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Sally Winchester, Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths, Bob Heuman,
Tony 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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A number of homines heidelbergenses found in the Atapuerca
Caves of Spain may have died simultaneously in some ancient
'catastrophe':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3725241.stm

A Neanderthal tooth has been found in Montenegro:

http://tinyurl.com/3bsn2 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/2xss9 (IOL)

I thought we'd covered this one in Explorator already, but I can't
seem to find it ... beryllium-10 analysis suggests that some folks
in Israel were mining flint (as opposed to picking it up from the
surface) some 300 000 years b.p.:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/040517/040517-4.html
http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20040518-102750-8611r.htm

Archaeologists working at Kirkuk airbase (Iraq) have found at
least one major site predating the Assyrians:

http://www.af.mil/news/story.asp?storyID=123007778

Al-Ahram has a piece on Egypt in Nubia (and vice versa):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/691/heritage.htm

An ancient Moabite fort provides some info on ancient
weaving:

http://tinyurl.com/2d2a8 (Daily Star)

A lengthy piece on Bethsaida and how it is largely ignored in
Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/429586.html

Temple Mount's east wall is in danger of collapse:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/429666.html
http://www.truthnews.net/world/2004050110.htm
http://tinyurl.com/2oza7 (Jerusalem Post)
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=62836

Interesting audio bit on the James Ossuary:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/factual/rams/wed1102.ram

The temples at Paestum are getting the light-them-up-at-night
treatment:

http://tinyurl.com/3227l (la Citta di Salerno ... in Italian)

A hitherto unknown temple of Aphrodite is apparently among the
things found in Athens over the past while:

http://tinyurl.com/25ktb (Time)

Very brief item on the discovery of some possibly-Roman remains
at Humberside Airport (UK):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/humber/3735945.stm

A schoolboy with a metal detector has found a medieval ring:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/wales/south_west/3735643.stm

An updatish sort of thing on the search for artifacts along the
Cetina River:

http://tinyurl.com/38ttu (AFP via Yahoo)

Chinese archaeologists "accidentally" discovered a cemetery
which may contain the oldest Western Zhou tomb ever found:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/19/content_1478022.htm

An update on those skeletons from Maastricht (they're 100-200
years old):

http://tinyurl.com/2fqj5 (Expatica)

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THE AMERICAS
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A number of well-preserved mummies have been found in Peru:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5018275/
http://tinyurl.com/2u98z (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/22qqb (Reuters via CNN)

A land-swap proposal might save a burial site in St. Augustine:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5021620/

A couple of collectors of Native American artifacts have made
a donation of some of them to an Anne Arundel project:

http://tinyurl.com/2uopc (Baltimore Sun)

A pre-Cahokia site has been found near Glen Carbon:

http://tinyurl.com/24kw9 (St. Louis Today)

A nice piece on the Dolores project (Puebloan):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/4986789/

A bison-processing site has been found in Southern Alberta:

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/05/19/sci-tech/bison040519

A salvage operation is raising the ire of Jamaicans:

http://tinyurl.com/2cyf5 (AP via Yahoo)

A sort of overviewish/historical piece on major sites in
Peru (hard to describe this one succinctly):

http://tinyurl.com/37lhj (Sun Sentinel)

The Miami Circle may reopen to the public:

http://www.miamitodaynews.com/news/040520/story7.shtml
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On the DNA front, most dog breeds have clearly been created by
humans:

http://tinyurl.com/ysdaf (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040517/doggenes.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/science/21dog.html

Anthropologists are now suggesting their discipline is threatened
if all those bones are reburied (what took them so long?):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3725579.stm

Interesting piece on the Turkina (Kenya) petroglyphs:

http://tinyurl.com/3xxhf (AFP via Yahoo)

Archaeologists are shuddering as Burma's military government
rebuilds Bagan to boost tourism:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0519/p07s01-wosc.html

On the history of acoustics:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/22/arts/design/22ACOU.html

... and the history of flooring:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0518/p18s02-hfks.html

Another theory on what happened to the 'Amber Room':

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3738593.stm

Interesting blast from the past from the 1904 Atlantic Monthly
all about the Louisiana Purchase:

http://www.theatlantic.com/issues/04may/turner.htm

Coverage of the sale of the Greenberg Collection (mostly French
furniture) at Sotheby's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/arts/design/21ANTI.html

Meanwhile, a couple of urns sold at Christie's have resulted in
a lawsuit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/arts/design/20AUCT.htm

... and items from the Titanic are up for auction:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5033487/

... and there's a nice piece on Sheikh Saud's auction habits:

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=567352004

A hitherto unknown drawing by Raphael has been found:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=523343
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/3733929.stm

An interesting piece on the problems associated with recovering
Nazi-looted art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/18/arts/design/18RIDI.html

Yale has acquired an important collection of ancient coins:

http://news.amn.org/press.jsp?id=2199

... also on the coin front, a forger is publishing a book to
reveal his secrets:

http://tv.ksl.com/index.php?nid=5&;sid=93299

An update on the Hermitage's 'branch museum' in Amsterdam:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/16/international/europe/16amst.html

A touristy thing on Iran:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-05/21/content_1482290.htm

A timelineish thing on the history of London:

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Front_Page/FE22Aa02.html
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CRIME BEAT
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The Yurok people welcomed the return of some 'repatriated'
artifacts:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/national/AP-Artifacts-Return.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Niall Ferguson, *The Price of America's Empire*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/books/21BOOK.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Antigone: As Played and Danced by Three Fates on the Way to
Becoming the Three Graces:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/05/20/theater/reviews/20ANTI.html

Oedipus:

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/artsNews/view.bg?articleid=28703

Children of Herakles:

http://tinyurl.com/2ofec (FT)

Trojan Women:

http://tinyurl.com/2s3q8 (Santa Cruz Sentinel)
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Assorted African Art exhibitions in Boston (some interesting
photos):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/21/arts/design/21COTT.html

Teotihuacan's Pyramid of the Moon artifacts:

http://www.sunnetwork.org/news/science/science.asp?id=5225
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TROY STUFF
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I think there's enough this week to warrant a separate section
again ...

A few reviews:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0520/p05s01-woeu.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,2916444a1870,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/yrcfc (Belfast Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/3g2sz (News-Journal)
http://tinyurl.com/3bhdn (Decatur Daily)
http://valleyadvocate.com/gbase/Film/content?oid=oid:66497
http://www.humaneventsonline.com/article.php?id=3941

... and one by a Classicist:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=1901156 (audio)

An interview with 'Briseis':

http://tinyurl.com/3ghuy (Spin)

On the music:

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/SHOWBIZ/Movies/05/18/troy.score/

Precursor flicks:

http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/19/1084917648168.html
http://tinyurl.com/2xaym

Men in skirts:

http://www.sptimes.com/2004/05/20/Floridian/Dressed_to_kill.shtml

Editorials on the 'lessons' of Troy:

http://www.washingtondispatch.com/article_9108.shtml
http://www.twincities.com/mld/twincities/news/editorial/8688947.htm

On the 'truth' about Troy (i.e. Schliemann etc.):

http://tinyurl.com/yss4w (National Geographic)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3732787.stm
http://tinyurl.com/2o45x (USA Today)
http://www.archaeology.org/0405/etc/troy.html
http://tinyurl.com/2wtpb (Telegraph)

Then there's this guy who thinks he's found the 'real' Troy:

http://tinyurl.com/3fsba (Lynn News)

Pieces encouraging folks to 'read the book':

http://tinyurl.com/2wavo (Globe and Mail ... good)
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~150~2161662,00.html
http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2004/05/20/1084917666884.html

On the spinoff effects of the movie:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/23/1085250859337.html
http://tinyurl.com/24dfy (Utusan Online)
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The Toronto Star has given some coverage (out of date?) to the
Elgin/Parthenon Marbles issue:

http://tinyurl.com/3glm5
cf: http://tinyurl.com/yvq72 (Spectator)

cf: http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=456768

Trying to apply Plato's Allegory of the Cave to Iraq:

http://www.counterpunch.org/corseri05192004.html

A piece on Olympia and the shot put competition to be held there:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~118~2166108,00.html

In praise of opinionated teaching:

http://chronicle.com/free/v50/i37/37b00701.htm

Another piece on those folks who still worship the Olympian gods
and who feel persecuted in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/2aeqf (Reuters)
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_18-5-2004_pg2_15

For fans of Colleen McCullough:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/05/21/1085120115801.html

Another Night of the Living Dead Languages:

http://www.californiaaggie.com/article/?id=4420

First piece (in a while) talking about the ancient Olympics:

http://inhome.rediff.com/sports/2004/may/20oly.htm

Interesting classes for tourists in Rome:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5021848/

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/328qs

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
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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Samuel Iwry (Dead Sea Scrolls scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/05/22/national/22IWRY.html
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REPEATS
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Forma Urbis Romae:

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/8708014.htm
http://tinyurl.com/ythum (Monterey Herald)

Maze of Mummies Near Saqqara:

http://tinyurl.com/2cs2n (National Geographic)

Viking Artifacts for Sale on Internet:

http://www.cp.org/english/online/full/science/040514/g051406A.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 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/MIKERUGGERISANCIENT

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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