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Thanks to Arthur Shippee,  Bill Kennedy, Donna Hurst, Hernan
Astudillo, John McMahon, Karl Wittwer, Michael Oberndorf, Paola
Raffeta, Ross Sargent, Tony Jackson,  and W. Richard Frahm
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no
one out).

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Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canucks!!!! A rather slow week,
otherwise ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Archaeologists have once again proved their lack of coordination
by stumbling upon a "major Stone Age" site during road
construction in Wiltshire (the dates in the BBC piece must be
wrong):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/3167526.stm

A number of petroglyphs of unknown (and I suspect dubious)
antiquity have been found in Northumberland:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10/uonu-mrm100903.php
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994256 (photo)
http://www.brightsurf.com/news/oct_03/EDU_news_100903.php

Al-Ahram has a good piece on that cuneiform tablet which is being
used as evidence for Ramesses II having a capital in the Delta:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/659/hr2.htm

An Old Kingdom necropolis has been found near Sakkara:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o091023q.htm

The British Museum has come up with a list of items from Iraq
which are in most need of conservation:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11361

The Oriental Institute's Mesopotamian collection is going on
display:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031009/oi.shtml

This is really a repeat -- but with a photo -- a number
of amphorae have been found off the coast of Rhodes, some
with seals intact:

http://www.divernet.com/news/stories/amphorae020903.shtml

An issue or so ago we mentioned a dig at RAF base Mildenhall
preliminary to building a baseball diamond ... well now
they're building a 'football pitch' as well and they've
come across some interesting archaeological items, including
a Roman face-down burial:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/suffolk/3181246.stm
http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005779

cf. EDP24: http://tinyurl.com/qg3z (the body is Iceni,
not Roman)

A 5th/6th century A.D./C.E. synagogue is being excavated
in Albania:

http://tinyurl.com/qmp0 (Washington Post)
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031009064923.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10/huoj-roa100803.php

Folks in Teeside are wondering when they'll get to see items
of Anglo Saxon date which were discovered in a dig preliminary to
church renovations:

http://tinyurl.com/qhgd

A warrior burial from China's Warring States Period has been found
in downtown Chengdu:

http://tinyurl.com/qmgt (China Daily)

Archaeological evidence suggests China and Japan had 'cultural
exchanges' some 7000 b.p.;

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-10/11/content_1118767.htm

They're finding more stuff in the Xinhetan ruins:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-10/09/content_1115054.htm

The (non) antiquity of the Vinland Map is once again in the news:

http://tinyurl.com/przx (Daily Press)

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THE AMERICAS
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An interesting piece on footpaths to cemeteries discovered in
Costa Rica by satellite technology:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031008064657.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10/uoca-pfi100703.php

Some mounds near Lake Maurepas (La) are being investigated:

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/101203/new_archeology001.shtml

Also on the mounds front, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has
a feature on the mounds in Shiloh National Military Park:

http://tinyurl.com/qmny

Human remains found in Florida may be up to 8000 years b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/qmnv (Sun-Sentinel)

A communal grave has been found on Shelter Island (NY) which
probably belongs to the Manhaset people:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/nyregion/10BURI.html

Latest on the Hunley:

http://www.charleston.net/stories/101003/loc_10hunley.shtml

The damage inflicted on Jamestown by Hurricane Isabel is
producing a lot of 'hindsight flak':

http://tinyurl.com/qmo8 (Atlanta J-C)

Here's some damage estimates:

http://tinyurl.com/qmoc
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The Marbles Reunited exhibition opened in London this week,
demonstrating what the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles would look like
if all the pieces were brought back together (in Greece) ... of
course there's the expected sideshow to go along with it:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3171040.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1057493,00.html
http://www.artdaily.com/links.asp?idl=28&;id=178

Someone has done a study on whether those hand images in
paleolithic caves came from right-handed or more sinister types:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/science/07OBSE.html

MSNBC has a rather lengthy feature on 'genetic genealogies' which
includes items on some folks' claims to be illegitimate children
of Charles Lindbergh (I suspect we'll hear more about this one
in a few weeks), who is buried in Columbus' tomb, and several
others (a 'table of contents' is at the bottom of the page):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/978700.asp

The New York Times antiques column has a feature on Chinese
porcelain:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/arts/design/10ANTI.html

Here's an interesting piece on when 'obstetricians' realized that
washing one's hands before examining a pregnant woman would be
a good thing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/health/07HAND.html

This year's crop of MacArthur geniuses include an archaeologist
and an historian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/national/05MACA.html
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ON THE WEB
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Greg Doudna, "4Q Pesher Nahum and the Teacher of Righteousness":

http://tinyurl.com/qmmx (Bible and Interpretation site)

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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Studies presented to Boris Ilich Marshak in Occasion of His
70th Birthday:

http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/Eran/index_eran_ud_aneran.html
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CRIME BEAT
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A pile of Roman coins were stolen from the Trinci Palace in
Foligno:

http://tinyurl.com/qmgw (AGI)

Ever wonder how purloined artifacts are recovered? Here's the
story of the recovery of that war club found in a SoHo gallery:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/nyregion/08CHIE.html

The Chicago Tribune has a nice piece on the difficulties
involved in trying to recover art looted by the Nazis, even with
that new website announced a few weeks ago:

http://tinyurl.com/qmh7

Switzerland is returning a number of Egyptian antiquities which
were smuggled into that state:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o041023h.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Simon Winchester, *The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the
Oxford English Dictionary*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/12/books/review/12BUCKLET.html

Gail Collins, *America's Women*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/08/books/08CHES.html

Adrienne Mayor, *Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs:
Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/science/07WAR.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1009/p17s01-bogn.html

Robert Harris, *Pompeii* (fiction):

http://www.news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1117872003
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EXHIBITIONS
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The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of
French Genre Painting:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/arts/design/10COTT.html

Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age
of Romanticism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/arts/design/10SMIT.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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*Daily* news of interest to Classicists:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
http://www.bloglines.com/preview?siteid=21809 (for Netscape 4.7 types)

More on that Cyprus-as-Atlantis thing:

http://tinyurl.com/qk3u (Boston Globe)

The Toronto Star has an oped piece all about Arnold Schwarzenneger
and Nero:

http://tinyurl.com/qmq5

What to do with a Classics degree:

http://www.philly.com/mld/dailynews/news/local/6968382.htm

The Guardian has an interesting review of a television program
designed, apparently, to take all the fun out of Jason and the
Argonauts:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv_and_radio/story/0,3604,1059063,00.html

Perfess'r Harris:

http://tinyurl.com/qmn0

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (on hiatus?):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Peter Waters (book conservationist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/obituaries/05WATE.html
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REPEATS
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Neolithic Britons' Change of Diet:

http://tinyurl.com/qmnp (IOL)

Roman Cup From Hadrian's Wall:

http://tinyurl.com/qmog (AGI)
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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About.com Ancient History (blog):
http://ancienthistory.about.com/

About.com Archaeology (blog):
http://archaeology.about.com/mbody.htm

Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologica.org/NewsPage.htm

Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=0305/newsbriefs/index

Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/news.htm

CBA Newsfeed:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/newsfeed/index.html

CBA Archaeoblog:
http://www.britarch.ac.uk/archaeoblog/

Classics in Contemporary Culture (blog):
http://www.people.memphis.edu/~mhooker/ccc.html

Cronaca (blog):
http://www.cronaca.com/

Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
http://cctr.umkc.edu/user/fdeblauwe/iraq.html

Maritime Underwater Archaeological News:
http://www.munarchaeology.com/munarchaeology/news/main.htm

Megalithic Portal
http://www.megalithic.co.uk

Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
http://community-2.webtv.net/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

Stone Pages Archaeo News:
http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:
http://www.tamu.edu/anthropology/news.html

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