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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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'Humans' and Neanderthals weren't so buddy buddy after all (or so
the theory goes *this* week):
Meanwhile, financial arrangements have been made to enable further
research into the site where the oldest hominid remains in Britain
were found:
The Sorbonne's dig near the Suez has been given the green light:
There are some new regulations for digging in Egypt:
A bog body found in County Offaly may date to 2000 b.p.:
Ancient Thebes (the one in Greece) was the subject of a recent
paper:
An almost-intact Roman transport vessel has been discovered/is
being excavated in the Netherlands:
,1280,-2680393,00.html
,1413,203~26127~1394370,00.html
A Roman 'High Street' is being excavated in Northamptonshire:
It sounds like there's more to be found at Zeugma:
A major Jewish catacomb is being excavated near Venosa:
A number of Buddhist caves and grottoes have been found in China's
Henan province:
Excavations in Singapore are revealing a 14th century Chinese outpost:
,4386,189072-1053035940,00.html?
There's new evidence for the date of the Lindisfarne Gospels:
We'll probably hear more from this one ... a major excavation is
being launched in Aukra (Norway):
... and hopefully more from this one as well ... a British scientist
has made a 'homemade robot' to scour the seabed in search of a sunken galleon:
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THE AMERICAS
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A pre-Columbian, pre-Maya city has been found in a remote area of
Honduras:
The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing on Philadelphia:
A 'rare' (obviously) codex will help shed light on Mexico's early
history:
They're looking for the "Lion of Baltimore" near Annapolis:
Latest on the Hunley:
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ALSO OF INTEREST
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More fallout from the 'fake archaeology' accusations in Japan:
Ha'aretz has a nice piece on the history of printing:
... and a feature on Israel Finkelstein (is this new?):
The repatriation-of-human-remains debate is heating up again:
... while a 21st dynasty mummy and case reached a record price
at Christie's:
A number of languages are threatened with extinction:
A plan to save Venice from the sea:
The Bristol Museum is renovating its Egyptian exhibit:
... while in Egypt, someone is getting impatient at the slow pace of
efforts to preserve Luxor:
The latest developments on Hadrian's Wall:
The latest in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles saga:
The New York Times has a nice piece on antique Russian furniture
and Pompeiian influences thereupon:
... and a preview of an upcoming major Rembrandt exhibition in
Boston:
... and something on recent developments on the digitizing of
libraries front:
... and the OCRng of ancient scripts front:
... and notice of an upcoming production of a play by Mark
Twain (!):
... and what's happened to the Irish Hunger Monument in Manhattan:
... and the history of Central Park (interesting!):
Something different on the DNA front this week ... the body of
a Kansas farmer is to be exhumed to see if he was actually
Jesse James:
An interesting piece on the use of postage stamps as small change
during the US Civil War:
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MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Assemblage 7 (full text):
Hermes 131 (2003) (TOC)
Journal of Mediterranean Archaeology 15.2 (2002) (abstracts):
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ON THE WEB
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Bruce Chilton, "The Missing Jesus: Rabbinic Judaism and the New Testament":
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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E.A. Wallis Budge, *Legends of the Gods*:
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CRIME BEAT
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Vienna's Art History Museum is the latest victim of a somewhat
stunning 'smasha and grab':
A pile of pre-Columbian objects were stolen from a museum in Panama City:
A pair of teens turned themselves in after defacing petroglyphs
in Utah's Juke Box Cave:
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AT ABOUT.COM
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Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill's latest is a preview of an upcoming
miniseries on Julius Caesar:
Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst continues her history of archaeology
series:
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Donald Kagan, *The Peloponnesian War*:
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PERFORMANCES
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Assorted items of interest at the first Ruhr Triennale:
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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The Kensington Runestone is making news again:
... as are the Tasaday:
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EXHIBITIONS
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Stories from an Eruption: Pompeii, Herculaneum, Oplontis (Naples):
,13005,901030519-450959,00.html
Assorted items from Brown's Attic:
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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In case you missed it, the US Senate made public much testimony
from the McCarthy hearings this week, including the testimony of
Naphtali Lewis (do a 'find' to get to Lewis' section):
... other testimony at:
The Vatican reissued/reprinted/rereleased its neo-Latin dictionary:
High praise for an undergraduate from VDH:
McCartney played the Colosseum (sort of ... he also helped raise
funds for matters archaeological et alia):
ClassCon (sort of) in David Levering Lewis' comments to grads:
... and in a piece on representations of food in art:
Perhaps a theatrical review, perhaps coverage of a course:
Some responses to the Strauss piece in the New York Times:
Peter Jones:
Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrckblick - auf Latein
U.S. Weather in Latin:
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REPEATS
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Origins of Rome:
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IRAQ
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We're still getting the 'we don't know how much is missing' stories:
More suggestions that the looting wasn't as extensive as previously
thought:
(scroll down)
,1413,82~1865~1362260,00.html
... and we're getting a different spin on the looting of the museums; museum staff are refusing to reveal where they've hidden items
either to US officials or people with ties to the former regime:
Items from libraries were also hidden:
Other things have taken a different turn as well ... it appears
US troops are vandalizing ancient sites (although the spelling
mistake makes one wonder ...):
,2763,958469,00.html
Italy is offering its services (and funding) to help retrieve
purloined antiquities from Iraq:
... while an Australian archaeologist will help restore the records
of the museum:
Francis Deblauwe's 'Iraq War and Archaeology' site:
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OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS
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Archaeologica:
Archaeology Magazine's Newsbriefs:
Bible and Interpretation Breaking News:
CBA Newsfeed:
CBA Archaeoblog:
Michael Ruggeri's Ancient America and Mesoamerica News:
!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/AncientAmericaand/
Mirabilis.ca (blog):
Texas A&M Anthropology News Site:
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