explorator 10.49
david meadows
explorator 10.49 March 30, 2008
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein,
Diana Wright, Dorothy King, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Rochelle Altman,
Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman, Richard C. Griffiths, 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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Humans remains from Atapuerca are the oldest such in Europe:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7313005.stm
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2004309060_eye27.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2AtHFVbJ__M
Neanderthals wore makeup and chatted (!?):
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn13536-neanderthals-wore-makeup-and-liked-to-chat.html
http://www.enn.com/sci-tech/article/33664
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we've had this life-was-tough-for-the-ancient-Egyptians
story before (haven't we?):
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/sc_nm/egypt_archaeology_study_dc_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23844542/
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSL2886575820080329
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l28865758-egypt-archaeology-study/
Donald Redford ponders the pyramids:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080328104302.htm
New excavations are afoot at Gourtan:
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15731.shtml
CBS's 60 Minutes brought up the ossuary business again ... with an
interesting 'confession' about forgery:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/20/60minutes/main3954980.shtml
... while National Review brought up the Jesus Tomb thing again
(is the expression 'make do' or 'make due'?):
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=YmQwZjI5NWQ4Zjg1NTlkYjgzY2Y4NGExOTNiYTE1YTE
Sabaen remains from Yemen:
http://www.yemenpost.net/22/LocalNews/20084.htm
Overviewish thing on Ramat Rachel:
http://catholiccourier.com/tmp1.cfm?nid=76&articleid=100495
Interesting National Geographic video on Egypt's 'City of the Dead':
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080328-cemetery-video-ap.html
The Temple Mount saga is getting weird:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gqKLsrw_vAzHpA0MubslDP55VLgg
A somewhat iffy item on the Copper Scroll:
http://www.cbn.com/CBNnews/347306.aspx
Hurva Synagogue is being rebuilt:
http://tinyurl.com/2o4zzt (JPost)
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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Concerns for the Etruscan tomba della Montagnola:
http://www.nove.firenze.it/vediarticolo.asp?id=a8.03.23.19.45
Remains of a 'Roman' roundhouse at Poulton:
NPR had a nice feature on Augustus' house:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=89050356
Some restoration work at Bath:
How Actium changed the world:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/general/1310842/how_the_battle_of_actium_changed_the_world/index.html
There's a new Classics PhD at Western:
http://communications.uwo.ca/com/western_news/stories/new_phd_in_classics_20080327441916/
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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Iron Age remains from an Olympic venue site at Stratford:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/7315968.stm
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/03/27/sports/EU-SPT-OLY-London-2012-Archaeology.php
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hGZHKivHaOG2fhOQTBTX2DbAkO3A
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/topstories/2008/03/28/dig-finds-first-east-enders-89520-20365271/
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23827627&afid=1
Medieval burials from Aosta:
http://www.regione.vda.it/notizieansa/details_i.asp?id=49827
Rethinking Anglo Saxon burial practices:
A metal detectorist has found a Viking jug handle on a Silloth
beach:
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/1.61822
The Time Team folks think they have found evidence of Welsh links
to King Harald (reading an awful lot into one potsherd, no?):
Seahenge is returning to Norfolk:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7312429.stm
Analyzing the skulls of some 'Tower lions':
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7311134.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml?xml=/earth/2008/03/25/scilion125.xml
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article3613501.ece
Archaeological concerns for a port development site at Bremore:
http://www.meathchronicle.ie/story.asp?stID=2465
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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Mesolithic (?) remains from India:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/7315386.stm
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Ancient_civilisation_traced_in_WB/articleshow/2909378.cms
http://www.expressindia.com/latest-news/Ancient-civilisation-traced-in-Bengal-village/289954/
Largest ancient tombs from China:
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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I'm not sure whether we've mentioned this 'peopling of the
Americas' evidence/theory or not (there have been so many
versions of various ones in the past couple of weeks):
http://www.nationalpost.com/news/story.html?id=396609
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=39597
Possible 1000 b.p. remains from along the Duck River (Tenn.):
http://www.newschannel5.com/Global/story.asp?S=8069844
Florida is the latest state to apologize for slavery:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/us/27florida.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Earliest signs of corn cultivation:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/uoc-crd032308.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080324173538.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Pondering the evolution of humour (and spirituality):
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/25/ancient-humor-joke.html
Odyssey Marine's out looking for more:
http://www.typicallyspanish.com/news/publish/article_15731.shtml
On Crusaders' genetic legacy in the Middle East:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/7316281.stm
Linking Siberian and Native American languages:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080326-language-link.html
A lost Watteau has surprisingly been found:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/arts/25arts-LOSTWATTEAUT_BRF.html
Problems with Ghandharan replicas?:
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2008\03\29\story_29-3-2008_pg13_7
Shakespeare's going digital in a big way:
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/l26582770-britain-shakespeare-digital/
Trying to keep the bell tower in St. Mark's Square from tilting:
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-03-27_127200077.html
One for fans of Gregorian Chant:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7307470.stm
On dating Easter:
http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-id.calendar23mar23,0,6704299.story
Researchers have found and played a recording which predates
Edison:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/27soun.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7318180.stm
Celebrating Zille's sesquicentennial:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/27/arts/design/27zille.html
Trying to identify Schiller's skull:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080328/sc_nm/germany_schiller_skull_dc_1
In case you've ever wondered about the canonization process:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/30saintct.html
A documentary about the martyrdom of Perpetua:
http://www.townhall.com/news/religion/2008/03/26/prof_lends_hand_to_martyrs_documentary
Review of Katherine Ashenburg, *Clean: An Unsanitized History
of Washing*:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2008/03/30/boash130.xml
Review of Anthony Pagden, *Worlds at War*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/26/books/26grimes.html
More coverage of that Necho voyage recreation:
http://www.thisisdorset.net/display.var.2140045.0.ready_to_sail_into_history.php
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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Gozo:
http://tinyurl.com/2u6lem
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]
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 idiot tourist knocked the ear off one of Easter Island's
statues:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/mar/27/3?gusrc=rss&feed=worldnews
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/americas/7313878.stm
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23793523&afid=1
Interesting portrayal/meeting with tombaroli in this feature:
http://www.tampabay.com/features/travel/article432564.ece
More coverage of the recovery of items linked to one of Trajan's
villas:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/24/arts/24arts-ROMANRELICSR_BRF.html
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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On Maundy Thursday coins:
http://www.newsletter.co.uk/news/Landmark-service-treasured-by-NI.3902842.jp
Interesting Temple Bar Medal find:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/4444363a11.html
American Bank Note Company:
http://www.coxrail.com/ABNCo.htm
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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In the Forest of Fontainebleau:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/arts/design/28font.html
Venus of Urbino:
http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/dy/features/arts/20080328TDY12001.htm
Meissen Porcelain:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/arts/design/28anti.html
Tree of Paradise:
http://www.boston.com/ae/theater_arts/articles/2008/03/25/jewish_mosaics_ancient_insights/
Re-Orientations: Islamic Art and the West:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/arts/design/28isla.html
The Barnes Collection is back in the news:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/25/arts/25arts-FOESOFMUSEUM_BRF.html
Items from the Shelby White collection are on show in Rome:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/arts/29arts-REPATRIATEDA_BRF.html
Latest 'knowingly purloined art' purchase involves the Leopold Museum:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/arts/29arts-ARTANDTHENAZ_BRF.html
More coverage of items returned to the Baghdad Museum:
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news%5C2008-03-24%5Ckurd.htm
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Tudors (TV):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/28/arts/television/28tudo.html
Sense and Sensibility (TV):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/arts/television/29aust.html
Argonautika:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/30/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/30theatnj.html
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ON THE WEB
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Digging up the Romans (MoL):
http://www.museumoflondon.org.uk/learning/features_facts/digging/
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OBITUARIES
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Robert Fagles:
http://tinyurl.com/3aeorh (WPost)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080329/ap_on_en_ot/obit_fagles_6
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/29/style/obit.php
http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/104-03282008-1510532.html
http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/17105716.html
http://www.journalgazette.net/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080329/LOCAL06/803290351
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/29/books/29fagles.html?hp
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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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