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explorator 11.21 September 14, 2008
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Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman,
Steve Rankin, 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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Pondering Neanderthal brains:
http://www.livescience.com/history/080908-neanderthal-skulls.html
Neanderthals v. mammoths:
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?afid=1&aid=26625212
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26625212/
Paleolithic remains from Qatar:
http://tinyurl.com/6d6gyn (Gulf Times)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Vague item on the destruction of a Sassanid inscription from
Iran:
http://www2.irna.ir/en/news/view/menu-235/0809109472172759.htm
A 1500 b.p. necropolis from Iran's Mazandaran province:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68815§ionid=351020105
http://english.farsnews.com/newstext.php?nn=8706201032
... and remains of an eighth-century minaret:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=68823§ionid=351020105
Interesting early Islamic burials from near Tahluj:
http://www.mehrnews.ir/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=747070
An Iron Age burial near Hyderabad:
http://www.thehindu.com/2008/09/10/stories/2008091058090100.htm
Jordan is launching a database on ancient sites:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/10/content_9900380.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/12arts-ANTIQUITIESD_BRF.html?ref=a
rts
Digging Ramat Rachel:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3593003,00.html
There appears to be some controversy over assorted burials found
during Istanbul's subway construction (the Neolithic finds in
this one appear to be new):
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115135
Medieval (?) frescoes from Lebanon:
http://www.emol.com/noticias/magazine/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnotic
ia=321106
More on Tut's twins:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_
id=95924
http://www.livescience.com/culture/080912-hn-twins.html
More on digitizing the DSS:
http://blog.bible.org/bock/node/426
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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Latest finds from Thessaloniki subway construction:
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-graves13-2008sep13,0,3171051.s
tory
http://tinyurl.com/5zu264 (UPI)
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/arts/13arts-ANCIENTGRAVE_BRF.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080911/sc_afp/greecearchaeology_08091118360
0
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jj4aQqNqyRJsbvUVVT_IOLExmRFQ
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6827590&maindocimg=682736
6&service=94
Another Boudicca battle-site candidate:
http://www.therugbyobserver.co.uk/news55035.html
A Roman burial from a car park site in Enderby:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/leicestershire/7608677.stm
http://www.24dash.com/news/Environment/2008-09-11-Roman-skeletons-unearth
ed-at-park-and-ride-site
A section of Roman road in Cheshire:
http://www.creweguardian.co.uk/news/3652108.Diggers_unearth_Roman_road/
A 2500 b.p. marble sarcophagus from Cyprus:
http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080912-1105-cyprus-ancientcoff
ins.html
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=41363&cat_id=1
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gvNkR_rtIP9zROKV78HIW-5vYHE
g
A fountain find at the Kaunos theatre site:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=152743&bolu
m=132
... and the other side of the Kaunos excavations:
http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=114492
... and the excavations at Knidos have stopped:
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/09/14/europe/EU-Turkey-Ancient-City.p
hp
An interesting mosaic (no photo, alas) at a bath site in southern
Turkey:
http://www.worldbulletin.net/news_detail.php?id=27922
The BBC is working on a documentary on Cleopatra's 'darker side':
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5iydCiJrG3tjNXNlatx97ZMytDj6g
http://www.broadcastnow.co.uk/news/2008/09/bbc_backs_cleopatra_doc.html
A temple of Athena from Bodrum:
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=468940&sid=FTP
http://www.turkishpress.com/travel/view.asp?id=250900
More hints of an I, Claudius remake:
http://www.hollywoodreporter.com/hr/content_display/television/news/e3i6e
1ea93903c4b3a3d377eba19b9ab13a
On otium and the rise of the Roman villa:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/09/12/arts/otium.php
... a very nice slide show to go along with it:
http://www.iht.com/slideshows/2008/09/12/arts/otium.1.php
More (and better) coverage of finds from Pella:
http://tinyurl.com/3hz3cc (Mail ... photos galore)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080911-gold-photo.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080911/sc_nm/greece_discovery_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26643490/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/article4728277.ece
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2008/09/10/6723781-ap.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSLB8540920080911
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080910/ap_on_sc/greece_ancient_cemetery;_ylt
=AuN3zJuHDnDlKVNepSbX07.s0NUE
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/10/ap/tech/main4437348.shtml
More (?) on ancient Greek embalming practices:
http://ec.europa.eu/research/headlines/news/article_08_09_10_en.html
http://cordis.europa.eu/fetch?CALLER=EN_NEWS&ACTION=D&SESSION=&RCN=29846
More coverage of the Princeton Theran fresco thing:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/magazine/20080908_Perfect_fit.html
Review of Martin Goodman, *Rome and Jerusalem*:
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:
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Stonehenge "partiers" came a great distance:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080912-stonehenge.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/11/stonehenge.neolithic
Saxon burials from Lakenheath:
http://www.buryfreepress.co.uk/mildenhall/Saxon-graves-found-in-Lakenheat
h.4482205.jp
... and another, possibly more interesting, Saxon burial from
Ramsgate:
http://tinyurl.com/679vcw (Telegraph)
A 12th century abbey from (appropriately) Abbeytown:
http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/1.238789
Some medieval burials near Cramond at a Roman site:
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Alert--as-human-bones.4470753.jp
A half dozen Viking burials from Sweden:
http://www.thelocal.se/14284/20080912/
... and a Bronze Age site therefrom too:
http://www.thelocal.se/14050/20080901/
The 'fake stone of Scone' thing is back in the news:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/latestnews/Is-the-Stone-of-Destiny.446537
3.jp
More coverage of what's coming out of that melting Swiss glacier:
http://www.canada.com/topics/technology/science/story.html?id=7f68a65d-f3
7f-43a8-bb2e-53d000e12ad1
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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Archaeologists have found the 'sleeping Buddha':
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/arts/09arts-ANCIENTBUDDH_BRF.html
http://www.bangkokpost.com/090908_News/09Sep2008_news06.php
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080908/ts_afp/afghanistanculturebuddha_0809
08163926
http://www.todayonline.com/articles/274774.asp
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080908/lf_nm_life/afghan_statue_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/7604519.stm
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINISL34253320080908
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/isl342533-afghan-statue/
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/Descubierta/Afganistan/estatua/Bud
a/metros/elpepucul/20080909elpepucul_2/Tes
http://www.france24.com/en/20080908-ancient-sleeping-buddha-unearthed-afg
hanistan
More on that 'ritual execution' find from Australia (first reported
on a few months ago):
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24316604-5006787,00.ht
ml
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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Never thought I'd read "Saskatoon" and "maritime disaster" in
the same sentence:
http://www.610cktb.com/news/14/786220
http://www.newstalk980.com/story/20080911/5526
http://www.canada.com/saskatoonstarphoenix/news/story.html?id=0a2b6405-fb
6d-4fd4-9829-7b09c5409d33
This appears to be the end of the Hunley lawsuit thing:
http://www.thestate.com/local/story/520626.html?RSS=local
More money is needed for sites in US National Parks:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26603837/
Malotki and petroglyphs:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/science/09rock.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A pre-Inca sacrificial burial from Peru:
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/living/health/story/466851.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iw_gIhLRO4Chuvd_Inb8tjHXhZAgD9348M5O0
http://www.wnct.com/nct/news/world/article/inca_relics_found_at_cusco_and
_lambayeque/18499/
http://www.livescience.com/history/080911-ap-peru-tombs.html
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep10/0,4670,PeruPreIncaTomb,00.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/09/080911-pregnant-video-ap.
html
http://tinyurl.com/5vvrle
http://www.topix.net/content/ap/2008/09/peru-archaeologists-find-pre-inca
-sacrificial-tomb
Plenty of Inca artifacts from Sacsayhuaman:
http://www.livinginperu.com/news/7380
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?Id=wBuAQr5k+54=
An underground passage at Chavin de Huantar:
http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/Noticia.aspx?id=QGw5yIRHeCU=
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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A talk on the history of alcohol:
http://www.lcsun-news.com/ci_10445041?source=most_emailed
Figs may have been the first cultivated crops:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=5446137
The UK is not doing enough to protect its heritage sites:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/08/heritage.conservation
Tony Perrottet on Renaissance art reception:
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article09090801.aspx
Touring underwater sites:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7605718.stm
They're going to test-fire a replica of the Culloden Cannon:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/glasgow_and_west/7608861.stm
Interesting feature on W.H. Auden:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls
/article4722508.ece
Peru is going after Odyssey Marine now:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601086&sid=a1LoR2XHJ988&refer=la
tin_america
Interesting feature on Macchiavelli:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/atlarge/2008/09/15/080915crat_atlar
ge_pierpont
Google is going to be digitizing some newspaper archives:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/technology/09google.html
Cemetery parties?:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/14cemeteryct.
html
The NYT has a feature on the 1900 Galveston hurricane:
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/subjects/h/hurricanes
_and_tropical_storms/galveston_hurricane_1900/index.html
Thinking about Vesuvius' next eruption:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26643330/
... and the eruption of Mt. Toba was pretty darned big:
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/scienceshow/stories/2008/2354524.htm
I confess I've never heard of Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/books/13mach.html
Review of a couple of tomes on the evolution of the classical
concert:
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/musical/2008/09/08/080908crmu_music
_ross
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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Troy:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/09/travel/troy2webonly.html
A 'Pilgrims' Route' is in the works:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1019251
cf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/travel/07journeys.html
Eve's Graveyard:
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/topic/sns-ap-rel-religion-today,0,1252308.
story
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-REL-Religion-Today.html
Wat's Dyke Heritage Trail:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/mid/7608768.stm
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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:
Hopkins in Egypt Today:
http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:
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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Some Etruscan items have been returned to Italy:
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-10_110256248
.html
Switzerland returns the 'pharaoh's eye' to Egypt:
http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/09/10/switzerland_to_return_pharaohs
_eye_to_egypt/afp/
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24327921-23109,00.html
http://dailystaregypt.com/article.aspx?ArticleID=16375
Hungary returns some items to Greece:
http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1103ap_greece_hungary_antiquities.
html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iOozrUgVxEboquppABEkRuGqxiYwD934R7LG2
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/7791556
http://www.foxnews.com/wires/2008Sep11/0,4670,GreeceHungaryAntiquities,00
.html
Some icon thieves from Greece were stung this week:
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5hB0CQo2zRD1W4OVB59qCms7rMoWgD934NTCO0
http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2008/09/12/6742686-sun.html
A major art heist in LA:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/12arts-STOLENPAINTI_BRF.html
More coverage of Shelby White's returns of artifacts to Greece:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_
id=95846
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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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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Boldini Mon Amour:
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-09-11_111269582
.html
Serious Drinking:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=26029
Mysteries of Ancient Ukraine:
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h-oPZZfpEVS3Fgk-9Z7ngJTcrYn
A
James Bowdoin:
http://www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/005463.shtml
Babylon:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2008/sep/13/heritage.exhibition
Wang Hui:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/design/12wang.html
Big bucks expected for a 1000 year b.p. crystal decanter:
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2008/09/11/crystal-ewer-auction.ht
ml
A new director at the Met:
http://www.nysun.com/arts/metropolitan-museum-chooses-a-young-insider-as/
85487/
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/arts/design/10museum.html
http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/c/thomas_p_cam
pbell/index.html
Confusion over the Cleveland MoA's 'deal' with Italy:
http://www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2008/09/contrary_to_a_recent_publ
ic.html
Plans for a major Jewish museum in Israel:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1019627
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127560
Coverage of the Biennale des Antiquaires in Paris:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/arts/design/12anti.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Agamemnon:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/theater/13getty.html
The Crucible:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/arts/music/13cruc.html
An Enemy of the People:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/09/12/theater/reviews/12enem.html
An NEH grant for Aquila:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/08/theater/08arts-THECLASSICST_BRF.html
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OBITUARIES
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Ralph Kovel:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/07/business/07kovel.html
Melvin Fowler:
http://www.jsonline.com/story/index.aspx?id=792932
Richard Monette:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/theater/11monette.html
S.C. Welch:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/arts/design/10welch.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Tut wants his stuff back:
http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/hey_where_did_all_my_stuff_go
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PODCASTS
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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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