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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Farmers lived in Iran's central plateau as early as 10,000 b.p.
(is this news?):

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1070.html

The skeleton of a woman wearing silver earrings has been found
during excavations of the Burnt City:

http://www.payvand.com/news/05/mar/1071.html

They're trying to figure out how to save the Osireion:

http://tinyurl.com/4fsdf (SwissInfo)

Plans are afoot to move a statue of Ramses II in Cairo:

http://tinyurl.com/6rkhl (Reuters via Yahoo)

A Bronze Age shipwreck has been found off the Devon coast:

http://tinyurl.com/4qy3p (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/4m8wp (GNN)
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1521345,00.html
http://news.scotsman.com/latest.cfm?id=4226337
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/northamptonshire/4330031.stm

Much excitement over an Iron Age chariot burial find in
Scotland:

http://tinyurl.com/4qkoh (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/6hhkf (Yorkshire Post)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/4333705.stm
http://tinyurl.com/5ouam (Telegraph)
http://tinyurl.com/6e8he (Evening Post)

A 3000 b.p. skeleton of a metal worker buried with his tools
has been found in Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/4ktsa (Iran News)
http://www.chn.ir/english/eshownews.asp?no=4905

Also in Iran, archaeologists are preparing to dig at the
Qom Iron Age site:

http://tinyurl.com/724pl (Iran News)

Archaeologists have finally found the entrance to the
fortifications at Gola Dhora (Harappan):

http://cities.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=120786

The Hellenistic city of Bergama is threatened by dam
construction:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=7650

Development has also claimed a Mycenean tomb in Greece:

http://tinyurl.com/67zza (Kathimerini)

A hoard of Roman coins found in Norfolk were declared treasure
this week:

http://tinyurl.com/3vswt (EDP24)

Interesting knife with astronomical implications found in
China:

http://news.newkerala.com/world-news/?action=fullnews&;id=84306

A farmer in Scotland has discovered a network of 700 b.p.
tunnels beneath his land:

http://news.scotsman.com/scotland.cfm?id=253792005
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/34822.html

The Art Newspaper has a nice piece on calls to excavate
the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=11738
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THE AMERICAS
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A major Mayan find in Honduras:

http://tinyurl.com/6hfps (AP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/6enzu (La Tercera ... Spanish)
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/07/content_2661351.htm

On the elite at Peru's Pachamanac site:

http://magma.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0503/resources_cre.html

2000 b.p. artifacts have been found on the UNC Chapel Hill
Campus:

http://tinyurl.com/5sncn (NG)

I think this is a repeat ... Mikm'aq artifacts from Nova
Scotia:

http://tinyurl.com/3mssa (CBC)

An update on that Port Angeles site (which is very close to
being a saga now):

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7106415/
http://www.peninsuladailynews.com/sited/story/html/200606
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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On the DNA front, it appears that pigs were domesticated at
least seven times throughout history, in different places:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4337435.stm

Also on the DNA front, a technique for extracting DNA from
fossils seems promising:

http://tinyurl.com/4gu72 (Yorkshire Post)
http://tinyurl.com/4oz76 (Bio.com)
http://tinyurl.com/3ogfy (EurekAlert)

... while descent from some guy who lived in Mesopotamia some
3000 years b.p. apparently made some 10% of Europeans immune to
HIV:

http://tinyurl.com/5h9az (Telegraph)

In addition to saving us from another Ice Age, prehistoric
farmers apparently cut down huge forests in Europe (obvious
connection?):

http://www.newscientist.com/channel/earth/mg18524905.000

I can't believe this hasn't been done before ... scientists
have put together (from bits and pieces of various skeletons)
a full-skeleton Neanderthal:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7153332/
http://tinyurl.com/3vlfl (livescience.com)
http://tinyurl.com/53rg8 (NG)

Tons (and I mean tons) of coverage of the results of Tut's
ct scan ... turns out he wasn't murdered (probably) but had
a broken leg:

http://tinyurl.com/6w27c (Reuters)
http://tinyurl.com/4nd5u (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4vruv (AP via Yahoo)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4328903.stm
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4273700
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7125989/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7128729/
http://tinyurl.com/5tcve (Guardian)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=562426
http://thescotsman.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=257652005
http://washingtontimes.com/world/20050308-094128-1222r.htm
http://tinyurl.com/4x84b (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/53no4 (Australian)
http://tinyurl.com/6d9fx (NG)
http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/arts/design/07fair.html

... while another CT scan has allowed scientists to put a
face on a mummy:

http://tinyurl.com/6qb79 (Rocky Mountain News)

More results from investigations into the tomb of the Medicis:

http://tinyurl.com/5qt6p (LA Times)
http://tinyurl.com/3tc87 (SMH)
http://tinyurl.com/3k8bh (Newsday)

The homo floresiensis saga continues ... again, with tales of
damage to the skeleton:

http://tinyurl.com/5r6z3 (Sunday Times)

... and, interestingly, with suggestions they lived until about
200 years ago:

http://www.sundayherald.com/48168

... and might be a new branch on the human family tree:

http://www.spacedaily.com/news/human-05g.html

A bit late, but an interesting thing from NPR on the evolution
of British English over the past 50 years:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4524458

NPR also had an item on the 'female collaboration' er ...
exploited by the Brothers Grimm:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4524494

Interesting essay on the 100th anniversary of Weber's
*Protestant Ethic ...*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/books/review/013FUKUYA.html

A touristy thing on Alexandria:

http://tinyurl.com/7yx5e (IOL)

Interesting piece on Thomas de Quincey:

http://tinyurl.com/3wbyc (Student)

Nice piece about dendrochronology:

http://www.csmonitor.com/2005/0308/p18s02-hfks.html

They've removed half of Nelson's eyebrow:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/4322877.stm

Some background on the Nebra Sky Disc:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/science/horizon/2004/stardisctrans.shtml

A link between climate change and the Viking sagas?:

http://tinyurl.com/6nv7o (EurekAlert)

Treasure hunters and magnetometers:

http://www.nytimes.com/cnet/CNET_2100-1041_3-5610829.html

How Venetian artists made their colours:

http://www.sciencenews.org/articles/20050312/bob8.asp
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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ON THE WEB
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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ON  THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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CRIME BEAT
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Interesting item on the smuggling of a huge quantity of
anquities from Afghanistan to Pakistan in the 1990's:

http://tinyurl.com/6flju (New Kerala)
http://tinyurl.com/5wboj (ANN)

Confessions in those thefts of Robert Munch works last week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/10/arts/10arts.html

A pile of artifacts smuggled from Jiroft have been returned:

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

A number of idols were stolen from an Indian temple:

http://news.newkerala.com/india-news/?action=fullnews&;id=83421

Folks might want to keep their eye open for a documentary called
'Stolen':

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=4531700

cf.: http://www.find-the-art.com/

Eight construction workers in Israel were charged with looting
a nearby archaeological site:

http://tinyurl.com/4oszh (JPost)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Kenneth Ackerman, *Boss Tweed*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/books/11book.html

James Hamilton, *A Life of Discovery: Michael Faraday, Giant of
the Scientific Revolution*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/13/books/review/013FERRIS.html

Keith Hopkins and Mary Beard, *The Colosseum*:

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

Letters from the Desert: The Correspondence of Flinders and
Hilda Petrie:

http://tinyurl.com/5seue (Apollo ... requires registration)
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Lysistrata:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/arts/music/07hous.html
http://tinyurl.com/3ovgh (Chronicle)

A Very Naughty Greek Play:

http://tinyurl.com/6cf9h (NYT)

Dido, Queen of Carthage:

http://tinyurl.com/4p32p (Boston Globe)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Empires in the Fertile Crescent: Ancient Assyria, Anatolia and
Israel:

http://tinyurl.com/4zs54 (Jewish News Weekly)

Drawn By the Brush (Rubens):

http://www.dailycal.org/article.php?id=17932

Sutton Hoo's treasure is returning 'home':

http://tinyurl.com/6cpks (Evening Star)

European Fine Art Fair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/07/arts/design/07fair.html

Interesting story behind an upcoming auction at Christies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/arts/design/11anti.html
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Bulgaria is quite miffed at Greece for its claim to being the
"land of the mythical Orpheus":

http://tinyurl.com/3p9pt (Telegraph)
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=45421

Building wooden horses:

http://www.md-times.com/?module=displaystory&;story_id=7781

Owen Ewald is keeping Classics alive at SPU:

http://www.thefalcononline.com/story/4526

Some NLTRW coverage:

http://www.herald-dispatch.com/2005/March/10/LNlist2.htm

Latin Day at UA:

http://tinyurl.com/4tp9o (Crimson White)

A middle school Greek Day:

http://tinyurl.com/4pplg (Pawling News Chronicle)

Some JCL coverage:

http://www.2theadvocate.com/stories/031205/new_teen2001.shtml

Digging barbarians:

http://tinyurl.com/3lkfw (Daily Illini)

The new labours of Hercules:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,542-1521578,00.html

Nice howler in this pedantic review of Idomeneo:

http://advocate.com/html/stories/934/934_after_dark.asp

Oliver Stone will be speaking at UC Berkeley about that movie
he made:

http://www.insidebayarea.com/bayarealiving/ci_2603577

Please visit our blog:

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

Please visit Classics Central (our incipient forum ... 'grand
opening' next week):

http://s9.invisionfree.com/Classics_Central/
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OBITUARIES
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Howard Carter

http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/bday/0509.html

James Biddle:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/11/national/11biddle.html
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REPEATS
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Cyprus Perfumery:

http://tinyurl.com/52nr2 (Reuters)
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20050307/perfumery.html

Hominid Older than Lucy:

http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/news/11062026.htm
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=557488
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2005/03/050307214554.htm

Wu Family Shrines:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7117568/
http://tinyurl.com/57xql (AP via Yahoo)
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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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