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explorator 15.01 April 22, 2012 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Ole A. Imsen, Brad Leppert, George York, Kurt Theis, Adrian Murdoch, Bob Heuman, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). Hic incipit feliciter our sixteenth year!!! ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Still arguing about Mrs Ples: blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...-an-identity-crisis/ Pondering the origins of music: www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archiv...invent-music/255945/ Meat eating was apparently good for early humans: phys.org/news/2012-04-meat-earlier-weaning-humans-globe.html What chimpanzee ground nests tell us about early humans: phys.org/news/2012-04-chimpanzee-ground-...cestors-descent.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Austria returned some human remains to South Africa: phys.org/news/2012-04-austria-safrican-indigenous-people.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A clumsy visiting Egyptologist found some missing bits of the Book of the Dead in Australia: www.brisbanetimes.com.au/queensland/anci...-20120420-1xc5l.html uk.news.yahoo.com/rare-egyptian-scrolls-...ction-065458457.html www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...8d41b90874111367.641 www.news.com.au/entertainment/books/its-...9412vp-1226334861179 phys.org/news/2012-04-rare-egyptian-scrolls-australian.html www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ml?ito=feeds-newsxml Quarrying near Aswan threatens petroglyphs: www.egyptindependent.com/news/quarrying-...paleolithic-rock-art A scarab find in Jerusalem: www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3847 Recent finds at Gath: gath.wordpress.com/2012/04/19/some-nice-...on-i-and-lb-pottery/ A preliminary report from Khirbat Qeiyafa (Elah Fortress): www.hadashot-esi.org.il/report_detail_eng.asp?id=1989 Plans to restore La Description de l’Egypte: english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/39...-to-be-restored.aspx Qatar and the DAI have a new agreement: www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.a...e_id=57&parent_id=56 The latest ‘turn’ in the ‘Jonah ossuary’ claim: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/uonc-hia041812.php phys.org/news/2012-04-hebrew-inscription...ristian-ancient.html www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47117296/ns/technol...and_science-science/ www.livescience.com/19806-hebrew-inscription-jonah-ossuary.html … and the reaction: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47124510/ns/technol...and_science-science/ www.livescience.com/19830-christian-ossu...andom-squiggles.html Studying Jewish DNA: chronicle.com/article/The-Chosen-Genes/131481/ Feature on Adam Zertal and his work over the past decades: www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=3848 OpEd on Turkey’s recent demand for item returns: www.eurasianet.org/node/65272 Pondering the ‘demise’ of Biblical minimalism: www.bib-arch.org/scholars-study/minimalist-response.asp … and the Qeiyafa Ostracon: www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=B...=04&Page=1&UserID=0& A bill currently in front of the Knesset would put ex soldiers on archaeological digs: www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4216024,00.html Feature (in French) on conservation efforts at Minet el Hosn: libnanews.com/2012/04/02/les-archeologue...r-a-tout-prix-video/ Review(ish) thing of the latest volume of Eretz Israel: www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=264823 More coverage of the outcome of the Oded Golan trial: www.jta.org/news/article/2012/04/20/3093...ptions-werent-forged ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Plenty of coverage over a claim of an identification of a statue as being a female gladiator/gladiatrix: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04...cience-ancient-rome/ www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/18/rare-...ss-female-gladiator/ www.livescience.com/19729-female-gladiator-statue-rome.html www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47088229/ns/technol...and_science-science/ www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...nt-defeated-foe.html www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/04/18/rare-b...f-top_n_1435121.html news.yahoo.com/rare-ancient-statue-depic...iator-112408435.html … but cf: Very interesting find of what appears to be a statue of Cleopatra’s twin kiddies: news.discovery.com/history/cleopatras-twin-babies-120420.html www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english...a-twins_6752091.html www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/section...a-twins_6752119.html Some more of the Palladion was unearthed in Athens: greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/17/anci...urt-found-in-athens/ Archaeologists are seeking a halt to church construction until a Roman fort can be checked out in Yorkshire: www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/news_local/...on_church_site_plan/ Moles are digging up Roman artifacts at Epiacum: www.journallive.co.uk/north-east-news/to...oles-61634-30806040/ Confirmation (of sorts) of a tsunami hitting Potidaea in 479 B.C.: phys.org/news/2012-04-ancient-greek-tsunami.html www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47107517/ns/technol...and_science-science/ www.ouramazingplanet.com/2787-ancient-wave-real-tsunami.html Nice feature on a Roman military diploma at the Israel Museum: www.timesofisrael.com/in-a-bronze-inscri...nant-of-roman-might/ CWR University celebrated Vergil Week: cwru-daily.com/news/?p=7017 There was a marathon reading of the Iliad at Bowdoin: www.bowdoin.edu/news/archives/1bowdoincampus/009408.shtml Honours for Judith Lynn Sebesta: www.yankton.net/articles/2012/04/19/comm...110d4f4875774233.txt Mary Beard had a big presence this week … being interviewed: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/21/pro...d-saturday-interview … writing about ‘pushy parents’ in ancient Rome: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17701080 … and Rome’s desperate housewives or lack thereof: www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-21330...st-like-x-rated.html … and her favourite parts of Rome: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/...n-a-modern-city.html … and there were reviews of her ‘Meet the Romans’: www.shropshirestar.com/entertainment/tel...ary-beard-tv-review/ www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/tvandradio/9...-BBC-Two-review.html The Greek kiln at UA was fired up again: www.tucsonsentinel.com/arts/report/04191...cient-greek-pottery/ I think we mentioned Daniel Mendelsohn and his father’s ‘odyssey’ trip last week: www.npr.org/2012/04/15/150629440/a-fathe...ast-odyssey-together Some town in Turkey has actually trademarked Veni, Vidi, Vici: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/veni-vidi-vici...=18472&NewsCatID=341 *The Swerve* won a Pulitzer: www.newsday.com/entertainment/books/puli...tion-award-1.3664641 www.pulitzer.org/citation/2012-General-Nonfiction www.seattlepi.com/news/article/No-fictio...35-years-3485760.php www.thecrimson.com/article/2012/4/17/pulitzer-greenblatt-2012/ Hype for the Homer Encyclopedia; www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/afot-fhe041712.php We’re hearing about Roman theme parks again: www.ottawacitizen.com/life/million+ancie...e/6488881/story.html www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.a...e_id=36&parent_id=16 The Olympias won’t be at the Olympics (so far): www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6d3c20c6-8980-11e1-85...a.html#axzz1sQPJjsGT Feature on the Romosexuality conference: www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp...storycode=419679&c=1 Review of Christian Cameron, *God of War* [novel]: www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/books/...eron/article2403728/ Review of Susan Allen, *Classical Spies*: www.athensnews.gr/issue/13491/54859 Review(ish) of Rebecca Jones, *Roman Camps in Scotland*: www.scotsman.com/news/arts/a-new-book-ch...the-romans-1-2236252 www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/local-he...d-conquest-1-2227947 More on revolting gladiators: www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/ap...n-arms?newsfeed=true Latest reviews from BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Arguing about Ale’s Stones (Sweden): www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/04/19/swedi...ucture-spurs-debate/ Excavating one of the earliest farming sites in Europe (Albania): phys.org/news/2012-04-uc-reveals-earliest-farming-sites.html www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120416113013.htm www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/uoc-rro041612.php The acoustics of Stonehenge: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17754949 Time Team finds assorted items from assorted periods at a site in Cardiff: www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/20...4/21/91466-30804706/ They’re excavating the 16th century defenses of Leith: www.scotsman.com/news/arts/ancient-defen...-unearthed-1-2245552 A medieval grave of an abbot at Furness Abbey turns out to be rather more interesting than expected: www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/apr/19/f...grave-medieval-abbot A metal detectorist found a bronze age axe handle in Flintshire: www.dailypost.co.uk/news/need_to_read/20...ddyn-55578-30798988/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-17767303 www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archa...cumbria-7657875.html Plans to put a 13th century shipwreck (or two) in a ‘metal cave’ to protect it: greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/19/ship...-from-natural-decay/ Video feature on the Cornish Bronze Age Boat project and the Nebra Sky disk: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-17775009 Neil MacGregor talks about Henry V’s armour: A Bronze Age necklace has returned to Cornwall: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-17745523 The British Library has purchased the St Cuthbert Gospel: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/apr/17/bri...-library-buys-gospel www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-17732310 An Anglo-Saxon collection/’haul’ wins an award: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-17752500 Seeking to bring a Viking horde back to Furness: www.nwemail.co.uk/news/appeal-launched-t...47?referrerPath=home Britain destroyed records of assorted Colonial crimes, but some survived: www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/04/17/britain-d.../#.T47Dc-FO1Xo.email Checking out the DNA of the Scots (spin is slightly different in these): www.scotsman.com/news/arts/scotland-s-dn...o-napoleon-1-2238030 www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/co...-Prince-Charlie.html Italy is going the sponsorship route to save cultural treasures: www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,828256,00.html Damage to Priddy Stone Circle: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17771005 More on the Trefael Stone: phys.org/news/2012-04-archaeologists-rew...y-trefael-stone.html More on Oxford Viking skeletons: phys.org/news/2012-04-skeletons-oxford-1...-viking-raiders.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Harappan remains in Gujarat: www.bernama.com/bernama/v6/newsindex.php?id=659549 4000 years b.p. ‘cliff drawings’ from China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region: news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-04/22/c_131543881.htm Excavating some 9th century Buddhist artifacts from a village in Cuttack district: expressbuzz.com/states/orissa/historians...t-relics/384060.html Arguing about surveying/investigating Adam’s Bridge have resumed: www.telegraphindia.com/1120419/jsp/natio...818.jsp#.T5PsZtl52RJ An 1800 years b.p. ‘tomb cluster’ from Jiangxi: www.mysinchew.com/node/72603 I think we mentioned this 3000 Buddha find last week … here are some photos: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/04...china-world-science/ More on Chinese surnames: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/04/120413101115.htm East Asian Archaeology: eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/ Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ A possible pre-Clovis site at Lamb Springs near Denver: www.denverpost.com/entertainment/ci_2038...ewrite-human-history Possible evidence of early ritual at the Crowfield site (near Strathroy): www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science...te-early-ritual.html ohio-archaeology.blogspot.ca/2012/04/pal...dian-ceremonies.html Brown University has discovered a rare print by Paul Revere: www.npr.org/2012/04/15/150630478/lost-an...e-print-rediscovered Wondering whether a stovepipe hat really belonged to Lincoln: www.suntimes.com/news/metro/11867891-418...ly-abe-lincolns.html OpEddish thing on the ongoing question of ownership of Native American bones: www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=who-owns-the-past Review of Richard Zacks, *Island of Vice*: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...04/08/RV061N885D.DTL ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Burial of a Sican princess at at the Chotuna-Chornancap site: www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas...found-in-peru/15191/ Pondering whether Naymlap was a real person: today.ucla.edu/portal/ut/archaeologist-s...validate-230460.aspx Feature on Haiti’s Sans-Souci Palace: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17567230 Penn Museum video in which Dr Loa Traxler talks about tunnels at Copan: Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Audio News from the Archaeology Channel: www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews8apr12.mp3 Archaeonews podcast: www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...aeo-news-podcast-209 This month’s video news from the Archaeology Channel: www.archaeologychannel.org/ The fish that almost sank Isaac Newton: phys.org/news/2012-04-revealed-fish-sank-isaac-newton.html uk.news.yahoo.com/revealed-fish-nearly-s...ewton-220835477.html Studying human tissue to figure out epidemics of the past: www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-s...IQA2MCEMT_story.html Looking at the dirt on medieval books: uk.news.yahoo.com/technique-offers-window-past-113720092.html Tracing one’s ancestry back to the Stone Age: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17527318 Feature on the guy-who-owns-Hobby-Lobby’s massive collection of Bible-related artifacts: www.foxnews.com/us/2012/04/13/hobby-shop...ion-bible-artifacts/ A Nazi-looted painting was returned to the heirs of its owner: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-17765218 Nice Nature Video on DaVinci’s anatomical drawings in Windsor Castle: The ‘Stuff You Missed in History Class’ folks ponder who the real Indiana Jones was: podcasts.howstuffworks.com/hsw/podcasts/...al-indiana-jones.mp3 More Pulitzer Prize stuff: www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/arts/2012-pul...drama-and-music.html Latest on the did-Marco-Polo-really-go-to-China thing: www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=119306&CultureCode=en Review(ish) of Tom Holland, *In the Shadow of the Sword*: blogs.telegraph.co.uk/news/edwest/100151...-the-birth-of-islam/ Review of David Crystal, *The Story of English in 100 Words*: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...04/08/RV1N1NSPRJ.DTL Review of Sadakat Kadri, *Heaven on Earth*: www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/books/heaven-...y-sadakat-kadri.html More on Darwin’s daughter’s diary: phys.org/news/2012-04-unpublished-journal-darwin-daughter.html Ancient Digger: www.ancientdigger.com/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Bettany Hughes’ Athens: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/...-Hughess-Athens.html Trier: www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/lifestyle/tra...-trier-16145512.html Dougga: www.tunisia-live.net/2012/04/15/the-timeless-city-of-dougga/ ================================================================ BLOGS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Looting Matters: lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ Illicit Cultural Property: illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ Safe Corner: safecorner.savingantiquities.org/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Latest e-Sylum: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n16.html … and the one which should appear later today: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n17.html Ancient Coin Collecting: ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Week: www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Sanctuaries of Demeter and Persephone at Morgantina www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=54800 Joaquin Sorolla: www.nytimes.com/2012/04/12/arts/12iht-sorolla12.html Mummy: Secrets of the Tomb: www.abc.net.au/news/2012-04-18/mummies-u...7826/?site=newcastle Feature on the Vatican Museums: www.voanews.com/learningenglish/home/art...t-Art-147834365.html Iraq’s National Museum has partially reopened (didn’t we have this already?): news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2012-04/16/c_131530245.htm Terracotta Warriors are coming to New York: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/ch...-coming-to-new-york/ Check out our Twitter hashtag for more ancient exhibition reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Clytemnestra: www.guardian.co.uk/stage/2012/apr/16/cly...keover-gwyneth-lewis Anthonello: www.nytimes.com/2012/04/17/arts/music/an...john-the-divine.html Fetih 1453: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/apr/12/turkish-fetih-1453 Musica Sacra: www.nytimes.com/2012/04/16/arts/music/or...t-carnegie-hall.html Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama ... and for Sword and Sandal flicks: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal 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explorator 15.03 May 6, 2012 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Donna Hurst, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Joann Conman, 'Stan', Patrick Swan, A. Landreau,Kurt Theis, Angie Telepenko, Adrienne Mayor, John McMahon, David Critchley, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, Rochelle Altman, A. Landreau,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Plenty of coverage of the discovery of red blood cells in Otzi: rsif.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/.../rsif.2012.0174.full www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17909396 www.philly.com/philly/health/149914235.html?cmpid=132476848 www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57426197/ic...-oldest-blood-cells/ news.yahoo.com/iceman-mummy-holds-worlds...cells-230805449.html … although at least one source seems to be concentrating on Otzi asa first assassination victim: gizmodo.com/5907165/the-first-assassinat...arrow-5300-years-ago … and another that he survived for a while after being hit with an arrow: phys.org/news/2012-05-iceman-oetzi-arrow-wound.html Rethinking/redating modern humans’ arrival in Europe: www.nature.com/news/archaeology-date-with-history-1.10573 How gene duplication helped our brains become ‘human’: esciencenews.com/articles/2012/05/03/scr....brains.become.human www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...arated-man-apes.html www.newscientist.com/article/dn21777-ear...g-with-one-gene.html Modern humans had an edge in regards to navigation skills, perhaps: blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...t-to-humans-success/ On the ‘separate’ evolution of blondes (not sure where to put this one): www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-h...0503,0,2418895.story news.yahoo.com/origin-mysterious-dark-sk...vered-181239858.html … similarly, apparently humans are still undergoing natural selection: www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/05/human-genetic-evolution/ This one’s mostly about Neanderthal-Sapiens interbreeding: www.kansascity.com/2012/05/03/3592660/ca...ightly-laced-in.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Islamists have attached a 16th century tomb in Timbuktu: www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.a...ion=1&template_id=39 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Some temples in Luxor and Karnak are getting some restoration: weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1096/heritage.htm Remains of a First Temple period temple beneath an Israeli drain: au.ibtimes.com/articles/336124/20120502/...nd-under-ancient.htm An eighth century B.C.E. Netanyahu seal find connected to the above: www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4169 www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History...salem_1-May-2012.htm news.discovery.com/history/netanyahu-seal-120501.html www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2012/Ma...r-First-Temple-Seal/ www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-seal-found-in-jerusalem/ Beersheba’s big dig: www.jpost.com/Metro/Features/Article.aspx?id=267547 Phoenician tombs found during sewer work in Lanarca: www.cyprus-mail.com/sewerage-works/sewer...cient-tombs/20120501 Satellite images reveal the courses of ancient rivers in the Arabian desert: www.scientificcomputing.com/news-DS-Anci...n-Desert-050412.aspx Latest on the Ilisu Dam project: globalpublicsquare.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05...s-ilisu-dam-project/ Continuing concern for Syrian antiquities: www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/01/syria-c...est-uprising-victim/ Feature on those clay tablets which were in the World Trade Center: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/05/f...via-911-and-harvard/ Review of Joyce Tyldesley, *Tutankhamen*: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/06/books/review/...joyce-tyldesley.html Review of Janet Picton et al (eds.) , *Living Images*: www.barnesandnoble.com/w/living-images-janet-picton/1008410365 More on mummies with rare diseases: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47207778/ns/technol...and_science-science/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ A 3000 years b.p. necropolis find during highway construction in Bulgaria: sofiaecho.com/2012/05/02/1818561_archaeo...rias-struma-motorway A Byzantine settlement is being excavated in Pelion: greece.greekreporter.com/2012/04/30/byza...d-in-central-greece/ An Italian court has upheld the decision on the Getty bronze: www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/cultu...0504,0,2759444.story On women and ‘microcredit’ in ancient Rome: www.uji.es/UK/noticies/detall&id_a=28320248 www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...d-the-banking-system Ranking the deaths of Roman emperors: www.theawl.com/2012/05/roman-emperor-deaths Bizarre tribute to Trajan in Romania: www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...30bd941cc0363871.6b1 Fears about Leda and the Swan: www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news...estiality-fears.html Brief item on Roman glassmaking: phys.org/news/2012-05-roman-age-glassmaking.html Nice outreach program at Emory: news.emory.edu/stories/2012/05/oxford_%2...s_thrive/campus.html Nice field trip for some Notre Dame grad students: www.ndsmcobserver.com/news/grad-students...2865412#.T6Z4aFJ52RI Peter Burian is now emeritus (sort of): www.newsobserver.com/2012/04/29/2031425/...eaves-classroom.html Restoring gardens on the Palatine: www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...d68b08076948e78f.6d1 Feature on Talos: www.wondersandmarvels.com/2012/03/the-wo...rst-robot-talos.html Feature on the Kyrenia shipwreck: www.cyprus-mail.com/kyrenia/ancient-ship-s-sos/20120506 Feature on the ancient Olympics: sports.yahoo.com/news/events-ancient-oly...-204300910--oly.html Interview with Madeline Miller: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/01/mad...ler-song-of-achilles Latest reviews from BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Pondering whether ancient Germans may have stolen ancient Egyptian chair designs: www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-830958.html Evidence of Medieval defense works at Fyvie Castle: news.stv.tv/scotland/98218-archaeologist...-of-historic-castle/ Brief feature on Maeshowe: www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpsci...chamber-reveale.html Plans to repaint the Westbury white horse: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-17967525 More on the spread of agriculture in Europe (with a northern European focus): phys.org/news/2012-04-glimpse-ancient-human-history.html Fallout from the HMS Victory salvaging plans: www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/06/hms-vi...k-odyssey-excavation More on the Cutty Sark: www.greenwich.co.uk/magazine/08116-cutty-sark-review/ More on efforts to acquire a Viking hoard for a Lancaster Museum: www.lancasterguardian.co.uk/news/lancast...king-hoard-1-4486128 Review of Hilary Mantel, *Bringing Up the Bodies*: www.tnr.com/book/review/hilary-mantel-bring-up-the-bodies Archaeology in Europe Blog: archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A mystery object found in a tomb in China 35 years ago might be a gnomon: www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00292.html In India, the ASI is threatening to tear down homes that are too close to sites: www.guardian.co.uk/world/interactive/201...omes-interactive-map Feature on Qin’s tomb and environs: www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/travel/2012...5/1224315528333.html East Asian Archaeology: eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/ Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ An important pre-Clovis find in Florida: www.livescience.com/20088-early-floridia...moths-mastodons.html www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uof-nus050312.php phys.org/news/2012-05-early-north-americans-extinct-giant.html www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120503153929.htm Nice feature on pre-Clovis evidence in general: www.nature.com/news/ancient-migration-coming-to-america-1.10562 Plenty of coverage for what is apparently a ‘hidden map of the Lost Colony: phys.org/news/2012-05-clue-lost-colony.html www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/us/map-markin...-to-lost-colony.html www.thestate.com/2012/05/06/2265183/at-l...ate-lead-to-the.html www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/03/321...ish-researchers.html www.newsobserver.com/2012/05/01/2041723/...ish-researchers.html news.yahoo.com/researchers-clue-lost-colony-214550117.html www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2138832...p-North-America.html www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-brita...-colony-7707486.html Definite and indefinite articles form the basis of an argument that the English made it to North America before Columbus: phys.org/news/2012-04-italian-merchants-...gland-discovery.html www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47288320/ns/technol...and_science-science/ www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...497-hints-first.html Plans to excavate the USS Scorpion: uppermarlboro.patch.com/articles/warship...-near-upper-marlboro Remains of the CSS Georgia are in the way of waterway deepening: www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/05/civil-war-...overnment-653m-plan/ abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/civil-war-sh...ort-project-16285687 On medicine during the Civil War: opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/04/27...medical-middle-ages/ An ancient Caddo people artifact turns up at Goodwill: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55159 au.ibtimes.com/articles/336986/20120504/...ill-caddo-indian.htm Review of Albert Casterl, *Victors in Blue*: www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/apr/30...ar-generals-clashed/ ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Traces of blood on obsidian knives provide the first definite evidence of human sacrifice in Mexico some 2000 years b.p.: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55173 phys.org/news/2012-05-mexican-experts-ancient-blood-stone.html www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centr...found-in-Mexico.html www.newsday.com/news/nation/mexican-expe...one-knives-1.3695711 Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Audio News from Archaeologica: www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews29apr12.mp3 Archaeology is more than digging in the dirt: asunews.asu.edu/20120430_Smithpaper phys.org/news/2012-04-archaeology-tradit...-scope-sciences.html www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-04/asu-aeb043012.php So you want to be an archaeologist: www.archaeology.co.uk/advice/careers-in-...into-archaeology.htm … and a reminder that it can be dangerous work: philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2012/05/05/arc...er-in-mercer-county/ Feature on Dolce of Worms and her elegy: www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=267586 The causes (maybe) of Lenin’s death: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/vladim...death_n_1477258.html A teen caught a mistake with a map at the Met: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/04/teen-p...curat_n_1477094.html Pondering the accuracy of DaVinci’s anatomy drawings: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17907305 Related … a pricey (but interesting) DaVinci-related iPad app: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55137 Interesting feature on how ‘unknown artists’ are identified: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55133 On linking names to activities/personalities (in this case, Godel): opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/03...ts-in-a-name-part-3/ What we can learn from dental plaque: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120502184838.htm www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uonr-uon050212.php phys.org/news/2012-05-plaque.html Review of Steven Nadler, *A Book Forged in Hell*: www.tnr.com/book/review/book-forged-hell...eatise-steven-nadler Review of Faramerz Dabhoiwala , *The Origins of Sex*: www.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/books/faramer...t-museum-of-sex.html Ancient Digger: www.ancientdigger.com/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Greece: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/...the-Games-began.html Rome: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destination/i...ome-itineraries.html ================================================================ BLOGS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Looting Matters: lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ Illicit Cultural Property: illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ Safe Corner: safecorner.savingantiquities.org/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ Latest issue of the e-Sylum: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n18.html … and the one which will appear later today: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n19.html Ancient Coin Collecting: ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Week: www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Maya 2012: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55175 www.philly.com/philly/health/20120503_Th...html?cmpid=138896554 www.courierpostonline.com/article/201205...es-fact-from-fiction Search for Immortality: Tomb Treasures of Han China: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-17910197 www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/the-search-f...asures-of-han-china/ news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-05/04/c_131569147.htm www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/may/03/h...mortality-suits-show Byzantium and Islam: www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/05/slides...islam-age-transition Antico: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55083 White Gold: Revealing the World’s Earliest Coins: www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/presentation/...asp?id=794&term=%200 Terracotta Warriors: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55091 Burr and his Contemporaries: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/design/a...he-grolier-club.html Vuillard: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/design/v...ewhouse-gallery.html The Asmolean has acquired an important textile from Mohammed’s tomb: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55099 The Stobhall Castle auction exceeded expectations: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-17938207 The National Museum in Afghanistan has an exhibition about the Bamiyan Buddhas: www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...d497a7b1640016c6.a71 Job cuts at the Getty: www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-et...20501,0,182954.story Pondering the recent auction of ‘The Scream’ www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/arts/design/t...othebys-auction.html artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/th...20-million-a-record/ www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/design/h...d-munchs-scream.html Results of an Impressionist sale: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/design/c...-for-17-million.html Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Freiburg Baroque Orchestra: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/arts/music/fr...roque-orchestra.html Book IV of Monteverdi’s Madrigals: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/arts/music/ar...erdis-madrigals.html Macbeth: theater.nytimes.com/2012/05/04/theater/r...47th-st-theater.html Midsummer Night’s Dream: theater.nytimes.com/2012/04/30/theater/r...c-stage-company.html Merchant of Venice: theater.nytimes.com/2012/04/26/theater/r...clurman-theater.html Romeo and Juliet in Baghdad: www.nytimes.com/2012/04/29/world/middlee...hiite-and-sunni.html Die Shopfung: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/03/arts/music/ha...holomews-church.html The Bodleian has announced a crowd-sourced Victorian music project: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/bo...orian-music-project/ Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama ... and for Sword and Sandal flicks: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Benzion Netanyahu: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/01/world/middlee...ahu-dies-at-102.html John Wacher: www.sal.org.uk/obituaries/johnwacher Norman Fruman: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/02/books/norman-...olar-dies-at-88.html Robert Miles 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Happy Mother's Day!!! ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ The Taung fossil may give hints about human brain growth: phys.org/news/2012-05-anthropologist-exp...brain-evolution.html www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/05/07/Foss.../UPI-74001336436872/ www.guardian.co.uk/science/neurophilosophy/2012/may/07/1 Homo sapiens’ success might be tied to their ‘symbolic abilities’: phys.org/news/2012-05-success-homo-sapiens-due-spatial.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Assorted controversial spins being put on finds at Khirbet Qeiyafa: phys.org/news/2012-05-archaeologist-evid...cult-judah-king.html www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508103803.htm www.haaretz.com/news/national/archaeolog...d-s-kingdom-1.429087 www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.429087 news.discovery.com/history/shrine-king-david-cult-120510.html www.livescience.com/20204-shrines-biblical-kings-excavated.html www.yourjewishnews.com/Pages/19826.aspx www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4262 www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/155579 www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=269164 zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2012/05...e-qeiyafa-discovery/ … and some reaction: www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/the-key...the-kingdom-1.360222 gath.wordpress.com/2012/05/11/yossi-garfinkel-on-the-ark/ servingtheword.blogspot.ca/2012/05/khirb...ible-unintended.html Plans to dig Abel Beth Maacah: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/.../09/prweb9483985.DTL An update on recent finds from Judea and Samaria: www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History...Samaria_May_2012.htm Evidence of a ‘lost language’ from Ziyaret Tepe: www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/archaeologis...cover-lost-language/ www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archa...-palace-7728894.html www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpsci...nknown-language.html m.phys.org/news/2012-05-archaeologists-lost-language.html Feature on the dig at Tel Kedesh: www.archaeology.org/1205/features/tel_ke..._galilee_israel.html Feature on the Aleppo Codex: www.timesofisrael.com/revealed-the-true-...-most-precious-book/ www.timesofisrael.com/breaking-the-codex/ Feature on the Royal Lion Hunt reliefs in the BM: www.northcoastjournal.com/outdoors/2012/...nimal-rights-artist/ A possible sixth century church site in Jerusalem: www.haaretz.com/news/national/1.429195 Neolithic finds from Qatar: www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.a...e_id=57&parent_id=56 The IAA doesn’t want to return things to Oded Golan: www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=269669 Smuggling is still a major concern in Egypt: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55328 seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwor..._egyptantique13.html www.startribune.com/world/151239205.html www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east...IQATrKRKU_story.html … while they recovered a number of artifacts from Belgium: allafrica.com/stories/201205071109.html Not quite sure where to put this one … evidence of Freemasons in Jerusalem: www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4105 Vandals have damaged the Monk’s Mill site in northern Israel: www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/155491#.T6-ndlJr19s A somewhat strange damaging-a-burial-site case in Tzippori: www.haaretz.com/news/national/owner-of-i...burial-site-1.428592 The West Bank separation fence apparently threatens some (still in use) Roman irrigation works: www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/...05/12/MNFL1OGNIH.DTL www.time.com/time/world/article/0,8599,2114581,00.html www.timesofisrael.com/west-bank-separati...tens-roman-terraces/ The Qatna dig has a new website: www.qatna.de/ A virtual 3d tour of Giza: phys.org/news/2012-05-internet-virtual-giza-3d.html news.discovery.com/history/egypt-gyza-pl...u-online-120511.html The Google Doodle tribute to Howard Carter gained some news attention: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05...mb-king-tut-science/ www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/Horizons/20...-Indiana-Jones-video www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2012/may/0...carter-google-doodle The British Library is digitizing some Persian manuscripts: www.iranheritage.org/BL_Project/default.htm More on evidence of former rivers in the Great Nafud desert of Saudi Arabia: english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/10/213313.html ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Remains of a Roman temple in Bonn: www.thelocal.de/national/20120504-42341.html www.rhein-sieg-anzeiger.ksta.de/html/art.../1335978680795.shtml www.general-anzeiger-bonn.de/lokales/bon...t-article753774.html The Classics feel good story of the week: www.foxnews.com/us/2012/05/09/columbia-u...ars-part-time-study/ Nice feature on Dido: www.tunisia-live.net/2012/05/09/dido-of-...isias-warrior-queen/ Some missing bits of the Cadeby hoard turned up: www.thestar.co.uk/news/doncaster-roman-jewels-mystery-1-4527933 They’ve moved the Chichester Mosaic: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-17982339 Donation of a Thracian horseman statue: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139116 Comparing Olympics ancient and modern: bostonglobe.com/ideas/2012/05/12/thereal...BbqPvBlWM/story.html In a similar vein, but from a Classicist: www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/paying-your-...6ck620-1226346184803 … and the usual commentary on the origins of the torch thing: www.theatlantic.com/international/archiv...-flame-relay/257002/ A nice why-take-Classics piece: www.usatodayeducate.com/staging/index.ph...ves-students-an-edge Comparing London and ancient Rome: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-17956446 Interesting adaptation of the Birds: www.walesonline.co.uk/showbiz-and-lifest...ales-91466-30942094/ Interesting ‘Warfare in the Ancient World’ class: www.uml.edu/News/stories/2011-12/Battle-Demo.aspx The Classical Timeline project looks interesting (and needs help!): www.classicaltimeline.com/ Honours for Tim Winters: www.theleafchronicle.com/article/20120508/NEWS01/305080055 What Reviel Netz is up to: news.stanford.edu/news/2012/may/math-lit...ure-netz-050712.html Feature on Bill Murray’s work on Roman naval warfare: news.usf.edu/article/templates/?a=4442&z=123 Latest classicist-turned-author: www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/editors-choic...ight-86908-23850073/ Review of Mary Beard, *All in a Don’s Day*: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/11/all...ay-mary-beard-review Review of a number of books about ancient walking around Rome: www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1034506.ece Latest reviews from BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Chauvet Cave may house the oldest petroglyphs around: phys.org/news/2012-05-analysis-france-cave-art-oldest.html uk.news.yahoo.com/rock-analysis-suggests...ldest-180841034.html iphone.france24.com/en/20120508-france-r...archeology-elaborate Remains of Neolithic houses from a site in Prague: www.ceskapozice.cz/en/news/society/archa...ne-age-houses-prague They’re spinning this one as evidence of ‘stone age raves’: www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/13/s...e-age-boom-festivals Evidence of a Saxon glass industry at Glastonbury Abbey: phys.org/news/2012-05-glastonbury-abbey-...ns-reveal-saxon.html www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-17989094 Evidence of medieval trepanning from Spain: www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...-ages-found-in-spain Continuing the look at the Lopez-Villareal family’s travails in Inquisition era Castile: www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishFeatures/Article.aspx?id=269481 On the ‘metrosexual’ side of Oliver Cromwell: www.telegraph.co.uk/history/9248773/Oliv...-skin-protector.html Strange/ugly statue of undetermined date found in the waters near Sozopol: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139143 The effigy of Henry Stuart is going on display: www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/may...-prince-henry-stuart The maiden voyage of that Bronze Age boat recreation didn’t go so well: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howa...e-boat-founders.html www.kentonline.co.uk/east_kent_mercury/n...t_replica_fails.aspx Interesting feature on English pirates who turned to Islam: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/926134...es-turning-Turk.html A ‘mystery texts’ in Master’s House: www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/9699566.W...n_Master___s_House_/ More on the fallout from the HMS Victory decision: www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2012/may/06/hms-vi...k-odyssey-excavation Looking at links between solar activity and climate change in history: phys.org/news/2012-05-climatic-effects-solar-minimum.html Review of David Pearson, *London 1000 Years*: www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/05/london-1000-years Archaeology in Europe Blog: archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Mystery burials/culture in Cambodia: phys.org/news/2012-05-otago-delve-enigmatic-burial-rituals.html www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uoo-nlo050812.php phys.org/news/2012-05-coffins-glimpses-m...us-asian-people.html Remains of a 1500 years b.p. Buddhist temple in the Talimakan Desert: news.xinhuanet.com/english/culture/2012-05/07/c_131573268.htm As part of a publicity thing, Ferrari damaged the walls of Nanjing (not intentionally): www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18006291 There’s been a major increase in pillaging of sites in Sri Lanka: www.dailynews.lk/2012/05/10/sec01.asp … possibly related: www.ceylontoday.lk/16-6147-news-detail-3...-with-artifacts.html Preserving a ‘dead’ language on Papua, New Guinea: www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/09/dead_papua_language_preserved/ East Asian Archaeology: eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/ Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Some seventh-graders on a field trip in New Mexico found a 900 years b.p. pot: www.kcbd.com/story/18364177/nm-teens-fin...00-year-old-artifact Interesting finds in Savage Neck Midden: hamptonroads.com/2012/05/pottery-mystery-unfolds-chesapeake-bay They’ve removed half of Fort Pocahontas to get to the original James Fort: www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-s...IQAWfiC8T_story.html A 270 year-old-book turned up in the Charleston Library Society vault: www.greenvilleonline.com/viewart/2012050...-state-library-vault ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ As might be expected, plenty of coverage for the discovery of another ‘version’ of the Maya calendar at Xultun (and of course, it’s being spun in various predictable ways): www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6082/714 www.nytimes.com/2012/05/11/science/archa...alendar-writing.html www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=xultun-mayan-calendar news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05...nd-of-world-science/ news.discovery.com/history/mayan-calenda...doomsday-120511.html phys.org/news/2012-05-ancient-maya-calendar.html artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55294 www.timesunion.com/local/article/Team-wi...es-major-3549108.php www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0511/Maya...ight-not-end-in-2012 www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0511/Olde...d-Dec.-12-2012-video www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18018343 www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/ancient-ma...hop-for-1435307.html spacewatchtower.blogspot.com/2012/05/anc...for-astronomers.html news.yahoo.com/earliest-mayan-calendar-s...d-end-185153809.html www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-s...APic5FU_gallery.html Latest in the search for the tomb of Atahualpa: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-17981616 Latest research into that well-known Mesoamerican ball game: www.gwu.edu/explore/mediaroom/newsreleas...ymesoamericansociety phys.org/news/2012-05-ancient-ballgame-r...ly-mesoamerican.html www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/gwu-gpr050812.php www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120508152131.htm Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Audio News from Archaeologica: www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews6may12.mp3 On the DNA front, horses were domesticated first in the Ukraine, some 6000 years b.p.: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-17943974 phys.org/news/2012-05-mystery-horse-domestication.html www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120507154107.htm www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uoc-mot050412.php MicroCT scanning in archaeology: phys.org/news/2012-05-redefining-archaeological.html Interesting 19th century slide collection has been rediscovered: phys.org/news/2012-05-exeter-biologist-r...-forgotten-19th.html It’s that time of year when folks start yakking about recreating some lost beer … this time it’s from an 1840s shipwreck: www.nbcchicago.com/news/weird/NATL-Scien...wreck-151115415.html www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/10/finla...dUSL5E8GA9OT20120510 Was Jack the Ripper a woman?: news.discovery.com/history/jack-ripper-s...er-woman-120511.html On eating corpses for medicinal purposes: www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeolo...ses-as-Medicine.html DaVinci had problems with the female reproductive system: news.discovery.com/history/da-vinci-human-body-part-120508.html www.livescience.com/20157-anatomy-drawin...onardo-da-vinci.html The Guardian features one of Ben Jonson’s poems: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/07/poem-week-ben-jonson The Graphic Canon looks interesting: blogs.wsj.com/speakeasy/2012/05/09/when-...h-cartoons/?mod=e2tw A cultural history (of sorts) of breasts: www.salon.com/2012/05/10/on_the_rack_a_c..._history_of_breasts/ I think we mentioned this archaeology-as-social science thing last week … here’s a link to the journal article abstract: www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/04/25/1201714109.abstract A loophole in the curse (note the source): www.theonion.com/articles/loophole-in-cu...-off-the-hook,28124/ Review of Flannery and Marcus, *The Creation of Inequality*: online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023...389944241796150.html Ancient Digger: www.ancientdigger.com/ ================================================================ BLOGS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A New York antiquities dealer is suspected of smuggling Indian antiquities: www.artmediaagency.com/en/42558/new-york...ficking-antiquities/ A Stradivarius scam: www.spiegel.de/international/germany/the...achold-a-832274.html Looting Matters: lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ Illicit Cultural Property: illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ Safe Corner: safecorner.savingantiquities.org/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ The Israel Museum has a major exhibition of electrum coins: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55230 Latest e-Sylum: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n19.html .. and the one which should appear later today: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n20.html Ancient Coin Collecting: ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Week: www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ The Search for Immortality: phys.org/news/2012-05-immortality-tomb-treasures-han-china.html artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55201 DSS: www.yorkdispatch.com/penn/ci_20602596/de...-life-philly-exhibit www.nj.com/gloucester-county/towns/index...ute_displays_de.html www.philly.com/philly/news/religion/20120510_.html Breaking Ground: 75 Years of Pioneering Archaeology: www.ucl.ac.uk/archaeology/calendar/articles/20120510 Golden Age of Renaissance Bronze: www.ft.com/cms/s/2/b512b220-98ee-11e1-9da3-00144feabdc0.html Maya 2012: www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/2012...html?cmpid=138887484 Connecting Cultures: www.brooklynmuseum.org/exhibitions/connecting_cultures/ Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ... a slow week ... ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Latest theory on why homo sapiens beat out neanderthalis is connected to dog domestication: www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/92...th-Neanderthals.html www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2...neanderthals/257145/ More (tv hype) connected to Turkana boy: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/15/turkan...rkana_n_1518517.html ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Petroglyphs from Madagascar offer an insight into Dutch trade in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries: phys.org/news/2012-05-flinders-clues-early-dutch-postal.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A possible “mummy switcheroo”: news.discovery.com/history/ankhpakhered-tomb-120515.html The ancient Egyptians apparently observed a ‘variable star’: phys.org/news/2012-05-astronomers-ancien...n-variable-star.html Oil v. antiquities in Iraq: www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...92e949c6c4024b328.41 www.naharnet.com/stories/en/40466-iraq-b...-against-antiquities A 1400 years b.p. olive press from Modi’in; www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/239888 Thoughts on that Qeiyafa ostracon: asorblog.org/?p=2402 Feature/reviewish on the Aleppo Codex: www.salon.com/2012/05/13/the_aleppo_code...ious_book/singleton/ Israel’s National Library has acquired the first Arabic translation of the Babylonian Talmud: www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/1.430702 A cuneiform seminar: www.yale.edu/graduateschool/publications...-communications.html Feature on Turkey’s latest repatriation efforts: www.economist.com/node/21555531 Review of *The Jesus Discovery*: forward.com/articles/156373/jesus-father-husband-family-man/ More on the ongoing threat to antiquities in Egypt: www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/...-treasures-1.1296815 ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Some lorica segmentata was/were found in Spain: www.diariodeleon.es/noticias/cultura/des...del-ccan_690236.html Socrates is going on trial again this week: www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/section...he-dock_6884087.html greece.greekreporter.com/2012/05/11/mock...ld-2500-years-later/ More hype for the amazing ORBIS site: news.stanford.edu/news/2012/may/orbis-roman-empire-051512.html arstechnica.com/business/2012/05/how-acr...eal-time-with-orbis/ They’re featuring the Discobolus at the Olympics: www.bbc.co.uk/today/hi/today/newsid_9721000/9721860.stm Mary Beard on the Discobolus: timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/0...gets-dressed-up.html Neil Faulkner on the ancient Olympics: online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023...410431487946516.html Latest oped for repatriating the marbles: www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/ma...te-parthenon-marbles Interview with Stephen Greenblatt: www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15951963,00.html The Brill Font may be of interest: www.brill.nl/author-gateway/brill-fonts Latest reviews from BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Plenty of coverage (for reasons which will become clear) of what was depicted on the earliest petroglyphs at Abri Castanet (France): news.discovery.com/history/early-wall-art-europe-120514.html news.discovery.com/history/oldest-animal...-120514.html(photos) www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120514152952.htm www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/nyu-ade051012.php phys.org/news/2012-05-years-earliest-wall-art.html … with some comparanda: blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...-oldest-work-of-art/ … while some petroglyphs from Sweden and Russia are being dubbed the Bronze Age Facebook: www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Home/Bronze-Age-Facebook-18052012.htm news.discovery.com/history/bronze-age-facebook-120518.html Possible evidence for a written language of the Iron Age Picts in Scotland: news.discovery.com/history/ancient-scotl...ritten-language.html A cursing stone from Canna: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18130259 www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/rare...nd-a-curse-1-2306186 Some metal detectorist finds from West Norfolk: www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/latest-news/west...sure-finds-1-3843448 They’re finding interesting things in a Wakefield Cathedral dig: www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/late...cient-past-1-4559444 The Wenlock Jug was stolen: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-18056773 … and a stone statue of a knight was stolen from a Ledbury church: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-18122457 Feature on the Canongate cannon ball: www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/pictures/read...cannonball-1-2305141 Some olive trees in Spain are old, but not as old as folks thought they were: phys.org/news/2012-05-millennium-old-oli...erian-peninsula.html The Festival of British Archaeology is just getting under way: festival.britarch.ac.uk/ Archaeology in Europe Blog: archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Evidence of early hominids at the Danjiangkou Reservoir: phys.org/news/2012-05-stone-artifacts-ha...ngkou-reservoir.html … and three new Paleolithic sites in Liuhuaishan: phys.org/news/2012-05-paleolithic-liuhua...site-bose-basin.html They’ve created a Tamil Nadu Heritage Commission to deal with heritage issues: www.thehindu.com/news/states/tamil-nadu/article3419255.ece … and in passing, we should note the revival of sculpture in the Bamiyan Valley: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/16/sto...vers-taliban-bamiyan East Asian Archaeology: eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/ Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ On the DNA front, they’re looking at the genetic links between assorted circumarctic people to track migration to North America: phys.org/news/2012-05-scientists-illumin...ry-circumarctic.html www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120517193137.htm A Fremont pit house is among the things being dug up during road work in Nine Mile Canyon: www.deseretnews.com/article/865556086/Ro...eological-finds.html Remains of a 500 years b.p. Native American village on the banks of the Catawba River: www.charlotteobserver.com/2012/05/18/324...llage-unearthed.html Haven’t had a Walmart v. archaeology site thing for a while: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/us/alabama-sl...s-hidden-hurdle.html Archaeologists think they’re close to finding remains of a 1662 chapel in Newtowne Neck (Maryland): www.somdnews.com/article/20120427/NEWS/7...ate=southernMaryland Searching for evidence of Empire’s (Michigan) early lumber industry: www.upnorthlive.com/news/story.aspx?list...=755648#.T7jZclKwXPg Fire destroyed an historic home in Virginia: www.wcyb.com/news/31081377/detail.html Pondering climate change and megafires: blog.smu.edu/research/2012/05/15/ancient...afires-are-atypical/ ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ I’m not quite sure where to put this one about an historic ship find in the Gulf of Mexico (mid 19th century?): www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55462 www.livescience.com/20377-shipwreck-gulf-mexico.html news.discovery.com/history/shipwreck-gulf-120517.html www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/18/200-y...ound-in-gulf-mexico/ www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/17/19th-c...r-old_n_1525084.html news.blogs.cnn.com/2012/05/17/shipwreck-...e-thousands-watched/ Ecuador is seeking to recover a pile of Manteno artifacts from a Washington museum: www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/notitas...ington-museum/15890/ latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/...t-washington-museum/ Feature on the Easter Island Statue project: www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/05/16/easte...-up-islands-secrets/ Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Archaeonews podcast 210: www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...aeo-news-podcast-210 Archaeologica audio news: www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews13may12.mp3 Censoring Erasmus: www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47430304/ns/technol...and_science-science/ Is there a hidden Titian self portrait in the Martyrdom of St Lawrence?: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...-of-St-Lawrence.html Dealing with sulphur and iron compounds in old shipwrecks: phys.org/news/2012-05-sulphur-iron-compo...mmon-shipwrecks.html On the utility of studying archaeology: www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science...ducated-society.html ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/05/re...s-useful-or-not.html Very interesting panoramic photo of the Sistine Chapel (you can move around): www.vatican.va/various/cappelle/sistina_vr/index.html Not sure if we mentioned this ‘plant repropagation’ (32000 years b.p.!) thing a few months ago: www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-20/32-000...in-siberian-ice.html The Victorinator looks like an interesting iPhone app: phys.org/news/2012-05-19th-century-iphone-app.html Jason Ur talks about satellite archaeology: wamc.org/post/dr-jason-ur-harvard-univer...atellite-archaeology Pondering assorted dictators in history: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-17990615 Parenting lessons from assorted ancient cultures: news.discovery.com/history/parenting-tip...nt-world-120513.html Latest (and presumably last) in the Odyssey Marine thing: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north...ppeal-dismissed.html Dramatizing Caroline Herschel’s astonomical life: www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2012/may...er-caroline-herschel More on Leonardo’s anatomy drawings: www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/13/l...nci-anatomy-drawings On the cultural history of ‘fat’: phys.org/news/2012-05-today-loathing-fat-bodies-rooted.html Doug’s latest review of archaeology blogs: dougsarchaeology.wordpress.com/2012/05/1...blogs-to-look-at-vi/ Review(ish) of Emmet Scott, *Mohammed and Charlemagne Revisited*: frontpagemag.com/2012/05/18/how-islam-ki...-roman-civilization/ Ancient Digger: www.ancientdigger.com/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Sicily (Voyages to Antiquity): www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-21468...round-education.html Izmir: www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-21468...gs-Izmir-Turkey.html ================================================================ BLOGS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Vandals damaged some Roman stonework at a Scarborough castle: www.guardian.co.uk/uk/the-northerner/201...dalism-statue-belsen Christian monuments are threatened in Iran, apparently: www.mohabatnews.com/index.php?option=com...hristians&Itemid=279 Looting Matters: lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ Illicit Cultural Property: illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ SAFE: www.savingantiquities.org/blog/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A major Roman hoard from the environs of Stoke-on-Trent is getting some attention: www.thisisstaffordshire.co.uk/Hundreds-R...89-detail/story.html www.expressandstar.com/news/2012/05/16/roman-coins-haul-dug-up/ Some metal detectorists found some Roman siliquae: www.lynnnews.co.uk/news/latest-news/meth...oman-coins-1-3843399 Nice feature on some decadrachms from Syracuse: www.coinweek.com/news/featured-news/ngc-...kimon-and-euainetos/ Latest issue of the e-Sylum: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n20.html … and the one which should appear later today: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n21.html Ancient Coin Collecting: ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Week: www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ The Bardo Museum in Tunis has reopened after renovations: 213.158.162.45/~egyptian/index.php?actio...s%20after%20facelift There’s a new director at the Smithsonian: www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALe...4aee897a136572c8bff2 Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ I think we first had hints of this one a few weeks ago and I wasn’t sure whether it was a new discovery; apparently it is: what appear to be the earliest flutes (40 000+ years b.p.) have been found in a cave in Germany: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18196349 uk.news.yahoo.com/man-played-music-40-00...s-ago-125254891.html content.usatoday.com/communities/science...2000-year-old-cave/1 phys.org/news/2012-05-oldest-art-older.html www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120524092226.htm Evidence of early hominid sophistication in hunting in east Asia: phys.org/news/2012-05-zooarchaeological-...ated-techniques.html Nice feature on early humans in Iraq: blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...discoveries-in-iraq/ More on the Taung fossil thing: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...-key-childbirth.html Richard Leakey weighs in on the evolution debate: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55639 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ They’re pumping water out from beneath the Sphinx: english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/42...g-out-drainage-.aspx Some artifacts purloined last year during (?) the uprising have been recovered: english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/42...stolen-in-wake-.aspx A trove of ancient jewellery from Megiddo (with a focus on one earring): artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55618 www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16577 phys.org/news/2012-05-unique-gold-earrin...riguing-ancient.html www.globalscientia.com/article/asia-midd...g-collection-ancient news.yahoo.com/israeli-archaeologists-ra...welry-172650054.html www.thejournal.ie/archaeologists-unearth...site-464051-May2012/ themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=35193 Plenty of coverage of a bulla which might be the earliest mention of Bethlehem: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-18182507 artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55575 www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng....d=1938&module_id=#as www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=4444 phys.org/news/2012-05-ancient-bethlehem-...rthed-jerusalem.html news.yahoo.com/ancient-bethlehem-seal-un...salem-092659029.html www.washingtontimes.com/news/2012/may/23...unearthed-jerusalem/ au.ibtimes.com/articles/344663/20120524/...red-israel-jesus.htm www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/...0523,0,7760839.story www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/23/archaeo...ient-bethlehem-seal/ www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 [high res photo] Vandalism at an archaeological site in Yavne: www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/240662#.T8IrHFKwVhw www.antiquities.org.il/images/press/IAA_120523.zip (high res photos) Latest on efforts to preserve the walls of Babylon: www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2012...ent-walls-of-Babylon Plans to reread/assess the Bistoun inscriptions: www.tehrantimes.com/arts-and-culture/982...bisotun-inscriptions Article on marriage and citizenship in First Period Judah: www.jhsonline.org/JHS/Articles/article_168.pdf LandMinds interview with Aharon Demsky about literacy in Ancient Israel: www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/page32.html ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ A new (early Christian) dig is commencing at Kourion: www.cyprus-mail.com/kourion/kourion-exca...yprus-first/20120527 Oldest Jewish archaeological evidence on the Iberian peninsula: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/fj-oja052512.php www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120525103750.htm phys.org/news/2012-05-oldest-jewish-arch...vidence-iberian.html idw-online.de/de/news479729 Nice feature on the Duke Papyri collection: blogs.library.duke.edu/rubenstein/2012/0...d-early-manuscripts/ A Roman skeleton which inspired Sylvia Plath is going on display: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/23/rom...lvia-plath-cambridge Latest from Arbeia Roman Fort: www.jarrowandhebburngazette.com/lifestyl...-new-finds-1-4586451 Some Roman coins from India: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysore/...cleshow/13547519.cms Looking for evidence of the earthquake which is said to have coincided with Jesus’ crucifixion: news.discovery.com/history/jesus-crucifixion-120524.html www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47555983/ns/technol...cience/#.T7-YPbCJc3E cf: rogueclassicism.com/2012/05/26/a-pandect...access-and-outreach/ As often, Socrates was acquitted when retried: www.rt.com/news/socrates-mock-trial-greece-295/ www.nation.com.pk/pakistan-news-newspape...t-death-trial-re-run Interviewish with Stephen Greenblatt: www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/entertainment/ja...12/swerve_05-25.html Feature on Princeton’s Latin salutatorian: www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S33/76/30M58/index.xml On the ‘romanness’ of the Olympics: timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/0...re-the-olympics.html The Getty gets some relief: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=55574 The Bologna curse tablets: www.livescience.com/20483-black-magic-ancient-curses.html A new TV series based on the Odyssey?: www.c21media.net/archives/82159 The Elgin Marbles kerfuffle seems to be heating up again: greece.greekreporter.com/2012/05/25/opus...f-parthenon-marbles/ A nice painting of Odysseus and Polyphemus is coming to auction: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55583 More coverage of the ORBIS project: www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...-road-sea--mule.html www.economist.com/blogs/gulliver/2012/05...el-romans?fsrc=gn_ep Review of Matthew Dennison, *The Twelve Caesars*: www.express.co.uk/posts/view/322385/The-Twelve-Caesars Latest reviews from BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Plans to dig up the burial beneath the Trefael Stone: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18172598 Evidence of a 5500 B.C. settlement in Prague: www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/prague...f-5500-bc-settlement Plans to study a pre-settlement hut at Hafnir (Iceland): www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/dail...d_0_390135.news.aspx A reward has been offered for the return of the (stolen) Wenlock Jug: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-18219703 A ‘mystery shipwreck’ in the Solent has been identified: www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/mysterious-shi...esearchers-1-3881540 www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/archaeologists-...shipwreck-44506.aspx Plans to move the ‘Gresham Ship’ for touristy reasons: www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/Elizabeth...62-detail/story.html Feature on five queens of Navarre: www.historytoday.com/elena-woodacre/she-wolves-navarre OpEddish (?) sort of thing on the First Crusade: www.nytimes.com/2012/02/19/opinion/sunda...e-first-crusade.html Hype for a Michael Woods documentary about Dark Age Britain: www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-18159752 What’s next for that Dover Bronze Age boat: www.thisiskent.co.uk/Boatbuilders-vow-se...48-detail/story.html More on that ‘cursing stone’ from Canna: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18130259 More on that ‘Bronze Age Facebook’: news.discovery.com/history/bronze-age-facebook-120518.html Review of Hilary Mantel, *Bring Up the Bodies*: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/...y-hilary-mantel.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Some Roman coins from India: timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mysore/...cleshow/13547519.cms OpEddish thing on threats to cultural heritage in Sri Lanka: www.dailynews.lk/2012/05/25/fea03.asp A Hindu Virtual Museum of Images and Sound: www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Delhi/article3455134.ece East Asian Archaeology: eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/ Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Fremont artifacts found during road construction in Utah: www.abc4.com/content/news/top_stories/st...L1k-Qby2jk9jB0w.cspx Potential threat to archaeology due to cuts at Parks Canada: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/story/201...a-cuts-staffing.html www.sha.org/blog/index.php/2012/05/parks-canada-cuts/ Some burial mounds in Illinois were looted: www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/breaki...0525,0,4673057.story Interesting ‘shipwreck seminar’ plans: www.keysnet.com/2012/05/23/449293/semina...ipwreck-secrets.html About Ben Franklin’s fire department: www.history.com/news/2012/05/23/roster-f...re-department-found/ On nuns in early North America: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/opinion/nuns-on-the-frontier.html Using DNA to track the origins of Melungeons: hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/U/US_MELUN...OME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT Review of Guy Gugliotta, *Freedom’s Cap*: www.tnr.com/book/review/freedoms-cap-uni...apitol-guy-gugliotta Review of James Wright, *Those Who Have Borne the Battle*: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/...by-james-wright.html Review of Michael Lind, *Land of Promise*: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/...-lind.html?ref=books More on Walmart and slave burials in Alabama: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/16/us/alabama-sl...s-hidden-hurdle.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Mummies and infant burials from Pachacama (Peru): www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120522114643.htm news.discovery.com/history/mummies-peru-burial-120524.html www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/...20524,0,452983.story www.ksee24.com/news/local/Scientists-Fin...fants-154194835.html An Olmec altar and stele from Chalcatzingo: latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/...2500-year-old-altar/ www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/14-h...halcatzingo(Spanish) On the connection between trade patterns and the collapse of the Maya: phys.org/news/2012-05-reveals-patterns-c...l-substance-key.html www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/fm-srt052312.php Digging Cara Blanca: scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/0...me-of-many-droughts/ More on that shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico (still not sure whether we should classify this as North America): www.statesman.com/news/nation/200-year-o...gulf-of-2364183.html abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/200-year-shi...gulf-mexico-16379004 www.nydailynews.com/news/national/thousa...co-article-1.1080628 www.cnn.com/2012/05/16/world/americas/sh...discovery/index.html today.msnbc.msn.com/id/47461215/ns/today...bottles-guns-plates/ Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Latest video news from the Archaeology Channel: www.archaeologychannel.org/ Latest audio news from Archaeologica: www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp Op Ed on the American fascination with powerful/celebrity jerks: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/opinion/sunday/nasty-like-us.html Ten scandalous authors: www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/2012/05/17/scan...thors_n_1524300.html Queen Victoria’s diaries have been put online: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/theroyal...-the-first-time.html artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/qu...ies-released-online/ Interesting profile of forensic guy Philippe Charlier’s work: phys.org/news/2012-05-forensic-sleuth-probes-fate-royal.html uk.news.yahoo.com/forensic-sleuth-probes...earts-050655008.html www.calgaryherald.com/news/world/Scienti...s/6674727/story.html Nice radio programme on archaeology and the media (this one is really good): www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sp...gy-and-media/4017372 Suggestion that Columbus was ‘secretly’ Jewish: www.cnn.com/2012/05/20/opinion/garcia-co...us-jewish/index.html Suggestion that the genetic roots of domestic dogs needs more investigation: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/science/dogs-...-remain-obscure.html phys.org/news/2012-05-modern-dog-genetic...nnected-ancient.html www.sunderlandecho.com/news/education/dogs-1-4581709 On Jewish medical pioneers: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/15/health/exhibi...ical-innovators.html On the far periphery of our purview, but potentially interesting are plans to do DNA tests on a collection of items purportedly associated with Yeti: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18160673 www.tgdaily.com/general-sciences-feature...y-looks-for-yeti-dna phys.org/news/2012-05-yeti-dna.html Figuring out why/how copper turns green: cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/05/Copper-Green-Patina.html Pondering Albrecht Durer: www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Why-D%C3%BCrer-endures/26371 Feature on the Amarna Princess: lalettredelaphotographie.com/entries/688...-and-forgers-history Something about Shakespeare: www.abc.net.au/unleashed/4024132.html Photo feature on the Trevi Fountain: news.discovery.com/history/trevi-fountain-120522.html An SAA unit on Archaeology for Educators: www.saa.org/publicftp/PUBLIC/educators/index.html Last week we had that virtual Sistine Chapel thing … the same folks have done some other sites as well: www.metafilter.com/99196/Siteseeing-in-Virtual-Rome Review of Tom Koch, *Disease Maps*: www.tnr.com/book/review/tom-koch-disease-maps Review of Roland Chamers, *The Last Englishman*: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/...roland-chambers.html What Drew Gilpin Faust has been reading: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/books/review/...ust-by-the-book.html Ancient Digger: www.ancientdigger.com/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Dresden: travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/travel/36-...dresden-germany.html Lisbon: travel.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/travel/how-i-fell-for-lisbon.html ================================================================ BLOGS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Looting Matters: lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ Illicit Cultural Property: illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ SAFE: www.savingantiquities.org/blog/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ The Beau Street Hoard of Roman coins is starting to get some press coverage: www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp...icle&ArticleId=25248 Latest issue of the e--Sylum: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n21.html … and the one which should appear later today: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n22.html Ancient Coin Collecting: ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Week: www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well: www.presstelegram.com/lifestyle/ci_20719...-images-death-middle Tutankhamun: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55630 Cleopatra: www.dailynews.com/ci_20703150/new-califo...lores-life-cleopatra www.ladowntownnews.com/arts_and_entertai...fe-0019bb2963f4.html www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/23/cleopa...enter_n_1539626.html www.nbclosangeles.com/the-scene/events/C...ition-152770825.html Aphrodite and the Gods of Love: www.vcstar.com/news/2012/may/24/getty-vi...turies-long-staying/ Lod Mosaic: www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_an...-will-floor-you.html Maya - Secrets of Their Ancient World: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55488 William Prior: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/w...-queen-victoria.html Klimt: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/c...0th-anniversary.html Beer Here: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/b...torical-society.html Heinrich Kuehn: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/h...tz-and-steichen.html Persistence of Pollock: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/20/nyregion/the-...k-krasner-house.html The Diary: www.nytimes.com/2011/01/22/arts/design/22diary.html The Cleveland Museum of Art isn’t giving much credence to Turkey’s latest claims: www.cleveland.com/arts/index.ssf/2012/05..._into_22_treasu.html Feature on the Roman-Germanic Museum in Cologne: www.dw.de/dw/article/0,,15978326,00.html A 9000 years b.p. Neolithic mask from the Judean desert is coming to auction: www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/23/us-au...dUSBRE84M1AV20120523 The Boston MFA has received a major donation of photos and other items: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/mu...phs-and-other-works/ Hype for the new Parrish Art Museum: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/05/21/pa...uilding-in-november/ Discussion of a bill focussing on ‘borrowed art’: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/arts/design/d...lent-to-museums.html Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Sergey Khachatryan: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/music/se...lice-tully-hall.html Bach’s Mass: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/22/arts/music/ca...t-jean-baptiste.html An Evening of Holst: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/14/arts/music/an...ter-of-new-york.html Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama ... and for Sword and Sandal flicks: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Paul Fussell: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/24/books/paul-fu...c-is-dead-at-88.html Thomas O’Connor: news.bostonherald.com/news/regional/view...home&position=recent ================================================================ PODCASTS ================================================================ The Book and the Spade: www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm Stone Pages Archaeology News: news.stonepages.com/ Archaeologica Audio News: www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp Naked Archaeology Podcast: www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ On dental plaque (mostly) and Neanderthal diet: phys.org/news/2012-05-dental-calculus-clues-ancient-human.html www.insidescience.org/?q=content/tartar-recall/622 Not sure where to put this Neanderthal teeth ‘forgery’ defense story: www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20120...was-no-forger.422000 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A First Intermediate Period tomb from Deir al-Barsha: english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/43...ian-funerary-ri.aspx www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Cultur...pt_313348482645.html www.presstv.ir/detail/2012/06/02/244261/...-unearthed-in-egypt/ A possible new head of Nefertiti has been identified: judithweingarten.blogspot.ca/2012/06/rar...ad-of-nefertiti.html Some pharaonic items purloined from Giza were recovered: www.egyptindependent.com/news/stolen-pha...e-pieces-seized-giza A pair of Egyptian statues may be reunited in Brussels (for a while): www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/.../31/prweb9559618.DTL www.prweb.com/releases/2012/5/prweb9559618.htm Latest mummy CT scan/reconstruction effort: www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpsci...he-face-of-a-wo.html 40 sites from various periods from Iraq: english.alarabiya.net/articles/2012/05/28/217097.html … while Christian heritage sites in Iraq are neglected: www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...97870a81fbbd4ef3.511 A bilingual boundary stone from Tel Gezer: www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-new...el-gezer/2012/05/31/ A Umayyad inscription from Jordan: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55730 Vandals damaged a 1600 years b.p. mosaic in a Tiberias synagogue: www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=55713&int_sec=2 www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/701373...1600-year-old-mosaic www.cbsnews.com/8301-501713_162-57443129...i-synagogue-damaged/ www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/vanda...ect-haredim-1.433220 www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=271844 www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/240662 Oded Golan was sentenced this week: www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=272106 … some pre-sentencing hype: www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=271871 Trying to depoliticize archaeology in Israel: www.haaretz.com/news/national/archaeolog...ut-conquest-1.433229 A very nice live webcam from Petra: www.petralivecam.com/ More on that ‘lost language’ discovered at Ziyaret Tepe: www.todayszaman.com/news-281581-lost-lan...atened-richness.html More on that jewellery from Megiddo: www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112543208...ered-in-megiddo-dig/ … and there are still spaces available if you want to dig with the Megiddo Expedition: sites.google.com/site/megiddoexpedition/ More on that Bethlehem seal: seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationwor...raelancientseal.html More on Egyptian observations of a variable star: www.livescience.com/20575-ancient-egypti...ndar-demon-star.html More on the pipeline that threatens Babylon: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/may/29/iraq-heritage ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Plenty of sources picked up the AP coverage of some deepwater Roman shipwrecks off Corfu: www.nola.com/news/index.ssf/2012/06/gree...ind_roman_shipw.html www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Ju...maritime-theory.ashx www.cbsnews.com/8301-505245_162-57443474...-nearly-a-mile-deep/ www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...nturous-thought.html www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=55711&int_sec=2 news.yahoo.com/greek-experts-roman-wreck...-deep-210340288.html greece.greekreporter.com/2012/05/31/thre...ea-off-corfu-island/ www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/...nal-theory-1.1308762 artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55711 phys.org/news/2012-05-greek-experts-roman-mile-deep.html An interesting mosaic find from Montalbano: www.lanazione.it/empoli/cronaca/2012/05/...saico-scoperto.shtml Conservation work has begun on a couple of Mithraic altars from Musselburgh: www.aocarchaeology.com/lewisvale-roman-altars/ A major bust by Italian police (and three hitherto unknown sites): www.france24.com/en/20120530-italian-pol...-excavated-artifacts One of Caesar’s battlefields has possibly been found: rambambashi.wordpress.com/2012/06/01/caesar/ Possible Roman finds from Pattanam?: articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/201...ation-kerala-council Will Noel has a TedTalk on the Archimedes palimpsest: www.ted.com/talks/william_noel_revealing...x_of_archimedes.html On the looting of Sardis: www.athensnews.gr/issue/13497/55742 Very nice feature on a Roman painted tomb in Beirut: www.kaftoun.com/lebanon/103-Lebanon/413-the-roman-tomb-of-tyre Perhaps we’ll soon get another exciting palimpsest find: emelibrary.org/projects.htm Another mapping project from Harvard: darmc.harvard.edu/icb/icb.do?keyword=k40...ageid=icb.page188865 Ernst Pernicka and crew have left Troy: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/german-team-le...=21959&NewsCatID=375 Somewhat out-of-the-way source for the Hagia-Sophia-should-be-a-mosque-again thing: www.gmanetwork.com/news/story/259633/pin...e-turned-into-mosque Much coverage -- from various angles -- of Madeline Miller’s *Song of Achilles* winning the Orange Prize: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/03/mad...ller-achilles-orange www.foxnews.com/world/2012/05/30/madelei...e-prize-for-fiction/ www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/02/mad...range-prize-achilles www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/01/mad...er-orange-prize-2012 www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/may/30/mad...ange-prize-2012-mood www.guardian.co.uk/books/audio/2012/may/...line-miller-podcastt www.montrealgazette.com/news/Madeline+Mi...e/6707814/story.html www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152457...ns-Orange-award.html www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-05-30/miller...e-fiction-prize.html uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/30/uk-boo...dUKBRE84T19C20120530 … and MM’s response: www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/930276...Homeric-odyssey.html Latest reviews from BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Evidence of ‘neolithic hereditary inequality’ from a number of sites across Europe: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-18235130 www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/may/28/d...d-wealth-agriculture www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/uob-idb052512.php Interesting burial of 4th-2nd century B.C. twins from the Iberian peninsula: phys.org/news/2012-05-prehistoric-iberian-twins.html www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/f-sf-tfp053112.php www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...wins-have-been-found www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/05/120530133624.htm Remains of a ‘lost Pict/Briton kingdom’ in Scotland (I’m confused a bit by some of the dates in this one): www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...E-Picts-Britons.html www.newkerala.com/news/newsplus/worldnew...67.html#.T8qPQ1KwVhw Very interesting dig finds long-term occupation of a site at Terrenova (Sicily): phys.org/news/2012-05-ages-proof-thousand-years-sicilian.html www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_new=55699&int_sec=2 A ‘late antiquity’ church from Sarafovo: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139750 On the ‘myth’ of the Tudor period: phys.org/news/2012-05-tudor-england-myth.html www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...tudor-england-a-myth A 17th century shipwreck near Stockholm: www.windsorstar.com/17th+century+shipwre...d/6711913/story.html The Gresham shipwreck has moved: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-18232752 More on those flutes from Germany: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/oldes...n-first-thought.html phys.org/news/2012-05-germany-birthplace...opean-music-art.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Some Sui/Tang kilns from Xingtai: news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-06/02/c_131626935.htm www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2012-06/02/content_15455977.htm Brief item on finds from various periods in Azerbaijan: www.today.az/news/society/108032.html They’re excavating another balanghai (boat) in Butuan: www.mindanews.com/top-stories/2012/05/31...balanghai-in-butuan/ Climate change apparently led to the demise of Harrapan civilization: www.livescience.com/20614-collapse-mythi...er-civilization.html news.yahoo.com/huge-ancient-civilization...ained-123449804.html www.dailytimes.com.pk/default.asp?page=2...story_1-6-2012_pg1_7 www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-05/whoi-ccl052312.php An English brick in a Sri Lankan shipwreck: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-18192764 A 16th century Korean mummy apparently shows signs of having the Hep B virus: phys.org/news/2012-05-16th-century-korea...-clue-hepatitis.html Humans are linked to megafaunal extinctions in Tasmania: phys.org/news/2012-05-prehistoric-cold-case-links-humans.html Reassembling a 5th century Chinese tomb for display: www.berkshireeagle.com/ci_20756515/pieci...gether-past-at-clark East Asian Archaeology: eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/ Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ A wind turbine project in southern Ontario is turning up finds from various periods: www.lfpress.com/news/london/2012/05/29/19813656.html They’re digging at Cahokia Mounds again: www.bnd.com/2012/06/01/2194708/digging-u...s.html#storylink=rss That ‘mystery shipwreck’ in the Gulf of Mexico is apparently more of a North American thing than South/Central America … here’s more coverage: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/05...tury-nation-science/ A 1600 years b.p. pot from along the Squamish River: www.piquenewsmagazine.com/whistler/squam.../Content?oid=2304405 Students digging a War of 1812 site near Barrie: www.simcoe.com/news/news/article/1363813 A purloined Civil War headstone was recovered: www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2012/05/...eadstone_stolen.html Confirmation of Sierra Nevada megadroughts (we may have had this already): www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120601120622.htm ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Remains of a 19th century whaling ship from Argentina: www.eastbayri.com/news/2012/may/29/warre...eck-found-argentina/ Jamaica is trying to get heritage status for the sunken bits of Port Royal: www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/centr...nken-Port-Royal.html More on trade patterns and the collapse of the Maya: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/27/maya-h...lapse_n_1542842.html Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Audio news from Archaeologica: www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews27may12.mp3 A different sort of Nazi loot case: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2153707...s-German-museum.html www.timesofisrael.com/holocaust-survivor...ct-to-berlin-museum/ Latest in the search for Amelia Earhart: news.discovery.com/history/amelia-earhar...reme-jar-120530.html www.csmonitor.com/USA/2012/0602/Amelia-E...-Pacific-atoll-video www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2152931...s-disappearance.html Another 350 year-old math problem solved: phys.org/news/2012-05-teenager-reportedl...ution-year-math.html www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/05/27/shourr...r-old_n_1549172.html Feature on Livingstone’s diary: chronicle.com/blogs/wiredcampus/archive-...n-living-color/36457 A pile of sports research has been released (not sure how much is of historical interest): www.theregister.co.uk/2012/05/30/450_yea...d_football_research/ On the role of speculation in science: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/dogs-...ion-and-science.html On flyswatters: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/magazine/who-...tter.html?ref=design Google’s latest project: World Wonders: www.google.com/culturalinstitute/worldwonders/ Harvard’s World Map thing might be of interest: worldmap.harvard.edu/ A brief look at bloodletting through the ages: www.history.com/news/2012/05/30/a-brief-...ory-of-bloodletting/ Interesting essay on Rubens: www.huffingtonpost.com/daniel-maidman/wh...great_b_1553004.html Excellent radio interview about the media and its handling of sensational archaeological claims: www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/sp...gy-and-media/4017372 The ADS/DA Guides to Good Practice: guides.archaeologydataservice.ac.uk/ Weird deaths of ancient rulers (‘ancient’ rather broadly construed): io9.com/5907578/10-weirdest-ways-that-ancient-rulers-died Turning the literary canon into graphic novels: www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archiv...-into-comics/257908/ In case you’re wondering what all the fuss about the transit of Venus is about: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/space...last-until-2117.html Turning a Renaissance theatre in Florence into a home: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/greathomesand...century-palazzo.html Ancient Digger: www.ancientdigger.com/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Pompeii: www.vancouversun.com/travel/Pompeii+Roma...e/6693415/story.html Antipatris: www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblic...-off-my-bucket-list/ A couple of ‘Biblical’ sites in Jerusalem: www.jpost.com/Travel/AroundIsrael/Article.aspx?id=271708 ================================================================ BLOGS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Looting Matters: lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ Illicit Cultural Property: illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ SAFE: www.savingantiquities.org/blog/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ They’ve started cleaning the Beau Street Hoard: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-18280324 A metal detectorist found a silver islamic dirham near Horncastle: www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/British-Mus...02-detail/story.html Latest issue of the e-Sylum: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n22.html … and the one which should appear later today: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n23.html Ancient Coin Collecting: ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Week: www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Antico: online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023...408100879031544.html www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/arts/design/a...rick-collection.html Posters of Paris: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55791 www.jsonline.com/entertainment/arts/post...5jbcf-156318105.html Heinrich Kuehn: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/h...tz-and-steichen.html William Matthew Prior: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/25/arts/design/w...-queen-victoria.html Dead Sea Scrolls: weeklypress.com/in-the-beginning-the-dea...stitute-p3133-95.htm Gongora: cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/05/29/ac...38295224_794892.html Renaissance Venice: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/arts/design/r...-library-museum.html Theater, Life, and Afterlife: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/01/arts/design/t...china-institute.html Recent finds from northern China: www.theartnewspaper.com/whatson/event/Un...rthern-China/1122796 Cambodia wants a couple of statues back from the Met: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/02/arts/design/c...century-statues.html www.azcentral.com/news/articles/2012/06/...-statues-museum.html The Cambridge Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology has reopened: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-18204197 www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/...just-discovered.html We mentioned this Sotheby’s auction of a Bocklin painting before, I think: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55583 Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Almira: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/31/arts/music/op...-gershwin-hotel.html Hound of the Baskervilles: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/nyregion/a-re...-in-stony-point.html Tempest: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/27/nyregion/a-re...-hartford-stage.html Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama ... and for Sword and Sandal flicks: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal ================================================================ PODCASTS ================================================================ The Book and the Spade: www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm Stone Pages Archaeology News: news.stonepages.com/ Archaeologica Audio News: www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp Naked Archaeology Podcast: www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ On purported animation effects (!) in cave art: news.discovery.com/history/prehistoric-movies-120608.html Spanish scientists are accused of misdating bones: www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/10/f...ow-sima-huesos-spain More voices for the ‘Out of Asia’ theory: phys.org/news/2012-06-evidence-asia-africa-source-earliest.html www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...ame-Asia-Africa.html news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2012/06/a...or-human-ancest.html On infectious disease and human origins: phys.org/news/2012-06-infectious-disease-human.html They’ve figured out how tall Homo heidelbergensis was: www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/article00369.html www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/f-sf-hhw060612.php phys.org/news/2012-06-homo-heidelbergens...ler-neanderthal.html Why humans beat out the Neanderthal types: news.discovery.com/history/humans-neanderthals-120605.html www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47692301/ns/technol...and_science-science/ Not sure if we mentioned this feature on the Shanidar caves: blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...discoveries-in-iraq/ ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ Kenya plans to build some underwater museums: allafrica.com/stories/201206010068.html www.guardian.co.uk/environment/2012/may/...ca-underwater-museum ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Looking at the recent finds from Deir al-Barsha: weekly.ahram.org.eg/2012/1101/he1.htm see also: www.dayralbarsha.com/sites/drupal.arts.k...20Press%20Report.pdf A foiled theft attempt from near Aswan: english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/44...-safe-after-the.aspx www.egyptindependent.com/news/attempt-st...wan-foiled-culture-2 A pile of Egyptian relics have gone on display at Swansea University: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-18337395 Excavating some of the sewage system at Persepolis: www.payvand.com/news/12/jun/1056.html Searching for shipwrecks off the coast of Qatar: www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.a...e_id=57&parent_id=56 Lots of attention for a hoard associated somehow (maybe) with the Bar Kokhba revolt: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55686 www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47691089/ns/technol...and_science-science/ www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/archa...-kiryat-gat-1.434633 www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History...vered_5-Jun-2012.htm www.ynetnews.com/articles/1,7340,L-4238447,00.html www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14 www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/156552 www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=272725 www.livescience.com/20750-israel-antiqui...oman-jewish-war.html Interesting study on determining the volume of various jugs: www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10....journal.pone.0033895 phys.org/news/2012-06-ancient-jugs-secre...matics-biblical.html www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/afot-ajh060412.php www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=16712 Vandals damaged a 1600 years b.p. mosaic at Hamat Tiberias: articles.boston.com/2012-05-29/news/3188...osaic-archaeologists … and the Haredim rioted at another site: www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4238256,00.html A sort of overview of archaeology finds from Israel for the month of May: www.bibleinterp.com/articles/rep368008.shtml A German prof has translated the oldest known chunk of Hebrew: m.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20120606-42969.html Iraq wants a pile of ancient (Jewish) documents back from the U.S.: www.timesofisrael.com/iraqi-government-t...n-our-torah-scrolls/ Discussing the ‘James the brother of Jesus’ thing: blogs.jpost.com/content/qa-%E2%80%98jame...olls%E2%80%99-part-2 Hershel Shanks comments on the James Ossuary decision: www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=272689 The Ashkelon dig blog is live again: digashkelon.com/blog/ ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ A fair bit of attention for a study of a Punic War era ship’s ram which was found a few years ago: www.livescience.com/20844-ancient-warship-ram-degrading.html www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/acs-nsf060612.php www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120606132414.htm phys.org/news/2012-06-secrets-bay-pirates-warship-sunk.html www.sci-news.com/othersciences/chemistry/article00372.html A Classicist comments on the Greek debt crisis: www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-18255039 … and then Greek Reporter interviewed him: greece.greekreporter.com/2012/06/10/what...an-expert-weighs-in/ A few Olympics-related items this week … first, one about those who cheated in the ancient games: online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023...d=lifestyle_newsreel … and why the Greeks have already ‘won’: www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathan...mpics-british-museum They’ll be debating the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles on Monday (and it will be live streamed): eu.greekreporter.com/2012/06/08/debate-o...n-marbles-in-the-uk/ Nice feature on the Marsiliana d’Albegna project (not sure when this one came out): www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...-etruscan-settlement Matthew Dennison gossips about the 12 Caesars: www.express.co.uk/posts/view/325418/Emperors-of-excess Some Latin Week results: www.thereporteronline.com/article/201206...udents-seize-the-day More on converting Hagia Sophia to a mosque again: uk.reuters.com/article/2012/05/26/uk-tur...dUKBRE84P0FV20120526 In case you haven’t seen the ‘misheard Carmina Burana’ thing yet: The Arch of Titus Digital Restoration Project: yu.edu/cis/activities/arch-of-titus/ Latest reviews from BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ They’ve restored Ghiberti’s Porta del Paradiso: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55235 www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...rpiece-restored.html www.newsday.com/news/nation/now-clean-do...aly-museum-1.3767277 Plenty of press attention for the discovery of the remains of the Curtain Theatre (associated with Shakespeare, of course): www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18351007 phys.org/news/2012-06-shakespeare-curtain-theatre.html www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/us-br...dUSBRE8550LH20120606 www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2012/jun/06/s...oreditch-east-lonfon … but more for some purported ‘vampire burials’ from Bulgaria: en.ria.ru/strange/20120606/173884146.html www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/ju...s-skeletons-bulgaria www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europ...on-for-Bulgaria.html cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/06...s-dug-up-in-bulgaria www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18334106 news.discovery.com/history/vampire-skeletons-120606.html phys.org/news/2012-06-bulgaria-skeletons-vampirism.html … and some clumsy archaeologists were involved: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=139940 A 9000 years b.p. fish trap from off the coast of Sweden: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18331340 On the diet of Mary Rose sailors: www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/ar...-analysis-shows.html They might have found the ship of the ‘Pirate King of Scilly’: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2154279...ings-ship-found.html www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Wreck-pirate-sh...33-detail/story.html Trying to preserve some Viking artifacts from Oseberg: phys.org/news/2012-06-monumental-effort-...iking-treasures.html Evidence of cold storage in Scotland 4000 years b.p.: www.scotsman.com/news/scottish-news/top-...ht-of-cool-1-2335347 Plenty of folks have checked out the Loftus Anglo-Saxon Treasure: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-18346034 Plans to turn a Victorian fort off Pembrokeshire into a tourist attraction: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-18262972 Heritage issues in Germany: www.spiegel.de/international/germany/nor...ritage-a-837536.html An apparently unknown/neglected Romanesque Cloister site in Spain in prompting discussion: cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/04/ac...38839166_403833.html … with some followups: cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/05/ac...38924407_138332.html cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/05/ac...38920086_986826.html cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/06/ac...38995068_311540.html elpais.com/cultura/2012/06/08/actualidad/1339149057_734965.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Latest terracotta warriors find: www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2012/jun/...unveiled-china-video www.shanghaidaily.com/nsp/National/2012/...oted%2Band%2Bburned/ A pre Buddhism statue of Prince Siddharta: www.livescience.com/20799-ancient-statue...s-prince-buddha.html The Great Wall of China is twice as long (!) as originally thought: news.discovery.com/history/great-wall-china-long-120607.html www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-18337039 Treasure hunterish coverage of the search for a 19th century shipwreck near Auckland: www.stuff.co.nz/national/7073622/Treasur...180-year-old-mystery Plans to retrieve a pile of Ming porcelain from a shipwreck off Indonesia (not sure which one): www.latimes.com/business/money/la-fi-mo-...0529,0,1004793.story OpEd on whether some Cambodian ‘blood antiquities’ should be returned: www.cnn.com/2012/06/07/opinion/vlasic-davis-cambodia-art/ China is giving a bunch of 2000 years b.p. skeletons a DNA test: news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2012-06/08/c_123251626.htm East Asian Archaeology: eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/ Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Ceramics tell the tale of a migration in the Four Corners area some 800 years b.p.: phys.org/news/2012-06-ceramics-story-anc...hwest-migration.html The report of the first doctor to reach Abraham Lincoln after he was shot has been found: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/05/dr-cha...eport_n_1572153.html www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/north...-was-shot-found.html A 19th century tombstone washed ashore on a San Francisco beach: www.sfbayareaobserver.com/2012/06/myster...rns-up-at-ocean.html Excavating a War of 1812 shipwreck near Washington D.C.: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06...itish-navy-cultures/ That strange Mayan city of Yupaha story keeps coming back: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157023...orgia-mountains.html ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Lidar has possibly helped locate the ‘lost’ city of Ciudad Blanca in Honduras: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120606092719.htm www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uoh-urt060512.php www.foxnews.com/scitech/2012/06/08/laser...00s/?intcmp=features cf: blogs.berkeley.edu/2012/06/07/good-scien...ype-bad-archaeology/ Not sure whether we mentioned this huge Peruvian burial fully of mummified babies at Pachacamac yet: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06...-pachacamac-science/ www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...d-Peruvian-tomb.html They’ve preserved some Maya sites found beneath a highway in Oxkintok: www.tajikistannews.net/story/206382504 More on that ‘updated’ Mayan calendar: www.ksl.com/?sid=20542295&nid=1012 Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Latest Archaenews Podcast: www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...aeo-news-podcast-211 Audio news from Archaeologica: www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp Isaac Newton as next action hero?: www.guardian.co.uk/film/2012/jun/08/isaa...ollywood-action-hero On the role of speculation in science (with a dog domestication connection sort of thing): www.nytimes.com/2012/05/29/science/dogs-...ion-and-science.html Richard Leakey talks climate change: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/23/nyregion/afri...-climate-change.html They’ve looked at the pollen remains in the Shroud of Turin: vaticaninsider.lastampa.it/en/homepage/i...-torino-turin-15330/ Some of that shipwreck champagne we mentioned a while ago fetched a decent price at auction: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/08/shipwr...ioned_n_1580697.html Arguing for the primacy of manakish over pizza: uk.news.yahoo.com/pizza-or-manakish--so-...irst---20120524.html Antiquity handed out some scholars awards: content.usatoday.com/communities/science...ones-and-seafarers/1 Pondering lost art: www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/jonathan...iteread-lucian-freud On the first mention of Leukemia: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/health/histor...gainst-leukemia.html James Cook and the transit of Venus: phys.org/news/2012-06-james-cook-transit-venus.html … and the Maya viewpoint: www.csmonitor.com/World/Americas/Latin-A...yas-did-before-video About 1200 years b.p., earth was hit with a radiation blast of some sort which is seen in (affects?) C14 dates: www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/05/mysterious_energy_blast/ Cyprus isn’t happy with the Biblical Archaeology Society: www.incyprus.com.cy/en-gb/Blogs/4324/28144/visit-condemned Feature on fireworks/firecracker ephemera: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/arts/design/v...ages-at-auction.html Review of Andrew Dalbanco, *College: What it Was. What it Should Be*: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/books/review/...andrew-delbanco.html Scholars aren’t happy with an NYPL plan: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/nyregion/scho...-expansion-plan.html Ancient Digger: www.ancientdigger.com/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Appian Way: www.timescolonist.com/travel/Time+travel...y/6757156/story.html www.chicagotribune.com/travel/sns-201206...0605,0,3561414.story Egypt: www.foxnews.com/travel/2012/06/09/advent...nders-ancient-egypt/ Rome: www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travel-advice...le-for-children.html Turkish mosques: travel.nytimes.com/2012/06/10/travel/tra...rst-starchitect.html ================================================================ BLOGS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Plenty of coverage of the arrest of a couple of guys found with a gold wreath and other items from a Macedonian style burial: www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2012/...-gold-wreath-armband www.salon.com/2012/06/08/greece_2_caught...h_armband/singleton/ www.scotsman.com/news/international/pair...-smuggling-1-2346107 www.salon.com/2012/06/08/greece_2_caught...gold_wreath_armband/ www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/2-ar...JQAijagNV_story.html OpEd sort of thing at the ASOR blog about looting: asorblog.org/?p=2333&utm_source=rss&utm_...-what-are-your-ideas … and one about trafficking in antiquities during wars: www.eurasiareview.com/08062012-trafficki...ime-of-war-analysis/ Some press attention for the WikiLoot project: www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/06/w...ing-stolen-artifacts Looting Matters: lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ Illicit Cultural Property: illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ SAFE: www.savingantiquities.org/blog/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ The e-Sylum is having technical difficulties this week, so this (early) edition is probably all that will come today: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n23.html Ancient Coin Collecting: ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Week: www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well: www.kansascity.com/2012/06/09/3649922/la...lustrates-death.html Lost Egypt: www.milforddailynews.com/news/x465789617...ns-Museum-of-Science Churchill: The Power of Words: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/design/c...-morgan-library.html Tomb Treasure of Han China: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/09iht-melikian09.html Picasso’s Parade: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/04/pi...s-on-view-in-france/ Rembrandt’s Etchings: www.star-telegram.com/2012/06/07/4016650...laimed-etchings.html Klimt: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/arts/05iht-klimt05.html Looking at Caravaggio’s ‘Denial of St Peter’: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/arts/design/c...of-art.html?ref=arts Chinese museums are becoming more ‘outward looking’: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/09iht-rartholden09.html Interesting item on Philip Mould, who looks for fake art: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/09iht-rartmould09.html Feature on the Russian Museum of Private Collections: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/09/arts/09iht-rartmoscow09.html Sotheby’s is contesting the seizure of a Cambodian statue: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/06/au...ts-seizure-of-statue Haven’t had a news followup to this auction of a 9000 years b.p. limestone mask: www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/cultu...0523,0,2594457.story A Napoleonic letter coming to auction: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-18335017 Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Merchant of Venice: www.nytimes.com/2012/05/30/arts/30iht-lon30.html Ballo Delle Ingrate: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/05/arts/music/mo...-different-spin.html Medieval Play: theater.nytimes.com/2012/06/08/theater/r...ay-at-signature.html A document associated with Chopin is coming to auction: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55909 Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama ... and for Sword and Sandal flicks: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal 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explorator 15.09 June 17, 2012 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Diana Wright, Edward Rockstein, Rick Heli, Hernan Astudillo, Joanne Conman, Patrick Swan, A. Landreau, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, Jennifer Cosham, George Somsel, Ken Stuart,Wendy van Duivenvoorde, Feral Boy, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). Happy Father's Day to all the fathers and father figures out there!! ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Cave paintings in Spain are associated with the Neanderthals now: www.npr.org/2012/06/15/155110484/neander...oldest-cave-painters www.npr.org/2012/06/15/155009945/famous-...t-not-be-from-humans news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06...-spain-science-pike/ www.latimes.com/news/opinion/opinion-la/...0614,0,4292014.story www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Neanderthals...ave-artists-20120614 www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/0614/Did-...first-cave-paintings news.discovery.com/history/oldest-cave-a...derthals-120614.html www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/14/n...reate-cave-paintings www.france24.com/en/20120614-neanderthal...inting-artists-study www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/06...aintings-europe.html www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uob-udr060612.php news.yahoo.com/spanish-cave-paintings-sh...world-180821995.html artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55800 www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/3414..._cave_art_gets_older phys.org/news/2012-06-iberian-europe-oldest-cave-art.html www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/science/new-d...of-neanderthals.html www.sci-tech-today.com/news/Spanish-Cave...tory_id=0330039XH0NF www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uob-udr060612.php On homo heidelbergensis being an ‘early’ Neanderthal: phys.org/news/2012-06-largest-group-foss...ns-neanderthals.html What the bonobo genome says about chimps, humans, and bonobos: www.newscientist.com/blogs/shortsharpsci...hints-at-common.html www.nature.com/nature/journal/vaop/ncurr...ull/nature11128.html Feature on Louis Leakey: blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...-of-hominid-hunting/ Theory about a plague wiping out almost every human/protohuman (not sure about this one): www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-...at-Neanderthals.html More on dogs and early human success v. Neanderthals: www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2...neanderthals/257145/ … and more on cave paintings as early versions of cartoons: www.npr.org/2012/06/16/155169614/a-flick...ave-drawings-to-life ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ I think we mentioned this Madagascar ‘postal system’ a few weeks ago: news.discovery.com/history/17th-century-...l-system-120615.html ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ Security guards foiled an attempt to steal a panel depicting Merenptah from a quarry: www.egyptindependent.com/news/attempt-st...wan-foiled-culture-2 … and heavy sentences for folks caught after breaking into a German storage facility in Luxor: www.egyptindependent.com/news/luxor-cour...stealing-antiquities An interesting find associated with the Gezer water system: www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=38051 Some thieves were caught ‘red handed’ in Modi’in: www.timesofisrael.com/antiquities-thieves-arrested-near-modiin/ www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/242238#.T927iJFQBqM A summary of the damage that has been done to Syria’s cultural heritage in the ongoing conflict: globalheritagenetwork.ning.com/profiles/...-s-cultural-heritage A 7500 years b.p. pearl from the UAE: www.indianexpress.com/news/oldest-pearl-...d-in-the-uae/960530/ Nice feature on Turkey’s first underwater archaeology department: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/underwater-arc...=23262&NewsCatID=375 Latest in the Mugrahbi bridge thing: www.jpost.com/DiplomacyAndPolitics/Article.aspx?id=273899 More on Turkey’s demand for artifacts to be returned from various places: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-demands...=23273&NewsCatID=375 www.artmediaagency.com/en/45036/turkey-embargoes-antique-works/ www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Turkey-...oreign-museums/26607 Plenty going on at the official Gath Excavations blog: gath.wordpress.com/ … and Tel Burna: telburna.wordpress.com/ Twitter in ancient Egypt: www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/06/cartoo...witter-ancient-egypt More James ossuary business: www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/...0613,0,6215574.story ** just so folks know, it appears that Ha’aretz has suddenly put things behind a paywall (perhaps just for those outside of Israel) … I only link to Ha’aretz articles (and any articles, for that matter) which I can access without difficulty (or paying). ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Latest threatened department seems to be the Institute of Archaeology and Antiquity at Birmingham: saveiaa.wordpress.com/ … and the petition: www.ipetitions.com/petition/save-the-iaa/ A Bronze Age necropolis from Serbia: news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2012-06/17/c_131657981.htm www.b92.net/eng/news/society-article.php...6&dd=16&nav_id=80796 Theophrastus’ observations have apparently inspired some sort of heating device: phys.org/news/2012-06-ancient-effect-harnessed-electricity.html Finds from various periods off Skiathos: greece.greekreporter.com/2012/06/11/anci...ter-skiathos-island/ Illegal digs are on the rise in Greece, alas: www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_w..._1_15/06/2012_447341 … and austerity measures threaten antiquities in general: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/12/arts/design/a...ed-by-austerity.html The folks at Intelligence Squared hosted a much-publicized debate on what should be done with the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18373312 www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/greek-el...henon-marbles-greece www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/...rieze-to-Greece.html eu.greekreporter.com/2012/06/12/motion-t...ajority-in-a-debate/ Feature on Trajan’s Market: www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/AL...be910bc2c57b2630.531 A Greek text of Origen’s homilies on the Psalms has turned up: www.roger-pearse.com/weblog/?p=8758 www.bsb-muenchen.de/Einzeldarstellung.402+M53f1166a989.0.html So that’s how Palmyra survived in the ‘desert’: phys.org/news/2012-06-roman-empire-historical-mystery.html www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...e-mystery-of-palmyra This feature on the Antikythera Mechanism keeps turning up in my newsfeeds for some reason (nothing new, really): phys.org/news/2012-06-antikythera-machine.html Roman Maryport didn’t get funding: www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/roman-...5?referrerPath=news/ Review of Matthew Dennison, *Twelve Caesars*: www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment...ennison-7851422.html Yet another (forced) analogy involving the Melian Dialogue: blogs.scientificamerican.com/cross-check...rones-and-cyber-war/ A movie about Augustine?: Latest reviews from BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Last year about this time we heard about a ‘John the Baptist’ bones discovery near Sozopol … now we get the tv-program-associated followup: news.discovery.com/history/john-baptist-bones-120615.html www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/...0615,0,6509901.story in.reuters.com/article/2012/06/15/us-bri...dINBRE85E0U220120615 www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALe...4806bf5ed044ef2768df phys.org/news/2012-06-bones-bulgaria-john-baptist.html news.yahoo.com/mysterious-bones-may-belo...ptist-230719990.html www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47822985/ns/technol...and_science-science/ www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2012/0616/1224318057078.html www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n280594 www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/15/us-br...dUSBRE85E0U220120615 An intact British skeleton from Waterloo: www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2158303...all-felled-ribs.html Remains of a large prehistoric building in Monmouth: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-18423528 Some of the Lewis Chessmen are returning to Scotland: www.agencebretagnepresse.com/fetch.php?i...rned%20to%20Scotland www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journ...ned-to-western-isles www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/at-l...ish-musuem-1-2352524 www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-18429790 The Trevi Fountain is falling apart: travel.usatoday.com/destinations/dispatc...s-crumbling/714657/1 www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/11/rom...ing-lack-maintenance … and Venice continues to struggle against water: www.spiegel.de/international/europe/veni...-water-a-838713.html An interesting followup to those Bulgarian ‘vampire’ burials: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140315 Finds from various periods at Olympic Park: news.discovery.com/history/artifacts-olympic-park-120611.html Soldiers in WWI France made some very interesting cave ‘carvings’: www.spiegel.de/international/europe/fren...-war-i-a-838414.html That Napoleonic letter we mentioned last week fetched big bucks at auction: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55927 www.france24.com/en/20120611-rare-napole...ture-french-homework www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/10/napole...ction_n_1584670.html They’ve done some restoration of Santa Maria Antiqua in Rome: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/design/r...a-maria-antiqua.html Archaeology in Europe Blog: archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ Digging a major trading centre in Tamil Nadu dating to 2300 years b.p.: business-standard.com/india/news/ancient...oreign-trade/476749/ Researching how south east Asia went from hunter-gatherer to farming: phys.org/news/2012-06-southeast-asia-evo...-hunter-farming.html … and a feature on stone age tools from India: www.thehindu.com/arts/history-and-culture/article3516451.ece … and one on some Mauryan finds made back in the early part of the previous century: articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/201...llars-mauryan-empire A Bronze Age burial from West Kazahkstan: caspionet.kz/eng/general/Archeological_e...gion_1339387866.html Erotic Pala era sculptures from Bihar: articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/201...mple-kaimur-district Archaeologists have found a stack of Japan’s oldest census records: www.bernama.com.my/bernama/v6/newsworld.php?id=672693 More on those recent Terracotta Warriors finds: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/11/chi...y-soldiers-unearthed www.china.org.cn/china/2012-06/10/content_25612238.htm East Asian Archaeology: eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/ Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Archaeologists uncover evidence of a long-forgotten Annapolis immigration conflict: phys.org/news/2012-06-archaeologists-unc...lis-immigration.html www.capitalgazette.com/news/annapolis/ar...2f-75824f886769.html www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120611122633.htm www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uom-fai061112.php Trying to figure out the identities of some people in Civil War photos: news.yahoo.com/civil-war-photos-help-sou...stery-092732336.html Search for remains of an 18th century school which educated free and slave children in Virginia: www.wm.edu/news/stories/2012/archaeologi...y-bray-school123.php Excavating a Fremont village in Goshen: www.heraldextra.com/news/local/south/gos...4e-3e0d06907e2e.html More fallout from cuts at Parks Canada: www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story...nst-ottawa-plan.html More on Lincoln’s doctor: news.discovery.com/history/abraham-linco...t-doctor-120611.html More on plans to raise/excavate a War of 1812 shipwreck near Washington D.C.: www.wtop.com/41/2903654/Archeologists-to...dates-to-War-of-1812 ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ Feature on Easter Island: ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2012/07/easter-island/bloch-text On Pre-Columbian human habitation in Amazonia: phys.org/news/2012-06-amazon-landscape-e...eans-scientists.html phys.org/news/2012-06-scientists-dispel-...s-insight-human.html www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6087/1429 More o LiDAR in Honduras: www.uh.edu/news-events/stories/2012/june/0605LiDARHonduras.php www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archive...-forests-of-honduras Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Audio news from Archaeologica: www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews10jun12.mp3 Interesting news item on the Vatican’s need for a new librarian: Volume 11 (2011) of the online (?) journal Saguntum is available, with all sorts of papers about charcoal as heritage: ojs.uv.es/index.php/saguntumextra/issue/view/108/showToc It might be a painting of a young Jane Austen after all: news.discovery.com/history/jane-austen-portrait-120613.html Some Welsh guy claims to have found the original recipe for Jack Daniels: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/16/wel...-recipe-jack-daniels A pile of Victorian criminal records are now online: uk.news.yahoo.com/historic-criminal-reco...nline-230559439.html This week’s theory about humans’ role in mammoth extinction: phys.org/news/2012-06-climate-habitat-hu...ahoots-mammoths.html … or maybe there was an asteroid: phys.org/news/2012-06-evidence-theory-ex...restrial-impact.html On the rise of capital letters (sort of): www.startribune.com/business/158205095.html Seven great underwater finds: www.wired.com/wiredscience/2012/06/shipw...d=3914&pageid=115178 On countries’ shapes and their cultural diversity: phys.org/news/2012-06-countries-impact-cultural-diversity.html This week, we are told the Shroud of Turin is one of 40 fakes: www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/...f-40-fakes-1.1315981 www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2157217...TER-crucifixion.html Ancient Digger: www.ancientdigger.com/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ Greece wants the tourists to keep coming: rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/...ourists-keep-coming/ Oaxaca: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/arts/design/o...ory-unvarnished.html ================================================================ BLOGS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ More on the arrests associated with that Macedonian burial: www.kansascity.com/2012/06/08/3648176/gr...th-ancient-gold.html artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55934 Looting Matters: lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ Illicit Cultural Property: illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ SAFE: www.savingantiquities.org/blog/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A metal detectorist turned up a Roman coin near Burnham-on-Sea: www.burnham-on-sea.com/news/2012/treasure-find-13-06-12.php Review of D. Hendin, *The Coins of Herod*: www.biblicalarchaeology.org/reviews/the-...-die-classification/ *** not sure what's happened with the e-Sylum newsletter this week *** Ancient Coin Collecting: ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Week: www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Cleopatra: 947thewave.radio.com/2012/06/12/cleopatr...ell-worth-your-time/ Rodin: artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=55611 War of 1812: blogs.ottawacitizen.com/2012/06/16/canad...war-of-1812-exhibit/ Thracian treasures are coming to the “Louver”: paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=...-06-16&article=39347 DaVinci: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-18449474 www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/articl...0279881339668973646A Cerveteri: www.artmediaagency.com/en/44622/the-louv...ry-of-etruscan-city/ Heaven, Hell and Dying Well: www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Ju...pes-middle-ages.ashx phys.org/news/2012-06-la-getty-museum-death-middle.html Medicine and the Olympic Games of Antiquity: www.culture24.org.uk/science%20%26%20nature/medicine/art389357 The Bible Lands Museum celebrates its 20th anniversary: www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=35352 Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama ... and for Sword and Sandal flicks: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ David Ridgway: www.heraldscotland.com/comment/obituarie...vid-ridgway.17866097 Philip Tobias: www.guardian.co.uk/science/2012/jun/14/phillip-tobias www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/9323008/Phillip-Tobias.html ================================================================ PODCASTS ================================================================ The Book and the Spade: www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm Stone Pages Archaeology News: news.stonepages.com/ Archaeologica Audio News: www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp Naked Archaeology Podcast: www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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Sargent for headses upses thisweek (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Something about a major volcanic eruption that somehow affected Neanderthals: phys.org/news/2012-06-italian-super-erup...-larger-thought.html www.ouramazingplanet.com/3067-ancient-su...eruption-larger.html Theory that Homo erectus lived in ‘baboon-like’ societies: blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/0...lived-like-a-baboon/ More on Neanderthal cave paintings in Spain: news.sky.com/home/article/16247537 www.sciencemag.org/content/336/6087/1409 ================================================================ AFRICA ================================================================ On the DNA front, they’ve found evidence of African/non-African genetic mixing some 3000 years ago (not sure how serious they are about the Queen of Sheba connection): www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47907675/ns/technol...and_science-science/ www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18526428 www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/wtsi-gaa061912.php www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120621130645.htm www.livescience.com/21093-queen-sheba-ethiopian-genetics.html They were ‘dairying’ in North Africa some 7000 years b.p.: www.bris.ac.uk/news/2012/8566.html www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/3416...th_Africans_got_milk news.discovery.com/history/milk-ancient-africans-120620.html phys.org/news/2012-06-chemical-analysis-...eveals-dairying.html www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episo...n-millennia-12-06-20 ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A 7000 years b.p. natural pearl from Saudi Arabia: news.discovery.com/history/oldest-pearl-arabia-120618.html Interesting Bes talisman find: news.yahoo.com/talisman-ancient-googly-e...vered-154851461.html Feature on the Great Pyramid: uk.news.yahoo.com/secrets-of-the-great-p...f-giza-20120523.html Feature on the Tomb of the Chantress: www.archaeology.org/1207/features/valley...hantress_coffin.html Another bust in Giza: english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/45...-illegal-posses.aspx A find of what might possibly be the earliest known synagogue: www.news-sentinel.com/apps/pbcs.dll/arti.../120629945/-1/LIVING Hopes of being able to excavate some mysterious tombs (?) near Deir Mar Musa: news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2012/06/desert-mystery/ Concerns for the Dead Sea Scrolls (!?): cenblog.org/artful-science/2012/06/22/de...of-sacred-documents/ … and plans to use technology to read the ‘unopenable’ ones: uknow.uky.edu/content/computer-science-p...e-cultural-institute www.lanereport.com/7452/2012/06/computer...-cultural-institute/ On ‘sensationalizing’ archaeological finds in the ANE: chronicle.com/article/Raiders-of-the-Lost-Relics/132247/ A replica of an ancient Egyptian synagogue has arrived at TAU: www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-worl...aviv-museum-1.439895 Marking the 30th anniversary of the excavations of the ancient city of Jerash: jordantimes.com/a-chance-romance-in-jera...es-history-literally The Tel es-Safi/Gath excavation blog continues to be updated: gath.wordpress.com/ Interesting medieval will of an Egyptian woman: www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=274733 More on antiquities theft in Modi’in: www.timesofisrael.com/tomb-robbers-ancie...-to-a-sleepy-suburb/ Review of Geoffrey Hartman, *The Third Pillar*: www.tnr.com/book/review/third-pillar-geo...112&utm_medium=email Review of Andrew Robinson, *Cracking the Egyptian Code*: online.wsj.com/article/SB100014240527023...l?mod=googlenews_wsj More on the James Ossuary verdict: www.christianitytoday.com/ct/2012/junewe...ossuary-verdict.html ================================================================ ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ How Classics strengthen schools and society: www.aft.org/pdfs/americaneducator/summer2012/dodington.pdf The Capitoline she-wolf has been dated to the 12th century: www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.a...e_id=39&parent_id=21 Roman glass in a Japanese tomb: www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/23/japane...ifact_n_1621090.html www.thesundaily.my/news/414525 mg.co.za/article/2012-06-22-les-found-in-ancient-japanese-tomb/ They’re back digging at Roman Maryport: www.timesandstar.co.uk/news/other/roman-...8?referrerPath=news/ … and about to dig at a potentially major Roman site in South Devon: www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/Roman-coins-p...66-detail/story.html Concerns for assorted ancient sites during Struma highway construction: www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=f2930 www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140613 Interesting robotic investigation of the Cloaca Maxima: www.futureoftech.msnbc.msn.com/technolog...ancient-roman-841736 A Greek (maybe) coin hoard from Sozopol: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140509 paper.standartnews.com/en/article.php?d=...-06-21&article=39387 The Roman fort at Ruse is to be restored: www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=140503 They’ve found evidence of the original colour of the menorah on the Arch of Titus: yu.edu/cis/activities/arch-of-titus/ Mary Beard on the ‘romanization’ of the Olympic Games: www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jun/22/oly...modern?newsfeed=true In case you missed the Greece v German (philosophers) match last week: www.csmonitor.com/World/Backchannels/201...r-footballing-greats Supposedly the best Roman baby names: www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-redmond-sa...an-ba_b_1619829.html Latest in the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles thing: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-18522165 Jeff Koons’ ancient inspirations: www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/j...europe-a-839828.html The Nemean Games are about to start: greece.greekreporter.com/2012/06/20/5th-...n-games-to-commence/ Donald Kagan’s lectures on Ancient Greece on iTunes: itunes.apple.com/us/itunes-u/ancient-gre...ry-video/id341652005 More on that Bronze Age necropolis from Serbia: www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/06/18/Bron...058282/?spt=hs&or=sn Latest reviews from BMCR: bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html Visit our blog: rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================ EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ A very interesting 3300 years b.p. trove of gold from Germany is causing a pile of discussion: www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a...-trove-a-839989.html Latest claim has Stonehenge being the site for a ‘neolithic Christmas’ or maybe it was a symbol of unity … or something: www.telegraph.co.uk/topics/weather/93461...e-Age-Christmas.html news.discovery.com/history/stonehenge-unify-britain-120622.html www.shef.ac.uk/news/nr/stonehenge-monume...ion-britain-1.188608 www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/uos-rfs062212.php www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120622163722.htm phys.org/news259581262.html www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-18550513 Archaeologists have found a large, mysterious structure in Wales which may have once been a bridge leading to an artificial island: news.yahoo.com/mysterious-structure-may-...sland-203925472.html news.discovery.com/history/mysterious-st...re-wales-120622.html www.msnbc.msn.com/id/47926991/ns/technol...and_science-science/ Possible find of some of Cromwell’s men’s heads: www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/local/cromwel...ames-green-1-3955049 On the DNA front, the Welsh and Cornish are apparently the ‘purest Britons’: www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news...cientists-claim.html Some exhumed monks were reburied: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-18551431 They’re surveying Bristol’s College Green: www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-18491117 A hairpin which once belonged to Catherine de Medici turned up in a toilet: www.hurriyetdailynews.com/queens-hair-pi...nd--in-a-toilet.aspx More on that Viking shipwreck find off Sweden: www.thelocal.se/41510/20120618/ www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions...-old-shipwreck-found www.foxnews.com/world/2012/06/18/viking-...d-off-swedish-coast/ More on purported John the Baptist remains: www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/06/120618151228.htm news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06...aria-science-higham/ www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/bone...b64oi6-1226396299326 More on the restoration of Santa Maria Antiqua: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/design/r...a-maria-antiqua.html … and of course they’re still talking about Bulgarian vampires: www.thesundaily.my/news/409855 Archaeology in Europe Blog: archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================ A 37 000 years b.p. (or thereabouts) burial from Sri Lanka: www.sundayobserver.lk/2012/06/24/new33.asp Oldest petroglyphs in Australia: news.yahoo.com/archaeologist-finds-oldes...ralia-134339160.html www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/18/rock-australia-art artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56029#.T-b-nJFQBqM Doubts about a claimed 3500 years b.p. toilet find in Viet Nam: english.vietnamnet.vn/en/science-technol...oilet-discovery.html cf (this article is really a couple years old I think): vietnamnews.vnagency.com.vn/Life-Style/2...und-in-viet-nam.html More on that new trove of Terra Cotta warriors: artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/06/11/ne...-unearthed-in-china/ East Asian Archaeology: eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/ea...e-%E2%80%93-2052010/ Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog: www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/ New Zealand Archaeology eNews: www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm ================================================================ NORTH AMERICA ================================================================ Feature on the War of 1812: www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/backissue...the-war-of-1812.html They’ve uncovered the foundations of Maryland’s first state house: www.washingtonpost.com/local/archaeologi...JQAZe3hsV_story.html Looking for the original Fort Boonesborough: www.kentucky.com/2012/06/20/2232089/arch...-to-find-traces.html Big bucks for George Washington’s personal copy of the Constitution: www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-18559880 artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56083#.T-b5h5FQBqM Oregon and California are arguing over where Drake landed: www.npr.org/2012/06/17/155194143/states-...ancis-drakes-landing Possible evidence of an earlier migration of folks across the Bering Strait (or at least earlier opportunity): www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/osu-ndd061912.php phys.org/news/2012-06-deglaciation-door-...icans-migration.html A Penn Museum lecture by Robert Schuyler on the fort at Jamestown: Review(ish) of Jim Downs, *Sick From Freedom*: www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/jun/16/sla...starvation-civil-war ================================================================ CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================ New theory how the Easter Island moai were ‘walked’: news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/06...lipo-science-rocked/ cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/06/19...lands-statues-walked www.lbpost.com/news/2000000530-csulb-arc...-national-geographic www.nydailynews.com/news/world/mystery-e...ed-article-1.1101299 www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/06/21/easter...heory_n_1615990.html www.slashgear.com/easter-island-statues-...rom-natgeo-22235313/ … and as long as we’re talking about the Moai, here’s a nice APOD of the Milky Way above a group of them: apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap120618.html A pre-Inca cinnabar mine from Trujillo: www.peruviantimes.com/22/pre-inca-cinnab...d-in-trujillo/16097/ More on pre-Columbian human presence in the Amazon basin: www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-06/nsf-srp061812.php Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News: web.mac.com/michaelruggeri Ancient MesoAmerica News: ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================ OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================ Latest video news from the Archaeology Channel: www.archaeologychannel.org/ Commentary on new methods of ‘digging’ in archaeology: www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science...lace-excavation.html ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/06/ar...re-than-digging.html A possible musical inspiration for Puccini: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/arts/music/pu...e-morris-museum.html The restored version of Caravaggio’s Lazarus is back on display: www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-18463219 … and people still flock to the Madonna di Loreto: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/14/arts/design/c...kons-hoi-polloi.html In case you didn’t get the news about the ‘disturbing’ penguins they saw during Captain Scott’s Antarctic expedition: www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-18370797 Thermal Quasi-Reflectography appears to be another imaging technique which will be useful: phys.org/news/2012-06-infrared-unveils-n...een-renaissance.html Composing music by ‘natural selection’: phys.org/news/2012-06-music-natural.html A possible ‘new’ Indo European language has been discovered: phys.org/news/2012-06-code-european-language.html Clues as to who bankrolled John Cabot: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/19/science/john-...d-the-new-world.html Feature on the hunt for various ‘lost cities’: news.discovery.com/earth/lost-cities-120618.html The Oxford Index might be of interest to some folks: Some objects associated with Shakespeare are going on display: www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/theatre/will...-British-Museum.html Ancient Digger: www.ancientdigger.com/ ================================================================ TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================ ‘Caligula’s Playground’: www.smh.com.au/travel/activity/cruises/i...-20120621-20q6h.html Oaxaca: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/arts/design/o...ory-unvarnished.html Polish Palaces: travel.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/travel/pal...pping-in-poland.html ================================================================ BLOGS ================================================================ About.com Archaeology: archaeology.about.com/ Archaeology Briefs: archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/ Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator: planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ Time Machine: heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ How (apparently) they pillage sites in Uzekistan: www.uznews.net/news_single.php?lng=en&sub=&cid=4&nid=20172 Looting Matters: lootingmatters.blogspot.com/ Illicit Cultural Property: illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/ SAFE: www.savingantiquities.org/blog/ ================================================================ NUMISMATICA ================================================================ A major Greek and Roman collection is coming to auction: www.coinweek.com/auctions-news/morton-ed...e-seaver-collection/ … to be followed by another major Greek and Roman collection: www.coinweek.com/auctions-news/numismati...efit-british-museum/ … and the e-Sylum is back … here’s the latest: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n25.html … and the one which will likely show up later today: www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n26.html Ancient Coin Collecting: ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/ Ancient Coins: classicalcoins.blogspot.com/ Coin Week: www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED ================================================================ Glimpses into the Life of Hasidic Jews: www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=56031#.T-cA9ZFQBqM Cleopatra: www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/cultu...0620,0,1701782.story Dawn of Egyptian Art: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/16/arts/16iht-melikian16.html Landmarks of New York: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/nyregion/the-...rish-art-museum.html The Toledo Museum of Art will be returning a 2500 years b.p. kalpis to Italy: www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_208...ient-water-jug-italy www.ydr.com/living/ci_20899804/ohio-muse...ient-water-jug-italy www.washingtonpost.com/national/ohio-mus...JQAVs3iqV_story.html usa.greekreporter.com/2012/06/21/ohio-mu...d-dionysos-to-italy/ www.dispatch.com/content/stories/life_an...g-back-to-italy.html Check out our Twitter hashtage for more ancient exhibition reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23classicalexhibit ================================================================ PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================ Song of Songs: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/15/arts/music/bl...tioch.html?ref=music Henry IV.i: www.nytimes.com/2012/06/17/nyregion/a-re...r-of-new-jersey.html Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama ... and for Sword and Sandal flicks: search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Philip Tobias: blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/...-v-tobias-1925-2012/ ================================================================ PODCASTS ================================================================ The Book and the Spade: www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm Stone Pages Archaeology News: news.stonepages.com/ Archaeologica Audio News: www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp Naked Archaeology Podcast: www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/ 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