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- "Is
this the oldest known piece of jewelry?." ... "Humans
living in coastal South Africa about 75,000 years ago may have fashioned
snail shells into the world's oldest jewelry, according to a new study.
Critics, however, say the dramatic claim lacks the evidence to fully back
it." ... "If the 41 snail shells described in today's issue of the journal
Science are indeed beads, they would predate the oldest known pieces of
jewelry by more than 30,000 years and add significant weight to the idea
that symbolic thought and language flowered among modern humans long before
their forays into Europe and Asia." ... "Reached by telephone at the South
African excavation site known as Blombos Cave, lead author Christopher
Henshilwood said storing information in the form of beads or words is a
key element of symbolic behavior." -By Bryn Nelson
-Newsday.com
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- "Oldest
Jewelry? "Beads" Discovered in African Cave." ...
"Humans may have been wearing jewelry as far back as 75,000 years ago,
about 30,000 years earlier than previously thought, if 41 shells found
at Blombos Cave in South Africa prove to have been used as beads." ...
"Beads are considered definitive evidence of symbolic thinking, which many
scientists don't think occurred in modern humans until about 45,000 years
ago." ... "The presence of beads, whether used as trade items, to convey
group status, or to identify group members or relationships within a group
suggests some form of language existed, says [Blombos Cave Project director
Christopher] Henshilwood, who is affiliated with the University of Bergen,
Norway, and the State University of New York." ... "Recent studies have
suggested that Khoisan, a southern African language that includes many
clicks, could be as many as 100,000 years old. It's possible the people
at Blombos were speaking in some form of click language, Henshilwood said."
-By Hillary Mayell -NationalGeographic>News
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- "Gilgamesh
tomb believed found: Archaeologists in Iraq
believe they may have found the lost tomb of King Gilgamesh - the subject
of the oldest "book" in history." ... "The Epic Of Gilgamesh - written
by a Middle Eastern scholar 2,500 years before the birth of Christ - commemorated
the life of the ruler of the city of Uruk, from which Iraq gets its name."
... "Now, a German-led expedition has discovered what is thought to be
the entire city of Uruk - including, where the Euphrates once flowed, the
last resting place of its famous King." ... ""I don't want to say definitely
it was the grave of King Gilgamesh, but it looks very similar to that described
in the epic," Jorg Fassbinder, of the Bavarian department of Historical
Monuments in Munich, told the BBC World Service's Science in Action programme."
-BBC/News
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- "Mr.
Jefferson, What's This About a Contretemps?" ...
"This week marks the 200th anniversary of the Louisiana Purchase, and ...
[the New Orleans Museum of Art] is noting the occasion with an ambitious
show celebrating French-American friendship. The show has taken on what
... [curator Victoria E.] Cooke called "an unexpected relevance" now that
the friendship is in tatters after France's refusal to support the United
States-led invasion of Iraq." ... "This show, called "Jefferson's America
and Napoleon's France," traces the story of the Louisiana Purchase, in
which the United States more than doubled its size by buying an uncharted
828,000-square-mile territory from France for $15 million. The purchase
treaty was dated April 30, 1803, and the American negotiators, Robert Livingston
and James Monroe, signed it two days later. "No event in American history,"
the historian Bernard DeVoto wrote when the 150th anniversary was celebrated
in 1953, "not the Civil War, not the Declaration of Independence nor even
the signing of the Constitution, was more important."" (1, 2)
-By Stephen Kinzer -NYTimes
via -Google-News
- "Georgia
Lawmakers Drop Rebel Cross From the Flag." ... "Ending,
for now, a battle over symbols of history and hate that threatened to bring
racial animosity back to the forefront of Georgia politics, the General
Assembly late Friday adopted a new state flag that does not include the
Confederate battle emblem." ... "The Legislature also set a referendum
for next March in which voters will choose, presumably once and for all,
between the new flag and the one it replaces, which shows postage-stamp-size
depictions of all of Georgia's earlier flags. That composite flag, itself
a compromise, was forced through the Legislature by Gov. Roy Barnes in
2001." ... "Friday night's votes came as a rebuke to Gov. Sonny Perdue,
the Republican who stunned Mr. Barnes in November largely on the strength
of a grass-roots campaign in which advocates of the Confederate battle
flag played the most vocal part. They resented Mr. Barnes for replacing
the flag that flew from 1956 to 2001 — a flag that featured the Rebel Cross
— without first calling a referendum." -By David M.
Halbfinger -NYTimes
via -Google-News
- "Missing:
5,000 years of history." ... "ABYLON, Iraq -- The
roots of Western law and writing sprang from the Mesopotamian cradle of
civilization here, the site of the resplendent Hanging Gardens of Babylon
-- one of the seven wonders of the ancient world. The palace of Hammurabi
and King Nebuchadnezzar -- like antiquities throughout this country --
has met a fate that has devastated Iraqis and archeologists throughout
the world." ... "Armies not of fighters but of looters, capitalizing on
a security vacuum after war, have pillaged Babylon, ancient ruins in the
northern Iraqi cities of Kirkuk and Mosul, and worst of all in the eyes
of specialists in Mesopotamian archeology, they ransacked the Iraqi National
Museum, which housed most of the country's important artifacts." -By
Thanassis Cambanis and Charles M. Sennott
-Boston/Globe
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- "Interpol team
headed to Iraq: Experts see ‘deliberate planned
action’ behind art plunder, and police work could help crack case, they
say." ... " Interpol, the international police organization, announced
Friday it is sending a special team to Iraq to help track down pillaged
art treasures, joining a legion of groups worldwide offering assistance
in the recovery efforts. Some experts say that part of what seemed like
random looting was, in fact, a carefully planned theft, and the stolen
artifacts may already be on the black market." -By
Jim Maceda and Betsy Steuart with -AP
and -Reuters via -MSNBC
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- "FBI
joins hunt for looted Iraqi treasures." ... "The
FBI announced Thursday that it had sent agents to Iraq to assist in recovering
antiquities stolen from museums by looters." ... "The FBI announcement
followed assertions by experts at an international meeting that some of
the looters who ravaged Iraqi antiquities had keys to museum vaults and
were able to take pieces from safes. Cultural experts, curators and law
enforcement officials are scrambling to track down the missing antiquities
and prevent further looting of the valuables." -Contributions
by Donna Leinwand and -AP
via -USATODAY
- "Looters
Ransack Iraq's National Library." ... "Looters and
arsonists ransacked and gutted Iraq's National Library, leaving a smoldering
shell Tuesday of precious books turned to ash and a nation's intellectual
legacy gone up in smoke." ... "They also looted and burned Iraq's principal
Islamic library nearby, home to priceless old Qurans; last week, thieves
swept through the National Museum and stole or smashed treasures that chronicled
this region's role as the ``cradle of civilization.''"
-AP via -Guardian.co.uk
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- "Experts
warned of museum looters: But U.S. military
says it made no promises for site." ... "The experts met privately with
Pentagon officials as early as January to warn that the impending war could
pose grave risks to Iraq's archaeological treasures. They renewed the warnings
by e-mail in the days before the U.S. attack on Baghdad began, some of
the experts said Tuesday." ... "But Gen. Richard Myers, chairman of the
Joint Chiefs of Staff, made clear at a briefing at the Pentagon on Tuesday
that the protection of the museum had been assigned less importance than
the combat operations that were continuing sporadically in Baghdad on Thursday
and Friday while the museum was being sacked." -By
Douglas Jehl and Elizabeth Becker -NYTimes
via -HoustonChronicle.com
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- Law
Enforcement News - "Two
Van Gogh paintings stolen: Thieves enter Amsterdam
museum by roof; values unknown." ... "Thieves broke into Amsterdam’s Van
Gogh Museum overnight and stole two paintings by the legendary 19th century
Dutch artist, police said Saturday." -AP
via -MSNBC
Enron
News - "Enron
art committee spent millions in final months." ...
"Most of the works are now in storage, awaiting sale. And while art lovers
lament the loss, others view the spending spree as symbolic of the arrogance
of Enron's leadership." ... ""To be amassing a collection of art while
the ship is sinking - it's the symbol of the thing," said Dr. W. Michael
Hoffman, director of the Center for Business Ethics at Bentley College
outside Boston." -AP
via -NandoTimes
20020710Afghanistan
- "Taliban
Took an Ax to Antiquities: More than 2,750
items in Afghan National Museum were destroyed in regime's war on art,
experts say." -By Paul Watson-LAtimes
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