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explorator 22.36 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? December 29, 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, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

... I hope everyone is having a happy festive season! It appears to be
'top discoveries' of the year/decade week ...
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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The Apidima 1 skull made a 'top discoveries of 2019' list:



... as did the discovery of homo luzonensis:



Further studies on Otzi's 'hunting kit':



In case you missed the reconstruction of 'Denise' last September:



More on the 'last stand' of homo erectus in South East Asia:



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AFRICA
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More on that settlement found at Aksum:



More on what ostrich shell beads tell us about assort ancient peoples:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Some 'top ten' lists of Egyptian finds from 2019 (not necessarily the same):





... and the Ministry of Antiquities had a couple of lists:




I think we mentioned this colossal Horus statue found at ?Luxor:




Egypt is moving four sphinxes (sphinges?) from Karnak Temple to Tahrir Square:




Feature on Khaled al-Anany:



Feature on one of the 'celestial' gems found in Tut's tomb:



A renovated 19th century synagogue will be reopening soon; more renovations to synagogues in Egypt are planned:



More on explaining hieroglyphs with emojis:





More on those 'head cones':



A cuneiform tablet depicting the Assyrian demon responsible for epilepsy:



An Achaemenid Pool from Pasargadae:



A 2800 years bp Phoenician family burial from Achziv:




Nice feature on recent 9000 years bp finds at Motza (from another 'top stories' list):



The 'Gabriel stone' made another list:



More on that stone being connected by some to the Ark of the Covenant at Beit Shemesh:



More on that Neolithic breakwater (?) off the Carmel Coast:



The top ten discoveries of 2019 in 'Biblical archaeology' (two different lists):




Feature on childhood in Biblical times:



Feature on the 'manners' section of Hammurabi's Code:



Feature on what Jesus looked like:

Feature on a project to return ancient plants to Israel:





Not sure where to put this one: interesting feature connecting underwater volcanism to the rise of Islam:


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 4th century BCE Scythian 'Amazon' with an interesting headdress found near the Middle Don River:





Roman and later artifacts found in burials near an airport in Baginton:




More on those most-recently found pair of Bronze Age tombs from Pylos:



The 'most important' Greek discoveries of 2019:



The 'Roman Wall' of Iran made a top discoveries list:



Turkey is focusing on Patara in 2020:



Feature on the Gosford Wellhead:



Interesting statistical pattern found in the deaths of Roman emperors:




Reviving a suggestion that a Jewish author may have been first to record the destruction of Pompeii:



Suggestion that Mortimer Wheeler 'made up' the Dorset Maiden Castle massacre (43 CE):



A London restaurant plans to recreate ancient Pompeiian menus:




Feature on that possible evidence for crucifixion found in Italy a while ago:



A statue of Diana 'appeared' in a Roman canal:



Feature on Bernini's 'Apollo and Daphne':



Talking about Madeline Miller's *Circe*:



Documentary hype for a feature on Vindolanda letters (it seems):



Feature on colors originally on Roman statuary:



Classicists weigh in on some misappropriation of Classics at Wake Forest:



Fighting to keep Latin alive at an Australian school:



On past damage to the Parthenon Marbles:



Some changes to tickets to the Colosseum (which may or may not be accurate, I'm told):




More on plans to open the Kasta Tomb at Amphipolis to the public:




More on the shipwreck off Kefalonia:



More on the controversy arising from plans to move finds from the Thessaloniki metro construction:



... a sort of related 'virtual tour' of Thessaloniki:



More on Boris Johnson's recitation of a bit of the Iliad:



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Very interesting feast-related finds from bone analyses at the Iron Age site of Navan Fort:





Remains of a 16th century shipwreck in 'downtown' Stockholm:





English Heritage's list of the top finds of the decade:



Historic England has a slightly different list:




Feature on some of the sites protected by National Heritage in the UK over the past year:



Remember those Gallic carnyxes found over a decade ago at Tinignac? They've been restored:



Study suggests some Neolithic spoons found years ago might be 'teething' tools:



The medieval Paphos Castle has reopened to the public:



A crowdsourcing attempt to save a French castle:



A 'hidden' ninth century mosque in Malaga:



Feature on the soon-to-retire John Oxley:



More on the use of birch bark tar in Medieval Britain:




More on a lightning strike possibly being related to a 4000 years bp stone circle on the Isle of Lewis:




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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence of Neolithic mixed farming in Tibet:



Li Song's Tang Dynasty mausoleum in Shaanxi has revealed building components and assorted other items:



Plenty of finds from seven different dynasties from Hebei:




A 3rd century CE (I think) Sanskrit inscription from Andhra Pradesh:



A project to document unprotected monuments in Mysrurs taluk is having great success it appears:



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NORTH AMERICA
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I think we mntioned this possible slave burial ground on a Tallahassee golf course:





There's an argument going on over the 1619 project:






Feature on David Moore's work in North Carolina:



Irvin Peithmann's collection of artifacts has landed at SIU for further study:



Commemorating the mass execution of Native Americans in the wake of the Dakota War of 1862:



Feature on Henry 'Box' Brown, who mailed himself to freedom:



More on the bodies recently found at the Alamo:



More on possible mass burial sites for Tulsa Race Massacre victims being identified:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Remains of a 1000 years bp 'vast' Mayan palace at Kuluba:















Feature on Aztec moral philosophy:



Feature on Carlos Castano Uribe and the Chiribiquete petroglyphs in Colombia:



Mexico doesn't know what to do with those recently-found mammoth traps:



More on evidence that 'life on the periphery' of Teotihuacan was pretty good:




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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A top 11 list of assorted finds (mostly art-related):



A 'biggest discoveries' list from LiveScience:



This is apparently part 5 of a 'finds of the decade' series:



A dozen 'fascinating finds' list:



Interesting feature on the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam:



Feature on assorted digs around the world you might want to join:



Feature on Ida Tarbell:



What they hid in secret tunnels beneath a Welsh library:



Interesting freature on Watkin's 'London Eiffel Tower' project that never happened:



There was no Christmas mass at Notre Dame this year:



... and they are still concerned about the structure:




Suggestion that shepherds in some Nativity scenes have goiter issues:



The Venice floods did a lot of damage to St Mark's Cathedral:



High school paleographers are helping the Vatican digitize a pile of stuff:



Feature on how religions change:



The Victorian roots (?) of the anti-vax movement:



Pondering the fate of Walt Whitman's house:



Feature on the Periodic Table:



Some Hanukkah-related features:




Pondering the motivations for the first petroglyphs:



Feature on mistletoe:



How railroads created modern Christmas:



On the 'forgotten' Christmas of 1918:



Another possible (?) spin on the Santa Claus story:



Feature on the Buddha:



Interesting detail revealed during the Ghent altarpiece restoration:




A hat in a museum might not be Lincoln's after all:



On the Victorian tattoo craze:



Suggestion that many Goyas aren't by Goya:



Feature on Harold Bloom:



An historian rethinks El Cid:



Feature on a trove of Jewish recipes dating back to the Inquisition:



Opeddish sort of thing on the increasing pace of finding archaeological sites:




Feature on 19th century Islamic revivalism:



A lost portrait of Charles Dickens is on display:



On Christianity's 'problem with sex':



Apparently folks have eaten frozen woolly mammoth meat:



Latest interesting find from permafrost is a 41000 years bp lemming:



Reviving African slave cuisine in Brazil:



Plans in the works to mark the 850th anniversary of the murder of Thomas Becket:





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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Tinos and Cyclades in the Mycenean Age:



Troy:



Last Supper in Pompeii:



Nabis:




Some photos from the GEM:



Feature on the Museum of the Royal Atarazanas (Dominican Republic):



Egypt's Museum of islamic Art was marking its 115th:



Hyping some 'hot' exhibitions coming in 2020:



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AUCTIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
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Export of a Gainsborough recently sold at auction is on hold for a while at least:



... and France blocked the export of that Cimabue piece that recently came to auction:




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THE TECHY SIDE
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I think we mentioned this hidden Nativity scene found under a painting of John the Baptist:



Scans of a ?trio of 500 years bp Inuit mummies reveal possible heart disease:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Tracking climate change in Chile via larch evidence:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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European cave art:


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PERFORMANCES
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Little Women:



An Iliad:



Monteverdi:



Feature on Beethoven:



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CRIME BEAT
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Greek police seized a 6th century BCE statue head in Corinth:








A smuggling attempt in Iraq save a Torah, among other things:



Arrests in the Piraeus involving a Neolithic figure and an ampnora:



Some guy was arrested after smashing things at the Denver Art Museum:



Feature on a scandal involving looted Cypriot mosaics (this was a while ago):



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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Alberta is trying to repatriate some Chief Crowfoot items from the UK:



On reclaiming India's stolen cultural heritage:


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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on silver coinage of Ptolemaic kings:



Feature on sea beasties on ancient coins:



Latest e-Sylum:



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


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OBITUARIES
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Karl E. Meyer:



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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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