explorator 5.45
David Meadows
explorator 5.45 March 9, 2003
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Karl Wittwer, Donna Hurst, Arieh
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Chris Renaud, Rick Pettigrew, Dave Sowdon, Bill Kennedy, Hernan
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Time for the annual 'what-happened-to-the-Neanderthals' piece, this
time suggesting they did not interbreed with 'modern' humans:
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA3NET7ZCD.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/881791.asp
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/03/07/neanderthal.puzzle.ap/index.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=624&ncid=624&e=3&u=/ap/20030306/ap_on_sc/neanderthal_uncertainty_2
... or perhaps they just weren't smart enough:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0306_030306_neanderthal.html
More on the effect war would have on Iraq's archaeological heritage
(is it my imagination, or is there an unprecedented amount of coverage
of
this aspect of the impending conflict? This must be the legacy of the
Bamiyan Buddhas ...):
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/arch-m08.shtml
http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf0126/ (really thorough)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2822095.stm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30035-2003Mar2.html
http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/03/09/build/world/q-archeology.inc
The Daily Star has a nice piece on Sidon:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/05_03_03_a.htm
A recent CAT scan (no pun intended, surely) has revealed that what
was one believed to be a mummified kitty is actually a dog:
http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id=%7b1FC877FB-ECA7-47DE-9468-0E04AC7B146B%7d
A short piece on a recently-discovered statue of Ti:
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o060323.htm
Another book out questions the veracity of the traditional Masada
story:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030310/misc/10masada.htm
This really should be a followup, but since there was so much coverage
in the past week (plus some items passed along that I missed), it's
probably a good thing to bring it up here ... the Villa of the Papyri
is now open to the public:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/880128.asp
http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/03/03/italy.villa.reut/index.html
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/20/wpomp20.xml
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030301_39.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030303/papyri.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,905382,00.html
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=9&cid=585&u=/nm/20030301/sc_nm/italy_villa_dc
A 6000 b.p. axe head has been found by a five-year-old boy in
Worcestershire (and he didn't even stumble):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2818537.stm
The Vindolanda Trust's Roman Army Museum now boasts a theatre:
"Massive" excavation(s) is/are about to begin on Bulgaria's Rhodope
mountain:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=19924
A Byzantine 'treasure trove' has been found by a Hungarian team
working in Alexandria:
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o020323g.htm
http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030307/2003030724.html
Archaeologists have been ordered to start excavations at Ayodhya to
determine whether a Hindu temple once existed there:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/international/asia/06INDI.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,908247,00.html
http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEH20030306003015&Title=Top+Stories&rLink=0
An Anglo Saxon thrysma is up for sale:
http://www.thisisryedale.co.uk/ryedale/news/RYEDALE_NEWS_LOCAL5.html
A detailed study of the timbers of Salisbury Cathedral suggests a
supplier
dispute lies at the basis of the choice of building materials:
http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/05/nsalis05.xml
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,907517,00.html
The wreck of the Princes Royal has been found:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_758651.html
Construction ostensibly designed to make the Tower of London more
tourist friendly has resulted in quite a bit of damage:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,906151,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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Roadwork has revealed a Revolution-era cannon:
http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/atlantic/030803CANNON_M8.html
Peru is asking Yale to return some Machu Pichu artifacts:
http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA04F23YCD.html
More on slave plantations in the North:
http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/05/3e6622bd001c5
This week scientists opened a watch found on the Hunley:
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/local/5345388.htm
http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=3&cid=585&u=/nm/20030307/sc_nm/life_hunley_dc
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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A recent study suggests using DNA to establish the origins of
skeletal material might be misleading:
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s786146.htm
The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing on St. Mary's Abbey
(York):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/travel/sophisticated/ST-STUD.html
The spear which killed Captain Cook is up for sale (scroll down a
bit):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/international/europe/04BRIE4.html
A commission set up to look into Nazi plunder missed looking at a
number of critical records, according to some:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/arts/design/03PANE.html
It seems the Gothic Revival architectural style has revived again:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/arts/design/07ANTI.html
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html
... and Archaeology Odyssey as well:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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ON THE WEB
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The Jerusalem Archaeological Park website is worth visiting if
you haven't before; they've recently addded a section on the early
Islamic Period:
http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp
Mark Chancey, "The Myth of a Gentile Galilee":
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Myth_Gentile_Galilee.htm
Rochelle Altman, "Report on the Temple Tablet":
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/report_temple_tablet.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Isidore of Seville, *Chronicon*:
http://www.history.pomona.edu/kbw/h100y/chronicon.htm
Vegetius, *de re militari*:
http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~madsb/home/war/vegetius/dere00.php3
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ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Sun Watch Indian Village/Archaeological Park:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Switzerland is the centre for illicit antiquities trade:
http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1668784
Some village churches in England are asking for the return of
various brasses which were stolen in the 19th century:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,906843,00.html
A Dali has been stolen from Rikers Island:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/nyregion/08DALI.html
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a feature on St. Patrick:
http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020101a.htm
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a piece on 'social science fiction':
http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa080998.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Barbara Freese, *Coal: A Human History*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/books/review/009TOMAST.html
Not really a review, but an author's account of how he brought
the ancient world 'to life' in his fictional tome "The Spartan":
http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,909458,00.html
Also not a review, but a first chapter of *The Jester*, which seems
like it might appeal to archaeology/conspiracy theory/knights templar
fans:
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E27%257E1228206,00.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Hendrick Golzius (Toledo Museum of Art):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/arts/03ARTS.html
Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting (the Met):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/arts/design/07KIMM.html
Aztecs (London):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,909898,00.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Coverage of a grade six toga party:
http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-2/104711788826730.xml
The Lysistrata Project coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/nyregion/04PROT.html
http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/529p22b.htm (Cuba!)
http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/03/29688898.shtml?Element_ID=29688898
Here's the latest on the Iliad movie in the making:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_2829000/2829997.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_757695.html
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-12263327,00.html
The botanical history of the Colosseum:
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030303/030303-2.html
The Cleveland Museum of Art has just purchased five massive
mythological paintings by Charles Meynier:
base/entertainment/1046773951296960.xml
A nice piece on the ancient Olympics:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826530163.html
ClassCon in a piece on French gluttony:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/arts/06GLUT.html
... and a piece on the ethics of war:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/arts/08ETHI.html
... and a piece on blonds (or blondes):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/arts/08BLON.html
A nice piece on various Roman things associated with the
month of March:
http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/Stories/0,1413,209~22484~1220373,00.html
Prior to 911, Donald Rumsfeld was investigating what might
be learned from ancient empires:
http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03092003/commenta/36326.asp
A review of a new game ... Praetorians:
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826526082.html
I *think* I follow this one ... it's an appeal to Greek precedent
for the building of a baseball stadium:
http://ydr.com/story/op-ed/7042/
Perfess'r Harris:
http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-08&id=2866
... and Dot Wordsworth:
http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-08&id=2864
Etymologies:
http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-nypreg093164559mar09,0,7227276.story?coll=ny-health-headlines
(pica)
http://keysnews.com/293135168625057.bsp.htm (nunc pro tunc)
http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n10/ExactlyWhatFree-en.shtml
(annexation)
http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/living/5319191.htm (bracellae)
http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/05/3e65900ec9dff
(vocare)
Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html
Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/
U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Luis Marden (adventurer):
http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-people-marden-obit.html
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