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1. Descendants of Nazis who Converted to Judaism
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.28
3. Did Shamanism Originate with the Canaanites?


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1. Descendants of Nazis who Converted to Judaism
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/aug/06/judaism.secondworldwar
The sins of their fathers
A relative [by marriage] of Hitler is now Jewish and living in Israel. So is the son of a Waffen-SS man.
Tanya Gold talks to the descendants of Nazis who have embraced Judaism

2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.28
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>

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explorator 11.28 November 2, 2008
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EARLY HUMANS
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On big-nosed Neanderthals:

http://tinyurl.com/6ro5dz (NS)

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of malaria in a couple of mummies:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27345796/

National Geographic has put up a feature on human sacrifice at
Abydos:

http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/ngm/0504/feature7/index.html


Plenty of coverage of a study of the DNA traces of the Phoenicians:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/1/hi/sci/tech/7700356.stm
 http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2008/oct/31/ancient-phoenicians-may-be-forgotten-but-not-go-2/
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_sc/sci_phoenicians_4
 http://www.startribune.com/science/33610564.html
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27460517/
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081030-phoenician-dna-genographic-missions.html
 http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/30/healthscience/genes.php
 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/30/america/SCI-Phoenicians.php

Piles of coverage of (and spins being put on) the discovery of a
shard purporting to bear the earliest example of Hebrew writing:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/7700037.stm
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081031/ap_on_sc/israel_ancient_inscription_7
 http://www.recordonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20081031/NEWS/81031015
 http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/31/earliest-hebrew-writing.html
 http://www.todaysthv.com/news/natInt/story.aspx?storyid=74914&catid=288
 http://it.moldova.org/stiri/eng/161568/
 http://www.kptv.com/education/17854053/detail.html
 http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/world/middleeast/30david.html
 http://www.denverpost.com/ci_10859629
 http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Ancient_Hebrew_text_found_in_Israel/articleshow/3657797.cms
 http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-38657.html
 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,445132,00.html
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/155015
 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/27455148/
 http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/30/africa/30david.php
 http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2008/10/30/news/ML-Israel-Ancient-Inscription.php
 http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/meast/10/30/israel.ancient.text/?iref=mpstoryview
 http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iJfa-QD2MQYwlFeOwLk5hERiUkOAD9451SUG0
 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128174
 http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/68634/Diggers-find-ancient-Hebrew-text

cf. http://www.elahfortress.com/index.htm

... which came close to eclipsing claims of the possible discovery of
King Solomon's mines:

http://blog.newsweek.com/blogs/labnotes/archive/2008/10/27/the-real-life-king-solomon-s-mines.aspx
 http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/businesstechnology/2008318312_apscikingsolomonsmines.html
 http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2008/10/29/Ancient_copper_mines_date_to_Solomon/UPI-17921225254394/
 http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38067/title/Return_of_the_kings
 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2008/10/081028-king-solomon-copper-mine-missions.html
 http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2008/10/28/king-solomon-mine.html
 http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/faith/article5026509.ece
 http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-sci-solomon28-2008oct28,0,1332762.story
 http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/38067/title/Return_of_the_kings
 http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081027174545.htm
 http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,444286,00.html
 http://tinyurl.com/6p5b3b (NS)
http://www.pnas.org/content/105/43/16460
 http://www.efluxmedia.com/news_Archaeologists_May_Have_Stumbled_Upon_King_Solomons_Legendary_Mines_27586.html
 http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2008-10/uoc--ks102308.php
 http://www.physorg.com/news144345677.html
 http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/545692/

A list of upcoming digs in Israel:

http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Archaeological_Excavations_Israel_2009.htm

Susa appears to be bordering on development:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=181187

Finds from various periods at Tyre:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=97308

A First Temple water tunnel beneath Jerusalem:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/128152
 http://www.forward.com/articles/11873/
 http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1225199599844&pagename=JPost%2FJPArticle%2FShowFull
 http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1032812

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Trojan (!) sword from Peperikon?:

http://international.ibox.bg/news/id_1474064382

Scientists are studying the 'earthquakeproofness' of the Acropolis:

http://www.signonsandiego.com/news/world/20081031-0618-eu-greece-acropolis-earthquakes.html
 http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5iokZ8Sd3sACnxEjAc8jLaDKicCuAD945GD9G0
 http://www.breitbart.com/article.php?id=D945Q1R81&show_article=1&catnum=-1


All about the Hippocratic Oath:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7654432.stm

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting talk on Viking burial practices:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/scotland/article5019976.ece

Possible Norman ring find:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/news/Does-ring-found-in-field.4647825.jp

Digging through Martin Luther's garbage:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0%2C1518%2C586847%2C00.html
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/27/martin-luther-protestantism

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence of a major tsunami hitting India some 700 years ago:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7697482.stm

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NORTH AMERICA
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Review of David Fischer, *Champlain's Dream*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/books/review/Boot-t.html

Review of George Herring, *From Colony to Superpower*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/books/review/Joffe-t.html

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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I thought we had this 'evidence of Robinson Crusoe' story a few years
ago:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081029105803.htm
 http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/7703375.stm

On the slave trade and wild rice evolution:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081027152539.htm

Thoreau the climatologist:

http://www.iht.com/articles/2008/10/28/healthscience/28walden.php
 http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081027/ap_on_sc/sci_walden_pond
 http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96206248

Some letters of George III to William IV have been found:

http://tinyurl.com/5nuxa9 (Telegraph)

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Compiegne:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2008/11/02/travel/02hourfrom.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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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Biblical Archaeology Review (Nov/Dec ... includes a piece on
the Oded Golan trial):

http://www.bib-arch.org/

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CRIME BEAT
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More returns of Nazi loot:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/31/arts/31arts-PAINTINGSTOL_BRF.html

Surprisingly little coverage of the apparent 'collapse' of the prosecution's
case against Oded Golan:

http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2008/10/29/MN3U13QHMD.DTL

cf. more reviews of *Unholy Business*:

http://www.brandonsun.com/story.php?story_id=112898
 http://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/AP/story/747091.html
 http://www.startribune.com/entertainment/33535904.html
 http://www.mlive.com/newsflash/entertainment/index.ssf?/base/entertainment-11/12253163485890.xml

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NUMISMATICA
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A major Roman coin hoard from Wales:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/7699953.stm
 http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2008/10/30/treasure-hunter-unearths-6-000-gold-coins-91466-22154391/
 http://www.mk-news.co.uk/mknews/DisplayArticle.asp?ID=361917

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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Some bronze statuary from Yemen is being sent to the Louver (sic)
for restoration:

http://www.sabanews.net/en/news167241.htm

Ambitious plans for restoring Afghanistan's cultural heritage:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/oct/30/afghanistan-taliban-heritage-museums-kabul

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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The Grand Inquisitor:

http://theater2.nytimes.com/2008/10/30/theater/reviews/30grand.html

3. Did Shamanism Originate with the Canaanites?
Earliest known shaman grave site found: study
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20081104/sc_nm/us_shaman_israel

LONDON (Reuters) An ancient grave unearthed in modern-day Israel containing 50 tortoise shells, a human foot and body parts from numerous animals is likely one of the earliest known shaman burial sites, researchers said on Monday.

The 12,000-year-old grave dates back to the Natufian people who were the first society to adopt a sedentary lifestyle, Hebrew University of Jerusalem researcher Leore Grosman and colleagues said.

"The interment rituals and the method used to construct and seal the grave suggest this is the burial of an ancient shaman, one of the earliest known from the archaeological record," they wrote in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Shamans play an important role in many cultures, mediating between the human and spiritual worlds and acting as messengers, healers, magicians to serve the community, the researchers said.

The Israeli team found the bones in a small cave in the lower Galilee region of present-day Israel that was a Natufian burial ground for a least 28 people.

At the time of burial, more than 10 large stones were placed directly on the head, pelvis, and arms of the elderly woman whose body was laid on its side. The legs were spread apart and folded inward at the knee.

The special treatment of the body and use of stones to keep it in a certain position suggests the woman held a unique position in the community, likely some sort of a shaman, the researchers said.

"The burial of the woman...is unlike any burial found in the Natufian or the preceding Palaeolithic periods," Grosman's team wrote. "We argue that this burial is consistent with expectations for a shaman's grave."

The woman was also interred with some unusual grave goods, including the complete tortoise shells and select body-parts of a wild boar, an eagle, a cow, a leopard, and two martens, as well as a complete human foot.

The grave portrays several hallmarks that later become central in the spiritual arena of cultures worldwide, the researchers added.

"Tortoises, cow tails, eagle wings, and fur-bearing animals continue to play important symbolic and shamanistic roles in the spiritual arena of human cultures worldwide today," they wrote.

"It seems that the woman in the Natufian burial was perceived as being in a close relationship with these animal spirits."

(Reporting by Michael Kahn, Editing by Maggie Fox and Jon Boyle)



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