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Jackson, Mike 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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This week, we are told that Neanderthals aren't human (or maybe
just not our ancestors; I'm not sure those terms are
synonymous as they're being used in some of these):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/science/27NEAN.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4063766/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3431609.stm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040127082625.htm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_859898.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2457633
http://tinyurl.com/2ygmr (AP via Yahoo)

An apparently-large Neolithic site has been found in the Sahara
desert:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/27/science/27ARCH.html

Pollen is being used to trace the origins of ancient shipwrecks:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040119/040119-16.html

Assorted Ptolemaic sites/artifacts/bowling alleys have been
found in the Fayyoum:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o290124w.htm

Yemen is trying to associate sites with the Queen of Sheba
for tourism purposes:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L21403652.htm

... meanwhile, tourists are apparently contributing to the
destruction of the Great Wall of China:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,1132044,00.html

The Newport ship, which was found a couple of years ago, may
have belonged to the Earl of Warwick:

http://tinyurl.com/yrj6f (Telegraph)

A semi-recent 'witch bottle' was recently discovered in the
foundations of Lincolnshire:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/lincolnshire/3437241.stm
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THE AMERICAS
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An "ancient Teotihuacan settlement" has been found in Mexico
City:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4098809/
http://tinyurl.com/3gol4 (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/22sr9

The Teo Mask is causing controversy over whether "Isthmian
writing" has been deciphered:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,590038688,00.html

Humanities Magazine has a nice feature on Cancuen:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-01/rainforest.html

Meanwhile, for reasons unknown, the 'someone's figured out Incan
knots are a counting system' story is being revived:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040126/yupanacount.html

Tourists etc. continue to be a threat to the Nazca lines:

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02012004/nation_w/134603.asp

Inuit hunting practices apparently affected freshwater
ecosystems before the arrival of Europeans to North America:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/01/040127082625.htm
http://tinyurl.com/3exc7 (Boston Globe)

An archaeologist's view of what it was like to excavate that
"Negro Burial Ground" in Portsmouth:

http://www.seacoastonline.com/news/01302004/news/73229.htm
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Disgraced Japanese archaeologist Shinichi Fujimura blames his
actions on mental illness:

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040126-031435-1744r.htm

Al-Ahram has a nice little feature on Fayoum mummy portraits:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/675/he2.htm

The Daily Star has an excellent interview with Zahi Hawass:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/30_01_04_c.asp

... and Al-Ahram has his latest column:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/675/he3.htm

Folks are protesting plans to erect a wind farm near the site
of the Battle of Agincourt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/3439083.stm

Possibly 'don't eat that elmer' material, Gavin Menzies has
had to postpone plans to search for a Chinese ship which
apparently is buried in a walnut orchard:

http://tinyurl.com/3bbud (Sacramento Bee)

So ... suppose future archaeologists had to reconstruct our
culture from spam messages:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/01/27/spam.art.ap/index.html

For those of you following the Gibson 'Passion' kerfuffle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/movies/30FAIT.html

... and the James Ossuary kerfuffle (somehow, I don't think this
latest development will be noticed):

http://tinyurl.com/ywq9x (Casper Star Tribune)

cf: http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Flesher_review.htm

So ... who invented tartan?:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_859860.html

Someone has figured out the Voynich Manuscript is gibberish:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1130832,00.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Archaeology 57.1 (January/February 2004):

http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index

Biblical Archaeology Review (January/February 2004):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html

Bible Review (February 2004):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/indexBR.html
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ON THE WEB
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Follow the Johns Hopkins University dig in Luxor at their
online dig diary:

http://www.jhu.edu/neareast/egypttoday.html

Daniel Lazare, "False testament: archaeology refutes the Bible's
claim to history." (Harper's Magazine, March 2002):

http://tinyurl.com/2fdzk

Israeli destruction of archaeological sites? A response:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Clair_Smith_letter.htm

Yuval Goren, "The Jerusalem Syndrome in Archaeology: Jehoash
to James":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Goren_Jerusalem_Syndrome.htm
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Reason Magazine has a good piece on the competing viewpoints
of archaeologists v. collectors:

http://www.reason.com/0401/cr.jl.found.shtml

An antiquities dealer has been arrested for trying to smuggle
an Iranian griffin:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11540

I keep forgetting to put this one in ... the latest online version
of the AIAC News includes links to several articles on the
subject of illegal archaeology in light of the 'Berlin Resolution':

http://www.aiac.org/Aiac_News/index.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Raleigh Trevelyan, *Sir Walter Raleigh":

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/books/review/01SEAVERT.html

Nicholas Shrady, *A Skewed History of the Tower of Pisa* (scroll
down a bit):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/01/books/review/0201br-briefs.html

Robert K. Merton and Elinor Barber, *The Travels and Adverntures
of Serendipity: A Study in Sociological Semantics and the
Sociology of Science*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/31/arts/31SHEL.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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A Beautiful and Gracious Manner: The Art of Parmigianino
(includes a nice slideshow):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/arts/design/30KIMM.html

Old Kingdom Tombs of Perneb and Raemkai:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/30/arts/design/30COTT.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/28/nyregion/28tomb.html

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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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"Classic Philosophy for Today's Regular Guy":

http://www.wausaudailyherald.com/wdhlocal/299405271572638.shtml

An okay piece on the 'rediscovery' of those unpublished Michigan
Papyri:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/01/26/loc_loc2aroman.html

AthensNews has a feature on Miletus:

http://tinyurl.com/2b6d4

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2j9eo

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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Timothy Gantz (Classicist):

http://www.lordandstephens.com/obits/Ga20040123144929.html
http://tinyurl.com/2z4rh
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REPEATS
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Cetina River finds:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1032539.htm

Cold Neanderthals:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040126/neanderthal.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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