================================================================
explorator 7.27                                 October 31, 2004
================================================================
Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight
hours from the time of publication.

For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text
and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which
arrives otherwise!!!
================================================================
================================================================

Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Dave
Sowdon, Dirk Collins, Eric Cline, Donna Hurst, Glenn Meyer,
Hernan Astudillo, James Spinti, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Ken McCluskey, Louis A. Okin, Maurice O'Sullivan,
Michael Oberndorf, Rick Heli, rm howe, Bob White, Robert Greaves,
Sally Winchester, Steve Rankin, Tim Spalding, Tony Jackson,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

Have you visited our blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/

If you're using an (ahem) old or clunky browser, try accessing
it via Bloglines:

http://www.bloglines.com/preview?siteid=21809

editor's note: folks who are reluctant to register to some
of these online sources should visit http://bugmenot.com/ and
type in the url of the newspaper in question. They will provide
you (usually) with a useable user name and password. For the
record, though, I've never had any problems with any of the
sites used in Explorator ...

n.b.: it *is* October 24; I was a week ahead of myself applying
the date to last week's issue (only one person seems to have
caught it!)

Last week's errata: the Pequot burial site which I located in
New Hampshire was actually in Connecticut; apologies for any
confusion ...
================================================================
================================================================
AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
================================================================
*Plenty* of coverage of the discovery of a new (hobbitish)
species of human (interesting how there are multiple articles
from the same source on this one):

http://tinyurl.com/3untl (AP via CNN)
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/flores/index.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/4311029a.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/041025-4.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/041025-3.html
http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041025/full/041025-2.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/28/science/28tiny.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6339784/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6359734/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6346939/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6345671/
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3948165.stm
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996588
http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=202642
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2141-2004Oct27.html
http://tinyurl.com/6desd (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/6sy9u (Telgraph again)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1246342004
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2004/10/28/1098667866272.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20041030/fob1.asp
http://tinyurl.com/6dsxr (NPR)
http://tinyurl.com/52cwn (NG)
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=2780
(portuguese)

An unrecorded megalithic stone row from Dartmoor:

http://www.ucl.ac.uk/prehistoric/past/past47.html#Dartmoor

Wood possibly from a 3,000 b.p. ship has been found at Hof Dor:

http://www.cdnn.info/industry/i041028/i041028.html

Athenian subway finds:

http://tinyurl.com/3lmxs (AFP via Yahoo)

The Louvre bought a Greek horse head:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11635

Among the various articles about the UK's Portable Antiquities
Scheme this week are a handful detailing the discovery of a
gold foil lamella:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1336551,00.html

The English Elm was apparently brought over by the Romans:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3959561.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1337592,00.html

First it was badgers (badger, badger, badger) in England, now it
is rabbits threatening assorted sites in Scotland:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1238882004
http://tinyurl.com/423s5 (Telegraph)

Erosion is threatening a Roman burial site in Cumbria:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/cumbria/3954079.stm

Press release on the use of assorted technologies in an excavation
of a Roman fort in Jordan:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/507880/

A cart-rut project in Malta:

http://www.independent.com.mt/daily/newsview.asp?id=28324

Who were the first settlers of Fiji?:

http://tinyurl.com/5z469 (ABC)

A Fourteenth-Century button industry in Coventry?:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh/ART24601.html

A brief (but interesting) piece on archaeological discoveries
from various periods in Prague:

http://www.radio.cz/en/article/59681

South Africa is turning the Mapungubwe Kingdom into a tourist
attraction:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/L14524055.htm
================================================================
THE AMERICAS
================================================================
Coverage of the excavation of a Cody Complex people camp in
Yellowstone National Park:

http://tinyurl.com/3tbyu (Star-Tribune)
http://tinyurl.com/63su7 (Gazette)

Potential native burials in Duluth:

http://www.duluthsuperior.com/mld/duluthtribune/10025552.htm

Pueblo remains in Santa Fe?:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=96713

A feature on Pueblo la Plata:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1028/p13s01-stgn.html

Peru is trying to make the site of Kuelap more accessible to
tourists:

http://tinyurl.com/54vp9 (IOL)

More hurricane-related discoveries:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/1004/hurricae_coins.asp
http://tinyurl.com/4ru94 (Billings Gazette)

Is the Walam Olum a hoax?:

http://tinyurl.com/3tlab (Herald News)

The USS Constitution returned to Annapolis this week:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6339784/
================================================================
ALSO OF INTEREST
================================================================
The 'mystery of Mozart's skull' is back in the news, with a
number of the decomposed composer's relatives being exhumed for
comparison purposes:

http://tinyurl.com/4umyh (Guardian)

Plenty of coverage of the success of the UK's Portable Antiquities
Scheme and what's been found recently:

http://tinyurl.com/55jev (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/3o5ph (Art Daily)

A follow-up to that St. Bernard story a few issues back:

http://tinyurl.com/55dqp (NYT)

Interesting feature on the Jordanian site of Deir Ain Abata:

http://tinyurl.com/6rokt (Daily Star)

Assorted Mesopotamian sites are going to be 'digitized':

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=2785
(article in Portuguese)

Apparently folks weren't overly interested in commenting on the
proposed Stonehenge visitors' centre:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/3954623.stm

Interesting piece on assorted secret societies at Yale:

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

An abstract from Archaeology of an article about the Alchemist's
Lab:

http://www.archaeology.org/0411/abstracts/alchemy.html

A barrister expresses an opinion on the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles
dispute:

http://tinyurl.com/3z867 (Birmingham Post)

The Field Museum is trying to 'reunite' a pile of artifacts from
Kish:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2004-10/fm-fm102204.php

Interesting correspondences between moral precepts in the Bible
and various ancient philosophers:

http://tinyurl.com/5uluk (Leader)

Some Hallowe'en tv viewing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/arts/television/29tvwk.html

Roman ghosts in York:

http://tinyurl.com/4r6ar (Mail and Guardian)

A Scottish town is celebrating Hallowe'en by pardoning 80 or
so folk who had been executed as witches:

http://www.bradenton.com/mld/bradenton/news/local/10052564.htm
http://tinyurl.com/69h37 (CBC)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/3965965.stm

There's going to be another Indiana Jones movie:

http://tinyurl.com/5d3mv (AFP via Yahoo)

What colour was Jesus?:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/3958241.stm

The Soleto Map ... a sort of preview of something which will
surely be in the news in the next little while:

http://www.unc.edu/awmc/soletomap.html

Sunspots and dendrochronology:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996591
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/10/28/sun_spots/

More potential damage to sites in Iraq:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11637
================================================================
ON THE WEB
================================================================
A very useful way to search a pile of libraries for texts:

http://redlightgreen.com

Beads from Anglo Saxon Graves:

http://tinyurl.com/4v26v

Machu Picchu on the Web:

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/machu/

The Ovid Project:

http://tinyurl.com/69okf
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Egypt displayed a number of repatriated antiquities this week:

http://tinyurl.com/684vp (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/5t9q5 (Reuters)

A French antiquities smuggler didn't show up for his trial in a
Cairo court:

http://tinyurl.com/6t4y2 (Expatica)

... but he claims he isn't 'on the run':

http://tinyurl.com/3wrko (Daily Star)

The British Museum has a problem with EBay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/30/arts/30trea.html
http://tinyurl.com/65dms (Reuters)
http://www.busrep.co.za/index.php?fSectionId=&;fArticleId=2276824
================================================================
BOOK REVIEWS
================================================================
Susan Nagel, *Mistress of the Elgin Marbles*:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/critique.cfm?id=1253172004

Joseph J. Ellis, *His Excellency George Washington*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/26/books/26kaku.html

Rober Alter, *The Five Books of Moses*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?041101crbo_books

Richard Rhodes, *John James Audobon:The Making of an American.*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/books/review/31ROSENL.html

An interview with Eric Cline about his *Jerusalem Beseiged: From
Ancient Canaan to Modern Israel*:

http://tinyurl.com/4ou3d (NG)

Steven Pressfield, *The Virtues of War: A Novel of Alexander
the Great*:

http://tinyurl.com/3zn7n

Barry Strauss, *The Battle of Salamis*:

http://tinyurl.com/6lraa

Stephen Mitchell, *Gilgamesh: A New English Version.*:

http://tinyurl.com/3j596 (Sun-Sentinel)

================================================================
PERFORMANCES
================================================================
Antigone Project:

http://tinyurl.com/69w4n (NYT)

Gods, Goddesses and Ancestors: Ritual Theyyams of Kerala:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/27/arts/dance/27kera.html

Gospel at Colonus:

http://tinyurl.com/4fkzh (NYT)
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS
================================================================
A couple of exhibitions (Aztec, China) in New York:

http://newyorkmetro.com/nymetro/arts/art/reviews/10104/

The Aztec one alone:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/art/?041101craw_artworld
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/arts/design/31shat.html

Mirrors to the Past (Greek influence on assorted art forms):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/arts/design/29roth.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/31/arts/music/31midg.html

Princely Splendor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/arts/design/29kimm.html

Totems to Turquoise: Native North American Jewelry Arts of the
Northwest and Southwest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/29/arts/design/29smit.html

Queen of Sheba:

http://www.fortwayne.com/mld/journalgazette/living/10056370.htm

Yale University Art Gallery:

http://artgallery.yale.edu/

National Museum of African Art:

http://www.nmafa.si.edu/
================================================================
CLASSICIST'S CORNER
================================================================
The Kalos Kylix was up for sale at Bonham's this week:

http://tinyurl.com/3phtw (Art Daily)

An Odyssey flick is in the works:

http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=6936

... while Baz Luhrman's AtG movie might be dead in the water:

http://comingsoon.net/news/topnews.php?id=6953

Reclining while dining is making a comeback of sorts:

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/10/26/leisure.bed.reut/

Latin is alive and well in Littleton:

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

A 'Toga Day' luncheon:

http://tinyurl.com/64o44 (Sentinel)

Haven't had a Joe Paterno piece in a while, so ecce:

http://www.app.com/app/story/0,21625,1093644,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/4npg6 (USA Today)

A marathon Odyssey reading:

http://tinyurl.com/4jtk2 (Metrowest Daily News)

Pompeii may be augmented by computer-generated residents:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/3954659.stm

James Anderson talks about inscriptions:

http://dailybeacon.utk.edu/article.php/16774

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Michael Grant

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/10/25/obituaries/25grant.html
http://tinyurl.com/6ya9g (Nashua Telegraph)
================================================================
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
================================================================
EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of
the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of the
ancient world (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history  prior to about 1700 or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge!
================================================================
Useful Addresses
================================================================
Read the latest Explorator on the web at:
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/categories/explorator

Past issues of Explorator are available on the web at:
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to:
mailto:Explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to:
mailto:Explorator-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

To send a 'heads up' to the editor or contact him for other
reasons, reply to this message.
================================================================
Explorator is Copyright (c) 2004 David Meadows. Feel free to
distribute these listings via email to your pals, students,
teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. These
links are not to be posted to any website by any means (whether
by direct posting or snagging from a usenet group or some other
email source) without my express written permission. I think it
is only right that I be made aware of public fora which are
making use of content gathered in Explorator. Thanks!
================================================================

::Sunday, October 31, 2004 8:51:41 AM::