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Donna Hurst, Dorothy King, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mary Reed,
Mata Kimasitayo, Michael Oberndorf, Mike Ruggeri,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W Sargent,
Bob Heuman, Sean David Reynolds, Susan Jaslow, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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More coverage of that Middle Paleolithic jewellery:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=732573
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Opening a sarcophagus in KV 63 has revealed a bunch of flowers
and embalming stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/jqgdv (Discovery)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060629/ap_on_sc/egypt_new_tomb_10
http://tinyurl.com/ghm99 (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/kvzme (ME Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ewk7w (NG)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/06/29/news/tomb.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5127918.stm
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,640190849,00.html
http://www.cbc.ca/story/science/national/2006/06/28/egypt-tomb.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/29/world/africa/29tomb.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13597524/
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/world/middleeast/28cnd-tomb.html

More KV 63 coverage (with a different focus):

http://tinyurl.com/j8zvt (Discovery)
http://tinyurl.com/e9epb (Discovery)
http://tinyurl.com/zsdwm (Australian)
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/issues/2006/july/kv63.php

A pair of tombs have been found near the Giza pyramids:

http://tinyurl.com/f9l7l (ME Times)
http://tinyurl.com/hmywy (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/gr87f (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_219094007,00.html

A 'monument' (sounds like an inscription) from the first century
A.D./C.E. has been found at Palmyra:

http://www.sana.org/eng/21/2006/07/01/44465.htm

A couple of mummies in Milwaukee will be getting the CT scan
treatment:

http://tinyurl.com/hspt6 (CC Times)

Excavating a Second Temple dump:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/732068.html

Not sure if we've mentioned this case involving artifacts held
by the University of Chicago being potentially used as compensation
in a bombing case ... in any event, it's now big news:

http://tinyurl.com/ezc2r (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/f55jt (Tribune)

We'll probably hear more about this one ... they're going to
remove that Temple Mount ramp:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=733072

Zahi Hawass is keeping his job:

http://tinyurl.com/ha6qe (ME Times)

A Firefox extension of interest to those involved in
Mishna studies:

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/2820/

More coverage of the moving of that model of the Temple
to the Israel Museum:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=732574

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Archaeologists have found what is being touted as the oldest
ritual site in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/h8k4o (AthensNews)

Latest news on the Acropolis museum:

http://tinyurl.com/fun4y (Kathimerini)

... and they're excavating the house being touted as the
birthplace of Augustus:

http://tinyurl.com/kogfu (Espresso ... Italian)

Good coverage of recent finds at an Etruscan site at Cetamura:

http://tinyurl.com/kcrc2 (EurekAlert)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/06/060630095037.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/521655/?sc=rsmn
http://www.fsu.edu/news/2006/06/29/etruscan.discovery/

Recreating Roman makeup:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5129102.stm

Latest coverage on those catacomb bones from Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/jmfrm (Rassegna ... Italian)

They held the Prometheus Festival in Athens this week:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1810722,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/fy6tm (Mail and Guardian)

A debate is raging in the UK over the 'difficulty' of Latin:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,170-2243519,00.html

... subsequent letters:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2246063_2,00.html

... and Mary Beard:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2006/06/is_latin_too_ha.html

Robert Graves' house on Mallorca is now a museum:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/spain/article/0,,1810336,00.html

Some geek/Latin humour (language warning):

http://geekz.co.uk/lovesraymond/archive/highbrow-my-culus

HBO's Rome is now on French television:

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3232,36-790207,0.html

The Mica Aurea Restaurant in Rome seems to be filling a
void:

http://www.arsconvivialis.com/

What Colleen McCullough's up to:

http://tinyurl.com/h4r2n (Canada.com)

ClassCon in the Yanksblog:

http://www.yanksblog.com/item/795

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 400 000 b.p. elephant butcher site in Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5128892.stm

Not sure whether I mentioned this BBC coverage of those
Paleolithic tools found in some guy's garden (good photos):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5098748.stm

Finds from various periods (mostly medieval) from a dig in
Southampton:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/5131110.stm

They've (finally) repaired Margam Castle's window:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/5129348.stm

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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Some Paleolithic artifacts from China:

http://www.chinanews.cn/news/2005/2006-06-29/24520.html

This is interesting ... among the remains of the workers who
helped put together Qin's tomb are those of someone of European
extraction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1808394,00.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-06/28/content_4762391.htm

A Han Dynasty tombs from Hunan:

http://english.people.com.cn/200606/30/eng20060630_278703.html

The two Koreas will cooperate to excavate a Koryo Kingdom site:

http://tinyurl.com/foag8 (Korea Times)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Recently-found artifacts from the Battle of Saratoga are on
display:

http://tinyurl.com/z4aw9 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/kpskc (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/jmdxj (AP via Yahoo)

Excavating a bison kill/processing site in North Dakota:

http://tinyurl.com/fxska (Tribune)
http://www.krtv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5103553

Interesting shell midden on the Columbia River:

http://tinyurl.com/ezfrv (Herald)

Finds from various periods have been found on a future condo
site in Connecticut:

http://www.connpost.com/news/ci_3984824

Review of Gordon Wood, *Revolutionary Characters*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/books/27kaku.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A tropical 'Stonehenge'?:

http://tinyurl.com/zvx3l (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/nr4b8 (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/k8pe6 (Discovery)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13582228/
http://tinyurl.com/kdl7c (NYT)

Historians are beginning to weigh in on Mel Gibson's 'Apocalypto':

http://tinyurl.com/k6y59 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/jlb7f (UPI)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Mathematically, we're all related:

http://tinyurl.com/l6loy (Seattle PI)
http://tinyurl.com/hbf5p (ABC)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060701/ap_on_sc/brotherhood_of_man_1

Nathaniel Hawthorne's remains have been reunited with those of
his wife:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/us/27hawthorne.html

Blog post on wealthy folks funding archaeological digs:

http://tinyurl.com/kyuou

On transliterating Hebrew:

http://tinyurl.com/hnguj (JPost)

Restoring a van der Helst:

http://tinyurl.com/zyfx7 (La Tercera ... Spanish)

Reviewish/interviewish thing on Nigel Spivey and his upcoming
program on How Art Made the World:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/television/26made.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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An update on the Oded Golan trial:

http://tinyurl.com/huk24 (Toronto Star)

More coverage of the return of that 'ides of March' coin to
Greece:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1807315,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060628/ap_on_sc/art_brutus_coin_2
http://tinyurl.com/kyfne (ABC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5117366.stm
http://tinyurl.com/zbvyc (ME Times)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Art-Brutus-Coin.html

A couple of 'crime beat' items in this Arts Briefly column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/arts/27arts.html

OpEdish thing on wars and looting of sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5111196.stm

Spinoff scandal at the Getty from the trial of Marion True:

http://tinyurl.com/ezzmy (Mercury)

Another looted-artifacts-showing-up-on-eBay story:

http://tinyurl.com/ldr4g (Daily Record)
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NUMISMATICA
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Big bucks for a gold medieval coin at auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/5130666.stm

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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daVinci:

http://www.msichicago.org/temp_exhibit/leonardo/index.html

An auction of various items (including papyri) from beer magnate
Cornelius Hauck will benefit the Cincinnati Museum Center:

http://www.channelcincinnati.com/education/9447068/detail.html

The Varna Archaeological Museum is cashing in on its Thracian
Treasures exhibit:

http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=21714

The Coptic Museum has reopened:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/801/eg1.htm
http://tinyurl.com/fgtxd (Art Daily)
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_219198354,00.html

Assorted auction results from London:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/arts/design/26auct.html

More coverage of the Musee du Quay Branly opening:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/arts/design/27bran.html

Some of the Smithsonian's museums have reopened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/arts/design/27smit.html

Interesting (?) merger of a couple of museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/28/arts/design/28sout.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Suppliants:

http://tinyurl.com/k6jxs (Kathimerini)

Metamorphosis:

http://tinyurl.com/jmnbu (great photo with this one)

Antigone:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=47338

Interesting item on painted theatre curtains (with slide show):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/25/us/25vermont.html

There's a new director for the Stratford Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/27/theater/27stra.html
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ON THE WEB
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Social Change and Cultural Interaction in the Middle Helladic
Argolid 2000 - 1500 BC:

http://www.mhargolid.nl/

Mycenean Presence in Sicily:

http://www.mycpres.com/
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OBITUARIES
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John Oates (Papyrologist):

http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2006/06/oatesobit.html

Mary Martin McLaughlin (Medievalist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/06/26/nyregion/26mclaughlin.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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More and more, the Bosnian 'pyramid' claim begins to fall apart:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/osmanagic/update.html

... while we now have a new claim that someone has found the
remains of Noah's Ark:

http://tinyurl.com/om8vk (AOL News)
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=nation_world&id=4319965

... but how to reconcile that with these claims:

http://tinyurl.com/eq7k6 (DB Journal)
http://www.tbo.com/news/metro/MGB1B1OAWOE.html

... and there's another press release from hyphenated George:

http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2006/6/26/104156/618
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch,
Croman mac Nessa, David Critchley, Dave Sowdon, Dan Diffendale,
Bruno Vernier,  Edward Rockstein, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',
Hanan Charaf, Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Lampros F. Kallenos, Mata Kimasitayo, Mark Morgan,
Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

... a quiet week
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Four 6000 b.p. skeletons from Khorasan:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0607045558173956.htm
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1030.html

Current thinking is that  KV-63 belonged to Tut's mother
(+ hype for a tv show on it tonight):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/802/heritage.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ewem7 (AOL)
http://tinyurl.com/qzkk5 (CNN)
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/kv63/kv63.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/egyptkv63/egyptkv63.html

Evidence suggests Anamurium was destroyed by an earthquake:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=48188

Work on the Acre railway line is resuming:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=735657

Folks might be interested in the Ulu Burun shipwreck recreation:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=47389

An Exodus documentary:

http://tinyurl.com/pvzkr (JPost)

More coverage of the Second Temple model thing:

http://tinyurl.com/qew89 (JPost)
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3271211,00.html

More coverage of the imminent removal of the Kotel ramp:

http://tinyurl.com/os3yy (JPost)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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A Roman (Hellenistic?) head from Baalbek is probably Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/kyplm (Naharnet ... photo)
http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060707.HTM (Arabic with
photos)

A statue (torso) of Artemis from Larissa:

http://news.ert.gr/en/7/19240.asp
http://tinyurl.com/p9l5t (ANA)

... and another statue from Faragola:

http://www.ilgrecale.it/attualita/articolo.php?id=11210 (Italian)

The remains of the oldest Thracian town hitherto discovered:

http://tinyurl.com/zfbfu (Standart)

More finds from Aquileia:

http://tinyurl.com/fjelk (ANSA)

That 'Homer-was-a-woman' thing has raised its head again:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,175-2251270,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/s8n4q (Australian)

Reconstructing the ancient Greek chorus:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1813964,00.html

Recreating Roman cosmetics:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5129102.stm

There's going to be Latin news bulletins from the European
Union:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/eu/story/0,,1812166,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/nxmzq (IOL)

Fears there is too much digging going on in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=23075&archive=1

Latin is making a comeback thanks to the Internet:

http://tinyurl.com/ryj64 (mercator)

Review of David Mattingly, *An Imperial Possession*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2259502,00.html

Review of the Loeb Classical Library Reader:

http://tinyurl.com/znz9l (Weekly Standard)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An Ottoman-era shipwreck off Cyprus is being excavated:

http://www.aquatec-innerspace.com/aiogreenbaywk.htm
http://www.politis-news.com/cgibin/hweb?-A=641595&-V=archive
(Greek; includes interesting video)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/arts/03arts.html (5th item)
http://tinyurl.com/pq33x (ME Times)

Searching for a medieval chapel in Wales:

http://tinyurl.com/m85yl (BBC)

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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What some Tang Dynasty porcelain drums are revealing:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/03/content_4788172.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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What they've found in a Jamestown well:

http://tinyurl.com/o8nke (NG)

Interesting skeletons in Preacher's Cave:

http://tinyurl.com/h5y6s (Nassau Guardian)

Bison bones on Orcas Island:

http://tinyurl.com/nr45u (Sounder)

A mystery Bison 'bone bed' in Nebraska:

http://tinyurl.com/e6rj7 (RMN)

A hearth from Fort Ridgely State Park:

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=128810

Bones found on a construction site in Milwaukee:

http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=459159

Highway construction in Colorado ... must be a site there too:

http://tinyurl.com/k9bkd (RMN)

A 'mystery graveyard' is rediscovered in Boston:

http://tinyurl.com/j2sgo (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/kkuzy (Telegram)

Archaeology's 'interactive dig' at Johnson's Island has some
recent material:

http://tinyurl.com/lgp4n

Coverage of the Society of Georgia Archaeology meeting:

http://tinyurl.com/r6jmf (AJC)

An archaeology professor's death threatens the survival of
a collaborative archaeology program:

http://tinyurl.com/e7cm2 (Star Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/leneh (Gazette)
http://www.wishtv.com/global/story.asp?s=5122071

Interesting OpEd piece on Devil's Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/opinion/03burrows.html

... and one on Valley Forge:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/opinion/03dobrzynski.html

Podcasting at Colonial Williamsburg:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060703/ap_on_hi_te/colonial_podcasts

Review of Donna Lucey, *Archie and Amelie*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/books/03masl.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Ancient medical stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/nfghz (Kathimerini)

A photo (!) of Constanze Mozart has been found:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2259977,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5157200.stm

The authenticity of a Duccio at the Met is being challenged:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/08/arts/design/08ducc.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5156984.stm

Stephen Fry's speech on why folks should study history:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1815961,00.html

Feature on Bob Marx:

http://tinyurl.com/ql4br (Florida Today)

That big storm that hit Washington D.C. (and environs) claimed
as a casualty one of the trees depicted on the US twenty
dollar bill:

http://www.nbc10.com/news/9427842/detail.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Rome (I think it's intended to be touristy; maybe not):

http://tinyurl.com/ppdh9 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/mm9em (Age)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=2146116
http://www.forbes.com/home/feeds/ap/2006/07/02/ap2854518.html

Athens:

http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/storypage.aspx?StoryId=43287

Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/ljyc4 (SMH)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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General piece on looting in Arizona:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/18360.php

OpEd piece on looting in Iran (somewhat strange):

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1040.html

Another (excellent) lengthy piece on Bob Hecht by Susan Mazur:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0607/S00085.htm

We mentioned the auctioning-of-Iranian-artifacts order made
by a US judge last week ... here are some followup pieces:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-236/0607053491155451.htm
http://tinyurl.com/mdkjf (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ov9be (UPI)
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=347528
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=347460

More coverage of the return of that Ides of March coin to
Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/zbvyc (ME Times)
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Time Magazine archive item from 1923 on the publication of the
Corpus Nummorum:

http://www.time.com/time/archive/preview/0,10987,727208,00.html

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Assorted exhibitions in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/z4dd9 (ANSA)

Venetian Artists:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07vene.html

Dogs in Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07dogs.html

A terracotta army may soon be in the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5140414.stm

The American University in Beirut's museum is getting a facelift:

http://tinyurl.com/rhwqj (Daily Star)

Florence's Archaeological Museum has been renovated:

http://tinyurl.com/mtqmm (ANSA)

Interesting book auction in Edinburgh:

http://living.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=976602006

Assorted auction/antique news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07anti.html

A Warhol Mao is coming up to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/07/arts/design/07voge.html

Arguing over who owns a regiment's collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/06/nyregion/06regiment.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Beowulf(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/04/books/04beow.html

Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/ls58r

Macbeth:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/theatre/articles/060710crth_theatre
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ON THE WEB
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Eyewitness to History:

http://www.eyewitnesstohistory.com/

cf: http://tinyurl.com/p5j26 (USA Today)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0705/p25s01-stct.html

New Ancient Mesopotamia site from the Oriental Institute:

http://mesopotamia.lib.uchicago.edu/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Vern Leroy Bullough (History of Medicine/Sexuality):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/03/us/03bullough.html
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
This week, hyphenated George is making press releases about
Poseidon and his connection with horses:

http://www.theworldforum.org/story/2006/7/7/19292/67045
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Adrian Murdoch, Bill Kennedy,
Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Ioannis Georganas, Edward Rockstein,
Hernan Astudillo, Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths, R.M. Howe, Bob Heuman,
Rochelle Altman, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for
headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

n.b. We will be off to the sunny shores of Sicily for the next
few weeks, so Explorator will be in a hiatus. Look for the
next giant catchup issue of Explorator on August 27!

[keep sending stuff in!]
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
A paleolithic kill/butchery site involving an elephant near
London:

http://tinyurl.com/m2o27 (NG)

Still trying to find a DNA link between modern humans and
Neanderthals:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/14.07/caveman.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
Five sites in Africa have received World Heritage status:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/5176110.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Archaeologists have found a statue of Ram at Luxor:

http://tinyurl.com/m6zvo (SIS)

Finds from various early periods at Tilbasar:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=48788

An overviewish thing on the excavations at Catal Huyuk:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=48429

... and one on Tel Megiddo:

http://tinyurl.com/mm64f (JPost)

Meanwhile, at those early Christian remains found in a Megiddo
prison:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/736637.html

Debating the origins of Persepolis:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6487

The Behistun monument finally received World Heritage Status:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_16679.shtml

Dispute Over Suicide in the news:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1004112006

Latest news from KV-63:

http://www.kv-63.com/ (scroll down a bit)

An altar from the time of Marcus Aurelius, with Greek inscriptions
has been found near Pompey's Pillar:

http://tinyurl.com/zua5q (ME Times)
http://tinyurl.com/kg32g (IOL)

More hype about that documentary about the Exodus:

http://tinyurl.com/o785p (JPost)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Archaeologists have found remains of a theatre beneath the
remains of the amphitheatre at Serdica:

http://tinyurl.com/mjr2v (Echo)

... semi-related:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=66497

A Daphne and Apollo mosaic from Somerset:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/5171108.stm

Recent finds at Stabiae:

http://tinyurl.com/mup5j (ANSA)

Ovid's exile in the news:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ibd/20060710/bs_ibd_ibd/2006710lands

Too much fluoride in Roman Palmyra:

http://tinyurl.com/rczln (USA Today)

The huge task of trying to preserve sites in Greece:

http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/16128.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/e6qcb (ME Times)

... while there are fears a new road on Andros will destroy
antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/en6wq (Kathimerini)

I think we've mentioned that a couple of Greek theatres will
be closed in August for repairs:

http://tinyurl.com/sxlg4 (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/llxn4 (Telegram)

A thing on kids books translated into Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/pcohn (Star)

Some guy wants to recreate Hannibal's march over the Alps (for
charity; sans elephants, presumably):

http://tinyurl.com/n47kf

An unexploded mortar from WWII was found at Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/nu763 (IOL)

OpEd piece on Leo Strauss:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/arts/10conn.html

More coverage of that statue of Artemis discovery at Larissa:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/07/10/tech/main1789721.shtml
http://english.pravda.ru/news/world/10-07-2006/83157-goddes-0
http://social.moldova.org/stiri/eng/14041/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2263935,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/nwdje (IOL)

More coverage of that Thracian town discovery in Bulgaria:

http://www.newkerala.com/news3.php?action=fullnews&id=20459
http://tinyurl.com/rodra (Standart)
http://tinyurl.com/ljkkl (Echo)

ClassCon in the name of Microsoft's iPod competetion:

http://tinyurl.com/pvmrs

Interesting item on Rubens' Calydonian Boar Hunt:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2265532,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Looking for the earliest inhabitants of the Thames Valley:

http://tinyurl.com/r8az6 (TIL)

Mesolithic remains from Lincoln:

http://tinyurl.com/q3o97 (Lincoln Today)

Archaeologists have found what may be the oldest church (6th
century) in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/5174896.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1023622006

Cornwall's ancient mines have been given UNESCO World Heritage
Status:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2269249,00.html

... and more sites for the World Heritage list:

http://tinyurl.com/rl2qp

A sort of top ten list of finds from Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1028012006

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
The mystery of some ceramic pellets from the Yin Ruins may have
been solved:

http://english.people.com.cn/200607/10/eng20060710_281538.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/09/content_4810939.htm

Did poor soil spark a war in Hawaii?:

http://tinyurl.com/n7dus (Advertiser)

Marking Genghis Khan's establishment of the Mongol Empire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5168702.stm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A gardener in Greenwich found a Sylvan Lake Culture point:

http://tinyurl.com/fmwqq (Globe)

Sewer construction in Minnesota reveals Middle Woodland artifacts
(but there's no money to continue the dig):

http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=128945
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_191113917.html

Digging at the Fort Ancient State Memorial (Ohio):

http://tinyurl.com/opvxl (Pulse Journal)

Latest bit of info gleaned from the Hunley:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13870913/

Plans are afoot to move Alexander Hamilton's Grange:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/nyregion/12grange.html

What we're learning from the Jamestown excavations:

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/072006/07152006/205587

Getting kids interested in archaeology:

http://www.newsleader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2006607120323
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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You can now reach Machu Picchu by helicopter:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/travel/09transmachu.html

Mayan ruins found via remote sensing from space:

http://tinyurl.com/lvxop (Neatorama)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A Shelley poem has been 'rediscovered':

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/arts/14arts.html (2nd item)

The remains of the Castrato Farinelli are to be dug up and
subjected to CAT scans and DNA tests (not sure what those
tests can really tell them):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5171892.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060712/sc_nm/arts_farinelli_remains_dc_2
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/12/arts/12arts.html (3rd)
[an item on the restoration of Nelson's Monument follows]

Columbus was a "greedy tyrant":

http://tinyurl.com/gaao9 (AFP via Yahoo)

More coverage of that medieval inscription spat in a Turkish
fortress:

http://tinyurl.com/neg4c (Gulf Times)

There's going to be an appeal in the daVinci Code case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/arts/11arts.html (6th)

Poe's at the centre of a couple of novels:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5543300

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Uruk is apparently being plundered:

http://tinyurl.com/m5afh (Azzaman)

The latest in that Turkish switch-genuine-items-with-fakes
case is a demand for some pretty hefty sentences:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/07/14/arts/14arts.html (5th)

The U.S. returned some smuggled antiquities to Pakistan this
week:

http://www.pakistanlink.com/Headlines/July06/15/10.htm

Latest developments in that Iran-U.S. court case involving
inscriptions at the University of Chicago:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/13/world/middleeast/13briefs-005.html
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1128.html
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/jul/1110.html
http://tinyurl.com/r7ed8 (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/rpm6l (NYT)
http://tinyurl.com/ovmxo (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/rwgsu (RFE)

Nice item on provenance of items in the Houston Museum of
Fine Arts:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/art/4047112.html

More coverage of Getty plans to return some sculptures to
Greece:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/arts/11gett.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=71934
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06192/704836-42.stm
http://tinyurl.com/lrok9 (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ladts (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/rwkly (LA Times)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/10/news/getty.php
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aLyzBuv.AwmA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5165596.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/10/arts/design/10cnd-getty.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13801315/

... and Greece is inspired by its success:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1817586,00.html

... and China might get on the 'return our stuff' bandwagon:

http://english.people.com.cn/200607/13/eng20060713_282774.html
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Treasury of the World:

http://tinyurl.com/lek4a (AD)

National Portrait Gallery:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5554510

What happens when they clean out museum storehouses in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=66467

Nice price for a Shakespeare first folio at auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5175044.stm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5554179
http://u.tv/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=10832&pt=e
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Grendel:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5542123
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
David Bright (Andrea Doria expert):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/11/us/11bright.html

Louis Jacobs (Rabbi and Scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/07/09/world/europe/09jacobs.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, Croman
mac Nessa, David Critchley, Christopher C. Fennell, Donna Hurst,
'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, Joan Griffith,
John Hall, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin, Mata
Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths,
R.M. Howe, Bob Heuman, Rick Pettigrew, Rochelle Altman,
Ross Sargent, Stan Nadel, Steve Rankin, Susan Jaslow,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

n.b. 1 Thanks especially to all those who sent in items during my
absence; not all of them survived 'best before' dates, alas.

n.b. 2 We're back (obviously)from Sicily and here's the giant
catchup issue!  Today's links are from the past few weeks but
should still be working (although some might expire as I put
this thing together) ... still should be able to kill a couple
of hours with this one, though.

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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
How 'modern' were European Neanderthals?:

http://www.physorg.com/news75734944.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/uob-hmw082406.php

Marking the 150th anniversary of the first Neanderthal finds:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,2135966,00.html

... and suggesting modern humans interbred with them (didn't
we have something suggesting the opposite just a while ago?):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13989908/site/newsweek/
http://tinyurl.com/h9f82 (ST)
http://tinyurl.com/gh3bs (DCN)

... and even if they didn't, there's a Neanderthal genome
project under way:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13955661/
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060720105836.htm

Greek Neolithic 'tool shed'?:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1723824.htm

Latest in the homo floresiensis debate:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/flores/hobbit.html
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2006/s1721321.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/ps-nhi081606.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060825103718.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5688659
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/science/22tiny.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14457876/

Those 20 000 b.p. footprints in Australia are still in the news:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14063446/

... while humans are 'off the hook' for the extinction of large
animals in prehistoric Australia (for this week, anyway):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14354397/
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AFRICA
================================================================
Cattle were first domesticated by nomads in the Sahara (the
articles are somewhat different):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5192410.stm
http://tinyurl.com/km3cz (MET)
http://tinyurl.com/jvdyb (LAT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/13957717/

Archaeologists have found an important site from the Anglo-Zulu
War:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/5270322.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A pile of ancient sites have been found in Turkey:

http://english.people.com.cn/200608/25/eng20060825_296534.html

A 3200 b.p. cemetery found in Taleqan (Iran):

http://www.iran-daily.com/1385/2611/html/art.htm#s159171

Plenty of coverage of Donny George leaving (or "fleeing")
Baghdad because he no longer feels safe:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20060826-100951-6512r
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5289046.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/frontpage/story/0,,1858880,00.html

An ancient water system in Israel:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/ts_nm/mideast_water_dc_3
http://tinyurl.com/jhe9g (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/kqlrd (Reuters)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14486319/

What we're learning from the Ramat Rahel site:

http://tinyurl.com/kej4z (JPost)

What happened on archaeological sites in Lebanon during the
recent hostilities:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswbOOnews_warupdate.html

Some mystery shabtis found in a museum in the UK:

http://www.londragazete.com/?newsid=8842&category=119

They actually did move that big statue of Rameses II from downtown
Cairo:

http://tinyurl.com/k73ve (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/g4o8n (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/5282414.stm

Zahi Hawass believes there's plenty to still be found in Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/jkux6 (USA Today)

A couple of sarcophagi were recently found:

http://tinyurl.com/fuyf6 (SIS)

Interesting item on the use of a laser to clean up an Egyptian
tomb:

http://tinyurl.com/r2gmg (Photonics)

... and spy satellite photos from the 1960s to find sites in
Syria:

http://www.livescience.com/history/060807_syria_satellite.html
http://www.physorg.com/news73840698.html
http://tinyurl.com/kfuaw (SMH)

Five headless sphinxes (sphinges?) from Luxor:

http://tinyurl.com/hqhov (M&C)

I think we had something on this 'space gem' of Tut before:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5196362.stm

The second Royal Mummies Hall has opened:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/808/hr2.htm

A massive stupa and other Buddhist artifacts from Afghanistan:

http://english.people.com.cn/200608/21/eng20060821_295366.html

Questioning the DSS-Qumran connection:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/16/healthscience/snqum.php

Restoration of the walls at Corum is completed:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=49982

Another Turkish dam ... more archaeological sites threatened:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5249086.stm

Meanwhile, urbanization has led to the 'loss' of a number of
monuments in India:

http://www.nerve.in/news:25350010753

Interesting account of some army engineers' visit to Ur:

http://tinyurl.com/z7zj5 (WP)

Review of 'The Exodus Decoded':

http://tinyurl.com/fz4as (Jewish News)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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The eruption of Thera was possibly twice as large as previously
postulated:

http://tinyurl.com/o33nm (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/ko36m (TD)

Zahi Hawass is now looking for the tomb of Cleopatra:

http://tinyurl.com/pymha (IOL)

Recent discoveries from Keros:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2321538,00.html

Greece is wondering how to protect its sites:

http://www.classical1035.com/index.php?nid=65&sid=383710

The Theseus Ring is apparently 'not fake':

http://tinyurl.com/zr43n (IOL)

Interesting item on the rediscovery of some Roman catacombs on
Malta:

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=244223

Lemonde had an article (in French, natch) on Hannibal's crossing
of the Alps:

http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0@2-3230,36-800116,0.html


Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a Scythian mummy in
Mongolia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5283320.stm
http://service.spiegel.de/cache/international/0,1518,433600,00.html
(article in German, but with a great photo gallery)

A Thracian city from Turkey:

http://english.people.com.cn/200607/21/eng20060721_285253.html
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=49157

They're going to turn Zeugma into an archaeological park (er,
will it be an underwater park?):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=49450

A rotating stage at the theatre at Kaunos?:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=49361

Interesting discovery of a pile of Phoenician burials on Sicily:

http://tinyurl.com/eqys6 (ANSA)

Excavating Commodan-era villa in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/gkmrm (EDP 24)

... and sites along the Black Sea:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=51765

... and Larissa:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=72250

Archaeologists are claiming to have found Caratacus' fabled
'city':

http://tinyurl.com/htjjf (Western Mail)

Gayton's Roman Villa is bigger than previously thought:

http://tinyurl.com/flnqm (Lynn News)

Development threatens the archaeological remains of Roman-Indian
contact at Muziris:

http://tinyurl.com/gf5wf (MET)

Plans are afoot (finally) to restore Augustus' mausoleum:

http://tinyurl.com/kcx56 (ANSA)

... while archaeologists claim to have found Augustus' birthplace:

http://tinyurl.com/oaf8z (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/pfpy9 (USA Today)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1052682006

Subway work in Athens is expected to turn up more antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/gpxp9 (IOL)

Another site will be potentially exploited for tourism purposes
in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68507

Remains of a Roman village near Bonn:

http://tinyurl.com/mb36y (News 24)
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=51176

Interesting Roman-era infant burials from the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/pdp75 (Post)

Nice 'experience' piece on the dig at Porolissum:

http://www.alligator.org/pt2/060824summer.php

... and the Agora:

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2006/082006/08242006/216387

An ancient Roman murder?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/4786629.stm

Water workers 'laying pipe' have found a Roman village in
Yorkshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/humber/5217706.stm

Big hype for the return of a chunk of the Parthenon by the University
of Heidelberg:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/arts/25arts.html (second item)
http://tinyurl.com/lrqan (Australian)

Latest on the Archimedes palimpsest:

http://tinyurl.com/j2vk3 (Kathimerini)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5235894.stm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5583668
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14226275/

The Antikythera Mechanism is in the news again:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1854232,00.html

Lysippus is getting his own museum:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=51031
http://tinyurl.com/nzm66 (AFP via Yahoo)

A bust of Marcus Aurelius is returning to the Swiss town whence
it came:

http://tinyurl.com/zw2nw (Reuters)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/arts/22arts.html (fifth item)

Funding for the Chester Amphitheatre project didn't materialize,
alas:

http://tinyurl.com/mzctq (Daily Post)

Another journalistic concern for the state of Italy's monuments:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1834106,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Looking for more 'ice age' stuff at Creswell Crags:

http://tinyurl.com/hekea (Post)

A bronze age canoe from near Milford Haven has halted pipeline
construction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/5282874.stm
http://news.aol.co.uk/article.adp?id=20060824150309990001

... and another bronze age dugout canoe is being excavated in
Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=1111362006

... and a bronze age causeway has been found in Suffolk:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/5241084.stm

A 5000 b.p. dagger (and more) from Bulgaria:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14235772/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/08/08/dagger_arc.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5251266.stm (photo)

A 3000 b.p. hoard of assorted items from Sedgewick (not
sure if these two articles are related):

http://tinyurl.com/feng7 (Northern Echo)
http://tinyurl.com/hahvw (EDP24)

A cat's actions have caused a rethink of cairns and brochs
in Caithness:

http://tinyurl.com/f22uq (BBC)

A metal detectorist has found some Anglo Saxon stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/j5j3t (Evening Star)

... and another has found an interesting seal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/5261652.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART39372.html

A heat wave in the U.K. has allowed a pile of sites to be
identified:

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1240882006
http://tinyurl.com/jjw67 (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/gupnd

Fragments of an 800 b.p. psalter have been found in a bog:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5584495
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1830350,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5216320.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14030255/

cf: http://tinyurl.com/gualu (AD)

... and Irish bog bodies are telling us a lot of stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/h7j5r (Retuers via Yahoo)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14142846/

Vague item about the discovery of a stone head in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68539

Plans are afoot to restore a section of Corfe Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/5276468.stm

A 300 year old (or thereabouts) mummy from the Canary items is
being returned:

http://tinyurl.com/hlpeu (CNN)

Diving for the HM Firebrand:

http://tinyurl.com/f3ba4 (BBC)

More coverage of the apartheid society that was early Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5192634.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ke35y (NG)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060720112040.htm

A gas pipeline from Iran to Armenia is destroying/threatening
an ancient city:

http://www.bakutoday.net/view.php?d=24059

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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Archaeological evidence suggests China ruled Xinjiang region
a thousand years ago:

http://tinyurl.com/fark3

2500 b.p. figures are possible precursors to Qin's tomb-army:

http://tinyurl.com/hfcr4 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,1851725,00.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14380274/

... and they've found the tomb of Qin's grandmother:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/29/content_4891709.htm

Meanwhile, they're debating whether to excavate the Qianling
Mausoleum:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-07/18/content_4848973.htm

A pile of 2500 b.p. pottery from China's Shaanxi province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200608/15/eng20060815_293093.html

Evidence of pre-aboriginal (is that possible in a post-modern
world?) Australians:

http://www.tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25338-2286453,00.html

Hawaiian temples are older than previously thought:

http://tinyurl.com/fmh4h (LS via Yahoo)
http://www.physorg.com/news73660722.html

A 280-year-old mummy of a senior official was found in Beijing:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=10261

Interesting Nazca-like lines in India (with the obvious
speculation):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5237714.stm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A prehistoric site near a Williamsburg school:

http://tinyurl.com/epjqn (Times Dispatch)

Searching for the first Spanish settlement in Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/qtlq5 (Herald)

Working on the Francis Marion Trail:

http://tinyurl.com/q2a32 (Sun News)

... and looking for Venture Smith:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14142840/

A 17th century Scottish pistol from Jamestown:

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1089102006

Other important recent finds from a Jamestown well:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14038438/

Looking for the Fort Ancient people:

http://tinyurl.com/fvczv (Western Star)

Some important Acadian artifacts which might point to the
site of deportation:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/522678.html

They've found evidence of Jacques Cartier's first settlement
(1541) near Quebec City (the articles are somewhat different
in focus):

http://tinyurl.com/h43f4 (Canada.com)
http://tinyurl.com/gtqoc (Ottawa Citizen)

Societal structures of First Nations people in Western Canada
may have been more complex than previously thought:

http://www.physorg.com/news74973254.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060815162404.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-08/uoc-bhm081406.php

A search for evidence of a 15th century Chinese presence on
Cape Breton Island has come up empty:

http://tinyurl.com/qckg3 (CBC)

Looking for New Philadelphia:

http://tinyurl.com/ftpu8 (LAT)

Rethinking William Davie (while digging up his house):

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/14865351.htm
http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jun06/daviehouse061306.htm

Looking for artifacts along the Alaskan Way Viaduct:

http://tinyurl.com/fvly7 (Seattle Times)

500 B.C./B.C.E. remains from Lake Worth (Florida) are slowing
down a development project:

http://www.wtlv.com/news/florida/news-article.aspx?storyid=63077

A family cemetery has been found near Cincinnati Airport:

http://tinyurl.com/kbrsl (CP)

Latest film at the Archaeology Channel looks at Hopi fires:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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10,000 b.p. tools and weapons from the Peruvian Andes:

http://tinyurl.com/lyuh6 (MET)

As might be expected, there's plenty of interest in the discovery
of some bones suggesting the Aztecs sacrificed, boiled, and
ate some humans:

http://tinyurl.com/rfbly (Reuters)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060823/sc_nm/life_mexico_aztecs_dc_5
http://tinyurl.com/hgdm7 (SMH ... best headline)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1221635.ece
http://tinyurl.com/evhdx (Telegraph)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14485960/

Interesting discovery of a burial near the Amazon dating to
800-1200 B.C./B.C.E:

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20060824&hn=35969

Still looking for Columbus' ships:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/07/060730135410.htm
http://www.politicalgateway.com/news/read/27839
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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First dna news on the agenda ... trying to identify whether
Copernicus' remains have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/hllmq (Irish Examiner)

Did gout force Charles V to abdicate?:

http://tinyurl.com/hzj4h (IOL)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14156262/

After a long 'fight', an amateur collector has been vindicated
in his claim of having an El Greco:

http://tinyurl.com/jyfnh (Times)

The Domesday Book has gone online:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14187066/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5242794.stm

Analysis has proven that a portrait of Mary, Queen of Scots is
about 200 years older than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4798749.stm

Potentially 'don't eat that elmer' material, here's an article
on 'ever-burning lamps':

http://tinyurl.com/sx46d (AC)

On the 'foot style' of the Lincoln Memorial:

http://tinyurl.com/gfsax (Plain Dealer)

Pope Pius II's 'aesthetic legacy':

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/14/opinion/pienza.php

Nice piece on Mozart:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/060724crat_atlarge

... and his librettist:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5586983

Nice 'what the job entails' piece by an archaeologist/forensic
anthropologist:

http://tinyurl.com/f83b6 (WSJ ... no, not that one)

Interesting item on why nails are sold as they are in various
countries:

http://tinyurl.com/glzyj (Herald)

The British Library has acquired a Coleridge archive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/23/arts/23arts.html (4th item)

Some 700 b.p. letters from popes and kings will be returned
to Poland:

http://tinyurl.com/fwlta (AP)

A fire has damaged St. Petersburg's Trinity Cathedral:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/26/arts/26arts.html

Carnival has Egyptian roots?:

http://www.anba.com.br/ingles/noticia.php?id=11800

Review of Matthew Cobb, *Generation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/02/books/02grim.html

Assorted reviews of interest in the NYT's non-fiction
chronicle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/books/review/McKelvey.t.html

Review of D. Quammond, *The Reluctant Mr. Darwin*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/27/books/review/Desmond.t.html

Review of M. Belozerskaya, *The Medici Giraffe*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/25/books/25book.html

Haven't had one of these 'look what I found in the trash' stories
in quite a while:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14077818/

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ravenna:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/18/opinion/conway.php

Hindu Temples:

http://www.thehindu.com/fr/2006/07/14/stories/2006071402100600.htm
(great photos)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some idiots have vandalized some petroglyphs in northern
Quebec (strange motives in this one):

http://tinyurl.com/gq7rv (Leader Post)

... while miscommunication has led to the destruction of "stone
age" remains in South Africa:

http://www.theherald.co.za/herald/news/n16_18082006.htm

Plenty of coverage of the Getty's return of a couple of items
to Greece:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/detail.asp?onNews=&GRP=H&id=88806
http://tinyurl.com/fpt33 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/zq54m (Bloomberg)

... and what else Greece wants back (different):

http://tinyurl.com/ewnt9 (Time)
http://tinyurl.com/pjkve (BBC)

... and what museums are doing about provenance (different):

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/4047112.html
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1825719,00.html

Excellent piece by Suzan Mazur in Scoop on the role played by
the New York Times (and other media outlets) in the illicit
antiquities world:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0608/S00171.htm

... and a nice piece from a Madison, Wisconsin newspaper on
what's (not) in local museum collections:

http://www.madison.com/tct/features/index.php?ntid=95948&ntpid=0

A looted Peruvian headress was found in a London lawyer's office:

http://tinyurl.com/jgsft (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/zy2mx (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/hkbed (Reuters)

Iranian authorities busted some smugglers who had a map and were
digging tunnels:

http://tinyurl.com/ky82c (MET)

Not quite sure how to classify this one ... a good article about
a former tombarolo who now makes 'copies' of ancient Etruscan
pieces:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/22/arts/design/22tomb.html

The lucrative illicit antiquities market (on the internet):

http://tinyurl.com/zuae3 (BG)

That terrorism/Iranian artifacts dispute is still going on:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/20/news/persian.php

Thieves hit the Hermitage in the past weeks:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5235148.stm

... while Greece lost another icon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5266494.stm

While one of the 'important' pieces looted from the Baghdad
Museum was recovered:

http://tinyurl.com/ffp9b (IR)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/07/26/news/treasure.php
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NUMISMATICA
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National Numismatic Collection at the Smithsonian:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/collections/numismatics/

Some ancient coin id resources:

http://www.wildwinds.com/coins/greece/

Nice article on the Princeton Numismatic Collection:

http://tinyurl.com/gmmlq (PP)

India's first coinage:

http://www.med.unc.edu/~nupam/ancient1.html

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/fdd7r (Art Daily)

Glory of Persia:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_17451.shtml

Napoleon (at the Daheash Museum):

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/articles/060828craw_artworld

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Getty is getting into ancient theatre now:

http://tinyurl.com/fcsvl (LA Times)
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OBITUARIES
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Claire Mousseau (Montreal archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/gelg8

Keith DeVries:

http://tinyurl.com/lsnzb (PI)
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Neanderthals' creative side:

http://tinyurl.com/kkmzb (Independent ... may expire)

... and their 'modernity':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060824222042.htm

Early humans may have been prey for large birds:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/08/060830005634.htm

More on the 'hobbit debate':

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/21/hobbit_doubts/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Excavating the 'Beaded Mound' (11000 b.p. nomadic site):

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=52670

Good followup piece to the report that Donny George has left
Iraq (the Baghdad Museum was 'sealed'):

http://tinyurl.com/py3ux (WPost)

... more coverage of Donny George's departure:

http://tinyurl.com/jovnq (NYT)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/27/news/baghdad.php

The Dead Sea Scrolls origin debate gets the John Noble Wilford
treatment:

http://tinyurl.com/jlabu (Telegram)

"Ancient" gold coins have been found in a Kyrgyz mountain lake:

http://en.rian.ru/world/20060830/53329092.html

National Geographic suggests Lebanon's monuments survived the
recent hostilities unscathed:

http://tinyurl.com/qgemd (NG)

Recreating ancient Egyptian cosmetics:

http://tinyurl.com/m28jo (ANSA)

More coverage of that 'waterworks' find in Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/kqlrd

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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One of the recent Bulgarian finds is a priestess burial:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68755
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=68732

... another was a 5000 b.p. gold dagger:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=318934&sid=FTP

Possible discovery of the "hub" of Etruscan civilization:

http://tinyurl.com/qdslj (CdS ... Italian, but most thorough)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2338963,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/zn2pn (News24)
http://tinyurl.com/erdfm (IHT)

Archaeologists have found evidence of the 17 B.C. earthquake on
Paphos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=27637&archive=1
http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

A unique Roman bath house has been found in Kent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/5307258.stm

Plans are afoot to excavate the Roman theatre in Tiberias:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=756382
(last paragraph)

The Getty will be hosting performances of ancient drama:

http://tinyurl.com/ggc3c (LA Times)

The Domus Aurea will reopen earlier than expected:

http://tinyurl.com/gaeh2 (ANSA)

The Vatican has called for Latin to be revived as the official
working language of the EU:

http://tinyurl.com/lytvp (Total Catholic)

More coverage of the discovery that the Thera eruption was much
larger than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5287124.stm
http://tinyurl.com/laxp3 (USA Today)

A model of an Etruscan tomb is going on tour to raise funds
for the excavation of the real thing:

http://tinyurl.com/ebn47 (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/z3nc3 (ANSA)

The many faces of Cleopatra:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1853443,00.html

Some gossip about HBO's upcoming season of Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/fvqsn (Inquirer)

Plenty of ClassCon in a pedantic piece at the
Conservative Voice:

http://www.theconservativevoice.com/article/17745.html

Latin is alive and well in Nantucket:

http://tinyurl.com/oey4x (BG)

Can't remember if we mentioned that Scythian mummy
display in Germany:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5283320.stm?ls

More coverage of plans to restore Augustus' mausoleum:

http://tinyurl.com/gyakc (UPI)

More coverage of the idea that the Iliad was written by a
woman:

http://tinyurl.com/l8lkl (DCN)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Some guy bringing in his harvest discovered an Iron Age chamber
in North Uist:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/69256.html
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1290462006

A 1300 b.p. belt buckle found by a metal detectorist is going
on display (the BBC one has a good photo):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5292646.stm
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1860240,00.html

They're digging sites around Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/k3jc5 (WT)

Remains of a monastery have been found at Holyrood:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1266192006

The National Roads Authority is going to reveal what it's
found:

http://tinyurl.com/rxlkn (

A building associated with Arthur and the roundtable has
been found at Windsor Castle (!):

http://tinyurl.com/l9fux (Independent ... may expire)

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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Rethinking the fall of Easter Island:

http://tinyurl.com/ovnuf (American Scientist)

Plans are afoot to build a replica Chinese 'Treasure ship':

http://tinyurl.com/mg3sm (Shanghai Daily)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Low water levels have revealed a prehistoric skeleton in Lake
Travis (Texas):

http://www.kltv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5332909&nav=1TjD
http://tinyurl.com/h3rtv (ABC)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14557795/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14572829/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060828/ap_on_sc/prehistoric_skeleton

Excavating an 1840s free black household:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14558620/

Assorted sites in Krape Park:

http://www.journalstandard.com/articles/2006/09/01/news/news01.txt

Sewer construction on Vancouver Island has been stalled by the
discovery of some ancient bones:

http://tinyurl.com/fo23f (Canada.com)

Searching for Florida's first Spanish settlement:

http://www.wtvm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5331384&nav=8fap
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Is Peru's 'Ice Maiden' in danger?:

http://tinyurl.com/facou (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/fow6e (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/gw353 (ABC)

More on that Aztec ritual slaughter/dinner:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/08/24/aztec_sacrifices/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Latest claims of authenticity for the Shroud of Turin:

http://www.cathnews.com/news/608/183.php

... semi-related ... the Pope visited Veronica's Veil this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/knlbg (NewsDaily)

The earliest known Bach manuscripts have been found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/arts/01arts.html (1st item)

Mozart's role in the evolution of the piano:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/arts/music/30moza.html

A new technique for dating early books and prints:

http://evo.bio.psu.edu/hedgeslab/Publications/PDF-files/176.pdf

Building a medieval style castle:

http://tinyurl.com/qhqt9 (CNN)

More on the return of those papal letters to Poland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5295288.stm

On Piltdown man and Arthur Conan Doyle:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=1275732006

Why Michelangelo matters:

http://www.commentarymagazine.com/article.asp?aid=12202058_1

Interesting essay on John Adams and marginalia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/03/books/review/Brookhiser.t.html

... and one on historians' legacy (or lack thereof):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/5286894.stm

Wiki textbooks:

http://tinyurl.com/qjw95 (JPost)

Review of Marina B., *The Medici Giraffe*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20060902-101909-5392r.htm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Assorted Bronze Age burial sites in Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=1242462006
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Greece put on display items recently returned by the Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/km97y (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/f33y5 (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ec8ur (Reuters)

... and vowed to go after more:

http://tinyurl.com/fey3q (UT)

... while a similar exhibit is on in Sicily:

http://tinyurl.com/obtfc (UPI)

In the wake of that vandalism to some Arctic petroglyphs, folks
are asking that the carvings be protected (well duh):

http://tinyurl.com/kndr8 (CBC)

... more coverage, with photos of the damage:

http://www.nunatsiaq.com/news/nunavik/60901_02.html

The Four Corners region is ill-equipped to deal with looters
and vandals:

http://tinyurl.com/jmuxk (CCT)

A historic shipwreck in Lake Huron was looted of its bell:

http://www.cdnn.info/news/eco/e060829.html

Some idols were stolen from a temple in north Delhi:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=16187

A somewhat strange metal detectorist (not)/eBay tale:

http://tinyurl.com/qy9e9 (OA)

Russia is investigating all its museums after staff have been
implicated in recent thefts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5302094.stm

You've no doubt heard that the missing 'Scream' and other
stolen Munch works have been recovered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/arts/design/01scre.html

New discussion group of interest ... eFakes:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/eFakes-L/

A different sort of 'repatriation' issue ... an Auschwitz
survivor-artist wants some paintings she made returned to her:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/08/30/arts/design/30surv.html

China has given a couple of tomb raiders death sentences:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/worlds/?catid=9&newsid=19475

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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Leonardo da Vinci:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14533735/site/newsweek/

Tattooing in ancient Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/gkbok (UNewcastle)

House of Dona Garcia:

http://tinyurl.com/p3odq (JPost)

Le Coureur (shipwreck):

http://www.lexpress.mu/display_article_sup.php?news_id=71435

The Musee des Arts decoratifs is reopening:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/01/arts/design/01anti.html

... as is the Green Vault:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5302612.stm

Neil MacGregor is in Iran to encourage/expand cultural ties
between Iran and the UK:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/sep/1002.html
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ON THE WEB
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One of Archaeology Magazine's Interactive Digs have been
updated ... the Pisa Wreck (which is actually a 13th
century shipwreck in the Black Sea):

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/blacksea/index.html

... I'm not sure if we ever mentioned the Heirakonopolis one:

http://tinyurl.com/o7ljk

Medieval and Early Modern Data Bank:

http://chnm.gmu.edu/worldhistorysources/r/170/whm.html

The EDUCE Project (just got some major funding):

http://www.stoa.org/educe/
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OBITUARIES
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Stuart L. Wheeler (Classicist):

http://tinyurl.com/p7rr5 (Collegian)
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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apologies to all, but it looks like the cold I picked up in Italy
decided to turn into pneumonia when I return to Canada ... I'll be out
of commission for probably a week (for tomorrow for sure) ...
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon,
Geoffrey Fishburn, Tim Parkin, David Critchley, Croman mac Nessa,
Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hanan Charaf,
Hernan Astudillo, John Hall, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Louis A. Okin, Mata Kimasitayo, Mark Morgan, Mike Ruggeri,
Ross Sargent, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman,
Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

Thanks to all who passed along messages of encouragement during
our recent bout with pneumonia ... what follows is a big double
issue; as far as I can tell this a.m., all the links are working.

...there seems to be a 'site is threatened' theme this week ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Pondering recent discoveries in the Neanderthal world:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1873015,00.html

... the discovery which apparently inspired the foregoing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/science/14neanderthal.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2356606,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/5343266.stm
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060911/full/060911-8.html
http://tinyurl.com/powrr (AP via Yahoo)

On the possibility that modern humans are the evolution's
'odd man out':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060908093606.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14737491/from/RS.2/

Early hominids were eagle fodder:

http://tinyurl.com/n9gz5 (NG)

An origins of man exhibit in Kenya is causing controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/qnznd (MET)
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AFRICA
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Early use of colour symbolism in the Zambia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5329486.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A first century B.C./B.C.E. tomb has been found beneath a
Tel Aviv school:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004767955
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3299730,00.html

A recent political appointment has raised concerns for the
safety of Iraq's antiquities (maybe this was what Donny George
knew was coming):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2359024,00.html

see also:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/812/heritage.htm

cf. more coverage of Donny George's departure:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/11/features/antiq.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/arts/design/09antiq.html

An undisturbed royal tomb from the Valley of the Kings?:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2351885,00.html

Did Nefertiti have bags under her eyes?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/09/05/nefertiti_arc.html

A CT scan of a "middle-class" mummy:

http://tinyurl.com/r9zgy (Telegraph)

Using technology to record and interpret Egyptian inscriptions:

http://tinyurl.com/qbxw2 (NG)

Review of a biography of Gertrude Bell:

http://www.themoderatevoice.com/posts/1158432882.shtml

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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A late Roman villa from Laodiceia:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=141655

This one wouldn't work for me a couple weeks ago, but it does
now ... an article in arabic (with photos) on the discovery
of a Roman necropolis in Beirut:

http://www.annaharonline.com/htd/BEAA060831.HTM

Remains of a Roman bath house from Kent:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1871816,00.html

A possible Roman villa site in Bottisham:

http://tinyurl.com/n8xlj (CEN)

Construction workers have uncovered a Roman village in
the heart of Bonn:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2143358,00.html

More Roman relics from India ... this time from Elephanta
Island:

http://www.dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1053100

Another Thracian tomb find in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=69538

Some Roman monuments apparently were damaged during the recent
events in Lebanon:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1874509,00.html

A Roman road in MidSussex is threatened by development:

http://tinyurl.com/oq8b2 (MidSussex News)

Interesting item on 'deadly' features of the temple of Apollo
at Hierapolis:

http://tinyurl.com/hl8m3 (USA Today)

Assorted academics are seeking protection for Roman (and other)
artifacts from Musiris:

http://www.keralaonline.com/newspages/display.php?newsid=2347

Another Rome-as-U.S. piece, this time in the guise of a
television review:

http://news.independent.co.uk/media/article1604084.ece

Another Israel-as-Carthage piece:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/762920.html

Middle school mythology fun/learning:

http://www.journalpilot.com/articles/2006/09/13/news/news3.txt

Very good piece on why students take Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/ozvka (GT)

Oliver Stone has done yet another cut of Alexander:

http://www.darkhorizons.com/news06/060911n.php

A live version of Ben Hur:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,,1870304,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060911/stage_nm/france_benhur_dc_2

A woman received what looks like a Bar Kokhba denarius as part
of her change during a recent shopping expedition:

http://www.wltx.com/sports/story.aspx?storyid=41584

In case you haven't read about the EDUCE project:

http://www.stoa.org/educe/

Greek astronomers have appealed the the astronomical community
to keep the universe Greek:

http://tinyurl.com/owuc5 (Australian)

Review (by Lindsay Davis) of an upcoming docudrama about
Rome:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14934-2354065,00.html

Review of Robert Harris, *Imperium*:

http://tinyurl.com/g6tso (Newsday)

Review of a jazzy interpretation of Ovid's Metamorphoses:

http://tinyurl.com/z3urp (BG)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A neolithic female figurine from Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/g8m4l (ANSA)

They've identified (sort of) Gristhorpe Man (very interesting):

http://tinyurl.com/hhbsu (Telegraph)

Early occupation (attempts) of Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5317762.stm
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/06/human_migration_to_britain/

cf.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5352430.stm

There is hope of finding more Iron Age remains at a Teeside
farm site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/5342654.stm

Archaeologists have located (and have begun excavating, of course)
remains of Tolbooth Jail:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1365232006

Recent finds suggest Moscow may be older than previously thought:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/2663/

And a possible Viking settlement/trading post has been found in
Kalingrad:

http://tinyurl.com/ntytl (RS)

Recent Czech finds:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/82630

A Bronze Age 'pyramid' from the Ukraine:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1867373,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/5322894.stm
(I can't remember whether Ukraine is considered Europe or Asia)

Canterbury Cathedral is in need of repairs:

http://tinyurl.com/p9lvh (UPI)

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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An ancient drum from VietNam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/120906/culture_a.htm

... and a 600 b.p. village from the same nation:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2006/09/611308/

Some Han Dynasty footwear:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004804446
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-09/08/content_5068174.htm

Mold threatens some wall-paintings in a Japanese tomb:

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200609150162.html

Myanmar's regime is threatening ancient monuments there:

http://tinyurl.com/mggwh (LA Times)

Assorted restorations to assorted monuments in India:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1786304,000600010001.htm

On the early history of Kaya:

http://tinyurl.com/qkcdx (KT)

Strange find from Japan (looks like a sculpture of a sock puppet):

http://tinyurl.com/mto9j

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Petroglyphs discovered during construction in Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4348721

An ancient quarry in northern Alberta:

http://calsun.canoe.ca/News/Alberta/2006/09/15/1843550-sun.html

Remains of 8000 b.p. (!) pit houses in New England:

http://tinyurl.com/nv4kd (NB)

Elsewhere in Utah, remains of Native Americans who were victims of
pioneer violence were found during house construction:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/193381/
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=493356

An 18th-century sutler's shop near Fort Edward:

http://tinyurl.com/eff6l (BG)

They're checking out the wreck of the "Queen of the Waves":

http://tinyurl.com/ouhck (Sun)

Recent finds from Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/ehvva (Daily Press)

Latest on the Hunley:

http://tinyurl.com/rtrf5 (UPI)

More coverage of the search for the first Spanish settlement
in Florida:

http://english.people.com.cn/200609/04/eng20060904_299393.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of coverage of what may the oldest writing ever found
in the Americas:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060911/full/060911-11.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060916/fob2.asp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/5347080.stm
http://www.livescience.com/history/060914_oldest_writing.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6077734
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20060916/fob2.asp
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_sc/earliest_writing_6
http://tinyurl.com/o6cwt (NG)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14834538/
http://tinyurl.com/nl76e (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/kgucp (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/kkzol (Age)
http://tinyurl.com/hj8rw (Birmingham News)
http://tinyurl.com/mps7l (BG)

Remains of a previously-unknown civilization from Honduras:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060909/sc_nm/life_honduras_ruins_dc
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, interesting findings on the domestication of
rice:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060908144231.htm

... and there's a totally unrelated piece on what one learns
from one's own DNA:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/07/opinion/edunoki.php

Did climate change spur the development of civilization?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060910143119.htm

On the development (and survival) of Romansh:

http://tinyurl.com/l998o

Ringing bells the old fashioned way:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/nyregion/13bells.html

Interesting item on the Golem:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/11/arts/11conn.html

American Chronicle has a piece on Roman v. Celtic Christianity:

http://tinyurl.com/repw5

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ostia Antica:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/travel/10dayout.html

Horace's Villa:

http://tinyurl.com/lpj42 (WIR)

Turkey:

http://www.news.com.au/travel/story/0,23483,20356279-27977,00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Suzan Mazur has penned another piece for Scoop, this time on
what Greece wants back from the MFA plus an interview with one
of Robert Hecht's cronies:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00210.htm

Vandals are targeting petroglyphs in Australia:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/060915/21/10jpf.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200609/s1741595.htm


That guy who stole the Saliera was sentenced this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/09/arts/09arts.html (5th item)
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NUMISMATICA
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Carbon County Tokens:

http://lofthouse.com/USA/Utah/carbon/tokens.html

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Treasures from the Royal Tombs at Ur:

http://tinyurl.com/rtcdm (BFP)

History Lost:

http://tinyurl.com/p6xjl (Reuters)
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/09/15/10067627.html
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/142768.asp

DaVinci Drawings:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/reviews/story/0,,1871845,00.html

US museums fear a tax law change will affect their acquisitions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/13/arts/design/13gift.html

Assorted acquisition/museum news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/arts/design/15voge.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Persians:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/theater/15pers.html

Semele:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/arts/music/15seme.html

Giuditta:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/15/arts/music/15giud.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Pierre Vidal-Naquet (Ancient historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/14/world/europe/14vidal-naquet.html

Peter Ganz (medievalist)

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1603635.ece
(article might expire by the time it gets to you)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Here's a Bosnian 'pyramid' update for y'all:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060914/ap_on_sc/bosnia_pyramids_3
http://www.physorg.com/news77425771.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14824495/

Robots in ancient Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/ras6w (Pravda ... surprise, surprise)

Might as well include the Jesus-buried-in-Japan thing too:

http://tinyurl.com/nefpe (BBC)

... and the latest in Noah's Ark research:

http://tinyurl.com/mpsdf (Skeptical Inquirer)
http://www.livescience.com/othernews/060905_noahs_ark.html
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, Charles Fertig,
Stephen Goranson, Ross W. Sargent, Steve Rankin, Amedeo Giampaglia,
Donna Hurst, John McMahon, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein,
John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Kris Curry, Richard C. Griffiths,
Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Tony Jackson,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

Happy Rosh Hoshanah to our friends who follow the Jewish
calendar ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Lots of coverage of the discovery of 'Lucy's baby':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5363328.stm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/m-mte092106.php
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2471146
http://www9.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/dikikababy/
http://www.nature.com/nature/focus/hominiddevelopment/index.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/060918/full/060918-5.html
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,438219,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/science/21child.html (JNW)
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20060921/D8K8U6PO0.html
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/285881_fossil21.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2367328,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1877236,00.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14922303/from/RS.5/

... here's the Google link if you need more:

http://tinyurl.com/fsv3a

cf.:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/09/060920-lucy.html

Good interview with the discoverer:

http://tinyurl.com/jo462 (Independent)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 7000 b.p. site is to be excavated by UChicago folk:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=384373

Report on a Spanish excavation of an Egyptian site:

http://tinyurl.com/s2fnj (press release in Spanish)

A very interesting floor from the treasury at Persepolis:

http://tinyurl.com/hekr9 (Iranmania)

... and the excavations of the Gorgan Wall:

http://tinyurl.com/zegv8 (ibidem)

Good coverage of the ongoing excavations at Ramat Rahel:

http://tinyurl.com/r3eya (JPost)

... while they've run out of money to excavate that church in
a Megiddo prison:

http://tinyurl.com/pxpqb (Globes)

They'll soon be excavating a Parthian/Sassanid shipwreck
recently found in the Persian Gulf:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/sep/1186.html

Nice coverage of the Turin Royal Canon:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/813/hr2.htm

Interesting restoration/reuse of a Hittite dam:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54393

On what needs repairing in Lebanon site-wise after the recent
events there:

http://tinyurl.com/okjf9 (AP via Yahoo)
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1874508,00.html

New on the web ... the Polish Egyptological Journal:

http://www.egyptnj.com/

On the year 5767:

http://tinyurl.com/fjjmc (JPost)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Recent finds in Thesprotia:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=74376

This puts a somewhat different spin on some of those recent
Bulgarian discoveries:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/world/story/0,,1879633,00.html

They're going to be sprucing up the Circus Maximus:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/060921/3/2q9h7.html
http://tinyurl.com/gjdu9 (Reuters)

What the Romans did to Wales:

http://tinyurl.com/fp276 (Western Mail)

Interviewish reviewish thing from NPR with Barry Strauss on
his latest book re-examining the Trojan War:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6117459

More coverage of the Plutonion and its deadly vapours:

http://news.sawf.org/Lifestyle/21552.aspx

More coverage of the new 'Argo':

http://tinyurl.com/ghr8j (YM)

In case you haven't heard about the impending film production
on the Acropolis:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1874741,00.html

Review of Andrew Dalby, *Rediscovering Homer*:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/review.cfm?id=1409402006

A few reviews of Robert Harris' *Imperium*:

http://tinyurl.com/gk3gx (LA Times)
http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/story/452772p-380990c.html
http://tinyurl.com/kcq9k (WP)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The Ice Age kept getting in the way of settlement of Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/nuzrl (NG)

A mystery dog from Teeside:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/5355992.stm

Interesting discovery of a casement in the remains of a 17th
century fortress in Norway:

http://www.physorg.com/news77992399.html

Strange story of the 'gagging' of a Scottish archaeologist by
a power company:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1374032006

Lengthy piece on Marie Antoinette (might actually be a review):

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/060925crat_atlarge

Finds in a Horncastle garden:

http://tinyurl.com/gqv59 (HC Today)

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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Somewhat vague item on recent finds in Lam Dong (Viet Nam):

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2006/09/614801/

The imaging techniques used on the Archimedes Palimpsest have
been used to restore a 700 b.p. Hindu manuscript:

http://www.physorg.com/news77908116.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting finds in the 'Quarry of the Ancestors' in northern
Alberta:

http://www.fftimes.com/index.php/3/2006-09-18/27069

White House loot off the coast of Nova Scotia?:

http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2006/09/21/1873677-cp.html

They'll be looking for the Roanoke colonies again:

http://tinyurl.com/fchfs (Sentinel)

Looking for evidence of 19th century "ethnic" people and
prostitutes in Idaho:

http://tinyurl.com/qqs34 (Bee)

More coverage of that sutler's store find in New York:

http://www.wstm.com/Global/story.asp?S=5416419&nav=2aKD

More coverage of the search for the first Spanish colony in
Georgia:

http://tinyurl.com/hgodh (Star)

More coverage of those petroglyphs recently found in Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4360167
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C650191839%2C00.html
http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=500539

An 18th century rectory in St. Louis:

http://tinyurl.com/z8brn (P-D)

Latest on the Hunley:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/14807806/

There's going to be a live webcast from Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/zyh5e (DP)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Coverage of recent finds from Peten (Guatemala):

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/81053.html
http://www.jp.dk/nyviden/artikel:aid=3952256/ (Danish, photos)

Mummified dogs from Peru (!):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5374748.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060923/ap_on_sc/peru_ancient_pets_4
http://tinyurl.com/n2wff (BG)

Latest claims about the Nazca lines (not sure if this is Elmer
material yet):

http://tinyurl.com/lhue5 (al Jazeera)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, it appears that most Brits are descended from
a group of Spanish fishermen:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2002919.html
http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7817

DNA and the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/286236_science23.html

Finally ... a vaccine against the Black Death:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1468734.ece

A little activity designed to get kids interested in what
archaeologists do:

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/147571

Interesting item on the oldest recorded supernova:

http://tinyurl.com/oo7r5 (AFP via Yahoo)

The journal Oral Tradition now has a web presence:

http://www.research.missouri.edu/news/stories/060920_oraltradition.htm

Can't help but smile at this one (even though I probably
shouldn't) ... a bit of performance art:

http://tinyurl.com/evevt (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/rk26x (BG ... photo of the guy)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1376792006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/5355546.stm (photo)

Folks might be interested in this piece on folks trying to
get into Oxbridge:

http://tinyurl.com/kmc7q (FT)

Nice feature on amber:

http://tinyurl.com/edkau (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/laqbj (Raw)

Latest 'old seeds' to germinate:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5361396.stm

An unfinished Tolkien work has been finished by J.R.R.'s
son and will soon be published:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060918/ap_en_ot/books_new_tolkien

A different 'reburial':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5372956.stm

A bit late for us, but interesting ... a Pentagon team has
identified the remains of a WWI soldier:

http://tinyurl.com/gnort (CBS)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14955061/
http://tinyurl.com/jsn3e (Enquirer)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/09/22/ww.one.id.ap/index.html

This one is interesting for its implications (especially
in Commonwealth countries) ... an Australian court has ruled
that Perth belongs to the Aborigines:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/21/world/asia/21australia.html

Assorted items of interest in the NYT Arts Briefly column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/arts/20arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/arts/18arts.html

Review of Tina Cassidy, *Birth*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/books/review/Jacobs.t.html

Review of John Stubbs, *Donne*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25336-2366922,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Ethiopia:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/17/travel/17ethiopia.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
The Fall issue of the CSA newsletter has hit the e-waves:

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#fall06

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Croatian police made an arrest in the museum theft (I think) we
mentioned last week:

http://tinyurl.com/ja7pq (Raw)

... in case I didn't miss it, here's some coverage of the crime:

http://tinyurl.com/l7tdh (Khaleej Times)

Greek police have recovered a Byzantine icon which was stolen
a month or so ago:

http://tinyurl.com/kwzsl (IOL)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/5373666.stm

That map dealer who was stealing stuff from libraries has asked
for a light sentence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/20/nyregion/20mbrfs-009.html
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A Charles I coin is coming up to auction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1876305,00.html

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Ancient Food:

http://tinyurl.com/nc3c5 (AFP via Yahoo)

Arts in Latin America:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/arts/design/22lati.html

Indian Painting:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/arts/design/22indi.html

DaVinci:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/5324832.stm
http://tinyurl.com/kdutr (TIL ... dilettante?)
Amarna:

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/exhibits/amarna/about2.shtml

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/elc35 (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/kgm5o (Seattle PI)

Early Sikh Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/arts/design/18sikh.html

Terracotta Warriors (in Rome):

http://www.mondomostre.it/index.html?includi=cina_ufficiostampa

Israel has opened an underground archaeological exhibit near
the al-Aqsa mosque:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21244188.htm
http://tinyurl.com/hz965 (Reuters)

... and they're planning an exhibition about the Damascus Gate:

http://tinyurl.com/om63w (JPost)

Haven't seen anything about he National Museum of the American
Indian in a while:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/22/arts/design/22dike.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Hippolytus:

http://tinyurl.com/escdk (Valley Sun)

Persians:

http://tinyurl.com/qv6xo (NYPost)
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/09/18/theater/reviews/18pers.html

Greek mythology via puppetry:

http://tinyurl.com/g57l6 (Inquirer)

Richard II:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/09/19/theater/reviews/19rich.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
New page on the city of Aptera:

http://www.just-crete.co.uk/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Thomas Eubanks (archaeologist):

http://www.kplctv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5419811
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PODCASTS
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

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Dave Sowdon, Kris Curry, Croman mac Nessa, Rick Heli, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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On the DNA front, it looks like they're going after some more
Neanderthal genetic material:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1451622006

Neanderthal 'butcher shop' from France:

http://tinyurl.com/rl2k9 (Topix)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Neolithic remains from near Izmir:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=54909
http://english.people.com.cn/200609/26/eng20060926_306333.html

Neolithic decorated skulls from Tell Aswad:

http://tinyurl.com/fyh3b (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.post-trib.com/news/71296,OldDude.article
http://www.ttc.org/200609241343.k8odht419690.htm

4000 b.p. mills from Kultepe:

http://english.people.com.cn/200609/30/eng20060930_307651.html

A British archaeologist thinks he knows what happened to the
stuff looted from the Temple by the Romans:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2373355,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3308449,00.html
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7004984901
http://www.cathnews.com/news/609/144.php

9th century B.C./B.C.E. temple from Syria:

http://tinyurl.com/gax6f (Canada Now)

A 3rd century A.D./C.E. synagoge near Maoz Haim:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3309730,00.html

Report of the 2006 excavation season at Old Nisa:

http://parthia.com/nisa/nisa2006.htm

Latest on the 'salt men' of Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/sep/1313.html

More coverage of damage to sites in Lebanon during the recent
hostilities:

http://tinyurl.com/mcw76 (Mail and Guardian)

Traces of silver in Second Temple pottery hints at Jerusalem's
wealth:

http://tinyurl.com/gnmzx (JPost)
http://www.physorg.com/news78598479.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-09/dbnl-saf092706.php

Ongoing concerns for artifacts of Iraq's pre-Islamic history:

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/Style/168049/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Schoolkids are part of the crew at a dig searching for a Roman
camp in Leeds:

http://tinyurl.com/gu6sv (Leeds Today)

Remains of a Roman dog were found in a well at Liss:

http://tinyurl.com/krmll (Petersfield Today)

Poppaea's villa is to be restored:

http://tinyurl.com/re45t (ANSA)

Kirk Summers sacrifices:

http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2006/09/29/451ccc989cb08

A short history of Classics at UVa:

http://www.cavalierdaily.com/CVArticle.asp?ID=27879&pid=1483

Roman soldiers scrapping in the bath house:

http://tinyurl.com/f6bwf (Telegraph)

Robert Harris on Pompey, piracy, and related matters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/opinion/30harris.html
http://tinyurl.com/z82vk (Amherst Times)

Reviews of Robert Harris, *Imperium*:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06274/725935-148.stm
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_4415187?source=rss
http://tinyurl.com/r5fam (USA Today)

Review of Barry Strauss latest on Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/nh3em (Herald)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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3000 b.p. boat from Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=1111362006

5th century Christian tomb from Niis:

http://tinyurl.com/m7bw7 (B92)

A medieval 'lost village' in North Warwickshire?:

http://tinyurl.com/e5xsw (icCoventry)

Assorted sites revealed during the heat wave this summer in
Scotland:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=1240882006

Trying to save an 18th century lighthouse in Orkney:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=1132192006

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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Sa Huynh burial jars:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=20619

3rd century B.C./B.C.E. 'hero stones' from India:

http://www.thehindu.com/2006/09/24/stories/2006092406750300.htm

Review of Thomas Keneally, *Commonwealth of Thieves*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/01/books/review/McCulloch2.t.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A Texas teen found a 1000 b.p. bowl (almost intact) in New
Mexico while on a field trip:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060930/ap_on_sc/prehistoric_bowl_1
http://tinyurl.com/ojpnk (WPost)

Cataloging Utah petroglyphs:

http://www.heraldextra.com/content/view/194185/

Latest film at the Archaeology Channel: Texarcana Archaeology
Blues:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A Woodland site near Danbury (Ohio):

http://tinyurl.com/flj2m (Plain Dealer)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More coverage of those pet burials in Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/hrote (Sun Sentinel)
http://tinyurl.com/pceuu (ABC)
http://www.physorg.com/news78418199.html
http://tinyurl.com/p7tg2 (NG ... nice photo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5374748.stm

More on priestly involvement in the Nazca lines:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/printDS/148052
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Controversy over what Confucious really looked like:

http://english.people.com.cn/200609/26/eng20060926_306323.html
http://tinyurl.com/n5zfz (Telegraph ... photo)

The technology used to restore the Archimedes Palimpsest has
been used on a 750 b.p. Hindu manuscript:

http://www.rnews.com/Story_2004.cfm?ID=42392&rnews_story_type=18

The Derveni papyrus is also still making news:

http://tinyurl.com/s77gl (GreekNews)

Was the Mona Lisa pregnant?:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Mona-Lisa.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/arts/design/27mona.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/5384822.stm
http://tinyurl.com/huz86 (Globe and Mail)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15002161/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15016124/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15029288/

Christopher Columbus and Ptolemy's Geography:

http://tinyurl.com/p6adp (Swiss Info)

Interesting article on Freud's antiquities collection:

http://tinyurl.com/g75h2 (Age)

... and one on the Jesuits:

http://tinyurl.com/s73oh (Australian)

Nice item on Alfred Nobel:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/health/26docs.html

A second edition copy of Soren Kierkegaard's Either/Or
dedicated to Hans Christian Anderson:

http://www.jp.dk/kultur/artikel:aid=3980810/
(Danish, but with photos)

Using imaging techniques to locate and preserve petroglyphs:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060925084617.htm

More on the reburial of the mother of Russia's last Tsar:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/5387572.stm

Dr. Evil in Scotland?:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1432692006

Review of a new t.v. series on ancient engineering:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/engineering/index.html

Robin Hood was Welsh?:

http://tinyurl.com/n7au9 (Daily Mail)

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Chaco Canyon:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/travel/escapes/29chimney.html

Olympos:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55471

Kilmartin:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=848142006

Ardvreck:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/topics.cfm?tid=189&id=1359422006

Petra:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/11/travel/trpetra.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeological Diggings (Australian):

http://www.freewebs.com/diggingsmag/currentissue.htm

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Plenty of coverage of the Boston MFA's return of a baker's
dozen of antiquities to Italy:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1777822.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060928/ap_en_ot/looted_antiquities_1
http://tinyurl.com/klhz3 (Bloomberg)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29mfa.html
http://news.bostonherald.com/localRegional/view.bg?articleid=159782
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/art/4222548.html
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20060929-070052-4237r
http://tinyurl.com/s95ne (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/q23gx (WPost)

Related ... the 'Flying Medea' vase is now in Cleveland:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0609/S00366.htm

Greek police recovered some items purloined from around
Thessaloniki:

http://tinyurl.com/hguzu (Kathimerini)

That Medici on trial for antiquities smuggling is offering to
tell the whereabouts of 'object x' to bring the trial to an
end:

http://tinyurl.com/npznm (Bloomberg)

French police have seized a Romano-Dacian bracelet which was
up for sale in a gallery:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060929/od_nm/france_jewel_dc_1

Greek police have recovered a 700 b.p. icon:

http://tinyurl.com/jxtng (Kathimerini)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/24/world/europe/24greece.html

Bulgaria is trying to protect its sites from less-than-
savoury elements in its society:

http://tinyurl.com/guw8p (Echo)

India's press is catching on to the seriousness of antiquities
theft in that nation:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2033281.cms

... while 18 Buddhas were stolen from a Bihar museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/5384408.stm

Interesting 'treasure dispute' involving the S.S. Central
America ... this one doesn't appear to have hit the mainstream
press yet:

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/view_press_release.php?rID=18421
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NUMISMATICA
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Possible threat to educational programs like Ancient Coins in
Education:

http://tinyurl.com/p3lcz (blog)

Numismatic Index of Periodicals:

http://www.harrybassfoundation.org/search_numlit.asp

Napoleonic Medals:

http://www.napoleonicmedals.org/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Leonardo:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/design/26leon.html

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/jjvvb (Herald)

Bibles Before the Year 1000:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/living/15641177.htm

Through the Valley of the Shadows:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/83611

Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/noguz (ANSA)

Set in Stone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29medi.html

Review of the Ara Pacis Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/25/arts/design/25paci.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/26/features/meier.php

The trials and tribulations of the National Museum of Cambodia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/arts/design/26angk.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/09/26/features/museum.php

'Phases' an interior decorator went through:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29anti.html

A Cimbue 'reunion' at the Frick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/29/arts/design/29voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Semele:

http://nymag.com/arts/classicaldance/classical/reviews/21654/index.html

Richard II:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/criticsTheatre

Somewhat strange item on the (non)staging of part of the Idomeneo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/arts/music/30idom.html
http://tinyurl.com/mnlrz (Chronicle)
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Archaeology Magazine's interactive digs:

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/

Cyprus' Department of Antiquities has a new website:

http://tinyurl.com/h4n5u
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OBITUARIES
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Norma Lorre Goodritch (Arthurian scholar):

http://tinyurl.com/edzyy (LA Times)

Alfred Mann (Musicologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/27/obituaries/27mann.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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The latest DNA thing suggests a jawbone initially identified as
coming from a modern human might be from a Neanderthal (and
possibly the earliest one in Britain):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2383429,00.html

Interesting theory that early humans followed the coast when
they migrated:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5398850.stm

Already someone is questioning the claims about 'Lucy's baby':

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uop-acs100206.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061002214649.htm

cf:
http://blogs.chron.com/sciguy/archives/2006/10/lucys_baby_news.html

The Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project:

http://www.nhm.ac.uk/about-us/news/2006/october/news_9647.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5392134.stm
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AFRICA
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On the desert origins of the pharaohs:

http://tinyurl.com/fxjdg (AramCo World)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An 11 000 b.p. (or thereabouts) house from Syria:

http://tinyurl.com/ktv78 (Australian)
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061004-045017-4695r

A 3000 b.p. burial from Narges Tappeh (Iran):

http://tinyurl.com/k96m6 (Iranmania)
http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0610020146102932.htm

King David's spa?:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3312035,00.html

More coverage of the need for repairs at sites in Lebanon:

http://tinyurl.com/hkj7x (Taipei Times)
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuID=29&ContentID=8835
http://tinyurl.com/kw3mz (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ztvf2 (Detroit Free Press)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061004/ap_on_sc/mideast_ancient_sites

DNA analysis on a mummy is revealing the origins (perhaps) of
Leishmaniasis:

http://tinyurl.com/g72kz (SciAm)

Allianoi update:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,1887394,00.html

Semi-touristy piece on the sculpture of Hercules at Bistoun:

http://tinyurl.com/hqgqa (Iranmania)
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1054.html (photo)

An interview with Bart Ehrman on the Gospel of Judas:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/living/religion/15701139.htm

More coverage of those silver anomalies in Jerusalem pottery:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/09/060927201202.htm#

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Roman mosaics from Somerset:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/5406236.stm

A major coin hoard was found by a digger on at a Kent construction
site:

http://tinyurl.com/z7l6b (24 Dash)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/5408262.stm

More theories about gases at Delphi:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2006/1002/2

Allianoi update:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,,1887394,00.html

Somewhat extravagant claims of knowledge of nanotechnology among
the Greeks:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/02/hairdye_his.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5412410.stm

Thracian trepanation:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=70535

A 'radically new' Greek dictionary is in the works:

http://www.physorg.com/news79192540.html

A Roman site lies beneath a proposed skatepark in Horncastle:

http://tinyurl.com/kt5re (Horncastle Today)

In case you missed Robert Harris on Pompey:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/01/opinion/edharris.php

Josiah Ober delivered the Brigance Forum lecture:

http://www.wabash.edu/news/displaystory.cfm?news_ID=3907

What Thomas Sienkewicz is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/kvt5a (Register)

Semi-touristy piece on the sculpture of Hercules at Bistoun:

http://tinyurl.com/hqgqa (Iranmania)
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1054.html (photo)

Latin in the fish market:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/71441.html

Cicero Speaks:

http://tinyurl.com/zgp3y (Daily Astorian)

Classics on the rise in Australia:

http://tinyurl.com/j5l8a (Australian)

Review of Adrian Goldsworthy, *Caesar ...*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20061007-104913-2482r.htm

Reviews of Robert Harris, *Imperium*:

http://tinyurl.com/jat8t (Sun)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Neolithic wooden boats from Macedonia:

http://tinyurl.com/hb6sy (MPT)

... and a followup to that Bronze Age canoe find which was holding
up pipeline construction in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/jsskx (icWales)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/5401838.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2389056,00.html

A farmer in Wales discovered one of his outbuildings is actually
a medieval dining hall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/5399670.stm

A Jewish cemetery in the heart of Bohemia:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/83914

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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Not sure if this is the same Dong Son bronze drum from VietNam
which we mentioned before:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2006/10/618317/

6000 b.p. house from Shaanxi:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/04/content_5168717.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/200610/04/eng20061004_308940.html

Hawaiian shipwreck:

http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2006/s2713.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Archaeologists believe they have found the Illinois home of the
founder of St. Louis:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uoia-ros100406.php
http://www.belleville.com/mld/belleville/news/columnists/15674163.htm

A tome honouring the work of Bruce Trigger:

http://www.mcgill.ca/reporter/39/04/trigger/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Aztec ruins in the heart of Mexico City:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/5409510.stm
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=2528256
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1471142006
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061004/wl_nm/mexico_aztecs_dc
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15131348/

Archaeologists in Peru have found a cave with 600 b.p. burials
of the warrior Chachapoyas people:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1757142.htm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1816823.ece
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061005/sc_nm/peru_mummies_dc
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15147928/
http://tinyurl.com/hh6ad (Reuters)

A 700 B.C./B.C.E. monolithic sculpture of a calendar suggests
a high position for women?:

http://tinyurl.com/k8h3f (AP via Yahoo)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650196503,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/gguyx (IOL)

Instead of the Columbus-bashing we usually get around this
time of year, here's a story about something Columbus' men seem
to have valued more than gold:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5403012.stm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/ucl-hst100306.php

On the role of theatre in Maya political organization:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/uocp-nse_1100206.php

National Geographic has a nice set of photos of finds from the
Temple of the Moon at Teotihuacan:

http://www3.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0610/feature5/index.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Classical language status for Kannada?:

http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/04/stories/2006100411010100.htm

Freemasons are giving up some of their secrets:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/04/nyregion/04masons.html

Last week we mentioned a manuscript of Kierkegaard's Either/Or,
but all the coverage was Danish ... here's some in English:

http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/detail.asp?onNews=&GRP=H&id=91528

Afghan art restorers are being trained in Italy:

http://english.people.com.cn/200610/03/eng20061003_308410.html

On Pythagoras, the masculinity of numbers, and the lack of
females in the upper echelons of science:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/science/03comm.html

Interesting item on the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/features/story/0,,1880284,00.html

On the history of the funerary violin:

http://tinyurl.com/ghtxy (NPR)

I guess we'd better start holding our breath in church:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5406048.stm

Genghis Khan (TM)?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/5412410.stm

More coverage of the opening of MU's Center for Studies in the
Oral Tradition:

http://columbiamissourian.com/news/story.php?ID=22071

Review of a couple of books on petroglyphs:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/19435

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Parthenon:

http://tinyurl.com/gk9uk (Sun Times)

Kempsey (UK):

http://tinyurl.com/jyoe5
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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eBay in the UK is (finally) clamping down on sales of illicit
ancient coins:

http://tinyurl.com/gokq9 (Mirror)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/5401588.stm
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART40747.html

Very interesting 'story behind the story' thing on that
Greek icon theft:

http://tinyurl.com/zkcgt (Mainichi)
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NUMISMATICA
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On the Mexican Peso and Roman Denarius:

http://news.silverseek.com/SilverSeek/1159808598.php

Wookey Hole Mill Watermark collection:

http://www.csaquotes.com/wookeyholemillcollection.html

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Clearly the younger set need some training in how to behave in
museums:

http://tinyurl.com/gtlbz (Telegraph)

... while 'their' parents seem to be unaware of what museums are
about:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/30/education/30teacher.html

Newsweek's coverage of Italy's exhibition of items recently
recovered from the Getty:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15175628/site/newsweek/

... and other coverage of an upcoming one regarding the Boston MFA:

http://tinyurl.com/f85fk (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/kt4td
http://tinyurl.com/gl9rm (GNN)

... while Cleveland may be next on Italy's list:

http://tinyurl.com/f26v9 (Plain Dealer)

... and Greece is drafting legislation:

http://tinyurl.com/ke3dd (ANA)

... and talking some more with the Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/hz9yz (IHT)
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=5492024

The Louvre at the High Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/jfavk (AP via Yahoo)

Silver coins from Iasos:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=55012

Antique false teeth:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/5410408.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2025204.html

More Columbus news ... tangentially ... a 'copy' of Ptolemy's
Cosmographia is coming up for auction:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1816886.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2392578,00.html

Phoenix Art is displaying a pile of ancient art at its gallery:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/061005/nyth129.html?.v=68
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Eurydice:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/03/theater/reviews/03eury.html
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ON THE WEB
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Lost and Hidden Christianity:

http://tinyurl.com/gnf9w (BBC)
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OBITUARIES
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Norma Lorre Goodrich (Arthurian scholar):

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06275/726707-122.stm
http://tinyurl.com/kv8fl (IHT)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Haven't heard much about Bosnian pyramids for a while, so here's
a bit of an update:

http://travel.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1887835,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1887640,00.html
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PODCASTS
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Edward Rockstein, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Geoffrey Fishburn,
Hernan Astudillo, Louis A. Okin, Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths,
R.M. Howe, Rochelle Altman, Ross W Sargent, Rick Pettigrew,
'Sueday', Tim Parkin,Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,Tony Jackson,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
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EARLY HUMANS
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The 'Hobbit' debate continues:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/fm-ced100206.php

... but see:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/jws-nhs100206.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we mentioned this one before, but this one seems to
have more details .... 11 000 b.p. finds from Gobeklitepe:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=56369

A 3000 b.p. cobblestoned 'laneway' from Gohar Tappe:

http://tinyurl.com/y2wmof (Tehran Times)

A Burnt City roundup:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1109.html

Interesting human + dog burial from Iran (plus more):

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1090.html

A large Muslim necropolis from Jaen:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/cgi-bin/news/exec/view.cgi/4/6487

How water reached Zippori:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=772477

A pair of Australian Radio programs on the Codex Sinaiticus:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2006/1751700.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/linguafranca/stories/2006/1751720.htm

Reconsidering the mummy's curse:

http://www.newsok.com/article/2951598/?template=entertainment/main

More coverage of that Temple Treasure theory:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2397919,00.html

No more idling engines near the pyramids:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/10/10/egypt-idling-pyramid.html
http://tinyurl.com/ydpwdc (IOL)

Latest Temple Mount news:

http://www.jnewswire.com/article/1264

Review of the Egypt installment of the 'Engineering an Empire'
docuseries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/09/arts/television/09empi.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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A huge amount of coverage of the 'opening' of that Vatican
necropolis found under a carpark three years ago:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061010/ap_on_sc/vatican_necropolis_5
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0605747.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1891559,00.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15198192/
http://tinyurl.com/ybwnzb (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/yfrf24 (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/yhch3e (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ykjojd (Freep)
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=21571
http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=96502
http://tinyurl.com/yea6bm (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/yzgqy2 (DCN)
http://tinyurl.com/ya3jm9 (Bloomberg)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200610/s1759385.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ymwgk5 (ANSA)
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2143093.cms
http://tinyurl.com/yjb4o5 (Age)
http://www.startribune.com/614/story/731303.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2396172,00.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15255311/site/newsweek/
http://tinyurl.com/y4hsht (News.com)
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Vatican-Necropolis.html

... with an important detail about actually visiting the site:

http://212.77.1.245/news_services/press/vis/dinamiche/d3_en.htm

Renewed coverage of the Ithaca-Kephalonia theory:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6034367.stm

We're getting another wave of the-pope-intends-to-promote-the
Latin-Mass reports again:

http://tinyurl.com/ybolep (Daily News)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2397919,00.html

Classicists to the rescue:

http://tinyurl.com/yysp36 (Telegraph)

The impact of 'No Child Left Behind':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/education/11education.html

More coverage of that Thracian brain surgery find:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2028609.html
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005130486
http://tinyurl.com/y9pljl (Echo)
http://tinyurl.com/ynfu7k (USA Today)

More coverage of the Plutonion:

http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=328256&sid=FTP

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Early Brits were dairy folk:

http://tinyurl.com/y4k5nb (DN)

Neolithic dwellings near Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/upycs (DN)

More on the Ancient Human Occupation of Britain project:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/5392134.stm

Medieval 'garbage' along Oslo's waterfront:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1488935.ece

Not sure if we'll hear more about the salvaging of this 17th
century ship off the coast of the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/ybard2 (SP Times)

In case you missed it the first time ... the Battle of
Hastings:

http://tinyurl.com/yk5vfo (BBC)

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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A relic of Stone-age Sydney:

http://tinyurl.com/yjr728 (SMH)

An Eastern Hand Dynasty painted coffin from Inner Mongolia:

http://english.people.com.cn/200610/12/eng20061012_311295.html

A Warring States period warrior cemetery from China's Henan
province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/13/content_5199659.htm

... and from the same period, seven tombs from Hebei province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/13/content_5199959.htm

Some Chola period bronze idols have been found:

http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/12/stories/2006101205700200.htm

Floods are threatening some World Heritage sites in Thailand:

http://tinyurl.com/yd98ej (AFP via Yahoo)

Time for the semi-annual tourists-are-ruing-Angkor-Wat piece:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/0918/p06s01-woap.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The latest 'peopling of the Americas' study:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6059 (Portuguese)

... cf. this semi-related bit of info on the Bering Strait:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061011/sc_nm/science_bering_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/yhk8sm (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061012085548.htm

All about the occupations at the Hardscrabble area of Skillet
Creek:

http://www.messengernews.net/News/articles.asp?articleID=4219

Recent finds at Fort Raleigh:

http://tinyurl.com/ymnye3 (Sentinel)

Searching for a War of 1812 cemetery in Vermont:

http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=5510760&nav=4QcS

Mystery bones in downtown Philadelphia:

http://tinyurl.com/ynyprj

On wildfires and archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/y23gse (Mercury)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15241805/

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061012/ap_on_sc/fire_archaeologist_2

The latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about a couple
Jornada Mongollon sites in New Mexico:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Some Tsimshian artifacts are returning to British Columbia:

http://tinyurl.com/yxeu7c (Globe and Mail)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A Mayan canoe from Belize:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/local/15762737.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ydlp7t (AScribe)

More coverage of that monolith from Mexico City:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15254497/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061013/sc_nm/mexico_aztecs_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/6050366.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061014/ap_on_sc/mexico_aztec_find

More coverage of the role of theater in Maya political
organization:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061002214825.htm

More coverage of those 'cloud warrior mummies' from Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/ycluww (blog)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, they're looking at goats and human migration:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/10/science/10observ.html
http://tinyurl.com/y2252k (NG)

... while here's a somewhat different application of DNS technology:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15240873/

More coverage of that Ptolemaic atlas sale:

http://tinyurl.com/ycalkw (This is London)

... and what the results were:

http://tinyurl.com/yh2g3p (Reuters)
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=151386
http://www.hindu.com/2006/10/12/stories/2006101200282200.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yzlx6z (IOL)

Speaking of auctions, the next one to watch is one of a pile
of Spanish Armada stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/ya7qrp

The latest round of World Heritage Site nominations:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1503192006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/6036607.stm

Can't remember if we've mentioned the archbishop's false teeth
yet:

http://www.cathnews.com/news/610/48.php

Robin Hood as scholarly subject:

http://tinyurl.com/ycgugl (BBC)

Google Earth is turning out to be a major tool for identifying
potential sites:

http://www.charlotte.com/mld/charlotte/news/15763952.htm

Reviews of that Marie Antoinette flick:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/movies/13mari.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/movies/11roya.html

A miniseries about Henry VIII is in production:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/arts/television/11tudo.html

Assorted arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/design/13voge.html

First chapter of R. Rosenbaum, *The Shakespeare Wars*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/books/chapters/1008-1st-rose.htm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Olympos (Turkey):

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1003/p20s01-litr.html?s=hns
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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A pile of antiquities found in a pensioner's home in Athens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/11/arts/11arts.html (5th item)
http://tinyurl.com/ygk73h (IHT)
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=75252

That guy who stole those maps from libraries was (lightly)
sentenced this week:

http://tinyurl.com/t5xff (WCBS)

As advertised, the Cleveland Museum is the next target for
Italy:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0610/S00114.htm

... and Greece is having more talks with the Getty:

http://tinyurl.com/hz9yz (IHT)

More coverage of Italy showing off recent items it claimed from
the Boston Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/utu6y (IHT)
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/news.php?id_n=2314

Uttar Pradesh police have recovered an 8th century Buddha:

http://tinyurl.com/yepbjq (Daily India)

On the ongoing pillaging of antiquities in Iraq (with what
must be a misleading photo):

http://tinyurl.com/yauk3x (RFE)

I've never heard 'tomb raider' used in a North American context:

http://tinyurl.com/ym6kql (Oregonian)
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NUMISMATICA
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The old San Francisco mint is to become a museum:

http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/news/15620795.htm

A so-called 'hard times token' was found during renovations to
a 17th century house:

http://tinyurl.com/gr8pj (Union Leader)

Medieval and Islamic Mediterranean coins:

http://islamiccoins.ancients.info/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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China's Liao Empire:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/design/13liao.html

Courbet and the Modern Landscape:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/design/13cour.html

World Maps:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6134 (Portuguese)

An update on the progress of the Met's new Greek and Roman
galleries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/08/arts/design/08back.html

18th century stuff coming to the block at Sotheby's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/13/arts/design/13anti.html

Latest Acropolis Museum coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yfwxgw (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/yenwfb (Kathimerini)
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/science/10/09/greece.acropolis.ap
http://tinyurl.com/ye66ne (SMH)

... and the Bode in Berlin:

http://tinyurl.com/yb25hs (Raw)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Hmmm ... not Elmer material yet, but will likely lead to some;
a study suggests Britain became an island in less than 24 hours:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/09/26/island_britain/

... in fact, I'm sure we'll hear more at a future Atlantis
conference, such as this one which is considering the 'Sardinia
hypothesis':

http://tinyurl.com/y98m5j (ANSA)

And, in the spirit with which this section is compiled, we
must mention Princeton's Carbury Day:

http://tinyurl.com/yylxav (Providence Journal)
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Joan Griffith, John McMahon, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
Joseph Lauer, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W. Sargent, Susan Jaslow, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
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The lessons of Piltdown Man:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6054656.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Trying to excavate the Babajian mound before the illicit diggers
do:

http://tinyurl.com/wklg7 (Iranmania)

A Sassanid water mill:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1178.html

A joint Iranian-UChicago excavation on the Susan Plain (Iran):

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/oct/1151.html

Big conference upcoming on the archaeology of Iran:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=395072

Syria and Italy are planning a big archaeological institute:

http://www.sana.org/eng/21/2006/10/19/77568.htm

Gobekli Tepi as Eden:

http://www.thefirstpost.co.uk/index.php?menuID=2&subID=1007

Finishing some long-unfinished work at Aleppo:

http://asia.news.yahoo.com/061017/3/2rh00.html

A 5000 b.p. 'stamp' from Harran:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=56794

Finds from various periods found from sifting the dirt from
Temple Mount:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=776922

A new archaeological campus is under construction in the heart
of Jerusalem:

http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005191985

More coverage of theories about the Temple Treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/yx5zx8 (BG)
http://tinyurl.com/uf667 (JPost)

A construction boom in Jordan is threatening ancient sites:

http://tinyurl.com/y89von (MEFN)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Interesting cache of ancient anchors found near a temple of
Aphrodite on Cyprus:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1546372006
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=28471&cat_id=1

Mosaics from Hadrianopolis:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=56959

More remains of Colchester's chariot track have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/yxzhq2 (EADT)

The archaeological stuff of Messene:

http://tinyurl.com/y525f4 (AthensNews)

The Derveni Papyrus has been published:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=75684

All about the Seven Wonders:

http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/7Wonders/story?id=2583185&page=1

Why ancient Greek monuments survived earthquakes (sort of):

http://tinyurl.com/y452g4 (Kathimerini)

More coverage of the Vatican necropolis opening:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1886635.ece
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/10/09/ap/tech/mainD8KL9O2O0.shtml
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6067020.stm

... nice video on same:

http://abcnews.go.com/Video/playerIndex?id=2584387

OpEd piece on the Elgin/Parthenon marbles:

http://tinyurl.com/uf667 (New Statesman)

More coverage of theories about the Temple Treasure:

http://tinyurl.com/yx5zx8 (BG)
http://tinyurl.com/uf667 (JPost)

Nice coverage of William Child's work at Marion:

http://tinyurl.com/y3jk5g (Daily Princetonian)

The Latin Table at Princeton:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/10/18/news/16241.shtml

On Dylan and Ovid:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3832755a1860,00.html

Nice profile of Thomas Winter:

http://tinyurl.com/w37xm (Daily Nebraskan)

... and one of Benjamin D'Ooge:

http://tinyurl.com/uvjqm (Ann Arbor News)

Boris Johnson on cheating on exams:

http://tinyurl.com/slmqv (Guardian)

Cambridge is no longer teaching Sanskrit:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/2161235.cms

Review of Paul Cartledge, *Thermopylae*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-2409733,00.html

Review of Barry Strauss' Trojan War tome:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/eagle/entertainment/books/15817718.htm

Reviews of Robert Harris, *Imperium*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/22/books/review/Theroux.t.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/20/arts/idbriefs21B.php

On the popularity of ancient-themed novels and the like:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7889

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The Tarxien Temples project (Malta):

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=40601

On Europe's first farmers:

http://tinyurl.com/y86lm6 (AG)

Remains of nine Neolithic structures near Stonehenge:

http://tinyurl.com/wd8xb (GNN)

A 2000 b.p. 'city' near Inverness:

http://tinyurl.com/yy2sgg (Courier)

A Bronze Age cup is returning to Kent:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6054316.stm

A Viking ship from Larvik:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1498902.ece

Fears that the Tower of London is being 'overshadowed':

http://tinyurl.com/ycjgyf (Telegraph)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6072580.stm

Trying to protect Castle mound in Norwich:

http://tinyurl.com/yfknbq

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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'Stone Age' axe from near Sydney (not sure if this is the same
one we mentioned last week):

http://tinyurl.com/yfs5no (Age)

Pottery with what might be the earliest examples of written
Chinese language:

http://china.org.cn/english/2006/Oct/185017.htm

More ancient tombs from Henan:

http://english.people.com.cn/200610/16/eng20061016_312276.html

A pair of interesting burials from Vietnam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2006/10/622238/

An archaeological site at one of the Olympic venues:

http://tinyurl.com/y5z4y3 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061016-013859-4103r
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6054524.stm
http://tinyurl.com/yyb2a7 (SMH)

Moving a Japanese tomb to preserve it:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20061019a8.html

A Chinese kiln in Bendigo:

http://www.abc.net.au/centralvic/stories/s1763246.htm?backyard

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A Hohokam village in the heart of Phoenix:

http://tinyurl.com/wol4f (Republic)
http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5541991
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/daily/local/29454.php

Restoring damaged petroglyphs in Nevada:

http://www.krnv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5566313&nav=menu113_1_5

A Middle Woodland village on Biltmore Estate:

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=200661018071

A mystery tower on Rhode Island:

http://www.eyewitnessnewstv.com/Global/story.asp?S=5549834&nav=F2DO

Searching for a Revolutionary War cemetery:

http://tinyurl.com/y2npzr (BG)

The problem with burials that get in the way of development:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/15786509.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A 1200 b.p. canoe in a Mayan ruin:

http://tinyurl.com/wbdrd (KSHB)
http://www.newschannel10.com/global/story.asp?s=5542233
http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/news/local/15762737.htm

The discovery of an historic floor at Cinnamon Bay (USVI) is
causing delays:

http://tinyurl.com/y3dmj6 (Tradewinds)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Horses might have been first domesticated in Kazakhstan:

http://tinyurl.com/y2k46v (DN)

More coverage of archaeological use of Google Earth:

http://tinyurl.com/uhmut (Observer)
http://tinyurl.com/y4cr8c (Red Orbit)
http://www.newsobserver.com/110/story/498957.html

They've figured out why blue frescoes fade:

http://tinyurl.com/y76ccq (DN)

Demystifying Columbus:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1017/p05s01-woeu.html

Interesting item on Mary Magdalene:

http://www.msmagazine.com/spring2006/mary.asp

On academic charisma:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/061023crbo_books

Chinese follies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/arts/design/20anti.html

The perils of a Picasso:

http://tinyurl.com/ybv6ey (New Yorker)

Review of Ron Rosenbaum, *The Shakespeare Wars*:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/books/20book.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Caral:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15350058/  (nice photo)
http://tinyurl.com/y27n7o (USA Today ... ditto, but bigger)
http://tinyurl.com/uoa2u (AP via Yahoo)

Istanbul:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/15/travel/15choicestanbul.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology (November/December):

http://www.archaeology.org/curiss/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Egyptian police have broken up what appears to have been a major
smuggling ring:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061016-042000-5671r

More coverage of that pensioner's illicit collection in Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/yeon3v

A 'coin thief' in Spain was arrested 'with the goods':

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_6911.shtml

An obviously-purloined gravestone from Belfast was returned
this week:

http://waldo.villagesoup.com/Government/story.cfm?storyID=80513

The Museum Case hit the news again this week with a complicated
tale of the trip of a statue of Aphrodite to the Getty:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/world/4277279.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/10/19/aphrodite-getty.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061019/ap_en_ot/looted_antiquities_3
http://tinyurl.com/yflwtu (Mercury)
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/19/arts/19arts.html

A European ambassador was prevented from shipping some Yemeni
antiquities out of the country:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=990&p=local&a=5

Italy and Switzerland have signed a 'deal' to combat smuggling:

http://tinyurl.com/uzrz3 (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/y7lldy (IHT)

... while the US is hesitating on an agreement with China to
limit imports of antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/arts/design/18emba.html

India is cracking down on smuggling of Buddhist relics:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1537202006

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NUMISMATICA
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Fake coins on L.A.'s Skid Row (strange):

http://tinyurl.com/y6hqex (Mercury)

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Holy Image, Hallowed Ground:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/20/news/raacat.php

Ghiberti's Doors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/arts/design/18emba.html

Louvre Atlanta:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/10/16/arts/design/16high.html

Ehon: The Artist and the Book in Japan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/21/arts/design/21ehon.html

Americans in Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/arts/design/20pari.html

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2006/10/21/this_day/news04.txt

Plenty of coverage of the display of the Sevso Treasure/Hoard
in the UK, much to Hungary's chagrin:

http://tinyurl.com/yxvayl (Reuters)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1924109,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6061970.stm
http://tinyurl.com/y684qj (ITV)

Some reaction:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,173-2410288,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2414133,00.html

Berlin's Museum Island is getting a lot of press lately:

http://www.fftimes.com/index.php/7/2006-10-16/27557
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6063126.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article1886635.ece
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2206814,00.html

A new museum in Thebes (Greece) is on its way:

http://tinyurl.com/y5en6f (Kathimerini)

Coverage of the Internation Fine Art and Antique Dealers show:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/20/arts/design/20fair.html

Assorted music notes from the Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/21/arts/music/21clas.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Marie Antoinette:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/articles/061023crci_cinema

A couple productions of Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/theater/18ishe.html

... and an adaptation of same:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/10/17/theater/reviews/17hear.html
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ON THE WEB
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Complete works of Darwin:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15346154/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061019/sc_nm/britain_darwin_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6064364.stm
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OBITUARIES
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Sheldon Meyer (OUP Editor):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/18/obituaries/18meyer.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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More Sardinia-as-Atlantis coverage:

http://www.physorg.com/news79968780.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Lucy will be touring the U.S.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6082990.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/arts/26arts.html (5th item)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15401398/

... but not at the Smithsonian:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061025/ap_on_sc/smithsonian_no_lucy_2
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An undisturbed Syrian tomb dating to the third millennium
B.C./B.C.E. (coverage of this is quite varied):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061025082150.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y7tpek (Telegraph ... interesting photo)
http://tinyurl.com/y49uh3 (Sun ... I think this is the same site)
http://tinyurl.com/y8pnu9 (NG)
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/524603/?sc=rssn
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/science/24tomb.html (great photos)

Recent arrests of tomb raiders in Egypt have led to the discovery
of the tombs of some ancient Egyptian dentists:

http://tinyurl.com/y5swff (NG)
http://www.kfmb.com/story.php?id=67702
http://tinyurl.com/y3g3mj (NPR)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,,1929720,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061023/ap_on_sc/egypt_new_tombs_6
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15384819/
http://tinyurl.com/ycfeuo (SMH)
http://www.theolympian.com/101/story/47006.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/152350.php
http://tinyurl.com/ynh5uk (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/y9aas6 (JPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6076560.stm
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2006/10/22/D8KU1HT80.html

A family tomb from the New Elamite period:

http://tinyurl.com/yepn6r (Iranmania)

Cataloging the cultural resources of Iraq:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2006-07/cataloging.html

Another NG feature on Zahi Hawass:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/10/061024-hawass.html

More coverage of what they're finding in Temple Mount siftings:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/776922.html

Reconsidering Norman Golb's theories on the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/yk4ne2 (Tribune)

New edition of the Encyclopedia Judaica:

http://tinyurl.com/ylvtc2 (JPost)

Review of Miriam Vamosh, *Food at the Time of the Bible*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=780027

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Much coverage of the reopening (for tourists) of Pompeii's
Lupanare:

http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20061025-113328-5639r.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yz92hh (Statesman)
http://tinyurl.com/ygbuqc (Age)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6090486.stm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/27/content_5257273.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2423611,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yanuez (DC)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15434770/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6173339,00.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1932494,00.html
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/story.xhtml?story_id=12300C7HDCWI
http://tinyurl.com/y6wc85 (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/snbhh (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/113424,CST-NWS-italy27.article
http://tinyurl.com/yehgd3 (Globe and Mail)
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2006-10/27/content_718165.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ykwsfx (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/yd9fbf (ANSA)

Assorted finds, including a nice bust of Aristotle, from near
the Acropolis:

http://tinyurl.com/sjpwo (Kathimerini)
http://e.sinchew-i.com/album.phtml?id=2193 (just a photo)
http://tinyurl.com/yav2f5 (IOL)

Update on efforts to save Allianoi:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=57738

The Vatican Necropolis story still has legs, apparently:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650202270,00.html

... as does the Sevso Treasure:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/arts/design/25sevs.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/26/features/sevso.php
cf: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1929925,00.html

... and the Temple Treasure theory of Sean Kingsley:

http://tinyurl.com/y23w7j (Chronicle)

... the Delphic Oracle on gas story:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2418509,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yllok9 (Australian)

More Latin Mass coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yzcntd (PB Post)

On the quirks of Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/yx3arn (Telegraph)

A talk on Greek society:

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=50709

EU funding to restore a number of Greek sites:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=75899

Review of Barry Strauss' Trojan tome:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/entertainment/15817718.htm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An 8000 b.p. skeleton of a child from northern Bulgaria:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-10/26/content_5253488.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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Eastern Zhou dynasty tombs from Henan province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200610/24/eng20061024_314802.html

2000 b.p. tombs from Viet Nam:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=21473

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On Brown University's connections to slavery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/opinion/23mon3.html

Interesting article on petroglyphs in Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/features/ci_4549884

Yamasee artifacts from S.C.:

http://tinyurl.com/ygfpsb (Island Packet)

The Passamaquoddy people have acquired a chunk of land with some
petroglyphs:

http://www.wcsh6.com/news/article.aspx?storyid=43784

They're expecting to find a pile of burials in Tucson:

http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5579905

George Washington the party guy ... or not:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6388351

Rethinking Uncle Tom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/arts/23conn.html

Interesting 19th century 'true crime' story:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6394129
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Not sure whether we've seen this 'ancient human footprints' from
Mexico story before or not:

http://tinyurl.com/ymu3v9 (CNN)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15425876/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061026/ap_on_sc/mexico_ancient_footprints

That Aztec monolith story is still making the rounds:

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=332097&sid=FTP
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Weird sort of DNA front question relating to Billy the Kid:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/us/24brfs-002.html

Recreating ancient scents:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb

Manure as evidence for horse domestication:

http://tinyurl.com/uqlc7 (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/wxpat (SciAm)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-10/gsoa-neo102306.php

A letter from Michelangelo to Catherine of Aragon is coming up
for auction:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=22828&c=90

... as is other Catherinish correspondence:

http://tinyurl.com/yccccf (BBC)

... while the Bodmer's plans to sell a few ancient manuscripts
is causing quite a kerfuffle:

http://www.nzz.ch/2006/10/28/eng/article7202046.html

Latest on Gibson's Apolcalypto:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/061025/2/111pz.html

Future archaeologists should be aware of the IGERT fellowships:

http://tinyurl.com/yfa4mc (blog post)

They may have found the site of Sgt. York's heroics:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15434251/

On the Celtic roots of Hallowe'en:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/butler.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Rome:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-2421587,00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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More coverage of the Getty Aphrodite phase of the Museum Case:

http://tinyurl.com/y48l6o (NW Times)

A slap on the wrist for a librarian who stole and sold some
rare books on the Internet:

http://tinyurl.com/y79gyu (Yahoo)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2422037,00.html

Once again we're hearing concerns for Iraq's antiquities:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2420459,00.html
http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=22839&c=90
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=478

Some idiots vandalized some petroglyphs in Utah:

http://www.ksl.com/?nid=148&sid=597895
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_4555056

Review of the *Medici Conspiracy*:

http://tinyurl.com/y4jydq (Financial Express)

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NUMISMATICA
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On the Ashmolean's Roman Provincial Coinage Online:

http://www.physorg.com/news81095256.html

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Tiepolo drawings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/27/arts/design/27tiep.html

Assyrian reliefs at the Hood:

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=17893

American Indian Art and Artifact Show:

http://www.collegiatetimes.com/news/3/ARTICLE/7832/2006-10-25.html

Perhaps not surprisingly, the Getty is (slightly) adjusting
its acquisitions policies:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=22848&c=90
http://tinyurl.com/yk6trd (LAT)
http://tinyurl.com/yzgqbo (Bloomberg)

The Museum of the Portuguese Language has opened:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/world/americas/23brazil.html

Followup to that piece wherein a teacher was fired for taking
Grade Fives to a museum with naked statues (oh my!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/25/us/25brfs-001.html

Judging antiques by their owners (!?):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/26/garden/26auction.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Iphigenie and Salome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/arts/music/23lyri.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
John V. Murra (anthropologist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/24/obituaries/24murra.html

Kathryn Jarvis (magistra):

http://tinyurl.com/ycspwu (FCT)

William Bright (linguist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/23/books/23bright.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, Dorothy King,
R.M. Howe, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein,
Jim Lockmiller, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
Kris Curry, Louis A. Okin, Mata Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rick Pettigrew, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent,
Susan Jaslow, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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More evidence of interbreeding of modern humans and Neanderthals:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/wuis-mhm110206.php
http://tinyurl.com/yjkw8w (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.livescience.com/humanbiology/061030_neanderthal_hybrid.html

Romanian fossils come from some of the earliest modern humans
to settle in Europe:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6099422.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I'm sure most folks have already seen the 'Egyptian Girls Gone
Wild' coverage:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15475319/

Not sure whether this is the same Syrian tomb as the one we
mentioned last week ... interesting details about sacrifices of
various beasties:

http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/0610/075.shtml

... this is the one we mentioned last week:

http://www.jhu.edu/~gazette/2006/30oct06/30syria.html

Babylonian cuisine:

http://homepage.mac.com/toke_knudsen/cuneiform_cuisine/Personal84.html

Time for the annual too-many-tourists-are-damaging-Egyptian-sites
coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yxwfyv (SMH)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6109582.stm

Searching for Parthian remains near Ecbatana:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1033.html

A Chinese connection for the Dead Sea Scrolls? (this should probably
be Elmer material ...):

http://tinyurl.com/yj8q7j (Toronto Star)

cf. some previous blogposts by Jim Davila:

http://tinyurl.com/yzju2a
http://tinyurl.com/ya6nnh

and elsewhere:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/rs/dss/marks/review.html
http://tinyurl.com/yb2tjz

Locating Sodom and Gomorrah:

http://www.elpasotimes.com/living/ci_4556577

An inscription of the general who took Masada:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=782058

Much coverage of the return of the Reisner Papyri to Berkeley:

http://cbs5.com/local/local_story_307151221.html
http://tinyurl.com/y3u3jo (Union Tribune)
http://www.berkeley.edu/news/media/releases/2006/11/01_papyri.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/ygz6ta
http://dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=22095
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6106098.stm

Not sure how you "stumble upon" something while swimming, but
a lifeguard has found a 4000 b.p. iron anchor near Netanya:

http://tinyurl.com/y6dbb6 (JPost)

Plans are afoot to repair earthquake damage at Bam:

http://tinyurl.com/t7q7b (Union Tribune)

Celebrating World Heritage status for Bistoun:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1046.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Reburying a Roman villa to protect it:

http://tinyurl.com/yj76zt (Lynn News)

Major Roman find in the heart of Colchester:

http://tinyurl.com/ydmrzv (EADT)

A Roman villa find in Spain is holding up road construction:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_7187.shtml

A Roman stud:

http://tinyurl.com/yakvsm (CEN)

A Roman chamber tomb from Turkey:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/02/content_5282058.htm

No digging at the Kerameikos:

http://tinyurl.com/yjl76q (Kathimerini)

The Dendra armour needs some conserving:

http://tinyurl.com/yco8nc (Kathimerini)

On politics and graffiti:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/opinion/15917714.htm

Can't remember if we mentioned this study on why crimson in
Pompeiian frescoes is fading:

http://www.esrf.fr/news/pressreleases/pompeii
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061030120603.htm

Plenty of coverage of a project to xray a statue of Venus at
the Michael C. Carlos museum with a view to reuniting body and
head:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/04/content_5289241.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_on_sc/x_raying_venus
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15537678/

Plenty of coverage/reviews of Fagles' Aeneid translation:

http://www.goshennews.com/entertainment/local_story_307131235.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061030/ap_en_ot/books_classic_translator_3
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/books/30fagl.html
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1834067,001100040001.htm
http://washingtontimes.com/entertainment/20061103-090306-6393r.htm
http://www.nysun.com/article/42644

Not sure if we've mentioned this article by Alan Massie on the
popularity of Roman-themed novels:

http://www.prospect-magazine.co.uk/article_details.php?id=7889

Folks might be interested in the way this Latin Fest is set up:

http://tinyurl.com/y93n57 (Statesman)

Another view of the Latin Mass:

http://tinyurl.com/yhpzc7 (Boston Globe)

More coverage of the Delphic Oracle stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/y3p5dy (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226504,00.html

More coverage of the Lupanare reopening:

http://www.kthv.com/news/news.aspx?storyid=36072

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Time for the annual "Stonehenge is threatened" piece:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/6112476.stm

Finds from various periods at Kintbury:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1939933,00.html

Viking era coins from Sweden (is it my imagination, or are most
finds in this part of the world made by schoolkids?):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15520771/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226231,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061030/od_afp/swedenarchaeology

... a blogpost tells of other finds too:

http://www.bitsofnews.com/content/view/4279/44/

A 'new' Viking inscription with runes:

http://www.jp.dk/english_news/artikel:aid=4051990/

Mysterious burials in Leith:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/news.cfm?id=1610722006

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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The discovery of some tunnels near X'ian are being linked to
a Han Dynasty power struggle:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=44104
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/01/eng20061101_317254.html

Another neglected monument in India:

http://www.hinduonnet.com/2006/10/30/stories/2006103014270200.htm

Meanwhile, efforts to save a World Heritage site in VietNam
have been halted -- get this -- due to the discovery of
archaeological artifacts (if that doesn't cramp your brain,
nothing will):

http://www.thanhniennews.com/travel/?catid=7&newsid=21601

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A large communal grave has been found at Louisbourg:

http://tinyurl.com/y5kl5s (G&M)
http://www.capebretonpost.com/index.cfm?sid=901&sc=1

A sort of 'state of the dig' piece on the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061030/us_nm/life_blackbeard_dc
http://tinyurl.com/yxtvjw (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/yf55bb (ABC)

Evidence for an autopsy 400 years ago on St. Croix:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061101/ap_on_sc/early_autopsies
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15511638/

Interesting item on 'Inscription Rock' in New Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/ya8ac7 (ABQ Journal)

Promoting Fort St. Joseph:

http://www.dowagiacnews.com/articles/2006/11/02/news/dnnews2.txt

Review of David Naswaw, *Andrew Carnegie*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/books/30gord.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about the various
peoples who have called Hell's Canyon (Idaho/Oregon) home:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
This is different (and I'm somewhat skeptical) ... examination
of a fingerprint purported to belong to Leondardo da Vinci
suggests he may have "Middle Eastern" roots:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/10/28/leonardoprint_his.html

Strange trial of a 92-year-old archaeologist in Turkey (it's
interesting that no one seems to be questioning the claim
itself):

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=hotnews&alt=&trh=20061103&hn=37887
http://tinyurl.com/ykfu68 (G&M)
http://tinyurl.com/ymcjsu (JPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6106098.stm

Hallowe'en and the 'cross quarter' days:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15485365/

Also on the Hallowe'en front ... a sort of archaeological
Hallowe'en piece:

http://tinyurl.com/ybpx92 (Daily Campus)

Some saints weren't so 'saintly':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/opinion/01martin.html

Changes to the chimney sweep industry:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/30/world/europe/30sweep.html

A burial at Emily Dickinson's house:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061103/ap_en_ce/dickinson_grave
http://tinyurl.com/yhjsa5

Most haunted roadways in Britain (in the spirit of Hallowe'en,
of course):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,,1935459,00.html

Another copyright case I don't quite understand:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6036755.stm

More coverage of that early horse domestication story:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/10/061023192518.htm

Review of Ole Benedictow, *The Black Death*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25340-2432149,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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There's some questions about some Turners recovered by the Tate:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23569-2433045.html

Another arrest in Greece -- this time four people in Larissa
who were trying to sell a small collection of antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/y4ml3t (Kathimerini)

A recovered art show in Rome (doesn't the policeperson look like
she posed for the painting?):

http://tinyurl.com/yzxdtj (ANSA)

Looting churches in Italy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1936267,00.html

A Roman ring kerfuffle comes to an end:

http://tinyurl.com/yc7s2u (Advertiser)

Operation 'Bring 'em back' in Oregon:

http://tinyurl.com/yg75yz (Oregonian)
http://tinyurl.com/yngsqz (Oregonian)
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NUMISMATICA
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A rare coin investment scam:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/06300/733364-28.stm

New Jersey paper currency:

http://www.frontierguard.org/Research/NJFG2B09.html

Interesting George Washington skull and crossbones funeral
medal (make sure you look at the reverse):

http://www.stacks.com/lotdetail.aspx?lrid=AN00041293&side=R

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Upcoming auction news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/02/arts/design/02auct.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Vidimus ... an online magazine devoted to medieval stained
glass:

http://www.vidimus.org./
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Clifford Geertz:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/01/obituaries/01geertz.html
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Latest Bosnian pyramid update:

http://tinyurl.com/y2jttw (ABC)
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Tim Parkin, Hernan
Astudillo, Croman mac Nessa, Dorothy King,  Ross W Sargent,
Tony Jackson, M.B. Myer, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Edward Rockstein, Mata Kimasitayo, Mark Morgan,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Susan Jaslow,
and W. Richard Frahmfor headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
What did early hominids eat?:

http://www.dispatch.co.za/2006/11/11/Features/e2.html
http://tinyurl.com/y66z7a (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/y8dgdt (Telegraph ... very good)
http://tinyurl.com/ybbtuu (Guardian ... different spin)
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_4635546?source=rss
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2446395,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y45wlh (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/y8jtym (Health Day via Yahoo)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoca-vdo110606.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uou-abf110306.php
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15640434/

More evidence of human-neanderthal interbreeding:

http://www.physorg.com/news82311440.html
http://tinyurl.com/yablbq (CNN ... strange photo)
http://www.hhmi.org/news/lahn20061006.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061103083616.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061107/sc_nm/science_neanderthals_dc
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15611031/
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6290
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/science/09gene.html (JNW)
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AFRICA
================================================================
Trying to preserve ancient texts in Timbuktu:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061110/sc_nm/mali_manuscripts_dc_1
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Skulls from "various races" have been found in burials near
the Iranian city of Semnan:

http://tinyurl.com/yxhkph (Iranmania)
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=403654

A Bronze Age graveyard where that Second Temple model once was:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=115003
http://tinyurl.com/wzg3b (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/yjk3od (ME Times)

Problems raising a Persian shipwreck:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=11/11/2006&Cat=10&Num=2
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1117.html

Online book: Herbert Verreth, *The northern Sinai from the 7th century BC
till the 7th century AD. A guide to the sources*:

http://www.trismegistos.org/sinai/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Roman and Punic finds from Pantelleria:

http://tinyurl.com/ykm7ka (ANSA)

Roman artifact found in a burial in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/article.php?ID=5450
http://www.physorg.com/news82319502.html
http://tinyurl.com/yy2szu (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/y4edwg (SD)

A Roman inscription from Bitola:

http://tinyurl.com/v85r9 (makfax)
http://tinyurl.com/yneotl (mrt)

Chlorine and Pompeiian frescoes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/science/07observ.html

A dig in the heart of Canterbury may shed light on Roman Britain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/6128294.stm

A tiny piece of the Erectheion was returned this week:

http://tinyurl.com/yf2jcv (Kathimerini)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6138214.stm
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061107-035315-6443r
http://tinyurl.com/ydj7pf (ANA)
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/11/eng20061111_320567.html

Father Foster is teaching Latin again:

http://wdtprs.com/blog/2006/11/foster-ing-latin-once-again-in-rome/

On Oedipus and Bush:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15642593/site/newsweek/

An Aeneidathon:

http://tinyurl.com/w2hhc (Maroon)

More coverage of that xrayed Venus:

http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/125089,CST-FTR-venus06.article
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/lifestyle/2006-11/06/content_726009.htm

Reviewish thing of Craig Barnes, *In Search of the Lost Feminine:
Decoding the Myths That Radically Reshaped Civilization*:

http://www.freenewmexican.com/news/51961.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Discovery of a (n undated) quern stone has brought a development
of land near Glasgow do a halt:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1663002006

Finds from various periods at a Berwick site:

http://tinyurl.com/yyooo6 (Berwick Today)

High tech equipment may have located the Fairfax Entrenchment:

http://tinyurl.com/tg93n (This is Bradford)

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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2700 b.p. bronze artifacts from Shaanxi:

http://english.people.com.cn/200611/11/eng20061111_320520.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/11/content_5316230.htm

More (?) Warring States burials from Henan:

http://www.china.org.cn/english/features/Archaeology/188205.htm

Interesting 500 b.p. "corpse" from Shanghai:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/news/6-11-9/47957.html

Neolithic petroglyphs near Kalpetta are threatened by neglect:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=46253

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 19th century cast iron sarcophagus from Richmond:

http://tinyurl.com/yyjym4 (Register)

Borderline touristy piece on Pueblo Bonito:

http://www.chieftain.com/life/1162720881/1 (nice pix)

They've concluded work on the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://tinyurl.com/y8ttqj (Sun News)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Controversy about a bridge to Machu Picchu:

http://tinyurl.com/y2ddc7 (IHT)
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_237296373,00.html

Looking for evidence of slave life in the Caribbean:

http://tinyurl.com/vkv2s (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/y6ya6o (ABC)
http://news.bostonherald.com/national/view.bg?articleid=165830
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, they're finding bits of all sorts of retroviruses
in our genome (does this mean we'll soon be getting another
Athenian Plague story?):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/science/07virus.html

Global warming is now threatening sites around the world:

http://tinyurl.com/y54tqf (Mail and Guardian)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061107/ap_on_sc/kenya_climate_talks

That Google-Earth-reveals-sites story is popping up again:

http://tinyurl.com/yy6guq (NG)

Review of Judith Summers, *Casanova's Women*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/books/10book.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New online journal ... Rosetta:

http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/Issue_01/Issue01_home.htm

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Nice 'thought piece' on ongoing looting of sites on the San
Carlos reservation (Arizona):

http://tinyurl.com/yftyx2 (Republic)

related article about some guy who got caught:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/1112looters-tidwell1112.html

Meanwhile, according to Marion True, the antiquities market is
corrupt:

http://tinyurl.com/ygmxzn (Bloomberg)

An historic cemetery in Gebze (Turkey) was looted:

http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20061104&hn=37942

Christie's stopped the sale of some Bulgarian silver this week:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72244

I suspect this sale of items on a Bulgarian website is crime
connected:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=72420

Followup to that big bust on Schinoussa a while back:

http://tinyurl.com/yajpyo (Kathimerini)

Interesting followup to that destruction of the Bamiyan Buddhas,
suggesting Osama bin Laden was involved:

http://tinyurl.com/yjl34x (ME Times)

Some woman was caught trying to sell a mummy on eBay:

http://tinyurl.com/yzh5fo (Times-Union)
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NUMISMATICA
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The Coinage of the Americas Conference features a (rather pricey)
webcast of the sessions:

http://www.numismatics.org/COAC2006.htm

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Ancient Bibles at the Smithsonian:

http://tinyurl.com/yhuglr (Sun)

The Quest for Immortality tour is stopping in Portland:

http://tinyurl.com/yc6qu5 (Oregonian)

Clash of Empires:

http://media-newswire.com/release_1039043.html

Greek Revival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/design/10anti.html

Neanderthals:

http://tinyurl.com/yctk5d (le monde)

Icons at the Getty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/12/arts/design/12fink.html

Masterpieces of European Painting From the Cleveland Museum of Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/design/10clev.html

An art gallery in Buffalo is auctioning off stuff it has that
doesn't fit within its 'mission':

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/10/arts/design/10voge.html

A roundup of various exhibitions in Italy:

http://tinyurl.com/yazby7 (ANSA)

Italy is threatening to break 'cultural ties' with the Getty,
apparently because talks are going nowhere:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/arts/design/09gett.html
http://tinyurl.com/ynaa6u (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/y423pd (LA Times)

The archaeological museum at Heraklion is closing for a while:

http://tinyurl.com/ycl7ng (AP via Yahoo)

The Vatican is promoting Laocoon:

http://tinyurl.com/ygmbs2 (ANSA)

And folks wonder why there's an antiquities market:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/arts/design/09christies.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Argonautika:

http://tinyurl.com/y7j4nq (Daily Southtown)

Music from the time of Henry VIII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/07/arts/music/07tudo.html

Twelfth Night:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2006/11/09/theater/reviews/09twel.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
Temple Mount Archaeological Destruction:

http://www.har-habayt.org/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
James Barr:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article1963268.ece
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

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EARLY HUMANS
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Another DNA thing from a Neanderthal gives evidence on when
humans and Neanderthals 'diverged':

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15732243/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1949475,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6146908.stm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p01s02-usgn.html?s=hns

Interesting implications from a child(ren) burial from Upper
Paleolithic times:

http://tinyurl.com/yj6u79 (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/y8adjl (SciAm)

Review of Gregory Curtis,*The Cave Painters*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1114/p16s01-bogn.html?s=hns
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The tenth season of excavations at the Burnt City is under way:

http://www.irna.com/en/news/view/line-16/0611165400171914.htm

Another dam ... more ancient sites threatened, this time in
Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1161.html

Jiroft rock tombs:

http://tinyurl.com/w9jeu (Iran News)

A feature on the finds from Tel Megiddo:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=789534

... and one on the Bronze Age burials at Bayit Vagan:

http://tinyurl.com/ykfcm2 (JPost)

Another piece on finds from Temple Mount rubble:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15770197/from/RS.3/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061118/ap_on_sc/israel_temple_trove_2
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Israel_Temple_Trove.html
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/59106.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/y5zml5 (IHT)

More on Qumran latrines:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15689591/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uonc-rlr110306.php
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1984457.ece
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003425387_scrolls14.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-5.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14find.html (JNW ... this has
the headline that I thought was 'obvious')

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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A talk on the ancient religion of Malta [not quite sure where
to classify this one]:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=42143

Plenty of coverage of the find of a Roman shipwreck laden with
garum:

http://tinyurl.com/y52ygf (LA Times)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1790706.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y8fe2w (CNN)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6146592.stm
http://tinyurl.com/svnk2 (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/y7velu (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/14/world/main2180091.shtml
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/134941,CST-NWS-spain14.article
http://tinyurl.com/yx3v5x (WPost)

... and some on a major Roman coin horde from the Netherlands:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15705411/
http://tinyurl.com/yazblb (IHT)

A Roman tombstone/inscription is staying in Lancaster:

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=336281&sid=FTP

First review I've seen of Anthony Everitt, *Augustus*:

http://tinyurl.com/yez8dz (Post Dispatch)

Review of Cartledge, *Thermopylae*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article1996765.ece

More reviews of Fagles Aeneid translation:

http://tinyurl.com/tpggz (Boston Globe)
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/11/16/arts/16612.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/y6v94l (LA Times)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Stonehenge as a 'Lourdes of the ancient world':

http://tinyurl.com/yx85ag (AlphaGalileo)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1996338.ece
http://www.physorg.com/news82898170.html

Digging for Spain's hidden Jewish heritage:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/05/news/spain.php

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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A sort of 'state of the excavation' piece on work at Chang'an:

http://english.people.com.cn/200611/19/eng20061119_323087.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

Road construction in Hanoi has revealed an 800 b.p. altar:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=22198

Britain's Natural History Museum is returning some human remains
to Tasmania:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15765362/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6157572.stm
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NORTH AMERICA
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North America's "Stonehenge":

http://tinyurl.com/ybv9tn (Seacoast Online)

The search for Tuscarora artifacts in Wilson County:

http://www.wilsondaily.com/Wil_region/Local_News/287500020505005.php

Female burials from pre-Hispanic New Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061112094745.htm

An antebellum southern tannery:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15996678.htm

Protecting an 'ancient oak':

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/16043180.htm

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is on the Manacan people's
attempts to reclaim their heritage:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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This one will get a lot of attention, I bet ... remains from
an Aztec site at Tecuaque show signs of ritual cannibalism:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14485960/

That recently-discovered stone monolith in the heart of Mexico
might be a big 'tombstone':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_sc/mexico_aztec_tomb_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_sc/mexico_dig_2
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=167769
http://tinyurl.com/ymcouf (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15757468/
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1703602006
http://tinyurl.com/v6mlo (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/y4xkjs (LA Times)

The pre-Columbian site of Chan Chan (Peru) is the latest to be
threatened by the forces of nature:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/2744
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Well, if nothing else, Tom Cruise's impending nuptials have
brought some attention to Odescalchi Castle, which has an
interesting history:

http://tinyurl.com/yes7wm (AP via Yahoo)

Interesting piece on our penchant (or at least academe's) for
"literary gossip":

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2454013,00.html

First it was Greek hair dye, now it's Damascus steel which is
said to have benefitted unbeknownstedly from nanotechnology:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-11.html
http://tinyurl.com/ymokod (Telegraph)

On climate change, the rise of civilizations and human migration:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1785941.htm

Some hitherto unknown/missing Fra Angelicos have been found and
will be coming to auction (of course):

http://tinyurl.com/yejkzx (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15713482/

Kluge prize recipients:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/books/15klug.html

On the anniversary of the stock ticker:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6490325

On the history of the periodic table:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoc--ucp111706.php

Assorted arts notes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/13/arts/13arts.html

This one on digital imaging techniques being used on 700 year
old Sanskrt manuscripts is making the rounds again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6149702.stm

Life Sciences techniques meet Art Conservation:

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/36518/

The hype officially begins for Mel Gibson's Apocalypto:

http://prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb480167.htm

Chocolate as an ancient treatment for hypchondria (works for
me!):

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1785948.htm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Greece:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p18s02-hfes.html?s=hns

Istanbul:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/16/news/tristan.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Customs officials in Pakistan prevented a major antiquities
smuggling attempt:

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/19/top10.htm
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NUMISMATICA
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Interesting article on Alexander coinage from Ptolemy:

http://tinyurl.com/y3g64a (Saudi Aramco World)

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/yz9a4u (Blade)

Amarna:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15720389/

History of early Judaism and Christianity:

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Museum_of_Art_Fort_Lauderdale.html

The Met's refusing to show a (rather recent) painting which is
the subject of an ownership dispute:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/arts/design/15gros.html
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OBITUARIES
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S. Lane Faison (art historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/obituaries/14faison.html

Technically not an obituary, but an announcement of the death of
Yizhar Hirschfeld from Jim West's blog:

http://tinyurl.com/ydsu6q
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PODCASTS
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Stone Pages Archaeology News:

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Archaeologica Audio News:

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EARLY HUMANS
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Another DNA thing from a Neanderthal gives evidence on when
humans and Neanderthals 'diverged':

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15732243/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,1949475,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6146908.stm
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p01s02-usgn.html?s=hns

Interesting implications from a child(ren) burial from Upper
Paleolithic times:

http://tinyurl.com/yj6u79 (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/y8adjl (SciAm)

Review of Gregory Curtis,*The Cave Painters*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1114/p16s01-bogn.html?s=hns
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The tenth season of excavations at the Burnt City is under way:

http://www.irna.com/en/news/view/line-16/0611165400171914.htm

Another dam ... more ancient sites threatened, this time in
Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/nov/1161.html

Jiroft rock tombs:

http://tinyurl.com/w9jeu (Iran News)

A feature on the finds from Tel Megiddo:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=789534

... and one on the Bronze Age burials at Bayit Vagan:

http://tinyurl.com/ykfcm2 (JPost)

Another piece on finds from Temple Mount rubble:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15770197/from/RS.3/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061118/ap_on_sc/israel_temple_trove_2
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1501AP_Israel_Temple_Trove.html
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/59106.aspx
http://tinyurl.com/y5zml5 (IHT)

More on Qumran latrines:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15689591/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uonc-rlr110306.php
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article1984457.ece
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2003425387_scrolls14.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-5.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/science/14find.html (JNW ... this has
the headline that I thought was 'obvious')

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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A talk on the ancient religion of Malta [not quite sure where
to classify this one]:

http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=42143

Plenty of coverage of the find of a Roman shipwreck laden with
garum:

http://tinyurl.com/y52ygf (LA Times)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200611/s1790706.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y8fe2w (CNN)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6146592.stm
http://tinyurl.com/svnk2 (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/y7velu (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/14/world/main2180091.shtml
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/134941,CST-NWS-spain14.article
http://tinyurl.com/yx3v5x (WPost)

... and some on a major Roman coin horde from the Netherlands:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15705411/
http://tinyurl.com/yazblb (IHT)

A Roman tombstone/inscription is staying in Lancaster:

http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=336281&sid=FTP

First review I've seen of Anthony Everitt, *Augustus*:

http://tinyurl.com/yez8dz (Post Dispatch)

Review of Cartledge, *Thermopylae*:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article1996765.ece

More reviews of Fagles Aeneid translation:

http://tinyurl.com/tpggz (Boston Globe)
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/archives/2006/11/16/arts/16612.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/y6v94l (LA Times)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Stonehenge as a 'Lourdes of the ancient world':

http://tinyurl.com/yx85ag (AlphaGalileo)
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article1996338.ece
http://www.physorg.com/news82898170.html

Digging for Spain's hidden Jewish heritage:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/05/news/spain.php

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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A sort of 'state of the excavation' piece on work at Chang'an:

http://english.people.com.cn/200611/19/eng20061119_323087.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

Road construction in Hanoi has revealed an 800 b.p. altar:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=22198

Britain's Natural History Museum is returning some human remains
to Tasmania:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15765362/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6157572.stm
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NORTH AMERICA
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North America's "Stonehenge":

http://tinyurl.com/ybv9tn (Seacoast Online)

The search for Tuscarora artifacts in Wilson County:

http://www.wilsondaily.com/Wil_region/Local_News/287500020505005.php

Female burials from pre-Hispanic New Mexico:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061112094745.htm

An antebellum southern tannery:

http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/news/politics/15996678.htm

Protecting an 'ancient oak':

http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/myrtlebeachonline/16043180.htm

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is on the Manacan people's
attempts to reclaim their heritage:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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This one will get a lot of attention, I bet ... remains from
an Aztec site at Tecuaque show signs of ritual cannibalism:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/14485960/

That recently-discovered stone monolith in the heart of Mexico
might be a big 'tombstone':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_sc/mexico_aztec_tomb_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061117/ap_on_sc/mexico_dig_2
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=167769
http://tinyurl.com/ymcouf (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15757468/
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1703602006
http://tinyurl.com/v6mlo (IHT)
http://tinyurl.com/y4xkjs (LA Times)

The pre-Columbian site of Chan Chan (Peru) is the latest to be
threatened by the forces of nature:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news/2744
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Well, if nothing else, Tom Cruise's impending nuptials have
brought some attention to Odescalchi Castle, which has an
interesting history:

http://tinyurl.com/yes7wm (AP via Yahoo)

Interesting piece on our penchant (or at least academe's) for
"literary gossip":

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2101-2454013,00.html

First it was Greek hair dye, now it's Damascus steel which is
said to have benefitted unbeknownstedly from nanotechnology:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061113/full/061113-11.html
http://tinyurl.com/ymokod (Telegraph)

On climate change, the rise of civilizations and human migration:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1785941.htm

Some hitherto unknown/missing Fra Angelicos have been found and
will be coming to auction (of course):

http://tinyurl.com/yejkzx (USA Today)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15713482/

Kluge prize recipients:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/books/15klug.html

On the anniversary of the stock ticker:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6490325

On the history of the periodic table:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uoc--ucp111706.php

Assorted arts notes of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/13/arts/13arts.html

This one on digital imaging techniques being used on 700 year
old Sanskrt manuscripts is making the rounds again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6149702.stm

Life Sciences techniques meet Art Conservation:

http://www.the-scientist.com/news/display/36518/

The hype officially begins for Mel Gibson's Apocalypto:

http://prweb.com/releases/2006/11/prweb480167.htm

Chocolate as an ancient treatment for hypchondria (works for
me!):

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2006/1785948.htm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Greece:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1116/p18s02-hfes.html?s=hns

Istanbul:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/10/16/news/tristan.php
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Customs officials in Pakistan prevented a major antiquities
smuggling attempt:

http://www.dawn.com/2006/11/19/top10.htm
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NUMISMATICA
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Interesting article on Alexander coinage from Ptolemy:

http://tinyurl.com/y3g64a (Saudi Aramco World)

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/yz9a4u (Blade)

Amarna:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15720389/

History of early Judaism and Christianity:

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/Museum_of_Art_Fort_Lauderdale.html

The Met's refusing to show a (rather recent) painting which is
the subject of an ownership dispute:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/15/arts/design/15gros.html
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OBITUARIES
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S. Lane Faison (art historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/14/obituaries/14faison.html

Technically not an obituary, but an announcement of the death of
Yizhar Hirschfeld from Jim West's blog:

http://tinyurl.com/ydsu6q
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Hi,

I don't think I can get an issue out this weekend ... Real life has intruded
in a big way and I have a pile of stuff to get caught up on. Explorator will
return next week. Apologies.

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Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
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EARLY HUMANS
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A 70 000 b.p. religious artifact/evidence of ritual:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061130081347.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yz4ys4 (Digital Journal)
http://tinyurl.com/ygxpxe (Canada.com)
http://www.apollon.uio.no/vis/art/2006_4/Artikler/python_english
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/061130_python.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ycsbnd (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15970442/
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AFRICA
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Nice feature on petroglyphs in South Africa:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061122/lf_nm/safrica_rock_dc_1

On the treasures of Timbuktu:

http://www.smithsonianmagazine.org/issues/2006/december/timbuktu.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Did the Egyptians use concrete when building the pyramids? (didn't
someone else suggest this a while back?):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/30/science/30cnd-pyramid.html
http://tinyurl.com/vbwom (KC Star)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2480751,00.html

Relocating an Egyptian village to protect tombs:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/061203/43/69y2c.html
http://tinyurl.com/yyey34 (WPost)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6202342.stm

They're talking (again) about sending a little robot up a shaft
of the Great Pyramid:

http://tinyurl.com/ym69tl (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,20852379-1702,00.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/01/eng20061201_327276.html
http://tinyurl.com/yka2vo (IOL)

Not sure why, but the Tut-died-from-a-broken-leg story is making
the rounds again:

http://tinyurl.com/ydno8j (Seattle Times)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10412891
http://in.news.yahoo.com/061128/139/69siu.html

Brief item on a pharaonic cemetery near Luxor (but it doesn't really
sound like a cemetery):

http://tinyurl.com/wr78u (SIS)

A sort of overviewish thing on what has been found at Tel Megiddo:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=789534

Italian troops working on a road in Lebanon came across some
artifacts:

http://tinyurl.com/ynxzux (Daily Star)

A pile of sites from Anatolia:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=59897

On peaches at Masada:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/794492.html

More on Qumran latrines:

http://tinyurl.com/yaeqbq (Sun)

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about mummy preparation:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

On the web: The Open Scrolls Project:

http://www.openscrolls.org/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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There might be some sort of record set here ... an amazing mass
of coverage over 'solving' what the Antikythera mechanism was
used for:

http://www.nature.com/news/2006/061127/full/444534a.html
http://tinyurl.com/ymkkjm (NG)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6191462.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/science/30computecnd.html (JNW)
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061202/fob6.asp
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061129151439.htm
http://www.biosmagazine.co.uk/article.php?id=4640
http://tinyurl.com/y9x8u8 (CNN
http://www.sys-con.com/read/307495.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061129/sc_afp/sciencehistory_061129202046
http://tinyurl.com/yylnwa (NPR)
http://tinyurl.com/y255xr (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/cu-moa112806.php
http://www.physorg.com/news84029305.html
http://tinyurl.com/ymkobq (SciAm)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15953550/site/3000001/

... all AP versions:
http://tinyurl.com/tude2 (AP via AOL)
http://www.unison.ie/stories.php3?ca=27&si=1732604
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650211968,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15984363/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061201/ap_on_sc/greece_ancient_computer_5

... satis superque, I think.

There was a pile of Archimedes Palimpsest coverage too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/arts/27greek.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/29/features/greektext.php

A 1600 b.p. Roman sarcophagus from London:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6196972.stm
http://tinyurl.com/y92ake (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/y6wxpo (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/yyx2b9 (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/wgjvm (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,233659,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1781972006

And, of course, there was that She-Wolf story:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/11/22/shewolf_arc.html

Interesting curse tablet from Leicester:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061130081359.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/uol-uol112806.php
http://tinyurl.com/yfxuph (LA Times)
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2006550819,00.html

A Roman necropolis near Latakia:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061128-111943-6710r

Excavating Kenchreai:

http://www.themacweekly.com/articles/20061119/news/10898

Evidence of Amathus' Ptolemaic past:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=29260&cat_id=1

Norwegians in the Legions?:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6838

Harry Mount's making the rounds talking about Amo, Amas, Amat and
all that:

http://tinyurl.com/yao8hs (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/vmh8q (Daily Mail)

Why seminarians need Latin:

http://www.newoxfordreview.org/article.jsp?did=1106-gallagher

Robert Harris was drawing parallels between Rome and the USA:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6523758

A display of recently-found items from Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/y2utl5 (AFP via Yahoo)

Latin in the Bronx:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/29/education/29education.html

On the web: nice NOVA item on some Hellenistic papyri (featuring
Robert Macfarlane):

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/sciencenow/3318/04.html

Another Aeneid-reading athlete:

http://tinyurl.com/yfcatl (Courier Journal)

More on that garum shipwreck:

http://www.azcentral.com/offbeat/articles/1124shipwreck1124.html
http://tinyurl.com/yebjzp (NG)

More on Fagles' Aeneid translation:

http://tinyurl.com/yzzax9 (Herald Tribune)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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More coverage of Stonehenge as an ancient Lourdes:

http://tinyurl.com/yzrmqa (Telegraph)
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/06/11/29/10085841.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1961314,00.html

Claims of the earliest evidence of Christianity in the UK from
a burial (that can't be right, can it?) from 1400 years ago:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2029264.ece

Vandal burial in Slovakia:

http://mujweb.atlas.cz/veda/archaeology/Tatry_find.htm
http://tinyurl.com/yzamx5 (Slovak (?), with photos)
http://www.sme.sk/c/2994753/germansky-tutanchamon-pod-tatrami.html
(ditto)

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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New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Housing development on Long Island ... ca 1000 b.p. skull found:

http://wcbstv.com/local/local_story_335113810.html
http://tinyurl.com/y7sln8 (CTV)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061201/ap_on_sc/indian_skull_1

An interesting article on Desert Archaic Indians:

http://www.desertusa.com/ind1/ind_new/ind3.html

Nice item on some burials from Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/ydu3tc (RedOrbit)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061122/ap_on_sc/jamestown_remains_3
http://www.cnn.com/2006/US/11/20/jamestown.remains.ap/index.html

Excavating Fort Selkirk:

http://www.whitehorsestar.com/auth.php?r=45074
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A 'trove' of pre-incan tombs from Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/yxebqk (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/ybade7 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ydvv2a (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/yh2de9 (IHT)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6172530.stm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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An avalanche on Mount Etna some 8000 years b.p. appears to
have triggered a massive tsunami:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061128083754.htm
http://www.sys-con.com/read/307495.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/01/content_5419215.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15971504/
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061128-113115-5955r

And also on the natural disaster front ... an 18th century Icelandic
volcano eruption has been linked to famine in Egypt:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061121232204.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn10649&feedId=online-news_rss20

One of the alchemists' secrets appears to have been cracked:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-11/ucl-2ct112006.php

Putting a face on Jack the Ripper:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15826443/

A history of poisoning:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6569885

Interesting reviewish thing about Descartes:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/061120crbo_books

A 15th century drawing of Stonehenge:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1957926,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ephesus:

http://tinyurl.com/y9oe9v (CNN)

Buddhist Monasteries in S. Korea:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2006/11/26/travel/26journeys.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting sites in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/yf9hty (Star Tribune)

On illegal artifacts and funding terrorism:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/article2007472.ece
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20061123-123211-8809r.htm

Greece is now going after Marion True too:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061121/en_nm/greece_antiquities_getty_dc_1
http://tinyurl.com/ycgghq (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ynz7hm (Reuters)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1725812006

... I think this is related to the above:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=24270&c=90
http://tinyurl.com/ygoud4 (IHT)

... as might be this follow up to that Schinoussa story from a
while back:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-2468627,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yc5zf5 (Kathimerini)

Trying to beat the illegal diggers to artifacts in Lorestan:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6840

Big bust in Bulgaria:

http://english.people.com.cn/200611/23/eng20061123_324298.html

Tomb robbing in Israel and Palestine:

http://tinyurl.com/ymv5zb (Chronicle)

Another guy stealing valuable books from libraries and selling
them:

http://tinyurl.com/ydt3y9 (UPI)

Suzan Mazur had a very interesting interview with the author of
the Medici Conspiracy:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0611/S00363.htm

Some guy was arrested for trying to sell a lock of Ramses II's
hair:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6195646.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15959040/

... and I couldn't resist including this one ... Lara Croft is
in trouble:

http://tinyurl.com/yevpa7 (Forbes)

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Afghanistan: Rediscovered Treasures:

http://tinyurl.com/uzcgc (AFP via Yahoo)

Daily Magic in Ancient Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18373

Whiney coverage of that Sassanid exhibition at the Louvre:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/01/opinion/melik2.php

Strange series of events in the Getty-Italy thing these past couple
of weeks ... first, the Getty said it would return 26 artifacts:

http://www.kfmb.com/story.php?id=71078
http://tinyurl.com/ycl5op (AP via Yahoo)
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ak92lRHyi.Oo
http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=24275&c=90

... then there was some sort of impasse because of some of the
items (or maybe early journalistic spin made this into something
more dramatic?):

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/11/22/news/getty.php
http://english.people.com.cn/200611/27/eng20061127_325510.html
http://tinyurl.com/ymf6wc (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ylkd7q (Globe)
http://www.nysun.com/article/44053
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=1739902006
http://tinyurl.com/yjvmrk (Bloomberg)
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/americas/article2007486.ece

... which moved Michael Brand to write an op-ed piece:

http://tinyurl.com/ynhpg6 (Peninsula Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ybh4bc (LA Times)

What the Boston MFA got for its returns to Italy:

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18347
http://tinyurl.com/yfnoxp (IHT)

Another report on Berlin's Museum Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/27/arts/design/27bode.html

A pile of items from a shipwreck near Java will be coming to
auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6162804.stm
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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A topical piece from the Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/55531
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PODCASTS
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

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EARLY HUMANS
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"Little Foot" has been taken out of the human family tree:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/uol-aar120706.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061207161021.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061207/sc_afp/sciencepaleontology

Did Neanderthal women hunt side-by-side with the men?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/05nean.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/uocp-gdo120406.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061207-sex-humans.html

... then again, they might have been cannibals:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16043669/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6209554.stm

More coverage of that prehistoric baby burial:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16097378/
http://www.livescience.com/history/061207_ancient_burial.html
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AFRICA
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More coverage of that early ritual site in Botswana:

http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061203-054535-3136r
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061204-084824-3752r
http://tinyurl.com/yfuaxw (UPI)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a tomb of a sixth dynasty
doctor:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1809452006
http://au.news.yahoo.com/061205/2/11o7p.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16065823/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061205/sc_nm/egypt_mummy_dc
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061207/ap_on_sc/egypt_mummy_3
http://tinyurl.com/yev3fo (Reuters via Topix)
http://www.livescience.com/history/061206_ap_doctor_mummy.html
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/16180088.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ylltsk (JPost)
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005782223
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-12-06-voa63.cfm
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/4383506.html (why bizarre?)

More coverage of the moving of folks from Luxor for archaeological
protection purposes:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16032006/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/03/news/luxor.php

Potsherds from Rabat Tepe:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6856

More coverage of the theory that concrete was used in the construction
of the pyramids:

http://tinyurl.com/yzwhxk
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061209122918.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2480751,00.html

... and Tut's death:

http://tinyurl.com/ycmmcj (Globe)

Sacrificial altars from Yemen:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1005&p=lastpage&a=1

Remains of a Christian-Jewish settlement at Mishmar David:

http://tinyurl.com/ylmn6f (JPost)

An early church which called itself Shiloh:

http://tinyurl.com/yxks9u (Telegraph)

And now we get the first 'revisions' to the Gospel of Judas:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/04/judas-scholars.html

Berkeley has cancelled its Israel program:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_4768112

How the press covers the Biblical Archaeological Society meeting:

http://tinyurl.com/ycbkhr (Washington City Paper)

Review of a couple of books on Islamic archaeology:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=798428

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Just as the last Explorator was going out, the trickle of articles
about the discovery of Maxentius' insignia started:

http://tinyurl.com/yj49wn (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/yaug8n (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ybcp8v (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6255899,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16031991/
http://tinyurl.com/y9pxrq (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/yaos2n (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/ybxguu (Seattle PI)

Plenty of coverage of Vatican claims of having discovered the
tomb of St. Paul:

http://tinyurl.com/ygrvqj (SMH)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/478358p-402428c.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-12-06-paul_x.htm?csp=34
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6219656.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6262052,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16083789/
http://tinyurl.com/ybmgsa (IHT)
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/08/paul-tomb.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061207/ap_on_sc/vatican_st_paul_s_tomb_3

What some Classics majors at Holy Cross are doing:

http://www.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/features/2006-2007/homer

Not sure why this showed up at a Physics Journal site:

http://www.physorg.com/news84727530.html

Nice article on the UHelsinki's efforts at Pompeii:

http://www.helsinki.fi/uh/4-2006/juttu3.shtml

Danielle Allen is now on the Pulitzer Prize board:

http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=5783145

... and what Richard P. Saller is up to:

http://tinyurl.com/yd3l4e (Stanford Report)

OpEd piece comparing Bush and Xenophon:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061203-073918-9377r

More coverage of the Antikythera Mechanism:

http://tinyurl.com/ylm68u (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/yfx7yw (Sentinel)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2697384&page=1
http://tinyurl.com/ybsamg (SciAm)

... plus some nice images:

http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Greek-Archae-Astr-Antikythera.htm

... and a really nice one:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061205.html

More coverage of that curse tablet from Leicester:

http://tinyurl.com/vdrqn (NG)

... and that sarcophagus from London:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/4373917.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2692121
http://tinyurl.com/ydvkh6 (IOL)

Review of Everitt's *Augustus*:

http://washingtontimes.com/books/20061209-102724-5205r.htm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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One from a month ago which escaped my notice ... the discovery
of a possible third Jellinge stone in Denmark:

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/98868.html
http://www.cphpost.dk/get/98753.html

Prehistoric bones from a beach in Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1795822006

Hyping the solstice at Newgrange:

http://tinyurl.com/yhvluk (NG)

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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Another dam, another article on the archaeological sites to be
inundated (in Pakistan, this time):

http://in.news.yahoo.com/061206/139/6a28a.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=62656

Plans are afoot to do 'something' with India's 'Pompeii':

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1863691,0008.htm

Not really 'news', but a nice feature on the discovery of the
'Wanli':

http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=234160

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Review of Gabor Boritt, *The Gettysburg Gospel*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/books/04masl.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
With all the reviews of Apocalypto (see below), National
Geographic has a feature on 'what it was really like':

http://tinyurl.com/yjgnvu
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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More coverage of that ancient Mediterranean tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/yhwx6w (NG)

Some newly-restored medieval frescoes are now on view again:

http://tinyurl.com/yeup6c (CBC)

Here's a new (to me) suggestion for the 'real' date of Jesus'
birth:

http://tinyurl.com/yat9pe (Tribune)

On James II and water scooters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/nyregion/09patent.html

'Digging' an archaeology class:

http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/16101569.htm

Interesting letter found from the father of the Brontes:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2485237,00.html

Review of John Hailman, *Thomas Jefferson on Wine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/McInerney.t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Villa Torlonia:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/03/sunday/main2223572.shtml
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Idol recovery in Delhi:

http://tinyurl.com/yjsw9v
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
On the web - the Forgery Network:

http://www.forgerynetwork.com/

On the web - Numismatic Search Engine:

http://www.coinbooks.org/search/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Rediscovered Treasures of Afghanistan:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16127616/site/newsweek/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/05/news/guimet.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6215002.stm
http://tinyurl.com/y7lss3 (Telegraph)

Athens-Sparta:

http://tinyurl.com/ylbbvd (USA Today)
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18412
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061205/ap_on_re_us/greek_artifacts_2
http://tinyurl.com/ye5zvj (Topix)
http://www.newsone.ca/hinesbergjournal/ViewArticle.aspx?id=32240&source=2

In the Beginning:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/08/opinion/melik9.php

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://tinyurl.com/ygabms

Brief item on the opening of an exhibition of finds by Goddio:

http://tinyurl.com/yfyxcr (AFP via Yahoo)

Some original Thomas Edison light bulbs are coming to auction:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16073153/

On the restoration of the Yale Museum of Art:

http://tinyurl.com/yk3h87 (NYT)
http://tinyurl.com/yllj9h (NYT)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Reviews of Apocalypto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/movies/05apoc.html
http://tinyurl.com/y3ab8n (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/yhblrb (Globe)

... of course, Mayan groups don't like it:

http://tinyurl.com/ygt59s (CBC)
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/1207/gibsonm.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6216414.stm
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Robert Volpe (Art Theft expert):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/nyregion/05volpe.html

Robert Rosenblum (art historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/arts/design/09rose.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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rogueclassicist@...

... my 'home' isp is doing weird stuff of late and much seems
to be vanishing in the ether.
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon,
David J. Critchley, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli,
John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, Ron Thompson, Ross W. Sargent, Rick Pettigrew,
Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Humans apparently migrated out of Africa ... then some returned:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/15/eng20061215_332906.html
http://tinyurl.com/y6n5mb (NG)

Rescanning a Neanderthal jawbone:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/6171325.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 4800 b.p. artificial eyeball:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6857

On the ethnic diversity of ancient Egypt:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/16194424.htm

A connection has been made between artifacts from Ur and the
Burnt City:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=421712
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1161.html

A stone slab is believe to be the gateway to Cambyses' tomb:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1150.html

Another cuneiform inscription from Rabat Tepe:

http://tinyurl.com/yye64a (Iranmania)

35 "ancient aqueducts" have been found on Iran's Khark Island:

http://tinyurl.com/ururz (Iranmania)

... some Palmyrene tombs have been found there too:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6872

Excavations at Hegmataneh are 'proving' a legend (I have
never heard of) about Alexander the Great:

http://tinyurl.com/yc5aau (Iran News)

Blasting operations have damaged a Sassanid fort:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6870

Brief item on the discovery of an ancient bathing building in
Turkey:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/13/eng20061213_332124.html

Al-Ahram has a feature on the Deir Al-Surian library:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2006/824/he1.htm

Renewed concerns that a Temple Mount ramp is going to collapse:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=117536
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801410
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=801542

Someone is doing the revisionist thing with the story of
Channukah:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801409

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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The Pope has been asked to return a chunk of the Parthenon he
probably doesn't even know is in one of the Vatican Museums:

http://tinyurl.com/y8a9dr
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/world/europe/15briefs-greekbishop.html
http://tinyurl.com/yekmsf (WPost)

More on that St. Paul's tomb discovery:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/NewsStory.asp?ID=061216_Ne_A13_Tombb33874
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/bpnews.asp?ID=24615
http://tinyurl.com/y7h7w4 (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/wxd8f (AP via Yahoo ... photo)
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20061212/1058428.asp (photo)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2109936.html
http://tinyurl.com/yd3pec (NG)
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idarticle=7007
http://tinyurl.com/ymm8zt (IHT)

... and they're floating trial balloons about opening it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16155676/

More Antikythera Mechanism coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/ykgfgk (WPost)

Yet another NYT review of Fagle's translation of the Aeneid:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/review/Leithauser.t.html

... and an Opeddish thing arising therefrom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/arts/11conn.html

Review of Andrew Dalby, *Rediscovering Homer*:

http://www.slate.com/id/2155360/?nav=tap3

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Haven't heard about Seahenge in a while ... so:

http://tinyurl.com/yyvyz4 (King's Lynn Today)

National Geographic has a very interesting online feature on
artifacts from various periods found during an excavation in a
Slovenian river:

http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0701/feature6/
also:
http://www7.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0701/backstories1.html

London's slave port past:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/6177073.stm
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/579424

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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A pile of noble tombs from various periods from Sichuan:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/11/eng20061211_331158.html

... not sure if these are associated with the above:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/14/eng20061214_332562.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/11/eng20061211_331162.html

Another site threatened by neglect in India:

http://sify.com/news/fullstory.php?id=14351738

A South Seas 'Adam and Eve' tale?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/fm-fms121206.php
http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/175574,CST-NWS-turtle17.article
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061213104214.htm

Some early(ish) Christian burials from the Ukraine:

http://en.for-ua.com/news/2006/12/15/111805.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The ongoing search for oil in Wyoming has led to a boom in
archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/y8ws4r (Gazette)

Finds from various periods in Norristown:

http://tinyurl.com/yy88zx (Times)

They've identified the Swamp Fox's personal servant:

http://tinyurl.com/yyq52y (News Daily)

An 1849 shipwreck in Lake Ontario:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_on_sc/shipwreck_found
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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That Genographic project to collect DNA from all the various
peoples of the world has hit a snag:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/10/us/10dna.html

... while another dna study tells us about the development of
lactose intolerance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/opinion/14thu4.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/arts/design/15voge.html

Historians and anthropologists are all over Apocalypto:

http://tinyurl.com/uenhg (Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/y2efdn (CPost)
http://tinyurl.com/ye5r9w (Chronicle)
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/cinema/articles/061218crci_cinema

While looking for St. Paul's tomb, archaeologists came across
a life size (!) drawing of the dome:

http://tinyurl.com/ykpvzp (Telegraph)

Sheet music of all of Mozart's works is available online:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061212/ennew_afp/afpentertainmentmozart

Some relics of Joan of Arc are probably not:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061217/ap_on_sc/france_joan_of_arc_2

CNN offers advice to budding archaeologists:

http://tinyurl.com/y3rwx5

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at the role of
archaeology in investigating human rights abuses:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

More coverage of that Etna-caused tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/yhks4u (New Scientist)

On the web: interesting Cultural Property Advice site from the
UK:

http://www.culturalpropertyadvice.gov.uk/

Reviews of a couple of books about Satan:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25349-2501661,00.html

Review of David Standish, *Hollow Earth*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25549-2501663,00.html

Review of Max Boot, *War Made New*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/review/Bunting.t.html

Review of Robert Kagan, *Dangerous Nation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/books/review/Bunting.t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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I think this is the first mention we've had of tomb robbing in
China (if not the first, the first in a long time):

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/16/t20061216_9778766.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/15/eng20061215_332965.html

Some statues are (finally) returning to India:

http://tinyurl.com/y5sqw8 (GNN)

... and a stolen one found in Spain is returning to Italy after
quite a long time (why do these things take so long?):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061212/ap_en_ot/stolen_art_3

A professor was busted for possession of illegal antiquities in
Greece:

http://news.ert.gr/en/12/22324.asp
http://tinyurl.com/yg9d8l (makfax)

... and the professor had a second apartment to house his stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/tm6xb (Kathimerini)

An Op-eddish sort of thing on the illegal antiquities trade:

http://tinyurl.com/yywsw6 (CNN)
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NUMISMATICA
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Nickel Arts Museum:

http://www.ucalgary.ca/~nickle/collection/index.shtml

Massachusetts Historical Society:

http://www.masshist.org/objects/2006april.cfm

Hellenic Numismatic Society:

http://www.coins.gr/hellenum

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Egypt's Sunken Treasures:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Entertainment/547545.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061215/ap_on_sc/underwater_treasures_2
http://www.physorg.com/news85470327.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601100&sid=aAO3h3rdtB_U
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/12/15/ap3260011.html
http://www.macon.com/mld/macon/entertainment/16249577.htm

Bactrian Gold:

http://tinyurl.com/yxr44w (Inquirer)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16127616/site/newsweek/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16160636/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6612928
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/arts/design/14guim.html

Imperial Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/ylfr5v (go DeKalb)

Now the Getty has agreed to return a couple of more items to
Greece:

http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=local&id=4841263
http://tinyurl.com/yxv7zb (CBC)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1970877,00.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/12/arts/design/12gett.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/arts/design/11arti.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2500140,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=1841652006
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6169331.stm
http://tinyurl.com/yf8tfx (IHT)

Trying to keep an Eakins in Philadelphia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/15/arts/design/15voge.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6626805
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6622315

On the newly-restored Yale Art Gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/11/arts/design/11kahn.html

On the Mayme Agnew Clayton Collection ... black history in
search of a home:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/14/arts/14clay.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Some humour from the Onion on archaeologists' efforts to protect
the dwindling mummy population:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/56266?utm_source=slate_rss_1
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Croman mac Nessa,
Dave Sowdon, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Dorothy King, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Bob Heuman, Stephen Balbach, Toke Lindegaard
Knudsen, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a slow week.
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EARLY HUMANS
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On variations among European Neanderthals:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061222092638.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ua49f

Review of Gregory Curtis, *The Cave Painters*:

http://tinyurl.com/y7b97y (WPost)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A major prehistoric site near Bam:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1188.html

semi related?:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6877

A recently-found inscription is shedding light on some folks
associated with Karnak:

http://tinyurl.com/y2sf8e (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.physorg.com/news85636600.html
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/18/eng20061218_333522.html
http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/579612

More coverage of that Essene latrine story:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/803283.html

Digging Khirbet al-Yahud:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=801792

Report on Beit Ha-Kerem:

http://tinyurl.com/v84be (IAA)

Somewhat vague item on the discovery of a 1500 b.p. bathing
complex in Turkey:

http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?id=156494

Radio show on Sean Kingsley's theory about the whereabouts of
the Temple Treasure:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/spiritofthings/stories/2006/1809700.htm

I think we've seen this Dakhla glass story before:

http://tinyurl.com/yhtdhn (NG)

Digging Al-Khidr (Kuwait):

http://tinyurl.com/ya8ele (Kuwait Times)

King David was on trial:

http://tinyurl.com/vmy77 (Sun)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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They're going to remove some metopes from the Parthenon because
of pollution:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=25437
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/12/22/parthenon-metopes.html

The Domus Aurea is reopening:

http://tinyurl.com/w9z8y (Reuters)
http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20061222/101117.shtml
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=74443

Technology has revealed some old decrees at Herculaneum:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/20/oldgarbage_arc.html

In case you missed the analemma over the temple of Zeus photo:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061223.html

More Antikythera Mechanism coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/y5e6oz (El Pais ... Spanish)

More Paul's tomb coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/yyw7gb (El Pais ... Spanish)

More reviews of Fagles' *Aeneid* translation:

http://www.tnr.com/user/nregi.mhtml?i=20070115&s=wilson011507
http://tinyurl.com/y8bbjz (Globe and Mail)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A metal detectorist has come across some medieval coinage:

http://tinyurl.com/w7ygc (This is Bradford)

Solstice at Newgrange:

http://tinyurl.com/tc63z (AFP via Yahoo)

Vikings will soon sail again to Ireland:

http://www.cphpost.dk/get/99623.html

On the web: the plan of the monastery of St. Gall:

http://www.stgallplan.org/

Review of Judith Zinsser, *La Dame D'esprit: Biography of the
Marquise du Chatelet*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/books/review/Weber.t.html

Review of Thomas Cahill, *Mysteries of the Middle Ages*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/books/review/Rowland.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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How humans reached Australia:

http://www.fijivillage.com/artman/publish/article_34614.shtml

Some Australian petroglyphs are going to be removed to make
way for an oil and gas project:

http://tinyurl.com/yhlguf (CBC)
http://au.news.yahoo.com/061220/2/11uf3.html

Techy stuff going on with a mummy of a shaman from China:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/22/eng20061222_335179.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Looking for the Michigan land bridge:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16280930/

Another side of Clement Clarke Moore:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/books/review/Collins.html

Review of Douglas Wilson, *Lincoln's Sword*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/books/19kaku.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Heavy rains have damaged the ruins at Chan Chan:

http://tinyurl.com/y2rz5f (AP via Yahoo)

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Donny George at Stony Brook U:

http://tinyurl.com/y4k2zn (Newsday)

More coverage of that Joan of Arc bone thing:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16257470/

Honouring Sweden's role in Cypriot archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/cyagb (Cyprus Weekly)

Plans are afoot to 'digitally reunite' the Codex Sinaiticus:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=100403

Interesting item on plagiarism in the age of Google:

http://www.slate.com/id/2153313/

... and one on soldiers' rescuing of assorted art works during
WWII:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/19/books/19monu.html

Reading Shakespeare is good for your brain:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061218122613.htm

On that Genographic Project ... which seems to be building up
to something:

http://www.db2mag.com/story/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=193105321

Rapping Chaucerian:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061218/ap_en_mu/chaucer_rapper

Review of David Christian, *How Language Works*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/books/18dick.html

Review of Andrew Hussey, *Paris: The Secret History*

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/books/21ridi.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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City of David:

http://tinyurl.com/u8a3h (JPost)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology (Jan/Feb 2007):

http://www.archaeology.org/curiss/index.html

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Suzan Mazur's latest ... this time on a Bronze Boy which will
likely be in the news soon:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00326.htm

More eBay in the UK coverage:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2510018,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yxu4yx (This is London)
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NUMISMATICA
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On the web: Medieval Coinage:

http://www.medievalcoinage.com/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Egypt's Sunken Treasures:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16257440/
http://tinyurl.com/yyy9ae (AP via Yahoo ... slide show)
http://www.forbes.com/technology/feeds/ap/2006/12/15/ap3260011.html

Discovering Tutankhamun:

http://www.nysun.com/article/45604

Stories in Stone: Conserving the Mosaics of North Africa:

http://tinyurl.com/ymojjf (ArtX)

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://oi.uchicago.edu/OI/IS/GOLB/dead_sea_scrolls.html

Spanish Painting from El Greco to Picasso:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1201/p16s01-alar.html?s=hns

Rubens and Bruegehl:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/arts/design/23rube.html

The Getty's dispute with Italy is heating up again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/arts/21gett.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061220/en_nm/italy_getty_dispute_dc
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-12/22/content_5520590.htm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6654604

cf: http://tinyurl.com/y5npmo (Courier)

... as is Greece's dispute with the Cleveland Museum:

http://www.artinfo.com/News/Article.aspx?a=25360

Assorted arts items of interest from the NYT's Arts Briefly
column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/18/arts/18arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/20/arts/20arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/21/arts/21arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/22/arts/22arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/23/arts/23arts.html

A new home for some of Norway's Viking ships:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061221/en_nm/vikingships_norway_dc
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061220-042652-5422r

A year in review piece on repatriated art and the like:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/24/arts/design/24kimm.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Robert Rosenblum (Art Historian/Curator):

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2091823.ece

Lynne Abel (classicist):

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Dec06/Abel.obit.html

Lillian Ray Martin (Nautical Archaeologist):

http://tinyurl.com/y2jbbo (BTF)

Samuel Devons (Physicist/Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/17/nyregion/17devons.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Bill Kerr, Dorothy King,
Al Schlaf, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths,
Ross W. Sargent, Rochelle Altman,Rick Pettigrew, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

n.b. links to Asian sources are very slow this a.m. ... no
doubt connected to:

http://tinyurl.com/ya3vov (Bloomberg)
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AFRICA
================================================================
More coverage of that early ritual site in Botswana:

http://tinyurl.com/y994pk (NG)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Another cuneiform inscription from Rabat Tepe:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=12/27/2006&Cat=10&Num=6

A film crew has done some damage to Persepolis:

http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1268.html
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_19799.shtml

Remembering the 2003 earthquake at Bam:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6900

No evidence of Medes at Ecbatana:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6905

Zahi Hawass doesn't want Tut near a casino:

http://tinyurl.com/yl37t7

Somewhat strange 'application' of the Epic of Gilgamesh:

http://www.va.gov/gilgamesh/swf_files/part1_pub.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Interesting AP piece on Keros and the Cycladic art therefrom:

http://tinyurl.com/ybm2ma (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/yn84ck (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/yl8ftq (WPost)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_on_sc/apn_secrets_of_keros

Rome is 'suddenly' concerned for the stuff that lies beneath
the city:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/arts/25arti.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/25/news/rome.phpf

More Archimedes Palimpsest coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/ylj6f6 (KTLA)
http://tinyurl.com/ylbtoe (LA Times)

Carl Springer has been given a Mellon Grant to translate
Sedulius:

http://tinyurl.com/yghzgw (Intelligencer)

Oped feature on the application of some myths to modern
situations:

http://tinyurl.com/ykwp5h (SMH)

A feature on Pierre Vidal-Naquet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/magazine/31naquet.t.html

... and one on Anne Carson:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1979862,00.html

Can't remember if we mentioned this 'Emperors in Crisis'
thing before:

http://www.physorg.com/news84727530.html

Just in case you missed this silly dispute over the naming
of a Macedonian airport:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6216225.stm

A piece on the early Olympics:

http://tinyurl.com/ymussn (LA Times)

Review of the audio version of Imperium:

http://tinyurl.com/yd74nk (Herald)

Reviews of a couple of well-reviewed books on Caesar and Augustus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/books/review/Coates.t.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/29/features/IDLEDE30.php

... and another:

http://tinyurl.com/ye6oe9 (LA Times)

... and an interview with Adrian Goldsworthy:

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/12/20061228_b_main.asp

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
That Bronze Age log boat from the River Tay is in the news again:

http://tinyurl.com/yma4al (BBC)

... while there is ongoing controversy about plans to move those
Viking ships (we mentioned last week):

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/world/europe/25viking.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/25/news/viking.php

13th century finds from Berwick:

http://tinyurl.com/ybcd7c (Berwick Today)

On the restoration of the Villa Torlonia:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2519626,00.html

Review of Stella Tillyard, *George III and his Scandalous
Siblings*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/books/27grim.2.html

Review of Vic Gatrell, *City of Laughter*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/books/29book.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Humans are being blamed for the demise of Australia's giant
kangaroos:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16359687/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_sc/australia_megafauna

Trying to identify a caucasian mummy from China:

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061224-032826-6357r

cf.:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/25/eng20061225_335707.html

A Mongolian fresco/mural appears to depict the funeral of Genghis Khan:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/27/t20061227_9905492.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/ymzzlk (Washington Times)

Mysterious rings from the tomb of China's only empress:

http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200612/21/eng20061221_334509.html

Excavating the tomb of Qin Hui:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/27/t20061227_9905556.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/27/eng20061227_336103.html

... and a 1700 b.p. three-chambered tomb from Jangxi province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200612/25/eng20061225_335731.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 9000 b.p. spear point from New Brunswick:

http://tinyurl.com/whpus (Star Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/y2uc2l (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/yaj9l8 (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/ymjxj7 (CBC)

And piles of stuff from beneath a Halifax hotel:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/550002.html

Toronto's heritage is in danger from development:

http://tinyurl.com/ycmrx6 (National Post)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A nice sort of 'overview' of what DNA studies are telling us
about our past:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1980639,00.html

The mystery of the deaths of Francesco I Medici and his wife
appears to have been solved (very interesting):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1979151,00.html

The secret of Stradivarius violins' distinctive sound has
been solved:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061129151126.htm

Intersting item on painters' fingerprints:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/arts/design/31cole.html

Assorted OpEd pieces on what assorted ancient types would be
doing in various situations today:

http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2006/12/whats_your_batt.html

Assorted items of interest from the NYT's Arts Briefly column:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/arts/29arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/arts/30arts.html

An excerpt reviewish thing on ancient/medieval cookbooks:

http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/021262.html

New treatment from a 17th century manuscript:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061228154205.htm

Short feature/interviewish thing with Franck Goddio:

http://tinyurl.com/yjslt2 (Bloomberg)

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel explores media
per/miscon - ceptions about archaeology:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Piece on pomegranates has a nice overview of their history:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1227/p13s02-lifo.html?s=hns

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Minerva Magazine has updated its online news:

http://minervamagazine.com/issue1801/index.html

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
On the tomb-raiding 'tradition' in the West Bank:

http://tinyurl.com/yhtug7 (Globe)

A foiled smuggling attempt in Jordan:

http://www.petra.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Dec/27/26000.htm

... and one in Algeria:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061220-025324-7697r

Some Chinese terracottas were returned this week:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/27/t20061227_9905537.shtml

Police recovered a stolen painting attributed to Goya:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_244461550,00.html?rL=s
(spanish)

Not specifically about crime, per se, but about investing in
antiquities and the risks attacked thereto:

http://tinyurl.com/yhh57l (Forbes)

I don't think the 'authorities' are right in identifying this
'antiquity' as ancient:

http://english.sabah.com.tr/893921E182C34839AA13CBA30D6B2AEF.html

Interesting piece on some of the folks who recovered Nazi-looted
art at the end of WWII:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2524245,00.html

Suzan Mazur's latest is a very interesting interview with
Italian prosecutor Maurizio Fiorelli:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00370.htm

... while Marion True feels the Getty is letting her take the
fall:

http://tinyurl.com/ylgf69 (LA Times)

Switzerland and Peru have signed an agreement about antiquities:

http://www.nzz.ch/2006/12/29/eng/article7389312.html
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Big bucks for a coin of Henry VIII at auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/6220490.stm

Review of a book on Cumberland Mining Tokens:

http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/leisure/viewarticle.aspx?id=447775

Star of Bethlehem on a coin?:

http://www.eclipse.net/~molnar/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Athens-Sparta:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/arts/design/29onas.html

In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/ylche3 (Ann Arbor News)

More coverage of the Getty's bronze boy:

http://tinyurl.com/yf2kux (News24)

... and the war of words seems to be continuing (or getting
additional coverage):

http://tinyurl.com/yb3avc (Reuters)

The National Museum in Taipei has reopened:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/28/news/taipei.php (includes
slide show)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
That 'new' Mozart has been performed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6216719.stm
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
John Heath-Stubbs (poet/translator):

http://tinyurl.com/ya4xlx (Sun Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ymzzlk (LA Times)
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/12/26/heath-stubbs-obit.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6210471.stm
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
The Register has finally stumbled upon the Bosnian Pyramids
story:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/26/bosnian_pyramids/
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Angie Telepenko,
Dan Kiernan, David Critchley, 'Duke Jason', Rick Heli,
John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths, Ross W Sargent,
Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
On the evolution of human diets:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070102101811.htm
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AFRICA
================================================================
Nice feature on Zimbabwe:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701050072.html

... related book review:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200701050422.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
The ancient Egyptians and global warming:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=33182007

Also in Egypt, they're restoring the oldes mud brick wall:

http://tinyurl.com/yjdl6o (SIS)

For reasons I can't quite figure out (is there something new
here?) there is plenty of coverage (again) of the excavations
at Hamoukar as the site of the first 'world war':

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/579880
http://tinyurl.com/y845ek (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/y4c56o (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/yzmfry (Daily Star)

... very detailed (German) coverage:

http://www.zeit.de/2007/02/A-Staedte

Remains of a camel rider from the Burnt City:

http://www.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0701016358195426.htm
http://tinyurl.com/vll38 (Iranmania)

... and evidence of B12 deficiencies near same:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_19852.shtml

Haven't heard about Egypt's efforts to recover antiquities it
believes should be returned for a while, so:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0104/p07s01-alar.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/csm/20070104/wl_csm/oantique

More warnings of impending ramp collapses at the Western Wall:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=808569
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3347606,00.html

More coverage of the lack of Median evidence at Ecbatana:

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/jan/1003.html

More on those Qumran latrines:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070103/ap_on_sc/israel_essene_latrine_5
http://tinyurl.com/y4tned (USA Today)
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/162931.php
http://www.physorg.com/news87054286.html

More Gospel of Judas coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/wk36n (KTLA)

... including interest in same by Jeffrey Archer (!):

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/news/article2132599.ece

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of discovery of a chunk of Roman Road in the Netherlands:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650220885,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y9frs4 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/yzakle (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.physorg.com/news87273256.html
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/01/06/science/15_04_181_5_07.txt
http://tinyurl.com/szx33 (Seattle Times)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16489022/

Item on the stuff they discovered (and are now exhibiting)
during the construction of the Acropolis Museum:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1981038,00.html
http://www.thehindu.com/2007/01/07/stories/2007010702741200.htm

The Getty Aphrodite came under increased journalistic scrutiny
this week:

http://tinyurl.com/yyu7nm (LA Times ... very interesting)
http://washingtontimes.com/upi/20070103-054103-2204r.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y2owj6 (Standard)
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1982527,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,21009435-1702,00.html

... while an Italian village is still asking for its Etruscan
chariot back:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2532086,00.html

OpEd piece on Classics in the UK:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,,1984465,00.html

... and more from Harry Mount:

http://commentisfree.guardian.co.uk/harry_mount/2007/01/post_860.html

... cf, from the Times:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-2528556,00.html

... along with a letter to the editor:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,59-2531572,00.html

... then there was that bit of 'Mafia Latin':

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2528468.html

Was Narcissus a Narcissist?:

http://tinyurl.com/y46d8k (Men's Daily)

More coverage of that Cycladic art from Keros story:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_on_sc/apn_secrets_of_keros_2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16418552/
http://tinyurl.com/y5rngc (USA Today)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2006/12/31/greekisle_arc.html

More Archimedes Palimpsest coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/y6b43r (LA Times)

More on the impending reopening of the Domus Aurea:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16299259/

Review of Adrian Goldsworthy, *Caesar*:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650220597,00.html

... and Everitt's Augustus:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article2122046.ece

Another review of Fagles' Aeneid translation:

http://tinyurl.com/y67xnf (Sun Times)

... semi-related: some letters to the editor of the NYT on one
of their reviews of same:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/books/review/Letters.t-4.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A follow-up piece to that discovery of a Psalter in an Irish
bog last summer:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2526932,00.html

I think we've covered this medieval image of Stonehenge before:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,61-2526389,00.html

Interesting finds beneath a Scottish "lap dancing bar":

http://heritage.scotsman.com/places.cfm?id=1896492006

More coverage of the controversy brewing about moving some
Viking ships:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1931642006
http://tinyurl.com/yyb2ra

Nice feature on the Vikings:

http://www.historysociety.ca/bea.asp?subsection=fea

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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Prehistoric artifacts from downtown Taipei:

http://www.cna.com.tw/eng/cepread.php?id=200701040031
http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=57514&ctNode=8

... and remains of Taiwan's 'first settlement':

http://www.physorg.com/news87300532.html

A Phung Nguyen burial from northern VietNam:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/060107/culture_an.htm

Slide show of the excavation of a Tang Dynasty tomb:

http://en.ce.cn/National/pic-news/200612/31/t20061231_9957690.shtml

Copper objects in a boat-shaped coffin from Sichuan:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-01/01/content_5556976.htm

A Harappan period burial from Uttar Pradesh:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1888352,000900010004.htm

Politics and archaeology in Georgia:

http://tinyurl.com/yfswog (AFP via Yahoo)

Not quite sure whether should be filed under Europe or Asia, but
a Vishnu idol has been excavated in Russia's Volga region:

http://www.indiadaily.com/editorial/15018.asp
http://tinyurl.com/y6z6ky

Japan is going to allow the excavation of 11 imperial tombs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16471340/
http://tinyurl.com/yh2jjq (Globe)
http://www.indiadaily.com/breaking_news/84325.asp

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
The Topper Site and its potential implications for the peopling
of the Americas:

http://tinyurl.com/y97oqh (St. Pete Times)

An ancient fish hook from the Missouri River:

http://www.columbiatribune.com/2006/Dec/20061231News002.asp (photo)
http://tinyurl.com/y7phq8 (KSHB)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070102/ap_on_sc/ancient_fishhook_1
http://www.physorg.com/news87054364.html

A general overview piece on the mounds at Calusa:

http://tinyurl.com/wf2nc (News-Press)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Using technology to find and follow trails used in ancient
Central America:

http://www.physorg.com/news87044935.html

Semi-related:

http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2007/01/05/27509.aspx

The mystery of those Incan knots is in the news again:

http://www.wired.com/wired/archive/15.01/khipu.html

An OpEd piece on human sacrifice etc. inspired, it seems, by
Apocalypto:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/opinion/02childs.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Was there a world wide drought which contributed to the downfall
of the Tang Dynasty and Mayan civilizations?:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=74310
http://www.breitbart.com/news/2007/01/03/070103192513.agkxud01.html
http://tinyurl.com/txrxs (New Scientist)

More coverage of that Medici cold case:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6230307.stm
http://tinyurl.com/ymwtu2 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1979151,00.html
http://www.spokesmanreview.com/ap/story.asp?AP_ID=D8ME20JO0
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16453497/

The church where Shakespeare is buried is in need of repairs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/04/theater/04shak.html

Another Indiana Jones movie is on the way:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/061231/139/6apsk.html

Interesting excavation of a 1991 van (no really ... it is
interesting):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/cars/story/0,,1980901,00.html

The Biblical Archaeology Society has launched findadig.com:

http://www.findadig.com/

Drinking some very old wine:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/03/dining/03pour.html

Betting on what happens in the next Harry Potter:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/harrypotter/story/0,,1978920,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Sailing down/up the Nile:

http://tinyurl.com/yykjte (Courier Mail)
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
"Poaching" sites in Florida:

http://tinyurl.com/y9kd9w (St. Pete Times)
http://tinyurl.com/yebamq (ditto ... followup)

More coverage of Marion True's claims she's 'taking the fall':

http://tinyurl.com/y4mqey (Chronicle)

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Tile Design in Valencia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/arts/design/02tile.html

On creating 'satellite Louvres':

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/arts/design/01louv.html

A 16th century map of Scotland is coming to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/6229523.stm

The Italy-Getty war of words continues:

http://tinyurl.com/tf323

The Theatre Museum in London is closing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/02/theater/02london.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Craig Hugh Smyth (Renaissance Art Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/01/arts/01smyth.html

Rev. W. Montgomery Watt (Historian of Islam):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2527235,00.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, 'Duke Jason',
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Gene Barkley,
John McMahon, Jason McLaren, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths, Ross W Sargent, Rochelle Altman,
Rick Pettigrew, Susan Jaslow, Suzan Mazur,Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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A skull from South Africa is lending support to one out-of-
Africa theory:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/science/12skull.html (JNW)

cf:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070111181736.htm
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/38444.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6253121.stm
http://tinyurl.com/y6k3j3 (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/y2zweh
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16596816/

... and this seems to be the press release that started it all:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/uoca-eeo010807.php
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AFRICA
================================================================
Maps of Africa from various periods are now available on the
web:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/6250225.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A sort of state-of-the-excavation/question/conference report
on the Jiroft civilization:

http://tinyurl.com/ylrry7 (Iranmania)
http://www.payvand.com/news/07/jan/1144.html

A pile of sites from various periods from Iran's Lorestan
province:

http://tinyurl.com/uezqs (Iranmania)

What a quartz stela is telling us about the 20th Dynasty
(I think we've had this one already):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/hr1.htm
http://www.dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=4545

Did the Egyptians reach Malta?:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=248628

Nice feature on Shunet el-Zebib and restoration efforts there:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/science/09egypt.html

All about Nob:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/811030.html

The Qumran latrine story is still making the rounds:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/4439936.html

... while the Gospel of Judas debate continues:

http://tinyurl.com/ssdzt (LA Times)

Review of another book about Gertrude Bell:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/827/cu4.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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A Roman bracelet from Cheshire:

http://tinyurl.com/y6zxfc (This is Cheshire)

A spate of Paliki-as-Ithaka coverage:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/6256807.stm
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20070110-034112-9343r
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=47602007
http://tinyurl.com/yyt4po (LA Times)
http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200701120340.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news87670111.html
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/books/01/10/homer.odyssey.reut/
http://tinyurl.com/y4kso7
http://www.geotimes.org/current/feature_Ithaca.html (best)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070110181034.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y6bze2 (Telegraph)

Hype for the second season of Rome was everywhere this week:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16600111/site/newsweek/
http://www.sbsun.com/ontv/ci_5008228
http://tinyurl.com/tt3g7 (Boston Globe)
http://www.nysun.com/article/46551
http://tinyurl.com/y8lhra (Weekly Standard)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/12/arts/television/12rome.html
http://www.salon.com/ent/tv/review/2007/01/12/rome/index_np.html
http://tinyurl.com/y8yxqg (Sun Times)

More coverage of that Roman road find in the Netherlands:

http://www.startribune.com/722/story/933964.html
http://tinyurl.com/smejy (Fox)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/01/05/ap3302894.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/163436
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-05-roman-road_x.htm

A year-in-review piece of finds (mostly ancient) from Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/y49yw5 (Echo)

Some interesting responses to Will Hutton's 'death knell for
Latin' column in the Observer last week:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/letters/story/0,,1989946,00.html

Feature/review on Strassler's Herodotus translation:

http://www.forbes.com/forbes/2007/0129/111.html

... and one on Ian Johnston's translations of Homer:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=6849615

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A television show thing about a very interesting Morayshire
cave with strange infant burials from 3000 b.p.:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1118440.0.0.php

A couple of Viking boat burials from Norway:

http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070109-035301-3064r

possibly related:

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article1592947.ece

An 'amateur archaeologist' (right ... I'm an 'amateur surgeon')
has found a 15th-century 'grooming implement':

http://tinyurl.com/yxowk7 (Review and Observer)

A Council has purchased a gold torq found by an 'amateur
treasure hunter' (that seems a bit more accurate) a couple
years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/6244811.stm

... while the British Museum has purchased a Saxon Sword which
had been declared treasure a while ago:

http://tinyurl.com/stmx5

... oh, and just in case you have a claim to the British throne:

http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/server/show/nav.10807

... or were planning on purchasing Dracula's castle:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_246081285,00.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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Nice photos of some Tang Dynasty finds from Henan:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200701/10/t20070110_10042443.shtml

A number of Han Dynasty relics were returned to China this week:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200701/09/t20070109_10034979.shtml

Another frozen warrior from the Altai region:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117,21042599-13762,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y89x2w (Australian)

The locals are pondering the big heads on Easter Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/world/americas/09easter.html

India (finally) is going to put up some cash to preserve som
sites:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=77395

Aboriginal graffiti is showing up in urban settings (not really
ancient, but interesting):

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/australasia/article2137661.ece

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Some 13000-15000 b.p. stone tools from Minnesota (!):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070113/ap_on_sc/archaeological_find_7
http://tinyurl.com/yku9xo (Newsday)
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/local/16450766.htm
http://wcco.com/local/local_story_012071945.html
http://tinyurl.com/sbwve
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16600777/

A duck hunter in Arkansas came across what might be a native
burial ground:

http://www.nwanews.com/bcdr/News/44110/

Seeds from Jamestown are telling us more about the people who
lived there:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_sc/jamestown_seeds_6
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16546566/

Some purported slave headstones in Tennessee are apparently
just rocks:

http://tinyurl.com/y7hclq (the Leaf Chronicle)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Maybe the conquistadores didn't bring all those diseases:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070107/ap_on_sc/mexico_ancient_plague

Nice feature on Peruvian mummies:

http://tinyurl.com/vlmph (Daily Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/ygfdbs (This is London)

Another prof comments on Apocalypto:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/news/16408709.htm

Peru is promoting Machu Picchu as a wonder of the world:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_246052157,00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Latest video on the Archaeology Channel documents an experiment
to show how megaliths could be moved:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Two scholars hang out their shingles for info about Valentines
day ... which do you think newspapers are more likely to
consult (alas):

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/526421/?sc=rsln
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/526406/

Interesting item on the history of human skin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/09/science/09conv.html

They're still looking for daVinci's Battle of Anghiari:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070113/ap_en_ot/lost_leonardo

Haven't had a facial reconstruction in ages ... so they did
one of Dante:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6255223.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16580287/

... perhaps related (on a punk version of the Divine Comedy):

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2121673.ece

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Not sure whether we've mentioned the Saving Antiquities website
before ... but they have (inter alia) a number of interesting
podcasts:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/

A 13th century Hebrew Bible which was stolen from the French
National Library a decade ago has been recovered:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/books/10manu.html

Latest in the Marion True saga ... Greece is now going after
her too [I can never decide whether to put this under 'crime
beat' or 'museum-related']:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/11/arts/design/11loot.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2007/01/11/greece-true.html

... while Italy appears to have the Cleveland Museum of Art in
its sights:

http://tinyurl.com/yjynv9 (Plain Dealer)

... and the Miho Museum in Japan:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/world/20070112TDY04003.htm
http://tinyurl.com/y6n8fv (IHT)
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2007/01/12/2003344475
http://www.guardian.co.uk/japan/story/0,,1988169,00.html
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Abu Dhabi gets a Louvre franchise:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/13/arts/design/13louv.html

Yale University Art Gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/10/arts/design/10yale.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Jean-Pierre Vernant (Ancient Greece Historian)

http://tinyurl.com/yyepsf (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.lemonde.fr/web/article/0,1-0,36-853661,0.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2144035.ece

Magnus Magnusson (television host):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-2537132,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/sbvht (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/3561915.stm

Elizabeth Fox-Genovese (historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/07/arts/07fox-genovese.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
From the Onion ... on the discovery of a Mayan nerd in a
prehistoric locker:

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/41248
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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explorator 9.39                                 January 21, 2006
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Birgitta Hoffmann,
Croman mac Nessa, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',
Edward Rockstein, John Hall, John Hill, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo,
Gene Barkley, Joan Griffith, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young,
Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,Mark Morgan, Dorothy King,
Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Ross W Sargent,
Bob Heuman, Susan Jaslow, Suzan Mazur,Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... another slow week.
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
This week, the evidence from a skull is suggesting that humans
and Neanderthals interbred:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070116/ap_on_sc/humans_neanderthals_6
http://tinyurl.com/2jp3o7 (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6268777.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2t2obc (Reuters)
http://www.physorg.com/news88139040.html
http://tinyurl.com/28sohy (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/29oud2 (Telegraph)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16639881/

More on the migration-out-of-Africa from that Russian site:

http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070115-050323-8305r
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AFRICA
================================================================
Oldest pottery found ... in Mali:

http://www.nzz.ch/2007/01/19/eng/article7442480.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Another dam, and this time Iranian mounds are threatened:

http://tinyurl.com/3x3h6j (Iranmania)

More tombs from Lama cemetery (Iran):

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6942

Plenty of coverage of some interesting (though not really 'new')
finds from Hamoukar:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070116205042.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/17/healthscience/snbattle.php
http://tinyurl.com/3xpdbs (Daily Vidette)
http://www.kfmb.com/story.php?id=77334
http://tinyurl.com/2fcbv9 (USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_on_sc/ancient_civilization_8
http://tinyurl.com/2fcbv9 (USA Today)
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/science/16batt.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/uoc-ndo011607.php
http://www.physorg.com/news88195339.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16655063/

... while the oldest backgammon set has come from the Burnt City:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_20127.shtml

Archaeological evidence of the Exodus?:

http://tinyurl.com/3xndub (Jewish Chronicle)

They've found a huge cliff near Temple Mount which might account
for the Romans' difficulty in storming the city:

http://tinyurl.com/yjuvv4 (JPost)

cf: recent finds from Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/yhkccm (IAA)

... and finds from around the Western Wall:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Dig_Item_eng.asp?id=604
http://www.ajn.com.au/news/news.asp?pgID=2415
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119451

I'm can't quite tell whether this is Don't Eat That Elmer material or
not:

http://tinyurl.com/28xfnw (AND)

Volunteer archaeologists have mapped a pile of caves in Turkey:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=63543

Archaeology Magazine's interactive dig at Hierakonopolis has been
updated:

http://www.archaeology.org/interactive/hierakonpolis/field/

... and the Hopkins in Egypt dig diary has started as well:

http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html

cf:

http://tinyurl.com/2qtn7p (Science Daily)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Thera's civilization was shaped by its response to natural
disasters:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=78930

Railway construction in Germany has revealed some Roman stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/2cjrlv (Boston Globe)

Plenty of coverage of a religious group's demand to have access
to the Temple of Zeus for their ritual:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,650224660,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ekvve (USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070119/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_gods
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6283907.stm
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,245038,00.html

Classics is alive and well in Wisconsin universities:

http://tinyurl.com/2sqo6q (Capital Times)

Mary Beard on the benefits of Latin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,1991336,00.html

Reviews of the first episode of Rome:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16600111/site/newsweek/
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/television/articles/070115crte_television

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Stonehenge was probably part of a much larger 'complex':

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070115/139/6b54r.html

An amateur archaeology group (which, I am told, in the UK
is distinct from what metal detectorists do) is enjoying their
work:

http://tinyurl.com/2leo7c (Denbighshire Free Press)

Speaking of metal detectorists, they're getting a lot of credit
in the latest Portable Antiquities Scheme annual report:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=90522007
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2552491,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6271879.stm
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,1992993,00.html

A major study of battlefields in Ireland:

http://tinyurl.com/33fcsj (AFP via Yahoo)

The Online Historical Populations project has launched:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/14/19th_century_uk_online/

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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Plenty of artifacts are being found at venues for the Beijing
Olympics:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070118/sc_nm/olympics_china_relics_dc_1

Some finds from Fengxian:

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=302755&type=Feature

Using radar photography at a site in India:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070117/43/6b85n.html

More details of temple restoration efforts in India:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=82854

Taiwan's earliest sword has been found in Tainan:

http://www.taiwanheadlines.gov.tw/ct.asp?xItem=59179&ctNode=8

A stone 'slab' (altar?) from Ha Giang:

http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/200107/culture_another.htm

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The Bering Land Bridge/Clovis theories are back in the news:

http://tinyurl.com/26uf5m

Another early English settlement has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/28qx84 (Daily Press)

An 'amateur archaeologist' found a 17th century iron furnace in
Virginia:

http://www.wdbj7.com/Global/story.asp?S=5964332&nav=menu368_2
http://tinyurl.com/2a3pzm (IHT)

Nice feature about Bill Kelso and Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/2tbwx6 (NPR)

Just down the road from me, in Caledonia, some recent finds
might bolster some native land claims (or not):

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/070117/national/native_occupation_7

A Confederate shipwreck found down in the bayou:

http://iberianet.com/articles/2007/01/17/news/news/news58.txt

A possible Civil War site in Knoxville:

http://tinyurl.com/2rv3b6 (KnoxNews)

Some old bones are holding up the latest Trump project:

http://www.thevillager.com/villager_194/talesfromthecrypt.html
http://www.gothamist.com/archives/2007/01/20/trump_thwarted.php
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Some Chachapoya 'ruins' have been found in the Andes:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=82958
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070117144302.htm
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-01-16-peru-ruin_x.htm?csp=34
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-01/dc-prd011707.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16676630/
http://tinyurl.com/3dp9uw (NG)

The story about how the Taino loved brass is making the rounds
again:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/16/science/16cuba.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Looks like the hype is building for Bob Cornuke's next
expedition:

http://tinyurl.com/3y7ers (Gazette)

Speaking of hype, Mel Gibson is firing back at criticism of
Apocalypto:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070116/en_nm/gibson_dc

More coverage of plans to look once again for Leonardo's Battle
of Anghiari:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/15/arts/15arts.html (3rd item)

... while an amateur historian has found the burial place of
'Mona Lisa':

http://www.cbc.ca/cp/Oddities/070119/K011906AU.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/afpentertainmentitaly
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6278235.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16710927/

Nice piece on Thomas Hardy:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/070115crbo_books

Latest moves in the 'DaVinci Code' case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/books/17davinci.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/arts/17arts.html

Hype for a TV version of Jane Eyre:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/arts/television/19mast.html

They've figured out why Napoleon died (again):

http://www.utsouthwestern.edu/utsw/cda/dept37389/files/338470.html
http://tinyurl.com/2o5uf4 (LiveScience via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16710732/from/id/16656433/
http://www.physorg.com/news88192255.html

Plenty of images to illustrate various news items in slideshow format
from Yahoo:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/ss/events/sc/021903anthroarchaeo

Recent floods in the UK washed some potentially strange/horrifying
items into the rivers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/6267531.stm

The ten most expensive books of 2006:

http://tinyurl.com/2fhg6o (Forbes)

In case you're wondering what's happening with that 'New Seven
Wonders' campaign:

http://tinyurl.com/3ajejf (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6269207.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16659208/

Some very nice photoshopping of statuary ancient and modern in
the latest Worth1000 contest:

http://tinyurl.com/yd9v9l

Remembering a 'killer cloud' from a couple of centuries ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6276291.stm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Interesting/disturbing item on diplomatic bags being used to
smuggle antiquities:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=552

Good article on the looting of Iraq:

http://www.aam-us.org/pubs/mn/MN_JF07_lost-iraq.cfm

... while Matthew Bogdanos is still on tour:

http://tinyurl.com/297jml

A site in Indonesia is being ransacked:

http://tinyurl.com/2vts9d (Gulf Times)
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20070119-062651-4924r

Iran's attempt to recover a piece from the staircase at
Persepolis didn't pan out:

http://www.ttc.org/200701191849.l0jinnu26193.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3bhele (Reuters)

... a pre-trial version:

http://tinyurl.com/2tsrm4 (Telegraph)

Suzan Mazur had a two-part interview with Bruce McNall on the
Bronze Boy and the antiquities market:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0701/S00171.htm

I can't remember if we mentioned this Japanese 'spinoff' from
the 'museum case':

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20070116TDY02006.htm

cf: http://tinyurl.com/2zrux3

A brazen heist outside a coin convention:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070110/ap_on_re_us/rare_coin_heist

... cf:

http://www.butternut.org/coins/tip4.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Big bucks for a Church Penny:

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=552643

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Monet's Drawings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/17/arts/design/17mone.html

Fraunces Tavern Museum:

http://www.frauncestavernmuseum.org/

Islamic Art:

http://www.qc.cuny.edu/nis/Releases/viewNews.php?id=234

Winter Antiques show coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/arts/design/19wint.html

American Antiques Show coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/arts/design/19taas.html

Latest in the Marion True trial:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/18/arts/design/18gett.html

... but more interesting was the testimony of a former looter:

http://tinyurl.com/3ara3r (Boston Globe)
http://quote.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3VMpGTMfnt8
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070117/ap_en_ot/looted_antiquities_3
http://tinyurl.com/2yusul (IHT)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Agrippina:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1993747,00.html

Emperor Norton:

http://www.emperornortonthemusical.com/

Otello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/19/arts/music/19otel.html
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ON THE WEB
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Godchecker: Your Guide to the Gods:

http://www.godchecker.com/
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A snake spell in a pyramid might be the oldest Semitic
inscription:

http://tinyurl.com/2vngfp (USA Today)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070123/ap_on_sc/israel_ancient_spell_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16777017/
http://www.post-trib.com/news/226528,SpellCat.article
http://www.physorg.com/news88850905.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/01/25/snakespell_arc.html

The pharmacy in Ancient Egypt:

http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=101431

A number of Punic and Phoenician artifacts have been donated
to Heritage Malta:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/core/article.php?id=249852

The Dor shipwreck has been dated to the 8th century A.D./C.E.:

http://tinyurl.com/yukd4c (Live Science via Yahoo)
http://www.kwtx.com/news/headlines/5349011.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16790589/
http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=06423108195
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=817378
http://www.jta.org/page_view_breaking_story.asp?intid=6549

Brief/vague item on the discovery of aqueduct remains in
Jerusalem:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=120159

... while the 'saga' side of Temple Mount continues:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3355279,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=119937

... and Jordan has restored a wooden pulpit to TM:

http://tinyurl.com/2ug8ow (JPost)

The City of David dig has uncovered a pilgrim's road:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/816984.html

The UPenn Museum is preserving a pile of Mesopotamian
relics:

http://tinyurl.com/2vp6tj (Inquirer)

Ancient Egyptian mathematics:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/829/hr1.htm

Some mysterious jars which apparently aren't the canopic jars
of Ramses II:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/01/23/jars_arc.html

An interesting 'how they built the pyramids' suggestion:

http://www.taftmidwaydriller.com/articles/2007/01/19/news/news01.txt

More Tel Hamoukar coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/2m2gjj (Chronicle)

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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A Bronze Age fertility temple from Apulia (I don't buy it):

http://tinyurl.com/255fd8 (ANSA)

Tons o coverage on the recovery of some gladiator reliefs in
Italy (this is really Crime Beat material, but I don't want the
Classicists among us to miss it):

http://tinyurl.com/2jjega (Sun)
http://www.canadaeast.com/ce2/docroot/article.php?articleID=95047
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/25/arts/25arts.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_en_ot/roman_gladiators_2
http://abclocal.go.com/wpvi/story?section=entertainment&id=4966164
http://tinyurl.com/3xw8s9 (Daily Mail)
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/166081.php
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6965
http://tinyurl.com/2qch3k (IOL)
http://www.thestar.com/artsentertainment/article/174353
http://tinyurl.com/32n8ft (IHT)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16790995/

A fair bit of coverage of the apparent discovery of the
Lupercal cave (just before Valentine's Day ... hmmmmm):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070124/ap_on_sc/italy_ailing_rome_6
http://tinyurl.com/37dkpc (NG)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16777034/
http://tinyurl.com/2trgbr (USA Today)
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=86221
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2562572,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2wcrmh (IHT)

Very interesting Gallic burial near Normandy:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2190045.ece
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6964

Not sure how they'll find evidence that Hadrian actually
stayed near his wall:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=458908

Remains of a large Roman building near Cambs (UK):

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART43116.html

An update of sorts on Allianoi:

http://www.nature.com/news/2007/070122/full/070122-9.html

A storm has damage a Roman mosaic in Koln:

http://tinyurl.com/34295p (Expatica)

Roman influence in India?:

http://www.hindu.com/2007/01/28/stories/2007012800201800.htm

John Peradotto's Aeschylus article stands the test of time:

http://tinyurl.com/2ks53m (UBuff)

... while Richard Saller becomes Dean:

http://daily.stanford.edu/article/2007/1/24/chicagosSallerToBeDean

Father Foster seems rather pessimistic about the state of Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/yrh6r2 (Telegraph)

Perhaps he read this editorial in the Financial Times:

http://tinyurl.com/2sa3t8

... cf some responses:

http://tinyurl.com/35y2zj
http://tinyurl.com/3c3gjr
http://tinyurl.com/338nqh

... and a student response to a similar thread in the Guardian:

http://tinyurl.com/38jfle

... and the benefits of ancient Greek:

http://tinyurl.com/32bsbp (Kathimerini)

... while Michael Elliott gives us some hope too:

http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1582332,00.html

First we had mafiosi using Latin in secret messages; now it's
turning up in classified ads:

http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=112192007

Trying to save Latin at Penfield High:

http://www.mpnnow.com/news/view_story.php?articleId=6084

First 'Roman numeral' story prior to this year's Super Bowl:

http://abclocal.go.com/wls/story?section=local&id=4968311

Is 300 the last gasp of sword and sandal flicks?:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,2000393,00.html

More coverage of the goings-on at the Temple of Zeus in Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/2syfyy (KTimes)
http://tinyurl.com/2wxowm (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.bostonherald.com/international/view.bg?articleid=178383
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6285397.stm
http://tinyurl.com/3bvg3g (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/2ty98v (AFP via Yahoo)
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=110852007
http://tinyurl.com/2jz9t3 (NG)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6285397.stm

More coverage of that duck hunter inscription from Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/3xxj7j (GNN)

More coverage of Bob Cornuke's plans to find the site of Paul's
shipwreck:

http://www.maltamedia.com/artman2/publish/out_about/article_279.shtml

Review of Martin Goodman, *Rome and Jerusalem*:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/history/0,,1999581,00.html
http://living.scotsman.com/books.cfm?id=139612007

Review of Fagles' Aeneid translation:

http://tinyurl.com/345boy (WPost)

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Viking ship near Dublin?:

http://tinyurl.com/33oes8 (AFP via Yahoo)

Interesting item on the Tara Brooch:

http://www.nowtoronto.com/issues/2007-01-25/goods_travel.php

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html

Trying again to get Heritage Status for the Antonine Wall:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aID/580645
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/other/display.var.1142099.0.0.php
http://tinyurl.com/32fvp4 (UK)

(I think this is Europe) A Kiev fortress was demolished in the
past couple of weeks:

http://www.unian.net/eng/news/news-181023.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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They're going back to the Hobbit cave:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6294101.stm

"Craniotomy" in ancient China:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200701/26/t20070126_10220745.shtml

Plans are afoot for an archaeological glossary of Thailand:

http://tinyurl.com/2lna4k (Nation)

Interesting (but short) slideshow of finds from a Three Kingdoms
era brick (!) tomb:

http://en.ce.cn/National/gallery/200701/24/t20070124_10195282.shtml

A "Pompeii-like" (not really) Female Factory site from Tasmania:

http://tinyurl.com/34j8jr

Metallurgy in ancient India:

http://tinyurl.com/2mv9pn (HTimes)

An Afghan archaeologist talks about Bamiyan:

http://www.berkeleydailyplanet.com/article.cfm?issue=01-23-07&storyID=26170

More coverage of items found at Olympic venues in Beijing:

http://tinyurl.com/2v3ege (AFP via Yahoo)

Review of Edward Dreyer, *Zheng He*:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25340-2563759,00.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some 'natural' damage at Mesa Verde:

http://tinyurl.com/2jy6mu (Cortez Journal)

Excavating the first Baptist church in North America:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=3261

Yalies in Alaska:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/current/old_yale.html

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is on the Marmet Lock
Replacement Project in Virginia:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Review of Charles Rappleye, *Sons of Providence*:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=3264

Review of Matthew Warshauer, *Andrew Jackson and the Politics
of Martial Law*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/articles/070129crbo_books_crain

Review of John Sedgwick, *In My Blood*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/22/books/22masl.html

Review of Michael Oren, *Power, Faith and Fantasy*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/books/review/Rodenbeck.t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of Olmec influence near Mexico City (!):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16815713/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Mexico-Olmec-City.html
http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/39716.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070126/ap_on_sc/mexico_olmec_city_4

Acid rain is threatening El-Tajin:
http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/230574,CST-NWS-olmec26.article
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16755251/

http://tinyurl.com/38kk8l (NG)

An interesting relic of the Wari civilization:

http://tinyurl.com/369czx (LS via Yahoo)
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/526767/?sc=rssn
http://www.physorg.com/news88871748.html

More coverage of those Chachapoya finds in Peru:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=83337
http://tinyurl.com/3ckc8p (STimes)
http://tinyurl.com/34f56f (NG)

The oldest writing from the Americas:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=3209
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, a Yorkshire 'clan' has definite connections
to Africa:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6293333.stm

Egypt doesn't like this newfangled 'Seven Wonders' campaign:

http://tinyurl.com/2j5hkh (AFP via Yahoo)

A Bodmer papyrus was donated to the Vatican:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=101738

Celebrating Linnaeus:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070127/ap_on_sc/sweden_linnaeus

Big bucks for a Rembrandt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/arts/design/26voge.html
http://tinyurl.com/3adwsq (IHT)

Plans are afoot to excavate a 1957 Plymouth:

http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/01/23/buried.car.ap/index.html

Reimagining the Globe:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/22/features/globe.php

Shelfari is an interesting idea:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/business/288229_shelfari11.html

Interesting coverage of a meeting of the Athanasius Kircher
Society:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/content/articles/070129ta_talk_seabrook

Tall tales from Yale:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/98_03/talltales.html

On that purported 'code' within quilts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/nyregion/23quilt.htm

A new archaeology degree is available at Austin College:

http://tinyurl.com/355opz (ABJ)

The history of the brassiere:

http://english.pravda.ru/society/stories/24-01-2007/86739-bra-0

Thoreau the mathematician:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=3271

Keeping Ladino alive:

http://tinyurl.com/2qgcwo (Forward)

Review of Sheila Hodges, *Lorenzo Da Ponte*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/content/articles/070108crbo_books

Review of some new editions of Alexandre Dumas stuff:

http://tls.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,25341-2563847,00.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Calcata:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/01/28/travel/28dayout.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Another piece on Matthew Bogdanos:

http://tinyurl.com/2t7lto (Palm Beach Life)

Brief item on the return of some purloined artifacts to
Pakistan:

http://tinyurl.com/3ddjbl

... not sure if this is the same:

http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=85714

OpEd piece pondering Japan's role as 'cultural looter':

http://www.zmag.org/content/showarticle.cfm?SectionID=17&ItemID=11912

The price some looters pay in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/2j78yb (Kathimerini)

Another story about recovering Nazi loot:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6365997,00.html

More coverage of looting in Indonesia:

http://tinyurl.com/32jyad (METimes)
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NUMISMATICA
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The Medals Collector:

http://www.maineantiquedigest.com/medals/medals_collector.htm

Canada's latest silver dollar:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/ottawa/story/2007/01/18/mint-dollar.html
http://tinyurl.com/7wg38 (photo)

Big bucks are expected for Hong Kong banknote coming to auction:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601093&sid=ae2hRLEbaIuQ

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Victorian Bestsellers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/arts/27vict.html

Triumph of Eros:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/27/arts/design/27eros.html

Interesting auction of some 'church silver':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/arts/design/26anti.html

Greece isn't happy with an upcoming auction at Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/arts/24arts.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Women of Trachis:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2007/01/24/theater/reviews/24trac.html

Hillard Ensemble:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/23/arts/music/23hill.html

Coast of Utopia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/26/theater/26utop.html
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OBITUARIES
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Gordon Kirkwood (Classicist):

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan07/Kirkwood.gl.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Latest in the 'Hobbit' investigations:

http://tinyurl.com/2jvgpj (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.news.com.au/sundaymail/story/0,,21140698-401,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6311619.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070129/sc_nm/hobbit_species_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16876005/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Gilded solar child relief from Luxor:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/830/fr2.htm

On Syria as the 'cradle of civilizations':

http://www.sana.org/eng/22/2007/01/30/99706.htm

A late Byzantine mosaic from Beit Ras:

http://www.petra.gov.jo/nepras/2007/Feb/03/24000.htm

An image of that 'oldest Semitic inscription' (the snake curse
thing) ... with a link to a good press release as well:

http://www.eurekalert.org/multimedia/pub/2979.php?from=89727

cf:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070129100250.htm

Looking at Parthian and Achaemenid fabrics:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=441813

More coverage of Egypt's derision at the new 'Seven Wonders'
thing:

http://tinyurl.com/32c9wm (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20070130/3035699.asp

More Dor Beach shipwreck coverage:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070128143941.htm

More coverage of ire arising from Israeli archaeologists'
digging near the al-Aqsa Mosque:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L29208864.htm

The fate of those Iranian inscriptions at the Oriental Institute
which were brought into play in a bombing case is still up in
the air, it seems:

http://www.payvand.com/news/07/feb/1029.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Iraq War and Archaeology:

http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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Some late Roman graves from Hungary:

http://tinyurl.com/28ygwl (MTI)
http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=148225

Looking at Pompeii's Samnite origins:

http://tinyurl.com/2f8rp3 (ANSA)

Can't remember if we mentioned this Gallic burial last week:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2190045.ece

Renewed coverage of the find of Maxentius' insignia:

http://uktv.co.uk/index.cfm/uktv/History.news/aid/580962
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0%2C%2C13509-2575075%2C00.html
(photo)

The Roman amphitheatre in Chester now appears to be a miniature
version of the Colosseum:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2214843.ece

They're excavating what they believe was the governor's residence
in Ephesus:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=65242

Quite a bit of coverage of an article in AJA on why Greek art is
so, well, nude:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070202_greek_nudity.html
http://tinyurl.com/2d2fc4 (ls via Yahoo)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16948773/

... here's the original article:

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=content&aid=248

What James M. May has been up to:

http://fusion.stolaf.edu/news/index.cfm?fuseaction=NewsDetails&id=3725

... and Joan Breton Connelly:

http://tinyurl.com/29tg8g (Princeton)

Nice column by Victor Davis Hanson on David Grene's work:

http://www.nysun.com/article/47770

A Classicist is the new prez of the AIA:

http://tinyurl.com/3dz4cu

On Horace and Julie Andrews:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2087-2583236,00.html

A new Classics honour society at Gonzaga:

http://tinyurl.com/2z6y8d

Interesting item on the balance between progress and archaeology
during the ongoing construction of Rome's subway:

http://tinyurl.com/3ccrk6 (IHT)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2007-02-03-romesubway_x.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070203/ap_on_sc/italy_subway_archaeology_2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16951411/

A publicity stunt trying to get the return of the Elgin/Parthenon
marbles back did get a lot of publicity:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/arts/31arts.html
http://tinyurl.com/2j2atz (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/2pfsph (CBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6313953.stm

The hype for 300 is building:

http://film.guardian.co.uk/news/story/0,,2000426,00.html

... while Roman Polanski will direct a movie version of Harris' Pompeii:

http://tinyurl.com/yrhh7b
http://tinyurl.com/2xyt79

More coverage of the impending reopening of the Domus Aurea:

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/living/16594142.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ysgz4d (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2bdovv (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/2c2l47 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/ypqhjo (WPost)
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16912846/

More coverage of that gladiator relief antiquities recovery:

http://www.azstarnet.com/allheadlines/166081

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Some ancient footprints from a Welsh beach:

http://tinyurl.com/24fzqf (Western Mail)

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a 'worker's (or party)
village' near Stonehenge:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/world/europe/31stonehenge.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ogyhk (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/389e86 (Australian)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6311939.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2rj5k7 (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/2oyf33 (USA Today)
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1583400,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2m8j9k (NPR ... good photo gallery)
http://tinyurl.com/33aayl (New Scientist)
http://tinyurl.com/2yn6qm (Globe)
http://space.newscientist.com/article/dn11067
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/070130_durrington.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16887060/

... some video:

http://tinyurl.com/2f7fkl (NG)

... and photos:

http://tinyurl.com/ys7afj (NG)
Finds from various periods during construction of a section of
the A66:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/6316349.stm

Another shackled skeleton has been dug up ... this time from
Avila:

http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_8690.shtml

The Guersey Maritime Trust is trying to preserve a couple of
important shipwrecks:

http://tinyurl.com/364a7z (Press and Star)

A Bronze Age hoard found in Cotswalds will remain there:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/6312365.stm

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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What pollen analysis is telling us about the Terracotta Warriors:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/01/29/terracottaarmy_arc.html

Another discovery credited to clumsiness:

http://en.epochtimes.com/news/7-1-29/51096.html

On pottery and trade with New Guinea:

http://www.thenational.com.pg/020207/w7.htm

Finding connections between Hindu and Maori cultures:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/070128/43/6bjw5.html

Some Maori heads are being returned:

http://tinyurl.com/yv7n99 (ic Renfrewshire)

Plans are afoot to rebuild the A'Famosa fortress in Malacca:

http://tinyurl.com/3dske2 (Star)

On recovering Chinese relics:

http://english.people.com.cn/200701/30/eng20070130_346095.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting flute discovery near Range Creek (Utah):

http://www.sunad.com/index.php?tier=1&pub=2006-12-19&page=news
http://www.sunad.com/index.php?tier=1&pub=2007-01-04&page=news
(scroll down on the latter)

A possible burial mound near Columbus:

http://www.wishtv.com/global/story.asp?s=6016524

Workers putting in a new waterpipe have seriously damaged a
site in Albuquerque:

http://www.newschannel10.com/global/story.asp?s=6002879

Wow ... archaeology has shut down energy development in a
big chunk of Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5141313?source=email

A temperature record for the Great Plains (which is interesting
in light of recent press attention to a related issue):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/01/070128105107.htm

Interesting opedish thing on assorted tales associated with the
Underground Railroad (especially the 'freedom quilts'):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/opinion/02bordewich.html

Relocating historic houses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/01/garden/01moving.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More coverage of that evidence of Olmec culture in central
Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/26z82c (NG)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070131/sc_nm/mexico_olmecs_dc_1
http://au.news.yahoo.com/070201/2/129oz.html
http://tinyurl.com/ynpgwf (Reuters)

More coverage of acid rain damage at El Tajin:

http://tinyurl.com/yvuygy (NG)

More coverage of that controversial bridge to Machu Picchu:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6292327.stm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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They're finally going to do some DNA tests to see if folks living
in a Chinese village are/can be descended from Crassus' legions:

http://tinyurl.com/2sbmtk (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/2n5o8z (Gulf Times)

Also on the DNA front, studies suggest that humans arrived in
the Americas rather 'late':

http://tinyurl.com/284jhu (NG)

Revisiting the 1607 flood of southwest England:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/6305013.stm

Interesting slavery diary:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/6307657.stm

... and a followup to that Barclay's/slavery story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/nyregion/02yards.html

Assorted historical analaogies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/magazine/04wwln_essay.t.html

Folks might be interested to read about the power of 'lecture
podcasts':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/education/31education.html

On spotting forgeries:

http://www.physorg.com/news89574623.html

Two items of interest in this Arts Briefly column from the NYT
(on the delayed opening of the Rijksmuseum and the recovery of
some artifacts from Mali):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/31/arts/31arts.html

... while this one has items on Robin Hood and using titanium
in some restoration efforts at St. Mark's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/arts/02arts.html

... while the pigeons in St. Mark's Square might have to find
some new digs:

http://tinyurl.com/2bco3s (NewsDaily)

Interesting followup oped piece on the revival of worship of
ancient Greek divinities:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,,2003096,00.html

Still looking for the Battle of Anghiari:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070130/lf_nm/italy_leonardo_dc_3

Interesting study of memory and literature:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/arts/03memo.html

cf: http://www.biopsychlab.com/

More coverage of that donation of a Bodmer papyrus to the
Vatican:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=101738
http://www.catholic.org/featured/headline.php?ID=4024

The story behind Ashoura:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Mideast-Shiites.html

Questioning the authenticity of some Pollocks:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/us/30pollock.html

Review of A.C. Grayling, *Descartes*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Blackburn.t.html

Review of Ewen and Ewen, *Typecasting*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Berreby.t.html

Review of Arthur Allen, *Vaccine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Oshinsky.t.html

Review of Andrew Hussey, *Paris: A Secret History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/Weber.t.html

Assorted non-fiction reviews:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/04/books/review/McKelvey.t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Chiapas/Palenque:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/53b6d1ea-aca5-11db-9318-0000779e2340.html

Desolation Canyon:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/1%2C1249%2C650225466%2C00.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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American Journal of Archaeology 111.1 (January 2007):

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc

Sparta 2.2:

http://prweb.com/releases/2007/2/prweb501915.htm

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The looting of Afghanistan continues:

http://tinyurl.com/3b9cxd (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/3bv85m (IHT)

A major (maybe) antiquities ring bust in Sicily:

http://tinyurl.com/3664dg (News.com)
http://tinyurl.com/375yze (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/yrlkkn (Bloomberg)

More on the use of diplomatic bags in the smuggling of antiquities:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article01.asp?id=552

Sentencing in that case wherein some guy in Hawaii tried to sell
some antiquities he found in a cave:

http://www.khnl.com/Global/story.asp?S=6027371

Some artifacts from Mali were recovered in France:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6314481.stm
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NUMISMATICA
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The AIA seems to have a special focus on coins in the upcoming
renewal of an agreement about antiquities related to Cyprus:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10301

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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'Gods in Color':

http://tinyurl.com/2t47lh (Kathimerini)
http://news.ert.gr/en/2/23045.asp

Bactrian Gold:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/830/he1.htm

A very interesting collection put together by 'anonymous':

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/02/arts/design/02morg.html

They've been yakking about it for years, but the Uffizi might
actually finally be expanded:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/03/arts/03uffi.html

Results of an auction of the (mostly porcelain) contents of
a Chinese shipwreck:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/26153.html
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OBITUARIES
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Mary Stanley Low:

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/article2198421.ece

... and from the NYT archives, Frederick Douglass:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0207.html

cf: (for interest's sake):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/01/30/nyregion/30old.html
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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but I think I got them all ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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The debate over 'Turkana Boy':

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070207/ap_on_sc/kenya_fossil_debate_7
http://tinyurl.com/2whp4o (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/2lgy4s (Daily Mail)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7379471
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17029155/

An interview with one of the anthropologists studying the
'hobbits':

http://tinyurl.com/26h9dp (CNET)

cf:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/30/flores_brain_model/

... and the latest claim: homo floresiensis was wiped out by
modern humans:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2007/1836140.htm

... and we might as well blame the extinction of a pile of
animal species on Australia on humans too:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/01/25/news/fossil.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A trio of New/Middle Kingdom sarcophagi from Saqqara:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2007/832/eg8.htm
http://archive.gulfnews.com/articles/07/02/10/10103261.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ntbw7 (News24)
http://tinyurl.com/2j85sa (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/ypnrfd (AFP via Yahoo ... photo)

This Akhenaten era find might be different from the above:

http://tinyurl.com/2fgklu (Reuters)
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/features/?id=19564
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17156100/
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_252088620,00.html

A feature on Zahi Hawass and general Egyptian archaeology:

http://www.thestar.com/Travel/article/181739

Bronze Age remains from Kuwait City:

http://tinyurl.com/yt7z89 (ATimes)

Some criticism of the conclusions being drawn from those
Qumran latrines:

http://www.forward.com/articles/led-astray-by-a-dead-sea-latrine/

Retracing Abraham's travels:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2007/0213/p01s03-wome.html

The exact location of the Second Temple has been pinpointed
(maybe):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070212113227.htm
http://in.news.yahoo.com/070213/139/6c1w4.html
http://tinyurl.com/yruakg (AlphaGalileo)
http://tinyurl.com/yrb5o4 (JPost)

[I'm trying to give the following the attention it merits, hence
the somewhat strange presentation]

Much ire being raised because of an Israeli dig on Temple Mount:

http://tinyurl.com/2dbgl9 (JPost)
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2007/02/06/ap3399212.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/israel/Story/0,,2007179,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070205/ap_on_sc/israel_temple_mount_2
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3361666,00.html

... even the UNESCO folks are concerned:

http://tinyurl.com/348uyq

... and Israeli archaeologists had some accusations of their own:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3362223,00.html

... but the dig might not be necessary:

http://tinyurl.com/ysawwy (JPost)

... but maybe it is:

http://tinyurl.com/yo946s (MFA)

... whatever the case, it has resulted in the installation of a
webcam at the excavation site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6364467.stm
http://www.antiquities.org.il/home_eng.asp

... but it's further complicated by the discovery of a Byzantine
mosaic and other finds:

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/article2271661.ece
http://tinyurl.com/39cjn6 (JPost)

... and the two sides are still talking, apparently:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/121404

Why is the dig going on at all?:

http://tinyurl.com/2dwfnj (IV)

Related item on politics and archaeology in Israel:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/6347077.stm

... and another 'illegal' dig which will probably play into this
whole scenario at some point:

http://www.israeltoday.co.il/default.aspx?tabid=178&nid=11432

An update on the Oded Golan trial:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/823215.html

Trying to preserve Ur Bilum:

http://tinyurl.com/2vmagv (NPR)

Some 800 b.p. victims of an Iranian earthquake:

http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6989

Nice feature on Howard Carter:

http://tinyurl.com/3xcvs6 (Morning Call)

... and Lord Carvarvon's doctor:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/ohio/living/16625468.htm

... and the New York Times replicated the front page of their
edition announcing the opening of the tomb:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0216.html

More coverage of that ancient Semitic snake spell:

http://tinyurl.com/3cqeb6 (NG)

An upDate (sorry ... can't resist):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/826167.html

Persepolis Fortification Archive Project:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.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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DNA evidence from cattle seems to be supporting Herodotus'
claims of Etruscan origins:

http://tinyurl.com/2gysfa (Daily India)

... as does human DNA, apparently:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=65700

... while the Pathans do have some Greek dna in their blood:

http://tinyurl.com/2htyda (Daily Times)

... and we await word on whether some Chinese villagers are
descended from Crassus' legions:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,250297,00.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-08/24/content_3396301.htm

Apparently fitness levels have fallen since the days of ancient
Greece:

http://www.physorg.com/news90153434.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070208100643.htm
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=21793
http://news.com.com/2061-11204_3-6157566.html

For reasons I can't quite comprehend (other than a possible
Valentine's Day connection?) the question of Cleopatra's beauty
was raised again in connection with a coin portrait:

http://tinyurl.com/2na72s (Seattle Times)
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/16699224.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2zwc9v (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/2c7jxx (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/2dwup2 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070215/ap_on_sc/britain_cleopatra_coin_6
http://tinyurl.com/2xnqh4 (Times)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/02/070215-cleopatra.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/6357311.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17157862/
http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/folha/ciencia/ult306u16004.shtml

Remains of a theatre (possibly that of Acharnae) have been found
in Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/yutqb7 (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/2b5fhm (Kathimerini)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2007/02/16/greektheater_arc.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17177406/

Items from the Kerameikos will soon be on display:

http://tinyurl.com/2gvvea (IOL)

Plans to save a temple of Isis and Osiris at Brexiza:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=80105

Big digs are on the way in Pisidia and Karia:

http://tinyurl.com/2932pv (TZ)

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about the discovery of
Rome's Catacombs:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

A Roman necropolis from Lincolnshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/6358023.stm

... and some interesting burials from York:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/6338765.stm

Another piece on BYU's efforts in revealing what is really
on some ancient papyri:

http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/63063

Interesting gladiator-related finds from Cheshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/6370899.stm
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article2214843.ece
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article1398041.ece
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART44027.html
http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2007070918,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yrqdar (Telegraph)

Another amphitheatre has been found ... this time in Peterborough:

http://tinyurl.com/2p8yco (Peterborough Today)

300 seems to be a hit:

http://www.variety.com/vstory/VR1117959583.html?categoryid=38&cs=1

Roman Polanski will direct the movie version of Harris' Pompeii:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/film/story/2007/02/04/polanski-pompeii.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.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 metal detectorist has found what may be the UK's oldest set
of earrings:

http://tinyurl.com/yrzfet (Metro)

A transcript of an interview with one of the archaeologists who
is working on that Stonehenge village:

http://www.abc.net.au/correspondents/content/2007/s1850324.htm

Medieval finds beneath a Somerset barn:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/6345647.stm

Pub construction in Coventry has revealed a medieval leper
colony:

http://tinyurl.com/yo5ack (BBC)

Excavations have revealed some 'strange features' at Bodiam
Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/6330873.stm

Of course there was plenty of Valentinesish coverage of that
discovery of the neolithic 'Romeo and Juliet' burial from
Italy:

http://www.wane.com/global/story.asp?s=6051118
http://www.fox21.com/Global/story.asp?S=6051118&nav=2KPp2Qjt
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070208/ap_on_sc/italy_prehistoric_love_13
http://tinyurl.com/2q6vhm (USA Today)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6338751.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17011786/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17114349/

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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Can't remember if we mentioned this study suggesting the Terracotta
Army was made in a couple of different places:

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/1841166.htm?ancient

A 1700 b.p. Buddhist temple from Bihar Dhap:

http://tinyurl.com/2x7rv5 (Daily Star)

Can't believe this hasn't already been done ... they're going
to measure China's Great Wall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/6352239.stm

More coverage of finds from Olympic venues in Beijing:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/05/news/beijing.php

A huge number of ancient Indian manuscripts are going online:

http://tinyurl.com/ytexhb (IBN)

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Still looking for Champlain's grave:

http://tinyurl.com/2xggqc (Gazette)

... and following up on implications of Jefferson's DNA:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6332545.stm

Gold Rush-era human remains from the environs of Sacramento:

http://tinyurl.com/39tmtc  (ABC)

A 'mystery excavation' in Baytown (Texas):

http://stories.baytownsun.com/story.lasso?ewcd=4fea2b55b91b2783
http://stories.baytownsun.com/story.lasso?ewcd=28e0b1aa61cca540

Wanna buy a burial mound?:

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/16667799.htm

Big bucks for Mesa Verde:

http://tinyurl.com/34vnay (Cortez Journal)

George Washington and the rules of civility:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7466065
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Using looters' trenches to figure out what happened at a site
in Belize:

http://tinyurl.com/2p3en5 (USA Today)

Interesting implications of maize found with an andean mummy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070211202525.htm

They're going to build a replica of a Maya tomb at Rey Pakal:

http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_250429769,00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Ulcers have been around for a long time:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/6338357.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070215134529.htm
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=6711

African genes in Yorkshire:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/24/yorkshire_y_chromosome/

The Vatican is trying to control overcrowding:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/02/18/travel/18journeys.html

The Russian Orthodox Church is angry at an attempt to sell some
relics:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6333085.stm

Did the Vikings use 'sunstones' to help them navigate?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6338535.stm

History's greatest banquets:

http://tinyurl.com/2gtv2o (Independent)

The ancient history of hot peppers:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17171454/
http://www.cbc.ca/technology/story/2007/02/15/science-chili.html
http://tinyurl.com/37jfm6
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/6367299.stm

What Dan Brown hath spawned:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/books/16masl.html

More on the search for the Battle of Anghiari:

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article2204088.ece

Using forensic techniques to discern the colours of ancient textiles:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/02/070208100919.htm

The obligatory (for this time of year) history of kissing piece:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5209683

The story of some 'slave Robinson Crusoes':

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/article2237660.ece

The next Indiana Jones flick will be out in May, 2008:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6339983.stm

A time capsule from the rubble of Doctor's Hospital (New York):

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/13/nyregion/13ink.html

Interesting series from NPR on the Sunni-Shia split in Islam:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=7346199

I swear that almost everyone I know sent me this Youtube video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRjVeRbhtRU

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ravenna:

http://tinyurl.com/2lwepa (Post-Gazette)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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CSA Newsletter (Winter 2007):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#winter07

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

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 Afghanistan continues:

http://tinyurl.com/2uefay (Detroit News)

A major antiquities bust in Spain:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070207/ap_en_ot/spain_looted_art_2

... and a 'medium' one in Algeria:

http://www.elkhabar.com/FrEn/lire.php?ida=59366&idc=52

... and a smaller one in Egypt:

http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2067127,00.html

One of the pioneers of prosecuting looters in the U.S. is
retiring:

http://www.sltrib.com/ci_5210015
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NUMISMATICA
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Liberty Seated Collector's Club:

http://www.lsccweb.org/

Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

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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Tut:

http://tinyurl.com/37kxdt (Morning Call)

Art of Sassanian Iran:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/arts/design/16sasa.html

Turner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/arts/design/16voge.html

Venetian Brass:

http://tinyurl.com/2jorxx (New Yorker)

The Getty is returning two disputed items to Greece:

http://www.fresnobee.com/384/story/28421.html

... while the Louvre has backed down (under pressure from Greece)
from its plans to show the Cleveland Apollo:

http://tinyurl.com/yqpft8 (Plain Dealer)

The Met is about to unveil its new Greek and Roman galleries:

http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=19294

... although that Italian village still wants its Etruscan
chariot:

http://tinyurl.com/27uqx7 (Bloomberg)

... and Neil MacGregor apparently isn't headed there:

http://tinyurl.com/yvafmp (Bloomberg)

There's a strike at the Louvre:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2007/02/15/world/europe/15paris.html

What's up at the Uffizi:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/02/06/features/uffizi.php

Recent acquisitions by the Nasher Museum:

http://www.newsobserver.com/105/story/539873.html
http://www.dukenews.duke.edu/2007/02/antiquities.html

Pagans are jumping on the repatriation bandwagon:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,,2005983,00.html
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ON THE WEB
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Interesting book plate collection site:

http://jvarnoso.com/exlibris/
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OBITUARIES
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Bruce Metzger (Biblical Manuscripts Scholar):

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/104-02142007-1299189.html
http://tinyurl.com/yprxpq (Zwire)
http://www.washingtontimes.com/upi/20070216-082113-9610r.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/16/obituaries/16metzger.html

Thomas Rosenmeyer (Greek and Comp Lit):

http://tinyurl.com/23sopm (Chronicle)
http://www.dailycal.org/sharticle.php?id=23013

Nicholas Howe (Anglo-Saxon Studies):

http://www.oenewsletter.org/OEN/essays.php?file=essays/liuzza40_1.txt
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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

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http://news.stonepages.com/

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http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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