From dmeadows@idirect.com Sun Jun 30 05:42:16 2002 Received: from mailscan3.cac.washington.edu (mailscan3.cac.washington.edu [140.142.32.15]) by lists.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.01) with SMTP id g5UCgDw3100390 for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 05:42:13 -0700 Received: FROM mxu1.u.washington.edu BY mailscan3.cac.washington.edu ; Sun Jun 30 05:42:12 2002 -0700 Received: from quark.look.ca (quark.look.ca [207.136.80.22]) by mxu1.u.washington.edu (8.12.1+UW01.12/8.12.1+UW02.06) with ESMTP id g5UCgBR9017913 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=EDH-RSA-DES-CBC3-SHA bits=168 verify=NO) for ; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 05:42:12 -0700 Received: from on-ham-a53-03-16.look.ca ([216.154.52.144]) by quark.look.ca with esmtp (Exim 3.32 #10) id 17Oe1W-00073N-00; Sun, 30 Jun 2002 12:41:50 +0000 Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 08:43:31 -0400 From: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Mailer: The Bat! (v1.60q) Personal Reply-To: dmeadows@idirect.com X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Message-ID: <975238010.20020630084331@idirect.com> To: classics@u.washington.edu CC: classics@u.washington.edu, ancientmed@egroups.com, greek-arch@egroups.com, latin@vlists.net, , Subject: Explorator 5.9 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit ================================================================ explorator 5.9 June 30, 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 Arthur Shippee, Reid Wilson, Martin Roseveare, Anne Roseveare, Dale Armstrong, Rick Pettigrew, Michael Oberndorf, Trevor Watkins, Barbara Barrett, Ardle MacMahon, Michael Ruggieri, Bill Kennedy, Michael Oberndorf, W. Richard Frahm, and Maurice O'Sullivan for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ Editor's ramblings: So I see in one of the zillions of elists I frequent a note that someone from TLC (The Learning Channel) was asking for archaeologists to get in touch with her for some sort of television program. So, of course, I contact her and tell her that plenty of archaeologist types read Explorator and would she like me to pass on the information to them. So she does, but the info is somewhat different than I had originally assumed, but since I did offer, here's the skinny: "" TLC's "A Dating Story" is looking to feature single archaeologist, ages 25-35, on our daytime documentary style show. We are looking to feature interesting, talkative, t.v. savvy people. If anyone is interested in more information please contact me, Katie, via email at datingstory@yahoo.com or call (215)928-1414 ext. 7166. Enclosed is an attachment which describes the show in greater detail. I look forward to speaking with you! Katie Monson datingstory@yahoo.com (215) 928-1414 ext. 7166" Don't forget to mention you saw it in Explorator! 8^) ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ A very well-preserved Neanderthal butchery site has been found in Norfolk (England): http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/em/-/hi/english/sci/tech/newsid_2064000/2064934.stm http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/story.jsp?story=309107 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,743954,00.html http://www.english-heritage.org.uk/default.asp?WCI=NewsItem&WCE=189 http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99992454 http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20020625/sc_nm/britain_archaeology_mammoths_dc_1 http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F26%2Fnmam26.xml A mudbrick tomb has been found at Saqqarah: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html7/o270622.htm A bronze age 'metal factory' has been found in Jordan: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2002/06/020626070920.htm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2002/06/0620_020625_metalfactory.html http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/soc/dlevymetalfactory.htm Not sure I follow the logic of the headline, but "Discovery of Middle Bronze Age burial pit raises hopes of uncovering medieval town" (Ireland): http://www.unison.ie/irish_independent/index.php3?ti=41&ca=9&si=781565&issue_id=7659 http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_618418.html A log boat discovered in Scotland a century ago has now been dated to the bronze age: http://www.thisisnorthscotland.co.uk/displayNode.jsp?nodeId=84092&command=displayContent&sourceNode=83929&contentPK=1997204 The New York Times has a piece on a first-century Roman funerary urn: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/28/arts/design/28INSI.html (photo at: http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotDetail.jsp?sale_number=N07812&live_lot_id=128) .... actually, folks might be interested in all the things auctioned off in Sotheby's recent Egyptian, Classical, and Western Asian Antiquities and Islamic Works of Art thing ... here's the list, all linked to photos and descriptions: http://search.sothebys.com/jsps/live/lot/LotResultsDetailList.jsp The Times has a touristy piece on Alexandria: http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,71-336660,00.html The Romans used more than aqueducts to deal with water problems: http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?fuseaction=readRelease&Releaseid=10015 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2002-06/nofs-trp062402.php Ballard's back in the news, but just with an overview of some of his previous discoveries (no doubt this is prepublicity for something else planned): http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/usatoday/20020627/en_usatoday/4228570 China Daily has a piece on the Spillings Horde (9th century Viking): http://www1.chinadaily.com.cn/cndy/2002-06-24/74984.html Some ancient multiplication tables have been found in China's Hunan province: http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2002-06/26/content_458723.htm Tests on the relics in St. David's Cathedral (Wales) have revealed the bones do not belong to him: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/wales/newsid_2070000/2070072.stm Indian archaeologists have found the remains of a British ship which sank a couple centuries ago: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_613671.html UNESCO has added nine sites to its World Heritage list: http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20020627/ap_wo_en_po/hungary_unesco_list_1 The New York Times has an interesting piece on the various interpretations of what comprises 'historical preservation': http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/weekinreview/23LEWI.html More on the British Museum's financial woes (different stories): http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/article.asp?idart=9692 http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,744224,00.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/entertainment/arts/newsid_2069000/2069781.stm ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ "Who created Baja California's ancient cave paintings?": http://www.thenewsmexico.com/noticia.asp?id=29006 A prehistoric village site has been found near Tucson: http://sunspot.net/news/nationworld/bal-te.urban23jun23.story?coll=bal%2Dnationworld%2Dheadlines Excavations at the Boston Saloon site in Virginia City have brought to light a very old bottle of hot sauce: http://www.cnn.com/2002/US/06/29/spicy.artifact.ap/index.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ The Economist has a feature on Blombos Cave: http://www.economist.com/science/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1200626 ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ (I'm not sure who sent me this one, but it's fairly recent (April 2002) and worth listening to); official blurb: The Trojan War: History or Myth: Turning convention on its head, Martin West, a renowned scholar of Greek studies and classical antiquity, presents another way of looking at The Trojan War. http://media.snow.utoronto.ca:8080/ramgen/wiegand/wiegand2002.rm?start="00:03:05.0" There's a new progress report on the KV5 excavation at the Theban Mapping Project's site: http://www.kv5.com/html/index_new.html ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ The Satyricon (Firebraugh trans.): http://digital.library.upenn.edu/webbin/gutbook/lookup?num=5225 ================================================================ ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL ================================================================ Roman Africa: Tunisia http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Vandals have forced the closing of a 13th-century Church in England: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2062000/2062278.stm A number of Roman artifacts have disappeared from storage in Carlisle: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_614067.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/england/newsid_2062000/2062511.stm Similarly, a number of aboriginal artifacts have disappeared from Winnipeg's Anthropology Museum: http://www.canada.com/winnipeg/story.asp?id={CD944989-4486-40B3-996D-C4EFC8556785} The U.S. is getting tougher on archaeological crimes: http://www.csmonitor.com/2002/0620/p02s02-usju.html ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Greg Yorcherer, "The Trouble with Elephants" (Hannibal): http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/prm/blbattlejoinedside.htm ================================================================ REVIEWS ================================================================ Anthony Grafton, *Bring Out Your Dead:The Past as Revelation.*: http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/books/review/23BRUCKNT.html Katerina Karakasi, *Ancient Korai*: http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=18071 The Bacchae (Epidaurus): http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/news/content.asp?aid=18026 ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ The Greeks and the Sea: Hellenic Ships From Ancient Times Through the 20th Century (New York): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/19/arts/19FOOT.html http://www.foundationhellenicculture.com/PressRelease.html Pieter Saenredam (Getty): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/26/arts/design/26GETT.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Queen's University (Belfast) has voted to close its Classics department, despite pleas from various folks: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/northern_ireland/newsid_2065000/2065797.stm Folks will be interested in Stanley Kurtz' National Review piece on the gutting of UChicago's Western Civ. course: http://www.nationalreview.com/kurtz/kurtz062702.asp The Economist compares the recently-late Ann Landers to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi: http://www.economist.com/people/displayStory.cfm?story_id=1200492 Good news for the DAI: http://www.mpa.gr/article.html?doc_id=278723 The Vatican's recent no smoking policy has caused some speculation on how the signs will read: http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_2070000/2070380.stm Looks like there's going to be a remake of 'Clash of the Titans': http://www.animationmagazine.net/features/6_5.html Not a lot of info in this abstract, but it might make you want to track down the latest issue of Discover ... "Homer's Bones Can an archaeological dig in Greece reveal the line between truth and fiction in the Iliad and the Odyssey?": http://discover.com/july_02/feathomer.html Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-29&id=2014 .... and Dot Wordsworth (nice classically-inspired cartoon here as well): http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2002-06-29&id=2012 Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Frank Spinney ("Museum Innovator"): http://www.nytimes.com/2002/06/23/obituaries/23SPIN.html ================================================================ FOLLOWUPS ================================================================ Ancient Scottish Capital: http://portal.telegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=%2Fnews%2F2002%2F06%2F24%2Fndark24.xml Columbus Ship Near Panama: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi- bin/PrintStory.pl?document_id=134480115&zsection_id=268448413&slu g=columbus23&date=20020622 ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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