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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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An Italian archaeologist is claiming to have found 200,000 b.p.
stone carvings of faces:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3197402.stm (photo)
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031020-123016-8084r.htm
The oldest known domesticated rice has been found in Korea:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3207552.stm
The mummy purported to be that of Ramesses I returned to Egypt
this week:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/25/national/25MUMM.html
http://tinyurl.com/sedj (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_832220.html
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o261023i.htm
http://www.ajc.com/metro/content/metro/1003/25mummy.html
Tons of coverage of a German team's discovery of the 'secret
ingredient' of mummification:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/983621.asp
http://tinyurl.com/see3 (La Tercera ... Spanish)
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/10/22/mummies031022
http://tinyurl.com/sef9 (Nature abstract)
http://tinyurl.com/sefl (Reuters via Yahoo)
The eruption of Thera was more damaging than previously thought,
maybe:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/science/earth/21VOLC.html
Ha'aretz has a nice feature on archaeological discoveries in
Bethsaida:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/352395.html
This really is a repeat, but there's something 'fishy' about
this one so we should probably bring it up again ... the Bactrian
hoard is once again being claimed to be safe and sound in
Kabul:
http://www.rferl.org/nca/features/2003/10/23102003165644.asp
http://tinyurl.com/see1 (Guardian)
http://paktribune.com/news/index.php?id=42100
After years of negotiations, the site of Verulamium has finally
been 'saved' from farmers' ploughs:
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART18530.html
http://tinyurl.com/sek4 (English Heritage)
Plenty of coverage of the excavation of a Roman ship with oars
in the Netherlands:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/983152.asp
http://tinyurl.com/seek (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/storydisplay.cfm?storyID=3530245
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/10/22/1066631498721.html
Surprisingly little coverage of the discovery of a Roman theatre
in rural Germany:
http://tinyurl.com/selb (IOL)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s973347.htm
... and a 'luxury Roman villa with a granny flat':
http://tinyurl.com/sem1 (Telegraph)
Roughly a year ago came reports of the discovery of "Jesus'
bathhouse" in Nazareth -- a turn of the eras Roman bathing complex.
It's back in the news:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1067930,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/10/24/1066974314069.html
Israeli Defense Ministry workers apparently damaged an early
Christian site this week while constructing a barrier:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/983341.asp
http://tinyurl.com/sefq (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,1280,-3291900,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/segc (SF Chronicle)
A 900 b.p. ship has been found buried in a rice field in India:
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_831662.html?menu=
The house of the guy who invented the Tibetan 'alphabet' 1300
years ago has been excavated:
http://tinyurl.com/sed3 (People's Daily)
A Yuan Dynasty distillery discovery is expected to shed light on
Chinese spirit brewing practices:
http://tinyurl.com/sed7 (China Daily)
Of similar antiquity are a number of rock carvings recently
discovered in Inner Mongolia:
http://tinyurl.com/semw (People's Daily)
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THE AMERICAS
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The Herald Tribune has a nice feature on what archaeology is
revealing about the Calusa culture (Florida):
http://tinyurl.com/seg6
So ... was LaSalle rather less-than-skilled at doing whatever he
was expected to do?:
http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/7065406.htm
They've excavated George Washington's distillery, so now they're
recreating the booze:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/national/22WHIS.html
http://www.msnbc.com/news/983343.asp
... and perhaps they can raise a toast to Samual Huntington,
who was exhumed this week along with his wife:
http://tinyurl.com/selo (Newsday)
A researcher is trying to recreate the 'baggage' Lewis and Clark
required for their expedition:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/981182.asp
Here's an interesting project ... remove an old pool that was
built into a Native American Mound and create a tourist attraction:
http://www.megalithic.co.uk/article.php?sid=2146411180
The Chinese-reaching-America-before-Columbus thing is in the
news again:
http://tinyurl.com/semi (the Star)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Colin Renfrew is accusing US Museums of encouraging looting:
http://tinyurl.com/senl (Daily Pennsylvanian)
Al-Ahram has a touristy sort of thing on Thebes:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/661/tr1.htm
... and one on Luxor (which could be useful if you're planning
a visit):
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/661/tr2.htm
The Medieval 'Warm Period' might not have been so warm after all:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031020055353.htm
The New York Times has a major feature on Dr. Elizabeth Stone and
her work in Iraq:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/nyregion/22PROF.html
The BBC has a major feature on 'adventurer'Sir Aurel Stein and the
debate over whether he was a good guy or a bad guy:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3190360.stm
A Western team is digging in Iran for the first time since
1979:
http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031023/iran.shtml
Zahi Hawass gave a talk at SMU this week; I'm not sure whether
he revealed anything 'new' (although it is interesting that this
was covered by the sports editor):
http://tinyurl.com/ru93
Cyprus Weekly has a feature on crime and punishment in medieval
Cyprus (not sure how long this one will last):
http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/features.htm
Fabjob.com publishes guides for folks wishing to embark on a
rewarding career in whatever ... they have one on archaeology,
which I'm sure will be of interest to archaeologists (none for
Classicists, interestingly/not suprisingly enough):
http://www.fabjob.com/archaeology.asp
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 56.6 (November/December 2003) has abstracts and the
full text of a piece on archaeology in Yemen:
http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index
Biblical Archaeology Review (November/December 2003) includes
Andre Lemaire's defense of his views that the James Ossuary
inscription is authentic:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html
Archaeology Odyssey (November/December 2003) includes full text
of a piece on the Tartessians:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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ON THE WEB
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Not sure how long this one will be up, but the BBC4 programme called
Frontiers this week had a feature on Palaeolithic music; access
the programme (as RealAudio) via this page, which has a nice photo
of a bone flute:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/frontiers.shtml
The first two editions of Chaucer's "Canterbury Tales" have been
digitized and are online:
http://tinyurl.com/sede (Reuters via Yahoo)
cf: http://www.bl.uk/treasures/caxton/homepage.html
The Mycenean Epigraphy Group at Cambridge have put up an
excellent website devoted to Linear B:
http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/Everyone/linearb
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CRIME BEAT
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The looting of a site in Wyoming has cost a team a year's worth
of research:
http://tinyurl.com/sekq (Casper Star-Tribune)
A couple of guys who took a few five gallon buckets full of
pre-Civil War artifacts from the Alabama river have been charged:
http://tinyurl.com/sekv (Herald Tribune)
A number of illicit antiquities purloined from Iraq were recovered
by Scotland Yard this week:
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=457282
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Karen King, *The Gospel of Mary Magdala: Jesus and the First
Woman Apostle*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/25/books/25SMIT.html
Charles Murray, *Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence
in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/25/arts/25MURR.html
Andrea di Robilant, *A Venetian Affair*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/books/review/26GOREAUT.html
Peter Ackroyd, *Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/books/review/26SCHMIDT.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Two Noble Kinsmen:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/21/arts/theater/21NOBL.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Straight from the horse's mouth ... you can't see the Great Wall
of China from space:
http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12832797,00.html
A psychic has 'read' the timbers from that medieval ship recently
found in a Welsh river bank and has suggested a date of 1426
for it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/3203851.stm
cf: the BBC's coverage from roughly a year ago:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2613267.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/2569801.stm
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EXHIBITIONS
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Rembrandt's Journey:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/arts/design/24GLUE.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/26/arts/design/26WEIS.html
The Drawings of Francois Boucher:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/arts/design/24JOHN.html
Turning Point: Oribe and the Arts of 16th-Century Japan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/arts/design/24COTT.html
Viennes Silver:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/24/arts/design/24SILV.html
Art from Cyprus (scroll down):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/22/arts/22ARTS.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Discovery.com has a feature on how the Romans weren't colour-
prejudiced:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031020/romans.html
For some reason, I think Classicists will be interested in this
review of the poetry of John Clare:
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?031027crbo_books
In case you missed it, there was a big brouhaha over the Greek
PM's off-but-not-off-camera remarks to Tony Blair that settling
the Elgin/Parthenon issue would be good for reelection purposes:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3202374.stm
Peter Jones:
http://tinyurl.com/seif
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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New Ideas about the 'Out of Africa' theory:
http://tinyurl.com/secj (Scientific American)
http://tinyurl.com/sefb (American Scientist)
Stonehenge Inscriptions via Lasers:
http://www.spiegel.de/wissenschaft/mensch/0,1518,270557,00.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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