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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Bret Mulligan, Dave Sowdon, David Connolly, Diana Briscoe, Donna Hurst, George Pesely, Hernan Astudillo, Javier Susaeta, John McMahon, John McChesney- Young, Joseph Lauer, Kim Dammers, Kristina Killgrove, Laura Holland, Michael Oberndorf, Mike Ruggeri, Nancy Jenner, Richard Heli, Robert White, Sally Winchester, Steve Rankin, 'thefortyfive', W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/ ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Neanderthals were not the 'neanderthalish' hunters they were once thought to be, according to recent research:
http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994192 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/uow-bff092203.php http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030923065212.htm
The earliest jawbone from a 'modern' human has been found in Romania;
http://www.msnbc.com/news/970342.asp http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3129654.stm http://tinyurl.com/oxrh (Yahoo) http://tinyurl.com/oxsw (IOL) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/09/030924055157.htm http://tinyurl.com/oe4s (CNN)
A new study suggests ancient Britons rather quickly changed from a surf-based diet to one more turf-based about six millennia ago:
http://www.msnbc.com/news/971011.asp http://tinyurl.com/oxrf (Yahoo) http://www.nature.com/nature/links/030925/030925-3.html http://www.usatoday.com/news/health/2003-09-24-stoneage-diet_x.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/3130348.stm http://tinyurl.com/oxoz (English Heritage) http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1048387,00.html
A major dig at Aukra, Norway is turning up items from several periods:
I mentioned this one at rogueclassicism last week, but am surprised that other news agencies haven't picked up on it ... Egypt has apparently banned all new digs in Southern Egypt by foreign groups:
Perhaps related to the foregoing (maybe) is the discovery of a 13th century B.C. inscription which confirms Ramses II had a capital in the Delta region:
The Archimedes Palimpsest is in the news again, in anticipation of an upcoming program on PBS:
In case you or the squirrels missed it, an author is now placing Atlantis in Cyprus:
A very large Roman amphitheatre has been excavated in Cordoba, Spain:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s954866.htm http://tinyurl.com/oxre (VOA)
A trove of four Viking era necklaces has been found in Lapland:
I'm sure there will be plenty of 'fallout' (no pun intended) from this one: a section of wall on Temple Mount (not where the 'bulge' is) collapsed this week:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/news.php3?id=50321 http://www.truthnews.net/world/2003090074.htm http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=34776 http://www.news24.com/News24/World/News/0,,2-10-1462_1420594,00.html
The wreck of the 'El Rayo', a ship which participated in the Battle of Trafalgar, has been located:
http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2003/09/24/cultura/1064395891.html (Spanish)
http://www.deepikaglobal.com/ENG3_sub.asp?ccode=ENG3&newscode=24483 http://www.hipakistan.com/en/detail.php?newsId=en39969&F_catID=&f_type=s ource
================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Some Woodland period remains have been found in Beaufort, S.C.:
Contrary to popular opinion, the Olmecs were the first to exploit chocolate:
... and people were mining silver some four centuries before the Inca:
http://tinyurl.com/oxr9 (Yahoo) http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-09/uoa-eac092603.php http://tinyurl.com/oxrv (Scientific America) http://tinyurl.com/oxub (National Geographic)
Research has put the 'rise of the Maya' to 300 years earlier than currently believed:
Despite archaeologists' precautions, Isabel did take her toll on Jamestown:
There's a possible 1715 shipwreck off the coast of Florida, according to the memory of an aged surfer:
Discovery.com has a piece on the violent rituals of ancient Mesoamerica:
The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing on travelling up El Camino Real:
... while the Christian Science Monitor has a touristy thing on Villahermosa and the antiquities (and other things) there:
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/0924/p14s01-altr.html ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ On the DNA front, researchers have traced the 'genetic signature' which occurs in more than half the Levites of Ashkenazi origin to Central Asia:
The World Monuments Fund (whatever that is) has released its 'top 100 Endangered Sites' list:
A piece in the New York Times suggests Islamic Spain was not as 'tolerant' as is generally portrayed:
A Mongolian horde returned to Baghdad this week, in the role of peacekeepers (nice historical link in this one):
An interesting piece on Michael Everson, who is one of the folks turning out Unicode fonts which ultimately will be useful to the likes of us:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/technology/circuits/25code.html ================================================================ MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ The Digger (October 2003)
The current issue of Christianity Today, including its online incarnation, has a number of articles focusing on Biblical Archaeology. They're all available at:
http://www.christianitytoday.com/ctmag/ (you'll have to scroll a bit ... each article is under a subtitle called 'Archaeology Week')
================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ An interesting timeline sort of thing for the work of the silversmith/coin smith Abel Buel:
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~silversmiths/16/12130.h tm ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ Francesco Gnecchi, *Roman Coins: Elementary Manual*:
Leonard Kind, *Legends of Babylon and Egypt in Relation to Hebrew Tradition*:
http://www.tertullian.org/fathers/index.htm#Zosimus ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Seven pharoanic statues were recovered in Italy this week and returned to Egypt:
http://www.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o250923o.htm ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Victor Davis Hanson, *Ripples of Battle*
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/28/books/review/28GEWENT.html http://tinyurl.com/oxsm (San Francisco Chronicle)
Adrienne Mayor,*Greek Fire, Poison Arrows & Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World*
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030922/biowar.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES ================================================================ Luther (movie):
http://movies2.nytimes.com/2003/09/26/movies/26LUTH.html ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Durer (Vienna)
http://www.absolutearts.com/artsnews/2003/09/19/31374.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Please visit rogueclassicism ... it's supposed to be useful for classicists and latin teachers as well as being a form of outreach!! It's updated twice a day (save, perhaps, when my mother gets hit by a car):
Folks itching for news about Mel Gibson's Passion, might find the links at the Institute for Christian and Jewish Studies useful:
http://www.icjs.org/clergy/gibson.html cf: http://www.zenit.org/english/visualizza.phtml?sid=41157
Slate's *Empire Rising* is a very good cartoon parody of the whole US-as-Rome thing:
In case you missed it, Green Eggs and Ham came out in Latin this week:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A2694-2003Sep25.html http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/stories/G/GREEN_EGGS_AND_LATIN http://tinyurl.com/oxui (Yahoo)
I had this one at rogueclassicism, but forgot to mention it here ... it's a piece on the importance/benefits of studying Latin:
The Spectator appears to have become a payfer thing, alas, so we will no longer be mentioning Peter Jones' column.
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/
================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Lord Blake (biographer of Disraeli):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/09/25/obituaries/25CND-SAID.html ================================================================ REPEATS ================================================================ Ancient Urbanized Amazon:
http://tinyurl.com/oxu7 (Seattle Times) http://web.latercera.cl/lt/Articulo/0,5819,3255_5726_40706206,00.html (spanish)
http://tinyurl.com/oxx9 (San Francisco Chronicle) ================================================================ OTHER SOURCES OF ARCHAEOLOGICAL NEWS ================================================================ 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/ind ex
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/AncientAmericaand/
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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