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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A Mesolithic site has been found in Aberdeenshire:

http://tinyurl.com/4w3wb (Press)

... while a Neolithic site has been found during highway
construction in Romania:

http://tinyurl.com/6tnow (IOL)

A 3000 b.p. wooden staircase has been found in Austria:

http://tinyurl.com/6jx6j (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tvnz.co.nz/view/news_world_story_skin/452980%3fformat=html
http://www.turkishpress.com/turkishpress/news.asp?ID=30519

Plans are in the works to move the Greco-Roman temple of Khnum
at Esna (Egypt):

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/712/hr1.htm

... while a Greco-Roman cemetery has been found in the Kharga
Oasis:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o141024z4.htm

A Roman villa site in Portland is threatened:

http://tinyurl.com/2qnql

Quite a few Roman artifacts (including scale armour) have been
found preserved in clay in Carlisle:

http://www.cumberland-news.co.uk/news/viewarticle.asp?id=145055

A Roman bathing complex has been found at Paganico:

http://www.maremmanews.it/06/06161004152836A.asp (Italian)

A building site in Loch Lomond has revealed sites from various
periods:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3730998.stm

Archaeologists in India have found a 1500 b.p. floor during the
excavation of a temple in Chhattisgarh:

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&;id=36707

Not sure where to classify this one, but a ski dating to ca
1000 A.D. or so has been found on Greenland:

http://tinyurl.com/46jqr (IOL)

England's 17th Century space program:

http://tinyurl.com/44gbv (Independent)

Badger, badger, badgers are damaging prehistoric burial mounds
on the Salisbury Plain:

http://tinyurl.com/4ph5v (Telegraph)
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THE AMERICAS
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A sort of what's-been-dug-up-lately-in-southern-Missouri piece:

http://www.kctv5.com/Global/story.asp?S=2416455

A nice what-can-we-expect-to-hear-in-the-presentation piece on
a site (mostly Civil War era) site in Hampton, Virginia:

http://tinyurl.com/3w276 (Daily Press)

... and a what-we-heard-from-an-archaeologist piece on mounds
in Wisconsin:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/462/5035285.html

A nice piece on the Meadowcroft Rock Shelter site:

http://tinyurl.com/5qv2z (Tribune-Review)

Assorted shipwrecks near Nomoni Creek:

http://fredericksburg.com/News/FLS/2004/102004/10142004/1537003

Archaeologists have found an original wall of the Presidio La
Bahia in Victoria (Texas):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6228664/
http://tinyurl.com/5wd8o (Advocate)

More on sites revealed by recent hurricanes in Florida (most of
these are different):

http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/9887996.htm
http://www.miami.com/mld/miamiherald/news/state/9922739.htm
http://tinyurl.com/5pbds (Palm Beach Post)
http://tinyurl.com/6ymrq (Sun-Sentinel)
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/nation/9926562.htm

They're off to search for the "Mayan Atlantis":

http://tinyurl.com/3tzr5 (IOL)

Mexican Walmart fallout:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/3747580.stm
http://www.commondreams.org/views04/1015-28.htm
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I think we might have mentioned this before ... on the DNA front,
scientists still aren't completely positive who can lay claim
to having the bones of Columbus:

http://tinyurl.com/68h5e (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6214327/

... and I think we mentioned before that the skull in Petrarch's
tomb isn't his:

http://tinyurl.com/6h6c9 (AP via Yahoo)

Here's the latest on the findings from the exhumations of the
Medicis:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041011/medici.html

A sort of touristy thing on ruins of various kinds to be
found walking from Colonsay to Oronsay:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/magazine.cfm?id=1194212004

... after which you might want to drive the 'Relic Trail' in
the Southwestern U.S.:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/automobiles/15ANCI.html

... or wander around Corsica:

http://travel2.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/travel/17corsica.html
http://travel2.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/travel/17crafts.html

... or visit the Taj Mahal:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1012/p07s01-wosc.html?s=hns

Was the first compound machine made in China?:

http://tinyurl.com/5mk4v (Popular Mechanics)

A sort of 'future is bright for archaeology in Afghanistan'
piece:

http://tinyurl.com/4gsao (Lebanon Daily Star)
http://yaleglobal.yale.edu/display.article?id=4679

According to a couple of anatomy professors, Michelangelo's
David is not as 'perfect' as we've been led to believe:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041011/davidfault.html

I suspect there are more professors like this:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/14/garden/14RYSK.html

Charles I of Austria has been beatified (!):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/opinion/15fri3.html

A possible 'new' Goya has been found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/arts/15ARTS.html (scroll down)

A different kind of archaeology:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/magazine/17COCKTAIL.html

Was there a "comet impact" ca 200 B.C. in southern Germany?:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3636946

Moshe Dayan's antiquarian past:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/486351.html

Troops will be out of Babylon archaeological sites by the end
of the year:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/2840727
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Antiquity 78 (September 2004):

http://antiquity.ac.uk/CurrentIssue/currentindex.html
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ON THE WEB
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Ancient Greek Coins of Miletus:

http://rjohara.net/coins/lydia-electrum/

This is kind of an interesting 'salvo' in the Temple Mount
saga; it's a website with photos of the 'Temple Mount Dump' of
'rubbish' that has been removed from the site:

http://www.bibleplaces.com/templemountdump.htm

Pompeiian Households: An Online Companion:

http://www.stoa.org/projects/ph/home
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Danebury: Ritual and Religion in the Iron Age:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CRIME BEAT
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A pile of stolen antiquities were returned to Egypt this week:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3746200.stm
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3628033

An antiques dealer has admitted he stole a pile of maps from
the National Library of Wales:

http://tinyurl.com/3pxxm (Western Mail)

Some smugglers in Iran were nabbed this week:

http://tinyurl.com/5fae6 (NetIran)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Epic of Gilgamesh (Stephen Mitchell trans.; not really a review
but more properly an excerpt from the intro):

http://tinyurl.com/653aq (Guardian)

Robert Alter, *The Five Books of Moses*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/17/books/review/17SHULEVI.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Richard III:

http://nytimes.com/2004/10/12/theater/reviews/12rich.html

Platee:

http://tinyurl.com/54jh5 (NY Metro)

Eurydice:

http://www.timesstar.com/Stories/0,1413,125~1549~2469558,00.html
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EXHIBITIONS
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Encounters: The Meeting of Asia and Europe, 1500-1800:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/13/arts/design/13enco.html

Reflections of the Past: Mirrors 1685-1815:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/arts/design/15anti.html

The Aztec Empire:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/arts/design/15COTT.html

European Bronzes From the Quentin Collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/arts/design/15fric.html

Dreaming of Italy. Artists and Travellers Go South 1750 - 1870:

http://news.amn.org/press.jsp?id=2408

In Stabiano:

http://tinyurl.com/5hr5s (Washington Post)

Mosaics at Ben-Gurion International Airport:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/487455.html

Queen of Sheba:

http://tinyurl.com/4jr3t (Art Daily)

Sky Disc of Nebra:

http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,1564,1361492,00.html

Tiwanaku:

http://tinyurl.com/6srxl (Daily Camera)
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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On the popularity of the ancient world in movies these days:

http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/16/1097784101047.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://tinyurl.com/4ebj2
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OBITUARIES
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Phyllis Lehman (excavatrix of Samothrace):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/16/national/16lehmann.html

Dominic Montserrat (Egyptologist):

http://tinyurl.com/5mraz (Independent)

Ma Chengyuan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/15/arts/15ma.html
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REPEATS
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Ballard and his Robot Sub (why is this news???):

http://tinyurl.com/4ojob (CNN)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6199827/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6214327/

Toolmaking in China 1.75 million b.p.:

http://tinyurl.com/6nqha (Dallas News)
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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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