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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Leanne Archer, John McChesney-
Young, Donna Hurst, Mark Elliott, Maurice O'Sullivan, Cronman
mac Nessa, Hernan Astudillo, Mike Ruggeri, Kate Gilbert, John McMahon,
W. Richard Frahm, Dave Sowdon, Karl Wittwer, and Shiela Winchester
for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.)
Editor's mea culpa: in Explorator 5.47 I mentioned that someone
had translated the script of 'Gladiator' into Latin; unfortunately,
I managed to mangle their name. The name should have been
Gabriele Albarosa, to whom I apologize most profusely!
** there appears to be a major hub down or something this a.m. and
I can't connect to roughly half of the sources I usually connect to;
there's still enough here to keep you occupied for a while though 8^)
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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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First it was 350,000 b.p. footprints in Italy, now it is a
350,000 b.p. burial in Spain which suggests (perhaps) capacity for
symbolic thought:
.. and Neanderthals, apparently, weren't as ham-fisted as previously
thought either:
The fungus which threatened the paintings at Lascaux has been
brought under control:
Nine swords dating back to ca. 3300 B.C./B.C.E. were recently found
in Turkey:
A brief item on the discovery of a 5000 B.P. mummy:
Egypt is now laying claim to be the source for Mother's Day:
The Shrine of the Book will shortly undergo renovations (scroll down):
Archaeologists in Iraq are trying to protect various archaeological
sites and objects:
More on the threat (is it my imagination or is this sort of thing getting
a *lot* more attention than it might have, say, in the world prior to
the Bamiyan Buddhas):
,9959,920931,00.html
.. and we're thankfully reading of efforts to avoid damage:
.. but we're starting (alas) to hear of the damage:
We're also starting to get pieces like this in regards to archaeological
sites in Iraq:
.. and the AIA has issued an "Open Declaration":
[meanwhile, Britain's cultural heritage seems to be at even greater
risk ... cf. ,3604,924470,00.html ]
Work has begun to fix that bulge in the Temple Mount wall:
Followup: the Museum of London has a nice feature on that Roman slave girl
receipt find:
A 'basic' look at Hadrian's Wall:
Here's the latest in the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles saga:
(the UN is offering to help!)
The oldest written fragment of the Nibelungen tale has been found
in an Austrian monastery:
(in German; small pic included)
The latest on the Ayodhya dig:
The Maori Rock Art project is nearing completion:
,2106,2367321a8153,00.html
A nice piece on the perils (sort of) of restoring temples at Angkor
Wat:
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THE AMERICAS
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La Tercera has a piece (in Spanish) on some 5000 b.p. musical
instruments found at Caral (La Tercera now requires registration):
,4293,3255_5726_25908378,00.html
A couple of hungry pooches in Chile dug up a 2500 B.P. mummy:
The Field Museum of Natural History is going to return a large
quantity of bones to the Haida people:
The Clovis people are apparently off the hook for hunting big game
to extinction:
A skeleton found at Jamestown and touted as the first murder of an
Englishman in the Americas may actually have been the victim of
'friendly fire':
,0,2755621.story?coll=va-news
An 'Artifacts Roadshow' is going around Indiana:
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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We haven't had a facial reconstruction in a while, so here's the
latest: a Roman soldier who fell down a well (a.k.a. Trimontium
Man):
A pile of "doodles" done by Michelangelo while he was hiding from the
wrath of the Medicis are being restored:
,11711,925016,00.html
Here's what the spear which killed Captain Cook reached at auction:
A feature on what's in Cornell University's Rare and Manuscript
Collections in the Kroch Library:
A piece on Chinese furniture:
The World Dracula Congress will meet in Romania, despite fears
arising from the current conflict:
.. also on the Dracula front:
Assorted structures in Britain are seeking funding for restoration:
.. while the Hugin Viking Ship's request has been approved:
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ON THE WEB
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Mark Elliott, "Biblical Archaeology and Its Interpretation: The
Sayce-Driver Controversy":
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ONLINE JOURNALS
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[I'm playing with some web monitoring software which might make
a regular section like this a possibility]
American Journal of Archaeology 107.1 (January 2003)
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Michael Sedge, *The Lost Ships of Pisa*:
Fran?ois Bizot, *The Gate* (archaeology etc. under Pol Pot):
Christopher Logue, *All Day Permanent Red: War Music Continued*
(Iliadish):
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EXHIBITIONS
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Asia Week (various New York sites):
Folks might be interested in the American School of Classical
Studies at Athens list of museum closures (seen on Aegeanet):
Dancing Satyr (Rome):
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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Classics students look at the Iliad in light of the current conflict:
.. and actually, it appears there is much interest in the Iliad
of late, and it's providing plenty of ClassCon in various contexts:
ClassCon in a piece on the rules of war:
Looks like we've got to do a bunch more outreach:
.. while NeoClassical seems to be still 'in':
Folks interested in Antigone-inspired drama might look into
The Island:
Classics professors who wonder about their rate of pay might want
to read the following:
More on the geographic accuracy of the Iliad (speaking of
the Iliad, check out the obituaries):
There's a new Latin Rite community in Wisconsin:
A few issues back we mentioned that some forensic pathologists were
'reopening the case file' on Julius Caesar's murder ... the
documentary aired and here's a good account:
cf. this review:
,3604,925052,00.html
Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
Radio Bremen's Der Monatsr¨¹ckblick - auf Latein
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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OBITUARIES
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Martha Hadzi (Art Historian):
G.S. Kirk (Classicist):
,,60-621735,00.html
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REPEATS
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