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Astudillo, Joan Griffith, John McMahon, John Hill, Joseph Lauer,
John McChesney-Young, Louis A. Okin, Maurice O'Sullivan, Paul
Montgomery, Peter Archdale,  Sally Winchester, Tony Jackson,
W. Richard Frahm, and
Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
have left no one out).

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editor's note II: last week we suggested a burial of a pile of
headless bodies had been found in Australia; several folks
wrote in (thanks!) to point out the find was actually in
Vanuatu. Apologies for any confusion (especially to producers
of *Survivor* who, no doubt, will want to make a big deal out
of this to hype the next installment of that series) [there's
a repeat of the story in the 'Repeats' section in case you
missed it]
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A Mesolithic site in Scotland:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1018502004

Road construction has revealed a Bronze Age burial ground in
Co Down (Ireland):

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/story.jsp?story=556975

I think this is a repeat (about a Viking figurine which is
somehow connected to Seahenge) ... but it's amazing the headline
on this one got past the editors:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040823/seahenge.html

One of the big finds announced this past week was a "hidden"
(duh) tomb very near the pyramid of Khafre/Chephren:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5899361/
http://tinyurl.com/56pjd (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/9565729.htm
http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/world/story/0,4386,270892,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/5emwr (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/4y9bb (Australian)
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/world/9565729.htm

Happily, we are getting some English coverage of the 'discovery'
of a hidden chamber in the Great Pyramid:

http://tinyurl.com/6c2c4 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/3j7fo (IOL)
http://tinyurl.com/6epf8 (Guardian)

... and it appears there's major head butting going on about it:

http://tinyurl.com/3o63w (Seattle PI)

A major coin hoard from the Dead Sea:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/471833.html

Evidence of an 700 b.p. earthquake in Tzfat:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=68408

Assorted archaeological news from the Israel Ministry of Foreign
Affairs (most of which we've mentioned, but there are some nice
photos):

http://tinyurl.com/4zoly (MFA)

NPR had an interview with Shimon Gibson this week:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3877861

al-Ahram has a nice feature on Auguste Mariette:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/705/he1.htm

The Torlonia Marbles will soon be viewable by the public:

http://tinyurl.com/5rf8d (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/7ydzt (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/4877a (Reuters)

A pile of amphorae dating to the second century B.C./B.C.E. have
been found in a pit near Cattolica:

http://tinyurl.com/3wr8u (NewRimini ... Italian)

The north slope of the Acropolis will be viewable by tourists
again:

http://tinyurl.com/69god (Kathimerini)

Chinese history and the Koguryo relics:

http://tinyurl.com/4yduk (Korea Times)

Looking for the lost 'Sleeping Buddha':

http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/176389-1053-010.html

A pair of 2000-3000 b.p. burials have been found in Vietnam:

http://vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/2004-08/30/Stories/17.htm

A shipwreck off Ireland discovered five years ago might be
Oliver Cromwell's flagship:

http://tinyurl.com/4m4z8 (Australian)
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THE AMERICAS
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Searching for Fort St. Louis:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5866714/

A Woodland site in Ohio is causing excitement:

http://www.wcpo.com/news/2004/local/08/30/ancestral.html

The discovery of a Native American burial ground is delaying
development of a housing site in L.A.:

http://tinyurl.com/6r3s4 (AP via Yahoo)

...cf. a semi-similar situation in Alabama:

http://tinyurl.com/46tfe (Daily Home)

This week marks the 350th anniversary of the arrival of the
first Jewish refugees in North America:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/arts/03JEWI.html

NPR had a nice feature on the 'Bladensburg Races' ... a.k.a.
the burning of Washington by British/Canadian troops:

http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3862200

Searching for relics of the Lewis and Clark expedition ... in
the Peabody Museum:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0831/p18s02-hfks.html

A touristy thing on Tepoztlan:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/travel/05tepotz.html

We've said it before and we'll say it again ... Walmarts and
archaeological sites just don't mix (this time, near
Teotihuacan):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/story/0,3604,1296985,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3ocbz (Reuters via Yahoo)

Seed varieties used by assorted First Nations people have been
saved from extinction:

http://tinyurl.com/5wp5y (La Tercera ... Spanish)
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The 'reconstructing the face' of long-dead people thing seems
to have peaked a couple of years ago (probably due to that
UK series 'Meet the Ancestors'), but today there's an
interesting piece on xray scanning technology being used to
reconstruct the face of a mummy without unwrapping it:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040901095031.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5880009/
http://tinyurl.com/4xznn (Scienceblog)
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996340

Neanderthal life was apparently "no tougher" than that lived
by present-day Inuit:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040903084421.htm

People in the early Middle Ages were apparently taller than
we have been conventionally told:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/09/040902090552.htm

Interesting article on the guy who 'cracked' the Voynich
manuscript:

http://tinyurl.com/6ghp4 (Wired)

The New York Times has a sort of meta-touristy page on things
to see in Rome:

http://tinyurl.com/4d3fy
see also: http://tinyurl.com/5alfh

... they also have one for Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/5p7uy

... also an interesting piece on the place Hermann Melville (and
some other literary types) lived:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/travel/escapes/03BERK.html

Searching for the Santa Maria:

http://dsc.discovery.com/convergence/quest/projects/columbus.html

A touristy thing on Libya (there has actually been one of
these almost every week for the past year ... none of them
particularly exciting, but it's a slow week):

http://www.iht.com/articles/536381.htm

Nice article on what conservators do:

http://tinyurl.com/42ctl (Journal-Star)

Interesting piece on the Vienna Genesis:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/473092.html

A number of important works were damaged/destroyed in a fire at
the Anna Amalia Library in Berlin this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/04/books/04libr.html

All sorts of things you wanted to know about glass:

http://www.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/305/5689/1407

Poetry through the ages:

http://tinyurl.com/5y85h (Toronto Star)

Knights Templar/Masonic stuff:

http://tinyurl.com/3uah8 (Star Banner)

Hawaiian influences at Yale:

http://www.yalealumnimagazine.com/issues/current/old_yale.html

An archaeologist on her day off:

http://tinyurl.com/5yxl9
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Biblical Archaeology Review (September/October):

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

Lee Levin, "Rome vs. Carthage: The Day the Earth Trembled":

http://www.historynet.com/mh/blromevscarthage/

Antiquity (September 2004):

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

... see also the updated Project Gallery:

http://antiquity.ac.uk/ProjGall/301.html

Heroic Age (7):

http://www.mun.ca/mst/heroicage/issues/7/toc.html
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ON THE WEB
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The Nisa Archaeological Expedition site has been updated for the
2004 season:

http://parthia.com/nisa.htm

Early American Large Cents in the National Numismatic
Collection:

http://staff.jccc.net/scarr/

Conte Collection at the Fitzwilliam Museum (Norman and Angevin
coins):

http://tinyurl.com/3j6qe
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CRIME BEAT
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Jiroft continues to be plundered:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=2812

A commentary piece on the destruction happening in Babylon:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,1293931,00.html

Destruction of sites in Hebron?:

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/9379/

The arrest of some guys for looting sites in Indiana has led
to the search for some of those sites:

http://www.theindychannel.com/news/3694564/detail.html
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Jack Turner, *Spice: The History of a Temptation*:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/critique.cfm?id=1027112004

Larry and Christopher Merriam, *Spiro Mound: A Photo Essay*:

http://newsok.com/article/1304436/?template=entertainment/main

Tony Perrottet, *Naked Olympics*:

http://tinyurl.com/5lhm3 (KRT)
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PERFORMANCES
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Warriors of Heaven and Earth (movie):

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/movies/03WAR.html

Hecuba:

http://tinyurl.com/3zud4 (Telegraph)
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EXHIBITIONS
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National Museum of Prehistory (in the Dordogne):

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2004/09/05/travel/05dordogne.html

Assorted works with a 'food theme' at the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/arts/design/03MIMI.html

American Fancy: Exuberance in the Arts, 1790-1840:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/arts/design/03GLUE.html

Play It Again: Asian Games and Pastimes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/03/arts/design/03ANTI.html

Courtly Art of the Ancient Maya:

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/9581324.htm

Great Travellers in Athens:

http://tinyurl.com/3tde9 (Kathimerini)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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An interview with the producer of the upcoming Alexander flick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/01/movies/01alex.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/537043.htm

On Polyclitean (Polyklitan?) proportions:

http://tinyurl.com/6slkp (Telegraph)

Latest on the Hannibal flick:

http://tinyurl.com/5srcs (kathimerini)

A marathon reading:

http://tinyurl.com/6vctm (Newsday)

Latin is alive and well in Utah:

http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595087752,00.html

On Alexander and Rakhi:

http://internationalreporter.net/scripts/headDetails.asp?id=269
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/asia/story.jsp?story=558106

Greek bilingualism:

http://tinyurl.com/6u89f (Athens News)

The Alexander Desktop is now available for downloading:

http://alexanderthemovie.warnerbros.com/xtreme_desktop/

Vatican Dictionary gets some press:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/08/31/1093938925635.html

Alden Smith has become director of the Honors program at Baylor:

http://pr.baylor.edu/story.php?id=005322

A nice article on Shilpal Raval:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/article.asp?AID=26034

Gloucestershire Roman Villa is doing it right:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3443881

In case you missed it, Classics is threatened at MSU:

http://www.lansingcitypulse.com/040901/coverstory/index.asp

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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David Woodward (Map Historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/08/31/obituaries/31woodward.html
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REPEATS
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2700 b.p. tomb from Egypt:

http://tinyurl.com/6llaa (La Tercera ... Spanish)

Vanuatu Burials:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200408/s1188374.htm
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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/

Egyptology News (blog):
http://www.egyptology.blogspot.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

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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