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Thanks to Arthur Shippee,  Bill Kennedy, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst,
John Hill, Angie T., Michael Oberndorf, Richard Griffiths, Sally
Winchester, Tom Elliott, 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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... bit of a quiet week
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Research has pushed the date for domestication of doggies back
a bit and located it in Asia:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4264918/
http://tinyurl.com/34ubs (AP via Yahoo)

cf.: http://tinyurl.com/2kjle (National Geographic)
semi-related: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3487925.stm

Those handprints 'painted' on the walls of caves suggest that
left-handed was "common" in the Ice Age:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3485967.stm

Neolithic Remains in Ireland:

http://tinyurl.com/2pt2z (IC Northern Ireland)

Discovery of a Bronze Age dagger near Oldham may hold up development
of a wind farm:

http://tinyurl.com/2yv73

A new theory on the purpose of Egyptian pyramids also received
plenty of coverage this week:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4242024/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4239529/ (interview)
http://tinyurl.com/2zpfg (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/science/02/11/egypt.pyramids.reut/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1043124.htm

Tourists will be searching for Cambyses' lost army:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040209/cambyses.html

An unplundered tholos tomb was discovered during road construction
in central Greece:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=39427

A 2000 b.p. urn has been found village near Mayiladuthurai (India):

http://tinyurl.com/377wr

A preliminary online report of the 2003 dig season at Hemma
Plateau (Syria) has been put on line:

http://www.espasoc.org/2003/he3_1acc.html (in French)

The discovery of remains of a Viking settlement in Cork is
causing excitement:

http://www.utvlive.com/newsroom/indepth.asp?id=42530&;pt=n

The remains of a medieval child have been found near Wales'
national shrine:

http://tinyurl.com/25teq (IC Wales)

The search for Stirling Bridge may end due to funding problems:

http://tinyurl.com/yqf2w (IC Stirlingshire)
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THE AMERICAS
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A good background piece on the 'ice free corridor':

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/feature_Revisited.html

... it's background for this piece:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/feature_Quest.html

Archaeologists were surprised at how much they found during
a survey/excavation of Sloan Canyon (Nevada):

http://tinyurl.com/2f43k (Review Journal)

Clovis Man was discovered 75 years ago:

http://tinyurl.com/38zno (Gazette Times)

An Anasazi site in Utah will be preserved:

http://www.sltrib.com/2004/Feb/02102004/utah/137491.asp

A sort of background piece on Machu Picchu:

http://www.denverpost.com/framework/0,1413,36~53~1950728,00.html

Use of coal in pre-Columbian Peru:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/resources.html

More on the Isthmian script controversy:

http://tinyurl.com/2rfo8 (Baltimore Sun)
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The New York Times has a piece on philosopher Leszek Kolakowski:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/14/arts/14KOLA.html

A piece on climate change in Mesopotamia ca. 10 000 b.p. or so:

http://www.geotimes.org/feb04/NN_Mesopotamian.html

A sort of preview of a series on PBS which looked at the
Medicis as a sort of mafiosi family might be of interest:

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/02/11/arts/television/11STAN.html

A piece on a new exhibition at the British Museum is provoking
some questions on how museums acquired artifacts in the past:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4212804/

3d virtual tours continue to become more complex:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3472589.stm

... while there are plans to map and image that recently-discovered
land bridge which once connected the UK to Europe:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_866343.html
http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=94793914&;p=947946zx

Another delay holds up the return of the Aksum obelisk to
Ethiopia:

http://tinyurl.com/3actm (Observer)

Archaeologists may have located the HMS Beagle:

http://tinyurl.com/2mu9d
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s1045298.htm

A sampling of origins-of-Valentine's-Day pieces:

http://tinyurl.com/2e8e6
http://magic-city-news.com/article_983.shtml (Best headline)

Zahi Hawass in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/677/he2.htm
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ON THE WEB
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The Silk Road Foundation:

http://www.silk-road.com/toc/index.html

Joe Zias, "Qumran Archaeology: More Grave Errors":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Zias_Qumran_Archaeology.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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J.A. MacCulloch, *The Religion of the Ancient Celts*:

http://www.sacred-texts.com/neu/celt/rac/index.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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This is a bit different ... a guy who came across some ancient
coins in Northern Greece confessed to the local priest:

http://tinyurl.com/23abz (Kathimerini)

A review of a documentary on the looting of Iraq might be of
interest:

http://www.sbs.com.au/whatson/index.php3?id=546
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BOOK REVIEWS
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A trio of tomes about Harriet Tubman (first chapters available
for a couple of them):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15FAUSTT.html

A trio of tomes about the history of homosexuality:

http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0406/halter.php

Richard Fox, *Jesus in America*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15CRAINT.html

David Fischer, *Washington's Crossing*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15ELLIST.html

David Sacks, *Language Visible: Unraveling the Mystery of the
Alphabet From A to Z.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15SHAVERT.html

Charles Freeman, *The Closing of the Western Mind: The Rise of
Faith and the Fall of Reason*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/15/books/review/15GOTTLIT.html

Victor Davis Hanson, *Ripples of Battle*:

http://www.nationalreview.com/books/hart200402111126.asp
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PERFORMANCES
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Agamemnon:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/13/arts/theater/13AGAM.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Tanagras (Montreal!):

http://tinyurl.com/2p6gr (Montreal Gazette)

Treasures of Tuscany:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=156292004
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Harry Potter in Greek:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/02/10/arts/10ARTS.html (scroll down)

Alexander seems to be credited in this one with bringing the
kiss west:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=163902004

Plenty of ClassCon in this beer review:

http://tinyurl.com/27sqd (Anchorage Press)

Mel Gibson's Passion continues to get coverage:

http://tinyurl.com/2tovm (Jerusalem Post)
http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/040208/nysu009a_1.html

A review of the WingedSandals website (definitely worth visiting):

http://tinyurl.com/2mx6e (The Australian)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2c2vt

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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African Petroglyphs older than previously thought:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1142872,00.html

Kennewick Man:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040204/g020414A.html
http://tinyurl.com/22bsy (Seattle Times)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994666

Nazca Lines threatened:

http://www.cnn.com/2004/TRAVEL/DESTINATIONS/02/12/apn.nazca.lines.ap/

Roman Plumbing at Vindolanda:

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

Saxon Tomb:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040206/g020608A.html

6th-century Comet:

http://spaceflightnow.com/news/n0402/07darkages/

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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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