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Thanks to Arthur 'Yankees' Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst,
Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, David Roe, Tim Parkin, Bob Heuman,
Rick Pettigrew, Paul Trail, Kurt Theis,and Ross W. Sargent for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HUMANS
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A Chinese challenge to the out-of-Africa theory:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn18093-chinese-challenge-to-out-of-africa-theory.html

The many mysteries of Neanderthals (apparently part of a series):

http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20091107/sc_livescience/themanymysteriesofneanderthals

Hype for a series on Nova called "Becoming Human":

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/arts/television/03human.html
http://www.archaeology.org/online/reviews/becoming_human.html
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AFRICA
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Analysis of hair of the 'man eating lions of Tsavo' suggest they
probably only ate 35 people, not their touted 135:

http://www.physorg.com/news176399116.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Report on an Assyrian palace find from Ziyaret Tepe:

http://www.thesuburbanite.com/news/x884487122/Local-archaelogist-leads-expedition-to-3-000-year-old-find

Some Roman-era burials from the West Bank:

http://trak.in/news/roman-era-cemeteries-found-in-west-bank/19455/
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=235964

Some press attention for the discovery of a marble hoard during
the excavations at Akka/Acre:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799078268&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134199
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1611&module_id=#as
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.antiquities.org.il/images/press/iaa_marble_hoard.zip
(photos)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377292/posts
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3799757,00.html
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/11/04/Ancient-marble-found-in-Acre/UPI-54401257340022/
http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=53378&catid=863

Nice feature on USC's West Semitic Research Project:

http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-beliefs2-2009nov02,0,7468773.story
http://www.denverpost.com/ci_13699106?source=rss
http://www.usc.edu/uscnews/usc_in_the_news/inthenews.php?id=741

I think we may have had this dugong story from Umm Al Quwain
before (but this might be a followup):

http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/uae/general/excavation-uncovers-ritual-site-1.523925

A couple weeks ago we had a story on geology influencing David's
choice for the site of Jerusalem:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256150041556&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

... now there's a good followup letter in the JPost (scroll
down to 'So what else is new?'):

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799072048&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Audio story on the latest goings-on at Temple Mount:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1565

... and another in a similar vein:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134222

... and an interesting OpEd piece on same:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/belief/2009/nov/01/israel-jerusalem-history-jews

Did we mention that Zahi Hawass has been appointed deputy
minister of culture?:

http://allaboutegypt.org/2009/11/zahi-hawass-appointed-deputy-minister-of-culture/

Coverage of UNO's Batchelder Biblical Archaeology Conference:

http://media.www.unogateway.com/media/storage/paper968/news/2009/11/03/News/Uno-digs.Up.Biblical.Way.Of.Life.At.Annual.Conference-3821315.shtml

Hype for an the upcoming 7th International Congress on Phoenician
and Punic Studies:

http://www.tunisiaonlinenews.com/?p=27959

... and of peripheral interest, perhaps, is the formation of
a League of Phoenician, Canaanite, Punic Cities:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=107549
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Thracian tomb near Karanovo:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=109548
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1548

A Roman child burial from Albir:

http://www.roundtownnews.co.uk/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=21292&Itemid=31>

Big news this week appears to be evidence of a tsunami connected
to the eruption of Thera:

http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/nov/08/proof-ancient-tsunami-found-20091108/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/science/03tsunami.html
http://freeinternetpress.com/story.php?sid=23449

Nice feature on Roman art (connected to that Rome: Painting of
an Empire exhibition):

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/arts/07iht-conway.html

There's apparently no new money for the Antonine Wall:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8338151.stm

... and (surprise, surprise), there's no money for that Sevtopolis
project mentioned a few months ago:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=109727

The popularity of Twilight is apparently bringing tourist traffic
to Volterra:

http://www.usatoday.com/travel/destinations/2009-11-05-twilight-volterra-italy_N.htm

Mary Beard talks about her blog book:

http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/weekend/2009/1107/1224258252633.html

Possible threat to the UIC Classics department:

http://media.www.chicagoflame.com/media/storage/paper519/news/2009/11/02/News/Will-The.Classics.Department.Survive-3819802.shtml
http://www.chicagoflame.com/news/2009/11/02/News/Will-The.Classics.Department.Survive-3819802.shtml

Donald Kagan thinks military brass should read their Thucydides
(presumably again):

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aBo9GR1NL1Fo
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a0PbSXcLWnXc
(video)

Ellen Sassenberg teaches Latin:

http://www.postbulletin.com/newsmanager/templates/localnews_story.asp?z=2&a=423879

Review of Paul Cartledge, *Ancient Greece: A History in Eleven
Cities*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/07/ancient-greece-rome-book-review

Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/

Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

More on the Romanization of the Batavians:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091026105742.htm

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Vague claims of a civilization older than Egyptian civilization
in Bulgaria:

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-11-03&article=29966

A prehistoric burial ground from Skye:

http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/1467854?UserKey=

An 8000 years b.p. "weapons factory" from Leicestershire:

http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Ancient-weapons-factory-unearthed-University-Leicester-team/article-1480773-detail/article.html

A 'prehistoric monumental landscape' is emerging on the grounds
of Oxford:

http://www.physorg.com/news176577298.html

A major torc find from Scotland:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/03/iron-age-gold-treasure-found-scotland
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/novice-metal-detector-man-discovers-stunning-treasure-hoard-1.930477
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8339798.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6901879.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/8342501.stm
http://www.buteman.co.uk/latest-scottish-news/Iron-Age-treasure-found-in.5789488.jp

A medieval shipwreck from Lake Constance:

http://www.thelocal.de/society/20091105-23063.html

Cromwell's 'legacy' at Canterbury Cathedral is continuing to
cause damage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/religion/6485858/Cromwells-legacy-damages-tomb-of-Black-Prince.html

A five-year project to restore the Bedestan in the heart of Old
Nicosia is complete:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=48688&archive=1

Odyssey Marine wants to raise the Victory:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/guernsey/8299835.stm

... more Odyssey Marine news:

http://www.tampabay.com/news/business/odyssey-marine-exploration-to-outsource-treasure-search/1049623

Some 'followup' to the Staffordshire hoard story:

http://www.burnleyexpress.net/clitheroenews/ExCRGS-pupil-helps-uncover-huge.5802386.jp

More photos from that Bronze Age burial in Germany:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/11/photogalleries/archaeology-skeleton-pictures/

More on Scandinavian DNA:

http://www.cell.com/current-biology/abstract/S0960-9822%2809%2901694-7
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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An 1800 years b.p. burial from Hai Phong:

http://www.thanhniennews.com/entertaiments/?catid=6&newsid=53443

Some 800-year-old shipment records written on bamboo:

http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2912163

More on the discovery of those missing Buddha legs:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/british-indiana-jones-finds-missing-legs-of-900yearold-buddhist-statue-1816568.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-146205.html
http://www.thelondonnews.net/story/563062
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NORTH AMERICA
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Somewhat vague item about artifacts being found in the wake of a
sewer plant explosing in Hartford (Vt):

http://www.boston.com/news/local/vermont/articles/2009/11/07/sewer_plant_expansion_reveals_ancient_artifacts/

Remember the Paisley Cave? It appears (?) a scraper-like tool pre-
dating Clovis was found there:

http://www.nature.com/news/2009/091105/full/news.2009.1058.html

Archaeologists have found evidence of DeSoto's path between
Tallahassee and North Carolina:

http://www.physorg.com/news176636443.html
http://www.wtsp.com/news/local/story.aspx?storyid=117056&provider=rss
http://www.wsbtv.com/news/21538687/detail.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iYgzhdulhTxARLmK4yyJnnnSMAdwD9BPFFG84
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091105084838.htm

They're going to be poking around the Calusa Mounds:

http://www.news-press.com/article/20091106/NEWS0113/91105080/1002/rss01
http://www.news-press.com/article/20091105/NEWS0113/91105022/1002/RSS01

A mysterious Irish grave in New York:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/riddle-of-200yearold-irish-grave-in-new-york-1813777.html

Feature on the Meadowcroft site:

http://www.voanews.com/english/AmericanLife/2009-11-04-voa45.cfm

A call for better laws to prevent looting of sites in New Mexico:

http://www.gjsentinel.com/hp/content/news/opinion/stories/2009/11/06/110809_7B_gulliford_column.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Latest video at the Archaeology Channel is about the Taguatinga
Valley (Brazil):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/

Tree-cutting is now being blamed for the Nazca people's demise:


http://www.physorg.com/news176368228.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-tc-nw-nazca-1104-1105nov05,0,382707.story
http://news.bbc.co.uk/earth/hi/earth_news/newsid_8334000/8334257.stm
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-sci-nazca2-2009nov02,0,2088132.story
http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26292434-12335,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33592777/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,571965,00.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102212153.htm
http://feeds.newscientist.com/c/749/f/10897/s/6e39041/l/0L0Snewscientist0N0Carticle0Cdn180A910Eclearing0Eoasis0Etrees0Efelled0Eancient0Eperu0Ecivilisation0Bhtml0DDCMP0FOTC0Erss0Gnsref0Fonline0Enews/story01.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/living/article6898641.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2009/nov/02/nazca-peru-deforestation-research
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2009110201

The following page has a handful of items of interest including:
- Evidence of the influence of Teotihuacan at Tlaxcala
- an investigation of glyphs at Chichen Itza
- Clovis artifacts from Sonora:

http://dti.inah.gob.mx/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogsection&id=39&Itemid=150

Evidence for pre-Columbian breeding of Scarlet Macaws:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/49308/title/Macaws_bred_far_from_tropics_during_pre-Columbian_times

More on diving in Guatemalan lakes:

http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/-/offbeat/6422626/divers-probe-mayan-ruins-submerged-in-guatemala-lake/

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting study of the history of leprosy:

http://www.physorg.com/news176387763.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091102111847.htm
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/front/Scientists_retrace_history_of_ancient_scourge.html?siteSect=105&sid=11445890&rss=true&ty=st

Feature on Beethoven and Mendelssohn manuscripts at Juilliard:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/arts/music/03manuscript.html

Letters of famous folks were in the news in assorted contexts
this week ... first, Van Gogh:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB125746886903832347.html

... Jane Austen:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8340749.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/entertainment/arts_and_culture/8340749.stm

... Tocqueville:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/books/04alexis.html

... Byron:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/arts/02arts-19THCENTURYL_BRF.html

... while Cambridge might be getting Siegfried Sassoon's papers:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/grant-could-assist-acquisition-of-poet-sassoons-papers/

A project to digitally archive items in museums in Europe:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/11/091104101537.htm

Paper on the 'neurobiological origins of primitive religion':

http://www.safarmer.com/neural.origins.of.religion.pdf

More on laser-scanning monuments:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/arts/design/05abroad.html

Review of Tobias Hill, *The Hidden*:

http://www.salon.com/books/recommended_books/index.html?story=/books/must_read/2009/11/01/the_hidden

Apparently there's money in writing about mass extinctions:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/new-yorker-writers-book-on-mass-extinctions-sells-to-holt/?ref=books
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BLOGS AND PODCASTS
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Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Tunisia:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-1226004/Strictly-Tunisia-John-Sergeant-stomps-land-raw-heat-Roman-ruins-fine-wine.html

Capri:

http://www.canoe.ca/Travel/Activities/Cultural/2009/10/29/11607986-sun.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Story about the link between some UK scholars and some 'stolen'
antiquities from Babylon:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2009/nov/08/british-link-stolen-treasures

A number of Viking artifacts were plundered from an excavation
site on Gotland:

http://www.thelocal.se/23030/20091102/

Some followups to the Avdate National Park thing:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1256799093268&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3800067,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3791817,00.html
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/11/04/1008953/bedouin-indicted-for-vandalizing-ancient-negev-site
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NUMISMATICA
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A very interesting hoard from Bulgaria (found 40 years ago; still
not on display):

http://paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=2009-11-03&article=29963

Those Bar Kokhba Revolt coins are now on display:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=8258
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1257455195072&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134250
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Leonardo's Notebooks:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204488304574427281377865914.html

Brothels:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091104/lf_afp/lifestylesexbrothelsfrance_20091104084028
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5huEnIhjO87rE5wB3o0g3P9ha2Hew

Staffordshire Hoard:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/03/staffordshire-treasure-hoard-british-museum
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8340703.stm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6901901.ece
http://londonist.com/2009/11/anglo-saxon_gold_haul_reaches_briti.php

Caesar, the Rhone for Memory:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6513767/Caesar-rises-several-millennias-artefacts-from-the-bed-of-the-Rhone.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gTzqBmH1Qf74TSoDdSHv22iP28ow

Augustus Saint-Gaudens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/08/realestate/08streets.html

On the reopening of the Ashmolean:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/oxford/hi/people_and_places/arts_and_culture/newsid_8340000/8340451.stm
(interesting!)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/01/ashmolean-museum-rick-mather-reopening
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/6467408/The-reopening-of-the-Ashmolean-infinite-riches-in-a-larger-room.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/8347299.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2009/nov/05/ashmolean-museum-oxford-architecture

Howard Carter's hut has been reopened as a museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8342428.stm

Who sculpted 'the Young Archer':

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/arts/design/06archer.html

Funding for the museum at the Roman fort at Segontium/Caenarfon
is running out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8342156.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/8341652.stm

They're going to build a museum at Jericho:

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=231919

More coverage of Egypt's demands for the return of Nefertiti:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=110753&sectionid=3510212
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iHLbROou5U5huG844nhT-b4fk-QQ
http://features.csmonitor.com/globalnews/2009/11/02/germany-time-for-egypts-nefertiti-bust-to-go-home/
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/officials-from-egypt-germany-to-meet-over-disputed-bust/

... and a opinion piece sort of thing on Iraq's apparent claim on
the Ishtar Gate:

http://hnn.us/roundup/entries/119520.html

Feature on 18th century Chinese/Japanese furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/arts/design/06antiques.html

China isn't happy with a Sotheby's sale:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/6515219/Chinese-anger-at-sale-of-Qing-Dynasty-seal.html

The art market appears to be picking up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/07/arts/07iht-melik7.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/arts/05iht-melik5.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/arts/design/04auction.html

Record price for a Ptolemy map:

http://blog.seattlepi.com/bookpatrol/archives/184322.asp?from=blog_last3
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Quartet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/06/theater/reviews/06quartett.html

Love Child:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/theater/reviews/04lovechild.html
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OBITUARIES
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Claude Levi-Strauss:

http://www.lemonde.fr/carnet/article/2009/11/03/l-ethnologue-claude-levi-strauss-est-mort_1262337_3382.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-me-claude-levi-strauss4-2009nov04,0,890035.story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/nov/03/claude-levi-strauss-dies
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aY43vBHLDM6I
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/04/world/europe/04levistrauss.html

cf:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/05/books/05strauss.html
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/11/03/the-influence-of-claude-levi-strauss


Roger Green:

http://ejournal.anu.edu.au/index.php/bippa/announcement/view/16
http://www.sal.org.uk/obituaries/rogercurtisgreen
http://www.starbulletin.com/news/20091008_Pacific_archaeologist_was_mentor_to_many.html


Seymour Fromer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/02/us/02fromer.html
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