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explorator 23.01 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?April 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).

Embarking on year 23 of bringing you the archaeology news every Sunday! As always, a special thanks to all our contributors over the past year for making the task easier!
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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DNA suggests Neanderthals had older mothers and younger fathers (?):








Pondering who made use of a 300 000 years bp 'throwing stick' found in Germany:






On the 'muddle' in the middle Pleistocene:



Studying carnivores and Paleolithic campsites:




The human 'language pathway' in the brain is much older that previously thought:



Feature on human migrations to Asia and their impact on current thinking:



More on the possibe purpose of those 400 000 years bp 'spheroids' found in Qesem Cave:



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AFRICA
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A medieval Christian church site in Ethiopia:



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Not sure of the date of the latest petroglyphs documented from a cave in the North Sinai:





A 17th Dynasty sarcophagus containing a teenaged girl from the Draa Abul Naga Necropolis in Luxor:





Five 25th Dynasty burials from Saqqara:





Latest virtual tours from Egypt include the tomb of Unas:




... and the tomb of Niankhkhnum and Khnumhotep:



... and Meresankh III:



... and the Coptic Museum:



... and UNESCO likes the efforts:



... and there was more sterilization of sites going on:




Interesting pile of 'prehistoric rocks' (age?) from Southern Iran:



I think we mentioned this 14 000 years bp Natufian burial image:




A 'hidden pattern' from Gobekli Tepe:



The Covid-19 situation seems to be benefiting antiquities thieves in Israel:




What we can learn from fingerprints on pottery from Tell es-Safi/Gath:





The Temple Mount Sifting Project has a virtual exhibition:



Feature on Masada:



Feature on Jiroft:



Feature on the debate over the 'first beer' find at Raqefet Cave last year and its purpose:



Feature on Eva Grossmann's work at the Byzantine port of Apollonia:



Feature on what we can learn from the collapse of Bronze Age cultures:



More on Zerzevan Castle being up for Heritage Status:




... and five other sites in Turkey as well:



More on the hotel in Turkey that 'floats' above an archaeological site:



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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[quite a few Classics-related items in the Coronacopia section too ...]

Evidence that the Romans in Pompeii were actively recycling:



Cyprus is accusing a British company of illegally excavating some ancient (and later) shipwrecks (we mentioned last week):




... in case you missed it:




Plans to restore the site of Doxipara:



Plans to move a Roman/Punic (?) burial site in the way of a construction project on Malta:



Suggestion that pasta has its roots in ancient Greece:




I think we've mentioned this possible identification of the site of the Battle of the Tagus:





A new drone-based virtual tour of Pompeii:




Feature on the Celtic World after Rome:



Feature on Boudicca:



Feature on the pharmakos:



Feature on Pericles (and Boris Johnson, sort of):



Feature on some astronomical discoveries from ancient Greece:



Feature on Aqueducts:



Feature on oracles from Delphi:



Stephanie Frampton was looking at assorted Latin texts:



Feature on Rositsa Atanasova's work on connecting Classics to refugee rights:



Feature on the Lycurgus Cup:



On Latin in Harry Potter:



Some NLE results coverage (Madway High):



Feature (paywalled) on Michael Fontaine's translation of 'The Art of Drinking':



Interview with Madeline Miller:



An interview with Brooke Holmes on ancient epidemics:



Nandini Pandey was pondering Classicists in isolation:



Dirk Obbink was apparently brought in for questioning regarding the POxy/MoTB affair:






... and possibly related (? ... I honestly don't understand the purpose of this one):



cf:

Speculating what might have been if Alexander had lived longer:



In case you want to replicate what is purported to be the ancient Roman version of the hamburger:



... or try your hand at ancient Roman bread making:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A study of the diet of hunter-gatherers living in the Balkans some 6000+ years bp:










A possible 2200 years bp chieftain/shaman burial from Gloucestershire (I think):



A Bronze Age hoard from a construction site in Portchester:



A study of the diets and livelihoods of folks buried at the Iron Age Levanluhta site (Finland):





A dig is underway at Anglesey Abbey:



Remains of a medieval monastery from Bosnia Herzegovina:




A 500 years bp fragment of stained glass found at Winchester Cathedral:



Feature on the synagogue/oldest Christian church at Alicante:



Feature on the origins of the Celtic Picts:



... and more generally on the Picts:



Feature on a medieval 'doomsday bunker' in France:



The Paleolithic La Garma petroglyphs (Spain) have been given the VR treatment:



Some Viking-related podcasts:



Mary Beard waded in on the plans for Oswestry hillfort:



More on studying and recreating Bronze Age sword fights:






More on medieval blue ink:







More on Viking artifacts emerging from melting glaciers:


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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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An ancient ?(?) foundation of some sort found near the Lor Ley temple in Siem Reap:




Construction in Macau revealed a 16th century (maybe) Portuguese cannon:




A number of Buddha statue fragments from Angkor Wat:




On the possible Mongolian origins of the Mulan legend:



Feature on indigenous accounts of Captain Cook:



Feature on Liangzhu civilization:



More on that decapitated, kneeling skeleton from Henan:





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NORTH AMERICA
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A pre-Hispanic Maya town's remains near Quintana Roo:



The site of Fort San Anton de Carlos has been identified in Florida:






A Native American grinding rock find during retaining wall construction in California:



Feature on the Franklin Expedition excavations:



Feature on the utility of frozen poop knives:



Plans to move some Alamo burials:



There's a virtual tour of Washington, DC:



... and Frank Lloyd Wright buildings:



On the Civil War recovery:



On the origins of Tex-Mex dishes:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Interesting study of human sacrifice/heart extractions in assorted Mesoamerican contexts:





A study of the Wari site at Cerro Baul (Peru):


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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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What archaeology is revealing about Shakespeare:



What an 18th century family portrait reveals about England and tea at the time:



On the search for Shackleton's lost ship:



... and an interesting notebook from the Robert Scott expedition to the Antarctic:



Feature on chintz:



A 'henge' competition has some interesting renditions:



Studying the globalism of Wendell Wilkie:



Pondering depictions of historical fashion in movies:



Feature on female doctors in WWI:



Interesting feature on the legal ramifications of provenance:



Notre Dame is 'gradually' reopening:


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CORONACOPIA
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The Cerne Abbas Giant had a bit of a makeover:



An archaeologist's experience on lockdown in Alaska:



What Rome's 2773rd anniversary looked like this week:




Assorted diplomatic types were reciting/reading Greek literature:




... and assorted others were reading Rime of the Ancient Mariner:



This seems the proper category for a piece on sourdough/leavened bread:



Applying assorted ancient philosophies to COVID-19:



... and Stoicism specifically:



Applying ancient Greek ideas of 'hero' to COVID-19:



... and Plato's Cave:



... and Laocoon:



Another comparison of COVID-19 to the Plague of Athens:



Connecting the collapse of the Roman Empire to an epidemic:



Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Stephen Colbert, and COVID-19:



Pandemic posters over the years:



Playing Bach in a time of pandemic:



Denver's experience with loosening 'social distancing' in 1918:



The New York Historical Society is collecting pandemic-related items:



In Japan, Amabie has come out to fight COVID-19:




Feature on Typhoid Mary:



Feature on pandemic novels:



Back and COVID-19:



Dobrovnik was apparently planned with pandemic in mind:


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AUCTIONS
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Those two ancient coins put in Salvation Army kettles in Florida are coming to auction:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Buddhist Art:




Coverage of virtual museum exhibitions this week include Rafael:



... and generally:



The Met seems to be having financial difficulties:



Museums were showing off their 'creepiest' items:




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THE TECHY SIDE
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Not sure where to put this item on C14 dating in Egypt:



A techy focus on the Nazareth inscription:



Nice feature on LiDAR use by William and Mary researchers:



Using teeth to reconstruct genetic relationships:




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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Earth Day related piece on how assorted ancient cultures adapted to climate challenges:



Feature on climate change in ancient Egypt:



Feature on the early climate scientist Eunice Foote:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Georgian Convent:



Hidden rooms of the Vatican:


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Interesting study of Neolithic genomes from Switzerland:






A study of some medieval remains from Chichester (and elsewhere) reveal evidence of leprosy:



More on DNA from ancient coprolites:





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CRIME BEAT
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A followup on that Van Gogh theft outside Amsterdam:




Feature on forgeries and 'missing' works of art:


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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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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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Iris Love:




Cheryl A. Wall:


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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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