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Why men exhibit warrior tendencies
Gang graffiti. Image: Charles Crosbie, FlickrFollowing a review of current academic literature by psychologists, biologists and anthropologists, the study concludes that men are biologically programmed...
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New publications from Afghanistan Research and Evaluation Unit (AREU)
Thirty years of conflict : drivers of anti-government mobilisation in Afghanistan, 1978-2011 by Antonio Giustozzi with Niamatullah Ibrahimi, (2012)"A new paper by Dr Antonio Giustozzi traces structural...
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New book: Townsend & Vidas, "Revelation, Literature, and Community in Late...
NEW BOOK from Mohr Siebeck:Revelation, Literature, and Community in Late AntiquityEd. by Philippa Townsend and Moulie VidasThis volume stems from a conference held at Princeton University, which...
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Princeton: more on the return
Source: MiBAC Earlier today I was in touch with the press office at Princeton University but the university spokesperson was unable to clarify the objects returned by Princeton University Art Museum...
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Humana returns Fortuna
Source: MiBAC The Italian Ministry of Culture has announced that two marble statues, one of Fortuna, have been returned from the North American healthcare company, Humana. Their New York source has...
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Venus from Rimini returned to Italy from New York gallery
Source: MiBAC The Italian Ministry of Culture has reported that a bronze statue of the Roman goddess Venus ("Venus di San Giovanni in Perareto") that was stolen from the Museo Civico in Rimini in...
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Items from deceased New York collector returned to Italy
Source: MiBAC Perhaps one of the most telling sections in the Italian Ministry of Culture's statement was this: "quaranta reperti archeologici frammentati, in restituzione dal Metropolitan Museum di...
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Hecht Trial: Jason Felch comments
Jason Felch has commented on the expiry of the Robert Hecht Trial for the LA Times. “There is plenty of evidence,” Ferri said, citing as an example Hecht’s own handwritten memoir, in which the dealer...
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Returns to Italy from North America
Source: MiBAC Various antiquities from Princeton University Art Museum, a healthcare company, a New York gallery, and a New York private collector linked to the Metropolitan Museum of Art have been...
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Paleolithic Siberian domestic dog
From the press release: A 33,000-year-old dog skull unearthed in a Siberian mountain cave presents some of the oldest known evidence of dog domestication and, together with an equally ancient find in a...
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SAFECORNER's Top Ten of 2011
2011 was a great year for SAFECORNER! We published many thought-provoking posts, welcomed new writers to the blog, and sparked some fascinating discussion. We'd like to thank all of our readers,...
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Hadrian’s First Wall Part 3 of 3
On Tyneside, between Hadrian’s Wall and the Ditch to the north, archaeologists have found three lines of double postholes, which it is argued, represent an early Timber Wall, which, along with the...
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Hadrian’s First Wall [Part 2 of 3]
On Tyneside, between Hadrian’s Wall and the Ditch to the north, archaeologists have found three lines of double postholes, which it is argued, represent an early Timber Wall, which, along with the...
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Help Needed With The Burial of Jesus
I was tempted to say “the reburial of Jesus” or “second Burial of Jesus” in the title of this post, but having recently discussed the Talpiot tomb and related topics, I feared that might result in...
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Untangling myth and reality from Malaysia’s history
Besides the “startling” news about the origins of the human race, another stir over the history of Malaysia was raised last week when eminent Malaysian historian Professor Khoo Kay Khim declared that...
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Princeton: identification
Source: MiBAC The Etruscan white-on-red pithos seen in the front of the image issued by the Italian Ministry of Culture appears to be the one given by Edoardo Almagià in 1999 (inv. 1999-8). [JSTOR]...
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Update: SEAL: Sources of Early Akkadian Literature
Recent additions to SEAL: Sources of Early Akkadian Literature Erra and Naramsin (SEAL 1.1.9.1) (Dec. 2011)Adapa (SEAL 1.3.2.1) (Dec. 2011)Catalogue of literary texts from Ebla (Dec. 2011)KAR 158 (SEAL...
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Latrines at Largo Argentina in Rome
The return of the series on Roman toilets. The latrines at Largo Argentina in Rome.
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February 15, 2012 - 1:00 AM - Lecture D. Matthew Buell (Doreen Canaday Spitzer Fellow, ASCSA; Ph.D. candidate, Department of Classics, University at Buffalo, SUNY)
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