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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Maurice
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King, Hernan Astudillo, Diane Moceri, Joan Griffith, John
Huizinga, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Judy Underwood, Kat Reece,
Mark Morgan, Richard C. Griffiths, 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).

... the www seems awfully slow this a.m. ... there must be a
major hub down somewhere (translation: I might have missed some
stuff today because I was tired of waiting) ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Has the tomb of Gilgamesh been found?:

http://www.aina.org/news/20050125100240.htm

A Canadian researcher has found some evidence (a fortress)
confirming (?) the Biblical dates for the kingdom of Edom:

http://tinyurl.com/4gfs6 (Globe and Mail)

This one's from back in December, but I appear to have missed it
... a new theory has Qumran not as an Essene community, but as
a pottery factory:

http://tinyurl.com/5jbmc (JPost)

A sanctuary of Hermes (among other things) has been found in
Trikke:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200501/s1289900.htm
http://tinyurl.com/645ca (AFP via Yahoo)
http://www.hri.org/news/greek/apeen/2005/05-01-28.apeen.html#01
http://tinyurl.com/4yren (IOL)

A Roman-era statue was found in an Athenian streambed this
week:

http://tinyurl.com/3rumj (Kathimerini)
http://www.turkishpress.com/news.asp?ID=36377

Latest on the circus at Colchester:

http://tinyurl.com/4jpto (EADT)

The search is on for the mausoleum of Bulgaria's khans:

http://tinyurl.com/42mnz (SNA)

Remains of a 7,000 b.p. village have been found in China's
Zhejiang province:

http://english.people.com.cn/200501/26/eng20050126_172017.html

Some 3000 b.p. "lithophones" (never heard of that before) have
been found in Vietnam:

http://tinyurl.com/3q7hg (VNA)
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THE AMERICAS
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A brief item on the discovery of some burials dating to 1300
B.C./B.C.E. in Mexico:

http://tinyurl.com/59mu3 (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/43nzl (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6868724/
http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/world/10733299.htm

Nice coverage of a dig working on a 5000 b.p. site in Parker
(Colorado):

http://www.denverpost.com/framework/0,1413,36~53~2676030,00.html

The Lewes site might actually be two sites:

http://tinyurl.com/4mddh (News Journal)

Goodman Point Pueblo is about to become a major project:

http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36~53~2670298,00.html

A Chinook site (maybe) in Washington State:

http://www.tdn.com/articles/2005/01/27/area_news/news01.txt

A village dating to 1000 A.D. or thereabouts in Arizona:

http://www.eacourier.com/articles/2005/01/28/news/news01.txt

Looking for Angola:

http://tinyurl.com/3uwzz (SP Times)

A Penn Museum project to map an underground pre-Inca city at
Tiwanaku:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050123213011.htm

Archaeology of Warfare in the Andes:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/01/050123210551.htm

Nice feature on the Mabee Farm Historic Site (Schenectady):

http://timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=328181
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, human inbreeding is apparently the reason for
a number of diseases:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4204789.stm
http://www.news-medical.net/?id=7477

Maybe Columbus' purported remains in the Dominican won't be
the subject of DNA testing after all:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6861167/

Our early 'taste for meat' made us into early weaners:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6921
(great headline, no?)

Did early humans 'turn off' Australia's monsoons?:

http://tinyurl.com/5jxdx (ABC)
http://tinyurl.com/67aom (CNN)

Turns out that George Washington's teeth weren't wooden after
all:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6875436/

A project is under way to recreate textiles found at Pompeii:

http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=109202005

The latest 'repatriation' case involves an Etruscan chariot in
New York:

http://tinyurl.com/6gqsp (Telegraph)

Plenty of attention given to claims that the Shroud of Turin
is older than previously claimed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/science/27shroud.html
http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1289491.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4210369.stm
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=102832005
http://tinyurl.com/5zar9 (LAM)
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/32390.html

Ambiguous coverage of a manuscript containing letters purporting
to be of Procopius of Gaza:

http://tinyurl.com/6jkvp (Daily Star)
http://www.unifr.ch/main/news/detail.php?nid=316 (French)
http://tinyurl.com/4rgnv (AFP via Yahoo)
cf: http://tinyurl.com/7y8ba (Paleojudaica)

A DaVinci Code movie is in the works, but might not be filmed
in Scotland:

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/index.cfm?id=114602005

Not sure which section is most appropriate for this one, so it
ends up here by default ... there's a Stone Age Institute in
Bloomington:

http://tinyurl.com/3pfbf (AP via Yahoo)

... ditto this one ... seeking a Sumerian precedent in election
reform:

http://tinyurl.com/4btru (Conservative Voice)

Must have been a pile of touristy junkets this week since we
have a touristy thing on Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/4g4hs (Post Dispatch)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2100-1461689,00.html

... and Tunisia:

http://washingtontimes.com/travel/20050128-083215-9270r.htm

... and Caracol:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05030/448994.stm

Another portrayal of a female archaeologist in the movies:

http://www.heraldnet.com/stories/05/01/28/100ae_alone001.cfm
http://tinyurl.com/5p5gz (Miami Herald)
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ON THE WEB
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The Maritime Foundation of Andean Civilization: An Evolving
Hypothesis:

http://tinyurl.com/3pkps (Hall of Ma'at)

The American Journal of Archaeology now has an online forum for
the discussion of controversial matters in the field:

http://www.ajaonline.org/forum/

Stoa Image Gallery:

http://icon.stoa.org/gallery/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some smugglers from Greece were arrested this week (this might
be a repeat):

http://tinyurl.com/5c6lp (AthensNews)

A major haul of smuggled African artifacts was made in Paris:

http://tinyurl.com/5h3cw (Reuters)

Italian police arrested a trio of tombaroli near Piazza Amerina:

http://www.tg10.it/dettaglio.asp?id=3097 (Italian)

A Palestinian was sentenced this week for his role in a theft
from a burial cave near Jerusalem:

http://tinyurl.com/3oh3m (JPost)

A broad-daylight theft attempt from the British Museum was
foiled:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4054213
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/london/4212045.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5fjzc

A massive haul of purloined artifacts in Oregon:

http://tinyurl.com/5tvfl (Oregonian)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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A couple of books on the history of brain research:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/26/books/26grim.html

Jared Diamond, *Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or
Succeed*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30EASTERB.html

Robert Polhemus, *Lot's Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Women's
Quest for Authority.*

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30HARRISO.html

David V. Herlihy, *Bicycle: The History*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/books/review/30KORENL.html

Derek Hayes, *America Discovered*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0125/p16s01-bogn.html

An audio version of the Aeneid:

http://tinyurl.com/7ytwx (Guardian)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Trojan Women:

http://record.wustl.edu/news/page/normal/4600.html

Iphigenia:

http://www.startribune.com/stories/121/5201613.html

Lysistrata:

http://flathat.wm.edu/story.php?issue=2004-11-05&;type=4&aid=2

Choral works by Thomas Tallis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/24/arts/music/24vox.html

Beethoven:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/30/arts/music/30shat.html

Myths ballet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/29/arts/dance/29nycb.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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12 Black Classicists (plus one):

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/stories/012705/hap_012761.shtml
http://tinyurl.com/57col (Holland Sentinel)

Images of Don Quixote: The Art of Illustration and Printmaking:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/arts/design/28hisp.html

From Filippo Lippi to Piero della Francesca: Fra Carnevale and
the Making of a Renaissance Master:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/arts/design/28cott.html

Rembrandt's Late Religious Portraits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/28/arts/design/28kimm.html
(slide show)

The Macclesfield Psalter will remain in Britain:

http://tinyurl.com/456f7 (Seattle PI)
http://books.guardian.co.uk/news/articles/0,6109,1397698,00.html

... as will the John Murray archive:

http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4049234
http://news.scotsman.com/entertainment.cfm?id=97962005

Stuff from the Oriental Institute's 'basement':

http://www.suntimes.com/output/news/cst-nws-fertile28.html

The Burns Cottage Museum is threatened by 'rising damp':

http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=114042005

Trying to get a Sargent Museum collection together:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6859864/
http://tinyurl.com/3z4ft (Boston Globe)

UK museums are being told not to 'hoard' their stuff:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4211053.stm
http://www.thisislondon.com/news/londonnews/articles/16185341
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Hollywood's portrayal of the ancient world:

http://tinyurl.com/4s2hz (FT)

Classics magazine for kids:

http://tinyurl.com/6gat8

Eagles' fight song in Latin:

http://www.kansas.com/mld/kansas/sports/football/10753351.htm

Judith de Luce has been honoured:

http://mustudent.muohio.edu/article.php?d=012505&;s=campus&n=5

Lots of Razzies for Alexander:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/27/arts/27arts.html

... and more reactions from across the pond:

http://tinyurl.com/4sp39 (RFE)

Plenty of (p)reviews of Pompeii: The Last Day:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/01/29/arts/television/29pomp.html
http://tinyurl.com/6t34r
http://tinyurl.com/5v32s
http://tinyurl.com/6ad9v
http://www.nypost.com/entertainment/39034.htm

Peter Jones in the Spectator:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php?id=5610&;issue=2005-01-29

Have you visited our Classics blog yet?

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/
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OBITUARIES
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David Bain (Classical Scholar):

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,60-1456019,00.html

Peter Ackroyd (New Testament Studies):

http://tinyurl.com/4bteb (Telegraph)
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REPEATS
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Aztec and Mayan Human Sacrifice:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/6853177/
http://tinyurl.com/4lmtp (Arizona Republic)
http://tinyurl.com/5wbf6 (Washington Post)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050124/aztec.html

Colle Oppio Finds:

http://www.chron.com/cs/CDA/ssistory.mpl/world/3014411

DaVinci Workshop:

http://tinyurl.com/5bz2y (Reuters via Yahoo)

Fake Mummies in Ancient Egypt:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050117/catmummy.html

First Americans from Africa:

http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/boletim_dentro.php?id=3167 (Spanish)

Hipparchus Star Catalog:

http://tinyurl.com/4f7et (Space.com)

Roman Gladiators:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050124/gladiator.html

Villa of the Papyri Concerns:

http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4633
http://tinyurl.com/67myy (Globe and Mail)

Artifacts Stolen from Iraq Returned:

http://www.portaliraq.com/shownews.php?id=755
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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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