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EARLY HUMANS
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Hopefully we'll hear more of this 'paleolithic Pompeii':
http://tinyurl.com/6lsbp5 (NS)
Oldest human (like) remains in western Europe:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080403185958.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A cuneiform tablet is being connected to the destruction of
Sodom and Gomorrah (numerous problems with this, I suspect):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3649054.ece
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=41885
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/31/scitablet131.xml
http://tinyurl.com/5637et
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=551010&in_page_id=1770
A find at a market in Cairo suggests Tutankhamun played marbles:
http://tinyurl.com/55wa57 (ET)
Nice feature on Elaine Pagels work:
http://www2.nysun.com/article/74033
... and evidence of globalization at Ramat Rachel:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/04/080402120504.htm
A lecture on Kathleen Kenyon:
http://www.baylor.edu/lariat/news.php?action=story&story=50176
Plans are afoot for Tiberias:
http://tinyurl.com/67ecpw (JPost)
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1366&module_id=#as
Donald Redford on how the pyramids were built:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080328104302.htm
I think we've already mentioned these First Temple remains:
http://tinyurl.com/64ovyu (CJN)
Inauspicious date on this Ark of the Covenant story:
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/348570.aspx
Nice video of the 'sifting' going on at Temple Mount:
http://www.sourceflix.com/vid_sifting.htm
More coverage of the Red Snake:
http://www.archaeology.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=1555&Itemid=27
More coverage of that colossal statue of Tiye:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080331-egypt-statue.html
More coverage on how life was tough for early Egyptians:
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/6384003.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2008/03/31/2203404.htm
Egyptology News Blog:
http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
Egyptology Blog:
http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
Persepolis Fortification Archives:
http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/
Archaeologist at Large:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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On Minoan DNA:
http://tinyurl.com/5wluw8 (Kathimerini)
Some new sermons by Augustine have been discovered (I think this
is legit):
http://www.uni-erfurt.de/presse/archiv/pressemitteilungen/2008/doc/49_08.htm
A Roman jug handle from a Cumberland beach:
http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=822272
Possible Roman burials at Oxford:
http://www.oxfordmail.net/display.var.2163540.0.bones_find_may_be_roman.php
Plans are afoot to restore (somewhat) the Circus Maximus:
http://tinyurl.com/5876sa (Independent)
Coverage of the European Festival of Latin and Greek:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3685859.ece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/05/wrap105.xml
Feature on Apollo at Bassae:
http://www.granma.cu/ingles/2008/abril/juev3/14frisos-i.html
Threats to the Appian Way:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/arts/design/05appi.html
Nice overview of the history of excavations at Fishbourne Roman
Palace:
http://www.chichester.co.uk/chichester/Fishbourne-field-that-entranced-the.3916129.jp
Nice article on ancient science/engineering:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01clas.html
... and one on Valerio Manfredi:
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSL3130125920080402
More on how Actium changed the world:
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/229407.php/Battle-of-Actium-in-31-BC-changed-the-world
That Mount Lykaion story still has legs:
http://www.huliq.com/55822/dig-turns-surprises-and-questions-ancient-greece
Recent reviews from BMCR:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html
Recent reviews from Scholia:
http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm
Visit our blog:
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
Blegen Library News:
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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They're digging at Stonehenge:
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/heritage/story/0,,2269815,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080331/sc_nm/britain_stonehenge_dc_1
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/31/nstonehenge131.xml
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/first-stonehenge-dig-in-44-years-802950.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-secret-of-stonehenge-803113.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/4610b5ec-ff74-11dc-b556-000077b07658.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7322134.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=551668&in_page_id=1770
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/britainarchaeologyhistoryheritage
cf:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/04/02/do0207.xml
... and there's a dig diary online:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/programmes/stonehenge/
Possible earliest straightforward evidence of whaling (from
Russia):
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/uoaf-rrt040408.php
http://tinyurl.com/yu9pyt (DI)
A medieval gateway at Taunton Castle:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/somerset/7326112.stm
Fifty years of Czech archaeology:
http://www.praguepost.com/articles/2008/04/02/fifty-years-of-czech-egyptology.php
Flooding threatens historical sites in Norfolk:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/31/easwamp131.xml
Viking-era Arab coins from near Stockholm (!):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/7330540.stm
... while there's a major Viking conference coming up:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uon-fbt033108.php
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblo /index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Buddha relics in a Pakistan dam:
http://www.karachinews.net/story/344723
A Maori midden:
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/536641/1680979
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting underwater archaeology report about 16th century
Basque remains in Red Bay:
http://www.cnw.ca/fr/releases/archive/April2008/04/c2586.html
Plenty of press coverage for the extraction of some human
DNA from feces found in Oregon which suggest ties to Siberia:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/uoc-tvt040308.php
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-04/uoo-rlb033108.php
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2008/04/04/5190871-sun.html
(best headline)
http://tinyurl.com/3djwyr (BG)
http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/109188/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/04/03/MNHQVUHKI.DTL
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080403/us_nm/humans_feces_dc_3
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080403.woldpoop0303/BNStory/Science/home
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/science/04fossil.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/539341/?sc=rssn
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89355318
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7329505.stm
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2004322592_weboldpoop03m.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080403-first-americans.html
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=8658
Prehistoric bones in a Wisconsin cave:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_sc/old_bones_2
Some old bones found near Kingston's RMC likely belong to some
1800s navy-type:
http://www.thewhig.com/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=971560
Diving for a shipwreck off Cape Danger:
http://www.homertribune.com/article.php?aid=2787
A possible slave burial dispute in/near Kansas City:
http://www.kccall.com/article.cfm?articleid=2208
Fire has destroyed some historic buildings in Quebec City:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/americas/7331958.stm
Searching for Cinnabar:
http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2008/03/30/news/mtregional/news07.txt
Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is on the excavation
of an 18th-century church in Virginia:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
On the continuation of slavery after the Civil War:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89051115
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A temple find at Cusco:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080331-inca-temple.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=42380
On Aztec math/taxation:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080403/sc_nm/aztecs_math_dc_1
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/90879/6386673.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/world/americas/7329462.stm
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=44178
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/n03475865-aztecs-math/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080403-aztec-math.html
Earliest known gold jewellery in the Americas has been found in
Peru:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7323351.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/science/01obgold.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080401/ap_on_sc/oldest_gold_8
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=4560581
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080331200242.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080331/sc_livescience/oldestgoldartifactinamericasfound
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3238372147353821600
http://www.livescience.com/history/080331-old-gold.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/04/080402-necklace-video-ap.html
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=8637
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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There's going to be an Ice Man symposium in Victoria:
http://tinyurl.com/68xmk8 (Sun)
Humans learned about medicine from monkeys, apparently:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/04/01/scimonkey101.xml
The world's oldest practicing archaeologist:
http://tinyurl.com/36mtq9 (Independent)
Raphael's Madonna del Cardellino has been restored:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/01/wraphael101.xml
There's a new Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology
at UB:
http://www.buffalo.edu/reporter/vol39/vol39n27/articles/ArchaeologyInst.html
Some April foolery:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0401/p19s01-hfks.html
http://www.livescience.com/mysteries/080401-llm-april-fools.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/whendidaprilfoolsdaybegin
A celebration of poetry:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/books/05poetry.html
Eighteenth century bling:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3667581.ece
On the origins of Miss Havisham:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article3626999.ece
A history of ballet:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/arts/dance/03ball.html
The need for accurate time:
http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/features/clock_work_1948.html
I guess this sort of thing explains the popularity of shows about the
comparative intelligence of fifth graders:
Orgies through the ages:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3654980.ece
The latest in the Odyssey Marine saga:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601085&sid=aCf8q9KEmHbo&refer=europe
Review of Peter Morris, *But Didn't We Have Fun?*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/06/books/review/Olney-t.html
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/
Arts and Letters Daily:
Past Preservers:
http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]
Tel Dan:
Hopkins in Egypt Today:
http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:
Archaeorama:
http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/
Archaeoblog:
http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The aftermath of that Easter Island 'delobing':
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23972657/
cf:
http://tinyurl.com/57sfer (Independent)
Some aboriginal art was stolen from an Australian museum:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/04/01/2204203.htm
Graffiti-vandals are damaging Peru's Sacsayhuaman fortress:
http://www.kansascity.com/news/world/story/553408.html
http://www.azstarnet.com/sn/news/232110.php
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5726_345964867,00.html
Tourists are stripping Rome bare:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/03/wrome103.xml
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=44197
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A major dispute between the Hispanic Society of America and the
ANS over ownership of a collection ... I'm sure we'll be
hearing moe about this one:
http://tinyurl.com/5chtv2 (Spanish)
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Poussin:
http://www.tnr.com/story.html?id=9e1c8941-974b-40e4-a651-66404e4d897a
Tut:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=23764
Japanese lacquer:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/arts/design/04lacq.html
Vienna Workshops Jewellery:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/arts/design/03wien.html
Feigenbaum Hall of Innovation:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/05/arts/design/05muse.html
Earl Cunningham:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/arts/design/04cunn.html
Babylon at the Louvre:
http://tinyurl.com/6pn7y2
http://rambambashi.wordpress.com/2008/03/30/babylon-exhibition-in-the-louvre/
The latest Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga coverage:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2008-03-30-marbles_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.newsday.com/travel/ny-f5635998apr06,0,3195914.story
What's hiding in the British Museum:
http://tinyurl.com/3xdg6p (Independent)
Museums are 'struggling' with provenance issues:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2008/0402/p13s01-alar.html
Arsinoe visits Rome:
http://www.theromanforum.com/articolo.asp?ID=677
A record price for a Lincoln letter:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7329815.stm
The auction of what might be the world's oldest photo has been
put on hold:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/03/arts/03arts-ISPHOTOOLDOR_BRF.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Antony and Cleopatra:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/theater/reviews/04anto.html
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OBITUARIES
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Nicolas Coldstream:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/04/04/db0402.xml
Robert F. Goheen:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/01/nyregion/01goheen.html
http://www.northjersey.com/education/University_man.html
Robert Fagles:
http://www.dailyprincetonian.com/2008/03/28/20597/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89248513&ft=1&f=1001
http://tinyurl.com/6lnqaa (NP)
http://www.latimes.com/news/printedition/california/la-me-fagles30mar30,1,5294949.story
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/29/style/obit.php
Jules Dassin:
http://www.charlotte.com/local/story/561392.html
Robert P. Lang:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/04/nyregion/04lang.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
The Dig:
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
Archaeologica Audio News:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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