explorator 10.18

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explorator 10.18 August 26, 2007
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Bill Kennedy, Croman mac Nessa,
Dave Sowdon,Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason',Edward Rockstein,
Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,
Mike Bishop, Mike Ruggeri, Pat Wary, Richard C. Griffiths,
Rochelle Altman,Ross W. Sargent,Steve Rankin, Toke Lindegaard Knudsen,
W. Richard Frahm, and Yonatan Nadelman for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Interesting video about Louis Leakey:

http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2463962385339685930&q=archaeologist
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AFRICA
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More on that very old footprint:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/0820/egypt.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/stuff/nelsonmail/4172623a6418.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/sc_nm/egypt_antiquities_dc_1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/middle_east/6956902.stm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20360598/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A section of an ancient canal has been found in northern Iran:

http://tinyurl.com/3ahuus (Iranmania)
http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=541102

A 2500 b.p. Ahmani structure:

http://en.apa.az/news.php?id=33365

Bronze Age climate change and Israel:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=896578

Trying to preserve Samarkand:

http://www.nytimes.com/reuters/world/international-ubekistan-samarkand.html

Latest on the Bamayan Buddhas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/6956327.stm

A couple more mummies will be getting the CT scan treatment:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20364121/

More coverage of that CT scan of 'Demetrios':

http://tinyurl.com/325e4q (Tribune)

Some humour:

http://www.grimmy.com/images/MGG_Archive/MGG_2007/MGG0816.gif

Egyptology News Blog:

http://egyptology.blogspot.com/

Egyptology Blog:

http://www.egyptologyblog.co.uk/

Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:

http://blog.ritmeyer.com/

Paleojudaica:

http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/

Persepolis Fortification Archives:

http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/

Archaeologist at Large:

http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Some ostraka fount in a Dorset cellar are being translated:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2153479,00.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/article.html?in_article_id=62689&in_page_id=34
(strange photo)

Roman remains at a Wiltshire golf club:

http://tinyurl.com/34ccbc (WT)

The 'capitol' of Sarmizegetusa has been found:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/24/content_6593962.htm
http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90781/6246870.html

An ancient 'hideout' found in Albania:

http://tinyurl.com/2w5akh (USA Today)

.... this appears to be the same site:

http://tinyurl.com/26qhv4 (SET)

The fires in Greece are threatening Olympia:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070826/wl_nm/greece_fires_dc_5
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/6964345.stm
http://www.news.com.au/perthnow/story/0,21498,22309768-5005361,00.html

Mycenean 'waterworks' at Midea:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070825/ap_on_sc/greece_prehistoric_water_system_2
http://tinyurl.com/3afpfz (JPost)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/worldlatest/story/0,,-6874950,00.html

Illuminating the 'Dark Ages':

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22277026-16947,00.html

Latest finds at Arbeia Roman Fort:

http://www.24hourmuseum.org.uk/nwh_gfx_en/ART49979.html

A dig resumes on Cyprus:

http://www.financialmirror.com/more_news.php?id=7989&nt=Politics

Plato lives (sort of):

http://www.guardonline.com/?module=displaystory&story_id=40943&format=html

The 'US and Rome' comparisons are starting up again:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/7e30665c-5047-11dc-a6b0-0000779fd2ac.html

More coverage of that Etruscan tomb find (by amateur archaeologists!):

http://edition.cnn.com/2007/TECH/science/08/14/etruscan.tomb.reut/
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/arts/design/21tomb.html

More coverage of the cistern/reservoir at Peperikon:

http://tinyurl.com/2josev (Echo)

More coverage of the rivalries in Bulgarian archaeology too:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1859499258
http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n119871
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=84399

.... and the Mayor of Gladwin took part in some of the excavations
this summer:

http://www.gladwinmi.com/record/?section_id=3&story_id=48746

More coverage of that Roman soldier footprint find:

http://www.livescience.com/history/070823_roman_footprint.html
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/532736/?sc=rsln
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-08/24/content_6597779.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070824184336.htm

More on Ballard returning to the Black Sea:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20360061/

Recent reviews from BMCR:

http://ccat.sas.upenn.edu/bmcr/recent.html

Recent reviews from Scholia:

http://www.classics.und.ac.za/reviews/2007.htm

Visit our blog:

http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A metal detectorist found a medieval pendant in Osmington:

http://tinyurl.com/2u5hma

More on the upcoming dig at Fort William:

http://news.scotsman.com/inverness.cfm?id=1287242007

I think we've had this Neolithic-Settlement-under-English-
Channel story before:

http://tinyurl.com/2mkz7y (LS via Yahoo)

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Excavating the original Montreal:

http://tinyurl.com/2p2k9s (Globe and Mail)
http://www.thestar.com/printArticle/247925

Excavating a slave site at Lloyd Manor:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/19/nyregion/nyregionspecial2/19mainli.html

Interesting stuff by the York River:

http://tinyurl.com/2955dk (Washington Post)

Latest on the Queen Anne's Revenge:

http://tinyurl.com/2wkhsj (News Record)

Possible Rosario Line find in St. Augustine:

http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/local/news-article.aspx?storyid=89630

Yet another spin on the peopling of the Americas:

http://tinyurl.com/3btrsk (Times Colonist)

.... and another:

http://www.americanchronicle.com/articles/viewArticle.asp?articleID=35913

Mystery graves in Philipsburg:

http://www.thedailyherald.com/news/daily/k086/grave086.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of a manioc 'plantation' from El Salvador:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-08/uoca-ctd082007.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070820122541.htm
http://tinyurl.com/37rbjj (LAT)
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2007/08/070820-maya-crop.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20070820/sc_nm/volcano_manioc_dc_1
http://www.denverpost.com/headlines/ci_6674459
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/21/science/21maya.html

There were concerns about what Hurrican Dean would do to some
Maya sites:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20364988/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Tons o' coverage of the apparent find of the remains of Alexei
and (possibly) Anastasia:

http://tinyurl.com/3d8oqc (NYDN)
http://deseretnews.com/dn/view/0,5143,695204186,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/2ws23j (USA Today)
http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/24/europe/EU-GEN-Russia-Czars-Son.php
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzlwfGMJyMQ

Similarly tons o' coverage of the discovery of a 5000 b.p.
piece of gum:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/6954562.stm
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_2471387.html
http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,22274715-5002700,00.html
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/95704.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/08/21/2010370.htm
http://abc.net.au/science/news/stories/2007/2010771.htm
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20365582/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article2289940.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2007/aug/20/archaeology
http://tinyurl.com/32o3wm (metro)

.... and I wonder if it will be given the DNA treatment like this
somewhat younger piece was:

http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2007/822/4

Mysteries about medieval skulls:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article2324459.ece

A missing Constable sketch has been found:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2155406,00.html

Ancient Scots sang songs to attract seals to traps (!):

http://www.newkerala.com/july.php?action=fullnews&id=54721

Gay marriage 600 years ago in France?:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/08/070823110231.htm

Oxford Dictionary of National Biography Lives of the Week:

http://www.oxforddnb.com/public/lotw/

Arts and Letters Daily:

http://aldaily.com/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeoblog:

http://archaeoblog.blogspot.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Vague item on a foiled smuggling attempt by a Bulgarian:

http://www.focus-fen.net/index.php?id=n120250

A purloined Egyptian 'duck' has been returned:

http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90777/6243240.html

A sort of 'positive side' to looting:

http://tinyurl.com/35efqn (USA Today)
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NUMISMATICA
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Hobbyblog:

http://hobbyblog.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Qing Art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/arts/24qing.html

Terracotta Warriors:

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/art/news/story/0,,2153656,00.html
http://tinyurl.com/3y3z6n (Telegraph ... an opEddish thing)

Lucy:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=13864812

Masterpieces of Indian Painting:

http://books.guardian.co.uk/review/story/0,,2155526,00.html

Praxiteles:

http://tinyurl.com/2jl732

18th Century Furniture at Christie's:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/24/arts/design/24anti.html

I guess the Getty wants a 'safe' exhibition:

http://www.huliq.com/30960/medieval-treasures-travel-to-getty

Latest coverage of the 'Met Chariot' thing:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=12738928&ft=1&f=1001

A Museum of Slavery is opening in Liverpool:

http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/08/21/europe/EU-GEN-Britain-Slavery-Museum.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/22/arts/design/22slav.html

Yale and Peru are still talking about the Machu Picchu relics:

http://chronicle.com/news/index.php?id=2850?=atnb
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ON THE WEB
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An online atlas of Hadrian's Wall:

http://perlineamvalli.org.uk/
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OBITUARIES
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Philip Masters:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/08/23/nyregion/23masters.html
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Plenty of coverage (alas) of this 'curse of the pharaohs' story:

http://tinyurl.com/2y52a2 (Telegraph)
http://www.7days.ae/showstory.php?id=57060
http://tinyurl.com/3e3bxn (Daily Star)
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp
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