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explorator 5.2 May 12, 2002
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Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may
wrap (especially those from the Telegraph) which will require
you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not
found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should
be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication.
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Thanks to Don Mills, Wilfried Zankl, Bill Kennedy, Jean
Laplante, Joanne Conman, Arthur Shippee, 'alesmontose, W. Richard Frahm,
Simon Stoddart, Michael Oberndorf, Ardle MacMahon, Rick
Pettigrew, and Jean Laplante for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
Editor's Note 1: thanks to all who alerted me to the error in my
url for the obituary for Diana Buitron-Oliver; unfortunately I could
not find it again for inclusion in this issue (I'll continue to search
though!).
Editor's Note 2: Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers (redneck and otherwise)
out there; of course it's appropriate to begin by pointing you to the National
Geographic's "Mummie's Day" special feature:
Editor's Note 3: Due to positive feedback and an ever-decreasing
amount of time to put this newsletter together, from this issue
on the full version will be sent to the various lists which
feature it. If that is a problem, I ask the listowners to contact
me at dmeadows@...
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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Last week we crowed about entering our fifth year of epublication, so
it seems we should also tip our collective ehats to the journal
Antiquity, which is celebrating its 75th year of publication:
... and congratulate George Bass as the recipient of the 2001 National
Science Medal:
Quite a few folks have sent me this one; it's obviously suspect, but
if I'm getting asked if I've heard about it, some of you probably
are as well:
Folks might also be interested in the celebration of the Shem
festival in Egypt:
,1280,-1714574,00.html
... and a piece on the history of Jenin:
Belgian archaeologists have excavated human remains from Egypt
which might be 30,000 years old:
,5936,4277578%255E401,00.html
What appears to be a "ritual feasting area" has been discovered
near East Chisenbury:
,3604,710634,00.html
The remains of what are believed to be an ancient Roman water
temple in Wiltshire may be turned into a tourist attraction:
A Roman villa near Somerset has been excavated:
Here's a touristy feature on the Via Spluga:
The Jenkins Venus is about to go to auction:
A horde of gold coins has been found in Iran:
Archaeological evidence suggests there was civilization in
China's Guangdong province 3500 B.P.:
The ruins (largely unexcavated) of Yinxu are at risk:
We haven't heard about the Fujimura case for a while, so here's
what appears to be the latest:
Cannonballs recovered from ancient wrecks are apparently exploding
on archaeologists' desks:
The next stage in the Elgin Marbles saga will probably lead to
quite a bit of coverage ... a group is planning to sue the
British Museum for their return to Greece:
,1870,118447,00.html
"They" retried Joan of Arc last week:
There's assorted items of interest in the Times' 'Archaeology Notebook':
,,61-288049,00.html
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THE AMERICAS
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A brief item on excavation of a Clovis site in Williamson County:
Petroglyphs on the Potomac feature an atlatl:
The wreck of a Spanish galleon has been found off the coast of Panama:
A graveyard which once stood near one of New York's earliest almshouses
is revealing quite a bit about the folks who used to live there:
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ON THE NEWSSTANDS
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Smithsonian Magazine has a feature on urban archaeologists:
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ON THE WEB
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Paul V. Heinrich, "Artifacts or Geofacts? Alternative
Interpretations of Items from the Gulf of Cambay.":
Joanne Conman, "The Round Zodiac Ceiling of the Temple of
Hathor at Denderah":
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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George Ebers, *An Egyptian Princess*:
George Ebers, *Uarda: A Romance of Ancient Egypt*:
Samuel Sharp, *Egyptian Mythology and Egyptian Christianity*:
John Hill (trans.), *The Western Regions according to the Hou Han shu*:
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ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL
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Balancing the Cosmos (Mayan):
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CRIME BEAT
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Items stolen during the Gulf War have been returned to Iraq:
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill offers an article by Gail Huganir on
the Prehistoric and Romano-British Galleries at the British Museum:
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REVIEWS
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Rachel Hallote, *Death, Burial, and Afterlife in the Biblical World:
How the Israelites and Their Neighbors Treated the Dead*:
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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More rumblings about an Alexander the Great flick:
... and (shudder) Tom Hanks might be playing Julius Caesar:
... even though there's apparently a miniseries recently completed:
If you don't do well in Latin, well, there's always the professional
snooker circuit:
;$sessionid$WPRLUIYAAEQY1QFIQMGCFFWAVCBQUIV0?xml=/sport/2002/05/07/sosnoo08.xml
Ray Charles is going to play the Colosseum (yep ... the one in Rome):
At Epidauros this summer:
... and there's a new play about that Helen woman:
A pro-Palestinian march used Marathon as its backdrop:
Dunno how to classify this one:
Peter Jones in the Spectator:
... and Dot Wordsworth:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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OBITUARIES
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Gordon Willey:
,3604,712972,00.html
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FOLLOWUPS
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Ashurbanipal's Library:
,,2-291083,00.html
Dipylo Kouros (I'm not sure whether the photos are of *this* kouros):
(with photo!)
(with photo!)
Lottery funds and Portable Antiquities Program (genuine
followup):
,3604,712945,00.html
Mafia Island (off Tanzania):
Mapping Uruk:
Queen's Pyramid:
,,3-288310,00.html (blunder!)
Saving Afghan Treasures:
Tequesta Bones:
Villa of the Papyri:
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