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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Rochelle Altman, Hernan Astudillo, David Critchley, June Samaras,
Bob Heuman, Rick Heli, Patrick Swan, Richard Campbell,
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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Feature on exploring a cave associated with homo floresiensis:

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/21-getting-personal-how-i-explored-a
-prehistoric-hobbit-cave

Interesting analysis of some prehistoric antelope bones from Olduvai:

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/10/baby-back-waaaay-back-ribs.
html?rss=1

National Geographic talks about the similarities between Neanderthals
and modern
humans:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121012-neanderthals-scien
ce-paabo-dna-sex-breeding-humans/

More on the interbreeding thing:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/when-did-human-neandert
hal-hook-ups-end/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2213219/Neanderthals-bred-
modern-humans-Europe-recently-37-000-years-ago.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=8543457
http://spittoon.23andme.com/ancestry/more-on-23andmes-neanderthal-lab/

Peripheral interest, perhaps … hypish thing for a NOVA program on
Neanderthals:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=93XSGw0b_xE
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Latest CT scan of a mummy reveals a mouthful of cavities and abcesses:

http://news.discovery.com/history/mummy-cavities-121010.html
http://news.yahoo.com/mummy-mouthful-cavities-discovered-111722294.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2215769/The-unique-linen-f
illing-used-Egyptian-dentists-2-100-years-ago-try-treat-worst-cases-denta
l-dec
ay-seen.html


The pyramid of Khafre and some more tombs were opened to the public ths
week:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201210130096.html
http://english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/10/12/243316.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/egypt-reopens-giza-pyramid_n_196
0898.html?utm_hp_ref=travel
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216352/Egypt-reopens-Giza-pyrami
d-bid-revive-tourism--despite-lingering-questions-security.html


No threats to the Egyptian Museum in recent clashes, we are told:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/55463/Egypt/Politics-/The-Eg
yptian-museum-is-safe-Minister.aspx

Finds from various prehistoric periods at Ein Zippori:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-4286088,00.html


Feature on the Gath dig:

http://www.jerusalemonline.com/tourism/archeological-dig-at-goliath%E2%80
%99s-hometown

Press release on the dig at Tel Esur:

http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=6037

Interesting article on a possible Samson-Helios link (sorry, the article
might be behind a paywall):

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-holidays/sukkot/samson-follows
-the-sun-to-galilee.premium-1.468506


Damage to an altar in a 9th century Egyptian church:

http://www.aina.org/news/20121008001210.htm

A smuggling attempt foiled at the Cairo airport:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/airport-authorities-foil-attempt-smu
ggle-artifacts
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/55166/Heritage/Islamic/Egypt
-authorities-thwart-attempts-to-smuggle-th-ce.aspx

Feature on the first person to sneak into the Cave of the Patriarchs:

http://www.jpost.com/Features/InThespotlight/Article.aspx?id=286936

Nice analysis of the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife thing:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/the-lessons-of-jesus-wife/31234

More coverage of the damage being done to Syria’s antiquities:

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/08/162524311/war-puts-syrian-antiquities-at-he
ritage-sites-in-danger
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gtFsDCDWhbzvme9dKY8iLob
qRIwg?docId=064c91270c034ea6ab092beab9813024
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/syrias-war-is-also-destroying-cent
uries-of-history/2012/10/09/da10d9ac-122a-11e2-be82-c3411b7680a9_print.ht
ml
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/nation_world/20121002_Syrian_fighting_d
estroys_antiquities.html

More on that Assyrian site in northern Iraq:

http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/2012100212603/Culture/archeologi
sts-assyrian-site-in-northern-iraq-unearthed.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery (maybe) of the site where Julius
Caesar was
assassinated:

http://www.france24.com/en/20121010-scientists-claim-find-spot-julius-cae
sars-slaying
http://news.discovery.com/history/julius-ceasar-stabbing-121012.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49380552/ns/technology_and_science-science
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2216396/Archaeologists-say-murder
-scene-Julius-Caesar--s-bus-stop.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/10/julius-caesar-stabbed-curia-pomp
ey_n_1955359.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121010102158.htm
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-spanish-exact-julius-caesar-stabbed.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/10/10/Caesar-assassination-site-conf
irmed/UPI-22411349898421/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/snrc-crf101012.php
http://www.sciencecodex.com/csic_researchers_find_the_exact_spot_where_ju
lius_caesar_was_stabbed-99870

Curiously less coverage of the possible (?) find of the tomb of Roxane:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/06/tomb-near-serres-wife-son-of-a
lexander/

They’re digging in the Agora of Paphos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/paphos/archaeologists-explore-ancient-market/2
0121014


A couple of Roman ships found off the coast of Elaiussa Sebaste:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/turkey/2012/10/08/Italian
-archaeologists-find-2-sunken-Roman-ships-off-Turkey_7595945.html
http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/16619/Italian-archaeologists-fi
nd-2-sunken-Roman-ships-off-Turkey.html
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-ea
stern-world/roman-ships-discovered-off-turkish-coast/


Nice feature on the current goings-on at Zeugma:

http://www.archaeology.org/1211/features/zeugma_turkey_belkis_roman_mosai
cs.html

Hype for a Cambridge conference on Linear B:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the-code-the-decipherment-of-
linear-b-60-years-on/

Feature on the Caryatids:

http://www.delawareonline.com/article/20121009/OPINION16/310090024/Six-he
adstrong-women-confidently-raise-Acropolis-roof

That marble sarcophagus that was languishing in a Dorset garden fetched
a nice price at auction:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-19878090


Khaled Holmes is another athlete with a Classical past:

http://www.latimes.com/sports/college/usc/la-sp-1012-usc-khaled-holmes-20
121012,0,2640933.story

Diphthong is apparently the best word ever:

http://www.greeknewsagenda.gr/2012/10/the-best-word-ever-is-greek.html

Some Greek-myth-inspired manga:

http://graphic-novels-manga.suvudu.com/2012/10/olympics-come-and-gone-get
-your-ancient-greek-fix-with-olympos.html

The APA is pondering a name change:

http://apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_blog_entry/request_for_comm
ents_on_possible_name_change_for_association/

Seven things you probably did know about Caligula, actually:

http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/7-things-you-may-not-know-about
-caligula

Latin has acquired hipster status, apparently, down under/up over:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/education/hipsters-embrace-lingo-of-the-an
cient-worlds-20121012-27i6u.html

More on revisiting the find site of the Antikythera Mechanism:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/04/archaeologists-revisit-ancient
-greek-computer-wreck-site/
More on the Mazotos shipwreck:

http://famagusta-gazette.com/mazotos-shipwreck-among-the-very-few-in-the-
mediterranean-that-can-provide-p16908-69.htm
http://www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Cyprus/4170/30487/revealing-the-past

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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Nazca-like geoglyphs from Russia?:

http://www.livescience.com/23910-russian-nazca-lines-discovered.html
http://www.livescience.com/23884-nazca-lines-russia-geoglyphs.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/12/russian-geoglyph-elk-design-ural
-nazca-lines_n_1961475.html

A Bronze Age necropolis from Serbia:

http://www.nzweek.com/technology/bronze-age-necropolis-unearthed-in-serbi
a-12863/

A late Bronze Age hoard from Jersey:

http://jersey.isle-news.com/archives/late-bronze-age-hoard-discovered-in-
jersey/13986/

Claims of the discovery of Europe’s oldest urban settlement in
Bulgaria:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/08/archaeology-europes-oldest-town-found-ne
ar-bulgarias-varna-professor-says/

A massive complex found near the Ring of Brodgar (not sure if we
mentioned
this already):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/oct/06/orkney-temple-centre-ancien
t-britain
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/10/archaeologists-uncover-
massive-stone-age-complex-in-scotland/

Using technology to understand Tudor weaponry:

http://www.hud.ac.uk/news/featuredstories/solvingthesubmergedsecretsofthe
maryrose.php

Pondering some recent theories about Stonehenge:

http://news.discovery.com/history/stonehenge-two-explanations-121012.html

… and coverage of the results of a recent laser scan of the monument:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/revealed-early-bron
ze-age-carvings-suggest-stonehenge-was-a-huge-prehistoric-art-gallery-820
2812.html
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8980lb-us-britain-stonehenge/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/midwinter-sun-linked-stonehenge-230914781.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/oct/09/stonehenge-digital-laser-3d
-survey

… and how it was ‘supposed’ to look:

http://news.discovery.com/history/stonehenge-analysis-photos-121012.html
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/10/09/stonehenge_laser_scan/

The mystery of the mausoleum of Pentillie:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-19889033

Finds from various periods at Blackbird Leys:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-19884140

Feature on Isabel de la Vega:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=287481

St Paul’s is faring much better lately, it appears:

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-erosion-iconic-st-paul-benefit.html

Plans for some fixing up at Leckhampton Hill Fort:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-19872169

An Academic Minute on the Richard III thing:

http://wamc.org/post/dr-norman-housley-university-leicester-richard-iii

Review of John Kelly, *The Graves are Walking*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/books/review/the-graves-are-walking-by-
john-kelly.html?ref=books

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence that prehistoric man ate pandas:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/14/prehistoric-man-ate-panda-cla
im
http://www.canada.com/technology/Chinese+scientist+says+fossils+show+preh
istoric+much+smaller+pandas/7387729/story.html

A Buddhist site on Bhogapuram:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/states/andhra-pradesh/evidence-of-buddhist-s
ite-found/article3980627.ece

Feature on Sima Qian:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19835484

Feature on Kublai Khan:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19850234

Feature on the Duke of Zhou:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19821144

Using tradition to maintain fisheries in Indonesia:

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-fisheries-benefit-year-old-tradition.html

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultu
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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Kennewick Man is back in the news:

http://seattletimes.com/html/localnews/2019387577_bones10m.html

Archaeologists have found the remains of one of Camp Lawton’s
stockade walls:

http://www.gpb.org/news/2012/10/11/civil-war-prison-camp-wall-uncovered

The search has resumed for the Griffon in Lake Michigan:

http://www.michiganradio.org/post/team-resumes-search-oldest-shipwreck-gr
eat-lakes

Some border patrol agents found a different type of pot while on
patrol in the Patagonia Mountains:

http://www.kvoa.com/news/border-patrol-agents-find-ancient-pottery-in-the
-patagonia-mountains/

An Academic Minute on early Spanish missions in Florida and Georgia:

http://www.michiganradio.org/post/team-resumes-search-oldest-shipwreck-gr
eat-lakes

The New York Times notices that Canada has been giving the War of 1812 a
lot
of attention:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/08/world/americas/canada-highlights-war-of
-1812-casting-us-as-aggressor.html

More on that button from a shipwreck of St Augustine:

http://jacksonville.com/news/florida/2012-10-03/story/button-found-st-aug
ustine-shipwreck-smoking-gun-its-identity

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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1300 years b.p. tombs, including a possible governor, found at Copalita:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58240#.UHqqu2d0YWk
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-hallazgos/6162-descubren-tu
mba-de-gobernante-prehispanico-en-copalita

More on that pile of skulls from the Templo Mayor:

http://news.discovery.com/history/skulls-aztec-rituals-temple-121008.html
#mkcpgn=rssnws1

More on Lady K’abel’s tomb:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/columnist/vergano/2012/10/12/maya-lady
-kabel-archaeology/1629915/

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/content/MP3/audnews20121007.mp3

Conservation work on a Holbein reveals the true identity of the sitter:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/oct/14/x-rays-identity-holbei
n-portrait

Interesting interview about UColorado’s Media Archaeology Lab:

http://blogs.loc.gov/digitalpreservation/2012/10/media-archaeology-and-di
gital-stewardship-an-interview-with-lori-emerson/

The Metropolitan Museum has put a pile of its publications online:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58271#.UHqs82d0YWl
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/the-mets-exhibition-catalog
s-are-revived-for-a-digital-life.html?ref=design

… and Charles Jones has culled links to those which would likely be of
interest to
readers of Explorator:

http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.ca/2012/10/metropolitan-museum-of-art-
publications.html

Tracking HepB through the ages:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-reveals-prehistoric-journey-hepatit
is.html

Some ‘lost diaries’ and the ‘young Mona Lisa’ thing:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8970sp-us-art-monalisa-diaries/

A missing photo of Mahler may have been found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/arts/music/a-clue-to-whereabouts-of-sch
oenbergs-missing-mahler-photo.html?ref=music

DNA apparently has a half-life:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22359-dnas-halflife-identified-usin
g-fossil-bones.html

Coverage of the first meeting of the Jane Austen Society:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/09/books/jane-austen-society-of-north-amer
ica-meets-in-brooklyn.html?src=dayp

Review of Robert Kaplan, *The Revenge of Geography*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/07/books/review/the-revenge-of-geography-b
y-robert-d-kaplan.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Old City Jerusalem:

http://www.haaretz.com/travel-in-israel/tourist-tip-of-the-day/tourist-ti
p-62-the-old-city-of-jerusalem.premium-1.468371

Siena:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/36-hours-in-siena-italy.html
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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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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_v15n42.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n43.html

Big bucks expected for a silver decadrachm from Akragas:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58261#.UHqvpGd0YWk

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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Roma Caput Mundi:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1JRB5yVxgnE&list=UU86dbj-lbDks_hZ5gRKL49Q&
index=1&feature=plcp

Jomon Japan:

http://japandailypress.com/5000-year-old-pots-exhibited-at-british-museum
-1115355
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/text/nn20121010f2.html

Bronze:

http://blogs.metro.co.uk/lifestyle/bronze-gets-sexy-royal-academy/

Durer to de Kooning:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/durer-to-de-kooning-at-the-
morgan-library.html?ref=arts

Faking It:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/faking-it-at-the-met-a-phot
ography-exhibition.html?ref=arts

Louis Tiffany and the Art of Devotion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/arts/design/louis-c-tiffany-and-the-art
-of-devotion-at-biblical-art.html?ref=design

Commentary on some recent ‘Islamic Art’ auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/13/arts/13iht-melikian13.html?ref=arts

Commentary on the role of the curator:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/11/arts/11iht-rartcurating11.html?ref=arts
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Da Vinci’s Demons:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/renaissance-men-david-s-goye
r-introduces-his-new-starz-series-da-vincis-demons/?ref=arts

Cyrano de Bergerac:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/10/12/theater/reviews/cyrano-de-bergerac-
with-douglas-hodge.html?ref=arts

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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Rufus Fears:

http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/329745/rufus-fears-rip-john-hood
http://www.oudaily.com/news/2012/oct/07/j-rufus-fears-three-time-professo
r-year-dies-67/
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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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