August 2011 Archeology - Miscellaneous

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Day of Archaeology project in which some 400+ archaeologists shared one of their 'days' ... their various
blogposts are definitely worth a look (and are categorized) at:
http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/

On the recent cancellation of assorted dig permits in Turkey:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=8216made-in-turkey8217-archaeological-digs-raising-concerns-2011-07-31

When archaeologists 'hack' Kinect:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44010392/ns/technology_and_science-innovation/
 
A letter of Lord Byron in a New Jersey Museum is a fake, apparently:
http://www.observer.com/2011/08/a-lord-byron-letter-in-a-new-jersey-museum-is-revealed-as-a-fake/

On marathon poetry/literature readings:
http://www.boston.com/news/local/articles/2011/08/07/reading_marathons_spur_interest_in_classic_literature/

On being a 'beer archaeologist':
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/The-Beer-Archaeologist.html

A lost book relating the tale of a forgotten shipwreck:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-lost-tale-forgotten-shipwreck.html

What facebook and Rembrandt have in common:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-facebook-rembrandt-common.html

Wellcome Arabic Manuscripts online:
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/07/wellcome-arabic-manuscripts-online
 
Feature on music archaeology:
http://chronicle.com/article/Field-Report-Music/128407/

Review of Gordon Bowker, *James Joyce: A Biography:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/05/james-joyce-biography-bowker-review

Review of Hughes' *Rome* thing:
http://www.counterpunch.org/kampmark08012011.html

More on the search for Cervantes:
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/07/search-cervantes

Raphael Loewe has died:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/04/raphael-loewe-obituary

…as has Rachel Maxwell-Hyslop:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8680069/Rachel-Maxwell-Hyslop.html

…and Philip Rantz:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/jul/29/philip-rahtz-obituary

Somewhere on the savannah:
http://www.creators.com/comics/42/79653_thumb.gif

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This thing about Marco Polo not making it to Asia seems like old news:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2024221/Marco-Polo-reached-China-picked-tales-Orient-Italians-claim.html
 
More libraries are joining Proquest's Early European Books digitization program:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/2011/8/prweb8712947.htm

A sort of previewish/hypish thing about Paul Holberton, *Caravaggio's Eye*:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=49766

A nice castle-at-night APOD:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap110813.html

Feature on 'Peter the Wild Boy':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14215171

Maybe Heraclitus was right?:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/13.7/2011/08/08/139006531/the-end-of-a-physics-worldview-heraclitus-and-the-watershed-of-life

Reviewish of Charles Mann, *1493*:
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/08/138924127/in-1493-columbus-shaped-a-world-to-be

Review of Brook Wilensky-Lanford, *Paradise Lust*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/07/books/review/paradise-lust-by-brook-wilensky-lanford-book-review.html

Simon Price has died:
http://www.lmh.ox.ac.uk/News/Sermon-at-the-funeral-of-Simon-Price.aspx

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Some British Museum based manga:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/14/professor-munakata-british-museum

On the utility of ratios of stable isotopes and isoscapes:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/science/89/8926sci1.html

Studying van Gogh's yellows:
http://pubs.acs.org/cen/news/89/i08/8908scene4.html

A project to compile the complete works of Ben Jonson is almost at an end:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/21/ben-jonson-shakespeare-complete-works

... while the Tempest may have been originally a musical?:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/aug/21/robert-johnson-tempest-william-shakespeare-composer

Interesting computational history timeline:
http://www.wolframalpha.com/docs/timeline/

... and whence came our alphabets:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-14544388

Latest Mona Lisa theory ties her to Rome, rather than Florence:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2011/08/18/prweb8726882.DTL

A restoration project for St Peter's Square:
http://news.discovery.com/history/st-peter-square-restoration-110815.html

On digitizing Old Bailey trials:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/18/books/old-bailey-trials-are-tabulated-for-scholars-online.html

Reports of Sabratha being in rebel hands in Libya:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2011/aug/19/rebels-claim-roman-city-sabratha

Review of Brian Fagan, *Elixir*:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/books/la-et-book-20110818,0,7274622.story

Review of Reeva Simon, *Spies and Holy Wars*:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7178916.ece

Review of John J. Miller, *The Big Scrum*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/the-big-scrum-by-john-j-miller-book-review.html

Reviewish thing of Julia Lovell, *The Opium War*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/19/arts/19iht-opium19.html

Reviewish/hypish thing on George R.R. Martin's books:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/14/books/review/george-r-r-martin-and-the-rise-of-fantasy.html

John Rawlins has died:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/military-obituaries/naval-obituaries/8709908/Sir-John-Rawlins.html

…as has Alan Treloar:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/obituaries/eminent-linguist-fought-for-country-20110814-1isuq.html

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Feature on the origins of chemistry:
http://www.npr.org/2011/08/26/139972673/science-diction-the-origin-of-chemistry

A Saudi excavation suggests horses were domesticated 9000 years b.p:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-saudi-horses-years.html
 
... somewhat related DNA study of wild horses:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-08/uoy-awh082211.php

Some Italian art experts who worked on restoring a medieval 'phallic fresco' are being accused of censorship:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/8714235/Italian-art-experts-accused-of-censoring-phallic-fresco.html

Did Mozart have a serious vitamin D deficiency?:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2011/aug/22/mozart-death-sunlight-vitamin-d

A UK court rejected a bid for trial by combat:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/1416262/Court-refuses-trial-by-combat.html

Very interesting detail in the history of lager:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-08-years-yeast-epic-journey-gave.html

Review of John France, *Perilous Glory*:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8706224/Perilous-Glory-The-Rise-of-Western-Military-Power-by-John-France-review.html

Review of Bruce Duffy, *Disaster Was My God*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/24/books/disaster-was-my-god-by-bruce-duffy-review.html

Review of Nassir Ghaemi, *A First-Rate Madness*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/a-first-rate-madness-by-nassir-ghaemi-book-review.html

Review of Charles Mann, *1493*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/1493-uncovering-the-new-world-columbus-created-by-charles-c-mann-book-review.html

Review of a couple of novels based on Shakespeare and Austen:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/books/review/shakespeare-and-austen-updated.html?ref=books

Marek Zvelebil has died:
http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/archaeology/staff/zvelebil.html

as has Emmet Robbins:
http://cac-scec.ca/ccb/ccb17/ccb17_12.1.html

…and Simon Price:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/aug/21/simon-price-obituary