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================================================================ explorator 6.30 november 23, 2003 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication.
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+=============================================================== ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ An unexcavated site which may show 6,000 years of habitation in Yorkshire is threatened by a McCain chips factory (surely not the Canadian McCain! ... I'll have to have a word ...):
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a Greek inscription in Jerusalem which makes reference to Simon the Just and includes a passage from Luke:
http://tinyurl.com/w6ro (The Guardian) http://www.msnbc.com/news/996230.asp http://tinyurl.com/w6ql (AP via Yahoo) http://tinyurl.com/w6qj (New York Daily News)
Archaeologists believe ancient Pisa was built on a lagoon, much like Venice:
The Egyptian State Information Service has a feature on Roman Tanais (sort of), or rather, the tomb of Isadora there and the love story connected with it:
Clumsy archaeologists stumbled upon a first century Jewish settlement near Jerusalem:
A 'new' Viking ship with associated burial mound has possibly been found in Norway:
A piece on an upcoming documentary about some mysterious towerish structures in Tibet might be of interest:
What might be Europe's oldest (250 b.p.) toothbrush has been discovered in Germany:
http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/international.cfm?id=1277042003 http://tinyurl.com/w6t6 (Newsday) ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Carbon dating of a hearth from Brazil suggests people were keeping warm in a shelter there some 56,000 years b.p. (!!!):
http://www.msnbc.com/news/995137.asp http://tinyurl.com/w6r2 (Reuters via Yahoo)
National Geographic has a piece on the 'Sistine Chapel' of the Maya:
The Machu Picchu 'suburb' of Llactapata (oooh ... I spelled it correctly first time!) gets the John Noble Wilford treatment:
Here's a followup on that looted-rock-shelter-in-Wyoming story that we've mentioned in the past:
The Lewis and Clark notes suggest animals weren't necessarily as plentiful out west as some would have us believe:
An amateur archaeologist may have found evidence for the existence of a rumoured 'colonial mint' in Annapolis:
http://tinyurl.com/w6xq (Florida Times-Union) ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ The IAAF has approved holding the shot put competition on the archaeological site of Olympia (only the IOC can stop it now):
http://tinyurl.com/w6va http://tinyurl.com/w6ve http://tinyurl.com/w6vh
cf: http://tinyurl.com/w6xo (Guardian ... various things having to do with the Olympics and Elgin/Parthenon marbles)
cf: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=36605 (on a court decision that the Culture Ministry's decision to approve a preliminary study on the building of the Acropolis Museum was illegal; scroll down to see how the same ministry is drafting laws to get around other legal barriers associated with the Olympics)
cf: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=36583 (on plans to hold 'ancient' competitions at Olympia prior to the Games as well)
cf: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=36450 (on a law passed to outlaw saying anything rude about the Games)
Dr. Dorothy King is apparently going to be giving archaeological television in the UK a 'facelift':
In case you missed it ... Friday was the anniversary of the revelation that Piltdown Man was a fraud (why didn't we get the day off? We really need a long weekend in November up here in the Great White North):
The history of Pitcairn Island is at the centre of a legal case on the applicability of English law:
The Herald has a piece on the potential health effects of garlic which also includes some history of its use:
Shakespeare is going to get the 'computer stylistics' treatment to see how much of his own work he really did write:
When physicists start cleaning up their labs what do they find? (weapons of math instruction, of course):
A few weeks ago we mentioned that television 'documentary' based on the da Vinci Code ... here's some reaction to it and the novel on which it was based:
Somewhat disproportionate (?) coverage of a statistical study which suggests dodos might have not been extinct until ca. 1690, some 30 years later than previously thought:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/fr/-/2/hi/science/nature/3281323.stm http://www.msnbc.com/news/995703.asp
http://www.msnbc.com/news/995357.asp?0cv=CB20&cp1=1 ================================================================ MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS ================================================================ The Digger 31 (November 2003):
http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BR/indexBR.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ An interesting page on 'fractional currency shields':
http://www.fractionalnotes.com/fractionalshields.htm ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ Popol Vuh (translated from a translation):
http://www.sacred-texts.com/nam/maya/pvgm/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A 14th-century Jewish manuscript which had been looted by the Nazis was returned this week, after an auction catalog was rather obvious about the manuscript's provenience:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/19/nyregion/19JEWS.html http://famulus.msnbc.com/famulusgen/ap11-17-171137.asp http://tinyurl.com/w6qm (New York Daily News)
I've been trying to figure out the point of this one for a week. We've mentioned that exhibition of finds by metal detectorists at the British Museum ... now the curator of that exhibition is commenting on how much heritage is being lost on the black market:
Hooray! They've begun to guard some of the archaeological sites in Iraq:
http://tinyurl.com/w6zq ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Greg Woolf (ed.), *Cambridge Illustrated History of the Roman World*:
Robert Massie, *Castles of Steel: Britain, Germany and the Great War at Sea* (I know it isn't quite within our time period, but you have to read the reviewer's name):
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/23/books/review/23UGLOWT.html (includes an audio interview)
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/17/books/17MASL.html http://www.brownalumnimagazine.com/storydetail.cfm?ID=2203
http://www.csmonitor.com/2003/1118/p15s02-bogn.html http://tinyurl.com/w6sc (New York Daily News)
Some reactions (not quite reviews) of Keegan's claims about the minor importance of intelligence in battle in his latest tome:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/22/arts/22INTE.html ================================================================ PERFORMANCES ================================================================ The Beard of Avon:
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/21/arts/theater/21HENR.html http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/arts/AP-Theater-Henry-IV.html http://tinyurl.com/w6ov
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/11/21/arts/theater/21MERC.html ================================================================ DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS) ================================================================ For fans of the 'hollow earth theory':
http://www.in-sourced.com/article/articleview/900/1/13/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Tanagras at the Louvre:
http://tinyurl.com/w6v5 (AthensNews) ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ ClassCon in a piece by Umberto Eco on the future of books:
The Chronicle has an interesting piece about a couple of Casaubons:
Really a repeat, but Kathimerini appears to clarify some issues some folks may have had about the restaging of Aeschylus' Achilleis:
Akropolis News in Classical Greek (it has returned!): 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/ ================================================================ REPEATS ================================================================ Ancient GM Corn:
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20031117/petrarch.html http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/story.jsp?story=465418 http://tinyurl.com/w6r5 (Reuters via Yahoo)
http://www.iht.com/articles/118284.html ================================================================ 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/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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