explorator 6.21

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explorator 6.21                               September 21, 2003
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upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA
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A brief item on the discovery of a cave in Spain decorated with
prehistoric petroglyphs;

http://tinyurl.com/o3y5 (la Tercera ... Spanish)

A 5000 year b.p. ax head has been found near Stonehenge:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART18135.html

The big news this week appears to be the return of the 'Lady of
Warka' to the Baghdad Museum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/3118878.stm
http://tinyurl.com/o3v4 (New York Times)
http://tinyurl.com/o3wn (Newsday)
http://www.msnbc.com/news/968575.asp
http://www.cnn.com/2003/WORLD/meast/09/18/iraq.recovered.ap/
http://tinyurl.com/o3zk (Guardian)

A Canadian researcher suggests that Greek alphabetic numerals
ultimately hail from Egypt:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3109806.stm

An interesting account of the conservation work being done on
the Burke Museum's mummy:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/uow-tmh091503.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030917073309.htm

Egypt will be opening a museum dedicated to Egyptian
medicine:

http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o160923.htm

Zahi Hawass has a piece in Al-Ahram on that Nefertiti mummy
thing:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2003/656/hr2.htm

A Roman-era phylactery has been found in an English garden:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_820277.html

Remains of a Roman Marching Camp have been found in Scotland:

http://tinyurl.com/o40g (Press and Journal)
http://www.trimontium.freeserve.co.uk/news203.html (scroll down)

A possible Roman weapons factory (or at least a major iron
processing area) has been found near Devon:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/devon/3113028.stm

An Anglo Saxon 'warrior queen' has been found in Lincolnshire:

http://tinyurl.com/o25i
cf: http://tinyurl.com/o26g

A metal detectorist has stumbled - archaeologist like - upon a
piece of Anglo Saxon silver:

http://tinyurl.com/o3yj

A sort of 'progress report' on the Cowgate dig in Edinburgh:

http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/scotland.cfm?id=1038022003
http://www.edinburghnews.com/index.cfm?id=1034872003

French archaeologists claim to be close to solving the mystery of
the missing 'third Buddha of Bamiyan':

http://cooltech.iafrica.com/features/271302.htm
http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=story_17-9-2003_pg4_14

More turns in the Ayodhya saga (all different):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/south_asia/3122466.stm
http://tinyurl.com/o3z6 (Daily Times)

If you're wondering ... here's a timeline of all the Ayodhya
stuff:

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/SP237886.htm

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THE AMERICAS
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University of Vermont archaeologists have found the first
late PaleoIndian site in that state:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030916075526.htm
http://tinyurl.com/n1qm (AScribe)

Evidence of a network of linked urban centres in pre-Columbian
Brazil has been found:

http://www.msnbc.com/news/967545.asp
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/09/19/1063625213130.html
http://tinyurl.com/nx30 (yahoo)
http://www.nature.com/nsu/030915/030915-12.html

An ancient Inca road is in need of protection:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/ci-air090903.php

While an Inca wall was torn down to make way for a hotel to
be called 'The Archaeologist':

http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s946275.htm

A Mohican burial site is being excavated near Albany:

http://tinyurl.com/o3wz (Newsday)
http://tinyurl.com/o3yx (Times Union)

The Namgi people from British Columbia are seeking the return
of a ceremonial mask from the British Museum:

http://tinyurl.com/o3v2 (NYTimes)

Archaeology Magazine has a news feature on the Mounain Meadows
massacre:

http://tinyurl.com/nqz8

An update on the 'excavation' of the CSS Georgia:

http://www.augustachronicle.com/stories/091603/met_124-3223.shtml

The wreck of the steamship Portland is also getting archaeologists'
attention:

http://tinyurl.com/o3x6 (Stamford Advocate)

Has the wreck of the Tonquin been located?:

http://tinyurl.com/o3xl (NYTimes)

What's the strange scrawl in Roger Williams' copy of John Eliot's
Indian Bible?:

http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=2151
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On the DNA front, they're finally going to do the DNA tests to
determine who was buried in Columbus' tomb (they've done
some anthropological analyses):

http://www.msnbc.com/news/966911.asp

Also on the DNA front, a researcher will use DNA (how?) to
determine whether the Donner Party did resort to cannibalism:

http://www.missoulian.com/articles/2003/09/19/news/local/news02.txt

An interesting study on the evolution of warfare:

http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994167
http://www.msnbc.com/news/966833.asp

Not sure how to cover this one ... it's about the auction of a
"bawdy" bit of Renaissance dinnerware depicting a human head
made up of p*n*s*s (I don't want to get caught in your filters!);
it's actually an ugly piece of work:

http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_820305.html (photo)

This forensic anthropologist is no fan of CSI:

http://www.scotlandonsunday.com/index.cfm?id=1016932003

This is a sort of reflection piece spurred on by "New York is
Book Country" week ... it does seem to be Explorator fodder:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/books/19FAIR.html

The Grand Rotunda of the (US) National Archives will be reopened/
rededicated this week and several historic documents of interest
will be on display:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/17/arts/design/17ARCH.html
http://tinyurl.com/o3xv (Yahoo)

So why do we listen to music?:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/16/science/16MUSI.html
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ON THE WEB
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Christianity Today has a good article on the politics lurking
beneath 'Biblical' archaeology:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/010/33.36.html

Lillian Klein, "Engaging Biblical Women":

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/KLei_Biblical_Women.htm
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NEW ONLINE BOOKS
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Evagrius, *Ecclesiastical History* (translated):

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/evagrius_0_intro.htm

Sidonius Apollinaris, *Letters* (translated):

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/sidonius_letters_00_0_epreface.htm

Tertullian, *Apology* (translated):

http://www.tertullian.org/articles/bindley_apol/bindley_apol.htm

... another version with some Clement and Polycarp as well:

http://www.tertullian.org/articles/chevallier_apology.htm

Eusebius, *History of the Martyrs in Palestine*:

http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/eusebius_martyrs.htm
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CRIME BEAT
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A 'war club' stolen in 1994 turned up on EBay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/17/nyregion/17CLUB.html

A plundered holy book is being returned to Ethiopia:

http://www.edinburghnews.com/edinburgh.cfm?id=1030342003
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BOOK REVIEWS
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Art of the First Cities: The Third Millennium BC from the
Mediterranean to the Indus (Exhibition Catalogue):

http://www.nybooks.com/articles/16552

Francis Bremer, *John Winthrop: America's Forgotten Founding
Father*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/books/review/21CRAINT.html

Neal Stephensen, *Quicksilver* (fiction):

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/20/books/20CONN.html

Frank Kermode: *Pieces of my Mind*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/books/review/21SHAPIRT.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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This one gives Leonardo da Vinci credit/blame for inventing
high heels:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/20/opinion/20SAT4.html

The latest research by an "author" puts Atlantis in Cyprus:

http://www.cyprusweekly.com.cy/local.htm#3
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EXHIBITIONS
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Book Museum:

http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=41153

Renovated Egyptian Galleries at the Brooklyn Museum of Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/21/arts/design/21UNGE.html
(photo)

Nike: Games and Victory:

http://www.iht.com/articles/110560.html

Passion for the Mountains: 17th-Century Landscape Paintings From
the Nanjing Museum:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/arts/design/19COTT.html
(photo)

The Romanovs Collect: European Art From the Hermitage:

http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/19/arts/design/19ANTI.html

Tanagra -- Myth and Archaeology:

http://www.artdaily.com/news.asp?not=1&idn=2&fnot=9/19/2003
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CLASSICIST'S CORNER
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A major piece comparing the collapse of the Roman Republic to the
political situation in the U.S. today:

http://www.alternet.org/story.html?StoryID=16788

Then there's "Cincinnatus for President":

http://slate.msn.com/id/2088306/

Some coverage of the pair of 'Jesus flicks' coming soon to a
theatre near you:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2003/137/41.0.html

Much (really much!) more news for and about classicists on a daily
basis at:

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

Peter Jones:

http://tinyurl.com/o40v

Akropolis News in Classical Greek:
http://www.akwn.net/

Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini
http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html

Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein
http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/

U.S. Weather in Latin:
http://latin.wunderground.com/
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REPEATS
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Chian Neurosurgery:

http://tinyurl.com/o41h (AthensNews)

Hezekiah's Tunnel:

http://www.nature.com/nsu/030908/030908-9.html
http://tinyurl.com/o3wx
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=49924

Stone Age Sites Off Britain:

http://observer.guardian.co.uk/science/story/0,1596,1046445,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/nls6
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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 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/

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/@HH!35!F6!26C030D734B7/Topiltzin-2091/Ancie
ntAmericaand/

Mirabilis.ca (blog):
http://www.mirabilis.ca

Paleojudaica (blog):
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com

Phluzein (blog):
http://www.binref.com/phluzein/

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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