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================================================================ explorator 6.24 October 12, 2003 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication.
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Happy Thanksgiving to my fellow Canucks!!!! A rather slow week, otherwise ... ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Archaeologists have once again proved their lack of coordination by stumbling upon a "major Stone Age" site during road construction in Wiltshire (the dates in the BBC piece must be wrong):
A number of petroglyphs of unknown (and I suspect dubious) antiquity have been found in Northumberland:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10/uonu-mrm100903.php http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994256 (photo) http://www.brightsurf.com/news/oct_03/EDU_news_100903.php
Al-Ahram has a good piece on that cuneiform tablet which is being used as evidence for Ramesses II having a capital in the Delta:
The British Museum has come up with a list of items from Iraq which are in most need of conservation:
The Oriental Institute's Mesopotamian collection is going on display:
This is really a repeat -- but with a photo -- a number of amphorae have been found off the coast of Rhodes, some with seals intact:
An issue or so ago we mentioned a dig at RAF base Mildenhall preliminary to building a baseball diamond ... well now they're building a 'football pitch' as well and they've come across some interesting archaeological items, including a Roman face-down burial:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/england/suffolk/3181246.stm http://www.af.mil/stories/story.asp?storyID=123005779
cf. EDP24: http://tinyurl.com/qg3z (the body is Iceni, not Roman)
A 5th/6th century A.D./C.E. synagogue is being excavated in Albania:
http://tinyurl.com/qmp0 (Washington Post) http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031009064923.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10/huoj-roa100803.php
Folks in Teeside are wondering when they'll get to see items of Anglo Saxon date which were discovered in a dig preliminary to church renovations:
A warrior burial from China's Warring States Period has been found in downtown Chengdu:
Archaeological evidence suggests China and Japan had 'cultural exchanges' some 7000 b.p.;
================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ An interesting piece on footpaths to cemeteries discovered in Costa Rica by satellite technology:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2003/10/031008064657.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2003-10/uoca-pfi100703.php
Also on the mounds front, the Atlanta Journal-Constitution has a feature on the mounds in Shiloh National Military Park:
A communal grave has been found on Shelter Island (NY) which probably belongs to the Manhaset people:
The damage inflicted on Jamestown by Hurricane Isabel is producing a lot of 'hindsight flak':
http://tinyurl.com/qmoc ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ The Marbles Reunited exhibition opened in London this week, demonstrating what the Parthenon/Elgin Marbles would look like if all the pieces were brought back together (in Greece) ... of course there's the expected sideshow to go along with it:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/3171040.stm http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,1057493,00.html http://www.artdaily.com/links.asp?idl=28&id=178
Someone has done a study on whether those hand images in paleolithic caves came from right-handed or more sinister types:
MSNBC has a rather lengthy feature on 'genetic genealogies' which includes items on some folks' claims to be illegitimate children of Charles Lindbergh (I suspect we'll hear more about this one in a few weeks), who is buried in Columbus' tomb, and several others (a 'table of contents' is at the bottom of the page):
The New York Times antiques column has a feature on Chinese porcelain:
Here's an interesting piece on when 'obstetricians' realized that washing one's hands before examining a pregnant woman would be a good thing:
This year's crop of MacArthur geniuses include an archaeologist and an historian:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/national/05MACA.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ Greg Doudna, "4Q Pesher Nahum and the Teacher of Righteousness":
================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ Studies presented to Boris Ilich Marshak in Occasion of His 70th Birthday:
http://www.transoxiana.com.ar/Eran/index_eran_ud_aneran.html ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A pile of Roman coins were stolen from the Trinci Palace in Foligno:
Ever wonder how purloined artifacts are recovered? Here's the story of the recovery of that war club found in a SoHo gallery:
The Chicago Tribune has a nice piece on the difficulties involved in trying to recover art looted by the Nazis, even with that new website announced a few weeks ago:
Switzerland is returning a number of Egyptian antiquities which were smuggled into that state:
http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html10/o041023h.htm ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Simon Winchester, *The Meaning of Everything: The Story of the Oxford English Dictionary*:
Adrienne Mayor, *Greek Fire, Poison Arrows and Scorpion Bombs: Biological and Chemical Warfare in the Ancient World.*
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/07/science/07WAR.html http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1009/p17s01-bogn.html
http://www.news.scotsman.com/features.cfm?id=1117872003 ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ The Age of Watteau, Chardin and Fragonard: Masterpieces of French Genre Painting:
Crossing the Channel: British and French Painting in the Age of Romanticism:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/10/arts/design/10SMIT.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ *Daily* news of interest to Classicists:
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism/ http://www.bloglines.com/preview?siteid=21809 (for Netscape 4.7 types)
The Toronto Star has an oped piece all about Arnold Schwarzenneger and Nero:
The Guardian has an interesting review of a television program designed, apparently, to take all the fun out of Jason and the Argonauts:
Akropolis News in Classical Greek (on hiatus?): 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 ================================================================ Peter Waters (book conservationist):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/10/05/obituaries/05WATE.html ================================================================ REPEATS ================================================================ Neolithic Britons' Change of Diet:
http://tinyurl.com/qmog (AGI) ================================================================ 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/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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