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explorator 22.33 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? December 8 , 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, Bob Skiles,
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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Marking the 90th anniversary of the discovery of Peking Man:



More on inbreeding and other factors leading to the demise of the Neanderthals:




More on 'out of Africa' migration following monsoons:


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AFRICA
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Feature on some Berber kings active in Mauretania in Roman times:



On Ghana's 'slave trail':


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Infrared imaging reveals tattoos on seven 3000 years bp mummies from Deir el-Medina:








Stones from a temple of Ptah found near the Giza pyramids:



Not sure if the above is related to blocks from New Kingdom royal colossi and a mud brick wall from Matariya:





Kathleen Martinez appears to be 'expanding' her efforts to find Cleopatra at Taposiris Magna:






Zahi Hawass sees himself as a 'custodian' of antiquities:






Feature on Zahi Hawass:



300 foreign missions are currently operating in Egypt:



Hype for a conference in Germany next year on Ramesside military things:




Documentary hype for a find in a 'shaft' related to Tut:



... and an interesting feature on one of Tut's gemstones:



A site in Mardin might be 1000 years older than Gobeklitepe:






Iron Age burials with some Egyptian connections from Oman:




Funding to search for 'lost cities' in Oman:



Assyrian cylinder seals excavated in Iran:



Evidence of lime plaster production from a burial near Ein Gev dating to 12 000 bp (!):



A Second Temple (maybe? Dates vary according to article) period synagogue with mosaics from Majdulia:







Earliest evidence of Christianity in Bahrain:




Somewhat vague hints that more Dead Sea Scrolls might be waiting to be found:





I think we mentioned this 'reading' of a burnt fragment of Leviticus:



Interesting conjectured recolorization of an Assyrian relief:



Latest item on the impending flooding of Hasankeyf:



Interesting feature on the dispersal of assorted ANE items to assorted museums:



Protecting petroglyphs in Jordan:



Feature on Asherah and the Asherim:



Feature on Leiden's cuneiform collection:



Feature on Petra:



More on that 1300 years bp chess piece from Jordan:



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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1700 years bp eggs (one intact!) from a Roman site in Aylesbury:






Remains of a Roman villa excavated in Dorchester:





A Roman villa being excavated in Rome turns out to have made use of timbers imported from France some 2000 years bp:











4th century (or later) armour remains from Deultum:




Mosaics from pompeii possibly shed light on the Gromatici:




A musalla stone being used in a Turkish mosque turns out to be a Roman sarcophagus lid:




Evidence of high blood levels of lead in Roman-era Londinium:




Downplaying the impact of the Justinian-era plague:











An interesting 'Amazon' burial from Russia (not sure how recent this find is):



Feature on Roman villas:



Feature on Neaera:



Feature on the sound of ancient Greek music:



Interesting feature on the TLL (not sure if I mentioned this last week):



First Saturnalia feature of the season:



Classics is having some fun at Reed:



Concerns for Classics at UVermont:



... and Classics was 'dissolved' at UMiami:



Nice feature on Princeton's field school in Komotini:



Feature on Greg Crane and the Perseus Library:



Classics influence in America is the focus of a new website:



Controversy over a Classics professor at UT Austin:




Christie Vogler was talking about her work in Roman archaeology:



Peter Jones is pining for a modern day Tacitus:



More on Ruth Allen joining the Carlos Museum:



Review of Dunn, *The Shadow of Vesuvius* (paywalled):



Review of Hughes, *Venus and Aphrodite* (paywalled):



Review of *Battle between frogs and mice* (paywalled):



Greek lawyers have set up a committee for the return of the Parthenon Marbles:



... and in case you're wondering how the Marbles ended up in London:




... and the latest opEd on whether they should be returned:



On Silicon Valley's love of stoicism:



The statue of Ceres has return to the Missouri Capitol:




More on that Greek necropolis find from Gela:






More on that 6th century CE shipwreck off Akrotiri:



More on those Roman tweezers and ear swab things from a UK site:



Boris Johnson apparently relaxes with Greek poetry:



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Bronze Age 'figurines' found during construction of an Orkney power station:




Studying plant use in prehistoric northern Europe:



Plenty of coverage of the find of a 2000 years bp (or so) Celtic shield (and other items):







Archaeologists are investigating a Pictish site at Caithness:



I think we mentioned this Viking ship (burial probably) found with GPR on a farm in Norway:







... and this Catholic church find in Dublin:



Study suggests Vikings helped the Irish population to survive:



Plans to dive in the Fosse Dionne:



Searching for the remains of Cardinal Wolsey in Leicester:



Mass 14th century burials found near the Sedlec Ossuary:





Feature on the history of York:



Feature on the Vasa:



More on that Viking warrior woman with battle wounds:



More on that Napoleonic-era field kitchen from Guernsey:



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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Paleolithic relics from a cave site in Shaanxi:




Study of some residue in an urn coffin dating to the Neolithic Yangshao Culture reveals 5000-7000 bp silk:





Foundations for some 4000 years bp granaries from China's Henan province:



Overviewish thing on finds from the Dajinshan Ruins dig in Jilin:



73 ancient burials dating to 1400 years bp from Jiangxi:




A number of 'early medieval' (I think) Buddhist sculptures from Durgi:



Feature on (failed) British colonization efforts at Port Essington (Australia):



Somewhat strange argument, Bollywood style, over the battle of Panipat:



More on that intact puppy/wolf from Sibera:




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NORTH AMERICA
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I think we mentioned the use of snails to determine when Native Americans in Florida were harvesting oysters:




Possible 'prehistoric' fish weirs from rivers in North Carolina:



Evidence of Civil War-era soldiers using hair dye from a Kentucky dig:





Hitherto unknown crypts/tunnels beneath a Catholic church in Norfolk:



Plans to search for evidence of the Battle of Ruff's Mill:



Feature on Andrew Johnson as a Trump 'precursor':



Feature on Alice Ballard and her homestead in the Santa Monica Mountains:



Demolition work at ?Montclair State University revealed an early 20th century 'message in a bottle':




The search for more burials from that African American cemetery in Tampa continues:



Feature on the Trudeau Sanatorium (NY):



More on Inuit sled dogs:



More on that Montreal pipe kiln:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Remains of a German WWI ship found off the Falkland Islands (!):





The longterm effects of ancient Mayan clearcutting:



Rushing to document coastal heritage sites in Puerto Rico:



More on the most recently found Nazca geoglyphs:



More on that 3000 years bp Water Temple site from Lambayeque:




More on Puerto Rican cooking of clams:


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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Feature on what archaeology is all about:



In case you missed the news about Elizabeth I being identified as a translator of Tacitus:






Attributing the 'Habsburg Jaw' to inbreeding:





Feature on the influence of Protestantism on modern science:



Putting Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus' in context:



On the history of gin:



Feature on Agateware:



Feature on Beethoven's Ninth:




I think we mentioned this major medieval manuscript digitization project:



On the origin of apples:



On the history of money:



Johns Hopkins has acquired a copy of 'A Problem in Greek Ethics':



Hyping a documentary series on the slave trade:



Interesting daguerreotype of enslaved individuals on a cotton plantation from 1850:



Feature on El Greco:



Top ten discoveries of 2019:



Top ten paintings:



On Montaigne's remains:



The SAA is dealing with sexual harassment:




Interesting feature on urinals in Paris in WWII:



The history of Santa Claus:



... and Chanukah:



... and Saint Nicholas:



What Julie Andres is reading:



Review of Fagan, *Brief History of Archaeology*:



Feature on Irelands Virtual Record Treasury project:



More on the demise of the Great Auk:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Saudi Arabian Masterpieces:




Troy:



Balthazar:



East India Company artists:



Giulio Romano:



Plans for an antiquities museum in Purana Quila:



The Prado is using museum art for climate change awareness:



The story of Hull's Egyptian mummy:


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AUCTIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
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The Wacks Collection of ancient coins is coming to auction:



The Melton Hoard fetched a nice price:




Egypt prevented the sale of an 'important archaeological painting':


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THE TECHY SIDE
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#d printing is helping museums in repatriation and decolonization efforts:




GPR is revealing ancient footprints at White Sands National Monument:



More on CT being used on ivory mannikins:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ranjankudi fort:



Greek Temples:



Saddam Hussein's Babylon:


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PERFORMANCES
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Antigone:




Odyssey:



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CRIME BEAT
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Over a million antiquities have been stolen from Yemen, apparently:



Nine people arrested for illegal digs in Sohag:



On two recent robberies in Germany:



More on the charges against Douglas Latchford:



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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Zahi Hawass is heading a repatriation campaign:



Another repatriation-related opEd:



Saudi Arabia has recovered "thousands" of illegally-taken antiquities, apparently:




Renewed efforts to recover Aboriginal artifacts:



Some Nazi looted books were returned to the Freemasons:



Another Gurlitt-related piece being returned:



More on the Penn Museum returning cuneiform tablets to Iraq:







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NUMISMATICA
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Someone put a Thracian coin from 44 BCE (or so) in a Salvation Army kettle:




Feature on Celtic coinage of Gaul:



Feature on ancient coins and Christianity:



Latest e-Sylum:



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


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Ancient Coin Collecting:



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Coin Week:



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OBITUARIES
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Alexander Cambitoglou:





Larry Hurtado:



Edward Courtney:



Lars Hartman:



Robert K. Massie:




Stephen Garrett:


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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:



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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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