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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Adrian Murdoch, Donna
Hurst, Glenn Meyer, Jim Phelps, Joan Griffith, Joanne Conman,
John McMahon,Joseph Lauer, M. Cuccia, Jim Lockmiller,  Mata
Kimasitayo, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, Susan Jaslow,
Mike Ruggeri, W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

A slowish week ...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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3,000 b.p. fossilized poop and what it tells us about ancient
diets received not as much attention as one would expect:

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/35408.html

Bronze Age skeletons in the closet (literally):

http://tinyurl.com/5s84e (Western Mail)

This one 'got lost' in all the Tut CT coverage ... it suggests
that the broken leg was not the cause of death (contrary to
many of the news reports):

http://tinyurl.com/4k3gs (Eurekalert)

A 4000 b.p. site in Turkmenistan may be the 'cradle' of
Zoroastrianism:

http://tinyurl.com/6cc36 (AFP via Yahoo)

Plans are afoot to "renovate" Egypt's Sarabit el-Khadim temple:

http://tinyurl.com/58wm4 (IOL)

Not sure whether this ancient Egyptian ships discovery made it
to Explorator before:

http://www.bu.edu/bridge/archive/2005/03-18/archaeologist.html

A 2100 b.p. Gallic skeleton has been found in a Geneva
cathedral:

http://tinyurl.com/63qdn (AFP via Yahoo)
http://tinyurl.com/4m49x (Australian)
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1322448.htm

A Roman coin hoard from Norfolk:

http://tinyurl.com/4vcss (Kings Lynn Today)

Italian coverage of recent finds at Lucca:

http://www.nove.firenze.it/vediarticolo.asp?id=a5.03.17.12.32
http://tinyurl.com/5fnj9 (AdnKronos)

A little green chess piece was recently dug up which seems to
have a link of some sort to the Lewis chess pieces (11th or 12th
century):

http://tinyurl.com/5976c (Guardian)

... while the SNP is demanding the 'repatriation' of the
Chessmen:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1533544,00.html

An update on that ancient village revealed by the tsunami:

http://tinyurl.com/63x2s (NYT)
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7221921/
http://tinyurl.com/4cnkc (AP via Yahoo)

Chinese archaeologists recently found a 2700 b.p. village in
Shaanxi province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/17/content_2709155.htm

A Bronze Age shroud from Vietnam:

http://tinyurl.com/3t5ld (Merimbula)

Multiple eras of occupation at another Vietnam site:

http://english.vietnamnet.vn/lifestyle/2005/03/395214/

154 miniature Buddhas from Cambodia:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/15/content_2701179.htm

A Maori site:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/0,2106,3219512a8153,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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The status of the Olmec as 'mother' or 'sister' civilization
gets the John Noble Wilford treatment:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/15/science/15olme.html
http://www.timesunion.com/AspStories/story.asp?storyID=341973

Nice piece on Independent Archaeological Consulting:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/7172972/

A followup of sorts to that story from a few months ago about
a Walmart being built near Teotihuacan:

http://www.alternet.org/story/21398/
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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Neanderthals apparently had high-pitched voices:

http://www.abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s1323798.htm

National Geographic Channel is presenting various views of the
branches of the human family tree:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/19/arts/television/19heff.html

Maybe 'race' isn't a social construct after all:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/14/opinion/14leroi.html

A number of statues from Powis Castle have (finally) been
confirmed as dating to Roman times:

http://tinyurl.com/59pww (IC NorthWales)
http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART26982.html

Touristy thing about Rome and environs (with a nice little
slide show):

http://tinyurl.com/5alfh (New York Times)

Touristy thing (literally) on descending the pyramid at Chichen
Itza:

http://www.freep.com/features/travel/itza13e_20050313.htm

Touristy thing (in Italian) on the Greek fortifications at
Eurialo:

http://tinyurl.com/6btfa (QDS)

The story of Cheshire Cheese:

http://tinyurl.com/4p7pa

Bulgaria is rubbing its hands in anticipation of increased
tourism ... and is still mad at Greece for claiming Orpheus:

http://tinyurl.com/6luew (Sofia Echo)

... while others worry about the gold:

http://www.novinite.com/newsletter/print.php?id=45544

Young lexicographers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/19/arts/19dict.html

Folks may (or may not) like the Onion's timeline of Irish
history:

http://www.theonion.com/news/index.php?issue=4111&;n=12

A nice factsheet about the Shroud of Turin:

http://tinyurl.com/6mcgf (Live Science)

cf assorted piece on the Shroud which are currently
circulating:

http://www.washtimes.com/upi-breaking/20050318-040533-4494r.htm
http://www.raidersnewsupdate.com/lead-story29.htm

A Muslim charity has claimed ownership of the Taj Mahal:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/4348663.stm

... while India doesn't seem aware of what it *does* own:

http://www.newindpress.com/news.asp?id=IEK20050319125233

Interesting review of CD compilations of music made with
prehistoric instruments:

http://tinyurl.com/6697b (Japan Times)

The 'lost' letter of Abelard and Heloise?:

http://tinyurl.com/5bxe9 (Age)

On 'endangered' languages:

http://newsnet.byu.edu/story.cfm/54836
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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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CRIME BEAT
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Newsweek has an interview with Donny George:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7169977/site/newsweek/

cf. a review of a BBC documentary on the National Museum of
Baghdad:

http://tinyurl.com/6e9es (Seattle PI)

... and this 'Outside the Beltway' editorial:

http://www.outsidethebeltway.com/archives/9610

Very brief item on the theft of some shabtis from a museum
in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/4nhbg (Dewsbury Today)

Some previously-purloined artifacts were returned to Egypt from
the UK this week:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html12/o170325p.htm

This month's SBL Forum is all about forgery of antiquities:

http://sbl-site.org/

A petition was sent to me in an effort to promote a law to
restrict importation (to the U.S.) of Chinese antiquities:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/i-safe-alert.htm
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BOOK REVIEWS
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John Kelly, "The Great Mortality: An Intimate History of the
Black Death, the Most Devastating Plague of All Time":

http://newyorker.com/critics/books/index.ssf?050321crbo_books

Benjamin Isaac, "The Invention of Racism in Classical Antiquity"

http://tinyurl.com/64joz (Jerusalem Post)

John Man,  "Attila: A Barbarian King and the Fall of Rome":

http://tinyurl.com/4s6zf (Guardian)

Ingrid D. Rowland, "The Scarith of Scornello: A Tale of
Renaissance Forgery":

http://tinyurl.com/4g3sk (Sun Sentinel)

Amos Elon, translated by Danny Auerbach, "The Pity of It All:
A Portrait of Jews in Germany, 1743-1933":

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=550828
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Agrippina:

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

Invention of Love:

http://tinyurl.com/4t3le (Telegraph)

Odyssey:

http://tinyurl.com/6l7t8 (Chronicle)
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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This guy keeps releasing Atlantis-related press releases ...
here's the latest:

http://www.noticias.info/asp/aspComunicados.asp?nid=52339&;src=0

... and the suggestion that Atlantis is near Cuba keeps
popping up too:

http://www.torontofreepress.com/2005/cover031505.htm

Anatoly Fomenko is getting press attention again (sort of):

http://www.interfax.ru/e/B/0/28.html?id_issue=11256441
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The Dead Sea Scrolls To The Bible In America:

http://www.thepilot.com/features/r031605Scrolls.html

Romanesque France:

http://tinyurl.com/6jl7z (Expatica)

Renaissance and Baroque Bronzes From the Fitzwilliam Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/arts/design/18fric.html

The Spinario is going on tour:

http://tinyurl.com/4fol7 (Guardian)

Audobon's Aviary:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/arts/design/17audo.html

The Cairo Museum has put a bunch of Roman-era gold on display:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/7195255/
http://tinyurl.com/4xyhh (AP)
http://tinyurl.com/5podo (News 24)

Again we're hearing that the Torlonia Marbles may be put on
public view:

http://feeds.bignewsnetwork.com/?sid=02fb149cdff5e645
http://tinyurl.com/6n9je (New Kerala)

The Met has acquired the Gilman Paper Company Collection of
photos:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/17/arts/design/17gilm.html

Coverage of a sale of drawings in Paris:

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/03/18/arts/design/18ANTI.html

A lock of Charles Dickens' hair recently came up to auction:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/4352043.stm

Questions about how Austria's Kunsthistorisches Museum handles
acquisitions:

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

... and questions about a possible Thai headdress in an
unnamed U.S. museum:

http://etna.mcot.net/query.php?nid=36802
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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This one was making the rounds a few weeks ago, but seems to
have just made it to the Times ... Cleopatra was, according to
arabic sources, one smart cookie:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2-1524850,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/49gnj (Australian)

Syllabus changes for Latin and Greek exams in the UK:

http://tinyurl.com/5x39m (Guardian)
http://tinyurl.com/4eh6u (IC Wales)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/050316/344/fecgb.html
http://tinyurl.com/5reyo

... with a nice response:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,1059-1530304,00.html

On the anatomical 'correctness' of male Greek statuary:

http://tinyurl.com/5zq46 (Guardian)

On the "Ancient Traditions of Euro-American Violence":

http://usa.mediamonitors.net/content/view/full/13672/

Bruce Thornton defends the Greeks:

http://victorhanson.com/articles/thornton031005.html
http://www.hellenicnews.com/readnews.html?newsid=3202&;lang=US

Julius Caesar was one of the ODNB "Lives of the Week"

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/6.html
(url might change depending on when you access it)

Cajus Julius Caesar and the ides:

http://tinyurl.com/4nl3k (Reuters)

Benefits of Latin:

http://tinyurl.com/5t87m (Arizona Republic)

Pat Burr is retiring:

http://tinyurl.com/63hve (QC Times)

Eta Sigma Phi at St. Olaf:

http://tinyurl.com/6ueky

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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REPEATS
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Ancient Edom:

http://tinyurl.com/6quva (Sun Sentinel)

Bronze Age Perfumery on Cyprus:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/4364469.stm
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/200503/s1327321.htm

Chinese Astronomical Knife:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-03/12/content_2686446.htm

Neanderthal DNA:

http://tinyurl.com/3ogfy (Eurekalert)

Wall-eyed David:

http://tinyurl.com/5hd22 (ABC)
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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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