================================================================ explorator 12.16 August 9, 2009 ================================================================ Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight hours from the time of publication. For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which arrives otherwise!!! ================================================================ ================================================================ Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Donna Hurst, 'Duke Jason', Edward Rockstein, Hernan Astudillo,John McMahon, Joseph Lauer, Mata Kimasitayo,Mike Ruggeri, David J. Critchley, D. Buck, Richard C. Griffiths, Ales Bukovsky, Rochelle Altman, Eleanor Jefferson, Rick Heli,Kurt Theis and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ... the 'on the road' edition ... ================================================================ EARLY HUMANS ================================================================ Bones for Strekfontein Caves show evidence of the earliest infectious disease in a hominin:
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-87092.html Latest theory on homo floresiensis:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/02/2643415.htm More on gender roles and eyesight:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/08/03/2644726.htm More on modern humans killing off Neanderthals:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/earthnews/5972268/Neanderthals-may-h... ================================================================ ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================ A statue of Amenhotep III has reacaquired its head:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and__style_/court_and_social/arti... A cache of cuneiform tablets from Tell Tayinat:
http://www.news.utoronto.ca/lead-stories/university-of-toronto-archae... http://www.google.com/hostednews/canadianpress/article/ALeqM5gdcrmXgT... http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-88489.html Quite a bit of coverage for Mannu-ki-Libbali's plea for reinforcements:
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/life_and__style_/court_and_social/arti... A Neolithic burial from Ankara:
http://blog.taragana.com/n/8000-year-old-human-skeleton-found-in-a-tu... Plenty of coverage of the IAA's launch of a campaign to register private antiquities collections:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1249275691727&pagename=JPo... http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Government/Communiques/2009/Israel_Antiquit... http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hMXwK7k9cIosoTBPK3... http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/05/content_11826913.htm http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1105296.html http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/168980 The saga of the mummy of Iret-net Hor-irw:
http://www.recordnet.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20090808/A_LIFE12... Audio on the Tell es-Safi/Gath dig (see below for the dig blog):
http://mpegmedia.abc.net.au/news/audio/am/200908/20090803-am05-goliat... Finds from various periods at Sidon:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&artic... http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/06/content_11838819.htm An archaeologist is calling for a new study of the Achaemenid palace site at Bardak Siah:
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=200211 http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=artic... http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=923428 Iran has published a number of petroglyph translations:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=102613§ionid=351020105 Plenty of attention given to a bust in the Field Museum which apparently looks like Michael Jackson:
http://www.thewest.com.au/default.aspx?MenuId=5&ContentID=161048 http://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/entertainment/a/-/entertainment/5787... http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking+News/Life_style_/Story/STIStory_41... Feature on Gobekli Tepe:
http://www.examiner.com/x-11199-Archeological-Travel-Examiner~y2009m8... Interesting audio report on the goings-on at Akko (Acre):
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/1249 OpEd on the protests accompanying the DSS exhibition at the ROM:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/curious.shtml Speculating about the 'Great Flood':
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n2/content/view/20470/ This is likely 'elmer' material ... some researchers claim to have an exact date for the construction of the Great Pyramid (Zahi Hawass doesn't buy it):
http://en.rian.ru/world/20090804/155727268.html More on that 'mysterious' Aramaic in_script_ion: