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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Plenty of coverage (and reaction on various scholarly lists)
on a study in Nature suggesting an Anatolian homeland for
Indo-European:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/031124/031124-6.html
http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/reuters11-26-113130.asp
http://tinyurl.com/x2ni (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/x2pz (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/30/1070127275013.html

Semi-related is a BBC Science program segment on reconstructing
the languages of the Neolithic (click on the 'Listen Now'
button; it's the second half of the show):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/science/thematerialworld.shtml

The Guardian interviewed Zahi Hawass this week ... interesting:

http://tinyurl.com/wu07

... and Hawass wrote his column in Al Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/666/hr2.htm

A Copper/Bronze Age sun disk from Wales has been declared a
treasure:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_841449.html
http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/000450.html

In the wake of assorted scholarly meetings, we are being told it
is too early to write off the James Ossuary as a fake:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/997496.asp
http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2003-11-25-ossuary-usat_x.htm
http://tinyurl.com/wi2m (CNN)

Due to a lack of funds, a number of "spectacular" Roman mosaics
recently discovered near the Porta Portese are going to be
covered over for the construction of a car park:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1093290,00.html
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/11/26/1069825847045.html
http://tinyurl.com/x2ka (Telegraph)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/997921.asp
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/26/1069825835334.html

Roman pottery sherds found in the Indian port of Kerala are
leading to all sorts of conclusions:

http://www.keralanext.com/news/index.asp?id=19834

A 500 b.p. monastery has (finally) been found in the heart of
Glasgow:

http://ww1.eveningtimes.co.uk/hi/news/5021327.html

4000 years b.p. traces of Vietnamese civilization have been
found near Hanoi (you might have to scroll down a bit):

http://tinyurl.com/x2z4

China may have been making wine some 5000 years b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/x2za

Some 'pills of immortality' found in Zhao Mei's tomb appear to
have contributed to his demise:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-11/25/content_1197170.htm

Chinese archaeologists have pinpointed the exact location of the
tomb of China's first emperor:

http://tinyurl.com/x303 (People's Daily)

A Northern Wei Dynasty palace has been excavated in China's
Shanxi province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-11/27/content_1200900.htm
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THE AMERICAS
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In the 'spirit of the season', as it were, the New York Times
has a feature on the "unpilgrims" and New Amsterdam:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/opinion/27SHOR.html

... and one on Colonial made-in-America furniture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/arts/design/28ANTI.html

The discovery of an adobe house during construction in Santa
Cruz is causing problems:

http://tinyurl.com/x2sq (SC Sentinel)

An update of sorts on the salvaging/excavation of the Republic:

http://tinyurl.com/x2yd (AJC)
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On the DNA front, folks want to exhume the purported remains of
King Harold in an attempt to confirm the veracity of the
dismemberment scene in the Bayeux Tapestry;

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1092581,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_841394.html
http://tinyurl.com/x2kg (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/x2pg (BBC)

Mark Rose of Archaeology Magazine fame has a nice editorial on
the hype surrounding the recent Llactapata discovery in Peru:

http://tinyurl.com/w5hx

Time for the annual 'the Vinland Map is genuine' flood' ... this
time based on the ink:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-11/acs-fv112403.php
http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2003/11/25/vinland_map031125
http://www.cjonline.com/stories/112903/pag_ancient.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/wj8n (Scientific American)
http://tinyurl.com/x2pt (AP via Yahoo)

Scientists may have figured out a way to preserve the colors of
Qin's terracotta warriors:

http://www.sciencenews.org/20031129/fob3.asp
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994430

An attempt to commemorate the British soldiers from Wellington's
forces who fell at Badajoz is (understandably) causing a bit of
a row:

http://tinyurl.com/x2jv (Telegraph)

Semi-related is the call for Edinburgh University to return
a number of Ethiopian manuscripts which were looted by British
soldiers in the 19th Century:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/5384.html

The British Museum will soon reopen a refurbished King's Library:

http://tinyurl.com/x2oo (Telegraph)

A Rembrandt was discovered in a UK thrift shop:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/26/arts/26ARTS.html

... while a £1 million prayer book has been found in a
Hertfordshire school:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/3245394.stm

One of Captain Cook's guns is coming to auction:

http://tinyurl.com/x2nb (BBC)

An audio interview with someone from the New Yorker all about
the wonders of Shakespeare (Windows Media):

http://www.newyorker.com/online/content/?031201on_onlineonly02

The BBC has a feature on women inventors throughout history:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3237832.stm

The Christian Science Monitor has a feature on coins in ancient
times:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1125/p14s02-hfks.html

The other side of the repatriation of human remains debate:

http://www.spiked-online.com/Articles/00000006DFDE.htm
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Richard Gordon, "Stopping Attila: The Battle of Chalons":

http://www.historynet.com/mh/blattila/

Erik Hildinger, "Belisarius' Bid for Rome":

http://www.historynet.com/mh/blbelisarius/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Ishtar and Izdubar (The Epic of Gilgamesh):

http://www.sacred-texts.com/ane/iai/
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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The Archaeology Channel has a new video up looking at the
shipwreck discovered near Playa Damas (Panama):

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Switzerland has returned a number of purloined Egyptian
antiquities (I think I mentioned this one before):

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s999974.htm
http://tinyurl.com/x2pu (AP via Yahoo)

A stolen Iranian tombstone was returned this week too:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/3242726.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_841880.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Charles Murray, *Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence
in the Arts and Sciences, 800 B.C. to 1950*

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/books/review/30SHULET.html
(first chapter available)

N. Philbrick, *America's Voyage of Discovery, the U.S. Exploring
Expedition, 1838-1842*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/books/review/30HARRIST.html
(first chapter available)

Gore Vidal, *Inventing a Nation*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/27/books/27EDER.html

John Keegan, *Intelligence in War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/28/books/28BOOK.html
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PERFORMANCES
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The movie *Timeline* (the latest to feature an archaeologist as
one of the main characters) is getting bad reviews all over:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2003/11/26/movies/26TIME.html
http://tinyurl.com/x2su
http://www.heraldnet.com/ae/story.cfm?file=03112617802506.cfm
cf. http://tinyurl.com/x2ph (About.com Archaeology)

Henry IV

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/theatre/?031201crth_theatre
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EXHIBITIONS
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Buried Treasure (British Museum):

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/5390.html

Illuminating the Renaissance: The Triumph of Flemish Manuscript
Painting in Europe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1094889,00.html

Da Pomepei A Roma:

http://www.europalia.be/europalia.asp?id=8&;event=9

From Ishtar to Aphrodite: 3200 Years of Cypriot Hellenism

http://tinyurl.com/x2kj (Archaeology Magazine)

Gothic: Art for England 1400-1547:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/26/arts/design/26GOTH.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The latest ancient-world-flick will use the 'Lost Ninth Legion'
as its subject matter:

http://tinyurl.com/x2o7 (SOS)

Of course, the 'disease du jour' (i.e. West Nile Virus) is
what killed Alexander the Great:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/031124/031124-11.html

Did Jason really exist?

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/25/1069522599012.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/x2qb

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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OBITUARIES
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Claire LeCorbellier (Met Curatrix):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/24/arts/24CORB.html
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REPEATS
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Simon the Just Inscription

http://tinyurl.com/x2pc (Globe and Mail)
http://www-user.uni-bremen.de/~wie/Simeon/

Tibetan Towers:

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

Venice-like Pisa

http://tinyurl.com/x2nn (La Tercera ... Spanish)
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/11/24/1069522535166.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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