~ Explorator 7.23
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Dimitri Nakassis, Donna Hurst, Elizabeth Fentress, Francis Deblauwe, Geoffrey Fishburn, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Jona Lendering, Joseph Lauer, Louis A. Okin, Maurice O'Sullivan, George Pesely, Rick Heli, Robert T. White, Sally Winchester, Susan Jaslow, 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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http://tinyurl.com/6orel (Times; I'm still curious whether folks outside the UK have problems with this one)
40 000 b.p. axe heads found in Syria:
http://tinyurl.com/3l6eg (News.com)
The Greek government is launching a seismological study which may answer what happened to Minoan Civilization:
http://tinyurl.com/69pvl (Kathimerini)
Nice article on the excavations of the Herodian palace at Ramat Haadiv:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/482022.html
'Local' interest in the Qumran excavations:
http://www.sanmarcosrecord.com/articles/2004/10/02/news/news5.txt
That discovery of ancient grain milling in Israel 23000 b.p story is in the news again for some reason:
http://tinyurl.com/5qaf4
Lots of coverage of the discovery of a torso of Venus in Koln:
http://tinyurl.com/3q8qt (IOL) http://tinyurl.com/6sxpy (Australian) http://www.macarthur.org/programs/fel/complete_list_5.htm http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1119807.html http://www.stadtrevue.de/index_archiv.php3?tid=722&bid=3 (photo)
Plenty of versions of an AP story about the discovery of four 2500 b.p. pomegranates near Corinth:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6152274/ http://tinyurl.com/66jl8 (Seattle Times) http://tinyurl.com/3s2wr (Las Vegas Sun)
Nice report on excavations off the coast of Sicily:
http://tinyurl.com/466nl (AGN)
A ring depicting the Celtic divinity Toutatis has been found in Lincolnshire:
http://tinyurl.com/4bec3 (Lincolnshire Echo)
Numerous Roman burials (including one of a slave boy named Martialis) have been found beneath an Esso station in Gloucester:
http://tinyurl.com/4l2zf (Gloucester Citizen)
More coverage (with photos) of the excavation of that Roman bridge on the Tyne:
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART24230.html
If you have access to a Nature subscription/login, here's a nice article on the Roman ships from Naples:
http://tinyurl.com/4nwfz
A Roman-era 'horse ornament' has been found in Croatia:
http://tinyurl.com/59vno (IOL)
Looks like we'll continue to hear about fantastic discoveries from Bulgaria's 'Valley of the Kings':
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=39674 http://tinyurl.com/58a5w
... and that mask should end up in a museum:
http://tinyurl.com/4eszs
A set of five reliefs depicting Ganapatis in various poses have been found in India:
http://tinyurl.com/4juv8 (Calcutta Telegraph)
Ancient granaries from China:
http://english.epochtimes.com/news/4-9-29/23476.html
A Tudor/Stewart era ring has been found at West Wycombe:
http://tinyurl.com/3t5nw (Bucks Free Press)
Excavating St. Leonard's nunnery (Scotland):
http://news.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1123902004
... and Hexham's Moot Hall:
http://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/viewarticle.asp?id=140599
A medieval coin hoard has been found in France:
http://www.spink.com/news/current_news/4018b.asp
Some interesting inscribed copper plates (16th century) from India were rescued from an antiquities shop this week:
http://www.hindu.com/2004/09/27/stories/2004092706510600.htm
Coastal erosion is threatening a number of sites in Scotland:
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1154462004 ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Homo erectus in the Americas? (almost 'don't eat that Elmer' material):
http://tinyurl.com/5ndzy (Fox23)
The remains of some 17th century Pequot people have been found in Connecticut:
http://tinyurl.com/4f4w5 (Newsday)
Good coverage of a dig of a Mississipian site in Indiana:
http://tinyurl.com/69au5 (Courier Press)
A major site (it seems) has been found in a prior-to-construction dig near Palmerdale (Alabama):
http://tinyurl.com/46k5p (Birmingham News) http://tinyurl.com/6gzos (Herald Tribune)
A nice feature on petroglyphs in South Dakota:
http://tinyurl.com/3om56 (Bismarck Tribune)
What happened to the Fremont people?:
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/041004/misc/4tribe.htm
The mystery of Mummy Lake:
http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2422770,00.html
The long-forgotten (it seems) plans to excavate what appears to be the Queen Anne's Revenge are underway again:
http://tinyurl.com/58r3h (Daily News)
A genuine 'strawberry leaf' cent has turned up:
http://news.mainetoday.com/apwire/D8584U300-264.shtml http://tinyurl.com/6q6j3 (Boston Herald) (photo)
They're still excavating that graving yard at Port Angeles:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6103198/
George Washington's Distillery is the start of the 'Whiskey Trail':
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/business/01norris.html http://tinyurl.com/3nxke (Guardian)
And apparently the Kennewick Man saga is not quite over:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6145131/ http://tinyurl.com/6bppp (AP via Yahoo) ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ On the DNA front, they're still not positive who can lay claim to having Columbus' grave:
http://tinyurl.com/3sv6o (AP via Yahoo)
... also on the DNA front, although I'm not sure how/why, are plans to determine whether Agnes Sorel, the mistress of Charles VII, was poisoned:
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1134272004
According to the latest statistical model, we all have a common ancestor who lived about 2300 years b.p.:
http://tinyurl.com/6ft64 (NPR Audio)
Did Arab scholars decode heiroglyphics centuries before Champollion?:
http://tinyurl.com/4vq3s (Observer)
Al Ahram has a nice feature on the International Congress of Egyptologists:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/710/he1.htm
Zahi Hawass' column in Al Ahram:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/710/he2.htm
The authenticity of some artifacts found in 1979 bearing the 'Priestly Benediction' and predating the Dead Sea Scrolls has been confirmed with new technology (check out the graphic in the NYT piece):
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/science/28scro.html http://www.iht.com/articles/540868.html http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/483019.html
The missing pages from the Sforza Hours have been reunited with their book:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/25098.html http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3565385 http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/01/1096527940728.html http://tinyurl.com/43mvw (Telegraph)
DaVinci Code effects:
http://tinyurl.com/6jp28 (CNN)
The charges against Dante have been made available to the public:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3687282.stm
A piece on the history of the Turks and Caicos (who apparently want to join Canada):
http://tinyurl.com/68bv4 (BBC)
Was Kenneth MacAlpine a Scot or a Pict?:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1149902004
... and were the Picts rather more cultured than they are usually portrayed?:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/24272.html
Should Scotland be honouring Somerled?:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1149922004
Byzantine filler:
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/magazine.cfm?id=1136942004
The Rosslyn Chapel folks wouldn't let the Time Team folks in:
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1154182004
How they did gilding before electroplating:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/science/28qna.html?oref=login
So ... who got this year's MacArthurs?:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/09/28/arts/28maca.html http://www.macarthur.org/programs/fel/complete_list_5.htm (list)
Nice little piece about Alexander Pope:
http://tinyurl.com/5kkd2 (Guardian)
Where to look for antiques in France:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/arts/design/01anti.html
Babylon has lost its World Heritage status:
http://tinyurl.com/5zb5l (Iraq Press)
Nice feature on ancient breweries in various cultures:
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041002/bob8.asp
Happy birthday Taj Mahal:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3692702.stm
A 1900 b.p. Indian gold coin is expected to do well at auction:
http://tinyurl.com/5ex8y (Reuters via Yahoo)
Another one of those 'what was it like being on a dig last summer' pieces:
http://tinyurl.com/6cucw
The University of Rhode Island has a program in archaeological oceanography:
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6099556/ http://tinyurl.com/6vrp3 (AP via Yahoo)
Nice piece on various dating methods (archaeological, obviously):
http://tinyurl.com/5z3ld (SF Chronicle)
Time Magazine has an interesting article on heroes and folks who have written about them:
http://tinyurl.com/4hnjt
Temple Mount:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/482613.html http://tinyurl.com/3o57l (AP) http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/482026.html http://tinyurl.com/4edhc (Independent) http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=22221 ================================================================ MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ The Digger 33 (October, 2004):
http://www.bajr.org/DiggerMagazine/Latest/index.html
American Journal of Archaeology 108.3 (July, 2004):
http://www.ajaonline.org/issues/i_toc.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ 12 Black Classicists:
http://www.langlab.wayne.edu/mvr/black_classicists/
Fasti Online (database of digs in Europe):
http://www.fastionline.org/
Preliminary Program for the AIA meeting in January:
http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10096
Preliminary Program for the APA meeting in January:
http://tinyurl.com/3zw34 (pdf)
The World's First Coin (maybe):
http://rg.ancients.info/lion/article.html
Numismatic Collection at Princeton:
http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/department/numismatics/
Nice photos of Persepolis and environs:
http://www.livius.org/a/iran/persepolis/persepolis.html http://www.livius.org/a/iran/persian_gates/yasuj.html ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A major smuggling ring from Iraq appears to have been broken up somewhat (not sure about the grammar in the third paragraph of this one):
http://tinyurl.com/6wbml (TVNZ)
A sort of update piece on smuggling of artifacts from Iraq:
http://tinyurl.com/5rytu (Washington Post)
A short interview with Michael Bogdanos:
http://tinyurl.com/5f6oa (US News)
Trying to stay ahead of looters in Montana:
http://tinyurl.com/4e7t6 (Helena Independent Record)
This one's a bit of a tease ... Atlantic Monthly has a feature on the looting of sites in Iraq prior to the U.S. 'occupation' ... just a couple of paragraphs, but it might be worth tracking down:
http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200411/sandler
On 'losing one's marbles':
http://tinyurl.com/3kvu8 (Guardian)
A number of purloined artifacts from Iraq were recovered in Rome this week:
http://tinyurl.com/5jurb (AGI)
An antiquities dealer has returned an 'incantation bowl' of questionable origins to Jordan:
http://tinyurl.com/6hxqb (Guardian) ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Stephen Greenblatt, *Will in the World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/books/review/03TOIBINA.html http://theater2.nytimes.com/2004/10/01/books/01BOOK.html http://tinyurl.com/4wn6r (Orlando Sentinel)
*Essential Shakespeare Handbook: A Bard Compendium* http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/books/review/03BARD.html
Peter Ackroyd, *The Clerkenwell Tales* (Fiction):
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0921/p15s01-bogn.html?s=hns ================================================================ PERFORMANCES ================================================================ The Ten Commandments(musical!):
http://tinyurl.com/5youx (NYT)
Antigone:
http://tinyurl.com/5bggc (Boston Globe)
Lysistrata:
http://tinyurl.com/6pu5q (Daily Planet) ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Of Maps and Men: In Pursuit of the Northwest Passage
http://www.princeton.edu/~rbsc/exhibitions/milberg.html http://tinyurl.com/5asqn (online version)
Dead Sea Scrolls
http://tinyurl.com/5ru3r (Houston Chronicle) ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ A very good article by the editor of Skeptic magazine on recent claims about finding Atlantis:
http://tinyurl.com/5yuz6 (SciAm)
Responses to the 'Bush as Alcibiades' piece in the LA Times:
http://tinyurl.com/6jwjg (LA Times)
So what's Hunter Rawlings III up to?:
http://www.colby.edu/news/detail/507/
... and Barry Strauss:
http://tinyurl.com/6qr8p (Cornell Chronicle)
A.D. pedantry:
http://tinyurl.com/4zvw7 (Daily Tribune)
More concerns about the CMA's Apollo:
http://tinyurl.com/3m3hf (Plain Dealer)
Latin's all around us:
http://tinyurl.com/5sr6q (Victoria Advocate)
Akropolis News in Classical Greek (hiatus?): 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/
================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Paul Rehak:
http://www.ajaonline.org/issues/pdfs/AJA1083.pdf#younger
Krzysztof Nowicki:
http://www.ajaonline.org/issues/pdfs/AJA1083.pdf#nowicki
Norman Cantor:
http://tinyurl.com/48xtj (Telegraph) ================================================================ REPEATS ================================================================ Megiddo Excavation (Washington Post story):
http://www.charleston.net/stories/092604/fai_26arm.shtml ================================================================ OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS ================================================================ 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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