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Gene Barkley, Jay Marlles, John Hill, John McMahon, Tony Jackson,
Steve Rankin, Maurice O'Sullivan, Michael Oberndorf, Mike Ruggeri,
George Pesely, W. Richard Frahm, Sally Winchester and Yonatan
Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have
left no one out).

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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One of the earliest examples of the (controlled, presumably) use
of fire in Europe has been found on the blessed isle:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031013/fire.html

Finds from the Republic of Georgia are causing some rethinking of
bits of the "out of Africa" theory:

http://tinyurl.com/rh8h (Scientific American)

The French and British are scrapping over the antiquity of Chauvet
Cave's petroglyphs:

http://tinyurl.com/r9pm (Telegraph)

There is perhaps some evidence of the people of Israel's sojourn
in Egypt:

http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/031020/misc/20exodus.htm

Lasers are revealing more info about Stonehenge:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/3196284.stm
http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/press/stonehenge_lasers.html
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994288
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1065671,00.html

A fifth-century AD/CE synagogue has been found in Albania:

http://tinyurl.com/rh4v (Jerusalem Post)
http://tinyurl.com/rh9f (Baptist Standard)

Some Saxon fishtraps (10th century) have been found in Bridgewater
Bay:

http://tinyurl.com/rc1x

The first physical evidence of the Battle of Bannockburn has
been found in the form of stirrups:

http://www.news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1147292003
http://tinyurl.com/rh9m (Telegraph)

A 2500 b.p. grave has been found in Phu Tho (Vietnam ... scroll
down a bit):

http://www.vov.org.vn/2003_10_16/english/vanhoa.htm

An 7600 b.p. "heating wall" has been excavated in Northern
China:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-10/14/content_1122021.htm

The latest from Ayodhya has folks protesting the finds:

http://tinyurl.com/rh9g (Newsday)
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THE AMERICAS
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Evidence of human presence in the Queen Charlotte Islands dating
to 11,000 b.p. has been found:

http://tinyurl.com/rh5s (Canada.com)

'Brazoria Woman' may embody the oldest human remains in North
America ... or not:

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/news/7051507.htm

Last week we mentioned the dig at Shiloh Mound Complex at Shiloh
National Military Park ... turns out the dig has an excellent
website, full of photos and summaries:

http://www.cr.nps.gov/seac/Shiloh-2001/shiloh-2001.htm
cf: http://tinyurl.com/qmny (AJC)

They're going to rebury the Miami Circle to protect it from
erosion:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/7024098.htm
http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=35143

There is now evidence that food had to be imported to feed workers
who were building the big edifices of Chaco Canyon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/science/14OBSE.html
http://tinyurl.com/rh2h (CNN)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/979878.asp
http://tinyurl.com/rh35 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~1696708,00.html

A brief item (scroll down a bit) on the discovery of an inscription
from Palenque which makes reference to human sacrifice:

http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2052343

Archaeologists have found remains of a cabin which may have
housed slaves on property once owned by Thomas Jefferson:

http://tinyurl.com/rh9r

Archaeologists are planning a major dig near Frederick, Maryland
where a large slave village site is supposed to be:

http://washingtontimes.com/metro/20031014-095147-5107r.htm

A bell might help confirm whether a shipwreck is, in fact, the
S.S. Republic:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/980364.asp

The braintrust at Nazca has set up a garbage dump within the site
of the ancient lines:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/980498.asp
http://tinyurl.com/rh68 (AP via Yahoo)

Newsday has a nice feature on a project to map the Military Road
(New York ... hey, isn't that where all the outlet malls are?):

http://tinyurl.com/rh8o

An investigation is being launched into the damage done by Isabel
at Jamestown:

http://tinyurl.com/rh6a (AP via Yahoo)

A touristy sort of thing on Machu Picchu:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/travel/story/0,6903,1060897,00.html

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On the DNA front, we have Y-Chromosome markers suggesting folks
arrived in the 'new world' only ca. 14000 bp:

http://www.the-scientist.com/yr2003/oct/upfront_031020.html

The 'real' Lawrence of Arabia seems to be getting a fair bit of
press coverage in anticipation of a PBS documentary:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A25393-2003Oct14.html
http://www.khilafah.com/home/category.php?DocumentID=8496&;TagID=1

Cannibalism was apparently normal, once upon a time:

http://tinyurl.com/rh9x (Telegraph)

The Boston Globe has a feature on the MFA's Egyptian Collection's
centennial:

http://tinyurl.com/rh2v

Given the events of last week, folks might be interested in
a sort of overview of previous ferry disasters in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/18/opinion/18BAKE.html

Oman is hoping more of its sites will make the World Heritage
list:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=100188

Iraqi museum officials are to undergo intensive training at the
British Museum to hone their skills in restoring damaged
artifacts (and damage is extensive, as might be suspected):

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

Zahi Hawass seems to be defending himself again in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/660/he2.htm

Since I've featured some items from this collection at my blog
prior to their coming to auction, folks might be interested in
the background of the Bill Blass collection (what I want to know
is is why he had collected so many arms of ancient statuary):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/arts/design/17ANTI.html

A chatty sort of thing about the Met being open on Mondays and
who is taking advantage of it:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/14/nyregion/14MUSE.html

Italy's replica of the Globe Theatre opened this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3190268.stm

This is really a repeat, but I just stumbled on this one ...
the list of the World's Most Endangered Monuments was a feature
(with photos) in Archaeology Magazine a couple of weeks ago:

http://tinyurl.com/rh3b
cf: http://www.wmf.org/html/programs/watchlist2004.html

A progress report (sort of) on the cleaning of the statue of
David:

http://tinyurl.com/rh3g (Guardian)

Robin Hood's bones may have been dug up in the 18th century:

http://tinyurl.com/rh6e (BBC)

Since it is such a slow news week, folks might be interested in
perusing a website devoted to William Mesny ("A British Pioneer
in China") ... hit next a couple of times and you'll get the
'book' (interesting stuff):

http://www.mesny.com/

... and the fact that they're still looking for Amelia Earhart:

http://www.guampdn.com/news/stories/20031014/localnews/445988.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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The Atlantic Magazine has a feature on articles which appeared in
Atlantic Magazine (with links) about pirates and piracy in
various periods:

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/pirates.htm
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ON THE WEB
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An interesting item on chopmarking silver coins:

http://www.sycee-on-line.com/Chopmark_publication.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Theodore Martin, *Horace*

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7278

Plautus, *Captivi and Mostellaria" (trans. Riley):

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7282
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CRIME BEAT
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Time (Asia) has a major feature on the theft of artifacts from
sites in Southeast Asia:

http://www.time.com/time/asia/covers/501031020/story.html

Police in Turkey seized a pile of purloined Hittite, Seljuk, and
Roman artifacts this week:

http://www.zaman.com/default.php?kn=4549

Did Yale's Skull and Bones society desecrate Native American
graves?

http://www.indiancountry.com/?1065807370

A reward has been offered for information regarding the looting
of an archaeological cave site in Wyoming:

http://www.thedenverchannel.com/news/2557404/detail.html

Another Greek farmer caught with antiqutities:

http://www.whnt19.com/Global/story.asp?S=1487647
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Leon Kass,*Beginning of Wisdom: Reading Genesis*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/books/review/19TRIBLET.html

Peter Nichols, *Evolution's Captain: The Dark Fate of the Man
Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/books/review/19WHEELET.html

Colin Renfrew, *Figuring it Out*

http://tinyurl.com/rh93 (Telegraph)

TLS has a reviewish sort of thing by Mary Beard on various
approaches to Pompeii:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.asp?story_id=29055
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PERFORMANCES
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Assorted Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/arts/theater/19WOLF.html (AYLI)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/arts/theater/19PAPA.html (Ham)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/19/arts/theater/19BRAN.html (TN)
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EXHIBITIONS
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El Greco:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/?031020craw_artworld
http://www.newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/n_9298/

Hunt for Paradise: Court Arts of Iran 1501-1576:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/arts/design/17COTT.html

Petra: Lost City of Stone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/17/arts/design/17GLUE.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/15/nyregion/15PROF.html
http://www.npr.org/display_pages/features/feature_1471021.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Keep your eye open for this one ... it's all about what/who killed
Alexander the Great:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/SC0310/S00060.htm

In case you missed it at rogueclassicism earlier this week (shame!),
the Scotsman had an *excellent* piece on why learning Latin and
Greek is important:

http://www.news.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1138052003

AthensNews has a feature on ancient proverbs:

http://tinyurl.com/rh7n

Peter Jones:
http://tinyurl.com/rh6g

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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REPEATS
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Bactrian Hoard Recovered:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1066363,00.html
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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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