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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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On early bipedalism:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/20lu (SciAm)

We haven't heard about Oetzi in a while ... here's the latest:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040906/oetzi.html

An interesting item on the discovery of a 6500 b.p. 'sunken
forest' in Orkney:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/23678.html

A number of sites from various periods have been found in a
pre-highway-construction-survey in Ireland:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/8e65

Another bit of coverage of the dig at Megiddo this summer:

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/9581704.htm

An update on what was found at Somma Vesuviana this summer (in
Italian)

http://tinyurl.com/5k89a (CulturalWeb)

The image of an Etruscan woman on a coffin may be the oldest
depiction of a 'real person' in Western art:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/jy7u (Australian)

A very 'local' view of what was discovered during a dig at
Arbeia Roman fort this summer:

http://www.rherald.com/news/2004/0908/Front_Page/f06.html

Discovery of a number of burials -- apparently of Roman
legionaries -- has halted construction of a highway in Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476556.html

Plenty of excitement and coverage of the discovery of a Viking
'cemetery' near Cumwhitton (UK):

http://abcnews.go.com/wire/World/ap20040908_560.html
http://www.npr.org/features/feature.php?wfId=3913013 (audio)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1251380,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3632988.stm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5962424/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5929133/
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3464202
http://tinyurl.co.uk/st5m (CNN)
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/09/07/1094322753479.html
http://tinyurl.co.uk/dczq (Yorkshire Post)
http://tinyurl.com/5hmlj (This is Derbyshire ... good one)

Meanwhile, efforts are afoot to save a recently-discovered
Viking site in Ireland:

http://www.indymedia.ie/newswire.php?story_id=66538

The remains of a 14th century ship have been found in the Skien
River in Telemark (Norway):

http://www.aftenposten.no/english/local/article864189.ece

Four clay balls which once made up a hunting weapon some
3000 years b.p. have been found in China's Gansu province:

http://in.news.yahoo.com/040912/43/2g11e.html

The Pompeii of the Pacific:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/scr1 (New Zealand Herald)

Questioning (maybe) the authenticity of a chalk horse at
Cambridgeshire:

http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/story.asp?StoryID=61083
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THE AMERICAS
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The skeleton of what might be the oldest human remains ever
found in the Americas has been found off the coast of Mexico:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5954798/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5955043/
http://tinyurl.com/5jb6b (AP via Yahoo)

A dog's activities have led to the discovery of a Folsom site
in New Mexico:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=dbbe5941a8f3ebb0

... while some folks are suggesting the earliest newcomers to
the U.S. may have come from Australia or Southeast Asia:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3634544.stm
http://tinyurl.com/4ufy2 (Telegraph)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040906/firstamerican.html
http://tinyurl.co.uk/c42e (NERC press release)
http://tinyurl.co.uk/byek (CNN)

UNC archaeologists have located the home of William R. Davie:

http://www.unc.edu/news/archives/jul04/stepon072304.html

On preserving Tacoma's "little Stonehenge":

http://www.tribnet.com/news/local/story/5510064p-5448334c.html

Divers are excavating the steamship/paddlewheeler Heroine:

http://www.cdnn.info/industry/i040907/i040907.html

Humanities Magazine has a piece on Cahokia:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-09/cahokia.html

... and learning about archaeology online:

http://www.neh.gov/news/humanities/2004-09/virtualtrowel.html

An account of an impending documentary on the War of 1812 might
be of interest (not least for the differing views of the war
on the two sides of the U.S./Canadian border):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/11/arts/television/11hist.html
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On the DNA front, new research suggests the Scots and Irish are
closer genetically to the Galicians of Spain/Portugal than the
Celts of Northern Europe:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/23762.html
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1064152004
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5955043/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/newspaper/0,,176-1247765,00.html

... and a new study suggests Romany gypsies originally came from
India, not Egypt:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1191889.htm

Scientists have reconstructed and analyzed the skeleton of one
of Cromwell's crewmen:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/5962424/
http://tinyurl.com/5o9qk (Telegraph)

IOL has an interesting item on Nefertiti:

http://tinyurl.com/6pz2y

David is 500 years old:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3634730.stm

This might be a repeat, but violence is apparently affecting
the pace of 'biblical archaeology':

http://tinyurl.com/4evgj (Biblical Reporter)

Perhaps a 'crime beat' sort of thing, but it seems more
appropriate here ... an interesting piece on the Museum of Fakes:

http://tinyurl.com/65caj (Washington Post)

Was an Inca mummy in Italy the inspiration for 'The Scream':

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20040906/scream.html

The latest on Temple Mount:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/476592.html
http://tinyurl.com/5y3cv (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.co.uk/r5p5 (JPost)

... see also: http://www.har-habayt.org/

Ha'aretz is continuing its series on illuminated manuscripts:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/467120.html

... if you missed the first one, it's still available at:

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

Another piece on the search for the 'Sleeping Buddha' of
Bamiyan:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1063632004

Another museum (this one in Scotland) with a funding crisis (but
a happy outcome of sorts):

http://www.theherald.co.uk/features/23650.html
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/23647.html

The British Museum is going to lend the Cyrus Cylinder Seal to
Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/4t2tk (Independent)

... while the Rhind Mathematical Papyrus makes its way to
Birmingham:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/91tl

China Daily has a feature on X'ian's tombs:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/aa57

Why read Shakespeare?:

http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/040913crat_atlarge

... and the British Museum will soon let you read some of the oldest
manuscripts of Shakespeare online:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/3641880.stm

A very old (among the oldest) manuscript of the Adi Granth has
been found in Paris:

http://www.tribuneindia.com/2004/20040906/punjab1.htm#5

Interesting piece on 'historical' film maker Ken Burns:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/11/arts/television/11note.html

Playing "ancient" (not really) instruments:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/11/arts/music/11symp.html

Dresden's Green Vault reopened this week (scroll down):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/08/arts/08arts.html

Some additional info on the Smithsonian's Museum of the American
Indian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/09/garden/09HOUS.html

The new Musée du Quai Branly will focus on non-Western art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/06/arts/design/06prim.html

A touristy thing on Orvieto:

http://tinyurl.com/5amb4 (NYT)

They're going to recreate/redo the Kon-Tiki expedition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/science/07tiki.html
http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/reuters20040906_142.html
http://tinyurl.co.uk/cs06 (Reuters via Yahoo)

On animals' communicative abilities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/07/science/07cont.html
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ON THE WEB
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Quinnipiac University's Irish famine resources:

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/x6431.xml

American Indian History:

http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/index.html#north

Eric Cline, "Politics and Propaganda: The Use and Abuse of
Ancient Conflicts in the Modern Battle for Jerusalem":

http://tinyurl.com/3mdwe (Bible and Interpretation)
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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William P. Blake, *History of the town of Hamden, Connecticut*

http://www.quinnipiac.edu/other/ABL/etext/hamden/hamdenmain.html

Charles Clay (ed.), *Currency of the Isle of Man*:

http://www.isle-of-man.com/manxnotebook/manxsoc/msvol17/
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CRIME BEAT
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A sort of 'inform the public' piece about looting of sites in
Montana:

http://tinyurl.com/6twop (Billings Gazette)

A number of coins known as the 'Nobles' were stolen from a
Manchester museum this week:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/2h72 (Manchester Online)

Portable Antiquities Scheme folks are worried that eBay is a
major venue for the sale of illicit antiquities:

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

... while some guy trying to sell a 200 b.p. skull on eBay was
charged:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/09/10/ebay_skull_sale_rap/

... and some guys who stole petroglyphs in Nevada also received
their comeuppance:

http://tinyurl.com/58d3n (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.co.uk/bagh (AP via Newsday)

... and some smugglers in Vietnam were caught as they boarded an
airplane:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/n4m9 (VNA)

Interpol's online Recently Stolen Works of Art page:

http://www.interpol.int/Public/WorkOfArt/Search/RecentThefts.asp
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Arthur Phillips, *The Egyptologist* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/books/review/12BISSELL.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0907/p15s01-bogn.html

Paul Cartledge, *Alexander the Great*:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/3ghl (Bloomberg)
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PERFORMANCES
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Daphne (opera):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/arts/music/10DAPH.html

Persians:

http://tinyurl.com/4keyd (SF Chronicle)
http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/9637885.htm

Lucy Hughes-Hallett, *Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen*:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/hh9o (Telegraph)
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EXHIBITIONS
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Alexander Hamilton: The Man Who Made Modern America:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/arts/design/10HAMI.html

China: Dawn of a Golden Age, 200-750 A.D:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/12/arts/design/12COTT.html

Raphael's 'Fornarina' is going on tour in the U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/10/arts/design/10INSI.html

Ancient Sudan at the British Museum:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L01106618.htm

Petra:

http://www.enquirer.com/editions/2004/09/11/tem_Satlede11.html

Photographs of the Acropolis:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/veqw (ZWire)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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The management skills of Alexander the Great:

http://www.sltrib.com/business/ci_2411749

A nice account of goings-on at the Northwest Classics Society:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/rr5r (Seattle Times)

Epic reading of the Iliad:

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0908edteach08.html

Much classcon in an essay on the perils of majority rule:

http://espacestemps.revues.org/document205.html

Classical drama is hot in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/53ckc (Independent)

On the ancient (Roman, apparently) predeliction to plunder:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/6hnn (Chicago Tribune)

On supporting a 'surge' of popularity in Ancient Greek in Conn.:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/rv5m

More on the 'Cleveland Apollo':

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11752

A press release on UW's Trojan War symposium:

http://www.news.wisc.edu/10091.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/4gy7o

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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Robert D. Cumming (Philosophy Scholar):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/06/obituaries/06cumming.html
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REPEATS
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Roman Ships from Naples:

http://tinyurl.com/4qqm6 (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.mareinitaly.it/notizie_v.php?id=904
http://tinyurl.co.uk/vcac (AGI)

Essenes and Qumran:

http://tinyurl.co.uk/ebpk (SF Chronicle)

Hidden Chamber in Great Pyramid:

http://tinyurl.com/57gxo (Guardian)
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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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