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explorator 22.40 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?January 26, 2020
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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).

Don Buck kindly resent the 'posca' link that I lost a couple of weeks ago:


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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Early humans were also eating 'hard plant foods', judging by tooth wear:




Homo antecessor's skull didn't have room for wisdom teeth, apparently:



You might want to be aware, at least, of the Calaveras skull (but maybe not):



Human impact on large mammal populations goes back millions of years, apparently:




Not really new, but interesting: footprint evidence of Neanderthals (maybe) climbing a volcano:




More on 'freediving' Neanderthals:



More on Homo Erectus's survival in Indonesia:


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AFRICA
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Feature on the pre-Colonial history of Africa:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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5500-10 000 years bp petroglyphs from a Sinai cave have been documented:






A Brazilian team working in Egypt has found a well in a Theban tomb (among other things):



Plenty of attention this week for the reconstruction of a mummy's voicebox (and 'voice'):












Egypt is allowing archaeological reproductions to be sold at airports:



Interesting theory about the Sphinx:



Remains of a 10 000 years bp sheep-hunting camp in Lebanon:






What is being dubbed the 'earliest mosaic in the world' has been found at the Hittite site of Usakli Hoyuk:



a very interesting 3000 years bp rock cut Assyrian relief of a procession near Duhok:



An 8th century BCE religious complex of some sort from Tell Damiyah (Jordan):



Finds from various periods from Tepe Ghala (Iran):



Analysis suggests two scribes were responsible for writing 31 8th century BCE ostraka from Samaria:











Latest find-by-a-schoolkid find in Israel is a partial Byzantine-era Greek inscription from Caesarea:






Crusader-era finds from Tartous:



Interview with Ann Killebrew about this year's dig at Akko:



Sagalassos is the latest site dealing with development v. archaeology issues:



Somewhat vague thing on finds from Khalkedon:



Pondering what lies beneath Hagia Sophia:



Bringing up the 'Solomon's Mines Found' thing again:



Feature on olives in the ancient Mediterranean:



Feature (video) on restoring artifacts at Palmyra:


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Interesting item on the metal trade in Late Neolithic Italy:





An Iron Age chariot burial found during construction of a sports complex in the Nevola River Valley (Italy):



Foundations of a Roman aqueduct from Rodez (France):



Some Roman pottery from Colchester:



Remains of a 2nd-4th century CE Roman settlement in Newport:





Late Roman burials from the Pafos agora:



Vesuvius was much in the news this week, first with a claim that the eruption caused vitrification of brains:















... then there was some revision over how victims at Pompeii died:




... then the silliness about a body belonging to Pliny the Elder being found return (n.b. they found his body two days after the eruption):






... and there was TV hype about a documentary about garum from Pompeii:



In case you missed word of the sinkhole that opened up near the Colosseum:



Interesting feature on the original colours of the Parthenon Marbles:



A bit of a sideshow to the Dirk Obbink thing (somewhat misleading regarding ownership):



What Mary Beard is up to:



Peter Jones on 'Megxit':



Interview with Daniel Mendelsohn on his *Ecstasy and Terror* collection:



Interesting presentation on Lucretius and mathematics:



Feature on Homer:



... and Elektra:



On the tragedy that was Athens:



Interesting possible twist in the Parthenon Marbles saga (not probable):





Feature on a Turkish dentist's private collection of antiquities:



The Smarthistory folks put up a useful guide to Roman art:



... and Etruscan:



A nice aerial photo of Mount Olympus:



More on the Torlonia Collection:



More on that 'aqueduct' from Armenia:




More on Meninx and the purple dye industry there:




More on those 'Amazon' burials from Russia:




More on that Roman site in Somerset:




More on the Roman wall collapse in Colchester:





More on the impending opening of Augustus' tomb:



France put up a statue honouring the creator of Asterix:



Comparing Boris Johnson to Alexander the Great:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting study of ?pair of Neolthic sites in Spain, suggesting at least two very different cultures possibly in conflict:




Remains of the first Byzantine monastery found on the Iberian peninsula:





Interesting study of some medieval warrior burials from Poland:




50 burials, including one of a medieval priest, from a dig at Lincoln Cathedral:





Medieval items retrieved from a 'cesspit' beneath the Courtauld Institute of Art:



A stash of 19th century (?) Jewish 'ritual ware' from a dig at a synagogue in Poland:



Concerns for preservation of a Viking ship found back in 2018:



TV hype for a documentary about the 4000 years bp finds from Cliffsend:



... and some for the Must Farm site:



Plans for a dig at Ripon Cathedral prior to cafe construction:



A 3d recreation of the 'headdress' of an Iron Age warrior found in a West Sussex burial:





Feature on Colchester Castle:



Seeking Heritage Status for some Jewish heritage sites along the Rhine:



A medieval ring found in a North Staffordshire field has been declared treasure:



More on Vikings overhunting walruses:


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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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17 000 years bp artifacts from various caves in Gunung Pulai :





Dental evidence suggests humans were transporting and growing bananas on Vanuatu some 3000 years bp:




A Makara animal statue carved 'on a rock' from a Cambodia national park:




Construction at Cotton University revealed a Pala Empire era sun divinity statue:



A 15th century (maybe) sake brewery from Honshu:




A Tulu language inscription from Padubidri:



The fires in Australia have revealed some sort of 6000 years bp Aboriginal aquaculture structures:







... but the fires also have likely damaged or destroyed many other sites:




Chinese archaeologists are tracing the history of the rat:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Pondring the age of some mounds on the campus of LSU:



A fourth burial (possibly Revolutionary War-related) from Ridgefield:






A 19th century 'witch bottle' found beneath a Virginia highway:






Study suggests climate, not humans, shaped the forests of New England:




... and Native Americans did not make large-scale changes to the environment prior to European contact:





Feature on archaeologists v treasure hunters off Cape Canaveral:



Feature on that 12 500 years bp site in Avon (Conn):



Some petroglyphs in Utah apparently won't be listed on the National Register:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Remains of a 14th century 'sweat lodge' from Mexico City (we may have mentioned this):









Also from Mexico City comes a very large pre-Hispanic house (this might be the same as the above):



Feature on a giant sloth 'boneyard' in Ecuador:



A 2000 years bp Peruvian monument gets the #d preservation treatment:



Feature on how Lower Manhattan has changed over the years:



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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On assorted quarantine events in history:



Treaty protection for the Titanic:



A long-questioned Van Gogh self portrait has been declared authentic:





Pondering when the vulva became obscene:



What we can learn from spines in archaeological contexts:



Plans for cross-Atlantic events marking the anniversary of the Mayflower voyage:



Some folks aren't happy with the Ghent altarpiece restoration:






Auction house feature on antique jewellery:



... and one on the art of Tamara de Lempicka:



On the effects of philosophy on philosophers:



On the origins of domesticated wheat:



On some alphabets facing extinction:



An art historian has identified ten nazi-looted paintings at the Louvre:



On the history of the 'vibrator':



On English's 'pronoun problem':



What we can learn from the French Revolution:



Feature on the cultural side of calendars:



American houses apparently have a lot of bathrooms:



Learning from Mongolian dairy farmers:



On the origins of the two-day weekend:




Feature on Victorian collectors of Egyptian items:



More on how humans boiled water:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Gods in Color:



Mummies (Montreal):



Tantra:







Mayflower:



Women at Work:



Emoglyphs:




Pre Raphaelite Sisters:



Pregnancy Portraits:



Latest feature on decolonizing the museum:



A fire at the Museum of Chinese in America:




Plans to move the National Archives at Seattle:



The Louvre has completed the restoration of the Apollo Gallery:



Latest coverage of transfers to the GEM:



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AUCTIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
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A collection of botanical drawings by Peter Collinson has been blocked from export:



... while a temporary ban on export of a Joseph Wright piece failed:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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The impact of the smartphone on research:


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA analysis of four burials from Shum Laka (Cameroon) have resulted in some 'ghost population' and other interesting genomic finds:















Studying the DNA of folks from pre-Hispanic Mexico:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Astypalea:



Northwest Greece:



World's Oldest Cities:



Pondering the destinations dealing with 'overtourism':


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PERFORMANCES
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Assorted dramas relating to black British history:



Gospel at Colonus:



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CRIME BEAT
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An Italian diplomat was found guilty of smuggling Egyptian antiquities:





... and a guilty plea in that stolen Klimt case:



Some Old Masters stolen 40 years ago were recovered:



Some stolen Indian deities turn up in a Dallas Museum:



Feature on Italy's Art Crime Squad:



There is apparently a 'surging' market of fake prints right now:



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 German woman returned a few artifacts to Mexico:




More on Britain returning a looted sculpture to Afghanistan:







On the difficulties of repatriation of the Benin Bronzes:


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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Alexander the Great:



Latest e-Sylum:



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


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Ancient Coins:



Coin Week:



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OBITUARIES
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E.J. Kenney:



Lee Gelber:



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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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