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Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, 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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An unexcavated site which may show 6,000 years of habitation in
Yorkshire is threatened by a McCain chips factory (surely not
the Canadian McCain! ... I'll have to have a word ...):

http://tinyurl.com/w6th (BBC)

Newsweek has a feature on the Egyptian deity Min (!):

http://tinyurl.com/w6tj (via MSNBC)

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a Greek inscription in
Jerusalem which makes reference to Simon the Just and includes
a passage from Luke:

http://tinyurl.com/w6ro (The Guardian)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/996230.asp
http://tinyurl.com/w6ql (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/w6qj (New York Daily News)

Archaeologists believe ancient Pisa was built on a lagoon,
much like Venice:

http://tinyurl.com/w6zh (Telegraph)

The Egyptian State Information Service has a feature on Roman
Tanais (sort of), or rather, the tomb of Isadora there and
the love story connected with it:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o201123d.htm

Clumsy archaeologists stumbled upon a first century Jewish
settlement near Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/w6rl (Jerusalem Post)

A 'new' Viking ship with associated burial mound has possibly
been found in Norway:

http://tinyurl.com/w6so (Aftenposten)

A piece on an upcoming documentary about some mysterious
towerish structures in Tibet might be of interest:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/994191.asp

What might be Europe's oldest (250 b.p.) toothbrush has been
discovered in Germany:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1277042003
http://tinyurl.com/w6t6 (Newsday)
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THE AMERICAS
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Carbon dating of a hearth from Brazil suggests people were
keeping warm in a shelter there some 56,000 years b.p. (!!!):

http://tinyurl.com/w6to (ABC)

The big Easter Island heads are going to get a 'facelift':

http://www.msnbc.com/news/995137.asp
http://tinyurl.com/w6r2 (Reuters via Yahoo)

National Geographic has a piece on the 'Sistine Chapel' of
the Maya:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0312/resources_cre.html

The Machu Picchu 'suburb' of Llactapata (oooh ... I spelled it
correctly first time!) gets the John Noble Wilford treatment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/18/science/18INCA.html

A piece on the 'Black Seminoles' might be of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/18/opinion/18TUE4.html

Here's a followup on that looted-rock-shelter-in-Wyoming
story that we've mentioned in the past:

http://tinyurl.com/w6rq (Caspar Star-Tribune)

The Lewis and Clark notes suggest animals weren't necessarily
as plentiful out west as some would have us believe:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/11/031120073620.htm

An amateur archaeologist may have found evidence for the
existence of a rumoured 'colonial mint' in Annapolis:

http://tinyurl.com/w6y3 (Washington Post)

The excavation of the Hunley is complete:

http://tinyurl.com/w6xq (Florida Times-Union)
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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The IAAF has approved holding the shot put competition on the
archaeological site of Olympia (only the IOC can stop it now):

http://tinyurl.com/w6va
http://tinyurl.com/w6ve
http://tinyurl.com/w6vh

cf: http://tinyurl.com/w6xo (Guardian ... various things having
to do with the Olympics and Elgin/Parthenon marbles)

cf: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=36605
(on a court decision that the Culture Ministry's decision to
approve a preliminary study on the building of the Acropolis
Museum was illegal; scroll down to see how the same ministry
is drafting laws to get around other legal barriers associated
with the Olympics)

cf: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=36583
(on plans to hold 'ancient' competitions at Olympia prior to
the Games as well)

cf: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=36450
(on a law passed to outlaw saying anything rude about the Games)

Dr. Dorothy King is apparently going to be giving archaeological
television in the UK a 'facelift':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1087209,00.html

A piece on the first photograph:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/996605.asp

In case you missed it ... Friday was the anniversary of the
revelation that Piltdown Man was a fraud (why didn't we
get the day off? We really need a long weekend in November
up here in the Great White North):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3264143.stm

The history of Pitcairn Island is at the centre of a legal
case on the applicability of English law:

http://tinyurl.com/w6mq (Telegraph)

The Herald has a piece on the potential health effects of
garlic which also includes some history of its use:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/4848.html

A 'new' van Gogh has been found (scroll down a bit):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/20/arts/20ARTS.html

Shakespeare is going to get the 'computer stylistics'
treatment to see how much of his own work he really did
write:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/afp/20031110/shakespeare.html

When physicists start cleaning up their labs what do they find?
(weapons of math instruction, of course):

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=2176

A few weeks ago we mentioned that television 'documentary'
based on the da Vinci Code ... here's some reaction to it and
the novel on which it was based:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/magazine/23WWLN.html

Somewhat disproportionate (?) coverage of a statistical study
which suggests dodos might have not been extinct until ca. 1690,
some 30 years later than previously thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/3281323.stm
http://www.msnbc.com/news/995703.asp

Billy the Kid now has a lawyer:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/995357.asp?0cv=CB20&;cp1=1
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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The Digger 31 (November 2003):

http://tinyurl.com/w6qc

Bible Review (December 2003):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/indexBR.html
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ON THE WEB
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An interesting page on 'fractional currency shields':

http://www.fractionalnotes.com/fractionalshields.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Popol Vuh (translated from a translation):

http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/pvgm/
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CRIME BEAT
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A 14th-century Jewish manuscript which had been looted by the
Nazis was returned this week, after an auction catalog was
rather obvious about the manuscript's provenience:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/19/nyregion/19JEWS.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap11-17-171137.asp
http://tinyurl.com/w6qm (New York Daily News)

I've been trying to figure out the point of this one for a week.
We've mentioned that exhibition of finds by metal detectorists
at the British Museum ... now the curator of that exhibition is
commenting on how much heritage is being lost on the black
market:

http://tinyurl.com/w6qo (Reuters via Yahoo)

Hooray! They've begun to guard some of the archaeological sites
in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/w6zq
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Greg Woolf (ed.), *Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman
World*:

http://tinyurl.com/w6rw (Telegraph)

Donald Kagan, *The Peloponnesian War*:

http://tinyurl.com/w6rz (Telegraph)

Jules Witcover, *Party of the People: A History of the Democrats*

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/19/books/19BROO.html

Robert Massie, *Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the
Great War at Sea* (I know it isn't quite within our time period,
but you have to read the reviewer's name):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/books/review/23BOOTLT.html

Robert Hughes, *Goya*

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/books/review/23UGLOWT.html
(includes an audio interview)

Adam Bellow, *In Praise of Nepotism: A Natural History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/books/review/23WALKERT.html

Nathaniel Philbrick, *Sea of Glory*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/17/books/17MASL.html
http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=2203

Robert Harris, *Pompeii* (fiction)

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1118/p15s02-bogn.html
http://tinyurl.com/w6sc (New York Daily News)

Some reactions (not quite reviews) of Keegan's claims about the
minor importance of intelligence in battle in his latest tome:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/22/arts/22INTE.html
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PERFORMANCES
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The Beard of Avon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/19/arts/theater/19BEAR.html

Henry IV:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/21/arts/theater/21HENR.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Theater-Henry-IV.html
http://tinyurl.com/w6ov

Merchant of Venice:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/21/arts/theater/21MERC.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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For fans of the 'hollow earth theory':

http://english.pravda.ru/science/19/94/377/11313_InnerEarth.html

Yet another location for Atlantis:

http://www.in-sourced.com/article/articleview/900/1/13/
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EXHIBITIONS
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Tanagras at the Louvre:

http://tinyurl.com/w6v5 (AthensNews)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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ClassCon in a piece by Umberto Eco on the future of books:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/665/bo3.htm

The Chronicle has an interesting piece about a couple of
Casaubons:

http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i12/12b01001.htm

Really a repeat, but Kathimerini appears to clarify some issues
some folks may have had about the restaging of Aeschylus'
Achilleis:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=36573

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/w6s3

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
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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Ancient GM Corn:

http://www.biomedcentral.com/news/20031114/03

Exhuming Petrarch:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031117/petrarch.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=465418
http://tinyurl.com/w6r5 (Reuters via Yahoo)

JNW Atlantis:

http://www.iht.com/articles/118284.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/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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