From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jun 23 02:36:33 2002 Received: from mailscan4.cac.washington.edu (mailscan4.cac.washington.edu [140.142.33.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g5N9aVw3036614 for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 02:36:31 -0700 Received: FROM mxu2.u.washington.edu BY mailscan4.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Jun 23 02:36:30 2002 -0700 Received: from quark.look.ca (quark.look.ca [207.136.80.22]) by mxu2.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g5N9aUJY009925 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 02:36:30 -0700 Received: from on-ham-a53-02-96.look.ca ([216.154.52.32]) by quark.look.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #10) id 17M3my-0000T2-00; Sun, 23 Jun 2002 09:36:09 +0000 Date: Sun, 23 Jun 2002 05:37:43 -0400 From: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.60q) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <864643409.20020623053743@idirect.com> To: explorator@yahoogroups.com CC: classics@u.washington.edu, ancientmed@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, latin@vlists.net, , Subject: Explorator 5.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ================================================================ explorator 5.8 June 23, 2002 ================================================================ Editor's note: Depending on your mail software, some urls may wrap (especially those from the Telegraph) which will require you to rebuild the url at your end; if you get a 'file not found', check to see if the url wrapped on you. Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to David Detrich, Bill Kennedy, John McMahon, Michael Oberndorf, W. Richard Frahm, Susan Jaslow, 'alesmonetos', Paul Cowie, Janet Delaine, Barbara Barrett, Sara Orel, and Sally Winchester for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Well, if it's Solstice you know folks will be dropping their clothes and dancing around Stonehenge: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020621/en_nm/britain_stonehenge_dc_1 http://www.msnbc.com/news/770497.asp http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2057000/2057303.stm http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2057000/2057440.stm (photos!) http://www.guardian.co.uk/britain/article/0,2763,742039,00.html .... and the news sources will be looking for other stories about the megaliths: http://www.ananova.com/News/story/sm_609325.html It's going to be a quiet dig season in the Holy Land, for obvious reasons: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0620_020620_wireisrael.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020620/en_usatoday/4208810 Despite the foregoing, the big news this week appears to be the discovery of a Roman 'stadium' (hippodrome?) near Tiberias: http://www.msnbc.com/news/768575.asp http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_609614.html http://abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/ap20020617_1176.html http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405012494,00.html http://www.jpost.com/NASApp/cs/ContentServer?pagename=JPost/A/JPArticle/Full&cid=1023716498987 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020617/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_roman_stadium_2 http://www.cnn.com/2002/WORLD/meast/06/19/israel.romanstadium.ap/index.html An archaeologist is going to see (or possibly has by now) investigate whether there is any solstice connection with a temple at Dilmun: http://www.gulf-daily-news.com/arc_Articles.asp?Article=25915&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=25093 FAZ has a nice article on the Waldgirmes site, and how it was a civilian settlement from the start (I'm not sure how old/new this article is ... it did turn up in a couple of search engines): http://www.faz.com/IN/INtemplates/eFAZ/archive.asp?doc={7CC1077B-EF3F-4453-9BC2-1CD8018E6958}&width=1139&height=843&agt=explorer&ver=4&svr=4 Construction in Nicosia has turned up archaeological remains (the first two items are different 'early reports'; those which follow are Reuters): http://www.cyprus-mail.com/June/19/news5.htm http://www.cyprus-mail.com/June/22/news6.htm http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020621/sc_nm/life_cyprus_palace_dc_1 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=753&e=2&u=/nm/20020621/sc_nm/life_cyprus_palace_dc_2 An 'iron age citadel' near Stirling appears to be Scotland's long lost capital: http://www.sundayherald.com/25644 A scholar is claiming to have deciphered the "much elusive" Indus script (my skeptical alarm is going off on this one): http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow.asp?art_id=13404142 A pair of sixth century statues of Siva and Saraswitha have been found near Tiruchirappalli: http://in.news.yahoo.com/020621/54/1qh10.html Coming to a 'documentary' near you, no doubt ... a team of Chinese archaeologists are going to investigate a 'mystery pyramid' which supposedly has some connection to extraterrestrials, according to legend: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_611023.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=585&ncid=585&e=5&u=/nm/20020619/sc_nm/china_aliens_dc_1 In an unrelated (hopefully) development, a series of pyramids have also been found in Uzbekistan: http://english.pravda.ru/main/2002/06/19/30639.html http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_609296.html A Han Dynasty measuring tool has been found in China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region (note to self: brush up on Chinese geography): http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/news/lf/2002-06-17/74077.html Archaeologists have found evidence that Cistercian monks were developing a major blast furnace operation prior to their eviction by Henry VIII: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F21%2Fnhenry21.xml http://www.washtimes.com/world/20020622-67190988.htm While my fellow Canadians battle over which city can lay claim to being the 'home' of hockey, it appears that Holland can (gasp) lay claim to being the home of (gasp) golf (gasp): http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_608659.html The Italian government apparently has no plans to privatize things like the Colosseum: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGAAQ6T7K2D.html I'm trying to figure out whether the Times' 'Archaeological Notebook' is a regular feature: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/printFriendly/0,,1-46-329071,00.html ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Some recent developments in the Kennewick Man saga: http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/2002/0617/story1.html .... and sometimes you don't find what you're digging for: http://www.kansascity.com/mld/kansascity/news/local/3484819.htm Some of the oldest (10,000 BP) archaeological remains ever found in North Carolina have come to light: http://www.heraldsun.com/state/6-239749.html A number of mounds in Shiloh National Military Park are being excavated: http://www.knoxnews.com/kns/sci_and_tech/article/0,1406,KNS_328_1222400,00.html Here's a nice feature on Palenque: http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=28589 ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ There's a new issue of Archaeology out: http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=curiss/index ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ The BBC's companion site to its series "The Roman Way" has a pile of stuff of interest, including Real Audio files of the programs, recipes of Roman cuisine, et alia: www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/history/romanway/shtml ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ Donald Mackenzie, *Myths of Crete and Pre-Hellenic Europe*: http://www.sacred-texts.com/cla/moc/index.htm ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ A nice AP article is making the rounds, all about the changed attitude towards ownership of antiquities of questionable provenances: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020621/ap_wo_en_po/arts_egypt_protecting_culture_1 .... and the Wall Street Journal had a nice piece on a similar topic: http://opinionjournal.com/la/?id=110001867 ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Greg Yocherer, "Classic Battle Joined" (Cannae): http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blclassicbattlejoineda.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ Penthesilea (production at Epidaurus): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17801 Sophocles' Electra (Athens): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17752 ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Plenty of classcon in a CSM piece on etymological roots of plant names (not my punnus horribilis): http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0619/p18s04-hfgn.html .... and we might as well include this bit on the history of the cucumber: http://www.athensnews.gr/athweb/nathens.print_unique?e=C&f=12966&m=A40&aa=1&eidos=S The protest against the Olympic mascots has taken an interesting (or not) twist: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020618/ap_wo_en_po/sports_olympics_mascot_suit_1 The Guardian has a piece on whence came the beasties exhibited in the Colosseum: http://www.guardian.co.uk/Archive/Article/0,4273,4436401,00.html A nice feature on Lynn Krepich's efforts to keep Latin alive in the classroom: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A20604-2002Jun20.html Only a tenuous classical connection in this bio of a Japanese scholar, but an interesting read: http://www.yomiuri.co.jp/newse/20020621wob1.htm A classicist is involved in a cv scandal in Scotland: http://www.thescotsman.co.uk/index.cfm?id=677842002 If you missed Maureen Fant's 'Stroll through Pompeii' in the Times last week, it's still available in the International Herald Tribune: http://www.iht.com/articles/62029.html Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-22&id=1983 .... and Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-22&id=1982 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Amesbury Archer: http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/news/amesbury Columbus Ships: http://www.sltrib.com/06222002/nation_w/747448.htm Kenan Tepe dig: http://www.deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,1249,405012291,00.html http://unisci.com/stories/20022/0618026.htm Oldest Intact Sarcophagus: http://www.msnbc.com/news/768307.asp http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020616/ap_on_sc/egypt_archaeology_3 Oldest Boat: http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20020617/boat.html Olmec Jade: http://www.uniontrib.com/news/mexico/20020605-1105-jademystery.html Reed Boats a la Heyerdahl: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=17813 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020620/lf_nm/life_cyprus_boat_dc_2 Schultz Case: http://www.archaeology.org/magazine.php?page=online/features/schultz/index http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/12/arts/design/12SENT.html ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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