explorator 10.41
david meadows
explorator 10.41 Februry 3, 2008
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Rochelle Altman, Bob Heuman, Ross W. Sargent, Steve Rankin,
and W. Richard Frahm, for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
... kind of a quiet week ...
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EARLY HUMANS
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Not quite sure where to put this one ... 100,000 b.p. remains
from Yemen:
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1124&p=culture&a=1
More coverage of prehistoric shoe-wearing:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/01/24/scishoe124.xml
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AFRICA
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A Punic necropolis from Tunisia:
http://allafrica.com/stories/200801290750.html
http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/jan08/280108-2.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Brief item on some Parthian finds in Iraq:
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=17898
Recent finds from Ebla:
http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=17853&sez=HOME_SPETTACOLO
(Italian)
Evidence of a Byzantine city near Corum:
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=18498
A fair bit of coverage of the restoration of a 1400 b.p. mosaic
from Israel:
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1328&module_id=#as
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-01-28-ancient-glass-israel_N.htm
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hch060QBEDXTeTt6cX1D92nHDXHAD8UF3AFG0
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22887840/
http://www.straitstimes.com/Latest+News/World/STIStory_201276.html
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695248120,00.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2004150926_mosaic29.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/948950.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Israel-Ancient-Mosaic.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/01/28/tech/main3761977.shtml
Another seal associated with an obscure Biblical figure:
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27307
The 'other side' of life during Amarna:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7209472.stm
Zahi Hawass, meanwhile, was defending Akhenaten:
http://tinyurl.com/2lcjc9 (SIS)
This week's Temple Mount developments:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=949595
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=950178
More coverage of that Greco-Roman mummy find (tied to the discovery of
a 7000 b.p. settlement in the Fayum):
http://tinyurl.com/2uuzj8
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=17900
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/29/content_7522398.htm
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23131092-5001028,00.html
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23131092-23109,00.html
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/international/2008/01/766758/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080130-egypt-mummies.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?art_id=nw20080129231645146C269708&click_id=31&set_id=1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080129/wl_mideast_afp/egyptarchaeology
... and some nice photos:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/photogalleries/fayoum-pictures/index.html
Egyptology News Blog:
http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
Egyptology Blog:
http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
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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A Roman fort from Cornwall:
http://tinyurl.com/37ekn8
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cornwall/7217173.stm
Smithsonian Magazine has a lengthy article on the Parthenon:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/13865192.html
Nice story about the UC Antiquity Research Group:
http://www.newsroom.ucr.edu/cgi-bin/display.cgi?id=1760
Classical Thought at Concordia:
http://cjournal.concordia.ca/archives/20080131/how_the_ancients_made_us_who_we_are.php
More coverage of that altar at Mt Lykaion:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123114601.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2p9nsk
http://www.discoverychannel.ca/reports/article.aspx?aid=6610
Recent reviews from BMCR:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html
Recent reviews from Scholia:
http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm
Visit our blog:
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
Blegen Library News:
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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M62 highway construction exposes a Neolithic site:
... and excavation of a parking lot in Berlin reveals Medieval
remains:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080131/wl_nm/germany_berlin_medieval_dc_1
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080130/ap_on_sc/germany_aging_berlin
Interesting medieval seal at the heart of a metal detectorist
dispute:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7218228.stm
Can't remember if we mentioned this 'Iron Age David Beckham' bog
mummy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4629888.stm
Nice photo of that Bronze Age site in Spain:
http://www.livescience.com/imageoftheday/siod_080128.html
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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Evidence of human sacrifice in a 2500 b.p. tomb:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080129-china-tomb.html
http://tinyurl.com/2s9hsn
A pair of 'ancient' temples from Thane:
http://tinyurl.com/2s74t5
http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG3_sub.asp?ccode=ENG3&newscode=13407
Some 1000 b.p. kilns from Sichuan:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-01/28/content_6426042.htm
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2008/200801/20080129/article_347107.htm
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Latest on the Miami Circle:
http://www.miamiherald.com/news/breaking_news/story/396549.html
http://www.miamiherald.com/top_stories/story/397226.html
A dispute over some Kentucky petroglyphs:
http://news.nky.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/AB/20080130/NEWS0103/801300373
Growing evidence of a Native burial ground near North Smithfield
(RI):
http://www.woonsocketcall.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=18551&Itemid=27
Weeds threaten Aztec Ruins National Monument:
http://www.daily-times.com/ci_8105263?source=most_viewed
Interesting finds at an Adena site:
http://tinyurl.com/yq6smo (Dispatch)
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A Nazca iron ore mine in Peru?:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22937483/
http://tinyurl.com/3xhto2
http://www.physorg.com/news120827062.html
http://tinyurl.com/2rmc48
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080131/sc_livescience/miningsitepredatesincanempire
http://www.purdueexponent.org/?module=article&story_id=9687
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129125405.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/pu-ag012908.php
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/181122,ancient-iron-ore-mine-is-found-in-peru.html
http://tinyurl.com/3xhto2 (AScribe)
More on Maya dazzle:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123085308.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A call to 'restore' Milton to his former prominent place:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/01/28/do2805.xml
Not sure where to put this one ... a 300 b.p. Chinese "shopping list"
has been found stuffed inside an 18th century vase in York:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/7220717.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080131/od_afp/britainchinaarthistoryoffbeat
On the origin of blue eyes:
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/section/story.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=10489917
... and domestic cats:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129125500.htm
... and what we're losing:
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech/Cemetery-looting-robs-archaeologists-of.3713853.jp
... and what rat DNA tells us:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080201/sc_nm/australia_rats_dc_1
Rethinking whom the plague took:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/health/research/29plag.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080129/sc_nm/plague_europe_dc_2
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?view=DETAILS&grid=&xml=/earth/2008/01/28/sciblack128.xml
Nice feature on 'arabic' science:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/story/0,,2248970,00.html
Interesting item on 'Poor Richard' and Ben Franklin:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/01/28/080128crat_atlarge_lepore
Assorted Arts items of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/arts/design/01voge.html
Review of David Lewis, *God's Crucible: Islam and the Making of
Europe*:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/books/2008/02/04/080204crbo_books_acocella
cf:
http://www.newyorker.com/archive/2001/11/19/011119fa_FACT2
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/
Arts and Letters Daily:
Past Preservers:
http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Appian Way:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/02/03/travel/03dayout.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:
Archaeoblog:
http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Interesting video on the antiquities' smuggling world's 'odd
couple':
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/080201-oddcouple-video-tw.html
The Berkeley Art Museum is implicated in that big Asian
antiquities investigation:
http://tinyurl.com/2lpoq9 (CPN)
... and some museums in Chicago were investigated too:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aSR4jKjuFLtw&refer=muse
... and a nice background piece on the person who's behind the
kerfuffle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/31/arts/31museum.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/01/31/arts/dealer.php
Opeddish thing on thefts from Tibet:
UN Peacekeepers in the Western Sahara have apparently dfaced some
petroglyphs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/7219297.stm
cf:
http://archaeoastronomy.wordpress.com/2008/01/31/vandalism-of-an-african-archaeological-site/
A New York State archivist is caught after trying to peddle stuff
on eBay:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/29/nyregion/29library.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22883817
A Buddha has been stolen from Orissa:
That family of forgers has been sentenced:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iILviip2Nc3QKwJcnmNuhwvF98AQD8UF58NO2
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2248461,00.html
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
A pile of tombaroli are on trial in Italy:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/article.asp?id=7375
http://tinyurl.com/2kzbea
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NUMISMATICA
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The story of Britannia on UK coins:
http://women.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/women/article3265406.ece
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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Michaelangelo, Vasari, and their Contemporaries:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/arts/design/01uffi.html
Ancient Alloy: Bronzes from the Collection:
Chinese porcelain:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/01/arts/design/01anti.html
Nice feature on the items the Met was lent in return for the
Euphronios Krater:
http://antiquesandthearts.com/Antiques/TradeTalk/2008-01-29__12-00-33.html
... and what the Getty is getting:
http://tinyurl.com/33hjwy (LAT)
Lindow Man is on the move:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/7212023.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/jan/28/archaeology.forensicscience
Nice update on what's happening at the Baghdad Museum:
http://www.newsweek.com/id/107570
This week's installment in the Lewis Chessmen saga:
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Plan-to-return-chessmen-to.3715862.jp
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Burning-issue.3723155.jp
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ON THE WEB
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A U of I librarian is putting together a useful set of 'field
guides':
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-01/uoia-uoi012908.php
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PODCASTS
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The Dig:
The Book and the Spade:
http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
The Dig:
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
Archaeologica Audio News:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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