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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A fossil in Spain is possibly the last common ancestor of the
great apes and humans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/19/science/19ape.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6522090/

Apparently we were 'born to run':

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/science/18run.html
http://www.sltrib.com/ci_2464273
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,595106221,00.html

A "stone age Julia Roberts":

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1180643.html

3000 b.p. burials from Bulgaria:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41588

Neolithic farming on the blessed isle:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,6903,1350957,00.html

Some coverage (doesn't seem to be 'news'?) of the Jiroft
civilization:

http://tinyurl.com/5of7j (New Kerala)
http://in.news.yahoo.com/041116/43/2hw4s.html

... see also the nice article in Saudi Aramco World on Jiroft;

http://www.saudiaramcoworld.com/issue/200405/what.was.jiroft..htm

A second century B.C./B.C.E. site was found at Lumbini:

http://tinyurl.com/4twpc (Nepal News)

Another piece on recent finds from Bulgaria (with increased
evidence of Dr. Kitov's 'media darling' status):

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41605

A 1000 b.p. mosque has been found near Baft:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/nov/1131.html

Remains of a medieval ship have been found in the Thames:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/kent/4021077.stm
http://tinyurl.com/6t4al (Independent)
http://tinyurl.com/6ath8 (Guardian)
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THE AMERICAS
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Plenty of coverage of radiocarbon evidence suggesting humans
were in South Carolina 50,000 b.p.:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/11/041118104010.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/science/18charcoal.html
http://tinyurl.com/6xudl (Washington Post)
http://www.archaeology.org/online/news/topper.html
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6521390/
http://tinyurl.com/3v2ke (AP via Yahoo)
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1118/p01s02-usgn.html

Using technology from NASA to figure out the rise and fall of
the Mayans:

http://science.nasa.gov/headlines/y2004/15nov_maya.htm
http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=103423
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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A sort of history/overview-of-conservation thing about the
Hagar Qim temples on Malta:

http://www.independent.com.mt/daily/newsview.asp?id=28700

A pile of letters from Admiral Nelson have been found:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/4017767.stm

The latest in the Aksum obelisk saga:

http://tinyurl.com/42ord (Reuters via Yahoo)

... and the HMS Sussex saga-in-the-making:

http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1332402004

Interesting item on archaeologist Paul Zimansky:

http://tinyurl.com/56znz (Shorthorn)

What they think about Cervantes in Spain:

http://tinyurl.com/5x62p (NYT)

A touristy thing on Matera:

http://tinyurl.com/3wcsr (IHT)

TLS has a feature on the history of Easter Island:

http://www.the-tls.co.uk/this_week/story.aspx?story_id=2109107

Colin Renfrew has been given the Balzan Prize:

http://tinyurl.com/6xfc5 (BBC)

Robert Ballard is concerned about the Titanic:

http://tinyurl.com/6vfe4 (USA Today)

Interesting item on the history of tattoos:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0412/online_extra.html

An update on the aftermath of that fire at the Amalia Library:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/20/books/20pres.html

A dirty job, but someone will probably do it:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1349125,00.html

Homer Simpson and philosophy class:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1116/p11s01-legn.html

A 'classical' graffitti artist has struck again:

http://w3.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/story.asp?StoryID=64972

First it was the secret of Pompeiian Red ... now it's Han
Purple:

http://www.linuxelectrons.com/article.php/20041119203657854
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ON THE WEB
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Stoa Image Gallery:

http://icon.stoa.org/gallery/albums.php
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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A couple of chapters of Jona Lendering's tome on Alexander:

http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_z7.html
http://www.livius.org/aj-al/alexander/alexander_z6.html
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CRIME BEAT
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A pile of Afghan artifacts feared lost during the Taliban years
have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/5jpxl (Washington Post)
http://tinyurl.com/5eph9 (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6522609/
http://tinyurl.com/4l5bt (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.sunherald.com/mld/sunherald/news/world/10207705.htm

Concerns are again being raised that coalition forces aren't
doing enough to protect antiquities in Iraq:

http://www.kfvs12.com/Global/story.asp?S=2573228

... perhaps related to the foregoing is an effort to create a
database of Iraqi sites:

http://www.neh.fed.us/news/humanities/2004-11/lostempires.html

Security at many of London's museums is apparently not up to
par:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/london/4006957.stm

Looting of sites continues in Cambodia:

http://tinyurl.com/3qx8y (Telegraph)

Looting of Greece during WWII:

http://tinyurl.com/4oxax (Kathimerini)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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A couple of books about U.S. Grant:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/books/review/14BAKERL.html

Four books about Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/4lo2j (Globe and Mail)

... and a couple more:

http://tinyurl.com/5e8jo (Star)

Walter Olson, *Wedgewood: The First Tycoon*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/14/books/review/14OLSENEH.html

An interview with Steven Pressfield:

http://tinyurl.com/3z2rk (ESR)

Lance Kurke, *The Wisdom of Alexander the Great*:

http://tinyurl.com/4mfhc (Globe and Mail)

*Confessions of Alexander the Great: 33 Lessons in Greatness*:

http://www.marketwire.com/mw/release_html_b1?release_id=76432

Stephen Mitchell (trans.) *Gilgamesh*:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1364384,00.html

*Decade - A Decade of Archaeology and History in
The Lebanon 1995-2005*:

http://tinyurl.com/6mj7g (Daily Star)
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PERFORMANCES
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Hamlet's Appeal:

http://tinyurl.com/6phrr (NYT)

Trio Mediaeval:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/18/arts/music/18trio.html

Andromeda Liberata:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/11/21/arts/music/21whit.html
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ALEXANDER MOVIE ITEMS
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Alexander flick is reigniting an ancient feud about who are the
real Macedonians:

http://tinyurl.com/4fvc8 (Guardian)

... and there's quite a brouhaha brewing about the depiction of
his (bi)sexuality:

http://tinyurl.com/3rtay (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6530956/
http://tinyurl.com/4nrlr (Reuters)
http://www.365gay.com/newscon04/11/111904Alexander.htm

Stone v. Luhrmann:

http://tinyurl.com/6l6u7 (The Age)
http://u.sbsun.com/Stories/0,1413,216~24281~2548240,00.html

What made Alexander so Great?:

http://www.azcentral.com/ent/movies/articles/1117alexander17.html

Interview with Oliver Stone:

http://tinyurl.com/5fxyh (Rolling Stone)

Where the papyrus came from:

http://tinyurl.com/46ytu

Training the army:

http://tinyurl.com/5ypof

Robin Lane Fox:

http://tinyurl.com/3t6ze (Edmonton Sun)

A touristy thing on sites associated with Alexander:

http://tinyurl.com/554ny (Province)

General reviews:

http://tinyurl.com/4ta6l (Baltimore Sun)
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/34381.htm

A review by someone with some Classical background
(Tim Spalding):

http://www.isidore-of-seville.com/alexander/review-alexander.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Medieval arabic scholars' perception of Cleopatra:

http://www2.rnw.nl/rnw/en/features/science/10631355

This week we have increasing skepticism over Robert Sarmast's
claims to have found Atlantis:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=41602
http://tinyurl.com/49vus (Herald Sun)
http://tinyurl.com/636l2 (FAZ)
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=17015&;cat_id=1

... and Sarmast's response to some of the skepticism:

http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=17001&;cat_id=1

... in case you missed it, here's some of the claims:

http://www.mywisecounty.com/news/111604-1.htm
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6489620/
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=1316022004
http://tinyurl.com/7x9k2 (News.com)
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=3759015
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/news/main.php?id=16924&;cat_id=1
http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=493252
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,3-1360864,00.html

... and a nice roundup piece on various places which have been
claimed as Atlantis:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2109823/
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4176661

The Trojan Horse strategy still works, apparently:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,2-2004530613,00.html

Questioning a quotation ostensibly from Thucydides (scroll down
... more on this at rogueclassicism later today):

http://www.crikey.com.au/columnists/2004/11/17-0005.html

Turkey is getting a tourism bump from 'Troy':

http://www.guardian.co.uk/turkey/story/0,12700,1355573,00.html

The "Colors of White" exhibition appears at the Vatican Museums
seems to be similar to the Classicolor thing:

http://www.catholicnews.com/data/stories/cns/0406403.htm
http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=584371

Remember the *Parthenon Code*?:

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/041118/lath084_1.html

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5274&;issue=2004-11-20
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REPEATS
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Garbage and Village Life:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99996646

5000 b.p. finds from Texas:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6478901/

Tutankhamen's CAT Scan:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/717/eg4.htm
http://news.independent.co.uk/world/africa/story.jsp?story=584365
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6489609/
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041114/w111446.html
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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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