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July 2011 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« on: July 02, 2011, 08:59:57 pm »
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A top ten list of historical novels:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/29/andrew-miller-top-10-historical-novels

A 'lost Leonardo' (maybe):
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702304447804576413871074587708.html
 
... along with a roundup of Leonardo-based conspiracy-type theories:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8611343/Leonardo-da-Vincis-best-conspiracy-theories.html

Now they want to dig up Shakespeare to see if he was a pothead:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-06-exhumation-shakespeare-death-drug.html

cf: http://harvardmagazine.com/2001/09/shakespeares-tenth-muse.html

Some Hemingwayiana:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/ct-oped-0701-hemingway-20110701,0,2325960.story

Using a computer to discern authors in the Bible:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/israeli-software-aims-to-shed-light-on-the-bible-1.370343
 
Big bucks for a Stradivarius:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13852872

... and why they're so special:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-13852872

Reviews of Robert Hughes, *Rome*:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jun/29/rome-robert-hughes-review
 
More on coconuts:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2070435/scientists_decode_deep_history_of_coconuts/index.html
 
More on Darwin's marginalia:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/06/darwin-marginalia/

Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop had died:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jun/28/rachel-maxwell-hyslop-obituary

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Re: July 2011 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #1 on: July 02, 2011, 09:36:37 pm »
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Using a computer to discern authors in the Bible:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/israeli-software-aims-to-shed-light-on-the-bible-1.370343
 

I suspect a lot of human research time is going to go into the the 10% or so where the software saw things differently than scholars have over the years.
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Re: July 2011 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #2 on: July 10, 2011, 11:02:22 am »
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New York is checking into possible weather damage to Cleopatra's Needle:
http://online.wsj.com/article/APb15d6f2430de4444ac7f2095a7a0c9db.html

... and associated oped:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/07/06/egypt-or-central-park-where-does-an-ancient-obelisk-belong/

A painting at the Courtauld Institute of Art turns out to be a forgery:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8612890/Master-forgery-17th-century-work-exposed-as-a-fake.html

Tourism is a threat to Venice lagoon, apparently:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-mass-tourism-threatening-venice-lagoon.html

The earliest-ever commercial recording?:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/US/07/07/vintage.recording/
 
cf: http://forum.talkingmachine.info/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=6388&start=0

Feature on John Hancock's signature:
http://shine.yahoo.com/channel/life/the-story-of-john-hancocks-signature-2505538/

Feature on G.K. Chesterton:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7176025.ece

Review of John Norwich, *Absolute Monarchs*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-absolute-monarchs-a-history-of-the-papacy-by-john-julius-norwich.html

Review of a couple of biographies of Clarence Darrow:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-biographies-of-clarence-darrow-by-andrew-e-kersten-and-john-a-farrell.html

Review of Marc Fumaroli, *When the World Spoke French*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-when-the-world-spoke-french-by-marc-fumaroli.html

Review of Orlando Figes, *The Crimean War: A History*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/10/books/review/book-review-the-crimean-war-a-history-by-orlando-figes.html?ref=books

More on that 'identified' Leonardo:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=48949

Edmund Carpenter has died:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/08/arts/edmund-carpenter-archaelogist-and-anthropologist-dies-at-88.html

…as has Otto von Habsburg:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-14019319

…and Eddy Nicholson:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/04/us/04nicholson.html

…as well as Patrick Leigh Fermor:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7177139.ece

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Re: July 2011 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #3 on: July 17, 2011, 12:17:52 pm »

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Re: July 2011 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #4 on: July 24, 2011, 03:51:07 pm »
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The US and Greece signed an agreement restricting the import of antiquities:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Clinton-signs-memorandum-with-Greece-restricting-import-of-antiquities/24369

How to teach archaeology:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/jul/18/archaeology-resources-teacher-network

Difficult to describe this one from the Atlantic:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1969/12/do-i-repeat-myself/8572/

A reprint of L Sprague de Camp's article for Natural History on lost continents:
http://www.naturalhistorymag.com/picks-from-the-past/12467/lost-continents

Maybe Calvin wasn't so strict after all:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-calvin-strict-thought.html

... and maybe Isaac Casaubon was an "industrious Hebraist" among his other claims to fame:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Books/Article.aspx?id=230354

Feature on Reflectance Transformation Imaging:
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/archaeology/acrg/AHRC_RTI.html
 
Feature on misericords:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/8641401/Mermaids-in-the-church-choir.html

Out of our period of interest, but interesting, so we'll put it here ... a skull of a Japanese pilot found
at Pearl Harbor:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2017173/Pearl-Harbor-pilot-skull-belong-downed-Japonese-pilot-1941.html?ITO=1490
 
OpEd on books and digitization and the like:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/17/opinion/sunday/17gleick.html

Review of Charles Freeman, *Holy Bones, Holy Dust*:
http://www.historyextra.com/book-review/holy-bones-holy-dust?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_term=&utm_content=Read%20more&utm_campaign=History%20NL%20-%2022%2F07%2F11

Review of Brian Fagan, *Elixir: A Human History of Water*:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/bookreviews/8637678/Elixir-A-Human-History-of-Water-by-Brian-Fagan.html

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Re: July 2011 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #5 on: July 31, 2011, 11:01:58 am »
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Feature on Virginia's Rare Book School:
http://www.therecord.com/opinion/columns/article/571053--virginia-s-rare-book-school-attracts-the-world-s-bibliophiles

What Robert Ballard is up to:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/connecticut/articles/2011/07/28/titanic_explorer_details_new_deep_sea_journey
 
Humans living at higher latitudes have larger skulls:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-14279729

On the various factors that can affect tree ring records:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-07/w-stw072511.php

A collection of Arabic medical manuscripts is going online:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-historic-arabic-medical-manuscripts-online.html

Interesting APOD of abandoned kilns in Nevada under the Milky Way:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110725.html

Ben Franklin's off the hook for an invasive species importation:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-07-genetic-evidence-ben-franklin-video.html

A bit out of our period, but the history of Black Swan records is interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/07/31/nyregion/answers-to-questions-about-new-york.html

Another potential 'lost DaVinci' going through the authentication process (sort of):
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,777266,00.html

ANE placemarks for Google Earth:
http://ancientworldonline.blogspot.com/2011/07/ane-placemarks-for-google-earth.html

Simon Price has died:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/books-obituaries/8666537/Simon-Price.html

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