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explorator 22.32 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? December 1 , 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, Sami Obeid,
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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Suggestion that inbreeding and demographic shifts contributed to the demise of the Neanderthals:








Suggestion that human migration out of Africa may have followed monsoons:


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AFRICA
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Using ostrich shell beads to track cultural interactions in Africa over 10 000 years:



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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3500 years bp wooden coffins from Luxor (not sure if we mentioned these ones):






A bone from Thmouis is being connected to the revolt mentioned in the Rosetta Stone:



Remains of a 29th Dynasty temple from Benha:



Suggestion that Tutankhamun was buried in someone else's tomb:



Zahi Hawass is hyping the impending (apparently) discovery of Nefertiti's tomb:



... and more on the brouhaha in the wake of a 3d scan of that bust of Nefertiti:



More on mummified lion cubs and other animals from Saqqara:













More on the restoration of Djoser's pyramid being completed:




Another announcement that they're going to announce something in Egypt:



4500 years bp 'carbonized' grain from a site in Bingol (Turkey):



3500 years bp skull and femur from the Hittite site of Sapinuwa:




A 3000 years bp clay tablet is being touted as an early example of fake news (with a Noah spin):





An Iron Age site from Oman:





Hyping the potential of continuing a dig at a Bronze Age site in Israel associated with the Canaanite Sisera:



More on the Byzantine 'glorious martyr' church find:



Nice overviewish piece on archaeology in Jerusalem:



A debris layer is evidence of major Mamluk destruction at the Crusader-era Montfort Castle:




An item once thought to be a miniature Nabatean altar sculpture from Jordan may be the oldest chess piece ever found:









Feature on Nebuchadnezzar:



Feature on the scribes of the Epic of Gilgamesh:



Feature on writing and cuneiform:



Politics of archaeology in Israel: Palestinian academics claim there is no evidence of Jews:



Archaeologists are opposed to a plan to put a cable car in the Old City:




Russia and Syria will work together to restore Palmyra:




Russia has also started an underwater expedition off Syria:


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Bronze Age finds from Agios Sozomenos (Cyprus):



I think we mentioned this 'Amazon' burial from Armenia:




A 7th century BCE (or so) necropolis from Gela:



Evidence of 7th century BCE colonization on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast:



A Roman shipwreck off Kefallinia:




... and I think we mentioned this 1500 years bp one off Cyprus:



Roman tweezers and other items from Ebbsfleet Garden City:




Roman pottery beneath a former Cowley petrol station:



Pompeii's Central Baths are now open to the public:







... and that house with the fresco of Leda and the Swan:






Analysis of skeletons from Roman London suggest lead was an issue:



Studying potters of Pompeii:



A coin depicting Paris (maybe) of Trojan War fame:



A very interesting Etruscan statue find:



Interesting find suggesting Elizabeth I may have done a Tacitus translation:










Feature on the TLL:



Feature on the Kachrylion Kylix:



Feature on Minos Kalokairinos and Knossos:



On the ancient Greek roots of Thanksgiving:



Feature on ancient Greek instruments:



Feature on trade between Rome and India:



Nice feature on Demeter and Persephone:



Another 'try Stoicism' piece:



Feature on the Villa Torlonia collection:



On anonymity in ancient Rome:



On the origins of the word 'decuman':



Notre Dame students are the latest to take Latin to elementary classrooms:



Feature on Anne Carson:



Brock is having its annual Saturnalia thing:



What Ruth Allen is up to:





Some recognition for MSU classicists:



Review of Anthony Beeson, *Roman Gardens*:



An Australian lawyer weighs in on the Parthenon Marbles:



How Socrates would have managed leaders' debates:



On Caligula, Cnut, and Trump:



Comparing Boris Johnson to Alcibiades:



More on that DNA of Romans thing:



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Pictish spindle whorl from Perthshire:



2000 years bp cremation burials from Poland:



A 1000 years bp Viking ship buried next to a Norwegian church:







A Viking era brooch from Estonia:




I think we've mentioned this possible medieval synagogue from Tarnovgrad:



Remains of Napoleonic era army camp kitchens in Guernsey:



Work in Madrid's Plaza de Espana have revealed remains of the Godoy palace:



Remains of a 300 years bp Catholic church in Dublin:






Accounting for the number of 'treasures' found in Somerset over the years:



Feature on Britain after Rome:



Brief feature hyping a talk about the Alcalar site:



The replica House of Wessex has opened to the public:



Hyping an upcoming medieval dig in Grimsby:




That Viking Warrior Woman is in a documentary hype thing:



Repair work on remains of Britain's oldest (maybe) Christian church (Colchester):



... and upgrades to St John on the Wall church in Bristol:



More on those possibe Tudor shipwreck victim burials on a Welsh beach:



More on that Viking 'double boat burial':



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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Plenty of evidence of humans living north of the Arctic Circle in Siberia some 30 000 years bp:



An 18 000 years bp puppy/wolf found frozen/intact in Sibera:







Remains of a 5000 years bp settlement with a moat in Chia's Jiangxi province:




A Tuyuhun royal burial from the Tianzhu Tibetan Autonomous region:



A 'secret basement' in Lahore Fort:



Evidence of Iron Age occupation of Mar-Gurgalan Cave (Iran);



Feature on Rebecca Kinaston's work excavating a medieval Uzbek cemetery:





Feature on artists in British India:



Feature on Harappan script:



Ongoing fallout from the Ayodhya site decision:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Unique sledge dogs helped the Inuit thrive in the Arctic, apparently:





A Brewerton type arrowhead from Harwich:



Burials believed to belong to Irish Famine victims who had fled to Montreal:




... and a 19th century pipe kiln was found 'under' the Jacques-Cartier Bridge:



Native American remains dating to 2500 years bp or so from a barrier island site at Palm Beach:






A 19th century German-made harmonica found in Wisconsin:




A 112 years bp letter found during renovations at Montclair State University:



Feature on the Great Dismal Swamp:



Latest from Poverty Point:



ISU is looking for evidence linking Clovis people with megafauna 13 000 years bp:



Feature on Franklin's ships:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Analyzing early Puerto Rican cooking techniques by looking at remains of clams:





Remains of a 1914 gunboat which sank off the coast of Sinaloa:



On what we can learn from Cusco's Potato Park:



Archaeologists fear Bolsonaro will kill amazon civilization research:



... and fears arising from the fires:


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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting collection of Welsh Bibles:



Assorted Thanksgiving-related items:





... and Ben Franklin tried to electrocute a turkey, apparently:



Feature on Tiffany:



How assorted poets and playwrights have contributed to science:



On Emerson and the Atlantic magazine:



Feature on the 'sweating disease' epidemic of 500 years ago:



Feature on the economic history of the Spice Trade:



A lot is riding on whether a date on a sculpture includes a 5 or a 6:



Feature on Louis Namier:



Feature on royal inbreeding:



A long lost portrait of a young Elizabeth I has been revealed:



AI suggests a second hand was involved in writing Henry VIII:



You can watch the restoration of Michelangelo's 'Bandini Pieta':



A Philadelphia consortium has put a pile of medieval manuscripts online:



Interview with Gordon Wood about the 1619 project:



A teddy bear restoration:



Review of Ted Gioia, *Music: A Subversive History*:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Ancient Greeks:






Stonehenge Photos:



Troy:




Pompeii:



DaVinci:



Roads of Arabia:



Sagalassos:




Dogs and People:




The Dulwich Picture Gallery is reopening in the wake of an attempted theft a few weeks ago:



On BP sponsorship of the Troy exhibition:



How Tut exhibitions became big business:




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AUCTIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
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A hoard of Ethelred II coins found a couple of years ago are coming to auction:





On the hot market for Old Masters:



Some 'agunot' documents from Bergen-Belsen are coming to auction:



An item coming to auction at Christie's has a dubious provenance:





Big bucks for a childhood portrait of Mozart:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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They've already done CT scans on three of the mummies found at El Assassif a few weeks ago:



CT was also used to look at some medical manikins:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Using DNA to implicate humans in the extinction of the Great Auk:




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TOURISTY THINGS
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Safed synagoges:



Roman Forum:



Cairo:



Sorrento:



Pisgat Zeev:



Copan:



Croation UNESCO Heritage sites:



Hampi:


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PERFORMANCES
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Odyssey:



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CRIME BEAT
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When treasure hunters don't declare their Viking coin hoard, they get jailed:





A pair in Kalymnos busted for possession of antiquities:




An antiquities dealer is charged with falsifying documents for Cambodian items:





In case you missed the 'Green Vault' robbery coverage:






... some background:



... and there's a reward:



Thieve damaged one of Bristol's historic churches:



conflict antiquities:



anonymous swiss collector:



Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:



Looting Matters:



Illicit Cultural Property:



SAFE:



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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
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A different sort of repatriation -- the pope has returned a relic associated with the manger to Bethlehem:






Cambridge is returning a bronze cockerel to Nigeria:





Searching for Benin bronzes in the UK:




More on Manchester Museum returning items to Aboriginal peoples:


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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Juba II:



Feature on collecting Roman coins by emperor:



A modern coin series on the Labours of Hercules:



Latest e-Sylum:



... and the one which should appear later today:


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Coin Week:




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OBITUARIES
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Jasper Griffin:




Larry Hurtado:



Marilyn Yalom:



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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

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CONFERENCES
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:



About.com Archaeology:



Ancient Digger:



Archaeology Briefs:



Past Horizons:



Stonepages:



Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:



Time Machine:


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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:



Archaeology Podcast Network:



The Book and the Spade:


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