524_20\
090611-212807/273333/
>

A followup comment to that review of the *Last Olympian* mentioned
last week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/books/review/Letters-t-TWEAKINGTHEG_LETTERS.ht\
ml

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2009.htm

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of a hunter-gatherer presence in Ireland 9000 years b.p.:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0605/1224248099169.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52196.html

A pair of Neolithic tombs (and other things) found in Damerham,
Hampshire (down the road from Stonehenge):

http://www.physorg.com/news163737692.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6463970.ece
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52826.html
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=362149

A possible Neolithic chambered tomb near Kirkwall:

http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/heathfield2009.htm

A Bronze Age burial mound from Wales:

http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/news/Excavation-uncovers-3500-year-old.5343169.jp

A possible Saxon nunnery in Gloucestershire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8098317.stm

Pondering a possible stone circle on the Essex/Suffolk border:

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/eveningstar/news/story.aspx?brand=ESTOnline\
&category=News&tBrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED12%20Jun%202009%20\
00%3A03%3A40%3A697

Another old shoe find (800 years b.p.), this time from Magdeburg:

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20090610-19827.html

Medieval burials from Mickleham:

http://www.thisissurreytoday.co.uk/news/Medieval-skeletons-discovered-village-ch\
urch/article-1066531-detail/article.html

It's a bit of a slow news week, so folks might be interested in this
possible 'Swedenborg Whale' remains find:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090605110420.htm

... and a mammoth from Viminacium archaeological park:

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20090612/video/vod-mammoth-find-entire-mammoth-skelet\
on-f1a0497.html

More on that 'witch bottle':

http://www.thegreenwichphantom.co.uk/2009/06/caution-may-contain-fingernails.htm\
l

More on that Anglo-Saxon sword stud from Wales:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52211.html

Review of Andrew Wheatcroft, *The Enemy at the Gate*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/books/review/Ormsby-t.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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Early Iron Age remains from Kerala:

http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/10/stories/2009061056772000.htm

5000 b.p. jade vessels from a Chinese tomb (this may be a repeat):

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-55474.html
http://english.cctv.com/20090612/101414.shtml

China plans to excavate more terracotta warriors (specifically,
they want to find the 'leader'):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5494393/Hunt-begins-for-lea\
der-of-Terracotta-army.html
http://www.physorg.com/news163835459.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-06/09/content_8264675.htm
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Terracotta-warriors-rise-again-in.5363044.jp
http://news.scotsman.com/world/China-plans-warriors-dig.5350821.jp
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jqoCFZm92lBGjSYPpdLBitxbPw2gD9\
8NO8I00
http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/new-dig-could-reveal-5000-more-terracot\
ta-warriors-20090611-c47p.html
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6676768.html

The search continues/resumes for the Sleeping Buddha (not to be
confused -- as I did -- with the recling Buddha found last year):

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-54419.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/bamiyan-buddhas-p\
ictures-missions

A pile of Chu Dao pottery from a shipwreck excavated a decade ago
are now on display:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2009/06/852279/

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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Plenty o' coverage of evidence for caribou hunting camps/structures
100 feet below Lake Huron (!):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090608182543.htm
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=31&idsub=155&id=19533&t=Ar\
chaeologists+find+land-bridge+under+Lake+Huron
>
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17275-stone-age-hunting-traps-found-deep-i\
n-great-lakes.html
http://www.canada.com/Ancient+caribou+hunting+camp+bottom+Lake+Huron/1675679/sto\
ry.html
http://www.mlive.com/news/ann-arbor/index.ssf/2009/06/university_of_michigan_res\
earc_6.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uom-aeo060809.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090608-underwater-indian-camps.h\
tml

Divers have possibly located the HMS Wolfe near Kingston (Ontario):

http://www.canada.com/Life/Divers+hope+identify+1812+warship+Lake+Ontario/168303\
4/story.html
http://www.calgaryherald.com/Life/Divers+hope+identify+1812+warship+Lake+Ontario\
/1683034/story.html

Some burials have been found during renovations of a library in Peoria:

http://www.pjstar.com/news/x2085753674/Lincoln-Library-dig-begins
http://www.week.com/news/local/47316962.html

They're still poking around the Pee Dee River:

http://www.scnow.com/scp/news/local/article/underwater_archeologists_work_to_sol\
ve_mysteries/55756/

A project to take an inventory of all the shipwreck around Florida:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/story/1095092.html

A mysterious incribed slate tablet from Jamestown:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090608-jamestown-slate.html

Digging is resuming at the Ames Plantation in Grand Junction (Tenn.):

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpp/news/local/061009_History_Unearthed_in_Grand_Jun\
ction

I think we mentioned this ghost-town-restoration project a few years
ago (if so, this is a followup):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/us/12ghosttown.html

Alaska's Rat Island is now rat-free:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre55b669-us-alaska-rat/

A replica Onrust:

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=809904

Some interesting Civil War trivia:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/06/12/mf.civil.war/index.html

Feature on Thomas Paine:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8089115.stm

... and one on the Topper site:

http://www.aikenstandard.com/FeatureColumns/612-TomMack

More on Vikings in the Canadian Arctic:

http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Vikings+visited+Canadian+Arctic+researc\
h+suggests/1635865/story.html

More/followup on those carvings from Vero Beach:

http://www.verobeach32963.com/news/News060409/060409_BoneCarvingFind.htm

More/followup on plans to check out Nikwasi Mound:

http://www.thefranklinpress.com/articles/2009/06/10/news/12news.txt

Review of Jackson Lears, *Rebirth of a Nation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/books/review/Gage-t.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An update/preview/hype on that tomb of an Aztec (maybe) ruler
in Mexico City:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6474037.ece

... and a feature on Aztec civilization:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6474501.ece

Some Teotihuacan-style murals from Queretaro:

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/603940.html
http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/06/11/index.php?section=cultura&article=a05n1cul

Mapping Inca trails:

http://www.abc.net.au/catalyst/stories/2589655.htm

An Andean-style temple wall from Ventarron:

http://enperublog.com/2009/06/08/ancient-temple-wall-discovered-shaped-like-ande\
an-chakana/

Machu Picchu as pilgrimage site?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/08/machu-picchu-spirit.html

The origin of the Kaan Dynasty might be Ichkabal:

http://www.artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31347&b=kaan
http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=3273

A virtual Teotihuacan recreation:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7WWhmFHggA
http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=3294

A nice portfolio of Zapotec art:

http://tinyurl.com/lu36ac

A Mexican national found some mastodon remains when he was building a
patio:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=362214

More on those human sacrifices from Peru:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090605/sc_nm/us_peru_archeology_2

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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What the history of basketry tells us:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604222534.htm

Last week we had Plato's 'world soul'; this week, it's Emerson's:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/06/hbc-90005129

Are traditional history courses disappearing?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/books/11hist.html

On human dissection in the 16th century:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherhowse/5496340/False-myt\
h-of-the-anatomy-lesson.html

History's most impressive libraries:

http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/news/the-7-most-impressive-libraries-from-through\
out-history/

Another (sort of) ancient beer recreation:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=9000-year-o\
ld-brew-hitting-the-shel-2009-06-05
http://www.chow.com/media/7718

cf:

http://discovermagazine.com/2005/nov/stone-age-beer

More on Odyssey Marine having to return stuff to Spain:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=treasure-hu\
nter-odyssey-ordered-to-2009-06-08

Not sure if we've had a link to the original paper on that
rehyroxylation dating technique:

http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/RSPA20090117.pdf

... more:

http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/39413

Trying to make Vesuvius a (Natural) Wonder:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-06-12_112397139.html
>

English apparently has its one millionth word:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/weekinreview/14shuessler.html

Review of Edna O'Brien, *Byron in Love*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/books/review/Harrison-t.html

Review of Richard Bernstein, *The East, The West, and S***:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/books/08winc.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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Gaugin/Polynesia:

http://www.time.com/time/travel/article/0,31542,1903984,00.html

Provence:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/travel/14provence.html

Some sites from Turkey's Aegean coast:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=177582&bolum=117

Navajo Nation:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/travel/escapes/12Amer.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

We have four new ones:

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

http://digkabri.wordpress.com/2009-dig-blog/

Pyla-Koutsopetria (three blogs in one! twitter too!):

http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/wcaraher/PKAPBlogAggregator.html

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Ongoing/about to commence:

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

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 Picasso sketchbook was stolen in Paris:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aLJTsE64dOmA
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Robado/cuaderno/dibujos/Picasso/elpepucul\
/20090609elpepucul_3/Tes
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/09/picasso-sketchbook-stolen-par\
is
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/arts/design/10arts-PICASSOSKETC_BRF.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/09/picasso-sketchbook-stolen/

A stolen Renoir has turned up 25 years later:

http://www.france24.com/en/20090603-stolen-renoir-turns-up-25-years-after-going-\
missing-painting-art-culture

An antiquities dealer in Sana'a got a hefty fine:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news185951.htm

Plenty of coverage of the find (two years ago) of a pile of
Italian antiquities (many of which were purloined) in a Berwyn
bungalow:


<ttp://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105218287
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-090608-italian-treasures-pictures,0,31890\
8.photogallery
>
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/08/AR2009060803720.\
html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/chi-antiquities-09-jun09,0,237014.story
http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=news/local&id=6854791&rss=rss-wls-artic\
le-6854791%20ABC7
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/local/FBI_Unveils_Stolen_Artifacts.html
http://www.kfor.com/news/local/kfor-news-nbc-italian-artificaft-story,0,6656441.\
story?track=rss
http://chicagoist.com/2009/06/09/huge_collection_of_italian_artifact.php
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5488999/Handwritten-book-\
by-Mussolini-among-stolen-Italian-artefacts-found-in-Illinois-home.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-stolenantiquities,0,5406474.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/arts/design/10arts-THOUSANDSOFA_BRF.html

Similar amount of coverage of the bust of a ring apparently taking
artifacts from public and tribal lands near Four Corners:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105195472&ft=1&f=1001
http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/national/news_detail.php?ID=313060&DK=UT%20Arch\
aeological%20Thefts
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/state/story/Archeologocal-thefts-made-near-Four\
-Corners/5Cq3kJha8EqX-0qrLDA1oA.cspx?rss=1451
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/19714394/detail.html
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12561194
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12565349
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12562006
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705309695/Artifact-thefts-targeted-by-federal\
-officials.html
http://www.ksl.com/index.php?nid=148&sid=6771105
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/06/native-american-artifacts\
-looting-ken-salazar-four-corners.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31214404/
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/la-na-artifacts11-2009jun11,0,558\
6788.story?track=rss
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-artifacts11-2009jun11,0,715\
8558.story

... and in a macabre twist, one of those charged has been found dead:

http://www.kjct8.com/Global/story.asp?S=10524869
http://www.fox14tv.com/global/story.asp?s=10524509
http://www.kwes.com/global/story.asp?s=10523859
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_12581032

A feature on some stolen pre-Columbian items:

http://www.newssun.com/news/0610-grave-robber-pt-3

Some looted items are returning to Afghanistan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8093573.stm

... and to Cambodia:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31310821/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.nasdaq.com/aspx/stock-market-news-story.aspx?storyid=200906120531dowj\
onesdjonline000459&title=thailand-returns-smuggled-artifacts-to-cambodia

That guy who returned that big chunk of rock to Jerusalem won't
be punished:

http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/9630

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Two tonnes of ancient coins from a playground in China's Shaanxi
province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/10/content_11520297.htm
http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/508309
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-54210.html
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-06/12/content_8279807.htm

A 1780 Indian Peace Medal ceremony:

http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/tourism/46723532.html

More on that coin from Truro:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/06/_the_valuable_o.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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Royal Holloway Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/nyregion/07artsct.html

Napoleon III and Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/arts/design/12napoleon.html

Matisse:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jwl6H5N07AamIQVHJWABXG5ANyCg

In the Frick's Basement:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/nyregion/11rooms.html

... and at the Breakers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/arts/design/12antiques.html

Derfner Judaica Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/arts/design/11muse.html

Light of Sufis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/arts/design/12sufi.html

Darwin Anniversary:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jun/11/charles-darwin-endless-forms-exhib\
ition-fitzwilliam

Europe-Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/951/he5.htm

In anticipation of the opening of the Acropolis Museum, there was a
flurry of stories relating to a purported offer by the British
Museum to lend the Elgin/Parthenon marbles to Greece for three
months (with conditions) and Greece's decline of same:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,525809,00.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aYNSg3TFtsoU
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j5hVoTAAelD8ReyDAhrOP8m0OEbg
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/greece-declines-loan-of-elgin-marbl\
es-from-british-museum/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/arts/design/12arts-GREECEDECLIN_BRF.html
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/06/12/parthenon-marbles-loan.html
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/107385/Greeks-say-no-to-Elgin-peace-deal

... interestingly,though,there are reports in which the British Museum
denied making such
an offer:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h-cz3E0WmdhMHjcWxMCPADb8ZhpA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8096109.stm
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=974669%3C=eng_news

... and, of course, the concomitant background pieces:

http://www.grreporter.info/statiaen.php?mysid=2166&t=31&SESID=kt0bp3v6ifnfjq5j7l\
h4vhgou4
http://www.smh.com.au/national/old-political-foes-call-for-return-of-lost-marble\
s-20090613-c6pq.html

... and a preview of the building:

http://www.building.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=258&storycode=3142459&c=0

... and also interestingly, British Museum officials will attend the
official
opening next week:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h-cz3E0WmdhMHjcWxMCPADb8ZhpA

... but the queen won't:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/14/elgin-marble-row-acropolis-museum-at\
hens

The Louvre is undergoing changes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/arts/13iht-melik13.html

Italy has helped put the Baghdad Museum online:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-06-09_109376758.html

The Pergamon Museum has acquired a pile of Islamic art:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/06/10/islamic-art.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Asclepius:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/theater/reviews/10asclepius.html

Assorted London productions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/10/arts/10iht-lon10.html

Oedipus:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/lifestyle/chi-0608-oedipus-hypocritesjun0\
8,0,1825086.story

Boston Early Music Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/13/arts/music/13poppea.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/boston-early-music-festival-two-fes\
tivals-in-one/

Silk Road Project:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/08/arts/music/08silk.html

Richard III: An Arab Tragedy:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/theater/reviews/11brantley.html

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ON THE WEB
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Folks might be interested in the recently-launched Digital Defoe
online journal (18th century lit.):

http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3808
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PODCASTS
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Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/

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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