explorator 16.01

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Latest on homo floresiensis seems to be focussing on brain size:

http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/hobbit-humans-big-brains-130416
.htm
http://www.livescience.com/28776-hobbit-had-large-brain.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130418-hobbit-homo-flores
iensis-brain-size-hominin-human-evolution/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2310027/Inside-head-hobbit
-human-Researchers-Homo-floresiensis-orange-sized-brain.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/04/17/3738441.htm

cf:

http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/280/1760/20130338.full

... or why they were so small:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-hobbit-hominids-island-dwarfs.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22166736
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/find-raises-questions-on-h
uman-odyssey-1.1501534
http://m.timesofindia.com/home/science/Were-hobbit-hominids-island-dwarfs
/articleshow/19599204.cms?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=tweets
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22169189

More on the latest research into Australopithecus sediba:

http://www.theeagle.com/news/local/article_2051ef19-2da7-568b-bd3c-c2caf3
15b3e6.html
http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/houston/article/Texas-A-M-researc
hers-with-team-of-scientists-4438925.php
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/article01005.html
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/04/our-closest-ape-like-an
cestor-is-reshuffling-thinking-about-human-evolution/
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829132.900-heading-south-for-the-
new-origin-of-our-species.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|online-news
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Looks like plans are afoot for an ancient Egyptian genome project:

http://www.nature.com/news/egyptian-mummies-yield-genetic-secrets-1.12793
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/15/mummy-genetics-genome-map-genes-
ancient-egyptians_n_3084014.html
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13353-013-0145-1 (abstract)

We’re continuing to hear about black market activities in Egypt:

http://www.albawaba.com/news/egypt-black-market-artifacts-484759
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/69209/Heritage/Islamic/Cairo
-airport-customs-confiscate-large-collection-.aspx

For reasons unknown, Israeli authorities are being hush hush about a
purported find of a ‘castle’ dating back to David’s time:

www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167307
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/king-david-era-find-buried-
by-authorities-for-political-reasons/2013/04/19/

On the political side of archaeology in the West Bank:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-21973708

... and the Wall:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=8729


... and Avnor Goren’s work around Mt Sinai:

http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/Olive-Press/2013/0417/Israeli-
archaeologist-finds-common-ground-underneath-Sinai-s-shifting-sands

We’re hearing reports that Hamas has damaged/bulldozed the Anthedon
seaport site:

http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/media-mum-on-hamass-razing-roman-temple/?cat_o
rig=world
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/04/hamas-damages-heritage-
site.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167272#.UXFutEpVa8B
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/167178#.UXFu90pVa8A
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/hamas-bulldozes-un-heritage-site-for-terr
orist-training-grounds/2013/04/16/0/?print
http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Hamas-bulldozes-UNESCO-site-for-military
-training-309908

OpEd on damage to sites in Syria:

http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/syrias-war-is-blasting-the-past/

A LandMinds interview with Benjamin Storchin about that recent miqve
find in Jerusalem

(scroll down to the ‘pure waters’ section; photos and a video as well):

http://www.foundationstone.org/

The Ashdod-Yam excaations have a website:

http://www.ashdod-yam-archaeological-excavations.com/

Nice video feature on tech and archaeology at Catal Hoyuk:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=71s0UpaFY68

Don’t pick up stones from beaches in Turkey, apparently:

http://www.newsdaily.com/travel/aefd9daaa15642b71b496372a2b930ae/us-touri
st-faces-trial-in-turkey-over-stones

Feature on Egyptian blue:

http://www.archaeology.org/issues/90-1305/trenches/741-ancient-egypt-blue
-pigment-modern-applications

Egyptologist Jan Assman is stirring up controversy, apparently:

http://chronicle.com/article/Biblical-Blame-Shift/138457/?cid=at&utm_sour
ce=at&utm_medium=en

An Oman heritage festival in Muscat:

http://www.tradearabia.com/news/MEDIA_234380.html

More on that Old Kingdom harbour at Zaafarana:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/2263/17/The-real-boats-of-King-Khufu-.asp
x
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/69024/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt
/Egypts-King-Khufus-harbour-in-Suez-discovered.aspx
http://www.livescience.com/28778-worlds-oldest-harbor-papyrus-khufu-cheop
s.html
http://www.clevelandleader.com/node/20751
http://cosmiclog.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/15/17767610-4500-year-old-harb
or-structures-and-papyrus-texts-unearthed-in-egypt?lite
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2309930/Worlds-oldest-port
-believed-Egypt-alongside-papyri-revealing-fascinating-details-life-Ancie
nt-Egyptians.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Latest on the Iraq Museum:

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/ps/2013/04/207290.htm

More on that recent find of a miqve in Jerusalem:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4366299,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/2-000-old-ritual-bath-found-jerusalem-121302315.htm
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http://www.livescience.com/28737-ritual-bath-found-in-jerusalem.html

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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LiDar has revealed some interesting features around Hadrian’s Wall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22079835

Ancient Greek ‘villas’ from Russkaya:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2013/04/18/ancient-greek-villas-found-near-ru
sskaya/

Some ancient Greek armour from the ancient site of Lampedusa:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/warrior-plate-seized.aspx?pageID=238&nid
=44956&NewsCatID=375

... but it isn’t a cuirass ... see the comments (from others) at my
blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/2013/04/16/chest-plate-recovered/


Red tape is the latest (well, perpetual) threat to Pompeii:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/world/europe/italian-bureaucracy-threat
ens-pompeii.html

... these concerns about mafia activities seem related:

http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.2.94916981
http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2013/04/16/news/pompei_ispezione_dell
a_dia_negli_scavi_archeologici-56748423/ (Italian)

... related slide show:

http://www.nytimes.com/video/2013/04/20/world/europe/100000002182319/pomp
eii-falling-from-grace.html

Nice feature on Vespasian’s camp at Stonehenge:

http://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/vespasians-camp-cradle-of-
stonehenge.htm

Suggestion that Roman cosmetic kits may have been used to treat eye
diseases:

http://www.livescience.com/28806-roman-cosmetics-eye-disease.html
http://za.news.yahoo.com/roman-era-cosmetics-may-treated-eye-chlamydia-17
3747600.html

A report on last year’s finds at Ostia:

http://www.sotterraneidiroma.it/notizie-sdr/item/ostia-antica-torna-alla-
luce-l-eta-d-oro-terme-e-fontane-nella-cittadella-del-lusso?category_id=20
(Italian)
http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2013/04/16/news/ostia_antica_torna_alla
_luce_l_et_d_oro_terme_e_fontane_nella_cittadella_del_lusso-56723668/
(Italian)

Interesting study of Roman glass:

http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2013/04/roman-glass-antimony-isotope-an
alysis-icp-ms

cf http://pubs.rsc.org/en/Content/ArticleLanding/2013/JA/c3ja50018g
(abstract)

Excavations at Eleftherna will continue:

http://www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/2013/04/15/green-light-for-the-elefthe
rna-dig/

Feature on one of the folks working on restoring the Parthenon:

http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/in-pheidias-footsteps-2

There’s an iPad app for the Pompeii/Herculaneum thing at the BM:

http://bloggingpompeii.blogspot.ca/2013/04/iphone-and-ipad-app-life-and-d
eath-in.html

A medieval Latin dictionary is going on display:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2309640/Priceless-14th-century-La
tin-dictionary-let-nuns-translate-bible-survived-Dissolution-Monasteries-
goes-display-time.html

Latest on the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles dispute:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/04/19/greek-committee-to-claim-parth
enon-marbles-2/

They’re still arguing about the restoration of the Colosseum:

http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/42844/Consumer-group-wants-priv
ate-Colosseum-restoration-halted.html

... and metro construction near it:

http://www.sotterraneidiroma.it/notizie-sdr/item/metro-e-fori-imperiali-f
inalmente-e-guerra?category_id=20 (Italian)

In case you need a reason to be pretentious:

http://theweek.com/article/index/242914/9-extremely-pretentious-latin-and
-greek-plurals

Guy Hedreen gets a Guggenheim:

http://www.thetranscript.com/ci_23060162/prof-wins-guggenheim-fellowship

... and so does Kyle Harper:

http://normantranscript.com/local/x266751121/Kyle-Harper-selected-for-fel
lowship

Donald Kagan is emeritizing:

http://news.yale.edu/2013/04/18/donald-kagan-give-farewell-lecture

What Angelos Chaniotis is up to:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/04/18/chaniotis-explains-ancient-gre
ek-graffiti/

What Steven Tuck is up to:

http://www.dailytoreador.com/news/article_18904422-a7e7-11e2-8848-0019bb3
0f31a.html

What Eric Robinson is up to:

http://www.oudaily.com/news/2013/apr/15/spartanlecture_short/

What Timothy Niven is up to:

http://www.marshallparthenon.com/monsterous-ohio-state-professor-speaks-t
o-eta-sigma-phi-1.2823357#.UXPkLUrG-jg

On the not-dead-yet status of Latin:

http://www.vnews.com/lifetimes/5501048-95/audio-slideshow-latin-has-decli
ned-but-its-not-dead-yet

Somewhat vague item on a bust on the Sithonia peninsula:

http://www.enetenglish.gr/?i=news.en.economy&id=697

Pondering I, Claudius:

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2013/04/17/i-claudius-rem
inds-us-that-the-wicked-frequently-get-away-with-it/

Feature on Archimedes:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2013/04/17/archimedes_2300th_birthday/

A visitor centre is in the works for the Palace of Nestor:

http://www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/2013/04/16/news-from-the-palace-of-nes
tor/

More on those Iron Age/Celtic burials from France (we had this in the
Europe section last week; you might have missed it):

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hPh-dUJy4H1B0gl39ph9NS
llvexQ?docId=CNG.ce749d51ba4f04d815b9c26df9ae1a48.2c1
http://www.lemonde.fr/sciences/article/2013/04/11/des-guerriers-gaulois-p
res-de-troyes_3158431_1650684.html (French)
http://www.lexpress.fr/actualites/1/culture/une-rare-necropole-gauloise-d
e-2-200-ans-mise-au-jour-pres-de-troyes_1239606.html (French)
http://www.tv5.org/cms/chaine-francophone/info/p-1911-redir.htm?&rub=14&x
ml=newsmlmmd.88d2bfc44bb96f436435bfaeb14282ac.231.xml (French)
http://sciencesetavenir.nouvelobs.com/sciences/20130411.AFP9532/france-un
e-rare-necropole-gauloise-de-2-200-ans-mise-au-jour.html (French)
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The site of Stonehenge may have been occupied 5000 years earlier than
previously thought:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22183130
http://www.itv.com/news/update/2013-04-19/humans-occupied-stonehenge-thou
sands-of-years-earlier/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10004598/Stonehenge-occupied-5000-year
s-earlier-than-previously-thought.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2311173/Stonehenge-occupie
d-humans-5-000-years-EARLIER-thought--animal-watering-hole.html
http://www.herefordtimes.com/uk_national_news/10366186.print/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/earlier-stonehenge-occupation-found-230634085.ht
ml#PGxxLHs
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/national/10366186.print/
http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10366033._/

... not sure we mentioned this related Stonehenge news from a few weeks
ago:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-21724084

... and they’re pondering Neolithic home-building there as well:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22168354
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22166881

Studying the ‘debris’ associated with Neolithic flintknapping:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-flair-imperfections.html
http://sciencenordic.com/stone-age-children-helped-tool-production
http://www.uis.no/news/a-flair-for-imperfections-article77027-8865.html

Hype for a documentary suggests aerial investigations show piles of
Bronze Age sites in Norfolk Broads:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-22199507

Iron Age items from Burrough Hill:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-22163174

An Anglo-Saxon burial beneath a church at Hartlepool Headland:

http://www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/news/local/anglo-saxon-grave-found-1-5586
739

A mysterious 600 years b.p. burial from Co. Fermanagh:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-22142762
http://www.u.tv/news/Suspicion-over-crannog-body-find/c9cdea97-6524-427a-
9b55-91fe04df641e
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Archaeologists-in-Fermanagh-discover-600
-year-old-murder-mystery-beneath-controversial-crannog-203171461.html?pag
e=1#
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/60
0yearold-body-find-in-fermanagh-crannog-site-sparks-murder-mystery-291949
03.html
http://www.herald.ie/news/site-of-ancient-treasures-to-make-way-for-new-g
8-road-29196802.html
http://www.impartialreporter.com/news/roundup/articles/2013/04/18/400604-
road-build-resumes-as-crannog-dig-ends/?mode=print

Richard III may have undergone some painful treatment for his scoliosis:

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/19/17826183-painful-treatment-po
ssible-for-king-richard-iiis-scoliosis?lite
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130419075915.htm
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-richard-iii-painful-medical-treatments.html
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/19/17826183-painful-treatment-po
ssible-for-king-richard-iiis-scoliosis?lite
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/richard-iii-scoliosis-treat
ment-130419.htm
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/richard-iii-did-king-painful-treatment-151250947
.html#CV1MTS1

A medieval cookbook ‘find’:

http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-european-medieval-cookbook-found
-130417.htm
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/northdurham/durham/10358514.R
EG_LEAD_WITH_EPICS__Medieval_recipes_to_be_recreated_from_manuscript/
http://www.dur.ac.uk/news/newsitem/?itemno=17380

Lending Charles I’s lace collar:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62068#.UXPnbkrG-jg

Stonehenge needs a manager:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-22227874

Redeveloping Acklam Hall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-22134454

Latest efforts to control damage in Venice:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-motorboats-silent-venice-grand-canal.html

Review of Susan Bordo, *The Creation of Anne Boleyn*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/books/the-creation-of-anne-boleyn-by-su
san-bordo.html?ref=books
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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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The tomb of Yang of Sui may have been found:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-04/16/content_16412383.htm
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/16/17783830-possible-tomb-of-chi
nese-tyrant-uncovered
http://www.livescience.com/28757-chinese-emperor-yang-tomb.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-04/16/c_132313772.htm
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4033
http://www.ecns.cn/2013/04-16/59016.shtml

Evidence of Pandya era stone houses from a site in Tamil Nadu:

http://newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/Pandya-era-stone-houses-une
arthed/2013/04/15/article1545292.ece

Medieval items from Nepal:

http://thehimalayantimes.com/fullNews.php?headline=Medieval+times+goods+f
ound+in+Siraha&NewsID=373358
http://www.ejamana.com/?p=30293#_

Interesting feature on that Japanese scroll recently acquired by the BM:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2013/04/18/arts/scroll-displays-the-h
uman-side-of-perrys-arrival/#.UXPtUUrG-jg

... and one on a nice Ming vase that turned up in Croydon:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/artsales/10007663/Marvel-of-Ming-d
ynasty-discovered-in-Croydon.html

Pondering heritage issues in Australia:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-today-heritage-tomorrow.html

Latest on that ongoing temple dispute between Thailand and Cambodia
(yes, it’s still going on):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22149576
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/04/2013415103041664307.ht
ml
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Thailand-prepares-to-counter-Cam
bodian-claims-find-30204103.html
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/cambodia-counters-thai-border-claims-at
-the-hague-18826/
http://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/thailand-says-cambodia-trying-to-deceiv
e-un-court-18847/
http://www.nationmultimedia.com/national/Cambodias-ICJ-stance-expected-30
204091.html
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/cambodia-thailand-lock-horns-over-t
emple-20130416-2hxlf.html
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=44664&Cr=cambodia&Cr1=#.UW_n
eEp9Cdy

China’s Grand Canal is seeking Heritage status:

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4034

More on Gonur Tepe:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/04/19/world/remote-turkmen-desert-y
ields-ancient-riches/#.UXF_HEpVa8A

More on those Aboriginal petroglyphs from the Pilbara that we mentioned
a few weeks ago:

http://www.australiangeographic.com.au/journal/burrup-peninsula-rock-art-
among-oldest-in-world.htm

cf http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0277379113000978
(abstract)
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East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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What Caroline Winterer is up to:

http://news.stanford.edu/news/2013/april/winterer-humanities-center-04171
3.html

Honouring baseball pioneer Bud Fowler:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/sports/baseball/cooperstown-to-honor-ba
seball-pioneer-bud-fowler.html

Review of Megan Marshall, *Margaret Fuller*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/books/review/margaret-fuller-by-megan-m
arshall.html?ref=books
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Latest finds from Corazol:

http://www.7newsbelize.com/sstory.php?nid=25192
http://www.quepasacorozal.com/video-of-tomb-found-at-santa-rita-maya-ruin/
(Video)

Latest study of the earliest settlers in the Americas:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-america-settlers.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130417092013.htm
http://www.ub.edu/web/ub/en/menu_eines/noticies/2013/04/041.html

cf:
http://www.plosgenetics.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pgen.1
003460

Piles of sites from Baja:

http://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/14-hallazgos/6516-localizan-centenar-de-
sitios-arqueologicos-en-bc (Spanish)
http://noticierostelevisa.esmas.com/cultura/585034/localizan-centenar-sit
ios-arqueologicos-bc/ (Spanish)

Petroglyphs have been discovered near Veracruz

http://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/14-hallazgos/6518-registran-petrograbado
s-en-la-huasteca-veracruzana (Spanish)

Potential burial of interest from Trinidad:

http://guardian.co.tt/news/2013-04-16/bones-found-during-excavation-work-
sent-testing

More on the technology being used at Teotihuacan:

http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/modern-
tech-to-be-used-in-exploring-mexicos-teotihuacan-ancient-site/23841/
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Not sure if we mentioned this item on execution site archaeology:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/germany-sees-rising-interes
t-in-execution-site-archaeology-a-893747.html#ref=rss

The Experimental Archaeology Club at Texas State does some interesting
stuff:

http://star.txstate.edu/node/6985

In case you’re wondering who won the American Academy in Rome ‘Rome
Prize(s)’:

http://aarome.org/news/features/2013-14-rome-prize-winners-announced

An historic Psalm book is coming to auction:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2013/apr/17/historic-bay-psalm-book-30m
illion

On ‘civic engagement’ education:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/04/18/liberal-education-and-civi
c-education-need-not-go-together-essay

The AIA’s video update for March:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KE239DStKZk&feature=em-uploademail

Feature on Al-Farabi:

http://gulfnews.com/about-gulf-news/al-nisr-portfolio/weekend-review/the-
second-teacher-1.1172151

Review of Salomon Kroonenberg, * Why Hell Stinks of Sulfur: Mythology
and Geology of the Underworld*:

http://www.insidehighered.com/views/2013/04/17/review-salomon-kroonenberg
-why-hell-stinks-sulfur

Review of Clive James’ translation of the *Divine Comedy*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/books/review/dantes-divine-comedy-trans
lated-by-clive-james.html?ref=books

Review of Anne Carson, *Red Doc*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/21/books/review/red-doc-by-anne-carson.htm
l?ref=books

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Masada:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/masada-tragic-fortress-in-the-sky/

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CRIME BEAT
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Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n15.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n16.html
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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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DSS:

http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment2/56172619-223/exhibit-scrolls-
dead-leonardo.html.csp

Fine Lines:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/arts/design/fine-lines-at-the-brooklyn-
museum.html?ref=design

Velazquez:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/19/arts/design/velazquezs-portrait-of-duke
-francesco-i-deste-at-the-met.html?ref=design


There’s a new adjunct curator of antiquities at the Joslyn Art Museum:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62049#.UXP4Z0rG-jg

A new science museum in San Francisco:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/17/arts/design/the-new-exploratorium-opens
-in-san-francisco.html?ref=arts

South Street Seaport Museum is still recovering from Sandy:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/south-street-seaport-museum-
has-more-time/?ref=design

OpEddish on Old Masters auctions:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/arts/13iht-melikian13.html?ref=arts
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Moses in Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/16/arts/music/city-operas-moses-in-egypt-a
t-city-center.html?ref=music

Julius Caesar:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/04/15/theater/reviews/julius-caesar-at-th
e-harvey-theater.html?ref=theater

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http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
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Kathryn Bosher:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/greek-theatre-drew-scholar-k
athryn-bosher-rowing-moved-her/article11365365/

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica (a couple weeks' worth):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20130407.mp3
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20130414.mp3

April Video News from The Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/images/player/player.php?v=vidnews_apr1
3.mp4

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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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PaleoAmerican Odyssey (October 17-19):

http://www.paleoamericanodyssey.com/
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

The Book and the Spade:

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