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explorator 7.28                                November 7, 2004
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Post hoc ergo propter hoc reasoning applied to a supernova and
human evolution:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041101/supernova.html

Looks like the discovery of the 'hobbit' folk in Indonesia is
going to turn into a big academic argument (both of these are
quite different):

http://tinyurl.com/4dgz7 (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/5cowh (Berkeley Daily Planet)

... in case you missed the hoopla last week:

http://tinyurl.com/5uwpu (SF Chronicle)

A burial of a 9000 b.p. farmer has been found in Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=40971

Reinterpreting Neolithic burials from the Near East:

http://tinyurl.com/4mvo9 (Daily Star)

Nice feature on the Moravian Venus:

http://www.slovakspectator.sk/clanok-17719.html

The dig at Ulugdepe (Turkmenistan) will continue:

http://tinyurl.com/3v7hw (NCA)

Archaeologists are having problems translating an inscription
recently found at Persepolis:

http://tinyurl.com/4gx9t (Tehran Times)

Nice feature on the Theban Mapping Project:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/life/feature/story/0,,1342400,00.html

Six Ptolemaic-era mummies were found last week in the Kharga
Oasis:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o311024m.htm

Underwater archaeology in Iran:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_4325.shtml

Searching for the tomb of Lars Porsena:

http://tinyurl.com/65492 (Economist)

A sort of roundup piece on things recently found in Bulgaria:

http://tinyurl.com/4l3dy (Reuters)

Massive (over)coverage of the Roman face cream story (it was,
of course, actually discovered a year ago this past summer;
current coverage seems to stem from publication of the find
in Nature magazine):

http://www.nature.com/news/2004/041101/full/041101-8.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6397290/
http://tinyurl.com/63bzk (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/6889r (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4oweg (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/6xvj2 (ABC)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1342781,00.html
http://www.london-se1.co.uk/news/view.php?ArtID=1240
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3978775.stm
http://tinyurl.com/4pnx6 (IOL)

Fair bit of coverage of an announcement/exhibition of some
timbers from a Roman brewery:

http://tinyurl.com/4p46j

Saving Ardoch fort from the bunnies:

http://tinyurl.com/4tzta

A 12th Century bronze-working factory from Carlisle:

http://www.cumbria-online.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=151624

More coverage of assorted stuff found under the UK's Portable
Antiquities Scheme:

http://tinyurl.com/62efl

cf.: coverage of attempts to ask eBay to curb sales of assorted
antiquities:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=534f017cefc425d2

A number of (fairly recent) Hindu items have been found in
the Thames:

http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/5983_1088512,00430005.htm

Apparently the Taj Mahal is not tilting after all:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996629

The best-preserved mummy ... from China:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=100340
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THE AMERICAS
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A pile of important finds from Bolivia:

http://www.helsinki.fi/research/news/2004/week44.htm

Nice feature on the excavations at Nachtun:

http://tinyurl.com/42enf (Toronto Star)

Possible Anasazi remains in Utah:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6391338/

More coverage of things being found as Lake Powell recedes:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/science/earth/02cany.html

Hopes are afoot that the techniques used to raise the Hunley
can be used on another Civil War-era submarine:

http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/10064989.htm

Excavation of a Monongahela site raises the problem of what to
do with 'unaffiliated' remains:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/04312/408186.stm

What did George Washington actually look like?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/science/02geor.html
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Interesting spin on that exhibition of Sudanese artifacts at
the British Museum (by the director):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/g2/story/0,3604,1343918,00.html

Attempts are being made to reduce tourist traffic in the Valley
of the Kings:

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

A touristy thing on cave paintings in France:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1103/p11s02-trgn.html?s=hns

Coverage of the 14th Annual Print Fair in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/arts/design/05rube.html

Persian Journal has a feature on the Royal Road:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_4310.shtml

... and the burning of Persepolis:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_4348.shtml

(both appear 'culled' from other sites on the web without
attribution, by the way)

... another is about Smerdis:

http://www.iranian.ws/iran_news/publish/article_4378.shtml

The debate over who wrote the Dead Sea Scrolls continues:

http://chronicle.uchicago.edu/041104/scrolls.shtml

They've figured out the formula for 'Pompeiian Red':

http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1232875.htm
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041101/pompeiired.html

A nice science fair sort of project which brings together
Roman numismatics and science:

http://tinyurl.com/44yc5 (South Bend Tribune)

More 'witches' are being posthumously pardoned:

http://www.rep-am.com/story.php?id=11983
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ON THE WEB
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Money Museum of the Deutsche Bundesbank:

http://www.geldmuseum.de/index.en.php

Biblical Archaeology's 'James Ossuary' page:

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswbOOossuary.html

Barry Strauss, "Go Tell the Spartans":

http://www.historynet.com/mhq/bldspartans/

Smithsonian Magazine has a feature on Alexander the Great:

http://tinyurl.com/6jvp9
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Tacitus's works (trans. Gordon):

http://tinyurl.com/52rpn
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CRIME BEAT
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Lots of attention given to a theft of multiple objects from the
British Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/arts/02arts.html (scroll)
http://tinyurl.com/4om53 (This is London)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3700660
http://tinyurl.com/3oru6 (Reuters)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1341119,00.html

... and the theft might be part of a 'bigger thing':

http://tinyurl.com/3htfq (Washington Times)

NPR had a good piece on the 'state of affairs' in Afghanistan
(coinciding with the reopening of the Kabul Museum):

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4135555

While there seems to be some U.S. Army graffiti showing up on
ancient monuments in Iraq:

http://tinyurl.com/3majk (Al Jazeerah)

Assorted objects ancient and not-so-ancient were recovered in
Israel this week:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/496693.html

... while the site of Acre was vandalized:

http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/498171.html
http://tinyurl.com/43jam (JP)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Michael W. Kauffman, *American Brutus: John Wilkes Booth and the
Lincoln Conspiracies":

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/books/02masl.html

Joseph Ellis, *His Excellency George Washington*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/07/books/review/07MCDONAL.html

Meryle Secrest, *Duveen: A Life in Art*:

http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?041108crbo_books1
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PERFORMANCES
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Pericles:

http://tinyurl.com/4bmc9 (Baltimore Sun)

Lysistrata:

http://tinyurl.com/4vvss (Register)

Antigone Project:

http://tinyurl.com/4xdx9
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EXHIBITIONS
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Drawn by the Brush: Oil Sketches by Peter Paul Rubens:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/05/arts/design/05rube.html

Expansion at the Kelsey Museum and the Museum of Art will bring
a pile of interesting items out of storage (nice photo with
this one):

http://www.detnews.com/2004/schools/0411/05/d08-326240.htm

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

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/02/arts/design/02loan.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Ancient history is winning out over modern in Australian schools:

http://tinyurl.com/5w4d4 (SMH)

Linda Stasi doesn't seem to like the Alexander the Great
presentation on the History Channel:

http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/33336.htm

Nice bit of Alexander hype, with comments from Cartledge and
Fox:

http://tinyurl.com/47moy (Orlando Sentinel)
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OBITUARIES
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Patrick Wormald (Anglo Saxon Historian):

http://tinyurl.com/6dgad (Guardian)
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REPEATS
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Pompeii Digital Makeover:

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

3000 b.p. wood?:

http://tinyurl.com/3oyjb (SF Chronicle)
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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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