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explorator 22.52 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? April 19, 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).

... closing out our 22 year of this!
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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A possible answer to 'mysterious' stone balls which seem to be found at several early hominid sites:







Pondering what early humans looked like:



More on the implications of earlier human migration to Asia:



More on Neanderthals making string/thread/twine:






More on Neanderthals eating seafood:


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AFRICA
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Studying evidence for cattle and sheepherding in East Africa 3000-5000 years bp:





... and also a study suggesting milk was being consumed in East Africa by then as well:






More on the ancient decorated ostrich eggs trade:



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Another announcement that they were going to make an announcement in Egypt:



... and it appears to be a collection of Late Period burials at Saqqara:



General features on Egypt's 'virtual tour' activities:







... and they added a tour for the ?Kom al-Shuqafa catacombs:



... and the tomb of Ramses VI:





... and the tomb of Meresankh III:



... and the trussed goose artifact:



... and the Triad of Menkaure:



... and the tomb of Wahti in Saqqara:



... and Egypt continued with the 'sterilization' of various sites:



Interesting feature on studying the original colours of mummy coffins:




Feature on brick makers in ancient Egypt:



Feature on Egyptian sites in the World Heritage list:



TV hype feature on Tut's dagger:



Brief item on recent finds in Bahrain:



Feature on Cyrus the Great:



A 'human figure' depiction on a Natufian burial slab from northern Israel:



Latest from the Temple Mount Sifting project is a clay sealing of some sort:



Archaeology suggests that Nazareth was larger than previously thought and politically anti-Roman:




Feature on the discovery of the Megiddo Ivories:



More on the 3300 years bp 'figurines' found at Khirbet el-Rai:



More on that possible Bronze Age necropolis near Bethlehem:



Ongoing concerns for monuments in Baghdad:



I'm not sure how current this examination of a site 'blown up by ISIL' in Iraq is:





Zerzeven Castle is on the 'nominees' list for Heritage Site status:





The latest Biblical Archaeology Review is available free online right now:



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Latest development in the P.Oxy/MOTB/Dirk Obbink case (note: the first link which broke the story was taken down!):



... but still available here:



... and the derivative items (with varying degree of source credit):




Feature on pirates in the ancient Mediterranean:



Feature on assorted ancient medicines:



Latest iteration of Classical sculptures originally being painted:



Pondering how COVID-19 will affect the study of Classics:



In case you missed the coverage of the 'Nazareth Inscription':



A Guggenheim fellowship for Eric Rebillard:



... and an NCH fellowship for Christopher Moore:



... and a Gates Cambridge Scholarship for a McGill student:



Nigel Crowther was talking about gladiator training:



On taking ancient Greek at Vassar:



Interesting interactive map of the site of Pompeii:



... and the AIA is having a webinar series on Pompeii:



Loosely tracing Odysseus' footsteps:



More on evidence of trepanation in a burial from 1500 years bp:



More on hares and chickens in ancient Britain:





More on the origins of the Minoan monkeys:





More on those Roman shipwrecks found by coal miners in Serbia:




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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Use of pottery that once contained milk used to date the origins of London to possibly 3600 BCE:





Melting glacial ice in Norway is revealing 'spectacular' (Viking-era) artifacts:













Remains of a medieval church from Cherven:




Brief item on 600 years bp skeletal remains being found at a site in Ireland:



A 17th/18th century mackula from the Necven medieval fortress:



Studying how they fought with swords in Bronze Age Europe:



Studying the origin/makeup of a 1000 years bp medieval blue paint:




A possible hint about how Stonehenge was constructed:



Feature on the Danevirke:



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Archaeology in Europe News:



Medievalists.net:



Viking Archaeology Blog:



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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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More on the Neolithic era in New Guinea beginning a thousand years earlier than previously thought:



Interesting decapitated human sacrifice victim from a site in Henan:




Reviewish sort of thing on the history of viticulture and wine-making in China:



Feature on Liangzhu culture:



A huge stone from the erstwhile residence of the Ashikaga Shogunate (Muromachi Period):




A ram's head inside a Tagar culture (2000 years bp) burial mask from a Siberian burial mound:





Feature on the Arkaim site:



Evidence that East Polynesia was settled earlier than previously thought (800 - 1000 CE):




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NORTH AMERICA
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Studying an 11 000 years bp site in Howard's Pass (Alaska):




Decorated mud balls from the Poverty Point site:





Excavations have commenced at the second Jason Lee mission site in Salem:



On the restoration of Yates Mansion (Glenville, NY):



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Archaeologists in Peru were arrested for violating the lock down:



On water use in the Wari empire and how a drought affected the culture:



An interactive map of the Nazca lines:



More on agriculture in Amazonia 10 000 years bp:


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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:



Ancient MesoAmerica News:


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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Marking the 196th anniversary of the death of Lord Byron:



Not sure where to put this one on Mediterranean shipwrecks as evidence for globalization of trade:



Feature on Holocaust archaeology:



Pondering Michelangelo's use of red chalk:



Feature on Beethoven's illegitimate daughter:



Study suggests Marlowe collaborated with Shakespeare on 'The Taming of the Shrew':



Feature on Harriet Quimby as pioneer aviatrix:



Feature on the Hutchinson Family Singers:



There's an art activist Barbie:



Feature on Grimod de la Reyniere:



The fire at Notre Dame ... one year later:




A history of toilet paper and its analogs:



Feature on assorted online llibraries:



More on Sarah Parcak's Guggenheim fellowship:



Review of Kate Lister, *Curious History of Sex*:


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CORONACOPIA
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The Israel Museum is featuring the Antonine Plague:



Another item reflecting on Boris Johnson and Pericles with an epidemic focus:



... and how Athens' plague affected the democracy:




... in a similar vein:




... and more generally on the plague of Athens (and elsewhere):



On international reaction to the Manchurian plague:



Interesting item on peoples' quest for immunity during a 19th century yellow fever outbreak:



The effect the 1918 flu/cholera outbreaks had on architecture:



How a WWI parade made the outbreak worse:



How quarantine worked in 1918:



On the role of social inequality in pandemics:



On musical responses to pandemics:



Feature on pandemic fiction:



Feature on Shakespeare during the plague:



Feature on apocalyptic literature:




Feature on the Apocalypse Tapestry:



Assorted folks were reading the Rime of the Ancient Mariner as an isolation activity:



On some works of art depicting quarantines of the past:



What hermits can teach us about isolation:



... in a similar vein:



On historical financial responses to pandemics:



How bubonic plague has helped Russia respond to the current outbreak:



On burials in NYC parks during outbreaks:



How churches responded to the 1918 outbreak:



On the 'revolution' the current pandemic is fueling:



On the 1894 plague outbreak in Hong Kong:



Pondering the exhibition of the Shroud of Turin right now:



Feature on three centuries of distance learning:



Birds are apparently thriving in Rome right now:



Interesting online jigsaw project to occupy your time:



On the Art Recreation Instagram challenge:



Assorted online tours:


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DNA FRONT
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A study of ancient coprolites is finding them to be a rich source of DNA from humans and dogs:







Using genome analysis to work out the size of Samoa's early population:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A 3rd century Roman marble head:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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A virtual visit to the Prado:



... and the Van Gogh Museum:



Guided video tours of the Grand Egyptian Museum:



... latest on the GEM:




Feature on the Sohag National Museum:



Feature on museums in West Africa:



Harvard is renaming their Semitic Museum:



Dust concerns in closed museums:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on 'virtual archaeology':



More on fine tuning C14 dating:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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On the role of climate change in the collapse of Angkor Wat:



Comparing the current drought in the US southwest to predecessors:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ciudad Perdida:



German castles:


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PERFORMANCES
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On Beethoven as avant-gardist:



On the loudness of classical music:



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CRIME BEAT
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Three arrested for artifact theft in Texas:



More on ISIL as 'art dealer':



... and Germany as a hub for the illegal antiquities market:


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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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Latest efforts regarding repatriation of Benin Bronzes:



Germany is returning a sacred stone to the Pemon people in Venezuela:



More on the Exeter Museum returning Chief Crowfoot items to the Siksika nation:



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NUMISMATICA
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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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Henry F Graff:



Hugh Sackett:



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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:



Archaeology Briefs:



Atlas Obscura:



Heritage Daily:



Sapiens Archaeology:



Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:


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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:



Archaeology Podcast Network:


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