[MR] recent archaeology news (Fwd: [Explorator] Digest Number 417)

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Hot on  the heels of claims that the Chinese invented golf (see
below) comes the  claim that the Romans  did:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,2090-1986580,00.html


Repeat  of coverage about those fashionable bog men from  Ireland:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10789343/
http://www.physorg.com/news9843.html

Groovy  tooth techniques found in Vikings were probably learned in
North  America:

http://tinyurl.com/8mrl5 (National Post)

A motorway  (again) threatens the site of Tara:

http://tinyurl.com/bf8yg  (Telegraph)

.. and perhaps fears are higher because road construction  did
not stop when a 7th century burial ground was found in Co  Laois:

http://www.rte.ie/news/2006/0111/m7.html

Archaeology in  Europe  Blog:

http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html

Digging  Mongolia:

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/10779575/
http://tinyurl.com/7v76w


Strange  time of year for this one ... did the Chinese  invent
golf?

http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/54020.html



New  (?) evidence of Zheng He's discovery of the  Americas:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/4609074.stm
http://www.economist.com/books/displaystory.cfm?story_id=5381851
http://www.ananova.com/news/story/sm_1681913.html

..  or maybe it was some Catalan pirate:

http://tinyurl.com/79tsa (La  Tercera ...  Spanish)

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