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Richard Frahm, 'leanne', and 'alesmonetos'for headses upses this week (a.a.h.i.h.l.n.o.o.) ================================================================ ================================================================ AFRICA, EUROPE, AND ASIA ================================================================ Time for the annual 'what-happened-to-the-Neanderthals' piece, this time suggesting they did not interbreed with 'modern' humans: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA3NET7ZCD.html http://www.msnbc.com/news/881791.asp http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/03/07/neanderthal.puzzle.ap/index.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid=624&ncid=624&e=3&u=/ap/20030306/ap_on_sc/neanderthal_uncertainty_2 .... or perhaps they just weren't smart enough: http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2003/03/0306_030306_neanderthal.html More on the effect war would have on Iraq's archaeological heritage (is it my imagination, or is there an unprecedented amount of coverage of this aspect of the impending conflict? This must be the legacy of the Bamiyan Buddhas ...): http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/arch-m08.shtml http://users.ox.ac.uk/~wolf0126/ (really thorough) http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/2822095.stm http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A30035-2003Mar2.html http://www.billingsgazette.com/index.php?id=1&display=rednews/2003/03/09/build/world/q-archeology.inc The Daily Star has a nice piece on Sidon: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/features/05_03_03_a.htm A recent CAT scan (no pun intended, surely) has revealed that what was one believed to be a mummified kitty is actually a dog: http://www.canada.com/news/story.asp?id=%7b1FC877FB-ECA7-47DE-9468-0E04AC7B146B%7d A short piece on a recently-discovered statue of Ti: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o060323.htm Another book out questions the veracity of the traditional Masada story: http://www.usnews.com/usnews/issue/030310/misc/10masada.htm This really should be a followup, but since there was so much coverage in the past week (plus some items passed along that I missed), it's probably a good thing to bring it up here ... the Villa of the Papyri is now open to the public: http://www.msnbc.com/news/880128.asp http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/science/03/03/italy.villa.reut/index.html http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/02/20/wpomp20.xml http://abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20030301_39.html http://dsc.discovery.com/news/briefs/20030303/papyri.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,905382,00.html http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=9&cid=585&u=/nm/20030301/sc_nm/italy_villa_dc A 6000 b.p. axe head has been found by a five-year-old boy in Worcestershire (and he didn't even stumble): http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/2818537.stm The Vindolanda Trust's Roman Army Museum now boasts a theatre: http://icnewcastle.icnetwork.co.uk/0100news/0100local/page.cfm?objectid=12686280&method=full&siteid=50081 "Massive" excavation(s) is/are about to begin on Bulgaria's Rhodope mountain: http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=19924 A Byzantine 'treasure trove' has been found by a Hungarian team working in Alexandria: http://www.uk.sis.gov.eg/online/html8/o020323g.htm http://www.arabicnews.com/ansub/Daily/Day/030307/2003030724.html Archaeologists have been ordered to start excavations at Ayodhya to determine whether a Hindu temple once existed there: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/international/asia/06INDI.html http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,908247,00.html http://www.newindpress.com/Newsitems.asp?ID=IEH20030306003015&Title=Top+Stories&rLink=0 An Anglo Saxon thrysma is up for sale: http://www.thisisryedale.co.uk/ryedale/news/RYEDALE_NEWS_LOCAL5.html A detailed study of the timbers of Salisbury Cathedral suggests a supplier dispute lies at the basis of the choice of building materials: http://www.dailytelegraph.co.uk/news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2003/03/05/nsalis05.xml http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,3604,907517,00.html The wreck of the Princes Royal has been found: http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_758651.html Construction ostensibly designed to make the Tower of London more tourist friendly has resulted in quite a bit of damage: http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,906151,00.html ================================================================ THE AMERICAS ================================================================ Roadwork has revealed a Revolution-era cannon: http://www.pressofatlanticcity.com/news/atlantic/030803CANNON_M8.html Peru is asking Yale to return some Machu Pichu artifacts: http://ap.tbo.com/ap/breaking/MGA04F23YCD.html More on slave plantations in the North: http://www.redandblack.com/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/05/3e6622bd001c5 This week scientists opened a watch found on the Hunley: http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/mld/sunnews/news/local/5345388.htm http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&ncid=585&e=3&cid=585&u=/nm/20030307/sc_nm/life_hunley_dc ================================================================ ALSO OF INTEREST ================================================================ A recent study suggests using DNA to establish the origins of skeletal material might be misleading: http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/s786146.htm The New York Times has a touristy sort of thing on St. Mary's Abbey (York): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/02/travel/sophisticated/ST-STUD.html The spear which killed Captain Cook is up for sale (scroll down a bit): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/international/europe/04BRIE4.html A commission set up to look into Nazi plunder missed looking at a number of critical records, according to some: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/arts/design/03PANE.html It seems the Gothic Revival architectural style has revived again: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/arts/design/07ANTI.html ================================================================ ON THE NEWSSTANDS ================================================================ There's a new issue of Biblical Archaeology Review out: http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_BAR/indexBAR.html .... and Archaeology Odyssey as well: http://www.bib-arch.org/bswb_AO/indexAO.html ================================================================ ON THE WEB ================================================================ The Jerusalem Archaeological Park website is worth visiting if you haven't before; they've recently addded a section on the early Islamic Period: http://www.archpark.org.il/index.asp Mark Chancey, "The Myth of a Gentile Galilee": http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/Myth_Gentile_Galilee.htm Rochelle Altman, "Report on the Temple Tablet": http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/report_temple_tablet.htm ================================================================ NEW ONLINE BOOKS ================================================================ Isidore of Seville, *Chronicon*: http://www.history.pomona.edu/kbw/h100y/chronicon.htm Vegetius, *de re militari*: http://www.pvv.ntnu.no/~madsb/home/war/vegetius/dere00.php3 ================================================================ ON THE ARCHAEOLOGY CHANNEL ================================================================ Sun Watch Indian Village/Archaeological Park: http://www.archaeologychannel.org/ ================================================================ CRIME BEAT ================================================================ Switzerland is the centre for illicit antiquities trade: http://www.swissinfo.org/sen/swissinfo.html?siteSect=105&sid=1668784 Some village churches in England are asking for the return of various brasses which were stolen in the 19th century: http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,11711,906843,00.html A Dali has been stolen from Rikers Island: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/nyregion/08DALI.html ================================================================ AT ABOUT.COM ================================================================ Ancient History Guide N.S. Gill has a feature on St. Patrick: http://ancienthistory.about.com/library/weekly/aa020101a.htm Archaeology Guide Kris Hirst has a piece on 'social science fiction': http://archaeology.about.com/library/weekly/aa080998.htm ================================================================ BOOK REVIEWS ================================================================ Barbara Freese, *Coal: A Human History*: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/09/books/review/009TOMAST.html Not really a review, but an author's account of how he brought the ancient world 'to life' in his fictional tome "The Spartan": http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,6000,909458,00.html Also not a review, but a first chapter of *The Jester*, which seems like it might appeal to archaeology/conspiracy theory/knights templar fans: http://www.denverpost.com/Stories/0,1413,36%257E27%257E1228206,00.html ================================================================ EXHIBITIONS ================================================================ Hendrick Golzius (Toledo Museum of Art): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/03/arts/03ARTS.html Manet/Velázquez: The French Taste for Spanish Painting (the Met): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/07/arts/design/07KIMM.html Aztecs (London): http://www.guardian.co.uk/comment/story/0,3604,909898,00.html ================================================================ CLASSICIST'S CORNER ================================================================ Coverage of a grade six toga party: http://www.nj.com/news/expresstimes/nj/index.ssf?/base/news-2/104711788826730.xml The Lysistrata Project coverage: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/04/nyregion/04PROT.html http://www.greenleft.org.au/current/529p22b.htm (Cuba!) http://www.tennessean.com/local/archives/03/03/29688898.shtml?Element_ID=29688898 Here's the latest on the Iliad movie in the making: http://news.bbc.co.uk/cbbcnews/hi/tv_film/newsid_2829000/2829997.stm http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_757695.html http://www.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30500-12263327,00.html The botanical history of the Colosseum: http://www.nature.com/nsu/030303/030303-2.html The Cleveland Museum of Art has just purchased five massive mythological paintings by Charles Meynier: base/entertainment/1046773951296960.xml A nice piece on the ancient Olympics: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826530163.html ClassCon in a piece on French gluttony: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/06/arts/06GLUT.html .... and a piece on the ethics of war: http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/arts/08ETHI.html .... and a piece on blonds (or blondes): http://www.nytimes.com/2003/03/08/arts/08BLON.html A nice piece on various Roman things associated with the month of March: http://www.redlandsdailyfacts.com/Stories/0,1413,209~22484~1220373,00.html Prior to 911, Donald Rumsfeld was investigating what might be learned from ancient empires: http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Mar/03092003/commenta/36326.asp A review of a new game ... Praetorians: http://www.theage.com.au/articles/2003/03/07/1046826526082.html I *think* I follow this one ... it's an appeal to Greek precedent for the building of a baseball stadium: http://ydr.com/story/op-ed/7042/ Perfess'r Harris: http://www.realchangenews.org/issue/current/classics/classics_corner.html Peter Jones in the Spectator: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-08&id=2866 .... and Dot Wordsworth: http://www.spectator.co.uk/article.php3?table=old§ion=current&issue=2003-03-08&id=2864 Etymologies: http://www.newsday.com/news/health/ny-nypreg093164559mar09,0,7227276.story?coll=ny-health-headlines (pica) http://keysnews.com/293135168625057.bsp.htm (nunc pro tunc) http://www.puertorico-herald.org/issues/2003/vol7n10/ExactlyWhatFree-en.shtml (annexation) http://www.ohio.com/mld/beaconjournal/living/5319191.htm (bracellae) http://www.cw.ua.edu/vnews/display.v/ART/2003/03/05/3e65900ec9dff (vocare) Akropolis News in Classical Greek: http://www.akwn.net/ Radio Finland's Nuntii Latini http://www.yle.fi/fbc/latini/trans.html Radio Bremen's Der Monatsrückblick - auf Latein http://www.radiobremen.de/online/latein/ U.S. Weather in Latin: http://latin.wunderground.com/ ================================================================ OBITUARIES ================================================================ Luis Marden (adventurer): http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/arts/entertainment-people-marden-obit.html ================================================================ EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. 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