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explorator 9.36 December 31, 2006
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Bill Kerr, Dorothy King,
Al Schlaf, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,
John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths,
Ross W. Sargent, Rochelle Altman,Rick Pettigrew, W. Richard Frahm,
and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
n.b. links to Asian sources are very slow this a.m. ... no
doubt connected to:
http://tinyurl.com/ya3vov (Bloomberg)
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AFRICA
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More coverage of that early ritual site in Botswana:
http://tinyurl.com/y994pk (NG)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Another cuneiform inscription from Rabat Tepe:
http://www.tehrantimes.com/Description.asp?Da=12/27/2006&Cat=10&Num=6
A film crew has done some damage to Persepolis:
http://www.payvand.com/news/06/dec/1268.html
http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_19799.shtml
Remembering the 2003 earthquake at Bam:
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6900
No evidence of Medes at Ecbatana:
http://www.chnpress.com/news/?section=2&id=6905
Zahi Hawass doesn't want Tut near a casino:
http://tinyurl.com/yl37t7
Somewhat strange 'application' of the Epic of Gilgamesh:
http://www.va.gov/gilgamesh/swf_files/part1_pub.html
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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Interesting AP piece on Keros and the Cycladic art therefrom:
http://tinyurl.com/ybm2ma (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/yn84ck (Mercury)
http://tinyurl.com/yl8ftq (WPost)
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061231/ap_on_sc/apn_secrets_of_keros
Rome is 'suddenly' concerned for the stuff that lies beneath
the city:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/arts/25arti.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/25/news/rome.phpf
More Archimedes Palimpsest coverage:
http://tinyurl.com/ylj6f6 (KTLA)
http://tinyurl.com/ylbtoe (LA Times)
Carl Springer has been given a Mellon Grant to translate
Sedulius:
http://tinyurl.com/yghzgw (Intelligencer)
Oped feature on the application of some myths to modern
situations:
http://tinyurl.com/ykwp5h (SMH)
A feature on Pierre Vidal-Naquet:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/magazine/31naquet.t.html
.. and one on Anne Carson:
http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,1979862,00.html
Can't remember if we mentioned this 'Emperors in Crisis'
thing before:
http://www.physorg.com/news84727530.html
Just in case you missed this silly dispute over the naming
of a Macedonian airport:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6216225.stm
A piece on the early Olympics:
http://tinyurl.com/ymussn (LA Times)
Review of the audio version of Imperium:
http://tinyurl.com/yd74nk (Herald)
Reviews of a couple of well-reviewed books on Caesar and Augustus:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/books/review/Coates.t.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/29/features/IDLEDE30.php
.. and another:
http://tinyurl.com/ye6oe9 (LA Times)
.. and an interview with Adrian Goldsworthy:
http://www.onpointradio.org/shows/2006/12/20061228_b_main.asp
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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That Bronze Age log boat from the River Tay is in the news again:
http://tinyurl.com/yma4al (BBC)
.. while there is ongoing controversy about plans to move those
Viking ships (we mentioned last week):
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/25/world/europe/25viking.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/25/news/viking.php
13th century finds from Berwick:
http://tinyurl.com/ybcd7c (Berwick Today)
On the restoration of the Villa Torlonia:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,13509-2519626,00.html
Review of Stella Tillyard, *George III and his Scandalous
Siblings*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/27/books/27grim.2.html
Review of Vic Gatrell, *City of Laughter*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/books/29book.html
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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Humans are being blamed for the demise of Australia's giant
kangaroos:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16359687/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20061226/ap_on_sc/australia_megafauna
Trying to identify a caucasian mummy from China:
http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/view.php?StoryID=20061224-032826-6357r
cf.:
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/25/eng20061225_335707.html
A Mongolian fresco/mural appears to depict the funeral of Genghis Khan:
http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/27/t20061227_9905492.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/ymzzlk (Washington Times)
Mysterious rings from the tomb of China's only empress:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200612/21/eng20061221_334509.html
Excavating the tomb of Qin Hui:
http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/27/t20061227_9905556.shtml
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/27/eng20061227_336103.html
.. and a 1700 b.p. three-chambered tomb from Jangxi province:
http://english.people.com.cn/200612/25/eng20061225_335731.html
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 9000 b.p. spear point from New Brunswick:
http://tinyurl.com/whpus (Star Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/y2uc2l (UPI)
http://tinyurl.com/yaj9l8 (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/ymjxj7 (CBC)
And piles of stuff from beneath a Halifax hotel:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/Front/550002.html
Toronto's heritage is in danger from development:
http://tinyurl.com/ycmrx6 (National Post)
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A nice sort of 'overview' of what DNA studies are telling us
about our past:
http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1980639,00.html
The mystery of the deaths of Francesco I Medici and his wife
appears to have been solved (very interesting):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,,1979151,00.html
The secret of Stradivarius violins' distinctive sound has
been solved:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/11/061129151126.htm
Intersting item on painters' fingerprints:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/31/arts/design/31cole.html
Assorted OpEd pieces on what assorted ancient types would be
doing in various situations today:
http://opinion.latimes.com/opinionla/2006/12/whats_your_batt.html
Assorted items of interest from the NYT's Arts Briefly column:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/arts/29arts.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/30/arts/30arts.html
An excerpt reviewish thing on ancient/medieval cookbooks:
http://www.press.uchicago.edu/Misc/Chicago/021262.html
New treatment from a 17th century manuscript:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/12/061228154205.htm
Short feature/interviewish thing with Franck Goddio:
http://tinyurl.com/yjslt2 (Bloomberg)
Latest video on the Archaeology Channel explores media
per/miscon - ceptions about archaeology:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
Piece on pomegranates has a nice overview of their history:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2006/1227/p13s02-lifo.html?s=hns
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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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Minerva Magazine has updated its online news:
http://minervamagazine.com/issue1801/index.html
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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On the tomb-raiding 'tradition' in the West Bank:
http://tinyurl.com/yhtug7 (Globe)
A foiled smuggling attempt in Jordan:
http://www.petra.gov.jo/nepras/2006/Dec/27/26000.htm
.. and one in Algeria:
http://www.metimes.com/storyview.php?StoryID=20061220-025324-7697r
Some Chinese terracottas were returned this week:
http://en.ce.cn/National/culture/200612/27/t20061227_9905537.shtml
Police recovered a stolen painting attributed to Goya:
http://tercera.cl/medio/articulo/0,0,3255_5700_244461550,00.html?rL=s
(spanish)
Not specifically about crime, per se, but about investing in
antiquities and the risks attacked thereto:
http://tinyurl.com/yhh57l (Forbes)
I don't think the 'authorities' are right in identifying this
'antiquity' as ancient:
http://english.sabah.com.tr/893921E182C34839AA13CBA30D6B2AEF.html
Interesting piece on some of the folks who recovered Nazi-looted
art at the end of WWII:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2089-2524245,00.html
Suzan Mazur's latest is a very interesting interview with
Italian prosecutor Maurizio Fiorelli:
http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/HL0612/S00370.htm
.. while Marion True feels the Getty is letting her take the
fall:
http://tinyurl.com/ylgf69 (LA Times)
Switzerland and Peru have signed an agreement about antiquities:
http://www.nzz.ch/2006/12/29/eng/article7389312.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Big bucks for a coin of Henry VIII at auction:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cumbria/6220490.stm
Review of a book on Cumberland Mining Tokens:
http://www.whitehaven-news.co.uk/leisure/viewarticle.aspx?id=447775
Star of Bethlehem on a coin?:
http://www.eclipse.net/~molnar/
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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Athens-Sparta:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/12/29/arts/design/29onas.html
In Stabiano:
http://tinyurl.com/ylche3 (Ann Arbor News)
More coverage of the Getty's bronze boy:
http://tinyurl.com/yf2kux (News24)
.. and the war of words seems to be continuing (or getting
additional coverage):
http://tinyurl.com/yb3avc (Reuters)
The National Museum in Taipei has reopened:
http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/12/28/news/taipei.php (includes
slide show)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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That 'new' Mozart has been performed:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/6216719.stm
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OBITUARIES
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John Heath-Stubbs (poet/translator):
http://tinyurl.com/ya4xlx (Sun Times)
http://tinyurl.com/ymzzlk (LA Times)
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/story/2006/12/26/heath-stubbs-obit.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/6210471.stm
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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The Register has finally stumbled upon the Bosnian Pyramids
story:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/12/26/bosnian_pyramids/
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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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