================================================================ explorator 12.29 November 9, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text or html text but NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Mark Allen, Edward Rockstein, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Eric Cline, Tim Parkin, Kurt Theis, Laura Jefferson, Richard Price, Michael T. Stulac, Barnea Selavan,Bob Heuman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ More on h. sapiens-neanderthal relations: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33721697/ns/technology_and_science-science/ ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ The greening of the Sahara is credited with triggering human migrations out of Africa: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091111115843.htm http://www.nioz.nl/nioz_nl/51b09886749314dfda74484736d5bf18.php#b09112009uk http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18127-stone-age-humans-crossed-sahara-in-t\ he-rain.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news Another hunter-gatherer group faces a change of their lifestyle: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/africa/15kenya.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A Minoan-style wall painting from the Canaanite palace at Tel Kabri: http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=1484 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134292 http://www.physorg.com/news176986342.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uoh-rom110909.php http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1782674/minoanstyle_painting_found_during_e\ xcavations_of_canaanite_palace/index.html?source=r_science Some 25th/26th dynasty wells have been found to be part of the recently-discovered Sacred Lake at Tanis: http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sid=44463 Plans to excavate a pre-Elamite site in Iran: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=207631 A Spanish team has found a 'forgotten' city on the Euphrates: http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME12.XAM19105.html Feature on Tal al-Khwaira: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200911113560/Culture/tal-al-khwaira-civ\ ilizations-dating-back-to-the-3rd-millennium-bc-says-archaeologists.html The latest claim that Cambyses' lost army has been found got far too much press coverage this week: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cambyses-army-remains-sahara.html http://news.discovery.com/videos/archaeology-ancient-lost-army-found.html(video) http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cambyses-lost-army-images.html(photos) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1226500/Is-lost-Persian-army-Comp\ elling-remains-uncovered-Sahara-Desert.html > http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33791672/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573406,00.html http://www.mailonsunday.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1226500/Is-lost-Persian-army-C\ ompelling-remains-uncovered-Sahara-Desert.html http://news.msn.co.nz/article/969711/archaeologists-discover-lost-desert-army http://www.ptinews.com/news/370375_The-remains-of-the-lost-mighty-Persian-Army--\ found- http://www.foxcharlotte.com/dpp/news/scitech/Legendary_Lost_Persian_Army_Found_i\ n_Sahara_15561325 cf: http://rogueclassicism.com/2009/11/13/cambyses-lost-army-found-dont-eat-that-elm\ er/ A five-year project to restore Tut's tomb: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ae3hG.ythwTo http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/11/10/international/i02414\ 8S89.DTL http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ga4G96HXif0cFiMzDdK5PGYqTthgD9\ BSK6QG3 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/getty-conservation-instit\ ute-embarks-on-fiveyear-king-tut-project.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33829981/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ga4G96HXif0cFiMzDdK5PGYqTthgD9\ BSMMFO1 Another feature on excavations near Temple Mount: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3802112,00.html Nice feature on the history of digging at Saqqara: http://heritage-key.com/egypt/history-archaeology-and-excavation-saqqara They're starting to display some of the inscriptions found at Herakleion: http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/11/secrets-from-a-sunken-egyptian-cit\ y.html Three Byzantine tombs from Wadi al-Zahab: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200911123593/Culture/archaeologists-thr\ ee-byzantine-tombs-discovered-in-wadi-al-zahab-in-syria.html Interview with Beverly Goodman about that tsunami-in-the-Mediterranean business: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134332 Nice feature on the DSS: http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/From+Dead+McGill/2223365/story.html Not sure where I should put this feature on Shlomo Moussaieff: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258027274481&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull Latest coverage of the Raphael Golb affair: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08about.html This week's Temple Mount coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/world/middleeast/15mount.html A major grant for the ARCE: http://sanantonio.bizjournals.com/sanantonio/stories/2009/08/31/story9.html ... and Zahi Hawass thinks Beyonce is "stupid": http://jam.canoe.ca/Music/2009/11/12/11729816-wenn-story.html?cid=rssentertainme\ nt ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Roman remains have been found during the redevelopment of the Marlowe Theatre in Canterbury: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/kent/8355636.stm http://www.yourcanterbury.co.uk/kent-news/Roman-house-found-under-Marlowe-Theatr\ e-newsinkent29852.aspx http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-149457.html Evidence of a Roman villa in Ceredigion: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/11/14/archaeological-evidence-\ of-a-roman-villa-in-ceredigion-91466-25163969/ They're going to be looking around Bath's Great Drain: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6916691.ece Feature on evidence for Mithraism in Malta: http://www.independent.com.mt/news.asp?newsitemid=96911 Bulgaria doesn't have the funds for their planned Sevtopolis restoration: http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=109727 http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1564 Plenty of ClassCon in a Veteran's Day-inspired piece by Caroline Alexander: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08alexander.html Lorna Robinson on how Latin inspires kiddies: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/dr-lorna-robinson-latin-inspir\ es-and-enthuses-children-1817249.html Sophocles and the anguish of war: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/theater/12greeks.html Weird suggestion for a 'food-labelling-style-system' to tag degrees with dropout rates, earning potential etc ... some ClassCon of course: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2009/nov/10/higher-education-framework-class\ ics-teaching A 'strategic plan' for Skopje's Roman aqueduct: http://www.mrt.com.mk/en/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7385&Itemid=2\ 7 A project to digitally recreate Roman Leicester: http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/stroll-Roman-Leicester-210AD-universi\ ty-experts-create-virtual-world/article-1515201-detail/article.html Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Plans are afoot to study a Bronze Age barrow at Stedham: http://www.chichester.co.uk/6430/Archaeologists-to-study-Bronze-Age.5815106.jp Vague item on some 'solar chariot' elements being found in Russia: http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/9196/ Some very large rondel enclosures have been found in the Czech Republic: http://www.ceskenoviny.cz/news/zpravy/czech-archaeologists-uncover-europe-s-larg\ est-rondel-enclosures/406757 A Norwegian man found a 3000 years b.p. sword by the side of the road: http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2009/11/13/Man-finds-3000-year-old-sword/UPI-7170125\ 8146902/ Rethinking the origins of the Lewis Chessmen: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1477935/?UserKey= http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8352127.stm Evidence of brain surgery in Ireland a thousand years ago: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/frontpage/2009/1110/1224258483111.html Finds from various periods at Nesebar (Bulgaria): http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1567 Metal detectorists have found some Medieval gold and silver in Wales: http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/11/07/metal-detector-fans-find\ -two-priceless-artefacts-91466-25111154/ Interesting finds from a 13th-15th century manor house site in Pinchbeck: http://www.spaldingtoday.co.uk/news/John-unearths-treasure.5816166.jp Evidence of Lincolnshire's first pub: http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Evidence-Lincolnshire-s-pub/article-151\ 4907-detail/article.html A big protest over the sale of land near an Iron Age hill fort in West Sussex: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/sussex/8360572.stm Review of William Shawcross, *The Queen Mother*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/books/review/Queenan-t.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Interesting piece on the 'ambivalence' towards efforts to find the tomb of Genghis Khan: http://www.eurasianet.org/departments/insightb/articles/eav110909.shtml Some Han Dynasty ruins from Inner Mongolia: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6810447.html Some stone idols were found while digging some drainage works neat Kote Anjaneya temple: http://www.deccanherald.com/content/34789/3-stone-idols-unearthed.html Plenty of coverage (again?) of the discovery of what might be Himiko's palace near Sakurai: http://home.kyodo.co.jp/modules/fstPhotos/index.php?photoid=40542 http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200911120147.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601101&sid=aAeNflQNTgcs http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/6544766/Palace-of-Japans-wa\ rrior-queen-discovered.html I think we've mentioned this damage-to-the-Great-Wall-by-miners story before: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/11/11/world/main5612559.shtml http://www.gadling.com/2009/11/11/mining-company-accused-of-destroying-part-of-t\ he-great-wall-of-c/ An Australian farmer has handed over a skull he claims belonged to Ned Kelly: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/13/farmer-ned-kelly-skull-claim Feature on the Indus civilization's 'volumetric system': http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/15/stories/2009111556932200.htm More on finding missing Buddha legs: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/british-indiana-jones-finds-missi\ ng-legs-of-900yearold-buddhist-statue-1816568.html ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Some prehistoric footprints in Iowa: http://www.lemarssentinel.com/story/1586602.html Native remains halt the building of a home in Saanich: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ancient-bones-halt-building-of-1-mi\ llion-bc-home/article1357422/ http://www.bclocalnews.com/vancouver_island_south/victorianews/news/69686487.htm\ l http://www.timescolonist.com/technology/Human+bones+found+Saanich+construction+s\ ite+years/2202982/story.html Looking for native artifacts at Water Works Park (Macon): http://www.macon.com/local/story/909651.html Remains of a fort on the Trail of Tears: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20091109/NEWS01/911090319/Fort+uncovered+on+Tr\ ail+of+Tears Archaeologists have identified the remains of the CSS Appomattox: http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13751104?source=rss http://hamptonroads.com/node/530159 Humans are being blamed for killing off gomphotheres: http://www.azcentral.com/arizonarepublic/news/articles/2009/11/09/20091109iceage\ beast.html An old outhouse on Hanley Farm: http://www.dailytidings.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091112/LIFE/911120303 Feature on stone mounds in various locales: http://www.southeasternarchaeology.com/seac2009.html Pondering murder in various periods in the US: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2009/11/09/091109crat_atlarge_lepo\ re Feature on Karl Jacoby: http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2350/32/ cf: http://www.brown.edu/Research/Aravaipa/ On the enduring influence of the Dutch in NY: http://blog.syracuse.com/neighbors/2009/11/influence_of_dutch_settlers_still_fel\ t_throughout_state.html More on that Irishman buried in New York story: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/12/clues-emerge-in-life-of-irishman-bu\ ried-under-park/ More on DeSoto finds: http://www.macon.com/532/story/916313.html http://www.ajc.com/news/fernbank-archaeologist-confident-he-189165.html?cxtype=r\ ss_news_128746 ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ An elite Nasca child burial from Cahuachi: http://enperublog.com/2009/11/07/priestess-of-cahuachi/ Nice feature on the Calakmul murals: http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2009/11/09/2123180.aspx http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091109/sc_livescience/mayamuralsgiverarevi\ ewofeverydaylife http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,573594,00.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091112-maya-pictures-murals-pyra\ mid-food.html ... and the INAH has clarified that the discovery isn't recent: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150(scroll down) Maybe rats were behind the deforestation of Easter Island: http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/columnist/vergano/2009-11-13-easter-island_\ N.htm Recreating the world of Incan pottery: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2009/november9/inca-pottery-replication-111209.htm\ l More/followup to that Cuzco skull story: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=347380&CategoryId=14095 http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=d6aUvOvIpts= http://enperublog.com/2009/11/13/severed-heads-among-discovery-at-sacsayhuaman/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Ten best examples of ekphrasis: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/14/ten-best-ekphrasis-john-mullan Interesting feature on a female Torah scribe: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/arts/design/08sfculture.html For all you Yale fans out there ... a feature on the first female students at Yale: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/oldyale024.html ... the origins of Boola Boola: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/arts_quot057.html ... the first submarine: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/lastlook120.html ... and not solely of Yale interest is an item on a bit of Hebrew micrography: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_09/arts_obles056.html Digging into the history of eating habits: http://www.videtteonline.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=30958:\ archaeologist-digs-into-history-of-eating-habits-&catid=60:newsstate&Itemid=53 The 'real' Venetians are the next target of a big DNA study: http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.3985905134 ... taking into account the penguins, of course: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/osu-apd111009.php More coverage of the West Semitic Research Project: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/08/BARJ1AE3SF.DTL Judging a book by its odour: http://www.physorg.com/news177079514.html Theory that we're 'hardwired' to produce rock art and the like: http://prescottdailycourier.com/main.asp?SectionID=1&SubSectionID=1&ArticleID=74\ 413 The German Lawrence of Arabia: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/fisk/robert-fisks-world-the-ge\ rman-lawrence-of-arabia-had-much-to-live-up-to-ndash-and-failed-1816593.html Some Levi-Strauss retrospectives: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/weekinreview/08rohter.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/opinion/08le-clezio.html Some myths attached to 2012: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091106-2012-end-of-world-myths.h\ tml Review of David Nokes, *Samuel Johnson*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/books/review/Bloom-t.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Marietta (Ohio): http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/travel/escapes/06amer.html Olympia: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/nov/08/travel-olympia-greece/ Sagamore Hill: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08btourli.html Wall Street: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08stop.html?_r=1 Thomas Edison Nation Historical Park: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08artsnj.html ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Saudi Arabia is getting tough on antiquities smugglers: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=128296&d=10&m=11&y=2009&pix=ki\ ngdom.jpg&category=Kingdom A tripti/standing stone from Pissouri (Cyprus) was the subject of an attempted theft, apparently: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=48750&cat_id=1 ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A video from the IAA (in Hebrew) on the discovery of those gold coins from Ramle (nice images even if you don't understand Hebrew): http://www.antiquities.org.il/ramla_movie_heb.asp The discovery of a coin from Henry IV has sparked a legal dispute: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/mid_/8352085.stm More on Israel displaying coins from the Bar Kochba revolt (which don't appear to be the recently-found coins, as I mentioned last week ... the press coverage is somewhat confusing): http://www.physorg.com/news177176994.html http://www.newsday.com/news/israel-displays-coins-from-ancient-jewish-revolt-1.1\ 581011 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091112/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_rare_coins http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gjWE3DYz2cYWi0gm2VQ\ LqQM3Nu3g http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-11-11-jewish-temple-coins-exhib\ ition_N.htm http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g94CMEEX6ZfpBkriA3y1z0qpBDXwD9\ BTH3CO0 http://feeds.malaysianews.net/?rid=29600445&cat=2411cd3571b4f088 http://www.3news.co.nz/Israel-displays-coins-from-ancient-Jewish-revolt/tabid/41\ 7/articleID/129413/cat/61/Default.aspx?ArticleID=129413 http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/middle_east/view.bg?articleid=121\ 1316&srvc=rss ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Travelling the Silk Road: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/design/13silk.html Jane Austen: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/arts/design/07austen.html Victorious Ones and Peaceful Conquerors: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/design/13jain.html Watteau to Degas: http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/notebook/2009/11/09/091109gonb_GOAT_notebo\ ok_schjeldahl Rembrandt's People: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/nyregion/08artct.html Giovanni Boldini: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/arts/14iht-raabold.html Apostles of Beauty: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/design/13antiques.html It appears (?)they've worked out all that Cyrus Cylinder business: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=at6uoOdJCgqk http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110996§ionid=351020105 Newly-passed legislation in the UK allows national museums to return Nazi-looted art: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8358902.stm http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128153.html Features on assorted 'stolen' items Egypt wants returned: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8352325.stm http://www.newspostonline.com/specials/efforts-on-to-restore-egypt%E2%80%99s-ant\ iquities-stolen-five-ancient-fresco-fragments-2009111175251 http://en.afrik.com/article16460.html http://www.nstgroup.co.uk/news?RSSID=1192&TL=Egypt's%20quest%20to%20regain%20'st\ olen'%20antiquities Sweden has returned some skulls to Hawaii: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8361011.stm http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/20091115_In_the_World.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iAhuosh0YGtBP_qvemCX0PHfTTKQD9\ BVBLN81 Folks are flocking to the Ashmolean: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/england/oxfordshire/8350213.stm http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/11/10/Renovated-Ashmolean-Museum-reop\ ens/UPI-69761257908944/ The BM wants that Staffordshire hoard remain in the West Midlands: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8355742.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/09/staffordshire-treasure-stirs\ -midlands-soul The Terracotta Warriors are in Washington: http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20091109/LIFE/911090303 Assorted Elgin/Parthenon Marbles coverage: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8135677&maindocimg=8126631&s\ ervice=10 http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1565 http://au.greekreporter.com/2009/11/11/greek-aussie-mps-fight-for-elgins-stolen-\ marbles/ Coverage of the American Art Fair at the National Academy: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/13/arts/design/13vogel.html Coverage of the Yves Saint Laurent auction: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/14/arts/14iht-raaysl.html Nice price for a 400 year-old manuscript: http://www.sidewaysnews.com/arts-culture/rare-manuscript-sells-£84000 ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Bach's Gypsy side: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/arts/music/08beck.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Bad Archaeology: 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================================================================ explorator 12.31 November 22, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text or html text but NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Jack Linthicum, Kurt Theis, Rick Heli, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Latest on homo floresiensis is that it is a genuine human species: http://www.physorg.com/news177828426.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/w-aa111709.php http://www.cornellsun.com/node/39817 (awkward headline) http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/news/local/news/general/hobbit-was-ancient-hu\ man-species-study-suggests/1683208.aspx?src=rss Pondering the 'humanity' of Ardi: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-humanlike-was-ardi ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Evidence that the Zerqa Valley (Jordan) has been inhabited and irrigated for at least 13 000 years: http://www.physorg.com/news177784568.html A spectacular Parthian burial from Iraq: http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2009-11-19\kurd.htm Plenty of (self-satisfied?) coverage that assorted mummy scans have revealed that ancient Egyptians had hardening of the arteries and other evidence of heart disease: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8363200.stm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uoc--hdf111209.php http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-mummy18-2009nov18,0,1946567.story?tra\ ck=rss http://www.suntimes.com/news/nation/1890113,CST-NWS-Mummies18.article http://www.webmd.com/heart-disease/news/20091117/mummies-had-heart-disease-too http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/17/heart-disease-ancient-egyptians%20\ X-rays http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091118/wl_mideast_afp/healthusegyptdiseaseheartsci\ encearchaeology_20091118100841 http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/171304.php http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/egypt-mummies-heart-disease.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091117161017.htm http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120510925 http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/11373/divulgacao-cientifica/problema-modern\ o-e-antigo.htm A seal bearing the name of Hammurabi has been excavated from Tal El-Daba'a: http://www2.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001223.htm http://www.drhawass.com/blog/press-release-new-discovery-tel-el-daba?utm_source=\ feedburner&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Drhawasscom-New+%28DrHawass.com\ +-+What%27s+new%3F+Feed%29(photo) http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_remains-of-hammurabi-seal-discovered-in-c\ airo_1314883 There's a new online map which shows archaeological activity in the environs of Jerusalem: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/a-searchable-map-detailin\ g-40-years-of-israeli-archaeological-work-in-the-west-bank-and-east-jerusalem-de\ veloped-for-the-usc.html http://blogs.sciencemag.org/scienceinsider/2009/11/map-of-7000-hol.html http://www.newsroom.ucla.edu/portal/ucla/boynter-149142.aspx http://cbs2.com/wireapnational/USC.UCLA.Middle.2.1326749.html cf: http://digitallibrary.usc.edu/wbarc/ Plenty of coverage for a UNESCO conference focussing on saving Israel's (and other) sites from natural disasters: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258566463480&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1128396 http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134489 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258027305654&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull(Acre) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1128295.html (Acre) Feature on the Canaanites as art collectors: http://blogs.usatoday.com/sciencefair/2009/11/canaanites-the-art-collectors-of-t\ heir-day.html Another feature on the DSS: http://www.thestar.com/living/religion/article/727097 Fallout from *The Invention of the Jewish People*: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1258027296653&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull They've come up with a King Tut martini to coincide with an exhibition at the AGO: http://www.thestar.com/living/food/recipes/article/727126--king-tut-martini Reviewish sort of thing of Eric Cline, *Biblical Archaeology*: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6917740.\ ece Review of Mary Gordon, *Reading Jesus*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/Anastas-t.html ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Coverage of Alun Salt's work on the orientation of Greek temples: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/environment/article6922248.ece http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article69221\ 95.ece ... and here's Alun's article: http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0007903 A call for better protection for Roman military sites in Scotland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8366746.stm http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/So-that39s-what-the-Romans.5842559.jp Interesting rhyton (and other items) find from Bulgaria: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=110099 http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1588 http://paper.standartnews.com/en/index.php?d=2009-11-18 http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1584 Latest on the search for Cleopatra's tomb (nothing new): http://www.dominicantoday.com/dr/world/2009/11/18/33903/Dominican-archaeologist-\ closes-in-on-Cleopatra-top-Egyptologist-says Nice feature on some Roman mosaics at Cirencester: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/property/article-1228256/When-archaeologists-Roman-mo\ saics-building-site-owners-faced-planning-puzzle.html Somewhat late coverage on the discovery of Hadrian's Academy: http://blastmagazine.com/the-news/world-news/2009/11/hadrians-academy-unearthed/ Feature on Roman painting: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/great-works/great-works-stil\ l-life-with-peaches-c-ad50-anon-1823826.html Time Magazine buys into the Cambyses Lost Army claim: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1938822,00.html?xid=rss-world Review of Adrienne Mayor, *The Poison King*: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/19/AR2009111903942.\ html?hpid=sec-artsliving More on the Etruscan roots of the Twilight saga: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/features/the-etruscan-root\ s-of-the-twilight-saga-1824664.html More on Roman remains on the site of the Marlowe theatre: http://www.zeenews.com/past/2009-11-16/579340news.html Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Feature on a talk about some Paleolithic remains found in Scotland: http://www.hamiltonadvertiser.co.uk/news/local-news/lanark-and-carluke-news/2009\ /11/19/hunters-remains-earliest-known-51525-25199478/ A Neolithic burial site on Skye found during house construction is going to be moved: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8368932.stm Vague item on evidence for early wine production in Armenia: http://www.panarmenian.net/news/eng/?nid=39414 Bronze Age (and other periods) remains near Moscow: http://www.zeenews.com/news580630.html Nice payday for the finders of the Staffordshire hoard: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6926946.ece Ewloe Castle is up for sale: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_east/8364611.stm Restoration of St James Priory is set to start: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8362098.stm Feature on 'historical' food from the UK: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2009/nov/19/british-food-from-the-past More on those Mesolithic "weapons" found in Leicestershire: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091116114256.htm ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ That recent tsunami on American Samoa damaged some sites and revealed some new ones: http://www.rnzi.com/pages/news.php?op=read&id=50384 Interesting copper plate inscription sheds light on the Alupas: http://www.hindu.com/2009/11/19/stories/2009111951260300.htm Remains of a 8th/9th century pond from Japan: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/11/15/Ancient-pond-remains-found-\ in-Japan/UPI-50691258315518/ Not sure if this story about the Indus Valley Civ's 'financial exchange system' is the same as the 'volumetric system' story from last week: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/india/6584160/Indus-Valleys-Bronz\ e-Age-civilisation-had-first-sophisticated-financial-exchange-system.html Feature on and photos from the Shangri-La Cave: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/091117-shangri-la-secrets-tibet-\ treasures-caves.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/photogalleries/shangri-la-cave-t\ reasures/index.html ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Clovis folk are off the hook (for now) in regards to mammoth extinction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/19/hunters-mammoths-extinction ... this is a sort of different spin on the same story: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120592967 http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24fauna.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8368485.stm Interesting dig going on in the Cascades: http://www.theolympian.com/southsound/story/1037115.html(s) Native American remains found during construction of a Philadelphia casino: http://cbs3.com/local/artifacts.sugarhouse.philadelphia.2.1324229.html Pondering the fate of the Adena/Hopewell people: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/11/15/john15.ART_AR\ T_11-15-09_B4_V9FM6MM.html?sid=101 Latest Civil War ship being searched for is the USS Westfield: http://www.galvnews.com/story.lasso?ewcd=6fe187a0a16c96b0 Assorted items being found during sewer construction in Davenport (Iowa): http://www.qctimes.com/news/local/b98b8882-d59a-11de-9061-001cc4c03286.html Lincoln wrote to an eight-year-old: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/17/us/AP-US-Lincoln-Letter-Sale.html On the politics lf 'landmark' status: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/arts/design/19goodrich.html Outhouse as time capsule: http://www.nysut.org/cps/rde/xchg/nysut/hs.xsl/newyorkteacher_13758.htm Salutory tale of the price/cost of preservation: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/arts/design/17historic.html Review of Robert Merry, *A Country of Vast Designs*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/Wilentz-t.html Review of Madison Bell, *Devil's Dream*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/Wineapple-t.html Review of James Bradley, *The Imperial Cruise*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/books/19book.html More on artifacts from the Queen Anne's Revenge going on display: http://www.wvec.com/news/regional/70603572.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Feature on the Maya paintings at Calakmul: http://www.physorg.com/news177582245.html Feature on the Mayan calendar: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/04/15/2217547.htm ... and iff you're bored, you might want to play with this interactive Mayan long count calendar thingy: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2009/11/16/science/20091116-maya.html ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ The latest on the Shroud of Turin is that it contains a 'death certificate': http://www.physorg.com/news177954765.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_shroud_of_turin http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article6925371.ece http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iEpbatbYlTMk7i4ydVWEnJ0SU4OAD9\ C3BCFO0 It was a week for body parts in the news ... first, Galileo's fingers and tooth: http://www.physorg.com/news178009204.html http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Hallados/relicario/dedos/diente/Galileo/\ elpepusoc/20091120elpepusoc_23/Tes http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091121/ap_on_re_eu/eu_italy_galileo_s_fingers ... and bits of Mussolini's brain are apparently up for sale on the interweb: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/8371171.stm ... and I suppose we can mention Cromwell's tongue scraper here too: http://www.huntspost.co.uk/content/hunts/news/story.aspx?brand=HPTOnline&categor\ y=News&tBrand=HertsCambsOnline&tCategory=newslatestHPT&itemid=WEED12%20Nov%20200\ 9%2013%3A58%3A19%3A490 > Not sure how to classify this one ... the Crux Vaticana has been restored: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/world/europe/20briefs-CrossBrf.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/18/world/AP-EU-Vatican-Restored-Cross.ht\ ml http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/19/world/AP-EU-Vatican-Restored-Cross.ht\ ml http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/6607247/Crux-Vaticana-restored-\ to-its-former-glory.html In case you know someone who is buying into the 2012 doomsday nonsense: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/science/17essay.html Hobbes' Leviathan has been translated into Hebrew: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/15/hobbes-in-hebrew-the-religion-\ question/ Interesting feature on Tolstoy: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/movies/22station.html A nice award for Vincent J. Scully: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/17/us/AP-US-Lincoln-Letter-Sale.html Review of Ben Yagoda, *Memoir: A History*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/books/review/Shulevitz-t.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Naxos: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/nov/20/treasures-naxos-island-cyclades-g\ reece/ Sicily: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/travel/live-and-learn/story-e6frg8rf-12257992692\ 13 Tony Perrottet takes us on a 19th-century food-based tour of Paris: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/travel/22Grimod.html ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Latest guilty plea in that Utah case: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_13834724 ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures: http://www2.macleans.ca/2009/11/19/hidden-treasures-from-a-lost-city/ Iraq's Ancient Past: http://www.jewishexponent.com/article/20063/ Fal-Nameh/Book of Omens: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/arts/21iht-melik21.html Bronzino: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/arts/design/20vogel.html Still-life or Trompe l'Oeil?: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/21/arts/21iht-conway.html DaVinci's Workshop: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/arts/design/20leonardo.html The Origins of El Greco: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/arts/design/20greco.html Moctezuma: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/16/power-moctezuma-mexico-briti\ sh-museum Carnegie Furniture galleries: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/arts/design/20antiques.html Terracotta Warriors (in Washington): http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/11/18/GA2009111802677.\ html http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/exhibits/terra-cotta-warriors-guardians-of-chi\ nas-first-emperor,1154989.html?hpid=goghttp://www.washingtonexaminer.com/enterta\ inment/Terra-cotta-warriors-invade-National-Geographic-8548711-70328292.html ... and they're coming to Montreal: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/11/19/musee-montreal.html There's a new National Museum of Chinese Written Language: http://news.alibaba.com/article/detail/business-in-china/100201231-1-ancient-cha\ racters-immortalized.html ... and an interesting Arts museum in Armenia: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/19/arts/design/19abroad.html ... and they're planning a new museum for Alicante (I think it's in the planning stages; my Spanish tenses are weak): http://www.elpais.com/articulo/Comunidad/Valenciana/Almenas/destilan/historia/el\ pepucul/20091117elpval_15/Tes A German auction house has pulled a painting which possibly has Nazi-loot-taint on it: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/11/21/arts/AP-EU-Germany-Nazi-Art.html OpEd on ownership of the Rosetta Stone etc.: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/17/science/17tier.html http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/16/who-should-own-the-rosetta-stone/ Interesting ritual to mark the return of some Maori relics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8361347.stm http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iiEuDc5BTQc2K0W8DsinkCH_-jRQ More on Sweden returning skulls to Hawaii: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8361011.stm ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Sholom Aleichem: http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/theater/reviews/18sholom.html Bright Star: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2009/nov/22/keats-rome-poet-bright-star Twelfth Night (with marionettes): http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/theater/reviews/20night.html Ensemble Caprice (Bach and gypsies again): http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/18/arts/music/18bach.html Kepler: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/20/arts/music/20kepler.html Interesting feature on Polk Miller: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120398673 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 12.32 November 29, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text or html text but NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,Bob Heuman, Mike Ruggeri, Brian M. Powell, Diana Wright, Kurt Theis, Rick Heli, Richard Price, Nick Lowe, Floris Strijbos and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ... a relatively quiet week ... ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Early humans apparently roasted birds too: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cavemen-bird-bones-roast.html ... no doubt thankful that they survived the Toba eruption: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091123142739.htm Searching for the home of Java man (no ... not Starbucks): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8370573.stm ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Not sure whether we had this Partian burial story last week: http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2009-11-19\kurd.htm Feature on a Bronze Age temple to the storm god Adda: http://www.archaeology.org/0911/abstracts/storm_god.html Semi-touristy thing on the quarry tentatively identified as Gilgal: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=125\ 9243015612 This one seems obscure ... Zahi Hawass is denying that he forbade tourists from taking photos of sites: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/23/content_12526860.htm Review of/commentary on Shlomo Sand, *The Invention of the Jewish People*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/books/24jews.html More on that Hammurabi seal (impression) from Tel Al-Dabaa: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/973/he2.htm More on evidence for heart disease in mummies: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/health/24heart.html http://www.courierpress.com/news/2009/nov/25/mummys-curse-the-issue-heart-diseas\ e-not-a-new/?partner=yahoo_feeds ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Big restoration plans (it seems) for the Theatre of Dionysus in Athens: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8380307.stm http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-11-25-greece-theater-restoratio\ n_N.htm http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/11/25/entertainment-eu-greece-ancient-theate\ r_7158799.html http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1609 http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/730628--greece-to-restore-ancient-athe\ ns-theatre http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hr-J78aw7wCGP5pkr6a2B_hK7GoQD9\ C6MV300 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/25/greek-theatre-to-be-restored http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-quick26-2009nov26,0,788898.story http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9174382 http://www.latimes.com/business/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-eu-greece-ancient-theate\ r,0,4661528.story http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091125/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_ancient_theater_4 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/11/27/DDSQ1AQDDJ.DTL A feature on the University of Queensland's work at Pompeii: http://www.physorg.com/news178385177.html http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=20120 A "Romanian" era cemetery from Syria: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200911253760/Culture/archaeological-cem\ etery-dating-back-to-romanian-era-unearthed-in-hama.html Brief item on some Roman burials south of Utrecht: http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2009/11/roman_graves_uncovered_in_ijss.php Evidence of a Roman building in Niculitel (Romania?) during construction of some sort of sports edifice: http://www.financiarul.ro/2009/11/25/ancient-roman-edifice-uncovered-at-niculite\ l/ Somewhat vague item (even though lengthy) on finds from Gurbita: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1594 A court case in the UK featured one of the nastier quotes from Catullus: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/8375511.stm ... and sparked commentary, of course (these are all different): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/6649756/Mark-Lowe-is-right-The-Romans-said-it\ -better.html http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23774607-the-ancient-greeks-were-\ the-true-masters-of-obscenity.do http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2009/nov/24/catullus-mark\ -lowe http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2009/11/pedicabo-ego-vos-et-irrumabo-wh\ at-was-catullus-on-about.html(Mary Beard) An interview with Mary Beard as blogger: http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/features/Interview-Mary-Beard-blogger.5866091.jp Whither Greek and Latin?: http://www.neshobademocrat.com/main.asp?SectionID=6&SubSectionID=301&ArticleID=1\ 9928 More on the orientation of Greek temples: http://www.physorg.com/news178370030.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091125100852.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-11/uol-hot112509.php http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-158739.html http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-156160.html Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ This week's silliness is the amount of press attention given to a movie claiming Jesus built a church in Somerset and learned math from the Druids: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231308/Did-Jesus-REALLY-stay-England-A-\ new-film-claims-built-church-Somerset-learnt-maths-Druids.html http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/australian-news/6523819/did-jesus-headline-glastonb\ ury-first/ http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5AP3H620091126?feedType=RSS&\ feedName=lifestyleMolt http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/lf_nm_life/us_britain_jesus_glastonbury_1 They're digging at the site of Shakespeare's last home: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/coventry_warwickshire/8383306.stm I think we've heard of the plans to recreate the palace of Tsar Simeon I before: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=110332 Interesting falconry equipment find: http://www.dunstabletoday.co.uk/dunstable-news/Fascinating-treasure-is-found-in.\ 5856235.jp Reward for a finder of a medieval ring: http://www.matlockmercury.co.uk/news/Reward-for-finder-of-medieval.5856563.jp They've rebuilt a Pictish throne: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8380610.stm Review of Ian Mortimer, *1415*: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6607215/1415-Henry-Vs-Year-\ of-Glory-by-Ian-Mortimer-review.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A Balhae era palace excavated: http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/9278/ A mural might be proof of Korean envoys being sent to Uzbekistan in the 7th century: http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2913113 Haven't had a facial reconstruction item for a while ... but now we do: a 16-year-old servant girl from Korea (1500 years b.p. ... unfortunate headline on the Daily Mail version): http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2913088 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1230829/1-500-years-buried-alive-\ scientists-resurrect-16-year-old-servant-girl.html A 1000 years b.p. makeup kit from Nishiwaki: http://search.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/nn20091121f2.html Researchers have recreated thousands of terracotta haniwa as part of a project to restore the Hacimanzuka tomb to its former glory: http://www.asahi.com/english/Herald-asahi/TKY200911250132.html An idol depicting Cauvery is found near Madikeri: http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-159272.html On the need for Viet Nam to get its act together in regards to underwater archaeology: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/200911/VN-needs-to-develop-underwater-arc\ haeology-880204/ Interesting feature on Buddhist art from China: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/arts/28iht-melik28.html More security at Indian sites after a number of monuments (including a temple!!!) "disappeared": http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article6934119.ece The Taliban are at it again (in Pakistan): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6635208/Taliban-suffocates-Pakistans-\ Buddhist-heritage.html ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ The oldest evidence of human occupation in the Umpqua Basin (Oregon): http://www.nrtoday.com/article/20091124/NEWS/911249976/1063/NEWS&ParentProfile=1\ 055 Very brief item on recent discoveries along the shore of Lake Superior: http://www.wcax.com/global/story.asp?s=11586567 Paleoindian remains near Windsor (Ontario): http://www.canada.com/technology/year+weapon+found+site+Ontario+arena/2273365/st\ ory.html An Algonquin campsite on the shores of the Rideau River: http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Ancient+camp+unearthed+along+Rideau+Rive\ r/2273356/story.html http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Ancient+camp+unearthed/2274244/story.htm\ l Possible remains of Canada's earliest English settlement: http://www.canada.com/entertainment/Stone+wall+have+defended+Canada+oldest+Briti\ sh+settlement/2253478/story.html Searching for a War of 1812 hospital in Vermont: http://nhbr.com/news/statenewengland/452357-227/vermont-archaeologists-seek-war-\ of-1812-hospital.html The latest trend, it seems, is to find sites during sewer construction; the latest are Native American finds from various periods at a site in Rhode Island: http://www.projo.com/ri/warwick/content/warwick_artifacts_sewer_24_11-24-09_MEGI\ HJD_v11.3b4547f.html A sternwheeler from the late stages of the Klondike gold rush: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-sci-sternwheeler24-2009nov24,0,3\ 733461.story Poking around a possible Civil War-era steamer off the coast of Florida: http://www.cdnn.info/news/industry/i091122.html They've 'prioritized' threatened sites in Georgia: http://savannahnow.com/news/2009-11-24/threatened-archaeological-sites-prioritiz\ ed Review of Gordon Wood, *Empire of Liberty*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/books/review/Winik-t.html Review of John Manbeck, *Historic Photos of Brooklyn*: http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/09/21/090921ta_talk_mcgrath ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Searching for more evidence for the Lambayeque cultures: http://enperublog.com/2009/11/25/the-missing-link-in-lambayeque/ Feature on the 'noble young man of Huaca Rajada': http://www.livinginperu.com/blogs/travel/974 Feature on Maya artifacts in the Penn Museum: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20091123_Artifacts_shed_light_on_the_com\ mon_Maya.html ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Not quite archaeology, but maybe it is ... the search for some very old whiskey in Antarctica: http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/11/23/raiders-of-the-lost-ca\ sk/ On the fate of Raphael: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2009/nov/25/raphael-art\ -sex The obligatory Thanksgiving origin stuff: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/opinion/24east.html ... and a history of leftovers: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1862562,00.html Interesting feature on the Waldseemuller Map: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/69384287.html# Some Darwiniana to mark the sesquicentennial of the publication of the Origin of the Species ... first, some general stuff: http://www.culture24.org.uk/science+%2526+nature/art73536> http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24creature.html ... and a plea to help find Darwin's missing Galapagos notebook: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/8375549.stm ... and a first edition (found on a toilet bookcase) is coming to auction: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/11/23/arts/entertainment-us-darwin-origin.ht\ ml http://www.physorg.com/news178121903.html ... including an interviewish thing with Ruth Padel: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/28/ruth-padel-poetry-darwin-oxford ... and in this context we should probably mention a feature on Alfred Russel Wallace: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24cabi.html A protestant church apologizes to Native Americans: http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=871186&category=STATE The Pope wants artists to go on a 'quest for beauty': http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/world/europe/22pope.html An history of 'avoidance': http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/22/opinion/22soll.html Assorted brief book reviews (gift books) of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/gift-guide-art-books/list.html http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/ggantiques/list.html http://www.nytimes.com/gift-guide/holiday-2009/giftguide-giftbooks/list.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ New: Jordan 2009 GARP dig: http://garp-2009.blogspot.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A Roman numismatic gallery on flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/coinbooks/4104279573/ Interesting "Madoff medal" from the 19th century: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/6589144/Cheating-bankers-nothing-\ new-19th-century-Madoff-medal-shows.html High end coins are doing well at auctions: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703811604574533732182243424.html ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Drawings by Rembrandt and His Pupils: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-rembrandt29-2009nov29,0,595\ 765.story Birds in Pre-Columbian Arts: http://www.doaks.org/museum/ Lost World of Old Europe: http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=110307 http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1598 "The Manly Art of Museum Curating": http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/weekinreview/29jamieson.html Big news this week seems to be Google's plans to digitize Iraq's National Museum's collections: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/25/world/middleeast/25iraq.html http://english.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20091126/101231.shtml http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8376554.stm http://www.physorg.com/news178313425.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/24/iraq-national-museum-online-google http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/11/24/iraq.virtual.museum/index.html?section\ =cnn_latest The British Museum plans to reveal world history through 100 objects: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/6651260/BBC-to-tell-world-history\ -through-100-British-Museum-objects.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/gallery/2009/nov/25/british-museum-world-histo\ ry-objects http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6932494.ece http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23774750-entire-world-history-in-\ just-100-british-museum-treasures.do Pretty big payday in regards to that Anglo-Saxon hoard: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8380382.stm http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091126/tuk-anglo-saxon-treasure-hoard-valued-at-45d\ bed5.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112601029.\ html http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5AP1NR20091126 ... related: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8382360.stm ... while a Swedish detectorist isn't happy with his payday: http://www.thelocal.se/23498/20091126/ China is offering compensation for the return of its relics: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/bizchina/2009-11/25/content_9042665.htm An eclectic collection in Australia just came to auction: http://www.theage.com.au/national/mummy-what-are-you-doing-here-20091122-isuo.ht\ ml Nice price for Cromwell's boots: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/8381327.stm ... and some miniatures of Elizabeth I and friend: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ ticle6932239.ece Another Levi-Strauss retrospective: http://www.religiondispatches.org/archive/mediaculture/2055/claude,_adieu:_a_far\ ewell_to_l%C3%A9vi-strauss Job actions loom in French museums: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/27/pompidou-strike-could-shut-down-oth\ er-museums/ Another facial reconstruction (we mentioned one above) is making the Page Museum nervous: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/the-skeleton-that-the-pag\ e-museum-doesnt-want-you-to-see.html OpEd on that Cyrus Cylinder business: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23775292-does-iran-deserve-to-par\ ade-its-own-treasure.do More on Tut coming to Toronto: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video/the-return-of-king-tut/article1373666/(vide\ o) http://www.thestar.com/opinion/article/728826--tut-show-puts-toronto-back-on-map ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ H.C. Robbins Landon: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/26/arts/music/26landon.html Yang Xianyi: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/28/world/asia/28yang.html Lucretia Mott (NYT reprised obit): http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0103.html ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 12.33 December 6, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text or html text but NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst,Diana Wright, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Barnea Levi Selavan, Kurt Theis, Rick Heli, Jim Houser, Bob Heuman,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Marking the anniversary of the discovery of Peking Man: http://english.cri.cn/6909/2009/12/02/1361s533045.htm http://www.abc.es/20091202/ciencia-tecnologia-paleontologia-evolucion/hombre-pud\ o-eslabon-perdido-200912021143.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Feature on saving manuscripts in Timbuktu: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8386866.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8387544.stm (video) ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Not only did the Egyptians have heart problems ... they had bad teeth: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/mummies-teeth-disease-diagnosis.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34258529/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-4160.html Nice feature on Kathryn Bard (although she does promote the 'clumsy archaeologist' image) and her digs in Egypt: http://www.bu.edu/today/2009/11/25/archaeologist-kathryn-bard-s-amazing-egyptian\ -digs Not quite sure where/what this dig is in Jerusalem or whether we've covered it, but there's an interesting technique involved: http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/12/05/ancient-hall-opened-in-jerusalem/ Another take on the Cambyses army thing: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=209177 A burial dating to the first millennium B.C./B.C.E. in Arbil (Iraq): http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2009-12-01\kurd.htm Iraq is trying to cash in on the ruins of Babylon: http://www.eturbonews.com/13104/iraq-hopes-babylon-ruins-translate-tourist-dolla\ rs A different view of the US troops' presence on sites in Iraq: http://wcco.com/specialreports/iraq.antiquities.protect.2.1343486.html A piece on Istanbul's Marmaray Project (nothing really new here): http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1615 Latest in the Temple Mount Saga: http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/24589/arab-scholar-blasted-over-temple-mou\ nt('Arab Scholar blasted') http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134693 (similar) More on that Hammurabi seal impression: http://mainichi.jp/life/weekly/news/20091128wek00m040016000c.html ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Results (sort of) for the first season of a project digging in Tegea: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8198000&maindocimg=8197973&s\ ervice=144 A wall, dating back to the time of Cassander, from Vergina: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1611 Remains of a Roman tower at Chester: http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/chester-news/local-chester-news/2009/12/02/rem\ ains-of-roman-tower-discovered-during-city-walls-repair-project-in-chester-59067\ -25304738/ Plenty o'press for Google's addition of Pompeii to its Street View: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/google/6727871/Google-Street-View-features\ -Pompeii.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8394384.stm http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121081378 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34261883/ns/technology_and_science-tech_and_gadgets/ http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/12/03/technology-eu-italy-pompeii-on-google_\ 7181649.html http://www.ajc.com/business/ancient-pompeii-is-on-224745.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/04/google-street-view-pompei_n_380171.html Some coverage of the exhibition of that bust purported to be Caesar found near Arles a while back: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/30/world/europe/30caesar.html http://elpasoinc.com/readArticleNYT.aspx?guid=7812d89e-b0ce-49b5-a5a6-91851bff02\ 64 ttp://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/monster-mash-12.html A sunken Roman city off the coast of Libya: http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME13.XAM19315.html http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.4068375201 Italian officials 'unveiled' what they've found beneath the Palazzo Valentini: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gIDPl_NaqE6ffB8sx4CVjyrrlgWAD9\ CBUB980 http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1794997/rome_displays_ancient_roman_luxury_\ complex/ http://www.chicagotribune.com/travel/chi-travel-romesite-pg,0,6124906.photogalle\ ry(photos) http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34737 60 Minutes segment on a Byzantine ship discovery by Robert Ballard in the Aegean (among all sorts of other things): http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=5825993n&tag=contentMain;cbsCarousel A scholar believes some Chinese statuary depicts Eros: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/01/content_12570605.htm> http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-2584.html http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/572375 A summary of (some) of the Roman mystery series out there: http://www.islandpacket.com/1573/story/1058352.html Jeffrey Soles digs Mochlos: http://media.www.carolinianonline.com/media/storage/paper301/news/2009/12/01/Cam\ pusNews/Professor.Explores.Schools.Continuing.Excavation.Of.Mochlos.Crete-384457\ 0.shtml The Antikythera Mechanism is in the news again: http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=decoding-an-ancient-computer http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8189499&maindocimg=8208733&servi\ ce=144 Weirdness about soundwaves and temples: http://www.prweb.com/releases/ancient_temples/archaeology/prweb3243374.htm Recognition for Roman Baths educative side (for want of a better term): http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8385000/\ 8385933.stm Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html More on impending restoration efforts for the Theatre of Dionysus: http://www.gadling.com/2009/11/29/theater-of-dionysus-to-be-restored-at-the-acro\ polis/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Britain was cut off from Europe as little as 30 000 years b.p.?: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6672515/Britain-cut-off-from-Eur\ ope-by-super-river-as-little-as-30000-years-ago.html ... then there was that sudden (it now seems) Ice Age thing: http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=63304&CultureCode=en ... then some 6000 years b.p., "French" farmers crossed over and 'civilized' Britain: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6711968/French-farmers-civilised\ -Britain.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427374.200-french-immigrants-founded-fir\ st-british-farms.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news Evidence of Neolithic cannibalism from Germany?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8394802.stm http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/50351/title/Contested_signs_of_mass_c\ annibalism_ Evidence of human inhabitation of northern Sweden some 11 000 years b.p.: http://www.thelocal.se/23546/20091129/ http://www.icenews.is/index.php/2009/12/03/archaeologists-celebrate-ancient-scan\ dinavian-settlement-find/ Somewhat vague item about the discovery of some gold items from the arrival of the Hungarian tribes to the Carpathian basin: http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/ancient_gold/\ ?cHash=4b6a65eec3 A 'Viking' anchor from Skye: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8393952.stm http://www.nstgroup.co.uk/news?RSSID=1294&TL='Viking' anchor found in Skye A metal 'recycling centre' near York: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4769193.Viking____recycling____centre_discovered\ _at_battle_of_Fulford_site_near_York/ Four ossuaries turned up during excavations at a medieval monastery on Cyprus: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/excavations-uncover-four-ossuaries-georgian-mo\ nastery They're still trying to figure out what to do with those tombs on that Hospital building site on Malta: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091203/local/proposals-to-preserve-a\ ncient-tombs-on-new-hospital-site-still-awaited Swinford toll bridge is apparently up for auction: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091202/wl_uk_afp/britainbridgeauctionoffbeat_20091\ 202060227 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091202/tuk-swinford-toll-bridge-for-sale-amid-t-a7\ ad41d.html Nice slideshow of the restoration of the frescoes at the Scala Santa: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8376263.stm English Heritage says a pile of cathedrals need repairs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8389235.stm ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ China had bronze rather early: http://www.physorg.com/news178992526.html http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20090312-20338.html Some Paleolithic cave paintings from Madhya Pradesh: http://www.sakaaltimes.com/2009/11/30195044/Maha-group-finds-cave-painting.html Some 'Buddhist-era' petroglyphs from Mangalore: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangalore/Buddhist-era-rock-engravings-f\ ound-in-Udupi-dist/articleshow/5297409.cms Searching for shipwrecks along Australia's coast which pre-date Captain Cook: http://www.smh.com.au/national/wreck-may-hold-clue-to-nations-discovery-20091129\ -jyvw.html A project to digitize some Tamil manuscripts: http://newstrackindia.com/newsdetails/136579 Overviewish thing on searching for underwater sites off Thailand: http://www.bangkokpost.com/travel/travelscoop/28543/searching-for-submerged-trea\ sure Interesting item on Italian-inspired towers 'crumbling' in China: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/world/asia/04taishan.html ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Rather vague report of a three-year study of sites along Lake Superior: http://www.battlecreekenquirer.com/article/20091129/NEWS01/311290012/1002/rss http://www.startribune.com/local/78084692.html Bones dating back to 500 B.C. near Oso Bay: http://www.kiiitv.com/news/local/78273967.html Interesting items about John Brown: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/opinion/02reynolds.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/opinion/02horwitz.html cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/opinion/l05brown.html Very interesting 17th century document pertaining to the first English colony in Canada: http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Will+holds+vital+historical+clues/2306\ 295/story.html That archaeological site v house developer dispute on Vancouver Island is still in the news: http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/25972/ More on dung evidence suggesting humans weren't responsible for Mastodons' collective demise: http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/11/20/spores-in-mastodon-dung-sug\ gest-humans-didnt-kill-off-ancient-mammals/ Digging into some Civil War sites: http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2009/11/29/science-digs-into-civil-war-si\ tes.html Some passing mention of a Jewish presence in Montana in the 1800s: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/us/05religion.html A grad student poking around in a library found a personal letter from Thomas Jefferson: http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/12/04/jefferson.letter/index.html Item on the Hall of Fame for Great Americans: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/nyregion/05metjournal.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Hair analysis suggests ancient Peruvians had a lot of stress: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-peru-stress-hair-cortisol.html http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-3517.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34241697/ns/technology_and_science-science/ A statue of Xipe Totec and four burials was found in Hidalgo: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150(scroll down) A temple of Naylamp has been found/excavated at Lambayeque: http://enperublog.com/2009/12/05/naylamps-temple-discovered-in-lambayeque/ Archaeology Magazine has a nice feature on Peru's Cerro Mejia: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/cerro_mejia/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Excellent feature in Archaeology Magazine about assorted archaeological hoaxes and fakes: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hoaxes/ Some early St Nicholas items: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/297100,turkeys-ancient-town-of-myra-the-\ home-of-santa-claus.html http://www.vindy.com/news/2009/dec/05/legacy-of-nicholas-rests-on-saintly-charac\ ter/?newswatch ... not sure if we mentioned all the rewrites Dickens did to 'A Christmas Carol': http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/a-christmas-rewrite-as-dickens-edit\ s-dickens The Telegraph's selections for 'books of the year': http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6710158/Books-of-the-Year.html Nothing special about Stradivarius varnish: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/science/04strad.html http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/not-all-stradivariuses-were-created\ -equal/ http://www.physorg.com/news179148281.html Celebrating Poe: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/arts/design/01poe.html Ottomania: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/world/europe/05turkey.html What really killed Jane Austen?: http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/jane.austen.death/index.html On the origins of pet rats: http://www.independent.com/news/2009/dec/04/ancient-origins-modern-pet-rats/ A mysterious Rubens: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2009/dec/03/rubens-400-year-mystery How much can you write about Dostoevsky?: http://www.physorg.com/news179157008.html Horse racing was better before the Brits got involved, apparently: http://www.physorg.com/news178913102.html Britain's Royal Society has put some rare scientific manuscripts online: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091130/tsc-britain-s-royal-society-puts-rare-sc-c6\ db719.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8385560.stm Did you know there are 'embedded anthropologists' in Iraq and Afghanistan (I didn't)?: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/arts/04anthro.html Feature on sunken cities: http://www.newscientist.com/special/drowned-cities-myths-secrets-of-the-deep ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Armenia: http://www.eturbonews.com/13000/armenia-ancient-and-beautiful-country-hosts-many\ -unesco-world-he Surfing: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/travel/escapes/04alaia.html ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Some looted artifacts are being returned to Italy from New York: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34719 http://dailytimes.com/wire.lasso?report=/dynamic/stories/U/US_ITALY_LOOTED_ANTIQ\ UITIES http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/12/02/12013571-ap.html?cid=rssnewsworld http://www.wcax.com/Global/story.asp?S=11606442 http://www.kvue.com/news/national/78338172.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hzv66_eRBBZj8XpZU2Vikk1yG5PgD9\ CBB9782 ... and some are being returned to Peru and Ecuador: http://www.justnews.com/news/21772957/detail.html Italian police have recovered a number of artworks 'hidden' by the former head of Parmalat: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34779 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/12/05/international/i07465\ 3S66.DTL&tsp=1 ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Some coins dating to the Wars of the Roses fetched a nice price: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/northamptonshire/8391439.stm Princeton has acquired an interesting 7th century coin: http://www.nj.com/news/times/regional/index.ssf?/base/news-18/1259909134180700.x\ ml&coll=5(no photo!!!) A history of the US $20 gold coin: http://media-newswire.com/release_1107088.html ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Drawings by Rembrandt and his Pupils: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/arts/design/06rembrandt.html Lost World of Old Europe: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/science/01arch.html Moctezuma: http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/4768463.Moctezuma__Aztec_Ruler__The_British\ _Museum/ Velazquez Rediscovered: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/arts/design/02velazquez.html Call of the Coast: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/nyregion/29artct.html Egypt is holding a 'repatriation' conference: http://www.smh.com.au/world/egypt-pushes-for-return-of-antiquities-to-origin-cou\ ntries-20091206-kcu8.html http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/egypt-pushes-for-return-of-antiquities-to-\ origin-countries-20091206-kcu8.html ... and they're going to demaind the Rosetta Stone back: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ ticle6946133.ece ... and more on the Nefertiti thing: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=10942\ 5 http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE5B203W20091203> The museum strike in France is growing: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/arts/design/04strike.html New medieval and Renaissance galleries have opened at the V&A: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34660 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ixGnFDJUCkPOk0sNsmIvtQiAy3CgD9\ CAHAP00 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/8386517.stm A Ukrainian museum believes it has a Titian: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34664 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g8HFZ4DOXLOCLkAgRHOl22ZxToEQD9\ CAIN383 http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/01/arts/AP-EU-Ukraine-Titian.html Because of the new Nazi loot law in the UK, the British Museum can return the Benevento Missal: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6\ 938045.ece Australian museums can't afford the price tag attached to the Tut exhibition: http://www.smh.com.au/national/egypts-10m-tag-too-much-to-show-tuts-treasures-20\ 091204-kb5s.html An update of sorts on plans/suggestions to auction off Iranian artifacts in the US as a result of a court decision: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/touraj-daryaee/auctioning-ancient-irania_b_378962.\ html RI Museums are pondering relocating a Roman sarcophagus: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34630 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/nov/30/city-holds-up-sarcophagus/ Nice price for a Ming Dynasty lacquer tray: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=azNmMhufanhQ ... and for a Bounty logbook: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/6664364/Bounty-\ logbook-sells-for-40000.html ... and a George Washington letter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/8396703.stm ... and an Edgar Allan Poe book (with the George Washington stuff too): http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/04/arts/entertainment-us-books-poe.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/05/arts/AP-US-American-Literature-Auctio\ n.html Assorted antiques news: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/arts/design/04antiques.html Coverage of Christie's Impressionist auction: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/arts/05iht-melik5.html More on the reopening of the Ashmolean: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-oxford-museum30-2009nov30,0,3274\ 702.story http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hdappE1yHATrQPImz5bZhIlIu\ Rig ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Last Station: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/movies/04station.html Romeo and Juliet: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/29/nyregion/29theaterct.html Review of Eric Siblin, *The Cello Suites*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/books/01book.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Some handy pages from Wikipedia that some might find useful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_chronology_timeline http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_the_Ancient_Near_East http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pharaohs http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_Ancient_Egypt Rare Book School: http://www.rarebookschool.org/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Bess Lomax Hawes: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/01/arts/music/01hawes.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. 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================================================================ explorator 12.34 December 13, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text or html text but NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Rakesh Lallgie, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Diana Wright, Kurt Theis, Rick Heli, and Ross W. Sargent,Bob Heuman, Don Buck, for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). n.b.: Explorator might be delayed/missing for the next couple of weeks as we do various holiday-related travelling. I'm pretty sure I will have internet access, but am not sure when ... n.b.2.: Happy Channukah for those who are celebrating! ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ A study of ostrich eggshell beads: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/sicp-aso120609.php These Ethiopian crosses might be of interest: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_11/lastlook128.html More on preserving writing at Timbuktu: http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=365500 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Egypt is suggesting all it wants is a loan of the Rosetta Stone (maybe): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8402956.stm ... the tone of these ones seems a bit different: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091209/world/britain_egypt_archaeology_museum_1 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article6948107.ece http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1234506/Indiana-Jones-Egyptian-ar\ chaeology-demands-British-Museum-hand-Rosetta-Stone.html http://english.aljazeera.net/news/middleeast/2009/12/2009129201018483558.html ... some related OpEddish stuff: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/ben_macintyre/article6950895\ .ece http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2009/12/should-the-rosetta-stone-go-bac\ kwhere.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-big-question-what-is-the-r\ osetta-stone-and-should-britain-return-it-to-egypt-1836610.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/letters/letters-the-rosetta-stone-1838790.h\ tml http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/09/rosetta-stone (tongue in cheek) http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/anne-johnstone/claim-to-historic-artefact-\ is-anything-but-written-in-stone-1.991163 On Egypt's 'general campaign' for the return of assorted items: http://www.theage.com.au/world/egypt-pushes-for-return-of-antiquities-20091206-k\ crp.html Interesting research project on the Temple as Canon of Egypt's Religious Literature: http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=63740&CultureCode=en Marking 102 years of Hungarian excavations in Egypt: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/976/he1.htm Nice feature on some Assyrian cuneiform tablets: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091209-ancient-tablets-decoded.h\ tml A clumsy villager has found a site near Iran's Parishan Lake: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=113105§ionid=351020105 Assorted sites in Kuwait need to be documented: http://www.kuwaittimes.net/read_news.php?newsid=NDY2MDkxMTU1 Evidence that the Hasmonean sphere of influence extended to the Negev: http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/Hasmonean-rule-extended-to-Nege\ v-10-Dec-2009.htm http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447411204&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/10/1009654/hasmoneans-ruled-in-negev-new-dig\ -finds The 'real story' of the Maccabees: http://jta.org/news/article/2009/12/10/1009663/heroes-or-rabble-rousers-the-real\ -story-of-the-maccabees A Chanukah primer: http://www.rightsidenews.com/200912127743/editorial/chanukah-2009-guide-for-the-\ perplexed.html ... and we have a revisitation of the Heliodorus Stele too: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447409000&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260447412570&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull ... and we might as well put the Hannukah in Hungary piece here too: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/09/arts/09iht-GRUBER.html Remember that mosaic found at a prison in Israel a while back? It might become a tourist site after all: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1133294 In case you've missed some of the recent finds in Jerusalem (and don't get hung up on typos and the like): http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=27325 More on Egypt's plans to hold a meeting about returning relics: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=113021§ionid=3510212 http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/091206/world/egypt_archaeology_conference_1 More on plans to preserve Tut's tomb: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10613977 More on Minoan-style painting being found in a Canaanite palace: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091109121119.htm Review of some books of semi-touristy/historical ANE interest: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1132808 ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ A Roman resort at Largs?: http://www.largsandmillportnews.com/news/localhistory/articles/2009/12/10/395001\ -was-largs-a-roman-holiday-resort/ A reappraisal (sort of) of Syme's *Roman Revolution*: http://openlettersmonthly.com/blog/second-glance-the-roman-revolution/ Interesting feature on a possible human sacrifice at Nauplion: http://surprisedbytime.blogspot.com/2009/12/under-threshold.html Bulgaria is marking the 60th anniversary of the discovery of the Panagyurishte Treasure: http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=110858 http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1632 Fragments of Spanish-origin amphorae in India: http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/73920/India/First+century+Spanish+potter\ y+found+in+Pattanam.html > http://www.expressbuzz.com/edition/story.aspx?Title=Fragments+of+Spanish+amphora\ ++unearthed+from+Pat&artid=7nHWk4B7a5M=&SectionID=lMx/b5mt1kU=&MainSectionID=lMx\ /b5mt1kU=&SEO=&SectionName=tm2kh5uDhixGlQvAG42A/07OVZOOEmts > Feature on Greek tragedians: http://www.marconews.com/news/2009/dec/11/words-wisdom-who-were-greek-tragedians\ / The Antikythera Mechanism is getting press attention again: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100011_10/12/2009_113191 More on Hollywood messing with the ancient world: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/dec/13/hollywood-classical-european\ -culture but cf: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-greek13-2009dec13,0,1214238.stor\ y More on the orientation of Greek temples: http://www.livescience.com/history/091210-greek-sun-temples.html http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/11/ancient-greek-temples-point-sun/?utm_s\ ource=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%253A+foxnews%252Fscitech+%252\ 8FOXNews.com+-+SciTech%2529 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34380314/ns/technology_and_science/ More on that submerged Roman city off the coast of Libya: http://trak.in/news/ancient-roman-city-found-off-libyan-coast/32038/ Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Feature on a student's experiences digging a Celtic/Iron Age site in Spain: http://www.retrieverweekly.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=5158&format=html Some medieval tombstone which came to light during a fire are going on display: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wear/8400393.stm Using the homeless to dig a site in Bristol: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/bristol/somerset/8402213.stm Can't remember if we mentioned Trevor Watkins' Rhind lectures (last April) on the Neolithic Revolution: http://www.socantscot.org/article.asp?aid=257 Evidence from sites in Sweden suggest the Polar Ice cap during the last Ice Age might not have been as extensive as previously thought: http://www.sr.se/cgi-bin/International/nyhetssidor/artikel.asp?ProgramID=2054&fo\ rmat=1&artikel=3270787 Interesting item on a huge slave burial ground on St Helena: http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/the_way_we_live/article6\ 950288.ece An Iron Age dump on Skye is threatened by erosion: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/84035\ 63.stm (Much) more on Neolithic cannibalism in Germany: http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,665824,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8394802.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/germany/6746198/Archaeologists-\ find-evidence-of-cannibalism-at-neolithic-site-in-Germany.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/298016,archeologists-discover-signs-of-m\ ass-cannibalism-at-german-site.html http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-5439.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1233667/Cannibalism-uncovered-Anc\ ient-human-burial-site-shows-evidence-slaves-skinned-butchered-like-animals.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1795426/evidence_of_mass_cannibalism_at_anc\ ient_site/index.html?source=r_science http://network.nationalpost.com/np/blogs/posted/archive/2009/12/07/eat-or-be-eat\ en-cannibalism-in-neolithic-germany.aspx http://www.centralchronicle.com/viewnews.asp?articleID=21074 http://www.physorg.com/news179393799.html More on the 'French' bringing farming to Britain: http://www.physorg.com/news179515605.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ An item about burials in Vanuatu ... I think we've seen much of this before: http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=64334&CultureCode=en Feature on Banteay Chhmar: http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/asiapcf/12/09/cambodia.temple/index.html?section=c\ nn_latest ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ A fire along the highway near Roseburg (Oregon) in has revealed an archaeological site: http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/news/cityregion/24254274-46/site-\ artifacts-creek-neill-umpqua.csp A Native American burial beneath a house in Utah: http://www.projo.com/news/content/warwick_skeleton_12-11-09_BAGOIUO_v13.38ad08a.\ html A University of Washington student found a point while doing landscaping work on campus: http://blog.seattlepi.com/thebigblog/archives/187490.asp http://www.kndu.com/global/story.asp?s=11643548 Arguing over ownership of an Adena artifact: http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2009/12/07/LOW_TABLET.AR\ T0_ART_12-07-09_B3_6FFTSFC.html?sid=101 On the impact of the diffusion of maize in the southwestern US: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/wuis-tio120809.php http://www.physorg.com/news179511725.html http://news-info.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/15214.html Not sure if we mentioned this Spanish fort find before or not: http://www.citizen-times.com/article/20091209/BLACKMOUNTAINNEWS01/912090308/1119 On the last hanging in New York City: http://fort-greene.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/the-hangmans-final-bow/ OpEd on Roosevelt: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/opinion/06bradley.html Review of John Cooper Jr., *Woodrow Wilson*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/review/Gage-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/excerpt-woodrow-wilson.html Review of Woody Holton, *Abigail Adams*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/review/Anderson-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/excerpt-abigail-adams.html Review of Louis Begley, *Why the Dreyfus Affair Matters*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/review/Scurr-t.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/excerpt-why-the-dreyfus-affair-matters.h\ tml Review of *Baseball Americana*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/books/review/Taylor-t.html Review of Gordon Wood, *Empire of Liberty*: http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2414/31/ ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Four ceremonial fountains have been found at Machu Picchu: http://enperublog.com/2009/12/07/four-ceremonial-fountains-discovered-at-machu-p\ icchu/ Analysis of bones from Copan suggests its first king grew up in the central Maya lowlands: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/50614/title/Ancient_Maya_king_shows_h\ is_foreign_roots Challenging recent claims about the cause of the collapse of the Maya: http://www.ia.ucsb.edu/pa/display.aspx?pkey=2144 http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_ancient-mayans-were-nature-lovers-not-des\ troyers_1322922 http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-9836.html They've uncovered the Great Base of Cacaxtla: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 Evidence of a 'previously unknown' civilization are emerging in a deforested area of the Amazon on the Brazil/Bolivia border: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427383.800-ancient-amazon-civilisation-l\ aid-bare-by-felled-forest.html Remains of a Dutch ship off the coast of Brazil: http://english.mti.hu/default.asp?menu=1&theme=2&cat=25&newsid=266078 Feature on "Peruvian Civilization": http://www.koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/art/2009/12/135_57062.html More on Peruvian stress: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1797188/ancient_peruvian_hair_answers_quest\ ions_about_stress/index.html?source=r_science http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091209114150.htm http://www.news-medical.net/news/20091210/Historical-study-reveals-stress-was-a-\ apart-of-ancient-Peruvians-daily-lives.aspx http://www.physorg.com/news179583199.html ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ The so-called Archaic Mark ain't so archaic: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091211203717.htm http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-9813.html http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/559484/?sc=rsln cf: http://www.hypotyposeis.org/weblog/2005/04/ms-2427-archaic-mark-online.html Trying to figure out what caused Caravaggio's death ... but first they have to figure out which body is his: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34869 Interesting item on the depicitons of Mary as a reader: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_11/arts_object_lesson064.html Feature on H.P. Lovecraft: http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2392/32/ Celebrating the Royal Society's 350th: http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/04/royal-societys-online-birthday-pa\ rty/ Feature on Charles Babbage and his Difference Engine: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121206408 On the topography of hell: http://www.forward.com/articles/120547/ Feature on H.W. Fowler of 'usage' fame: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/review/Holt-t.html NG is first off the mark with its list of top ten archaeological finds of 2009: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091207-top-ten-archaeology-finds\ -2009.html An interview with Martha Nussbaum: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/magazine/13FOB-Q4-t.html Linguistically-fingerprinting authors: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8404025.stm On the history of Darwinian medicine: http://www.physorg.com/news179686563.html On a medieval philosophy don's fight at Cambridge: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/how-a-medieval-philosophy-don\ -won-her-battle-against-cambridge-for-failing-to-promote-her-1837047.html Some items out of our purview, but possibly of interest: They've done some figuring out in regards to the Zanclean flood: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8404363.stm ... and there's an absence of evidence for a meteorite impact some 13 000 years b.p.: http://www.physorg.com/news179489405.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/uoha-aoe120709.php ... monkey language: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/science/08monkey.html ... a reviewish sort of thing of Assassin's Creed II: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/arts/television/08assassin.html ... the Russians are insisting that that female skull is Hitler's (maybe he was like Goebbels after all?): http://www.physorg.com/news179429948.html ... and speaking of Hitler, his military service records are now online: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/08/technology/tech-us-genealogy-hitler-we\ bsite.html Review of Michael Goldfarb, *Emancipation*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/review/Tracy-t.html Review of Erica E. Hirshler, *Sargent's Daughters*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/13/books/review/Marshall-t.html Review of *History of Paris in Painting*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/books/review/WeberParis-t.html Review of Umberto Eco, *The Infinity of Lists*: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/dec/12/umberto-eco-lists-book-review ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ America's Stonehenge: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/travel/escapes/11stonehenge.html ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Another major antiquities bust for the Italian polics: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34893 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/12/DD3M1B2TGC.DTL http://www.journalnet.com/news/entertainment/other/article_ab5e9c5f-a6b9-5e1b-99\ 33-2558d414abc8.html http://www.suntimes.com/news/world/1935602,CST-NWS-italy12.article http://www.thekansan.com/news/x1903563167/Italian-police-recover-hoard-of-artifa\ cts http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/World/2009/12/11/12125906-ap.html?cid=rssnewsworld Miami police returned some stolen artifacts to Peru (I think we had this story already): http://www.nbcmiami.com/news/local-beat/Miami-Customs-Cops-Return-Stolen-Artifac\ ts-to-Peru-79127397.html Antiquities justice seems to move slowly in New Delhi: http://www.ptinews.com/news/420993_Trial-to-start-even-28-years-after-theft-of-i\ dol http://www.ndtv.com/news/cities/28_years_no_trial_yet_in_goddess_theft.php Some vandals hit Sequoia National Park: http://www.mcclatchydc.com/nation/story/80200.html I think we've mentioned this France-returning-items-to-Egypt thing already: http://www.france24.com/en/node/4945397 http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2009/12/11/apworld/20091211203559&sec\ =apworld http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091211/stage_nm/us_finearts_murals_1 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gWMr5Lg1zB_O86C7DL89BM7D51PA ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ An amateur archaeologist poking around a medieval rubbish dump has found a 14th century coin: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4791413.14th_century_coin_unearthed_at_Hungate_d\ ig_at_York/?ref=rss ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Leonardo da Vinci's Workshop: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/notes-from-leonardos-musical-dreams\ /(neat video) Eros: From Hesiod's Theogony to Late Antiquity: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34826 http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8230512&maindocimg=8223482&s\ ervice=102 http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/dec/09/museums-greece http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10614739&ref=rs\ s http://www.news24.com/Content/Entertainment/International/1044/5a137fbb49464ef7a\ 040f55ddb1aab1a/09-12-2009-02-40/Museum_bares_ancient_sex http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5B828Z20091209?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifes\ tyleMolt http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hXF7imOg_GFy2tMQ-CZ1fHsUJWJwD9\ CFUGAO1 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/09/artifacts-reveal-ancient_n_385458.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=55575302001 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2009/dec/10/sex-eros-exhibition-a\ thens(photos) cf: http://eros.fabulous.gr/ Celtic Psalter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8403526.stm Hermitage enamels: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/arts/10iht-acajherm.html Treasures from Colchis: http://www.messenger.com.ge/issues/1997_december_7_2009/1997_kolkheti.html The oldest toy santa: http://www.prweb.com/releases/2009/11/prweb3247724.htm Museums are struggling in the post-boom era: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/arts/design/12build.html Museums in France are open again: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/arts/design/07arts-FRENCHMUSEUM_BRF.html Nice price for a sarcophagus relief (which Zola once owned) at Sotheby's: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34864 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i3WOTFwHAwPw7u48lsuk4vfuHeag http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_465304.html ... and for a Van Dyck: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/record-price-for-van-dyck-at-auctio\ n/ Coverage of assorted auctions: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/arts/12iht-melik12.html On Christie's Old Masters sale: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/arts/10iht-melik10.html Record price for a Rembrandt portrait: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/arts/design/10arts-ARECORDFORRE_BRF.html Stephen Gray is selling off a pile of Arts and Crafts items: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/arts/design/11antiques.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Romeo and Juliet (quickly): http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/07/romeo-and-juliet-in-15-minutes-dari\ o-dambrosi-must-be-on-hand/ Love's Labours Lost: http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/theater/reviews/11loves.html Cymbeline: http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2398/28/ Faure's Penelope: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/arts/music/11faure.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Thomas Hoving: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/arts/design/11hoving.html http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/10/thomas-hoving-78-longtime-director-\ of-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/ http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/11/AR2009121104153.\ html http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-me-thomas-hoving11-2009dec11,0\ ,3495403.story http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/art-obituaries/679\ 0157/Tom-Hoving.html http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34868 ... and some appraisals of his life/work: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/12/arts/design/12hoving.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121330925 http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,1947094,00.html Hugh Lloyd-Jones: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/professor-sir-hugh-lloydjones-class\ ics-scholar-whose-colourful-style-made-him-one-of-the-leading-hellenists-of-his-\ time-1837948.html Stephen Toulmin: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/education/11toulmin.html Yochanan Muffs: http://www.forward.com/articles/120565/ Yosef Yerushalmi: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/11/nyregion/11yerushalmi.html ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 12.35-36 December 27, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text or html text but NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Rakesh Lallgie, Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Diana Wright, Dorothy King, Trevor Watkins, Kurt Theis, Rick Heli, and Ross W. Sargent,Bob Heuman, Don Buck, for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). n.b. ... as some folks might be aware (or have guessed)I've been struggling to find internet access over the past couple of weeks while on holidays; a promised connection didn't pan out and I could only tap into 'wild' wireless for a couple minutes at a time. As a result, I really couldn't do much, but I have managed to do some ... this issue was the 'beginning' of a double issue meant to go out last weekend, but didn't. So I'm sending this one out to tide y'all over while I wade through the thousands of emails/tweets that have accumulated in the meantime ... it's obviously incomplete, alas, but we should be all caught up next week (some of the following links may have expired) ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ The Ardi thing is labelled as one of the year's 'breakthroughs': http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/aaft-bo121109.php A discovery of stone tools from a site in France dated 1.57 million years b.p. point to the earliest 'colonization' of Europe by hominids: http://www.physorg.com/news180110953.html Early humans were foraging for grains some 105 000 years b.p.: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22obstarch.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091217141312.htm http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/WeirdNews/2009/12/17/12199006.html?cid=rssnewsweird%\ 20news http://www.physorg.com/news180282295.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A 4000 b.p. lentil seed has sprouted: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=ancient-seed-came-into-leaf-2009-12-16 A couple of hundred sites have been found in Western Iran: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=113906§ionid=351020105 Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a "Jesus era" house in Nazareth: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8425094.stm http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2009/12/21/jesus-era-house-nazareth-israel/ http://uticadailynews.com/daily_photo/9588-overview-the-excavation-site-ancient-\ house-from-the-time-Jesus-Nazareth.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jtdzeesvOZB8jOp_RNPXmUKONtawD9\ CNNRKG3 http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2009/12/22/world/worldwatch/entry6008886.shtml http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/21/nazareth.home/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/ruins-give-a-view-of-nazareth-as-jesus\ -might-have-seen-it/article1408393/ http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Residential_buildi\ ng_time_Jesus_Nazareth_21-Dec-2009.htm http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3823072,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2009/12/21/world/international-uk-israel-jesus.ht\ ml http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-israeli-1221-1222dec22,0,1750950.st\ ory http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR28B4T http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 Not sure if this was in our previous issue, but there's much excitement (again) over that 'first leper' find from a few years ago; most of the coverage is focussing (in headlines at least) on the textile of the corpse's shroud and are spinning it in relation to the shroud of Turin: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/8415377.stm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/12/091216-shroud-of-turin-jesus-jer\ usalem-leprosy.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1260894117527&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1236161/First-burial-shroud-ca\ rbon-dated-time-Christs-crucifixion-caves-near-Jerusalem.html http://www.montrealgazette.com/life/Biblical+corpse+casts+doubt+Shroud+Turin/234\ 9323/story.html http://www.canada.com/news/world/Biblical+corpse+casts+doubt+Shroud+Turin/234932\ 3/story.html ... but the real focus seems to be on leprosy/tuberculosis: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0008319 http://netnewsledger.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1138:lakeh\ ead-university-researcher-releases-paper-of-tomb-of-the-shroud&catid=36:technolo\ gy-now&Itemid=85 cf: http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/272/1561/389.full.pdf+html?sid=e8\ b0cc93-5f5c-435c-a261-dfabd1844c84 Geza Vermes on Josephus on Jesus: http://standpointmag.co.uk/jesus-in-the-eyes-of-josephus-features-jan-10-geza-ve\ rmes Feature on the authors of the DSS: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Who-Wrote-the-Dead-Sea-Scrolls\ .html?c=y&page=1 An update on the Golb case: http://robertcargill.com/2009/12/18/court-documents-say-norman-golb-may-have-bee\ n-involved-in-the-raphael-golb-dead-sea-scrolls-scandal/ Brian Rose talks of his visit to southern Iraq: http://www.greenwichcitizen.com/localnews/ci_14068453 More on the Archaic Mark forgery: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091211203717.htm http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-phonymanuscript,0,6622834.story http://www.suntimes.com/news/education/1942136,CST-NWS-fake16.article More on Hasmonean rule in the Negev: http://www.newspostonline.com/science/hasmonean-rule-reached-the-negev-in-israel\ -declare-archaeologists-2009121877889 ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Much excitement over the discovery (maybe ...) or what appears to be Cleopatra's mausoleum (no, not by someone from the Dominican, but in a place that makes more sense ... in the harbour): http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/dec/23/cleopatra-mausoleum-discovery-alex\ andria http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/978/eg8.htm http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-17981.html Early coverage seems to have focussed on the 'raising of the pylon', which seems to be the same story: http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/click/rss/1.0/-/2/hi/middle_east/8419746.stm http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hj2ISVgyh3V91TUO-c54GOrFidKgD9\ CL3KD00 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/18/content_12665728.htm http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/12/17/Temple-pillar-lifted-from-sea-in-Egyp\ t/UPI-99951261098940/ http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME13.XAM18582.html http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BH39620091218 http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/12/17/general-ml-egypt-sunken-treasures_7220\ 727.html http://news.scotsman.com/world/Pharaohs39-temple-tower-raised-from.5922597.jp http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/12/17/tech/main5991674.shtml http://www.iol.co.za/widgets/rss_redirect.php?artid=nw20091217155932271C566532&s\ etid=1§id=68&url=iol&vne=0&csect=Africa They've completed he restoration of the Propylaea (didn't we have this a month or so ago?): http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5g37GIjhf82QOMSp5AQvp4FCHfXtgD9\ CNOBTG0 http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8254457&maindocimg=8254381&s\ ervice=144 http://www.phillyburbs.com/news/news_details/article/292/2009/december/21/greeks\ -finish-propylaea-restoration-on-acropolis.html http://www.heraldonline.com/wire/world/story/1822756.html http://www.france24.com/en/node/4953620 On Thucydides as 'spin doctor': http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121359301 http://www.wbur.org/npr/121359301 More on that Catullus citation in a sexual harassment case in the UK: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121395860&ft=1&f=1004 Oh ... and they're claiming to have found Atlantis again ... this time off the coast of Cuba: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/archaeologists-claim-they_n_394240.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1236651/Is-lost-city-Atlantis-\ Grainy-images-released-showing-city-like-structures-beneath-Caribbean-Sea.html Review of Donald Kagan, *Thucydides*: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/23/AR2009122301931.\ html Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Another Bronze Age burial from Skye: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1536528?UserKey= Exploring the feasting habits of the builders of Stonehenge: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-animal-bones-may-link-stonehenge-t\ o-winter-solstice-feats.html http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%2526+heritage/archaeology/megaliths+and+pre\ historic+archaeology/art74382 http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-16386.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Potentially interesting item on Mayan plumbing skills: http://www.livescience.com/history/091223-mayan-water-pressure.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091223/sc_livescience/ancientmayanslikelyh\ adfountainsandtoilets http://www.mnn.com/technology/research-innovations/stories/ancient-mayans-master\ s-of-water-pressure Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is on how the modern day Maya are trying to preserve their culture: http://www.archaeologychannel.org ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Some high school students have uncovered the work of an ancient counterfeiter: http://cs.newhampshire.com/blogs/bedford_editor/archive/2009/12/22/Bedford-High-\ students-discover-possible-counterfeit-coins-from-Roman-Empire.aspx Princeton has acquired a nice gold coin with an image of Jesus: http://www.newjerseynewsroom.com/style/princeton-acquires-gold-coin-with-image-o\ f-jesus-christ ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly 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I think editors of newspapers should all make a resolution to stop referring to any archaeological item as 'mysterious' and the actions of archaeologists as 'stumbling' ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Evidence of sophisticated 'human' behaviour some 750 000 years b.p.: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091221130025.htm http://www.physorg.com/news180707972.html http://www.livescience.com/culture/091217-stone-age-homemakers.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22archaeo.html Pondering the fate of 'smarter' hominids: http://discovermagazine.com/2009/the-brain-2/28-what-happened-to-hominids-who-we\ re-smarter-than-us/article_view?b_start:int=0&-C= ... and whether we mated with or murdered Neanderthals: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/01/07/tech/main6068619.shtml ... and a DNA study hints on the interbreeding side of things: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100107114418.htm Whatever the case, Neanderthals may have used body paint/makeup (and possibly smarter than we think they were): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8448660.stm http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=neandertal-art-human http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-27211.html http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthal-jewerly-fashion-seashells.html Was homo erectus a seafaring predecessor?: http://www.sciencenews.org/index/generic/activity/view/id/53219/title/Ancient_ho\ minids_may_have_been_seafarers http://www.usnews.com/science/articles/2010/01/08/human-ancestors-may-have-been-\ seafarers.html Evidence of humans in Europe some 200 000 years earlier than previously thought: http://www.physorg.com/news180110953.html http://www.france24.com/en/20091215-herault-remains-first-man-prehistoric-resear\ ch-europe-archeology-france http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091215/tsc-french-find-puts-humans-in-europe-20-c2\ ff8aa.html Humans were caring for the disabled some 500 000 years b.p.: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jan-feb/082 I think we mentioned this evidence for human consumption of cereals and tubers some 100 000 years b.p.: http://www.physorg.com/news180282295.html http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/174441.php http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091217/tsc-study-finds-cereal-is-much-older-tha-c2\ ff8aa.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091217141312.htm http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/11521/divulgacao-cientifica/processador-de-\ alimentos-de-100-mil-anos.htm ... and should we be worried that the chimps seem to be catching up?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8427000/8427974.stm A possible (?) Thailand link for early man: http://www.nationmultimedia.com/2010/01/07/national/national_30119820.php More on Ardi as 'breakthrough of the year": http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8419487.stm http://www.physorg.com/news180282874.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ More on restoring Timbuktu's manuscripts: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/04/AR2010010403161.\ html?wprss=rss_world/africa http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/01/10/MNBM1BDRRM.DTL ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A massive statue of Taharqa has been found in the Sudan: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/massive-statue-of-pharaoh-taharqa\ -discovered-deep-in-sudan-1862007.html http://heritage-key.com/blogs/owenjarus/massive-statue-egyptian-ruler-taharqa-fo\ und-deep-inside-sudan?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A\ +hkdigest+%28Heritage+Key+Digest%29&utm_content=Google+Reader The largest tomb ever found at Saqqara has been unearthed (along with another one): http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/largest-saqqara-tomb-discovered.html(photo\ s) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8440364.stm http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/huge-tomb-found-in-ancient-egypt-buri\ al-ground-20100105-lqcn.html http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/04/content_12754389.htm http://news.theage.com.au/breaking-news-world/huge-tomb-found-in-egypt-burial-gr\ ound-20100105-lqe2.html http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/05/2785659.htm http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/05/largest-tomb-unearthed-egypt http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100107/world-news/tombs-to-lift-lid-\ on-egypts-ancient-middle-class http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115416§ionid=3510212 http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2010-01/06/content_9272575.htm http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20100104132200258C\ 399798 A new set of workers' tombs near the Pyramids: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100110/ap_on_sc/ml_egypt_antiquities http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6091E720100110?feedType=RSS&feedName=scien\ ceNews http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/10/AR2010011000789.\ html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/10/world/AP-ML-Egypt-Antiquities.html Egyptian eyeliner apparently had medicinal qualities: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/108/1 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6952195/Cleopatras-eye-make-up-w\ as-for-protection.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/health/1806757/ancient_egyptian_eye_makeup_protecte\ d_from_eye_disease/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8447851.stm http://www.physorg.com/news182095729.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ikMN5wkVK-JYryb2tPPdIYRvQ_2A http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6952195/Cleopatras-eye-make-up-h\ elped-protect-her-from-disease.html Archaeologists raised a huge pylon from Alexandria's harbour which is thought to belong to part of Cleopatra's palace/temple complex: http://www.physorg.com/news180291107.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091218/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_sunken_treasures http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8419746.stm http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35053 ... not quite sure if this is referring to the same thing (but it probably is): http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/dec/23/cleopatra-mausoleum-discovery-alex\ andria http://www.newspostonline.com/entertainment/historians-discover-threshold-to-cle\ opatras-mausoleum-2009123079275 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/978/eg8.htm http://www.theage.com.au/world/clue-to-antony-cleopatras-last-hours-20091226-lfn\ x.html Iraqi archaeologists have found the remains of a Sumerian settlement in Dhi Qar (not sure of the dating in some of these): http://www.france24.com/en/20100108-iraqi-archaeologists-find-ancient-sumerian-s\ ettlement http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hP50KSUlnnkdVQVMQDAUudFrz6ZA http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100108/world/iraq_heritage_archaeology_1 Finds from various periods at a site in Daraa (Syria): http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/ancient-cemeteries-and-public-baths-u\ nearthed-in-archaeological-excavations-in-syria_100300215.html http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-25962.html A Parthian era burial from Iran: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115096§ionid=351020105 ... and a Parthian era child burial, also from Iran: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=211251 Assorted sites from western Iran: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=113906§ionid=351020105 Suggestion that Noah's Ark was actually circular: http://www.theage.com.au/world/ancient-tablet-giving-new-shape-to-the-story-of-n\ oahs-ark-20100102-lmii.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/01/noahs-ark-was-circular http://www.sphere.com/article/noahs-ark-was-a-circular-raft-ancient-tablet-revea\ ls/19309746 ... and of course, there's always someone poking around a glacier looking for it (the headline on this one is, er, interesting): http://www2.newsadvance.com/lna/news/local/article/excursion_continues_to_find_t\ he_noahs_ark_in_turkey/22648/ That 'oldest Hebrew biblical inscription' found a few months ago has been 'deciphered': http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/uoh-mah010710.php http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-26614.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100107183037.htm http://www.physorg.com/news182101034.html http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/most-ancient-hebrew-biblical-inscription-decipher\ ed-28989.html http://www.sciencecodex.com/most_ancient_hebrew_biblical_inscription_deciphered http://esciencenews.com/articles/2010/01/07/most.ancient.hebrew.biblical.inscrip\ tion.deciphered http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gM9Vz_GRfzYuxCKU q0wGzBBZAg2Q http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100107/tsc-archaeologists-claim-discovery-of-ol-c2\ ff8aa.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1141247.html Remains of a "Jesus-era" home found in Nazareth: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8425094.stm http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Residential_buildi\ ng_time_Jesus_Nazareth_21-Dec-2009.htm http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121724812 http://www.physorg.com/news180637757.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/21/world/AP-ML-Israel-Antiquities.html http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-nazareth26-2009dec26,0,150\ 8650.story http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/6857889/House-dating\ -back-to-time-of-Jesus-is-discovered-in-Nazareth.html Mystery niche in an Ottoman era bridge: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1137035.html Feature on the DSS: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/78441912.html Semi-touristy thing on life during the Second Temple: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364468208&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull On climate change and Mesopotamia: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215155954.htm Not sure why there's Gospel of Judas stuff still kicking around: http://www.associatedcontent.com/article/2558177/is_the_lost_gospel_of_judas_of_\ biblical.html They've done a survey of Paphlagonia: http://www.physorg.com/news180185776.html Strange item on the 'jewishness' of Paul: http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/08/was-st-paul-a-jew/ More on lepers and shrouds: http://www.physorg.com/news180165623.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8415377.stm http://us.cnn.com/video/?/video/world/2009/12/17/hancocks.me.shroud.cnn http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/meast/12/16/mideast.ancient.shroud/index.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1236161/First-burial-shroud-ca\ rbon-dated-time-Christs-crucifixion-caves-near-Jerusalem.html http://blogs.abcnews.com/theworldnewser/2009/12/jerusalem-tomb-discovery-casts-d\ oubt-on-turin-shroud.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34464293/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/6824030/Jerusalem-to\ mb-discovery-casts-further-doubt-on-Turin-Shroud.html http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091216/tsc-earliest-proven-case-of-leprosy-foun-c2\ ff8aa.html Review of a book written by scholars of various faiths all about Temple Mount: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1261364561768&pagename=JPost/JPArticl\ e/ShowFull http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1139542 More on Archaic Mark being fake: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091211203717.htm More on the antiquity of irrigation in the Jordan Valley: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215155956.htm ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Haven't found more coverage of this discovery of the 'crypt' where Caligula was whacked: http://www.mexicowebcast.com.mx/index.php?loc=8&inner=article&id=34143 Plans to dig a 'mystery Roman building' in Chester: http://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/chester-news/local-chester-news/2009/12/24/arc\ haeological-dig-to-reveal-mystery-roman-building-in-chester-59067-25451625/ Latest on Colchester Roman Circus: http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4793277.Mystery_donor_gives___10_000_to_save_\ circus/ The fate of a Roman well from near Bingham: http://www.newarkadvertiser.co.uk/template/temp1.asp?id=8ca1e7ec-3c55-102d-90fd-\ 0f2cb2f8c3e9 A 'Pannonian' burial: http://www.dnaindia.com/scitech/report_archaeologists-find-grave-in-hungary-from\ -last-period-of-roman-rule_1324327 Using computer technology to decode a 'mysterious' Roman altar: http://www.shieldsgazette.com/news/Experts-bid-to-decode-Roman.5922231.jp Assorted Latin news (all different): http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-valedictorian23-2009dec23,0,1947803.stor\ y http://www.northjersey.com/r?19=961&43=515347&44=80188332&32=4497&7=309037&40=ht\ tp%3A%2F%2Fwww.northjersey.com%2Fnews%2FTeachers_aim_Make_the_kids_Latin_lovers.\ html http://www.northjersey.com/news/Teachers_aim_Make_the_kids_Latin_lovers.html http://www.eastaurorany.com/articles/2010/01/06/news/doc4b3a4ccc3f026300066876.t\ xt http://www.theledger.com/article/20100103/news/1035012&tc=yahoo On the return of Latin to the Church: http://hprweb.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=223:bringing-back\ -latin&Itemid=1 Poetry about Medea: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jan/04/medea-athens-augusta-webst\ er A 3d recreation of a Roman house in Pompeii: http://www.physorg.com/news180172952.html http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2009/6753.html Did the Romans bring a healthy diet to Britain?: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6942594/Did-the-Romans-introduce-Brit\ ain-to-a-healthy-diet.html > Feature on a Minoan shipwreck: http://www.archaeology.org/1001/abstracts/minoan_shipwreck.html How a Roman would view the Alexander mosaic: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/how-the-alexander-mosaic-was-used.html On the sequel to 300: http://hollywood.greekreporter.com/2009/12/21/xerxes-the-sequel-to-frank-millers\ -300/ The year in Bulgarian archeology: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=111472 Review of Kimberly Johnson's translation of the Georgics: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/georgics-by-virgil\ -translated-by-kimberly-johnson-1857698.html Review of Donald Kagan, *Thucydides*: http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20100103_History_and_its_flaw\ s_seen_in_Thucydides.html Letter with ClassCon on the sublime: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/books/review/Letters-t-THESUBLIMEMU_LETTERS.ht\ ml ... and one on Roman cart ruts: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20091220/letters/roman-cart-ruts-link-\ to-bari Nice sunrise over Sounion: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap091223.html Review of David Malouf, *Ransom*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/books/30book.html Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ A new technique allows scientists to better analyze DNA from very early skeletons and distinguish between ancient evidence and modern contamination ... it was used on a 30 000 b.p. European: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8435317.stm http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/01/02/Ancient-DNA-distinguished-from-modern\ -DNA/UPI-12851262461842/ http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-22249.html http://www.physorg.com/news181466133.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-12/cp-ums122309.php http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091231164741.htm Evidence of Sierra Helada's first inhabitants: http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_24423.shtml An aerial survey has revealed a number of possible Neolithic cairns in North Yorkshire: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/features/A-treasure-hunt-off-the.5929650.jp Some 3500 bp ceramic beads found during highway construction in Ireland (I think): http://www.leinsterleader.ie/news/Archaeological-find-on-N9.5922139.jp A Bronze Age burial near Aberdeen suggests folks laid flowers at the graves of their dead: http://www.physorg.com/news180119116.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6815824/Flowers-found-in-Bronze-\ Age-grave.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8412938.stm http://www.physorg.com/news180119116.html Not sure if we had this 'winter solstice feasts' at Stonehenge story yet: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/dec/20/stonehenge-animal-bones-solstice-f\ east A burst water pipe in a medieval burial site in York sent bones asunder: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4821204.Burst_water_pipes_in_York_city_centre_un\ earth_ancient_human_remains/ Medieval skeletons from Wharram Percy give clues about the 'hardness' of women's life: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/dec/17/women-yorkshire-archeaology-find Medieval cross as "advert" (?): http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Unearthed-cross-39a-Christian-advert3\ 9.5946905.jp Not sure if we ever mention these Merovingian/Carolingian burials near Paris: http://medievalnews.blogspot.com/2009/12/merovingian-and-carolingian-burial.html Clumsy archaeologists have located Scandinavia's oldest and most complex collection of iron forges: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091228124733.htm Interesting item on the poisoning of one of Henry II's (France) mistresses: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/6865939/French-kings-mis\ tress-poisoned-by-gold-elixir.html A metal detectorist found a 17th century cufflink: http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/4813066.17th_century_cufflinks_found_\ in_Wharfedale/ A mysterious tooth from the Boleyn attic: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/dec/29/tooth-found-blickling-hall ... and a mysterious Iron Age find from the Yorkshire Dales: http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/4804078.Mystery_Iron_Age_find_is_une\ arthed_in_Yorkshire_Dales/ http://www.cravenherald.co.uk/news/4824195.Cable_gang_unearth_an_Iron_Age_fire_m\ ystery/ Pondering an Iron Age site on the Beccles marshes: http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=Ne\ ws&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=NOED07%20Jan%202010%2013%3A24%3A38\ %3A160 http://www.advertiser24.co.uk/content/advertiser24/news/story.aspx?brand=WAVOnli\ ne&category=News&tBrand=WAVOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED07+Jan+2010+13%3A24%\ 3A38%3A160 Studying some submerged structures off Orkney: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/8416600.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8421087.stm In case you're wondering what's happening at l'Aquila: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/arts/24abroad.html France's churches are crumbling: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/world/europe/05france.html Some revisionism about the discovery of the Brockdorff/Gozo Circle: http://www.maltatoday.com.mt/2010/06/t5.html Review of Alison Weir, *The Lady in the Tower*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/books/17book.html Review of Jenny Uglow, *A Gambling Man*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/books/review/Marshall-t.html Review of Amanda Vickery, *Behind Closed Doors*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/books/review/Wulf-t.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Initial excitement about the possible discovery of the tomb of Cao Cao: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35302 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/27/content_12712471.htm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1238887/Cao-Cao-Chinese-archaeolo\ gists-uncover-vast-tomb-infamous-3rd-century-ruler.html http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/ca7731c09f3f4c71916a9a0ccf28ae1b\ /28-12-2009-08-07/Ancient_rulers_tomb_found http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1803276/cao_caos_tomb_unearthed_in_china/in\ dex.html?source=r_science http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114848§ionid=3510212 http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-legendary-rulers-tomb-found.html http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre5bq0bx-us-china-tomb/ ... but there are doubts: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/07/content_12768702.htm> http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091228/tod-tomb-of-ancient-chinese-ruler-cao-ca-870\ a197.html http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6857821.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/27/china-cao-cao-discovery-henan ... and reactions to the doubts: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-21742.html http://www.digitaljournal.com/article/284640 More bits of the Great Wall from China's Jilin province: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/13/content_12640738.htm> A flood dam from the Gobi desert (!): http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6845312.html Something about radiocarbon dating of Naga culture which I don't quite understand: http://www.morungexpress.com/frontpage/40361.html http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report_naga-heritage-traced-back-to-50-bc_1328348 ... and another DNA-related item about Asia which I didn't quite read: http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2009/12/are_chinese_subsets_of_southea.php Neolithic stoneware from Tibet: http://chinatibet.people.com.cn/6853832.html A Koguryo period mural tomb near Mt. Taesong: http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200912/news23/20091223-11ee.html A 2500 b.p. tomb from Viet Nam's Khanh Hoa province: http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/200912/Ancient-tomb-up-to-2500-years-old-\ discovered-in-Khanh-Hoa-887141/ ... possibly related: http://www.nhandan.com.vn/english/culture/080110/culture_ct.htm Digging has resumed at Bai Coi: http://www.saigon-gpdaily.com.vn/Culture_Art/2009/12/77721/> A number of bronze mirror bits from Sakurai (Japan): http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/national/20100109TDY03104.htm Bamiyan Buddha-like sculptures from Ladakh: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-19459.html http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/582162 A 7th century Buddha from Kargil (India): http://www.indianexpress.com/news/7th-century-Buddha-statue-found-in-Kargil/5605\ 15 An 'ancient shrine' found at a university in Indonesia: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-17206.html ... possibly related find of Lord Shiva's sacred bull: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-25869.html Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is on heritage protection issues in Beijing: http://www.archaeologychannel.org ...cf: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/dec/14/china-historic-sites-survey The threat of Pakistan's archaeological sites from 'militancy': http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-19502.html http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1950034,00.html?xid=rss-topstories Headless skeletons from Vanuatu again: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/12/091215164909.htm http://www.physorg.com/news180636268.html ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Using technology at a Mill Creek culture site in Iowa: http://www.stormlakepilottribune.com/story/1600466.html Checking out artifacts found prior to coke oven construction in Ohio: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2009/12/30/Firm-investigating-artifacts-at-Ohio-s\ ites/UPI-47801262195526/ A Fremont/Anasazi pot find: http://www.ecprogress.com/index.php?tier=1&article_id=8561 A dig at a Woodland site in Tennessee is coming to an end: http://www.greenevillesun.com/story/307405 A salt-making site in the Sierra Nevada wilderness?: http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100103/A_NEWS/1030314 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/12/30/MN571AV6P0.DTL http://www.indiancountrytoday.com/business/79900067.html They've found all sorts of Native American items at a proposed casino site, but no trace of the fort they expected: http://www.philly.com/philly/news/local/80102677.html Protection for petroglyphs in Utah: http://www.csmonitor.com/Environment/2010/0105/Prehistoric-Indian-drawings-to-be\ -protected-in-Utah-canyon http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35241 http://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory?id=9489650 Archaeologists may have found the foundations for Indian College: http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2009/12/indian-college-foundation/ Evidence of chocolate use in St Augustine in the 1500s: http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2009-12-28/sweet-discovery> Possible lead problems for the Franklin Expedition: http://www.physorg.com/news180115596.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2009/12/16/160-year-old-soup-can-sho\ ws-arctic-explorers-were-slurping-lead/ Civil War-era shipwreck near Rochester: http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2009/12/explorers_find_civil_war-era_w.ht\ ml Not sure if we've mentioned the discoveey of the USS Westfield yet: http://www.statesman.com/news/texas/civil-war-history-surfaces-with-help-of-aust\ in-148311.html Possible Civil-War site at Paducah: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20091220/NEWS01/912200360/1008/Historian+\ +Paducah+site+could+yield+Civil+War+relics How Savannah celebrated Christmas in 1864: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121933069 Yale alums in the Gold Rush: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/2009_11/oldyale2425.html Essay on Colonial Yale: http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/extras/demos.html A 'mystery' 'stumbled' upon by builders in Times Square: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/builders-unearth-a-mystery-in-times\ -square/ Hopi teens are worrying about losing their culture: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122018480 Essay on the Windsor Hotel Fire: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/realestate/10scapes.html Feature on Bannerman's Castle: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/nyregion/30castle.html Feature on myths of the American Revolution: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Myths-of-the-American-Revoluti\ on.html ... and Dutch Americana: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/nyregion/27dutch.html ... and Big Tim Sullivan: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/big-tim-sullivan-tammany-kingmaker/ ... and Senator Judah Benjamin's letters: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/arts/design/01antiques.html The Shinnecock paper are closer to being officially 'recognized': http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/nyregion/16tribe.html They're fundraising for Susan B. Anthony's house: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/on-the-road-a-milestone-for-susan-b\ -anthonys-house A Tavern on the Green auction: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/nyregion/07tavern.html Feature on 'old' Northport: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/nyregion/03artsli.html Historic Manhattan churches: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/25/arts/design/25churches.html Review of a couple of books on the U.S. Constitution: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/books/review/Liptak-t.html More on caribou hunting sites under Lake Huron: http://discovermagazine.com/2010/jan-feb/095 ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ We're reading more about that 'unknown settlement' (dubbed El Dorado in some reports) found near the Brazil/Bolivia border: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/earth-environment/article6982391.e\ ce http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100104-amazon-lost-civilization-\ circles.html http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427383.800-ancient-amazon-civilisation-l\ aid-bare-by-felled-forest.html http://www.sphere.com/world/article/deforestation-reveals-ancient-amazonian-city\ /19309215 http://www.treehugger.com/files/2009/12/strange-geoglyphs-discovered-beneath-cle\ arcut-amazon.php http://www.smh.com.au/world/satellites-reveal-the-amazons-lost-city-20100106-lue\ w.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/05/amazon-dorado-satellite-discovery http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427383.800-ancient-amazon-civilisation-l\ aid-bare-by-felled-forest.html http://news.discovery.com/earth/deforestation-unveils-lost-amazon-civilization.h\ tml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1240821/Lost-Amazon-civilisation-\ revealed-forests-cleared-cattle-grazing.html ... here's the Antiquity article that spawned it all: http://antiquity.ac.uk/ant/083/ant0831084.htm Mayan glyphs are telling the tale of a priest's life and the sacrifices he took part in: http://www.physorg.com/news181288215.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1803588/ancient_mayan_glyphs_detail_promine\ nt_priests_life/index.html?source=r_science http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/mayans-religion-blood-sacrifices-high-prie\ st.html http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20091229/tsc-mayan-glyphs-detail-priest-s-life-bl-c2\ ff8aa.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091229/sc_afp/mexicoarchaeologymaya_20091229042717 Identifying the colour palette used by Mexica sculpture artists: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35368 Interesting 8th century burial in the Templo de las Pinturas: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 37 mummies in a Mexican colonial-era church: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35215 An eighteenth century Spanish shipwreck off the Dominican: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35309 Video on Maya water management: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6NX9ll_8n1k&feature=player_embedded The Copalita Eco-Archeological park has opened: http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_na/2010-01-01/081329017921.html ... and the Chiapa de Corzo Archaeological Zone was inaugurated: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35411 More on the Mayans' plumbing: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-18983.html ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Which came first ... bread or beer?: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,668642,00.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/weekinreview/03grist.html A researcher has found the medieval text of a Jewish exorcism: http://www.manchester.ac.uk/aboutus/news/display/?id=5324 http://www.physorg.com/news180186353.html Archaeology Magazine's 'top ten' finds for 2009: http://www.archaeology.org/1001/topten/ http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=114836§ionid=351020105 Independent's 'greatest finds' list: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/greatest-finds-of-the-year-1860991.htm\ l Feature on Sherlock Holmes: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/books/06holmes.html The long history of anti-semitism: http://www.nrc.nl/international/article2442710.ece/From_Roman_to_Third_Reich_ant\ i-Semitism_has_long_history%0A I can't believe it's still butter: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091216/wl_uk_afp/antarcticanzealandheritageoffbeat ... but what's in the airplane?: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/02/international/i05343\ 2S85.DTL&tsp=1 http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5iQZ45_E4XXLMPKFqadu\ KedXlG2ww Theories about Van Gogh's ear: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/a-theory-on-van-goghs-ear/ ... and Mona Lisa's smile: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/what-ails-the-mona-lisa/ http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/jan/05/leonardo-da-vinci-mona-lisa ... while computers can distinguish between real and fake Van Goghs: http://www.physorg.com/news180637621.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8440142.stm They're investigating whether Italy paid a pile of money for a fake Michelangelo: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091216/wl_uk_afp/antarcticanzealandheritageoffbeat They've retrieved Caravaggio's remains: http://www.physorg.com/news180638201.html ... and will rebury Copernicus;: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1521802.php/Astronome\ r-Copernicus-s-remains-to-be-re-buried-after-467-years A possible 'new' Leonardo: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/01/02/DD4J1BBP5N.DTL Preserving rare livestock: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/06/dining/06frozen.html If it's Christmas, you know there will be someone asking for the return of the bones of St. Nicholas: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8432314.stm http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=111438 ... some background on St Nicholas: http://www.americanthinker.com/2009/12/the_real_santa_claus.html On the origins of a familiar hymn/carol: http://www.physorg.com/news180087885.html Assorted Christmas items of varying quality (all different): http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2009/12/23/how-december-25-became\ -christmas/ http://www.gather.com/viewArticle.action?articleId=281474977961214&grpId=3659174\ 697244816&nav=Groupspace http://www.nilesstar.com/2009/12/23/larry-lyons-the-stories-behind-christmas-pla\ nts/ http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-armstrong25-2009dec25,0,760\ 8119.story http://www.suffolknewsherald.com/news/2009/dec/22/parasite-pucker-power/ The Vatican has published some items from its Secret Archives: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/6917990/V\ atican-reveals-Secret-Archives.html On the origins of Tidiness: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/1218/3 ... and skiing: http://www.physorg.com/news180723430.html ... and the lowly (?) origins of many modern grape varieties: http://www.physorg.com/news180366830.html Orwell's birthplace is going to be restored: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/orwell-birthplace-to-be-restored/ ... while a Holbein is being painstakingly restored: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6962013.\ ece The annual item on languages in danger: http://www.physorg.com/news179999981.html Interesting item on the McCormack case: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/15/health/15abus.html Feature on old-style printing being done in New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/nyregion/05experience.html Iranian scholars are sharing Avicenna's knowledge: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091030095507.htm Can't remember if we mentioned this Charles Dickens manuscript thing before: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/on-the-recordsa-166-year-old-manusc\ ript-reveals-her-secrets/ Shakespeare as 'secret Catholic': http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/vaticancityandholysee/6864627/S\ hakespeare-was-a-secret-Catholic-new-exhibition-shows.html Robert Frost as schoolteacher: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/30/absent-from-school-robert-frost-was\ -keeping-track/ Latest on the Odyssey Marine thing: http://en.mercopress.com/2009/12/28/peru-and-bolivia-also-want-their-share-of-th\ e-gold-found-in-spanish-galleon http://www.chronicle.gi/headlines_details.php?id=18009 http://www.businessweek.com/news/2009-12-23/odyssey-marine-loses-bid-for-black-s\ wan-against-spanish-claim.html http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSN2315477420091223?type=marketsNews Review of Stanislas Dehaene, *Reading the Brain*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/books/review/Gopnik-t.html Review of Kaeppler and Fleck, *James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific*: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/6834744/James-Cook-and-the-Exploration-\ of-the-Pacific-by-Adrienne-Kaeppler-and-Robert-Fleck-review.html Review of *Baseball Americana*: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121511254 Review of Jack Lynch, *The Lexicographer's Dilemma*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/books/01book.html Review of Nicholas Wade, *The Faith Instinct*: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/books/review/Shulevitz-t.html ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Byblos: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/travel/03next.html Pamir: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/travel/20Pamir.html San Miguel de Allende: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/travel/27hours.html Ramadan in Cairo: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/travel/03ramadan.html China Lake (petroglyphs): http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/travel/escapes/18petroglyph.html 31 Places to Go in 2010: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/travel/10places.html Parma (via Stendhal): http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/travel/27stendahl.html Boston: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/travel/escapes/01boston.html Nara: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/03/travel/03headsup.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ Biblical Archaeology Review (Jan/Feb 2010): www.biblicalarchaeology.org American Journal of Archaeology 114.1: http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Iraqi police have foiled a smuggling attempt: http://www.sanluisobispo.com/middleeast/story/977433.html> http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35452 http://www.deseretnews.com/article/705356464/Iraqi-police-seize-cache-of-ancient\ -artifacts.html?linkTrack=rss-5 http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/06/ancient-statue-artifact-smugglers-foil\ ed-iraq http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1103\ 89 http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2009-12-22%5Ckurd.htm An arrest of a digger in Hebron: http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=252060 Artifacts were stolen from a late Chinese scholar's home: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6847846.html http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/Crime/Story/A1Story20091227-188175.html A number of old manuscripts were damaged when vandals set fire to the Etz Hayyim synagogue (Crete): http://www.ansamed.info/en/greece/news/ME03.XAM14413.html A Degas was stolen (initially thought to have been an inside job): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8436577.stm http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/watchman-released-in-degas-theft-in\ quiry/ http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE5BU25E20091231?type=artsNews> http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/arts/design/02arts-MARSEILLEPOL_BRF.html http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/31/degas-work-stolen/ ... and later some Picassos were stolen too (not connected to the foregoing, apparently): http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jyePzddcfisF45JVg5S36q-Rp_PQ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/arts/design/04arts-MOREPAINTING_BRF.html http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/01/02/arts/entertainment-us-france-art-theft\ .html Not sure where to classify this one ... the ink was barely dry on Bulgaria's new antiquities law when it was challenged: http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=9044 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Very interesting hoard find from the Netherlands: http://www.nu.nl/wetenschap/2146505/bijzondere-romeinse-muntschat-gevonden-in-li\ mburg.html Feature on some coins from the Bar Kokhba Revolt: http://www.archaeology.org/1001/etc/artifact.html A pile of Russian medals are going to auction (scroll down): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/arts/design/01antiques.html I think we mentioned this acquisition of a Justinian solidus by Princeton: http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/department/numismatics/browse%20search.html http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=9075 Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ PreColumbian Funerary Art: http://www.museuegipci.com/index.php?exposicio_actual&item_18=9000 5000 Years of Japanese Art: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/arts/design/18packard.html James Henry Breasted: http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-u-of-c-breasted_mullenjan10,0,6090527.sto\ ry Hudson River School: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/nyregion/10artct.html From Ur's Royal Tombs: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703740004574513482277694674.html Federicco Barocci: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/arts/19iht-CONWAY.html Abraham Lincoln: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100101/NEWS01/1010346/1008/Artifacts+of\ fer+unusual+look+at+Lincoln+s+death Fakes and Forgeries: http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5itxNqBqAkhAD3c_Yoe7\ o6nagRVYw http://www.nationalpost.com/news/canada/toronto/story.html?id=2414551 John Singer Sargent: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/arts/design/18sargent.html Tissot: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/arts/design/18tissot.html Tolstoy: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/books/02tolstoy.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/29/arts/29iht-tolstoy.html Japan: Power and Splendour: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/arts/09iht-conway.html Visions of the Cosmos: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/arts/design/01cosmos.html Museo Romantico: http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/travel/27heads.html Time at the Met: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/arts/design/01time.html Michael Brand is stepping down as director of the Getty (!) in the wake of budget cuts: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/07/arts/AP-US-Getty-Museum-Director.html http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35500 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/design/08getty.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a_dXBZPcFnIs http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a_dXBZPcFnIs http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/design/08getty.html http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-me-getty8-2010jan08,0,3915072.\ story Museums/fairs weather the economy in various ways (all different): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/design/08vogel.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/arts/design/18vogel.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/opinion/l08museum.html http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/kandinsky-helps-guggenheim-set-reco\ rd-attendance/ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/opinion/02dobrzynski.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/14/arts/design/14arts-LOSSESATTHES_BRF.html http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/luxembourg-museum-to-close/ http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/20/arts/design/20cotter.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/arts/design/18antiques.html Nice gift for the Israel Museum: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/israel-museum-receives-12-million-g\ ift/ A Chagall for the London Jewish Museum of Art: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/02/arts/design/02chagall.html ... the Frick's had a makeover: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/design/08frick.html ... strange doings going on at the Morgan: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/design/08antiques.html Not Bonnie Prince Charlie after all: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6817863/Gallery-admits-portrait-\ is-not-Bonnie-Prince-Charlie.html The Towton torc turns out to be a fake: http://www.selbytimes.co.uk/district-news/Torc-of-Towton-branded-a.5921350.jp Some famous diamonds: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/07/fashion/07DIAMONDS.html Latest salvo in Egypt's claims to Nefertiti: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/arts/design/21arts-SEEKINGBUSTS_BRF.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/20/world/AP-ML-Egypt-Nefertiti.html http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35139 http://www.philly.com/inquirer/world_us/79783987.html http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/12/20/general-ml-egypt-nefertiti_7228103.htm\ l http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hnsbuppIOEG2JqHdZ98-sZOHj-4wD9\ CN9MG80 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3822774,00.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a0fnkHvZF6Ns> http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5041911,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/978/eg7.htm ... and the response: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/europe/8427269.stm ... and the Rosetta Stone is also being sought: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34950 http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20091218/OPINION/712179902/\ 1080/NEWS http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id=19190 http://www.news24.com/Content/Africa/News/965/3fca5363da48422bb8842e6e18e68a30/2\ 4-12-2009-11-58/Egypt_to_aid_return_of_artefacts ... and China's jumped on the bandwagon too: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/17/world/asia/17china.html More on France returning items to Egypt: http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33458/france-returns-relic-to-egypt-ending-sta\ ndoff/ http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34945 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8412762.stm http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j29u2ev7jDlPj_bfe4P-NfCkWBJA More on that Yale Van Gogh ownership thing imperilling other art: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/26/arts/AP-US-Van-Gogh-Lawsuit.html http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35244 ... while someone paid for Charles Dickens' toothpick: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2009/12/15/arts/AP-US-Dickens-Toothpick.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/8415234.stm A Skull-and-bones skull is coming to auction: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35455 More on Jordan/Palestinians asking Canada to return the DSS: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/jordan-asks-canada-to-seize-dead-sea-s\ crolls/article1416369/ http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1262339380979&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=251251 http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=27618 ... and Canada said no: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2010/01/03/scrolls-jordan-canada.html ... and the exhibition is over and sparking retrospective commentary now: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/scroll-exhibit-closes-amid-controve\ rsy/article1417846/ http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35520 A Vegas casino owner is likely the 'mysterious' bidder who bought a Rembrandt at Christie's: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/arts/design/19rembrandt.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Barge Music: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/music/08barge.html Romeo and Juliet (sort of): http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/12/21/theater/reviews/21romeo.html Early Music New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/arts/music/24early.html Anonymous 4: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/23/arts/music/23anonymous.html Lionheart: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/24/arts/music/24lion.html Green Mountain Project (Monteverdi): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/arts/music/05vespers.html Iphigenias: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/16/arts/16iht-loomis.html The Young Victoria: http://movies.nytimes.com/2009/12/18/movies/18young.html Louisa May Alcott: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/28/arts/television/28alcott.html Return to Cranford: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/08/arts/television/08cranford.html 1492: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/jan/07/reel-history-1492-conquest-of-paradis\ e Sherlock Holmes/Imaginarium of Doctor Parnassus: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=121472701 Feature on Chopin's bicentennial: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/01/chopin-bicentennial-celebrations-be\ gin Feature on a replica 18th century pipe organ now in Rochester: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/22/science/22organ.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ William R. Coe: http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20091224_William_R__Coe__Penn_archaeolog\ ist_and_author__dies_at_80.html Knut Haugland: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/04/world/04haugland.html http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/27/world/europe/27haugland.html http://www.soundingsonline.com/news/todays-top-stories/247612-kon-tiki-sailor-di\ es John Edwin Smith: http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/19/books/19smith.html Ihor Sevcenko: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/05/world/europe/05sevcenko.html John Burrow: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/6896285/Professor-John-Burrow.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS) ================================================================ Claims of Atlantis in the Caribbean (again): http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/12/16/archaeologists-claim-they_n_394240.html http://www.hindustantimes.com/News-Feed/europe/Lost-city-of-Atlantis-found/Artic\ le1-487941.aspx ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ More on Neanderthal use of ornamentation/makeup: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/uob-uob010810.php http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8448660.stm http://www.physorg.com/news182439329.html http://www.bris.ac.uk/news/2010/6781.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/science/12obneander.html http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/01/11/Neanderthals-wore-make-up/UPI-6868126\ 3231113/ http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/11614/divulgacao-cientifica/joias-neanderta\ is.htm http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/327/5963/255 http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/13/in-praise-of-neanderthal-man More on seafaring early hominids: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-hominids-sailors-seas.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Semi-touristy thing on Strekfontein Caves: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/15/sterkfontein-caves-south-africa More on that Taharqa statue from the Sudan: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100111/lf_nm_life/us_sudan_archaeology_1 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Not sure if we've mentioned this reconstruction project before - a boat which may have sailed to Punt during the time of Hatshepsut (this is hype for a television program plus some additional info): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pq9gs http://mailer.fsu.edu/~cward/Egyptmain.htm cf: http://www.boston.com/business/articles/2010/01/11/boston_university_archeologis\ ts_digs_uncover_clues_to_egyptian_mariners/?page=2 A roundup of recent finds from Egypt: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/981/he1.htm There was plenty of coverage over plans to scan a mummy in the Barnum Museum in Connecticut to see if its 'packet' contained a bird: http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20100114132437\ 962C495848 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/13/national/a171958S77.\ DTL http://www.silive.com/news/index.ssf/2010/01/tests_may_reveal_secrets_of_mu.html http://www.wsbtv.com/education/22233184/detail.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2010788749_apusbarnumsmummy.\ html?syndication=rss ... and the results: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35636 http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2010/01/14/12467081-ap.html?cid=rssnewsscien\ ce http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100114/ap_en_ot/us_barnum_s_mummy_20 http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/new_haven_cty/bird-mummy-search-in-ct-comes-up-empt\ y Pondering whether Howard Carter 'stole' things from Tut's tomb: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,671993,00.html#ref=rss http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=24206 Not sure of the purpose of this Zahi Hawass column: http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id=19476 A neolithic building (and other interesting stuff) from Tel Aviv: http://www.dailypress.com/news/sns-ap-ml-israel-ancient-building,0,622406.story http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135456 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1141836.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_building_4 http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/41053/prehistoric-building-found-in-tel-aviv http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1807790/ancient_city_unearthed_in_israel/in\ dex.html?source=r_science http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6865666.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34807227/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=atnxsd9a4fPc http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/11/world/AP-ML-Israel-Ancient-Building.h\ tml http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-3832450,00.html http://www.physorg.com/news182411439.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hzi-gJYZv1_jtqZA7vnPJZvatyzg http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122449828 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35595 Recent finds from Palmyra: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201001124343/Travel/syria-important-arc\ haeological-findings-in-the-ancient-palmyra.html http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201001124343/Travel/syria-important-arc\ haeological-findings-in-the-ancient-palmyra.html Feature on the Temple of Hadad at Aleppo: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201001094300/Culture/archaeological-fin\ dings-temple-of-hadad-in-aleppo-citadel-sheds-light-on-important-periods.html This seems to be about a Phoenician shipwreck off Spain: http://www.theleader.info/article/21305/spain/costa-calida/treasure-found-off-la\ -manga/ They're erasing all the Judaic imagery from Ezekiel's tomb (!): http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147896786&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull Sanhedrin tombs are apparently suffering from neglect: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1142502.html http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/981/eg2.htm Interesting item on Josephus as a 'Zionist': http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1142731.html ... and a possibly-related feature on Lisa Ullmann and her translation of Josephus: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1141087 More on the discovery of a Sumerian settlement in Iraq: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1104\ 81 More on tombs suggesting pyramids weren't built by slaves: http://drhawass.com/blog/press-release-new-tombs-found-giza (ZH) http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/11/2789204.htm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8451538.stm http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6091E720100110?rpc=401&feedType=RSS&feedNam\ e=scienceNews&rpc=401 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/11/great-pyramid-tombs-slaves-egypt http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/6962860/Pyr\ amids-not-built-by-slaves.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100111/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_antiquities_15 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/tombs-offer-clue-to-building-of-p\ yramids-1864832.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/11/new-discovery-shows-slave_n_419326.html http://www.timeslive.co.za/news/africa/article255259.ece http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1141728.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jn7SektqTP6AQTUvQ66\ v1oqnhhdA http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/new-discoveries-suggest-slaves-didnt-b\ uild-pyramids/article1426649/ > http://www.france24.com/en/20100110-egypt-giza-tombs-discovery-questions-pyramid\ s-builders-identity http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/c/a/2010/01/11/MNHO1BG9PQ.DTL ... and how it is (usually) spun when they find this sort of thing: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/41055/egypt-unveils-more-proof-that-jews-did\ -not-build-pyramids More on that earliest Hebrew writing: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34880397/ns/technology_and_science-science/ More on the medicinal qualities of Egyptian eyeliner: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100114-cleopatra-eye-makeup-anci\ ent-egyptians/ http://www.cosmosmagazine.com/news/3233/eye-make-ancient-egypt-was-antimicrobial Reviw of Judy Klitsner, *Subversive Sequels in the Bible*: http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1262339420905&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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Not sure if we mentioned Alexander's 'linothrax' armour last week: http://www.littleabout.com/news/56578,alexander-wore-linothorax-armor-laminated-\ linen.html http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/linothorax-alexander-great-armor.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34810209/ns/technology_and_science-science/ The shrine/altar to Zeus at Mount Lykaion is back in the news (this seems to be about the results of this year's digging): http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/zeus-altar-shrine-greek-gods.html http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/54964/title/Zeus_altar_of_ashes Brief item on the 'discovery' of a headless sculpture of an emperor in a flowerbed in a bunch of condos: http://www.croatiantimes.com/news/Around_the_World/2010-01-14/8318/Ancient_Roam An update on the Akrotiri peninsula excavations: http://www.hri.org/news/cyprus/cna/2010/10-01-11_2.cna.html#03 On Sophocles and modern war: http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=57536 Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about Cappadocia: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ A virtual tour of the Parthenon frieze: http://cordis.europa.eu/wire/index.cfm?fuseaction=article.Detail&rcn=20548 Very interesting lecture (video) about the eclipse in the Odyssey: http://www.princeton.edu/WebMedia/flash/lectures/20091130_publect_magnasco.shtml Charlotte Higgins on Sappho: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2010/jan/11/sappho-poetry\ -classics Feature on Peperikon: http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2010-01-16&article=31852 Brief item on Graffiti in Pompeii: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/54963/title/Graffiti_on_the_walls_in_\ Pompeii Looks like someone wants to develop Perge into the 'next Ephesus': http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=afptv-advisory-2010-01-10> Hype for the upcoming Spartacus series on Starz: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/arts/television/17spartacus.html http://blog.al.com/scenesource/2010/01/spartacus_blood_and_sand_is_a.html http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/showtracker/2010/01/sex-has-a-leading-role-in-sp\ artacus-blood-and-sand.html ... and a feature on Spartacus: http://socialistworker.org/2010/01/15/who-was-spartacus Hype for a BBC radio show called 'Aristotle's Lagoon': http://timesonline.typepad.com/science/2010/01/aristotle-the-ultimate-heavyweigh\ t-of-science.html ... and folks might want to check out the O-Cast: http://smallscreenscoop.com/when-greek-gods-take-over-new-york/34379/> Interesting feature on the remains of wine presses at Gozo: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100112/local/gozo-rock-holds-ancient\ -wine-presses Review (such as it is) of Kagain's *Thucydides*: http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20100112/article/1121015 Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Interesting finds from some pre-Roman burials found during preliminary digs prior to gas-storage-facility construction at Caythorpe: http://www.huttoncranswicktoday.co.uk/736/East-Yorkshire-gas-storage-facility.59\ 71733.jp A prehistoric arrowhead of some sort found in the garden of a ruined schoolhouse in Scotland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8461919.stm Some hidden gothic text has been revealed at Salisbury Cathedral: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8462204.stm Evidence of late medieval walls and other defenses at Edinburgh Castle: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8461062.stm A Seahenge update: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/8453606.stm http://www.edp24.co.uk/content/edp24/news/story.aspx?brand=EDPOnline&category=Ne\ ws&tBrand=EDPOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=NOED11%20Jan%202010%2017%3A07%3A18\ %3A290 ... and the semi-monthly concern about Stonehenge: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/jan/12/stonehenge-threatened-wonder-of-world Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Interesting sinocentric map from the early 17th century on display at the LOC: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35607 http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20100112135337\ 701C944961 > http://www.startribune.com/local/81219007.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/asia-pacific/8454049.stm They've apparently confirmed that 'mystery' tomb as belonging to Cao Cao: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6868487.html http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6868033.html http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6868681.html http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6869225.html ... but there appears to still be some doubt (?): http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6869903.html http://english.eastday.com/e/100115/u1a4953039.html ... and just to be different, the Chinese archaeology folks have announced their 'top six' discoveries for 2009: http://english.cctv.com/program/newshour/20100116/102226.shtml http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6868146.html http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/201001/14/t20100114_20797679.shtml Plans to dig the 'fort city' at Wari Bateswar (Bangladesh): http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-28292.html A 1000 year b.p. Hindu temple from Indonesia: http://www.andhranews.net/Technology/2010/January/16-yeartemplediscovery-50778.a\ sp http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/01/15/2793625.htm Mysterious (of course) pillars from a construction site in Vientiane: http://www.asianewsnet.net/news.php?id=9590&sec=10 Collection of docs/articles relating to the Indus Script: http://sites.google.com/site/induswriting Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ 3000 years b.p. remains of a Native American woman from a ranch in Carmel: http://www.montereyherald.com/local/ci_14178626?nclick_check=1 Trying to figure out a mysterious (of course) petroglyph in Arizona: http://www.azcentral.com/community/phoenix/articles/2010/01/15/20100115History01\ 15.html Mysterious (of course) tablet from Jamestown: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100113-jamestown-tablet-slate-am\ erican-rosetta-stone/ Preservation work has started on West Park Presbyterian Church (NY): http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/a-landmark-but-no-longer-a-refuge-f\ or-the-homeless/ Feature on some early 20th century black schools: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/us/15schools.html Tavern on the Green has put nearly everything up for auction: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/13/us/AP-US-Tavern-on-the-Green.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ A 1000 b.p. image of a Maya ruler/conquest from Chiapas: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35667 http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 Rains at Cuzco have damaged an Inca wall: http://enperublog.com/2010/01/14/torrential-rains-in-cusco-damage-inca-wall-at-s\ acsayhuaman/ ... while the defensive wall at Chichen Itza is being studied: http://www.yucatan.com.mx/noticia.asp?cx=17$3301000000$4225010&f=20100112 Two-part semi-touristy series on ancient Costa Rica: http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/11/ancient-costa-rica-p.html http://www.boingboing.net/2010/01/12/ancient-costa-rica-p-1.html More on that recently-aerially-discovered Amazon civilization: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/astonishing-ancient-amazon-civilization-di\ scovery-detailed.html http://www.myfoxny.com/dpps/news/dpgo-Ancient-Amazon-Civilazation-Revealed-mb-20\ 100110_5511110 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/earth-environment/article6982391.e\ ce 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 role of Iberian horses in equine domestication: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100107114431.htm When porticoes gave way to loggias: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100112155230.htm Plant domestication is linked to having a stable climate: http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=65852&CultureCode=en ... and the role of the Bering Strait in climate: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/111/2 Kind of late thing on how Caravaggio died: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100112/ART/701119970/1007 Shipworm is threatening archaeological remains in the Baltic: http://www.physorg.com/news182431980.html A new radiocarbon calibration curve: http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2010/115/3?rss=1 On buggy whips as metaphor: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/10/business/10digi.html On the need for preparation of soundbites: http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2459/32/ On the changing curriculum at Yale over the years: http://www.yaledailynews.com/scene/scene-cover/2010/01/15/lifetimesblue/ Explaining a code used by Thomas Jefferson: http://www.physorg.com/news182440017.html Searching for fossil viruses in human dna: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/science/12paleo.html Do monkeys talk?: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/12/science/12monkey.html New 'digs' (groan) for archaeologists at Brown: http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/content/view/2462/32/ Review of Shankar Vedantam, *The Hidden Brain*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/books/review/Pinker-t.html ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Syria (with the author doing a Zahi Hawass imitation): http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/jan/09/syria-dead-cities-byzantine-archaeo\ logy Spain: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/travel/17journeys.html A scholarly Sicily trip: http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S26/32/28A66/index.xml?section=featur\ ed ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A roundup of Italy's success in recovering purloined antiquities In 2009: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35634 http://www.courant.com/news/nation-world/sns-ap-eu-italy-looted-antiquities,0,30\ 53177.story http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/articles/2010/01/14/italy_recovers_euro1\ 65_million_in_stolen_art_relics http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/14/world/AP-EU-Italy-Looted-Antiquities.\ html Vandalism at a petroglyph site in Yuma: http://www.kgun9.com/Global/story.asp?S=11812292 France's battle against cultural thievery: http://www.france24.com/en/20100111-france-battles-theft-cultural-treasures Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A huge number of Greek coins have been found at a site in Gaza: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2010-01/12/content_12793062.htm http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100111/wl_mideast_afp/mideastpalestiniangazaarchae\ ology http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jRXo1fCXa2CmsXDPI_VJTdvsYaQw http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=36621 Maryland Colonial Currency: http://www.montgomerycoinclub.org/library/presentations/MdColonialCurrency.pdf%2\ 0/ Feature on the AAS printer's file: http://pastispresent.org/2009/good-sources/type-findings-introducing-the-aas-pri\ nters-file/ Feature on Calendar Medals: http://www.tokensociety.org.uk/topics/calendar.shtml Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ 100 Objects: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8461000/8461299.stm After a 'new discovery', the British Museum is delaying sending the Cyrus Cylinder to Iran: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601102&sid=ar.hjUrvHpfU http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33617/british-museum-delays-sending-artifact-t\ o-iran/ ... the Iranian reaction: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=115987§ionid=351020105 Jordan is now petitioning the UN to get the DSS returned: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35637 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147883720&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull http://www.canada.com/news/world/Jordan+wants+Dead+Scrolls+back+from+Israel/2428\ 668/story.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j4Lm1ed__c-wKiQ_t-9Af70OIMSw http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/14/world/AP-ML-Jordan-Dead-Sea-Scrolls.h\ tml http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/26014/pa-claims-dead-sea-scrolls ... and related responses: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/178663 ... while Iraq is asking the US to return a number of items it rescued when it invaded years ago: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/178731 The Getty trial is back in the news, with evidence that the museum actually was worried that the 'Getty Bronze' may have been illegally acquired: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35645 http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33640/j-paul-getty-letter-casts-doubt-on-dispu\ ted-acquisition/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100114/ap_on_en_ot/us_getty_disputed_statue_6 http://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/2010/jan/15/bc-eu-italy-disputed-statue/ http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/01/14/report-getty-adviser-conc_n_424005.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/arts/design/16bronze.html http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-getty14-2010jan14,0,7175504.story The Tate has acquired some William Blake etchings: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ ticle6982852.ece Feature on Moravian potters/pottery: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15antiques.html Feature on museums in Boston: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15museums.html Museums ponder selling parts of collections to pay bills: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15deaccession.html Cutbacks are leading to closures of Greek museums: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/6982705/Greece-shuts-mus\ eums-as-cut-backs-cause-staff-shortage.html Assorted items relating to the Staffordshire Hoard: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8455189.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jan/13/staffordshire-hoard-public-appeal http://itn.co.uk/news/c94631901380966af855eee7c87fda55.html Followup to that Yale skull-and-bones auction thing mentioned last week: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35661 A preview-to-auction exhibition of the James Copley Library: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/arts/design/16sothebys.html A Corot is coming to auction (scroll down): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/arts/design/15vogel.html ... as is La Belle Ferronniere: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/11/arts/design/11notleonardo.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ King Lear: http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/01/15/theater/reviews/15lear.html Haydn: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/14/arts/music/14staier.html Interesting item on 'completists': http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/16/theater/16completists.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Bill Kennedy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/6968761/Bill-Kenne\ dy.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ On the development of the human hand: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/science/nature/8459572.stm Humans were once an endangered species: http://www.physorg.com/news183278038.html ... a somewhat different spin: http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56279/ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/science/19human.html ... and again, humans are being blamed for the demise of megafauna in Australia: http://www.physorg.com/news183304541.html More on Neanderthal ornamentation: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111154914.htm More on early seafaring types reaching Crete: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article6991643.\ ece ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Big news this week is the announcement of a temple to Queen Berenike (or a cat ... this is being spun in different ways) which shows the continuing sway of Egyptian deities: http://af.reuters.com/article/topNews/idAFJOE60I0GW20100119 http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/cricket/06-te\ mple-find-shows-sway-of-ancient-egyptian-religion-rs-02 http://www.physorg.com/news183125535.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8468803.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/19/egypt-cat-god-temple-bastet http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gPW43vew51NsssM04pu_sVFmOgAA http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/19/AR2010011901203.\ html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/photogalleries/100121-cat-temple\ -egypt-pictures/ http://news.scotsman.com/world/Catgoddess-link-to-2000yearold-temple.5995925.jp http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME13.XAM19300.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100119/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_alexandria_temple http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10621325 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/queen-berenikes-cat-g\ oddess-temple-discovered-in-alexandria-egypt-1872527.html http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aukXTFN2wSAA http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34935739/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/temple-to-cat-goddess-discovered-in-egypt.\ html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/africa/article6994387.ece Interesting column by Zahi Hawass on reporting of discoveries in Egypt: http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id=19559 ... and an interesting debate over private ownership of antiquities in Egypt: http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20100121045552/Antiquities%20protection%2\ 0draft%20law%20continues%20to%20ignite%20debates%20at%20PA http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/news/antiquities-profit Feature on Leen Ritmeyer and Temple Mount: http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=32107 http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=32107 Sections of an Anahita Temple in Iran have been damaged by new construction: http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=109:s\ ections-of-anahita-temple-at-kangavar-destroyed-by-new-construction-&catid=38 A method to date the DSS: http://english.sina.com/technology/p/2010/0120/301091.html http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article884685.ece ... and a nice feature on some of the folks working to preserve the DSS: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1144442 ... and a critique of university purchases of the DSS fragments: http://www.insidehighered.com/news/2010/01/22/qt Smithsonian magazine has a feature on the Sphinx: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/81147952.html Yale Egyptological Institute in Egypt: http://www.yale.edu/egyptology/home.htm Finds of unspecified date (Ummayad?) from Palmyra: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201001184410/Culture/syrian-swiss-archa\ eologists-pictures-of-humans-unearthed-in-palmyra.html More on that 'most ancient' Hebrew inscription: http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=2043 http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2010/januaryweb-only/13-11.0.html More on bird mummies not in Connecticut: http://www.physorg.com/news182960165.html More on plans to see if there are genetic links between the Pashtun and Israel's 'lost tribes': http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/17/israel-lost-tribes-pashtun More on slaves not building pyramids: http://blastmagazine.com/the-news/world-news/2010/01/one-of-the-mysteries-of-the\ -egyptian-pyramids-revealed/ More on medicinal makeup: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/science/19egypt.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=cleopatras-eyeliner-pee\ per-health-k-10-01-22 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100111112845.htm More on Jordan wanting the DSS: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/41126/jordan-wants-the-dead-sea-scrolls/ 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) ================================================================ They're searching for Tartessos (with the usual Atlantis spin): http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/7019522/Lost-city-of-Atla\ ntis-could-be-buried-in-southern-Spain.html Confirmation that pine resin was used to seal amphorae: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/f-sf-cau012010.php http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/chemical-analyses-uncover-secrets-ancient-amphora\ .html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+scienceblogrssf\ eed+%28Science+Blog%29 http://www.physorg.com/news183200556.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1811452/uncovering_ancient_amphoras_secrets\ /index.html?source=r_science http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-35373.html Top ten passions of ancient Rome (slide show): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/features/top-ten-passions-\ of-ancient-rome-1875051.html Medusas from the harbour at Caesarea: http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 (p)Reviews of Spartacus: Blood and Sand: http://www.nydailynews.com/entertainment/tv/2010/01/22/2010-01-22_starz_spartacu\ s_blood_and_sand_starring_andy_whitfield_is_orgy_of_sex_violence_a.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/21/AR2010012104590.\ html http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-spartacus22-2010jan22,0,1485622.\ story http://www.newsday.com/entertainment/tv/spartacus-is-a-roman-orgy-of-blood-and-s\ ex-1.1715048 http://www.variety.com/review/VE1117941898 http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/01/21/arts/entertainment-us-television-spart\ acus.html A Roman burial from Weston: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/bristol/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8468000/\ 8468346.stm Haven't had coverage of a Latin Mass for a while: http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/antiquity-confers-solemnity-in-shap\ e-of-latin-mass-1.999395 Roman Maryport is going to become a big tourist attraction: http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/national_lottery_backing_for_roman_maryport_projec\ t_1_663431?referrerPath=home What Eric Rebillard is up to: http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Jan10/MellonRebillard.html Denise McCoskey has won the APA Teaching award: http://www.oxfordpress.com/news/oxford-news/miami-professor-wins-national-teachi\ ng-award-500907.html?cxtype=rss_local-news APA honours for Julia Haig Gaisser and Richard Hamilton too: http://news.brynmawr.edu/?p=4309 Barbara Gold hangs out the shingle for Valentine's Day: http://news.yahoo.com/s/usnw/20100122/pl_usnw/DC41823_1 Nice Astronomy Pic of the Day of an eclipse over the Temple of Poseidon: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100118.html More on the altar of Zeus on Mt Lykaion: http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/health/mound-of-ash-reveals-shrine-to-zeus-a\ top-greeces-mount-lykaion_100305623.html http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/54964/title/Zeus_altar_of_ashes Review of Peter Stothard, *On the Spartacus Road*: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7045125/On-the-Spartacus-Ro\ ad-a-Spectacular-Journey-through-Ancient-Italy-by-Peter-Stothard-review.html (p)Review of Elizabeth Vandiver, *Stand in the Trench, Achilles*: http://war-poets.blogspot.com/2010/01/patrick-shaw-stewart-i-saw-man-this.html Review of David Malouf, *Ransom*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Coates-t.html Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ On the DNA front, most european males appear to be descended from Near Eastern agricultural folks ... maybe: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8467623.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/19/british-men-ancient-farmers http://www.physorg.com/news183129440.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100119133508.htm http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-34102.html http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/1/20/worldupdates/2010-01-20T073\ 901Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-455286-1&sec=Worldupdates cf: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1000285 Remains of Queen Eadgyth may have been found in a lead coffin in Magdeburg Cathedral: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35754 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8467870.stm http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/saxon-queen-eadgyths-remains-discovered-german\ y http://www.news4jax.com/nationalnews/22281566/detail.html http://www.physorg.com/news183204125.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/20/alfred-great-granddaughter-remains\ -wessex http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/01/20/international/i06260\ 4S73.DTL&tsp=1 ... while a skeleton of undetermined date has been found during renovations at Yorkshire Museum: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8467963.stm Finds from various periods at an American military base in Dal Molin: http://blastmagazine.com/the-news/world-news/2010/01/archaeological-finds-discov\ ered-at-american-military-base-site/ Mel Gibson's next project might be a 'Viking epic' (with the language etc.): http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/6711747/mel-gibson-eyeing-viking-epic\ / http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Lifestyle/Story/STIStory_481123.html http://www.aceshowbiz.com/news/view/w0000489.html Efforts to 'restore' the Scots language aren't going so well: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6988827.ece Some planks may be some lost shipwreck cargo (I think we mentioned this one): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8461266.stm A twelfth-century poem suggests the English didn't think much of the French: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/7004448/Lazy-arrogant-co\ wards-how-English-saw-French-in-12th-century.html Feature on the AEG Turbine Hall in Berlin: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/arts/19iht-turbine.html More on the shipworm threat in the Baltics: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/100119-viking-shipwrecks-worms-s\ hipworms-global-warming/ Review of Alison Weir, *The Lady in the Tower*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Mantel-t.html cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Upfront-t.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A lost Spanish colony may be located (or not ... not sure where this one should be categorized): http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2010-01-19/lost-spanish-colony-may-be-fou\ nd China is going to try to save its oldest cliff-carved Buddha from collapse: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/8465658.stm Latest ship reconstruction is one modelled on the 'Tang Treasure' ship: http://www.sail-world.com/UK/Another-ancient-sailing-ship-to-set-forth/65387 Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Item on a native American site in Oxford being 'destroyed': http://www.annistonstar.com/view/full_story/5616844/article-JSU-professor--Ameri\ can-Indian-site-is-gone?instance=home_lead_story http://blog.al.com/live/2010/01/professor_says_900-year-old_in.html http://blog.al.com/spotnews/2010/01/professor_finds_ancient_indian.html http://www2.nbc13.com/vtm/news/local/article/indian_remains_reported_found_at_ox\ ford_site/124627/ Federal funding for the Cupids site (Newfoundland): http://www.cbncompass.ca/index.cfm?sid=319646&sc=326 The Veterans Curation Project seems interesting and worthwhile: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35834 St Paul's school seems to be imminently demised (is that grammatically possible?): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/nyregion/17land.html Review of a few books of American historical interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/nyregion/17book.html More on evidence of climate change in the Southwest: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100120161243.htm http://www.physorg.com/news183226480.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Pre-hispanic reburials in Baja: http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5hgM5YIVqIR6s1WIP_CT\ rqqq8P-5Q http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 A burial of a Sican shaman from Lambayeque: http://enperublog.com/2010/01/23/tomb-of-800-year-old-shaman-discovered/ Ancient 'biochar' as a cure for 'global warming': http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100113172252.htm 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 ================================================================ A more flattering portrait of Poe (?): http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35734 Review of Karin Sanders, *Bodies in the Bog*: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7053850/Bodies-in-the-Bog-and-the-Archa\ eological-Imagination-by-Karin-Sanders-review.html Relics of Joan of Arc aren't (interesting slide show at the discovery.com one): http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-35218.html http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/religious-relics-joan-of-arc-forgery.html The debt modern Europe owes to the Dark Ages for its economy: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=122734153 The 'real' story of Newton and the apple is now online: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8461591.stm http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100118/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_newton_s_apple cf: http://www.royalsociety.org/turning-the-pages Can't remember if we mentioned this ancient lentil seed sprouting: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=ancient-seed-came-into-leaf-2009-12-16 On the financial legacy of Sherlock Holmes: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/19/books/19sherlock.html On photography's early practitioners: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/arts/23iht-melik23.html Interviewish thing with Terry Castle: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/magazine/17fob-q4-t.html ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Pompeii: http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/3243838/Pompeii-Under-the-volcano Ephesus: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-198967-116-digging-up-turkeys-past-uneart\ hing-ephesus-with-john-turtle-wood.html Vatican City: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/travel/17culture.html Aleppo: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/travel/24next.html Alexandria: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/jan/18/alexandria-egypt-ts-learner Petropolis: http://elviajero.elpais.com/articulo/viajes/corte/tropical/Petropolis/elpviavia/\ 20100116elpviavje_7/Tes ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Oh the irony ... A ring purportedly belonging to Alexander the Great was among items stolen from an exhibition devoted to antiquities theft in Israel: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60K4YC20100121 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/179002 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1144104 http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/12022/2/ http://www.asiaone.com/News/AsiaOne+News/World/Story/A1Story20100121-193562.html http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE60K46P20100121 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7045926/Antiquities-Thef\ t-in-Israel-exhibition-robbed.html http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1263147940586&pagename=JPost%2FJPArti\ cle%2FShowFull ... not surprisingly, there was a call for more protection against such things: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/179108 A man from West Sussex has been arrested over his plundering activities: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5hNTZxAlDE31CnLZq_488cVR_X\ O2w ... while a Creal Springs (Illinois) man was sentenced therefor: http://www.bentoneveningnews.com/news/x190608344/Creal-Springs-man-sentenced-for\ -digging-up-artifacts Germany has returned some purloined Sumerian pieces to Iraq, which were found in a bust in Frankfurt: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-35693.html ... and similiter, Netherlands authorities have returned a 'clay tablet' to Iraq after rescuing it from an auction: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=11080\ 2 Some maps are missing from the Asiatic Society in Mumbai: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mumbai/Antique-maps-missing-from-Asiatic\ -Society/articleshow/5493619.cms Someone has taken off with Klaus Stortebeker's skull: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35763 http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,672940,00.html 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 ================================================================ 1001 Inventions: http://www.1001inventions.com/exhibition http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jan/24/science-museum-1001-inventions-isl\ am http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/7045228/Elephant-Clock-is-centrep\ iece-of-Science-Museums-Islamic-exhibition.html DSS (Milwaukee): http://www.jsonline.com/multimedia/photos/82426197.html http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/82460287.html http://www.jsonline.com/news/milwaukee/82169782.html http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/81755572.html http://www.jsonline.com/general/37714089.html?bcpid=8725036001&bctid=53979316001 The Aztec Pantheon and the Art of Empire: http://www.getty.edu/visit/exhibitions/future.html Olmec: Colossal Masterworks of Ancient Mexico: http://www.lacma.org/art/ExhibOlmec.aspx The Subject Is Women: Impressionism and Post-Impressionism http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/nyregion/17artsli.html Stirlingshire hoard: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8469787.stm Gerome: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35768 Real Places, Fanciful Visions: http://www.library.yale.edu/MapColl/oldsite/map/curious.html Drawings of Bronzino: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/arts/design/22bronzino.html Art of Forgery (London): http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/breakingnews/world/view/20100123-248982/The-art-of-\ forgery-goes-on-show-in-London http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/reviews/fakes-and-forgerie\ s-go-on-display-at-the-vampa-museum-1872710.html http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583730,00.html History of the World in 100 Objects (really a documentary series): http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2010/jan/24/history-world-in-100-objects http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p005td45 http://www.nma.co.uk/news/bbc-launches-online-museum/3008866.article http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8463149.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8464388.stm Winter Antiques Show coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/arts/design/22winter.html Funding the arts in Europe: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/arts/design/21abroad.html The Met acquires a Messerschmidt: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/arts/design/22vogel.html Continuing coverage of the Iran v. British Museum dispute: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/24/cyrus-cylinder-iran-museum-row http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/fa69c9a4-0795-11df-915f-00144feabdc0.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/7045023/Iran-threatens-to-sever-l\ inks-with-UK-in-row-over-Cyrus-Cylinder.html http://news.scotsman.com/world/Iran-warning-to-British-Museum.5989442.jp cf: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23797962-british-museum-acts-to-e\ ase-iran-anger-over-delayed-loan.do Feature on the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/arts/design/21gardner.html Feature/tour of the Acropolis Museum: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/01/a-tour-of-the-new-acropol\ is-museum.html http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/arts/la-ca-acropolis24-2010jan24,0,479\ 4639.story Monet coming to the Pantheon: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/is-monet-about-to-become-the-pant\ hons-first-famous-artist-1875479.html An interesting auctioneer: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/arts/design/22antiques.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Antony and Cleopatra: http://www.washingtonpost.com/gog/performing-arts/antony-and-cleopatra,1158281.h\ tml Europa Galante: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/23/arts/music/23europa.html Monteverdi 1610: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/arts/music/22vespers.html Emma: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/22/arts/television/22emma.html Gotham Chamber Orchestra/Haydn: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/21/arts/music/21luna.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/arts/music/17mondo.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Erich Segal: http://voices.washingtonpost.com/postmortem/2010/01/erich-segal-love-story-autho\ r.html http://english.pravda.ru/news/society/showbiz/20-01-2010/111747-love_story_autho\ r_erich_segal%20-0 http://www.jewishjournal.com/obituaries/article/love_story_author_erich_segal_di\ es_20100120/ http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/erich-segal-classics-professor-who-\ shot-to-fame-as-the-writer-of-love-story-1875150.html http://www.latimes.com/sega-love-sl,0,745475.storylink http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/19/love-story-erich-segal-dies http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/love-story-author-erich-segal-dies-aged-72/\ article1436606/ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/books/20segal.html Arthur Stocker: http://www2.timesdispatch.com/rtd/lifestyles/announcements/obituaries/article/AS\ OB18_20100117-221404/318343/ Frank Schnell: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/news/breaking_news/story/980954.html Edward Schillebeeckx: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/17/world/europe/17schillebeeckx.html Jean Simmons: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/movies/24simmons.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7063304/Jean-Simmons-remembered-tributes\ -to-the-demure-doe-eyed-British-beauty-of-film.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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 12.41 January 31, 2010 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Daniel P. Diffendale Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Duke Jason, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Virginia Knight, Hernan Astudillo,Donna Hurst, Kurt Theis, Richard Price, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,Randolph Bragg Mike Ruggeri,Sue Day,Joos Postma, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Murali Menon, Rick Pettigrew,Diana C. Briscoe and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Trying to explain homo floresiensis' tiny brain: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126220325.htm http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-38919.html http://www.physorg.com/news183808783.html Last of the Neanderthals: 37 000 b.p.?: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126220321.htm http://www.physorg.com/news183793078.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Nice feature on San petroglyphs in Matobo National Park: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704281204575003441739599812.html?m\ od=WSJ_LifeStyle_LeadStoryNA A major cache of Anglo-Boer weaponry has brought a construction project in King William's Town to a halt: http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=375303 BBC series on the Lost Kingdoms of Africa (access to videos limited): http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pv1m4 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ They're starting to hype DNA test results on Tut: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013100756.\ html Plans to restore the 'avenue of the sphinxes': http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20100129010733\ 701C521010 http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=9649483 Feature on Egyptian lifestyle: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/features/lifestyles-of-the\ -rich-and-famous-egyptians-1878609.html Feature on the excavations at Tel Kabri: http://www.gwu.edu/explore/gwtoday/aroundtheworld/uncoveringanancientcivilizatio\ n Overviewish thing on recent work in Syria: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201001304589/Travel/archaeological-find\ ings-highlight-syria-role-in-human-civilization.html Feature on the political side of archaeology in Israel: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1957350,00.html Brief feature on Ottoman Umm Qais: http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidZAWYA20100129090301/Ottoman-era%20village%20re\ flects%20Jordan%27s%20layers%20of%20enduring%20history Lengthy feature on Lycia: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-199728-116-digging-up-turkeys-past-tomb-r\ aider-charles-fellows-in-lycia.html Feature on the oldest cylinder seal found on the Arabian peninsula: http://www.sas.upenn.edu/home/SASFrontiers/pittman2010.html Paul Sussman shares his views on his work: http://www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jan/30/i-discovered-pharaoh-gold A lecture by Sara Orel: http://media.www.trumanindex.com/media/storage/paper607/news/2010/01/28/Trulife/\ Lecture.Reveals.History.Behind.Ancient.Egyptian.Pottery-3859280.shtml More on the Archaic Mark as forgery: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Early-copy-of-the-Gospel-of-Mark-is-a-fo\ rgery%20/20134 More on the Berenike Temple: http://www.projo.com/art/content/artsun-tomb-found_01-24-10_8NH5OSE_v7.1b8adb4.h\ tml More on Iraq's erasing Hebrew connections to Ezekiel's tomb: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1144711.html Review of David O'Connor, *Abydos*: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/983/heritage.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 big news this week might be the discovery of what appears to be the source of the Aqua Traiana: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/british-filmmakers-un\ cover-trajans-hidden-roman-aquaduct-1879540.html http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_14287435 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/jan/24/roman-aqua-traiana-film-makers http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7067184/Two-thousand-year\ -old-Roman-aqueduct-discovered.html http://eternallycool.net/2010/01/source-of-trajans-aqueduct-discovered/ http://www.wtxx.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-italy-ancient-aqueduct,0,1833225.\ story http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8486518.stm http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE60S4LK20100129 http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/roman-aqueduct-emperor.html http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100129/tod-oukoe-uk-italy-archaeologists-life-fdde\ 6d8.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100129/sc_afp/italybritainarchaeologyaqueduct_2010\ 0129221346 http://www.physorg.com/news184010018.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/28/world/AP-EU-Italy-Ancient-Aqueduct.ht\ ml http://rogueclassicism.com/2010/01/25/source-of-the-aqua-traiana-found/ http://rogueclassicism.com/2010/01/29/more-on-the-aqua-traiana/ ... or the big news this week might be the discovery of what appears to be fragments of the Codex Gregorianus: http://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/1001/10012702 http://www.ahrc.ac.uk/News/Podcasts/Pages/lostromanlaw.aspx http://www.ucl.ac.uk/history2/volterra/texts/fla.htm http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126220329.htm http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/28/gregorian-text-roman-law-found http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/ucl-lrl012610.php http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/cracking-the-codex-lo\ ng-lost-roman-legal-document-discovered-1881769.html http://www.physorg.com/news183800845.html http://rogueclassicism.com/2010/01/27/codex-gregorianus-found/ The reopening of the Fitzwilliam's Greek and Roman collection is garnering some coverage: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8485654.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2010/jan/27/art-archaeolo\ gy http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%2526+heritage/art75434 http://rogueclassicism.com/2010/01/28/the-fitzwilliam-has-some-interesting-stuff\ / ... and especially interesting is a feature on a Roman Army Knife: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247230/The-Roman-Army-Knife-Or-ingenuit\ y-Swiss-beaten-1-800-years.html http://rogueclassicism.com/2010/01/30/the-roman-swiss-army-knife/ Interesting burial of an Asian found in a Roman context at Vagnari: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/embassador-or-slave-e\ ast-asian-skeleton-discovered-in-vagnari-roman-cemetery-1879551.html http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/714884 http://rogueclassicism.com/2010/01/29/asian-burial-at-vagnari/ Trying to figure out what to do with Guernsey's Roman shipwreck: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/guernsey/8482552.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/guernsey/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8481000\ /8481475.stm http://rogueclassicism.com/2010/01/28/guernseys-roman-shipwreck/P Not sure why, but that 'Vespasian's birthplace' find from last August is making the rounds again: http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.4244627106 http://www.littleabout.com/news/63077,2000-year-birthplace-roman-emperor-vespasi\ an.html http://news.oneindia.in/2010/01/28/2000year-old-birthplace-of-roman-emperor-vesp\ asianfound.html http://rogueclassicism.com/2010/01/30/vespasians-birthplace-redux/ A Roman temple find during excavations in the chancel of a church in Spain: http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?/news/comments/an_ancient_roman_templ\ e_discovered_in_the_chancel_of_the_church_of_sant_fel/3101100247am Feature on Ulpiana: http://www.balkaninsight.com/en/main/life_and_style/25109/ Interesting bit of Thracian gold on display for the first time: http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2010-01-29&article=32002 Mary Beard will be chatting on Desert Island Discs some time today: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00q0dbx What the Iliad still tells us about war: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/30/iliad-war-charlotte-higgins How to be a gladiator: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583784,00.html Barbara Gold's Valentine's Day opinions are circulating again: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-37669.html Medical case histories on Mount Olympus: http://www.mcsweeneys.net/2005/5/9stallard.html Palaeography is threatened at King's College: http://rogueclassicism.com/2010/01/28/cuts-at-kings-college-london/ Feature on Auden's 'Shield of Achilles': http://pacificfreepress.com/news/1/5470-shield-of-achilles.html Review of Kagan's *Thucydides*: http://www.wenatcheeworld.com/news/2010/jan/28/thucydides-a-flawed-analysis-of-f\ lawed-history/ Review of Zachary Mason, *Lost Books of the Odyssey*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/books/28book.html Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Pondering the implications of evidence of a Neolithic amputation found in the environs of Paris: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7000810.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7072726/Stone-Age-amputee-proves\ -Neolithic-medics-more-advanced-than-previously-thought.html Remains of an Iron Age settlement in Kent: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8488871.stm Another item from the Staffordshire Hoard has gone on display: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8479047.stm Remains of a Viking settlement in Dublin: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0127/1224263210796.html Recent finds from Veliko Tarnovo (a bit vague): http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1714 Feature on Eliseg's Pillar (Wales): http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/84291/historic-welsh-pillar-that-s-shrouded-in-\ mystery.aspx More on Mel Gibson's Viking project: http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/6711747/mel-gibson-eyeing-viking-epic\ / http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/6718397/gibson-to-make-viking-epic/ Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A high-ranking Han Dynasty burial from Shaanxi: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-01/29/c_13156192.htm http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6883157.html An Iron Age (?) burial from Laos: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/305145,iron-age-discovery-uncovers-prehi\ storic-burial-customs-in-laos.html A Warring States period tomb with some bamboo strips: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/23/content_9365954.htm I thought they had done DNA tests on the remains of Cao Cao's tomb; maybe I missed something: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6878182.html http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6879963.html http://www.physorg.com/news183726069.html Latest 'Great Wall' news: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/life/2010-01/29/content_9397217.htm http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6882691.html An Amman idol and assorted other items from construction sites near Mannargudi: http://www.deccanchronicle.com/chennai/amman-idol-copper-coins-unearthed-near-ma\ nnargudi-458 Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about India: http://www.archaeologychannel.org). Vietnam has reburied the mummified corpse of a Le Dynasty king which was accidentally dug up fifty years ago: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100125/lf_afp/vietnamroyalsmummy_20100125172948 http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Asia/Story/A1Story20100125-194364.html Nice Astronomy pic of the day of an annular eclipse over Myanmar: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100126.html More on evidence for a lost Spanish colony in the Solomons: http://www.solomonstarnews.com/viewpoint/private-view/2054-lost-spanish-colony-m\ ay-be-found More on humans and Australian megafauna: http://www.physorg.com/news183924703.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Remains of a 700 b.p. village in Richmond: http://www.richmondregister.com/localnews/local_story_029201854.html An archaeologist has changed his mind about the origins of of the Oxford mound: http://www.whnt.com/news/sns-ap-al--indianmounddispute,0,7500104.story http://annistonstar.com/bookmark/5681193 http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20100128/NEWS02/1280325/1009/rss04 Interesting feature on some finds from Hilton Head: http://www.npaper-wehaa.com/bluffton-today/2010/01/26/#?article=739277 Lecture (video) all abaout Tammany Hall: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGVy702gf84&feature=player_profilepage Feature on the African Burial Ground in Manhattan: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/arts/design/27sankofa.html Review of a couple of books about executive power in the US: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/books/review/Isaacson-t.html More on caves and climate change in the Southwest: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100120161243.htm ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ A tomb from Tonina (Mexico) may shed light on the Maya collapse: http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gHzRAPQqxE5hM1_7NrV\ tYaSpiNnQ http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100129/sc_afp/mexicoarchaeology http://www.whnt.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-lt-mexico-mayan-tomb,0,2410373.story http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/935713 http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-tomb-could-explain-maya-collaspe.h\ tml http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5i9HQiCmYdmSW0sqbvUjfCYY0Msog http://www.jornada.unam.mx/2010/01/26/index.php?section=cultura&article=a05n2cul http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/28/AR2010012800587.\ html?sub=AR http://www.physorg.com/news183905797.html A big Mayan sculptured head from Guatemala: http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/26/huge-mayan-head-points-ancient-metropo\ lis/ http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,26637318-663,00.html?from=public_\ rss http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/17577/valencian-archaeologists-find-mayan-f\ igurehead-in-guatemala http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/world/huge-head-discovered-in-ancient-mayan-cit\ y-in-guatemala/story-e6frf7lf-1225823642795 http://www.thinkspain.com/news-spain/17577/valencian-archaeologists-find-mayan-f\ igurehead-in-guatemala http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre60o5rc-us-guatemala-archeology/ Followuppish stuff on that pre-Inca 'mythical' temple from Peru: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/01/photogalleries/100129-peru-templ\ e-mythical-naylamp-pictures/?now=2010-01-29-00:01#025755_600x450.jpg(photos!) Plenty of cultural damage in Haiti: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/world/americas/24heritage.html?hp More Mochica/Lambayeque finds (semi-repeat): http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35886 (shaman) http://enperublog.com/2010/01/23/tomb-of-800-year-old-shaman-discovered/ Rains/flooding are stranding tourists at Machu Picchu: http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/breaking/6723477/peru-mudslides-strand-2000\ -tourists/ http://www.usforacle.com/rains-strand-2-000-tourists-at-machu-picchu-ruins-1.214\ 9157 http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/story?section=news/national_world&id=7240202&rss=rss\ -wabc-article-7240202 http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27200263.htm http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/world/6726511/peru-mudslides-strand-machu-picchu-to\ urists-5-dead/ 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 ================================================================ I'm not sure whether we've mentioned this DNA story before, but the results seem to be putting Indo-Europeans in East Asia some 2000 years b.p.: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55811/title/Skeleton_of_Western_man_f\ ound_in_ancient_Mongolian_tomb Nice feature on Shelley's Ozymandias: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/jan/28/percy-bysshe-shelley-poetr\ y The man behind Coleridge's ancient mariner: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/31/man-behind-coleridges-ancient-marine\ r Interesting interviewish thing with Robert M. Edsel: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/business/26flier.html Celebrating Chekhov: http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/01/29/arts/entertainment-us-russia-chekhov-a\ nniversary.html Britain's Academy of Sciences is 350 years old: http://www.physorg.com/news184127779.html The evolution of evolution: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527441.500-horizontal-and-vertical-the-e\ volution-of-evolution.html?full=true Was the Mona Lisa a self portrait (this one's weird): http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100129/ap_on_re_eu/eu_leonardo_s_mysteries http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35932 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/7069335/Leonardo-Da-Vincis-remai\ ns-to-be-exhumed-amid-Mona-Lisa-self-portrait-mystery.html http://www.physorg.com/news183667169.html A page from the Voynich Manuscript was Astronomy pic of the day: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100131.html The Two Ronnies take on archaeology: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qFLOHu8Ozm8 Not sure if we mentioned this Sherlock Holmes copyright thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/opinion/24sun4.html On rising and falling sea levels over the past 2500 years: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-01/uoh-tsl012610.php http://www.physorg.com/news183723896.html Nice feature on an archaeology student's presentation at the AIA: http://www.physorg.com/news183740408.html Assorted Valentine's Day stuff of varying quality: http://www.gklife.com/arts-and-culture/why-was-valentines-day-invented250110 http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/feature/a-tale-of-st-valentines-day_10030978\ 1.html http://www.pr-inside.com/happy-valentines-day-hotsaleoutlet-com-r1686126.htm ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Trebizond (not sure if this is really touristy or not): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8488238.stm Aleppo: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/travel/24next.html David's Tomb: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3830412,00.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Cyprus police busted a major smuggling ring: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8478886.stm http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2010886033_apeucyprusantiquiti\ estheft.html?syndication=rss http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-artifacts-theft-smuggling.html http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/main/92,1,283,0,5342-.aspx http://news.scotsman.com/world/Police-smash-ring-of-antiques.6012514.jp http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a8FH1zUeQT6I http://www.canadaeast.com/rss/article/935718 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/25/AR2010012500429.\ html Italian police have sealed off a number of looted sites in Puglia: http://www.littleabout.com/news/62101,stolen-art-treasures-recovered-italy.html Semi-related to our purview ... interesting report that one of the 9/11 hijackers tried to fund his flying lessons with antiquities from Afghanistan: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/20100128/ts_ynews/ynews_ts1086 Oped piece on protecting antiquities in India: http://beta.thehindu.com/opinion/editorial/article96475.ece Concerns for antiquities traffic and tourism in Nigeria: http://allafrica.com/stories/201001290733.html Tomb raiders bulldozed a site in Jiangsu: http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-01/501682.html Germany has returned some items to Iraq: http://www.isria.com/pages/30_January_2010_5.php Latest update from the Utah case: http://www.sltrib.com/news/ci_14289840 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A coin from a long-known hoard from the UK turns out to be the oldest Roman coin in Britain: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/8487870.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7101973/Oldest-Roman-coin-in-Britain-disc\ overed-on-museum-shelf.html http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Roman-coin-oldest-Britain/article-178\ 0460-detail/article.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1247092/Silver-coin-dating-211BC-oldest-\ piece-Roman-money-Britain.html Latest E-Sylum newsletter: http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v13n04.html Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ 1001 Inventions: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/29/muslim.inventions/ Rome After Raphael: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/arts/design/29raphael.html Eros: From Hesiod's Theogeny ... : http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/love-sex/desire/the-joy-of-sex--an-ancie\ nt-guide-1879995.html The Author's Portrait: http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/archives/192113.asp?from=blog_last3 Master Drawings New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/arts/design/29masters.html Temples, Tombs and Tumis: http://www.umaine.edu/hudsonmuseum/Exhibits.html#Temple Mary Webb, Neglected Genius: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/arts/design/29antiques.html Vision of Dance: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/arts/26iht-diag.html Klencke Atlas: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/26/klencke-atlas-british-library-exhibi\ tion Tracing the sources of UPenn Museum's gold: http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/yb/140683559 Nice price for a disputed daVinci: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35938 More on Egypt's claims to Nefertiti: http://www.businessweek.com/news/2010-01-26/egypt-relics-chief-pulls-in-revenue-\ as-he-fights-for-nefertiti.html ... and the Rosetta Stone: http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id=19656 ... and Egyptian antiquities laws: http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id=19656 The BM v Iran thing continues: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/jan/24/cyrus-cylinder-iran-museum-row ... with the BM apparently needing six months to study the 'new' fragments: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=117211§ionid=351020105 How museums bet on the Super Bowl: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/super-bowl-wager-provokes-art-museu\ m-trash-talk/ Woman v Picasso ... Picasso loses: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/woman-collides-with-a-picasso http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/24/arts/AP-US-Picasso-Damaged.html Pedestal collapse at the Met isn't a good thing: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/02/arts/design/01cnd-sculpture.html http://www.nytimes.com/2002/10/09/arts/met-s-15th-century-adam-shatters-as-pedes\ tal-collapses.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/arts/design/28statues.html ... leading, of course, to a feature on 'art catastrophes': http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/nyregion/27about.html Feature on the 'keeper of Moscow's architectural conscience': http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/28/arts/design/28appraisal.html The Huntington has acquired a pile of Charles Dickens' letters: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35899 A couple's 'umbrella stand' has turned out to be a nicely-priced Chinese vase: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100129/tuk-couple-s-umbrella-stand-is-lost-chin-45d\ bed5.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8487181.stm Old Masters were fetching nice prices: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/arts/30iht-melik30.html More hype for the terracotta warriors coming to the ROM: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-01/29/c_13155901.htm http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35905 ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Lucretia: http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/10028/1031412-388.stm?cmpid=entertainment.xml Feature on Chopin and Schumann: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/arts/music/24schumann.html Europa Galante: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/arts/music/26europa.html Le Poeme Harmonique: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/arts/music/26roundup.html As You Like It: http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/01/27/theater/reviews/27like.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7002095.ece Howard Zinn: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/29/us/29zinn.html Paul R Jones: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/01/28/arts/AP-US-Obit-Art-Collector.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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 12.42 February 7, 2010 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Barnea Selavan, 'Catherine' Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Donna Hurst, Duke Jason, Kurt Theis,John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman,Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ They've found some Neanderthal teeth in Poland: http://www.ledger-enquirer.com/world/story/997118.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1817059/three_neanderthal_teeth_found_in_po\ land/index.html?source=r_science Also on the dental front ... some evidence to confirm the Barker hypothesis (which I'd never heard of): http://www.physorg.com/news184519813.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100204204315.htm http://www.dentistry.co.uk/news/news_detail.php?id=2527 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Hype for an upcoming press conference on the Tut DNA results (!): http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/hawass-to-announce-king-tut-dna-results.ht\ ml http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013100756.\ html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1147700.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hC05v6N96sFAxcCjiccMCTVsd8AQ http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/tutankhamen-may-find-his-mummy-20100201-n7\ cn.html http://toronto.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20100131/tut_DNA_100131/20100131?\ hub=TorontoNewHome http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/01/31/egypt-announce-king-tut-dna-results-43\ 8403431 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/01/2806274.htm Egypt announced the completion of the restoration of the oldest Christian monastery: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36063 http://www.denverpost.com/ci_14337886?source=rss http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/02/04/general-ml-egypt-monastery_7329254.htm\ l http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/8500091.stm Restoring the Avenue of Sphinxes: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/luxors-sphinx-avenue-to-be-restored.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/excavation-and-restor\ ation-on-the-avenue-of-sphinxes-1888212.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5idJ--Qk8Bz03tCIJW_YPvHhS_MxA http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/restoring-avenue-sphinxes-and-protecting-it-fu\ ture Feature on ancient Egyptian sports: http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id=19762 Finds from various periods from Syria's Hasska province: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002064686/Travel/archaeological-find\ ings-cuneiform-tablets-seals-and-tombs-unearthed-in-syria.html ... and three cemeteries from Southern Syria too: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002054680/Related-news-from-Syria/4-\ thousand-year-archaeological-cemeteries-discovered-in-syria.html Interview with Franck Goddio: http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=cleopatras-alexandria-t\ reasures-10-01-31 Interview with Donny George: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1904 An interview with Aaron Demsky on matters onomastic: http://www.thejewishweek.com/viewArticle/c228_a17804/Special_Sections/Text_Conte\ xt.html A couple of items on the political side of archaeology in the City of David area: http://www.time.com/time/video/player/0,32068,64098268001_1957917,00.html(video) http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/middle_east/8480304.stm Not quite sure what to make of this (rather dated) report suggesting a DNA connection between the Mizo people and one of Israel's lost tribes: http://farshores.org/a04mizo.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) ================================================================ Roman burials in Sleaford (this story seems to be developing): http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Skeleton-key-heritage/article-1798637-d\ etail/article.html http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Second-skeleton-Roman-dig-site/article-\ 1810585-detail/article.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/8498311.stm A new underwater archaeological site off Polyaigos: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1720 What Anne Carson has been up to: http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=27927 Blog/feature on the Iliad: http://www.ordinary-gentlemen.com/2010/02/homer-the-iliad-1-of-2/ How the Iliad still speaks to us: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2010/feb/01/poetry-classi\ cs cf: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/30/iliad-war-charlotte-higgins Review of some Iliad-related tomes: http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2010/02/07/looking_at_the_iliad_and_seei\ ng_ourselves/ Review of Z Mason, *The Lost Books of the Odyssey*: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/05/RVAP1BL74T.DTL Review of Robert Harris, *Conspirata*: http://www.bookreporter.com/reviews2/9780743266109.asp http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-book6-2010feb06,0,2392748.story Review of Peter Stothart, *Onthe Spartacus Road*: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/books/article-1248537/Spartacus.html http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0206/1224263856999.html More on that burial of an 'Asian' at Vagnari: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100201171756.htm http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/Ancient+Asian+skeleton+unearthed+Italy\ /2511950/story.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1817064/dna_testing_on_ancient_bones_in_ita\ ly_reveal_east_asian/index.html?source=r_science http://www.smh.com.au/world/dna-finding-reveals-asians-in-roman-empire-20100206-\ njvs.html http://www.physorg.com/news184269403.html More on fragments of the Codex Gregorianus being found: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100203-lost-codex-gregorianus-ro\ man-law-book/ More on that 'Swiss Army Knife': http://asia.cnet.com/crave/2010/02/01/did-the-romans-invent-the-swiss-army-knife\ -/ More on Trajan's aqueduct: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8486518.stm Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Evidence that Stonehenge was surrounded by hedges: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/04/stonehenge-hedge-discovery They're looking for Columba's monastery: http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Search-for--Columba39s-monastery.6041441.jp A long-lost theory on Silbury Hill has been rediscovered: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8495004.stm http://www.gazetteandherald.co.uk/news/4884791.Long_lost_theory_on_Silbury_Hill_\ is_uncovered/ Interesting addition to the site of Bannockburn: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7017170.ece A bronze brooch has emerged after a turf fire in north Kerry: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0204/1224263734175.html http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/kfkfkfcwsnmh/rss2/ They've put a face on Auning Woman (bog body facial reconstrucion; no photo): http://jp.dk/uknews/article1963662.ece Viking silver from Shenstone: http://www.thisislichfield.co.uk/news/Viking-treasure-Shenstone/article-1804736-\ detail/article.html A number of underwater sites have been identified off the UK's North East coast: http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/features/Hidden-Wrecks-Revealed.4926218.j\ p A follow-up to that story from a while back about soldiers' remains from the Battle of Fromelles: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8485734.stm Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html Review of Frederick Brown, *For the Soul of France*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/books/review/Suleiman-t.html Review of Caroline Weber, *Apres le Deluge*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/books/review/Weber-t.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Assorted 25 000 years b.p. finds from Rajasthan: http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/03/stories/2010020358960500.htm An 8000 years b.p. burial from Kenyir Lake (Malaysia) found by clumsy archaeologists: http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/6/nation/20100206193148&sec=na\ tion A 2000 years b.p. burial from easter Mongolia has 'western' ancestry: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/mongolian-tomb-western-skeleton.html A 1500 years b.p. city ate from Mahasthangarh: http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=125099 They've banned construction around monuments in Agra: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-45210.html Interesting followup to the Cao Cao tomb thing: http://atimes.com/atimes/China/LB03Ad01.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Remote sensing suggests there are a number of items in the Nikwasi Mound: http://www.maconnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=6291&Itemid=3\ 4 Native Americans domesticated turkeys a couple of millennia ago: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/native-americans-turkeys-domestication.htm\ l A village at Fort Ancient: http://www.richmondregister.com/localnews/local_story_029201854.html American Castles: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=111063102 More on the Oxford Mound: http://annistonstar.com/bookmark/5734681 http://annistonstar.com/bookmark/5740243 Review of Clare Clark, *Savage Lands*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/books/review/Vernon-t.html Review of Bettye Collier-Thomas, *Jesus, Jobs, and Justice*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/books/review/Ford-t.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ A possible Tubar site in Chihuahua: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36066 http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 Some more interesting finds from Tonina: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36101 http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4121&Itemid=329 cf. more on that sarcophagus from Tonina mentioned last week: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=35972 Peru plans to resume digging at Huaca Rajada: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=5YnugNS8fBI= Bolivian archaeologists are collecting DNA from mummies as part of the Geno-graphic Project: http://english.cctv.com/program/cultureexpress/20100204/101406.shtml Trying to get a grant to study Chinchorro mummies: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100131/NEWS01/1310370/1002/NEWS01 Searching for evidence of pre-Carib and pre-Arawak folk: http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_features?id=161590514 They're restoring some walls at the Chan Chan complex: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=LY5RnXYm1Tg= 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 ================================================================ The next 'famous exhumation' candidate seems to be Tycho Brahe: http://politiken.dk/newsinenglish/article892671.ece Apparently Charles Darwin's ancestors were among the first group of homo sapienseseses to leave Africa: http://www.physorg.com/news184484254.html http://rss.feedsportal.com/c/845/f/464365/s/8fd5398/l/0L0Sbelfasttelegraph0O0Cne\ ws0Clocal0Enational0Ccharles0Edarwins0Eancestors0Eamong0Efirst0Ehomo0Esapiens0Et\ o0Eleave0Eafrica0E1466890A20Bhtml0Dr0FRSS/story01.htm The founders of British obstetrics weren't very nice people: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/07/british-obstetrics-founders-murders-cla\ im The last speaker of the Bo language has passed away: http://news.discovery.com/human/the-65000-year-old-language-goes-extinct.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/04/ancient-language-extinct-speaker-die\ s http://www.tamilnet.com/art.html?catid=79&artid=31154 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/8498534.stm I think we mentioned this whiskey-from-Antarctica before: http://www.physorg.com/news184568979.html http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0206/1224263887302.html http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/more-whisky-brandy-found-in-antarctica-3349662 http://www.independent.ie/national-news/whisky-on-the-rocks-polar-explorers-stas\ h-recovered-2051109.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7016136.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797\ 093 On what they munched on during Shakespearean performances: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123202247 Item on the restoration of a/the Verrocchio: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ ticle7017259.ece Humanities appears to be tough at Princeton: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/02/04/25005/ Some Valentine's Day stuff: http://sundaystandard.info/news/news_item.php?NewsID=6874&GroupID=2 The Christian origins of Groundhog Day: http://www.thonline.com/article.cfm?id=271857 Interesting feature on George Steiner: http://www.hindu.com/lr/2010/02/07/stories/2010020750140400.htm Feature on the UArizona dendrochronology lab: http://www.abc15.com/content/news/centralsouthernarizona/tucson/story/University\ -of-Arizonas-tree-ring-lab-unlocking/-6edBra4uk-ePhLKqzYMgw.cspx Mozart murdered?: http://www.hometownannapolis.com/news/lif/2010/02/07-03/Annapolis-woman-investig\ ates-Mozarts-death.html Feature on Paul Ehrlich: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/health/02first.html Opeddish thing on the King's College Palaeography thing: http://thefastertimes.com/academicpolitics/2010/02/03/a-bunch-of-pissed-off-medi\ evalists/ More on the Royal Society's 350th: http://www.physorg.com/news184127779.html Review of a couple of books about Mary Anning: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/science/02scibooks.html Review of Rebecca Goldstein, *36 Arguments For the Existence of God*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/books/review/Schillinger-t.html Review of Christopher Andrew, *Defend the Realm*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/books/review/MacIntyre-t.html Review of Chinua Achebe, *The Education of a British-Protected Child*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/books/review/Glover-t.html ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Turkey's Top 10: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-200809-117-turkeys-top-10-archaeological-\ sites.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ CSA Newsletter (January 2010): http://csanet.org/newsletter/#winter10 ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Egypt has passed its new antiquities law, with more severe penalties for theft/smuggling of antiquities: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/984/eg3.htm http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hnyIwyk_1Xh7ZU4-W_oBxmVXD2gw http://www.dawn.com/wps/wcm/connect/dawn-content-library/dawn/news/sci-tech/06-e\ gypt-tightens-penalties-for-relics-robbers-smugglers-rs-06 http://www.almasryalyoum.com/en/node/14078 A Hindu temple near Bangladesh was vandalized: http://www.malaysianews.net/story/598084 http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=341452&version\ =1&template_id=44&parent_id=24 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ That oldest Roman coin ever found in Britain is going on display: http://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/Oldest-Roman-coin-found-in.6031766.jp Feature on someone's coin collection (various periods): http://www.leaderpost.com/health/Every+Coin+tells+Story/2503046/story.html Latest E-Sylum: http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v13n05.html Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ 1001 Inventions: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/01/islamic-science Sexe, Mort et Sacrifice: http://www.quaibranly.fr/en/programmation/exhibitions/prochainement/sexe-mort-et\ -sacrifice.html Arts of Ancient Vietnam: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/arts/design/05viet.html Rubbers: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/arts/design/05sex.html Playing with Pictures: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/arts/design/05victorian.html From the Gothic Tradition to the Early Renaissance: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/arts/design/05galleries.html Ramayana Revisited: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/arts/04iht-RAMAYANA.html Heroes: Mortals and Myths in Ancient Greece: http://www.tennessean.com/article/20100207/ENTERTAINMENT0507/2070307/1005/ENTERT\ AINMENT/+Heroes++is+an+art-filled+odyssey Iran has officially severed ties with the BM over that whole Cyrus Cylinder thing: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8502654.stm http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=113:i\ chtho-severed-all-ties-with-the-british-museum-over-cyrus-the-great-cylinder&cat\ id=40 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20100206/tpl-uk-iran-britain-museum-19346ad.html http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6151FE20100206 ... and the Guardian has a briefinterview with Neil MacGregor on this and related subjects: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/feb/02/neil-macgregor-london-review-books Is there Trojan gold in the Penn Museum?: http://www.philly.com/philly/health_and_science/83184682.html The Met returned an item to Egypt: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/temple-fragment-retur\ ns-to-egypt-and-its-place-1888214.html Some interesting maps are coming to auction: http://www.americanaexchange.com/NewAE/aemonthly/article.asp?f=1&page=1&id=905 Nice price for a Giacometti: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/arts/design/04giacometti.html A couple of items on the European art market: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/04/arts/04iht-melik4.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/arts/05iht-melik5.html) ... and the auction market: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/06/arts/06iht-Melik6.html Problems for the FDR library: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/books/03papers.html Assorted antiques items: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/arts/design/05antiques.html More on the terracotta army coming to Canada: http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5j0P4-wiX4NOoafk8QNU\ OAVXZS7fA ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Falstaff: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/03/arts/03iht-LOOMIS.html Leipzig String Quartet: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/arts/music/05quartet.html Opera Lafayette: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/arts/music/05lafayette.html Gee's Bend: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/nyregion/31theaterct.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Hans L. Trefousse: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/05/nyregion/05trefousse.html Louis R. Harlan: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/30/books/30harlan.html ================================================================ PODCASTS ================================================================ Renaissance Thought: The Lost Continent between Logic and the Occult: http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/classics/podcast 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 12.42 February 14, 2010 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Kurt Theis, David Perlmutter, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Caroline Lawrence, Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Stan Nadel, Rick Pettigrew, Ray Laurence, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ On the Neanderthal front this week, the big question is about the ethics of cloning them (!): http://www.archaeology.org/1003/etc/neanderthals.html http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/02/10/scientists-clone-neanderthals http://scienceblogs.com/gnxp/2010/02/the_rise_of_the_neo-neandertal.php http://www.physorg.com/news185091636.html On the antiquity of the steak dinner (apparently): http://news.discovery.com/animals/earliest-bull-beef-fossil.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Nice feature on the Avenue of the Sphinxes (the classicist in me keeps wanting to type Sphinges): http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/985/he1.htm A report of 27 cuneiform tablets being found in Syria: http://www.littleabout.com/news/67161,27-cuneiform-tablets-2500-bc-unearthed-syr\ ia.html http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002064686/Travel/archaeological-find\ ings-cuneiform-tablets-seals-and-tombs-unearthed-in-syria.html Overviewish thing on recent finds in Damascus: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002094718/Travel/archaeological-disc\ overies-in-damascus-show-depth-and-diversity-of-civilizations.html Plenty of attention for a Byzantine street find in Jerusalem (made via an ancient 'map'): http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=168385 http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/10/international/i03193\ 2S77.DTL http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6893257.html http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/6801154/archeologists-uncover-ancient-je\ rusalem-street/ http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/11/jerusalem.ancient.road.discovery/ http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/Main-road-from-the-Byzantine-pe\ riod-exposed-10-Feb-2010.htm?DisplayMode=print http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1148845.html http://content.usatoday.net/dist/custom/gci/InsidePage.aspx?cId=azcentral&sParam\ =32767165.story http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2010-02/10/c_13171507.htm http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5i-XVFM5d0-lH5KKC2d3ySM4x9_7AD9\ DP9CG03 http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/byzantine-street-jerusalem-old-city.html http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100210/science/science_ml_israel_ancient_stre\ et_1 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100210/tsc-archaeologists-find-1-500-year-old-j-c2\ ff8aa.html http://www.physorg.com/news185028452.html http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135956 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gtUeR8Y4IddYBj5Jc0DPVdSNvSAw http://www.ottawasun.com/news/world/2010/02/10/12820361.html Vague report of an 'archaeological cave dating to the Roman era' in Syria: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002114765/Related-news-from-Syria/ar\ chaeological-cave-dating-back-to-the-roman-era-unearthed-in-syria.html Remains of a 7th century village on the Arabian Gulf: http://www.arabnews.com/?page=1§ion=0&article=132632&d=9&m=2&y=2010 http://www.eturbonews.com/14326/saudi-arabia-announces-new-archeological-finding Feature on Ottoman 'Istanbul': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/from_our_own_correspondent/8512512.stm On the problems associated with Jerusalem's Old City walls: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1149348 ... and the latest on the Mughrabi Ramp dispute: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/180007 More hype for the Tut DNA tests (coming Wednesday, apparently): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/csi-cairo-how-science-will-solve-the-m\ ystery-of-tutankhamun-1899050.html Review of Joel Hoffman, *And God Said*: http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Books/Article.aspx?id=168442 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) ================================================================ Heavy rains have revealed some Hellenistic tombs near Gonous: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8409617&maindocimg=8409608&s\ ervice=144 Remains of a dead Roman revealed in an xray: http://www.thisisdevon.co.uk/news/Urn-X-ray-picks-Roman-s-remains/article-182333\ 0-detail/article.html Much attention for the effort to save Colchester Circus: http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/02/10/2815020.htm?section=world http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/race-is-on-to-save-site-of-roman-\ chariot-track-1892255.html http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6181LF20100209 http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/07/roman-circus-track-colchester http://www.eadt.co.uk/content/eadt/news/story.aspx?brand=EADOnline&category=News\ &tBrand=EADOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED07%20Feb%202010%2022%3A46%3A06%3\ A020 http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4891284.Talk_to_boost_Roman_circus/?ref=rss cf: http://www.camulos.com/circus/circus3.htm ... and the Facebook page: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?src=fftb#!/group.php?gid=221021832628&ref=ts On the utility of Classics: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Letters-t-IPSOFACTO_LETTERS.html Brief item on some epigraphical items from Peperikon: http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2010-02-13&article=32196 Barbara Gold on ancient romance: http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100213/sc_livescience/valentinesinancientr\ omewereallaboutpain Mary Beard will be talking about gambling: http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=410349&\ c=1 They're going to set up a Classics association in Malta: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100207/education/reviving-our-roots Some early reactions to Percy Jackson: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/feb/14/philip-french-percy-jackson-lightning\ -thief Reviews of Mason, *The Lost Books of the Odyssey*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Mansbach-t.html http://www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/84162797.html ... cf a profile of Mason: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/books/10mason.html Review of Mason's tome and Malouf's *Ransom*: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703630404575053752560289226.html ... and a related 'Virgil Strikes Back' piece: http://papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/virgil-strikes-back/ More on that Asian skeleton from Vagnari: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7190020/Asian-skeleton-fo\ und-in-ruins-suggests-Roman-Empire-larger-than-thought.html http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10624760&ref=rs\ s Review of Barry Strauss, *The Spartacus War*: http://jacksonville.com/lifestyles/2010-02-14/story/review_the_spartacus_war Review of *Conspirata*: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123580156 Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ DNA tests on a 4000 years b.p. man from Greenland suggest he had (among other things) baldness issues: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123567603&ft=1&f=1007 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/science/11genome.html http://www.twincities.com/national/ci_14373472 http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/technology/6788829/ancient-greenland-gene-map-has-a\ -surprise/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100210/ap_on_sc/us_sci_ancient_dna http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre6195h7-us-human-genes/ ... while some coverage is emphasizing the implications of this for new world migration: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/56213/title/Ancient_DNA_points_to_add\ itional_New_World_migration http://www.usnews.com/articles/science/2010/2/11/ancient-dna-points-to-additiona\ l-new-world-migration.html?s_cid=rss:ancient-dna-points-to-additional-new-world-\ migration http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8506080.stm http://www.physorg.com/news185026955.html http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100210/tsc-go-east-young-man-greenland-was-colo-c2\ ff8aa.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123567603 http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=123567603 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/science/11genome.html A Bronze Age shipwreck off the Devon coast: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archeology/7228108/Bronze-Age-shipw\ reck-found-off-Devon-coast.html The other half of an Iron Age bracelet found back in 2005 has been found: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8508936.stm Latest facial recreation is a Mary Rose crewman: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/hampshire/8508258.stm A huge statue recovered from the HMS Colossus has been restored: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8511696.stm Feature on the Lacher See caldera: http://scienceblogs.com/eruptions/2010/02/laacher_see_the_caldera_in_the.php More on Stonehenge 'hedge': http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100211-stonehenge-stonehedge-sec\ ret-rituals/ ... and the latest salvo fired at the visitors centre: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/feb/07/stonehenge-city-garden-visitor-cen\ tre Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A survey has revealed some 700km more of China's Great Wall (!) ... something amiss in translation here I think: http://www.calcuttanews.net/story/599685 http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/regional/2010-02/09/content_9452939.htm http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/599685 Remains of a drainage system near Bayon Temple (Cambodia): http://english.cri.cn/6966/2010/02/11/1361s549794.htm A 'mythological hiding place' or something like that has been found in Tezpur (India ... I'm not familiar with the backstory): http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100210/jsp/northeast/story_12084986.jsp A Viaishnavaite temple find: http://www.hindu.com/2010/02/08/stories/2010020853140500.htm A Maori canoe find: http://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/3303817/Canoe-unearthed-at-beach Nice APOD of a sun halo at Angkor: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100208.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Do the carvings in the 'scorpion tree' (California) have some astronomical significance?: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1960661,00.html?utm_source=feedbu\ rner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+time%2Fnation+%28TIME%3A+Top+Nation+St\ ories%29 http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-tree-carving-points-to-the-stars.h\ tml Theory that the 'rush for meteoric iron' spurred Inuit migration: http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Rush+iron+spurred+Inuit+ancestors+sprint+acro\ ss+Arctic+book+contends/2538167/story.html Challenge to the report that that mound in Alabama is 'natural': http://annistonstar.com/bookmark/5852068 Feature on the Vero Man site and what's going on with it: http://www.myhometownnews.net/index.php?id=66727 Skeletal remains found on Bald Head Island date to the 1800s: http://www.starnewsonline.com/article/20100211/ARTICLES/100219933/1004?Title=Bon\ es-found-on-Bald-Head-are-from-1800s-anthropologist-says Latest video at the Archaeological Channel document the finding of a pioneer woman burial at Castle Rock (Col.): http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ Study on racial discrimination in Union Army pensions: http://www.physorg.com/news185041820.html Folks might be interested in the 'Faces of America' tv series: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/10/arts/television/10faces.html Pondering the faith of the Founding Fathers: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14texbooks-t.html Bill O'Reilly is working on a biography of Lincoln: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/11/arts/AP-US-Books-Bill-OReilly.html More on turkey domestication: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/science/09obgobble.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ A pre-Panama-canal link between Atlantic and Pacific?: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-50538.html I think we mentioned these Rapa Nui caves before: http://www.santiagotimes.cl/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=18154:n\ ew-book-reveals-secrets-of-easter-islands-caves&catid=26:tourism-industry&Itemid\ =48 More on those 'mysterious' Amazon civilization remains: http://www.scientificamerican.com/video.cfm?id=65644772001 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 ================================================================ Nice oped piece on why palaeography matters: http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/feb/09/writing-off-last-palaeographer-u\ niversity ... while Sussex University is making some controversial cuts too: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7215895/History-of-England-st\ arts-at-1700-says-university.html Why humans walk 'flat-footed': http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100212/sc_livescience/whyhumanswalkflatfoo\ ted http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7213423/We-evolved-to-walk-on-he\ els-in-order-to-save-energy-while-out-hunter-gathering.html Solving a 16th century Italian murder mystery: http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100211/od_uk_nm/oukoe_uk_italy_mystery_life Last of the Valentine's Day stuff (mostly 'reactionary'!): http://www.cardinalcourieronline.com/home/news/2010/02/10/Viewpoint/Valentines.D\ ay.Is.A.Corporate.Scam-3868997.shtml http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/11/AR2010021104554.\ html?hpid=opinionsbox1 http://hometownstation.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=19282:va\ lentines-day-history-2010-02-09-16-07&catid=26:local-news&Itemid=97 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100210-valentines-day-gifts-card\ s-history-facts/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/relationships/valentines-day/7187784/History-of-Valen\ tines-Day.html ... although you might want to try an 1881 chocolate caramel recipe on this chocolate infested day: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/magazine/14food-t-000.html Identifying a stereoscopic photographer: http://www.physorg.com/news185192592.html Whence dat? Whence dat? Whence the fleur-de-lys? http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/07/sports/football/07fleurdelis.html On the expansion of AP tests: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/education/11college.html On a Faulkner influence: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/books/11faulkner.html Interesting item on saving an ancient language: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/bringing-back-life-ancient-language/20100207 The demographics of archaeology at Princeton: http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2010/02/09/25077/ A new rc calibration curve: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/qub-qhp021110.php http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100211111549.htm Interesting review of a translation of Vis and Ramin: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100211/REVIEW/702119994/1\ 008 More on Antarctic whiskey: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8499931.stm On the Dreadnought Hoax: http://www.museumofhoaxes.com/hoax/archive/permalink/dreadnought_hoax/ Review of Timothy Ferris, *The Science of Liberty*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Rosen-t.html Review of Michael Shelden, *Mark Twain*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/books/11book.html Review of Jerry Muller, *Capitalism and the Jews*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Rampell-t.html Review of the Dante's Inferno video game: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/arts/television/09inferno.html ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Athens: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/7158619/Classics-in-Athen\ s-Get-your-kicks-activity-breaks.html Turkey's Ancient Sites: http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=201449 ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT AND TRIALS ================================================================ An Italian court has ordered the Getty to return the 'Victorious Youth' to Italy: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36215 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/02/the-judges-ruling-in-the-\ getty-bronze-case.html > http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100211/ap_on_en_ot/eu_italy_disputed_statue_6 http://www.stuff.co.nz/entertainment/arts/3320376/Italy-to-seize-US-museum-statu\ e http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/8511873.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7216550/Italian-court-dem\ ands-Getty-Museum-return-ancient-statue.html http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61A4M920100211 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j0hdatAbyHnmTh75efpMbhLWJo2g http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=9807719 http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gLU-AXYE-LjzxClS0C-\ Y2TlGHsUw http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/getty-bronze-must-be-returned-to-it\ aly-judge-rules A number of items purloined from Iraq were seized at the Dubai airport: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100211/NATIONAL/702109864\ /1010 Knidos has been the target of some illegal excavations: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=knidos-antik-kenti-define-avcilarinin-h\ edefi-oldu-2010-02-10 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Feature on the Bishop's Wood Hoard of Roman coins: http://news.coinupdate.com/the-bishops-wood-hoard-of-roman-coins-0145/ A Bristol metal detectorist found a couple of sixpence and a shilling: http://www.thisisbristol.co.uk/homepage/Bristol-treasure-hunter-strikes-lucky-si\ lver-sixpence/article-1812664-detail/article.html Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Confucius: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36248 Felix Vallotton: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/arts/design/12galleries.html Lincoln and New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/08/arts/08arts-RARELINCOLNI_BRF.html Treasures of Medieval York: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/5003640.York_treasures_go_on_show_in_London/ Michael Wood is unveiling the Staffordshire Hoard: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36145 http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/09/staffordshire-hoard-anglo-sax\ on-potteries Ancient Greece: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36190 http://www.clickliverpool.com/culture/culture/127928-ancient-greece-exhibition-a\ t-liverpool-world-museum.html Townley Discobolus: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1747 http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=roman-statue-to-be-on-display-in-istanb\ ul-2010-02-09 Levine Museum of the New South: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/arts/design/13museum.html More on Iran's cutting of ties with the BM: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36153 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/08/AR2010020801387.\ html http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/iran-to-cut-ties-with-british-museum-i\ n-artifact-spat/article1460067/ http://www.news24.com/Content/World/News/1073/d6f35e626ac744d08754cbdb677d1fc6/0\ 8-02-2010-07-08/Iran_set_to_cut_museum_ties http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a9P9EejtXtpg http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iran/7183364/Iran-severs-cu\ ltural-ties-with-British-Museum-over-Persian-treasure.html http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100207/world/iran_britain_art_culture_history_mus\ eum_1 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7018531.ece#cid=O\ TC-RSS&attr=797093 Canterbury's Roman Museum is in peril: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/canterburys-roman-mus\ eum-could-fall-victim-to-the-credit-crunch-1892883.html cf: http://savecanterburysmuseums.wordpress.com/ ... on Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=324602220774&ref=search&sid=516723052.4130\ 19608..1&v=info ... online petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/Museums1/petition.html Interesting story attached to a Roman marble coming to auction next week: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36166 Concerns about new screening rules which will affect art shipments: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/13/arts/design/13transport.html Assorted antiques items of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/arts/design/12antiques.html (Red Cross) http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/12/arts/design/12antiques.html (Tiffany windows) ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Medea: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/theatre/\ article7022269.ece http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/theatre-dance/reviews/medea-oxfo\ rd-playhouse-oxford-1895574.html http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/leisure/4999673.Medea__Northern_Broadsides__The_Oxf\ ord_Playhouse/ Orestes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/07/AR2010020702701.\ html Juilliard Baroque: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/arts/music/09baroque.html Royal Shakespeare Company is coming to New York: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/08/arts/AP-US-Theater-Royal-Shakespeare-\ Company.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/09/theater/09shakespeare.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/11/theater/11armory.html (opinion) ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Michael Goulder: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7022315.ece ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ I think we mentioned these paleolithic tools from Crete before: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/science/16archeo.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100217-crete-primitive-humans-ma\ riners-seafarers-mediterranean-sea/ ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Relics of a pre-Islamic civilization from Ghana: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8518185.stm http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=176867 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/figurines-provide-clues-to-lost-a\ frican-civilisation-1903012.html Claims of bits of the Ark of the Covenant in Zimbabwe: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8522097.stm Some African genomes: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/science/18genome.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ The results are in ... Tut died because of a broken leg and complications from malaria (and inbreeding)... tons o' coverage: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36346 http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36294 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8516425.stm http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2010-02-16-king-tut_N.htm http://www.cnn.com/2010/HEALTH/02/16/king.tut.malaria/index.html?hpt=C1 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1251389/King-Tutankhamun-Secrets-\ Egypts-famous-boy-pharoah-set-unveiled.html?ITO=1490 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123775555 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/17/science/17tut.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_egypt_king_tut http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-sci-king-tut17-2010feb17,0,77471\ 29.story?track=rss http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/genetics/article7029682.ece http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/the-tut-puzzle.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100216-king-tut-malaria-bones-in\ bred-tutankhamun/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=king-tut-dna http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8947688 http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100217/sc_afp/scienceegypthistorytutankhamun_20100\ 217050510 http://news.yahoo.com/s/time/20100217/hl_time/08599196460200 http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=36294 http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/controversy-arises-over-king-tut-findings.\ html http://www.livescience.com/history/king-tut-parents-100216.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216163332.htm http://www.physorg.com/news185545244.html http://www.france24.com/en/20100216-egypt-pharaoh-tutankhamun-killed-malaria-stu\ dy-modern-genetic-testing-science http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/paludismo/contribuyo/muerte/Tutankamon/es\ tudio/ADN/elpepucul/20100216elpepucul_11/Tes cf: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/tutdna/ cf: http://pling.livejournal.com/237092.html ... and not everyone is buying the findings: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100216/full/news.2010.75.html http://www.physorg.com/news185608352.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_re_us/us_king_tut ... but of course there's a television show: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/arts/television/20tut.html Feature on Zahi Hawass: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5g8YEXuhBvWwwzpjIAw9NwaKCGmHA Feature on Medinet Habu/Luxor: http://www.usaid.gov/press/frontlines/fl_decjan10/p09_luxor100122.html Three decades of discovery in Egypt: http://www.egypttoday.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=8812 The ongoing excavations at Ur: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/7270478/Unearthing-the-splendour-of-U\ r-in-Iraq.html http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/6830387/unearthing-the-riches-of-ur-i\ n-warravaged-iraq/ http://www.zawya.com/story.cfm/sidANA20100219T044255ZFHV66 http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=37340 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jf81F7awLaSU_zIhZXLETqrvPyVw Feature on the palace at Ebla: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002144792/Travel/archaeologist-royal\ -palace-of-ebla-living-archive-of-syrias-history.html Remains of a huge 1400 years b.p. wine press from Israel: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hX4N6zesUPfO5v4WwfKZA_MTVXDwD9\ DSFGIO0 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hX4N6zesUPfO5v4WwfKZA_MTVXDwD9\ DSH9OG0 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136019 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100215/ap_on_sc/ml_israel_ancient_wine_3 http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ayJQcwN1vF34 http://www.physorg.com/news185435572.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123733224 http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/1400_year-old_Byza\ ntine_wine_press_15-Feb-2010.htm http://www.iol.co.za/widgets/rss_redirect.php?artid=nw20100215095648550C223082&s\ etid=1§id=3&url=iol&vne=0&csect=World http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/15/1010638/ancient-wine-press-excavated http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251146/1-400-year-old-wine-press-discov\ ered-southern-Israel.html http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3850127,00.html http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240 Remains of a canal/aqueduct found near Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136072 http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100218/twl-ancient-aqueduct-discovered-in-jerus-41f\ 21e0.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150924.html http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 An 1100 years b.p. arabic inscription from Jerusalem: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iJfa-QD2MQYwlFeOwLk5hERiUkOAD9\ DTVGR00 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/17/AR2010021701228.\ html?hpid=sec-world http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36318 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/ml_israel_ancient_inscription http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=168936 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100217/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_inscription Feature on Gobekli Tepe: http://www.newsweek.com/id/233844 Radio feature on Catal Houyuk: http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2010/2814247.htm Interesting feature on Hafeet/Mezyad burials: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100220/NATIONAL/702199874\ /1139 Folks might be interested in this (not serious) revival of Nisroch: http://www.theonion.com/content/news/forgotten_assyrian_god_revived_to More on that Byzantine road in Israel: http://www.projo.com/art/content/artsun-ancient-road_02-14-10_27HDL4H_v12.14a2fb\ 0.html http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnnewsplayer/cbnplayer.swf?aid=13824 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135956 Review of Geza Vermes, *The Story of the Scrolls*: http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15543906 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) ================================================================ Challenging claims of child sacrifice at Carthage: http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1824418/study_debunks_claims_of_infant_sacr\ ifice_in_ancient_carthage/index.html?source=r_science http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100217114644.htm http://www.physorg.com/news185629702.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/uop-psd021710.php cf http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009177 ... and a nice feature on Carthage: http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=33818 Archaeologists believe they have found the site of the 'Golden Bough': http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7258607/Golden-Bough-from\ -Roman-mythology-found-in-Italy.html A project at Dorchester's Roman site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/dorset/8525884.stm A gold ring/gemstone find from Upton Grey: http://www.thisishampshire.net/news/gazettenews/5006763.Gems_find_from_Roman_tim\ es/ one in Syria: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002114765/Related-news-from-Syria/ar\ chaeological-cave-dating-back-to-the-roman-era-unearthed-in-syria.html Not quite sure how a cave 'dates back' to the Roman era, but they've found Rome's influence on the U.S.: http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/84724652.html First Minoan shipwreck (now full text): http://www.archaeology.org/1001/etc/minoan_shipwreck.html VDH on why Rome fell (and if it matters): http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson021410.html Review of Robert Harris' latest: http://www.nationalpost.com/arts/story.html?id=2567157 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/books/review/Bruni-t.html Review of Mason's *Lost Books*: http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/2/17/lost-books-odyssey-mason/ Review of Peter Stothard, *On the Spartacus Road*: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/on-the-spartacus-r\ oad-by-peter-stothard-1903815.html http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/01b2f81e-1760-11df-87f6-00144feab49a.html That Asian from Vagnari story still has some legs: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10624760&ref=rs\ s Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ A medieval monk in Kilkenny wasn't 'suffering': http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0216/1224264553851.html Didn't they just move the site of the Battle of Bosworth Field a few months ago?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/8523386.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/19/battle-of-bosworth-site-confirmed http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/19/battle-bosworth-site-found St Bridget's skull might not be hers: http://www.physorg.com/news185547080.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100216113849.htm They need an archaeologist at St Kilda: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8512787.stm Concerns for the Habsburgs' burial place: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,678836,00.html Marking the Battle of Coleford: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8526097.stm More on that Bronze Age shipwreck off Devon: http://www.theage.com.au/world/ancient-ship-found-20100214-nze3.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archeology/7238663/3000-year-old-sh\ ipwreck-shows-European-trade-was-thriving-in-Bronze-Age.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8515627.stm More on that Greenland DNA guy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/10/genome-ancient-human-hair-man http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v463/n7282/edsumm/e100211-02.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A megalithic site from South Sumatra: http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2010/02/17/megalithic-site-found-south-sumatr\ a.html Some 7000 years b.p. (maybe) bricks from Shaanxi: http://english.cri.cn/6909/2010/02/20/53s551381.htm 18 tombs from various periods from China's Hebei province: http://english.eastday.com/e/100218/u1a5026626.html http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/602737 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-02/17/c_13177979.htm Some 8th century imperial armour from Japan: http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D9DUGDG82&show_article=1 http://www.japantoday.com/category/national/view/pieces-of-armor-owned-by-ancien\ t-emperors-unearthed Australia has its first saint: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/19/world/AP-EU-Vatican-Saints.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ A copper workshop from Cahokia: http://www.bnd.com/homepage/story/1134050.html http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-cahokiamounds-dis,0,7540320.story http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/02/16/Ancient-copper-workshop-big-find-in-I\ ll/UPI-32451266358813/ Feature on the Pictured Rocks project: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/559340/ On one-term presidents: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14merry.html On presidential coiffures: http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/15/opinion/20100215_OPART.html Turbulent times for the Southern Oregon Historical Society: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/us/14jacksonville.html A California mountain was renamed: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/20/us/AP-US-Mountain-Name-Change.html Review of Christopher Corbett, *The Poker Bride*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/books/review/Browning-t.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Machu Picchu is reopening in April: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61F5Y920100216?feedType=RSS&feedName=world\ News http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/machu-picchu-to-remain-closed-until-apr\ il-20100217-ocsx.html Eduardo Matos will talk on the fall of Teotihuacan: http://www.informador.com.mx/cultura/2010/178998/6/caida-de-teotihuacan-por-alia\ nza-de-pueblos.htm Review of Jordan Goodman, *The Devil and Mr. Casement*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/books/review/Grandin-t.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 ================================================================ Not really in our purview, but a pile of folks sent it in, is a study of auroch DNA: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8516598.s tm I must have missed that there was an ownership dispute over the Codex Sinaiticus: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Key-document-on-Codex-Sinaiticus-discove\ red/20216 Feature on Victorian personal ads: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14epstein.html In case you're wondering about that Google Books trial: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/technology/19google.html Pondering plant domestication: http://www.physorg.com/news185810730.html The interesting story of Henry Walter Bates: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/science/16crea.html More on that Sino-centric map we mentioned a month or so ago: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/20/arts/design/20map.html The story behind *Kidnapped*: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/18/kidnapped-stevenson-true-story-annes\ ley Review of Paul Strathern, *The Artist, the Philosopher, and the Warrior*: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/29/AR2010012902141.\ html Review of Jerome Charyn, *The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/books/review/James-t.html Time Machine (new blog): http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Athens: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-writing-competition/7264233/Just-Back-u\ nmasking-the-myths-of-Ancient-Greece.html Dephi: http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL1002/S00157.htm Sicily: http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-sicily21-2010feb21,0,3442161.story ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ The Saudis return some purloined antiquities to Egypt: http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article19666.ece More on the Getty returning the 'Victorious Youth": http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61A4M920100211 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ The Ancient Coin Collecting Guild is challenging restrictions on importing Cypriot and Chinese coins: http://mddailyrecord.com/2010/02/15/ancient-coin-group-sues-over-import-ban/ http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/02/15/24687.htm http://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=167518&Itemid=58 Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ French kings' heads: http://www.france24.com/en/20100210-chopped-off-heads-other-paris-treasures-show Michelangelo love poetry: http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23806740-michelangelos-love-poems\ -to-a-roman-nobleman-go-on-display.do Michelangelo's Dream: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/feb/16/michelangelo-exhibition-court\ auld-london Michelangelo: Anatomy as Architecture: http://www.dailypress.com/entertainment/galleriesandmuseums/dp-gl_michelangelo_0\ 221feb21,0,5366123.story Giorgione: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/arts/20iht-Conway.html Caravaggio: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hzLZvk8w4ZzwYPmiUikWaVaghfZg Xie Zhiliu: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/arts/design/15painting.html Mark Twain's love letters: http://www.marktwainhouse.org/newsworx_published/newsworx_story_1210.shtml Bohemian and Moravian Silver: http://www.radio.cz/en/article/125145 Drawings of Bronzino: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/20/arts/20iht-melik20.html Ancient Rome and America: http://news.stanford.edu/news/2010/february15/caroline-winterer-qanda-021910.htm\ l Mummies of the World: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/02/new-mummies-exhibition-to\ -debut-at-california-science-center-in-la.html The Getty is forming a special partnership with Sicily: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/02/getty-museum-to-embark-on\ -partnership-with-sicily.html The BM was apparently surprised that Iran cut ties: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100207/world/iran_britain_art_culture_history_mus\ eum_1 A brief strike at the National Gallery in London: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/15/arts/design/15arts-STRIKEATLOND_BRF.html Big financial boost for the Staffordshire Hoard campaign: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8515766.stm Nice price fetched for Dickens' dog collar: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/16/arts/AP-US-Dickens-Dog-Collar.html ... but an even better one for Casanova's uncensored diaries: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/18/casanova-uncensored-diaries-sold The Turin Shroud will be on display soon: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/turin-shroud-expected-to-attract-\ two-million-visitors-1904039.html The antiques market is on the rebound: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/your-money/18ANTIQUES.html More on museums deaccessioning items: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/your-money/asset-allocation/18AUCTION.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Measure for Measure: http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/theater/reviews/16measure.html Tenet/Monteverdi: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/arts/music/16tenet.html Richard Goode and Jonathan Biss: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/arts/music/16goode.html Celebrations of Chopin in Poland: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/02/19/arts/AP-EU-Poland-Celebrating-Chopin.\ html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Donald Wiseman: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/religion-obituaries/7252002/Professor\ -Donald-Wiseman.html Birthe Kjølbye-Biddle http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/5016825.Ground_breaking_archaeologist_d\ ies/?ref=rss Rex Nettleford: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/arts/dance/18nettleford.html Ralph McInerny: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/16/arts/16mcinerny.html ================================================================ PODCASTS ================================================================ The Book and the Spade: http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Latest piece on homo floresiensis (not sure there's anything new here): http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/21/hobbit-rewriting-history-human-rac\ e http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10628724 Interesting feature on cave painting and the origins of writing: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527481.200-the-writing-on-the-cave-wall.\ html Feature on Ardi: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/83814277.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Plans to search for ancient Chinese shipwrecks off the east coast of Africa: http://www.physorg.com/news186388054.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35602274/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6901444.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/26/AR2010022601828.\ html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A colossal head of Amenhotep III found at Luxor: http://www.france24.com/en/20100228-statue-head-king-tuts-grandfather-found-luxo\ r That 'early Egyptian heart disease' story seems to be making the rounds again, this time with an 'ancient junk food' spin attached: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20100226/tod-food-of-the-gods-a-diet-of-death-for-870\ a197.html Latest mummy to get the CT scan treatment comes from the Berkshire Museum: http://www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_14466448?source=most_emailed Much coverage of Eliat Mazar's recent claims of finding solomonic fortifications in Jerusalem: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1151695.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011150903_apmlisraelancientwa\ ll.html?syndication=rss http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601104&sid=ayIaI8YxoAa4 http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/jerusalem-city-wall-possibly-build-by-solo\ mon-discovered.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35522099/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100222/twl-biblical-accuracy-supported-by-new-e-41f\ 21e0.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100223/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_wall_8 http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-57544.html http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100222/twl-ancient-wall-found-in-jerusalem-prob-3c\ d7efd.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7293745/Jerusalem-wa\ ll-discovery-proves-Biblical-kings-existed.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1252936/Archaeologist-discover\ s-significant-Jerusalem-city-wall-10th-century-BC.html?ITO=1490 http://www.physorg.com/news186058773.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100222094757.htm http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=169388 http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/Jerusalem_wall_10th_century_BCE\ _22-Feb-2010.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/thuo-hua022210.php http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7003.5506.0.0 ... and some 'local' coverage of same: http://newsok.com/edmond-professor-student-dig-into-kings-past/article/3442691 ... and coverage with a video interview: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136130 Brooklyn Museum's dig blog at Karnak is wrapping up: http://www.brooklynmuseum.org/community/blogosphere/bloggers/tag/digdiary2010 Jodi Magness is talking about the DSS: http://media.www.tcudailyskiff.com/media/storage/paper792/news/2010/02/26/News/A\ rchaeologist.Disproves.Widespread.Beliefs.About.The.Dead.Sea.Scrolls-3880578.sht\ ml ... while Zahi Hawass will be talking about Tut: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36374 A 'master plan' for restoring sites in Iraq: http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=345659&version\ =1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 Not sure how old this one is ... a feature on one of the Geoarchaeologists who was looking at tsunamis in the Mediterranean: http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/explorers/goodman-beverly-09.html cf (from last year): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33243284/ns/technology_and_science-science/ Feature on the City of Brad: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002264972/Travel/city-of-brad-archae\ ological-and-religious-importance-of-syrian-history.html Nice feature on Geza Vermes: http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/features/5022802._The_world_s_finest_Christ_sc\ holar_/ Latest brouhaha in the West Bank: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8530335.stm Some rather late coverage of that 'round Noah's ark' story: http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Features/Talker/2010/02/25/13023586-qmi.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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ They still find things at Knossos!: http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8461334&maindocimg=8460962&servi\ ce=144 A 'palace' find at Gabii is leading to conclusions that it belonged to Sextus Tarquinius: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/prince-palace-rome.html http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2010/02/25/visualizza_new.html_1\ 708031707.html Very interesting story of a burial at York turning out to be an 'elite' African woman: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8538888.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/26/roman-york-skeleton http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Ebony-and-ivory-Roman-York.6107355.jp http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61P3R320100226 http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/02/26/Woman-in-Roman-tomb-was-of-African-de\ scent/UPI-43301267214653/ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/living/article7042984.ece A project to restore Plovdiv Roman Stadium: http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=113599 A live excavation experience for visitors to Pompeii: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/pompeii-to-offer-live-excavation-experienc\ e.html Interesting item on the restoration of a bust of Jupiter which was recently rediscovered at Fountains Abbey: http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/5030345.Conservationists_begin_restoration_of_Ro\ man_bust/?ref=rss On winning at the Ancient Olympics: http://www.summitdaily.com/article/20100225/NEWS/100229877/1056/rss What Timothy Moore is up to: http://www.reviewatlas.com/news/x1487806235/Musical-comedy-the-topic-of-MC-s-26t\ h-Fox-Classics-Lecture There are a pile of sword and sandal flicks on the way: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/swords-and-sandals-a-\ bid-for-boxoffice-glory-1913010.html A copy of the Orpheus Mosaic is coming to auction: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/gloucestershire/8535313.stm http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article7040114.ece Cappadocian lives!: http://www.athensnews.gr/articles/13378/21/02/2010/25682 Another voice in the debate over St Paul's shipwreck: http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsId=69939 Haven't had a US-as-Rome piece for a while, but here's a Britain-as-Rome one: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/opinion/25brendon.html Review of Adrienne Mayor, *The Poison King*: http://www.truthdig.com/arts_culture/item/peter_stothard_on_the_poison_king_2010\ 0114/ Review of *Conspirata*: http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/literature/85476572.html Review of *Lost Books of the Odyssey*: http://www.newsobserver.com/2010/02/28/360249/mythology-mash-up-enlivens-homers.\ html More on that Roman urn they xrayed at Exeter Airport: http://www.middevonstar.co.uk/news/5026610.Roman_urn_contains_human_ashes/ Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ A Bronze Age 'arena' at a hill fort in Tipperary?: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0225/1224265140601.html Searching for the burial place of Archbishop Wichmann von Seeburg: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7040113.ece ... and maybe Richard III: http://news.scotsman.com/politics/Tyrannical-English-king-39buried-in.6102361.jp Pondering what might lie beneath a Moray field: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1625172?UserKey= A 'bird pin' from ca 500 years b.p. has been declared treasure trove: http://www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/Bird-pin-declared-treasure-trove.6105710.jp Human remains have been found on the deep sea wreck of the HMS Victory: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/26/shipwreck-navy Remember that 'Vampire of Venice' find a while back (brick in mouth) ... NG is hyping a documentary about it: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/100226-vampires-venice-plague-sk\ ull-witches/ More protests over plans to build a road on that 'King of Bling' site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/essex/8530010.stm Photos from that Devon Bronze Age shipwreck: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/photogalleries/100224-shipwreck-\ bronze-age-treasure-salcombe-britain-pictures/#025928_600x450.jpg Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Evidence of a human presence in India some 74000 years b.p.: http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v5/newsworld.php?id=477252 Another mummy found outside of Egypt (in Baluchistan) turns out to be from Egypt: http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/001103/2000110334.html Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is on the classh between progress and preservation in Congjiang: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ A 2850 B.C. site from Victoria, B.C. (did we mention this one already?): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/victoria-suburb-yields-85\ 0-bc-archeological-site/article25475/ Yet another theory on the peopling of the Americas: http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Scientists+turn+migration+theory+head/261\ 5220/story.html A Russian cannonball in Sacraamento?: http://www.news10.net/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=76052 Digging for 'Black stories' in Charlottesville: http://www.c-ville.com/index.php?cat=121304062461064&ShowArticle_ID=118022021044\ 22406 Overviewish thing of items found during the South Ferry project dig (New York): http://www.amny.com/urbanite-1.812039/unearthing-colonial-new-york-south-ferry-p\ roject-yields-65k-artifacts-1.1779218 Interesting story of a slave who shipped himself to freedom: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/when-special-delivery-meant-deliver\ ance-for-a-fugitive-slave/ cf: http://documents.nytimes.com/when-special-delivery-meant-deliverance-for-a-fugit\ ive-slave#p=1 Nice slide show on the Vero Man site (2008): http://www.anthro.fsu.edu/research/doran/veroweb.pdf MacDonough Street's 19th century buildings: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/realestate/28scape.html Review of Deborah Blum, *The Poisoner's Handbook*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/books/review/East-t.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Interesting item on the search for the Codex Cardona: http://www.newsreview.com/sacramento/content?oid=1376596 A circular Aztec temple from Mexico: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36528 http://www.int.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=588&art_id=nw20100223061404\ 613C268400 http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=4157&Itemid=329 Dam construction has revealed some Chichimeca artifacts: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 USF has been digging at Tak'alik Abaj: http://www.physorg.com/news186419281.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 ================================================================ In case you're tracking that replica Phoenician ship that's sailing around Africa: http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=382308 On the use of lasers in cleaning art: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8534969.stm Paul Buckland has an interesting story: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/educationnews/7332452/The-university-profes\ sor-who-stood-up-against-dumbing-down-of-degrees.html An unusual Van Gogh has been authenticated: http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/02/24/entertainment-eu-netherlands-new-van-g\ ogh_7382795.html Interesting comment on 'specialization': http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/books/review/Schine-t.html Pondering postal communication: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/business/21digi.html On the origins of small dogs: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8530423.stm A long-ago-stolen Descartes letter has turned up in a small college in Pennsylvania: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/books/25descartes.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/26/rene-descartes-stolen-letter Feature on Jeff Koons: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/arts/design/28koons.html WSJ's picks as the five best historical mystery novels: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704804204575069371115999474.html?m\ od=WSJ-Books-LS-Books-11 Hmmm ... microbes might be complicating hair analyses and the like: http://www.livescience.com/history/gold-corpse-hair-100225.html Review of Jerome Charyn, *The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson*: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/02/21/RVNU1BOOII.DTL ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Lydia: http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=202852 ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ US customs happened upon Imsey's coffin and decided to return it to Egypt (I think we first mentioned this a year or so ago): http://thestar.com.my/news/story.asp?file=/2010/2/23/worldupdates/2010-02-22T224\ 429Z_01_NOOTR_RTRMDNC_0_-463720-1&sec=Worldupdates http://www.edmontonjournal.com/entertainment/movie-guide/will+return+coffin+Egyp\ t/2615569/story.html http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/987/eg4.htm http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5jNUesyLnw46YEUa_ZWL\ RXE_cTc2g http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/22/international/i07511\ 7S42.DTL&tsp=1 http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100222/sc_nm/us_egypt_antiquities_1 The US also returned a number of items to Iraq: http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/02/25/us.iraq.artifacts/ Latest twist in the Utah case: http://www.abc4.com/content/news/top%20stories/story/Utahn-accuses-feds-of-misco\ nduct-in-artifact-case/6Fj-2NKGY0q_SXefX1miSQ.cspx?rss=20 http://www.newsfirst5.com/news/man-in-artifacts-case-says-he-wasnt-read-his-righ\ ts/ Vandals defaced some petroglyphs in Hell's Gate State Park: http://www.nwcn.com/news/Vandals-deface-ancient-Idaho-pictographs-85363432.html http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2010/feb/25/vandals-deface-ancient-n-idaho-pict\ ographs/ ... while vandal bikers are damaging hillfort sites in Wales: http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Environment&F=1&id=18857 A Ludlow woman is the first to be convicted of failing to report treasure: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/shropshire/8538172.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7326151/Woman-becomes-first-prosecuted-fo\ r-failing-to-report-treasure.html http://www.shropshirestar.com/2010/02/26/experts-hope-coin-case-will-be-warning-\ to-others/ A bust in Lebanon found a sarcophagus and other items in the house of a Baalbek sheikh: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=11206\ 9 Followup on the theft of that pirate skull: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/pirates-head-taken-off-again/story-e6\ frg6so-1225833605152 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A Roman coin hoard from Suffolk may have belonged to a retired Roman soldier: http://www.advertiser24.co.uk/content/advertiser24/news/story.aspx?brand=WAVOnli\ ne&category=News&tBrand=WAVOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED26%20Feb%202010%2000\ %3A14%3A57%3A453 Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ A History of the World (BM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/ An Earthly Paradise: http://www.museum.cornell.edu/earthlyparadise/index.html Byzantium: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=36484 Cleopatra: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36531 Arts of Ancient Viet Nam: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/arts/27iht-melik27.html The Art of the Steal: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/movies/21barnes.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124082706 http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/movies/26artof.html Compass and Rule: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/arts/design/27compass.html Caravaggio: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61N4NZ20100224 Sculpture of the Italian Renaissance: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36493 Masks, Rattles and Purim Customs: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3854888,00.html http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=169498 cf: http://www.antiquities.org.il/purim_eng/html_eng.html http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 Lincoln, Life Size: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/21/nyregion/21spotct.html Lydians and their World: http://www.haberler.com/yapi-kredi-paranin-uygarligini-istanbul-a-getirdi-haberi\ / http://www.haber7.com/haber/20100218/Lidyalilar-ve-Dunyalari-Sergisi-Acildi.php http://www.ykykultur.com.tr/sergi/?yer=Vedat-Nedim-Tor African Burial Ground Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/arts/design/26burial.html Much press coverage for the reuniting of two parts of a 1300 years b.p. biblical manuscript: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/26/AR2010022601183.\ html http://www.physorg.com/news186388024.html http://news.discovery.com/history/bible-manuscript-fragments-reunited.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35602208/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7043329.ece http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011191819_apmlisraelreuniteds\ croll.html http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/02/26/world/main6246572.shtml http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1152606 Another item on the Fitzwilliam's Greek and Roman galleries: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE61P27Q20100226?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifes\ tyleMolt Tut's a big hit at the AGO: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36478 ... and will soon be coming to the Met: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36459 Restoring the Getty's rep: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/getty-sculptures-new-image-2010022\ 3-oxho.html Some interesting items loaned to the Met from Italy: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36381 http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/rare-antiquities-from-italy-on-loan\ -to-the-met/ The French National Library was the purchaser of those Casanova diaries: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/22/books/22arts-RACYMEMOIRFO_BRF.html Brouhaha over the BM's description of the Lewis Chessmen's origins: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7039558.ece http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1623039/?UserKey= ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Orestes: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/02/02/AR2010020203686.\ html?hpid=sec-artsliving Alice in Wonderland: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/28/movies/28alice.html Il Caso Mortara: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/27/arts/music/27dicapo.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ D.S. 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Homo sapiens in India 74 000 years b.p.? http://www.deccanherald.com/content/56043/homo-sapiens-may-have-reached.html ... related item on the eruption of Mount Toba: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/327/5970/1187-a On the connection between cooking and 'humannness': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8543906.stm Human culture as an evolutionary force: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/science/02evo.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Are some lines on ostrich shells from 60 000 years b.p. the earliest examples of writing?: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527504.300-oldest-writing-found-on-60000\ yearold-eggshells.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/engraved-eggs-suggest-early-symb.h\ tml http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/56807/title/Stone_Age_engraving_tradi\ tions_appear_on_ostrich_eggshells http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/02/17/0913047107 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8544332.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7346017/Ostrich-egg-patterns-old\ est-form-of-art-and-communication.html http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/stone-age-engravings-found-on-ostrich-\ shells/ A lost Jewish tribe in ... Zimbabwe???: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Much coverage of the discovery of the burial chamber of Queen Behenu: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36644 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/988/eg7.htm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/7364123/Egy\ ptian-tomb-discovered-with-spells-helping-travel-to-afterlife.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/ancient-queens-burial\ -chamber-discovered-at-saqqara-1915233.html http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,26803620-5001028,00.html?fro\ m=public_rss http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/6884932/archaeologists-in-egypt-find-\ tomb-of-mystery-queen/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35688005/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=37616 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/05/2837103.htm http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ E77EKG0 http://www.france24.com/en/20100303-archaeologists-egypt-find-tomb-mystery-queen http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-queens-burial-chamber-dis\ covered.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ E76I1O0 http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6223MQ20100303 http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/storytemplate/archaeologists-find-tomb-of-\ mystery-queen/story-e6freuyi-1225836771738 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/ancient-egyptian-queen-be_n_483700.html cf: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/egyptian-queen-offered-bread-jug-of-beer-a\ t-funeral.html DNA suggests the mummy in KV55 is probably not Akhenaten: http://www.kv64.info/2010/03/dna-shows-that-kv55-mummy-probably-not.html Britain returned number of prehistoric artifacts to Egypt http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100304/world/egypt_culture_antiquities_1 http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=1003041525\ 54.pqn9hhwk.php Lates Egyptian mummy unwrapping/facial reconstruction comes from Spain: http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?/news/comments/quiron_hospital_of_bar\ celona_has_reconstructed_the_face_of_an_egyptian_mumm/0403100336am http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/momia/murio/parto/elpepucul/20100302elpep\ ucul_6/Tes ... while another CT scan was looking at crocodile mummies: http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/archives/2010/03/ancient-crocodi.html Looking at Tut's family ... in London: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/tracing-king-tuts-fam\ ily-tree-in-london-1915178.html Pre-exhibition hype for an upcoming exhibition focussing on Meroe: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100303/world/sudan_archaeology_museum_france_1 A Syrian 'stonehenge'? (and other Neolithic finds): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/syrias-stonehenge-neo\ lithic-stone-circles-alignments-and-possible-tombs-discovered-1914047.html A plan to restore sites in Iraq: http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=345659&version\ =1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 ... while wooden covers are damaging stairways at Persepolis: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=215138 Some recent finds in Jerusalem (not sure we mentioned these yet): http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/March/New-Jerusalem-Finds-Point-to-\ the-Temple-Mount/ A riot erupts at a proposed dig of a burial cave in Tzippori: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3859042,00.html Khirbet Qeiyafa has been identified as the biblical Neta'im: http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=2654 A boost for Palestinian archaeology (?): http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153361 Nice radio broadcast feature on reading ancient texts (not just ANE): http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2007 Feature on the DSS: http://www.twincities.com/ci_14522261 Interview with Scott Korb: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153110 Harvard is getting a professor of Egyptology (finally): http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/3/1/egypt-ancient-egyptology-harvard/ More on that massive head of Amenhotep III: http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/0d6291a724d648cf96b1bfa61fa8a8e3\ /28-02-2010-03-43/Egypt_Royal_statue_head_found http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36595 http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/architectural-delight-discovered-egypt/story?id=998\ 1598 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100302102153.htm http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR2B65W http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ E578GG0 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8542337.stm http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/28/international/i04444\ 6S83.DTL&tsp=1 More on Eilat Mazar's wall find: http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=11995 More on the Madaba Map: http://www.israel21c.org/201003017743/briefs/new-excavations-confirm-madaba-map Review of Christopher de Bellaigue, *Rebel Land*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/ONeill-t.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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Colchester's Roman circus campaign was a success: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/28/colchester-roman-chariot-fund http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/essex/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8542000/85\ 42617.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7345846/Roman-chariot-ra\ cing-track-saved-by-campaigners.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/roman-circus-will-be-\ fantastic-1916222.html Plans to survey a Roman road which runs from Winchester to Chichester: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Archaeologists-survey-Roman-road.6122591.jp A quern stone from near Chaigley: http://www.longridgenews.co.uk/features/Exciting-find-for-museum-bosses.6119348.\ jp Roman city of Chester is trying to get World Heritage status: http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/03/04/roma\ n-city-of-chester-to-bid-for-world-heritage-status-92534-25959263/ Feature on the dig (and priestess 'dynasty') at Eleutherna: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/eleutherna/ A 'Rome' movie in the works?: McKidd ready for more Rome http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20100305/ten-mckidd-ready-for-more-rome-c60bd6d.html What Elizabeth Baughan is up to: http://www.thecollegianur.com/2010/03/04/professor-selected-as-center-for-hellen\ ic-studies-fellow/ Whatever happened to classics?: http://www.varsity.co.uk/comment/2176 Advice for those pondering a Classics major: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/career-transitions/201003/classics-majors-fi\ nd-their-future-in-the-past http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/career-transitions/201003/branding-and-marke\ ting-the-classics-major On the influence of Classical authors in the 17th century US: http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03021001.aspx Roger Travis has an interesting teaching method: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Classics-Professor-Requires/21625/ More on that African burial at York: http://www.physorg.com/news186653530.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/evidence-of-upper-cla\ ss-africans-living-in-roman-york-1914553.html http://www.physorg.com/news186653530.html More on that palace from Gabii: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/prince-palace-rome.html Review of John Banville, *The Infinities* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/05/AR2010030503817.\ html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Miller-t.html Review of Sarah Ruden, *Paul Among the People*: http://citypaper.net/blogs/criticalmass/2010/03/02/lit-review-paul-among-the-peo\ ple/ Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Interesting Gothic text A inscription recently discovered at Salisbury Cathedral: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8553552.stm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254777/Scholars-discover-inscription-be\ lieved-earliest-form-English-ask-public-help-deciphering-it.html A Templar 'crucifixion nail' is getting a fair bit of coverage: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7350166/Nail-from-Christ\ s-crucifixion-found.html http://sify.com/news/templar-crucifixion-nail-found-on-portuguese-island-a-fanta\ sy-says-archaeologist-news-international-kdgpkfafjce.html http://news.oneindia.in/2010/03/06/templarcrucifixion-nail-found-on-portuguese-i\ sland-afant.html http://www.examiner.com/x-32018-Strange--Mysterious-Facts-Examiner~y2010m3d4-Tem\ plar-crucifixion-nail-a-fantasy-say-Madeiran-archaeologist Medieval pottery from Tillyria: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/ancient-pottery-tillyria-dig/20100304 A medieval fortification from Prague: http://praguemonitor.com/2010/03/01/medieval-fortification-uncovered-prague-cast\ le ... possibly related (I can't get this to come up this a.m.): http://zpravy.idnes.cz/na-prazskem-hrade-objevili-unikatni-ryty-nakres-stary-tis\ ic-let-p8m-/vedatech.asp?c=A100226_145234_vedatech_jw More on the search for Archbishop Wichmann: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7040113.ece Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A 600 b.p. rock inscription is being used to support naming a village Telanganapuram: http://www.siasat.com/english/news/rock-inscription-reveals-%E2%80%98telangana%E\ 2%80%99-600-yrs Interesting detail noticed in the horses of the terracotta army: http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2010/03/013.shtml http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/01/content_9520353.htm ... and some revisionism about Qin's reign (and yes, I originally did write rein): http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/fm-fma021710.php http://www.physorg.com/news186071807.html Excavations at Bidar Fort have revealed a number of escape tunnels: http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/06/stories/2010030657990800.htm Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ They're urging full-scale excavation of the Vero Man site: http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/mar/04/scientists-urge-full-scale-excavation-of-\ vero/?partner=yahoo_feeds Some Canadian tourists came across an Archaic/Early Woodland arrowhead in Florida: http://www.waltonsun.com/news/piece-4388-snowbirds-photos.html Recent finds from a dig at Sandpoint (Idaho): http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/articles/2010/02/27/news/doc4b88d54ba95bf940\ 746119.txt A 19th century idea for health reform (with a word I first learned from the Simpsons): http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/a-19th-century-idea-for-health-reform/ Closing historic sites in New York?: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/nyregion/02camping.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Five more burials have been found at La Pava de Mochumi: http://enperublog.com/2010/03/04/more-tombs-at-the-la-pava-de-mochumi-site/ Not sure where to classify this one ... evidence of Mormon participation in the 1847 Mexican War: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36676 Semi-touristy feature on the Maya: http://www.goupstate.com/article/20100305/ARTICLES/100309765/1088/SPORTS?Title=M\ ysteries-of-the-Mayans Reviewish sort of thing on a compilation of Mayan literature: http://www.physorg.com/news187017609.html http://www.buffalo.edu/news/11035 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 ================================================================ Brewing ancient ales: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/sc-food-0305-drink-beer-archeologist\ -20100305,0,7534254.story DaVinci's giant horse statue was doable: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/leonardo-davinci-cavallo-statue.html While cleaning out Sydney's City Hall, they've found some strands of Napoleon's hair: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100304/tod-mystery-as-lock-of-napoleon-s-hair-f-7f\ 81b96.html Did Elizabeth I originally hold a serpent? http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/04/queen-portrait-serpent-elizab\ eth1-gallery On snow and eruvim: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/us/06religion.html Review of Paul Halliday, *Habeas Corpus*: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/states-detention?utm_source=TNR+Books+%26+Arts&ut\ m_campaign=bcf7774780-TNR_BA_030410&utm_medium=email More on laser cleaning artworks: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8534969.stm More on the origins of small dogs: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/02/26/2830172.htm Review of Marilyn Johnson, *This Book is Overdue*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Cokal-t.html Review of Danielle Trussoni, *Angelology*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Cokal-t.html ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Byzantine Ghost Towns of Syria http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/2977/byzantine_ghost_town\ s_of_syria.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Israeli police are seeking help in recovering some purloined Maimonides manuscripts: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/181473 ... and I think we mentioned this Israeli 'clock heist' a while back ... here's an update: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36620 A bust in Thessaloniki is getting a lot of attention: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36557 http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_01/03/2010_115257 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3855906,00.html http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8472955&maindocimg=8472875&servi\ ce=144 http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n211635 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gk5NZegRj26bsH4SxdXUfUEdVYpAD9\ E5C78O0 A bust at a site in Israel: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136285 Another (!) suicide in that Utah artifact case: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hX0MMduCTDW-IMSwjQY9-ID-6E8wD9\ E6QOT80\ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hX0MMduCTDW-IMSwjQY9-ID-6E8wD9\ E7BNM01 http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-artifacts4-2010mar04,0,345631\ 0.story http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011249192_suicides04.html The US is going to return some looted Khmer antiquities: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010030333008/National-news/us-vows-to-re\ turn-shipment-of-looted-khmer-antiquities.html http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/arts-and-entertainment/New-List-Aims-to-Ste\ m-Tide-of-Cambodian-Stolen-Antiquities-85941807.html More on that woman who failed to report a treasure find: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1253991/Woman-coin-worth-2-000\ -garden-prosecuted-reporting-treasure.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/8547430.stm More on the US returning items to Iraq: http://www.ethiopianreview.com/news/10933 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A major hoard of coins dating back to Alexander the Great from Syria: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/WireHeadlines/2010/03/05/coins-from-alexand\ er-the-great-found-78.php http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20100304/NEWS01/100304036/1001/RSS http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35708172/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.northjersey.com/r?19=961&43=515347&44=86702552&32=4497&7=309037&40=ht\ tp%3A%2F%2Fwww.northjersey.com%2Fnews%2F86702552_A_jackpot_in_ancient_coins.html http://news.therecord.com/article/679690 http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201003025027/Travel/archaeological-find\ ings-hellenistic-coins-discovered-in-northern-syria.html http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/03/04/general-ml-syria-ancient-coins_7406777\ .html?boxes=financechannelAP http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hcbGNxzxuvDJ_cHishQIPlTcf2RgD9\ E7TD080 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR2010030401944.\ html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8973974 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100304/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria_ancient_coins http://www.latercera.com/contenido/659_231101_9.shtml Arguing over some of Theodoric's Coins: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/03/05/25285.htm Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Royal Splendor in the Enlightenment: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36681 Holy Russia: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/arts/06iht-melik6.html The Mourners: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36599 Caravaggio: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Fervor/romano/Caravaggio/elpepucul/201002\ 23elpepicul_2/Tes Pablo Veronese: http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/venice-texas?utm_source=TNR+Books+%26+\ Arts&utm_campaign=bcf7774780-TNR_BA_030410&utm_medium=email Drawings of Bronzino: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/arts/design/05vogel.html Guards Matter: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/nyregion/06guards Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ chitecture_and_design/article7046633.ece A History of the World (BM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/ An award for the Staffordshire Hoard team: http://birminghamnewsroom.com/?p=7907 ... while the lineups to see the hoard grow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/8552345.stm The Met has reopened its historical instruments section: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/musical-instruments-now-you-see-em-\ now-you/ How the Smithsonian decides what to include in its collection: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124328715 More on those reunited Bible fragments on display in Israel: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a.bndSY3UN70 New ancient Greek gallery at World Museum Liverpool: http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%2526+heritage/art76529 Assorted antiques news: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/arts/design/05antiques.html Review of Empires of the Imagination: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/06/empires-imagination-politics-holger-\ hook ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Homo sapiens in India 74 000 years b.p.? http://www.deccanherald.com/content/56043/homo-sapiens-may-have-reached.html ... related item on the eruption of Mount Toba: http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/summary/327/5970/1187-a On the connection between cooking and 'humannness': http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/8543906.stm Human culture as an evolutionary force: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/science/02evo.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Are some lines on ostrich shells from 60 000 years b.p. the earliest examples of writing?: http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20527504.300-oldest-writing-found-on-60000\ yearold-eggshells.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2010/03/engraved-eggs-suggest-early-symb.h\ tml http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/56807/title/Stone_Age_engraving_tradi\ tions_appear_on_ostrich_eggshells http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2010/02/17/0913047107 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8544332.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7346017/Ostrich-egg-patterns-old\ est-form-of-art-and-communication.html http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/03/stone-age-engravings-found-on-ostrich-\ shells/ A lost Jewish tribe in ... Zimbabwe???: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Much coverage of the discovery of the burial chamber of Queen Behenu: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36644 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/988/eg7.htm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/7364123/Egy\ ptian-tomb-discovered-with-spells-helping-travel-to-afterlife.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/ancient-queens-burial\ -chamber-discovered-at-saqqara-1915233.html http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,26803620-5001028,00.html?fro\ m=public_rss http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/6884932/archaeologists-in-egypt-find-\ tomb-of-mystery-queen/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35688005/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=37616 http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/05/2837103.htm http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ E77EKG0 http://www.france24.com/en/20100303-archaeologists-egypt-find-tomb-mystery-queen http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-queens-burial-chamber-dis\ covered.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ E76I1O0 http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6223MQ20100303 http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/news/storytemplate/archaeologists-find-tomb-of-\ mystery-queen/story-e6freuyi-1225836771738 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/03/ancient-egyptian-queen-be_n_483700.html cf: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/egyptian-queen-offered-bread-jug-of-beer-a\ t-funeral.html DNA suggests the mummy in KV55 is probably not Akhenaten: http://www.kv64.info/2010/03/dna-shows-that-kv55-mummy-probably-not.html Britain returned number of prehistoric artifacts to Egypt http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100304/world/egypt_culture_antiquities_1 http://www.africasia.com/services/news/newsitem.php?area=mideast&item=1003041525\ 54.pqn9hhwk.php Lates Egyptian mummy unwrapping/facial reconstruction comes from Spain: http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?/news/comments/quiron_hospital_of_bar\ celona_has_reconstructed_the_face_of_an_egyptian_mumm/0403100336am http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/momia/murio/parto/elpepucul/20100302elpep\ ucul_6/Tes ... while another CT scan was looking at crocodile mummies: http://scopeblog.stanford.edu/archives/2010/03/ancient-crocodi.html Looking at Tut's family ... in London: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/tracing-king-tuts-fam\ ily-tree-in-london-1915178.html Pre-exhibition hype for an upcoming exhibition focussing on Meroe: http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100303/world/sudan_archaeology_museum_france_1 A Syrian 'stonehenge'? (and other Neolithic finds): http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/syrias-stonehenge-neo\ lithic-stone-circles-alignments-and-possible-tombs-discovered-1914047.html A plan to restore sites in Iraq: http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=345659&version\ =1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 ... while wooden covers are damaging stairways at Persepolis: http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=215138 Some recent finds in Jerusalem (not sure we mentioned these yet): http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/March/New-Jerusalem-Finds-Point-to-\ the-Temple-Mount/ A riot erupts at a proposed dig of a burial cave in Tzippori: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3859042,00.html Khirbet Qeiyafa has been identified as the biblical Neta'im: http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=2654 A boost for Palestinian archaeology (?): http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153361 Nice radio broadcast feature on reading ancient texts (not just ANE): http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2007 Feature on the DSS: http://www.twincities.com/ci_14522261 Interview with Scott Korb: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153110 Harvard is getting a professor of Egyptology (finally): http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2010/3/1/egypt-ancient-egyptology-harvard/ More on that massive head of Amenhotep III: http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/0d6291a724d648cf96b1bfa61fa8a8e3\ /28-02-2010-03-43/Egypt_Royal_statue_head_found http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36595 http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/architectural-delight-discovered-egypt/story?id=998\ 1598 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100302102153.htm http://www.reuters.com/news/pictures/slideshow?articleId=USRTR2B65W http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ E578GG0 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8542337.stm http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2010/02/28/international/i04444\ 6S83.DTL&tsp=1 More on Eilat Mazar's wall find: http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=11995 More on the Madaba Map: http://www.israel21c.org/201003017743/briefs/new-excavations-confirm-madaba-map Review of Christopher de Bellaigue, *Rebel Land*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/ONeill-t.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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Colchester's Roman circus campaign was a success: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/feb/28/colchester-roman-chariot-fund http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/essex/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8542000/85\ 42617.stm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7345846/Roman-chariot-ra\ cing-track-saved-by-campaigners.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/roman-circus-will-be-\ fantastic-1916222.html Plans to survey a Roman road which runs from Winchester to Chichester: http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Archaeologists-survey-Roman-road.6122591.jp A quern stone from near Chaigley: http://www.longridgenews.co.uk/features/Exciting-find-for-museum-bosses.6119348.\ jp Roman city of Chester is trying to get World Heritage status: http://www.liverpooldailypost.co.uk/liverpool-news/regional-news/2010/03/04/roma\ n-city-of-chester-to-bid-for-world-heritage-status-92534-25959263/ Feature on the dig (and priestess 'dynasty') at Eleutherna: http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/eleutherna/ A 'Rome' movie in the works?: McKidd ready for more Rome http://uk.news.yahoo.com/1/20100305/ten-mckidd-ready-for-more-rome-c60bd6d.html What Elizabeth Baughan is up to: http://www.thecollegianur.com/2010/03/04/professor-selected-as-center-for-hellen\ ic-studies-fellow/ Whatever happened to classics?: http://www.varsity.co.uk/comment/2176 Advice for those pondering a Classics major: http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/career-transitions/201003/classics-majors-fi\ nd-their-future-in-the-past http://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/career-transitions/201003/branding-and-marke\ ting-the-classics-major On the influence of Classical authors in the 17th century US: http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03021001.aspx Roger Travis has an interesting teaching method: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Classics-Professor-Requires/21625/ More on that African burial at York: http://www.physorg.com/news186653530.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/evidence-of-upper-cla\ ss-africans-living-in-roman-york-1914553.html http://www.physorg.com/news186653530.html More on that palace from Gabii: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/prince-palace-rome.html Review of John Banville, *The Infinities* http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/05/AR2010030503817.\ html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Miller-t.html Review of Sarah Ruden, *Paul Among the People*: http://citypaper.net/blogs/criticalmass/2010/03/02/lit-review-paul-among-the-peo\ ple/ Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Interesting Gothic text A inscription recently discovered at Salisbury Cathedral: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8553552.stm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1254777/Scholars-discover-inscription-be\ lieved-earliest-form-English-ask-public-help-deciphering-it.html A Templar 'crucifixion nail' is getting a fair bit of coverage: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7350166/Nail-from-Christ\ s-crucifixion-found.html http://sify.com/news/templar-crucifixion-nail-found-on-portuguese-island-a-fanta\ sy-says-archaeologist-news-international-kdgpkfafjce.html http://news.oneindia.in/2010/03/06/templarcrucifixion-nail-found-on-portuguese-i\ sland-afant.html http://www.examiner.com/x-32018-Strange--Mysterious-Facts-Examiner~y2010m3d4-Tem\ plar-crucifixion-nail-a-fantasy-say-Madeiran-archaeologist Medieval pottery from Tillyria: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/ancient-pottery-tillyria-dig/20100304 A medieval fortification from Prague: http://praguemonitor.com/2010/03/01/medieval-fortification-uncovered-prague-cast\ le ... possibly related (I can't get this to come up this a.m.): http://zpravy.idnes.cz/na-prazskem-hrade-objevili-unikatni-ryty-nakres-stary-tis\ ic-let-p8m-/vedatech.asp?c=A100226_145234_vedatech_jw More on the search for Archbishop Wichmann: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7040113.ece Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A 600 b.p. rock inscription is being used to support naming a village Telanganapuram: http://www.siasat.com/english/news/rock-inscription-reveals-%E2%80%98telangana%E\ 2%80%99-600-yrs Interesting detail noticed in the horses of the terracotta army: http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/news/2010/03/013.shtml http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/01/content_9520353.htm ... and some revisionism about Qin's reign (and yes, I originally did write rein): http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/fm-fma021710.php http://www.physorg.com/news186071807.html Excavations at Bidar Fort have revealed a number of escape tunnels: http://www.hindu.com/2010/03/06/stories/2010030657990800.htm Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ They're urging full-scale excavation of the Vero Man site: http://www.tcpalm.com/news/2010/mar/04/scientists-urge-full-scale-excavation-of-\ vero/?partner=yahoo_feeds Some Canadian tourists came across an Archaic/Early Woodland arrowhead in Florida: http://www.waltonsun.com/news/piece-4388-snowbirds-photos.html Recent finds from a dig at Sandpoint (Idaho): http://www.bonnercountydailybee.com/articles/2010/02/27/news/doc4b88d54ba95bf940\ 746119.txt A 19th century idea for health reform (with a word I first learned from the Simpsons): http://ideas.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/25/a-19th-century-idea-for-health-reform/ Closing historic sites in New York?: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/02/nyregion/02camping.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Five more burials have been found at La Pava de Mochumi: http://enperublog.com/2010/03/04/more-tombs-at-the-la-pava-de-mochumi-site/ Not sure where to classify this one ... evidence of Mormon participation in the 1847 Mexican War: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36676 Semi-touristy feature on the Maya: http://www.goupstate.com/article/20100305/ARTICLES/100309765/1088/SPORTS?Title=M\ ysteries-of-the-Mayans Reviewish sort of thing on a compilation of Mayan literature: http://www.physorg.com/news187017609.html http://www.buffalo.edu/news/11035 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 ================================================================ Brewing ancient ales: http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/sc-food-0305-drink-beer-archeologist\ -20100305,0,7534254.story DaVinci's giant horse statue was doable: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/leonardo-davinci-cavallo-statue.html While cleaning out Sydney's City Hall, they've found some strands of Napoleon's hair: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100304/tod-mystery-as-lock-of-napoleon-s-hair-f-7f\ 81b96.html Did Elizabeth I originally hold a serpent? http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/mar/04/queen-portrait-serpent-elizab\ eth1-gallery On snow and eruvim: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/us/06religion.html Review of Paul Halliday, *Habeas Corpus*: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/states-detention?utm_source=TNR+Books+%26+Arts&ut\ m_campaign=bcf7774780-TNR_BA_030410&utm_medium=email More on laser cleaning artworks: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8534969.stm More on the origins of small dogs: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/02/26/2830172.htm Review of Marilyn Johnson, *This Book is Overdue*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Cokal-t.html Review of Danielle Trussoni, *Angelology*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Cokal-t.html ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Byzantine Ghost Towns of Syria http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/2977/byzantine_ghost_town\ s_of_syria.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Israeli police are seeking help in recovering some purloined Maimonides manuscripts: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/181473 ... and I think we mentioned this Israeli 'clock heist' a while back ... here's an update: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36620 A bust in Thessaloniki is getting a lot of attention: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36557 http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100016_01/03/2010_115257 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3855906,00.html http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8472955&maindocimg=8472875&servi\ ce=144 http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n211635 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gk5NZegRj26bsH4SxdXUfUEdVYpAD9\ E5C78O0 A bust at a site in Israel: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136285 Another (!) suicide in that Utah artifact case: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hX0MMduCTDW-IMSwjQY9-ID-6E8wD9\ E6QOT80 \ http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hX0MMduCTDW-IMSwjQY9-ID-6E8wD9\ E7BNM01 http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-artifacts4-2010mar04,0,345631\ 0.story http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011249192_suicides04.html The US is going to return some looted Khmer antiquities: http://www.phnompenhpost.com/index.php/2010030333008/National-news/us-vows-to-re\ turn-shipment-of-looted-khmer-antiquities.html http://www1.voanews.com/english/news/arts-and-entertainment/New-List-Aims-to-Ste\ m-Tide-of-Cambodian-Stolen-Antiquities-85941807.html More on that woman who failed to report a treasure find: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1253991/Woman-coin-worth-2-000\ -garden-prosecuted-reporting-treasure.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/shropshire/8547430.stm More on the US returning items to Iraq: http://www.ethiopianreview.com/news/10933 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A major hoard of coins dating back to Alexander the Great from Syria: http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/WireHeadlines/2010/03/05/coins-from-alexand\ er-the-great-found-78.php http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20100304/NEWS01/100304036/1001/RSS http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35708172/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://www.northjersey.com/r?19=961&43=515347&44=86702552&32=4497&7=309037&40=ht\ tp%3A%2F%2Fwww.northjersey.com%2Fnews%2F86702552_A_jackpot_in_ancient_coins.html http://news.therecord.com/article/679690 http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201003025027/Travel/archaeological-find\ ings-hellenistic-coins-discovered-in-northern-syria.html http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/03/04/general-ml-syria-ancient-coins_7406777\ .html?boxes=financechannelAP http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hcbGNxzxuvDJ_cHishQIPlTcf2RgD9\ E7TD080 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR2010030401944.\ html http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8973974 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100304/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria_ancient_coins http://www.latercera.com/contenido/659_231101_9.shtml Arguing over some of Theodoric's Coins: http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/03/05/25285.htm Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Royal Splendor in the Enlightenment: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36681 Holy Russia: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/arts/06iht-melik6.html The Mourners: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36599 Caravaggio: http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Fervor/romano/Caravaggio/elpepucul/201002\ 23elpepicul_2/Tes Pablo Veronese: http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/venice-texas?utm_source=TNR+Books+%26+\ Arts&utm_campaign=bcf7774780-TNR_BA_030410&utm_medium=email Drawings of Bronzino: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/arts/design/05vogel.html Guards Matter: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/nyregion/06guards Horace Walpole and Strawberry Hill: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ chitecture_and_design/article7046633.ece A History of the World (BM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/ An award for the Staffordshire Hoard team: http://birminghamnewsroom.com/?p=7907 ... while the lineups to see the hoard grow: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/8552345.stm The Met has reopened its historical instruments section: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/03/musical-instruments-now-you-see-em-\ now-you/ How the Smithsonian decides what to include in its collection: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124328715 More on those reunited Bible fragments on display in Israel: http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a.bndSY3UN70 New ancient Greek gallery at World Museum Liverpool: http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%2526+heritage/art76529 Assorted antiques news: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/05/arts/design/05antiques.html Review of Empires of the Imagination: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/06/empires-imagination-politics-holger-\ hook ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED 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================================================================ explorator 12.47 March 14, 2010 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Adrienne Mayor,Edward Rockstein,Patrick Swan, Rick Heli,Hernan Astudillo, Doug Weller, Donna Hurst, Barnea Selavan, Kurt Theis, Duke Jason Griffiths,John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Terrence Lockyer,Mike Ruggeri,Bob Heuman, Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). Don't forget to set your clocks ahead if you're in a part of the world that does that today ... ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ More on that 'lost tribe' in Zimbabwe: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ The DNA focus seems to be shifting from Tut to Akhenaten: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36792 http://sify.com/news/mummy-of-egypt-s-monotheist-pharaoh-to-return-home-news-off\ beat-kdlxuicebdi.html http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011317468_apmlegypthereticpha\ raoh.html?syndication=rss http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100312/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_heretic_pharaoh_5 http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=10074330 http://apnews.excite.com/article/20100311/D9ECLFKO0.html ... with suggestions that the pyramids should now get this same sort of 'scientific' treatment: http://archaeology.org/blog/?p=903 An update of sorts on the 'Avenue of the Sphinxes': http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7060963.ece Zahi Hawass was talking in Toronto: http://heritage-key.com/blogs/owenjarus/they%E2%80%99ve-found-opening-egyptologi\ sts-reach-end-tunnel-seti-i-tomb ... and he's just posted on digs in the Valley of the Kings: http://www.drhawass.com/node/450 Looks like politics vel simm. has intruded into the grand opening of the restored synagogue in Egypt: http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hfV1Vro5CdizKV0ZAJgOMhG1p55wD9\ EEDLT80 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3862449,00.html A 150 000 years b.p. site in northern Iraq: http://praguemonitor.com/2010/03/08/czech-archaeologists-find-oldest-settlement-\ arbil-north-iraq Illegal construction threatens the purported tomb of Cyrus I: http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=117:i\ llegal-construction-threatening-the-achaemenid-tomb-in-bushehr&catid=41 Article on the how the alphabet came from hieroglyphs: http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=36&Issue=02&ArticleID=\ 6 More on Queen Behenu: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100312/twl-ancient-sarcophagus-of-egyptian-quee-41f\ 21e0.html More on the return of Imesy's sarcophagus to Egypt: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8566538.stm http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_501841.ht\ ml http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j6Giq4ug5d8ZCAejGhzOxzIwyYZQD9\ EDP2V00 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hpxW6-cNYd4T6fi3IxBhn6H1MuFA More on the identification of Neta'im: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100308095459.htm http://www.physorg.com/news187274588.html More on Mazar's wall find: http://blog.bibleplaces.com/2010/02/eilat-mazars-1980s-excavations-and.html http://www.ritmeyer.com/2010/02/22/first-temple-period-wall-found-in-jerusalem http://blog.bibleplaces.com/2010/03/dating-of-mazars-wall.html Review of Weston Fields, *The Dead Sea Scrolls*: http://www.brill.nl/downloads/Murphy-O%27Connor-review.doc 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) ================================================================ I think we've mentioned this 'priestess' burial from Crete before: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/03/archaeology-pri\ estesses-tombs-unearthed-on-crete/1 Recent finds during Thessaloniki's metro construction: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8517089&maindocimg=8514989&s\ ervice=144 A Roman bath from Tarragona: http://www.barcelonareporter.com/index.php?/news/comments/archaeological_find_ro\ man_baths_unearthed_in_tarragona/0803100221am The Starosel tomb has been dated to the 4th century b.c.: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=114097 http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2010-03-12&article=32484 Bulgarian archaeologists are fighting to save a Cybele temple: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=114155 Finds from Aiane: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8503037&maindocimg=8508389&s\ ervice=144 Roman and Byzantine burials near Damascus: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201003095122/Travel/syrian-archaeologis\ ts-roman-and-byzantine-graveyards-unearthed-near-damascus.html http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2010/03/09/277178.htm Plenty of press this week for a plan to illuminate the whole length of Hadrian's Wall: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jxbpvNFMec_UEaYB7kWrM-1bdNFQ http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gW4pRms8a0TSTpEzshXz3piz4IMw http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/cumbria/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8556000/\ 8556137.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8565759.stm http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/travel/best_of_britain/article7038143.ece http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8558012.stm ... and here's what it looked like: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8565759.stm?ls http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8566649.stm (photos) http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/14/2845246.htm?section=justin http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1257842/Hadrians-Wall-lights-mark-1600th\ -anniversary-end-Roman-rule.html Interesting Roman 'pendant' coming to auction: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/7413099/Roman-jewel-depicting-emperor-exp\ ected-to-sell-for-50000.html How sites in Greece are being affected by the economy: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/feb/26/greece-acropolis-debt-crisis-athens http://www.mg.co.za/article/2010-03-12-greek-heritage-crumbles Mary Beard was talking Pompeii: http://badgerherald.com/news/2010/03/12/lecturer_pompeii_sti.php What Andrew Wallace-Hadrill is up to: http://www.rockbridgeweekly.com/rw_article.php?ndx=16937 Tony Perrotet ponders Cleopatra's looks: http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03081001.aspx Interview with Adrienne Mayor: http://www.bloomberginstitute.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a4hdybOjtZgQ Ancient Greek podcast: http://ancientgreek.mypodcast.com/index.html Spartacus production is delayed: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/arts/television/10arts-SPARTACUSISD_BRF.html Review of Christian Cameron, *Tyrant: Funeral Games* (fiction): http://www.theglobeandmail.com/books/review-tyrant-funeral-games-by-christian-ca\ meron/article1496033/ Review of Mary Reed and Eric Mayer, *Eight for Eternity* (fiction ... scroll down): http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/447752-Fiction_Book_Reviews_2_8_2010.php Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Remember all those headless skeletons in a mass grave at Dorset? Turns out they're definitely Scandinavian in origin: http://archaeology.org/blog/?p=908 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8565524.stm (video) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8563719.stm (photos) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/dorset/8563377.stm http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/03/12/Skeletons-IDd-as-beheaded-Viking-raid\ ers/UPI-20781268441370/ http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/03/11/decapitated-bodies-found-in-\ dorset-burial-pit-were-executed-vikings-115875-22104588/ http://www.physorg.com/news187605092.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/12/dorset-decapitated-bodies-vikings Underwater pipeline construction in the Baltic has revealed a number of shipwrecks from various periods: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36761 http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,682506,00.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124637816&ft=1&f=1007 http://www.thestar.com/news/world/article/777093--ancient-shipwrecks-found-in-ba\ ltic-sea-by-pipeline-builder http://news.scotsman.com/world/Ancient-shipwrecks-found--intact.6137348.jp http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100308/lf_afp/swedenhistoryshippingwreckgaspipelin\ e http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/sweden/7405326/Workers-on-Balti\ c-Sea-pipeline-discover-1000-year-old-wrecks.html Evidence for a famine in Greenland 1000 years b.p.: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/norse-vikings-iceland-greenland.html http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/57056/title/Ancient_Norse_colonies_hi\ t_bad_climate_times Pondering the Jacobite march from Culloden to Nairn: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8559535.stm Nice overviewish-opeddish thing on the Staffordshire Hoard: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ ticle7058091.ece cf: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8565935.stm Latest artifact from the Mary Rose is interesting: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8564209.stm Latest Lewis Chessmen news: http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1639532 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8559305.stm http://news.scotsman.com/inverness/Lewis-chessmen-must-stay-in.6141066.jp Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A 40 000 years b.p. aboriginal meeting ground: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/australia-aborigines-tribe.html http://www.physorg.com/news187445314.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1834945/archaeologists_discover_ancient_abo\ riginal_meeting_ground/index.html?source=r_science http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/03/10/2841317.htm Brief item on the 'father of the Great Wall': http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/photo/2010-03/11/content_9572937.htm http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010-03/09/content_19566968.htm Qin Shihuang's tomb has a north gate: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6912245.html Feature on Zheng He: http://www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,1969939,00.html?xid=rss-fullworld-\ yahoo A number of very vague reports this week about Muziris and the 'Rome connection' this week: http://www.thehindu.com/2010/03/14/stories/2010031464022200.htm http://sify.com/news/researcher-reveals-kerala-s-possible-mediterranean-link-new\ s-international-kdknOeiijhi.html Somewhat confusing item about bronze and iron age paintings at Buddhist sites in Pakistan: http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=347433&version\ =1&template_id=41&parent_id=23 A Chola period temple from Jaffna: http://sify.com/news/ancient-chola-period-temple-unearthed-in-north-jaffna-news-\ international-kdknOfcafbb.html http://www.dailynews.lk/2010/03/09/news12.asp Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Archaeologists want to check out Cavanaugh Mound a bit more closely: http://www.thecitywire.com/index.php?q=node/8934 Arguing about the Oxford stones: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/us/14oxford.html Humans are off the hook for musk ox decline 12 000 years b.p.: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100308171152.htm Interesting ideas about Salado pottery: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100310101726.htm http://www.archaeology.org/1003/abstracts/womensw.html Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about 'Finding Clovis': http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ ... and some Clovis points have been found in Alaska: http://qmackie.wordpress.com/2010/03/06/fluted-points-from-the-bering-land-bridg\ e/ Arguing about a street name in New Jersey: https://mail.google.com/mail/#label/4explorator/12747fce5ba776ef They've preserved FDR's dorm room at Harvard: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/arts/design/12antiques.html Some Bowery history: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/nyregion/14bowery.html Review of Anthony Brandt, *The Man Who Ate His Boots*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/books/review/Wheeler-t.html Review of Max Watman, *Chasing the White Dog*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Sussman-t.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Evidence of double-burial for quite a long period prior to the arrival of Europeans in the Baja region: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100309-double-burials-mexico-gra\ ves/ http://sify.com/news/double-burial-was-practiced-for-4-500-years-in-ancient-mexi\ co-news-international-kdlp4ggebhg.html Primitive tools from Cuba: http://www.cubaheadlines.com/2010/03/09/20522/primitive_agricultural_tools_found\ _villa_clara.html Pondering El Porvenir (Venezuela) while we still can: http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/venezuela/100301/el-porvenir-archaeology-indi\ genous Remains of a headless man in the Temple of the Murals at Bonampak: http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/03/12/dead-sea-scrolls-minneso\ ta/?refid=0 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100312-headless-bonampak-tomb-ma\ ya-torture-mural/ They've finished restoration on a number of murals at Tetitla Palace: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36796 A Mayan weapons/tools manufacturing site: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36818 http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 I think we've had a version of this Maya plumbing story before: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/03/maya-pyramid-pl\ umbing-unearthed-by-archaeologists/1 ... and the murals at Calakmul: http://www.livescience.com/history/ancient-mayan-murals-100306.html Nazca Civilization was a victim of deforestation, apparently: http://www.naturalnews.com/028358_deforestation_human_civilization.html Machu Picchu will be reopening soon: http://www.skynews.com.au/eco/article.aspx?id=439433 http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/World/Story/STIStory_501674.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 ================================================================ Since its pi day, here's a brief history thereof: http://www.pcworld.com/article/191389/a_brief_history_of_pi.html A hidden Giotto in Florence: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36715 Blogging the restoration of a Van Gogh: http://www.physorg.com/news187542304.html Good Housekeeping at 125: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/business/media/08adco.html Google plans to digitize a number of old books from libraries in Rome and Florence: http://www.physorg.com/news187442405.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/8561245.stm ... and folks might be interested to know that Google has updated its translation services: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/technology/09translate.html Glossing 'mad as a hatter': http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/weekinreview/07ryan.html ... and Alice in Algebraland: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/opinion/07bayley.html Caravaggio has passed Michelangelo, apparently: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/10/arts/design/10abroad.html Pondering the perennial question: who wrote Shakespeare?: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/mar/14/who-wrote-shakespeare-james-shapir\ o Followup to that sale of the Vasari archive: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/mar/07/michelangelo-letters-auction-vasari http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8558589.stm Soil samples and human history: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8557448.stm Gossip about Mel Gibson's Viking movie: http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/herocomplex/2010/03/mel-gibson-says-vikings-movi\ e-with-leonardo-dicaprio-may-be-his-last.html Interesting series in the NYT called 'Retelling the War' (read 'from the bottom up'): http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/tag/retelling-the-war/ Nice little gallery of underwater archaeology: http://www.csmonitor.com/CSM-Photo-Galleries/In-Pictures/Underwater-Archaeology More on the origin of small dogs: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100223191924.htm Review of Stephen Hall, *Wisdom*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/books/review/Holt-t.html Review of Jonathan Phillips, *Holy Warriors*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/books/review/Ormsby-t.html Review of Elizabeth Samet, *The Untold War*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Samet-t.html Review of assorted tomes about maps: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/Heller-t.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Nigeria is working to prevent the smuggling of antiquities: http://allafrica.com/stories/201003130006.html Theft of a Coptic cross in Bristol: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/bristol/8565013.stm Bringin you up-to-date on the Utah case: http://www.latimes.com/news/nation-and-world/la-na-artifacts10-2010mar10,0,71640\ 8.story http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/us/09artifacts.html A bust in Bulgaria: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=114165 Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Not sure we've mentioned this Roman coin hoard from Warwickshire yet: http://www.warwickcourier.co.uk/newsl/Warmingtons-buried-treasure-may-reveal.614\ 5965.jp More on that Hellenistic hoard from Syria: http://www.coinnews.net/2010/03/08/ancient-alexander-the-great-coins-unearthed-i\ n-syria/ Latest issue of the e-Sylum: http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v13n10.html Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ DSS: http://www.mndaily.com/2010/03/09/dead-sea-scrolls-come-st-paul http://minnesota.publicradio.org/display/web/2010/03/12/dead-sea-scrolls-minneso\ ta/?refid=0 http://www.tcdailyplanet.net/news/2010/03/11/dead-sea-scrolls-science-museum-anc\ ient-fragments-hidden-secrets http://www.twincities.com/entertainment/ci_14659654 S.., Death and Sacrifice in the Mochica Religion: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36791 To Live Forever: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/arts/design/12ancient.html Musical Instruments at the Met: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/arts/music/12instruments.html Treasures of Weymouth Relief Road: http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/5038162._Treasures__of_Weymouth_Relief_Road_to_\ go_on_show/ Lalla Essaydi: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/nyregion/07artsnj.html Chinese Bronze Age Jade: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/arts/design/12antiques.html Mechanics of Man: http://www.physorg.com/news187448331.html The Indian Portrait: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36755 I think we mentioned these items lent to the Met by Italy before: http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/TradeTalk/2010-03-09__10-19-58.html The Maastricht Art Fair is under way: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/arts/13iht-melik13.html Out of the period of our purview, but interesting for comparison purposes ... an Einstein manuscript: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/11/world/middleeast/11einstein.html A History of the World (BM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/ ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Medea: http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment/Theatre-review-Medea.6140761.jp Blind: http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/theater/reviews/09blind.html Duchess of Malfi: http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/03/09/theater/reviews/09duchess.html The Demons (12 hours?!?): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/12/theater/12play.html French Art Song: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/nyregion/07musicwe.html Boston Baroque: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/08/arts/music/08vespers.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Sir Kenneth Dover: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article7054392.ece http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/7400324/Sir-Kenneth-Dover.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2010/mar/08/sir-kenneth-dover-obituary http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jMWPVlFm-ahopi0DUhx4qv3MEE0wD9\ EB3J1G1 http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/books/14dover.html 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Happy Norouz! ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Humans were walking 'comfortably upright' 3.6 million years b.p.: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=human-ancestors-walked-comfor\ tably-2010-03-20 On Cro Magnon brain size: http://www.physorg.com/news187877156.html Pondering when modern humans reached the Iberian Peninsula: http://www.physorg.com/news187873428.html Humans on Flores much earlier than previously thought: http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/03/18/2846363.htm http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=10126530 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/8574037.stm http://www.physorg.com/news188054988.html ... and a nice 'state of the question' piece on homo floresiensis: http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Hobbits-/21913/?sid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Not sure we've had this 'oldest temple' (from Urfa) story yet: http://groong.usc.edu/news/msg309786.html In Egypt this week, they unearthed a colossal statue of Thoth-as -baboon: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/16/world/AP-ML-Egypt-Antiquities.html http://www.csmonitor.com/From-the-news-wires/2010/0316/Archaeologists-unearth-st\ atue-of-Egyptian-god-Thoth http://www.arabtimesonline.com/NewsDetails/tabid/96/smid/414/ArticleID/151015/re\ ftab/149/t/Colossal-statue-of-ancient-monkey-god-found-in-Egypt/Default.aspx http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/TechandScience/Story/STIStory_502854.ht\ ml http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/314368,two-large-pharaonic-granite-statu\ es-unearthed-in-egypt.html http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6922045.html Searching for a source of Egyptian blue pigment: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100317121354.htm http://www.physorg.com/news188051473.html Interesting blog post on a 'forgotten boy' from KV35: http://tim-theegyptians.blogspot.com/2010/03/forgotten-boy.html A structure in northern Israel long thought to be a synagogue turns out to be remains of an Umayyad palace: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121114§ionid=351020202 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hsVoZIz-JveAUCtSgUUwbtSDAX4w http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100316/tsc-ruins-of-7th-century-arab-palace-ide-c2\ ff8aa.html A controversial Ashkelon burial site is apparently pagan in origin: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1156309.html An interview with Jodi Magness: http://www.courier-journal.com/article/20100319/FEATURES/3190333/1011/SCENE/Ques\ tions+&+Answers+|+Archaeologist+Jodi+Magness An history of gefilte fish: http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=171114 More on Akhenaten DNA stuff: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1128\ 60 More on 'coffins' returning to Egypt: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2010/03/14/sarcophagus-return-egypt.html ... and Behenu's pink sarcophagus: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1127\ 58 http://egyptology.blogspot.com/2010/03/video-of-queen-behenu-discovery.html(vide\ o) More on the 'avenue of the sphinxes': http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/middle_east/article7060963.ece 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 Thermopolium of Vetutius Pacidus will be reopening to the public: http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/features/lava-bread-anyon\ e-pompeii-snack-bar-rises-from-the-ashes-after-2000-years-1924356.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1259384/Back-business-Pompeiis\ -popular-snack-bar-opens--nearly-2000-years-destroyed-Mt-Vesuvius.html Brief/vague item on recent finds in Logas: http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8503107&maindocimg=8525719&s\ ervice=144 Boris Johnson was promoting Latin in various ways this week ... he started out with a blistering squib in the Telegraph: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/borisjohnson/7445850/This-lunacy-a\ bout-Latin-makes-me-want-to-weep-with-rage.html ... which spawned various coverage/reactions: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/8571662.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2010/mar/17/boris-johnson-lobbies-tories-lati\ n-curriculum http://www.telegraph.co.uk/education/7457449/More-state-schools-should-teach-Lat\ in.html http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6923560.html http://www.thisislondon.co.uk/standard/article-23816243-boris-johnson-hits-out-a\ t-absurd-decline-of-latin-in-state-schools.do cf: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/7473468/Simply-knowing-a-language-has\ -little-practical-use-especially-if-its-Latin.html ... and the Cicero Competition was this week: http://ciceroconcordia.com/ A two-part Plato essay in the 'local' paper (!): http://www.addisonindependent.com/201003plato-considers-rule-law-nuovos-essay http://www.addisonindependent.com/201003plato-part-2-following-rule-law-makes-us\ -feel-better Goings on in Pamela Koleszar's Latin class: http://www.courierpress.com/news/2010/mar/16/latin-keeps-class-enrapt/?partner=y\ ahoo_feeds David Beckham's Acilles injury inspired a poet laureate: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2010/mar/19/poetry-classi\ cs http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/football/davidbeckham/7461033/David-Beckhams-Ac\ hilles-injury-commemorated-by-Poet-Laureate.html http://www.cbc.ca/arts/books/story/2010/03/16/beckham-poem.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hk4dbzcnkf2T1ZdDTpMpfG1l2uRQD9\ EGC7JO0 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jZ7UIkTpsouOcMcmUmw7o94j7ACQ http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-quick18-2010mar18,0,1579906.stor\ y http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8570282.stm http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/harry-mount-beckhams-good-but-\ the-boy-achilles-is-one-of-the-greats-1924639.html In honour of the day, the BM was displaying an 'Ides' medal: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/mar/14/julius-caesar-coin-british-museum http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/et-tu-british-museum-coin-commemora\ ting-caesars-murder-goes-on-display/ http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/design/16arts-ASOUVENIROFC_BRF.html http://www.coinlink.com/News/ancients/possibly-unique-ides-of-march-gold-coin-to\ -be-displayed-at-british-museum/ What Classical scholarship apparently can do to you: http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700017675/Classical-scholarship-drove-Hugh-Ni\ bley-to-religion.html?s_cid=rss-44 Ancient Greece, Clash of the Titans, and us: http://www.newsweek.com/id/235077 Some funds for Chedworth Roman Villa: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/gloucestershire/hi/things_to_do/newsid_8570000/85705\ 51.stm Some hype for Centurion: http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choice/2010/03/19/200-litres-of-fake-b\ lood-were-not-enough-for-centurion-the-goriest-film-ever-made-in-scotland-86908-\ 22123019/ On the return of sword and sandal flicks: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article70\ 59413.ece OpEd using Boudicca as an example: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_rev\ iews/article7067977.ece ... probably sparked by this: http://www.telegram.com/article/20100317/NEWS/3170392/1011 That Roman 'pendant' we mentioned last week fetched a nice price: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hampshire/8577019.stm http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/national/detectorist_s_roman_jewel_sells\ _for_30_000_1_366916 Interview with Zachary Mason: http://www.straight.com/article-298851/vancouver/q-zachary-mason-author-lost-boo\ ks-odyssey Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_rev\ iews/article7067977.ece Review of a couple of classical biographies: http://www.statesman.com/life/books/biographies-revisit-cleopatra-and-mithradate\ s-two-monarchs-who-407550.html ... and couple about Pompeii: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/articl\ e7065308.ece Review of Robert Strassler, *The Landmark Hellenika*: http://www.decaturdaily.com/detail/56099.html More on dating the Starosel tomb: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1821 More on the illumination of Hadrian's Wall: http://www.theage.com.au/travel/travel-feature/history-hoons-ransack-europes-her\ itage-20100319-qm60.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8571921.stm http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/call-for-hadrian-s-wall-illumination-to-become\ -annual-event-1.684097?referrerPath=home http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/hadrians-wall-in-gian\ t-light-show-1922195.html http://www.illuminatinghadrianswall.com/ Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ A Saxon object defies technology!: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8572184.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8572740.stm Medieval finds revealed in Sofia by metro construction (in all its clumsiness): http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=114264 A (late) medieval crucifix found in Gloucestershire has been declared treasure: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/gloucestershire/8574442.stm A medieval burial in a Northumberland garden: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/8566917.stm They're digging again at the Staffordshire Hoard site: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/staffordshire/8576533.stm They've located the wreck of the HMS Prince: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/8571967.stm Not sure if this Baltic shipwreck is associated with the ones we mentioned last week (I don't think it is): http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/9848/ Irish crosses in County Louth are threatened: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8575900.stm Pondering the bow that killed Harold: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article7038285.\ ece Latest repatriation call: the Mold Gold Cape from Wales: http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/2010/03/16/north-wales-mp-wants\ -welsh-historic-cape-back-55578-26040807/ http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/86338/-historic-artefact-should-not-be-brought-\ back-to-flintshire-say-community-leaders.aspx Something about Stonehenge: http://www.physorg.com/news188147461.html More on decapitated Vikings: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/12/dorset-decapitated-bodies-vikings http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100315-headless-vikings-england-\ execution-pit/ Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Interesting items relating to the origins of the Tarim mummies (in the desert north of Tibet): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/science/16archeo.html http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/news/DNA-experts--reveal-China39s.6168665.j\ p http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2010-03-18-silkroadmummies18_ST_N.htm An ancient six-mouth well from Quanzhou: http://english.cri.cn/6909/2010/03/19/2321s557841.htm Vague item on archaeology in India (not sure if there's anything new mentioned here or not): http://indiatoday.intoday.in/site/Story/88299/India/Over+8,000+artefacts+unearth\ ed+in+3+years.html Evidence of earlier use of infused tea in China: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-03/18/c_13215844.htm Overviewish thing on the dig at Jajmau: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-72209.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ A shipwreck off the coast of North Carolina: http://hamptonroads.com/node/546341 A nice dig experience for a middle school teacher: http://www.gettysburgtimes.com/articles/2010/03/18/news/local/doc4ba1f3db5b6a505\ 2862101.txt U.S. Grant wasn't such a bad guy: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/opinion/14wilentz.html Stephen Crane and baseball: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/sports/baseball/14crane.html Mark Twain and baseball: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/sports/baseball/14twain.html Review of C.S. Manegold, *Ten Hills Farm*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/books/review/Buskey-t.html (scroll down) Review of Ira Berlin, *The Making of African America*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/books/review/Boyle-t.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ On Maya blue being 'widely mined' as opposed to traded: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/03/archaeologists-\ maya-blue-recipe-moved-around/1 More on the impending reopening of Machu Picchu: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/machu-picchu-to-reopen-in-two-weeks-201\ 00315-q6xn.html More on that Mayan weapons/tools factory: http://www.elmostrador.cl/noticias/cultura/2010/03/12/arqueologos-indagan-zona-d\ onde-los-mayas-fabricaban-sus-armas/ 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 ================================================================ Egypt has concluded an antiquities agreement with Ecuador: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=353695&CategoryId=14089 Didn't know Kipling stayed in Vermont for a while: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/travel/escapes/19kipling.html Feature on the reopening of the Palazzo Grimani and its creator: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/arts/17iht-rartgrimani.html Some interesting items in Yale Law School's collection: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/us/18bobble.html That Phoenician boat remake has rounded the Cape of Good Hope: http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/5062357.Phoenicia_team_navigate_Cape_of_Good_Ho\ pe/ The obligatory St Patrick coverage (varies in quality): http://network.nationalpost.com/NP/blogs/posted/archive/2010/03/17/who-is-st-pat\ rick-and-what-s-the-deal-with-his-day.aspx http://www.ucdailynews.com/news/local/88205967.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/chris-weigant/saint-patrick-and-the-sna_b_503252.h\ tml Digging up the set of 'The Ten Commandments': http://articles.latimes.com/2010/mar/18/local/la-me-lostcity19-2010mar19 Archiving in the digital age: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/books/16archive.html Not quite sure how to categorize this opeddish/travelish thing on making money from archaeological sites: http://www.smh.com.au/travel/travel-news/antiquities-not-just-another-brick-in-w\ all-20100318-qi7l.html ... along with an apparently related item on damaging ancient sites or something: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/history-hoons-ransack-europes-\ heritage-20100319-qm60.html Blogging old school: http://blogs.nybooks.com/post/456582401/blogging-now-and-then A movie is apparently in the works in regards to that Shakespeare authorship thing: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/mar/01/roland-emmerich-shakespeare ... while the real news is that the 'Double Falsehood' has now been attributed to Shakespeare: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8569101.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/mar/15/shakespeare-lost-play-double-false\ hood http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/play-possibly-reworked-from-shakesp\ eare-is-added-to-a-literary-collection/ Texas is picking and choosing its version of history, apparently: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/opinion/19jacoby.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/13/education/13texas.html cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/opinion/16tue3.html This year's Holberg Prize winner is: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/16/arts/AP-EU-Norway-Holberg-Prize.html The 'tiny dog origin' story has turned into a more generic 'dog origin' story: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/science/18dogs.html http://www.physorg.com/news188045220.html daVinci is the latest person to have predicted the end of the world, supposedly: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7061704.ece Enduring climate change in Paleolithic times: http://www.physorg.com/news187972693.html R.Crumb's version of Genesis is getting reviewed again: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/arts/design/19galleries-003.html Review of Holger Hancock, *Empires of the Imagination*: http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b9928578-32de-11df-bf5f-00144feabdc0.html Review of James Shapiro, *Contested Will*: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/book_rev\ iews/article7067966.ece Review of David Aaronovitch, *Voodoo Histories*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/books/review/Douthat-t.html Review of Elif Batuman, *The Possessed*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/books/review/Schillinger-t.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A Drew U. student has been charged with stealing documents from the United Methodist Archives: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/nyregion/16theft.html http://www.dailyrecord.com/article/20100315/UPDATES01/100315068/1203/COMMUNITIES\ /Feds++Drew+U.+freshman+stole++sold+rare+documents+from+Methodist+archives The twists keep coming in that Utah case: http://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2010/03/03/Relics-probe-Source-apparent-suicide/U\ PI-36481267660060/ They still haven't solved a theft from the Gardner twenty years ago: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/boston-art-heist-marks-20th-anniver\ sary Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ The Face of Power: http://intransit.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/in-rome-revisiting-the-spoils-of-w\ ar/ Fiery Pool: http://www.pem.org/exhibitions/106-fiery_pool_the_maya_and_the_mythic_sea Treasures of the Aga Khan museum: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/mar/16/aga-kahn-islamic-art-\ exhibition A History of the World (BM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/ Pligrimage and Buddhist Art: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/arts/design/19asian.html Ancient Rome and America: http://www.delcotimes.com/articles/2010/03/19/entertainment/doc4ba30442ed1296261\ 61491.txt Aztec Pantheon: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704743404575127933110144898.html http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-aztecs21-2010mar21,0,6456017.sto\ ry http://www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/results.asp?id=1109790 Met returns: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/arts/20arts-ANTIQUITIESO_BRF.html http://heraldextra.com/entertainment/article_a4aca4aa-b00c-58c3-8abe-f10bfacc5d9\ e.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700017888/Rome-to-display-ancient-Greek-silve\ rware.html?s_cid=rss-5 http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/19/AR2010031901369.\ html Matisse: http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/chi-100320-matisse-art-institute-chi\ cago,0,7095551.story Alexander the Great: http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8538257&service=142 Hype for Bonhams upcoming antiquities auction: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36856 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article70660\ 03.ece ... and Christie's: http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/section.asp?catid=72&docid=1181 Nice price fetched for Galileo's earliest telescope observations: http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/section.asp?catid=79&docid=1343 Andrew Lloyd Webber's disputed Picassos are coming to auction: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/andrew-lloyd-webbers-picasso-set-fo\ r-auction/ The Smithsonian's Hall of Human Origins is getting some press attention: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/arts/design/19museum.html ... as is the new London Jewish Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/arts/design/17museum.html The NY Times has a special section on science museums: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18SCIENCE.html ... which appears to be part of a larger section on museums in general: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/arts/artsspecial/index.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/arts/17iht-rartmuseums.html (intro) A useful collaboration of a handful of New York museums in regards to making their libraries more accessible: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18LIBRARY.html Curators ... the next generation: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/18/arts/artsspecial/18NEXTGEN.html ... and there's a new one at the China Institute: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/arts/design/21chang.html As part of Asia Week, the NYT tells us where to see some buddhist art: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/arts/design/19basia.html ... and some Asian antiques: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/19/arts/design/19antiques.html The Maastricht Fair suggests the art market is rebounding: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/arts/20iht-melik20.html ... more coverage of the Fair: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/15/arts/design/15fair1.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ The Roman Actor: http://www.newsleader.com/article/20100318/ENTERTAINMENT03/3180303 Clytemnestra: http://www.kansascity.com/2010/03/13/1813167/dance-review-clytemnestra-seduces.h\ tml Actaeon: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/arts/music/20bam.html cf http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/arts/music/17actaeon.html Azeri Poetry: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/music/16alim.html Hamlet: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/arts/music/14hamlet.html Early Music Exposed: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/16/arts/music/16early.html St John Passion: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/17/arts/music/17trinity.html Some answers from a theatre historian: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/answers-from-a-theater-historian-pa\ rt-iii/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Kenneth Dover: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/14/books/14dover.html?bl Kathryn Thomas: http://www.omaha.com/article/20100315/NEWS01/703159921 Charles Muscatine: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/20/arts/20muscatine.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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ DNA may have identified a new hominid/n from Siberia, dating to some 40 000 years b.p.: http://www.genomeweb.com/sequencing/ancient-mitochondrial-genome-points-previous\ ly-unknown-hominin-group http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-hominid25-2010mar25,0,7636\ 833.story http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100324/tsc-new-hominid-triggers-rethink-of-huma-c2\ ff8aa.html http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7074975.e\ ce#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797093 http://www.physorg.com/news188658471.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/mar/26/siberia-new-human-being http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8583254.stm http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/science/25human.html http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125169095 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1260327/New-species-ancient-human\ -nicknamed-X-Woman-identified-DNA-finger-bone.html?ITO=1490 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5htswtpCEmOgE8D-w04_hAyzNGQ4g http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5391008,00.html?maca=en-rss-en-all-1573-rdf pre-Neanderthal remains from the Netherlands: http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/neanderthal-may-not-be-oldest-dutchman On the origins of paleolithic art: http://www.physorg.com/news188816613.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/f-sf-rba032610.php More on humans walking comfortably upright 3.6 million years b.p.: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=human-ancestors-walked-comfor\ tably-2010-03-20 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Feature on a dig at Tushan, prior to hydro dam inundation: http://www.ohio.com/news/88796547.html http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/ohioan-works-to-preserve-ancient-a\ ssyrian-city-618474.html Water threatens monuments in Babylon (but there's hope?): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/science/23babylon.html http://www.theage.com.au/world/ancient-babylon-beset-by-ageold-problem-20100323-\ qtyp.html Ancient tombs in Ashkelon are getting in the way of hospital expansion: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136634 http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100321/world/israel_health_religion_jews_1 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35988176/ns/technology_and_science-science/ Plans to excavate at Bistun: http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=119:p\ arthian-bistun-will-be-excavated&catid=41 A sort of state-of-the-situation piece on the Persepolis Fortification archives case: http://calitreview.com/7851 Latest in the Mughrabi Gate saga: http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20100325/FOREIGN/703249906/\ 1135 ... and East Jerusalem in general seems to be the subject of a number of articles: http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/03/23/jerusalem_israel http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62N2JZ20100324 ... and it looks like the sanctuary of Abraham will soon be a saga: http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id=20371 ... whatever the case, politics and archaeology in Israel are a scary mix: http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre62n33d-us-palestininians-israel-jerusalem-di\ gs/ A recent Talmudic find via the Cairo Genizah: http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3866469,00.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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ A 23 000 years b.p. stone wall from Thessaly: http://www.physorg.com/news188483227.html http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100322/tsc-23-000-year-old-stone-wall-found-at-c2f\ f8aa.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100322/sc_afp/archaeologygreecescience_20100322164\ 851 What did Alexander the Great ever do for us?: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1260702/The-father-civilisation-A\ lexander-Greats-hunger-knowledge-gave-Old-Testament-algebra-robots.html A different spin on Catullus 5: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2010/mar/22/poem-week-sweetest-lesbia-\ campion Semi-touristy thing on the Sostra fortress: http://www.visitbulgaria.net/en/troyan/press-releases/20100325/sostra_fortress.h\ tml Pondering temple prostitution: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,685716,00.html Mary Beard takes a trip up Vesuvius: http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2010/03/a-ride-up-vesuvius.html Feature on Hypatia: http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/Hypatia-Ancient-Alexandrias-Gr\ eat-Female-Scholar.html Classics is threatened at Leeds ... here's the petition: http://www.petitiononline.com/clalds10/petition.html Review of *Conspirata*: http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/reviews/2010-03-23-conspirata23_ST_N.htm?csp=\ 34 More on Pompeiian thermopolium openings: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90853/6927930.html http://www.tribune.ie/news/international/article/2010/mar/21/lava-bread-anyone-p\ ompeii-snack-bar-rises-from-ash/ More on that 'Tiberius pendant': http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Treasure-hunter-nets-30000-for.6170266.jp Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ A Neolithic site is holding up construction of a wind farm in the North Sea: http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSLDE62M12020100323?type=marketsNews A metal-detectorist has found a 500 year old crucifix: http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/News/Article.aspx?articleID=12830 A medieval monk music manuscript find: http://wwrn.org/articles/32945/ Brief item on the commencement of the King's Ditch dig: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/8588096.stm Latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at the Otep Gonne: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ Interesting UK budget tradition: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125142299 I think we've mentioned this 'fossilized' 13th century brain before: http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2010/03/fossilized_13th_century_brain.ph\ p More on the Staffordshire Hoard staying in Midlands: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/mar/23/staffordshire-hoard-anglo-saxon-gr\ ant http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/staffordshire-hoard-to-stay-in\ -britain-for-good-1926154.html http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/grant-ensures-anglo-saxon-treasure-\ will-go-to-museums/ More coverage of what they've found during Sofia's metro construction: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=114430 Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Another 'eternal embrace' burial, this time 4200 years b.p. from China (not sure if the photo is right): http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6931782.html Excavation of a 1400 years b.p. 'lotus temple': http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/news-details.php?nid=130929 A major Eastern Han dynasty site from Jiangxi province: http://www.asiapacificnews.net/story/615388 http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/sci/2010-03/24/c_13222993.htm Very interesting 3-4000 years b.p. finds from Jajmau mound: http://www.indianexpress.com/news/3-000-year-old-history-unearthed--archaeologis\ ts-believe-Jajmau-mound-could-be-holding-more/593390 Some interesting mummies from Viet Nam: http://www.thanhniennews.com/2010/Pages/One-up-on-Egyptian-mummies.aspx A pre-Magellan burial from Guam: http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=39\ 16:pre-magellan-burial-site-found-at-gab-gab-beach&catid=45:guam-news&Itemid=156 On the origins of iron and steel in India: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/uoe-nrc032210.php More on those Tarim Basin mummies: http://news.scotsman.com/news/DNA-experts--reveal-China39s.6168665.jp Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ On the 'Don't Tread on Me' flag: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125184586 'Back channel' gloom during the Revolutionary War: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/arts/design/23redcoats.html Remembering the Triangle Shirtwaist fire: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/nyregion/26nyc.html Things Lincoln didn't say: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125169095 More preservation issues in New York: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/nyregion/27metjournal.html Review of Michael O'Brien, *Mrs Adams in Winter*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Schiff-t.html Review of Robert Perkinson, *Texas Tough*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Bergner-t.html Review of Kirk Savage, *Monument Wars*: http://www.tnr.com/book/review/landscape-and-memory?utm_source=TNR+Books+%26+Art\ s&utm_campaign=290bf3beef-TNR_BA_032510&utm_medium=email ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Chinesca ceramics from Nayarit (scroll down a bit; there are some other items of interest on this first item as well): http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemi\ d=150 http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37049 (nice photo) A pre-Inca huaca from Peru: http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=844q7VunPpk= Researching stone spheres in Costa Rica: http://www.physorg.com/news188485520.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1839253/researcher_studying_stone_spheres_i\ n_costa_rica/index.html?source=r_science http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/uok-uok032210.php An Amistad replica visited Havana: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/25/world/AP-CB-Cuba-US-Slave-Ship.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 ================================================================ Interesting item on food portion sizes in depictions of the Last Supper: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/7504190/Supersized-Last-Supper-Christs-final-d\ inner-portions-grow-with-obesity-crisis.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/weightloss/2010-03-23-lastsupper23_ST_N.htm http://www.physorg.com/news188499437.html http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/super-sizing-the-last-supper/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=last-supper-keeps-swell\ ing-10-03-25 http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/03/portion_sizes_increase_over_th.ht\ ml Not sure if we've mentioned this new method of radiocarbon dating: http://www.physorg.com/news188579046.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/acs-nmc031210.php http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100323105938.htm http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-76585.html ... and polynomial texture mapping is useful for archaeological purposes too: http://www.economist.com/science-technology/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15767271 ... and you can apparently radiocarbon date wine vintages: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100321/lf_afp/sciencewinefraud_20100321220354 Biblical plagues apparently really happened: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7530678/Biblical-plagues-really-\ happened-say-scientists.html Hype for the Shroud of Turin: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7530444/Turin-Shroud-to-b\ e-exhibited-for-first-time-in-a-decade.html http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/faith/cloth-of-gold-the-glittering-return-o\ f-the-turin-shroud-1925955.html ... and someone has recreated the 'face' from the Shroud: http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/faith/cloth-of-gold-the-glittering-return-o\ f-the-turin-shroud-1925955.html http://www.postchronicle.com/news/original/article_212292214.shtml Summers were wetter in the Middle Age: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100324184600.htm On 're-creation' portraits (not sure what to call this one): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/science/23paint.html Interview with Claire Harman about her biography of Jane Austen: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125154892 On the 'cross culturality' of sounds: http://www.npr.org/blogs/health/2010/03/sensual_sounds_can_get_lost_in.html On American manifesto(e?)s: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Stephenson-t.html Possible new light on the suicide of Virginia Woolf: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/22/books/22arts-ANEWLIGHTONW_BRF.html Living in an 18th century church: http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/21/realestate/keymagazine/20100321-reus\ e-slideshow_index.html Interesting project to rebuild a 100 year old car from scratch: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/automobiles/collectibles/28MAXWELL.html Possible evidence of a major tsunami in the Atlantic some 2000 years ago: http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1543702.php/Oceanogra\ phers-find-signs-of-Atlantic-disaster-2-000-years-ago On Icelandic volcanoes' effect on climate: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100322/ap_on_sc/eu_iceland_volcano History's most destructive volcanoes: http://www.livescience.com/environment/most-destructive-volcanoes-100323.html Controversy about the Dante's Inferno video game (?): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/us/27beliefs.html OpEd on Google's translate feature: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/opinion/21bellos.html Review of Philip Hoare, *The Whale*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/ 03/28/books/review/Philbrick- t.html Review of Judith Shulevitz, *The Sabbath World*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Goldstein-t.html Review of Miranda Carter, *George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/books/24book.html http://www.tnr.com/book/review/family-emergency?utm_source=TNR+Books+%26+Arts&ut\ m_campaign=290bf3beef-TNR_BA_032510&utm_medium=email Review of Nell Painter, *The History of White People*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Gordon-t.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Feature on looting in Lebanon: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=11317\ 9#%23ixzz0jQI4AXek http://technology.iafrica.com/features/2320384.htm A Klee was recovered in Montreal: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2010/03/24/landau-recovered-klee-painting\ .html Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Aztec Pantheon: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37079 http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/03/aztec-pantheon-getty-vill\ a.html Confucius: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/arts/design/26confucius.html Tut (New York): http://www.observer.com/2010/culture/hail-comeback-king A History of the World (BM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/ Exotic Encounters: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/21/nyregion/21artct.html America's Kitchens: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/nyregion/28artli.html St Wenceslas: http://www.radio.cz/en/article/126270 Fiery Pool (scroll down): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/arts/design/26antiques.html Kerosene Lamps: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/arts/design/26antiques.html Secrets of the Silk Road: http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et-pickmummy25-2010mar25,0,7318345.\ story http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-mummiesqa27-2010mar27,0,88\ 0911.story http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-silk-2010mar28,0,7408004.story Latest on the Iran v British Museum thing (not sure there's anything new here): http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=121708§ionid=3510304 The Olympics of the museum world: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/arts/design/23handlers.html On the Smithsonian's evolution exhibition: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=124906102 Asia Week coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/arts/design/26cotter.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/arts/design/26pacific.html The Salon du Dessin Fair: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/27/arts/27iht-melik27.html More on reuniting Aleppo Codex fragments: http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx?id=171776 Turner's last Rome painting is coming to auction: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/arts/design/26vogel.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Rossini: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/music/25ascension.html Fairy Queen: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/arts/music/25fairy.html Bluebeard: http://movies.nytimes.com/2010/03/26/movies/26bluebeard.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/movies/28bluebeard.html Pecong: http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/theater/reviews/25pecong.html Robin Hood: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/26/arts/AP-EU-France-Cannes-Festival.htm\ l On music and the pope: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/arts/music/28pope.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Kathleen Kirk Gilmore: http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/news/localnews/stories/DN-gilmoreob_\ 23met.ART.State.Edition1.4c57d73.html Gavin Townend: http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/5085220.Cathedral_tribute_to_respected_cla\ ssics_professor/ ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ More on early humans from Siberia: http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,685630,00.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A 3500 b.p. false 'door to the afterlife' from a high-ranking Egyptian tomb: http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37134 http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/992/fr2.htm (photo) http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ EO9UU00 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/ancient-false-door-un\ earthed-at-karnak-1930311.html http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=10229329 http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/aa9e4fc05a0d4abbae07e3cea8b43d2f\ /29-03-2010-08-04/Ancient_doorway_found_in_Egypt http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/africa/view.bg?articleid=1243180&\ srvc=rss http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6935584.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100329/wl_africa_afp/egyptarchaeology http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100329/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_antiquities http://www.physorg.com/news189083142.html Has the pyramid of Userkare been found?: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/missing-pyramid-mystery-pharaoh-found.html They're bulldozing all over Luxor: http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6303Z420100401 Pondering the question of 'sacred prostitution' (possibly a repeat): http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,685716,00.html On "global warming" and biblical plagues: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7530678/Biblical-plagues-really-\ happened-say-scientists.html http://sify.com/news/biblical-plagues-happened-in-reality-say-scientists-news-in\ ternational-kd4nOcfdded.html A pile of Neolithic house remains from the middle Euphrates: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201003265291/Related-news-from-Syria/ar\ chaeologist-188-houses-from-neolithic-era-unearthed-in-middle-euphrates-region.h\ tml Interesting piece on the conflict between burials and archaeology in Israel: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1160495.html Coverage of Behenu's sarcophagus continues: http://www.vancouversun.com/Queen+sarcophagus+found/2638761/story.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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Another collapse at the Domus Aurea: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37145 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video/is-neros-palace-falling/article1517313/ http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/world/7004059/part-of-neros-palace-collapse\ s-in-rome/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/europe/8595660.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8595636.stm http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5icalpBh8nQPJkfZOp5SEhZGqGvpAD9\ EOT9OO1 http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/2010/03/30/world/international-uk-italy-nero-coll\ apse.html http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ceiling-at-neros-golden-palace-collapses-i\ n-rome.html A 'burrito burial' from Gabii: http://www.ns.umich.edu/htdocs/releases/story.php?id=7600 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/03/100329-roman-sarcophagus-gladiat\ or-lead-burrito/ http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100330/sc_livescience/mysteriousleadcoffin\ foundnearrome http://www.canada.com/Unusual+lead+coffin+unearthed+near+Rome/2743914/story.html http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1842789/halfton_lead_coffin_is_an_archaeolo\ gical_mystery/index.html?source=r_science http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/ancient-lead-sarcopha\ gus-contains-roman-vip-1932247.html http://www.physorg.com/news189098987.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100329162934.htm A possible ancient Roman gluten-related death: http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2010/04/01/visualizza_new.html_1\ 758823248.html Very interesting non-elite burials from Mycenae: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/mycenaean-tombs-disco\ vered-might-be-evidence-of-classless-society-1930489.html A new translation of the Philae Victory Stele has Octavian as pharaoh: http://heritage-key.com/blogs/owenjarus/roman-emperor-octavian-augustus-named-eg\ yptian-pharaoh-philae-victory-stele Christian sarcophagi from near Tbilisi: http://en.trend.az/news/politics/foreign/1660334.html Guernsey as Roman trading post: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/guernsey/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8594000\ /8594661.stm Some amphorae are going on display at MU: http://www.columbiamissourian.com/stories/2010/04/01/ancient-roman-pottery-sees-\ daylight-pickard-hall/ Assorted small Roman (and other) finds found during road construction in Kent: http://www.yourthanet.co.uk/kent-news/Roman-finds-made-during-work-on-access-roa\ d-newsinkent34417.aspx?news=local Feature on the 'Bronze Men' from Caria: http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/992/he1.htm Gladiating through college: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100329-26185.html http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/30/regensburg-gladiator-majo_n_518412.html Alexander the Great as 'father of civilization': http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1260702/The-father-civilisation-A\ lexander-Greats-hunger-knowledge-gave-Old-Testament-algebra-robots.html We've mentioned this Orpheus mosaic recreation before: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1262631/Two-brothers-47ft-replica-Britai\ ns-biggest-Roman-mosaic-took-years-complete.html Interesting feature on Pontius Pilate: http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/passion-and-power-th\ e-many-portraits-of-pontius-pilate-20100401-rhq6.html A Roman 'burial fresco' from Lebanon is going to be restored: http://www.digtriad.com/news/national_world/article.aspx?storyid=139634&catid=17\ 5 Classics at Trinity College is threatened: http://media.www.trinitytripod.com/media/storage/paper520/news/2010/03/30/News/C\ olleges.Classics.Department.Faces.Possible.Changes.In.Future-3896778.shtml What Amanda Wrigley is up to: http://www.wmich.edu/wmu/news/2010/03/102.shtml There's a Ben Hur miniseries on tonight (in Canada, anyway): http://www.ottawacitizen.com/Morgan+gets+physical+epic+redone+miniseries/2761651\ /story.html Piles of 'Clash of the Titans' reviews in my mailbox; all generally negative ... here's a few from NPR: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125487009 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125451924 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125348053 Martha Nussbaum remembers Ken Dover: http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/passion-truth?utm_source=TNR+Books+%26\ +Arts&utm_campaign=aff15dbfb8-TNR_BA_040110&utm_medium=email The Iliad ... with ants? (book review): http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703312504575141890303301992.html?m\ od=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_11 Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*: http://www.economist.com/culture/displaystory.cfm?story_id=15767411 Review of Duane Roller, *Cleopatra*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Simmons-t.html Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Pondering the engravings on the 'Pictish Stones': http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-scotland-written-language.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=information-age-math-finds-co\ de-in-2010-03-31 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36117732/ns/technology_and_science-science/ cf: http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=2227 4000 years b.p. Scandinavians were lactose intolerant, apparently: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uu-sas040110.php Bees are causing a buzz at Rosslyn Chapel: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article7080735.ece http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/scotland/8594724.stm ... while worms are threatening a site associated with the Templars: http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2010/apr/04/historical-caves-endangered-insect-infe\ station A project to save Suffolk Castle: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/suffolk/8599005.stm Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html Review of Miranda Carter, *George, Nicholas, and Wilhelm*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Seymour-t.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Brief item on the rich finds underwater off the Xisha archipelago: http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-04/02/content_9682548.htm ... semi-related is an item on China's plans in regards to underwater archaeology: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6938529.html Climate change and Angkor (again): http://www.physorg.com/news189102893.html http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/7004465/perus-machu-picchu-reopens/ http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-angkor31-2010mar31,0,31999\ 16.story?track=rss http://www.livescience.com/history/Angkor-civilization-collapse-climage-change-1\ 00330.html Pre Mauryan artefacts for Gorakhpur: http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/uttarpradesh/Pre-Mauryan-artefacts-unearth\ ed-in-Gorakhpur/Article1-524613.aspx Digging an eighth-century site at Nagaon: http://www.assamtribune.com/scripts/detailsnew.asp?id=apr0410/at09 Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Interesting items found at Yellowstone over the past while: http://billingsgazette.com/news/state-and-regional/wyoming/article_780b0b8e-3e0f\ -11df-862d-001cc4c002e0.html http://www.missoulian.com/news/local/article_538e7758-3ede-11df-b006-001cc4c0328\ 6.html The remains of Chimney Point Fort have been found: http://www.rutlandherald.com/article/20100314/FEATURES02/3140321 http://www.pressrepublican.com/midday/local_story_082092443.html http://www.addisonindependent.com/201003french-fort-unearthed-chimney-point Recent finds from Morven Farm (Virginia): http://www.newsleader.com/article/20100402/NEWS01/100402016/1002/NEWS01/Early+ar\ chaeology+at+Morven+taps+into+little-studied+veins+of+history+ Checking whether a 130-year-old house was built with materials from a Native American site: http://kearneyhub.com/news/local/article_8ec2ea18-3f2c-11df-8c57-001cc4c002e0.ht\ ml The fight to save a Brooklyn brownstone: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/nyregion/01brownstone.html Review(ish) of Michael Trinklein, *Lost States*: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125142955 ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ An Inca cemetery provides evidence of conquest-related deaths: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/57860/title/Inca_cemetery_holds_bruta\ l__glimpses_of_Spanish_violence http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/04/inca-skeletons/ Machu Picchu has reopened: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37194 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/8601871.stm http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/90852/6938873.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/8598154.stm Yucatan has purchased Chichen Itza from its erstwhile private landowner: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37171 Some Andean mummies show evidence of arsenic poisoning (didn't we have something like this a few years ago?): http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/03/andean-mummies-\ afflicted-with-arsenic-poison/1 On iconography and continuity of lineages at Tikal: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37184 The ruins of Era de Pando are threatened: http://enperublog.com/2010/03/23/neighbouring-city-of-ancient-caral-at-risk/ Interesting project to save a pile of prehispanic games/sports: http://www.usatoday.com/NEWS/usaedition/2010-03-29-ancientgame29_ST_U.htm?csp=34 The recent earthquake in Chile did some historical damage: http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/2010/0331/Chile-earthquake-takes-heavy-t\ oll-on-historical-sites More on Costa Rican spheres: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8593717.stm Review(ish) of Edwin Burrows, *Forgotten Patriots*: http://www.cuny.edu/news/publications/cunymatters/fall09/book-talk.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 ================================================================ Some April Fool's coverage: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5416638,00.html ... and a top ten archaeological prank/hoax thing: http://heritage-key.com/blogs/ann/top-10-archaeology-pranks-hoaxes-april-fools-d\ ay-special On science and the humanities (and we're suspicious of the date of this one): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/books/01lit.html High tech scans have revealed some drawings by da Vinci and Michelangelo (although the article is mostly about the latter): http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/ar\ ticle7086739.ece ... and was Leonardo an 'evil' genius?: http://news.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_8597000/8597035.stm Nice feature on the book of hours: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/arts/design/04close.html I think we mentioned this Christ's-face-recreation-via-the- Shroud-of-Turin story last week: http://abcnews.go.com/GMA/real-face-jesus-christ/story?id=10235129 http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2010/03/30/2246609.aspx http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/2915174/3-D-Jesus-set-to-be-revealed.h\ tml http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2010/04/03/the-3deity-115875-22158792/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1263266/Real-face-Jesus-develo\ ped-Turin-Shroud-unveiled-U-S-television.html Google plans to digitize the library of Alexandria (note the date): ahttp://www.locusmag.com/2010/April1st_Google.html ... in a similar spirit: http://archaeopop.blogspot.com/2010/04/sound-recordings-from-ancient-pottery.htm\ l Humans off the hook (for now) for mammoth demise: http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100331/ts_afp/sciencearchaeologymammothgenetics ... and cows are really important for human success (in a circular argument sort of way): http://www.guardian.co.uk/society/2010/apr/04/milk-european-social-history ... while this week's DNA story tells us about Native Americans' horticultural practices with sunflowers: http://www.physorg.com/news189422012.html Interesting item on medieval medicine: http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,685432,00.html Features/section on assorted threatened languages: http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1160499 (intro) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1160488 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1160487 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1160486 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1160485 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1160484 Some (non) burial practice comparanda: http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/03/31/world/AP-AS-China-Dead-Babies.html We should all thank women for creating beer: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7538264/Men-owe-women-fo\ r-creating-beer-claims-academic.html Searching for the origins of the Koran: http://www.boston.com/bostonglobe/ideas/articles/2010/03/28/the_origins_of_a_hol\ y_book/ Some Thomas Hardy manuscripts have been saved for the UK: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/booknews/7547155/Thomas-Hardy-manuscrip\ ts-saved-for-the-nation.html The long-lost works of Caroline Tennant-Kelly have been found: http://www.physorg.com/news189182906.html On the evolution of the axe: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/magazine/04fob-consumed-t.html?ref=magazine (you might have to get to it via: http://www.nytimes.com/pages/magazine/index.html ... and look for the 'consumed' column in the column (!) on the right) The archaeology of Christianity (some iffy stuff here): http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36089069/ns/technology_and_science-science/ Reading things into the images in daVinci's 'Last Supper': http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/uom-ldv033010.php http://www.physorg.com/news189245661.html On the chemistry of Art: http://www.cuny.edu/news/publications/cunymatters/fall09/chemistry-of-art.html Some 'Robin Hood' movie gossip: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/article70\ 82802.ece Interview with Nell Painter on *The History of White People*: http://abcnews.go.com/WN/history-white-people-author-nell-painter-talks-diane/st\ ory?id=10260769 Vote for the 'Lost Booker' nominees: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/25/lost-booker-prize-shortlist http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/mar/28/lost-booker-prize-rachel-cooke http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/gill-hornby/7528635/Booker-Prize-1\ 970-They-dont-write-em-like-that-any-more.html Review of Diarmaid MacCulloch, *Christianity*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Meacham-t.html Assorted non-fiction reviews of potential interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Sullivan-t.html Review of Chloe Schama, *Wild Romance*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/books/review/Wulf-t.html ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Assorted Greek Destinations: http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/greece/ Nazareth: http://www.theprovince.com/travel/Discover+Nazareth+antiquities/2762064/story.ht\ ml Tiberius/Tiberias: http://www.theprovince.com/travel/Cool+Galilee/2762063/story.html Sardinia: http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/travel/28explorer-1.html Varia: http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2010/03/28/t-magazine/travel-issue/index.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ American Journal of Archaeology 114.2: http://www.ajaonline.org/index.php?ptype=toc ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Police in Peru have recovered some purloined artifacts on their way to the black market: http://enperublog.com/2010/03/29/police-recover-inca-mummy-among-artefacts-to-so\ ld-on-black-market/ David Gill is keeping the questionable acquisition practices of the Miho Museum in the spotlight: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/2010/03/miho-museum-time-to-resolve-its-dispu\ te.html http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/looting-matters-the-miho-museum-and-ital\ y-89776462.html Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A Macedonian coin hoard from Ohrid: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1857 I think we mentioned the Bishop's Wood coin collection coming to auction before: http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/section.asp?catid=76&docid=2579 Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Palladio Drawings: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37192 Picasso and the Avant-Garde: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/arts/design/02picasso.html Erotic Moche ceramics: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=1134\ 22 Roman swords and armour: http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2010/04/02/visualizza_new.html_1\ 758914610.html Masterpieces of European Painting: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/arts/design/02dulwich.html http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/26/arts/design/20100326-dulwich-slidesh\ ow_index.html(slideshow) A History of the World (BM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/ The Lod Mosaic is coming to the Met: http://www.yucommentator.com/lod-mosaic-comes-to-the-met-1.1284806 The Winterton Cup is going on display: http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/news/2-000-year-old-Roman-artefact-goes/articl\ e-1949014-detail/article.html On the stuff in the British Museum that you don't get to see: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/london/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_\ 8595000/8595594.stm An antique dealer's evolving aesthetic: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/25/garden/25drake.html On insurance and art: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/your-money/home-insurance/03wealth.html A number of icons are coming to auction: http://www.cyprus-mail.com/cyprus/treasured-icons-auction/20100403 The Chinese are dominating the Chinese art market (finally, apparently): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/03/arts/03iht-melik3.html The Art Institute of Chicago has to close early: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/art-institute-of-chicago-cuts-some-\ gallery-hours The 'collector-in-chief' has an interesting job: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/arts/design/01archives.html Eames items coming to auction: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/arts/design/02antiques.html Assorted museum items of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/arts/design/02vogel.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/theater/04timbers.html Beethoven Then and Now: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/29/arts/music/29beethoven.html Orestes: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/nyregion/04theatnj.html Love is My Sin: http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/02/theater/reviews/02love.html Pergolesi: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/arts/music/30pergolesi.html Tallis Scholars: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/arts/music/30tallis.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Gavin Townend: http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/5085220.Cathedral_tribute_to_respected_cla\ ssics_professor/?ref=rss Mortimer Sackler: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/01/business/01sackler.html Charles Ryskamp: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/30/arts/design/30ryskamp.html Edmund P. Pillsbury: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/31/arts/design/31pillsbury.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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 12.51 April 11, 2010 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Mark Allen, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Barnea Levi Selavan, Kurt Theis, Thomas W Kavanagh, John McMahon, Terrence Lockyer, Joseph Lauer,Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, Rick Pettigrew,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Latest missing link candidate has been dubbed Australophithecus sediba: http://web.wits.ac.za/NewsRoom/NewsItems/HOMINID.htm http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article7092148.e\ ce http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/scientists-uncover-ancient-human-remai\ ns-1939511.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/african-fossils-hailed-as-the-rosetta-\ stone-of-humanity-1939866.html http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/14061.html?emailID=14061 http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37332 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uons-sun040910.php http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/aaft-nhs033110.php http://www.physorg.com/news189771175.html http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58089/title/Partial_skeletons_may_rep\ resent_new_hominid_ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8609192.stm http://www.smh.com.au/world/science/scientists-come-face-to-face-with-2-milliony\ earold-missing-link-20100408-rv5n.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1264538/Sediba-missing-link-say-s\ cientists.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/04/08/confusing-cavemen/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p006zj9y http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/04/australopithecus-sediba/ http://www.elpais.com/articulo/sociedad/Descubierto/hominido/hace/millones/anos/\ elpepusoc/20100408elpepusoc_4/Tes ... interesting backstory: the role Google Earth played in this: http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/scientist_uses_google_earth_to_find_ancient\ _ancest.php ... a video reconstruction of the skull: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2010/04/08/science/1247467554351/australopithecus\ -sediba.html ... and for those of you who need to have some 'clumsiness' in the discovery: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/science/09fossil.html ... and Donald Johnson has some doubts: http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/post.cfm?id=more-on-australopithecus-sedi\ ba-the-2010-04-09 Human settlement began in Oman some 125 000 years b.p.: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201004095443/Culture/british-archaeolog\ ist-125000-years-ago-first-human-settlement-began-in-oman.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Latest feature on the Archaeology Channel is about Mauretania: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Paper on radiocarbon dates for the Neolithic Fayum: http://www.ioa.ucla.edu/news-events/files/Wendrich_etal.pdf Tut apparently had orthopedic sandals: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/king-tut-sandals-orthopedic.html Nice feature/coverage of what's going on at Tell Zeidan: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uoc-dla040610.php http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/science/06archeo.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100406133712.htm http://www.physorg.com/news189780204.html Brief item on a dugong mound and assorted fishery evidence at a site in Umm Al Qaiwain: http://www.wam.ae/servlet/Satellite?c=WamLocEnews&cid=1267001151123&pagename=WAM\ %2FWAM_E_Layout&parent=Query&parentid=1135099399852 Interesting evidence of changing water levels in the Gulf region: http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=354282&version\ =1&template_id=36&parent_id=16 A recently-discovered Assyrian text is being given Biblical links: http://www.news.utoronto.ca/humanities/u-of-t-researchers-shed-light-on-ancient-\ assyrian-tablets.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uot-uot040810.php http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100408134519.htm http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Canadian+archeologists+discover+Testamen\ t+tablet/2775502/story.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100408134519.htm?utm_source=feedbur\ ner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+\ Science+News%29 http://www.physorg.com/news189954603.html http://heritage-key.com/blogs/owenjarus/assyrian-kings-treaty-discovered-tayinat\ -tablet-cache ... the dig's research report for this season: http://www.utoronto.ca/tap/2009Report_en.pdf Meanwhile, Assur is apparently in danger of being washed away by the Tigris: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-84001.html http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/317197,ancient-assyrian-capital-in-dange\ r-of-falling-into-tigris-river.html[possible security issues with this page] Excavations at Gohar Tappeh have resumed: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=122576§ionid=351020108 Not sure where to classify this one ... a really vague item on excavations in Utica: http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/?p=36616 Aramaic as an endangered language: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8602442.stm Nice photos of the Kiosk of Qertassi: http://egyptology.blogspot.com/2010/04/photo-for-today-kiosk-of-qertassi.html In case you missed this Caria-Egypt connection story last week (I had it in a different section): http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/992/he1.htm More on Userkare's potential tomb: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/missing-pyramid-mystery-pharaoh-found.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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ A 'forgotten' Mithras site: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1876 Somewhat vague item on late Roman burial chambers found during carpark construction in Malta: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100409/local/ruins-in-airpark-site-d\ ate-from-late-roman-period Latest suggestion of where Hannibal crossed the Alps: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article7029508.\ ece Work is resuming on a huge Roman mosaic found in a Cotswald field last year: http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/8090580.Archeological_survey_to_resume_o\ n_massive_Roman_mosaic/ ... and at Vindolanda: http://www.cumberlandnews.co.uk/news/further-excavation-work-at-hadrian-s-wall-s\ ite-1.694063?referrerPath=news Interesting Byzantine burial from Sicily: http://www.arts.ubc.ca/research/single-page-news/article/613/2536.html Feature on Indian items found at Berenike: http://www.flonnet.com/stories/20100423270806400.htm ... with a sort of 'state of the finds' piece on Muziris: http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20100423270806200.htm Why Plutarch and Herodotus still matter: http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/04/02/the_classics_rock Hollywood and the Classics: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/8605443.stm What Jeremy McInerney is up to: http://www.southjerseylocalnews.com/articles/2010/04/08/record_breeze/news/doc4b\ bcbd70aee9e614543464.txt What John Hale is up to: http://www.presspublications.com/current-news/4179-museum-lecture-examines-the-d\ elphic-oracle What Paul Christesen is up to: http://www.theshorthorn.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=19238&Item\ id=265 What Alison Futrell is up to: http://asunews.asu.edu/20100408_bloodgames What Frank Kolb and Stanley Lombardo are up to: http://www.emorywheel.com/detail.php?n=28285 Final Fantasy in Latin: http://kotaku.com/5510399/final-fantasy-now-available-inlatin More on that Augustus-as-pharaoh stele: http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/stele-names-roman-emp\ eror-octavian-augustus-as-egyptian-pharaoh-1937308.html More on that 'wall' in a Greek cave: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/oldest-man-made-structure-found-in-greek-c\ ave.html More on the 'burrito burial' from Gabii: http://www.thespec.com/News/Local/article/749132 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100329162934.htm Review of *The Greek Poets: From Homer to the Present*: http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/apr/10/greek-poets-homer-jay-parini Review of Grant and Bieser, *Odysseus the Rebel*: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/06/odysseus-the-atheist/ In case you haven't seen a 'Clash of the Titans' review yet: http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/film/film_revi\ ews/article7084379.ece Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Pre-stonehenge megalith finds: http://news.discovery.com/history/megaliths-england-stonehenge-ritual.html http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36324067/ns/technology_and_science-science/ Prehistoric tumuli from Bulgaria: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1871 Pondering the original settling of Iceland: http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0_a_id=36\ 0324 Bronze Age finds at Guernsey Airport: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/guernsey/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8603000/\ 8603378.stm Finds from various periods during the redevelopment of Crowle Market Place: http://www.thisisscunthorpe.co.uk/news/Taking-step-town-s-past/article-1974394-d\ etail/article.html Digging up Shakespeare's 'cesspit': http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7558387/Archaeologists-d\ ig-up-Shakespeares-cesspit.html Brief item on the remains of a medieval 'synagogue' in Northamptonshire: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/northamptonshire/8610961.stm Latter day Druids have failed in a bid for reburial of a recently-unearthed skeleton: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8606323.stm More on lactose-intolerant Scandinavians: http://www.physorg.com/news189338737.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401101525.htm Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ They've resumed salvaging items from a Ming Dynasty wreck off Shantou: http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/201004/09/t20100409_21251633.shtml http://www.asiaone.com/News/Latest+News/Asia/Story/A1Story20100410-209524.html Not sure if we mentioned this Great-Wall-is-even-longer-than- previously-thought story (like, a LOT longer): http://www.dajianghu.net/2009/12/great-wall-extends-to-xinjiang-500-km-longer-ar\ cheologists/ Latest CT scan/facial reconstruction is on a 600 b.p. New Zealand woman: http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-83536.html "Indus-like" inscription on pottery found in Thailand: http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/08/stories/2010040856602200.htm ... while Indus Valley Civilization is undergoing a bit of a rethink too: http://www.telegraphindia.com/1100406/jsp/nation/story_12307704.jsp Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Not sure if this HMS Swift wreckage off North Carolina was the shipwreck we mentioned a few weeks ago: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/04/07/Ancient-shipwreck-rescued-on-Outer-Ba\ nks/UPI-29721270676446/ http://www.wvec.com/news/local/Crews-to-document-ship-wreckage-on-Corolla-900089\ 17.html Pondering Hilton Head island 4000 years b.p.: http://www.islandpacket.com/2010/04/05/1195879/abundant-food-and-leisure-time.ht\ ml Searching for a 'lost' Civil War camp in Georgia: http://chronicle.augusta.com/news/metro/2010-04-09/dig-crew-hunts-civil-war-camp\ ?v=1270861560 Latest study of the extinction of megafauna during the Pleistocene: http://www.physorg.com/news189757862.html ... or maybe this is: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401101527.htm Trying to recreate Shinnecock and other 'lost' Native American languages: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/books/06language.html Ellis Island fundraising appears to have stalled: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/arts/design/07ellis.html Using historical data to justify controlled burns in the Appalachians: http://www.physorg.com/news189780771.html Video of a talk about the Glazier Blade Cache: http://video.excite.co.jp/player/?id=b7f8a1445304cf53&title=Granby+Historical+So\ ciety+presets%2C+The+Glazier++Blade++Cache&kw=Blade&pg=1 ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Remains of a Puripecha/Tarascan Empire city in central Mexico: http://www.news.colostate.edu/Release/5139 http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-86845.html http://sify.com/news/ancient-lost-city-in-mexico-discovered-news-international-k\ eklubjhccb.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 ================================================================ The problem of the 'flood' of unpublished archaeological data: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100407/full/464826a.html The Shroud of Turin is now on display: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37366 http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5454229,00.html http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100410/twl-shroud-of-turin-goes-on-display-41f21e0.\ html http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5h8ZoVEbL_7LsX7Ht7-8VVmM7qjFQ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8613258.stm http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/04/10/italy.turin.shroud/ ... and Hitler apparently wanted to steal the shroud: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1264150/Hitler-plot-steal-Turi\ n-Shroud-thwarted-Vatican.html A response to all that Last Supper portion size stuff of the past couple of weeks: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/apr/06/last-supper-obesity-art-hist\ ory For those of you following the 'development' of Neuro-Lit-Crit: http://roomfordebate.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/can-neuro-lit-crit-save-the-hu\ manities/ They're digging up Caravaggio now: http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20100408/caravaggio_remains_\ 100408/20100408?hub=SciTech Starry Night in breakfast cereal: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125571557 Feature on Cima da Conegliano: https://mail.google.com/mail/#label/4explorator/127e3344d2bbbdca The fourth installment of something called 'Kierkegaard's world' ... not sure where the previous ones are: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2010/apr/05/kierkegaard-philosoph\ y-passion Interesting feature on scientific illustration: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/science/23paint.html http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/23/science/0323-PAINT_index.html (slideshow) The Avatar effect: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/world/americas/11brazil.html Reviewish sort of thing of James Shapiro, *Contested Will*: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/leading_article/article7087513.ece Review of Lyndsay Porter, *Assassination*: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7545208/Assassination-A-His\ tory-of-Political-Murder-by-Lindsay-Porter.html Review of Ian Davidson, *Voltaire*: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/7567947/Voltaire-in-England\ .html Review of Dominic Lieven, *Russia Against Napoleon*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/books/08book.html Review of Edith Grossman, *Why Translation Matters*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/books/review/Howard-t.html ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Konya: http://www.guardian.co.uk/travel/2010/apr/10/konya-turkey-jelaluddin-rumi-dervis\ h Some Aegean sites in Turkey: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-206783-116-the-ancient-sites-of-kolophon-\ klaros-and-notion.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A couple of Colonial paintings have been returned to Peru: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37322 ... as have a pile of pre Columbian items: http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=354912&CategoryId=14095 Interesting twist in the Robin Symes case/situation: http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/11/robin-symes-italy-antiques-lo\ oted Semi-not-really-reviewish sort of thing of Robert Wittman, *Priceless*: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/book-tells-of-undercover-operation-\ to-recover-stolen-gardner-artwork/?ref=design Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Latest eSylum newsletter: http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v13n14.html Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Medieval Ivory: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37261 La Voie du Tao: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/10/arts/10iht-melik10.html Pompeii Victims: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8596910.stm (nice video) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8599122.stm Palladio and his Legacy: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/design/09palladio.html Picasso: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/design/09picasso.html A History of the World (BM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/ So far, the Iraq Museum has recovered some 32 000 artifacts: http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2010-04-05\kurd.htm That meeting in Egypt about 'banding together' to reclaim cultural antiquities is underway (probably done by the time folks read this): http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37334 http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8608513.stm http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ EV332O0 http://www.france24.com/en/20100407-cairo-archaeology-meeting-recover-national-t\ reasures-nefertiti-rosetta-stone http://www.news24.com/Content/SciTech/News/1132/ed0bd4dc02994e9ab716d70fbcf8f2f8\ /06-04-2010-10-51/Egypt_hosts_stolen_artefact_meet http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8606458.stm http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2010/04/07/antiquities-return-conference.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/7563963/Bri\ tish-museum-under-pressure-to-give-up-leading-treasures.html http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Devuelvan/tesoros/elpepucul/20100408elpep\ ucul_6/Tes ... while the family of a Holocaust survivor have been deemed rightful owners of a 3200 b.p. Assyrian gold tablet: http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/holocaust_survivor_kin_can_keep_H2nKA8OgzHC78\ JFyRPXWlO http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202447527654&German_Museum_Loses_Attempt_\ to_Reclaim_Artifact_From_Estate Nice little feature on the Penn Museum: http://thedp.com/article/skulls-sphinx-artifacts-abound-penn-museum The Walters has a grant to digitize some medieval manuscripts: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37287 Reviewish thing of the Darwin Center at the Natural History Museum: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/arts/design/08darwin.html The Met is going to show a 'bad' Picasso: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/design/09vogel.html There's going to be a symposium connected to the 'Aztec Pantheon' thing at the Getty: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37358 The Taliban has freed a Greek curator they had kidnapped back in September: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/8609214.stm More on 'hidden' paintings ... this time focussing on Michelangelo: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/7552967/Secret-Michaelangelo-ske\ tch-uncovered.html http://www.aolnews.com/world/article/british-museum-unlocks-master-artists-secre\ t-sketches/19426025 http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/art-and-design/csi-tricks-reveal-masters-ske\ tches-20100405-rmzc.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/04/italian-renaissance-drawings-\ british-museum Nice price for an author-signed first edition of Emma: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/books/05arts-AMATCHFOREMM_BRF.html The Asian art market continues to be hot: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/business/global/07auction.html The hot dog wars outside the Met: http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/from-apex-of-hot-dog-world-even-pyr\ amids-look-small A very interesting 16th-century edition of Augustine's works is coming to auction: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/06/st-augustine-first-edition-auction Assorted antiques items: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/design/09antiques.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Uncle Vanya: http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/theater/reviews/09uncle.html Bloody Andrew Jackson: http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/theater/reviews/07bloody.html Rescue Me: http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/theater/reviews/05rescue.html La Traviata: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/arts/music/05traviata.html http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/04/la-traviata-take-2-same-cast-differ\ ent-conductor Creditors: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/theater/11creditors.html Partenope: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/arts/music/05handel.html Juilliard 415: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/05/arts/music/05period.html Review of the PBS series on Buddha: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/arts/television/07buddha.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Hanan Eschel: http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=172689 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136903 Ellis Rivkin: http://www.huc.edu/newspubs/pressroom/article.php?pressroomid=1036 ================================================================ 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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 12.52 April 18, 2010 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley, Barnea Selavan, Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Duke Jason, Rick Heli, Donna Hurst, Thomas W Kavanagh Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Angie Telepenko, Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Interesting followup to the Australopithecus sediba thing ... they found (maybe) some brain remains (and insect larvae): http://news.discovery.com/human/brain-human-ancestor-skull.html http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100412/sc_livescience/ancientprehumanskele\ tonmaycontainshrunkenbrain http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36421160/ns/technology_and_science-science/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/science/nature/8615424.stm http://www.theglobeandmail.com/video/a-close-look-at-new-hominid/article1533204/\ ?cmpid=rss1 http://www.livescience.com/history/human-ancestor-brain-fossil-100411.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2010/04/13/scans-of-new-hominids-skull\ -find-possible-chunk-of-brain%E2%80%94and-bugs/ I'm sure we're going to hear more about 'X Woman' soon: http://www.24worldnews.com/x-woman-coexisted-with-neanderthals-and-modern-humans\ -40000-years-ago/6193/ Redating Java man: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58346/title/Java_Man_takes_age_to_ext\ remes Werner Herzog is making a movie about Chauvet Cave: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/which-part-of-werner-herzogs-3-d-ca\ ve-painting-movie-dont-you-understand/ ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ The find of a number of Roman-era mummies at the Barhariya Oasis (see below in the 'Rome' section) gave way by the end of the week to the discovery of the tomb of a 19th dynasty scribe in the area: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=4&Article_id=11382\ 1 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ F2VM5G0 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100414/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_antiquities_1 http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/tomb-of-ken-amun-royal-court-official-unea\ rthed-in-egypt.html http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123435§ionid=3510212 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ F30DA81 http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/04/14/tomb-ancient-scribe-egypt-history/?tes\ t=faces Akhenaten's toe has returned to Egypt: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/king-tuts-dads-toe-returns-home.html http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD9\ F30DA81 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/7598084/50-\ year-old-mystery-of-mummys-missing-toe-solved.html Human remains won't get in the way of emergency room construction in Ashkelon: http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/04/13/1011543/ashkelon-protected-er-to-rema\ in-on-burial-site Tower tombs from Palmyra: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201004185537/Travel/syrian-archaeologis\ ts-tombs-tower-unearthed-in-palmyra.html An Ugaritic link to Arabic?: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201004165529/Culture/archaeologists-anc\ ient-texts-show-similarities-between-arabic-and-ugaritic-languages.html A sort of state-of-the investigation thing from Pasargadae: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123609§ionid=351020105 A nice radio tribute to Chana Eshel: http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/184366 More on those Assyrian treaty tablets mentioned last week: http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/04/15/Researchers-study-ancient-Assyrian-ta\ blets/UPI-62201271360476/ 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) ================================================================ Much coverage of a number of Greco-Roman-era mummies at the Barhariya Oasis: http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=125856924 http://www.monstersandcritics.com/science/features/article_1547857.php/In-Pictur\ es-Egypt-Archeology-Bahariya-Oasis(photos) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1265602/Mummy-tiny-wide-eyed-woma\ n-discovered-Egyptian-oasis.html?ITO=1490 http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1848588/grecoroman_tombs_discovered_in_egyp\ t/index.html?source=r_science http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100415/science/science_ml_egypt_antiquities_9 http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/egyptians_find_ancient_tombs_Ox66Hhtx\ uFp7ZOBq1GzauK?CMP=OTC-rss&FEEDNAME= http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/science/04/13/mummy.egypt/ http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=10351345 http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jEqtQwikRkrkg6EE6hed0tDKgjaA http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/roman-era-mummy-uncovered-in-egypt-oasis.h\ tml Athens' Panathenaic Stadium is open to the public: http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/318944,ancient-stadium-in-athens-opens-d\ oors-to-public.html http://www.nj.com/newsflash/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-18/1271350681230190.xm\ l&storylist=entertainment Walkers are damaging Hadrian's Wall: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8616973.stm Looking for evidence of Roman Lincoln: http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Digging-city-s-past/article-2003513-det\ ail/article.html A British research ship accidentally found a pile of Roman pots off the coast of Italy: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1265668/Hundreds-rare-Roman-pots-\ accidentally-uncovered-seabed-British-research-ship.html Interesting project looking at art in the Roman provinces: http://www.browndailyherald.com/art-historians-dig-into-movable-feast-1.2224777 Plans to cash in on Tios' ancient theatre: http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-207540-132-expat-voice-black-seas-single-\ ancient-theater-to-draw-in-tourism.html Pondering the origins of the marathon: http://www.metrowestdailynews.com/features/x53546719/The-original-marathon-and-i\ ts-connection-to-Hopkinton Interesting Ibero-Celtic helmet from a recent auction: http://www.paulfrasercollectibles.com/section.asp?catid=77&docid=2732 What Francesca D'Alessandro Behr is up to: http://thedailycougar.com/2010/04/15/professor-gives-insight-into-historical-fig\ ure/ Nice interview with Matt Roller: http://media.www.jhunewsletter.com/media/storage/paper932/news/2010/04/15/NewsFe\ atures/Things.Ive.Learned.With.Matt.Roller-3908130.shtml Charlotte Higgins on Clash of the Titans: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2010/apr/12/clash-titans-\ classics There's a miniseries based on Robert Harris' Pompeii in the works: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/robert-harriss-pompeii-to-\ get-a-ridley-scott-adaptation-1943727.html http://www.variety.com/article/VR1118017554.html?categoryid=14&cs=1&ref=bd_tv http://www.empireonline.com/news/story.asp?NID=27571 Roman lead is going to be used in neutrino research: http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100415/full/news.2010.186.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=roman-ingots-to-shield-detector http://www.physorg.com/news190646406.html Review of Richard Stoneman, *Alexander the Great*: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/alexander-the-grea\ t-a-life-in-legend-by-richard-stoneman-1945731.html Review of V.D. Hansen (ed.), *Makers of Ancient Strategy*: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2010/apr/16/book-review-makers-of-ancient-st\ rategy/ Review of David Breeze, *The Antonine Wall*: http://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/468.asp Review of John Bainville, *The Infinities*: http://www.edmontonjournal.com/Eavesdropping+suffering+mortals+with+some+human+g\ ods/2921144/story.html Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Some 300 years b.p. shoes found during castle wall restoration in Germany: http://www.thelocal.de/society/20100413-26503.html Not sure if we've mentioned this silver-crucifix-from-Gloucestershire find yet: http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/5075753.Silver_crucifix_found_in_Glouces\ tershire_declared_treasure/ A mysterious 'chapel' underneath a home in Shropshire: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1263965/Family-discover-ancient-chapel-h\ idden-house-100-years.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ [no Asian stories this week?] Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Paleoindians adapted to changing climate: http://www.physorg.com/news190288067.html http://www.springer.com/about+springer/media/springer+select?SGWID=0-11001-6-900\ 322-0 ... while Native Americans appear to have had a much larger carbon footprint than previously thought: http://www.physorg.com/news190561417.html Digging at Monticello: http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=75189 No evidence of Donner Party cannibalism: http://news.discovery.com/history/donner-party-cannibalism.html http://www.news.appstate.edu/2010/04/15/cannibalism-donner/ More on the demise of megafauna: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uoa-amh040910.php Review of Leo Damrosch, *Tocqueville's Discovery of America*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/books/review/Reynolds-t.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Feature on Arturo Pascual's work at El Tajin: http://thedailycougar.com/2010/04/14/study-gives-insight-to-mayan-culture/ Study of the sorts of thing Classic Maya embedded in their homes: http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uoia-cmh041410.php http://www.physorg.com/news190466011.html Some revisionism in regards to indigenous Patagonian societies: http://www.physorg.com/news190373658.html More coverage of that Purepecha urban centre find: http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-sci-mexico13-2010apr13,0,2496\ 280.story?track=rss http://www.physorg.com/news190490832.html More on arsenic-laden mummies from Chile: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/100412-chile-oldest-mummies-pois\ on-arsenic/ 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 ================================================================ Very interesting column on archaeological involvement in military situations: http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/article/8524/ A purloined Vermeer shows up on the Simpsons: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/heist-to-see-you-stolen-vermeer-res\ urfaces-on-the-simpsons/?ref=design An interesting copy of *The Jungle Book* has turned up in the UK: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/books/12arts-ARAREJUNGLEB_BRF.html Turin Shroud coverage: http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,,5466314,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8613258.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8615029.stm (authenticity) http://newsweek.washingtonpost.com/onfaith/panelists/mathew_n_schmalz/2010/04/im\ agining_the_shroud_of_turin_1.html Searching for the 'real' Robin Hood: http://www.guardian.co.uk/film/2010/apr/14/robin-hood-russell-crowe Nice APOD of Venus and Mercury over Notre Dame: http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100412.html Who won the Pulitzers: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/business/media/2010-Arts-Pulitzers.html With a volcano in the news, folks might be interested in the predecessor's history: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/magazine/8624791.stm Review of Claire Harman, *Jane's Fame*: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/books/review/Gee-t.html ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Greece: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36318440/ns/travel-active/ http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ricksteveseurope/2011593930_websteves13.ht\ ml Syria: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/middleeast/syria/7590524/Syria-Fe\ et-first-into-history.html ================================================================ BLOGS AND PODCASTS ================================================================ Robert Cargill's History of Jerusalem course on iTunes: http://deimos3.apple.com/WebObjects/Core.woa/Browse/ucla-public.3421656258.03421\ 656260 About.com Archaeology: http://archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Naked Archaeology Podcast: http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A collection of pre-Hispanic artifacts seized by Mexican police turns out to be primarily fakes: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37492 http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hYdU4_WSJc705nGBAFARRBZi_lxgD9\ F3RP780 Some diggers were arrested near Beit Shemesh: http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=173094 A high-profile antiquities thief is being extradited to the US: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37442 The Getty is appealing an Italian court's decision in regards to the Fano Athlete: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Greek-bronze-will-stay-in-the-Getty-Vill\ a%20/20504 Fallout from Robin Symes' activities has Italy angrey at the UK: http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2010/04/11/antiquities-italy-britain.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/apr/11/robin-symes-italy-antiques-lo\ oted Latest in the Utah case: http://www.fox13now.com/news/local/kstu-judge-upholds-utah-man-artifacts-case,0,\ 1533119.story?track=rss ... and a nice overview of the whole thing, in case you haven't been following it: http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/apr/15/blanding-treasure-hunt-suicides-fbi Indian police recovered an idol stolen last month in Lalitpur: http://www.ptinews.com/news/607151_Ancient-idol-recovered--man-arrested Looting Matters: http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Some metal detectorists in Yorkshire have come across a major 12th century hoard: http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Treasure-hunters-strike-gold-with.6228858.jp http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1266289/Treasure-hunters-strike-silver-h\ uge-hoard-12th-century-coins.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8620394.stm Latest eSylum newsletter: http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v13n15.html Ancient Coin Collecting: http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Link: http://www.coinlink.com/News/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Devotion and Ritual: http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/public-works-bronze-statuette-of-harpo\ crates/story-e6frg8n6-1225853590538 Paul Sandby: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/arts/17iht-melik17.html Reunited Masterpieces: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/11/nyregion/11artct.html 49 Cities: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/13/DD7H1CR1KC.DTL Audubon: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/travel/16audubon.html A History of the World (BM) http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/ Attendance at Greek Museums is way up: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ipm5hVpxZjuD8QZbYG9puLWA9K7Q Egypt has signed an agreement with Switzerland in relation to recovering antiquities: http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=102148&code=Ne8&category=1 The British Museum has some correcting to do: http://www.essexcountystandard.co.uk/news/8101963.Colchester__British_Museum_to_\ correct_Roman_Circus_slip_up/ The Smithsonian now has a director of education: http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/smithsonian-names-director-of-educa\ tion Iran apparently wants compensation in the Cyrus Cylinder saga: http://www.payvand.com/news/10/apr/1166.html http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=217775 The Lewis Chessmen are going on display in Scotland: http://www.culture24.org.uk/history+%2526+heritage/art77720 Real life 'nights at the museum': http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/arts/design/18sfculture.html The Bosworth battle gallery will soon be opening: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8621499.stm Assorted antiques items of interest: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/arts/design/16antiques.html Record price for a Titanic letter: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8628056.stm ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ An Iliad: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/thearts/2011615452_iliad16.html?syndicatio\ n=rss Drinking Party: http://www.utulsa.edu/collegian/article.asp?article=4565 Folk Art by Female Hands: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/arts/design/16women.html The White Guard: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/14/arts/14iht-lon14.html Through African Eyes: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/arts/design/16african.html Graphic Heroes, Magic Monsters: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/16/arts/design/16kuniyoshi.html La Commedia: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/17/arts/music/17asko.html Faust: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/12/arts/music/12faust.html A 'manuscript' version of some Shumann pieces: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/13/arts/music/13hampson.html America: The Story of US (TV): http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/arts/television/18story.html Tom Sawyer: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/nyregion/18theaterct.html ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Samuel M. Paley: http://www.buffalonews.com/2010/04/15/1019998/samuel-m-paley-noted-archaeologist\ .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 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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================================================================ explorator 13.01 April 25, 2010 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Barnea Selavan, Edward Rockstein, Duke Jason Griffiths, Donna Hurst, Kurt Theis, Richard Price,John McMahon, Thomas W Kavanagh, Joseph Lauer, Quentin Mackie, Mike Ruggeri,Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). Heading into our fourteenth year of bringing you the best (and much of the rest) of archaeo-historico-anthropo-miscellaneanews!) ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Earliest hominids had our 'precision grip' at least six million years b.p.: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-hominids-thumbs.html http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58407/title/For_ancient_hominids,_thu\ mbs_up_on_precision_grip Once again we read of the possibility of neanderthals interbreeding with more 'modern' humans, but now it's happening 'twice': http://www.physorg.com/news191047192.html http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100420/full/news.2010.194.html?s=news_rss http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1268003/We-little-bit-Neanderthal\ -study-finds-species-interbred-humans.html http://www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpscience/2010/04/early-humans-may-hav\ e-bred-wit.html What we can learn from Neanderthal DNA: http://www.physorg.com/news191172239.html Arguing over whether limbs belong to homo floresiensis: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58410/title/Hobbit_debate_goes_out_on\ _some__limbs Using lice DNA to figure out when humans began wearing clothes: http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/58435/title/Lice_hang_ancient_date_on\ _first_clothes ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ An African 'Jewish' tribe is displaying what it believes is the Ark of the Covenant: http://www.thejc.com/news/world-news/30865/african-jewish-tribe-displays-its-los\ t-ark ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Farming sites in Syria dating to the 10th millennium B.C.: http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201004205583/Related-news-from-Syria/ar\ chaeological-sites-mark-location-of-farming-in-syria-from-10th-millennium-bc.htm\ l Some burials from the Burnt City: http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=124259§ionid=351020105 An attempt to revive tourism in Iraq: http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gxhN-XScc9ZPJ9ftfgatQBJsZyiw http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/7079002/tours-of-iraqs-ancient-wonder\ s-open-up-as-violence-ebbs/ ... and the French have returned to dig in Iraq too: http://www.kyivpost.com/news/world/detail/64636/ http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36689033/ns/technology_and_science-science/ Feature o students digging at Um Qais: http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=25948 Jerusalem has reopened the Jaffa Gate: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/04/21/AR2010042101707.\ html http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/137131 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/wire/sns-ap-ml-israel-jerusalem-renovati\ on,0,6865675.story http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/04/21/1011689/jerusalems-jaffa-gate-is-reop\ ened http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 Mysterious lines in various desert environments in Israel, Jordan, etc. were 'funnels' to direct wild animals to their demise: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/desert-lines-hunting-tool-kites.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/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Some Roman altar stones from a cricket field in Scotland: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8640741.stm Lots of press attention for a find of a temple in Italy which comes with what are called 'assembly instructions': http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article7104144.ece http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/04/22/Ancient-ruin-reminiscent-of-Ikea-furn\ iture/UPI-89761271990708/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/7614093/Archaeologists-un\ earth-6th-century-Ikea-style-temple.html They've revived that Roman-temple-in-Southwell story for some reason: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/8623578.stm Potentially interesting Roman sculpture from Stobi (probably not Octavian as mentioned in one of the articles): http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=123890§ionid=3510212 A possible Roman burial from Malta: http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20100422/local/ancient-tomb-unearthed-\ in-attard ... although the following suggests it's Punic: http://www.maltamediaonline.com/?p=24014 A Bulgarian site is/was threatened by road construction: http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1907 http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=115439 Feature on Cleopatra (nothing new here): http://www2.macleans.ca/2010/04/22/the-truth-about-cleopatra/ Arguing about Homer's birthplace: http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=nhl-playoff-leaders-2010-04-19 Latest 'Dear Socrates': http://www.philosophynow.org/issue78/78socrates.htm Nice feature on the death of Pythagoras: http://www.philosophynow.org/issue78/78pennington.htm Mary Beard on ostracism: http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2010/04/a-threecornered-election-the-an\ cient-athenian-solution.html What David Davies is up to: http://media.www.udallasnews.com/media/storage/paper743/news/2010/04/20/News/Dav\ ies.Gives.Lecture.On.Archaeological.Traces.Of.Lit.Trad.I-3910742.shtml What Kathleen Coleman is up to: http://www.physorg.com/wire-news/33112863/pushy-parents-in-a-competitive-society\ -how-ancient-roman-teens-h.html On the popularity of sword and sandal flicks: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/7629181/Hollywood-tur\ ns-to-ancient-warriors-and-legends-to-win-audiences.html More on those Greco-Roman mummies from the Barhariya Oasis: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/04/photogalleries/100420-roman-mumm\ y-egypt-pictures/ (photos) Review of Matthew Dennison, *Empress of Rome*: http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/empress-of-rome-th\ e-life-of-livia-by-matthew-dennison-1951351.html Review of *The Greek Poets*: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/7614216/The-Greek-Poets-Homer-to-the-Pr\ esent-ed-by-Peter-Constantine-Rachel-Hadas-Edmund-Keeley-and-Karen-Van-Dyck-revi\ ew.html Review of Charlotte Higgins, *It's All Greek to Me*: http://blogcritics.org/books/article/book-review-its-all-greek-to/ Review of Adrienne Mayor, *The Poison King*: http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n08/michael-kulikowski/butcher-boy Review of Richard Miles, *Carthage Must Be Destroyed*: http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2010/0424/1224269017171.html Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/ Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Interesting stones from Devon: http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/apr/19/ancient-stones-devon-dartmoor A Bronze Age ditch in Hereford may have been a city boundary of sorts: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/8632188.stm A very successful metal-detectorist: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/7606459/Pensioner-uncove\ rs-500000-treasure.html They're going to 'laser scan' Robin Hood's oubliette: http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/nottingham/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_86300\ 00/8630926.stm ... and we have the obligatory 'real Robin Hood' piece: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/film/7611255/So-who-is-the-real-Robin-Hood.ht\ ml An interesting (second) dug-out canoe find: I think we've already mentioned this 'relocation-of-the-Battle -of-Prestonpans' story already (maybe not): http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Battle-lines-redrawn-at-scene.6238846.jp http://news.stv.tv/scotland/east-central/171487-archaeologists-find-battle-of-pr\ estonpans-took-place-at-different-location/ http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/8630534.stm Review of Deborah Deliyannis, *Ravenna in Late Antiquity*: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703630404575053701579423056.html?m\ od=WSJ_Books_LS_Books_2 Archaeology in Europe Blog: http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Not sure if we've mentioned this Han Dynasty tomb from China's Hubei province: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6955068.html Not sure if this destruction of some 1300 years b.p. walls by highway construction was planned or accidental: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6957498.html China plans on preserving the oldest section of the Great Wall: http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/6962172.html A 2000 years b.p. buddhist 'study centre': http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/india/Unearthed-2-000-yr-old-study-centre/\ Article1-532997.aspx http://www.hindustantimes.com/rssfeed/patna/Another-ancient-centre-of-learning-d\ iscovered/Article1-533095.aspx Interesting meditative Buddha statue: http://www.hindu.com/2010/04/23/stories/2010042351690200.htm On the ancestry of Chinese pigs: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100419150947.htm Evidence of four 'epic droughts' in Asia: http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100422/tsc-study-details-at-least-four-epic-dro-e1\ 23fef.html Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Effigy Mounds may have been damaged by some unauthorized construction: http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/91918429.html OpEd on the Texas history brouhaha: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/18/opinion/18rich.html Some guy in Olympia (Wa) had a bunch of human bones in his house ... we'll wait for followups: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2011645596_apwabonesdiscovery.ht\ ml This week's DNA story is about its unauthorized use in regards to the Havasupai people: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/us/22dna.html http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/22/us/22dnaside.html Interesting bison find on Orcas Island: http://qmackie.wordpress.com/2010/04/24/orcas-bison/ OpEd on ending the slavery 'blame game': http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/23/opinion/23gates.html Review of a couple of tomes on 'imperial wars': http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/25/books/review/Steel-t.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ On what we can learn about climate change from Peruvian mummies: http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/563625/?sc=rssn Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is on the Peace Bridge Site (just down the road from me!): http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ Semi-touristy thing on Calakmul: http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2010/04/23/TR631D01P6.DTL An honour for Pilar Luna Erreguerena: http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37646 http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=4297 Arturo Pascual was talking about El Tajin: http://thedailycougar.com/2010/04/14/study-gives-insight-to-mayan-culture/ ... and there's a new theory about El Tajin: http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index2.php?option=com_content&do_pdf=1&id=4292 More on Maya burials (etc.) within homes: http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/maya-burial-homes-histories.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 ================================================================ Not sure we've mentioned this Arab trading ship reconstruction: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_pictures/8632302.stm ... while another group is set to recreate Captain Bligh's 'odyssey': http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/australiaandpacific/tonga/7610486\ /Adventurers-to-recreate-Captain-Blighs-odyssey.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/8631607.stm Interesting item on the mummification of Otzi ... on the molecular level: http://www.physorg.com/news190967981.html That volcano in Iceland has stranded some archaeologists: http://media-newswire.com/release_1116986.html ... and in case you're collecting photos: http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2010/04/more_from_eyjafjallajokull.html Nice feature on the work of the Glenn A. Black Laboratory of Archaeology: http://www.idsnews.com/news/story.aspx?id=75420 ... and a nice feature on the British Library's map collection: http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/apr/24/british-library-magnificent-maps This seems kind of obvious, b
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