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explorator 22.24 October 6 , 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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Results of a study of the dirt in Denisova Cave:
Postulating a competitive advantage for modern humans over Neanderthals:
On whether Neanderthals are the "same species as us":
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AFRICA
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Feature on Madeline Gunter Bassett's work studying medieval/Ottoman pastoralist sites in Djibouti:
Looking for evidence of the slave trade in Ghana:
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Ptolemy IV temple was found at Sohag:
Not sure how recent this find of 2000 years bp burials at Saqqara with 'nonsense hieroglyphs':
Hyping the various missions launching a new digging season at Luxor:
Hyping a documentary on forgotten black pharaohs:
Hyping another documentary with a reconstruction of the likeness of Hatshepset:
Conservation concerns for a mummy in a Perth museum:
What Zahi Hawass is up to:
A 5700 years bp child burial from Arslantepe Mound (Turkey):
Feature on fieldwork going on in the Wadi Shu'aib (Jordan):
Roadwork near Harish has revealed a 'massive' 5000 years bp Canaanite metropolis:
High tech imaging of ostraca from Machaerus excavated 50 years ago are revealing more details of inscriptions:
Feature on the Temple Mount Sifting Project:
Reviewish of Jodi Magness' *Masada*:
A study of sites associated with the Nabataeans in Saudi Arabia is under way:
Overviewish on a Russian group's season in Palmyra:
Ongoing concerns for sites in Yemen:
In case you missed this feature on Rosh Ha-Shanah and the Gezer Calendar:
Feature on Assyrian art:
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Remains of a possible throne room at the Minoan site of Zominthos:
... and further Minoan finds at Sisi as well:
The latest hype for a method which hopefully will allow Herculaneum scrolls to be read:
That massive inscription found at Pompeii a few months ago has been translated and published:
Three Roman burials found during metro construction in Rome:
An 1800 years bp shipwreck off Spain with 100 or so amphora (some intact):
An account of the excavation of the theatre/Odeion at Parium:
I think we mentioned this 1800 years bp balsamarium from a burial in Bulgaria:
A 1700 years bp fragment of a military diploma from a fortress site in Bulgaria:
Similarly, I think we mentioned this fragment of a face sculpture found at Paestum:
The survey of the Antikythera shipwreck is about to resume:
It appears they've done a nice job with the ancient port of Marseille:
Sarah Bond on Roman 'infographics' (more of a book review):
Mary Beard on that Pan and the Goat statue group:
An interview with James Wells:
... related:
Brandon Bourgeois is rapping Homer:
Gonzaga had a Homerathon:
Feature on Durham's Classics society:
Your Greek myth guide to October stargazing:
Feature on the Temple of Mithras in London:
Feature on the engineering of the Parthenon:
There is more security at Pompeii:
Another fashion show at an ancient site ... this time the Temple of Poseidon:
... and plans for another Trojan horse:
UVa is restoring its statue of Homer:
Feature on other antiquities Greece might want to repatriate:
Review (by James Romm) of *How to Be an Epicurean* (paywalled):
... and an unpaywalled review of same:
Review of Daniel Mendelsohn, *The Bad Boy of Athens*:
What the Greeks and Romans can teach about leadership:
On Greek and Roman myth in Succession:
Boris Johns was imagining himself as Spartan this week:
More on that military site in Exeter:
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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I think we mentioned these bones from a Somerset cave being dated to the Mesolithic era:
Interesting analysis of some 6200 years bp burials found back in 2007 in San Fernando de Cadiz:
Assorted Neolthic finds from Bru na Boinne:
A 10th century Viking coin hoard (and finds from other periods) from Saaremaa:
Medieval pottery and bone fragments from a dig in Boston:
Overviewish on a dig at a Shakespearean-era playhouse site in Whitechapel:
Anglo-Saxon finds from Lindisfarne:
More on those Viking sword fragments found in Estonia:
Some 18th century structures found in a Scottish forest may have been a distillery of some sort:
18th century finds from a project in Leeds:
A burial from a medieval Italian cemetery featuring someone who was 'broken on the wheel':
What Derek Alexander is up to:
More on the 'megastructures' in Tripolye:
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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45 000 years bp microliths from a Sri Lankan cave:
I think we mentioned this evidence of fish farming in Neolithc China:
Possible Indus scripts on megalithic menhirs from southern India:
1400 years bp human (and horse) burials from Chiang Mai:
A Seljuk-era (or later) monument from southwest of Tehran:
A Garuda statue from East Java:
A 14th-16th century CE structure from East Azarbaijan:
Vague item on an 'archaeological object' stalling construction in Hawaii:
I haven't been following this trial involving a mosque and temple at Ayodhya:
Not sure about this 'Ancient Egyptian jewelleries' find in Indonesia:
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NORTH AMERICA
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19th century remains might get in the way of a salmon farm in Maine:
Remains of a 19th century 'working class' neighbourhood in Houston:
Arguing about the age of those burials found during construction in Fort Meyers:
An underwater archaeology survey near Fort Wilkins:
Using GPR to find unmarked burials in a Helena cemetery:
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Feature on the excavations going on at X'baatun:
Postulating the role of a 'one crop economy' in the collapse of the Maya:
Plans to dig for 'pirate loot' on an island off Chile are meeting with criticism:
... probably related on assorted 'treasures' not found yet:
Latest on the fight over the wreck of the San Jose:
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On Spain's efforts to make up for its Edict of Expulsion:
... and Britain feels badly about the Endeavour crew's violent actions in New Zealand:
... related:
