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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Lembudu Woman is getting coverage in the Australian press:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/09/1070732221505.html

Scientific American has a feature on that German 'Stonehenge':

http://tinyurl.com/yi1c

The University of Chicago Chronicle has an extensive piece on
archaeological stuff from Abydos:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/031211/abydos.shtml

Al-Ahram has an interesting piece on a glazed vase found
at the Dakleh Oasis:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/668/he2.htm

The Washington Post has a feature on 'Biblical' Archaeology:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61291-2003Dec12.html

One I missed ... Kathimerini has coverage of an excavation
which appears to have found remains of Mardonius' wrecked
fleet:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=36340

One of the ongoing stories over the years which Explorator has
followed has been the discovery, sale, and application of
technology to determine what's on the Archimedes Palimpsest. Well,
they're finally telling and there's plenty of coverage of what
Archimedes' Stomachion was all about:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/science/14MATH.html
http://tinyurl.com/z6ij (same via Seattle Times)

The Telegraph has coverage of a project to recreate the machinery
beneath the Colosseum:

http://tinyurl.com/z6ip

Last week we mentioned the discovery of that chariot burial in
West Yorkshire ... well, technically this is a repeat, but the
coverage is rather better (and includes a pile of photos):

http://www.oxfordarch.co.uk/pages/chariot_burial.htm
cf: http://tinyurl.com/z6rq
cf: http://tinyurl.com/z6sg (BBC)

A couple from Kent has found a major Iron Age coin hoard:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/3315899.stm
http://www.news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2292287

A tenth-Century Viking sword is off to the BM for study:

http://tinyurl.com/z6kj

A pile of 17th century Javanese coins were discovered recently
in the mud of the Thames:

http://abc.net.au/science/news/scitech/SciTechRepublish_1008283.htm

Chinese archaeologists have found a clue (they think) to the
invention of gunpowder:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-12/10/content_1224110.htm

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THE AMERICAS
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That Maya mural is featured in the December 2003 National
Geographic:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/12142003/news/65516.htm

The New York Tims has a nice feature on the search for the
'Tomb of the Martyrs' in New York City:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/13/nyregion/13VINE.html

The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing (with a nice
slide show) on pre-Incan sites in Peru:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/travel/14peru.html

... and a touristy sort of thing (also with a nice slide show)
on Easter Island:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/travel/14easter.html

The latest on retracing the Lewis and Clark exhibition:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3671543/

An interesting piece on the stylistic qualities (or lack thereof)
of early American frames:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/12/arts/design/12ANTI.html
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Ochre-stained rocks are suggesting that symbolic thought may have
emerged earlier than previously concretely thought:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3310233.stm

Fair bit of coverage of this one ... human beings have
apparently been affecting climate since the dawn of civilization
and have even prevented the onset of an ice age:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/10/science/10WARM.html

And speaking of ice ages, the 'Little Ice Age' may have made
for more melodious violins:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3660456/

IHT has a feature on Duccio di Buoninsegna and his role in Siena's
'golden age':

http://www.iht.com/articles/120425.html

A genuine followup: they have refused permission to exhume
Harold to see if he's really in his own tomb:

http://tinyurl.com/z6eh (BBC)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1104315,00.html

A sort of 'bring you up to speed' piece on the Aksum obelisk:

http://tinyurl.com/z6h0 (NYT)

Monty Montezuma will be returning to San Diego State football
games:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1205/p03s01-ussc.html

As might be suspected, access to religious sites is at the
centre of relations between Israel and the Vatican:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/369384.html

They've opened a centre for Biomedical Egyptology:

http://tinyurl.com/z6l3 (Manchester Online)

A loophole in Britain's law against stockpiling organs may
give Egypt an 'in' for reclaiming mummies:

http://tinyurl.com/yrlj

Italian engineers are helping to preserve the niches in which
the Bamiyan Buddhas once resided:

http://tinyurl.com/z6m5 (IOL)

Crete's replica of a Minoan ship set sail this week:

http://tinyurl.com/z6ph

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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology Odyssey (Jan/Feb 2004):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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ON THE WEB
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The history of eating utensils is documented/presented at the
Rietz Food Technology Collection (some rather 'loose'
nomenclature for ancient items in this database):

http://tinyurl.com/41m4
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Signs of Life: Archaeology and Preservation in New Mexico:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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Quite scandalous that this hasn't received much, much more media
attention ... looting of sites in Afghanistan and subsequent
illicit trade in them bring in some $32 billion US a year:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/afghanistan/story/0,1284,1106359,00.html
http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2003/12/14/2003079530

More than 10,000 items of historical interest from the 'old West'
which had been purloined by "relic hunters" (no, not Tea!) have
been recovered:

http://tinyurl.com/z6fv (AP via Yahoo)

A number of thefts from the Royal Copenhagen Library thirty
years ago have been solved:

http://tinyurl.com/z6b5 (NYT ... scroll down)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Mary Lefkowitz, *Greek Gods, Human Lives: the Advantages of
Polytheism* (first chapter available):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/books/review/14TAPLINT.html

Assorted recent books on Jefferson and his slaves:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/books/review/14WOODLT.html

Louis Crompton, *Homosexuality and Civilization*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/13/books/13SHEL.html

Melvin Konner, *Unsettled: an Anthropology of the Jews*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/14/books/review/14ROSENT.html

Kleanthis Paleologos, *Olympia and the Olympic Games of
Antiquity*:

http://tinyurl.com/z6k7 (Kathimerini)

Edward Champlin, *Nero*:

http://tinyurl.com/y3oo (Washington Post)
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PERFORMANCES
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Henry IV:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/10/arts/10HENR.html

Hippolytus:

http://tinyurl.com/z6pe
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EXHIBITIONS
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Goryeo Dynasty: Korea's Age of Enlightenment:

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

Christopher Wilhelm Eckersberg:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/12/12/arts/design/12KIMM.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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[visit rogueclassicism for daily updates from the world of
classics ... at least 10 posts a day ...]

Classics teacher Randall Nichols had some nice things to say
about his UCSC professorial forebears ... even if there is a
glaring typo in the report:

http://currents.ucsc.edu/03-04/12-15/nichols.html

Al-Ahram has a nice piece on the Mouseion:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/668/he1.htm

The latest on the shot put at Olympia:

http://tinyurl.com/z6s7 (Kathimerini)

Peter Jones (all about Epicurus):

http://tinyurl.com/z6k3

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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Judah 'Ben' Segal (Professor of Semitic Languages SOAS):

http://tinyurl.com/z6f9 (Guardian)
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REPEATS
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Ancient 'Venetian' Pisa:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/12/12/1071125654021.html

Fragment of Luke:

http://tinyurl.com/z6kv

Piltdown Man:

http://tinyurl.com/z6ic (Toronto Star)

Preserving Terracotta Army Colours:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/031124/031124-7.html

Viking Queen DNA:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3672031/

West Nile and Alexander the Great:

http://www.cdc.gov/ncidod/eid/vol9no12/03-0288.htm
http://www.nature.com/nsu/031124/031124-11.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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