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explorator 6.37                                  january 11, 2004
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Murdoch, Bill Thayer, Dave Sowdon, Francis Deblauwe, Hernan
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C. Griffiths, Rick A. Riedlinger, Robert Greaves, Susan Jaslow,
Tony Jackson, Jennifer Wees, MikeRuggeri, 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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A 7000 b.p. settlement has been found on an island off the coast
of the UAE:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=19162004
http://www.breakingnews.ie/2004/01/06/story128326.html
http://tinyurl.com/26cyj (Khaleej Times)

Some buried megaliths belonging to the Avebury Circle have been
located:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_843553.html

The latest about restoration possibilities in Bam:

http://www.iht.com/articles/123741.htm

More finds from Saqqarah:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/672/he2.htm

They're finally reporting on what's been found in Athens during
all the Olympic construction:

http://tinyurl.com/33q9v (AP via Taipei Times)

A Roman anchor has been found in the Dead Sea:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=55923

Another Roman boat has been found intact ... this time in
Naples:

http://www3.cjad.com/content/cjad_news/article.asp?id=w010833A
http://tinyurl.com/yu4cp (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/2cku8 (London Free Press)
http://tinyurl.com/2ezsa (La Repubblica ... photo)
more photos at http://tinyurl.com/ytbyu

Of course there's plenty of coverage of the excavation of what
what *thought* to be a Viking site in Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/7626.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_853406.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/3379503.stm
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/01/08/1073437412216.html

Chinese archaeologists have found a couple of 3000 b.p.
oracle bones:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1019888.htm

A Western Han dynasty 'basement' has been found in China's
Shaanxi province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-01/10/content_1269117.htm

A rather well-developed 4500 b.p. city is being excavated in
norther China:

http://www.hinduonnet.com/thehindu/holnus/00311171509.htm

Home renovations in Suffolk turned up an interesting/macabre
find:

http://tinyurl.com/2l69a (East Anglian Daily Times)
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THE AMERICAS
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Again, this really is a 'Siberian' story, but it is connected to
the peopling of the Americas ... this week it gets the John
Noble Wilford treatment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/science/06SIBE.html

cf.: http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/science/06MUMM.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/124077.htm
http://www.iht.com/articles/124078.htm

Technically a repeat (I think), but this is a good feature on
what those knotted Inca strings signified:

http://tinyurl.com/3y2yy (Science Daily)

A pre-Mayan inscription from Mexico is shedding light (maybe)
on earlier writing systems:

http://www.newswise.com/p/articles/view/502721/

Some interesting items have been found in a well at Jamestown:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3882224/
http://tinyurl.com/2ffv9 (AP via Yahoo)

The remains of a teenaged slave who died during the American
Revolution may have been found at Yorktown:

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/nation/7682195.htm

cf: http://tinyurl.com/3e9b3 (Daily Press)

They're trying to figure out how to manage archaeological
resources in Canyon of Ancients National Monument:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3906404/

Here's some coverage of a dig at at Ute site in ... Utah:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3879269/
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The New York Times has a nice feature on Nasry Iskander, the
erstwhile head of research and conservation in Egyptian Museum's
Department of Antiquities:

http://tinyurl.com/2xlwh

Wanna buy a cave full of Magdalenian petroglyphs?

http://tinyurl.com/2s86s (Irish Independent)

A piece on the political side of archaeology, this time in
relation to Macedonia/FYROM:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3372117.stm

One of the spinoff effects of the looting of the Baghdad Museum
seems to be a boost in popularity of exhibitions featuring
Mesopotamian art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/06/arts/design/06ORIE.html

An interesting piece on the Savile collection of Roman coins
being cataloged etc.:

http://tinyurl.com/2h6c3 (Evening Post)

The opening of a museum devoted to the history of opium might
be of interest:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=23222004

Interesting piece on assorted aspects of conservation of
artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/05/arts/design/05HOLO.html

A replica of an eighth-century Indonesian vessel is retracing
the path of an ancient trade route:

http://iafrica.com/news/sa/294504.htm

The Museum of London is being urged to rebury its thousands of
skeletal remains:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1116961,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3371371.stm
http://tinyurl.com/yrs5b (Reuters)

The "Women in Hell" fresco from Coventry has been restored and
will soon be on display:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/3370279.stm

On the DNA front, apparently Explorator will continue for quite
a while:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/arts/design/09COTT.html

A pile of Faberge eggs are hitting the auction block:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/arts/design/09EGGS.html

An interesting feature on a collector of Imperial Chinese
clothing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/07/arts/design/07ROBE.html

Harvard is the latest recipient of a request to return
antiquities (of a sort):

http://tinyurl.com/387wm (NYT)
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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G.C. Rothery, *The Amazons*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/wmn/ama/index.htm

F.M. Bennett, *Religious Cults Associated with the Amazons*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/wmn/rca/index.htm

Lysistrata (trans. J. Lindsay ... it rhymes):

http://tinyurl.com/2xz7d (UPenn)
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CRIME BEAT
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Items from the looting of Jiroft are hitting various markets:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11491

Looting the Afghan 'Pompeii':

http://washingtontimes.com/world/20040105-120034-9103r.htm

Some interesting ideas in this Reason piece on how to deal with
the problem of looting of sites:

http://reason.com/0401/cr.jl.found.shtml
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Assorted recent tomes on Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/books/review/11KERMODT.html

A pair of books on the Beecher sisters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/books/review/11CHERNOT.html

Nicholas Thomas, *The Extraordinary Voyages of Captain James
Cook*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/books/review/11DORE2T.html

Thomas Cahill, *Sailing the Wine Dark Sea*:

http://www.dfw.com/mld/dfw/living/7631178.htm

D. Kagan, *The Peloponnesian War* [extensive review]:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/atlarge/?040112crat_atlarge

Michael Wood, *Road to Delphi*

http://tinyurl.com/2ef36 (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/ytmb9 (Telegraph)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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EXHIBITIONS
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Treasures of a Lost Art: Italian Manuscript Painting of the
Middle Ages and the Renaissance:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/09/arts/design/09COTT.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The latest in the Elgin Marbles saga:

http://tinyurl.com/2sn8b (Telegraph)
cf: http://tinyurl.com/3g3hy (Evening Standard)

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!):
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
[best accessed via rogueclassicism on Sundays]

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Graham Rowley (archaeologist/explorer)

http://tinyurl.com/257ec (Telegraph)

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REPEATS
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Citadel in Hanoi

http://tinyurl.com/37zdv

Leper Remains from Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/322t4
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/3849407/

Paleolithic Figurines from Germany:

http://tinyurl.com/2jxzy (FAZ)

Saqqarah Tombs:

http://tinyurl.com/3gmal

Snails and Pottery:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040105/pottery.html

That Biblical Archaeology Thing Originally from the WP:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/living/7674116.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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