explorator 8.23

[David Meadows]

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explorator 8.23 October 2, 2005
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Dave
Sowdon, Diana Wright,Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',Edward Rockstein,
Francis Deblauwe, Hernan Astudillo, Jean Laplante, Joel Coates,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Kate Brown, Mata Kimasitayo,
Bob Heuman, Richard C. Griffiths, Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman,
Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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More on the 'diseased interpretation' homo floresiensis:

http://tinyurl.com/77be7 (La Tercera ... Spanish)
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AFRICA
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Possibly a repeat ... extended coverage of the discovery of
some third-century monastic cells in the Egyptian desert:

http://tinyurl.com/dbrp2 (NYT)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/journal.php
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A number of cow statues have been found at Gohar Tepe:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5708&section=2

A possible Sargon inscription has been newly 'deciphered':

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5709&section=2

Latest item to emerge from the debris of Temple Mount is a First
Temple period seal/bulla:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=90628
http://tinyurl.com/bgb35 (JPost)
http://www.israpundit.com/archives/2005/09/firsttemple_per.php

... a photo of the object in Ha'aretz' Hebrew edition:

http://www.haaretz.co.il/hasite/pages/ShArtPE.jhtml?itemNo=629964

A 'new' archaeological site near the Western Wall which includes
a mikveh was opened to the public this week:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=629851
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/629961.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20050927/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_shrine

The search for the 'holy of holies':

http://tinyurl.com/a4urf (JPost)

A followup piece to that story on Byzantine mosaics from
Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/9d5xj (JPost)

Vague item about a piece of 'ancient script' from Kazakhstan:

http://www.inform.kz/showarticle.php?lang=eng&id=136466

... and a somewhat better one on preserving some ancient
writing on sticks from Yemen:

http://www.yobserver.com/news_8269.php

The recent computer-generated image of Tut is still causing
controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/9c84l (Orlando Sentinel)

... and they're still talking about that Cleopatra-as-male
thing:

http://www.newkerala.com/news.php?action=fullnews&id=25725
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1501334,0047.htm

Another step has been taken to getting the Behistun monument
on the World Heritage list:

http://tinyurl.com/cwzvh (Iran News)

A pair of sites in Jordan have received funds for preservation
purposes:

http://www.jordanembassyus.org/09302005001.htm

The Annotated Parthia Bibliography has been updated:

http://parthia.com/parthia_biblio.htm

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of a researcher's claim of having established
where Odysseus' Ithaka was:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4293786.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1804409,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/bsrdv (Age)
http://www.navhindtimes.com/stories.php?part=news&Story_ID=10024
http://tinyurl.com/7kdzk (Gazette)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9543382/
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=61351
http://www.livescience.com/history/ap_050930_homer.html
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=2015172005
http://newsfromrussia.com/science/2005/09/29/64096.html
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/48017-print.shtml
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/050929/nyth086.html?.v=21
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=1170055
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article316110.ece
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1581642,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/a7vp5 (Reuters)

Similarly plenty of coverage of the discovery of a pair of
statues of Athena and Hera during excavations at Gortyn:

http://tinyurl.com/8gjel (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/95fju (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/9lt7c (CTV)
http://www.buffalonews.com/editorial/20051001/4041521.asp
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9544779/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9544821/
http://tinyurl.com/dzmeb (Kathimerini ... photo)
http://tinyurl.com/92poz
http://tinyurl.com/95fju (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/dtal5 (Red Nova)

A followup piece to that story on Byzantine mosaics from
Caesarea:

http://tinyurl.com/9d5xj (JPost)

Roman fort in Stratford:

http://www.stratford-herald.co.uk/mainstory.php?ID=417

Possibly a repeat ... extended coverage of the discovery of
some third-century monastic cells in the Egyptian desert:

http://tinyurl.com/dbrp2 (NYT)
http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/27/news/journal.php

More coverage of that discovery of an image of a member of
the Roman Imperial fleet:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050926/romansoldier.html

NPR had a piece with Elaine Fantham talking about storms and
floods in the ancient Mediterranean:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4932120

Erosion fears at Epidaurus:

http://tinyurl.com/92lwe

Latin at UND:

http://www.grandforks.com/mld/grandforks/living/12735720.htm

Spartathlon coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/8cher (Kathimerini)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4298146.stm
http://tinyurl.com/9gqcf (Indy Star)

More on ancient boxing:

http://www.eastsideboxing.com/news.php?p=4805&more=1

Some comments about Herodotus:

http://www.chn.ir/en/news/?id=5723&section=2

An Op-ed piece in the wake of the disaster at Akrotiri:

http://tinyurl.com/a3n64 (Kathimerini)

cf:

http://tinyurl.com/9fphc (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/bkegh (News 24)

Thucydides:

http://newstodaynet.com/27sep/ss1.htm

Tom Palaima's latest:

http://www.hnn.us/articles/15904.html

Repeat of that brickworks of the Domitii story:

http://tinyurl.com/9dmdl (Telegraph)

A pair of reviews on one tome about Helen of Troy and one about
Hercules:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2102-1801354,00.html

Recent reviews from BMCR:

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

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A fair amount of coverage of the discovery of a 27 000 b.p.
burial of a pair of infants in Austria:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9492037/
http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn8063
http://tinyurl.com/8y4an (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1998182005
http://tinyurl.com/cxpzn (CNN)

Brief item on the discovery of the burial of an Iron Age woman
in Denmark:

http://tinyurl.com/9bavh (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/29/international/europe/29woman.html

Another call for the Mold Golden Cape to be returned to Wales:

http://www.newswales.co.uk/?section=Culture&F=1&id=7998

Op-ed piece on plans for Tara:

http://www.christiansciencemonitor.com/2005/0926/p07s01-woeu.html

The mystery of Caledonian cattle:

http://heritage.scotsman.com/myths.cfm?id=2008352005

... and Rosslyn Chapel:

http://www.livescience.com/history/050928_rosslyn_chapel.html

It appears that Russia also has debates over the conflict between
construction and archaeology:

http://www.sptimes.ru/story/15673

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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Can't remember if we mentioned this roof collapse at a site in
India last week:

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=150083

A sort of overview of recent finds from Viet Nam:

http://tinyurl.com/c7yec (VNA)

Police in New Zealand moved some ancient skeletal remains to
the mortuary:

http://tinyurl.com/9nxrj (Herald)

Authenticating Chinese porcelain:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=mg18725185.600

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Construction crews in Chinook were surprised to come upon some
Native American bones after an archaeological investigation (of
sorts) had been done:

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/10/01/area_news/news02.txt

Butchered remains of a bison in Illinois:

http://www.wmbd.com/news/default.asp?mode=shownews&id=5693

Native and non- remains near Lancaster, SC:

http://tinyurl.com/c9tfd (Lancaster News)

A toolmaking site from David's Island:

http://tinyurl.com/7ur86 (Journal News)

Another development v. archaeologists v. Native people situation
in New Mexico:

http://www.hotel-online.com/News/2005_Sep_25/k.SFC.1127838473.html
http://tinyurl.com/dyodr (KOBTV)

... and a similar dispute near Dighton:

http://tinyurl.com/atkd6 (Gazette)

Possible site of Fort Vause:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/roanoke/wb/33684

An archaeology fair:

http://tinyurl.com/dcmgf (Texarkana Gazette)

An op-ed piece responding to plans to build a casino at
Gettysburg:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/opinion/27lighthizer.html

Another pondering-the-Anasazi piece:

http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=5036

Nice forthcoming talk-by-an-archaeologist piece:

http://tinyurl.com/eyzlo (Princeton Packet)

Reviews of E.L. Doctorow, *The March*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/books/27doct.html
http://tinyurl.com/bbpla (Miami Herald)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Fair bit of coverage of the discovery of a lost Mayan city in
Guatemala:

http://www.yale.edu/opa/newsr/05-09-27-01.all.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/09/050928082021.htm
http://tinyurl.com/9kaw7 (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ba5wk (Web India)
http://tinyurl.com/72pcw (NG)
http://tinyurl.com/dop6a (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/7esm7 (Eurekalert)

... and a lost Spanish city in Argentina:

http://english.epochtimes.com/news/5-9-26/32659.html

Lots of "treasure" being found on 'Crusoe Island':

http://tinyurl.com/9lbol (Guardian)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/4291334.stm
http://tinyurl.com/dt33u (La Tercera ... Spanish)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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More women are getting involved in archaeology:

http://tinyurl.com/bt73s (Mercury)

A new method of linking languages:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/science/27lang.html
http://tinyurl.com/94onq (SciAm)

... and some fun vocabulary from around the world:

http://enjoyment.independent.co.uk/books/features/article315207.ece

A Medieval festival in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/arts/30Fami.html

Hype for a television program on the history of counting:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/tv_and_radio/4272538.stm

Review of Lucy Hughes-Hallet, *Heroes: Saviors, Traitors and
Supermen*:

http://tinyurl.com/ctzor (SF Chronicle)

Review of Andrew Delbanco, *Melville: His Life and Work*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/books/01grim.html

Review of Ron Powers, *Mark Twain: A Life*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/books/review/02wolff.html

Review of Francine Prose, *Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/books/review/02benfy.html

Review of Charles Morris, *The Tycoons*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/books/review/02bucholtz.html

Review of some cookbooks with a historical bent:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0927/p16s01-bogn.html

Review of Jill Lepore, *New York Burning: Liberty, Slavery,
and Conspiracy in Eighteenth-Century Manhattan*

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/books/review/02clines.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Chaco Canyon:

http://www.hcn.org/servlets/hcn.Article?article_id=14815

Pakistan:

http://tinyurl.com/8ebkp (Korea Herald)
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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KMT (Fall 2005 TOC):

http://www.egyptology.com/kmt/fall2005/index.html

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Latest twist in the True/Getty case:

http://tinyurl.com/cg3uh (Union Tribune)

cf:
http://www.kesq.com/Global/story.asp?S=3895590&nav=9qrx
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory?id=1158883
http://tinyurl.com/aj845 (Monterey Herald)
http://tinyurl.com/7a6f8 (KC Star)
http://tinyurl.com/ao8kg (Telegraph)

Op-ed piece on same:

http://tinyurl.com/8r3tb (LA Times)

I think we mentioned this before ... US authorities have
recovered some 300 smuggled Peruvian antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/akk8k

A comic book is the latest 'weapon' in the war against looters
in Cambodia:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1806415,00.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Nice piece on a donation to a Loudoun County display of coins
designed to replace some which had previously been stolen:

http://www.leesburg2day.com/current.cfm?catid=17&newsid=11117
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Russia!:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/14551/

Festival of China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/01/arts/01fest.html

Imagine Ancient Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/7mo6j (Age)

Lords of Creation: The Origins of Sacred Maya Kingship:

http://www.u-entertainment.com/ci_3058475

The Perfect Medium: Photography and the Occult:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/arts/design/30kimm.html

Pieter Claesz: Master of Haarlem Still Life:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/arts/design/30cott.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/02/arts/design/02bier.html
(slideshow)

Rome to Jerusalem: Four Jewish Masterpieces from the
Vatican Library:

http://tinyurl.com/93ubp (JPost)
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/630463.html

Slavery in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/27/arts/design/27slav.html
(slide show)

The Walt Disney Company has donated a pile of African Art to
the Smithsonian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/30/arts/design/30smit.html

Medieval African manuscripts:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/9543385/

More on museums in New Orleans in the wake of Katrina:

http://2theadvocate.com/stories/092205/new_museum001.shtml

cf:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0928/p12s01-lihc.html?s=hns

More on Horatio Nelson items coming up for auction:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20050926/od_nm/life_nelson_dc

The Greco-Roman museum in Alexandria will be closed for two
years as it undergoes renovations:

http://tinyurl.com/ckva5 (Canada.com)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Medea:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/theatre/?051003crth_theatre
http://tinyurl.com/coppo (NYT)

Lady Hamilton's Attitudes:

http://www.cockaigne.demon.co.uk/emma.html
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OBITUARIES
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Tobias Schneebaum (Cannibal researcher)

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/25/obituaries/24schneebaum.html
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http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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