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Sunday, February 08, 2004

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Murdoch, Angie T., Dave Sowdon, Francis Deblauwe, John Hill,
John McMahon, Joel Coates, John McChesney-Young, Kate Brown,
Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin, Maurice O'Sullivan, Paul James
Cowie, Richard Griffiths, Sean, Tony Jackson, Sally Winchester,
Steve Rankin, Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, Trevor Watkins,
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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Petroglyphs from South Africa have been dated to 3000 b.p.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/3467195.stm
http://tinyurl.com/26k2m (Guardian)

This is really a repeat, but we haven't heard of it in quite a
while so ... the Amesbury Archer has be shown to have originally
hailed from more Alpine climes:

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of an Anglo Saxon tomb which
may have belonged to a nephew of Ethelbert:

http://tinyurl.com/3alg2 (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/22kee (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.southendmuseums.co.uk/history/saxonking/saxonking1.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/norfolk/3460971.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_depth/photo_gallery/3461885.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2pcpk (Independent)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1142003,00.html
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_862828.html

This might be a repeat as well ... archaeologists have found
evidence for a maritime spice route between Indian and Egypt:

A feature on the ongoing restoration of the tomb of Amenhotep III:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/676/he1.htm

The University of Chicago Chronicle has a nice feature on the
excavation of Tell Atchana (Turkey):

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040205/amuq.shtml

A stretch of Roman plumbing near Vindolanda was recently found
to be still functioning:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/tyne/wear/3464861.stm

Aftenposten has an item (in Norwegian) on the discovery of a Viking
woman's grave in Russia:

http://www.aftenposten.no/viten/article.jhtml?articleID=719915

Clumsy archaeologists in India have stumbled upon a residential
complex near a Buddhist site:

http://www.indianexpress.com/full_story.php?content_id=40284

The New York Times has a piece on the challenges involved in
preserving/saving Cambodia's archaeological heritage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/03/arts/03ANGK.html
cf.: http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11572

Ruins of a sunken medieval city have been found off the coast
of Japan (n.b. this is an important one to file away for the
semi-annual claims of Atlantis being found off the coast of
Japan):

http://www.asahi.com/english/nation/TKY200402040175.html
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THE AMERICAS
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The big news this week appears to be that a judge has ruled that
scientists can (finally) study Kennewick Man:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4164885/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/3460773.stm

This may be a repeat -- it's a sort of summary of finds
from the Yukon this past season:

http://www.adn.com/alaska/story/4704217p-4655089c.html

Some petroglyphs in the Panamanian jungle have been dated to
3000 B.C./B.C.E.:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cornwall/3451095.stm

Evidence of Chagas disease has been found in a major study of
assorted Andean-origin mummies:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4137949/
http://tinyurl.com/3dcow (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2kd6b (AP via Globe and Mail)
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/Politics/ap20040202_1553.html

Detection of "muons" may lead to discovery of tombs in
Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun:

http://physicstoday.org/vol-57/iss-2/p31.html

A number of 18th-century murals painted by Native Americans
have been discovered in San Francisco's Mission Dolores:

http://tinyurl.com/27kup (SF Chronicle)

An apparently-disturbed site is being excavated in
Alamogordo:

http://tinyurl.com/35w93 (Alamogordo News)

A preview of a documentary on Nat Turner has quite a bit of
info:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/07/arts/television/07TURN.html
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Israeli archaeologists are once again raising concerns about
excavations being conducted on Temple Mount:

http://tinyurl.com/2dzh2 (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/390291.html
http://tinyurl.com/2frog (Jerusalem Post)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/390407.html
http://tinyurl.com/22hyu (Israel Insider)
http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=36912

We haven't had one of these for a while ... another researcher
is connecting a comet to assorted medical/environmental crises
in the 6th century A.D./C.E.:

http://tinyurl.com/37f5m (Irish Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/36tc2 (Independent)
http://www.cardiff.ac.uk/news/03-04/040204.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/02/040204000254.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-02/cu-aua020304.php

China has mounted a campaign to recover all sorts of antiquities
taken from her in the 19th century:

http://tinyurl.com/yqvj7 (Globe and Mail)

The Sunday Observer has a feature on ancient Sri Lankan seals:

http://www.sundayobserver.lk/2004/02/08/fea20.html

The Christian Science Monitor has a nice little feature on the
lengths people have gone to add a little heat to their food:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0203/p18s02-hfks.html

Al-Ahram waxes on myths ancient and modern:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/676/he2.htm

For those of you following the Passion saga:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/04/movies/04PASS.html
http://tinyurl.com/3hg5b (CNN ... different from above)
http://www.cjnews.com/viewarticle.asp?id=2498

... and the James Ossuary saga:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswbbreakinggroundless.html
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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CSA Newsletter (Winter, 2004):

http://csanet.org/newsletter/index.html#winter04

Archaeology Odyssey (March/April 2004)

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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W. Flinders Petrie, *Egyptian Tales* I:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7386

W. Flinders Petrie, *Egyptian Tales* II:

http://onlinebooks.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=7413
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CRIME BEAT
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Someone tried to sell an ancient Hawaiian skull on eBay:

http://mauinews.com/news/story/025202004_new01ebay0205.asp
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Yaacov Shavit and Mordechai Eran, *The War of the Tablets: The
Defense of the Bible in the 19th Century and the Babel-Bible
Controversy*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/391386.html

William Dever, *Who Were the Early Israelites and Where Did They
Come From?*:

http://www.forward.com/issues/2004/04.02.06/arts3.html

James Redfield, *The Locrian Maidens: Love and Death in Greek
Italy*:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040205/locrian.shtml

Eugene Nida, *Fascinated by Languages*:

http://linguistlist.org/issues/15/15-495.html#1

George Steiner, *Lessons of the Masters: The Charles Eliot
Norton Lectures 2001-2002*:

http://tinyurl.com/2q7xh (Guardian)

Mary Beard, *The Parthenon*:

http://tinyurl.com/24as8 (Guardian)

Assorted works on Sappho:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/lrb/articles/0,6109,1137390,00.html

Paul Shipton, *The Pig Scrolls* (young adult fiction):

http://tinyurl.com/2powy (Japan Times)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Robert Sarmast -- the guy who believes Atlantis is near Cyprus --
is arranging an expedition to prove same:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=12811&;cat_id=1

[this wouldn't come up for me this a.m. -- service unavailable;
if that's the case for you, check our blog entry, which
reproduces the text of the brief article:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/2004/02/03.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Playing With Fire: European Terra-Cotta Models, 1740-1840

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/06/arts/design/06GLUE.html
(includes slide show)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Interesting opinion piece desiring the Olympics to return to
its roots:

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=150282004

On olives and Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=39251

Iliad Super Bowl:

http://gilroydispatch.com/letsgo/letsgoview.asp?c=93147

Catapult makers were supposedly the "rock stars" of
antiquity (maybe that's supposed to be a pun):

http://tinyurl.com/2x7et (National Geographic)

Classics is alive and well in Flordia universities:

http://tinyurl.com/395jg (Sun-Sentinel)

Peter Jones in the Spectator

http://tinyurl.com/2fej2

[n.b. there seems to be a new registration thing for the
Spectator ... it's still free, but somewhat annoying to
register]

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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REPEATS
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Inuit Effects on Ancient Lakes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/03/science/03OBSE.html (scroll
down a bit)

Newport Ship:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/3450003.stm

Queen of Sheba Tourism:

http://www.gulf-news.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=109821
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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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rogueclassicism
1. n. an abnormal state or condition resulting from the forced migration from a lengthy Classical education into a profoundly unClassical world; 2. n. a blog about Ancient Greece and Rome compiled by one so afflicted (v. "rogueclassicist"); 3. n. a Classics blog.