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Ephraimite Forum no.99
15 March 2009, 19 Adar 5769
Contents:
1. Hidden Jews from Italy?
2. Online Celtic Studies: An Academic Source Page
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.47


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1. Hidden Jews from Italy?
I'm Italian...Could I be Jewish ?
http://www.rabbibarbara.com/italian_jewish_roots_conference_2009.html
Italian Jewish Roots Conference
A Conference sponsored by the IjCCC Italian Jewish Cultural Center of Calabria
Date: Sunday, March 22, 2009
Exciting information about DNA testing and how these results can help you connect with your Italian Jewish ancestry Archaeological documentation of a strong Jewish presence in Calabria and Sicily ? areas that until recently were thought to be devoid of Jewish history Examples of Jewish customs, traditions, beliefs and practices that persecuted Spanish Jews brought to the Italian "boot" traces that indicate old Jewish presence that goes back 500 years.
First person experiences from Italian-Americans  - how they combined genealogical documentation and family anecdotal histories to discover and embrace their Jewish roots.

2. Online Celtic Studies: An Academic Source Page
http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/index.html
 http://www.uwm.edu/Dept/celtic/ekeltoi/volumes.html
A brief look at this site revealed articles of academic standard that were quite comprehensive.
There seems to be an emphasis on Ireland and the Celts in Spain.
The orientation is to consider the Celts to have been of Indo-European origin and to assume that they developed independently.
There may not be much here from a Brit-Am perspective but one never knows.
I found the maps in one of the articles useful.
Despite its beauty and mystic charm "Celtic"-type culture sometimes displays a self-centered selfish self-pitying kind of orientation that depresses rather than inspires.
Even if some of our ancestors shared the ambience in question they did not necessarily enjoy it.
We do not have to romanticize what was not especially romantic.
These people were pagans. Paganism means tyranny, oppression, suffering.

3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 11.47
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.47 March 15, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An interview with Zahi Hawass:

http://www.scaddistrict.com/?p=1571&cpage=1

Brief item on four 2nd century A.D./C.E. statues from Palmyra:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2009/03/11/216618.htm

Interesting (medieval) Persian potsherd found in Israel:

http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=88209&sectionid=351020105
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=29513
 http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1503&module_id=#as
(may expire)

Thesis on Water Supply and Management in the Near East:

http://ads.ahds.ac.uk/catalogue/library/theses/kamash_2006/index.cfm?CFID=2343580&CFTOKEN=68430743


In the wake of the Golb business, we'll probably see more of this
sort of thing ... the latest claim is the Essenes didn't exist at all:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1070797.html

cf:

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblical-studies/message/20202

There was a bit more coverage/aftermath stuff in regards to the
Golb situation as well:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1070455
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0309/scrolls_plot.php3

If not for that, we'd probably be paying more attention to the situation
with Mark Raider at the centre:

http://forward.com/articles/103847/

Review of Miriam Davis, *Dame Kathleen Kenyon*:

http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1067736

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Nice feature on the Gadara aqueduct:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,612718,00.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

Blegen Library News:

http://blegen.blogspot.com/

Mediterranean Archaeology:

http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An ancient fish trap in the Teifi Estuary:

http://www.tivysideadvertiser.co.uk/news/4190650.Ancient_fish_trap_discovery_in_the_Teifi_Estuary/

Some Viking revisionism:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/the-vikings-it-wasnt-all-raping-and-pillaging-1643969.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1161728/Vikings-model-immigrants-lived-happily-Ancient-Britons.html?ITO=1490
 http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2009/mar/13/2

... and maybe Robin Hood wasn't as well-liked as the cartoons suggest:

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090314/ap_on_re_eu/eu_britain_robin_hood_3
http://www.ctv.ca/servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/20090314/robin_hood_090314/20090314?hub=TopStories&s_name=
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,509219,00.html
http://www.bostonherald.com/news/international/europe/view.bg?articleid=1158611&srvc=rss
 http://www.physorg.com/news156178681.html

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NORTH AMERICA
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Plans are afoot to locate and raise three Confederate cannon from
the Pee Dee river:

http://www.scnow.com/scp/news/local/pee_dee/article/usc_archaeologists_to_raise_confederate_cannons_from_pee_dee_river/38071/

Not sure if this is related to the foregoing (but it probably is; just not
as specific):

http://www.wjbf.com/jbf/news/state_regional/south_carolina/article/study_focuses_on_underwater_civil_war_artifacts/11826/
http://www.goupstate.com/article/20090313/ARTICLES/903130992/1083/ARTICLES?Title=Davy-Jones-locker-may-hold-SC-Civil-War-artifacts-
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/03/13/tech/main4863858.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4863858

Brief item on a shipwreck in the Gulf of Mexico which may have been
a pirate vessel:

http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/WireHeadlines/2009/03/10/shipwreck-artifacts-trigger-questions-15.php

... and another which may date from the Civil War:

http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/metropolitan/6300570.html

Podcast on Frederick Doublass and Abraham Lincoln from CUNY:

http://www1.cuny.edu/portal_ur/news/radio/podcast/newsmakers_97.mp3

Rebuilding a Jesuit chapel:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/local/bal-md.chapel08mar08,0,7916072.story

Preservation issues in Washington D.C.:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=101608642

A Hopewell mound repatriation case-in-the-making:

http://www2.arkansasonline.com/news/2009/mar/08/phillips-co-man-seeks-return-artifacts-ny/?subscriber/national

Nice feature on Pennsylvania's Meadowcroft rock shelter:

http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/fea/travel/thisweek/stories/DN-meadowcroft_0222tra.ART0.State.Edition1.a26dcb.html

Latest video at the Archaeology Channel looks at the relationship
between Pueblo people and archaeological sites:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Why Columbus sailed south to the Americas:

http://tywkiwdbi.blogspot.com/2009/03/why-columbus-sailed-south-to-americas.html

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Analyzing Henry VIII's handwriting:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/incomingFeeds/article5908506.ece

Columbus was a Scot?:

http://blogs.telegraph.co.uk/gerald_warner/blog/2009/03/10/columbus_was_a_scot_jimmie__whaurs_yer_walter_raleigh_noo

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TOURISTY THINGS
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In the footsteps of Bar Kochba:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236764166636&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull

Rujm el-Hiri:

http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1236764165362&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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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/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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ON THE WEB
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Inscriptions of Israel/Palestine:

http://www.stg.brown.edu:8080/exist/inscriptions/about


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