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explorator 9.33 December 10, 2006
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Bill Kerr, Croman mac Nessa,
Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright,David Critchley,Donna Hurst, Dorothy King,
Edward Rockstein, 'Duke Jason', John McMahon, John McChesney-Young,
Joseph Lauer, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Toke Lindegaard
Knudsen, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
.. a quiet week.
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EARLY HUMANS
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"Little Foot" has been taken out of the human family tree:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/uol-aar120706.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061207161021.htm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20061207/sc_afp/sciencepaleontology
Did Neanderthal women hunt side-by-side with the men?:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/science/05nean.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2006-12/uocp-gdo120406.php
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2006/12/061207-sex-humans.html
.. then again, they might have been cannibals:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16043669/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/6209554.stm
More coverage of that prehistoric baby burial:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16097378/
http://www.livescience.com/history/061207_ancient_burial.html
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AFRICA
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More coverage of that early ritual site in Botswana:
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061203-054535-3136r
http://metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061204-084824-3752r
http://tinyurl.com/yfuaxw (UPI)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a tomb of a sixth dynasty
doctor:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1809452006
http://au.news.yahoo.com/061205/2/11o7p.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16065823/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061205/sc_nm/egypt_mummy_dc
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061207/ap_on_sc/egypt_mummy_3
http://tinyurl.com/yev3fo (Reuters via Topix)
http://www.livescience.com/history/061206_ap_doctor_mummy.html
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/16180088.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ylltsk (JPost)
http://www.allheadlinenews.com/articles/7005782223
http://www.voanews.com/english/2006-12-06-voa63.cfm
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/bizarre/4383506.html (why bizarre?)
More coverage of the moving of folks from Luxor for archaeological
protection purposes:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16032006/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/03/news/luxor.php
Potsherds from Rabat Tepe:
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6856
More coverage of the theory that concrete was used in the construction
of the pyramids:
http://tinyurl.com/yzwhxk
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061209122918.htm
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2480751,00.html
.. and Tut's death:
http://tinyurl.com/ycmmcj (Globe)
Sacrificial altars from Yemen:
http://yementimes.com/article.shtml?i=1005&p=lastpage&a=1
Remains of a Christian-Jewish settlement at Mishmar David:
http://tinyurl.com/ylmn6f (JPost)
An early church which called itself Shiloh:
http://tinyurl.com/yxks9u (Telegraph)
And now we get the first 'revisions' to the Gospel of Judas:
http://www.cbc.ca/canada/story/2006/12/04/judas-scholars.html
Berkeley has cancelled its Israel program:
http://www.insidebayarea.com/trivalleyherald/localnews/ci_4768112
How the press covers the Biblical Archaeological Society meeting:
http://tinyurl.com/ycbkhr (Washington City Paper)
Review of a couple of books on Islamic archaeology:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=798428
Egyptology News Blog:
http://egyptology.blogspot.com/
Egyptology Blog:
http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/
Iraq War and Archaeology:
http://www.archaeos.org/iwa/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.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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Just as the last Explorator was going out, the trickle of articles
about the discovery of Maxentius' insignia started:
http://tinyurl.com/yj49wn (USA Today)
http://tinyurl.com/yaug8n (Seattle Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ybcp8v (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6255899,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16031991/
http://tinyurl.com/y9pxrq (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/yaos2n (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/ybxguu (Seattle PI)
Plenty of coverage of Vatican claims of having discovered the
tomb of St. Paul:
http://tinyurl.com/ygrvqj (SMH)
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/wn_report/story/478358p-402428c.html
http://www.usatoday.com/news/religion/2006-12-06-paul_x.htm?csp=34
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6219656.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6262052,00.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16083789/
http://tinyurl.com/ybmgsa (IHT)
http://www.cbc.ca/world/story/2006/12/08/paul-tomb.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061207/ap_on_sc/vatican_st_paul_s_tomb_3
What some Classics majors at Holy Cross are doing:
http://www.holycross.edu/publicaffairs/features/2006-2007/homer
Not sure why this showed up at a Physics Journal site:
http://www.physorg.com/news84727530.html
Nice article on the UHelsinki's efforts at Pompeii:
http://www.helsinki.fi/uh/4-2006/juttu3.shtml
Danielle Allen is now on the Pulitzer Prize board:
http://www.wqad.com/Global/story.asp?S=5783145
.. and what Richard P. Saller is up to:
http://tinyurl.com/yd3l4e (Stanford Report)
OpEd piece comparing Bush and Xenophon:
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061203-073918-9377r
More coverage of the Antikythera Mechanism:
http://tinyurl.com/ylm68u (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/yfx7yw (Sentinel)
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/story?id=2697384&page=1
http://tinyurl.com/ybsamg (SciAm)
.. plus some nice images:
http://www.perseus.gr/Astro-Greek-Archae-Astr-Antikythera.htm
.. and a really nice one:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap061205.html
More coverage of that curse tablet from Leicester:
http://tinyurl.com/vdrqn (NG)
.. and that sarcophagus from London:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/tech/news/4373917.html
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=2692121
http://tinyurl.com/ydvkh6 (IOL)
Review of Everitt's *Augustus*:
http://washingtontimes.com/books/20061209-102724-5205r.htm
Recent reviews from BMCR:
http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html
Recent reviews from Scholia:
http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2006.htm
Visit our blog:
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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One from a month ago which escaped my notice ... the discovery
of a possible third Jellinge stone in Denmark:
http://www.cphpost.dk/get/98868.html
http://www.cphpost.dk/get/98753.html
Prehistoric bones from a beach in Scotland:
http://news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1795822006
Hyping the solstice at Newgrange:
http://tinyurl.com/yhvluk (NG)
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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Another dam, another article on the archaeological sites to be
inundated (in Pakistan, this time):
http://in.news.yahoo.com/061206/139/6a28a.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news4.php?action=fullnews&id=62656
Plans are afoot to do 'something' with India's 'Pompeii':
http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1863691,0008.htm
Not really 'news', but a nice feature on the discovery of the
'Wanli':
http://www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v3/news.php?id=234160
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Review of Gabor Boritt, *The Gettysburg Gospel*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/04/books/04masl.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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With all the reviews of Apocalypto (see below), National
Geographic has a feature on 'what it was really like':
http://tinyurl.com/yjgnvu
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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More coverage of that ancient Mediterranean tsunami:
http://tinyurl.com/yhwx6w (NG)
Some newly-restored medieval frescoes are now on view again:
http://tinyurl.com/yeup6c (CBC)
Here's a new (to me) suggestion for the 'real' date of Jesus'
birth:
http://tinyurl.com/yat9pe (Tribune)
On James II and water scooters:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/nyregion/09patent.html
'Digging' an archaeology class:
http://www.centredaily.com/mld/centredaily/news/politics/16101569.htm
Interesting letter found from the father of the Brontes:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-2485237,00.html
Review of John Hailman, *Thomas Jefferson on Wine*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/03/books/McInerney.t.html
Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:
http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/
Arts and Letters Daily:
http://aldaily.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Villa Torlonia:
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/12/03/sunday/main2223572.shtml
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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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Idol recovery in Delhi:
http://tinyurl.com/yjsw9v
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NUMISMATICA
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On the web - the Forgery Network:
http://www.forgerynetwork.com/
On the web - Numismatic Search Engine:
http://www.coinbooks.org/search/
Hobbyblog:
http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/
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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Rediscovered Treasures of Afghanistan:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16127616/site/newsweek/
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/05/news/guimet.php
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/6215002.stm
http://tinyurl.com/y7lss3 (Telegraph)
Athens-Sparta:
http://tinyurl.com/ylbbvd (USA Today)
http://www.artdaily.com/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=18412
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061205/ap_on_re_us/greek_artifacts_2
http://tinyurl.com/ye5zvj (Topix)
http://www.newsone.ca/hinesbergjournal/ViewArticle.aspx?id=32240&source=2
In the Beginning:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/08/opinion/melik9.php
Dead Sea Scrolls:
http://tinyurl.com/ygabms
Brief item on the opening of an exhibition of finds by Goddio:
http://tinyurl.com/yfyxcr (AFP via Yahoo)
Some original Thomas Edison light bulbs are coming to auction:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16073153/
On the restoration of the Yale Museum of Art:
http://tinyurl.com/yk3h87 (NYT)
http://tinyurl.com/yllj9h (NYT)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Reviews of Apocalypto:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/movies/05apoc.html
http://tinyurl.com/y3ab8n (WPost)
http://tinyurl.com/yhblrb (Globe)
.. of course, Mayan groups don't like it:
http://tinyurl.com/ygt59s (CBC)
http://www.rte.ie/arts/2006/1207/gibsonm.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/6216414.stm
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OBITUARIES
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Robert Volpe (Art Theft expert):
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/05/nyregion/05volpe.html
Robert Rosenblum (art historian):
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/09/arts/design/09rose.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:
http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
Stone Pages Archaeology News:
http://news.stonepages.com/
Archaeologica Audio News:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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