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Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I
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n.b.: I think last week I set a personal record for errata in
one issue, so allow me to cumulatively apologize for:

1. In the 'Obituaries' section, I listed Krzysztof Nowicki as
deceased; Dr. Nowicki (who is alive) in fact was the author of
the obituary of Bogdan Rutkowski ...

2. In the 'Crime Beat' section, I claimed a number of antiquities
from Iraq had been recovered in Rome; they were, in fact,
recovered near Nasiriyyah in Iraq.

3. This one was not so much my error, but requires correction ... a
story was listed suggesting that Babylon had lost its World
Heritage status; Babylon never had World Heritage status

4. Some recipients received the issue with a subject line of
'Issue 7.33' ... it should, of course, have been 7.23

Apologies to all concerned for any confusion/inconvenience caused
by the foregoing. I'd like to say it will never happen again, but
I know myself too well ...

n.b.2: also worthy of note is that many folks responded to my
request for info about access to the Times; it would appear that
I live in some sort of strange time warp and it works only for
me (no, I am not a subscriber and folks outside the UK are
supposed to subscribe); as such, I will no longer link to articles
from the Times.
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Pushing back the date when stone tools were first made in China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/05/science/05chin.html

We don't usually include items like this, but this one is kind
of interesting and might have impacts in other areas ... it
appears that Eurasian giant deer survived the last Ice Age:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6191527/

A Bronze-Age burial of a woman who died in childbirth:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-10/uadb-dot100604.php

Searching for the lost civilization of Ionia:

http://tinyurl.com/4m8q6 (Daily Post)

They keep finding (and reporting on) Thracian artifacts being
found in Bulgaria (there is some variation in the following
reports):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=39974
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=40030
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=39976
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=39971
http://tinyurl.com/5h69t (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5ogxl (AFP via Yahoo)

Interesting potential implications of the discovery of a huge
pair of Geometric era sarcophagi:

http://tinyurl.com/62zgz (News.com)
http://tinyurl.com/3zq6d (Herald Sun)
http://tinyurl.com/67arg (Sunday Times)
http://tinyurl.com/3q2u5 (Daily Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/5eqab (Australian)

Interesting discovery of the ritual burial of four horses in
North Yorkshire dating to ca. 50 A.D./C.E.:

http://tinyurl.com/6xrej (Northern Echo)
http://tinyurl.com/6uxak (Yorkshire Post)

Plenty of excitement over the discovery of what might be Genghis
Khan's palace and/or mausoleum:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6189531/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6188922/
http://tinyurl.com/5t8wo (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6joqn (La Tercera ... Spanish)
http://tinyurl.com/5tvzf (CNN)
http://tinyurl.com/4n5t5 (Itar-TASS)
http://www.thedailystar.net/2004/10/08/d410084312115.htm

An Anglo Saxon chapel has been found at a dig at Bamburgh
Castle:

http://tinyurl.com/44v2p (Berwick Today)

We haven't had a trepanning story in a while ... an 11th
century skull from North Yorkshire suggests the procedure saved
the life of a medieval peasant:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3714992.stm (photo)
http://news.scotsman.com/scitech.cfm?id=1163002004

... while Medieval dentists were possibly a bit better than
might be assumed:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/3722598.stm

A section of 'the King's Wall' has been found in Edinburgh (I
think):

http://news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1173222004

A 14th century fresco has been found in the wall of a museum
in Siena:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3716588.stm
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THE AMERICAS
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of cannons in the wreck of
what is believed to be the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6207766/
http://tinyurl.com/5a7sg (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5tcos (CNN)

... and we have a very nice 'course of the excavation' piece as
well:

http://tinyurl.com/6dyrj (Fayetteville something)

A major survey is planned for the Trans-Pecos:

http://tinyurl.com/3rxx4 (Desert Mountain Times)

Remains of a Chinese mining community have been found in Oregon:

http://tinyurl.com/5hssk (Mail Tribune)

Fourteen skulls belonging to Klallam people ancestors have been
found in Port Angeles:

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/local/194159_skulls07.html

A slave cemetery excavation in Virginia:

http://www.roanoke.com/news/nrv%5C11952.html

Searching for Thomas Jefferson's courthouse:

http://tinyurl.com/6v8mv (Smithsonian Magazine)

The storms recently endured by Florida have also revealed some
potential archaeological sites:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6196062/

Another mall being built; another potential archaeological site
found:

http://www.dailymail.com/news/News/2004100522/

That Walmart in Mexico City has been given the go ahead:

http://tinyurl.com/4c7qh
http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2835400
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Lice throughout history:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/10/041005075751.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/05/science/05lice.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/3715132.stm
http://tinyurl.com/662f5 (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/5hhj8 (Deseret News)
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2421700

... here's the article which gave rise to the foregoing:

http://tinyurl.com/6ephu (PLoS Biology)

Not sure why this AP story is making the rounds, but it's an
interesting item on the technology Robert Ballard used in his
Black Sea Expedition a few years ago:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/9880290.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5nf5z (AP via Yahoo)

... similar:

http://tinyurl.com/6qxmc (BG News)

Interesting item on Sikh coinage:

http://www.webindia123.com/news/showdetails.asp?id=48829

So what did Columbus and crew eat?:

http://www.castellobanfi.com/features/story_3.html

An Anglo Saxon penny brought in a pile of cash at auction this
week:

http://apnews.myway.com//article/20041006/D85I6EG80.html
http://tinyurl.com/4ozxk (CNN)

Applying Shakespeare's Julius Caesar to the presidential debates:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/opinion/03greenblatt.html

Travel Video has an interview with Zahi Hawass:

http://travelvideo.tv/news/more.php?id=2953_0_1_0_M

The Jerusalem Post has an interview with Hershel Shanks all
about the James Ossuary and other matters:

http://tinyurl.com/5fr5e

The Cortez Journal has an interview with Florence Lister:

http://tinyurl.com/5rzzu

The upcoming documentary 'Persepolis Recreated' looks
interesting:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/041007/persepolis.shtml

What is needed to restore the Baghdad Museum to its former
glory:

http://tinyurl.com/4l7v3 (Daily Star)

That expedition to photograph Noah's Ark has been (not
surprisingly, perhaps) called off:

http://tinyurl.com/5sc3s (National Geographic)

Interesting item on an auction of antique clocks and other
scientific equipment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/arts/design/08anti.html

The Horniman Museum has a problem with spam filters, apparently:

http://tinyurl.com/6egq4 (This is Local London)

They're commemorating the birth of the discoverer of Peking Man's
skull:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/03/content_2049999.htm

... perhaps related to the above:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200410/s1216939.htm

Interesting item on Ethiopian tabots in the British Museum:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11626
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New Zealand Archaeology e-News:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

Archaeology Odyssey (November/December 2004):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html
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Columbus Navigation Home Page:

http://www1.minn.net/~keithp/

Irish Coinage:

http://www.irishcoinage.com/

Folks interested in that piece on the Arab scholar who is said
to have deciphered heiroglyphics before Champollion might want
to check out the discussion on the ANE list on the subject:

http://tinyurl.com/5fc3v (subject: Arabic translation of ...)

... see also Jim Davila's post on Paleojudaica:

http://tinyurl.com/56878

... and Languagehat:

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/001585.php
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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John Ruskin, *The Queen of the Air, Being a Study of the Greek
Myths of Cloud and Storm*:

http://tinyurl.com/6x8kw
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CRIME BEAT
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McGuire Gibson has a response to the recent piece in
Atlantic Monthly (mentioned in last week's Explorator); since
the letter is a bit too long to post in toto, it seems
salutary to link to a copy of it which was also sent to the
ANE list:

http://tinyurl.com/5looo

In light of all the press coverage of finds in Bulgaria, it's
probably not surprising that we begin to hear of arrests of
folks trying to smuggle antiquities therefrom:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=40024

Two men arrested for conducting an illegal excavation in Jiroft
have been sentenced to death:

http://tinyurl.com/6yohz (Iranmania)

This story about a gun battle and subsequent recovery of
antiquities is related to the story I messed up last week by
suggesting it happened in Rome (awk):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-10/04/content_2052616.htm

Looting continues unabated in Afghanistan:

http://tinyurl.com/3r3p8 (Eurasianet)

More Iraqi artifacts recovered:

http://tinyurl.com/5pyr8 (Al Jazeerah)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Lucy Hughes-Hallett,*Heroes: Saviours, Traitors and Supermen*

http://tinyurl.com/64nan (Guardian)

Scott Huler, *Defining the Wind: The Beaufort Scale, and How a
Nineteenth-Century Admiral Turned Science Into Poetry*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/books/review/10BARCOTT.html

Francine Segan, *Philosopher's Kitchen*:

http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/living/food/9832916.htm

Three bios of Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/6pmdx (Tribune-Review)

... and four bios of Alexander:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2108654

Thomas Asbridge, *The First Crusade: The Roots of Conflict
Between Christianity and Islam*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1005/p14s01-bogn.html?s=hns

Upinder Singh, *The Discovery of Ancient India*:

http://tinyurl.com/3kkcb (Outlook India)

Harold Bloom, *Where Shall Wisdom Be Found*:

http://tinyurl.com/6rcqr
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PERFORMANCES
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Spanish/Burgundian Music of the 15th/16th Centuries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/05/arts/music/05roun2.html

Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/4b44b (NYT)

Persephone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/07/arts/dance/07comf.html

Bacchae:

http://tinyurl.com/64xow (Telegraph)
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China: Dawn of a Golden Age (Classicists take note!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/03/arts/design/03solo.html
http://tinyurl.com/4sp63 (Journal News)

Gesichter des Orients: 10 000 Jahre Kunst und Kultur aus
Jordanien:

http://tinyurl.com/6wojh (Morgenpost)

Drawn by the Brush (Rubens):

http://www.thejournalnews.com/newsroom/100804/e01w08rubens.html

Raphael From Urbino to Rome

http://tinyurl.com/3q6m9 (Guardian)

The Newtonian Moment: Science and the Making of Modern Culture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/08/arts/design/08NEWT.html
http://tinyurl.com/67psw (AP via Yahoo)
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Hey, hey, my, my ... the Latin language can never die (unlike
French, apparently):

http://education.guardian.co.uk/schools/story/0,,1317927,00.html

In the wake of Troy, Homer hits number one on the poetry best-
sellers list in the UK:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/music/3721068.stm
http://tinyurl.com/42z37 (Reuters)

What one former Latin teacher does:

http://tinyurl.com/3sxs7 (The Star)

A comic artist has created a giant map of Rome as it might have
appeared in the early 4th century:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6208568/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Mapping-Rome.html
http://newsobserver.com/news/story/1715663p-7974465c.html

What's Robert Fagles up to?:

http://pr.baylor.edu/story.php?id=005386

What Luke Slattery thinks about Alexander the Great:

http://tinyurl.com/6x4ss (Australian)

An Auckland student has landed a junior fellowship at Oxford:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/mason/stories/ED0410/S00014.htm

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/5xed2

Akropolis News in Classical Greek (back again):
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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Michael Grant:

http://tinyurl.com/3tto7 (Telegraph)

Gordon Bendersky (medical historian):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/09/national/09bendersky.html

Jacques Derrida ("Abstruse Theorist"):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/10/obituaries/10derrida.html
http://www.sltrib.com/nationworld/ci_2424893
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/international/AP-Mapping-Rome.html

Ma Chengyuan:

http://tinyurl.com/633mx (AP via Yahoo)

Michael Astour:

http://tinyurl.com/3l65v (ANE list)

Patrick Wormald (Medievalist):

http://tinyurl.com/6sov9 (Independent)
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REPEATS
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Arab scholar deciphered heiroglyphics before Champollion:

http://tinyurl.com/6mg2k (Guardian)

Cyrus Cylinder:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=f3561cdad9d53ba7

Who Killed Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/6gaw2 (Independent)

Pompeii Erotic Mural restorations:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1155812004
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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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