Ephraimite Forum-82
Date: 6th October /08 5 Tishrei 5768
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.23
2. Ecology: The Death of Bats in the USA Could Affect You!
3. South Africa: Article on the Afrikaners (2004)

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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.23
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.23 September 28, 2008
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A possible Sumerian site in southern Iraq:

http://www.metimes.com/Politics/2008/09/25/iraqis_plan_dig_at_possible_sumerian_site/afp/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/afp/20080925/twl-iraq-unrest-archaeology-muthanna-3cd7efd.html

The Aga Khan is helping to protect sites in Syria:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=96172

First Jordan ... now Turkey has a database of sites online:

http://www.turkishdailynews.com.tr/article.php?enewsid=115823

Istanbul's athletic heritage:

http://www.todayszaman.com/tz-web/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=154072&bolum=132

Pondering (again) the authorship of the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122238636935776931.html

This week's Temple Mount saga coverage:

http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/233751,ban-understands-jordans-concerns-over-israeli-excavations.html

... and a saga-in-the-making over plans for a shopping mall near the
Mount of Olives:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/127742

Concerns that cultural events are damaging the Old City:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1222017396278&pagename=JPArticle/ShowFull

More coverage of the search for more pieces of the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/world/story/218333.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080927/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_crown_of_aleppo_2
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/us_world/2008/09/27/2008-09-27_scholars_hunt_missing_pages_of_ancient_h.html

Info on next year's dig at Tiberias:

http://jwest.wordpress.com/2008/09/25/tibearias-excavation-2009/

Some 'shibboleth phonetics':

http://blog.oup.com/2008/09/shibboleths_phonetics_death/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Romans brought leeks to Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/7631249.stm

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Plenty of coverage for this (somewhat repeated) story of Stonehenge
as a prehistoric pilgrimage/Lourdes-like site:

http://tvnz.co.nz/view/page/411319/2098524
http://www.wnd.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=75938
http://tinyurl.com/3jakvm
http://tinyurl.com/4b9x7a (LAT)
http://www.24dash.com/news/Communities/2008-09-22-Archaeologists-to-shed-new-light-on-secrets-of-Stonehenge
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/la-sci-stonehenge22-2008sep22,0,4808414.story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2008/sep/22/archaeology
http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5jotq-lcRiqpfMncDln1tU11pFUoQ
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Leader-The-Neolithic-Health-Service.4516722.jp
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http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/text/2008196772_stonehenge23.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/light-on-stonehenge.html
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,425926,00.html
http://news.mobile.msn.com/en-us/articles.aspx?aid=26838058&afid=1
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7625145.stm

... while other Stonehenge press coverage is concentrating on
the discovery of its 'birth date':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/3046095/Stonehenge-birthdate-discovered-by-archaeologists.html

... and the Independent seems a bit more critical:

http://tinyurl.com/4fc8ek

A Bronze Age knife from a burial in Sweden:

http://www.thelocal.se/14596/20080926/

Some 300 b.p. burials found during an Edinburgh dig:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/edinburgh_and_east/7635634.stm


More on the unsustainability of Iberian peninsula agriculture:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080917074134.htm

More coverage of that Viking shield find:

http://www.koaa.com/wacky_stories/x1142480211/1-000-year-old-Viking-shield-found-in-Denmark

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting/useful bacteria found in the Catacombs:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26903967/
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-09/sfgm-nlf092408.php
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-26102.html
http://www.physorg.com/news141536814.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080924192443.htm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/index.cfm?_rss=1&fuseaction=readrelease&releaseid=532408
http://www.agencia.fapesp.br/materia/9482/divulgacao-cientifica/vida-nova-nas-catacumbas.htm

... and some interesting yeast origins for the Fossil Fuels
Brewing Company:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/09/23/ancient-yeast-beer.html

On the origins of etiquette:

http://telegraphjournal.canadaeast.com/salon/article/428994

A 14th-century cookbook is going online:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2008/sep/22/10?gusrc=rss&feed=technologyfull

An uproar of sorts over the Collins Dictionary folks taking 2000 words
out of the dictionary to make room for new ones:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/booksblog/2008/sep/24/collins.dictionary.words

In case you want to track that 'phoenician circumnavigation' thing:

http://live.adventuretracking.com/phoenicia

A Middle English Grammar project:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/09/080923140838.htm

Milton's 400th is coming up:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/books/26milt.html

Garrison Keilor marked the invasion of 1066 and all that:

http://writersalmanac.publicradio.org/

For all the MacArthur Genius Grant recipients (or most of them):

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/23/arts/23fell.html

For the Harry Potter fans:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/articles/view/25366

More coverage of the controversy over who invented the telescope:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7617426.stm
http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=32962&amid=30258487

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Petra:

http://deseretnews.com/article/0,5143,700261413,00.html

Retracing Champlain's route:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/09/26/travel/escapes/26champlain.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Kadesh:

http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

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NUMISMATICA
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A recent Viking coin/ingot find is going on display:

http://www.lutontoday.co.uk/545/Rare-Viking-ingot-found.4518140.jp

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

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2. Ecology: The Death of Bats in the USA Could Affect You!
Nabbing bats' nemesis
http://www.the-scientist.com/2008/10/1/26/1/
by Kathryn Campbell
Extract:
All mammal hibernators, Reeder explains in an E-mail, add fat for the winter, but periodically experience an increase in normal body temperatures during hibernation, using up stored energy. "We think that the arousal patterns of WNS bats may be affected - causing them to lose too much body fat," which may weaken their immunity and make them vulnerable to an infection. If too many die off, everyone could start to notice, she says. "Each bat can eat between 40% and 100% of their body weight in food each night - and that there are surely millions of bats in the [northeastern US] - this will mean lots more insects" such as mayflies, mosquitoes, and moths.

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3. South Africa: Article on the Afrikaners (2004)
Afrikaner Survival Under Black Rule (Part I)
by Dan Roodt
http://www.amren.com/ar/2004/05/
Warning: Article has racist overtones and is nasty in style but nevertheless informative.
dates from 2004 and much may have changed since. 
Could not find much other information that was pertinent.
We would welcome suggestions.

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