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EARLY HUMANS
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A geneticist is suggesting there were sexual encounters between
Neanderthals and modern humans:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/6430494/Modern-man-had-sex-with-Neanderthals.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article6888874.ece
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/10/neanderthal_sex.html
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Report_Modern_Man_Had_Sex_With_Neanderthals_mb_200910261256584967364
More on Malawi as the crade of humankind:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091023/sc_nm/us_malawi_hominids>
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AFRICA
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Interesting account of a course to look at the archaeological
evidence for the slave trade in Benin:
http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid=3323
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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On the messiness of ritual deaths at Ur:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/science/27ur.html
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/19C3F673F6DCBA228625765C000CF96D?OpenDocument
An important Babylonian seal find in Egypt:
http://austriantimes.at/news/Panorama/2009-10-29/17649/Austrian_archaeologists_make_Babylonian_find_in_Egypt
http://diepresse.com/home/science/518228/index.do?_vl_backlink=/home/index.do
(photo)
This week's mummy scan (Stanford):
http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2009/october/mummy2.html
I think we mentioned this cuneiform tablet discovery last summer
when it was made:
http://media.www.buchtelite.com/media/storage/paper1203/news/2009/10/29/News/Professor.Makes-3816504.shtml
Latest from the tomb of Seti I:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/970/he1.htm
Some child/jar burials from Palmyra:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200910283393/Culture/syrian-japanese-archaeologists-burial-jars-dating-back-to-third-century-found-in-palmyra.html
A mini-flurry of articles about the burial caves at Beit Shearim
.... first, that they were opened to the public:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1124162
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134088
.... then some other person is claiming to have discovered them
73 years ago (!):
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1124426
A Sassanid site in Iran was bulldozed:
http://www.payvand.com/news/09/oct/1282.html
Zahi Hawass ponders the possible evidence for the Exodus:
http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id=18628
.... and this week he was made Vice Minister of Culture:
http://www.drhawass.com/node/350
Interesting feature on a couple of mummies in Richmond:
http://www.pal-item.com/article/20091031/NEWS01/910310301
.... and one on the various things we learn from mummies:
http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/health/healthy_living/wwlp_cnn_health_mummy_expert_death_tells_about_living_200910262233
Feature/slideshow on animal mummies:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/10/_this_slideshow_requires_versi.html
Evidence for tsunami events at Caesarea:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091026093728.htm
Rethinking the 'odds' of the Talpiot Tomb:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/tomb357926.shtnl
Feature on mapping Iraq's archaeological sites:
http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id=40707
A Roman-era cemetery from near Hebron:
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=235964
Video of that press tour around the Western Wall last week (kind
of wonky connection this a.m.):
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1194419829128&pagename=JPost/Page/VideoPlayer&videoId=1256150036853
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 'lost city' off the coast of Montenegro:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/montenegro/6451859/British-holidaymaker-discovers-lost-underwater-city.html
I'm sure we're all surprised to hear (not) that Alexander was not
the first at Alexandria:
http://www.newspostonline.com/science/evidence-indicates-alexander-the-great-was-not-first-at-alexandria-2009102772579>
Nice feature on ancient history and pseudoscholarship:
http://www.livius.org/opinion/opinion0017.html
A little Athens v Sparta ppt:
http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode=6026088
Feature on Maronia Cave as the home of Polyphemus:
http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8091385&maindocimg=8091432&service=144
Feature on the Antonine Wall:
http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/97437-the-other-wall
On the benefits of learning Latin:
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09301/1008771-294.stm
More hype for Paul Cartledge's forthcoming tome:
http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/cartledge/
Review of Adrian Goldsworthy, *How Rome Fell*:
http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/28/lessons-of-the-fall
Review of Mary Beard, *It's a Don's Life*:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/25/its-a-dons-life-mary-beard
Review of Caroline Alexander, *The War That Killed Achilles*:
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/10/26/achillies_retelling_is_a_commentary_on_war/
Review of Tobias Hill, *The Hidden*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Russo-t.html
Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/
Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
More on the amphitheatre at Portus:
http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/news/3439
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=107598§ionid=351020606
More on Asterix and Obelix at 50:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6408243/The-50th-Anniversary-of-Asterix-and-Obelix.html
More on the Bonham's vase:
http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33037/rare-ancient-roman-vase-identified/
More on Pavlopetri:
http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/nocs/news.php?action=display_news&idx=651
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 10,000 years b.p. flint from Coventry:
http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2009/10/27/10-000-year-old-flint-found-on-coventry-allotment-92746-25017679/
Feature on the antiquity of human habitation at Thatcham:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/berkshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8327000/8327303.stm
A possible Bronze Age site in central Oxford:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/8336475.stm
A bunch of 9000 years b.p. artifacts from a site in Sweden:
http://www.thelocal.se/22944/20091029
Bronze Age cattle travelled quite far:
http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?id=571
A mysterious Templar gravestone from Scotland:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6893161.ece
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Mystery-stone-found-near-church.5767821.jp
.... and a mysterious 17th century signet ring from Clifton:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/8324754.stm
An 800 years b.p. fortress from near Moscow:
http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/9118/
Not sure if this witch bottle find is a new one or one of those
mentioned over the past while:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091029-halloween-pictures-witch-bottle.html
(photo)
Some revisionism in regards to the site of Bosworth Field:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8329251.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223606/History-rewritten-Battle-Bosworth-took-place-TWO-MILES-away-official-site.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/28/battle-bosworth-dig-leicestershire
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6894702.ece
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/10/29/Dig-identifies-site-of-Battle-of-Bosworth/UPI-44531256860302/
Stonehenge is the UK's "most iconic" landmark:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8325657.stm
http://newslite.tv/2009/10/26/stonehenge-is-uks-most-iconic.html
The guy who owns the land where the Staffordshire Hoard was found
speaks out:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8328601.stm
Review of Hilary Mantel, *Wolf Hall*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Benfey-t.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A vaguely-dated wooden box find from Southy Phyongan Province
(Korea):
http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200910/news30/20091030-02ee.html
Suggestion that India might have invented plastic surgery:
http://www.physorg.com/news176015733.html
They're almost done restoring the Baphuon Temple at Angkor:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/lf_afp/cambodiaculturetourism_20091028061520
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/SE+Asia/Story/STIStory_447418.html
Several 'matuto' paintings/petroglyphs have been found in
Kaimana (Indonesia, I think):
http://www.antara.co.id/en/news/1256547076/many-matuto-paintings-found-in-kaimana
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NORTH AMERICA
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Not sure if we've mentioned this steppe bison find (and/or its
implications) before:
http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Bison+could+rewrite+Canada+archaeological+record/2150110/story.html
Some new clues in regards to the fate of the Franklin Expedition:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/28/john-franklin-expedition-robert-grenier
Revisionism in regards to Ulysses S. Grant:
http://www.physorg.com/news175796297.html
Revisiting the Johnstown flood of 1889:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/science/27obflood.html
Review John Keegan, *The American Civil War*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/McPherson-t.html
Review of Timothy Egan, *The Big Burn*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Horwitz-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of human habitation on Trinidad 7000 years b.p.:
http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id=161548331
A Mayan Temple at the bottom of a volcanic lake in Guatemala:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33556457/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=8961113
http://www.cdnn.info/news/science/sc091030.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091030/sc_nm/us_guatemala_archaeology_1
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1778333/scuba_diver_unearths_ancient_mayan_temple/index.html?source=r_science
A dozen Carnaris culture tombs from Lambayeque:
http://enperublog.com/2009/10/23/twelve-canaris-tombs-discovered-in-lambayeque/
A tomb at Sipan suggests the Moche date back to at least 100 B.C.:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=346186&CategoryId=14095
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-138651.html
Some photos (and more details) from the aforementioned tomb (I think):
http://enperublog.com/2009/10/27/youngest-moche-noble-yet-at-sipan-site/#more-3382
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the Halloween front, Archaeology Magazine had an excellent
feature on the archaeological side thereof:
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/halloween/
.... and the 10 scariest monsters from Celtic myth:
http://www.irishcentral.com/r?19=961&43=460322&44=67305337&32=7184&7=474312&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Froots%2FThe-scariest-monsters-and-demons-from-Celtic-myth-67305337.html
.... and the standard misinformation about Halloween origins:
http://www.retrieverweekly.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=4959&format=html
http://media.www.unews.com/media/storage/paper274/news/2009/10/26/News/Ancient.History.Still.Haunts.Us-3813228.shtml
A tiny Caravaggio self portrait turns up in his portrait of
Bacchus:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6468623/Tiny-Caravaggio-self-portrait-revealed-by-technology.html
Not sure where to classify this one ... an interesting story of
some unclaimed artifacts found in a bank in Nebraska (I wonder
what the followups will be):
http://www.1011now.com/news/headlines/66694322.html
http://www.ketv.com/news/21443457/detail.html
http://www.journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/e3749f7a-c411-11de-b407-001cc4c002e0.html
http://www.ketv.com/news/21443457/detail.html
Feature on the Waldseemuller Map:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8328878.stm
Related review of Toby Lester, *The Fourth Part of the World*:
http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/11/01/the_saga_of_the_16th_century_map_that_gave_america_its_name/
Feature on Avicenna's medical knowledge:
http://www.physorg.com/news176100207.html
Tippling through the ages:
http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56124/
On Kierkegaard and despair:
http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/kierkegaard-on-the-couch/
On the 'silver spoon effect' in ancient societies:
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9291
http://www.physorg.com/news176046539.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029141223.htm
On Darwin's advanced ideas on the origin of life:
http://www.physorg.com/news175861437.html
Feature on the guys behind Odyssey Marine:
http://www.soundingsonline.com/component/content/article/243152/243152
I can't get this item on academic vanity (from the THES) to come
up this a.m. ... perhaps it will work for you:
http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode=26&storycode=408839&c=2
The IHT has a special feature/section on collectibles:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/business/global/29iht-nwcollect.html
OpEddish thing pondering Napoleon and modern times:
http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/napoleons-dynamite/
Review of Peter Ackroyd, *The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Rafferty-t.html
Review of Stanley Rieser, *Technological Medicine*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/health/27books.html
Review of Barry Cunliffe, *Europe Between the Oceans*:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20091101_Locale_as_a_key_to_civilization_.html
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BLOGS AND PODCASTS
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Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Naked Archaeology Podcast:
http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Athens:
http://www.mcalesternews.com/features/local_story_304154822.html
Barcelona:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/travel/01explorer.html
Hiking the Ridgeway Trail:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/travel/01ridgeway.html
Heshun (China):
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/10/27/travel/20091027-heshun-slide-show_index.html
Mias Gerais (Brazil):
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/travel/25brazil.html
Montevideo:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/travel/25hours.html
Mazatlan:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/travel/25journeys.html
Villa de Leyva:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/travel/25explorer.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Macedonia/FYROM is dealing with smugglers:
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1535
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ixB7mr7QD9qI0u2nG2SE9IfPisEw
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ixB7mr7QD9qI0u2nG2SE9IfPisEw
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6460530/Macedonia-fights-to-save-cultural-treasures-from-looters.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=143&art_id=nw20091029071036522C558234
Somewhat vague item on the recovery of some idols from Orissa:
http://www.ptinews.com/news/353916_Rare-metal-idols-seized--one-arrested
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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John Brown's Raid:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/arts/design/28brown.html
Maharaja:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/8323146.stm
DSS:
http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/838762.html
Titian:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/arts/31iht-melik31.html
The Ashmolean Museum has reopened:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/01/ashmolean-museum-rick-mather-reopening
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=aNp8qidFL3aY
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6894330.ece
.... as has the Aphrodisias Museum:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-191005-101-newly-renovated-aphrodisias-museum-opens-to-the-public.html
A sceptre has been added to the Sutton Hoo display:
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/eveningstar/news/story.aspx?brand=ESTOnline&category=Galleries&tBrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED25%20Oct%202009%2021%3A22%3A10%3A210
A restored tapestry will be going on display at the V&A:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/6474730/Rags-to-riches-as-tapestry-masterpiece-is-restored-to-its-former-glory.html
The Met has returned a part of Amnemhat I's sarcophagus to Egypt:
http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sid=44102
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=109865§ionid=3510212
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/10/27/general-ml-egypt-met_7050579.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j1oyUN2WEd9IUYmfGaQ9CTIU4NCwD9BJIMGG0
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569835,00.html
A long-lost Jacobean play is coming to auction:
http://www.artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=34148&b=bonhams
More on that hoard coming to the British Museum:
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/137477/Detector-s-hoard-comes-to-British-Museum
Assorted arts items of interest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/arts/design/30antiques.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Juilliard School:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/arts/music/29baroque.html
Ancient Spirits:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/arts/music/27wu.html
Bach:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/arts/music/27bach.html
Stile Antico:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/arts/music/27antico.html
Antigone:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/theater/reviews/30antigone.html
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OBITUARIES
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Dietrich von Bothmer
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6897163.ece
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