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Brit-Am Historical Reports
18 April 2010 4 Iyar 5770
Contents:
1. Archaeology; Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.51
2. U of T researchers shed light on ancient Assyrian tablets
3. 'Freud the fraud' furore sparked by new book
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1. Archaeology; Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.51
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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AFRICA
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Latest feature on the Archaeology Channel is about Mauretania:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Tut apparently had orthopedic sandals:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/king-tut-sandals-orthopedic.html
Nice feature/coverage of what's going on at Tell Zeidan:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uoc-dla040610.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/science/06archeo.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100406133712.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news189780204.html
Interesting evidence of changing water levels in the Gulf region:
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=354282&version=1&template_id=36&parent_id=16
A recently-discovered Assyrian text is being given Biblical links:
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/humanities/u-of-t-researchers-shed-light-on-ancient-assyrian-tablets.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-04/uot-uot040810.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100408134519.htm
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Canadian+archeologists+discover+Testament+tablet/2775502/story.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100408134519.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28ScienceDaily%3A+Latest+Science+News%29
http://www.physorg.com/news189954603.html
http://heritage-key.com/blogs/owenjarus/assyrian-kings-treaty-discovered-tayinat-tablet-cache
... the dig's research report for this season:
http://www.utoronto.ca/tap/2009Report_en.pdf
Aramaic as an endangered language:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8602442.stm
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Latest suggestion of where Hannibal crossed the Alps:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and_style/court_and_social/article7029508.ece
... with a sort of 'state of the finds' piece on Muziris:
http://www.hinduonnet.com/fline/stories/20100423270806200.htm
Why Plutarch and Herodotus still matter:
http://www.foreignpolicy.com/articles/2010/04/02/the_classics_rock
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Pre-stonehenge megalith finds:
http://news.discovery.com/history/megaliths-england-stonehenge-ritual.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/36324067/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Pondering the original settling of Iceland:
http://www.icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0_a_id=360324
Bronze Age finds at Guernsey Airport:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/guernsey/hi/people_and_places/nature/newsid_8603000/8603378.stm
Brief item on the remains of a medieval 'synagogue' in Northamptonshire:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/northamptonshire/8610961.stm
Latter day Druids have failed in a bid for reburial of a recently-unearthed
skeleton:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/wiltshire/8606323.stm
More on lactose-intolerant Scandinavians:
http://www.physorg.com/news189338737.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/04/100401101525.htm
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Latest CT scan/facial reconstruction is on a 600 b.p. New Zealand
woman:
http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-83536.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Trying to recreate Shinnecock and other 'lost' Native American
languages:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/books/06language.html
Using historical data to justify controlled burns in the
Appalachians:
http://www.physorg.com/news189780771.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The problem of the 'flood' of unpublished archaeological data:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/100407/full/464826a.html
Interesting feature on scientific illustration:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/science/23paint.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2010/03/23/science/0323-PAINT_index.html
(slideshow)
Review of Dominic Lieven, *Russia Against Napoleon*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/08/books/08book.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Some Aegean sites in Turkey:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/news-206783-116-the-ancient-sites-of-kolophon-klaros-and-notion.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Medieval Ivory:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=37261
Pompeii Victims:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8596910.stm (nice video)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/europe/8599122.stm
Picasso:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/09/arts/design/09picasso.html
A History of the World (BM)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/
... while the family of a Holocaust survivor have been deemed
rightful owners of a 3200 b.p. Assyrian gold tablet:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/holocaust_survivor_kin_can_keep_H2nKA8OgzHC78JFyRPXWlO
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202447527654&German_Museum_Loses_Attempt_to_Reclaim_Artifact_From_Estate
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Bloody Andrew Jackson:
http://theater.nytimes.com/2010/04/07/theater/reviews/07bloody.html
2. U of T researchers shed light on ancient Assyrian tablets
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/humanities/u-of-t-researchers-shed-light-on-ancient-assyrian-tablets.html
By Christine Elias, posted Thursday, April 8, 2010
A cache of cuneiform tablets unearthed by a team led by a U of T archeologist has been found to contain a largely intact Assyrian treaty from the early 7th century BCE.
"The tablet is quite spectacular. It records a treaty -- or covenant -- between Esarhaddon, king of the Assyrian Empire and a secondary ruler who acknowledged Assyrian power. The treaty was confirmed in 672 BCE at elaborate ceremonies held in the Assyrian royal city of Nimrud (ancient Kalhu). In the text, the ruler vows to recognize the authority of Esarhaddon's successor, his son Ashurbanipal," said Professor Timothy Harrison of near eastern archaeology in the Department of Near and Middle Eastern Civilizations and director of U of T's Tayinat Archaeological Project (TAP).
"The treaties were designed to secure Ashurbanipal's accession to the throne and avoid the political crisis that transpired at the start of his father's reign. Esarhaddon came to power when his brothers assassinated their father, Sennacherib."
The 4 x 28-centimetre tablet -- known as the Vassal Treaties of Esarhaddon -- contains about 650 lines and is in a very fragile state. "It will take months of further work before the document will be fully legible," Harrison added. "These tablets are like a very complex puzzle, involving hundreds of pieces, some missing. It is not just a matter of pulling the tablet out, sitting down and reading. We expect to learn much more as we restore and analyze the document."
The researchers hope to glean information about Assyria's imperial relations with the west during a critical period, the early 7th century BCE. It marked the rise of the Phrygians and other rival powers in highland Anatolia -- now modern-day Turkey -- along the northwestern frontier of the Assyrian empire and coincided with the divided monarchy of Biblical Israel, as well as an era of increased contact between the Levantine peoples of the eastern Mediterranean and Egypt as well as the Greeks of the Aegean world.
The cache of tablets -- which date back to the Iron Age -- were unearthed in August 2009 during excavations at the site of an ancient temple at Tell Tayinat, located in southeastern Turkey. A wealth of religious paraphernalia -- including gold, bronze and iron implements, libation vessels and ornately decorated ritual objects -- was also uncovered.
TAP is an international project, involving researchers from a dozen countries and more than 20 universities and research institutes. It operates in close collaboration with the Ministry of Culture of Turkey and provides research opportunities and training for both graduate and undergraduate students. The project is funded by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada and the Institute for Aegean Prehistory and receives support from the University of Toronto.
3. 'Freud the fraud' furore sparked by new book
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/freud-the-fraud-furore-sparked-by-new-book-2140349.html?from=dailynews
By Henry Samuel in Paris
Friday April 16 2010
Extracts:
A row has broken out among French intellectuals after a philosopher branded Sigmund Freud a perverse, anti-Semitic fraud who failed to cure a single patient.
It is stepping on hallowed ground to criticise Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, in a country where leading analysts are still treated as stars.
But Michel Onfray accused the champion of the unconscious mind of lying about the success of his treatment and being a misogynist homophobe obsessed with sexual abuse.
He attacked the whole exercise of psychoanalysis as the last untouchable religion revered by "stars and footballers".
"Who else would still have the time to pay in cash to lie on a couch twice a week before some guy who's half-asleep?" Mr Onfray said as he launched his book 'Twilight of an Idol, the Freudian Fabrication'.
Freud, he claims, is not the inventor of a revolutionary therapeutic science but a charlatan who "transformed his personal fantasies into universal scientific truths".
To cap it all, he accuses Freud, who lost four sisters in Nazi concentration camps, of being a "road companion" of fascism, as he wrote a dedication to Mussolini which said: "To Benito Mussolini, with respectful greetings of an old man who recognises in the leader a hero of culture".
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