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EARLY HUMANS
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A cast of a homo floresiensis skeleton is being hyped:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-9309.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/550284/
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AFRICA
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Feature on Nubia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/7963042.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some 4000 b.p. steel from Kaman-Kalehoyuk:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200903261611.htm

Excavating the largest Byzantine bathhouse ever discovered
in Israel:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130621
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727539145&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1073845.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29855
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/03/25/1003972/byzantine-bathhouse-uncovered
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29882290/

Drought is revealing archaeological sites in Iraq:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102184336&ft=1&f=1010

Plans are afoot to build a replica of Mausolus' pile at Bodrum:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11188952.asp?scr=1

Interesting blogpost on the tomb of Djehuty:

http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2009/03/hatshepsut-and-tomb-beneath-tomb.ht\
ml

This week's coverage of Rachel Elior's theories about the Essenes:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/03/27/23174/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130486(IsraelNN.com

An overviewish thing of various sites in the UAE:

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090329/NATIONAL/900160589/1183/enewsletter

Giants in Jericho?:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=35&Issue=2&ArticleID=5

More on the underwater 'dig' at Limantepe:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=170088&bolum=100

More on that pharaonic embalming bed:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&article_id=10031\
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http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89358§ionid=3510212

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Greek fisherman netted an interesting bronze last week:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_ancient_statue_4
http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/612131
http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/971461

We're getting more coverage of that triangular temple from
Cyprus which we mentioned a few issues ago:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/27/europe/EU-Cyprus-Ancient-Temple.php
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=904716&lang=eng_news
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29916796/
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?FrontPageID=304_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090327/sc_nm/us_cyprus_antiquities_1

If you're looking for some interesting comparanda for Lysistrata
type topics:

http://spectregroup.wordpress.com/2009/03/20/great-sex-strikes-thru-history/

Nice photo of the sun setting behind Naxos' unfinished temple of
Apollo:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/image/0903/solar-scenic-portara-03-800x600pixel\
s.jpg

Interesting conference on Pompeii:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-03-27_127341798.html

In case you've missed the 'Arsinoe' coverage of late:

http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/science_technology/cleopatras+sister++in+3\
d/3043172

... and the epigonion reconstruction:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/17/epignion-instrument.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

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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Hype for a television program about the Druids focuses on
human sacrifice and claims of cannibalism:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090320-druids-sacrifice-cannibal\
ism.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-7531.html
http://www.sindhtoday.net/world/77299.htm

... and we have a story of 'stone age' cannibalism from Germany:

http://www.guardianweekly.co.uk/?page=editorial&id=1000&catID=17

A 5000 b.p. dwelling on the outskirts of Edinburgh:

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/5000yearold-home-of-capital39s-first.5097272\
.jp

You know if they're building a park-and-ride site in the UK they'll
inevitable find something archaeological:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/1/hi/england/somerset/7958965.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5043498/Bronze-Age-sauna-discovered-on-si\
te-earmarked-for-park-and-ride-scheme.html

Some 300 b.p. flood defences from a Northumberland village:

http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/latest/Centuries-old-flood-defences-are.5102871.\
jp

British Museum officials have found relics of 39 saints inside
a 12th century German portable altar:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/mar/24/british-museum-relics-discove\
ry
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10563591
http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=12579
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0324/1224243318094.html

Feature on Venice in the 17th century:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/joyas/Venecia/Settecento/deslumbran/Acade\
mia/San/Fernando/elppgl/20090325elpepucul_6/Tes

Some Crusaders' tunnels from Malta:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090325-malta-tunnels-crusaders.h\
tml?source=rss

Theory about a boulder overlooking Loch Ness:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-11701.html

Some historical finger-pointing in the Mary Rose sinking:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/23/mary-rose-ship

Archaeological evidence of Scotland's first smokers:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/south_of_scotland/7966261.stm

They're fixing up Reading Abbey:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/berkshire/7957700.stm

Not sure if we mentioned this Viking revisionism:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-vikings-it-wasnt-all-rapin\
g-and-pillaging-1643969.html

... but I think we did have this 2000 b.p.-skull-with-brain story:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/allinthemind/stories/2009/2512136.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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Concerns for various sites in Bangladesh:

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=81219

A 4000 b.p. burial from Tajikistan:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/03/28/4000-year-old_human_skelton_found/UPI-817\
81238269635/

Evidence from animal bones of early agriculture in Asia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090324081439.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/ci-eal032309.php

Interesting bone inscriptions from China's Shaanxi province:

http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20090326/101072.shtml

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Pondering a cemetery find in Drayton Hall:

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/mar/23/archaeologist_graves_always_signi\
ficant76123/

Look for Rochambeau's camp:

http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11977599

Possible mass grave of Irish-immigrant-cholera victims:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090324/ap_on_re_us/irish_immigrants_grave

A history of American boarding houses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Crain-t.html

Commemorating the 69th Infantry Regiment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/nyregion/26rooms.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Earliest evidence of domesticated maize:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090323212037.htm
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/550327/#imagetop

A pre-Inca citadel and burials from Peru:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=ypP9LZ6frcI=
http://www.livinginperu.com/news-8515-peru-pre-inca-citadel-cemetery-found-amazo\
nas-region

Investigating the ball court at Santa Maria Atzompa:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3016&Itemid=150

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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An academic claims to have identified six unrecognized works by
Shakespeare:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5005557/Academic-discovers-six-works-by\
-William-Shakespeare.html

There's an 'Archaeology for Dummies' book:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,510487,00.html

Nice feature (with slideshow) on petrolgyphs from around the world:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29844547/

A huge pile of genealogical info from London is going online:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/my-ancestor-was-a-grave-robber\
-and-other-skeletons-in-the-closet-1655361.html

Just when you'd thought you'd heard the last from Ward Churchill:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/us/22trial.html

The celibacy debate in the Roman Catholic Church continues:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/22/nyregion/22egan.html

DaVinci seems to have anticipated Darwin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/mar/23/davinci-dar\
win-apes

Interesting blog item suggesting the ancients were better at
data preservation than we are:

http://www.enterprisestorageforum.com/continuity/features/article.php/3812496

There's a woman in charge at St. Andrew's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/world/europe/28richardson.html

Nice little slide show on the history of the telescope:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/audioslideshow/2009/mar/18/telescope-richard-dun\
n-history-invention

A feature on Galileo's telescopes:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/27/america/galileo.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/science/space/28galileo.html

Review of Michael Holroyd, *A Strange Eventful History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/McGrath-t.html

Review of Julie Greene, *The Canal Builders*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Oshinsky-t.html

Review of Anthony Grafton, *Worlds Made by Words*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123699538163527737.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ephesus:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29839158/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Egypt is going to be asking US customs to return a coffin claimed
to have been stolen in 1884:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/23/arts/23arts-1-EGYPTREQUEST_BRF.html
http://www.northjersey.com/news/world/Egypt_to_ask_US_to_return_artifact.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE52L0LT20090322
http://www.whotv.com/news/nationworld/sns-babd4c7701ad4370b866ca9f99aa0c89-1,0,5\
932579.photo
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hx-s3ZxMvmBSc0Tc9CJ50BtZkVWw
http://www.news24.com/News24/Africa/News/0,,2-11-1447_2489749,00.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20090322-culture-egypt-ask-US-return-sarchophagus-arc\
haeology

Greece is returning a pair of medieval frescoes stolen from Italy
25 years ago:

http://www.pr-inside.com/greece-returns-stolen-paintings-to-r1134968.htm

A New York City art gallery owner has been charged after bilking
his customers of millions:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/26/us/AP-Art-Gallery-Indictment.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/nyregion/27indict.html

Some Buddha thieves were caught red-handed in Poliyadda:

http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/03/23/news13.asp

More coverage of the True trial:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/30904/four-years-into-trial-getty-curator-spea\
ks-out/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Not sure if we mentioned this Bareilly coin find yet:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-1884.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Ancient Gems:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29695

Lewis Chessmen:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7968621.stm

Vespasian's 2000th Birthday:

http://www.telegram.com/article/20090328/NEWS/903280352/1102/RSS01&source=rss
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/hail-caesar-rome-marks-birth-of-e\
mperor-who-built-the-colosseum-1655370.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-03-26_126330023.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2009/03/27/europe/EU-Italy-Colosseums-Father.php

To Sleep, Perchance to Dream:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/arts/design/28libr.html

Turner and Italy:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle5968726.ece

The Chinese Emperor's Battles:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/03/27/arts/melik28.php

Gustave Caillebotte:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/arts/design/27cail.html

Babylon: Myth and Reality:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/all_current_exhibitions/babylon.aspx

Ancient Glass form the Holy Land:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1510\
&module_id=#as

Gates of Heaven (Egyptian):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/940/cu1.htm

Into the Sunset: Photography's Image of the American West:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/03/26/arts/AP-Art-American-West.html

Assorted items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/arts/design/27voge.html

European Fine Art Fair coverage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/arts/design/27anti.html

The Getty will be getting some nice items on loan from Italy:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6727368&rss=\
rss-kabc-article-6727368
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/getty-to-partner-with-florence-muse\
um/?scp=1&sq=getty&st=cse

A relic of 'India's first freedom fighter' is coming to auction:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article5970844.ece

Yale is asserting its ownership of a van Gogh:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/arts/design/26arts-YALEFILESLAW_BRF.html

Good comment piece on 'hoarding' by museums:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/mar/27/british-museum-chessmen-scot\
land-salmond
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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People Without History:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/24/theater/reviews/24peop.html

An Oresteia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Leithauser-t.html

Little Dorrit:

http://tv.nytimes.com/2009/03/28/arts/television/28dorr.html

Beowulf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/theater/29Zino.html

Age of Kings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/arts/television/29hobe.html

Alcestis:

http://www.batesstudent.com/arts/1.1602493-1.1602493

Lysistrata:

http://blog.pennlive.com/go/2009/03/in_a_variation_on_a.html

Iliad: Book One:

http://broadwayworld.com/viewcolumn.cfm?colid=45535
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ON THE WEB
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OBITUARIES
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John Hope Franklin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/26/us/26franklin.html
http://www.duke.edu/johnhopefranklin/index.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102401101
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102374050
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Jona Lendering,
Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Nina Barclay,
Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, "Ron", Suzan Mazur, Virginia Knight,
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EARLY HUMANS
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Evidence that early humans (ca 530 000 b.p.) may not have killed off
their less-than-perfect offspring:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/5085322/Early-humans-did-\
not-kill-deformed-offspring.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090330-deformed-child-fossil.htm\
l?source=rss
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn16873-early-humans-may-have-cared-for-disa\
bled-young.html

Some very old stone blades:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/402/2

The Neanderthal cannibalism thing again:

http://www.sciam.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=neandertal-cannibalism-m\
aybe-not-2009-04-02
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The big news this week is that there's a 'hidden face' inside
the famous bust of Nefertiti, and it's not quite as beautiful (and
everyone seems to assume it must be the 'real' Nefertiti):

http://radiology.rsnajnls.org/cgi/content/short/251/1/233
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iq4wJzkw8bqbVEG0t3tPVMx5J8jgD9\
79731G4
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090401/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_nefertiti_face_8
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1165893/Why-legendary-Egyptian\
-beauty-Queen-Nefertiti-woman-airbrushed.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/artsNews/idUSTRE52U0VN20090331
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/rson-ruc032409.php
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/29974848/
http://www.thewest.com.au/aapstory.aspx?StoryName=562222
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2009/03/31/nefertiti_got_extreme_makeover_resear\
chers/afp/
http://www.physorg.com/news157728635.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/090331-nefertiti-bust-picture.ht\
ml?source=rss
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=351573

... with a clarification which didn't make it into all the coverage:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/02/clarification-germany-nefertiti-\
face-story-1/

The high tech search for the tomb of Monthemhat:

http://www.basqueresearch.com/berria_irakurri.asp?Berri_Kod=2148&hizk=I

Lining up the pyramids:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/03/24/giza-pyramids.html

Remember that statue of Tutankhamen that was supposedly found in
Kurdistan a while back? Turns out it was a fake:

http://www.kurdishaspect.com/doc031409KS.html

There's a project to conserve the stones of the Western Wall:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14

A very nice Byzantine mosaic floor from the synagogue at Ma'on-Nirim:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130674
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1513\
&module_id=#as
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29955
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090315114041.htm

A Byzantine 'bath house' near Kibbut Gevim

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1511\
&module_id=#as
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130621
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727540534&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

Archaeologists are going to be digging at Decius (Iran):

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=191245

Achaemenid palaces from Iran's Khuzestan province:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=89986§ionid=351020105

Iraqi archaeologists have found a pile of mostly Babylonian items
at various sites:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L1445198.htm
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20090401/tpl-uk-iraq-artefacts-4b8df73.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1006\
30

Treasure hunters using dynamite have damaged reliefs and the like
at Mersin:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11351582.asp?scr=1

Feature on recent finds from Luxor:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/941/he2.htm

cf.:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=350785

Feature on Conelis de Bruijn:

http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/2009/03/15/the-discoverer-of-persepolis-corneli\
s-de-bruijn/

Interview about the historical Jesus:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/04/03/historical-jesus.html

Vague item on recent finds from various periods at Al-Akhdoud:

http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.regcon&contentID=2009033133\
710

The Sun had a great April 1 item:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/advertisement_feature/indiana_jones/article\
2351750.ece

Review of Susan Gubar, *Judas*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Kirsch-t.html

More coverage of that embalming bed:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/941/he1.htm (photo)
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-15945.html

More coverage of Hateshepsut's perfume:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-03/uob-wsd031309.php
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1074914.html
http://www.thechronicle.com.au/story/2009/03/31/experts-recreating-pharaohs-own-\
perfume/

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Feature on Cicero's sense of humour:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6025013.ece

... and a response:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/apr/04/classics-clas\
sics

... and Charlotte Higgins was also pondering some etymologies:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/mar/23/classics

A Hellenistic pier from Akko/Ptolemais/Acre:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1547\
&module_id=#as

Claims of traces of "Roman" pollution in Iceland:

http://www.miller-mccune.com/news/veni-vidi-polluti-the-long-arm-of-pollution-11\
21

Somewhat lost-in-translation item on an Alexander inscription from
Bactria:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n176236
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?id=7896§ion=2

Colchester Roman Circus is not getting some sought-after funding:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News\
&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED03%20Apr%202009%2022%3A04%3A13%3\
A073

Trying to save an unexcavated Roman villa in Nottingham:

http://media-newswire.com/release_1087360.html

Another Spartacus show in the works (with Lucy Lawless):

http://www.afterellen.com/blog/karmankregloe/lucy-lawless-to-star-in-spartacus-b\
lood-and-sand-on-starz?comment=794772

Pondering Philip's palace at Aigai:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7472140&maindocimg=7471646&s\
ervice=102

... and a workshop was found at Pella too:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7456937&maindocimg=7456548&servi\
ce=98

Albania wants to cash in on archaeotourism:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7978443.stm

What Richard Martin is up to:

http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/13829.html

What Michael Halleran is up to:

http://flathatnews.com/content/70479/halleran-appointed-provost-college

Some new galleries have opened at Athens' NAM:

http://www.etravelblackboard.com/showarticle.asp?id=90077&nav=21

Andrew Chugg is working on Cleitarchus:

http://www.alexanderstomb.com/main/cleitarchus/index.html

In case you didn't know you could have your own copy of Gnomon:

http://www.gnomon.ku-eichstaett.de/Gnomon/gnomon-download.html

Review of Barry Strauss, *The Spartacus War*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/03/AR2009040301312.\
html

Review of Anne Carson, *An Oresteia*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/books/review/Leithauser-t.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
DNA evidence suggests a movement/invasion of people from Ireland
to Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7976510.stm

Bronze Age site from Guernsey:

http://www.thisisguernsey.com/2009/03/30/airport-dig-unearths-1500-bc-settlement\
/

Nice feature on the Alhambra:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/after-650-years-the-wisdom-of-the\
-alhambra-is-revealed-1658050.html

Clumsy builders have found remains of a Dark Ages village in Salzburg:

http://austriantimes.at/index.php?id=12244

A lost drawing of the Siege of Boulogne will be going on display after
being rediscovered (obviously):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/05/henry-eighth-drawing-uncovere\
d-siege

... and some of Henry VIII's armour is going on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/7971616.stm

A post-revolution mass grave from France:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20090331-197132/French-dig-\
uncovers-18th-century-mass-graves

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A positive story from French colonial history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/world/asia/30iht-indochina.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Marking New York's 400th birthday:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/nyregion/29hudson.html

Recent items from the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/03/photogalleries/blackbeard-artifa\
cts/index.html

Researching iron coffin burials:

http://www.adaeveningnews.com/local/local_story_089091928.html

Remains of some early settlers have been found near the Welland Canal:

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1505041

A paternity mystery from Gettysburg:

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/whose-father-was-he-part-five/

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is on the Cultural Heritage
of the Great Sage Plain:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/index.asp

W.B. DuBois' papers will be going online:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/us/04brfs-DUBOISONLINE_BRF.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A possible Bagua Culture site in Amazonas:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=23o2jpGzK7Y=

Not sure if we mentioned these three prehispanic mummies from
Huantille yet:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=352007
http://www.fotos.emol.com/?F_ID=707843

Feature on Percy Fawcett:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090413/grandin/single

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Cambridge dons are still in control of the university:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/mar/20/cambridge-dons-control

How to read topography like an archaeologist:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/04/landscape-archaeology-time-team

A DaVinci theme park?:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/da-vinci-the-amusement-park-16611\
14.html

On the origins and obsession with 'happy endings':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/7976192.stm

Humans on various continents apparently had to deal with giant
lions:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/7974948.stm

I missed this bit of a response to that Shakespeare portrait claim from
a while back:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e5931174.ece

Remembering Haydn:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/262362,haydn-memorial-year-opens-in-aust\
ria.html

... possibly related:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/books/03dove.html

Feature on C.S. Lewis:

http://www.newstatesman.com/religion/2009/04/narnia-books-christian-greek

Latest on the legal battles circulating around Google Books:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/technology/internet/04books.html

Chocolate wisdom:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/01/dining/01choc.html

Review of a couple of books about the seedier side of New York
history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Dominus-t.html

Review of John Guy, *A Daughter's Love: Thomas More and his Dearest Meg*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/books/review/Tomalin-t.html

Review of Denis Dutton, *The Art Instinct*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/mar/08/art-instinct-brian-morton-review

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Perge:

http://linux.sys-con.com/node/900941

Canoeing the Dordogne:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/travel/05dordogne.html

Greece:

http://www.sj-r.com/features/x1931049641/A-walk-through-antiquity-in-Greece
http://www.ajc.com/services/content/travel/otherdestinations/int_stories/2009/03\
/31/Greece_ruins_tours.html

Geshur:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1237727549085&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
American Journal of Archaeology 113.2:

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc

The February/March issue of Ancient Egypt Magazine is now out:

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Feature on dealing with antiquities smuggling in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=45001&cat_id=9

The Oded Golan (et al) trial seems to be going nowhere:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238423655087&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

Collectors are (apparently) more concerned now with the origins
of antiquities:

http://www.dailyfreepress.com/art-collectors-more-interested-in-pieces-history-e\
xperts-say-1.1640105

A rather senior smuggler was caught with a number of items at Cairo
airport:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/world/11332537.asp?scr=1

... and there was another bust at Sana'a airport:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news180002.htm
http://yemenpost.net/Detail123456789.aspx?ID=3&SubID=483

Brief item on a bust in Bangalore:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-12439.html

Interesting followup to the whole Euphronios Krater episode:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0903/S00350.htm

Italy has returned a number of items to Bulgaria:

http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/Theme_Culture/Material/1203cenn\
osti.htm

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Brief item on a silver penny find:

http://www.chichester.co.uk/2290/Amateur-archaeologist-in-rare-silver.5126007.jp

A podcast on ancient numismatics:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/podcast/

Trying to figure out Malmesbury's Roman coin hoard:

http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/towns/malmesburyheadlines/4198310.Experts\
_baffled_by_Malmesbury_s_Roman_coins/

Interesting 'Vote the Land Free' die:

http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/212514

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Pottery and Politics of the Ancient Maya:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5314GP20090402?feedType=RSS&\
feedName=lifestyleMolt

Babylon: Myth and Reality:

http://www.american.com/archive/2009/march-2009/babylonian-dreams

Brazza in Congo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/arts/design/30braz.html

Worshiping Women:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=29861&int_sec=2

Etruscan Treasures from Tuscany:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123845536870071359.html

Galileo, the Medici and the Age of Astronomy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03gali.html

Amsertdam/New Amsterdam:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/03spare.html

The Satirical Eye:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25269868-16947,00.html

Mami Wata:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03wata.html

The Chimera of Arezzo is coming to the Getty:

http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/local/los_angeles&id=6727368&rss=\
rss-kabc-article-6727368
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/03/gettys-brand-se.html

This one showed up in a somewhat obscure source, but seems to be
a repeat of Ethiopia's call for the return of assorted items taken
to Britain in the 19th century:

http://www.plenglish.com/Article.asp?ID={CCCDAEFA-93E2-4AD2-8B03-01F9E3BEEDA9}&l\
anguage=EN

A precedent in regards to Nazi loot?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03arts-ARTRESTITUTI_BRF.html

Some interesting items in the Harold Fairbanks Collection:

http://www.burbankleader.com/articles/2009/04/01/entertainment/blr-museum01.txt

  ... and the David and Marion Adams Collection:

  http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25269860-16947,00.html

Expansion plans for the British Museum:

http://www.scena.org/columns/lebrecht/090401-NL-Museum-2.html
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31008/british-museum-unveils-expansion-plans/

In case you were wondering what the most visited museums were:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/30979/louvre-is-worlds-most-visited-museum-of-\
2008/

Assorted Arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03voge.html

Overviewish sort of thing on Tibetan art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/world/asia/30sengeshong.html

The guy behind DeForest furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/arts/design/03anti.html

What Michael Jackson is selling:

http://www.juliensauctions.com/auctions/2009/michael-jackson/icatalog3.html

Sotheby's has removed a Kaaba key from auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/04/arts/design/04arts-SOTHEBYSREVO_BRF.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/03/sale-of-13-million-islamic-artifact\
-is-revoked/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Ahmad Hasan Dani:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/mar/31/ahmad-hasan-dani

Leo C. Curran (I missed this one a while back):

http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/archives/vol39/vol39n6/columns/Obituaries.html

Marjorie Grene:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/science/29grene.html

More on John Hope Franklin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/27/opinion/27fri4.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/03/29/weekinreview/29applebome.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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We can add this to our previous 'pygmy origins' coverages:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090410075110.htm
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Todos/pigmeos/descienden/misma/poblacion\
/elpepusoc/20090410elpepisoc_5/Tes
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Not sure about this one ... Russian archaeologists have found (when?)
a number of gold-masked mummies in the Fayoum:

http://en.rian.ru/science/20090408/120990444.html

Nice followup coverage to that discovery of Sesheshet's pyramid
(and contents) back in January or so:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1077147.html

Radio program featuring Chip Brown and Zahi Hawass all about
Hatshepsut:

http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2009/04/egypts-she-king/

Iraqi archaeologists have been busy:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2009-04-05%5Ckurd.htm

Drought and dams in Iraq are helping a lake to disappear and
assorted sites (and concern for them) are being revealed:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5353XO20090406?feedType=RSS&fe\
edName=scienceNews

Feature on Gohar Tappeh:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=192003

Third century A.D./C.E. finds from Humat Thiab (Yemen):

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1245&p=local&a=3

Are these foot-shaped structures the first things built by the
Israelites in Canaan?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406102600.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1076836
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1077036
http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=218
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/550817/
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2223308/posts
http://www.physorg.com/news158234124.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uoh-adi040609.php

Speculation that a depiction of the 'Mistress of the Lionesses'
was a Canaanite king/ruler:

http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=9319
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090406132604.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/afot-wa040609.php
http://www.physorg.com/news158237703.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-17343.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090410-canaan-female-king.html

Speculation that a fragment of an inscription found in the Old
City dig refers to Hezekiah:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=123\
8562926124
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1551\
&module_id=#as
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30099

An inspection/restoration of the Western Wall is under way:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1076534.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562913109&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562915996&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/04/06/top_stories/bullet_points/doc49d9d1c08\
58ac259767828.txt

Review of Susan Gubar, *Judas*:

http://www.cleveland.com/books/index.ssf/2009/04/susan_gubar_pries_open_the_rid.\
html

... related to the above (perhaps) is a piece revisiting the Gospel of Judas:

http://www.miamiherald.com/opinion/inbox/story/993946.html

More on the Hellenistic pier from Acco/Ptolemais/Acre:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30075

More on Egypt opening the Bent Pyramid:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20090406/ap_tr_ge/ml_travel_trip_bent_pyramid_\
3
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2008992733_aptraveltripbentpyramid.\
html

More on Nefertiti's 'makeover':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/03/090331091246.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
The only damage to ancient items being reported from the L'Aquil
earthquake are some cracks in the Baths of Caracalla:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5115343/Roman-baths-and-A\
bruzzo-churches-damaged-in-earthquake.html
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/A\
pril/international_April513.xml§ion=international

Ancient Christians liked fish:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-19616.html

Can't quite figure out what's new in this recent coverage of that
'Amazon' from Herculaneum:

http://www.ecs.soton.ac.uk/about/news/2428
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/digital-imaging-reveals-the-secrets-o\
f-roman-statues_100176516.html

Restoration work has begun on Newport Roman Villa's roof:

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/roofing-work-starts-at-roman-villa-25526.aspx

Plans for Amathus Archaeological Park (Cyprus):

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?FrontPageNewsID=304_2

Latin in primary school:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/news/Latin-classes-Arnold-youngsters/article-8\
73614-detail/article.html

In case you missed the Classical installment of PhD Comics:

http://www.phdcomics.com/comics/archive.php?comicid=1155

... or today's Frank and Ernest:

http://www.gocomics.com/frankandernest/2009/04/12/

A Clash of the Titans update:

http://www.reuters.com/article/filmNews/idUSTRE5380B520090409

More on Colchester Roman Circus' failed funding bid:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4269116.Roman_Circus_Lotto_bid_fails/

Review of Barry Strauss, *The Spartacus War*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_rev\
iews/article6066272.ece

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Evidence of Scotland's oldest human settlement:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Scotland39s-most-ancient-home-found.5161087.jp
http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/flints-12000-bc-found-scotland/story.aspx?\
guid=%7B607750D7-3D77-4455-A6EF-1324062EE135%7D&dist=msr_2
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7992300.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6069957.ece

Power structures in Bronze Age Scandinavia:

http://www.physorg.com/news158489844.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090407144947.htm
http://www.uni-protokolle.de/nachrichten/id/174727/
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=56823&CultureCode=en

L'Aquila Earthquake damage coverage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5115343/Roman-baths-and-A\
bruzzo-churches-damaged-in-earthquake.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/quake-damaged-host-of-medieval-ma\
sterpieces-1666137.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/arts/11abroad.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/world/europe/07damage.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/07/italy-earthquake-cultural-damage


cf:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123940593723809833.html

Dog sacrifices in medieval Hungary?:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090406-dogs-buried-hungary.html?\
source=rss

This year's Easter coverage, it appears, is a claim that the Knights
Templar were in possession of the Shroud of Turin for a while:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6040521.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/apr/06/turin-shroud-templars
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5113711/Knights-Templar-w\
orshipped-the-Turin-Shroud.html
http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0901551.htm

More on the Alhambra:

http://www.france24.com/en/20090405-culture-spain-granada-alhambra-decipher-arab\
ic-inscriptions

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
They're sending a robot (again) into a 1300 b.p. tomb in Xian:

http://en.ce.cn/National/Local/200904/09/t20090409_18746698.shtml

Pakistan has identified a number of temples/shrines for conservation:

http://www.thehindu.com/2009/04/06/stories/2009040651171800.htm

... and archaeologists from Pakistan have found pottery from various
periods:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-18302.html

Some Harappan buials from Farmana:

http://timesofindia.ihttp://mail.google.com/mail/?ui=2&view=bsp&ver=1qygpcgurkov\
yndiatimes.com/Pune/City-archaeologists-discover-Harappan-graves/articleshow/437\
6788.cms

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
An impending dig of a Native American site in Hammonasset (Conn.):

http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/news_wtnh_madison_artifact_dig_200904071912_rev1

Some ancient finds from the headwaters of the San Antonio River:

http://www.woai.com/news/local/story/Dig-at-river-headwaters-turns-up-ancient-fi\
nds/V1bpWmAPMkKCRYq567DV_A.cspx?rss=68

Security v. conservation in D.C.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/business/08homeland.html

Native artifacts from HorseThief Reservoir (Kansas):

http://www.hutchnews.com/Todaystop/horsethief2009-04-10T20-51-58

Evidence of 17th century global trade in Georgia:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/amon-due040909.php

A history (of sorts) of U.S. debt:

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/13/090413fa_fact_lepore

Hype for a television program about Tecumseh:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/arts/television/12jens.html

A threat to Native sites in California:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30014339/

More on early agriculture in Illinois:

http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/complexagro.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090408-first-farm.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Nice coverage of that "King of Bling"/Moche tomb find in Peru last
summer:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090410-peru-tomb.html?source=rss
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/king-bling-moche-\
tomb-pictures/index.html?source=rss

Assorted Ichma culture finds from Huaca Huantille:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=mxx1YjEFF3o=

Holguin is older than previously thought:

http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2009/04/11/16689/recent_diggins_revealed_holguin_mu\
ch_older_supposed.html

Big Maya dig at Quintana Roo:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=331237&CategoryId=14091

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
On the origins of 'grog':

http://www.teatronaturale.com/article/345.html

Interesting feature on depictions of Jesus throughout the ages:

http://www.reporternews.com/news/2009/apr/11/the-changing-face-of-jesus-the-way-\
we-depict-us/

Here's something to occupy your post-prandial Easter Sunday ... try
figuring out how this 17th century code was cracked:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/games_and_puzz\
les/article6073494.ece

... or you can procrastinate like Leonardo:

http://chronicle.com/weekly/v55/i24/24b00401.htm

They've rediscovered an egg collected by Darwin:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/7992911.stm

Surprised this didn't get more coverage: Schindler's list has been
found in a library:

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20090406142221\
194C927660

Interesting feature on the Giotto's 'Lamentation of Christ':

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/great-works-the-\
lamentation-of-christ-13056-giotto-1666447.html

Feature on Galileo and his impact/implications:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/5115916/How-Galileo-brought-the-\
stars-down-to-Earth.html

Epigram of lamb:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/magazine/12food-t-000.html

Restoring a Tudor tapestry:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6069988.ece

Some Guggenheim recipients:

http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2009/04/10/23343/

... more:

http://www.gf.org/news-events/Guggenheim-Fellowship-Awards-for-the-United-States\
-and-Canada-2009/

The planned World Digital Library is an interesting project:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/09/world-digital-library

Review of Andrea Wulf, *The Brother Gardeners*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/books/review/Seymour-t.html

Review of a couple of books about Wittgenstein(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/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/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Athens:

http://www.losaltosonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17225&It\
emid=59

Sightseeing strategies:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/columnists/5126287/Holiday-advice-sightseeing-\
without-the-scrum.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Current Archaeology (230):

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Another (?) arrest of someone trying to smuggle arabic manuscripts
out of Yemen:

http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1249&p=local&a=5

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Another Indian coin hoard:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-16555.html

Latest Journal of Ancient Numismatics:

http://imperialcoins.com/newsletters/volume3

Bulgarian Paper Money:

http://www.bg-papermoney.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Moctezuma (etc.):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168477/Forced-power-How-Aztec-ruler-los\
t-empire-Spanish-conquistadors.html?ITO=1490
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/apr/07/british-museum-aztec-\
ruler-montezuma
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23672665-details/Behind+the+mask+\
of+last+emperor+of+the+Aztecs/article.do
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hBl-C1BgwhefEOOsG6L25rUlthrg

cf:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/whats_on/future_exhibitions/moctezuma.aspx

Terracotta Army:

http://www.high.org/

Kangxi Emperor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/10iht-jessop.html?ref=arts

Caesar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/07iht-caesar.html

Cezanne and Beyond:

http://calitreview.com/2937

Monticello:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10mont.html

Noble Tombs at Mawandui:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10tomb.html

Vivat Rex:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10henr.html

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ent/arts/theater/6361611.html

Whistler:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10voge.html

Teotihuacan:

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

Lincoln Assassination:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090411/NEWS01/90411011

Living Line:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10line.html

Kuniyoshi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/arts/design/11iht-melik11.html

There's a new museum on Kalymnos:

http://www.kalymnos-isl.gr/en/experience/events?task=view_detail&agid=2&year=200\
9&month=04&day=10&catids=64

Nice feature on items being repatriated by/for Afghanistan in the
UK and elsewhere:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20090407.wantiquities07/BNSto\
ry/International/home

The 24 Hour Roman Reconstruction Project:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/building-rome-in-just-over-a-day/

The climate/conservation issue ... for museums:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/05/arts/design/05kino.html

Another returned item -- this time a fresco -- from the Getty to
Italy:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty8-2009apr09,0,563560.s\
torylink
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hjBT3eXYxTCfcv-AEfWGo1LjPzLg
http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_12090388
http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2009/04/07//news/state//zad62abfa9981e4648825759\
1007777dd.txt
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-getty-fresco,1,354982\
1.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/08/arts/design/08arts-GETTYTORETUR_BRF.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/getty-to-return-ancient-fresco-frag\
ment-to-italy
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/08/content_11145793.htm

I find this one strange: Palestinian authorities are trying to
prevent a DSS exhibition at the Royal Ontario Museum on the basis
that the scrolls were illegally removed from Palestine (!):

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/616059
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/130823(IsraelNN.com
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2009/04/09/scrolls-rom.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jdnIWj-W6xSz8HLSbzJIUpOL9HVg

Feature on 'orientalist' art (with some novelty clocks at the end):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10anti.html

More on Germany's efforts to restore Nazi loot to its owners:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10arts-GERMANYTOCON_BRF.html

The Asia Society has to cut staff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/design/10arts-ASIASOCIETYM_BRF.html

... as has the Corcoran:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/11/arts/design/11arts-JOBCUTSATTHE_BRF.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
La Didone:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/06/theater/reviews/06dido.html

Il Piccolo Marat:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/arts/music/12tomm.html

Beowulf: A Thousand Years of Baggage:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/09/theater/reviews/09beow.html

The BBC Concert Orchestra will be honouring Darwin (?!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/10/arts/music/10arts-BBCPROMSSERI_BRF.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
George-Jean Pinault, *Indtroduction au tokharien*:

http://www.presses.ens.fr/Data/le_0154-1.pdf

Amelia Sparavigna, "Digital Restoration of Ancient Papyri":

http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.5045
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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I think we heard this a while ago ... our ancestors weren't very
good at climbing trees:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/413/2
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30198636/

Evidence for subgroups of Neanderthals:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415075150.htm

Did H. sapiens learn from H. Floresiensis?:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/417/3
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The New York Times has a profile of Zahi Hawass:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/world/middleeast/18egypt.html

Speaking of whom, Hawass was front and center during an announcement
of the (renewed) search for the tomb of Cleopatra:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gYKMmuL5ZHmbklSW5GC\
tfIYFtxeg
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5joJYA-zGhwKrGUIBS8jdF0cQydkQD9\
7J2IPG1
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=91641§ionid=3510212
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSTRE53I10T20090419
http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME13.WAM40221.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6099961..ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8000978.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/15/world/main4948841.shtml?source=RSSattr\
=World_4948841
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Tombs-of-Cleopatra-and-Mark.5174770.jp
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/5160248/Egy\
ptians-close-to-finding-Cleopatras-tomb.html
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1891437,00.html

cf:

http://www.drhawass.com/blog/press-release-news-temple-taposiris-magna

Some 22nd Dynasty mummies from the Fayoum:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/5493613
http://www.thestar.com/News/GTA/article/618584
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/culture/?id=31444
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aZHODr744t2U&refer=muse
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2009/04/12/mummies_found_in_ancient_egypt_burial\
_chamber/afp/

Testing of the contents of some jars from Scorpion I's tomb have
revealed what is being touted as the earliest human-made medicine:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7992575.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090413/ap_on_sc/sci_days_of_wine_and_pharoahs
http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20090413/49e2b8c0_3ca6_1552620090413178\
8027505
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/42748/description/An_ancient_remedy_B\
itter_herbs_and_sweet_wine
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20090413/hl_hsn/pharoahswinejaryieldsmedicinalsecret\
s
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5148120/Anci\
ent-Egyptians-used-wine-as-medicine.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hswine14-nws,0,6824999.story?track=rss
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/414/2?etoc
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090413-scorpion-king-wine.html

A KV-63 update:

http://www.kv-63.com/

Rethinking the Antonia and the path Jesus walked:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/04/10/wedeman.via.dolorosa/index.html?sectio\
n=cnn_latest
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5137247/Way-of-the-Cross-is-\
wrong-claims-leading-archaeologist.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1168891/Pilgrims-tracing-steps-Jesus-goi\
ng-WRONG-way-2-000-years-says-historian.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1077926

The dig at Tell Tayinat seems to be getting increasing coverage
because of a recent 'Dark Age' temple find which is being tied
to a passage in Isaiah:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415162649.htm
http://www.canada.com/Canadian+archeologists+find+ancient+temple+Turkey/1503725/\
story.html
http://www.physorg.com/news159025472.html
http://it.moldova.org/news/ancient-temple-is-discovered-in-turkey-197032-eng.htm\
l

The second season of digging at a 7500 b.p. site at Sialk (Iran) has
commenced:

http://www.cais-soas.com/News/2009/April2009/15-04-iranian.htm

Feature on preserving artifacts in Iraq:

http://www.euronews.net/2009/04/13/preserving-ancient-artefacts-in-iraq/

Evidence that ancient Jews used skulls in their ceremonies (maybe):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1078227.html
http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=35&Issue=2&ArticleID=9

Overviewish thing on the Bethsaida excavations:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1238562932973&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Brief item on a Hamrit era site in Yemen:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news180808.htm

... this longer item may be the same site (much more detailed if it is):

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/archaeologists-discover-ancient-works\
-of-art-in-yemen_100178976.html

Interesting diary of a traveller to Egypt in the 1800s:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-04-15_115329521.html

Review of Natalie Mesika, *Adama Shehora*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1077977.html

More on plans to open the Bent Pyramid to the public:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30116026/
http://www.winnipegsun.com/life/2009/04/12/9090481-sun.html

More on the "mistress of the lionesses":

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1010\
97

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
They're going to be digging at the Roman bath at Bansko:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1152

Nice feature by Mary Beard on publishing in antiquity:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Beard-t.html

Not sure why, but that chemical-warfare-at-Dura-Europos story is
making the rounds again:

http://www.livescience.com/history/090413-nhm-chemical-warfare.html

Nice blog post on Alexander as "media bait":

http://globalvoicesonline.org/2009/04/16/macedonia-alexander-the-great-as-media-\
bait/

A digital survey of Paphos' theatre is under way:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=45214&archive=1

Rather large drop in tourist visits to Greece this past year:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090413/lf_afp/greecetourismarchaeologymuseums_2009\
0413160936

Somewhat vague item on finds from Vergina (not sure if this is new
or not):

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1163

Claims of the discovery of Alexander's tomb in FYROM/Macedonia:

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/6353/2/
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n177761

Something for your door:

http://www.gocomics.com/theargylesweater/2009/04/15/

Claudius was one of the ODNB Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/2.html

Polybius on state and religion:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/04/hbc-90003929

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Upper Paleolithic flints from Scotland:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30153685/
http://it.moldova.org/news/flints-from-12000-bc-found-in-scotland-195565-eng.htm\
l

A pre-Roman midden from Iona:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/A--load-of-old.5174776.jp

A 1000 b.p. 'treasure trove' of coins and jewellery found by
a metal detectorist in Funen:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1664151.ece

Brief item on how the l'Aquila earthquake has revealed some prehistoric
dwellings (caves, actually):

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3224520451

They're going to dig at Bodiam Castle:

http://www.thisissussex.co.uk/news/Archaeological-dig-begin-Bodiam-Castle/articl\
e-888143-detail/article.html

Did a jousting accident lead to a negative character change in Henry VIII?:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-jousting-accident-that-tur\
ned-henry-viii-into-a-tyrant-1670421.html

Interesting documents being found as they clean out Musselburgh Town
House:

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/latestnews/Ancient-court-record-shows-thieves.\
5170668.jp

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A tomb mural from Shaanxi depits 1000 b.p. medical practices:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-22143.html

A clay seal and other items (all Gupta era?) from Bangladesh:

http://nation.ittefaq.com/issues/2009/04/18/news0291.htm

An ancient flute found at Xinglongwa might be really, really
old:

http://www.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20090416/101611.shtml


Searching for the "disappeared temples" at Jatkara (India):

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-21337.html

More on Genghis Khan's palace:

http://www.centralasianews.net/story/487265

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A mysterious 'carved' boulder from Ohio:

http://news.cincinnati.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20090417/NEWS01/3041700\
57/

Hype for the search for the USS Patasco (a Union ironclad):

http://www.thestate.com/statewire/story/753226.html

Interesting 'end of the frontier' type story (with slideshow):

http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2009/04/20/090420fa_fact_wickenden

Remembering the aftermath of Lincoln's assassination:

http://documents.nytimes.com/lincoln-assassination-new-york-memorial-diary#p=1

Preservation v recreation in Texas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/sports/othersports/14boulder.html

Trying to save the Smallpox Hospital on Roosevelt Island:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/shoring-up-a-landmark-ruin-on-roose\
velt-island

Excavating a Confederate gun platform on the Cape Fear River:

http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20090409/ARTICLES/904099961/1004?Title=Bru\
nswick-Town-excavation-unearths-window-on-past

Mystery caskets fond in rural Ohio:

http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/04/11/bodie\
s.ART_ART_04-11-09_B1_5VDH8H8.html?sid=101

More on that evidence of global trade in 17th century Georgia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090409134802.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/04/14/spanish.beads/index.html?section=cnn_latest

Review of Richard Beeman, *Plain, Honest Men*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/books/review/Isaacson-t.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
MPR had an interesting feature on Percy Fawcett:

http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/04/13/midmorning2/?refid=0

Hype for an upcoming Czech (and other) expedition to Machu Picchu:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/115296

A cast iron cannon found in unmentioned circumstances in Cuba:

Pondering Santa Muerte:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=102928118

Not sure if we mentioned these Peruvian petroglyphs yet:

http://www.nwanews.com/adg/News/257458/

http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2009/04/18/16806/castiron_cannon_found_villa_clara_\
cuba.html

More coverage of the 'king of bling' tomb in Peru:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-19986.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Inbreeding wasn't a good thing for the Habsburgs:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6094527.ece
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090415075148.htm

A descendent of Darwin (Ruth Padel) on matters poetical:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/books/18pade.html

Nice feature on Yeats:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/theater/18yeats.html

One of NASA's pictures of the day this week was an interesting
manuscript page:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090417.html

Shakespeare's birthday is coming next week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/theater/13arts-TURNING445MA_BRF.html

A book stolen during the Civil War has been returned to Washington and Lee
University:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103183519

Remembering the Barbary pirates:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/weekinreview/12gettleman.html


Feature on sites threatened by climate change:

http://www.archaeology.org/0903/etc/climate_change.html

cf:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/8068/

Keeping the Nipmuc language alive:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103028551

The guy responsible for the zombification of Jane Austen will be
vampirifying Abe Lincoln, it appears:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/books/14arts-MOVEOVERJANE_BRF.html

Retracing the steps of the Canterbury Tales pilgrims:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103077315

Review of Robert Sullivan, *The Thoreau You Don't Know*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/books/review/Gessner-t.html

Review of a television program about Tecumseh:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/television/13rema.html

... and one about recreating some of daVinci's inventions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/television/13davi.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Laos/Vietnam:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/04/19/travel/19personal.html

Leptis Magna and environs:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/19/short-breaks-libya
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Some apparently purloined Greek columns from Bulgaria were found in
a junkyard in Greece:

http://www.pr-inside.com/ancient-columns-found-at-greek-junkyard-r1180579.htm
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Junkyard-arrests-over-columns-find.5169901.jp
http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=919905&lang=eng_news

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The Queen was handing out Maundy coins last week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/7991228.stm

1888 Rugby Medal:

http://www.1888rugbymedal.co.uk/

Rebel States Currency:

http://www.rebelstatescurrency.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
New at the Morgan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/arts/design/17morg.html

Monet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/arts/design/14arts-ATLANTATOHAV_BRF.html

Moctezuma:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/moctezuma-unmasked-\
1668030.html

An interesting Dryden portrait has gone on display:

http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/latest-london-news/Rare-Dryden-portrait-goes-on.\
5172191.jp

The Getty has received the first two pieces from Italy from that
'deal' it reached a couple of years ago:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/stageNews/idUKTRE53E74X20090415
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31133/italy-loans-two-ancient-bronzes-to-getty\
/
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=3&article_id=1010\
57
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-04-16_116368534.html


Artbabble looks like the sort of place one could kill a few hours:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/design/07babb.html
http://www.artbabble.org/

The latest Nazi loot returns:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/arts/design/13arts-ARTRETURNEDT_BRF.html

More cuts at the Brooklyn Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/arts/design/18arts-BROOKLYNMUSE_BRF.html

Another feature on the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.contractmagazine.com/contract/content_display/news/e3i15e445736daf50e\
4f47bcce39ff48c35

Latest on the Rose Art Museum at Brandeis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/arts/design/18arts-ROSEARTMUSEU_BRF.html

An African American museum is in the works:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/winning-design-for-african-american\
-museum/

Auctioning off Doris Duke's stuff:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/17/arts/design/17anti.html

More coverage of that fresco fragment return by the Getty:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIpFCsuCa2Km0Os99JEELytUv64QD9\
7DSTS00

More on those saints' relics found in the British Museum:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/museums-routine-check-t\
urns-up-1000yearold-saints-bones/1468693.aspx

More on the Palestinian protest of the DSS exhibition at the ROM:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/arts/design/14arts-PALESTINIANS_BRF.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Chanticleer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/18/arts/music/18chan.html

An Oresteia:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/14/theater/reviews/14ores.html

A Taras Bulba movie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/13/world/europe/13cossacks.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/15/arts/15sedgwick.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Interesting detail about Neanderthal births:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/420/2

Postulating/reviving different uses for bone-based tools:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17004-ancestors-may-have-used-bone-tools-t\
o-make-smoothies.html

On the role of cooking in human development:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/science/21conv.html

More on Neanderthal subgroups:

http://www.livescience.com/history/090414-neanderthal-groups.html

More coverage of the homo floresiensis bones being displayed:

http://www.livescience.com/history/090422-hobbit-cast.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/science/21hobb.html
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1892606,00.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Four temples with inscriptions from the Sinai are shedding light
on the Hyskos:

http://www.physorg.com/news159552735.html
http://www.drhawass.com/blog/press-release-new-kingdom-temple-discovered-sinai
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080682.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080538.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iyy_p39sNj5_F4SGHgS0j-rv-XrQD9\
7MSNMO0
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2504875,00.html
http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidANA20090421T125403ZBAC27/New%20carvings%20shed\
%20light%20on%20pharaohs'%20dark%20age
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_temple_discovery_5
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=286070&version\
=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/21/tech/main4959915.shtml?source=RSSattr=\
HOME_4959915
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090421/sc_nm/us_egypt_archaeology_2

Nice feature on the false doors from Herakelopolis Magna:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/944/he3.htm

More coverage of those burials (now numbering 53) from the Fayum:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/943/heritage.htm
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=353273

Interesting computer recreation of Karnak:

http://www.today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/team-s-digital-recreation-of-ancient-89298.a\
spx

Nice feature on Spanish involvement in excavations in Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/944/he1.htm

It's the usual drill ... dam construction about to begin (this time
in Iran) and archaeologists are scrambling:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=192709

A handful of Christian (pre 12th century) artifacts from Tekrit:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/04/23/Archaeological-artifacts-found-in-Iraq/UP\
I-13111240510472/
http://politicom.moldova.org/news/archaeological-artifacts-found-in-iraq-198465-\
eng.html

A very nice Byzantine mosaic from Idleb:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2009/04/22/222745.htm

I think I mentioned these Hamirat-era finds from Raymah last week:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news181368.htm
http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10016210.html

Interview with Brian Rose who just returned from visiting sites
in Iraq:

http://thestory.org/archive/the_story_759_Back_From_Iraq.mp3/view
(scroll down a bit)

Hype for a television program about some important KV63 finds:

http://www.marketwatch.com/news/story/science-channels-egypts-mystery-chamber/st\
ory.aspx?guid=%7B6373BE63-65B4-4556-A209-F70E3706CF1E%7D&dist=msr_1

Not sure if we've mentioned this Hebrew fragment found near the Gihon
Spring yet:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090425203201.htm

Not sure why the 'chemical warfare' at Dura Europos is making the
rounds again:

http://www.livescience.com/history/090413-nhm-chemical-warfare.html

A (tongue-in-cheek, I hope) Ark of the Covenant suggestion:

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Robert-McNeil-Lost-Ark-of.5187620.jp

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
The (alleged) Cleopatra tomb hype continues unabated:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5izUDLGClOQBSWBrVJ7bS77yX85sg
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/africa/04/19/egypt.cleopatra.mystery/index.html
http://uk.reuters.com/article/scienceNewsMolt/idUKTRE53I10T20090419
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=7373921
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/egypt-thou-knewst-too-well-is-cle\
opatras-final-secret-out-1671316.html
http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/1665180/kathleen_martinez_and_the_searc\
h_for.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10567648
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30309472/
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Finds-may-lead-to-Mark.5184620.jp
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090420-egypt-cleopatra-apvin.htm\
l
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/04/19/cleopatra-mark-antony.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/opinion/22schiff.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/cleopatra-tomb-pi\
ctures/index.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/04/21/in-search-of-cleopatra
http://www.france24.com/en/20090420-egypt-cleopatra-tomb-mark-anthony
http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1893329,00.html

Latin is alive and well (maybe) at Fairfield High:

http://www.fairfield-echo.com/news/fairfield-news/latin-not-a-dead-language-at-f\
airfield-high-school-88042.html

Boris Johnson is interviewed about what Pericles would be doing:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/3557501/lets-melt-down-the-rail\
ings-to-make-bicycles.thtml

Feature on 'Boudica's Way':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/apr/23/uk-walking-holidays-history

Not sure if we've had this one on the antikythera mechanism yet:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2009/2508608.htm

More (almost a followup, but I don't really see anything new) coverage
of that
polynomial texture mapping of that Amazon statue from Herculaneum:

http://www.vision-systems.com/display_article/360076/19/none/none/TECHN/Polynomi\
al-texture-mapping-reveals-secrets-of-Roman-painting

Review of Ursula Le Guin, *Lavinia*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/fiction/\
article6160305.ece

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Interesting cat 'burial' in the walls of a house in Ugborough:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8011361.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5200089/400-year-old-mum\
mified-cat-found-in-walls-of-cottage.html

A plan to test folks in Wales to prove Bronze Age Mediterranean origins:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/8007969.stm

Solving (maybe) the mystery of some cracks in the Maltese landscape:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Researchers-solve-Maltateaser.5193890.jp
http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsId=60076&newscategory=31

Some works by Saint Neophytos were going on display in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=45272&archive=1

A parking lot marker in Sweden turns out to be a runestone:

http://politicom.moldova.org/news/church-lot-rock-actually-ancient-runestone-198\
713-eng.html

How the tulip arrived in Europe:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416105353.htm

More coverage of Hapsburg inbreeding:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/revealed-the-inbreeding-that-ruined-th\
e-hapsburgs-1668857.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of some new sections of the
Great Wall of China:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6134158.ece
http://www.channel4.com/news/articles/world/great+wall+even+longer+study+shows/3\
099332
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/4/20/apworld/20090420160800&sec=\
apworld
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10567611&ref=rs\
s
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30307130/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8008108.stm

Has the language of the Indus civilization been found/deciphered?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/23/indus-civilisation-language-symbol\
s
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uow-ise041909.php
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/indusscript.html

Evidence of an early kingdom near Wari-Bateshwar (India):

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=84953

Another case of archaeological neglect in India:

http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=85541

Review of a couple of tomes about Hindu history:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/books/review/Mishra-t.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Interesting site/finds from the banks of the Saluda River:

http://www.thestate.com/local/story/755229.html

A Hohokam dig in Continental is winding down:

http://www.sahuaritasun.com/articles/2009/04/24/news/00arch426.txt

A "trove" of Benjamin Franklin letters has been found in the British
Museum:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142459.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/23/AR2009042304594.\
html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/24arts-BRITISHCOPIE_BRF.html

... and some interesting Civil War era papers were found during
renovations of a house in Bloomville, NY:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/nyregion/21mirror.html

They've figured out where Mexican forces surrendered to Sam Houston
in 1836:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-battle17-2009apr17,0,45106\
49.story

A followup to that 'turtle rock' story from last week:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090422/NEWS01/304220045

Review of Donald Shomette, *Flotilla*:

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/26/books-flotilla-patuxent-naval-campai\
gn-war-1812/

More coverage of that overdue library book:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/15/AR2009041502000.\
html

More coverage of those beads found in quantity in coastal Georgia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090409134802.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Hotel construction in Cuzco has brought to light several Inca
walls:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=332206&CategoryId=14095

The Maya Blue story seems to be making the rounds again (not quite
sure what's different about this):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090420085049.htm

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
They're not going to posthumously review William Wallace's conviction:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2502950.0.No_review_of_William_\
Wallaces_conviction_for_treason_in_1305.php

Arguing about the 'Michaelangelo crucifix':

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/arts/design/22michel.html

Is the hand of Leonardo evident in a del Verrochio work?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/design/24voge.html

Can't remember if I mentioned the World Digital Library yet:

http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/world/news_detail.php?ID=209244&DK=World%20Digi\
tal%20Library
http://pantagraph.com/articles/2009/04/21/news/doc49edd90383a94983172511.txt
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-library_tab_22apr22,0,1841137\
.story
http://www.france24.com/en/20090420-unesco-world-digital-library-launches-online\
-culture
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30324140/

... or the ArtBabble site:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/arts/design/07babb.html

Ever heard of Konrad Witz (pre DaVinci)? Me neither:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/apr/17/art-german-\
kunstmuseum-witz

Handel had a handle on finances too:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/7992395.stm

On the domestication of the horse:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142541.htm

Reactions to the identity of the 'Cobbe portrait':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421142316.htm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/23/shakespeare-portrait-stanley-wells

Koranic studies are changing focus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/opinion/23kristof.html

Some viking words made their way into English:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421111659.htm

The Archaeology Channel is featuring a preview of the 2009
TAC festival:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

In case you were wondering about the Pulitzers:

http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2009

Lord Timothy Dexter seems to have been an interesting fellow:

http://www.lordtimothydexter.com/

Review of James Cuno's tome:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22657

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Frugal Grand Tour (?):

http://frugaltraveler.blogs.nytimes.com/

Ostia:

http://www.jaunted.com/story/2009/4/22/111643/748
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Iraqi troops made a major bust this past week:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=acKT3j2bEdkw&refer=muse

Very interesting article from Archaeology on the impact eBay has
had on the illegal/forged antiquities trade:

http://www.archaeology.org/0905/etc/insider.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================

Islamic Bank Notes:

http://www.islamicbanknotes.com/


Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Henry VIII:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/25/henry-viii-exhibition

Looted Afghan Treasures:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/5201198/Looted-Afghan\
-treasure-to-go-on-show.html

Assorted exhibitions in Italy:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-04-24_124335673.html

The Cleveland MoA is returning some items to Italy:

http://blog.cleveland.com/entertainment/2009/04/cleveland_museum_of_art_will_r.h\
tml
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30348001/
http://www.fox8.com/news/sns-ap-oh--lootedantiquities,0,3385064.story
http://www.cleveland.com/plaindealer/index.ssf/2009/04/cleveland_museum_of_art_w\
ill_r.html

Another feature on the new Acropolis Museum:

http://www.psfk.com/2009/04/peep-insights-athens%E2%80%99s-new-acropolis-museum.\
html

Battling over the Friede collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/25/arts/design/25arts-ARTCOLLECTIO_BRF.html

Tough economic times at the Brooklyn Museum:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30302

Antiques are on the rise again (maybe):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/24/arts/design/24anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Haydn:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/arts/music/22trio.html

Iliad: Book One:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/22/theater/reviews/22ilia.html

Mary Stuart:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/theater/reviews/20mary.html

An Oresteia:

http://www.thenation.com/doc/20090427/wilson
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Christine Dunbar Sarbanes:

http://www.apaclassics.org/campaign/campaign.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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John Noble Wilford on homo floresiensis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/science/28hobbit.html

I think we mentioned this Neanderthal genome a while ago:

http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Finally-unearthing-the-secrets-of.5228844.jp
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AFRICA
================================================================
Latest strange use of DNA analysis is its use to locate the
Garden of Eden in Namibia (or at least that's the spin the Times seems
to be putting on it):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6207399.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/science/01eden.html

... here's some more responsible (maybe) coverage of same:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/05/01/MN2317BI4Q.DTL
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8027269.stm

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Latest CT scan of a mummy reveals a mummified puppy at the owner's
feet:

http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v55/n31/mummies.html

Rachel Elior's theories on the Essenes continue to get coverage,
this time with some critique by Geza Vermes:

http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/1173/full
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710803395&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

The 2008 excavation report from Bethsaida:

http://www.unomaha.edu/bethsaida/reports/Excavations_report_2008a.pdf

Follow the dig at Tall Jalul:

http://jalul.wordpress.com

Nice features on the digitization of the Persepolis Fortification
Archive at the OI:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/090430/persian.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/PFMellon
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uoc-tso042809.php
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/551742/?sc=rsln

The (re)discovery of Amenhotep's tomb is making the rounds again
for some reason:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/news/Archaeologists+rediscover+lost+Egyptian+tomb/1\
345560/story.html

... and that scan of the bust of Nefertiti is now being used to prove
the bust wasn't 'faked by Hitler':

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/266036,nefertitis-hidden-face-proves-ber\
lin-bust-is-not-hitlers-fake.html

More/followup coverage of the 53 tombs from the Fayum:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30433244/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8019872.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/5228382/Mum\
mies-unveiled-in-Egypt.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jBZy8LJHK2gqDdN1jODGEtR4beDwD9\
7QA3VG0
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/26/AR2009042601334.\
html
http://www.kentucky.com/524/story/774871.html
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/chronicle/6393396.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090426/sc_nm/us_egypt_mummies
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=6781443&rss=rss\
-wabc-article-6781443
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/apr/27/53-tombs-found-in-egypt/


More coverage of that 'Dark Age' Temple in Turkey:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090429-dark-ages-temple.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-30279.html

More on the reopening of Iraq's sites etc., but noting the
controversial nature thereof:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/world/middleeast/03babylon.html

More (brief) coverage on Christian relics found in Iraq:

<http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=92636§ionid=3510212>

More on that Hebrew inscription from near the Gihon Spring:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-28247.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090425203201.htm

More on that virtual recreation of Karnak:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090429172224.htm
http://chronicle.com/wiredcampus/index.php?id=3733

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the discovery/conservation of a millefiore
Roman bowl from London:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8024498.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090429/sc_nm/us_britain_roman_find_1
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090430/NEWS02/704309928
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/04/30/Bowl-may-offer-Roman-Britain-clues/UP\
I-59041241109484/
http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Unique+Roman+glass+dish+found+London+gr\
ave+site/1550056/story.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090430092235.htm
http://www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_12254131

They're putting a roof over the Lyceum:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30499784/
http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/sns-ap-eu-greece-aristotles-\
school,0,3940617.story
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/04/30/greece_sponsor_to_pa\
y_for_aristotle_school_roof
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/04/30/international/i01381\
7D98.DTL&feed=rss.news
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ibVPF7hhL0KYXbI_vrIb0qZAjN2AD9\
7SR2GO0

Plans to investigate a Roman burial (found in the 1970s) in Gloucester:

http://www.thisisgloucestershire.co.uk/gloucestershireheadlines/Archaeologists-k\
een-trace-origins-Roman-skeleton/article-944840-detail/article.html

Interesting project to document all the catacombs of Rome:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8027650.stm

Possible Roman pottery kilns in a Kentish village:

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/british-village-may-have-been-a-huge-\
pottery-industry-in-roman-times_100185187.html

Some Roman burials from Bethlehem:

http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=37371

An interview with Adrian Goldsworthy:

http://newbooksinhistory.com/?p=840

Another Lysistrataesque strike:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,518465,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8025457.stm

cf (for more comparanda):

http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/05/02/lysistratidai/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A possible medieval 'boatwreck' off Scotland:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Ancient-boat-remains-found.5214897.jp
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-29539.html

Medieval building remains found beneath Cathedral Square in
Peterborough:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-29534.html
http://www.peterborough.net/news/articles/medievalcathsquare100.asp

The medieval fort of Trikala is now open to the public:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7546217&maindocimg=7544188&servi\
ce=144

The 'Little Ice Age' in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8010513.stm

'Early' evidence of amputations:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/8025710.stm

More coverage of that 'earliest' site in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/glasgow_and_west/8029661.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
China's earliest known 'carving':

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/28/content_11274877.htm

Latest ship recreation is a 16th (17th?) century Chinese junk ... sadly,
it was hit by a freighter one day before the end of its journey:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8020206.stm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10569146&ref=rs\
s
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5228176/Replica-Chinese-jun\
k-sinks-one-day-from-end-of-epic-journey.html


More coverage of that Indus Script 'decipherment':

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-30401.html
http://atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/KD30Df01.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142316.htm
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/indusscript
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/India/Learning-with-the-Times-Deciphering-Ind\
us-script-a-tough-task/articleshow/4452812.cms

... but we should also read some refutation:

http://www.safarmer.com/Refutation3.pdf
http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=1374
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-30333.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
An allele is suggesting Native Americans all descend from a single
population:

http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/04/29/native.americans.descended.a.single.\
ancestral.group.dna.study.confirms
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428223836.htm
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9101

Remains of a pair of ca 1100 A.D. palisaded villages from
Macon County found in the preliminaries to airport construction:

http://www.maconnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4607&Itemid=3\
4

Another Hohokam site is being dug in Arizona:

http://www.gvnews.com/articles/2009/04/30/news/49arch426.txt

Nice feature on the assassination of George Brown:

http://torontoist.com/2009/05/historicist_the_death_of_george_bro.php

There's a US version of Time Team:

http://www.pbs.org/video/program/1100231536/

Some heritage roses in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/garden/23garden.html

The Georgia Guidestones:

http://www.wired.com/science/discoveries/magazine/17-05/ff_guidestones?currentPa\
ge=all

Review of Daniel Brown, *The Indifferent Stars Above*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/books/review/Roach-t.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
An abstract of another feature on the Nazca lines:

http://www.archaeology.org/0905/abstracts/nasca.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Sidebarish sort of thing on 10 voyages that changed the world:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/04/28/ten.voyages/index.html

Nice feature on Palladio:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/skyline/2009/03/30/090330crsk_skyline_gold\
berger

... and one on Poe:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/04/27/090427crat_atlarge_lepo\
re

On the evolutionary skills of ancient breeders:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227064.200-ancient-breeders-show-intelli\
gent-design.html

In case you missed 'talk like Shakespeare' day:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103414533

Britain has its first female poet laureate:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/world/europe/02poet.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5256745/Poet-Laureate-Changing-wi\
th-the-times.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/01/britain.poet.laureate/

... and in case you want to know all about this poet laureate business:

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1113085_poet_laureate_all_you_need\
_to_know

What some scholars are doing when they're away from their desk:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/nyregion/30towns.html

On the evolution of languages:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5805522.ece

OpEd thing suggesting UNESCO Heritage Status might do more harm
than good:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/is-unesco-damaging-the-worlds-treasures-\
1675637.html

... and one on the need to rethink the concept of the University:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/27/opinion/27taylor.html

Backlash from Google Earth's inclusion of some historical maps
of Japan:

http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090502/ap_on_hi_te/as_japan_google_dark_secrets

More on the World Digital Library:

http://www.informationweek.com/galleries/showImage.jhtml?galleryID=321&cid=nl_IW\
K_daily_H
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8009974.stm
http://www.wdl.org/en/

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Calcutta:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/travel/03calcutta.html

Athens:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ricksteveseurope/2009139295_websteves28.ht\
ml
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Another case of recovered Thracian jewellery from a site in
Bulgaria:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-04-30&article=27383
http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=103210

... but it's another site which is most popular with looters:

<http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n179736>

Looting of sites in Arkansas:

http://www.kait8.com/global/story.asp?s=10257578

Robert Fulford argues against returning looted artifacts:

http://www.nationalpost.com/story-printer.html?id=a8bad11d-fe96-4cb1-a2da-c74d3d\
a318f9

Art theft from a Dutch museum:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1895429,00.html

That guy who was slicing pages out of books in the British and
Bodleian libraries had his sentence reduced:

http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23682949-details/Expert+who+stole\
+pages+of+rare+texts+has+prison+term+halved/article.do
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=287690&version\
=1&template_id=38&parent_id=20

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A huge cache of medieval coins from a site in Bulgaria:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1178
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/6469/2/

Numismatic Bibliomania Society:

http://www.coinbooks.org/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Russian Folk Costumes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/arts/28iht-Ffolk.html

Art, Pen and Parchment:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30484

Baroque:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/arts/02iht-melik2.html

Pompeii and the Roman Villa:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-pompeii29-2009apr29,0,599226.sto\
ry

The Myers Museum has returned a number of items to Egypt:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aTp8L4YyrY6I

A (negative) review of Berlin's Jewish Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/arts/design/02conn.html

Piles of layoffs at the Getty:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty28-2009apr28,0,3464364\
.storylink
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/arts/design/30gett.html
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-getty1-2009may1,0,1800718.s\
torylink

That flu thing is affecting attendance at the British Museum's
Aztec thing:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/apr/29/swine-flu-british-museum-aztec-sho\
w

Some items related to female Georgian writers are coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/arts/design/01anti.html

... while some Lincoln stamps fetched a very nice price:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/20/arts/design/20lincoln.html

... as did a Chinese imperial seal:

http://www.france24.com/en/20090429-chinese-imperial-seal-sells-168-million-euro\
s-summer-palace-beijing-china-protests-auction-paris

The auction houses are downsizing their catalogs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/arts/design/02cata.html

They're still saying the Acropolis Museum will open in June:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100017_27/04/2009_106641
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090426/ennew_afp/entertainmentgreecearchaeologyacr\
opolismuseum_20090426200705
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
King David:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/theater/reviews/28king.html

Reviewish/informative piece on the Baroque:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/01/arts/music/01pahu.html
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
How to Pack Books:

wiki.coinbooks.org/index.php/How_to_Pack_Books
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Ahmad Hasan Dani:

http://bdnews24.com/details.php?id=82992&cid=2

Felipe Solis Olguin:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30490

Alan Vince:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/29/alan-vince-archaeologist-ceramics-\
obituary

Hans Holzer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/30/books/30holzer.html
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
================================================================
Noah's tomb is in Ajerbaijan:

http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5972
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
This week, homo floresiensis is considered a separate species:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8036396.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090507/ts_afp/scienceanthropologyindonesiahobbits_\
20090507011503
http://www.news-mail.com.au/story/2009/05/07/ancient-hobbit-humans-a-new-species\
/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/may/07/hobbit-indonesia-primates-research
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090506/full/news.2009.448.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/evolution/5285290/The-or\
iginal-hobbits-whose-brain-shrank-due-to-remote-home.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/06/hobbit-species.html

... with foot problems (pretty much the same info spun differently):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/science/07hobbit.html (JNW)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090506144307.htm

... and the dwarf hippo connection:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090507185535.htm
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/pie/hipopotamos/ayudan/interpretar/Hobbi\
t/elpepusoc/20090506elpepusoc_7/Tes

An early human appears to have run afoul of a hyena:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archeology/5299352/200000-year-old-\
human-hair-found-in-dung.html

'Biocide resistance' seems to be a problem in preserving Lascaux:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/43632/title/Biocides_inducing_resista\
nce_in_Lascaux_cave%E2%80%99s_microbes

Haven't had a facial reconstruction for a few weeks, so here's one of
the 'earliest european':

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1683473/forensic_scientist_recreates_face_o\
f_earliest_european/index.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/revealed-the-face--of-the-first-europe\
an-1678537.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-32431.html
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AFRICA
================================================================
Remember those 'oldest beads' found a while ago? They might be
even older:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090505163021.htm
http://www.ccnmag.com/article/82,000-year-old_beads_discovered_in_ancient_cave
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Getting a pile of coverage this week is a story suggesting the
famous bust of Nefertiti is a fake:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/07/nefertiti-bust-berlin-egypt-a\
uthenticity
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1017\
37
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/05/09/nefertiti-bust-fake.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hesdEvM5E_PC4GzRm3iHA9fAYdQg
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090505/ts_afp/entertainmentarthistoryegyptgermany
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25436791-12377,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8038097.stm

... not much of the coverage includes Zahi Hawass' response to the claim:

http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/05/09/72373.html

A 5000 b.p. tomb near the Lahun pyramid:

http://www.reuters.com/article/reutersEdge/idUSTRE54445920090505
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/8035748.stm

That Egyptian fortress in the Sinai is getting renewed coverage (I
think this is the same one as a few weeks ago, no?):

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5465N120090507
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5465n1-us-egypt-archaeology/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/photogalleries/ancient-egypt-tem\
ples-pictures/index.html

... perhaps this 'Karnak connection' is the reason for the renewed
coverage:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1684994/egyptian_inscriptions_used_to_map_o\
ther_ancient_military_outposts/index.html?source=r_science

Identifiying the herbs in Egyptian medicines:

http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090504/ART16/905040309

Israeli police have recovered a 1900 b.p. Hebrew papyrus which was
on the illegal antiquities market (more coverage under 'crime beat'):

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1083530
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710880134&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Nabatean pottery from near Jeddah:

http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=122347&d=9&m=5&y=2009

Now tourism is a threat to Iraq's antiquities:

http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidANA20090508T040659ZDWI14/New%20threat%20to%20I\
raq's%20antiquities%20-%20tourism

There's a new archaeological garden near the Knesset:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131236
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14

Rachel Elior's theories continue to garner press coverage:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710889763&pagename=JPArticle%2FSh\
owFull

... related:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710889686&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Remains of a Roman 'shanty twon' from Bowes:

http://www.teesdalemercury.co.uk/teesdale-news/story,2088.html

Some folks who stole a chunk of the Colosseum 25 years ago have
returned it:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30639987/
http://www.azcentral.com/rsslinks/1031213
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5293725/US-couple-return\
-ancient-artifact-to-Rome-after-25-years.html

Plans to build a highrise next to the site of Plato's Academy
have been scrapped:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100002_07/05/2009_106913

Haven't had a decline-of-Rome-parallel piece for a while, so:

http://www.forbes.com/global/2009/0511/056-stocks-commodities-oil-short-the-west\
.html

In case you missed the 3d catacombs story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/europe/8027650.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-32450.html

Rome was built in a day ... sort of:

http://www.archaeology.org/0907/trenches/liz_glynn.html

Romes 'talking statues' are getting some 'censorship' (?):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30587334/

... while UNESCO sites in Paphos apparently can't be cleaned up:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=45568&cat_id=1

Latest in the Alexander 'chess game' between Greece and FYROM:

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/6596/2/
http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/news/18719/
http://www.tol.cz/look/TOL/article.tpl?IdLanguage=1&IdPublication=4&NrIssue=320&\
NrSection=2&NrArticle=20555

The Ephebe as Lampbearer is on display at the Getty:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=30689
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/05/getty-pompeii.html

Interesting bequest to a couple of Australian universities:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/national/classical-greek-and-latin-alive-and-wel\
l-20090503-argj.html
http://www.smh.com.au/national/classical-greek-and-latin-alive-and-well-20090503\
-argj.html

The Marbles Reunited folks are back in the news:

http://au.sys-con.com/node/950449

... not sure if this was connected or not:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7576624&maindocimg=1328581&s\
ervice=144

Susan Mazur reviews Vernon Silver, *The Lost Chalice*:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0905/S00036.htm

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A very old wooden spear tip from Slovenia:

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Tech%2Band%2BScience/Story/STIStory_\
373630.html

Archaeologists are going to be looking for remains of a Redcoat
camp near Fort Augustus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8028966.stm

A 'lost' Medieval church found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/8039915.stm

A Medieval button found a couple of years ago has been declared
treasure:

http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/4347556.Medieval_button_declared__treasure_\
/

A Viking ship from a Swedish lake:

http://www.thelocal.se/19342/20090508/

They're excavating a mass WWI grave in France:

http://www.newsday.com/news/nationworld/world/wire/sns-ap-eu-france-wwi-graves,0\
,2360956.story
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10570466&ref=rs\
s

Bulgaria is seeking UNESCO Heritage Status for its 'Valley of the Kings':

http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/News/0905B5.htm
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=103440

A 1641 'passport':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wear/8036982.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A prehistoric cave site from Guizhou province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/08/content_11335403.htm

Some very well preserved Joseon Dynasty burials:

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2904524

They're returning to the Peking Man site:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/04/content_11312426.htm

Interesting item on attempts to 'modernize' China's written language:

http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/chinese-language-ever-evolving\
/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Possible evidence of a tsunami hitting the New York region 2300 years b.p.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8028949.stm
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/05/04/tech/main4988732.shtml?source=RSSattr=\
HOME_4988732

A Middle Woodland site from Anne Arundel County:

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/top/2009/05/04-10/Dig-ask-dig-some-more.ht\
ml

Some burial mound finds are hold up creation of an artificial lake
in Florida:

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/20090505/NEWS01/905050321/1006/rss01

Flood damage inspection at Knife River Indian Villages revealed some
archaeological
sites too:

http://www.kfyrtv.com/News_Stories.asp?news=29885

Hype for an upcoming dig of the William Ladd homestead site in
Minot (Maine):

http://www.sunjournal.com/story/316291-3/LewistonAuburn/Hilltop_dig_may_unearth_\
peacemovement_relics/

More details of what they've found at the Macon Airport site
(prior to runway extension):

http://www.thefranklinpress.com/articles/2009/05/08/news/02news.txt

More on those Franklin letters found in the British Museum:

http://www.kpbs.org/news/2009/may/05/ucsd-professor-discovers-important-franklin\
-letter/

Review of T.J. Stiles, *The First Tycoon*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/books/review/Kazin-t.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Some 'Tenon Heads' from Peru:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=mLXMZsqstxc=

A large Tarascan 'ritual complex' near Lake Patzcuaro:

http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=news_item_display&news_item_id=59658\
2858

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Latest claim from the art world -- Gaugin cut off van Gogh's ear:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31320/book-claims-gauguin-lopped-off-van-goghs\
-ear/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/arts/design/06arts-WASGAUGUINTH_BRF.html

Trying to preserve some Tesla sites:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/science/05tesla.html

Nice feature on technology and ancient manuscripts:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124173896716198603.html

The Society of Antiquaries of Scotland have made the 2009 Rhind Lectures
(looking at various aspects of the Neolithic Revolution by Trevor Watkins)
available online:

http://www.socantscot.org/article.asp?aid=257

Latest on Leonardo's Codex Atlanticus:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/arts/09leon.html
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/paseo/geniales/artilugios/Leonardo/elppgl\
/20090505elpepucul_8/Tes

Handling pirates in the 'Golden Age':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103691069

How Google scans all those books:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/library/2009/04/the_granting_of_patent_7508978.html

They might allow women into the Vatican army:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8035235.stm

Review of a novel featuring Richard (Francis) Burton:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/books/review/Macintyre-t.html

More reviews of Darwiniana:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/books/review/Barcott-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Seoul:

http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/090507/utravel/travel_seoul_on_a_budget_1

Luxor:

http://www.thecolumbiastar.com/news/2009/0508/travel/085.html

Paestum:

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-trw-mozzarellapaestumside10-2009may10,0,5221260\
.story
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
CSA newsletter (April 2009):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#spring09

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Israeli police foiled an attempt to sell a 1900 b.p. Hebrew papyrus
document:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090506/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_plundered_scroll_3
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,519167,00.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jQWGVP3Y1d5UO2kgW4ZZNLVC5lEwD9\
80QU400
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131223
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3711796,00.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1083530.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jBxDr_P7MhQGzSG9r8HUzdBAjKiw
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30605650/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/8036881.stm
http://www.thestar.com/article/630300
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/06/1004957/israeli-police-seize-ancient-hebr\
ew-scroll

... and an "amateur antiques hunter" in Tubas was arrested:

http://beth.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=37650

eBay is apparently having a 'chilling effect' on the looting of antiquities:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090504193641.htm
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=ebay-lessens-antiquitie\
s-looting-09-05-06
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2009/05/05/ebay_vs_the_tomb\
_raiders/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-05/uoc--ehu050409.php
http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/2009/may/10/ebay
http://www.archaeology.org/0905/etc/insider.html
http://www.physorg.com/news160667205.html

An attempted sale of a Sarnath idol was foiled in India:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Person-trying-to-sell-ancient-idol-nab\
bed/articleshow/4488749.cms

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The largest known (and previously unknown) Roman silver coin is
coming to auction:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6658

... as is a hoard of Jacobite gold coins:

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/7136.aspx

Nice feature on the Ancient Coins for Education program:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09115/965529-55.stm

Walter Breen's Complete Encyclopedia of US and Colonial Coins:

http://breenencyclopedia.com/index.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Pompeii and the Roman Villa:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-pompeii9-2009may09,0,559376\
2.storylink
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-05_105355345.html

Amsterdam/New Amsterdam:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/arts/design/09huds.html

Painted Metaphors (Maya):

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124148062911385269.html

Al Ain Museum:

http://www.aam.gov.ae/sections/archaeology.htm

OpEddish thing on who should own antiqutities:

http://www.onthecommons.org/content.php?id=2436

A pile of 16th century torture devices are coming to auction:

http://news.therecord.com/article/532701

Women can now see some of the treasures from Mount Athos:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/after-1000-years-women-can-see-tr\
easures-of-mount-athos-1679730.html

The Blanton Museum of Art has a new director:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/arts/design/09arts-NEWDIRECTORF_BRF.html


Latest in the Brandeis/Rose Art Museum saga:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/arts/design/05arts-CRITICISMOFI_BRF.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/05/rose-art-museum

Latest on the Met's 'Crystal Palace':

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/05/arts/design/05met.html

Some hype for the soon-to-be-opening Acropolis Museum:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/civ_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/civ.asp&fdate=\
05/05/2009Celebratingbeneath

Strategies for raising funds for acquisitions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/10/arts/design/10fink.html

... and scaling back on the 'big shows':

http://www.daytondailynews.com/entertainment/ohio-theater-arts/museums-forced-to\
-scale-back-on-blockbusters-113402.html?showComments=true

Not a lot (groan) seems to be being offered at the big auctions any more:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/09/arts/09iht-melik9.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/06/arts/design/06auction.html

... but antiques dealers seem to be doing well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/07/business/smallbusiness/07sbiz.html

Check out what's coming up to auction at Christies:

http://www.christies.com/Lotfinder/searchresults.aspx?searchids=3635|8222#action\
=refine&selectedids=3635|8222&sid=0f9e966f-5360-4b15-a737-d2979de0e5e6

... and news of (non)restructuring:

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/7125.aspx

Assorted auction and antiquities news:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/arts/design/08anti.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/arts/design/08arts-TREASURETROV_BRF.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Merchant of Venice:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/05/08/theater/reviews/08merc.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Plenty o' coverage of the find of a 35000 b.p. ivory 'Venus
figurine' from Germany:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/science/14venus.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090513/full/news.2009.473.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/8047319.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/13/AR2009051301912.\
html

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gXbk_JfASsVGU1F48--LEj7X8n6wD9\
85GGD80

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hOlAcj9fi2spQqio20OKBKWh5vWQ

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-venus14-2009may14%2C0%2C18\
1830.story
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=57684&CultureCode=en
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4257481,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/after-35000-years-eroti\
c-art-for-cavemen-discovered-1684569.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084126.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSTRE54D3QS20090514?feedType=RS\
S&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090513/lf_nm_life/us_art_prehistoric_3
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17121-ivory-venus-is-first-depiction-of-a-\
woman.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,624862,00.html

A common ancestor find?:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124235632936122739.html

Neanderthals were sophisticated and fearless, as far as hunting
goes:

http://www.physorg.com/news161536699.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090514084115.htm

... and possibly tasty main courses themselves, as far as modern humans go:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/17/neanderthals-cannibalism-anthropol\
ogical-sciences-journal

Not sure if we've mentioned this 'stone age superglue' story before:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090511-stone-age-glue.html
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/05/stoneageglue/

More coverage of very old human hairs being found in very old
hyena dung:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090511/sc_livescience/oldesthumanhairsfoun\
dinhyenadung
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
132 sites in Egypt which haven't been excavated yet have been
identified:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001147.htm

Some prehistoric fishing tackle (and other items) from Egypt:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jzq0GTq7lbMyj69VDimSi9ZR-l2Q
http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=data/international/2009/M\
ay/international_May855.xml§ion=international

Latest from Luxor:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/947/heritage.htm

Nice blogpost on Hateshepsut's unfinished obelisk:

http://judithweingarten.blogspot.com/2009/05/hatshepsuts-unfinished-obelisk.html

Latest claims of having found the site of Sodom:

http://www.koat.com/news/19433106/detail.html

Iran's latest attempts to preserve some of its 'salt mummies':

http://www.payvand.com/news/09/may/1123.html

Evidence of an interesting burial ritual at Sialk Mound:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94340§ionid=351020105

Some of Jerusalem's ancient walls have been (re)discovered:

http://www.tiscali.co.uk/news/newswire.php/news/reuters/2008/09/03/topnews/jerus\
alem-dig-uncovers-ancient-city-walls.html&template=/news/feeds/story-template-re\
uters.html

Somewhat vague item on the find of a "king's grave" in Izmir:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/11628133.asp?scr=1

Hype for an upcoming dig at Ed-Dur:

http://www.wam.org.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=WamLocEnews&cid=1241072597989&p=113509\
9400124&pagename=WAM%2FWamLocEnews%2FW-T-LEN-FullNews

Interview with some representatives of ARCE from Orange County:

http://ocartsandculture.com/2009/05/oc%E2%80%99s-ancient-egyptian-culture/

Nice feature on Bedrich Hrozny:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/116219

... and Bart Ehrman:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/05/15/bible.critic/index.html

Latest salvo in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=97958

More coverage of the 'fake' Nefertiti bust claims:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=awM8r8vu_fS8&refer=home
http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/272498

More coverage of that interestingly-dated papyrus document rescued
from thieves last week:

http://www.hamodia.com/inthepaper.cfm?ArticleID=226

More on Shimon Gibson's theories about the location of various events
in Jesus' last days:

http://wcbstv.com/national/jerusalem.old.city.2.1010228.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Possible Trajanic "palace" find in Romania:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6658347.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/15/content_11376185.htm

Plans to 'dig' the submerged site of Pavlopetri:

http://www.physorg.com/news161274284.html
http://www.world-science.net/othernews/090513_pavlopetri.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090512093635.htm

... and to reveal (much) more of Viroconium:

http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/03/11/countys-roman-city-due-to-be-expanded/

Whither the Muses?:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124242927020125473.html

Feature on the 'consul's house' at Ephesus:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=175015&bolum=100
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-37554.html

Claims of evidence of Roman mass production:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/268987,german-scientists-find-clues-to-r\
oman-mass-production.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=94968§ionid=3510212

Another Thracian tomb from Bulgaria:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n179374

This is different ... premilinary digs prior to bus stop construction
found no Roman remains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/8051902.stm

How Trajan's Market has survived so many earthquakes etc.:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/13/roman-ruins-ash.html>
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30731967/

Digging a Roman bath site in a Northamptonshire village:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/Archaeologists-launch-new-dig-on.5260335.\
jp

A Hellenistic statue find from Alexandria (I suspect we'll hear
more about this one ... eventually):

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7597593&service=142
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001144.htm
(small photo)

A trio of Latin 'controversies' this week ... first, on Grace at
Cambridge:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6289267.ece

... and on use of Latin in diplomas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/opinion/15Francese.html

Feature on John Hale:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090517/FEATURES/905170301/Lover+of+the+\
living+past

Review of *Jesuit Education and the Classics*:

http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/Jesuit-Education-and-The-Classics1-4438-0548-3.htm
http://www.c-s-p.org/Flyers/978-1-4438-0548-3-sample.pdf

Review of Ronald Hutton, *Blood and Mistletoe*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5323383/Blood-and-Mistletoe\
-The-History-of-the-Druids-in-Britain-By-Ronald-Hutton-review.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/blood-and-mistleto\
e-a-history-of-the-druids-in-britain-by-ronald-hutton-1684903.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A neolithic burial from FYROM/Macedonia:

http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=358101

Nice feature on a pile of Bronze Age finds from north of Amsterdam:

http://www.radionetherlands.nl/currentaffairs/region/netherlands/090513-Enkhuize\
n

Paintings depicting the demise of Thoms Beckett have been revealed
in Spain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8029320.stm

They've finally given the go-ahead to the Stonehenge visitors'
centre:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8047968.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/may/13/stonehenge-visitors-new-centre

... which seems to have occasioned another 'king of Stonehenge' feature:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1180243/The-king-Stonehenge-Were-artefac\
ts-ancient-chiefs-burial-site-Britains-Crown-Jewels.html

Civil War silver from a Somerset Garden:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/8052505.stm

Remembering the Swiss Guard's bravery in 1527:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,623474,00.html

Recreational types are destroying a Roman road:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/cn_news_home/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=415581

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Remembering the 1789 smallpox outbreak in Sydney:

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/ockhamsrazor/stories/2009/2557307.htm

Did China's first emperor ban Buddhism?:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/11/content_11354232.htm

Evidence of an ancient empire in Jharkand:

http://www.dailyindia.com/show/312174.php

An ancient earring from Viet Nam's Ha Tinh province:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2009/05/847053/

Some 2000 b.p. Buddhist caves from Raigad:

http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2009/05/14131311/2000YEAROLD-CAVES-FOUND-IN.html

Huge swords from Mayong may be evidence of human sacrifice:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090514/jsp/northeast/story_10958581.jsp

That Indus script story is still making the rounds:

http://www.greatnewsnetwork.org/index.php/news/article/scientists_claim_to_have_\
found_language_of_ancient_indus_civilisation/?source=rss

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Studying Navajo smoke signals:

http://www.physorg.com/news161676295.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090516/ap_on_sc/us_smoke_signals_3

Native bones from Indiana:

http://www.indianasnewscenter.com/news/local/44776422.html

A pre-Hohokam site at Las Capas (Arizona):

http://www.explorernews.com/articles/2009/05/13/news/doc4a09f6bd89333196876955.t\
xt

Dam construction preliminaries have revealed some 1000 b.p. artifacts
in Kansas:

http://www.kctv5.com/news/19447387/detail.html
http://www.kansascity.com/news/breaking_news/story/1194059.html

Civil War relics from Franklin:

http://www.wztv.com/newsroom/top_stories/wztv_vid_5747.shtml

Preserving landmarks in NYC:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/arts/design/12vill.html

Monitoring the condition of the Hamilton and the Scourge:

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1563946

More coverage of finds from Macon County Airport:

http://www.thefranklinpress.com/articles/2009/05/11/news/02news.txt
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Possible find of remains of one of the early kings of Copan:

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Tech%2Band%2BScience/Story/STIStory_\
375009.html
http://english.cctv.com/20090514/103082.shtml

cf:

http://mayanewsupdates.blogspot.com/

A funerary bundle from Machu Picchu:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=O6ffYqUgltI=

cf:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=6m5TSrqy97g=

... and an Inca stone with 41 angles (?) was found in the area as
well:

http://www.livinginperu.com/news-9075-artculturehistory-inca-stone-with-41-angle\
s-discovered-peru>

Possible evidence of another shaft grave from Jalisco:

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


Nice feature on the Mayan creation myth:

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jun/05-unearthing-the-mayan-creation-myth

This month's 'ancient boat' recreation is a pre-Columbian raft:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090513183516.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news161446493.html

The site of Tancama will be opened to the public:

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

More coverage of that Tarascan 'ritual complex':

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090513-mexico-ritual-island.html
http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=news_item_display&news_item_id=59658\
2858
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-38096.html
http://media-newswire.com/release_1091212.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Interesting suggestion that Blackbeard and crew weren't English:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation/bal-te.blackbeard17may17,0,2327308.story

... and an interesting story behind a first edition copy of
*Origin of the Species*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/books/review/Dizikes-t.html

Chinese millet made its way to Europe some 7000 years b.p.:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90883/6657780.html

UK metal detectorists are getting some respect:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30679342/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/05/10/AR2009051002212.\
html?hpid=topnews

An early forensic toxicology case:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/science/12file-arsenic.html

The Vatican is featuring the letter of Henry VIII requesting the
annulment of his marriage to Catherine of Aragon:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/12/vatican-reveals-letter-that-split-e\
ngland-from-roman-church/?hp

Audio/podcasts of the Duke Archaeology Conference:

http://asorblog.org/?p=252

Possible origin of the 'sardonic grin':

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-15_115343756.html

Terry Gilliam is going to take on Don Quixote:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/14/terry-gilliam-to-take-another-tilt-\
at-don-quixote/

Erotica through the ages:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/may/14/erotic-art-archaeolog\
y

Feature on torture in the ancient world (which is really more about
execution):

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,625172,00.html

The history of the corset (with a medical spin):

http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/health-and-wellbeing/features/moments-in\
-medicine-podcast--clothing-as-medicine-1685514.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Patmos (etc.):

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/05/17/style/t/index.html

Athens:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/getaways/05/11/athens.greece.travel/index.html

Sicily:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/italy/5319068/Sicily-life-\
after-death-on-Italys-ragged-edge.html

Roman France:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17romfrance.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17romweb.html

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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Grand Pre, Nova Scotia (Acadian):

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Rosetta 5 (Spring, 2009):

http://www.rosetta.bham.ac.uk/issue6/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A metal detectorist was nabbed for selling fake coins:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/crime/article6261804.ece

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Silver coins from a burial in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/19394/20090512/

Latest salvo from the ACCG in regards to importation of coins from
Cyprus:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-13-200\
9/0005025284&EDATE=

Coverage of the Chicago International Coin Fair auction:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6685

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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What Do Archaeologists Do:

http://www.somdnews.com/stories/05152009/reccov152737_32178.shtml

Pompeii and the Roman Villa:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-pompeiicrowds13-2009may13,0\
,4947622.story

Mary Rose Hidden Treasures:

http://www.maryrosehiddentreasures.org/

The Della Robbia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/arts/16iht-robbia.html

Imperium Conflict Myth:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4254590,00.html

The Euphronios Krater is on display in its own glass case:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-13_113375131.html
http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-15-200\
9/0005027160&EDATE=

The new Egyptian gallery at the BM:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle5503003.ece

Plans for Lindow Man:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8045257.stm
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/environment-news/2009/05/15/lindow-\
man-to-be-star-attraction-at-great-north-museum-61634-23628635/

Liverpool's World Museum returned some Aboriginal remains:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/merseyside/8047223.stm

Some fake colonial furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/arts/design/15anti.html

The Kimbell has acquired what might be Michelangelo's first
painting:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/may/13/art-michelangelo-torment-sain\
t-anthony

Sotheby's plans to merge some of its departments:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/arts/design/15voge.html

Interesting feature on the (tactile) Museo Omero:

<http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-15_115343387.html>

A couple of Manets are back together at the NGA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/15/arts/design/15voge.html

More hype for the impending opening of the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7607316&maindocimg=7607340&s\
ervice=6
http://www.live-pr.com/en/the-new-akropolis-museum-set-to-open-r1048277551.htm

... and some comments on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:

http://www.theage.com.au/world/british-a-step-closer-to-losing-marbles-20090511-\
b0kc.html>
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/5304133/Greek-government\
-unveils-new-home-for-Elgin-Marbles.html

Hype for the sequel to 'Night at the Museum':

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/14/arts/AP-US-Night-at-the-Smithsonian.h\
tml
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Douglas Little:

http://www.odt.co.nz/on-campus/university-otago/55983/classics-professor-dies

Linda Gaskin:

http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-05-17/story/linda_gaskin_1945-2009_0
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PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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I think we mentioned this 'missing link' (now dubbed 'Ida') in
passing last week ... a veritable flood this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/16/science/16fossil.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6320891.ece (video)
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/us_world/Fossil-Discovery-Hailed-as-Link-Between-\
Monkey-and-Man.html
http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/05/19/human.ancestor/index.html?section=cnn\
_latest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/19/ida-fossil-missing-link
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124235632936122739.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8057465.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519104643.htm

Early hominids were primarily right-handed, apparently:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17184-teeth-hint-that-righthandedness-is-a\
n-ancient-trait.html

The Laetoli footprints are going to get a 'facelift':

http://allafrica.com/stories/200905181099.html

More coverage of the humans-chowing-down-on-Neanderthals claim:

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/us_world/Humans-Ate-Nanderthals.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/17/neanderthals-cannibalism-anthropol\
ogical-sciences-journal

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AFRICA
================================================================
More on the ancient 'superglue' found in a Kwazulu-Natal cave:

http://www.iol.co.za/widgets/rss_redirect.php?artid=vn20090521055312218C651677&s\
etid=1§id=79&url=iol&vne=0&csect=News

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Not sure if we've had this traces-of-herbs-in-Egyptian-wine
story yet:

http://www.ldnews.com/ci_12133696?source=most_emailed

Recent finds from Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/948/he2.htm

Zahi Hawass explains what he does:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/948/he1.htm

The 'Menachem-handle-inscription' is the latest interesting find
from Jerusalem:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1086601
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/images/daily/D190509/245stone.jpg (photo)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090520/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_inscription\
_5
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30844981/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/05/20/ancient-hebrew-artifact-f_n_206085.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/293782.php
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/05/20/1005303/first-temple-remains-discovered-i\
n-jerusalem
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1086817.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131460
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-ml-israel-ancient-inscriptio\
n%2C1%2C4044129.story
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=359044

... and then there's the bone seal with the name 'Shaul' on it
(the first link will expire soon, I suspect):

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/First-Temple-period-bone-seal-f\
ound-19-May-2009.htm

Arutz Sheva covers both of the previous very nicely (with photos):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131460
cf:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iJfa-QD2MQYwlFeOwLk5hERiUkOAD9\
8A5OT00

Feature on "Israel's Atlantis":

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1242212435540&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull

A dig in Israel is endangering daffodils (?!?):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1087724.html

Finds from various periods at Umm Al Quwain:

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/DisplayArticle08.asp?xfile=/data/theuae/2009/May/the\
uae_May428.xml§ion=theuae

We're hearing of another plan to send a robot into the Great Pyramid:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001151.htm

Some interesting Egypt-related youtube items (check sidebar as well):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Izh8cc8VkP0&eurl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.bloglines.com%2\
Fmyblogs_display%3Ffolder%3D190209&feature=player_embedded

More on Nefertiti:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,625719,00.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Interesting account of the find of some letters written by
a schoolboy who discovered a Roman villa in Lawrence Weston
in 1947:

http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Roman-villa-finder-s-thoughts-revealed/a\
rticle-999252-detail/article.html

A Hellenistic statue (which probably isn't Alexander) from Alexandria:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7597593&service=142

Rome has opened up a pile of underground sites (including the
Ludus Magnus) to the public:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6345753.ece
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/2432346/Underground-Rome-sites-open-\
to-visitors

Latin is returning to state schools in the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/may/22/latin-funding-state-schools

Vague press release on finds from an unmentioned period at Berenike:

http://en.naukawpolsce.pl/palio/html.run?_Instance=cms_naukapl.pap.pl&_PageID=1&\
s=szablon.depesza&dz=archeology&dep=361511&data=&lang=EN&_CheckSum=2050323395

Interesting project to 'digitally' unroll scrolls from Herculaneum:

http://www.tmcnet.com/usubmit/2009/05/19/4186088.htm

A project to save ancient temples on Malta:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8054873.stm

They'll be digging at Peperikon again:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n181507

An online atlas of the Saxon Shore:

http://inlitoresaxonico.org.uk/

An online atlas of Hadrian's Wall:

http://perlineamvalli.org.uk/

Nice profile of Ruth Padel:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/17/ruth-padel-profile
cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/18/books/18arts-301YEARMENON_BRF.html

... and one on John Hale:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090517/FEATURES/905170301/1010/rss04

More coverage of the 'dig' at Pavlopetri:

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090518/full/news.2009.484.html

More coverage of that reconstructed millefiore/i bowl:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/apr/30/glass-bowl-roman-london-grave\
-heritage
http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2009/05/17/jun02.asp

Review of Barry Strauss, *The Spartacus War*:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/May09/Spartacus.da.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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West Dorset's oldest human settlement:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8062513.stm

They've been repairing Cadiz' walls pretty much the same way for
300 years:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090511091534.htm

A gardener in Herefordshire keeps finding interesting things:

http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?from=rss_A%20Step%20Beyond&set_id=1&click_id=29&a\
rt_id=vn20090522054429856C685385

A medieval necropolis from Novgorod:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/8246/

Interesting hype for a television program about the HMS Victory:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8058449.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6322407.ece

A survey in West Kent prior to pipeline construction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8065206.stm

Nice APOD photo of moon rays over Thurso Castle:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090518.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Finds from various periods from China's Hunan province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/15/content_11378574.htm

A 2000 b.p. megalith from Tam Dao:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/tech/2009/05/848883/

Footprints from 2000 years ago are shedding light on some ancient
war scene:

http://www.china.org.cn/culture/2009-05/22/content_17819389.htm

A European skull found in a New Zealand riverbed may have come
from a Dutch shipwreck victim:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/2424675/Skull-riddle-may-be-solved

The mystery of the inscription on the Calatagan Pot:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/inquirerheadlines/regions/view/20090523-206657/The-\
mystery-of-the-ancient-inscription

Did 'fish poisoning' lead to the colonization of New Zealand etc.?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518111717.htm

Conference on the 'Bamboo Annals':

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/may20/china-052009.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Feature on a vaguely-identified site in Granite Falls (?):

http://www.granitefallsnews.com/articles/2009/05/17/news/news02.txt

Global warming apparently did not wipe out the Pueblo/Anasazi civilization:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-42443.html
http://media-newswire.com/release_1091672.html

Finds from various periods at a condo construction site in Orillia:

http://www.timminspress.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1577340

An interesting item on a Union soldier who was actually a woman:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104452266

... and the "Plantation that Moved Away":

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=104494296

The search is on for some Civil War cannons in SC:

http://www.goupstate.com/article/20090521/ARTICLES/905219966/1083/ARTICLES?Title\
=SC-state-archaeologist-looks-for-Civil-War-cannons-

They've wrapped up the dig at the Magruder House (Va):

http://www.gazette.net/stories/05212009/hyatnew171957_32523.shtml

Trying to confirm a skull's link to the 1857 massacre in Utah:

http://www.idahopress.com/?id=23435

On learning from revisiting old digs:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/05/17/digs.html

Hype for a return-to-digging at a Rhode Island slave trader's home:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5ioD9pwp0v2cZqx9gxjg\
U32tTFJ4Q

Feature on John Dewberry's house (Charleston, S.C.):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/greathomesanddestinations/22Away.html

Review of Eric W. Sanderson, *Mannahatta*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/books/review/Sullivan-t.html


Review of Gail Fenske,*The Skyscraper and the City*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/realestate/17scapes.html

More on Navajo smoke signals:

http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1690171/ancient_navajo_smoke_signals_gettin\
g_a_second_look/index.html?source=r_science
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090516/ap_on_sc/us_smoke_signals_3
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Interesting coverage of some 'gem-studded-teeth' evidence from
Mexico and environs:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/090518-jeweled-teeth-picture.htm\
l
http://www.fijitimes.com/story.aspx?id=122109
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-41270.html

Evidence of pre-industrial mercury pollution in the Andes:

http://www.physorg.com/news161885872.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-05/uoa-tfe051509.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/05/photogalleries/andes-ancient-met\
alworking-mercury/index.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518172644.htm

Not sure if we mentioned this Mayan Creation Myth feature before:

http://discovermagazine.com/2009/jun/05-unearthing-the-mayan-creation-myth

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
I don't think we mentioned this new dating method last week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8058185.stm
http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/rehydroxylation.xhtml

What ancient structures can teach modern engineers:

http://www.archaeology.org/0905/etc/conversation.html

What we can learn from ancient medical stuff:

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/lifestyles/health_med_fit/article/I-DRUG0427_20\
090514-185634/267755/

... not sure if this is related to the above or not (on medicinal
properties of Jordan's soil):

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090518222202.htm

They've found Louis XVI's pre-execution testament:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/5356698/Louis-XVIs-final\
-testament-discovered.html

More on the possible origins of the sardonic grin:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5344257/Myst\
ery-of-the-sardonic-grin-solved.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/05/20/sardonic-smile-toxin.html

More on those Thomas Becket paintings from Spain:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8029320.stm

Shakespeare's Sonnets are 400:

http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/20/the-sonnets-at-400/

Review of John Caroll, *The Wreck of Western Culture*:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/016/548zvlpc.asp

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Israel (with the kids!):

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17kids.html

Patmos:

http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2009/05/17/style/t/index.html

Phrygia:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/destinations/turkey/article6343096.ece

Turkey:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1187071/Six-things-Turkey.html

Ten Pilgrimage sites:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124242434525025093.html?mod=googlenews_wsj

Roman France:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/17/travel/17romfrance.html?

Touristy slideshow of Rome:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/getaways/05/13/travel.snaps.rome/index.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Frescoes (and other items) found in that bust on Schoinoussa a
couple of years ago have been returned to Italy:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieF6zwJhG7nYx0bFa6CN2UH2soNQD9\
89HI0O1
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-19_119370057.html

... not sure if this one's related:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a1km7Oa1Z2SU&refer=muse

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Money Talks:

http://americanhistory.si.edu/news/pressrelease.cfm?key=29&newskey=999

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Dilettanti:

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

Doors of Heaven:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/arts/23iht-melik23.html

Homer in Papyri:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7626685&maindocimg=6239301&s\
ervice=144

Skin and Bones:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/arts/design/23tatt.html

Developments in the Louvre/Guggenheim project in Abu Dhabi:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/19/world/AP-ML-Emirates-Museum-Labor.htm\
l

The Met's new American wing is reviewed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/arts/design/22amer.html

The Brera Gallery (Milan) is celebrating its 200th anniversary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/23/arts/23iht-conway.html

Feature on the director of the Vatican Museums:

http://www.thebostonpilot.com/article.asp?ID=10416

More hype for the opening of the Acropolis Museum

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/21/arts/design/21arts-NEWACROPOLIS_BRF.html
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7620148&maindocimg=6484989&s\
ervice=102
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/elgin-marbles-question-renewed-as-ath\
ens-museum-opens-1689481.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100006_21/05/2009_107367

... and admission is going to be cheap:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jV-NVZV8UFR6OU5x4iVmD9lNZVogD9\
8A290O0

... and of course, the Elgin business is being brought up again:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/elgin-marbles-question-renewed-as-ath\
ens-museum-opens-1689481.html

... and the Elgin heirs aren't welcome (!):

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31487/greeks-to-elgin-heirs-dont-come-to-museu\
m-party/

The Rose is (temporarily?) closed at Brandeis:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/05/18/rose_closes__\
_temporarily___but_art_lovers_express_anguish
>


A number of items were returned to Greece from various sources:

http://www.physorg.com/news161955950.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090519/tsc-fifth-century-bc-objects-returned-to-c2\
ff8aa.html
http://www.dose.ca/news/story.html?id=1609118
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/05/19/greece-antiquities.html
http://www.canada.com/Ancient+artifacts+return+home+Greece/1609118/story.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090519/tsc-fifth-century-bc-objects-returned-to-c2\
ff8aa.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Agora:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2009/may/17/agora-rachel-weisz-cannes-amenabar-mi\
nghella
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/movies/45254397.html
http://www.screendaily.com/reviews/cannes-reviews/agora/5001280.article
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/the_big_picture/2009/05/from-cannes-agora-alejan\
dro-amenabars-provocative-new-historical-thriller.html

Night at the Museum II:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/05/22/movies/22nigh.html

Ben Hur:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1186730/Like-strapped-pneumatic-drill-Ro\
bert-Hardman-goes-spin-chariot-Ben-Hur-hits-Britain.html

Athalia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/arts/music/19hand.html

An Oresteia:

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2009/05/anne-carson-or-another-sudan-se\
minar.html
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ON THE WEB
================================================================
A clickable map of Claudius' harbour at Ostia:

http://www.ostia-antica.org/portus/plan-claudius.htm
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
David Herbert Donald:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/19/books/19donald.html

John Michell:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/john-michell-expert-on-ancient-know\
ledge-and-pioneer-of-the-new-age-1688481.html

Linda Gaskin:

http://www.jacksonville.com/news/metro/2009-05-17/story/linda_gaskin_1945-2009_0
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PODCASTS
================================================================
Naked Archaeology Podcast:

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

The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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I think we've had this virtual reconstruction of a Neanderthal
woman's pelvis story before:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090528133423.htm

More on ancient teeth and right-handedness:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17184-ancient-teeth-hint-that-righthandedn\
ess-is-nothing-new.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-43794.html

More on those tasty Neanderthals:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/18/controversial-study-suggest\
s-early-humans-feasted-on-neanderthals

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AFRICA
================================================================
Acheulian artifacts from Morocco:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/26/content_11434511.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A village dating back to 9800 B.C./B.C.E. has been found in
western Iran:

http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/78060/-middle-east-oldest-village-found-in-ira\
n.html

The German press seems to be the only source (so far) of info on
a cuneiform tablet found at Tell el-Dab'a:

http://public.univie.ac.at/index.php?id=6576&no_cache=1&tx_ttnews[tt_news]=9759
http://idw-online.de/pages/de/news316817

Feature on Geza Vermes:

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/4400700.Professor___s_quest_for_the____rea\
l____Jesus/

I think we've heard of plans to restore the tomb of Cyrus before:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3365050216
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/tomb-of-cyrus-the-great-to-be-restore\
d_100198264.html
http://www.italymag.co.uk/italy/arts-and-culture/italians-help-iranians-restore-\
tomb-cyrus-great

The five most recent volumes of the Oriental Institute's Annual Reports
are now available online:

http://oihistory.blogspot.com/2009/05/annual-reports.html

More on that Shaul seal:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1557\
&module_id=#as

... and the Menachem handle:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1560\
&module_id=#as

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Interesting Liburnian 'sewn ship' from Croatia:

http://www.javno.com/en-croatia/ship-over-2000-years-old-found-in-novalja_260464
>
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-45457.html

Remains from a Temple of Isis at Florence:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-05-28_128361264.html

An architectural firm has estimated (kind of low, in my opinion)
how much it would cost to build Hadrian's Wall today:

http://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/barrow/firm_s_estimate_to_build_hadrian_s_wall_1_5\
59887?referrerPath=news

Related (it seems) to the previous piece is an item circulating
and suggesting some sort of financial scandal in relation to
supplying the troops at Vindolanda (can't see it, personally):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/8073848.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-47424.html
http://www.newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/103280
http://www.blyth-wansbecktoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=1115&articleid=\
5313319

Why study Latin:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/may/24/latin-in-scho\
ols

LIMC is complete and will be available online:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6376.html

Classics is on the chopping block at UHawaii:

http://www.starbulletin.com/news/hawaiinews/20090525_uh_examines_33_programs_for\
_consolidation_or_cuts.html

Seneca didn't have his sea legs:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/weather/2009/may/30/weatherwatch

Feature on the Phaistos Disk:

http://www.examiner.com/x-3315-Word-Geek-Examiner~y2009m5d25-The-Phaistos-disk-h\
oax-ancient-calculator-or-Piltdown-cookie
>

... and one on Homer:

http://www.marconews.com/news/2009/may/26/homers-works-stand-tests-time/

New Classics blog -- Pop Classics:

www.popclassicsjg.blogspot.com

An update of sorts on Acropolis restoration efforts:

<
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1480270.php/2350_tons\
_of_marble_restored_replaced_for_Acropolis_restoration_
>

More on plans to 'digitally' unroll Herculaneum scrolls:

http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/295131.php
http://www.kypost.com/content/news/commonwealth/story/Professor-Hopes-To-Deciphe\
r-Ancient-Scrolls/fkYxTdI49UmyXzCh5ONPBA.cspx
http://www.kentucky.com/471/story/813136.html
http://news.softpedia.com/news/How-to-Digitally-039-Unroll-039-1-900-Year-Old-Sc\
rolls-112411.shtml

More on big bucks being spent at Peperikon:

http://www.bgnewsnet.com/story.php?lang=en&sid=24163

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Searching for the ship which was bringing financial aid to Bonnie
Prince Charlie:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6366304.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/8067584.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5387583/Shipwreck-found-by-divers-was-ves\
sel-sent-to-help-Bonnie-Prince-Charlie.html

A medieval limekiln from Ripon Wetherby:

http://www.wetherbynews.co.uk/ripon-news/Medieval-limekiln-discovered-in-Ripon.5\
311990.jp
>

... and a 300-year-old broom found in a monk latrine in Paderborn:

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20090527-19547.html

What to do with a pile of medieval pottery fragments:

http://www.thepress.co.uk/news/4398059.6_000_medieval_fragments_turned_into_mosa\
ic_at_St_Mary___s_Church__Castlegate/

Remains of a road found by a metal detectorist in Swansea a few
months ago have been dated to 2000 b.p.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_west/8064054.stm>

A study suggests that medieval types took to the sea because fresh water
fish were in short supply:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8058351.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090524170641.htm

Interesting finds in a dig at a military hospital at Haslar:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Excavation-at-Haslar-reveals-horror.5315034\
.jp

Who's buried at Sutton Hoo?:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/features/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&cate\
gory=Features&tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED28%20May%202009%201\
4%3A12%3A12%3A890

Feature on Stonehenge:

http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/features/print/2748/sacred-stones

More coverage of the search for a Jacobite sympathizer's mansion:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8070077.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Massive attention given to the discovery of evidence of leprosy
in India 4000 years b.p.:

http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0005669
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/527/1
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/science/27leprosy.html
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-hsleprosy27-nws,0,151906.story?track=rss
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090526202805.htm
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2522694,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090527/ap_on_sc/us_sci_earliest_leper_2
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009265196_apussciearli\
estleper.html?syndication=rss
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-05-27-leprosy_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.news-medical.net/news/2009/05/26/Ancient-skeletal-evidence-for-lepros\
y-in-India.aspx

2200 b.p. pottery from Budhwar Peth:

http://www.mid-day.com/news/2009/may/250509-Pune-News-2200-year-old-pottery-unea\
rthed-Budhwar-Peth-Satavahaan-period-Archeologist.htm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Ancient-pottery-found-at-construction-\
site/articleshow/4573430.cms

Some Song and Ming Dynasties tombs were found in China's Jangsu Province:

http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=402443&type=National
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-46668.html

A temple building in Myanmar has collapsed while undergoing
restoration:

http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/684413
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-05-31-myanmar-temple_N.htm?csp=34

Has the tomb of Queen Himiko been found?:

http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200905300072.html
http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/scientific-dating-suggests-anci\
ent-tomb-as-queen-himikos

A pre-Islamic stupa from the Maldives:

http://www.minivannews.com/news_detail.php?id=6590

On the origins of a smallpox epidemic in Australia in 1789:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/05/29/2584819.htm?site=science&topic\
=latest

Not sure that 'preservation' is behind activities at Kashgar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/world/asia/28kashgar.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of a Viking presence in Nunavut?:

http://www.canada.com/Technology/Vikings+Nunavut/1632232/story.html
http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Vikings+visited+Canadian+Arctic+researc\
h+suggests/1635865/story.html

Not sure if we've mentioned this Hohokam irrigation system find yet:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-canals23-2009may23,0,77966\
39.story

Some bones found in an Albany (Ind.) barbershop belonged to "prehistoric
American Indians":

http://www.indystar.com/article/20090525/LOCAL/905250352/Bones+were+prehistoric+\
American+Indians+

Native American remains near Devils Lake (ND):

http://www.grandforksherald.com/event/article/id/120608/

Feature on Gypsum Cave (Nevada):

http://www.thespectrum.com/article/20090526/DVTONLINE01/90525008/1053/DVTONLINE

... and one on the dig at Plum Grove:

http://gazetteonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090526/NEWS/705269966

Latest plans for the Miami Circle:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/mcclatchy/20090526/sc_mcclatchy/3240164_1
http://miamiherald.com/news/miami-dade/story/1068985.html

Remember that turtle-shaped rock from a few weeks ago? Now they're
saying it has tool marks:

http://news.cincinnati.com/article/20090529/NEWS01/906010306/1055/NEWS/Expert++T\
urtle+rock+has+tool+marks

They've refurbished a Gothic revival stained glass window in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/arts/design/25wind.html

Interesting feature on the Chicago Stock Exchange building and
its artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/arts/design/29anti.html

... and one on William Astor's buildings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/realestate/31scapes.html

Hype for 'Time Team America':

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/television/31jens.html

================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A study of assorted Mayan cave sites in Belize:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-05-24-maya-cave_N.ht\
m

A prehispanic burial from Tula Archaeological Zone:

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

Sites from various periods along a highway in Peru:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=JktnMOurirc=

A Mayan mask from Balancan:

http://www.tabascohoy.com.mx/nota.php?id_nota=174436

... but the big find appears to be a Maya river port:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31108
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-45566.html

More on mercury pollution in the Andes:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/05/19/andean-people-discovered-me\
rcury-mining%E2%80%94and-mercury-pollution%E2%80%94in-1400-bc

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
They've recreated the sound of the lituus (n.b. ... as a commenter
on my blog points out, it isn't the Roman one):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8075223.stm

Happy birthday Big Ben:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/31/big.ben.anniversary/index.html

Trying to figure out how a 13th century English document ended up
in a filing cabinet at Brock University:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/bottom-of-filing-cabinet-yields-top\
-drawer-discovery/article1161427/

... while a librarian in France has found a piece of a Gutenberg Bible:

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,25555093-5012749,00.html

I guess they didn't have a mummy to scan this week, so they found a
couple of mammoth bones to take up some medical equipment time:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/8072128.stm
http://www.shropshirestar.com/2009/05/28/mammoth-bones-x-rayed/

Interesting feature on scripts we can't read yet (including the Indus
Valley one!):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227106.000-decoding-antiquity-eight-scri\
pts-that-still-cant-be-read.html

They've relocated the "axe that clove creationism":

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/may/25/axe-discovery-natural-history-muse\
um

Questioning the attribution of that crucifix to Michelangelo:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8062309.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/arts/design/26arts-MICHELANGELO_BRF.html

Simon Critchley ponders happiness (happily?):

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/25/happy-like-god/

The role of fungus in human history (sort of):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/science/26angi.html

In case you're following the Ruth Padel thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/books/26poet.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/25/books/AP-EU-Britain-Poetry-Professor.\
html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/26/oxford-professor-of-poetry-r\
uth-padel
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8067432.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/may/25/ruth-padel-resigns-oxford-poetry-pro\
fessor
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5383899/Ruth-Padel-first-female-Oxford-\
Professor-of-Poetry-resigns-over-smear-claims.html

... and speculation about her successor:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/poetry/a\
rticle6366450.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/5399774/Who-now-for-Oxford-Professor-of\
-Poetry.html
>

An interview with anthropologist Pauline Wiessner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/science/26conv.html

How people in the past dealt with climate change:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090527103528.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227096.600-rising-sea-levels-survival-ti\
ps-from-5000-bc.html

Review of a couple of tomes about historical epidemics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/health/26books.html

Review of John Reader, *Potato*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/books/review/Dicum-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Caesarea:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1243346490333&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Libya:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/1c387c52-4bed-11de-b827-00144feabdc0.html

Cappadocia:

http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-offbeattraveler12-pg,0,5064851.photogallery

India and Nepal:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/24/travel/24journeys.html

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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

We have four new ones:

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Ongoing/about to commence:

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
On the role of Switzerland in the antiquities smuggling world:

http://www.prnewswire.com/cgi-bin/stories.pl?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/05-29-200\
9/0005034746&EDATE=

Phoenix Ancient Art has returned a number of items to Italy:

http://news.prnewswire.com/DisplayReleaseContent.aspx?ACCT=104&STORY=/www/story/\
05-29-2009/0005034793&EDATE=
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31573/gallery-returns-antiquities-worth-27-mil\
lion-to-italy/

... as has Eton College:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=17432

A fraudulent metal detectorist:

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/7157.aspx

Some Byzantine frescoes stolen 27 years ago were returned to Italy:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/Religion/1123431.html

Looting in Libya:

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090528/FOREIGN/705279855/1002

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Whole in the Wall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/arts/design/30stre.html

Vermeer's Milkmaid:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/arts/design/29voge.html

Luis Melendez:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/arts/design/26mele.html

Court Paintings of Jodhpur:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/may/29/praise-court-paintings-jodhp\
ur

Feature on fakes on eBay:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-ebayfakes29-2009may29,0,308\
6122.story
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-tc-nw-ebay-fakes-0529-0530.artmay30,0\
,6148830.story?track=rss

... and fake Vermeers:

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/bamboozling-ourselves-part-1/

Again, the impending opening of the Acropolis Museum is drawing
attention to the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles thing:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aH5cdusMB3OY&refer=muse
http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090531/ART/705309976/1007
http://www.globalatlanta.com/articlevid/17372/421/

Some hype for the new Loubre Abu Dhabi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/27/arts/design/27louv.html

The Gallo-Roman Museum in Tongeren has reopened:

http://www.expatica.com/be/news/belgian-news/Gallo_Roman-Museum-reopens-in-Tonge\
ren_52992.html

The Boston MFA isn't returning some Nazi loot:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/30/arts/design/30arts-BOSTONMUSEUM_BRF.html

... while the National Archives recovered a lost Lincoln letter:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/29lincoln.html

A French 'garage sale':

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/realestate/31scapes.html

Antiques sales are slowing:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/05/30/us/AP-US-Meltdown-Antiquing.html


================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
The Rivalry:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/05/26/theater/reviews/26riva.html


Art and Ecstasy of the Chaconne:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/28/arts/music/28sinf.html

Feature on Vienna's opera house:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/arts/music/31gure.html

================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
Naked Archaeology Podcast:

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

The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Not sure where to put this one, but apparently laughter is not
unique to hominids:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jun/04/laughter-primates-apes-evolution-t\
ickling
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8083230.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090604/ap_on_sc/us_sci_ape_laughter

A previously-unknown "hominoid primate" from Spain:

http://www.physorg.com/news163155873.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uadb-rft060209.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090602083729.htm
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Lluc/hominido/vivio/Cataluna/elpepusoc/2\
0090601elpepusoc_21/Tes
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AFRICA
================================================================
They think they've solved the mystery of how the rock-hewn churches
at Lalibela (Ethiopia) were built:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1026\
29
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090531/wl_africa_afp/ethiopiareligionarchaeologyfr\
ance
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gF8Y2i1OKTWpItpAi47b8uxMC6FQ
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/090601/world/ethiopia_religion_archaeology_france\
_1

A fire at the Archaeology Department at ABU:

http://allafrica.com/stories/200906040347.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
On the DNA front, Egyptian researchers are trying to determine
Tut's lineage:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1026\
30
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hOuCMFEO55L5ru_hLvYAdxhynVAw

... and apparently they've opened up a second mummy DNA lab in
Egypt just for that purpose:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/01/content_11470972.htm

Italian archaeologists have found some 'commoners' neighbourhoods'
at Persepolis:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Altro/?id=3.0.3397053272

... and Italy is looking for new ways to restore the site:

http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=889493

Report on a panel discussion of threats to Persian antiquities:

http://www.payvand.com/news/09/jun/1043.html

Some English (blog) coverage of that cuneiform tablet found at Tell el-Dab'a:

http://blog.bibleplaces.com/2009/05/hyksos-palace-excavated-at-tell-el-dab.html

A few weeks ago, the press was giving big attention to someone
who returned a chunk they had pocketed from the Colosseum; this
week, it's a rather large piece of marble from an Old City site
taken 12 years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8079825.stm
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=10271\
1
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1243872316255&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/06/02/1005554/stolen-jerusalem-antiquity-return\
ed
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a685QO3TQGZE&refer=muse
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131666
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1089804

A piece on the Temple Mount thing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8076772.stm

U.S./Iraq cooperation in regards to antiquities:

http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2009-06-03\kurd.htm

Photo of a child burial from some unidentified ongoing dig in Tyre:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=294916&version\
=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

An interviewish thing with Norman Golb about that DSS business:

http://www.chicagomaroon.com/2009/6/1/dead-sea-scrolls-scandal

... and Lawrence Schiffman was giving a talk about the DSS:

http://www.chabad.org/news/article_cdo/aid/910026/jewish/Professor-Analyzes-Anci\
ent-Scrolls.htm

Review of Nina Burleigh, *Unholy Business*:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1190113/Traders-lost-ark-UNHOLY-BU\
SINESS-BY-NINA-BURLEIGH.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A sort of "Sympathy for Malaria" piece which makes claims about
Rome:

http://www.teatronaturale.com/article/658.html

Plato on the world soul:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/06/hbc-90005127

How's your Classical education?:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/schoolgate/2009/06/do-you-need-a-better-classical\
-education-take-our-quiz.html

Moving a replica Roman tombstone:

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Replica-Roman-tombstone-on-the.5337128.jp

The Vindolanda Tablets are returning to Vindolanda:

http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/latest/Roman-tablets-to-come-to.5339586.jp

Photo from a Pompeii gladiator helmet exhibition:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/04/2588811.htm?section=entertainment>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190727/Pictured-The-2-000-year-old-glad\
iators-helmet-discovered-Pompeiis-ruins.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/06/04/GA2009060402446.\
html

Comparing Tiberius to Mussolini and Berlusconi (sort of):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article64\
18491.ece

How the Socratic Dialogue fits into Western Civilization and all that:

http://globalpolitician.com/25669-western-civilization

Pondering Eris:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/3/738360/-How-a-Woman-Becomes-a-Goddess\
:Eris

Reviewish thing on the influence of Arthur Evans' excavations:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e6422447.ece

Review of a couple of Roman-themed books by Goldsworthy and
Matyszak:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5443192/The-Fall-of-the-Wes\
t-by-Adrian-Goldsworthy-and-Legionary-by-Philip-Matyszak-review.html

Time for the semi-annual pondering of the rebuilding of the lighthouse
at Alexandria:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/950/heritage.htm

Apparently someone has solved Zeno's Paradoxes:

http://www.24-7pressrelease.com/press-release/zenos-paradoxes-undeniably-solved-\
for-the-first-time-ever-102367.php

What Stephen Dyson is up to:

http://www.buffalo.edu/news/10153

More on the Sardonic Smile:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090602-smiling-death-potion.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/03/plant-that-produced-ritual-\
death-smiles-mayve-given-homer-a-neat-phrase/
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-49785.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A pair of 6000 b.p. burials from Hampshire:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/4418901.Two_6_000_year_old_tombs_uncovered/

Evidence of an Anglo Saxon settlement in Wales?:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/06/06/the-saxons-were-coming-a\
-tiny-sword-stud-found-under-a-shop-rewrites-welsh-history-91466-23802827/

A medieval ring from County Armagh:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8079093.stm
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/farmers-son-unearths-medie\
val-ring-14323265.html

Remains of a parsonage from the Parham estate (Worthing):

http://www.worthingherald.co.uk/worthing/Archaeological-dig-uncovers-Parham39s-p\
ast.5323985.jp

Interesting 'witch bottle' find from Greenwich:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31107319/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1190722/Archeologists-unearth-17t\
h-century-stone-flask-buried-380-years-ago-ward-witches.html?ITO=1490
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6426318.ece
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/04/witch-bottle.html
http://wildhunt.org/blog/tag/witch-bottle

A 16th century crucifix and whistle from Nottingham:

http://www.thisisnottingham.co.uk/court/16th-century-crucifix-Notts/article-1047\
606-detail/article.html

A judge has recommended that the salvage from the Black Swan be
returned to Spain:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=agR15k4PotMM
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090604/sc_nm/us_spain_treasure_odyssey_4
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8083298.stm
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/06/04/ap6505042.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/BT-CO-20090604-709974.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/5444134/US-treasure-hunte\
rs-ordered-to-pay-Spain-over-found-gold.html

Efforts are underway to restore the prehistoric necropolis at Son Real
(Mallorca):

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/news/8402.html

Assorted Italian officials are helping Bulgaria on the cultural
tourism thing:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/06/05/730000_helping-hand

The Stirling Head reproductions were revealed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8079024.stm

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Possibly the oldest pottery ever found from China's Hunan province:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8077168.stm
http://www.newsday.com/news/science/wire/sns-ap-us-sci-ancient-pottery,0,3380773\
.story
http://www.physorg.com/news163141367.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/295291.php
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2009-06/02/content_7964288.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090602/ap_on_sc/us_sci_ancient_pottery
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090601/full/news.2009.534.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=chinese-cav\
e-coughs-up-oldest-known-2009-06-01

Assorted prehistoric sites from Kollengode (India):

http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/07/stories/2009060755700400.htm

... and assorted 2000 b.p. manuscripts from Chhattisgarh:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/004200906041451.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-49479.html

The oldest 'Taegeuk' pattern has been found in Naju (Korea):

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2009/06/135_46228.html>

On preserving the temple of Banteay Chhmar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/03/arts/03iht-temple.html

Assorted 5th century finds from West Bengal:

http://www.hindu.com/2009/06/06/stories/2009060651591800.htm

Cannon balls and other items from a site near Guwahati:

http://www.indopia.in/India-usa-uk-news/latest-news/588873/National/1/20/1

More on the possible find of Himiko's tomb:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/5419986/Tomb-of-legendary-J\
apanese-Queen-Himiko-found.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-48083.html

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of human activities near Vero Beach (Fla) ca 13 000 years
b.p.?:

http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/jun/05/bone-appears-to-date-human-presence-in-tr\
easure/
http://www.verobeach32963.com/news/News060409/060409_BoneCarvingFind.htm
cf:
http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2009/may/30/archaeological-dig-start-next-month-site-\
where-ver/

... and sustainable fishing practices a short while (sort of) later?:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/01/sustainable-fishing.html

They're hoping to find out what's in Nikwasi Mound:

http://www.maconnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4815&Itemid=8\
7>

A Native burial find from Monterey's Cannery Row:

http://www.montereyherald.com/news/ci_12484309
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-48027.html

They found those cannons they were looking for in the Pee Dee River:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090605175102.htm
http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/jun/06/archaeologists_find_confederate_c\
annons85087/

A lost Lincoln letter was returned to the National Archives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/29/us/29lincoln.html

Feature on the Meadowcroft Rockshelter:

http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/story/1067131.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Interesting find of some three dozen folks sacrificed near the tomb
of Sipan:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/06/2591359.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090604/sc_nm/us_peru_archeology_2
http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/602611.html
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5536xu-us-peru-archeology/
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1700923/archeologists_uncover_incan_human_s\
acrifices/
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE5536XU20090604

Not sure if we've ever mentioned the discovery of the Quedagh Merchant
(which is now going to be part of a unique museum):

http://www.reporter.am/go/article/2009-06-05-long-lost-armenian-ship-the-stuff-o\
f-legend-to-become-a--living-museum--in-the-caribbean

A study of plants which the Maya held to be sacred:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8083000/8083812.stm

Latest theory is that Mayan civilization collapsed due to 'resource depletion':

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227104.400-temple-timbers-trace-collapse\
-of-mayan-culture.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-49507.html

Caral may be getting World Heritage status:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-49511.html
http://www.livinginperu.com/news/9227

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Flourishing of art etc. was apparently a function of population
density, not brain size:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3Wc2FLpdcWY&refer=muse
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604144324.htm

A new head for the NEH:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/04/arts/04neh.html

Learning from sandcastles:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090602192559.htm

Revisionism in the evolution of domestic cats:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-taming-of-the-cat

How fossil faces are reconstructed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/science/02prof.html

Rethinking mtDNA for tracking migrations:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604124023.htm

... semi-related:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090605091157.htm

Feature on Statuary Hall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/opinion/06sat4.html

A new look at Edgar Allan Poe:

http://wvgazette.com/News/200905310323

Some followup coverage of that 800 year-old document find at
Brock University:

http://www.stcatharinesstandard.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1593234

Space archaeology?:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-walsh1-2009jun01,0,5840745.story

More on rehydroxylation dating:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/05/090519214945.htm

More on the 'Michelangelo crucifix':

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/89191.html

More on that lituus reconstruction:

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/05/31/instrument-lituus-reproduced.html?\
ref=rss


Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Non-Giza pyramids:

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090606/TRAVEL/706059872/1196

Varusschlacht:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/271301,site-of-key-ancient-battle-in-wes\
tern-germany-fascinates-tourists.html

Colonial Williamsburg:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/06/07/travel/07hours.html

Sicily:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/taking-a-bite-or-two-out-of-sicily/ar\
ticle1171027/

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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

We have four new ones:

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Ongoing/about to commence:

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Egypt Exploration Society Newsletter (4):

http://www.ees.ac.uk/home/EESeNewsletter4.pdf

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Here's a different sort of crime for this page -- a fraudulent
payroll scam at the Brooklyn Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/arts/design/06arts-FORMERBROOKL_BRF.html

Some idiots graffittied the Ara Pacis:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8077197.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/arts/design/02arts-VANDALSATTAC_BRF.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601092&sid=aWJ_p7kAVG18

A Pompeii fresco which was stolen a dozen years ago turned up
at Christie's:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31609/pompeii-fresco-recovered-at-new-york-auc\
tion-house/
http://www.imperialvalleynews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5765\
&Itemid=2

Some folks were caught looking for fabled gold at the 'Lemon Well' site:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131631

On the scale of looting in the Balkans:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/090605/cg27467.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Some interesting coin/token from a Sherston garden:

http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/4416855.Gardener_earns_pretty_penny/

Nice pun in the headline to this Truro coin find:

http://www.capecodonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090602/NEWS/906020320

The FBI has returned a pile of medallions to Anguilla which were plundered
from an 18th-century shipwreck:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/31627/fbi-returns-medallions-plundered-from-18\
th-century-shipwreck/

Digital Library Numis:

http://members.ziggo.nl/tverspag/NUMIS/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Portraits, Pastels, Prints (Whistler):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/design/05whis.html

Royal Paintings of Jodhpur:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/jun/06/indian-painting-briti\
sh-museum

African and Oceanic Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/design/05gene.html


Italian Knots:

http://washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/07/design-a-history-of-neckwear-at-the-\
embassy-of-ita/

Potential financial problems at the Louvre?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/06/arts/06iht-melik6.html

The Museum of the Good Samaritan has opened:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244035012454&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/190098
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE55201720090603

A final bit of preliminary hype for the opening of the Acropolis
Museum:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7655119&maindocimg=7654579&s\
ervice=144>
http://www.grreporter.info/statiaen.php?mysid=2142&t=31&SESID=co9oqc7ofga1cgkqbs\
4g07gt82

... and not much coverage of the actual opening, oddly enough:

http://archrecord.construction.com/news/daily/archives/090603acropolis.asp>

... and the predictable articles on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:

http://www.newsweek.com/id/200852

Feature on the Getty:

http://www.examiner.com/x-10890-LA-Day-Trips-Examiner~y2009m6d1-The-Getty-Villa-\
Malibu

Feature on some antiques from Castle Howard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/05/arts/design/05anti.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Ronald Takaki:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/31/education/31takaki.html
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
Naked Archaeology Podcast:

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

The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Analysis of some ochre from Blombos Cave suggests modern human
behaviour emerged about 100 000 years b.p.:

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

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

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

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=97321§ionid=351020105

A roundup of recent finds from Egypt:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Latest in the Raphael Golb case:

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

Dan Bahat was in Toronto talking about the DSS:

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

Tourism to Petra seems to have taken a hit:

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

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
In North America, it seems a Walmart is always being built on
an archaeological site ... in the UK, it's increasingly a
Tesco shop in that category, this time on a Roman road:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Some more chunks fell out of the Aurelian Wall:

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

Paul Cartledge believes Socrates got a fair/justified trial:

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

Cicero's contribution to comedy:

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

The Olympic Games as a sort of ancient Woodstock:

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

Art Robson has joined the rank of Emeriti:

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

Anthony Snodgrass is getting an honourary degree:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

More on the high tech efforts to read Herculaneum papyri:

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

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

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

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

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

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

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

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

A possible Neolithic chambered tomb near Kirkwall:

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

A Bronze Age burial mound from Wales:

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

A possible Saxon nunnery in Gloucestershire:

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

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

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

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

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

Medieval burials from Mickleham:

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

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

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

... and a mammoth from Viminacium archaeological park:

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

More on that 'witch bottle':

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

More on that Anglo-Saxon sword stud from Wales:

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

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

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

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Early Iron Age remains from Kerala:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Plenty o' coverage of evidence for caribou hunting camps/structures
100 feet below Lake Huron (!):

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

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

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

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

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

They're still poking around the Pee Dee River:

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

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

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

A mysterious incribed slate tablet from Jamestown:

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

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

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

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

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

Alaska's Rat Island is now rat-free:

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

A replica Onrust:

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

Some interesting Civil War trivia:

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

Feature on Thomas Paine:

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

... and one on the Topper site:

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

More on Vikings in the Canadian Arctic:

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

More/followup on those carvings from Vero Beach:

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

More/followup on plans to check out Nikwasi Mound:

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

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

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

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

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

... and a feature on Aztec civilization:

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

Some Teotihuacan-style murals from Queretaro:

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

Mapping Inca trails:

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

An Andean-style temple wall from Ventarron:

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

Machu Picchu as pilgrimage site?:

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

The origin of the Kaan Dynasty might be Ichkabal:

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

A virtual Teotihuacan recreation:

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

A nice portfolio of Zapotec art:

http://tinyurl.com/lu36ac

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

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

More on those human sacrifices from Peru:

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

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
What the history of basketry tells us:

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

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

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

Are traditional history courses disappearing?:

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

On human dissection in the 16th century:

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

History's most impressive libraries:

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

Another (sort of) ancient beer recreation:

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

cf:

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

More on Odyssey Marine having to return stuff to Spain:

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

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

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

... more:

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

Trying to make Vesuvius a (Natural) Wonder:

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

English apparently has its one millionth word:

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

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

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

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

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

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Gaugin/Polynesia:

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

Provence:

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

Some sites from Turkey's Aegean coast:

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

Navajo Nation:

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

We have four new ones:

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Ongoing/about to commence:

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A Picasso sketchbook was stolen in Paris:

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

A stolen Renoir has turned up 25 years later:

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

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

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

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


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

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

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

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

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

A feature on some stolen pre-Columbian items:

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

Some looted items are returning to Afghanistan:

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

... and to Cambodia:

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

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

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

Looting Matters:

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

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

A 1780 Indian Peace Medal ceremony:

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

More on that coin from Truro:

http://www.boston.com/news/local/breaking_news/2009/06/_the_valuable_o.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Royal Holloway Collection:

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

Napoleon III and Paris:

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

Matisse:

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

In the Frick's Basement:

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

... and at the Breakers:

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

Derfner Judaica Museum:

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

Light of Sufis:

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

Darwin Anniversary:

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

Europe-Egypt:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

... and a preview of the building:

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

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

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

... but the queen won't:

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

The Louvre is undergoing changes:

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

Italy has helped put the Baghdad Museum online:

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

The Pergamon Museum has acquired a pile of Islamic art:

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

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

Assorted London productions:

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

Oedipus:

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

Boston Early Music Festival:

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

Silk Road Project:

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

Richard III: An Arab Tragedy:

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

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

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

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

The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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EARLY HUMANS
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Pondering whether the bow and arrow predates modern humans:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227134.800-do-bow-and-arrow-predate-mode\
rn-humans.html

A fragment of a Neanderthal skull from the North Sea:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8099377.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6505519.ece
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,526726,00.html

The Longgupo jaw belonged to an ape, not an early human (for now):

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090617-early-human-ape-mystery.h\
tml
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AFRICA
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They've identified one of the bodies in a mass grave from the battle
of Isandlwanda:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1193666/Remains-British-soldie\
r-died-battle-Zulu-war-identified-130-years--tunic-button.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/southafrica/55612\
84/Body-of-British-soldier-in-Zulu-war-identified-by-a-button.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Some recent finds from Luxor:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601120&sid=aL4sGI2H9xPM
http://www.eturbonews.com/9891/necropolis-luxor-yields-18th-dynasty-tomb-mummies\
-and-figurines
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aL4sGI2H9xPM>

... and a feature on Zahi Hawass:

http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=resources/programming&id=6872270&rss=rs\
s-kgo-article-6872270

Israel National Radio had a two-part interview with James Tabor
on various things:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/938
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/956

This week's facial reconstruction is of Meresamun:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/meresamun/reconstruction.html

... while this week's CT scan has helped determine the gender of
a mummy:

http://www.usyd.edu.au/news/84.html?newsstoryid=3530
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/5659114/sydney-scan-solves-mummys-sex\
-riddle/

Bob Brier returns to the Great Pyramid:

http://www.archaeology.org/0907/etc/khufu_pyramid.html

Burnt City women outlived their menfolk:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail/98612.htm?sectionid=351020105

Donald Parry is going to edit the "Hebrew Old Testament":

http://nn.byu.edu/story.cfm/73108
http://mormontimes.com/studies_doctrine/research_discoveries/?id=9274

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371107328&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

More on Egypt's plans to prove the Nefertiti bust was stolen:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hdhUI4kP9k3k4OlCPPxsxKIKID_Q

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Feature on some famous non-professional-classicists with Classics
degrees:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/18/power-ambition-glory-leadership-steve-forbes_la\
nd.html

... and Time O'Reilly talks about his Classics roots:

http://radar.oreilly.com/2009/06/benefits-classical-education.html

Archaeologists have found an aqueduct in Jerusalem which supplied
the 'Sultan's Pool' (this one crosses several periods):

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371116219&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131901
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/Excavation+reveals+ancient+aque\
duct+in+Jerusalem16-Jun-2009.htm

A very impressive mosaic found near Lod in 1996 is to be 'reexposed':

http://www.artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31498&b=mosaic
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1574\
&module_id=#as

A possible Roman shipwreck find near Montenegro:

http://technology.iafrica.com/news/science/1738420.htm

A hitherto unknown (?) Roman site on the Black Sea:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1271

Another piece on the Parthenon being painted once upon a time:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/5560715/Parthenon-was-co\
vered-in-colourful-paint.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/06/16/new-imaging-technique-shows\
-parthenon-was-once-brightly-painted/

A pile of Roman finds from outside Naples:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3433235595
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-06-16_116392075.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-57562.html

Digging a Roman site in Lincolnshire:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Volunteers-digging-feast-Roman-history/\
article-1079634-detail/article.html

What Stephen Dyson is up to:

http://www.buffalo.edu/ubreporter/2009_06_17/dyson_antiquities_society

Is it all Greek to you?:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/Is-the-ancient-world-all.5382051.jp

More coverage of that mass grave of decapitated bodies at Ridgeway
Hill:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090612/od_nm/us_skeletons
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jun/11/skulls-dorset-road-burial-pit

Review of James Davidson, *The Greeks and Greek Love*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/17/AR2009061703407.\
html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Mammoths in Britain until 14 000 years b.p.?:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/w-nds061509.php>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8106090.stm

A 6000 years b.p. ceremonial site down the road from Stonehenge:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-56648.html

The likely source for Ireland's prehistoric gold:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0617/1224248982068.html

A Neolithic chamber tomb (maybe) from Kirkwall:

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

Evidence of humans in the Welsh hills some 10 000 years b.p.:

http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=16956
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/8102450.stm

Iron Age artificats from a nature reserve in Cambridgeshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8108634.stm

Bulgarian archaeologists have found the remains of a medieval
book in a church yard:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=104810

They're still finding stuff from the Cologne City Archives collapse:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/273570,ancient-animal-textbook-rediscove\
red-in-cologne-ruins.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A Buwaneka Bahu era stone tablet from Sri Lanka:

http://www.dailynews.lk/2009/06/18/news28.asp

Looking for Tsarist gold in Lake Baikal:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6539166.ece

A nice APOD of the Dunhuang Star Atlas:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090619.html

Trying to save a wall being destroyed by mites (!) in Shaanxi:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/15/content_11544682.htm

The last days of Kashgar:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6525325.ece

The Epigraphical Society of India wants to digitize a pile of ancient
documents:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Cities/Ancient-documents-must-be-digitized-fo\
r-further-study/articleshow/4663934.cms

Rumi's green-winged longing:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/06/hbc-90005234

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Nice feature on a student search for a Native American site (5000 y.b.p.)
in Vermont:

http://www.necn.com/Boston/New-England/2009/06/19/Vermont-college-students-dig/1\
245448734.html
http://www.charlottesvillenewsplex.tv/news/headlines/48557462.html

Digging deeper into some Clark County archaeology:

http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/news/springfield-news/curator-digs-through-cla\
ssic-work-of-clark-county-archaeology-163006.html

A major find from Angel Mounds:

http://www.courierpress.com/news/2009/jun/18/history-in-a-jar/

Vague item on mystery circles at Poverty Point:

http://www.wxvt.com/Global/story.asp?S=10567348

A Native American village is emerging near Dickson Mounds:

http://www.kwqc.com/Global/story.asp?S=10566615

The 'dangers' of buying historic houses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/garden/18houses.html

... while a Vermont village schoolhouse has closed after being
used for a couple of centuries:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090617/ap_on_re_us/us_the_final_bell

Who built San Miguel Chapel?:

http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=3904&Item\
id=72

A possible burial crypt find in Monroe:

http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090616/NEWS01/906150330/1002/rss01
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Quite a bit of coverage of a study suggesting the Maya cultivated
manioc in a big way:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uoca-css061609.php>
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090616133940.htm
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-maya21-2009jun21,0,7620705\
.story
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1706363/study_shows_maya_intensively_cultiv\
ated_manioc_1400_years_ago/index.html?source=r_science

cf:

http://www.colorado.edu/anthropology/projects/documents/2009ReportJoyadeCeren.pd\
f

Feature on the cult of Tlaltecuhtil:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31544

The Antisuyu expedition:

http://www.obiwi.fr/voyage-decouvertes/carnets-de-route/82437-incas-in-amazonia-\
the-agenda-of-thierry-jamin-is-full-for-antisuyu-on-2009

A Killke culture burial near Machu Picchu:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=eyyzr413uKc=
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-58035.html

The Guatemalan government is trying to purchase the land containing
the ruins of Zaculeu:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31578

More on that possible Aztec ruler's tomb in Mexico City:

http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/651306

More on Machu Picchu as pilgrimage site:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090615-machu-picchu.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A predictable pile of coverage about a so-called 'Nude Mona Lisa'
attributed to Leonardo:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5543362/Naked-Mona-Lisa-g\
oes-on-show.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/12/nude-mona-lisa-like-paint_n_214964.html

A pragmatic Galileo?:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/06/19/galileo-pragmatist/

Interesting blog post about the Persian language:

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/6/18/744039/-About-the-Persian-language

A nice roundup of recent underwater finds around the world:

http://www.archaeology.org/0907/underwater/

A followup of sorts on that New York Times series on the van Meegeren
forgeries claim:

http://morris.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/more-bamboozling/

Can you trust your etymological dictionary?:

http://blog.oup.com/2009/06/etymological-dictionary/

The Forme of Cury is now available online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/8108213.stm
http://www.library.manchester.ac.uk/eresources/imagecollections/university/medie\
val/

A 2500 b.p. bird's nest from Greenland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8103000/8103872.stm

In case you want to see the goings-on at Stonehenge today:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=7890997
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8111444.stm (sunrise)

Review of Gillian Gill, *We Two*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/books/review/Marshall-t.html

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/books/review/Bentley-t.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Syria's 'Dead Cities':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=95939710

Pompeii:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/pompeii-the-way-it-used-to-be-wild-ch\
aotic-and-full-of-life/article1189645/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

New this week:

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Ongoing/about to commence:

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Italian police have recovered a nice Mithra relief:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieF6zwJhG7nYx0bFa6CN2UH2soNQD9\
8RS1102
>
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jun/16/eu-italy-looted-antiquities-0\
61609/?world
http://suomenkuvalehti.fi/kuvat/2009/06/16/italy-looted-antiquity
(photo)

... and I wonder who the Japanese collector was who was going to
buy it:

http://search.japantimes.co.jp/rss/nn20090620f3.html

Criticism for the way those arrests in Utah were handled:

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jun/14/us-archaeological-thefts-0614\
09/?nation

cf:

http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20090617/NEWS/906179963/1058/rss
http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jun/17/us-archaeological-thefts-0617\
09/?nation


... while a second defendant in the case killed himself:

http://www.sltrib.com/contents/ci_12643036

... and oped pieces on same:

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-childs15-2009jun15,0,454398\
6.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/us/21blanding.html

More graves found at that Lincoln library branch in Peoria:

http://www.pjstar.com/news_county/x973694239/93-suspected-graves-discovered-at-l\
ibrary

More coverage of the story:

http://www.sjrnews.com/pages/full_story?page_label=home&widget=full_story&conten\
t_instance_id=2740698&open=&
http://www.sjrnews.com/pages/full_story?page_label=home&widget=full_story&conten\
t_instance_id=2741491&open=&

A foiled smuggling attempt at Presovo:

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/7198/2/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Polish Numismatic Society:

http://www.ptn.pl/indexe.html

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Scripture for the Eyes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19mobia.html

Pages of Gold:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19medieval.html

Pen and Parchment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19drawing.html

Napoleon and Eugenie:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/nyregion/21artsli.html

James E. Buttersworth:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/nyregion/21artct.html


Michelangelo's First Painting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19michelangelo.html

A final bit of hype for the then-impending opening of the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/acropolis-now-a-museum-for-the-el\
gin-marbles-1710787.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8110010.stm
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31585
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7707039&maindocimg=7707558&s\
ervice=144
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/06/acropolis-museum-partheno\
n-elgin-marbles-greece-.html
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7714398&maindocimg=7714279&s\
ervice=144

... then the opening yesterday:

http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/newsletter/archive.php?msg=750
http://www.necn.com/Boston/World/2009/06/21/Acropolis-Museum-opens-doors/1245579\
030.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/arts/design/20acropolis.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1194347/Greece-opens-Acropolis\
-Museum-lavish-party--Elgin-Marbles-row-means-Britain-isnt-invited.html
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_12652463?source=rss
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jV-NVZV8UFR6OU5x4iVmD9lNZVogD9\
8UJ0NO4

... and a slideshow of the new museum (the NYT piece above has one
that's not too shabby too):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8110091.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/jun/15/acropolis-museum-athe\
ns-art

... and the naval gazing about the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles (first two are
definitely worth reading):

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle6539418.ece
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105532785
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/opinion/19iht-edhitchens.html
http://marketplace.publicradio.org/display/web/2009/06/19/pm_elgin_marbles/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/5587911/Greece-demands-r\
eturn-of-Elgin-marbles-before-Acropolis-museum-opening.html
http://www.newstatesman.com/europe/2009/06/parthenon-marbles-museum
http://www.thestar.com/news/insight/article/653213
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/opinion/19iht-edkostandaras.html?nl=todayshead\
lines&emc=a27
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp&fdate=\
19/06/2009
http://www.scpr.org/news/2009/06/17/writer-hitchens-parthenon-sculptures-must-go\
-back/
>
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090619/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_acropolis_museum_6
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8110010.stm

... and there is a very nice website:

http://www.grreporter.info/statiaen.php?mysid=2187&t=10&SESID=ekovk4c67h7gpopm4j\
tra7vsp7
http://www.theacropolismuseum.gr/

One of the APODs this week was a sunrise over the Parthenon (is it just
me or is there something not quite right about this one?):

http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap090621.html

A "mysterious" Byzantine statuette from Malta is going on display for
the first time:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090616/local/mysterious-byzantine-st\
atuette-to-go-on-display

Paintings for the Reign of Victoria:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19victoria.html

A secret 'Picasso settlement':

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/18/judge-rebukes-museums-for-secret-pi\
casso-settlement/

A nice prize for the Wedgwood Museum:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\
ticle6530916.ece

The Guggenheim joins the list of museums making cuts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/arts/design/17guggenheim.html

A major resignation at Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/arts/design/19vogel.html

Not sure if I've mentioned that Thomas Hoving's memoirs are going
up chapter-by-chapter at Artnet ... here's chapter 33:

http://www.artnet.com/magazineus/features/hoving/artful-tom-chapter-thirty-three\
6-16-09.asp

Big bucks for an envelope with an Abraham Lincoln stamp on it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/15/us/15stamp.html

Not quite as much for an 1840s Daguerreotype:

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/03/30/1840s-daguerreotype-is-sold-for-625\
00/

Hopes for a big payoff from a first edition of the Federalist:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090615/ap_on_re_us/us_soldier_book_auction
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Phedre:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/postcard-from-london-phedre/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/17/arts/17iht-lon17.html

Pericles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/nyregion/21theaterwe.html


Medieval music:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=103670510


Assorted Shakespeare venues in the New York area:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/19/theater/19shake.html

The german government is figuring out how to cash in on Wagner's
final resting place:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/20/arts/music/20arts-GERMANYTOREN_BRF.html

The impending 'Out of Egypt' series on Discovery Channel might
be of interest:

http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118004833.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&nid=2630
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OBITUARIES
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Philip Curtin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/16/us/16curtin.html
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Naked Archaeology Podcast:

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

The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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A huge amount of coverage for the discovery of a 35 000 years b.p.
flute in Germany:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090624213346.htm
http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurrent/full/nature08169.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/44941/title/Stone_Age_flutes_found_in\
_Germany
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archeology/5625802/Ancient-flutes-m\
ore-than-35000-years-old.html
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/nation-world/bal-te.briefs255jun25,0,567082.sto\
ry?track=rss
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090624/ap_on_re_eu/eu_germany_prehistoric_flute
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/science/25flute.html?_r=1&bl&ex=1245988800&en=\
948520d3f4de6dd5&ei=5087%0A
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1711086/scientists_unearth_oldest_known_mus\
ical_instrument/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.toledoblade.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090624/ART10/906249958
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090625/twl-eu-germany-prehistoric-flute-c8e2916.\
html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090624/sc_afp/sciencearcheologymusicgermany_200906\
24174002
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/science/25flute.html
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/624/1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8117915.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090624/sc_nm/us_prehistoric_1
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090624-bone-flute-oldest-instrum\
ent.html
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/10685/divulgacao-cientifica/musica-paleolit\
ica.htm

... you can hear it being played here:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105823127
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/music/article6\
569682.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

Interesting suggestion that some of the artists of cave paintings
were probably female:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/cave-handprints-a\
ctually-women-missions-pictures/index.html

cf:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/cave-art-handprin\
ts-missions-pictures/index.html


Evidence from the Atapuerca site suggests the first 'europeans' were
cannibals with a taste for children:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090625/world-news/the-first-european\
s-were-cannibals-say-spanish-archaeologists
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iI9OgX-_Mirtk1K5zuNW2CLn4OzQ
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/5624301/First-Europeans-were-cannibals\
-with-taste-for-children.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
An ancient granary from Jordan which predates the development of
agriculture (!):

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2009/06/19/0812764106.full.pdf+html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=ancient-granary-predate\
s-agricultur-09-06-25
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090622/ap_on_sc/us_sci_ancient_grain_storage_1
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/44896/title/Ancient_granaries_precede\
d_the__Agricultural_Revolution
http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/6/23/ancient-granaries-preceded-the-\
agricultural-revolution.html?s_cid=rss:ancient-granaries-preceded-the-agricultur\
al-revolution

Zahi Hawass' blog has some info on recent discoveries at Saqqara:

http://drhawass.com/blog/press-release-new-discoveries-saqqara
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001168.htm
>

... and with the Tut exhibition opening in San Francisco, there are
features on Zahi Hawass in the local papers:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/26/MN2318D5GI.DTL
http://www.sfexaminer.com/kingtut/A-life-dedicated-to-antiquity-48820107.html

... and in passing, we might note that Dr. Hawass is a Transformers
fan:

http://www.metronews.ca/ottawa/entertainment/article/249569--no-place-for-waste

There's also some background on Carter etc.:

http://www.sfexaminer.com/kingtut/48819807.html

A mysterious passageway in the tomb of Seti I:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/misterio/pasadizo/faraon/elpepucul/200906\
14elpepicul_5/Tes

Brief item on the tomb of Amen-Em-Epet, Supervisor of Hunters:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/952/eg12.htm

A general item on what CT scans have told us about mummies:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/06/25/mummy.scans/index.html?iref=mpstoryvi\
ew

... and the latest scans, including coverage of the 'change in gender' of
"Lady Hor":

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090626-us-mummies-video-ap.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31515226/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.standard.net/live/news/176919
http://www.journalstandard.com/news/x135724900/Its-a-man-baby-Scan-reveals-NY-mu\
mmy-is-male
http://www.nbcchicago.com/news/us_world/3_000-Year-Old_Mummy__It_s_a_Man__Baby__\
New_York.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Heads-and-Tales/Woman-mummy-turns-out-to-be-a\
-man/articleshow/4695776.cms
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1195045/Ancient-Egyptians-unwrapp\
ed-CT-scans-reveal-secrets-beneath-bandages-2-000-year-old-mummies.html?ITO=1490
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090624/UPDATES01/90624014/Scan+reveals+mumm\
y+is+male
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/2009/06/24/2009-06-24_brooklyn_museum_mummys_a_d\
addy.html

... and more coverage of the facial reconstruction of Meresamun:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-63232.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,529062,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31526816/ns/technology_and_science-science/

The scanning of Egyptian artifacts will be even more high tech at USC
College:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/553662/

An intact Canaanite tomb from Bethlehem:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/23/tomb-found-bethlehem.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2009-06-23-tomb-bethlehem_N.htm
http://www.eastvalleytribune.com/story/140864
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090623/ap_on_sc/ml_palestinians_ancient_grave
http://www.3news.co.nz/Intact-ancient-tomb-uncovered-in-Bethlehem/tabid/209/arti\
cleID/109842/cat/61/Default.aspx?ArticleID=109842
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Oh-little-tomb-of-Bethlehem.5394202.jp
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/middle_east/view.bg?articleid=118\
0752&srvc=rss
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2009-06-23-ancient-tomb_N.htm?c\
sp=34
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009371931_apmlpalestiniansanc\
ientgrave.html

Quite a bit of coverage for the discovery of a very large human-made
cave/quarry in the Jordan Valley:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1094546.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1094652
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uoh-ucd062209.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090624-giant-christian-cave.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-tc-nw-briefs-0624-06251jun25,\
0,7770051.story
>
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1708898/ancient_manmade_cave_found_in_israe\
l/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/553592/?sc=rssn
http://www.physorg.com/news164888922.html
http://www.themalaysianinsider.com/index.php/world/30177-ancient-holy-land-quarr\
y-uncovered-team-says
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/06/21/Ancient-man-made-cave-found-in-Israel\
/UPI-23621245630943/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090621/sc_nm/us_palestinians_israel_archaeology_2
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-60765.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622103831.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE55K1QE20090623?feedType=RSS&fe\
edName=scienceNews
http://www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=27096254001
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/21/AR2009062101028.\
html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090621/ts_nm/us_palestinians_israel_archaeology
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/21/AR2009062101028.\
html
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/06/21/news/news-us-palestinians-israel-archa\
eology.html
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=124\
5184889162


A setback, perhaps, for the Ilisu dam project:

http://current.com/items/89656073_germany-suspends-funding-for-controversial-ili\
su-dam-in-turkey.htm

The Naxcivan Archaeological Project site:

http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/research/oglanqala/website/Home%20page.html

OpEddish sort of thing on how things are 'looking up' in Iraq:

http://www.oxfordtoday.ox.ac.uk/2008-09/v21n3/05.shtml

Review of Rachel Elior, *Memory and Oblivion*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1095884.html

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

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

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A mithraeum from northen Iraq:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/89A303F8\
F3E64089862575E0000DC2AF?OpenDocument

An impending dig in Bulgaria:

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/06/scholar_james_davidson_boldly.ht\
ml

... and another Thracian tomb from Bulgaria:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-06-13&article=27799>

... and a Thracian settlement:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=104963
http://www.newspostonline.com/science/archaeologists-uncover-intact-thracian-set\
tlement-in-bulgaria-2009062761336

The latest from Caistor Roman town/Venta Icenorum:

http://www.physorg.com/news165059379.html
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?idCategory=31&idsub=156&id=19732&t=Un\
covering+the+secrets+of+Roman+Britain

They're digging again at Arbeia Roman Fort:

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Unearthing-more-of-Arbeia39s-secrets.5375893.\
jp

Feature on the Minoans:

http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=33491

Who's in the Alexander Sarcophagus?:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204621904574246094055079788.html?m\
od=googlenews_wsj

What John Hale has been up to:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090627/FEATURES06/906270319/1010/FEATUR\
ES/Ancient+history+comes+alive+in+U+of+L+prof+s+latest+book

More on the Parthenon's original colours:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17309-new-test-reveals-parthenons-hidden-c\
olour.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
http://spie.org/x36016.xml?highlight=x2410&ArticleID=x36016

Concern for Libya's Roman remains:

http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/06/23/libya-ruination-of-the-ruins\
/

Nice feature on Anton Bammer and the excavations at Ephesus:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=178763&bolum=101

Nice feature/preview of the Marsilian d'Albegna Project:

http://archaeology.about.com/b/2009/06/23/field-work-in-focus-marsiliana-dalbegn\
a-project.htm

Bath has maintained its World Heritage status:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/somerset/8119528.stm

Review of James Davidson, *The Greeks and Greek Love*:

http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2009/06/scholar_james_davidson_boldly.ht\
ml

I can't remember if we've mentioned this 'publishing dispute' before:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=407128&\
c=1

More on those finds from near Pozzuoli:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31527427/ns/technology_and_science-science/>
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-61956.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/24/titus-marble-naples.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
The oldest human settlement in the Aegean has been found on Limnos:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7735875&maindocimg=7735858&s\
ervice=144

A pile of coverage for a 10 500 years b.p. well in Cyprus which
included the skeleton of a woman:

http://www.physorg.com/news165070153.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8118318.stm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jMAxmJompMRkaF_P0AvNxli2rm6gD9\
913EK01
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/06/24/ancient-cyprus-well-disco_n_220183.html
http://www.nypost.com/seven/06242009/news/worldnews/archaeologists_discover_anci\
ent_well_and_175890.htm
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1711065/ancient_well_female_skeleton_uneart\
hed_in_cyprus/index.html?source=r_science
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/E/EU_CYPRUS_PREHISTORIC_WELL?SITE=INEVA&SEC\
TION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT

A possible Bronze Age roundhouse find has halted a sewage treatment
project in Cornwall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/8116121.stm

Bronze Age finds during road construction in Ulster:

http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Bronze-Age-burial-ground-uncovered.5405429.jp

Vague item about Neolithic and Bronze Age finds from Loughbrickland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8117545.stm
cf http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8119505.stm

A medieval village in Espoo (Finland):

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Archeologists+unearth+early+medieval+village+in\
+Espoo/1135247145462

The latest 15th-century find by a metal detectorist:

http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/06/25/Woman-finds-treasure-with-metal-detector/\
UPI-87501245952502/

Concerns for petroglyphs in Royston:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8119151.stm

More funding for the Mary Rose:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Boost-for-Mary-Rose-with.5397831.jp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8116903.stm

Interesting photo of those 'pre-Stonehenge' structures mentioned
last week:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/bigphotos/49021910.html

... and just in case you want to know what went on at Stonehenge
on the Solstice:

http://www.3news.co.nz/News/Pagans-partygoers-greet-solstice-at-Stonehenge/tabid\
/209/articleID/109465/Default.aspx?ArticleID=109465
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2515629.0.Pagans_and_tourists_g\
ather_at_Stonehenge_to_mark_solstice.php
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jun/22/stonehenge-in-summer/

They've made a replica of Henry VIII's divorce petition:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/23/henry-viii-divorce-letter-vatican

Fixing up a castle in the Netherlands:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/garden/25dutch.html

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Interesting models of camel-pulled vehicles dating back 5000 years
b.p. from Altyndepe (Turkmenistan):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/26/wheeled-vehicle-camel.html

A fifth-century Buddha from Kabul:

http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=299297&version\
=1&template_id=41&parent_id=23

An Iron Age burial ground from Tamil Nadu:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/008200906221831.htm

Feature on the Royal Tombs of the Joseon Kingdom:

http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2009/06/244_47391.html

Following the obsidian 'trail':

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/uow-op062209.php

A Russian satellite has helped to locate the ancient castle of the
Volga Khans (honestly not sure if this story should be Europe or Asia):

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-06-25&article=27913
http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=105018

More plans for Nanhai No. 1 (800 years b.p. shipwreck):

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200906/22/t20090622_19367439.shtml
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-06/22/content_8306878.htm

Latest 'ancient ship reconstruction' is a Filipino balangay:

http://www.torontosun.com/news/world/2009/06/28/9959511-sun.html
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/nation/06/27/09/replica-balangay-embarks-epic-voyage
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/166054/Replica-of-ancient-Pinoy-boat-set-to-sail-SE-\
Asia

Arguing about the fate of the Giant kangaroo (spun differently by
the two news organizations):

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/23/2606307.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8112885.stm

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
An Olcott site from Snohomish County (Wash.):

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090621/NEWS01/706219813&news01ad%3D1

Interesting excavation going on near Cochetopa Pass (Colo.):

http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090621/NEWS/906209988/-1/RSS08

A four-year-old has found an Athabascan arrow point in Alaska:

http://www.juneauempire.com/stories/062409/sta_454028615.shtml
http://ap.alaskajournal.com/stories/state/ak/20090621/453183113.shtml

The oldest structures in Maryland?:

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/nbh/2009/06/26-26/South-county-site-might-\
have-oldest-structure-in-state.html

An impending dig at Mound City:

http://www.chillicothegazette.com/article/20090625/NEWS01/906250302/1002/rss01

... semi-related:

http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/articles/2009/06/24/south/news/0624ssj-suga\
rloaf0.txt

Charleston's early walls were pretty big:

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/2009/jun/25/buried_treasure87229/

Nice feature on the Cherokee script:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/science/23cherokee.html

Another feature on the Topper site:

http://www.islandpacket.com/news/local/story/887761.html

Latest on that Geronimo lawsuit:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8112051.stm

More on those hunting sites found in Lake Huron:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/science/23oblake.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17275
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
On the domestication of chiles:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619152137.htm

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
There was an early report this week that the location of the Ark
of the Covenant was going to be announced:

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102200

... but it didn't pan out:

http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=102274

Not sure we've mentioned this 'adjustment' to mtDNA use in the tracking
of human migrations:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604124023.htm

A previously-undiscovered pre-extinction picture of a dodo has
been found and is coming to auction:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5596737/Uncovered-350-year-old-p\
icture-of-dodo-before-it-was-extinct.html

Next musical recreation: an ancient golden lyre (based on one damaged
in Baghdad):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/cambridgeshire/8114446.stm
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?sectionid=845&articleid=539\
5395

Was the development of agriculture the 'root of all evil'?:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/scienceandtechnology/science/sciencenews/5604296/Is-f\
arming-the-root-of-all-evil.html

Simon Critchley on the afterlife:

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/how-to-make-it-in-the-afterlife

Twitterature?:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105892182

So you want to take archaeology:

http://www.independent.co.uk/student/into-university/az-degrees/archaeology-7561\
76.html

On the Vatican's observatory on Mount Graham:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/23/science/23Vatican.html

Interesting item on facedown burials around the world:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/090623-facedown-burials.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-61289.html

More on eBay and fakes and all that:

http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/how-fakes-on-ebay-save-antiquities/
http://www.miller-mccune.com/culture_society/indiana-jones-and-the-temple-of-eba\
y-1286

Review of Gavin Weightman, *The Industrial Revolutionaries*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/books/review/Mihm-t.html

Review of Christopher Beha, *The Whole Five Feet*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/books/review/Nazaryan-t.html

Review of Robert Wright, *The Evolution of God*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/books/review/Bloom-t.html

Emerson's Saadi:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/06/hbc-90005237

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

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

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Delhi:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8120683.stm

Thrace:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/travel/28explorer.html

Athens:

http://www.dailyheraldtribune.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=1631922

Sailing the Nile:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/26/TRP517BAS8.DTL>

Nafplion:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/greece/5611455/Nafplion-Gr\
eece-My-kind-of-town.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

New this week:

Whitehall Roman Villa:

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Ongoing ...

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Ongoing/about to commence:

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeorama:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Thefts from the Aden Museum:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news187360.htm>

More coverage of that Mithras relief recovery:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3437120414

More coverage of the Utah looting case and the subsequent suicide(s):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/21/us/21blanding.html?_r=1&th&emc=th
http://nativetimes.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2043&Itemid=29
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/1,5143,705312039,00.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Medals of Dishonour (slideshow):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8117000/8117408.stm

Medieval money:

http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/06/24/opinion/1194841161149/bloggingheads-me\
dieval-money.html

Nice price for a 9th century British coin:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8119698.stm

A Roman coin find in the UK has been declared treasure:

http://www.fileymercury.co.uk/news/Roman-coins-found-in-field.5404579.jp

... and another Roman coin find:

http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/Scarborough39s-Roman-coin-find.5407\
804.jp

An 18th century coin find leads to a dig in Edenton:

http://www.dailyadvance.com/features/history-beneath-the-dirt-667072.html

A nice flickr set:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/30084068@N08/sets/72157614300587591/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Wedding at Cana:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/arts/design/22greenaway.html

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video/dead-sea-scrolls-arrive-in-canada/article11\
95981/
http://www.torontosun.com/news/torontoandgta/2009/06/25/9918551-sun.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/06/25/dead-sea-scrolls-rom-show.html

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/design/26met.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99027§ionid=3510212

Assorted exhibitions in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/design/26discovery.html

Whistler:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2009/06/22/090622gonb_GOAT_notebo\
ok_schjeldahl

James Ensor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/design/26ensor.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/arts/design/28spear.html

Tut:

http://www.mercurynews.com/peninsula/ci_12683919
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/06/24/DDFB18CU0B.DTL

The Codex Climaci Rescriptus is coming to auction:

http://www.forbes.com/2009/06/26/ancient-bible-auction-lifestyle-collecting-bibl\
e-codex.html

Amsterdam has its own Hermitage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/arts/27iht-hermitage.html

More on Israel's new mosaic museum on the West Bank:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Israel-opens-mosaic-museum-in-the-West-B\
ank/17495

More on the new Acropolis Museum:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124597199236156969.html
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4
http://www.thehindu.com/2009/06/22/stories/2009062256771300.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/arts/27iht-melik27.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/06/090622_elgin_marbles_pollard_dm.s\
html

... and this week's Elgin/Parthenon Marbles opinions (some overlap with the
above, of course):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/arts/design/24abroad.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/arts/design/22arts-GREECEPRESSE_BRF.html?ref=d\
esign
http://www.france24.com/en/20090619-acropolis-museum-opens-hope-return-elgin-mar\
bles-greece-athens-uk
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aiX29TXOXd5Y>
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/newsid_8110000/newsid_8111600/8111664.stm>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article65442\
20.ece
http://www.economist.com/opinion/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13891533
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=105532785
http://current.newsweek.com/budgettravel/2009/06/worth_reading_greeces_new_acro.\
html
>
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=al6pieHgL8eg
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=13895071
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/article/656833
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0906/S00237.htm
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Scots-ministers-seek-Elgin-Marbles39.5408371.j\
p

The art market ain't so bad:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/24/arts/design/24auction.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/26iht-melik26.html

cf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/arts/27iht-melik27.html

... and the big one at Sotheby's was:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/arts/design/25auction.html


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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Twelfth Night:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/25/arts/AP-US-Theater-Review-Twelfth-Nig\
ht.html
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/theater/reviews/26night.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/25/arts/25iht-melik25.html

Dido and Aeneas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/27/arts/dance/27dido.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Richard Thomas Scanlan:

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/living/2009/06/22/life_remembered_popular_class\
ics_prof_was_legendary

Ralf Dahrendorf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/22/world/europe/22dahrendorf.html
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PODCASTS
================================================================
Naked Archaeology Podcast:

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

The Book and the Spade:

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

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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Edward Rockstein,Hernan Astudillo,John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo,Mike Ruggeri,Colleen Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths,
Jim Lockmiller,Bob Heuman, Jona Lendering, Rick Pettigrew,
and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).

n.b.: after my debacle this a.m. with tech problems, I lost my
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kicking around, but thought it best to remove the links to
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
A fossil from Myanmar is rekindling 'missing link' discussions:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090702/ap_on_sc/as_sci_myanmar_primate_fossil_4

The early-humans-with-a-taste-for-children story is still making
the rounds:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/5624301/First-Europeans-were-cannibals\
-with-taste-for-children.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A military town/garrison dating 26th Dynasty has been found in
Ismailiya:

http://drhawass.com/blog/press-release-fortified-garrison-town-discovered-northe\
astern-delta
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001174.htm

Interviewish thing with Mark Lehner about his work around the
pyramids:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/06/28/sci_Egyptologist\
.ART_ART_06-28-09_G3_MNE9H7A.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101
http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2009/06/28/sci_Egyp\
tologist.ART_ART_06-28-09_G3_MNE9H7A.html?sid=101

The IAA and IDF are working together to protect sites:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246296530569&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/167179
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/167217
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=44167

Archaeologists have studied and restored Sassanid inscriptions found
on the Paikuli Tower:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99355§ionid=3510212

Recent finds from Persepolis (sorry ... only in Italian for some
reason):

http://www.sabatoseraonline.it/home_ssol.php?site=1&n=articles&category_id=15&ar\
ticle_id=118862&l=it

Iran's oldest intact Elamite jar burial is on the move:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&catid=1:\
news-july-2009&id=51:elamite-jar-burial-transferred-to-haft-tappeh-museum

Recent finds from Siraf:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=99792§ionid=351020108

More coverage of that intact Canaanite tomb from Bethlehem:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/06/23/tomb-found-bethlehem.html

Some nice photos from that cave/quarry from Jericho:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/06/photogalleries/underground-cave-\
israel-photos/index.html

... if you're curious what I think about claims about a Roman 'flag'
claimed to be inscribed therein:

http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/07/02/jericho-quarry-that-legionary-banner-not/


Gohar Tepe has a website (in German):

http://www.vaa.fak12.uni-muenchen.de/Gohar/index.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
One of the big stories this week was about the claimed identification
of bones belonging to St. Paul (maybe):

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4442169,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
http://www.catholicculture.org/news/headlines/index.cfm?storyid=3371
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jun/29/st-paul-vatican-pope
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1196439/Have-body-St-Paul.html
http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=33944
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE55R22O20090628
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/06/28/world/AP-EU-Vatican-Pope.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062801356.\
html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090628/sc_nm/us_italy_saint_bone_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre55r22o-us-italy-saint-bone/

cf:
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1486637.php/No_proof_\
that_Vatican_bones_are_St_Pauls_says_Dutch_expert_

Also on the Pauline front, the oldest image of the saint has been
located after laser cleaning in the catacomb of St. Thecla:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Cronaca/?id=3.0.3477888218
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre55r0zw-us-italy-saint/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/5675461/O\
ldest-image-of-St-Paul-discovered.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE55R0ZW20090628

The other major story (which could/should have been filed under
ANE) concerns the rerevealing of the Lod Mosaic:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1574\
&module_id=#as
http://www.antiquities.org.il/LOd_live_stream_eng.asp
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132154
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/07/01/ancient-roman-floor-mosai_n_223717.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ivajcK7cUGARiQw2qcUaOcMOvtZQD9\
95LO0G1
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-ml-israel-ancient-mosaic,1,2\
927764.story
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31686995/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Lod_mosaic_to_be_r\
e-exposed_1-Jul-2009.htm

Bulgarian archaeologists/speleologists have found a "second Peperikon":

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-07-01&article=27969
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=105236

Recent finds at the Villa of the Mysteries:

http://www.torresette.it/legginews.asp?idnotizia=6439
http://www.agi.it/ultime-notizie-page/200906301719-cro-rom1083-archeologia_nuovi\
_ambienti_scoperti_a_pompei

Concerns for the preservation of Colchester Roman Circus:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4466736.Builder_backs_preservation_of_Roman_C\
ircus/

Roman road in Huddersfield:

http://www.examiner.co.uk/news/local-west-yorkshire-news/2009/07/04/roman-road-d\
iscovery-is-missing-link-in-huddersfield-history-86081-24071033/

Digging has resumed at Arbeia Roman Fort:

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Unearthing-more-of-Arbeia39s-secrets.5375893.\
jp

A Roman well from Chester:

http://www.chestereveningleader.co.uk/news/Roman-well-unearthed-on-Chester.54238\
52.jp

An Etruscan necropolis from Foggia:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3501111349

On the DNA front, there is apparently no connection between the
Etruscans and modern
day Tuscans:

http://www.timesoftheinternet.com/89111.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-07-03_103376095.html

Some usually-closed monuments in Rome are going to be open this summer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/arts/design/04forum.html

Identifying the hands behind ancient inscriptions:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17405-computer-reveals-stone-tablet-handwr\
iting-in-a-flash.html

Review of Adrian Goldsworthy, *How Rome Fell*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/books/review/Tracy-t.html

Review of Sarah Ruden's Aeneid translation:

http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=31&a=405\
797

Review of David Watkin, *The Roman Forum*:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\
e6615580.ece?&EMC-Bltn=JLZFYA
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A Neolithic site from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=105092

another:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=105276

A possible 15th-century knight burial from Stirling Castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8124109.stm

Folks might be disappointed to learn that the medieval Scots fought
in urine-dyed shirts and not tartans:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/politics/scotland/5675615/Scots-fough\
t-in-bright-yellow-war-shirts-not-Braveheart-kilts.html


More (better) coverage of those Bronze Age/Neolithic remains at
Loughbrickland:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/environment/co-down-dig-reveals-a-prehist\
oric-mystery-14361986.html

Controversy over Toledo's Jewish cemetery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/world/europe/02toledo.html

Review of Norman Stone, *World War One*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/books/review/Andelman-t.html

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Some digs relating to the Indus civilization are suspended to
to (in)security concerns:

http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2009\06\29\story_29-6-2009_pg13_5

Road construction threatens sites in Afghanistan:

http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/439144/1/.html

An ancient bath near Ngempon Temple:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/06/30/ancient-structure-unearthed-semara\
ng.html

An interview with Iravatham Mahadevan about Tamil-Brahmi inscriptions:

http://www.frontline.in/stories/20090717261407000.htm

I think we've had this earliest rice cultivation evidence in Viet Nam
before:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-66719.html

Some 3000 y.b.p. child burials from Viet Nam:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-66752.html

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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Tracking the Anasazi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/science/30chaco.html

An update on that dig at the Macon County Airport:

http://www.citizen-times.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090628/NEWS01/90628034\
6

What they're finding at the Chesterfield site:

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2009/07/03/breaking_news/doc4a4e13c15bf22863\
652239.txt
http://www.news-leader.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2009907040347

Update on the De Luna shipwreck excavation:

http://www.pnj.com/article/20090630/NEWS01/906300315
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/06/30/Students-excavate-450-year-old-ship/UPI-8\
5601246380296/
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/florida/AP/story/1120714.html

Digging an already dug miner's camp in California:

http://www.sbsun.com/ci_12743367?source=rss

A Lewis and Clark murder mystery:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5587897/Lewis-and-Cla\
rk-in-murder-mystery-200-years-after-their-final-expedition.html

The 'Here is Where' project is interesting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/nyregion/30forgotten.html

Another copy of the Declaration of Independence has turned up:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/02/declaration-of-independence-copy

Some Independence Day musings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/opinion/03duval.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/opinion/03freedman.html

Some Revolutionary War graves are threatened by development:

http://www.startribune.com/nation/49875837.html?elr=KArks:DCiUMEaPc:UiD3aPc:_Yyc\
:aUU

Have they found the remains of 'vagabond poet' Everett Ruess?:

http://www.startribune.com/nation/49753927.html
http://www.abc4.com/content/news/state/story/Finding-Everett-Ruess/v4I86IfpTU295\
x7iVSTugg.cspx?rss=1451
http://www.daily-times.com/farmington-sports/ci_12742215?source=rss

Rhode Island contemplates a shorter official name:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/30/us/30rename.html

The farming tradition in Queen's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/nyregion/28about.html?_r=1

Interesting Victorian mansion on Staten Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/realestate/28habi.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel concerns the excavation of
the Austria:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

That hunting-site-in-Lake-Huron story still has legs:

http://www.jsonline.com/news/49467082.html
http://www.physorg.com/news165753727.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
The Inca thrived in a period of warming:

http://www.livinginperu.com/features-808-environment-opportunity-knocks-again-an\
des

A pile of Chinchorro child mummies reveal evidence of arsenic poisoning:

http://www.downtoearth.org.in/full6.asp?foldername=20090715&filename=news&sec_id\
=50&sid=29
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Interesting collection of features about mistaken beliefs about
the ancient world:

http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/common-errors/

For Copernicus fans:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/06/hbc-90005136

High tech methods to monitor monuments and the like:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619130016.htm

... and high tech methods to analyze archaeological remains
and detect fakes:

http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/7824083/computer-recognises-archaeological-mate\
rial-and-fake-van-goghs.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090630163529.htm

Hype for the SPLASH project:

http://www.isgtw.org/?pid=1001892

Darwin's effects on lycanthropy:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090616080135.htm

... and some photomanipulation he was involved in:

http://www.physorg.com/news165738728.html

Interesting stuff from the Oxford Etymologist:

http://blog.oup.com/2009/07/gleanings-8/

Feature on Timbrel Vaulting:

http://blog.makezine.com/archive/2009/07/lost_knowledge_timbrel_vaulting.html?CM\
P=OTC-0D6B48984890

The Optical Telegraph:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/06/20/the-chappe-optical-t.html

Feature on Robert Ballard:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106246285

The Spanish flu's viral dynasty:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090630/hl_afp/healthfluuspandemic_20090630111426
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/10705/divulgacao-cientifica/gripe-secular.h\
tm

A new self-portrait of Michelangelo?:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Descubierto/nuevo/autorretrato/Miguel/Ang\
el/Vaticano/elppgl/20090702elpepucul_5/Tes

Suggestion that the Vatican should learn from that Galileo business:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5614dl-us-pope-science/

How the other half (or tenth) lived:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/books/review/Gross-t.html

Not ancient at all, but a very interesting bit of papercraft:

http://tokyobling.wordpress.com/2009/07/01/a-paper-craft-castle-on-the-ocean/

The link between Robert the Bruce and the Declaration of Independence:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/jul/05/declaration-independence-arbroath-words\
miths

On what chemistry tells us about the ancients:

http://www.physorg.com/news165586600.html

Latest UNESCO Heritage site news:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/5687781
http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_world/view/439135/1/.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090628/tsc-unesco-adds-more-european-sites-to-h-c2\
ff8aa.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20090628-unesco-adds-more-european-sites-world-herita\
ge-list
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/534

This year's Bulwer-Lytton contest results:

http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2009.htm

Review of Benedict Gummer, *The Scourging Angel*:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/5648116/The-Scourging-Angel\
-by-Benedict-Gummer-review.html

Brief reviews of assorted non-fiction items:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/28/books/review/Tracy-t.html

More on (moron?) claims that DaVinci faked the Shroud of Turin:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/TV-review-The-Da-Vinci.5421056.jp
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2510088/New-documentary-will-make-grou\
ndbreaking-claim-about-Turin-Shroud.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

New this week:

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Ongoing:

Whitehall Roman Villa:

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Ongoing/about to commence:

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Vandals damaged a Cornish castle:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/8125493.stm

All of a sudden the focus is on looting in Libya, it seems:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-07-04-looter-libya_N\
.htm

The guy who stole 'The Scream' was sentenced:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/man-sentenced-for-involvement-in-sc\
ream-heist

Latest features on the search for items looted from Iraq:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/10644a84-665d-11de-a034-00144feabdc0.html
http://www.thestar.com/entertainment/books/article/660493
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A fourth-century Roman coin hoard from Bridlington:

http://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/news/Metaldetecting-group-digs-up-Roman.54\
17613.jp

An Iron Age coin find has been declared treasure:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/suffolk/8133440.stm

10 weirdest currencies:

http://www.creditcards.com/credit-card-news/10-weirdest-currencies-1278.php

Sylloge Nummorum Graecorum:

http://www.sylloge-nummorum-graecorum.org/

Historical Medals:

http://www.historicalartmedals.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Mannahatta/Manhattan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/arts/design/04manhatta.html

Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.rom.on.ca/exhibitions/special/deadseascrolls.php

Exploring Dutch Legacy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/arts/design/03antiques-fr.html

Spanish Armour:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/arts/design/04spanish.html

Baroque in London:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/arts/design/03antiques-fr.html

Napoleon:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/06/28/AR2009062800733.\
html

A mummy has returned to a museum in Belfast:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/northern_ireland/8123849.stm

New director at the Philadelphia Museum of Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/29/arts/design/29museum.html

The Cleveland Museum of Art's returns to Italy were revealed
this week:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/italy-unveils-antiquities-returned\
-by-us-museum-187221.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/07/02/italy-cleveland.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieF6zwJhG7nYx0bFa6CN2UH2soNQD9\
96B52G0
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/cleveland-museum-returns-works-to-i\
taly/?scp=1&sq=cleveland&st=cse

Nice response to criticisms of the DSS exhibition in Toronto:

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/fullcomment/archive/2009/07/02/ed-morga\
n-dead-sea-cranks.aspx

They're building an archaeological museum in Sidon:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=10363\
0

The latest incipient repatriation dispute seems to be between
Germany and Iraq over a gold vaseish thing discovered at an
auction:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/275498,german-iraqi-dispute-mounts-over-\
4500-year-old-gold-vase.html

China is sending some experts to the US to help restore some Tang Dynasty
reliefs at the University of Pennsylvania:

http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200907/05/t20090705_19464630.shtml

Not a lot of action at Christie's latest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/01/arts/design/01auction.html

The new Acropolis Museum is a success:

http://www.grreporter.info/statiaen.php?mysid=2269&t=31&SESID=4jj4rk5hhmfgm7a90d\
pnu4qbu2

... and they're on the verge of appointing a director:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/ell_1KathiLev&xml/&aspKath/ell.asp&fdate=\
02/07/2009


More Elgin/Parthenon Marbles opinions:

http://www.neurope.eu/articles/95110.php
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106027165&ft=1&f=1008
http://api.npr.org/templates/xanadu/view/api/transcript.php?id=106027165
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jun/30/parthenon-marbles-greece-acro\
polis
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Midsummer Night's Dream:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/theater/reviews/02dream.html

Appalachian Strings:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/03/travel/escapes/03Fiddle.html


Maybe Wagner isn't so difficult after all:

http://www.physorg.com/news165670303.html
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EARLY HUMANS
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Diseases carried by Homo sapiens are now being blamed for the
demise of the Neanderthal:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1748034.ece

... while a volcano eruption 74 000 years b.p. "drastically"
reduced the human population of the time:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090702170128.htm
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AFRICA
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What is possibly Africa's oldest ceramic has been found in Mali:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Archaeologists_hit_jackpot_in_Mali.html?\
siteSect=104&sid=10935272&cKey=1247128029000&ty=nd
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
I think we had this DNA-tests-on-fetuses-in-Tut's-tomb story
before:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/dna-tests-tried-on-fetuse\
s-in-king-tuts-tomb/article702570/

Some monuments were found buried near the stairway of the Egyptian
Museum in el-Tahrir:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001176.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-70260.html
http://www.egyptiangazette.net.eg/gazette/tourism/detail_8_88.shtml

The UN's nuclear agency is getting involved with mummies:

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=31376&Cr=iaea&Cr1=
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-69493.html

Another CT scan to solve a 'mummy mystery' (or not):

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Mystery-Of-Egyptian-Mummies-Deepens-Fol\
lowing-CT-Scans/Article/200907115331076?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_R\
egion_2&lid=ART%29ICLE_15331076_Mystery_Of_Egyptian_Mummies_Deepens_Following_CT\
_Scans

Another quarry used by Herod in his various building projects
has been found:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443730536pagename=JPost/JPArticle\
/ShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132231
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a7UxM9gYQoEE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090706/ap_on_sc/ml_israel_ancient_quarry_5
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098195.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-QceyqTd7QB2zFv_b6PgxTSKoTgD9\
995BB00
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/07/06/1006330/ancient-quarry-uncovered-in-jerus\
alam

Interesting excavation starting up in Sidon:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=10403\
0
>


Plenty of coverage of a UNESCO report on damage done to Babylon by the
US military:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-military-damaged-ancient-babylon-site-20090710-de\
uh.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8142929.stm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10583696>
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/us-military-damaged-ancient-babylon-site-2\
0090710-deuh.html
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33107
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/09/international/i05423\
6D89.DTL&type=science
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/10/2622210.htm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hYZIpEAwUtMB_AcIgjEnAwm6vGigD9\
9B4D9O0

... and here's the UNESCO report:

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183134e.pdf

Somewhat vague item on some pottery found at Homs:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2009/07/06/234465.htm

Recent finds in the Mount Zion excavation:

http://jamestabor.com/2009/07/07/extraordinary-finds-at-the-mt-zion-excavation/

Report of the seventh season of the BM dig at Kom Firin:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Kom%20Firin%202008a.pdf

Can't remember if we mentioned that Meresamun has her own Facebook
page:

http://www.facebook.com/meresamun

More on the Lod Mosaic:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/world/middleeast/09lod.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070100957.\
html
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/image-made-available-Israel-Antiquities-Authority-\
Monday-July-6-2009/photo//090701/481/0ca2d99ae2ef4ad3a70ac0906735fe4f/

More on that quarry near Jericho:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622103831.htm

More on the Ilisu dam:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,635054,00.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Nice OpEd on Latin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/opinion/07iht-edmotyl.html

Feature on the Euphronios Krater:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/arts/design/08abroad.html?ref=arts

High tech looks at the Michigan papyri:

http://www.physorg.com/news166200717.html

A temple for Antinous at Tivoli?:

http://science.orf.at/science/news/61986

Assorted finds from Heraklea Lynkestis:

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/7456/2/
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1328

Excitement over the 'Parion Princess' sarcophagus:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/12047968.asp?scr=1

Some intact Etruscan cosmetics:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/10/ancient-ointment.html

A Roman tunnel at Plovdiv:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=105595

Repairs for Colchester's Roman wall:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4481572.Repairing_the_Roman_wall_is_like_pain\
ting_the_Forth_Bridge/

They're learning about corrosion from the Apoxyomenos found a decade
ago:

http://www.physorg.com/news166268029.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708094832.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-70431.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Mesolithic/Neolithic remains from Schela Cladovei (Romania):

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1319

Interesting Iron Age reamins keep turning up at the Illerup River Valley
site:

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/local/87-local/46220-students-uncover-hundreds-of-iro\
n-age-remains.html

Traces of a medieval village in Espoo (Finland):

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Archeologists+unearth+early+medieval+village+in\
+Espoo/1135247145462

A possible henge in a Lincolnshire field:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Ancient-henge-largest-county/article-11\
38043-detail/article.html

Finds from various periods at a Cambridge University dig:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8138362.stm
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Evidence of substantial fish consumption by humans in China some
40 000 years b.p.:

http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?name=57795414>
http://www.physorg.com/news166120605.html

A pile of prehistoric sites from central Java:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/07/08/15-new-prehistoric-sites-found-c-j\
ava.html

A 1400 years b.p. royal tomb from a Qi dynasty member:

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/07/07/2009070700839.html

Interesting 6th century Javanese boat find:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/07/10/ancient-boat-reveals-shipbuilding-\
skills-java%E2%80%99s-seafarers.html

Chinese archaeologist have sketched the layout of Xanadu:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/08/content_11673561.htm

An eighth century Islamic vase from Japan:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/07/06/Shards-of-ancient-vase-found-in-Japan/UPI\
-25311246896638/

Historical tensions in China's Xinjiang province:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106376623

More on the 'obsidian trail':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622152033.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Things weren't so great for the pilgrims:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-american-dream-not-for-all-\
the-pilgrims-1732760.html

A First Nations site near Calgary:

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090710/cgy_dig_morley_090710/20\
090710/?hub=CalgaryHome

They're digging at Chimney Rock again:

http://durangoherald.com/sections/Features/Outdoors/2009/07/10/Chimney_Rock_Chac\
o_or_not/

Looking for evidence of early Americans in the waters of the Gulf
Coast:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/mc-ues070909.php

Evidence of a human presence in Florida 13 000 years b.p.?:

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/44395

Revealing Rhode Island's slave trade connections:

http://www.projo.com/ri/newport/content/NEWPORT_SLAVERY_DIG_07-07-09_EBEEC5K_v59\
.38ad7fe.html

... and an opinion on the proposed RI name change:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05vowell.html


Sam's Club or a mound ... which do you think they chose in Oxford?:

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20090705/NEWS02/907050307/1007/NEWS0\
1/Oxford+to+remove+dirt+from+Indian+mound

Selling off chunks of a church:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/design/26antiques.html

More on the Chesterfield site:

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2009/07/03/breaking_news/doc4a4e13c15bf22863\
652239.txt

More on Meriwether Lewis' possible murder:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106342997
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090709/NEWS01/907090334/1001/NEWS

... and Henry Hudson's fate:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31784738/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Widening of the Panama canal is revealing some interesting stuff:

http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/662167

Interesting feature on the Maya:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-07-05-maya-belize_N.htm

I've only found this one in the Italian press ... a gold-covered
burial from Belize:

http://www.libero-news.it/adnkronos/view/150979

On what we learn from Chile pepper domestication:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619152137.htm

Zapotecs in general may have had a thing for femurs:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/fm-fmc070809.php
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/museum_info/photos/feinman_mexico.zip

Did maize consumption lead to the rise of Andean civilization:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/45413/description/Maize_may_have_fuel\
ed_ancient_Andean_civilization
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-70241.html

On the Medieval Warm Period and Inca success:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/08/the-medieval-warm-period-linked-to-the-suc\
cess-of-machu-picchu-inca/

More on Chinchorro arsenic poisoning:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-68195.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
The Codex Sinaiticus is online now:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8135415.stm
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090706/wr_nm/us_britain_bible_codex
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/worlds-oldest-bible-p\
ublished-in-full-online-1733208.html
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/07/06/worlds-oldest-bible-now-pres\
erved-online/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/ancient.bible.online/index.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106312433

They figure they've identified the remains of Copernicus:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/uu-aoc070709.php
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/09/copernicus-blue-eyes.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090708/sc_space/copernicusremainsverifiedbydnaan\
alysis

Did Galileo discover Neptune?:

http://www.physorg.com/news166355079.html
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/galileos-notebooks-may-reveal-secrets-new-planet-\
22824.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090710/sc_space/newtheorygalileodiscoveredneptun\
e

Folks are going to be living statues on the Fourth Plinth:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106308924
(including, I am told, Mike Pitts, the editor of British Archaeology)

Nice feature on Roget's Thesaurus:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article6643975.ece
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6\
644646.ece

In case you're wondering about Dan Brown's next one:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/dan-brown-drumroll-the-book-cover-r\
evealed/


Reviewish sort of thing on a book about Calvin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/us/04beliefs.html

Review of Richard Holmes, *The Age of Wonder*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/books/09maslin.html

================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Turkey:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/getaways/07/09/travel.snaps.turkey/index.html

Tyre:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=10389\
0
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Ongoing:

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa:

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A Raphael Golb update:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gznCOrQo0Iw8H1s_BUyqyDXHcO8AD9\
9AEOUO0

An update to the Roxanna Brown death-in-custody situation:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009425908_prisondeath07m0.html
http://chronicle.com/news/article/6747/us-government-settles-case-stemming-from-\
death-of-antiquities-scholar

A couple of guilty pleas (already) in that Utah case:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106376598&ft=1&f=1001

Smuggling in Bethlehem:

http://beth.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=39136

Apparently there are a lot of fake Russian paintings around:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/arts/design/06arts-REPORTFINDSA_BRF.html

The Netherlands returned some purloined antiquities to Iraq:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jagRDR28FC8WayLKN0EE9w4RcJHgD9\
9B0VLO0
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/07/09/iraq-antiquities.html

More coverage of the Cleveland Museum's returns:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/italy-unveils-antiquities-returned\
-by-us-museum-187221.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/07/02/italy-cleveland.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieF6zwJhG7nYx0bFa6CN2UH2soNQD9\
96B52G0
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/299548
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/cleveland-museum-returns-works-to-i\
taly/?scp=1&sq=cleveland&st=cse

================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Tutbury Castle's collection is at the BM:

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=432206

A gold coin of Tiberius brought an okay price:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124717490410619707.html
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
An Antiquity of Imagination:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/arts/design/10cotter.html

Macao's Past:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/arts/10iht-jessop.html

A brush fire came close to the Getty t'other day:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/brush-fire-forces-evacuation-at-get\
ty-center/


The DSS exhibition at the ROM is bringing in the crowds:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/rom-scrolls-attendance-beyond-expectati\
ons/article1211946/

Some letters relating to the early history of baseball won't be
coming to auction after all:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/sports/baseball/08auction.html
================================================================
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================================================================
Pre-Raphaelites:

http://www.preraphaelites.org/
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Latest study suggests there weren't that many Neanderthals and
they were 'poised' for extinction:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,533223,00.html
http://www.livescience.com/culture/090716-neanderthal-population.html

Figuring out what homo heidelbergensis ate:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090714103526.htm
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AFRICA
================================================================
The Archaeology Channel has an audio interview with Fred Wendorf:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/audio/wendorfint.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
200,000 years b.p. flint tools from the Syrian desert:

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1489195.php/20000\
0-year-old_flint_tools_found_in_Syrian_desert_

Not sure if we've mentioned this Egyptian fortress find at Tell Dafna:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31913753/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/14/egypt-fortress-city.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20090715/981/tsc-archaeologists-unearth-largest-for\
tr.html

... or the impending dig in Sidon:

http://www.littleabout.com/news/23094,excavation-lebanon-aims-uncover-ancient-ru\
ins.html

Latest from the Dakhleh Oasis:

http://www.livescience.com/history/090715-amheida-excavation.html

Interview (in French) with Jean Yoyotte (see Obituaries):

http://www.histoire.presse.fr/content/homepage/article?id=4809

cf:

http://lexnews.free.fr/histoire.htm#yoyotte

Feature on the Herodium:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132453

Feature on Adam Zertal's thoughts on the 'feet' at Bidat al-Shaab:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1100766

Rethinking Arabian snake cults:

http://www.thenational.ae/article/20090716/NATIONAL/707159822/-1/NEWS

By the rivers of Babylon ...:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443825291&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Road widening has damaged a Parthian site in Iran's Khuzestan Province:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=54:a-\
large-parthian-site-in-khuzestan-province-seriously-damaged-a-partly-destroyed&c\
atid=1

More on that most recent Second Temple quarry discovery:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32074
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443730536&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31761755/ns/technology_and_science-science/

More on damage to Babylon:

http://www.rttnews.com/Content/GeneralNews.aspx?Node=B1&Id=1001328
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A shrine to Jupiter Dolichenus has been found near Vindolanda:

http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/ancient_shrine_found_at_hadrian_s_wall_fort_1_\
583823?referrerPath=/1.50001

Some major finds at Laodicea:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3538600291

A Roman ring from North Lincolnshire:

http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/news/1-800-year-old-ring/article-1156994-detai\
l/article.html

Nice video on some Roman items found years ago in private digs
in Brampton:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8150191.stm

Repairs to Colchester's Roman wall are to be completed soon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/8157187.stm

Feature on the ongoing digs at Pompeii:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2009-07-15-pompeii_N.htm

Digging will resume at Nikopolis ad Istrum:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=105680

Latest 'evidence' for the Roman origins of the Arthur legend:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/ancient-lance-pierces-hole-in-king-arthu\
r-legend,892613.shtml

Review of Francine Segan, *The Philosopher's Kitchen*:

http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20090715/LIVING/707159982

Mary Beard reviews Frank McLynn, *Marcus Aurelius*:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n14/bear01_.html

More on high tech approaches to the Michigan Papyri:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-72253.html
http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7227
http://www.physorg.com/news166200717.html

More on that Etruscan 'cosmetic case':

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/a-2000-year-old-cream-belonging-to-an\
-aristocrat-discovered_100216985.html
http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2009/July/12-year-cream-16818.asp
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31855795/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Turns out those dismembered/decapitated skeletons from Dorset
are Saxon, not Roman:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8145252.stm

People were living in Cheddar Gorge (Somerset) some 14,700 years
b.p.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8151524.stm

... and Silchester was a thriving city a century before the
Romans arrived:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/jul/16/silchester-dig-british-city
http://u.tv/News/Silchester-dig-reveals-how-ancient-Britons-built-a-thriving-cit\
y/5dc988e4-1dcd-4207-8864-67f118514aeb
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/berkshire/8151385.stm

A Neolithic structure from the Isle of Man:

http://www.iomtoday.co.im/news/Prehistoric-dwelling-unearthed-at-Isle.5452740.jp

Feature on Gristhorpe Man:

http://www.scarborougheveningnews.co.uk/news/Gristhorpe-Man-slowly-gives-up.5441\
651.jp?articlepage=1

Oetzi's tattoos were soot-based:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/17/iceman-tattoos.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17469-worlds-oldest-tattoos-were-made-of-s\
oot.html

Brief item on a Neolithic house find in Bulgaria:

http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/News/1807B12.htm

Remains of a medieval monastery from Bulgaria too:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/139/20090718/981/tsc-archaeologists-discover-13th-centu\
ry.html

They're looking for the tomb of Suleiman I in Hungary:

http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/?tx_ttnews[tt_news]=6737

Picnickers at Culloden Battlefield are apparently causing offence:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8150288.stm

Praising British archaeology:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/jul/17/in-praise-of-british-archaeo\
logy

Review of Christopher Kelly, *The End of Empire*:

http://www.timesdispatch.com/rtd/entertainment/books_literature/article/BEND19_2\
0090715-181212/280110/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
They're beginning to find more terracotta warriors at X'ian:

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Tech+and+Science/Story/STIStory_404811\
.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/17/content_11723792.htm

Some Qing Dynasty "cheat sheets" have been found:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/5834418/Ancient-Chinese-che\
at-sheets-discovered.html

A 3rd century B.C. megalithic burial site near Truvannamalai (Tamil Nadu):

http://www.hindu.com/2009/07/17/stories/2009071751690300.htm

Nice Astronomy Picture of the Day of an eclipse (etc.) over the
Great Wall:

http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap090718.html
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A 3000 years b.p. campsite from Lisbon (Conn.):

http://www.courant.com/news/local/statewire/hc-ap-ct-fea-lisbonartifacjul12,0,68\
52979.story
http://www.norwichbulletin.com/news/x488834511/Rare-Indian-artifacts-found-on-Li\
sbon-property

Interesting finds at Fort Lipantitlan:

http://www.kiiitv.com/news/local/50976812.html

An Irish immigrant village is being excavated in Maryland:

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Irish-immigrant-village-unearthed-in-Maryland-\
50635617.html
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/maryland/baltimore-county/bal-md.co.dig13jul13,\
0,2786177.story

The Archaeology Channel has an audio interview with Fred Wendorf:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/audio/wendorfint.html

Skepticism about the DNA results from those Paisley Cave coprolites:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5937/148-c

cf:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/325/5937/148-b

Slavery records from the Virgin Islands:

http://www.comcast.net/articles/news-national/20090717/CB.Virgin.Islands.Slavery\
.Records/

More on the Chimney Rock site:

http://durangoherald.com/sections/Features/Outdoors/2009/07/10/Intact_archaeolog\
ical_site_offers_some_timely_lessons/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Mexico has done a survey of underwater sites in Banco Chincorro:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=339313&CategoryId=14091

Some video coverage of that 'mass sacrifice' of women from Peru
mentioned last month:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21134540/vp/31891125#31891125
http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1049287/Peru-mummies-%27were-human-sacrifices

cf.:

http://www.eluniversal.com.mx/notas/602611.html (Spanish)

A 16th century shipwreck off the coast of Santa Catarina:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/10754/noticias/nau-do-seculo-16-e-descobert\
a.htm(Portuguese)

... and an 18th century one off the Dominican:

http://www.underwatertimes.com/news.php?article_id=42708911063

Tools and some ceramics from Sinaloa:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32112

A Chimu burial in the citadel of Chan Chan (Peru):

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=88nCvOZoO5c=
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/277468,remains-of-sacrificed-woman-found\
-in-indigenous-citadel-in-peru.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=31&art_id=nw20090714193424725C2\
86683

Not sure if we've mentioned this Inca Road find before:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=31999

More hype for the impending (hopefully) discovery of an Aztec
king's tomb in Mexico's Templio Mayor:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090713-aztec-king-tomb.html

More on Zapotec uses for thighbones:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090715-zapotec-thighbones-femurs\
.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/fm-fmc070809.php

More on Maize and the rise of Andean civilizations:

http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/07/08/maize-may-have-fueled-ancient-\
andean-civilization.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
What it's like on an underwater dig:

http://www.thewesterlysun.com/articles/2009/07/16//news/local/doc4a5c7cbed2eab06\
0274792.txt

Latest ship reconstruction ... a bireme sailing from Izmir to
Marseilles:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/12048006.asp

Raman spectroscopy could be useful:

http://www.the-scientist.com/article/display/55788/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lxluxsJhlU

Testing the efficacy of cannon balls v. warships:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715101505.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090715/sc_livescience/cannonballsreallycou\
ldsinkshipsstudyfinds

Suggestion that the Vinland Map is not a forgery:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56G58320090717
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090717/sc_nm/us_science_map_america_2

Pondering a Titian timpano:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jul/11/titian-portraits-women-exhibi\
tion-love

... and a mystery about a Matisse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/arts/design/17vogel.html

Pre-landing ideas about the moon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/movies/19strau.html

A "rubbish remover" doing his job came across a barrell full of
Mexican artifacts:

http://www.nydailynews.com/money/2009/07/19/2009-07-19_trash_worth_16g_rubbish_g\
uy_finds_a_little_treasure_trove.html

Some 10 000 years b.p. seeds from the Arctic apparently weren't
that old after all:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8142000/8142037.stm

A library closes because of the Internet (?):

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/at-92nd-street-y-even-homer-must-bo\
w-to-wireless-internet/

Dunno if any Explorator readers will be interested to know that
Spinal Tap visited Stonehenge (no drummers were harmed):

http://www.cbc.ca/arts/music/story/2009/07/12/spinaltap-stonehenge-visit.html

Review of Margaret MacMillan, *Dangerous Games*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Kennedy-t.html

Review of Richard Holmes, *The Age of Wonder*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/books/review/Benfey-t.html

Review of Collin Ellard, *You Are Here*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/books/review/Lehrer-t.html

Review of assorted historical novels:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/12/books/review/Benfey-t.html

More on the claim that Galileo discovered Neptune:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/07/10/vatican_galileo_cryptogram_neptune_disco\
very/
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Rhodes:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-writing-competition/5849295/Just-back-a\
cropolis-now.html

Albania:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1342

Syria:

http://www.reuters.com/article/marketsNews/idUSLQ65906120090717

Haarlem:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/travel/19dayout.html

Some English pubs:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/travel/19pubs.html

Ohio Trail:

http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/living/tourism/48067157.html
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DIG BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

New this week:

Signal Hill (Newfoundland):

http://signalhillarchaeology.wordpress.com/

Ongoing:

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa:

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A Rome court has upheld the conviction of Giacomo Medici:

http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/07/15/italian_art_dealers_\
looting_conviction_upheld/
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/07/dealer-in-looted-antiquit\
ies-loses-appeal-has-links-to-embattled-exgetty-curator.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieF6zwJhG7nYx0bFa6CN2UH2soNQD9\
9F07CO0
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/16/conviction-for-dealer-of-stolen-ant\
iquities-is-upheld/

A Florida couple has returned some mosaic pieces they took from
Caesarea National Park:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132460
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1101159

Latest twist in the Utah antiquities case:

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-artifacts-threat14-2009jul1\
4,0,3872470.story

... while sites in Canada near the US border are apparently at
a higher risk for looting:

http://www.canada.com/Historical+sites+near+border+risk+looting/1788679/story.ht\
ml

Tombaroli in Albania:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1339
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A major coin hoard found near Warwickshire has been declared
treasure:

http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2009/07/17/metal-detector-\
unearths-a-pot-of-roman-coins-65233-24173954/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1200126/Treasure-trove-silver-Roman-coin\
s-worth-thousands-buried-field.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/roman-silver-haul-declared-tre\
asure-trove-1749387.html

A machine-made Oban (among other items) is coming to auction:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=6994

The earliest Roman coin ever found in Britain:

http://www.britarch.ac.uk/news/090718-roman

Early Medieval Coin Finds:

http://www-cm.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/emc/

Roman Provincial Coinage online:

http://rpc.ashmus.ox.ac.uk/

High tech tools to clean a huge hoard of Roman coins found over
20 years ago in Libya:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-07-14_114383620.html

Review of *Greek and Roman Coins from the du Chastel Collection*:

http://digitalhn.blogspot.com/2009/07/greek-and-roman-coins-from-du-chastel.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
An Antiquity of Imagination:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/19/portraits-marble-venetian-renais\
sance-sculptors/

Italian Renaissance Drawings:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/jul/15/british-museum-renaissance-dr\
awings-exhibition

Carvers and Collectors:

http://www.huliq.com/13/83463/getty-center-exhibits-carvers-and-collectors

Japanese Mandalas:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/arts/design/17mandalas.html

Chinese Ceramics at the BM:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/18/arts/18iht-melik18.html

Yixing Pottery:

http://media-newswire.com/release_1094602.html

Dutch New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/19/nyregion/19artwe.html

Interesting exhibition of Lord Carnarvon/Tut-related stuff:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31946548/ns/technology_and_science-science/

A copy of the Magna Carta has returned to Lincoln for a new
exhibition:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/lincolnshire/8157469.stm

Reviewish sort of thing of Ford's Theater Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/arts/design/15museum.html

The National Portrait Gallery is battling with Wikipedia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8156268.stm

More on the "furor" over the DSS exhibition in Toronto:

http://www.forward.com/articles/109593/
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443820292&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/bait+switch/1779030/story.html

cf. this OpEd piece:

http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fiskrsquos-world-y\
ou-wont-find-any-lessons-in-unity-in-the-dead-sea-scrolls-1741943.html

Recent changes at the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/arts/design/10vogel.html

More players in the London antiques fair game:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/17/arts/design/17antiques.html

Gothic items coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/arts/design/10antiques.html

Results of Old Master auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/11/arts/11iht-melik11.html

Review of Michael Gross, *Rogues' Gallery*:

http://www.financialpost.com/news-sectors/story.html?id=1779104
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
The Europeans:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/theater/reviews/10europeans.html

This seems to be the category for this NPR piece on Church Music:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89775986

... and this feature on Josquin des Prez:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106422142

... and some Bastille Day music:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106488903
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
Images from the History of Medicine:

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/ihm/

Medieval Dictionaries:

http://actuhistoire.blogspot.com/2009/06/dictionnaires-medievaux.html

Digitized Maps:

http://portal.digmap.eu/

... the above were pointed to by the Actualites de L'histoire blog:

http://actuhistoire.blogspot.com/
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Kenneth M. Stampp:

http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-kenneth-stampp19-2009jul19,0,540976\
6.story
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/15/arts/15stampp.html

Jean Yoyotte:

http://www.ouest-france.fr/ofdernmin_-L-egyptologue-francais-mondialement-connu-\
Jean-Yoyotte-est-decede_-1000319_actu.Htm

Martin Hengel:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/5811664/Professor\
-Martin-Hengel.html
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Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Brian Powell, Barbara Evans Rees,
Richard C. Griffiths, Kurt Theis, Trevor Watkins, "Rich",
Jim Lockmiller, Rick Heli,R.M. Howe,and Ross W. Sargent for
headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
More coverage this week on that modern-human-killed-the-
Neanderthal-with-a-spear story:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090720163729.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news167323513.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090721/sc_livescience/humanstabbedaneander\
thalevidencesuggests
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1724102/prehistoric_case_hints_at_interspec\
ies_homicide/index.html?source=r_sciencel

Scientific American has a feature on Neanderthals:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=inside-this-issue-neandertals

Did innovative lithic technology lead to a population boom in
South Asia?:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17495-stoneage-innovation-explains-ancient\
-population-boom.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=innovative-blades-may-hav
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A Parthian tower find from Azerbaijan:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=59:a-\
parthian-tower-discovered-in-ardebil-near-arran-border&catid=1

That road-widening-destroys-a-Parthian-site story from last week
has a few more details this week ... it may have been the lost
Partho-Sassanian city of Azem which was damaged:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=57:re\
cently-destroyed-archaeological-site-in-khuzestan-province-believed-to-be-the-lo\
st-partho-sasanian-city-of-azem&catid=1

Latest finds from Iran's Belqeis Citadel:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=199273

Not quite sure where this one would be best categorized, but ...
restorers have revealed a long-hidden mosaic of an angel in
Haghia Sophia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090724/ap_on_re_eu/eu_turkey_byzantine_mosaic
http://www1.pressdemocrat.com/article/20090724/APE/907240661

Nice feature on Herod's Tomb in Smithsonian Magazine:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/50684687.html

Interviewish thing with Edward Bleiberg on CT scanning Brooklyn Museum
mummies:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/interviews/brooklyn_mummies/

Does the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus lie under a dock in Malta?

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090726/local/dock-1-made-from-ancien\
t-ruins

Item by John J. Collins on the 'Vision of Gabriel' thing:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_09/forum.html

Two-part radio broadcast on the Elah Fortress:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132486 (article about same)
http://wejew.com/media/5015/Hot_Biblical_Rocks_on_INRs_Yishai_Fleisher_Show_for_\
June_6_Part_1_of_2/
http://wejew.com/media/5014/Hot_Biblical_Rocks_on_INRs_Yishai_Fleisher_Show_for_\
June_6_Part_2_of_2/

cf.: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/Player.htm#0%231152

Feature on Phoenician (mostly) 'business models':

http://www.theglobalist.com/storyid.aspx?StoryId=7887

Assorted disciplines (Egyptology, Assyriology, Classics, inter
alia) are threatened at Israeli universities:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1102024

Brief item on Haifa U.'s underwater did at Urla:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132523

Latest on developments in/around Temple Mount:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443861841&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3750984,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3748929,00.html

Review of Desmond Seward, *Jerusalem's Traitor*:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1248277872353&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of five Roman shipwrecks off
Ventotene:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8168425.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news167720761.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090725/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_roman_shipwrecks
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gshqvuOIMIfGLvRkWELCJKpX5aMAD9\
9L1HAG1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090723/sc_nm/us_italy_shipwrecks_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090724/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_roman_shipwrecks
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=8172032
http://www.ansa.it/opencms/export/site/notizie/rubriche/daassociare/visualizza_n\
ew.html_1621183992.html(Italian)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/24/shipwrecks-italy.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,534780,00.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/25/2636257.htm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56M3IW20090723>

Brief item on the discovery of the 'largest' Roman garrison in Syria:

http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/middleeast/news/article_1491831.php/Archa\
eologists_discover_Mideasts_%26quotlargest_Roman_garrison%26quot_in_Syria_

Some long-stored Pompeii theatre masks have been rediscovered:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/21/pompeii-masks.html

Video feature on some Roman remains found in Norfolk some
fifty years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8150191.stm

A nymphaeum (apparently) from Bulgaria:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1362

Remains of a Thracian village near the Blatnitsa River:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=105927

Possible discovery of remains of ancient Skylletium:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-07-24_124366942.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/07/24/Blocks-may-be-from-ancient-Greek-city\
/UPI-31101248446591/
http://ilquotidianodellacalabria.ilsole24ore.com/it/calabria/reggio_squillace_ri\
nvenuti_blocchi_lapidei_archeologia_20015.html(Italian)

... and the ancient port of Trafalgar:

http://www.ansamed.info/en/news/ME03.@AM63952.html

A Bronze Age (it appears) settlement from Cyprus:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=acPPTPmfqVBE
http://www.grreporter.info/statiaen.php?mysid=2349&t=25&SESID=i00oedpr7sp3qi2kaj\
qtvqeld7

Interesting gold mask from FYROM/Macedonia:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1352
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/278179,ancient-tombs-with-peculiar-gold-\
mask-discovered-in-macedonia.html

They're digging this weekend at Wanstead in search of Roman stuff:

http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/4502949.WANSTEAD__Archeologists_prepare_fo\
r_big_dig_in_Wanstead_Park/

All about the HSC Ancient History exam in Austalia:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/how-to-become-past-perfect-20090724-dvy1.html

More on that shrine to Jupiter Dolichenus:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/24/roman-cult-alter.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32132580/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/todays-news/2009/07/15/amazing-alta\
r-unearthed-at-vindolanda-roman-fort-61634-24159369/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32132580/
http://blog.taragana.com/n/religious-shrine-to-roman-god-uncovered-at-hadrians-w\
all-fort-in-england-114501/

Review (by Mary Beard) of Cathy Gere, *Knossos and the Prophets
of Modernism*:

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/22970
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Flint etc. dating to 10 400 years b.p. from Birmingham:

http://www.birminghampost.net/news/west-midlands-news/2009/07/24/evidence-of-sto\
ne-age-man-found-in-digbeth-65233-24226815/

A prehistoric hut from the Swiss Alps:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/Prehistoric_hut_gives_clues_to_ancient_Alp_lif\
e.html?siteSect=105&sid=10999140&cKey=1248517107000&ty=st

A Neolithic site from Bulgaria:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/07/19/757823_archeologists-find-neolithic-era-dwel\
ling-in-southern-bulgaria

A 10th century cowshed from Iceland:

http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16567&ew_0_a_id=33\
6997

Tram construction in Leith Walk has revealed what may be medieval
burials:

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/latestnews/-Human-bones-unearthed-as.5491156.j\
p

The Time Team folks have dug up a Napoleonic-era POW camp:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6722271.ece

A metal detectorist has detected a medieval hawking bell:

http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/Treasure-hunter-digs-silver-hawking-bell-\
dropped-falconers-medieval-era/article-1184275-detail/article.html

Searching for unrecorded ancient trees in the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8160881.stm

The joys of mudlarking along the Thames:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8161000/8161223.stm

Can't remember if we've mentioned that those headless burials from
Dorset date from Saxon times:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6718631.ece
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
DNA suggests folks arrived in Australia from Africa via a coastal
route:

http://www.physorg.com/news167423399.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/07/24/2635149.htm?topic=ancient

A 20 000 years b.p. hearth from Taiwan:

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/taiwan/archives/2009/07/25/2003449498
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=368533

1500 years of scorched land in Vietnam blamed on political unrest:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=vietnam-burning-warfare

More on that Silla Dynasty armour:

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2907709

OpEd piece (with some historical stuff) relating to last week's
eclipse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/21/opinion/21iht-eddas.html

Plans for the Peking Man site:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-07/21/content_8451520.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6705295.html
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
An 8-year-old came across a prehistoric ax in her back yard near
Annapolis:

http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/can/2009/07/24-16/Around-Crownsville-Backy\
ard-find-is-a-2000-to-3000-year-old-ax.html

More evidence of a comet crashing into Canada some 13 000 years
b.p.:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/uoc--tdo072109.php
http://www.kelowna.com/2009/07/22/more-evidence-found-that-a-comet-smashed-into-\
canada/
http://uonews.uoregon.edu/archive/news-release/2009/7/californias-channel-island\
s-hold-evidence-clovis-age-comets
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20090720/sc_livescience/cometkillediceagebea\
sts
http://www.physorg.com/news167329938.html

An Early Woodland site from Huron County:

http://www.cleveland.com/printer/printer.ssf?/base/news/1248078607200050.xml&col\
l=2


What it's like being Minnesota's state archaeologist:

http://www.finance-commerce.com/article.cfm/2009/07/22/For-Minnesotas-state-arch\
aeologist-its-another-day-another-crisis-Twoperson-state-archaeology-office

The search is on for the HMS Diana:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/5872412/Salvage-crews\
-hope-to-solve-the-mystery-of-HMS-Diana.html

Review of Douglas Brinkley, *The Wilderness Warrior*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/books/23maslin.html

Can't remember if we mentioned this brewing dispute over train
construction in Utah which will pass through a Native American
site:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/22/us/AP-US-Ancient-Site-Rail-Station.ht\
ml
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_12894949?source=rss

Sam's Club v mound ... Sam's wins:

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20090723/NEWS02/907230301/1009/rss04
http://www.kfor.com/news/local/kfor-ap-us-indian-mound-dispute,0,2251657.story?t\
rack=rss

Followup on that Mexican-artifacts-in-the-trash story:

http://www.newsday.com/mexico-expert-eyes-artifacts-found-in-ny-trash-1.1323800

================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A substructure at Chichen Itza:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32261
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia\
=368320

Interesting claim of evidence the Maya practiced forest conservation:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090722150825.htm
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1725302/scientists_determine_that_ancient_m\
aya_practiced_forest_conservation/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-78667.html
http://www.physorg.com/news167411824.html

A chimney/air vent from Teotihuacan:

http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2009/07/20/index.php?section=cultura&article=a06n1cul

A pre-Incan mummy from downtown Lima:

http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE56M0JI20090723
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090723/sc_nm/us_peru_mummies_1

Remains from some party some 4000 years b.p. in the Fox Temple
in Peru:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090721135602.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/uom-ahl072109.php
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/ancient-humans-left-evidence-party-ended-4000-yea\
rs-ago-23246.html

Feature on the Sun Pyramid:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32282
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
I really have no idea where I should categorize this one ... the
Italian prime minister is in hot water over some tapes made by
a prostitute, not for the obvious reasons, but for a quote about
a hitherto unknown Phoenician site under one of his villas in
Sardinia:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/jul/24/silvio-berlusconi-tapes-archaeologic\
al-tombs
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8168085.stm
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3579736495

The all-purpose pronoun?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/magazine/26FOB-onlanguage-t.html

A shy Englishman beat Galileo 'to the moon':

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6725572.ece
http://news.skymania.com/2009/07/17th-century-mission-to-moon.html

Feature on Bleriot's Channel crossing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/world/europe/25crossing.html

Two more works by Mozart have apparently been found:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/23/world/AP-EU-Austria-Mozart-Discovered\
.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090723/ap_en_ot/eu_austria_mozart_discovered

Arguing over the ownership of van Gogh's Night Cafe:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/vangogh2.html

High tech approach to transcribing ancient documents:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=59622&CultureCode=en

Latest in the Black Swan case:

http://www.bizjournals.com/tampabay/stories/2009/07/20/daily43.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090722/tsc-us-treasure-hunters-file-appeal-in-b-e1\
23fef.html
http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=16795

Another feature on the Indus language:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/51140197.html

Being gay at Yale:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_07/gayivy_033.html#chauncey

Feature on Noah Webster:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2008_09/old_yale.html

All about Gaudeamus Igitur:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_07/old_yale_022.html

Review of a pile of books about nuns:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/07/know-your-nuns-seven-essenti\
al-books.html

Review of Bruce Bawer, *Surrender*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/books/review/Pollard-t.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

New this week:

Apollonia Arsuf (Israel):

http://apollonia-arsuf.blogspot.com/

Ongoing:

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa (dig just concluded):

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Mormon Trail:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/travel/escapes/24amer.html

Rome:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-newdiggingrome19-2009jul19
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Interesting feature on Edgar Tijhuis' art crime course:

http://nytimes.com/2009/07/22/arts/design/22crime.html

Vandals hit a Shakespeare site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/8168672.stm

A pile of rare and priceless clocks stolen a couple of decades ago
were returned to a Jerusalem museum:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1246443847387&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Review of Salisbury and Sujo, *Provenance*:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/07/24/RVEV18I6G4.DTL

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
The UK's oldest (so far) Roman coin:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/berkshire/content/articles/2009/07/24/roman_coin_feature.sh\
tml

Some nice Roman acquisitions by the BM:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32263

Arguing over which museum should have some Roman coins (and other
items) found in Scotland:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=7021

A pile of Roman coins have been put on disply in Wiltshire:

http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/salisbury/salisburynews/4512639.Roman_coi\
ns_go_on_display/
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/4509037.Devizes_Museum_displays_Roman_coin\
_hoard/

Numismatic Literature:

http://www.numismatics.org/Numlit/Numlit

Calcutta Mint:

http://www.dezixx.com/2009/06/then-and-now-calcutta-mint.html

US Mint's Historian's Corner:

http://usmint.gov/historianscorner
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Otium Ludens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/arts/25iht-conway.html?_r=1

Wonderful Things:

http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=26180

Judith Leyster:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/arts/design/23leyster.html

James Ensor:

http://nymag.com/arts/art/reviews/57723/

Anzio and Nero:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Altro/?id=3.0.3580612671

Bactrian Hoard:

http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/07/27/090727ta_talk_widdicombe

Reconfiguring the Body in American Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/22/arts/design/22body.html

Assorted arts/auction items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/arts/design/24vogel.html

Partridge Fine Arts is on the verge of bankruptcy:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/32078/famed-british-antiques-dealership-strugg\
les-to-stay-afloat/

The Dutch have returned a two-centuries-old severed head to Ghana:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Altro/?id=3.0.3580612671

There's a new guy in charge of the NEA:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/23/arts/23funding.html

Cuts threaten expansion at the BM and Tate:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/5890139/British-Museum-and-Tate-\
Modern-threatened-by-100m-black-hole.html

More coverage of the DSS in Toronto thing:

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090724/FOREIGN/707239848/\
1014/NEWS
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Twelfth Night:

http://nymag.com/arts/theater/reviews/57654/

Boris Gudonov:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/theater/reviews/24boris.html

Trilogia della Villeggiatura:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/07/24/theater/reviews/24trilogy.html

Wagner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/arts/music/26davi.html

Some Tony nominees:

http://nymag.com/arts/theater/reviews/56417/index1.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Lionel Casson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/25/nyregion/25casson.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/1621681.html

Felipe Solis:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/felipe-solis-archaeologist-who-asse\
mbled-one-of-the-worlds-greatest-collections-of-precolombian-artefacts-1755611.h\
tml
================================================================
DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Chinese archaeologists have renewed digging at Miocene/Pliocene
hominoid (hominid?) sites in Yunnan:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6715971.html

Trawling for mussels off the Dutch coast dredged up a 40 000 b.p.
human bone:

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20090726225944\
320C802068
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090726/tsc-fishing-boat-fins-oldest-underwater-c2f\
f8aa.html

Genetic evidence is suggesting a population boom in Africa some
40 000 years b.p.:

http://www.physorg.com/news168072172.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090728223022.htm

Feature on hominid African origins:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2009/07/23/hominids-african-origins-50-y\
ears-later/

Feature on the 'downfall' of the Neanderthals:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-mysterious-downfall


================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a ritual vessel with a
"mysterious" Aramaic (?) inscription:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=124\
8277923672
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132655
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090731/wl_mideast_afp/israelreligionarchaeology_20\
090731083549
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/5767404/rare-ritual-vessel-from-jesus\
-era-found-in-jerusalem/
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-sci-mtzion1-2009aug01,0,20812\
70.story?track=rss
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h6VSI7g7xGnpPhTZaLID8_Ki4gRQ


Remains of a Umayyad-era settlement in Turkey:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-84302.html
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-182512-100-1400-year-old-ancient-city-fou\
nd-in-osmaniye.html

Discovery of a Sassanian layer at Siraf:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=60:di\
scovery-of-sasanian-layer-in-the-persian-gulfs-port-of-siraf&catid=1

Feature on mapping Egyptian sites:

http://archaeology-news.org/gps/mapping-ancient-egyptian-sites-with-gps-and-imag\
ery/

Theban tomb tracings:

http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4TT23.html

Latest mummy CT scan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8176784.stm

Experts are on their way to help preserve a deteriorating Egyptian
mummy in Hyderabad:

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/egyptian-experts-to-conserve-mummy-in\
-hyderabad-museum_100224792.html

Feature on piecing together the Tell Halaf fragments:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/New-life-for-ancient-Syrian-sculptures/1\
8551

Feature on 40 years of Japanese digging in Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/958/he1.htm

British Museum report on the excavation at Tell el-Balamun:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/research_projects/excavation_in_egypt/repo\
rts_in_detail.aspx

Theban tomb tracings:

http://www.griffith.ox.ac.uk/gri/4TT23.html

Latest mummy CT scan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8176784.stm

Experts are on their way to help preserve a deteriorating Egyptian
mummy in Hyderabad:

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/egyptian-experts-to-conserve-mummy-in\
-hyderabad-museum_100224792.html

A video tour of Jerusalem:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132648

... and one on the City of David:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/IRD_movie_eng.asp

Concerns that the 'Fertile Crescent' will disappear:

http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/mesopotamias-fertile-crescent-may-dis\
appear-this-century_100223970.html

Feature on Egyptian folk tales:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/957/he2.htm

Feature on archaeology in Qatar:

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/Display_news.asp?section=Local_News&month=July2\
009&file=Local_News2009072815420.xml

Review of Daniel Myerson, *In the Valley of the Kings*:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/jul/28/what-drew-them-to-tuts-tomb/

More on the possibility that the bust of Hatshepsut might be fake:

http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=29&art_id=nw200907191536523\
09C386397

More on damage to Babylon:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/28/AR2009072802835.\
html
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/07/31/iraq.babylon.damage/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009565338_babylon30.html?synd\
ication=rss

More on angels in Hagia Sophia:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=hagia-sofia8217s-angel-uncovered-2009-0\
7-24
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=three-more-angels-for-hagia-sophia-2009\
-07-26
http://www.cctv.com/program/asiatoday/20090727/105560.shtml
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the discovery (by technical means) of the
site of Altinum:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/730/1
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-ancient-rome1-2009aug01,0,\
5101657.story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8177529.stm (flyover video)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6734110.ece
http://blogs.discovery.com/earth/2009/07/a-goodforsomething-drought.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2009-07-31_131211645.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090730-venice-buried-city-altinu\
m.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/photogalleries/venice-ancestor-c\
ity-altinum-pictures/index.html
http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,639482,00.html

... and plenty of coverage of the discovery of a 5000 years b.p.
'warrior's tomb' near Rome:

http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/ap/52193227.html
http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/5fc38e30522c4f69a980f170fe272b97\
/01-08-2009%2009-08/Ancient_warrior_skeleton_found
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gj1IAqfcnkSTEvL4SnixyWzgiHEgD9\
9PF1J02
http://asia.news.yahoo.com/ap/20090731/twl-eu-italy-warrior-s-tomb-c8e2916.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090801/sc_nm/us_italy_warrior_1
http://www.news-mail.com.au/story/2009/08/01/warriors-skeleton-found-near-rome/
http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=10825236
http://www.fresnobee.com/world/story/1568768.html

Interesting statue of Marsyas found during the dig near the Villa
Vignacce:

http://imperialfora.blogspot.com/2009/07/rome-italian-archaeologists-discover.ht\
ml

Bulgarian archaeologists have resumed work on a Thracian temple
site on Starosel (not sure if this link will work):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=106295

Roman remains near Plovdiv (ditto):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=106364

A possible nymphaeum find in Bulgaria (ditto on the novinite link):

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1362
http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=106206

A Roman "hospital" (?) in South Moravia:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/118725
http://praguemonitor.com/2009/07/28/unique-ancient-roman-hospital-excavated-sout\
h-moravia
http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/unique-ancient-roman-hospital-excavated-in\
-south-moravia/389954

Theory that blocks from the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus were used to
build a dock in Malta:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090726/local/dock-1-made-from-ancien\
t-ruins

Feature on Caistor Roman Town:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090624111021.htm

The Antikythera mechanism might be older than previously thought:

http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/07/jo-marchant-consulta\
nt-from-sw.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/jul/29/archaeology-astronomy
http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2009/07/jo-marchant-consulta\
nt-from-sw.html

Plans to excavate a Roman theatre in Ankara:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1367

Using computers to restore frescos at Akrotiri:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_civ_2_31/07/2009_109409

Catullus in Harper's:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/07/hbc-90005430

More on the Ventotene shipwrecks:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8168425.stm
http://www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Ancient-Roman-Shipwrecks-Found/story.xhtml?st\
ory_id=13200D3ONRT0
http://www.examiner.com/x-3669-Chicago-Historic-Living-Examiner~y2009m7d28-Itali\
an-coast-holds-secret-of-recently-discovered-ancient-Roman-shipwrecks
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1046\
31

More on those finds near Squillace:

http://www.cdnn.info/news/science/sc090728.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Archaeologists have resumed digging at a fortress site in Balchik:

http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/News/2607B-14.htm

Finds from various periods at a castle site in Bulgaria near the
border with Greece:

http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=106224

DNA will be used to identify some recently-discovered WWI burials:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/5932745/First-World-War-bodies-to-be-iden\
tified.html

They've 'recreated' Henry II's Dover Castle's opulent interior:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8177387.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/theroyalfamily/5940173/Henry-II-spent\
-a-fortune-on-Dover-Castle-to-counter-Becket-cult.html

Medieval remains from Peterborough's Cathedral Square:

http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/Secret-life-of-medieval-city.5506791.jp

I think we've heard about Cheddar Gorge before:

http://www.physorg.com/news167925485.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090727130600.htm

Feature on 'treasure hunting' in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=106385

Feature on archaeology in Binchester:

http://www.wearvalleymercury.co.uk/wear-valley-news/story,1910.html

More protection for historic battlefields in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8170448.stm

More on those headless bodies (now possibly Vikings) from Dorset:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/07/090728-headless-viking-execution\
-pit.html

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Remains of what is being touted as the 'oldest known paraplegic':

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-80944.html
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/world/world/general/4000yearold-paraplegic-\
found/1578397.aspx

Remains of a 'warlord's' castle (400 years b.p.) from Japans Hikone
prefecture:

http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20090802TDY10002.htm

Some Buddhist artifacts buried during Mongolia's Communist purge
have been relocated:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8179921.stm

A 6th/7th century goddess sculpture from the Indian Kashmir:

http://www.groundreport.com/Business/Ancient-stone-sculpture-of-Goddess-of-6th-7\
th-Cent_2

Concerns for the Buddhist stupa at Taxila:

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/entertainment\
/16-unesco-archaeology-dept-urged-to-save-buddhist-stupa-hs-05
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Feature on the search for the first Floridians:

http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_635967.html

Update on the Range Creek dig(s):

http://www.sunad.com/index.php?tier=1&article_id=16262

The followup to the Chimney Rock dig:

http://www.colorado.edu/news/r/d8e411224278f6967ab333307e9a3fde.html
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/20250041/detail.html
http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20090730/NEWS/907299976/-1/rss09
http://www.vaildaily.com/article/20090729/NEWS/907299993/1062/rss10

Brief item on finds at the San Gabriel Mission (Cal.):

http://www.mercurynews.com/california/ci_12937693?nclick_check=1

Mount Rushmore will be getting the laser treatment:

http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2009-07-28-mount-rushmore_N.htm

Somewhat strange opeddish thing on Benjamin Franklin:

http://kalman.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/can-do/
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Mayan calendar stuff:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111341700

Some history of cacao in Venezuela:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/world/americas/29cacao.html

More on those Peruvian party leftovers:

http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/jul/27/1c27refers19124/?currents%20q\
uest

More on the Inca and climate change:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32189596/ns/technology_and_science-science/

================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A couple weeks ago we had something on the Vinland map ... I forgot
to mention this 'response':

http://goddesschess.blogspot.com/2009/07/vinland-map-back-in-news.html

Traces of Aramaic on the Shroud of Turin?:

http://www.cathnews.com/article.aspx?aeid=15419

'Tracing' archaeological data:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327195.900-giant-pencil-sketches-archaeo\
logical-finds-fast.html

... and field linguists have some new tech tools too:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/science/28prof.html

Hunter-gatherer wiring in our brains apparently accoundes for
men and women having different levels of visual acuity:

http://www.physorg.com/news168157251.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/21/20090729/tsc-ancient-link-to-difference-in-sexes-4b1\
58bc.html

So what's the deal with 'hidden' artworks:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/jul/27/renaissance\
-art-cover-up

On the history of baseball's box score:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=106891539

... and Times New Roman:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/a2fa033e-7ca1-11de-a7bf-00144feabdc0.html

... and recreating old/ancient beer:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111273307

When chiasmus is outlawed ...:

http://www.news-journal.com/featr/content/features/stories/2009/07/27/07272009_F\
rank_Pool_column.html

Nietzsche and Dionysus:

http://harpers.org/archive/2009/07/hbc-90005412

An interview with Thomas Cahill:

http://www.irishcentral.com/ent/Civilization-On-Trial-An-Interview-with-Thomas-C\
ahill.html

A Civil War spat:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/movies/30jones.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

New this week:

Skagafjordur Archaeological Settlement Survey:

http://blogs.umb.edu/sass/

SHARP weblog:

http://ccgi.sedgeford.plus.com/blog/

Ongoing:

Apollonia Arsuf (Israel):

http://apollonia-arsuf.blogspot.com/

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa (dig just concluded):

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Baalbek:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB20001424052970204482304574223971816504460.html

Iraq:

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090801/TRAVEL/707319918/1\
186/enewsletter

US National Parks:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/07/26/travel/26journeys.html

Troy:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/279218,the-myth-of-troy-continues-to-dra\
w-visitors-to-the-dardanelles.html
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Followup piece to all those events in Utah:

http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/ci_12949608

Viet art is the latest to be faked in a major way, it seems:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/arts/design/01copies.html

Latest sales of illicit items on eBay:

http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3605743536

Quite a few items have been recovered at Sana'a International Airport
this year:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news190104.htm

Italy is seeking items from Robin Symes' Trustees:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0907/S00311.htm

================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Hunters and Collectors:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/arts/31iht-jessop.html

Golden Age of Dutch Seascapes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/arts/design/31seascapes.html

Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures:

http://www.jsonline.com/blogs/entertainment/51993247.html

A couple of exhibitions featuring items form the Musee d'Orsay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/arts/design/31vogel.html

21st century 'antiquarians':

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/garden/30prewar.html

Interesting story of the reunion of a baroque statue with its
pedestal:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/arts/design/31antiques.html

Hype for an upcoming Sotheby's auction of French furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/design/31anti.html

The Louvre has put its online database into English:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/29/louvre-online-to-open-database-in-e\
nglish/
http://artmuseumjournal.com/academic_resources.aspx
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/07/29/louvre-english.html

Ernst Pernicka wants a museum at Troy:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-182299-101-political-will-needed-to-open-\
trojan-museum-in-canakkale.html

Another assessment of the auctions market this year:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/01/arts/01iht-MELIK1.html

The Richmond (BC) Museum has acquired a potentially-interesting
collection:

http://www.bclocalnews.com/richmond_southdelta/richmondreview/community/52000397\
.html

Nice feature on Tiffany and Co.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/30/fashion/30CRITIC.html

Latest on goings-on at the art museum at Brandeis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/arts/design/28arts-LAWSUITSEEKS_BRF.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Love's Labour's Lost:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/07/27/arts/AP-EU-Britain-Shakespearean-Tour\
.html

Macbeth in the Other Room:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/07/28/theater/reviews/28macbeth.html

Those 'new' Mozart pieces were performed t'other day:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/8180138.stm
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Lionel Casson:

http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_12919963

Elinor Gordon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/31/arts/design/31gordon.html
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Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Bones for Strekfontein Caves show evidence of the earliest
infectious disease in a hominin:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-87092.html

Latest theory on homo floresiensis:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/02/2643415.htm

More on gender roles and eyesight:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/03/2644726.htm

More on modern humans killing off Neanderthals:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5972268/Neanderthals-may-have-been-ki\
lled-off-by-modern-humans.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A statue of Amenhotep III has reacaquired its head:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article5827034.\
ece

A cache of cuneiform tablets from Tell Tayinat:

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/lead-stories/university-of-toronto-archaeologists-fi\
nd-cache-of-cuneiform-tablets-in-270-1.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gdcrmXgT25ixpxgf6YE\
V8B60j5fg
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-88489.html

Quite a bit of coverage for Mannu-ki-Libbali's plea for reinforcements:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6740694.\
ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093

A Neolithic burial from Ankara:

http://blog.taragana.com/n/8000-year-old-human-skeleton-found-in-a-turkey-tomb-1\
28299/

Plenty of coverage of the IAA's launch of a campaign to register
private antiquities collections:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249275691727&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2009/Israel_Antiquities_Authori\
ty_register_collections_held_general_public_4-Aug-2009.htm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hMXwK7k9cIosoTBPK3b3UdFdIfkQ
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/05/content_11826913.htm
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1105296.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/168980

The saga of the mummy of Iret-net Hor-irw:

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090808/A_LIFE1203/90808032\
8/-1/NEWSMAP

Audio on the Tell es-Safi/Gath dig (see below for the dig
blog):

http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/audio/am/200908/20090803-am05-goliath-dig.mp3

Finds from various periods at Sidon:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=10500\
5
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/06/content_11838819.htm

An archaeologist is calling for a new study of the Achaemenid
palace site at Bardak Siah:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=200211
http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=63:ex\
pert-calls-for-new-study-on-achaemenid-bardak-siyah-palace-in-borajzan&catid=34
http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=923428

Iran has published a number of petroglyph translations:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102613§ionid=351020105

Plenty of attention given to a bust in the Field Museum which
apparently looks like Michael Jackson:

http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuId=5&ContentID=161048
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/5787376/egyptia\
n-statue-looks-like-jackson/
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_414171.html

Feature on Gobekli Tepe:

http://www.examiner.com/x-11199-Archeological-Travel-Examiner~y2009m8d3-Gobekli-\
Tepe-Standing-stones-from-humanitys-oldest-temple

Interesting audio report on the goings-on at Akko (Acre):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1249

OpEd on the protests accompanying the DSS exhibition at the ROM:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/curious.shtml

Speculating about the 'Great Flood':

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/20470/

This is likely 'elmer' material ... some "researchers" claim to
have an exact date for the construction of the Great Pyramid (Zahi
Hawass doesn't buy it):

http://en.rian.ru/world/20090804/155727268.html

More on that 'mysterious' Aramaic inscription:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h6VSI7g7xGnpPhTZaLID8_Ki4gRQ
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1048\
65
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-mtzion1-2009aug01,0,6188025.story

More on that Temple model:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132683
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a villa being touted as
the birthplace of Vespasian:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090808/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_emperor_s_villa_7
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5985623/Two-thousand-year\
-old-remains-of-Emperor-Vespasians-house-discovered.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h5QB9kaAxRowdUzfXSOwiqY1-edA
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8190955.stm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/06/vespasian-villa.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/arts/08arts-UNEARTHEDVIL_BRF.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/villa-thought-to-be-roman-emperors-\
birthplace-uncovered/
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2009/08/07/vespasian-villa.html

On the periphery of the purview of this section is the discovery
of a 4500 b.p. burial in a tomb south of Rome:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/5960327/Ancient-warrior-s\
keleton-found-on-Italian-beach.html
http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/2009/08/5000-year-old-skeleton-of-wa\
rrior-found-on-italian-beach.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090801/sc_nm/us_italy_warrior_1
http://www.kansascity.com/451/story/1356828.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,536172,00.html?test=latestnews

The Pyla Koutsopetria dig has concluded:

http://www.isria.com/pages/5_August_2009_89.php

The CSA Propylaea Project has been updated:

http://propylaea.org/

An update (of sorts) on Muziris:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1090803/jsp/frontpage/story_11313800.jsp#

A gardener in Gargrave dug up a Roman fibula:

http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/4531039.Piece_of_Roman_history_unearthed_in_g\
arden/

Lending credence to a fable of Aesop:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8181233.stm

Review of John Holbo, *Reason and Persuasion*:

http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2009/08/reason-and-persuasion.php

More on Altinum:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-08-01-roman-city_N.h\
tm?se=yahoorefer
http://news.aol.com/article/ancient-roman-city-altinum-map/601081

More on that rusty apoxyomenos:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090807-crusty-greek-statue-croat\
ia-picture.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Claims of a 14 000 years b.p. "map" from a petroglyph in Spain:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327204.400-found-a-pocket-guide-to-prehi\
storic-spain.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/5978900/Worlds-oldest-map\
-Spanish-cave-has-landscape-from-14000-years-ago.html

Some Bronze Age burials at Low Hauxley are threatened by erosion:

http://www.theambler.co.uk/current/58.pages/Bronze%20Age%20Burials.htm

... this seems to be a similar, but different story:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/north_east/8181061.stm

Not sure if we've mentioned this late antiquity Black Sea fortress
from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=106519

A Tripolye culture site from Chisinau:

http://social.moldova.org/news/scientists-open-ancient-archeological-site-in-chi\
sinau-203128-eng.html

A Sarmatian (?) site from Hungary:

http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=263556

A Bronze Age burial from Prague:

http://www.praha.eu/jnp/en/visitors/historic_prague/-publish-portal-en-visitors-\
historic_prague-archaeological_discovery_in_terronska.html
http://zpravy.idnes.cz/foto.asp?r=vedatech&c=A090730_152124_vedatech_jw(photos)

Tomb of a Bulgarian princess from Veliko Turnovo:

http://www.sofiaecho.com/2009/08/03/765128_archeology-works-in-veliko-turnovo-di\
scover-a-princess

A dig in Co Meath suggests some medieval monks were 'green':

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0804/1224251959097.html

The usual suggestion of cannibalism following the discovery of
cut marks on some 9000 years b.p. bones from Kents Cavern:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8188601.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news168867939.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/aug/07/cannibals-kents-cavern-bone

A possible Templar tabernacle door find from a 'car boot sale':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/5966768/Car-boot-wood-could-\
be-Crusades-tabernacle.html

Some burials of 'forgotten Culloden Redcoats' have been found:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6742099.ece

Medieval pottery (?) from a dig at Woking:

http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/s/2055367_woking_archaeological_dig_turns_up_rar\
e_pottery

A gardener in Morven has dug up a piece of bar shot:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8181404.stm

Plans to touristify a Baltic shipwreck 'graveyard' is getting
mixed reactions:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/baltic-sea-a-shipwreck-tour-treasure-\
chest/article1245747/

... not sure if this shipwreck find is related or not:

http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/20598/

Details of a pile of 18th and 18th century trials from the UK are
now available online:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/aug/03/trial-details-online-ancestry-w\
ebsite

Oliver Cromwell's grave "comes back to life" (zombies?):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/aug/02/cromwell-grave-westminster-abbey

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
An interesting idol from the Mahabharat era from Chhattisgarh:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-87362.html

Plenty of archaeology jobs in India, but no one wants them:

http://www.business-standard.com/india/news/jobs-aplenty-in-archaeology-deptno-t\
akers/365658/

They appear to be 'downloading' care of archaeological sites
in Pakistan:

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/prov\
inces/13+sindh+to+be+given+126+archaeological+sites-za-17

More on that Neolithic 'paralytic burial' from Viet Nam:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/06/paralyzed-human.html
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Feature/reviewish things on 'virgin sacrifice' at Cahokia:

http://www.bnd.com/news/local/story/875703.html
http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/08/06/cahokia/index.html?source=rss&aim=/\
books/review

Wells and assorted evidence of fire from a dig in downtown St. Augustine:

http://www.staugustine.com/stories/080709/news_1828572.shtml

Possible Mississipian Culture remains from a construction site
in Collinsville:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/illinoisnews/story/AF926CD3909\
012038625760B0073F43D?OpenDocument

They're digging at Fort Knox:

http://www.wabi.tv/news/6960/archaeology-dig-at-fort-knox-reveals-clues-to-past

Another Richmond battlefield is now open to the public:

http://www.richmondregister.com/localnews/local_story_219235013.html

Mysterious sand at the Fairbanks House (Dedham) dig:

http://www.dailynewstranscript.com/news/x2116340300/In-Dedham-Archaeologist-team\
-comes-up-with-sand

A library in New Mexico has some letters by Billy the Kid:

http://www.physorg.com/news168693030.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Finds of a stegomastodon's bones in Patagonia are leading to hopes
of finding a human settlement nearby:

http://www.patagoniatimes.cl/index.php/20090807871/News/Health-Science/CHILEAN-E\
LEPHANT-FOSSILS-HINT-AT-ANCIENT-HUMAN-SETTLEMENT.html

A pile of Late Post Classic preHispanic burials and assorted other
items have been found in Cholula:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-85012.html

The Maya did use bricks:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32589

Excellent restoration of an anthropomorphic figure from Teotihuacan:

http://www.artknowledgenews.com/2009-08-05-00-00-00-restored-teotihuacan-effigy-\
exhibited-at-national-museum-of-anthropology.html

Interesting twist(s) in that story about the rubbish remover who
found a burial of artifacts:

http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2009/08/03/2009-08-03_he_donates_some_of_mex\
_treasure_found_in_trash.html

Mike Ruggeri's Toltec and Aztec art portfolio is worth a look:

http://web.me.com/michaelruggeri/MIKE_RUGGERIS_TOLTEC_AND_AZTEC_ART_PORTFOLIO/MI\
KE_RUGGERIS_TOLTEC_AND_AZTEC_ART_PORTFOLIO/MIKE_RUGGERIS_TOLTEC_AND_AZTEC_ART_PO\
RTFOLIO.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Another one in the 'potentially-elmer' department ... folks want
to dig up a sarcophagus to confirm/refute authorship of Shakespeare's plays:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5995083/Tomb-search-could-end-rid\
dle-of-Shakespeares-true-identity.html

Love potion number ?:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090807/od_nm/us_odd

Parisian toothaches?:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/aug/04/improbable-research-toothache

Digitally preserving cultural artifacts:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8172568.stm

Challenging the origins of domestic dogs:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8182371.stm

On the origins of malaria:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090803173252.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/03/malaria.origins/index.html

In case you missed the brouhaha about haggis:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/foodanddrinknews/5960237/Haggis-was-inve\
nted-by-the-English-not-the-Scottish-says-historian.html

Feature on the antiquity of beer:

http://www.democratandchronicle.com/article/20090804/LIVING0101/908040301/1032/R\
SS05

Recreating ancient lighting at various sites from various periods:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327206.500-shedding-old-light-on-archaeo\
logical-artefacts.html

Explorers who shaped the world:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/picturegalleries/5988936/Explorers-that-shaped\
-the-world.html

The 10 most historically inaccurate movies:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article67\
38785.ece

Interesting language (Dutch) development:

http://schott.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/smart-smijten/

That Indus Script story is making the rounds again:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/554899/
http://www.ddj.com/hpc-high-performance-computing/219100278?cid=RSSfeed_DDJ_All
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

New this week:

Tell es-Safi/Gath (just ending):

http://gath.wordpress.com/

Ongoing/recently ended:

Skagafjordur Archaeological Settlement Survey:

http://blogs.umb.edu/sass/

SHARP weblog:

http://ccgi.sedgeford.plus.com/blog/

Ongoing:

Apollonia Arsuf (Israel):

http://apollonia-arsuf.blogspot.com/

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa (dig just concluded):

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Gordion:

http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=182716

Beit Shemesh:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=124\
8277948339

Troy:

http://www.thesundaily.com/article.cfm?id=36496

Travel podcasts:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/5965080/The-best-travel-podcasts-Now-listen-up\
....html
================================================================
GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Amphora 8.1:

http://www.apaclassics.org/outreach/amphora/2009/Amphora8.1.pdf

AJA 113.3:

http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
That artifact looting case in Utah looks like it will lead to
even more arrests:

http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2009/08/06/Feds_Artifact_looting_case\
_likely_to_grow/
http://www.standard.net/live/news/179952

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A pile of gold coins with the image of the 'Slayer of the Bulgars'
has been found:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-08-05&article=28334
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures:

http://www.ny1.com/content/ny1_living/arts/103721/met-displays-ancient-treasures\
-rescued-from-afghanistan/Default.aspx

Moctezuma:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/6955f5d8-82e2-11de-ab4a-00144feabdc0.html

Chimera of Arezzo:

http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/08/art-review-the-chimaera-o\
f-arezzo-the-getty-villa.html
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-et-chimaera5-2009aug05,0,48808\
86.storylink

Tarzan (it's a slow week):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/06/arts/design/06abroad.html

Feature on the Louvre:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/arts/design/03abroad.html

Reviewish thing on the Capitoline Museum's 15th C. hall:

http://calitreview.com/4421

Feature on the Acropolis Museum:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/07/PKAU193BLJ.DTL

... which was the focus of a little brouhaha over a film being
shown therein:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iYBBKXT68dZ3b67tDQ4pVkbwVtIAD9\
9SRCQO0
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/acropolis-museum-wont-edit-controve\
rsial-short-film/
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a.kc0WT3cBnk
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100011_05/08/2009_109560

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Les Huguenots:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/04/arts/music/04meyerbeer.html?_r=1
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Edward Hall:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/science/05hall.html

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BLOGS OF NOTE
================================================================
Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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EARLY HUMANS
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Neanderthals could detect bitter tastes, apparently:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8195762.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-91046.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18obbitter.html
http://rsbl.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/early/2009/08/07/rsbl.2009.0532.a\
bstract
http://www.physorg.com/news169297576.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090812/tsc-neanderthals-wouldn-t-have-eaten-the-c2\
ff8aa.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/08/13/2654962.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news169297576.html
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Algunos/neandertales/podian/percibir/sab\
or/amargo/elpepusoc/20090812elpepusoc_1/Tes

Perhaps related to the foregoing ... home sapiens had a much
broader diet than Neanderthals:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn17595-seafood-gave-us-the-edge-on-the-nean\
derthals.html

Humans were treating tools with fire some 72 000 years b.p. (!):

http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/history/2009/08/14/ancient-toolmakers-dis\
covered-fire-treatment.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/science/18obfire.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090813/ap_on_sc/us_sci_ancient_toolmakers
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8195664.stm
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009665910_apussciancie\
nttoolmakers.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/asu-emh_1081009.php

Speaking of fire ... there's evidence of use of fire at the Peking Man
site (didn't we already have that?):

http://english.cri.cn/6909/2009/08/11/1821s508128.htm

Somewhat confusing claim that Upper Paleolithic humans in a
cave in Israel had different/fewer meat-sharing rituals:

http://www.physorg.com/news169373811.html
http://uanews.org/node/26794

Suggestion that human ancestors ultimately 'came from the trees'
rather than from "knuckle draggers":

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810162005.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/6004633/Humans-evolved-from-tree-dw\
elling-apes-rather-than-knuckle-draggers.html
http://www.physorg.com/news169137362.html

Looking at tool use in primates:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090715131437.htm

More on homo sapiens killing Neanderthals:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/23/did-spear-chucking-humans-k\
ill-neanderthals/

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AFRICA
================================================================
Finds from various periods during metro construction in Algiers:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g39uRfWDmWgGpn0IYd1VwfketW7A
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
An Akkadian sculpture's head has been reunited with its body:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i8zhHNbpphvwx_GjisByAqx3209g
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=33664
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/5797627/ancient-iraqi-stone-head-pair\
ed-with-replica-body/
http://www.ptinews.com/news/224071_Ancient-Iraqi-stone-head-matched-with-replica\
-body
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=308458&version\
=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17

Claims of a cave complex lying beneath the Giza Pyramids (!?):

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/13/caves-giza.html

Plans to preserve Iran's saltmen:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=103317§ionid=351020105

Remains of a third century Jewish temple in Andriake:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-183710-101-jewish-temple-found-in-ancient\
-port-city-at-lycian-site.html

Finds from the era of King Hezekiah at Ramat Rachel:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132808
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418590264&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Major brouhaha this week as Israel was excluded from the World
Archaeological Congress in Ramallah:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418591420&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=45164
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/08/13/1007217/israeli-archeologists-excluded-fr\
om-ramallah-confab
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132889

A section of road collapsed in the Silwan area of East Jerusalem due
to archaeological excavations:

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=218018

Two-part radio broadcast on the closing of the Elah Fortress 2009
excavation season:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1289

The IAA has a nice clickable map on ongoing excavations in Israel:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/map_eng.asp

cf: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132809

Preliminary Report on the 2009 season at Tel Kabri:

http://digkabri.files.wordpress.com/2008/10/preliminary-report-on-the-results-of\
-the-2009-excavation-season-at-tel-kabri4.pdf

Feature/semi-touristy thing on Tel Jezreel:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418599965&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Gamla gets similar treatment:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1211434078106&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

A 5th century burial in a Byzantine cathedral at Tal Al-Hasaka:

http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200908152214/Culture/syria-5th-century-\
skeleton-found-in-byzantine-cathedral.html

Questioning the date of a Hyderabad mummy:

http://www.indianexpress.com/news/Egyptian-expert-doubts-age-of-Hyderabad-mummy/\
501758

Essay on the transition from Coptic to Arabic:

http://ema.revues.org/index1920.html

More coverage of the 'Michael Jackson in the Field Museum' thing:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/2009/08/jackson.html
http://entertainment.iafrica.com/news/1853320.htm
http://www.skynews.com.au/showbiz/article.aspx?id=360510

... an interesting podcast on same:

http://web.mac.com/apephotep/SCARABsolutions/Ancient_Art_Podcast/Ancient_Art_Pod\
cast.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rj4ffn1e0xk

More coverage of those cuneiform tablets found by UofT researchers
in Turkey:

http://www.physorg.com/news169121163.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810122133.htm
http://www.sciencecodex.com/university_of_toronto_archaeologists_find_cache_of_t\
ablets_in_2700year_old_turkish_temple
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1736155/iron_age_cuneiform_tablets_found/in\
dex.html?source=r_science

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
The Pyla Koutsopetra Archaeological Project season has come to
an end:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/main/92,1,283,0,2162-.aspx

Some 1st century B.C. pithoi from Geronissos:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/main/92,1,283,0,2286-.aspx

A bath house at Brading Roman Villa:

http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/bath-house-found-in-villa-dig-27837.aspx

Roman remains found on the site of a proposed store in Carlisle:

http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/relics_of_romans_at_sainsbury_s_store_site\
_1_598385?referrerPath=news/

There's a big conference about Hadrian's Wall this week:

http://www.newspostleader.co.uk/latest/Army-of-Roman-experts-heads.5556550.jp

Interesting claim that Hadrian's wall was originally made from wood:

http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/news_at_a_glance/hadrian_s_wall_was_built_o\
f_wood_1_598511?referrerPath=home

More on the claimed discovery of Vespasian's villa:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6727558.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gQMz4mGCQZtona6eSGHcL3OXXo2wD9\
9U7JT00

Review of John Hale, *Lords of the Sea*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/books/07book.html?_r=1

cf: http://www.lordsofthesea.org/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Remains of a 9000 years b.p. dwelling from the Islae of Man:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/11/stone-age-house.html

A 'spectacular' early Bronze Age burial from Perthshire:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/As-old-as--the.5544397.jp
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8195357.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-92469.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6792763.ece

... and a somewhat less spectacular one from Exmoor:

http://www.thisiswesternmorningnews.co.uk/news/Gone-8211-secrets-4-000-year-old-\
tomb/article-1253396-detail/article.html

Evidence of contact between ancient Bohemian people and the Black Sea:

http://praguemonitor.com/2009/08/10/prehistoric-east-bohemian-people-had-contact\
-black-sea-area

An Iron Age log boat from Yorkshire:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Discovery-of-log-boat-shows.5537797.jp

Brief item on the find of a well-preserved Viking trading post
in Laerdal:

http://www.norwaypost.no/content/view/22366/26/

A 1000 years b.p. 'tree sign' (carving in an oak tree) from Prague:

http://praguemonitor.com/2009/08/12/czech-archeologists-find-probably-oldest-sig\
n-engraved-tree
http://www.radio.cz/en/article/119249

An Iron Age (maybe) burial from Monsal Head:

http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/Archaeologists-find-prehistoric-skeleton.55\
46397.jp

Remains of London's earliest timber structure:

http://www.physorg.com/news169297178.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090812104141.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/ucl-let081209.php
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1737018/londons_earliest_timber_structure_f\
ound_during_belmarsh_prison_dig/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32410329/ns/technology_and_science-science/

A "prehistoric" necropolis from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=106709

Fragments of 9th/10th century frescoes from a church in Varna:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1410
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-92445.html

Medieval finds from Veliko Tarnovo:

http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=106739

A pile of service records of medieval soldiers have gone online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8160081.stm

A 500 year-old unmarked graveyard from Longford:

http://www.longfordleader.ie/news/Archaeologists-in-Longford-town-discover.55438\
37.jp

A followup video report on those Thomas Becket paintings from a Spanish
church:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8192655.stm

Feature on the Malaspina expedition:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/revista/agosto/epopeya/Odyssey/elpepirdv/20090803\
elpepirdv_1/Tes

Feature on castle moats:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/12/castle-moat.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
The terracotta army may have actually belong to an empress (!):

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gc4W1ubKwUEhqEtY2dKG49HwdJrg
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6019168/Terracotta-army-bel\
onged-to-a-woman.html
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/national-news/2009/08/13/220247/Historian-says\
.htm
http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/5803679/terracotta-army-may-have-belo\
nged-to-empress/

Another dam -- this time in Pakistan -- and more sites threatened:

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090810/FOREIGN/708099870/\
1002/rss

Feature on the Tang 'Treasure Ship':

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/lang/archives/2009/08/08/2003450622

Genghis Khan returns to Mongolia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/03/world/asia/03genghis.html

Australias first astronomers:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2009/07/27/2632463.htm

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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
The dig season at Poverty Point has come to an end:

http://www.thenewsstar.com/article/20090809/LIFESTYLE/908090304

Remains of what was once Britain's largest military outpost in
colonial America have been hit/damaged by dredging operations:

http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=831222
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/aug/15/us-dredger-hits-colonial-outpost

Some coverage of this year's dig at San Francisco's Presidio:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/13/BA7R19598O.DTL

The coffin of the man killed by Andrew Jackson (?):

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video/andrew-jackson-shooting/article1250430/(vid\
eo)
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/08/12/Andrew-Jackson-duel-victim-found/UPI-5255\
1250087482/

New York City's 'birth certificate':

http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/city-birth-certificate/

US immigration documents will soon be available to the public:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/us/12archives.html

Some burials found during renovations to a building at the University of
South Carolina:

http://www.wltx.com/news/story.aspx?storyid=77230

Not sure where to file this one ... the grave of a man who bankrolled
the Confederate cause has been located in London:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/aug/10/grave-of-confederate-backer-found

Latest news from the Miami Circle:

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/5min/story/1187062.html

Feature on  Edwin Drake and his oil well:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090815/ap_on_re_us/us_oilman_s_pipe_fix

Review of S Jenkins and J. Stauffer, *The State of Jones*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/books/review/Reynolds-t.html

More on sacrifice at Cahokia:

http://www.bnd.com/news/local/story/875703.html

The greening of an historic Boston home:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111720662

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Remains of a small pyramid/yacata from Michoacan:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32660
http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=3489

Remains of the best-preserved pre-Columbian site in the Caribbean
has been found in Puerto Rico:

http://www.sunjournal.com/node/102989
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/pf/12755325.html

Feature on that new Maya tomb from Copan:

http://www.archaeology.org/0909/maya_copan/

A Maya altar from Yucatan:

http://mayanewsupdates.blogspot.com/

More on Maya brick use:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-91084.html

More on climate change and the Inca:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/07/28/global-warming-may-have-hel\
ped-make-the-incas-mighty/

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A huge Neolithic 'cathedral' from Orkney:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6795316.ece

Latest ancient boat recreation is a Bronze Age log boat at Loch Tay:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8193994.stm
http://www.maritimejournal.com/archive101/2009/august/online_news/its_back_to_th\
e_roots_for_boatbuilding

Interesting item on analysis of ancient pigments (mostly an ANE
story):

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=artful-science-peering-in
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32362118/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Cool job ... archaeologist:

http://dsc.discovery.com/videos/cool-jobs-archaeologist.html

... but plenty of archaeologists in the UK are on the dole:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/119352/Archaelogists-on-the-dole-as-funds-ru\
n-out

... and the difference between archaeologists and looters:

http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2009/08/09/Archaeologists_Stewards_of\
_science/

Feature on developments with the OED:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/magazine/16FOB-onlanguage-t.html

"Algorithms for Historic Documents":

http://web.bgu.ac.il/Eng/home/News/Algorithms+for+Historic+Documents.htm
http://www.aabgu.org/media-center/news-releases/bgu-analyzes-ancient-documents.h\
tml

The astounding revelation that "The Tudors" is historically
inaccurate:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/6005582/BBC-period-show-The-Tudors\
-is-historically-inaccurate-leading-historian-says.html

On the impact of science on methods of execution:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090810104809.htm

On globalization in the Middle Ages:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,637830,00.html

On lice and Napoleon's invasion of Russia:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/spiegel/0,1518,638751,00.html

The dying art of taxonomy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/science/11naming.html

Six 'fortunes' and how people accidentally found them:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/08/12/mf.buried.treasure/

On the Perseids and the beginning of the Zoque calendar:

http://www.physorg.com/news169398787.html

On the Haggis controversy:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/opinion/07mcallsmith.html

The strange tale of the Fortsas Hoax:

http://www.boingboing.net/2009/08/01/a-fortsas-hoax-of-18.html

Alphabetic writing systems "undermined indigenous social memory":

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/uoh-doa081109.php

Arts programs in academia are feeling the pinch:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/arts/10cuts.html

Review of Thomas Levenson, *Newton and the Counterfeiter*:

http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/55860/

Feature on 'Parian Porcelain':

http://www.capemaycountyherald.com/article/53450-parian+porcelain%E2%80%A6elegan\
ce+everyone

Reviewish sort of thing of Daniel Levin, *The Last Ember*:

http://www.mediabistro.com/galleycat/party_hopping/how_believable_is_daniel_levi\
ns_archaeological_thriller_124397.asp

More on poking around in a tomb to find out about purported
authorship of a shakespearean play:

http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/afterword/archive/2009/08/11/u-k-tomb-c\
ould-solve-shakespeare-identity-riddle.aspx
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2009/08/13/is-warwick-tomb-a\
nswer-to-shakespeare-debate-92746-24398680/
>

Google has massively enlarged its newspaper archives:

http://seekingalpha.com/article/153473-google-quietly-quadruples-its-newspaper-a\
rchives?source=email
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Skagafjordur Archaeological Settlement Survey:

http://blogs.umb.edu/sass/

SHARP weblog:

http://ccgi.sedgeford.plus.com/blog/

Apollonia Arsuf (Israel):

http://apollonia-arsuf.blogspot.com/

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa (dig just concluded):

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Herculaneum:

http://www.elpais.com/articulo/revista/agosto/leccion/Herculaneum/elpepirdv/2009\
0803elpepirdv_9/Tes
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================
Ancient Egypt 10.1 (August/September 2009):

http://www.ancientegyptmagazine.com/
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
As you've probably heard ... the Mona Lisa was hit by a teacup
this week (no damage):

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/mona-lisa-attacked-with-teacup/

Nice feature/reviewish thing on Italy's crackdown on the tombaroli:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111734951
http://www.wbur.org/news/npr/111734951

A Ukrainian national was arrested for trying to smuggle an ancient
coin from Russia to the Ukraine:

http://www.kyivpost.com/nation/46950

A retired pastor from Wisconsin pled guilty to trafficking in
archaeological resources:

http://www.nbc26.com/Global/story.asp?S=10877506

Vague item on another antiquities-related arrest in Bethlehem:

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=218950

Similarly-vague item on arrests in Nafplion:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7857132&service=142

Another (good) feature on the ongoing search for Iraqi artifacts:

http://www.thestar.com/News/World/article/678481

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Odessa Numismatics Museum:

http://www.museum.com.ua/en/o_musee/ab_mus.htm

World's Fair and Expo Medals:

http://www.expomedals.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Dutch Seen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/arts/design/07photos.html

Corot to Monet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/arts/15iht-melik15.html

The Bath and the Mirror:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a1DNvaMZAAXY

British Pastoral:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/03/british-art-pastoral

The Oscars' Atelier:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/fashion/11iht-ftirelli.html

The Cleveland MoA has a new interim director:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32428
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/cleveland-museum-names-interim-dire\
ctor/

The Parrish Art Museum has a new home:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/arts/design/12parrish.html

The ROM has secured the rights to exhibit one of the earliest
copies of the Ten Commandments:

http://www.thestar.com/news/gta/article/676896

A fire has destroyed the Cafritz collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/arts/design/08cafritz.html

cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/us/08fire.html

More on that controversial Acropolis Museum film:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/05/acropolis-museum-wont-edit-controve\
rsial-short-film/

The battle of the auction houses:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/08/arts/08iht-melik8.html

... and smaller antiques dealers are suffering:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/design/14antiques.html

Scotland and eBay have a deal to prevent sales of the country's
artifacts:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2525569.0.eBay_deal_protects_co\
untrys_ancient_treasures.php

Conserving a pile of Revolutionary War documents:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/07/arts/design/07antiques.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Yasukuni:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/movies/12yasu.html

Hamlet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/09/theater/09heal.html

Helen:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/12/arts/12iht-lon12.html

Playing Shakespeare:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111546863

Oregon Shakespeare Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/15/theater/15oregon.html

'New' Mozart:

http://www.france24.com/en/20090802-new-mozart-pieces-music-salzburg-austria


Mostly Mozart:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/11/arts/music/11mozart.html
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
1350 Ancient Sites on Google Earth:

http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/1350-ancient-sites-on-google-earth/
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Ian Shepherd:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ian-shepherd-archaeologist-who-led-\
the-way-in-scottish-research-1771219.html

Graham Stanton:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/6005904/Graham-St\
anton.html

Jack T. Kirby:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/us/14kirby.html

Mike Seeger:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/10/arts/music/10seeger.html
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Bones from a hominin may have evidence of the earliest known
bacterial infection:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32493281/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/20/earliest-infection.html

More on the antiquity of firing tools:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090813-first-fire-tools.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2009670536_apussciancie\
nttoolmakers.html?syndication=rss

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AFRICA
================================================================
Interesting feature on the mysterious Nok culture of Nigeria:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,642521,00.html#ref=rss

More coverage of what they're finding during Algerian subway
construction:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32446074/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090817/lf_nm_life/us_algeria_archaeology_1

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
A 16 000 years b.p. 'mother godess' figurine from a cave in
Turkey:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=184230

Plenty of coverage of a CT scan of a mummy at Stanford:

http://www.mercurynews.com/education/ci_13172932?source=rss
http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/national/news_detail.php?ID=471402&DK=US_Mummy_\
Scan
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10592303
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/20/BAUJ19BH74.DTL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090821/ap_on_re_us/us_mummy_scan_4
http://www.physorg.com/news170016045.html
http://www.startribune.com/science/53860772.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,541461,00.html
http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1728134,stanford-scan-ancient-mummy-082109.a\
rticle
http://abclocal.go.com/kgo/story?section=news/local/peninsula&id=6974697

... while the Swiss Mummy Project is looking at the Egyptian process of
mummification:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/Swiss_research_unlocks_mummy_secrets.html?site\
Sect=105&sid=11085585&rss=true&ty=st

Concerns for tombs in the Valley of the Kings due to tourist
damage:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/08/19/pharoah-tomb.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ivNMFoBFNok7p2H-YBzfSmaJd6OA
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/08/19/egypts-valley-of-the-king_n_262906.html
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/pharaohs-tombs-in-egypt-may-disappear\
-in-150yrs-warns-head-of-antiquities_100234792.html
http://www.agi.it/english-version/world/elenco-notizie/200908192029-cro-ren0045-\
egypt_pharaoh_tombs_at_risk_tourists_visit_fakes
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,25950954-12335,00.html
http://www.alarabiya.net/articles/2009/08/18/82204.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6053123/Pharaohs-tombs-could-disapp\
ear-in-150-years.html

The Achaemenid quarry at Gondashlu has been largely destroyed:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=67:mo\
st-of-the-achaemenid-gondashlu-stone-quarry-destroyed-&catid=34

... and there are concerns for Achaemenid sites in Bushehr:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=71:th\
e-worrisome-status-of-achaemenid-sites-in-bushehr-&catid=34

Feature on Hezekiah's Tunnel:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418659103&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

Diving (!) beneath Hagia Sophia:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=diving-into-the-secrets-of-hagia-sophia\
-2009-08-04

Remains of a Byzantine 'cathedral' along with human remains from
Tal al-Hasaka:

http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200908152214/Culture/syria-5th-century-\
skeleton-found-in-byzantine-cathedral.html

Arguing over what Acre should be called:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0908/S00140.htm
http://www.morningstaronline.co.uk/index.php/news/features/The-battle-over-Acre-\
Who-was-there-first
http://www.baltimorechronicle.com/2009/081809Avnery.shtml

Egypt has restored a historic synagogue:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfV1Vro5CdizKV0ZAJgOMhG1p55wD9\
A6P6UG1
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/08/20/world/main5256157.shtml
http://www.kxmc.com/News/424235.asp

... and denies a connection with a UNESCO bid (?):

http://www.afriquejet.com/news/africa-news/egypt-denies-synagogue-attempt-was-to\
-bolster-unesco-bid-2009082233789.html

Online article: The Army of the Kings of Ur: The Textual Evidence:

http://cdli.ucla.edu/pubs/cdlj/2009/cdlj2009_005.html

More coverage of snubbing of Israeli archaeologists at the WAC:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1594\
&module_id=#as
http://www.nature.com/news/2009/090819/full/news.2009.835.html?s=news_rss
http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php/200908181979/Not-invited-to-arch\
aeological-conference-in-Ramallah-IAA-upset.html

... the WAC response(s):

http://www.worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/home/ramallah/373-statement-on-the-wa\
c-inter-congress-in-ramallah
http://worldarchaeologicalcongress.org/home/ramallah/374-public-discussion-forum\
-for-ramallah-inter-congress
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A 'Roman mansion' from the City of David (where that balance weight
was found a while back):

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249418630047&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\
cle%2FShowFull
http://english.cri.cn/6966/2009/08/17/168s509519.htm
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/08/17/Ancient-Roman-edifice-found-in-Jerusa\
lem/UPI-70861250526704/
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1108127.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132944
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/169623
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1738470/ancient_roman_edifice_found_in_jeru\
salem/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/Third-century-CE-mansion-expose\
d-in-City-of-David-17-Aug-2009.htm

Evidence of a cult of Aphrodite at Susita:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1108761
http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/spages/1108854.html (photo)

Evidence for a temple of Apollo on Geronisos:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601120&sid=axRLVOI3zlyU

They're finding things in the search for the site of Bathonea:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-184385-101-ancient-port-discovered-near-s\
hore-of-kucukcekmece-lake.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-96148.html

A very interesting Thracian aristocratic burial from the Roman
period:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=106858
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=106907
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-95409.html
http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/08/archeologists-discover-two-ancient.html

Roman pots from a nursery site in Impington:

http://www.hortweek.com/news/login/928173/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8207759.stm

Latest from Arbeia Roman Fort:

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Dig-sheds-new-light-on.5567619.jp

An update of sorts on the dig at Caistor St Edmund:

http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=N\
ews&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED18%20Aug%202009%2013%3A25%3A13%3A0\
03

Very interesting suggestion that Hadrian's wall was originally
made of wood:

http://www.hexhamcourant.co.uk/news/news_at_a_glance/hadrian_s_wall_was_built_of\
_wood_1_598511?referrerPath=/1.257779
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-93403.html

cf:
http://www.blogcatalog.com/search.frame.php?term=hadrian
\%27s+wall&id=ff3b06e9f32fc005f0537a9044b7c6ce

Nice update on the progress of the EDUCE project:

http://www.kentucky.com/news/local/story/905984.html

On translating Galen:

http://www.wellcome.ac.uk/News/2009/Features/WTX056234.htm

In case you missed the Classical Education Quiz in the Telegraph:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/6056000/Has-your-classical-knowledge-stood-\
the-test-of-time.html

Folks might be interested in the 'literary smackdown' going on
about Romulus and the rule of thumb ... this New Yorker article
has all the links:

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2009/08/literary-smackdown-sommers-v\
s-romulus.html

Excellent state-of-the-debate thing on the Elgin/Parthenon marbles:

http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2009/08/21/is_greece_losing_its_elgin_marb\
les?page=full

Reviews of Adrian Goldsworthy, *How Rome Fell*:

http://features.csmonitor.com/books/2009/08/19/how-rome-fell/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/08/21/AR2009082101112.\
html

More on that Jewish 'Temple' find in Andriake:

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/39634/remains-of-ancient-temple-found-in-tur\
key

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A cave in Cyprus is adding to the debate on humans' role in the
extinction of assorted animals (especially the pygmy hippo):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090819/lf_nm_life/us_cyprus_hippos_1
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE57I1D820090819?feedType=RSS&\
feedName=lifestyleMolt
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32475033/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/d331a5c7e7d2435c8a2cf5a9ef1d6532\
/19-08-2009-10-15/Cyprus_cave_prehistoric_diner

Scotland's 'earliest face':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8212074.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Face-to-face-with-the.5575575.jp

A Neolithic 'cathedral' from Orkney:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6795316.ece

Archaeologists have found eight Neolithic sites in Derry:

http://www.derryjournal.com/journal/5000-yearold-sites-found.5555635.jp

Not sure if we mentioned these petroglyphs found near Loch Tay before:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8205035.stm

A 4000 years b.p. timber circle from County Tyrone:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8202364.stm

Some 3000 years b.p. butter from a Kildare bog:

http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/3000yearold-butter-found-in-Kildare.5567520.jp
http://www.discoveryon.info/2009/08/3000-year-old-butter-found-in-kildare.html

Schoolkiddies on a dig at Monsal Head found some Iron Age human remains:

http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/localnews/Pupils-uncover-Iron-Age-remains.5560458\
.jp

How the Augustinian canons who lived in the Firth of Forth knew
what time it was:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8214948.stm

They're excavating at Scone Palace and Moot Hill:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8205471.stm

Plans to dig a Cumbrian abbey:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/8216884.stm

A 10th century seal from near Varna:

http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=107016

Portuguese archaeologists have found Wellington's command post:

http://www.the-news.net/cgi-bin/google.pl?id=1024-10

Remains of a 17th century theatre in Dublin:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2009/0814/smockalley.html

A movement is afoot to preserve sites in Scotland:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/south_of_scotland/8213822.stm

A roundup of finds made by Scottish metal detectorists (etc.):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8201090.stm

A big metal detectorist fest/expensive holiday in Norfolk:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/6059210/The-American-det\
ectors-who-pay-more-than-2000-to-search-a-muddy-Norfolk-field.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1207688/Army-metal-detector-enthusiasts-\
invades-fields-East-Anglia.html

A Highlands castled is recreated virtually:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8159755.stm

Some followups to items from last week ... first, some photos from that
Viking trading post dig in Laerdal:

http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_sogn_og_fjordane/1.6725566
http://www.nrk.no/nyheter/distrikt/nrk_sogn_og_fjordane/1.6725607

... that 'tree sign' from an oak in Prague:

http://prazsky.denik.cz/zpravy_region/archeologove-nasli-nejstarsi-vyrytou-20090\
811.html

More on London's oldest timber structure:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/08/090817-londons-oldest-timber-str\
ucture.html

Review of/excerpt from Tom Holland, *The Forge of Christendom*:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112139629
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Questioning China's founding legend:

http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/08/chinas-founding-legend-may-not-be-\
true.html

... related to the foregoing (it's hype for the latest issue of
Science):

http://www.physorg.com/news169998678.html
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A 2000-3000 years b.p. village site on both sides of the Nolichucky
River (Tenn.):

http://www.greenevillesun.com/story/305210

1000 years b.p. remains of 'a mysterious tribal group' from Kivalina
(Alaska):

http://www.thearcticsounder.com/news/show/6972

A pit house was found during sewer work in Chaco Canyon:

http://www.gallupindependent.com/2009/08August/081809newdiscovery.html

Digging into the 1694 Oyster River massacre:

http://www.unionleader.com/article.aspx?headline=Dig+opens+window+on+1694+raid+b\
y+Native+Americans&articleId=bc46565a-0b71-4419-b2e6-518026a76da7

Remote viewing (hmmmmmmmmmmm) leads to the discovery of the site
of the Lost Colony (?!?):

http://www.prweb.com/releases/remote/viewer/prweb2759384.htm

Recent finds from the Cowell Lime Works Historic District are
causing a rethink of kilnworkers' financial status:

http://www.mercurynews.com/news/ci_13184939?nclick_check=1

Finds from various periods during renovations of one of the UGa's
oldest buildings:

http://www.jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2009-08-23/story/uga_project_unearths_s\
chool_relics_ancient_bowl

Following up on that 'dredging' story from the past week or so,
there are now plans to excavate the Hudson River site:

http://www.newsday.com/epa-dig-planned-for-ny-site-of-old-fort-beams-1.1382329?l\
ocalLinksEnabled=false

Three sites have been identified on a Norwich Hospital property (Conn.):

http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=f3b11319-79e2-4b75-8549-426a85b42383
http://www.theday.com/re.aspx?re=5df40f8e-2698-4fc3-a04e-94662c69feea

Interesting story about Madison's days in the White House, through
the eyes of a slave:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/us/16jennings.html

Similarly interesting features from the NYTimes ... first one about
a bottle collector:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/jack_fo\
rtmeyer

... and an art restorer:

http://www.nytimes.com/packages/html/nyregion/1-in-8-million/index.html#/teresa_\
zakow

Restoring historic houses in Flint:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/20/garden/20flint.html

Feature on the Bronx's 'Grand Concourse':

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/arts/design/21concourse.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
An IU dig in the Dominican has provided evidence for the Caribbean's
earliest inhabitants:

http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/11644.html

That Maya altar which was recently discovered during highway
construction in Merida has been dismantled:

http://www.artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32811&b=maya%20\
altar
http://www.physorg.com/news169791467.html
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Ancient humans are being blamed for coastal damage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/science/earth/21ancient.html?em

... and for starting global warming:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TECH/science/08/18/ancient.global.warming/index.html
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/environment/display.var.2525763.0.Ancient_farmer\
s_may_have_altered_climate.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090817073502.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news169725512.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/17/early-farmers-climate-change

Human lifespans have been pretty much the same for 2000 years:

http://www.livescience.com/health/090821-human-lifespans.html

There's a P.T. Barnum 'revival' around the corner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/17/nyregion/17towns.html

Mozart may have died from a strep infection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/health/18mozart.html
http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2009/08/strep_infection_may_have_felle.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090818/ap_on_re_us/us_what_killed_mozart_7
http://www.cnn.com/2009/HEALTH/08/17/mozart.strep.throat/index.html

Interesting item on Adolf Hitler's art obsession:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,644210,00.html#ref=rss

... and similarly interesting are Andy Warhol's boxes:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iPEUOoAmnP2N2gNq6OSdqWimQCVQD9\
A5TGA01

Rethinking the kilogram (!?):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112003322

Tracing the origin of the apple:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/kazakhstan/6068161/Struggle-to-sa\
ve-the-apples-Asian-birthplace.html

Brief item on 'Golden Age' Arab chemists:

http://www.physorg.com/news169703985.html

More on using lasers to create accurate 3d models of major
monuments:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/aug/23/mount-rushmore-conservation-hi\
storic-scotland
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104257§ionid=3510212

More on digital approaches to reading Hebrew and Arabic documents:

http://www.aabgu.org/media-center/news-releases/bgu-analyzes-ancient-documents.h\
tml

Review of Catalin Avramescu, *An Intellectual History of Cannibalism*:

http://www.lrb.co.uk/v31/n15/disk01_.html

Review of Tristram Hunt, *Marx's General*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/books/19garner.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Skagafjordur Archaeological Settlement Survey:

http://blogs.umb.edu/sass/

SHARP weblog:

http://ccgi.sedgeford.plus.com/blog/

Apollonia Arsuf (Israel):

http://apollonia-arsuf.blogspot.com/

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa (dig just concluded):

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Gamla (up-to-date url this time):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132790

Old Jerusalem:

http://www.jewishtimes-sj.com/news/2009/0821/Columns/009.html

Turkey:

http://www.courant.com/features/travel/hc-tc-trav-trips-0818-0823.artaug23,0,790\
8085.story

Noble Houses of Germany:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/08/16/travel/16journeys.html

Masada:

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/39645/not-quite-the-journey-i-expected-on-my\
-first-trek-up-masada/

Venice:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/travel/23explorer.html?em
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Three persons in Uttar Pradesh were arrested with a pile of
British period silver coins:

http://www.ptinews.com/news/239981_Three-held-with-ancient-silver-coins-worth-Rs\
-23-lakh

More busts by the antiquities police in Bethlehem:

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=220768

Pot hunters have hit an Acadian site in Nova Scotia:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/NovaScotia/1138568.html

A Durango couple have had their collection seized by federal authorities:

http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2009/08/19/Feds_confiscate_thousands_\
of_artifacts_from_Durango_home/
http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2009/08/20/Feds_seize_couples_artifac\
ts/
http://cbs4denver.com/local/Investigators.artifact.looting.2.1135917.html
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13150859?source=rss
http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13158523?source=rss
http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2009/08/19/feds_gather_vast_collectio\
n_of_artifacts_dealer
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Chimaera of Arezzo:

http://www.venturacountystar.com/news/2009/aug/21/myth-dusting/

Mandala:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/arts/design/21mandala.html

Cinnabar:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/arts/design/21cinnabar.html

America's Rome:

http://www.fenimoreartmuseum.org/fenimore/exhibitions/on_permanent_view/fine_art\
_from_the_permanent_collection
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/14/arts/design/14cotter.html?scp=1&sq=fenimore%20\
art%20museum&st=cse

Photos from the National Geographic archives:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/19/arts/design/19geographic.html

Interesting items from Masonic Lodges:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/21/arts/design/21antiques.html?_r=1

Plans for a Grand Egyptian Museum are proceeding:

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090820/FOREIGN/708199898/\
1185/enewsletter

Pondering whether Nefertiti will ever return to Egypt:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/961/he1.htm

New director at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/arts/design/18crystal.html

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Wagner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/arts/music/18wagner.html
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
1350 ancient sites on Google Earth:

http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/2009/08/16/1350-ancient-sites-on-google-earth/

Naval Historical Center:

http://www.history.navy.mil/index.html
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OBITUARIES
================================================================
Richard Poirier:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/18/books/18poirier.html
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EARLY HUMANS
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More on early humans using fire in the creation of tools:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/08/26/MNHK19AS41.DTL&type=\
science
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AFRICA
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A year or so ago (maybe more) we had a story about seashells as
jewellery in Moroccos ca. 80 000 years b.p. ... it appears that
more have been found (and this isn't a rerun as I initially
thought):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/esf-tas082609.php
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/08/28/Ancient-beads-discovered-in-Morocco/U\
PI-59711251487367/
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1744501/ancient_beads_discovered_in_morocco\
/index.html?source=r_science%20Twenty-five
http://www.physorg.com/news170584460.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Zahi Hawass on tracing Tut's lineage:

http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id=17875

Egyptologists react to a claim on the exact date of the construction
of the Great Pyramid:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/962/fr2.htm

cf: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-99887.html
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/dna-analysis-key-for-solving-mystery-\
of-king-tuts-origins_100238371.html

A followup to that Stanford CT scan of a mummy last week:

http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090824/A_NEWS/908240308/-1\
/RSS02

Feature on Luxor:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/962/he1.htm

Skulls and other items from various periods from the Yumuktepe
tumulus in Turkey:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=104338§ionid=3510208

Another Parthian site -- Kuh-e Khajeh -- is in danger of destruction:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=72:de\
struction-of-the-parthian-kuh-e-khajeh-is-on-the-increase&catid=34

Feature on Zoroastrianism:

http://www.iranian.com/main/node/78562

Feature on the "first Iranians":

http://www.iranian.com/main/node/77969

On reluctance to allow digging in Saudi Arabia:

http://www.newsday.com/digging-up-the-saudi-past-some-would-rather-not-1.1396398

cf. photos of sites mentioned in the above:

http://nabataea.net/medain.html

After a bit of controversy, excavation of a tomb purported to
belong to the 3rd century C.E. Rabbi Yehoshus ben Levi will
proceed:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251145116577&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull

cf. pre-court-decision coverage:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/169927
http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2009/08/living-with-our-history.html
http://lifeinisrael.blogspot.com/2009/08/keep-lid-on.html

Must reading: Robert Cargill on "Pseudo-Science and Sensationalist
Archaeology: An Exposé of Jimmy Barfield and the Copper Scroll
Project":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/cargill2_08261.shtml

More on the Ilisu Dam (don't think there's anything new here):

http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0826/p09s01-coop.html

More on the restoration of the Moses Ben Maimon Synagogue in
Cairo:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3765207,00.html

More on that Roman 'mansion' in the City of David:

http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/08/27/news/world/doc4a8edc47a429d2508442\
58.txt
>

More on the World Archaeological Congress brouhaha:

http://thebulletin.us/articles/2009/08/24/sports/doc4a8c39b83a0f4587683177.txt
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
One I've neglected to include for a couple of weeks now due to
misfiling ... archaeologists have found and are excavating remains
of Mithridates VI's palace at Phanagoria:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/8721/
http://www.vesti.ru/doc.html?id=309523&m=1

The big news of the week was the discovery of what is claimed to
be a large equestrian statue of Augustus somehow associated with
the Teutoburg disaster:

http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20090825-21467.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32581452/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.lcsun-news.com/las_cruces-entertainment/ci_13215125
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/827/2
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090827/sc_nm/us_germany_archaeology_1

... and there was a news conference on the find:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,4603886,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20090827-21537.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE57Q4XU20090827

... and a feature on Arminius:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,644913,00.html

Peter Stothard's post on Chapman's Homer is worth a read:

http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2009/08/the-best-book-loan-in-literary-\
history.html

Receiving less widespread attention, but also of importance is the find of
an intaglio depicting Alexander the Great during the Tel Dor
excavations:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/08/26/Israeli-dig-finds-ancient-gemstone/UPI-17\
211251283463/
http://www.jewishmonmouth.org/page.aspx?id=205143
http://www.cjp.org/page.html?ArticleID=205143
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/133097

Also of interest is another burial found in the agora at Aigai:

http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-eu-greece-ancient-burial,0,7\
828033.story
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705326602/Discovery-of-ancient-burial-site-in\
-Greece-deepens-mystery.html?linkTrack=rss-5
http://www.3news.co.nz/Ancient-burial-site-discovered-in-northern-Greece-/tabid/\
209/articleID/118831/cat/61/Default.aspx?ArticleID=118831
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2009/08/28/ancient_burial_site_\
discovered_in_northern_greece
http://www.3news.co.nz/Ancient-burial-site-discovered-in-northern-Greece-/tabid/\
209/articleID/118831/Default.aspx?ArticleID=118831
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2009765020_apeugreeceancientbu\
rial.html?syndication=rss
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j90gd4jX6JB-oH0-Ev2k_MkJFZVAD9\
AC26CG0
>

The Guardian had a series of features on archaeology, two of which
were mostly on Vindolanda:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/audio/2009/aug/28/archaeology-vindolanda-roman\
-forts
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/aug/28/archaeology-romans-dig-hadrian-wal\
l

... and one on the Roman foundations of Cambridge:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/aug/28/archaeology-cambridge-university-g\
irton-roman

Interesting jewellery find from Eleutherna (Crete):

http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Tech+and+Science/Story/STIStory_422842\
.html

They're back digging at Caistor St Edmund:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/norfolk/8219620.stm
http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=Ne\
ws&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=NOED25%20Aug%202009%2013%3A09%3A27\
%3A007

An update of sorts on that project to use ct scans to 'unwrap'
herculaneum papyri:

http://www.kypost.com/content/news/commonwealth/story/Researchers-Seek-To-Unrave\
l-Ancient-Scrolls/_qSP1Lv3Z0-F2UqD5UMVzg.cspx

A report on the recent fires near Athens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/world/europe/24greece.html

... and Marathon:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a6eSPxr7zhvg>

A recreation of Orpheus' lyre:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1441

Some epigraphic material (and other items) from Peperikon:

http://www.bnr.bg/RadioBulgaria/Emission_English/Theme_History_And_Religion/Mate\
rial/270809_Perperikon.htm

Problems at the Blue Grotto:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article6810516.ece#cid=OTC-RS\
S&attr=797093

More on that Temple of Apollo find on Geronisos:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601120&sid=axRLVOI3zlyU

More on the aphrodite figurines from Susita:

http://www.littleabout.com/news/30134,archaeological-dig-reveals-1500-yr-figurin\
es-greek-goddess-aphrodite.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Plans to investigate the lives of folks in Europe at the end of
the Ice Age:

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/local/localbrad/4561116.Ice_Age_probe\
_is_off_to_Italy/?ref=rss

Drinking milk is now thought to have started ca 7500 years b.p. in
Central Europe:

http://www.physorg.com/news170657572.html

Evidence of Corded Ware era violence from Germany:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46630/description/Exhuming_a_violent_\
event_
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science?_ob=ArticleURL&_udi=B6WH6-4X0W4T8-1&_user=1\
0&_rdoc=1&_fmt=&_orig=search&_sort=d&_docanchor=&view=c&_acct=C000050221&_versio\
n=1&_urlVersion=0&_userid=10&md5=67642a6f98b8f62bf177ae1a40ddea54

A 7th century ship from Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/21716/20090827/

Possible medical clues from a couple of 1000 years b.p. (or so)
skeletons from Ireland:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/health/irish-skeletons-could-unlock-medic\
al-mysteries-14467092.html?r=RSS
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/ancient-skeletons-could-help--solve-myst\
ery-of-rare-disease-1867610.html


Dalis from a thrift shop?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/arts/design/29dali.html

A 16th century amber cross from a Novgorod site:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/8812/

Possible musical notes on one of the Stirling head:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8222727.stm

Valencian tiles from Woking Palace:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/surrey/8215926.stm

Interesting implications from an iron ball and chain found on the
banks of the Thames:

http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE57P3WA20090826

Hype for an upcoming dig at a Moray site:

http://www.northern-scot.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/8766/Moray_archaeological_\
site_set_to_yield_its_secrets.html

... and for a dig at Holm Cultram Abbey:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/8216884.stm

Another one from the Guardian ... on how metal detectorists are
'rewriting history':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/aug/28/archaeology-amateur-rewriting-brit\
ish-history

... and one on a dig in Hertfordshire:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/aug/28/archaeology-heritage

More on that Neolithic 'cathedral' from Orkney:

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1366015?UserKey=


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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
A heating system from one of Russia's provinces confirms the site
to have been Korean:

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2005/08/25/2005082561008.html

A 2000 years b.p. burial from Mongolia:

http://www.koreaherald.co.kr/NEWKHSITE/data/html_dir/2009/08/28/200908280007.asp

A project to document/preserve some 25 000 Tamil inscriptions:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/21780/tn-govt-documenting-25000-tamil.html

Not sure if we've mentioned this (Polynesian) ship/voyage recreation:

http://www.samoaobserver.ws/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=12290:e\
pic-voyage&catid=1:latest-news&Itemid=50

More on Chinese archaeology:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090820161131.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Documenting the Bernardo plantation (Texas):

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/texassouthwest/stories/DN-plant\
ation_23tex.ART.State.Edition1.4c09ed3.html

Civil war remains found in UT's 'Sorority Village':

http://www.ethiopianreview.com/articles/26828

A Clovis spearhead from Sahuarita:

http://sahuaritasun.com/articles/2009/08/22/news/32spear823.txt
http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/13000-yr-old-spear-tip-sheds-light-on\
-ancient-americans-corrected_100238070.html

Native American artifacts from ca 800 - 100 A.D. found during
Cornell's field school on the Isles of Shoals:

http://www.physorg.com/news170617269.html

'Mysterious' mounds from Calhoun County:

http://www.annistonstar.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Sacred+sites+or+someth\
ing+else-+Structures+not+unique+to+Oxford-+but+questions+remain+over+origins%20&\
id=3244334

Those bones from Avon did belong to a Native American woman:

http://www.sctimes.com/article/20090826/NEWS01/108250039/-1/RSSTOP

Another Walmart, another dispute ... this time with a Civil War
battlefield:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112076272

... and the followup:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112196352

Feature on protecting some Oregon pictographs:

http://www.bendbulletin.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090822/NEWS0107/9082203\
83/0/NEWS01

Greening an historic house:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/greathomesanddestinations/28Away.html

Remnants of 'what-used-to-be' in Denver:

http://www.9news.com/rss/article.aspx?storyid=121939
http://www.denverpost.com/news/ci_13203936

A steamer shipwreck has been found in Lake Ontario:

http://www.shipwreckworld.com/story/shipwreck-explorers-discover-1890s-steamer-i\
n-lake-ontario-1.aspx

More on those remains from Alaska:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieEsTqazAfE6j9w6l4_30FYN4khwD9\
AA1DLG1
http://newsminer.com/news/2009/aug/25/ancient-human-remains-discovered-kivalina/
http://www.ktuu.com/global/story.asp?s=10999487
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=6982003&rss=rss\
-kabc-article-6982003

More on Madison's White House through the eyes of a slave:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112182597

Review of Richard Slotkin, *No Quarter*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Lewis-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A potentially-very-interesting cave system has been found on Easter
Island:

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/santiagotimes/index.php/2009070616624/news/cultural-\
news/experts-discover-six-kilometers-of-caves-in-easter-island.html

A tomb of a Mochica nobleman/warrior from Huaca Rajada:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=mXbwp2bqXLo=

Interesting mid-16th century map painted by Mexican natives:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32876
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=342240&CategoryId=12394>

Work continues at the El Corporo Archaeological Project:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32935
http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\
d=150

Digitally recreating the facade of San Agustin Convent (Mexico City):

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32961

Murals from Teotihuacan were 'intervened':

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=32970

Looking to the past to farm in Bolivia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8187866.stm
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
A 'lost' letter of Henry VII detailing William Weston's voyage
to the New World in 1499 (!) is being published:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8224206.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news170605684.html

I think we've had this 'coastal exploitation' story before:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112124572&ft=1&f=1007

Another one from the Guardian series mentioned supra ... a
beginner's guide to archaeology:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/aug/28/archaeology-beginners-guide

... which can be compared with another 'beginner's guide':

http://u.tv/News/Beginners-guide-to-archaeology/fdb69717-e04a-4c62-b2bf-36ea316d\
8bd3

Wikipedia is getting a bit more serious:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/25/technology/internet/25wikipedia.html

Interesting feature on pre-photoshop fake photos:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/weekinreview/23marsh.html?_r=1

Nice feature on Galileo:

http://www.thefloridacatholic.org/cns/2009_articles/20090825_cns_galileo.php

Feature on Sophie Tucker:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/arts/music/30rose.html

... and William Golding:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/aug/30/william-golding-john-carey-review

Rating readings with Accelerated Reader:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Straight-t.html

They're looking for Amundsen's plane:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8214237.stm

Freud's Adirondack vacation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/opinion/29hoffman.html

More on the Indus Valley script and computers etc.:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32586171/ns/technology_and_science-science/

More on the suggestion that early civilizations altered global
climate:

http://www.gmagazine.com.au/news/1530/ancient-emissions-did-early-civilisations-\
alter-global-climate

... and suggestions that the Medieval Warm Period was as warm as
it is today:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090827131832.htm

More on laser-scanning heritage sites:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2009/08/scottish_laser_mt_rushmore_his.html

On the DNA front, they're isolating DNA from Linnaeus' collections:

http://www.physorg.com/news170592138.html

Review of Lyanda Haupt, *Crow Planet*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Schillinger-t.html

Reviews of assorted non-fiction books of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Dizikes-t.html

Review of Rebecca Loncraine, *The Real Wizard of Oz*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/24/books/24maslin.html

Review of Kate Cambor, *Gilded Youth*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/books/review/Seymour-t.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================
[please send in suggestions! ]

Skagafjordur Archaeological Settlement Survey:

http://blogs.umb.edu/sass/

SHARP weblog (dig concluded):

http://ccgi.sedgeford.plus.com/blog/

Apollonia Arsuf (Israel):

http://apollonia-arsuf.blogspot.com/

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa (dig just concluded):

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Hadrian's Wall:

http://www.philly.com/philly/travel/20090830_Where_Roman_legions_trod.html

Berlin:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/f33f0f52-9361-11de-b146-00144feabdc0.html

Venice:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/travel/23explorer.html

Archaeotourism at Clunia (Spain):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/aug/29/spain-archaeology-dig-holiday

'Navajoland':

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/travel/23native.html

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
================================================================

================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A Colorado man is the latest to be indicted in the Utah case:

http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13207440?source=rss
http://www.durangoherald.com/sections/News/2009/08/27/Colo_man_indicted_in_looti\
ng_case/
http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/20565970/detail.html
http://www.aspentimes.com/article/20090826/NEWS/908269989/1058/RSS

... and a sort of state-of-the-case piece:

http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/08/27/20090827looter\
s.html

Iraqi authorities have recovered a stolen Picasso:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/27/iraqis-say-they-recover-a-stolen-pi\
casso-from-soldier/

... but there are doubts about its authenticity:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/27/picasso-naked-woman-kuwait-ir\
aq

Tomb raiding has apparently started up again (?) in China:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-08/29/content_8631397.htm
http://english.eastday.com/e/0829/u1a4616467.html

More on pothunters hitting Beaubassin:

http://www.cbc.ca/canada/nova-scotia/story/2009/08/26/nb-beaubassin-rcmp-546.htm\
l

Some commentary on that major coin bust in India last week:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/2009/08/7500-ancient-coins-seized-thre\
e.html
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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A Mughal emperor coin from the Kashmir:

http://www.kashmirwatch.com/showheadlines.php?subaction=showfull&id=1251090293&a\
rchive=&start_from=&ucat=1&var0news=value0news

A rare coin found during a firefighter charity drive in Florida:

http://www.myfoxorlando.com/dpp/news/orange_news/082509_rare_coin_found_in_fill_\
boot_drive

Feature on a coin collecting club in Arkansas:

http://www.baxterbulletin.com/article/20090829/NEWS01/908290351/1002
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Adventures in Modern Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/arts/design/28williams.html

LaFarge glass:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/arts/design/28antiques.html

Nice feature on the Borghese collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/arts/29iht-melik29.html

The Harrogate (Viking) hoard has been restored and is going on
display at the British Museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8224000/8224173.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1209649/Viking-silver-treasure-ho\
ard-worth-1m-unearthed-1-000-years.html
http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23737363-details/British+Museum+b\
uys+Viking+treasures/article.do
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8224729.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/aug/27/viking-treasure-bought-for-na\
tion


A nice price for some Derby and Chelsea porcelain:

http://www.chicagonow.com/blogs/whats-it-worth/2009/08/royal-ceramics-sell-for-r\
ecord-amounts.html
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Vivaldi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/arts/music/23gure.html

Midsummer Night's Dream:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/at-the-fringe-standing-for-shakespe\
are/

Twelfth Night:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/theater/reviews/29twelfth.html


Bach's Goldberg Variations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/arts/music/30schw.html

The Ring sans the music:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/arts/music/30gure.html?_r=1

Pondering the fate of Stratford (Conn.)'s Shakespeare Theatre:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/23/nyregion/23theaterct.html

A review of National Geographic's 'Human Family Tree':

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/29/arts/television/29human.html

A 'lost' film about Confucius (from 1940) has resurfaced:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/arts/28iht-confucius.html

Review of a DVD set of (very) early French cinema:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/30/movies/homevideo/30kehr.html
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ON THE WEB
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OBITUARIES
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James Lord:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/28/arts/design/28lord.html

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EARLY HUMANS
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Hand axes in Europe almost a million years b.p.?:

http://www.physorg.com/news171118331.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20090902/tsc-hand-axes-in-europe-nearly-a-million-c2\
ff8aa.html
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/902/5
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/46964/title/Europe%E2%80%99s_oldest_s\
tone_hand_axes_emerge_in_Spain
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2009/09/05/MNUL19H1F6.DTL
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AFRICA
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On the DNA front, the suggestion now is that modern humans migrated
out of Africa some 20 000 years later than previously thought (cf
above):

http://www.physorg.com/news171286860.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Report of a First Dynasty Egyptian inscription from Tel Bet Yerah:

http://www1.tau.ac.il/pressoffice/english/index.php/press-releases/784-310809
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1745923/ancient_egyptian_stone_fragment_fou\
nd/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-104053.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/09/01/Ancient-Egyptian-stone-fragment-found\
/UPI-27581251812578/

A previously-unseen fragment of the Codex Sinaiticus was found
in a monastery in Egypt:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/fragment-from-worlds-oldest-bible\
-found-hidden-in-egyptian-monastery-1780274.html

APU has acquired five fragments of the DSS:

http://www.sgvtribune.com/news/ci_13266951

Archaeologists are back digging at Ramhormoz Plain:

http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=73:ar\
chaeologists-return-to-ramhormoz-after-40-year-absence&catid=34

The big news this week seems to be the discovery of some massive
fortifications in Jerusalem dating back some 3700 years:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1112027.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h2zNAydcLiSvd5fXVQ5eIk7NmW7QD9\
AF7RE00
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090902/sc_afp/israelarchaeologyhistory_20090902161\
240
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-105924.html
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/39768/israeli-archaeologists-discover-ancien\
t-fort
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090902/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_wall_4
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09246/995287-82.stm?cmpid=nationworld.xml
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/israel.wall.discovered/index.html?eref\
=ib_topstories
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/israel.wall.discovered/index.html#cnnS\
TCVideo
(video)
http://www.physorg.com/news171118233.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/8235041.stm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull&cid\
=1251804474414
http://www.smh.com.au/world/israeli-archaeologists-find-ancient-fortification-20\
090903-f8s0.html
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/09/02/1007592/cityof-david-archeologists-discov\
er-ancient-fortification

The Times Education Supplement has a powerpoint relating to the death
of Osiris which might be useful:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090902/sc_afp/israelarchaeologyhistory_20090902161\
240

Feature on Anahita:

http://www.iranian.com/main/node/79101

Last week we mentioned Robert Cargill's criticism of 'The Copper
Scroll Project' ... the latter has a website with some videos that
folks might be interested in:

http://www.copper-scroll-project.com/

More on reluctance to dig in Saudi Arabia:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j5-VuZTJYWXZ0lwZ9LQ-5PrHXgPAD9\
ADKM0O2
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/world/ap/56228287.html
http://www.newsday.com/travel/digging-up-the-saudi-past-some-would-rather-not-1.\
1408737?localLinksEnabled=false
http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2009/8/31/digging-up-the-saudi-past-some-\
would-rather-not.html?s_cid=rss:digging-up-the-saudi-past-some-would-rather-not
http://www.boston.com/news/world/middleeast/articles/2009/08/30/digging_up_the_s\
audi_past_some_would_rather_not

More on computer algorithms and their use in analyzing ancient
Hebrew documents:

http://www.cs.bgu.ac.il/~klara/Papers/shapePrior.pdf
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090902/sc_nm/us_israel_ancient_algorithm
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/170475
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32683510/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.thestar.com/article/689845
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/computer-algorithm\
-to-decipher-ancient-texts-1780627.html
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2352332,00.asp?kc=PCRSS03069TX1K0001121
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre58141o-us-israel-ancient-algorithm/
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE58141O20090902
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804484150&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
The ASTRA project has recreated the sounds of assorted ancient
musical instruments:

http://www.physorg.com/news170963147.html

cf:

http://www.astraproject.org/
http://www.lostsoundsorchestra.org/

Roman ruins are getting in the way of Palestinian refugee camp
reconstruction in Lebanon:

http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090906/FOREIGN/709059885/\
1002

The theatre of Maroneia will be open to the public:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=7828260&maindocimg=7827426&s\
ervice=144

The class struggle in the Roman Republic:

http://www.marxist.com/class-struggles-roman-republic-one.htm

The Plato series in the Guardian continues:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/sep/01/plato-dialogues-forms

Jonathan Shay in the news:

http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/news/x2027894560/Local-author-recognizes-that-\
pain-of-war-spans-the-centuries

Very interesting blog post by Mary Beard on Pietro da Cortona's
'influence' in his painting of Alexander defeating Darius:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2009/09/spotting-the-influence.html

More hype for the Caistor St Edmunds dig:

http://www.cnplus.co.uk/news/may-gurney-helps-with-roman-dig/5207509.article

More on the suggestion that part of the Mausoleum of Halicarnassus
was used to build a dock in Malta:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6815447.\
ece

More on those finds in the agora of Aigai:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j90gd4jX6JB-oH0-Ev2k_MkJFZVAD9\
AC26CG0

More on that Roman 'mansion' from Jerusalem:

http://www.thebulletin.us/articles/2009/08/27/news/world/doc4a8edc47a429d2508442\
58.txt
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
A 15 000 years b.p. 'javelin head' from Kents Cavern:

http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Cavern-dig-uncovers-15-000-year-old-weapo\
n/article-1303064-detail/article.html

Plans to dig around Cwmbran:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/southeastwales/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8\
235000/8235561.stm

That dig where they found Scotland's 'oldest face' is going to be
extended:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Dig-extended-after-ancient-figurine.5612733.jp

Europe's first farmers replaced the hunter-gatherers who preceded
them (according to DNA):

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/ucl-eff090309.php
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1748026/europes_first_farmers_replaced_ston\
e_age_forerunners/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.physorg.com/news171208706.html

The evolution of white skin in Europe may be a relatively recent
development:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/article6814896.ece

Digging a Bronze Age site in Dartmoor:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/aug/28/archaeology-bellever-dartmoor-bron\
ze-age

A hill fort in Denbighshire may date back to the Bronze Age:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/8231433.stm
http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/news/78175/3-000-year-old-iron-age-remains-uncove\
red-at-north-wales-archaeological-dig.aspx

Some 3000 years b.p. butter from Ireland:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/32630695/ns/technology_and_science-science/

Remains of a structure dating back to the time of William the
Conqueror at Canterbury Cathedral:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8235244.stm

Relics of an unnamed medieval saint from Perperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=107410

Islamic finds from Manacor:

http://www.euroweeklynews.com/2009090463359/news/mallorca/islamic-archaeological\
-find-in-manacor.html

That Bronze Age boat reconstruction/voyage at Lock Tay is complete:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2528623.0.Bronze_Age_boat_prove\
s_a_handful_for_Loch_Tay_volunteers.php

The Mary Rose will be heading out of view for some conservation
work:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8230353.stm

A grant has saved a medieval chapel in Essex:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/8229281.stm

The 'world's oldest' church bells have been returned to a church
in Suffolk:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6125956/Worlds-oldest-church\
-bells-returned-home.html

An update of sorts on that dig of a WWI site at Fromelles:

http://mikepitts.wordpress.com/2009/08/29/back-from-fromelles/

================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Now they're denying that they've found 100 terracotta warriors:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Terracotta-Army-Museum-denies-major-disc\
overy/18706

Have they found the remains of the city of Anarthpura?:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/4973865.cms

Concerns for sites in the Taxila valley:

http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/pakistan/prov\
inces/03-blasting-away-centuries-old-heritage-for-gravel-ss-05

Life in the late 70s was hard (!):

http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/excavation-reveals-life-in-the-seventies-no-picnic\
-20090904-fbc6.html

More on that polynesian boat recreation/voyage:

http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090831/world-news/epic-4-000-kilomet\
re-voyage-aims-to-revive-pacific-tradition
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of human occupation on Florida's Gulf coast some 16000
years b.p.:

http://www.physorg.com/news170947571.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-08/mc-ued082909.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/08/090831131402.htm

Vague report of 'prehistoric' finds in Clarksville (Indiana):

http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-in-clarksvillearchae,0,6669995.story

A dig in Shawnee Lookout Park is making links between Hopewell and
modern Shawnee peoples:

http://www.uc.edu/news/NR.aspx?id=10585
http://www.physorg.com/news171192834.html

Finds at Fort Madison:

http://www.dailygate.com/articles/2009/08/31/news/doc4a9c1b03acd2f989068343.txt

They're just starting to find things at Camp Security, but not what
they're looking for:

http://ydr.inyork.com/ci_13248749

Utah is transferring control of Range Creek Canyon to the University of
Utah:

http://indiancountrynews.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7317&Item\
id=116

Plenty of coverage of an "ancient" skeleton found with a gun
beneath a Mass. shed (it's only 100 years b.p.):

http://www.boston.com/news/local/massachusetts/articles/2009/09/03/ancient_skele\
ton_found_with_gun_under_mass_shed/
http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20090904/UPDATES01/90903070/Ancient+skeleton+\
found+with+gun+under+Mass.+shed
http://wbztv.com/local/skeleton.gun.cambridge.2.1163357.html

The History Detectives are looking for a bridge burned by Sherman:

http://www.thecolumbiastar.com/news/2009/0904/news/011.html

Possible burials are getting in the way of the Causeway floodwall
project in New Orleans:

http://www.nola.com/hurricane/index.ssf/2009/08/chance_of_ancient_burial_groun.h\
tml

Feature on technology use at the dig at Moundville:

http://www.tuscaloosanews.com/article/20090831/news/908309965&tc=yahoo

On archaeology and the planned Lewis and Clark Heritage Trail:

http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20090903/NEWS02/909030341/1025/Archaeolog\
ical+findings+could+influence+plans+for+Lewis+and+Clark+Heritage+Trail

Excerpt from Timothy Pauketat, *Cahokia*:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970203706604574377031010276934.html

More on the finds at Isles of Shoals:

http://www.physorg.com/news170617269.html
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
On the DNA front, 'founder effects' and the populating of the
Americas:

http://oudaily.com/news/2009/sep/03/anthropology-assistant-professor-uncovers-ge\
netic-/

On the reasons for the collapse of Monte Alban:

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

Evidence of a major battle on the summit of the El Tigre pyramid
at El Mirador (!):

http://in.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idINIndia-42207620090903
http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/9/4/worldupdates/2009-09-03T2345\
52Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-422076-1&sec=Worldupdates
http://www.vision.org/visionmedia/article.aspx?id=18952

Plans to search for a Peruvian galleon that sank off the shores
of Chile in 1805:

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/santiagotimes/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1\
&id=17033

Arguing over the origins of a Bolivian/Peruvian deity:

http://www.santiagotimes.cl/santiagotimes/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1\
&id=17066

An 'indigenous spa' in the Amazon jungle:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/prweb/20090901/bs_prweb/prweb2807394_1
================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
The domestic dog apparently appeared first in China some 16 000
years b.p.:

http://www.physorg.com/news171026678.html

Protecting monuments from graffiti:

http://www.physorg.com/news171039653.html

This week's facial reconstruction is of a 19th century serial
killer:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Revealed-the-true-face-of.5617670.jp

Review of Marina Belozerskaya, *To Wake the Dead*:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/09/04/AR2009090401764.\
html

Review of Janet Soskice, *The Sisters of Sinai*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/books/review/Alexander-t.html?_r=1

More on efforts to identify the remains of Copernicus:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090707093631.htm

More on the Indus Valley script:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1919795,00.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-104070.html
================================================================
DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
================================================================

Not sure why I didn't mention this before, but Tom Elliott's
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator brings together
a number of dig blogs on one page:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Here are the blogs that have been mentioned to us specifically:

New this week:

Culver Archaeological Project:

http://www.culverproject.com/indexfirefox.htm

Ongoing:

Skagafjordur Archaeological Settlement Survey:

http://blogs.umb.edu/sass/

SHARP weblog (dig concluded):

http://ccgi.sedgeford.plus.com/blog/

Apollonia Arsuf (Israel):

http://apollonia-arsuf.blogspot.com/

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa (dig just concluded):

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

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

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

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

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Greek Istanbul:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-185931-132-discovering-the-greek-side-of-\
istanbul.html

Trigono:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/e2d7864e-98e3-11de-aa1b-00144feabdc0.html

Paphos:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1210061/Cyprus-holidays-Charmed-Aphrod\
ite-wooed-Dionysus-perfect-Paphos.html

Acropolis Museum:

http://www.smh.com.au/travel/a-new-life-for-ancient-history-20090829-f2qv.html

Gettysburg:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-trw-gettysburg6-2009sep06
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
An update of sorts on the James Ossuary trial:

http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1920720,00.html

Native burial sites in Alabama apparently aren't protected like
other graves:

http://www.annistonstar.com/pages/full_story/push?article-Law+offers+less+protec\
tion+for+American+Indian+sites%20&id=3513345-Law+offers+less+protection+for+Amer\
ican+Indian+sites&instance=home_lead_story

================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Medals of the World:

http://www.medals.org.uk/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
Hype for the impending reopening of the Ashmolean:

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/4578862.Countdown_to_the_new_Ashmolean/
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EARLY HUMANS
================================================================
Refined stone tools in Europe earlier than previously thought:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08obaxe.html

More coverage of those homo erectus finds from Dmanisi (Georgia):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/sep/08/fossils-georgia-dmanisi-early-huma\
ns
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a-skull-that-rewrites-the-history-of-m\
an-1783861.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-108396.html
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AFRICA
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Some very large Meso/Neolithic hand axes found in a dry lake basin
in the Kalahari:

http://www.physorg.com/news171790409.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the suggestion that a number of 'mother
goddess' figures from Catal Huyuk were rather, 'educational
toys':

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1212320/Ancient-figurines-toys-mo\
ther-goddess-statues-say-experts-9-000-year-old-artefacts-discovered.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2009/sep/10/stone-figurine-man-catalhoyuk
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=105851§ionid=3510212

On the precise astronomical alignment of ancient Egyptian Temples:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20327243.000-egyptian-temples-followed-hea\
venly-plans.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-108544.html

Latest bit of 'mysterious writing' comes on a 2000 years b.p.
stone cup found recently in Jerusalem:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090909-code-biblical-cup.html

There's a big brouhaha erupting as Israeli archaeologists tunnel
further 'beneath' the Al Aqsa mosque:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804549264&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.arabnews.com/?page=4§ion=0&article=126336&d=12&m=9&y=2009
http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/Tunnel-Funded-By-Jewish-Settlers-In-\
East-Jerusalem-Neighbourhood-Of-Silwan-Angers-Palestinians/Article/2009092153799\
35?lpos=World_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_6&lid=ARTICLE_15379935_Tunne\
l_Funded_By_Jewish_Settlers_In_East_Jerusalem_Neighbourhood_Of_Silwan_Angers_Pal\
estinians_
http://www.daily.pk/israel-digging-new-tunnel-towards-one-of-islams-most-sacred-\
shrines-10574/

Much excitement over the discovery of one of the earliest (or
earliest, depending on which journalist is spinning this one)
depictions of a menorah :

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iWsi89HepMmL7yMjDAvPWUJlIu0wD9\
AL49UO0
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1113823.html
http://news.therecord.com/article/596044
http://www.startribune.com/science/58994062.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090911/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_menorah
http://www.physorg.com/news171910228.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iWsi89HepMmL7yMjDAvPWUJlIu0wD9\
AL49UO0
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090911/ap_on_sc/ml_israel_ancient_menorah_6

... same discovery, but emphasizing the discovery of the 2000 b.p.
synagogue it was found in (Migdal):

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/11/jerusalem.synagogue/
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1752010/excavation_reveals_ancient_synagogu\
e/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/09/12/Excavation-reveals-ancient-synagogue/\
UPI-51551252739706/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i_AuJo8AjKKTTZOIvEuxpkeBAn_g
http://www.catholic.net/index.php?option=dedestaca&id=3849&grupo=News%20%20Media\
&canal=News
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/170929

Interesting blog post by Robert Cargill on the recent acquisition
of some DSS fragments by APU:

http://bobcargill.wordpress.com/2009/09/09/on-the-acquisition-of-dead-sea-scroll\
s-fragments-by-azusa-pacific-university/

OpEd on Egypt's motives in restoring synagogues:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/07/world/middleeast/07cairo.html?_r=1

Iraq is seeking help to restore ancient sites:

http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/9/11/worldupdates/2009-09-11T150\
806Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-423743-2&sec=Worldupdates
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsMaps/idUSTRE58950K20090910
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1980013

More on those Canaanite fortification remains found in Jerusalem:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1112027
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1251804474414&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\
e/ShowFull
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/israel.wall.discovered/index.html?iref\
=mpstoryview
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112725017
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h2zNAydcLiSvd5fXVQ5eIk7NmW7QD9\
AF8KE81
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-09/02/content_11985716.htm
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/09/04/israel.wall.discovered/#cnnSTCVideo
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/09/02/1007592/cityof-david-archeologists-discov\
er-ancient-fortification#When:13:07:00Z
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Brief item on the conclusion of the 2009 season of the Prastion-
Mesorotsos project:

http://www.moi.gov.cy/moi/pio/pio.nsf/All/26189729EB1B5441C225762C004FE95E?Opend\
ocument
http://www.isria.com/pages/9_September_2009_240.php

The 2009 report from the Pylos-Iklaina project is out:

http://www.iklaina.org/

The 'Gladiator diet' story is making the rounds again:

http://www.archaeology.org/0811/abstracts/gladiator.html

Latest in the Colchester Roman Circus saga:

http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/news/ecsnews/4590879.Colchester__Plans_to_i\
dentify_the_site_of_Roman_circus/

All kinds of excitement over revelation of evidence for the Romans
in Carlisle:

http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/80_000_treasures_of_the_romans_revealed_1_\
610575?referrerPath=news/

... while some items from Arbeia Roman fort are going on display
too:

http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Roman-treasures-go-on-display.5627963.jp

Assorted items (of varying quality) on Varus:

http://oe1.orf.at/highlights/143289.html
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/history/ancient/1859-teutoburg-forest-th\
e-battle-that-saved-the-west

OpEd on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:

http://www.lemonde.fr/opinions/article/2009/09/12/le-parthenon-merite-ses-marbre\
s-par-henri-godard_1239568_3232.html

OpEddish/reviewish sort of thing entitled 'Ovid Among the
Anti-Communists':

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/09/11/ovid-among-the-anti-communists/

Review of Anthony Everitt, *Hadrian and the Triumph of Rome*:

http://www.newyorker.com/arts/reviews/brieflynoted/2009/09/14/090914crbn_briefly\
noted3

I think we've had this recreation-of-Orpheus's-lyre story before:

http://www.littleabout.com/news/33212,orpheuss-mythical-lyre-recreated-bulgaria.\
html
http://blog.taragana.com/n/orpheuss-mythical-lyre-recreated-in-bulgaria-162298/

A possible big-screen sequel to HBO's Rome series:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/intersection/2009/09/06/rome-2011-can-it-reall\
y-be-true/

... and an I, Claudius remake:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article68\
27919.ece

Paul Cartledge talks about his latest book:

http://blog.oup.com/2009/09/ancient-greece/

Review of Robin Waterfield, *Why Socrates Died*:

http://www.publicbroadcasting.net/kuar/.artsmain/article/5/1032/1532241/Books/Wh\
y.Socrates.Died./

Review of Frank McLynn, *Marcus Aurelius*:

http://www.popmatters.com/pm/review/110562-marcus-aurelius-a-life-by-frank-mclyn\
n/

More on that Roman 'mansion' from Jerusalem:

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/116208.html

More on that colossal statue of Apollo from Turkey:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/09/08/apollo-statue.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Medieval remains near Brechin Cathedral:

http://news.stv.tv/scotland/tayside/121269-significant-medieval-discoveries-in-a\
ngus/

Interesting finds from various periods during road construction
in Co Meath:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2009/0828/1224253402303.html

Some finds made back in 2003 from various periods at a site in Ashwell are
apparently 'significant':

http://www.royston-crow.co.uk/content/crow/news/story.aspx?brand=ROYWestOnline&c\
ategory=News&tBrand=HertsCambsOnline&tCategory=newslatestROY&itemid=WEED11%20Sep\
%202009%2016%3A28%3A42%3A753

A 2000 years b.p. roundhouse from a Moray farm:

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1391588?UserKey=

Excavating an 'unflushed [medieval] loo' on the grounds of Paisley Abbey:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/loo-unflushed-for-500-years-is-arch\
eologists-goldmine-1.919426

They've resumed work on an Elizabethan shipwreck off Alderney:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/guernsey/8240648.stm

Some Preston lawyers have come across some interesting legal
documents:

http://www.lep.co.uk/businessnews/Preston-law-firm-makes-ancient.5629650.jp

Arguing over plans to restore the Lambert Hotel:

http://www.france24.com/en/20090907-lambert-hotel-saint-louis-island-paris-renov\
ation-history-buildings-hezieaux-czartoryski

The conclusion to the Fromelles dig:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/search-for-fromelles-soldiers-ends-20090910-fiew.htm\
l
http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/4563273.Uncovering_the_real_betrayal/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8247278.stm

More on the antiquity of milk drinking in Europe:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/09/02/Europe-milk-drinking-began-7500-years\
-ago/UPI-97391251904557/

More on recent finds from Kents Cavern:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8253091.stm

More on female hands on cave paintings:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6829451.\
ece

Review of Veronica Buckley, *The Secret Wife of Louis XIV*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/06/books/review/Weber-t.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Not sure whether this is a Europe or Asia story, but excavations
in the Republic of Georgia have revealed flax fibres that are
more than 34 000 years b.p.:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-09/hu-ado090809.php
http://www.physorg.com/news171811682.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=112726804
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8249362.stm
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13320709?source=rss
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=colorful-32\
000-year-old-fibers-prov-2009-09-10
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/15/science/15obfiber.html?em
http://news.ino.com/headlines/?newsid=6896575758371710
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/11049/divulgacao-cientifica/linhas-de-30-mi\
l-anos.htm

A sixth-century stone Hindu goddess from Kashmir:

http://blog.taragana.com/n/sixth-century-stone-sculpture-of-hindu-goddess-discov\
ered-in-kashmir-159438/

Still looking for the 'sleeping Buddha' in Afghanistan:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/newsnight/8233849.stm

Interesting feature on Mongolia's 'Olympics':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112466787

What they're finding along the Silk Road:

http://web.worldbank.org/WBSITE/EXTERNAL/NEWS/0,,contentMDK:22309407~menuPK:3445\
7~pagePK:34370~piPK:34424~theSitePK:4607,00.html

They're using high tech methods to poke around the Sigiriya fortress
(Sri Lanka):

http://www.lankabusinessonline.com/fullstory.php?nid=607787299

Plans to preserve a 350 year old temple chariot in Mangalore:

http://mangalorean.com/news.php?newstype=local&newsid=144329

Followups to the dog-domestication-in-China story, emphasizing
a possible 'food' motive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/08/science/08dogs.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/09/090904-dogs-tamed-china-food.htm\
l
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NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Evidence of Paleo-Indians from an Ohio rock shelter:

http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/09/04/fluted_point.\
ART_ART_09-04-09_B1_F3EVFK9.html

A flood control project near Houston has found a pile of interesting
finds from various periods:

http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/story?section=news/local&id=7004888
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6610887.html

Digging for artifacts at (ghost town) Coloma:

http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20090909/DC5/909090375

They're digging at Fort Edward:

http://troyrecord.com/articles/2009/09/10/news/doc4aa871942b2ac400712293.txt
http://dailyfreeman.com/articles/2009/09/09/news/doc4aa7a5c5a6e94222928055.txt
http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=11098960
http://www.newsday.com/news/region-state/experts-examining-ny-site-of-old-britis\
h-fort-1.1432271

The dig at the Macon County Airport is winding down:

http://www.thefranklinpress.com/articles/2009/09/09/news/22news.txt

Plans are afoot to dig for North America's oldest church (in Newfoundland):

http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=1964688
http://www.canada.com/technology/Archeologist+plans+continent+first+church/19637\
77/story.html
http://www.canada.com/technology/story.html?id=1964688

Those bones found on the USouth Carolina campus last month likely
came from the anatomy school in the 1800s
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
Plenty of coverage of how the Moai received their red hats:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20090907/wl_uk_afp/britainchilescienceresearch
http://www.physorg.com/news171546695.html
http://www.news.com.au/adelaidenow/story/0,22606,26042592-5005962,00.html?from=p\
ublic_rss
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Tech+and+Science/Story/STIStory_426804\
.html
http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/easter-island-statues-reveal-red-h\
at-secret-study-20090908-ffvt.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8236349.stm