explorator 10.42
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explorator 10.42 February 10, 2008
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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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
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:
Past Preservers:
http://pastpreservers.blogspot.com/
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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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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:
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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