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explorator 22.16 August 11, 2019
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo,
Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay,
Don Buck, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Evidence of the earliest human occupation of North Africa:
350 000 years bp axe from Antalya's Karain Cave:
Feature on homo naledi:
Feature on Kenya's 'fossil treasury':
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AFRICA
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A study suggests humans were living at high altitudes in Ethiopia some 45 000 years bp:
On music making in South Africa in the 'Stone Age' (broadly defined):
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Restoration of Tut's golden sarcophagus has commenced:
... and the Ministry of Anitiquities had to explain why it and other things were being moved:
The 'other things' mentioned above include the Rameses II obelisk being moved from Cairo to El Alamein:
... and a Ptolemaic burial chamber from Sohag:
Plans to develop the site of Saqqara:
Latest use of ancient yeast is of the 4500 years bp Egyptian variety being used to bake bread:
... and a recreation of an Egyptian perfume is also making news:
Nice feature on assorted pyramids at Giza:
Brief item on a pair of 5000 years bp burials at the Kulluoba site (Turkey):
A cache of 6000+ years bp copper from Nahal Mishmar might be the earliest form of writing (or not):
Possible evidence of the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem in 587/586 BCE from the Mount Zion excavations:
Feature on Gazans trying to protect their antiquities from looting and neglect:
Questioning (sort of) the identification of the House of Peter at Capernaum:
A security checkpoint at an archaeological site in Kurdistan isn't being welcomed:
Feature on crucifixion:
The Oriental Institute is marking its centennial:
More on the so-called 'Church of the Apostles' find:
More on recreating a reed boat for Black Sea theory purposes:
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Latest 6th century BCE finds around the Temple of Apollo on Despotiko:
A number of inscriptions and statues from Greece's 'Classical Age' from Xobourgo:
An 'intact' 1st century BCE burial from Kozani (Greece):
An underwater survey off Levitha has identified a number of shipwrecks from various periods:
A lost/forgotten statue of Alexander the Great turned up in a warehouse belonging to the Museum of Veroia:
A pair of eagles from a Hellenistic temple site at the Kinik Mound (Turkey):
Remains of Serdica's northern fortification walls have been revealed:
Controversy over a wellhead bought by the Met and not preserved for the UK:
Plans to excavate York's Roman gate:
Yeroskipou council is trying to negotiate a land swap to protect a development site with a significant archaeological presence:
In case you missed the find of a Roman 'senate building' in Pelusium:
... and the finds from Heracleion:
The Hollyhurst Hoard/Haul (as it is now called) from Shropshire has been declared treasure:
Interesting Roman site under a restaurant in Puglia:
I think we mentioned this possible evidence of trepanation from the site of Euromus:
Feature on the Losinj Apoxyomenos:
Plans for Lisbon's underground Roman galleries to be open year-round:
Funding to continue the dig at Heraclea Sintica:
Feature (by Edith Hall) on some 'working class' Classicists:
What Natalie Haynes is up to:
What Joe Romero is up to:
What we owe Homer:
Feature on the location of Troy:
... and Homer's Greeks (paywalled):
Feature on Antony and Cleopatra:
... and non-fiddling Nero:
Feature on 'carpe diem':
Pointing out that there's no such thing as a 'Roman salute':
Latest 'America is not Rome' piece:
... and another [probably paywalled]:
... and another:
How it's okay to like Sparta:
... in a similar vein:
How Athenians would have handled Brexit:
Kevin Spacey was doing things near the Boxer:
Analyzing Socrates' methods:
More on Rome banning McDonald's from building near the baths:
More on connections between Greeks and the Terracotta Army:
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Mesolithic finds from a Perthshire farm:
A survey has revealed a number of 'unknown monuments' near Newgrange:
A 'race against time' at a Neolithic beach site in Orkney:
Czech archaeologists using an interesting preservation method on a 7000 years bp well:
Remains of Anglo Saxon 'king's feasts' from beneath a pub garden in Kent:
A Viking 'drinking hall' find from Orkney:
Latest finds from Auckland Castle (especially the garbage heap):
Medieval finds from a Reading housing development site:
A huge 13th century catapult stone find at Hay Castle:
86 burials from a medieval graveyard in Wales:
Very interesting Cistercian site from Co Meath:
I think we mentioned this 'pristine' Renaissance shipwreck from the Baltic Sea:
A thousand 17th century silver coins beneath a church floor in Poland:
Finds from various periods coming from the recently-resumed dig at Draper's Hall:
Assorted sites on Kos damaged during an earthquake in 2017 are still awaiting repairs:
Some Venetian walls in Nicosia collapsed:
Nice feature on some of the digs going on in Scotland:
Latest on the Tintagel footbridge:
They're looking for the remains of the HMS Beagle:
... and plans to look for assorted 'lost' buildings at Hampton Court Palace:
More on Sutton Hoo, with a focus on its 'revamp':
... and crowdfunding to build a replica Anglo-Saxon ship:
Review of Jula Blackburn, *Time Song*:
More on possible pig grease use at Stonehenge:
More on the HS2 folks preventing metal detectorists from poking around:
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A pair of Spring and Autumn period 'couple burials' from Hebei:
A pair of Han Dynasty burials from Shandong:
This seems to be a 'final report' sort of thing on a Song Dynasty shipwreck found over a decade ago:
Latest finds from Manujan in Iran's Kernan province:
Excavations are underway at the Damjili cave site in Azerbaijan:
A Bronze Age burial from Kazakhstan's Karaganda region:
