explorator 10.47
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explorator 10.47 March 16, 2008
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, David Critchley,
Donna Hurst, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths, Robert White,
Rochelle Altman, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman, Steve Rankin,
Toke Lindegaard Knudsen, and W. Richard Frahm for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
n.b. I've started an incipient section for online dig diaries ... if
you know of any (that are 'current'), feel free to pass them on!
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EARLY HUMANS
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Paleolithic axes found off the coast of Norfolk:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080311203247.htm
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/projects/marine/bmapa/north-sea-handaxes/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/10/archaeology
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=527827
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=33241
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/10/archaeology?gusrc=rss&feed=science
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/neanderthal-treasure-trove-at-bottom-of-sea-793678.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Donkeys may have first been domesticated in Egypt:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/us_and_americas/article3525873.ece
http://tinyurl.com/32ou7d (NS)
Latest mummy CT Scan results:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/03/15/wmummy115.xml
Brief item on the possible find of an Elamite temple in Iran:
http://tinyurl.com/2jeoz2 (UPI)
Recent finds west of Temple Mount:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/125559
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1350&module_id=#as
http://itn.co.uk/news/a9359b2a5b9ad6c7ecfd85a0acc23a44.html
This week's developments in the Temple Mount saga (these are all
different):
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=58538
http://tinyurl.com/3ynczm (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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A thousand burials found during subway construction in
Thessaloniki:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_re_eu/greece_ancient_graves_4
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5ia6tZBXvHeMXFgmzNPbasri1wUoA
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23566067/
http://www.physorg.com/news124442393.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080311-AP-greece-anci.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/11/ancient-grave-greece.html
... and one of the burials (?) shows signs of brain surgery:
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/health/story/301632.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080311/ap_on_sc/greece_ancient_surgery_2
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,336971,00.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/11/ap/tech/main3927675.shtml
http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2008-03-12-ancient-brain-surgery_N.htm?csp=34
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080312/sc_afp/greecearchaeologymedicine_080312142820
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5hmOACL0J7oTrpF9Aemh1SLc4Ab_A
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/12/ancient-greek-skeleton.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080312-AP-brain-picture.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/europe/skeleton-reveals-ancient-greek-brain-surgery-795739.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23581918&afid=1
Major Roman finds near Wansford/Stamford/Peterborough:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/7289660.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2scy3y
http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/Roman-ruins-found-in-wood.3861509.jp
Nice report on the 2007 season at Kissonerga-Skalia (Cyprus):
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=38115&archive=1
OpEddish thing on Oxyrhynchus:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/03/15/do1508.xml
A Jewish prayer in a Roman child's grave from Austria:
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/archaeological-sensation-austria-15664.html
Identifying Ithaka is turning into a saga of its own:
http://in.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idINL1436864020080314
The Saronic Harbors Archaeological Research Project (SHARP):
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/538548/
http://www.physorg.com/news124465285.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080311120621.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-03/fsu-fcp031108.php
A virtual reconstruction of the Temple of Apollo:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080314-rome-temple.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=35535
Pondering some of Homer's women:
http://blogs.guardian.co.uk/books/2008/03/homers_women.html
A quickie guide to Roman art:
http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/Content?oid=532275
Remembering Zeph Stewart:
http://www.thecrimson.com/article.aspx?ref=522431
More coverage of that Mycenean burial at Lefkada:
http://www.bismarcktribune.com/articles/2008/03/16/news/columnists/jenkinson/151140.txt
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23486148&afid=1
More hype for the opening of the House of Augustus:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/7286305.stm
http://tinyurl.com/268h4z (Telegraph)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/10/content_7751976.htm
http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2263804,00.html
More coverage of those Rome subway finds:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004267247_webitalysubway07.html
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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More coverage of the Stonehenge-as-battle-site theory:
A history of London's business district:
http://tinyurl.com/2s3u3d (Independent)
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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Interesting (more hobbits?) bones from Palau:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/03/11/healthscience/11fossil.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080310-palau-bones.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/photogalleries/palau-pictures/index.html
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,23359090-948,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7290090.stm
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/science/11fossil.html
http://tinyurl.com/2k5pob (Journal article)
Pre-Pala era structures from Bangladesh:
http://www.andhranews.net/Intl/2008/March/15/Archaeologists-find-structures-37477.asp
The semi-annual warning about the state of Angkor Wat:
http://tinyurl.com/2l7smv (Independent)
Have Ned Kelly's bones been found?:
http://tinyurl.com/2wvs2g (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5h7Mk49rVv_UBeO3c58O0szS75vVA
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On the DNA front, nearly all of Native Americans can apparently
be traced back to six mothers (why does it always seem to be six?):
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/03/13/native-american-dna.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/native_american_dna
... not sure if this 'peopling of the Americas' article is based
on the same research:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080313-first-americans.html
http://tinyurl.com/3ba42h (Journal article)
An important dig near Lambton (Ontario) is scheduled for this
summer:
http://www.theobserver.ca/ArticleDisplay.aspx?e=935951
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A pre-Inca temple from Peru:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kuY-poS_chE
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7295754.stm
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5gLnjbj8eJ6DroE7Z_GZy8VJRqohw
http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/americas/03/14/peru.inca.ap/
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/travel/2004282690_webperutemple14.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080314/ap_on_sc/peru_inca_temple_3
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/23626672/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/mar/14/archaeology.conservation?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/03/14/tech/main3937997.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90782/90874/6373804.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080313/sc_nm/peru_archeology_dc_1
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23626672&afid=1
... this appears to be the same (?):
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSN1332244720080313
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Rethinking the earthquake of 365 A.D. and its implications:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2008-03/10/content_6521116.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/03/080310-tsunami.html
It was pi day a few days ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7296224.stm
A previously-unknown portrait of Mozart:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080315/ap_en_mu/mozart_portrait
Looking for guillotined relatives:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/europe/article3556333.ece
Another ancient math problem solved:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/03/080314145039.htm
More coverage of those possibly-drawn-by-Leonardo chess illustrations:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/world/AP-Da-Vinci-Chess.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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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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Egypt thwarted some mummy smugglers:
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5iiaeI6f2SlyAUPRg-da9o2mnpAJw
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,337071,00.html
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iPDakkY3BeFHD9fL5OEXzs-IidwwD8VC1QD00
http://www.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/africa/03/12/mummy.smuggling.ap/
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=23592848&afid=1
The IAA caught a metal detectorist at a site:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=962342
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1348&module_id=#as
Tombaroli are operating around Piazza Armerina:
http://tinyurl.com/35lxyh (ViviEnna)
The looting in Ibb continues:
http://www.yobserver.com/local-news/10013883.html
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Some Roman gold coins were found in Derbyshire:
http://tinyurl.com/36r6u7 (Telegraph)
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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Brilliant Women:
http://tinyurl.com/3xq6pj (Times)
Golden Graves of Ancient Vani:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/design/14gall.html
Anatomy of a Masterpiece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/design/14asia.html
War Booty:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/11/arts/design/11boot.html
Monumental France:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/design/14bald.html
The New York Times has a big special section on museums:
http://www.nytimes.com/indexes/2008/03/12/arts/artsspecial/index.html
Assorted antiques items of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/design/14anti.html
Bruce Ferrini's collection is being sold off to pay some debts:
http://www.ohio.com/news/top_stories/16699831.html
http://www.ohio.com/news/break_news/16687051.html
http://www.wdtn.com/Global/story.asp?S=8021590
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Duchess of Langeais (movie):
http://www.newyorker.com/arts/critics/cinema/2008/03/10/080310crci_cinema_denby
John Adams (tv):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/arts/television/14adam.html
Coversations in Tusculum:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/03/12/theater/reviews/12conv.html
The Seagull:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/theater/reviews/14seag.html
Changes at the Stratford Festival:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/theater/14stra.html
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OBITUARIES
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Erica Jesselson (Philanthropist):
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/03/14/nyregion/14jesselson.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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They accidentally washed the Shroud of Turing with a red shirt:
http://www.theonion.com/content/node/75621
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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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