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15 June 2009 23 Sevan 5769 Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.07
2. An Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the Nazi Holocaust
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.08
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.07
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explorator 12.07 June 7, 2009
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From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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On the DNA front, Egyptian researchers are trying to determine
Tut's lineage:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=102630
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hOuCMFEO55L5ru_hLvYAdxhynVAw
... and apparently they've opened up a second mummy DNA lab in
Egypt just for that purpose:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/01/content_11470972.htm
A piece on the Temple Mount thing:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8076772.stm
Photo of a child burial from some unidentified ongoing dig in Tyre:
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=294916&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Photo from a Pompeii gladiator helmet exhibition:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/06/04/2588811.htm?section=entertainment>
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1190727/Pictured-The-2-000-year-old-gladiators-helmet-discovered-Pompeiis-ruins.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/gallery/2009/06/04/GA2009060402446.html
Comparing Tiberius to Mussolini and Berlusconi (sort of):
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/guest_contributors/article6418491.ece
How the Socratic Dialogue fits into Western Civilization and all that:
http://globalpolitician.com/25669-western-civilization
Reviewish thing on the influence of Arthur Evans' excavations:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article6422447.ece
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of an Anglo Saxon settlement in Wales?:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2009/06/06/the-saxons-were-coming-a-tiny-sword-stud-found-under-a-shop-rewrites-welsh-history-91466-23802827/
A medieval ring from County Armagh:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/northern_ireland/8079093.stm
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/farmers-son-unearths-medieval-ring-14323265.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Latest theory is that Mayan civilization collapsed due to 'resource depletion':
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227104.400-temple-timbers-trace-collapse-of-mayan-culture.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-49507.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Flourishing of art etc. was apparently a function of population
density, not brain size:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a3Wc2FLpdcWY&refer=muse
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604144324.htm
Revisionism in the evolution of domestic cats:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=the-taming-of-the-cat
How fossil faces are reconstructed:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/02/science/02prof.html
Rethinking mtDNA for tracking migrations:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604124023.htm
... semi-related:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090605091157.htm
Space archaeology?:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/la-oe-walsh1-2009jun01,0,5840745.story
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Sicily:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/life/travel/taking-a-bite-or-two-out-of-sicily/article1171027/
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Gabii Project:
http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/
Tel Kabri:
http://digkabri.wordpress.com/2009-dig-blog/
Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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Some folks were caught looking for fabled gold at the 'Lemon Well' site:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/131631
2. Holocaust: An Alfred Hitchcock documentary on the Nazi Holocaust
world a film the British Government deemed too grisly for release after World War II -
has received its public debut on British television.
Fifteen minutes of the black-and- white film, which was shot by the armed forces after the war,
were televised Tuesday night by the Independent Television News.
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6076323184217355958
A genuine valuable on-the-spot valuable documentary.
Well done but very difficult to watch.
Shows British soldiers liberating German concentration camps,
rescuing the inmates and helping to rehabilitate them.
The victims shown in this documentary include Jews and non-Jews.
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.08
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] Explorator 12.08
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Haven't heard much from the Oded Golan trial of late; Golan is
still proclaiming his innocence:
http://www.themedialine.org/news/news_detail.asp?NewsID=25412
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1244371080800&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
Latest in the Raphael Golb case:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gznCOrQo0Iw8H1s_BUyqyDXHcO8AD98OJQIO0
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-ny-deadseascrolls,0,5075179.story
Dan Bahat was in Toronto talking about the DSS:
http://www.cjnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=17091&Itemid=101
Tourism to Petra seems to have taken a hit:
http://www.ameinfo.com/199678.html
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Olympic Games as a sort of ancient Woodstock:
http://www.uq.edu.au/news/index.html?article=18529
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A pair of Neolithic tombs (and other things) found in Damerham,
Hampshire (down the road from Stonehenge):
http://www.physorg.com/news163737692.html
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6463970.ece
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52826.html
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=362149
A possible Neolithic chambered tomb near Kirkwall:
http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/heathfield2009.htm
A Bronze Age burial mound from Wales:
http://www.eveningleader.co.uk/news/Excavation-uncovers-3500-year-old.5343169.jp
Pondering a possible stone circle on the Essex/Suffolk border:
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/content/eveningstar/news/story.aspx?brand=ESTOnline&category=News&tBrand=ESTOnline&tCategory=xDefault&itemid=IPED12%20Jun%202009%2000%3A03%3A40%3A697
Another old shoe find (800 years b.p.), this time from Magdeburg:
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20090610-19827.html
More on that Anglo-Saxon sword stud from Wales:
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-52211.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Alaska's Rat Island is now rat-free:
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre55b669-us-alaska-rat/
Some interesting Civil War trivia:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/LIVING/06/12/mf.civil.war/index.html
Feature on Thomas Paine:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/magazine/8089115.stm
More on Vikings in the Canadian Arctic:
http://www.canada.com/technology/science/Vikings+visited+Canadian+Arctic+research+suggests/1635865/story.html
Review of Jackson Lears, *Rebirth of a Nation*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/books/review/Gage-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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... and a feature on Aztec civilization:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article6474501.ece
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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What the history of basketry tells us:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090604222534.htm
Last week we had Plato's 'world soul'; this week, it's Emerson's:
http://harpers.org/archive/2009/06/hbc-90005129
Are traditional history courses disappearing?:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/books/11hist.html
On human dissection in the 16th century:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/columnists/christopherhowse/5496340/False-myth-of-the-anatomy-lesson.html
History's most impressive libraries:
http://www.cartridgesave.co.uk/news/the-7-most-impressive-libraries-from-throughout-history/
Another (sort of) ancient beer recreation:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/blog/60-second-science/post.cfm?id=9000-year-old-brew-hitting-the-shel-2009-06-05
http://www.chow.com/media/7718
Not sure if we've had a link to the original paper on that
rehyroxylation dating technique:
http://rspa.royalsocietypublishing.org/site/misc/RSPA20090117.pdf
... more:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/39413
English apparently has its one millionth word:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/weekinreview/14shuessler.html
Review of Edna O'Brien, *Byron in Love*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/books/review/Harrison-t.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Provence:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/06/14/travel/14provence.html
Some sites from Turkey's Aegean coast:
http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=177582&bolum=117
Navajo Nation:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/travel/escapes/12Amer.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Gabii Project:
http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/
Tel Kabri:
http://digkabri.wordpress.com/2009-dig-blog/
Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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That guy who returned that big chunk of rock to Jerusalem won't
be punished:
http://www.ekklesia.co.uk/node/9630
Looting Matters:
http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Napoleon III and Paris:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/12/arts/design/12napoleon.html
Derfner Judaica Museum:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/arts/design/11muse.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Richard III: An Arab Tragedy:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/06/11/theater/reviews/11brantley.html
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