explorator 15.47

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John
McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Wilfried Zankl,
Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Trevor Ogden, Allen Mark, David Critchley, Bret
Mulligan, Carolyn Snively, Richard Campbell, Dorothy Lobel King, Wendy
van Duivenvoorde, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent
for headses upses thisweek (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Somewhat strange (to me, anyways) theory that Neanderthals may have died
out because they couldn’t keep up with the rabbits:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2013/03/the-neanderthals-ma
y-have-died-out-because-of-bunnies/273684/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2289136/Did-rabbits-kill-n
eanderthals-Researchers-believe-inability-hunt-small-animals-led-demise.h
tml
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/06/17208416-what-killed-neandert
hals-scientists-blame-those-rascally-rabbits?lite
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0047248413000079
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/05/rabbits-neanderthal-extinction-e
arly-humans-prey_n_2807210.html?utm_hp_ref=green&ir=Green

That recently-found homo erectus from China has been named Luanchan Man:

http://www.nzweek.com/technology/new-chinese-fossil-discovery-named-luanc
huan-man-53026/
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/03/08/China-human-fossil-discovery-g
ets-name/UPI-83081362783221/

Feature on the Broken Hill skull:

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-early-human-fossil-africa-debut.html

Rather vague item about ‘prehistoric people’ having better teeth
than their modern counterparts:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/02/prehistoric-humans-had-
better-teeth-than-we-do/

… related, I think:

http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130227140324676

Pondering the ‘paleolithic peak’ of humanity:

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-werent-minnesota-biologist-debunks-myth.html


Latest theory suggests homo floresiensis was a dwarf (gimli not frodo?):

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21729074.300-tiny-monkey-teeth-sugg
est-flores-hobbit-was-a-dwarf.html

Fluff piece on early humans being fashion conscious:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/03/human-ancestors-were-fashio
n-con.html?rss=1

Taking facial reconstructions of human ancestors to an interesting
extreme:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9i_oJn-9d_0&feature=youtu.be

They’re still talking about the possibility of cloning Neanderthals:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/03/130306-neanderthal-genome
-extinction-cloning-hominid-science/

… and the interbreeding thing:

http://discovermagazine.com/2013/march/14-interbreeding-neanderthals#.UTx
13jctcmw

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AFRICA
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Some Neolithic (it seems) cave burials from Libya:

http://www.livescience.com/27697-stone-age-libyan-burials-unearthed.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/03/07/stone-age-skeletons-libya-sahara
-desert-gender_n_2828251.html

The DAI has been looking at Yeha as center of the Ethiopian-Sabaic
Kingdom of Di’amat:

http://www.dainst.org/de/project/yeha?ft=all (German)


More on the rescue of Timbuktu manuscripts:

http://world.time.com/2013/02/21/inside-the-secret-operation-to-rescue-ti
mbuktus-manuscripts/
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/germans-helped-to-rescue-ancie
nt-islamic-scripts/story-fnb64oi6-1226590791999
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id=57274
http://www.universityworldnews.com/article.php?story=20130215121337580
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Analysis of skeletons from the Qubbet el-Hawa oasis suggest upper class
Egyptians suffered from malnutrition and preventable disease:

http://www.livescience.com/27687-wealthy-ancient-egyptian-disease.html
http://news.yahoo.com/wealthy-ancient-egyptians-suffered-disease-22322887
6.html
http://www.albanytribune.com/07032013-ancient-egypt-rulers-died-young-suf
fering-from-malnutrition-and-infectious-diseases/
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-governors-ancient-egypt-malnutrition-dying.h
tml
http://canal.ugr.es/health-science-and-technology/item/63452

The DAI has been busy studying the Badia region of Jordan:

http://www.dainst.org/de/project/badia-jordan?ft=all (German)

… and the water supply system of Qasr Mushash:
http://www.dainst.org/de/project/wassermanagement-w%C3%BCstenregionen-das
-beispiel-qasr-mushashjordanien-fr%C3%BChislamischer-zeit?ft=all
(German)

… and the neolithic site of Shir in Western Syria:
http://www.dainst.org/de/project/shir?ft=all (German)

… and the urban development of Resafa in Roman and Islamic times:
http://www.dainst.org/de/project/resafa?ft=all (German)

Fighting to keep folks from encroaching on Amarna:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/66211/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt
/Authorities-foil-encroachment-on-Egypts-Tel-AlAmar.aspx

Plumbing problems threaten the Khufu solar boat (maybe):

http://bikyanews.com/86316/breaking-ancient-egypt-pryamid-boat-threatened
-after-sewage-burst/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/622-130305-egypt-solar-boat-khufu

Nice feature on a graduate student’s study of a child’s sarcophagus:

http://www.penn.museum/sites/artifactlab/tag/child-sarcophagus/

Iran has been busy mapping sites:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/106182-iran-completes-first-p
hase-of-mapping-of-archaeological-sites
http://old.mehrnews.com/en/newsdetail.aspx?NewsID=1818354

Archaeologists are claiming to have found the place where Jesus preached
at the Temple:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/News/Spettacolo/Archeologia-scoperto-il-punt
o-in-cui-Gesu-ammaestrava-i-dottori-del-Tempio_314253266366.html

OpEddish thing suggesting archaeology is a political thing in Israel
(really?):

http://www.nzz.ch/aktuell/international/archaeologie-im-dienst-der-politi
k-in-jerusalem-1.18039609

Latest Syria coverage:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21702546

The Jordan codices are still getting some press attention:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/erasmus/2013/03/test-those-mysterious-codi
ces

I was under the impression that the Nationall Museum in Iraq had
reopened, but maybe not?:

http://tammuz.tumblr.com/post/44549674493/forbidden-museum-iraqis-cannot-
visit-their-national

Still promoting a very unscholarly book suggesting Cleopatra was
murdered:

http://www.the-scientist.com//?articles.view/articleNo/34470/title/
CSI--Ancient-Alexandria/

Review of F Raphael, *A Jew Among Romans*:

http://www.haaretz.com/culture/books/doing-justice-to-josephus-ancient-je
wish-archetype.premium-1.507454

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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On the millet-eating trend in Roman diets:

http://news.yahoo.com/most-ancient-romans-ate-animals-165353530.html

Interesting find from the Roman Maryport site:

http://www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/scrap-of-wool-unravels-christian
-church-find-1.1040877?referrerPath=/t_s_news_feed_1_17079

Pondering whether Latin is alive or dead:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/mind-your-language/2013/mar/08/
mind-your-language-latin

Feature on byzantine finds from the Thessaloniki metro construction:

http://www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/2013/03/08/%E2%80%9Cthe-significance-o
f-the-finds-is-unbreakably-connected-to-the-place-they-were-found%E2%80%9
D/

We’re hearing again of a possible museum at Troy:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/troy-ancient-city-to-have-own-museum.asp
x?pageID=238&nid=42590&NewsCatID=375

… while construction of a Lycian museum is under way:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/museum-on-the-way-in-ancient-lycian-city
.aspx?pageID=238&nID=42318&NewsCatID=375

Some more coverage of the infant discardings at Poggio Civitate:

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-discarded-infants-ancient-poggio-civitate.ht
ml
http://archaeology.tumblr.com/post/44746666741/archaeological-news-the-di
scarded-infants-of-ancient

Adrienne Mayor ponders Herodotus’ flying snakes:

http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2013/03/flying-snakes-in-ancient-egypt.h
tml

Medea is playing at London’s Roman amphitheatre:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturevideo/9918286/Londons-Roman-Amp
hitheatre-reopens-after-1500-years.html

Very nice slideshow of Roman ruins in Libya:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9909936/Roman-
ruins-in-Libya-aerial-photographs-by-Jason-Hawkes.html

Review of Robert Knapp, *Invisible Romans*:

http://blogs.spectator.co.uk/books/2013/03/review-invisible-romans-by-rob
ert-knapp/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=review-invisible-ro
mans-by-robert-knapp

More on that statistical analysis which decided Homer lived when most
people say he did:

http://articles.philly.com/2013-03-08/news/37535360_1_hittite-words-greek
-hero

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Yet another theory on the original intent of Stonehenge (I think we’ve
heard these before):

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-stonehenge-ancient-rave-theory.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21724084
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/researchers-stonehenge-started-huge-gravey
ard
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/mar/09/archaeology-stonehenge-bone
s-burial-ground

Remains of four Neolithic era buildings near Windsor:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/mar/07/bershire-quarry-old-houses
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2013/03/05/southern-england%E2%80%
99s-first-housing-development
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2013/03/07/making-neolithic-house

That Viking sunstone which we first heard of over a year ago is making
the rounds of the news again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-21693140
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/europe/130306/viking-suns
tone-may-have-been-found-shipwreck
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-shipwreck-legendary-sunstone.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/03/scienceshot-sunstone-uneart
hed-f.html
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Stone-in-shipwreck-may-be-Viking-navig
ators-tool-4339195.php
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/03/07/weve-found-a-viking-sunstone-in-t
he-remains-on-a-16th-century-shipwreck-scientists/
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/03/07/17226474-first-evidence-of-vi
king-like-sunstone-pulled-from-shipwreck?lite

Excavating a medieval road in Lincoln:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/hidden-medieval-road-linked-Lincoln-t
hriving-port/story-18334840-detail/story.html#axzz2Mejok636

Nice study of five centuries’ worth of history of a medieval french
village:

http://www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Communiques-de-pres
se/p-15475-Aimargues-une-fouille-archeologique-revele-cinq-siecles-d-hist
oire-d-un-village-du-haut-Moyen-Age.htm (French)

Interesting feature on 13th century autopsies/dissections:

http://www.livescience.com/27624-mummy-head-middle-ages-anatomy.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/624-130305-middle-ages-medicine-dissectio
n
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/03/05/grotesque-mummy-head-reveals-ad
vanced-medieval-science/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2289132/The-Dark-Ages-Mumm
ified-head-1200AD-reveals-enlightened-doctors-dissecting-human-bodies-cen
turies-earlier-previously-thought.html

OK … we’ve found Richard III … let’s poke around and see if we
can find Stephen:

http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/383117/Hunt-for-bones-of-King-Stephen

… and now we can start psychoanalyzing Richard III:

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-king-richard-iii-freak.html

What Vikings really looked like:

http://sciencenordic.com/what-vikings-really-looked

Latest Lewis Chessmen news:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-21654248

Excitement over a Valkyrie heading to the BM:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/mar/04/viking-valkyrie-figurine-br
itish-museum

Latest Bronze Age boat replica floated successfully:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/it-didnt-sink-fulls
ize-sewntogether-replica-of-a-bronze-age-boat-launched-to-trials-success-
8521472.html#
http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Historic-boat-crafted-volunteers-National
/story-18334242-detail/story.html#axzz2N8uRnPUk

Report on Richard the Lionheart’s embalmed heart:

http://www.nature.com/srep/2013/130228/srep01296/full/srep01296.html

Clues about ancient Britain’s climate from a woolly rhino find:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/21660528

They want to do an archaeological survey before a solar farm is
installed at Baylham:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-21671502

More concerns arising out of the collapse of Ludlown town walls:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-21640595

They’re cleaning up after the floods at Sibari:

http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/cultura/2013/02/28/Archeologia-Si
bari-parte-rimozione-fango_8325509.html (Italian)
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http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Remains of a Bronze Age settlement near Azerbaijan:

http://en.apa.az/news/188982

Cambodian archaeologists have found pre-Angkor ironworks:

http://www.cambodiadaily.com/selected-features/the-ancient-ironworks-of-a
ngkor-12426/

Excavating “prehistoric neo-mongoloid” bones from a cave in Indonesia:

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=3924

A dagger find is suggesting the states of Sui and Zeng were actually the
same:

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=3926

Remains of wooden bridges near Xian:

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=3922

Using coral to date Tonga settlement:

http://www.the-scientist.com/?articles.view/articleNo/34463/title/Coral-C
locks/

A uranium find threatens some Australian petroglyphs:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2013/mar/08/australian-uranium-disc
overy-art
http://www.theglobalmail.org/feature/rock-art-riches-the-devastating-cost
-of-australias-mining-boom/570/

More on air pollution and the terracotta warriors:

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=3925

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East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Colonial (maybe) burials from Charleston:

http://www.abcnews4.com/story/21439625/archaeologist-bodies-may-be-earlie
st-remains-found-in-charleston

Pondering where Ponce de Leon landed in Florida:

http://www.floridatoday.com/article/A9/20130310/NEWS01/303100058/Where-di
d-Ponce-de-Leon-land-?gcheck=1

Nice feature on Burrows Cave (Illinois):

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2013/03/03/magic-caves-in
-illinois-and-other-archaeological-myths.html

cf:
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2013/03/burrows-cave-and-other-archa
eological.html

More on tobacco use in the Pacific Northwest:

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-uncover-earliest-tobacco-pacific-northwest.h
tml

More on the funeral for those found in the USS Monitor:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-21722231

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Latest research on the fakery of assorted crystal skulls:

http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i9/Crystal-Skulls-Deemed-Fake.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/636-130308-crystal-skulls-fakes-testing
http://phys.org/news/2013-03-science-debunked-ancient-aztec-crystal.html

More on human sacrifice in Peru:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2013/death-and-diet-p
erus-sacrificial-victims

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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Nice feature on assorted technologies being applied to archaeology:

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1333188/hi-tech-discoveries-arch
aeology-transformed/?cs=12

Slide show of some old photos taken when they were poking around St
Peter’s:

http://news.yahoo.com/photos/life-unearthing-history-beneath-st-peter-s-s
lideshow/

A high tech way to read medieval manuscripts:

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-tech-fair-11th-century-21st.html

… and we hear the Vatican plans to digitize its entire library (!):

http://www.news.com.au/technology/vatican-gets-eternal-life-puts-its-enti
re-library-online/story-e6frfro0-1226592665885
http://www.fastcompany.com/3006727/creative-conversations/good-lord-vatic
an-needs-28pb-hard-disk-space-digitize-40-million-page


Not really germane to this newsletter, but they’ve figured out how the
Falkland Islands wolf got there:

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-year-old-mystery-ancient-dna.html

… and they’ve also identified the first ‘modern’ dog:

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-modern-dog.html

… and keeping with the canine theme, the Altai Dog was closer to
modern dogs than wolves:

http://phys.org/news/2013-03-siberian-fossil-revealed-oldest-domestic.htm
l
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/03/this-33000-year-old-skull
-belonged-to-one-of-the-worlds-first-dogs/

Sephardic Jews are being ‘invited’ back to Spain:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-21631427

Brian Fagan is still giving talks:

http://www.themaneater.com/stories/2013/3/5/uc-santa-barabara-professor-e
meritus-illustrates-i/

Pondering Bach’s blindness:

http://www.psmag.com/blogs/news-blog/why-did-bach-go-blind-53250/

They’ve found a ‘missing’ Wyeth painting:

http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local//item/51892-after-small-trip-of-
its-own-nc-wyeth-odyssey-painting-safe-in-philly-museum/

… while a previously-unknown Van Dyck was identified online:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-21712209

Feature on ancient buildings “that shouldn’t exist”:

http://www.cracked.com/article_20206_5-shockingly-advanced-ancient-buildi
ngs-that-shouldnt-exist.html

On archaeology as eye candy:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/jonathanjonesblog/2013/mar/07/
is-archaeology-new-art


Questioning some DNA ancestry services’ claims:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21687013


Review of Alan Ryan, *On Politics*:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/on-politics
-a-history-of-political-thought-from-herodotus-to-the-present-by-alan-rya
n-8524814.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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The Shrewsbury Hoard is going on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-21663398

Searching for the source of some 1000 years b.p. coins in
Australia:

http://newscenter.iupui.edu/5945/IUPUIled-expedition-seeks-source-of-thou
sandyearold-coins-in-Aboriginal-Australia

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n09.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n10.html

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Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Aphrodite and the Gods of Love:

http://www.tulsaworld.com/site/articlepath.aspx?articleid=20130310_272_D6
_CUTLIN498429

Pompeii and Herculaneum:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/visualarts/article3707835.ece?CMP=OTH-
gnws-standard-2013_03_08
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2013/mar/08/british-museum-pompeii
-exhibition-emphasis-life

Wari:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/03/08/3274194/the-wari-perus-first-empire
-revealed.html

Cyrus Cylinder:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/sackler-displaying-cy
rus-cylinder-an-artifact-with-long-history-and-many-meanings/2013/03/07/e
6312362-8765-11e2-9d71-f0feafdd1394_story.html?hpid=z11
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323549204578320631934903010
.html

Quest for Immortality:

http://manchestergazette.co.uk/bolton-museums-quest-continues/

Cairo to Constantinople:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=61170#.UTybBzctcmx
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OBITUARIES
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Hector Catling:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/9913218/
Hector-Catling.html

Frederick P. Hemans:

http://www.downingandlahey.com/sitemaker/sites/DOWNIN1/obit.cgi?user=9261
98HemansIII

Charles Murgia:

http://classics.berkeley.edu/news/articles/story.php?id=85

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20130303.mp3
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

The Book and the Spade:

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