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Maurice O'Sullivan, Sally Winchester, Steve Rankin, 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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Plenty of coverage of this one ... an apparently-modified chunk
of stone is being claimed as Neanderthal art:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3256228.stm
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20031202-090433-5041r.htm

Some 'lost' Avebury stones have been discovered:

http://tinyurl.com/y3g6 (BBC)
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_843553.html
http://tinyurl.com/y3p6 (Independent)
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2250134

... and one of the fallen stones may be raised:

http://tinyurl.com/y3mx

Plenty of coverage of this one too... highway construction in
Northern England has revealed an Iron Age burial, complete with
a chariot:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1098606,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/y3g5 (BBC)
http://tinyurl.com/y3go (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/y3l3 (Boston Globe)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/1000897.asp
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/04/1070351731407.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/12/04/1070351720278.html

From a similar period, but from France, comes news of the discovery
of a sculpture dubbed the "Warrior of Lattes":

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3257146.stm

Egypt Today has a feature on the progress being made mapping all
of Egypt's sites:

http://www.egypttoday.com/issues/0312/85AE/031285AE.asp

Tut is going on tour again:

http://www.egypttoday.com/issues/0312/982C/0312982C.asp

The Edfu Temple will be opening to the public soon:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o011223m.htm

The excavation at Helike received the John Noble Wilford
treatment this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/science/02BRON.html

An SMU team is excavating the Etruscan site of Poggio Colla:

http://tinyurl.com/y3iz (Dallas Morning News)

Some 'lost' verses by Menander have possibly been found in a
manuscript in the Vatican Library:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/1001721.asp
http://tinyurl.com/y3lc (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/y3nk (Reuters)

Carving technology in China dates back to Neolithic times:

http://tinyurl.com/y3kg (China Daily)

South Korean archaeologists have excavated six 1600 b.p. tombs
found 150 km south of Seoul:

http://tinyurl.com/y3km (Yonhap)

Erosion is destroying China's Great Wall:

http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30200-12939246,00.html

A pile (500!) of skeletons from near a resort in Ireland is
being excavated and studied:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=469647

Renovations on the Orangerie Museum (aimed at housing some of
Monet's works) have come to a halt as a 16th Century wall was
unearthed:

http://tinyurl.com/y3kt (Expatica)
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THE AMERICAS
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Charcoal has helped date a Hohokam site in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/y3k2 (Yahoo)

The latest on the Republic salvage operation:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/national/30SHIP.html
http://www.philly.com/mld/inquirer/news/nation/7430637.htm

Too many tourists are visiting Machu Picchu:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/998460.asp

The latest on that looted site in Wyoming:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/000451.html

The North Carolina Archaeological Collection is going to be on
display at UNC (the whole thing?):

http://tinyurl.com/y3kz (Daily Tar Heel)

The 'lost' sacred language of the Maya has been found (sort of):

http://tinyurl.com/y3mu (Independent)
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On the DNA front, the latest exhumation-to-find-stuff-out will
apparently be a Viking Queen, whose death is a mystery (as is
her name):

http://tinyurl.com/y3ql (Reuters)

Ever wonder how they protect ancient sculptures from earthquakes?

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=36956

Oetzi has been given a new refrigerated home:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_843534.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031201/iceman.html

Siena's medieval hospital is being turned into a museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/02/arts/design/02SIEN.html

A relic of Juan Diego is on view at New York's St. Patrick's
Cathedral:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/06/nyregion/06RELI.html

The New York Times has a piece by Charles Murray, author of
*Human Accomplishment: The Pursuit of Excellence in the Arts
and Sciences 800 B.C. - 1950* on similar subjects:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/30/weekinreview/30MURR.html

The U.S. and France are fighting to become the first to exhibit
the Bactrian gold from Afghanistan:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11434

In response to a recent (ghastly) legal case, the BBC has a
piece on the history of cannibalism:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3254074.stm

The latest on the Aksum obelisk:

http://tinyurl.com/y3hq (LATimes)

An interesting piece on the clash between religion, development,
and archaeology in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/366828.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Antiquity 77/298 (December 2003) is out ... the website has TOCs
but there are some reviews and the Project Gallery pieces are
available:

http://antiquity.ac.uk/CurrentIssue/currentindex.html
http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/298.html

Atlantic Monthly has a 'flashback' of pieces written by Nathaniel
Hawthorne:

http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/hawthorne.htm
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ON THE WEB
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An interesting website devoted to the evidence that the Vinland
map is or isn't a fake. The site presents you with some
scholarly papers and other items and lets you decide for
yourself; a rather interesing diversion (I like the way this
is set up ...):

http://webexhibits.org/vinland/index.html?
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Pierre Louys, *The Songs of Bilitis*

http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/sob/index.htm

Voltaire, *Socrates*:

http://ibiblio.org/gutenberg/etext03/socra10.txt
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Last week we mentioned the Archaeology Channel had a new video
up looking at the shipwreck discovered near Playa Damas; it
should have been mentioned that the ship is possibly La Vizcaina,
abandoned by Columbus, or some other ship from the earliest
explorations of the Americas:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Looting of sites is a major challenge in Guatemala:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/999869.asp

An AP story is making the rounds, all about global efforts to
stop the sale of illicit antiquities:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/1001477.asp
http://tinyurl.com/y3fu (Yahoo)

Is the Getty guilty of conspiring to acquire stolen antiquities?

http://www.iht.com/articles/119997.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Ann Wroe, *The Perfect Prince:The Mystery of Perkin Warbeck and
His Quest for the Throne of England.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/books/review/07KILROYT.html

L. Bergreen, *Over the Edge of the World: Magellan's Terrifying
Circumnavigation of the Globe.*
 
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/07/books/review/07BOLSTET.html

Ian Moulton, *The Book of the Prick* (potentially offensive)

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?031208crbo_books1

William Dever, *What Did the Biblical Writers Know and When Did
They Know It?: What Archaeology Can Tell Us About the Reality
of Ancient Israel* (pdf):

http://www.bookreviews.org/pdf/1619_3593.pdf

Edward Champlin, Nero:

http://tinyurl.com/y3oo (Washington Post)

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PERFORMANCES
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Lysistrata:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/03/arts/theater/03LYSI.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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El Greco:

http://www.iht.com/articles/120439.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Yet another mini-series set in ancient Rome is in the works:

http://www.digitalspy.co.uk/article/ds12614.html
cf: http://tinyurl.com/y3in (Forbes)

The New York Times has a piece on Orff's politics and works that
aren't Carmina Burana:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/05/arts/music/05REVE.html

A bit of a shakeup at Yale:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=24336

Apparently Roman Marching Camps are applicable to rugby tours:

http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=553&;fArticleId=297448

The encyclopedic *History of the Greek Language: From the
Beginnings to Late Antiquity* is being translated (with additions)
into English:

http://tinyurl.com/y3l9

What do you do when the highest court in the land declares the
construction of the Acropolis Museum illegal? Why, change the
law of course:

http://tinyurl.com/y3le (Kathimerini)

The IOC has approved the shot put at Olympia

http://tinyurl.com/y3pn (Kathimerini)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/y3o1

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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W.W. Cruickshank (Schoolmaster)

http://news.independent.co.uk/people/obituaries/story.jsp?story=469910
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REPEATS
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Switzerland Returns Illiciit Egyptian Antiquities:

http://www.brunei-online.com/bb/tue/dec2w26.htm
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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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