[MR] archaeological news from Europe

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Cult place/beer hall of Viking kings?:

_http://www.cphpost.dk/culture/denmark-through-the-looking-glass/47182-ancie
nt-cult-of-the-viking-kings.html_ (http://www
.cphpost.dk/culture/denmark-through-the-looking-glass/47182-ancient-cult-of-the-viking-kings.html) 

Feature  on La Hougue  Bie:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/jersey/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_81960
00/8196305.stm

Assorted  items from the Mary Rose are getting some press  attention:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article6870368.ece
http://in.reuters.com/article/entertainmentNews/idINIndia-43101920091012
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/england/hampshire/8301529.stm
ttp://
blogs.telegraph.co.uk/culture/christopherhowse/100003969/the-mary-rose-and-i
ts-everyday-objects-of-abiding-interest

Renewing  the call to repatriate the Lewis  Chessmen:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/comment/letters/6338015/Time-to-repatriate-the-Sc
ottish-chessmen.html

More  on the Staffordshire  Hoard:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/ar
ticle6874497.ece
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/west_midlands/8304076.stm
http://www.expressandstar.com/2009/10/16/knot-found-in-hoard-jewels/>
 

Another computer analysis, another theory about Shakespeare  as
author:

http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/stage/arti
cle6870086.ece
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/13/books/13arts-SHAKESPEAREW_BRF.html

A  fingerprint is being used to identify a portrait as being done
by daVinci  (with a Canadian connection!  yay!):

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/8304021.stm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gNr2w7okOyntIupDRJ124g2LwW
7AD9BB4C280
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091014/ap_on_re_ca/cn_canada_da_vinci_discovery
_http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/15/DDD41A5FQK.DTL_
 
(http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2009/10/15/DDD41A5FQK.DTL) 
 
A history of vodka:

_http://newsfromrussia.com/russia/history/13-10-2009/109841-vodka-0_ 
(http://newsfromrussia.com/russia/history/13-10-2009/109841-vodka-0)