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A. Landreau, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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A sort of roundup of the latest genomic type research into Neanderthals:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121012-neanderthals-s...
ce-paabo-dna-sex-breeding-humans/
cf:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/10/neandertal-one-stop-sh...
ng/
One of the mostly puzzlingly-written intros to a news piece I’ve read
(and
it happens to do with Neanderthals):
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-eastern-eurasian-archaic-humans-featured...
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Interview with Jean-Jacques Hublin:
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Neanderthal-expert-we...
-in-on-ancient-ancestors-3946613.php
More on Neanderthals and humans coexisting in Israel:
http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/neanderthals-and-humans-may-ha...
o-existed-in-israel_803162.html
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AFRICA
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Latest destruction in Morocco involves some Neolithic petroglyphs:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8YTcHzPr8qkQj8Be6...
E6L1pA?docId=CNG.bbe1d6490ab6ef1279c6c7aa83c20199.261
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Overviewish thing on the dig at Tel el Hammam:
http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2012/10/19/Coming-and-Going-Door...
d-Doorways-in-the-Biblical-World.aspx#Article
Hype for a conference about recent finds in Jerusalem:
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=288464
Nice feature on Petra:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-861876.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/atlantis-sand-unlocking-mysteries...
ra/story?id=17520115
Feature on the excavations at Hattusas:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/history-of-hattusas-excavation-on-di...
y.aspx?pageID=238&nID=32392&NewsCatID=375
Tracing olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane back to the time of
Jesus:
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-jerusalem-olive-trees-linked-christ.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_uKS69tVGY
Egypt is trying to stop an auction of antiquities in the UK (not much
detail):
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/ministry-calls-halt-uk-auction-e...
ian-antiquities
Not sure if this is new or not … the creation of an Iraq-Italy
cultural centre
in Iraq:
http://al-shorfa.com/en_GB/articles/meii/newsbriefs/2012/10/15/newsbr...
03
Latest damage in Syria:
http://world.time.com/2012/10/15/landmark-mosque-in-aleppo-burned-in-...
ting/
Latest on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife thing (nothing really new):
http://www.livescience.com/24139-gospel-of-jesus-wife-faces-authentic...
tests.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/jesus-wife-papyrus-121020.html
Latest in the Temple Mount saga:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/252220
More on UChicago’s Demotic dictionary:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8RJGc6ph5Y
More on the opening of the Serapeum:
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/tour-bulls-tombs
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Practice Latin, feed the world:
http://freerice.com/frapi/category_selected/1797185
Tomb raiders lead Italian officials to an apparent shrine of Juno:
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/18434/Tomb-raiders-lead-to-...
archaeological-find.html
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of some Roman burials … by a cat:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/18/cat-2000-year-old-roman-c...
omb
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/10/19/Ancient-Roman-catacomb-fou...
y-a-cat/UPI-38011350675303/
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/cat-leads-owner-discovery-ancien...
man-ruins-211428133.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/rome-tomb-unearthed_n_198090...
ml
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/feline-indiana-jones-discovers-...
roman-ruins-article-1.1188325
Suggestion that Alexandria was aligned to mark Alexander the Great’s
birthday:
http://www.livescience.com/23994-ancient-city-alexandria-sun.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-archaeoastronomers-alexandria-built-alig...
exander.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/egypt-alexandria-king-sun-align-ast...
my-121016.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2218469/Ancient-city-A...
ndria-built-align-sun-day-Alexander-Greats-birth.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://world.greekreporter.com/2012/10/18/alxandria-built-to-arise-wi...
he-rising-sun/
Sundial from Chalkidiki:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/17/old-sundial-found-in-chalk...
i/
Did Roman girls giggle?:
http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/10/did-the-romans-giggl...
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The subliminal messages of Roman mosaics in Spain:
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-romans-greek-myths-mosaics-civilization....
http://www.sciencecodex.com/the_romans_used_greek_myths_in_their_mosa...
as_symbols_of_civilization-100103
Thracian site found during highway construction near Dren:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144276
… and a Roman mosaic from downtown Sofia:
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144160
… and a lamp from Dueltum:
http://sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/14/archaeology-antique-lamp-in-the-shap...
-a-dog-found-at-bulgarias-deultum-roman-site/
A hoard of Roman solidi found near St Alban’s are going on display:
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-english-city-roman-gold-coins.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19986855
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/9987939.Roman_gold_coins_hoard_f...
_in_St_Albans/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218640/Novice-treasure-hunte...
ught-basic-metal-detector-40-Roman-coins-worth-100-000.html?ito=feeds-ne
wsxml
http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/news/local/first-time-berkhamsted-metal-d...
tor-finds-one-of-uk-s-largest-roman-coin-hoards-worth-100-000-1-4379649
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/first-time-treasure-hun...
discover-trove-of-roman-era-gold-coins/
A possibly-previously-purloined head of Agrippina the younger was
recovered:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/ancient-roman-artifact-i...
ized-by-italian-officials/
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Ancient+statue+found+decad...
fter+theft/7413531/story.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/18/us-italy-statue-pix-idUSBRE...
JB20121018
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/first-time-treasure-hun...
discover-trove-of-roman-era-gold-coins/
… but it might not be Agrippina:
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/18440/Recovered-bust--not-N...
s-mother--says-art-superintendent.html
The UW Madison folks are heading to Troy:
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57535128/archaeologists-plan-new-...
at-troy/
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-uw-madison-archaeologists-mount-troy.html
http://www.livescience.com/24003-archaeologists-plan-new-dig-at-troy....
What Dwight Castro is up to:
http://www.wcn247.com/classics-professor-reveals-discoveries-about-th...
undations-of-the-u-s-based-on-the-roman-republic-1.2930948#.UIPh22d0YW
k
What Gregory Aldrete is up to:
http://news.uwgb.edu/log-news/faculty-staff/10/15/aldrete-new-book/
What Kristin Vines is up to:
http://www.chattanoogan.com/2012/10/19/236703/Baylor-s-Vines-Sixth-At...
ld-Fencing.aspx
Marking the 60th anniversary of the decipherment of Linear B:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the-code-the-decipherment...
linear-b-60-years-on/
Learning from Cato:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-goodman/cato-stoicism-modern-stress...
_1986735.html
American tourists apparently are smuggling a lot out of FYROM:
http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22062/2/
More coverage of the purported discovery of the tomb of Roxane:
http://sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/14/archaeology-tomb-in-northern-greece-...
d-be-that-of-widow-and-son-of-alexander-the-great-reports-say/
Latest reviews from BMCR:
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Tomb found near Sweden’s ‘stonehenge’:
http://www.thelocal.se/43820/20121015/
http://news.discovery.com/history/sweden-stonehenge-tomb-121017.html
A Bronze Age ‘sauna’ from Assynt:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19976653
Another interesting detail in that Richard III thing:
http://news.discovery.com/history/richard-iii-body-nearly-destroyed-1...
6.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-foot-grave.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121015085028.htm
Last week we mentioned the Ness of Brogdar excavations … they have
a dig diary online:
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar/
Finds from various periods underwater near Portimao:
http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/archaeologists-work-to-uncover-sh...
eck-remains-in-portimao/27026
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/archeologists-uncover-shipw...
-remains-in-portimao
A 17th century shipwreck from Cadiz is going to be moved:
http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/10/19/divers-prepare-to-m...
17th-century-shipwreck-in-cadiz/
Germany is trying to protect Baltic shipwrecks:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-archaeologists-attac...
-signs-to-protect-baltic-shipwrecks-a-861830.html
Top ten archaeological finds from Ireland:
http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Top-ten-archaeological-finds-in-Ire...
---PHOTOS-174391661.html
Visit Stonehenge on Google Streetview:
http://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?cbll=51.178958,-1.826552&z=3&la...
c&panoid=VxzhBNNu-VGQC8HtVIaY3A&cbp=12,103.97,,0,-6.65
Review of Jane Gleeson-White, *Double Entry*:
http://www.tnr.com/book/review/double-entry-venice-modern-finance-acc...
ing-jane-gleeson-white
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Building blocks for Angkor Wat were brought by canal:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628874.300-building-blocks-of...
kor-wat-were-shipped-in-by-canal.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/angkor-wat-built-ancient-can...
google-earth_n_1967927.html
Feature on Wang Anshi:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19962432
A collection of old Korean tomes has been discovered:
http://m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_en.jsp?cid=AEN20121017005200315&d...
n=3&ctype=A&site=0100000000&mobile
More on pandaphagic prehistoric humans:
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-chinese-scientist-prehistoric-ate-pandas...
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East Asian Archaeology:
http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-c...
ral-heritage-%E2%80%93-2052010/
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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Possible evidence of a Viking outpost on Baffin Island:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121019-viking-outpost...
ond-new-canada-science-sutherland/
A major First Nations site along the Babine River in British Columbia:
http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/ancient-village-along-bc-rive...
veals-1300-years-of-first-nations-history-174896271.html
Still looking for remains of Fort Caroline:
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-10-14/story/unf-students-and-...
essors-keep-search-fort-caroline
They’ve settled the dispute about where Francis Drake landed in
California:
http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Feds-end-argument-where-Sir-Fra...
-Drake-landed-3967549.php
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Point-Reyes-declared-Drake-land...
site-3966058.php
Marking the end of the expedition associated with the Queen Anne’s
Revenge:
http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2012/oct/19/divers-mark-end-queen-annes-ex...
tion-ar-2707952/
Interesting video of someone who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination:
http://news.discovery.com/history/witness-to-lincoln-shooting-gotta-s...
ideo-121018.html
Feature on Brigham Young:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/books/review/brigham-young-pioneer-...
het-by-john-g-turner.html?ref=books
Review of Henry Wiencek, *Master of the Mountain*:
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/18/163025651/master-jefferson-defender-of-...
rty-then-slavery
More on Kennewick Man:
http://www.npr.org/2012/10/12/162795379/prehistoric-kennewick-man-was...
-beefcake
cf:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1427297 (2003)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1427095 (2003)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/science/an-8-year-fight-ends-over-a...
0-year-old-man.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm (2004)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A dozen prehispanic burials from Nyarit:
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58371
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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Audio news from Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/news-new/audio-news-from-archaeologica
Archaeonews Podcast:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2012/archaeo-news...
cast-215
Videonews from The Archaeology Channel:
http://archaeologychannel.us/video-guide/video-news-from-tac-new
On the changing ‘voices’ of literature:
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-voices-older-literature-differently-toda...
ml
Feature on population changes over the past 100 000 years:
http://discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/100-000-years-of-dramatic-popula...
-changes
… and a probably-related feature on pre-agricultural populations:
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-prehistoric-human-populations-prospered-...
cultural.html
Study of sediments from a Japanese lake is extending the range of
radiocarbon
dating:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/haog-asl101912.php
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/10/a-new-leap-forward-fo...
diocarbon-dating/
http://www.nature.com/news/core-sample-sends-carbon-clock-farther-bac...
-time-1.11622
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121018141834.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22396-muddy-lake-bed-holds-radi...
bon-rosetta-stone.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Con
line-news
Latest study on human lifespans:
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-big-rapid-gains-human-lifespan....
A new technique for identifying bones which could be used for DNA
analysis:
http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/10/Method-Detects-Damage-Foss...
ones.html
Trying to recreate the sound of a Baroque organ:
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-recapturing-baroque.html
Latests saints:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/opinion/sunday/two-more-saints-from...
tate-of-grace.html
Charles Darwin had a bad day:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/18/163181524/charles-darwin...
-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day
Review of a book about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Arctic Adventure:
http://www.tnr.com/book/review/one-whale-too-many-arthur-conan-doyle’s-
arctic-adventure
Last season for Time Team:
http://pastpreservers.blogspot.co.il/2012/10/time-team-to-down-tools-...
013.html
Ancient Digger:
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Rome (according to Lindsey Davis):
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2217581/Holidays-Italy-Auth...
indsey-Davis-reveals-unmissable-sights-Rome.html
Assorted Europe:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/in-europe-sharing-moments...
h-history.html
Plovidiv:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/in-plovdiv-bulgaria-roman...
ndeur-east-of-italy.html
Spanish monasteries:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/monastery-hopping-in-spai...
ml
Siena:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/36-hours-in-siena-italy.h...
ref=travel
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
http://archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Major art theft in the Netherlands:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/arts/design/kunsthal-rotterdam-defe...
security-after-theft-of-art.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/10/16/world/europe/ap-eu-netherl...
-art-heist.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/10/16/arts/design/20121016Heist_SS.
html?ref=design
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/several-valuable-...
tings-stolen-in-heist-from-dutch-exhibition-featuring-picasso-matisse/
2012/10/16/50120994-1764-11e2-a346-f24efc680b8d_story.html
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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Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n43.html
… and the one that will appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n44.html
n.b. there’s news of a gold coin hoard in the ‘Classics’ category ...
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus:
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58436
Aphrodite:
http://austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/10-10-12-14-22-the-gods-of-lo...
ew-aphrodite-exhibit-at-san-antonio-museum-of-art/
Bronze:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/arts/20iht-melikian20.html
Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=58376#.UIP3cGd0YWk
Manet:
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-facebook-manet-friends.html
Rise and Fall of Prohibition:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/american-spirits-at-the...
ional-constitution-center.html?ref=design
Mantegna to Matisse:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/mantegna-to-matisse-at-...
frick-collection.html?ref=design
The Getty has purchased the Knoedler Gallery archive:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/getty-institute-buys-kn...
er-gallery-archive.html?ref=design
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Pierrot Lunaire:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/music/pierrot-lunaire-at-the-p...
rming-garage.html?ref=music
Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/arts/music/moscow-sretensky-monaste...
hoir-at-carnegie-hall.html
American Classical Orchestra:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/arts/music/american-classical-orche...
-opens-at-alice-tully-hall.html?ref=music
Followup to that Mahler photograph thing from last week:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/arts/music/man-with-mahler-photo-co...
ins-of-pressure-from-schoenbergs.html?ref=music
Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama
... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:
http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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OBITUARIES
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Frank Moore Cross:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/us/frank-moore-cross-biblical-schol...
nd-dead-sea-scrolls-interpreter-dies-at-91.html
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/archaeolog...
-biblical-scholars-works/the-end-of-an-era/
http://asorblog.org/?p=3450&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaig...
ank-moore-cross-an-appreciation
Maria Rosa Menocal:
http://news.yale.edu/2012/10/15/memoriam-mar-rosa-menocal
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
http://news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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