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explorator 23.02 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?May 3, 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, Ken Berry,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Evidence of Late Pleistocene human presence in assorted remote islands in souteast Asia:





Pondering migration to Western Siberia in the Paleolithic:



Pondering when homo sapiens will go extinct:



Pondering how much DNA we share with Neanderthals:



Pondering the guy behind the Piltdown Man hoax/fraud:



More on the 25 million years bp origin (!) of human languages:



More on the age of Neanderthals mothers and fathers:


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AFRICA
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Feature on the kingdom of Zimbabwe:



Feature on Byrsa Hill (Carthage):


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 17th dynasty burial of a bejewelled teen girl from Luxor:












A roundup of recent finds in Egypt (mostly Saqqara):




Some sphinxes/sphinges were moved to Tahrir Square:






Plans for a video on the history of Egyptian cooking:



This week's virtual tours include an Ottoman-era door:



... and a Fatimid wooden panel:



Egypt also launched a #ExperienceRamadanFromHome campaign:



On climate change and ancient Egypt:



Strange claims/arguments about the prophet Idriss, the Sphinx, and Osiris that Zahi Hawass waded into:






More on the petroglyphs from the Sinai (which might date to 3000 BCE):






A Sassanid-era inscription from near Persepolis is being worked on:




I think we've mentioned this did in Nazareth suggesting, inter alia, an anti-Roman streak:



Plans to move a Second Temple era synagogue revealed during highway construction near Beit Shemesh:



The Hirbet Astunah site is the latest to be looted in Israel:



In case you were interested in the (expired) item on Eva Grossman's work at Byzantine Apollonia, here's an alternate:



Feature on the recently-honoured Vered Noam:



Jodi Magness will be delivering the Schweich Lectures:



Feature on Oshnavieh (Iran):



Feature on some 14 000 years bp petroglyphs near Natanz (Iran):



Feature on in-house burials at Catal Huyuk:



Turkey plans to hype the Karatepe-Aslantas site:



Feature on a 'bone figurine' from Catal Huyuk found a few years ago:



Feature on Merneith:



Feature on dolmens in Lebanon:



Feature on that impact crater in the Sahara possibly related to some Tut jewellery:



Some random facts about Mesopotamia:



Pondering the presence of women at Qumran:



Nice collection of articles on Temple Mount:



Feature on the DSS during the lockdown:



Feature on Mehmet:



More on who the first beer was brewed for:



More on sourdough bread made with 4500 years bp Egyptian yeast:



More on the 'hidden pattern' claim at Gobekli Tepe:




...cf:
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Copper discs from a late Bronze Age shipwreck in the Black Sea:




An Etruscan burial from Corsica:




Assorted 2nd/3rd century finds from a Thracian burial mound near Lyaskovets:



Remains of a 2000 years bp Roman 'sewn boat' from Porec (Croatia):




Suggestion that an ancient street in Turin was aligned to honour Octavian:



I think we mentioned this find of a massive Roman coin hoard in Poland:



Plans to restore the Doxipara site/burial:




... and the Arch of Septimius Severus in Rome:



A study of skull shapes from fifth century burials in Hungary hint at social changes occurring as the Roman Empire was in 'decline':









Vandalism at the Roman site of Caerleon:



... and the Villa Pamphili:



Fundraising for Brading Roman Villa:



Upgrades at the Acropolis:



I think we mentioned this Roman 'horse brooch' frin from a Lincolnshire field a while ago:



Roman Law in a modern UK court context:



More on garbage heaps from Pompeii suggest folks were actively 'recycling' materials:








More on the search for the site of the Battle of the Tagus:




Online tours mentioned this week include Herculaneum:



... a drone flight around the Pantheon:



... and I think we mentioned the drone tour of Pompeii:




... and a pair of Pompeii houses:



A drone also was checking out assorted Greek sites:



Hype for Lee Fratantuono's *Roman Qonquests: Mesopotamia and Arabia*:



Revieiwish item on Halen Morales' *Antigone Rising*:



What Charissa Skoutelas is up to:




UIowa is moving their Homerathon online:



... and its Classics classes are already there, of course:



... and Princeton Classics:



Pondering the future of Classics:



... and why folks should study Classics:



Pondering the suggestion Asterix was really a Pict:



More on the Dirk Obbink allegations:



Feature on Ovid's exile:



Feature on what India learned from the ancient Greeks:



Feature on Carthage:



Feature on Mediobogdum:



Feature on Verulamium:



Feature on Deva Victrix:



Feature on Liternum:



Feature on Cleopatra the Alchemist (3rd century):



Feature on some ancient Greek astronomical discoveries:



Feature on the beginning of Roman literature:



... and the 'Silver Age':



... and the 'Golden Age':



Feature on some star gladiators:



Feature on the Minoans:



Another feature on Roman toilet paper:



An Olympia app is in the works:



Plans for a live-action remake of Disney's Hercules:



Marking the 20th anniversary of the Gladiator movie:




Feature on some Sword and Sandal classics:



Pondering Herodotus and Afrocentrist views:



More on diplomats reciting Greek literature:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 4200 years bp burial of a Bronze Age ?'chieftain' found beneath a skate park in Gloucestershire:




Studying the spread of dairy farming across Western Europe:





7th/8th century curial of an Avar nomadic warrior found near Cibalae (Croatia):




14th century finds made during the restoration of The Charterhouse in Coventry:



Remains of a medieval priory at Anglesey Abbey:




Evidence of 'compassionate capitalism' in medieval Cambridge:



I think we mentioned these remains of an 18th century bottle-glass factory in Edinburgh:



Evidence of a 19th century 'escape tunnel' found during metro excavations in Copenhagen:



Hopes for plenty of finds at a housing development project in Navenby:




Studying British urban churchyards in various periods:



Interesting plans related to a study of Scottish Brochs:




Concerns for Oswestry Hillfort:



This week's virtual tours include Wemyss Caves:



Feature on recreating an 'Arthurian-era' paint colour:



Marking the anniversary of the adoption of Christianity as the official religion of Bulgaria:



Dunstable's Manshead Archaeological Society is disbanding:



A dig in Scotland needs help with a name:



... and they want your photos of Clava Cairns:



More on the Levanluhta people climate change response in 17th century Finland:



More on recreating Bronze Age sword fighting techniques:



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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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A 30 000 years bp butchery scene from petroglyphs found in central India:



Some petroglyphs from Altai found decades ago have been (re)dated to some 15 000 years bp:




Feature on Japan's 'stonehenge':



Plenty of finds from the Ning-erga Jiangkou Chenyin historic site:



... and from a Ming/Qing era site in Yunnan:



Assorted items on the legacy and memory of James Cook:






Feature on trade routes in Georgian history:



Feature o Korezm fortresses in Uzbekistan:



More on evidence of ritualized human sacrifice from a Chinese burial:



More on evidence for possible inspiration for Mulan:



Feature on what India learned from the ancient Greeks:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence of tourists from the 'southeast' regularly travelling to Florida's Gulf Coast for oysters 1000+ years bp:




Remains of the 454 years bp Fort San Anton de Carlos located on Mound Key (Florida):





Searching for the Jason Lee Mission house in Salem:



High waters have contributed to a couple of shipwrecks washing ashore from Lake Michigan:



Rethinking dates important to indigenous history:





Feature on the 19th century deportation of 80 000 Native Americans:



Philadelphia has plans to memorialize 'Dinah':



Feature on Ring Mountain (California) petroglyphs:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Remains of a 800 years bp Maya village in the Yucatan:




LiDAR seems to be behind the find of two pre-Hispanic settlements in Michoacan:



Three skulls from a 16th century mass grave in Mexico City are thought to be remains of possible African slaves (!):








Study suggests some large urns found in Jalisco a decade or so ago were used for brewing beer:



Feature on Colombia's 'Ciudad Perdida':



More on Mesoamerican heart extractions:




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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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A study of the roles of women in various hunter-gatherer cultures:




Studying the effects of animal groups' disappearance on humans in various periods (mostly Paleolithic Europe):




Feature on Donatello's 'David':



On story-telling through the ages:



Pondering the reasons for the extinction of the passenger pigeon:



On the archaeology of 'Burning Man':



Interesting feature on 'dining' in Renaissance Europe:



Another feature on toilet paper:



Ozymandias is the 'poem of the week':



In case you haven't seen the forgeries in Animal Crossing:



Feature on artists who wanted their works destroyed after their deaths:



Researchers believe they have found the oldest record of a human being killed by a meteorite:



Feature on Victorian mummy unwrapping parties:


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CORONACOPIA
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Pondering death and ageism in Greek myth and the era of COVID-19:




The lessons of the Antonine Plague of 165 CE:



A study questioning the disease modelling of the Justinianic plague:



Indian gods in face masks:



The Cleveland MoA has a pandemic-related exhibition:



Greece is reopening archaeological sites in the next couple of weeks:



Feature on 'plague literature':



Features on Venice's response to plague 700 years bp:




The International Festival of Greek Drama has been cancelled for this year:



On the 1786 plague outbreak in Tiberias:



Feature on the Plague Column in Vienna:



Someone was walking around dressed as a 17th century plague doctor and police weren't happy:




On European colonization and the epidemics they brought to Native Americans:



... in a similar vein:



Looting and smuggling is on the upswing during the pandemic, apparently:






Walter Scheidel was pondering the effects of COVID-19 on society:



On how epidemics have affected food choices:



What we can learn from Van Gogh about coping with COVID-19:



How Spanish flu affected the Women's Suffrage movement:



Pondering the potential fate of the handshake:



Another history of quarantine:



Online courses are suddenly very popular in the UK:



Repairs have recommenced at Notre Dame:




Feature on assorted virtual tours:



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AT THE AUCTIONS
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Interesting maps related to 'ancient' Israel are coming to auction:



France is planning to sell off some antique furniture to support hospitals:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Life at the Dead Sea:




QueensU has 'brouught back' a former museum of the ANE virtually:



A major revamp of the British Museum's online collection:







Not sure if these videos from the Bible Lands Museum were COVID-19 inspired or not:



Hyping the GEM:





A book ponders museums' role in defining history:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Chain mail from the Mary Rose underwent some x-ray analysis:







X-ray analysis also contributed to some items found by detectorists in Shropshire being declared treasure:




Pondering the process of closing museums:



Museums are now allowed to sell off their art in the US:



Nice feature on LiDAR used to locate features of Fort Edward (Nova Scotia):


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A study of the genetic diversity of Viet Nam:



More on the DNA in coprolites:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Assorted carnivals in Basel:



Easter Island:



Pamukkale:



Crete:



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CRIME BEAT
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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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Looted Benin bronzes are going online:


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NUMISMATICA
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The ANS has added some Ptolemaic bronzes to its online research tool:



Feature on some 7th century Muslim coins:



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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Pat Miller:




Robert Salzer:



Madeline Kripke:



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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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