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explorator 22.45 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?March 1, 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).

Corrigenda: our mention of a reauthentication of a Rembrandt last week was mistakenly located at the UPenn Museum; it should have bee the Allentown Art Museum. Apologies ...
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Evidence suggests a human presence of some sort in India before and after a volcanic eruption 74 000 years bp:











Evidence of a healed fracture in a child's leg from Israel, 35 000 years bp:



Daniel Everett was talking about the origins of language:



Rethinking the evolution of the human foot:


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AFRICA
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More on evidence of fish consumption in the pre-desert Sahara as a reflection of climated change in Africa:



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The Dendera Temple will be reopening soon:



Photos from the restored pyramid of Djoser:



Greece and Egypt are joining forces to combat smuggling:



Documentary hype for a program about the finds at Quibbet el-Hawa a while back:



On why Egypt is moving assorted monuments around:



More on those 5000+ years bp clay coffin burials from Dakahlia:



More on that image of a leopard found inside a 3 000 years bp sarcophagus:





More on 'Nefertiti's tomb' possibilities:





Some additional 'game pieces' have been found at the Basur Mound in Turkey:




A German-Iranian group has started a dig at Kerman:



Last week we mentioned an inscription which was being associated with Midas ... there was more coverage:







... and the BIAA released a statement that the finds (from Turkmen-Karahoyuk) don't have much to do with Midas at all:



More on the Canaanite temple complex found at Lachish:



... and the letter:



Studying the ink used to create the DSS:



Feature on Jewish cliff shelters in the Roman period Galilee:



A confiscation dispute involving the Palestinian Authority:



... and anger at the PA's use of tel Aruma:



Concerns arising from a planned Western Wall train:



BAR's latest issue looks at the various sites claiming to be the biblical Bethsaida:




The IAA's Pnina Shor has retired:



Review of Eric Cline, *Digging up Amargeddon*:



New US restrictions on trafficking of Yemeni antiquities:



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Roman-era horse fibula from Lincolnshire:





Redevelopment work in Guildhall revealed remains of a Roman road:



Finds from various periods including a Roman road and some tweezers from a home development site near Chesterfield:



An interesting inscription once associated with Jesus' burial has had a bit of a rethink:



A 3rd/4th century necropolis from Ragusa:



Some coins found where the Albrighton Roman coin hoard was found back in 2005 have been declared treasure:



Another Roman hoard is being used as possible evidence of a previously unknown settlement in Cumbria:




Plans to restore the Patara lighthouse:



More on the restoration of that 2000 years bp silver Roman pugio from Germany:



More opinons on Oxford's pondering of dropping Homer and Vergil from part of their classics curriculum:







Feature on the memorization of epic poetry:



Feature on Greek art in not-Greek museums:



A philosopher pondering some Greek philosophers:



Pondering Plato's politics (and possible woman problems):



Tom Palaima was among those commenting on the origins of Leap Year this week:



Joel Christensen was pondering Greek notions of 'alternative facts':



Louise Hitchcock was revisiting 'Black Athena':



Christophe Rico was talking about the importance of ancient languages:



Boris Johnson blocked Mary Beard from becoming a BM trustee:



Cathy Keane was talking about curse poetry:



Peter Jones on Boris Johnson and ancient brevity:



Marcus Aurelius helped someone:



An AIA award for a UCincy student:



Feature on Nashville's Parthenon replica:



More on that possible shrine to Romulus in the Roman forum:




More on the plans for the ?Faliri mass burial site:



More opEds on what should or shouldn't be done with the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles:







More on 'Classical architecture' demands in Washington:



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 7300 years bp 'murder mystery' from a cave site in the Pyrenees:



A 5000 years bp sword from Venice:



Some 2500 years bp tools/weapons from Shropshire have been declared treasure:



Guanche civilization burials/remains from a cave on the Canary Islands:



Possible remains of Squire Pope manor from Bluffton:



Renovations at Westminster have led to the rediscovery of a 'secret doorway':







Concerns about detectorists at historical sites in the UK:






cf:

Lancaster is trying to bring the Silverdale Hoard back to where it was found:



Plans to clear a woodland at Worlebury Hill Fort:



Feature on Ireland's literary history:



Feature on Spain's 'underwater Stonehenge':



I think we've mentioned this 'mysterious' French inscription from Plougastel-Daoulas which has now been translated:




Pondering what to do with the Debod Temple in Madrid (not sure where to put this one)

More on that 'wall of bones' found beneath a 17th century cathedral in Belgium:



More on that medieval chapel site found at Auckland Castle:




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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Carbon dating confirms that the Sanauli necropolis in UP is 3800 years bp:



Remains of a 4000 years bp (or so) ?'crafts village' in Varanasi:




More evidence of a pre-Harrapan settlement in Kutch:



Vague item on remains of human settlements (date?) in Nepal:



Gold coins found at a temple site in Tiruchirapalli (paywalled possibly):





The tombs at the Taj Mahal were cleaned up prior to Trump's visit:



Concerns for Konark temple statues:



More on the 'clachan' in South Australia:





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NORTH AMERICA
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Poking around an 18th century Virginia garden:




A metal detectorist in Florida came across a few coins from an 18th century Spanish shipwreck:



An undocumented 19th century African-American cemetery found during home renovations in Georgetown:



Girl Scouts help dig at the birthplace of their organization's founder:





Pondering the burials in Halifax's Old City:



Restoration work on a gun from the USS Monitor:




We will soon hear about those possible Revolutionary War burials found beneath a Connecticut home:



Ongoing vandalism concerns at sites in Utah:



Creating 'digital blueprints' of sites on the Yukon's Herschel Island:



More African American burials found in Clearwater:




Interesting feature on an 18th century slavewoman in Massachusetts who sued for her freedom (and won):



Feature on the US's first women voters:



More on the Erebus:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A 'big data' approach to archaeology of the Inca Empire is generating interest:





A rethink of the relationship between Teotihuacan and Tikal:



Vague item on the 'recovery' of an ancient monolith depicting a feline of some sort (date?):



What LiDAR is revealing about the longest Maya road and why it might have been built:









A walled up passage in the governor's palace at Uxmal:



Marking the 150th anniversary of the 'War of the Triple Alliance':



Coverage of a symposium on Teotihuacan:



Review of Vincent Brown, *Tacky's Revolt*:


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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On the 'slip between the cup and the lip':



Pondering what 'Western culture' is:



A selection of items explaining Leap Year:





Berlin has renounced von Hindenburg's honorary citizenship:



A lost 1000 years bp Hebrew Bible turns up on a Cairo synagogue shelf:



Feature on St David:



Marking Beethoven's 250th birthday:



Feature on turning papyrus into paper:



Feature on Animism:



Haven't read a claim about the Holy Grail in a while:



A new cabinet for Jeremy Bentham:



Arguing over the 'nationality/nationalities' of Spain:



Marking the centennial of 'The Cabinet of Dr Caligari':




Feature on 'shapeshifting buildings':



How a Colorado community avoided the 1918 Spanish flu epidemic:



A feature on a 15th century book of manners:




Feature on Egyptian cotton:



Feature on Rumi:



A 46 000 years bp frozen bird from Siberia:



Something about human seed dispersal and evolutionary responses in plants:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Age Old Cities:



Raphael Tapestries:



Sinai icons:





Tantric Buddhism:



Piranesi:



Van Gogh:



Belle Epoque Paris:




Michelangelo Drawings:



Gentileschi:




Antiquities and the Greek War of Independence:



Victorian Radicals:



Documents of Jewish History:



Staffordshire Hoard at Sutton Hoo:



India's Forgotten Masters:



Van Eyck:



Celebrating Senhouse Roman Museum's 30th anniversary:



Hyping the impending opening of the GEM:



... and some 'heavy artifacts' are in place:



... and ticket prices were announced:



The Met is updating its British Galleries with a slavery ?connection:



... and adjusted a description of some Nazi loot:



Dresden has a new gallery for Old Masters:



Water damage at the National Museum of Underwater Archaeology (!):


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AUCTIONS AND RELATED ACTIVITIES
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William Spohn Baker medals:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on applying virtual and augmented technologies to ancient sites:


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A major study of the genetic history of Sardinia:







DNA reveals the relationship between farming and DNA:




DNA reveals a complex pattern of prehistoric migration from Africa, Asia, and Europe to the Mediterranean islands:




DNA connects some folks to slaves at the Belvoir Plantation:



... in a similar vein:



Applying DNA research to unmarked burials in Quebec:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Nemrut:



Nile:



Medieval bridges:


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PERFORMANCES
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Conversations with Homer:



Hadestown:



Sweet Land:



Spanish towns:



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CRIME BEAT
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Some Australian nationals were arrested in Beirut in possession of some ancient artifacts:



Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:



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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Historians are calling for the return of the remains of Napoleon III to France:



More on the Netherlands returning a crown to Ethiopia:



Suggestion that the Rosetta Stone will never return to Egypt:



Mexico returned a Yoruba sculpture to Nigeria:





Native American peoples are seeking items back from the British Museum:



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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:



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Ancient Coin Collecting:



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Coin Week:




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OBITUARIES
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Katherine Johnson:




Robert H. Dyson:



Freeman Dyson:



Clive Cussler:





Anne Marion:


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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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