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explorator 10.40 January 27, 2008
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst,
'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Joan Griffith, John McMahon,
Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman, Rick Pettigrew, Ross W. Sargent, Bob Heuman,
Steve Rankin, 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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The latest 'missing link' claim:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22808733/
http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,,2245579,00.html
http://www.itv.com/News/Articles/China-skull-may-be-missing-link.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/itn/20080123/twl-china-skull-may-be-missing-link-41f21e0.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/177761,ancient-human-skull-found-in-china.html
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/6343340.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/sc_nm/china_skull_dc_1

Cavemen wore shoes:

http://tinyurl.com/324voj (New Scientist)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The latest Greco-Roman mummy find:

http://tinyurl.com/2mhnlu
http://tinyurl.com/2lrxan
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=420389&sid=FTP
http://www.dailyindia.com/show/210950.php/Ancient-mummies-among-other-relics-unearthed-in-Egypt
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000001/0203000000000000000929.htm
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2008/881/eg6.htm

On the "brutal" lives of ancient Egyptians:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7209472.stm

A 3rd century cemetery from Syria:

http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gcqC6lHr-qFgEzzwzjtgGiLWKl8AD8UBS1R02
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080124/ap_on_sc/syria_archaeology_4
http://www.sanluisobispo.com/health/story/255038.html

Fallout from the media coverage/Simcha's press release on the
Talpiot tomb:

http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=59910
http://dukereligion.blogspot.com/2008/01/talpiot-tomb-controversy-revisited.html
http://www.christianpost.com/article/20080123/30957.htm
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1201070788587&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Followup to that Herod's quarry story:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1201070776425&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Trying to transform Irbil into a tourist spot:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22831033/

More coverage of that 'queen's tomb' in Yemen:

http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=15350

For your next departmental birthday:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/ravensden/1874362625/in/photostream/

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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The altar of Zeus on Mt. Lykaion was used for much longer than
previously thought:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123114601.htm
http://www.museum.upenn.edu/new/news/fullrelease.php?which=314
http://www.livescience.com/history/081023-zeus-altar.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20080123/sc_livescience/worshipsitepredateszeus
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/24/content_7488327.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/01/080125-zeus-altar.html

A tannery at Pompeii will be undergoing restoration:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080121-0649-italy-pompeii-ancienttannery.html
http://www.dailymail.com/News/200801210182
http://canadianpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5hkLEdIp7bJaGVNH4FjeU0nNYdY-w
http://www.ansa.it/site/notizie/awnplus/english/news/2008-01-22_122151021.html
http://abclocal.go.com/kabc/story?section=news/world_news&id=5904543
(nice photo)

Plans are afoot to excavate an ancient shipwreck off Cyprus:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22821438/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080125/ap_on_sc/cyprus_ancient_shipwreck_3
http://tinyurl.com/2qwsed
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/24/AR2008012401985.html

Another piece on Rome-India trade ... I don't think there's
anything here we haven't seen already:

http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/mp/2008/01/21/stories/2008012150370500.htm

Some coins of Carausius have been found:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article3241299.ece

They're finally getting on with the replanting of Olympia:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20080122-1301-greece-ancientolympia.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22791566/

On Browning's 'Pheidippides':

http://www.newsday.com/features/booksmags/ny-hsfitbox225546711jan22,0,1882317.story

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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A metal detectorist has come across a pile of Bronze Age axeheads:

http://tinyurl.com/2s5yfx (Daily Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/3d8byf (Times)
http://www.zeenews.com/articles.asp?aid=420571&sid=FTP

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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Rethinking the origins of the Polynesians:

http://tinyurl.com/38zgkz (Canada.com)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080118093728.htm

Khmer civilization is older than previously thought:

http://www.thejapannews.net/story/320484

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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The latest from the Jamestown Rediscovery people:

http://www.dailypress.com/features/family/dp-secrets_072605,0,1778701.story

Low tides reveal (again) a shipwreck near Florence, Oregon:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22769456/

On restoring assorted sites of interest in Flat Rock, Georgia:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18233281

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel provides a stark
contrast with what went on with Kennewick Man:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

More coverage of colonialists' river diversion efforts:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=18228525
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of coverage suggesting the ancient Maya sacrificed boys,
not girls (not sure why it needs to be an either/or?):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/sc_nm/mexico_sacrifice_dc_3
http://www.news.com.au/dailytelegraph/story/0,22049,23095592-5001028,00.html

They've figured out why Mayan temples "dazzle":

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/01/080123085308.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2u9ftu (UPI)
http://www.physorg.com/news120313101.html
http://www.newkerala.com/one.php?action=fullnews&id=16597
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20080123/sc_nm/mexico_sacrifice_dc
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,,23093081-12332,00.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On a 'lost' photo archive of manuscripts of the Quran:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120008793352784631.html

Questioning how much of the Sistine Chapel was actually done by
Michelangelo:

http://tinyurl.com/33cvke (Independent)

Still toasting Edgar Allan Poe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/arts/21arts-POETOASTERPA_BRF.html

A brief history of briefs:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/features/features/article3360062.ece

Brief item on using lasers to find sites:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/7202361.stm

Latest in the Odyssey Marine saga:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/22826040/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080124/ap_on_re_us/shipwreck_treasure

Review of Muzaffar Iqbal, *Science and Islam*:

http://tinyurl.com/yqkeca (Times)

Review of Germaine Greer, *Shakespeare's Wife*:

http://tinyurl.com/36dvdh (Times)

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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TOURISTY THINGS
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Rhodes:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/travel/article728879.ece
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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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Big raids in Southern California as the result of ongoing
investigations about antiquities smuggling:

http://www.ocregister.com/community/federal-agents-raid-1966311-bowers-museum
http://www.newsweek.com/id/105494
http://tinyurl.com/326tml (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/36ej36

A very interesting piece on forgeries in the antiquities market
(including the suggestions that the Met's recently-acquired
'Artemis and the Stag' might be in that category):

http://www.spiegel.de/international/europe/0,1518,529532,00.html

... and more on Artemis and the Stag:

http://www.buffalonews.com/258/story/258915.html
http://www.buffalonews.com/cityregion/story/259332.html

An Argentine friar's heart was stolen from a Franciscan monastery:

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,324770,00.html

Illegal digs continue in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/2c595z (LA Times)
http://www.courant.com/news/nationworld/hc-antiquities0122.artjan22,0,6042262.story

Colin Renfrew is concerned about illegal digging too:

http://news.scotsman.com/scitech/Cemetery-looting-robs-archaeologists-of.3713853.jp

A metal detectorist dispute is heating up in Cyprus (the first
is the detectorist's story; the second is 'official reaction'):

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=37233&cat_id=1
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=37224&cat_id=9

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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NUMISMATICA
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Family death medals:

http://www.thecoppercorner.com/history/bw_photos1.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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Sounds of Ancient Music:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=945833
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1200572505470&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Afghan Gold:

http://blogs.discovery.com/news_archaeorama/2008/01/hidden-afghanis.html
(nice photos)

There seems to be a growing trend to make a 'media issue' out
of where recent finds in the UK will end up, e.g., with those
Saxon finds from Teeside:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tees/7203050.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2o2gx7 (Echo)

Latest Lewis Chessmen news:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/7210537.
http://tinyurl.com/32tfdl
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Lewis-Chessmen-are-pawns-in.3715202.jp

... and Elgin/Parthenon Marbles news:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2008/01/27/welgin127.xml

Interviewish thing with the director of the National Museum of
the American Indian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/21/arts/design/21smit.html

More coverage of the return of the Euphronios Krater:

http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKL1881034620080118
http://tinyurl.com/2mvkhn (Newsday)
http://www.economist.com/world/europe/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10566754