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explorator 12.28                                November 1, 2009
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst,Kurt Theis,
Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo, John McMahon, Joseph Lauer,
Mata Kimasitayo, Mike Ruggeri, Jona Lendering, Joos Postma,
Richard C. Griffiths,  Rick Heli,Bob Heuman, and Ross W. Sargent for
headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

n.b. I *think* (but I'm not positive) that something went
kablooey when synching my various laptops this week and some
contributions may have been lost; it they were yours, apologies!
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EARLY HUMANS
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A geneticist is suggesting there were sexual encounters between
Neanderthals and modern humans:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/evolution/6430494/Modern-man-had-sex-with-Neanderthals.
html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/biology_evolution/article6888874.ece
http://blogs.nature.com/news/thegreatbeyond/2009/10/neanderthal_sex.html
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/dpgo_Report_Modern_Man_Had_Sex_With_Neanderthals_mb_200910
261256584967364

More on Malawi as the crade of humankind:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091023/sc_nm/us_malawi_hominids>

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AFRICA
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Interesting account of a course to look at the archaeological
evidence for the slave trade in Benin:

http://www.ucsc.edu/news_events/press_releases/text.asp?pid323
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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On the messiness of ritual deaths at Ur:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/science/27ur.html
http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/sciencemedicine/story/19C3F673F6DCBA2286
25765C000CF96D?OpenDocument

An important Babylonian seal find in Egypt:

http://austriantimes.at/news/Panorama/2009-10-29/17649/Austrian_archaeologists_make_Babylo
nian_find_in_Egypt
http://diepresse.com/home/science/518228/index.do?_vl_backlink=/home/index.do
(photo)

This week's mummy scan (Stanford):

http://med.stanford.edu/ism/2009/october/mummy2.html

I think we mentioned this cuneiform tablet discovery last summer
when it was made:

http://media.www.buchtelite.com/media/storage/paper1203/news/2009/10/29/News/Professor.Mak
es-3816504.shtml

Latest from the tomb of Seti I:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/970/he1.htm

Some child/jar burials from Palmyra:

http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/200910283393/Culture/syrian-japanese-archaeologis
ts-burial-jars-dating-back-to-third-century-found-in-palmyra.html

A mini-flurry of articles about the burial caves at Beit Shearim
... first, that they were opened to the public:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo24162
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134088

... then some other person is claiming to have discovered them
73 years ago (!):

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo24426

A Sassanid site in Iran was bulldozed:

http://www.payvand.com/news/09/oct/1282.html

Zahi Hawass ponders the possible evidence for the Exodus:

http://www.aawsat.com/english/news.asp?section=7&id628

... and this week he was made Vice Minister of Culture:

http://www.drhawass.com/node/350

Interesting feature on a couple of mummies in Richmond:

http://www.pal-item.com/article/20091031/NEWS01/910310301

... and one on the various things we learn from mummies:

http://www.wwlp.com/dpp/health/healthy_living/wwlp_cnn_health_mummy_expert_death_tells_abo
ut_living_200910262233

Feature/slideshow on animal mummies:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2009/10/_this_slideshow_requires_versi.html

Evidence for tsunami events at Caesarea:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091026093728.htm

Rethinking the 'odds' of the Talpiot Tomb:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/tomb357926.shtnl

Feature on mapping Iraq's archaeological sites:

http://www.dvidshub.net/?script=news/news_show.php&id@707

A Roman-era cemetery from near Hebron:

http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID#5964

Video of that press tour around the Western Wall last week (kind
of wonky connection this a.m.):

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid94419829128&pagename=JPost/Page/VideoPlayer
&videoId56150036853
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 'lost city' off the coast of Montenegro:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/montenegro/6451859/British-holidaymaker-d
iscovers-lost-underwater-city.html

I'm sure we're all surprised to hear (not) that Alexander was not
the first at Alexandria:

http://www.newspostonline.com/science/evidence-indicates-alexander-the-great-was-not-first
-at-alexandria-2009102772579>

Nice feature on ancient history and pseudoscholarship:

http://www.livius.org/opinion/opinion0017.html

A little Athens v Sparta ppt:

http://www.tes.co.uk/article.aspx?storycode`26088

Feature on Maronia Cave as the home of Polyphemus:

http://www.ana-mpa.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc€91385&maindocimg€91432&service
4

Feature on the Antonine Wall:

http://www.theskinny.co.uk/article/97437-the-other-wall

On the benefits of learning Latin:

http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/09301/1008771-294.stm

More hype for Paul Cartledge's forthcoming tome:

http://blog.oup.com/2009/10/cartledge/

Review of Adrian Goldsworthy, *How Rome Fell*:

http://spectator.org/archives/2009/10/28/lessons-of-the-fall

Review of Mary Beard, *It's a Don's Life*:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/oct/25/its-a-dons-life-mary-beard

Review of Caroline Alexander, *The War That Killed Achilles*:

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/10/26/achillies_retelling_is_a_commentary_on_
war/

Review of Tobias Hill, *The Hidden*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Russo-t.html

Latest reviews from Scholia: http://www.classics.ukzn.ac.za/reviews/

Latest reviews from BMCR: http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

More on the amphitheatre at Portus:

http://www.wessexscene.co.uk/news/3439
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id7598&sectionid51020606

More on Asterix and Obelix at 50:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/6408243/The-50th-Anniversary-of-Aster
ix-and-Obelix.html

More on the Bonham's vase:

http://www.artinfo.com/news/story/33037/rare-ancient-roman-vase-identified/

More on Pavlopetri:

http://www.noc.soton.ac.uk/nocs/news.php?action=display_news&idxe1
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 10,000 years b.p. flint from Coventry:

http://www.coventrytelegraph.net/news/coventry-news/2009/10/27/10-000-year-old-flint-found
-on-coventry-allotment-92746-25017679/

Feature on the antiquity of human habitation at Thatcham:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/berkshire/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_8327000/8327303.
stm

A possible Bronze Age site in central Oxford:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/oxfordshire/8336475.stm

A bunch of 9000 years b.p. artifacts from a site in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/22944/20091029

Bronze Age cattle travelled quite far:

http://planetearth.nerc.ac.uk/news/story.aspx?idW1

A mysterious Templar gravestone from Scotland:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article6893161.ece
http://news.scotsman.com/latestnews/Mystery-stone-found-near-church.5767821.jp

... and a mysterious 17th century signet ring from Clifton:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/nottinghamshire/8324754.stm

An 800 years b.p. fortress from near Moscow:

http://www.russia-ic.com/news/show/9118/

Not sure if this witch bottle find is a new one or one of those
mentioned over the past while:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/10/091029-halloween-pictures-witch-bottle.htm
l
(photo)

Some revisionism in regards to the site of Bosworth Field:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/leicestershire/8329251.stm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1223606/History-rewritten-Battle-Bosworth-took-pla
ce-TWO-MILES-away-official-site.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/28/battle-bosworth-dig-leicestershire
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6894702.ece
http://www.upi.com/Top_News/International/2009/10/29/Dig-identifies-site-of-Battle-of-Bosw
orth/UPI-44531256860302/

Stonehenge is the UK's "most iconic" landmark:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/wiltshire/8325657.stm
http://newslite.tv/2009/10/26/stonehenge-is-uks-most-iconic.html

The guy who owns the land where the Staffordshire Hoard was found
speaks out:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8328601.stm

Review of Hilary Mantel, *Wolf Hall*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Benfey-t.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A vaguely-dated wooden box find from Southy Phyongan Province
(Korea):

http://www.kcna.co.jp/item/2009/200910/news30/20091030-02ee.html

Suggestion that India might have invented plastic surgery:

http://www.physorg.com/news176015733.html

They're almost done restoring the Baphuon Temple at Angkor:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20091028/lf_afp/cambodiaculturetourism_20091028061520
http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/SE+Asia/Story/STIStory_447418.html

Several 'matuto' paintings/petroglyphs have been found in
Kaimana (Indonesia, I think):

http://www.antara.co.id/en/news/1256547076/many-matuto-paintings-found-in-kaimana
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NORTH AMERICA
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Not sure if we've mentioned this steppe bison find (and/or its
implications) before:

http://www.calgaryherald.com/technology/Bison+could+rewrite+Canada+archaeological+record/2
150110/story.html

Some new clues in regards to the fate of the Franklin Expedition:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/oct/28/john-franklin-expedition-robert-grenier

Revisionism in regards to Ulysses S. Grant:

http://www.physorg.com/news175796297.html

Revisiting the Johnstown flood of 1889:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/science/27obflood.html

Review John Keegan, *The American Civil War*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/McPherson-t.html

Review of Timothy Egan, *The Big Burn*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Horwitz-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of human habitation on Trinidad 7000 years b.p.:

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/index.pl/article_news?id1548331

A Mayan Temple at the bottom of a volcanic lake in Guatemala:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33556457/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id‰61113
http://www.cdnn.info/news/science/sc091030.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091030/sc_nm/us_guatemala_archaeology_1
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1778333/scuba_diver_unearths_ancient_mayan_temple/ind
ex.html?source=r_science

A dozen Carnaris culture tombs from Lambayeque:

http://enperublog.com/2009/10/23/twelve-canaris-tombs-discovered-in-lambayeque/

A tomb at Sipan suggests the Moche date back to at least 100 B.C.:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId46186&CategoryId095
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-138651.html

Some photos (and more details) from the aforementioned tomb (I think):

http://enperublog.com/2009/10/27/youngest-moche-noble-yet-at-sipan-site/#more-3382
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the Halloween front, Archaeology Magazine had an excellent
feature on the archaeological side thereof:

http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/halloween/

... and the 10 scariest monsters from Celtic myth:

http://www.irishcentral.com/r?19–1&43F0322&44g305337&32q84&7G4312&40=h
ttp%3A%2F%2Fwww.irishcentral.com%2Froots%2FThe-scariest-monsters-and-demons-from-Celtic-my
th-67305337.html

... and the standard misinformation about Halloween origins:

http://www.retrieverweekly.com/?module=displaystory&story_idI59&format=html
http://media.www.unews.com/media/storage/paper274/news/2009/10/26/News/Ancient.History.Sti
ll.Haunts.Us-3813228.shtml

A tiny Caravaggio self portrait turns up in his portrait of
Bacchus:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/6468623/Tiny-Caravaggio-self-portrait-reve
aled-by-technology.html

Not sure where to classify this one ... an interesting story of
some unclaimed artifacts found in a bank in Nebraska (I wonder
what the followups will be):

http://www.1011now.com/news/headlines/66694322.html
http://www.ketv.com/news/21443457/detail.html
http://www.journalstar.com/news/local/govt-and-politics/e3749f7a-c411-11de-b407-001cc4c002
e0.html
http://www.ketv.com/news/21443457/detail.html

Feature on the Waldseemuller Map:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/8328878.stm

Related review of Toby Lester, *The Fourth Part of the World*:

http://www.boston.com/ae/books/articles/2009/11/01/the_saga_of_the_16th_century_map_that_g
ave_america_its_name/

Feature on Avicenna's medical knowledge:

http://www.physorg.com/news176100207.html

Tippling through the ages:

http://www.the-scientist.com/blog/display/56124/

On Kierkegaard and despair:

http://happydays.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/kierkegaard-on-the-couch/

On the 'silver spoon effect' in ancient societies:

http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id’91
http://www.physorg.com/news176046539.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/10/091029141223.htm

On Darwin's advanced ideas on the origin of life:

http://www.physorg.com/news175861437.html

Feature on the guys behind Odyssey Marine:

http://www.soundingsonline.com/component/content/article/243152/243152

I can't get this item on academic vanity (from the THES) to come
up this a.m. ... perhaps it will work for you:

http://www.timeshighereducation.co.uk/story.asp?sectioncode&&storycode@8839&c=
2

The IHT has a special feature/section on collectibles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/business/global/29iht-nwcollect.html

OpEddish thing pondering Napoleon and modern times:

http://egan.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/napoleons-dynamite/

Review of Peter Ackroyd, *The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books/review/Rafferty-t.html

Review of Stanley Rieser, *Technological Medicine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/health/27books.html

Review of Barry Cunliffe, *Europe Between the Oceans*:

http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20091101_Locale_as_a_key_to_civilizatio
n_.html
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BLOGS AND PODCASTS
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Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Athens:

http://www.mcalesternews.com/features/local_story_304154822.html

Barcelona:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/travel/01explorer.html

Hiking the Ridgeway Trail:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/travel/01ridgeway.html

Heshun (China):

http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2009/10/27/travel/20091027-heshun-slide-show_index.html

Mias Gerais (Brazil):

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/travel/25brazil.html

Montevideo:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/travel/25hours.html

Mazatlan:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/travel/25journeys.html

Villa de Leyva:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/10/25/travel/25explorer.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Macedonia/FYROM is dealing with smugglers:

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1535
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ixB7mr7QD9qI0u2nG2SE9IfPisEw
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5ixB7mr7QD9qI0u2nG2SE9IfPisEw
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/expat/expatnews/6460530/Macedonia-fights-to-save-cultural-treas
ures-from-looters.html
http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id3&art_id=nw20091029071036522C5582
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Somewhat vague item on the recovery of some idols from Orissa:

http://www.ptinews.com/news/353916_Rare-metal-idols-seized--one-arrested
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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John Brown's Raid:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/28/arts/design/28brown.html

Maharaja:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/south_asia/8323146.stm

DSS:

http://www.buffalonews.com/185/story/838762.html

Titian:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/31/arts/31iht-melik31.html

The Ashmolean Museum has reopened:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2009/nov/01/ashmolean-museum-rick-mather-reopening
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid 601088&sid=aNp8qidFL3aY
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6894330.ece

... as has the Aphrodisias Museum:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-191005-101-newly-renovated-aphrodisias-museum-opens
-to-the-public.html

A sceptre has been added to the Sutton Hoo display:

http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/eveningstar/news/story.aspx?brand=ESTOnline&categ
ory=Galleries&tBrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED25%20Oct%202009%2
021%3A22%3A10%3A210

A restored tapestry will be going on display at the V&A:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/6474730/Rags-to-riches-as-tapestry-masterpi
ece-is-restored-to-its-former-glory.html

The Met has returned a part of Amnemhat I's sarcophagus to Egypt:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Story.aspx?sidD102
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id9865&sectionid510212
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2009/10/27/general-ml-egypt-met_7050579.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5j1oyUN2WEd9IUYmfGaQ9CTIU4NCwD9BJIMGG0
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,569835,00.html

A long-lost Jacobean play is coming to auction:

http://www.artdaily.org/section/news/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new4148&b=bonhams

More on that hoard coming to the British Museum:

http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/137477/Detector-s-hoard-comes-to-British-Museum

Assorted arts items of interest:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/arts/design/30antiques.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Juilliard School:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/29/arts/music/29baroque.html

Ancient Spirits:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/arts/music/27wu.html

Bach:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/arts/music/27bach.html

Stile Antico:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/27/arts/music/27antico.html


Antigone:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/30/theater/reviews/30antigone.html
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OBITUARIES
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Dietrich von Bothmer

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/obituaries/article6897163.ece
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