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explorator 10.42                               February 10, 2008
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, Dorothy
King,'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Ross W. Sargent,
Rick Pettigrew, Sean Reynolds, Susan Jaslow,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, 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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Neanderthals were more 'mobile' than previously thought:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2008-02-08-
neanderthal-teeth-mobility_N.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080208/ap_on_sc/greece_neanderthal_tooth
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A major Achaemenid building found at Lidoma:

http://www.payvand.com/news/08/feb/1076.html

The history and politics behind the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.jewishquarterly.org/article.asp?articleid=325

Pondering the findspot of the DSS:

http://www2.cnrs.fr/en/1089.htm

... and all of the content of the latest issue of Dead Sea
Discoveries is available:

http://tinyurl.com/2nxa8x

The Hopkins in Egypt dig diary has resumed:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/

Revising the reading of that 'Temech' seal:

http://tinyurl.com/2kp4xo (JPost)
http://tinyurl.com/2a6ryt

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

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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Hellenistic finds in Kuwait:

http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=6119012&maindocimg=
5576654&service=102

A Roman fort in Cornwall:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/02/080205202327.htm

The Romans performed cataract operations:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7194352.stm

Roman remains in Lincolnshire:

http://tinyurl.com/2o4ryh

A couple of years ago we mentioned the discovery of a Roman
lighthouse
in Turkey ... the excavations have begun:

http://www.thenewanatolian.com/tna-31096.html

Rethinking the Lupercal, media style:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/discoveries/2008-02-06-romulus-
remus-lupercale_N.htm

Another 'coloured statuary' article:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/arti
cle3299711.ece
http://www.topnews.in/ancient-greek-and-roman-sculptures-were-multi-
coloured-218397

... and another on Boadicea:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?
in_article_id=512714&in_page_id=1770

A suggestion that Prime Minister Harper read Marcus Aurelius:

http://tinyurl.com/2tr5rh

On the rise of Classics in the UK:

http://education.guardian.co.uk/higher/news/story/0,,2252360,00.html

Honours for Latin teacher Sean Smith:

http://www.amherstbulletin.com/story/id/79581/

More coverage of the altar on Mt. Lykaion:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/05/science/05zeus.html (JNW)
http://www.speroforum.com/site/article.asp?id=14290&tag=
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/05/europe/altar.php

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:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Possible Saxon burial from Norfolk:

http://tinyurl.com/3dtmeq (EDP24)

Archaeologists believe they're close to finding Kenneth MacAlpine's
wooden castle site:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/72264
10.stm

Finds from various periods during sewer construction near the
Avon:

http://tinyurl.com/3ahmnx

Prehistoric finds during M62 construction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/merseyside/7223230.stm

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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An overviewish thing on recent finds at Orissa:

http://tinyurl.com/2pxh5q

Latest video on the Archaeology Channel is about Ping Yao:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Can't remember if this is the Bamayan cave painting find we
mentioned a couple of months ago:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/02/photogalleries/Bamian
-pictures/index.html

Theories about mega-tsunamis hitting Australia aren't confirmed
by the archaeological evidence:

http://www.physorg.com/news121356987.html

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Native remains from Bridgeport:

http://www.al.com/news/huntsvilletimes/index.ssf?/base/news/120212014
1234401.xml

Seeking protection for some Tsimshian sites around Prince
Rupert Harbour:

http://tinyurl.com/2jebn6
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Lice from mummies is providing some clues about migration:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/02/06/healthscience/06lice.php
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=20041
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/science/07lice.html

A half dozen Vicus culture pyramids from Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/3dfcp7

More coverage of that Nazca iron ore mine:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080129125405.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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What rats can tell us about ancient migration:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411419/1568444

A talk on earth science and archaeology:

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/showarticle.php?articleid=52798

Trying to figure out who killed Karl XII:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7228009.stm

... and Pico della Mirandola:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2008/02/07/wmedici107.xml

High tech probing of the Mary Rose:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7231173.stm

Notre Dame's bells:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/world/europe/08bells.html

Review of the *Encyclopedia of Erotic Literature*:

http://tinyurl.com/3ym7aw (Times)

Review of Charles Nichol, *Shakespeare the Lodger*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/books/08book.html

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/

Past Preservers:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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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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Brief item on a bust in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/36eg4w (ANA)

... and some amphorae were recovered in Calabria:

http://www.telereggiocalabria.it/index.php?
option=com_content&task=view&id=6385&Itemid=59

... and some 600 pieces from an antiquities ring at various sites
in Italy:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Regioni/Lazio.php?id=1.0.1846504815

This is possibly the same as the foregoing, and includes a fragment
of the Forma Urbis:

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/articolo.php?id=18308&sez=HOME_ROMA

An American army pilot is charged with antiquities smuggling in
Egypt:

http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN0630266320080206
http://www.newsday.com/news/local/wire/newyork/ny-bc-ny--
armypilotarrested0206feb06,0,2449180.story
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=4252851&page=1

The spinoff effects of the popularity of Russian icons:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-
dyn/content/article/2008/02/04/AR2008020403089.html

Greece returned some purloined antiquities to Albania:

http://tinyurl.com/2wg67c (Earthtimes)

The Asian antiquities smuggling followups:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/04/arts/design/04frau.html

One of those stolen Ptolemaic maps was returned to Spain:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2008/02/04/2154153.htm
http://news.theage.com.au/australia-returns-rare-1482-map-to-
spain/20080204-1q0h.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5giR6qMZG2j7ZsaIpgVxfk5hXPvFgD8UJO7
Q00

Russia has revealed details about a PILE of art stolen by the
Nazis:

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088
&sid=ahPiqqiW9wqg&refer=muse

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Drake Map medal:

http://www.coinbooks.org/esylum_v11n04a18.html

Britannia is disappearing from UK coinage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?
xml=/news/2008/01/28/ncoin128.xml

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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Enchanted Stories: Chinese Shadow Theater:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/arts/design/08shad.html

Barbarians:

http://tinyurl.com/3aw94h (ANSA)
http://tinyurl.com/38f9v9 (Independent)

digNubia:

http://www.connectsavannah.com/gyrobase/Content?oid=oid%3A6354

Overviewish thing on some recent London auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/arts/design/08voge.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Fool's Gold:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2008/02/08/movies/08fool.html
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ON THE WEB
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OBITUARIES
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James Fuld:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/07/arts/music/07fuld.html
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PODCASTS
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The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

The Dig:

http://www.thedigradio.com/

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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