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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein,
Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Kate Brown, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman, and W. Richard Frahm
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one
out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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On the diet of Neanderthals:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7630042.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/science/23obfish.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?
xml=/earth/2008/09/22/scineand122.xml
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080922/sc_livescience/neanderth
alsatesealsanddolphins;_ylt=AuDYh8fvB8gOyON.Tqf39.FdRJ54
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9467/divulgacao-
cientifica/neandertais-comiam-frutos-do-mar.htm
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AFRICA
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An update of sorts on the efforts to excavate that Portuguese
shipwreck off the Namibian coast:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7634479.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A possible Sumerian site in southern Iraq:

http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/09/25/iraqis_plan_dig_at_possibl
e_sumerian_site/afp/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080925/twl-iraq-unrest-archaeology-
muthanna-3cd7efd.html

A statue of Ramses II has been found:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080924/lf_nm_life/us_egypt_statue_1
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-26016.html
http://tinyurl.com/4xuxcr (Telegraph)
http://africa.reuters.com/wire/news/usnLO269409.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gmlqUI9TuQVibcJRjc95USQoWAwgD93DQU
2G0
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/25/content_10110675.htm
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088
&sid=aHHkpWrklZww&refer=muse

Archaeologists are returning to Haft-Tappeh:

http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=755767

A metal production site from Bam:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70617&sectionid=351020105

The Aga Khan is helping to protect sites in Syria:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4
&article_id=96172

First Jordan ... now Turkey has a database of sites online:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115823

Istanbul's athletic heritage:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=154072
&bolum=132

Pondering (again) the authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122238636935776931.html

This week's Temple Mount saga coverage:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/233751,ban-understands-
jordans-concerns-over-israeli-excavations.html

... and a saga-in-the-making over plans for a shopping mall near the
Mount of Olives:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127742

Concerns that cultural events are damaging the Old City:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017396278
&pagename=JPArticle/ShowFull

More coverage of the search for more pieces of the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/218333.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080927/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_crown_of_aleppo
_2
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/09/27/2008-09-27
_scholars_hunt_missing_pages_of_ancient_h.html

Info on next year's dig at Tiberias:

http://jwest.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/tibearias-excavation-2009/

Some 'shibboleth phonetics':

http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/shibboleths_phonetics_death/

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/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Romans brought leeks to Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7631249.stm

The archaeologist who found that 'Christian Amulet' which has
been declared a fake is defending his find:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article4799762.ece

They've found remains of the port at Tharros:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-25_
125248178.html

The mysteries of the Riace Bronzes continue to grow:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-24_
124243125.html

Interviewish thing with Simon Goldhill:

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24390969-
27702,00.html

An update of sorts on that Croatian Apoxyomenos statue:

http://www.setimes.com/cocoon/setimes/xhtml/en_GB/features/setimes/fe
atures/2008/09/25/feature-03

More on Princeton's reconstruction of Theran frescoes:

http://www.exduco.net/news.php?id=2970

More on the Mount Lykaion dig:

http://uanews.org/node/21645

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/2008.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Not sure the 'spin' being put on the discovery/exhibition of
artifacts from the Neolithic Cucuteni-Trypillian folk is useful:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/22/cucuteni-neolithic-art.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=26839697

Plenty of coverage for this (somewhat repeated) story of Stonehenge
as a prehistoric pilgrimage/Lourdes-like site:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/2098524
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75938
http://tinyurl.com/3jakvm
http://tinyurl.com/4b9x7a (LAT)
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-09-22-Archaeologists-to-
shed-new-light-on-secrets-of-Stonehenge
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-stonehenge22-
2008sep22,0,4808414.story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/22/archaeology
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jotq-lcRiqpfMncDln1tU11pFUoQ
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Leader-The-Neolithic-Health-
Service.4516722.jp
(!)
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008196772_stonehenge23.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/light-on-
stonehenge.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425926,00.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26838058&afid=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7625145.stm

... while other Stonehenge press coverage is concentrating on
the discovery of its 'birth date':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3046095/Stonehenge-birthdate-
discovered-by-archaeologists.html

... and the Independent seems a bit more critical:

http://tinyurl.com/4fc8ek

A Bronze Age knife from a burial in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/14596/20080926/

They're reopening the Petit Trianon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24arts-
RENOVATEDVER_BRF.html

16th century fortress remains from Cyprus:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41549&cat_id=1
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/default.aspx?articleID=7857
&heading=Features

What is causing the Vasa to deteriorate:

http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1
&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=532448

Some 300 b.p. burials found during an Edinburgh dig:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/763563
4.stm

Cleaning up the Pontine Marshes:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/22/europe/22marsh.php

More on the unsustainability of Iberian peninsula agriculture:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080917074134.htm

More coverage of that Viking shield find:

http://www.koaa.com/wacky_stories/x1142480211/1-000-year-old-Viking-
shield-found-in-Denmark

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A "prehistoric" 'jar tomb' from Viet Nam:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2008/09/805283/

1000 b.p. earthquake-proof dwellings in Uttarakhand:

http://www.telegraphindia.com/1080922/jsp/frontpage/story_9869079.jsp

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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Looks like we'll be reading more about the Queen Anne's Revenge
in the near future:

http://obsentinel.womacknewspapers.com/articles/2008/09/24/features/f
eats1062.txt

Not sure there's anything new in this report on those coprolites
(and their implications) from the Paisley Caves in Oregon:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26819601/

I don't think there's anything new in this report on the search
for Franklin Expedition remains either:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26308268.htm

Another dam ... some sites

I think we've mentioned the changes at Gettysburg before:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/24/arts/design/24muse.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A forest fire has damaged some sites near Macchu Pichu:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080924/sc_nm/us_peru_fire_1
http://www.sabcnews.com/world/south_america/0,2172,177368,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap_travel/20080924/ap_tr_ge/lt_travel_brief_p
eru_machu_picchu_1
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre48n8pf-us-peru-fire/

Recent finds from Copan:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?
option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemid=150

Stephen Houston is one of the recipients of a MacArthur grant:

http://www.projo.com/news/content/MACARTHUR_FELLOW_09-23-08
_UJBM72H_v38.1c07fcd.html

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting/useful bacteria found in the Catacombs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26903967/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/sfgm-nlf092408.php
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-26102.html
http://www.physorg.com/news141536814.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924192443.htm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1
&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=532408
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9482/divulgacao-cientifica/vida-
nova-nas-catacumbas.htm

... and some interesting yeast origins for the Fossil Fuels
Brewing Company:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/23/ancient-yeast-beer.html

On the origins of etiquette:

http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/salon/article/428994

A 14th-century cookbook is going online:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/22/10?
gusrc=rss&feed=technologyfull

An uproar of sorts over the Collins Dictionary folks taking 2000
words
out of the dictionary to make room for new ones:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/24/collins.diction
ary.words

In case you want to track that 'phoenician circumnavigation' thing:

http://live.adventuretracking.com/phoenicia

A Middle English Grammar project:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080923140838.htm

Milton's 400th is coming up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/books/26milt.html

Garrison Keilor marked the invasion of 1066 and all that:

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

For all the MacArthur Genius Grant recipients (or most of them):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/arts/23fell.html

For the Harry Potter fans:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/25366

A Medieval festival in Manhattan:

http://www.whidc.org/home.html

More coverage of the controversy over who invented the telescope:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7617426.stm
http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=32962&amid=30258487

In other telescope news, here's one owned by Albert Einstein:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3600205,00.html

Review of F. Baez, *A Universal History of the Destruction of Books*:

http://www.nysun.com/arts/book-burning-and-other-bibliocausts/86438/

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Petra:

http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,700261413,00.html

New Mexico:

http://www.economist.com/daily/diary/displaystory.cfm?story_id=
12284420

Vatican City:

http://travel.latimes.com/articles/la-tr-vaticancity28-2008sep28

Tamil Nadu:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/21/travel/21journeys.html

Retracing Champlain's route:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/travel/escapes/26champlain.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html

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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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CSA Newsletter (September 08):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/#fall08

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

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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A petroglyph was chiseled off a rock in Arizona:

http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/ss/local/97636.php
http://www.kvoa.com/global/story.asp?s=9069222

A bust in Macedonia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080924/ap_on_re_eu/eu_macedonia_antiquit
ies_seized_1
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=5873787
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/211419.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jWMgdKapzkyREJE6nHm47h6-
VE1AD93D36M00
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/24/europe/EU-Macedonia-
Antiquities-Seized.php
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2008/09/macedonian-police-seize-
stolen-antiquities

Some pre-Columbian artifacts are being returned to Ecuador:

http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20080924/article/809240346
&tc=yahoo

A stolen Renoir was recovered:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-26_
126264056.html

More coverage of the US returns of Iraqi artifacts:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,24387045-1702,00.html
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hpkma_PlXLsuMHomhlwyE26iu9Iw
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=70314&sectionid=3510212

More on the mysteries of Roxana Brown's death:

http://chronicle.com/news/article/?id=5143

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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A recent Viking coin/ingot find is going on display:

http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/545/Rare-Viking-ingot-found.4518140.jp

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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Nostoi (?):

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_politics_100010_
25/09/2008_100766
http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2008-09-24-greece-
recovered-artifacts_N.htm?csp=34
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6870752&maindocimg=
6867347&service=94

Caesar:

http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-23_
123253025.html

Ancient Egypt:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26296

Matilde of Canossa:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=26255&int_modo=1
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-25_
125240714.html

Italy has returned a piece of the Parthenon to Greece:

http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5h8CB4km-01Y4Ta3mxs6P0Z7hMzSA
http://news.smh.com.au/world/italy-returns-long-lost-parthenon-
fragment-to-greece-20080924-4mo2.html
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-23_
123261368.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g8yGH2-
ieWX8ELPzgON0yfU2q6ZAD93CIM300
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINTRE48N4PU20080924
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/24/content_10099814.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_re_eu/eu_greece_italy_parth
enon;_ylt=Av0D.fAGPa1HhS6PW5VDU37737YB
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-23_
123261368.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/24/parthenon-marble-
italy.html