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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Parallel lines made on a 1.4 million b.p. piece of bone found
in Bulgaria may be the earliest example of human 'symbolic
behaviour':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3512470.stm

Ancient Indians made 'rock music':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3520384.stm

Some bored spelunkers discovered some prehistoric caves in
Scotland (beneath a parking lot ... is it just me or do roughly
half the archaeological discoveries in Scotland come from 'beneath
a carpark'):

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=2671102

I would have sworn I mentioned this before, but maybe not ... a pile
of Bronze Age gold has been found by some metal detectorists in
Wrexham:

http://tinyurl.com/2auq6 (IC North Wales)

Archaeological evidence suggests Jiroft culture might have greatly
influenced Sumerian:

http://tinyurl.com/3yvz9 (Iranmania)

Scientists have determined that King Tut took red wine with him
to the afterlife:

http://tinyurl.com/2z8hh (Telegraph)
http://www.winespectator.com/Wine/Daily/News/0,1145,2386,00.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/03/040316073517.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/acs-tl031504.php

Interesting piece on Egyptian tomb decoration:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/682/heritage.htm

Evidence for human sacrifice in ancient Egypt has recently been
revealed at Abydos:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/science/16EGYP.html

Last week we mentioned the British Museum's acquisition of 'The
Queen of Night' relief; here's the Museum's official page on the
item:

http://www.thebritishmuseum.ac.uk/compass/ixbin/goto?id=OBJ12540

The Palestinian National Authority is accusing Israel of purloining
Palestinian antiquties and sites:

http://www.ipc.gov.ps/ipc_e/ipc_e-1/e_News/news2004/2004_03/090.html

Colchester's Roman walls are in a horrible state of disrepair:

http://tinyurl.com/2t6zn (EADT)

Archaeologists in Cyprus aren't impressed with the Antiquities
Department's handling of a site at Paphos:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=13440&;cat_id=1

Here's one I hope we'll read more about ... a brief item (in
Italian) about the discovery of the remains of a crocodile during
at the Naples site where those Roman ships came from:

http://news2000.libero.it/index_cultura_news.jhtml?id=5915183

They're going to do a bit of archaeology at Skopje Fortress
prior to building a new U.S. Embassy:

http://www.idividi.com.mk/English/Culture/270068/index.html

A dig in the United Arab Emirates at the birthplace of the
explorer Bin Majid is about to get under way:

http://www.gulfnews.com/Articles/news.asp?ArticleID=113960

Remains of a 500 b.p. Maori cloak and other remains have been
found at a site in New Zealand (obviously):

http://tinyurl.com/33ees (New Zealand Herald)
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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THE AMERICAS
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Remnants of 'space dust' might help to reveal hidden chambers
in Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Sun:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4540266/

They're going to restore/recover a major Inca 'highway':

http://tinyurl.com/33lw3 (La Tercera -- Spanish)

Some members of Florida's Calusa tribe might not have been
wiped out:

http://tinyurl.com/2ghgn (AP via Yahoo)

Thermal imaging has helped to locate a couple of eighteenth
century German villages in Louisiana:

http://tinyurl.com/33po7 (NOLA)

A National Guard property in New York may lie over some native
remains:

http://tinyurl.com/yuqcp (Times Union)

Construction of a huge 'graving yard' (new term for me) to park
battleships in Washington State has revealed some human remains
and will probably reveal more:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4546190/
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On the DNA front, we have another study suggesting that humans
and Neanderthals didn't interbreed (much):

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040315/040315-4.html
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040315/neanderthal.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-03/plos-rna031004.php

'Chemical analysis' of teeth suggests that Anglo-Saxons did not
replace the native population of England:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3514756.stm
http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20040317-105853-5427r.htm

Those waxy lumps found in bogs all over the place turn out to be
the remains of ancient meat and milk (a.k.a. 'bog butter'):

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040315/040315-5.html

The New York Times has a long and somewhat confusing piece
arising from a Nature article on 'glottochronology':

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/16/science/16LANG.html

Australia's Radio National did a nice program called 'What
Language Did Jesus Speak' this week (realaudio):

http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/ling/audio/lfranca_20032004_2856.ram

The Bamiyan Buddhas ... three years later:

http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID3126026,00.html
(in German)

So what's Matthew Bogdanos been up to?:

http://tinyurl.com/2n74q (Newsday)

Interesting piece on the development of libraries:

http://tinyurl.com/2hmmf (The Nation)

Archaeologists don't like the Stonehenge tunnel idea:

http://tinyurl.com/3eg9k

Last week we mentioned a Telegraph piece on the shutting down of
the construction of the Acropolis Museum and charges being laid
against assorted folks; the Telegraph piece didn't quite get it
right, so here's more on this:

http://tinyurl.com/2swyf (Kathimerini)
http://tinyurl.com/yucor (Athens News)

A short history of the swastika:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/570871.cms

Behind the scenes at the Akron Dead Sea Scrolls exhibit:

http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/8212995.htm

A follow-up to that big Roman coin discovery last week which
includes a bit on how such coins are conserved:

http://tinyurl.com/2nyf5 (BBC)

The BBC wonders whether Noah really built an ark:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/3524676.stm

The Celtic Festival in Brisbane needs Roman soldiers:

http://tinyurl.com/294jc (Glen Innes Examiner)

From the AIA: "Two Archaeologists Comment on The Passion
of the Christ":

http://tinyurl.com/2bh4s

... and Gary Wills does too (in the context of a book
review):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/17026

Mel Gibson's next film (maybe ... this is strange):

http://www.ajc.com/news/content/news/0304/18gibson.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/040317/325/eou0b.html

Semi-related to the above (really semi-) is a piece on who has
the better historical claim to Jerusalem (I think; this one's
hard to follow):

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/article.php3?id=3468

The origins of Mothering Sunday:

http://tinyurl.com/8e93 (BBC)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Antiquity 78 (299) (March, 2004) ... TOCs, some items online:

http://antiquity.ac.uk/CurrentIssue/currentindex.html

"The Roman Warm Period in Northwest China" (summary):

http://www.co2science.org/journal/v7/v7n11c2.htm
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ON THE WEB
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The Antiquity of Man site has been updated:

http://www.antiquityofman.com/index.html

The Michigan Relics:

http://www.sos.state.mi.us/history/michrelics/
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Not 'new' per se, but worth checking out is the Million Book
Project by the same folks who brought you the Internet Wayback
Machine:

http://www.archive.org/texts/collection.php?collection=millionbooks
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CRIME BEAT
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A mummified hand was stolen from a pub in Salisbury:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/3515304.stm

Japan is stepping in to help protect Sumer:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/cgi-bin/getarticle.pl5?nn20040318b4.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Judith Fitzgerald, *Adagios: Iphigenia's Song*:

http://tinyurl.com/2mjdm (Globe and Mail)

Lev Grossman, *Codex* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/books/review/21SHULMT.html

Roy Porter, *Flesh in the Age of Reason*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/books/review/21MILLERT.html

Daniel C. Matt (trans.), *The Zohar*:

http://tinyurl.com/23k6v (Jerusalem Post)
cf.: http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/newssentinel/8192856.htm

Philip Freeman, *St. Patrick of Ireland*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0316/p15s02-bogn.html

William Dietrich, *Hadrian's Wall* (fiction):

http://tinyurl.com/2kr58 (Seattle Times)
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PERFORMANCES
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Midsummer Night's Dream:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/books/18JOHN.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Treasures of the Royal Tombs of Ur:

http://tinyurl.com/2blby (Delco Times)

Egyptian Antiquities from the Air:

http://tinyurl.com/29r53 (Naples News ... nice photos)

Exquisite Ceramics, Paintings and Works of Art (Chinese):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/20/content_1375741.htm

'New' Roman Sculptures at the Minneapolis Institute of Art:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/1375/4667382.html

The Glory of Baroque Dresden:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/arts/design/21WEID.html

Return of the Buddha: The Qingzhou Discoveries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19COTT.html

Chinese Painting for the Metropolitan Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19DILL.html

Cyprus: One Thousand Pieces of Memory:

http://tinyurl.com/2ju29 (Kathimerini)

Assorted exhibitions/gallery shows in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19INSI.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/19/arts/design/19ANTI.html

I think I'll pass on this proposed exhibition:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/03/14/1079199093855.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The Imbros Cup is up for auction again:

http://tinyurl.com/2p52s

A touristy thing on Perge:

http://www.di-ve.com/dive/portal/portal.jhtml?id=128911&;pid=null

Danielle Allen has become Dean of Humanities at UChicago:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/040318/allen.shtml

ClassCon in a piece meditating events in Madrid:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/opinion/18_03_04_b.asp

The ARCHES project looks interesting:

http://www.warwick.ac.uk/ETS/arches/

Ides of March stuff:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/560383.cms
http://tinyurl.com/2jbxa (National Geographic)

Night of the Living Dead Languages IV:

http://www.cornellsun.com/articles/11293/

Interesting piece by Laura Miller on relevance, Classics, and
other things:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/books/review/21LMILLET.html

A nice middle school culminating project:

http://tinyurl.com/2aq5j (Plainview Daily Herald)

A proposal to cut teaching of classics teachers at Strathclyde
University has given rise to a pile of editorials on whether
Latin is a good thing or not ... here's a sampling of the
various opinions (they are different):

http://news.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=296822004
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=327282004
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=316132004
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/opinion.cfm?id=316202004
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/letters.cfm?id=315802004
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=312162004
http://news.scotsman.com/education.cfm?id=308472004
http://www.sundayherald.com/40623

The guy behind Socrates Cafes:

http://www.digitaljournal.com/news/?articleID=3982

The Socratic Shrink:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/21/magazine/21SHRINK.html

More Socrateana:

http://tinyurl.com/2a3js (Chicago Tribune)

The Houghton Library at Harvard has recently acquired a pile of
stuff relating to Samuel Johnson:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/18/books/18JOHN.html

Some Athens Olympics humour:

http://images.ucomics.com/comics/tm/2004/tm040321.gif

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

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/2ynme

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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Keith Hopkins (Classicist):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/03/15/books/15HOPK.html
http://tinyurl.com/32wdc (Telegraph)
http://www.charlotte.com/mld/observer/news/local/8196109.htm?1c
http://www.iht.com/articles/510424.htm
http://tinyurl.com/29t2k (Guardian)

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REPEATS
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Chinese Remains in Oregon:

http://tinyurl.com/2282g (Oregonian)

Queen of the Night acquire by BM:

http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=323302004

Virginia Jasper Mine:

http://www.madison-news.com/2004/March/11/mine.shtml

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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 in Europe (blog):

http://archaeology.eu.com/weblog/

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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