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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Hernan Astudillo, James
Thiele, John Hill, John McMahon, John McChesney-Young, Joseph
Lauer, 'manbear', Mark Morgan, Rochelle Altman, Sally Winchester,
Tony Jackson, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

Happy New Year All!

Editor's note: I'm working on a 'top ten discoveries of 2004'
list; suggestions welcome (but whether I'll use them isn't
guaranteed!)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A Bronze Age flint arrowhead has been found in Scotland:

http://edinburghnews.scotsman.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1467992004

A number of Predynastic grain storage facilities have been
found south of Cairo:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6767536/
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html11/o291224f.htm
http://tinyurl.com/6oeen (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/4hubj (Reuters via Yahoo)

The Pyramid of Chephren is reopening to the public:

http://tinyurl.com/67aag (Al Jazeera)

A nice 'year in review' piece about Egyptian archaeology:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/723/heritage.htm

It appears that marketing 'fakes' (see the Crime Beat section for
all the Oded Golan-associated stuff) is a rather old practice:

http://www.rednova.com/news/display/?id=113707

Remains of a 4th century B.C./B.C.E. village have been found
near Tel Aviv:

http://tinyurl.com/4l7e3 (JPost)
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/519298.html

A Parthian era subterranean village has been found near
Maragheh (I assume that means it was buried, not a village
built underground):

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4464

The Romans pioneered 'out of town shopping malls':

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

An interesting Latin inscription has been found at Quiliano:

http://tinyurl.com/6umcb (ANSA ... in Italian)

An update of sorts on the excavation of Genghis Khan's 'tomb':

http://tinyurl.com/6t2nl (China Daily)

China's oldest (maybe) wharf has been discovered:

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&;id=52318

There's excitement about what might lie beneath North Berwick:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=1470082004

Weavers in 18th/19th century Scotland:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/30577.html
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THE AMERICAS
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Nice little overview piece on petroglyphs in Arizona:

http://tinyurl.com/4jd85 (Tucson Citizen)

... and a similar (somewhat touristy) piece on petroglyphs at
Hueco Tanks (Texas):

http://tinyurl.com/3vado (El Paso Times)

A fish camp site on the Skagit River:

http://tinyurl.com/6jo9n (Herald)

9000 b.p. artifacts are found on Dolington farmland:

http://www.phillyburbs.com/pb-dyn/news/111-12312004-425001.html

A contractor renovating a building in Boonsboro came across
a George III halfpenny:

http://www.herald-mail.com/?module=displaystory&;story_id=99885

Caral (and environs) gets the John Noble Wilford treatment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/science/28peru.html
http://www.iht.com/articles/2004/12/29/opinion/snperu.html

cf: http://www.startribune.com/stories/484/5164338.html

Spanish conquest on an indigenous painting:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2004/12/041219154319.htm

Commemorating the French and Indian Wars:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/nyregion/01french.html

Nice feature (in Spanish) about el hombre del Cobre (a 6th
century mummy from Chile):

http://tinyurl.com/4bp8y
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On the DNA front, they're looking into the origins of
Icelanders:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/science/28icel.html

Also on the DNA front, medieval villagers may have passed TB
on to their cattle (not the other way around):

http://tinyurl.com/4gefx (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/483t5 (La Tercera ... Spanish)

The human brain evolved 'extraordinarily fast' (quickly?):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1380407,00.html

Italian police (!) have created an image of what Jesus might
have looked like as a twelve-year-old:

http://tinyurl.com/4n8zc (NYT)

... cf from a couple years ago:

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/12/25/face.jesus/

Another piece of 'local coverage' in regards to the Mummy
Autopsy series:

http://tinyurl.com/62dj9 (Nashville City Paper)

Human sacrifice in ancient Iran?:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1220.html

The UN is contributing a pile of cash to help restore Bam
and other sites in Iran:

http://www.payvand.com/news/04/dec/1213.html

Zahi Hawass' column in Al-Ahram:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/722/hr2.htm

MLA convention coverage (it's tailed off these past few years):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/27/books/27paper.html

Queen Victoria's obituary from the New York Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0524.html

When faculty hiring goes wrong:

http://chronicle.com/free/v51/i17/17b00601.htm

The tale of Peter Rabbit has been translated into heiroglyphics:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1420421,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4137735.stm

On the 'political' use of poison in history:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/521658.html

Interesting item on Lucifer:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=518489

A mural from Tuscany might be the earliest depiction of
witchcraft from Europe:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1380237,00.html

An Ethiopian city is keeping the memory of Arthur Rimbaud alive:

http://tinyurl.com/5ez93 (AFP via Yahoo)
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Bible Review (December 2004):

http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/indexBR.html

New Zealand Archaeology (New Year Nonsense issue):

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

Smithsonian (January 2005):

http://www.smithsonianmag.si.edu/smithsonian/toccurrent.shtml
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ON THE WEB
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AIA Abstracts:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10248

APA Abstracts:

http://tinyurl.com/5xtsj

APA/AIA session scheduling tool:

http://www.archaeological.org/webinfo.php?page=10175&;saia=1

Attributing Greek Coins:

http://rg.ancients.info/guide/attribution.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Lots of coverage of the indictment of Oded Golan et al (there's
or five of them, depending on which article you read):

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6765427/
http://www.haaretzdaily.com/hasen/spages/520771.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520856.html
http://tinyurl.com/4lb67 (Boston Globe)
http://www.cbc.ca/cp/world/041229/w122950.html
http://tinyurl.com/52uko (Guardian)
http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/205753-1749-010.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=368780
http://tinyurl.com/6xumn (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/3vntb (Independent)
http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=1475062004
http://www.guardian.co.uk/religion/Story/0,2763,1381272,00.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/4133065.stm
http://www.forward.com/main/article.php?id=2459
http://web.israelinsider.com/Articles/Culture/4685.htm
http://tinyurl.com/54h9e (News.com)

... and the role of the Yehoash Inscription in all this:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/520855.html

... and the 'chatty forger':

http://tinyurl.com/4eggv (Washington Times)

... and how the gang did it:

http://slate.msn.com/id/2111607/

... as a result of which, museums have been advised to check
their collections:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6770329/
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6751037/
http://tinyurl.com/5l5e4 (CNN)

... in case you don't see the photos accompanying the articles:

http://tinyurl.com/47aza
http://tinyurl.com/4z8kv
http://tinyurl.com/5txvg (All AP via Yahoo)

... a preliminary list of artifacts known to have been
forged:

http://tinyurl.com/6c39j (Times Daily)

Al-Ahram has a nice piece on 'the state of looting' in Iraq:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2004/723/sc111.htm

The Victoria and Albert Museum was robbed ... again:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4136131.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,1381125,00.html
http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/crime/story.jsp?story=596993

The Daggett Museum was looted over the holidays:

http://edition.cnn.com/2004/US/12/30/looted.museum.ap/

A couple of items were returned to Egypt this week:

http://tinyurl.com/46h7f (Washington Times)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Jared Diamond, *Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed*:

http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/050103crbo_books
http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1228/p15s01-bogn.html?s=hns

Robert Alter, *Five Books of Moses*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/29/books/29roth.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-1419595,00.html

David Riggs, *The World of Christopher Marlowe*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/books/review/02SIMON.html
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PERFORMANCES
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Europa Reconosciuta (Salieri):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/arts/music/28sali.html

Merchant of Venice (+ Phantom):

http://movies2.nytimes.com/2004/12/29/movies/29veni.html
http://www.newyorker.com/printable/?critics/050103crci_cinema

Alexander Hamilton: In Worlds Unknown:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/31/arts/31fami.html

Oedipus Rex:

http://tinyurl.com/4ad3j
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Ancient Race of Skeleton People found:

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4052&;n=1
(I know ... I know)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Alexander the Great:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/31/arts/design/31anti.html

Ivory at the Met (with slide show):

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/31/arts/design/31smit.html

Pre-Islamic statuary went on display in Kabul's National
Museum this week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/arts/design/28idol.html

Conservation techniques:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/arts/design/01lisa.html

Retratos: 2000 Years of Latin American Portraits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/02/arts/design/02bier.html

Hero, Hawk, and Open Hand:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/1231/p20s01-alar.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

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

How popular are Latin and Greek as foreign languages being
learned?:

http://tinyurl.com/6ctke (KC Star)

Hollywood 'emasculates the past':

http://tinyurl.com/44j9d (Belfast Telegraph)

(P)reactions to Alexander in Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/5cvkd (Khaleej Times)

Oliver Stone's hindsight:

http://tinyurl.com/4o2f4 (Telegraph)

On the Roman 'suburbs':

http://tinyurl.com/3u9zl (Telegraph)

David Larsen reviews Troy, Passion, and Alexander:

http://www.sfbg.com/39/13/cover_ae04_toga.html

An interview with Seamus Heaney with some excerpts from
performances of his Antigone translation:

http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2004/12/20041229_a_main.asp

On the importance of 'hic':

http://tinyurl.com/52xhp (Financial Times)

Hubris and tsunamis:

http://www.thetelegram.com/news.aspx?storyID=26972
cf.: http://tinyurl.com/3hqnc (CBS)

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5486&;issue=2005-01-01
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OBITUARIES
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Rob Bonnichsen (archaeologist):

http://www.theeagle.com/aandmnews/123104bonnichsen.php
http://tinyurl.com/64f9f (Gazette Times)

Henry Hart (numismatist):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1410663,00.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1419926,00.html

Alexander Marshack:

http://www.nytimes.com/2004/12/28/obituaries/28marshack.html

Wai-Kam Ho:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/01/arts/design/01ho.html

Janet Backhouse (medieval manuscripts):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1418095,00.html
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REPEATS
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Ivory Pomegranate declared fake:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4123595.stm
http://tinyurl.com/4u3qz (Globe and Mail)
http://tinyurl.com/5zwvr (CBC)
http://tinyurl.com/5atu7 (ABC)

Port Angeles Graving Yard:

http://tinyurl.com/4y5ep (Boston Globe)
http://tinyurl.com/3prsu (SMH)

"Amazons" in UK:

http://www.cumbria-online.co.uk/viewarticle.asp?id=166015
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20041227/amazon.html
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/viewarticle.aspx?id=166015

Siloam Pool:

http://tinyurl.com/6zr6o (Jamaican Observer)
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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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