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explorator 23.05 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?May 24, 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, Lampros Kallenos,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay, Patrick Swan,
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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Computer models claiming to reveal the cause of the demise of Neanderthals:








Study suggests sediba could use both hands and climb trees:





A 300 000 years bp elephant skeleton, apparently scavenged by humans, from Shoningen:







... and I think we've mentioned this 300 000 years bp 'throwing stick' from the same area before:



Interesting feature (with video) on the context of how hominid fossils are preserved:



Feature on jewellery designs 'shared' by Neanderthals and Sapiens:



Feature on the oldest human fossil:


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AFRICA
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Evidence of bow hunting in South Africa (and assorted implications drawn therefrom) is earlier than previously thought:




Early Muslim communities in Africa had a varied, halal diet:



Copal/resin samples from Madagascar turn out to be only a 'few hundred' years old:




More on those 12 000 years bp or so footprints from Tanzania:



More on conclusions being made from finds at Pinnacle Point (South Africa):





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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Burials from various late Egyptian periods from Oxyrhynchus/Bahnasa:




Restoration work on 29 ram statues at Karnak has resumed:




Feature on the 'black goo' found in many Egyptian burials:




7000 years bp intact 'earthenware dishes' from a site in northern Iran:



Evidence of ear infections in Israel some 15 000 years bp:





Remains of a 2000 years bp 'underground complex' near the Western Wall:












Flooding at one of the sites claimed to be the biblical Bethsaida (el Araj):



Latest digitization project involving the DSS:



More on that recently-found Bar Kokhba coin:




Feature on the Hittite 'calendar' at Yazilikaya:



30+ sites in Sistan-Baluchestan were added to Iran's heritage list:



More on geometry at Gobekli Tepe:


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 'cluster' of seven undisturbed Punic/Roman era tombs from Tarxien (Malta):






Roman finds from an HS2-related dig near Solihull:



Plans for a socially-distanced dig on the Roman road through Colchester:



Remains of a 2200 years bp 'Hellenist banquet' from Tel Bet Yerah:



More on the Roman sarcophagus unearthed at Ostia:



More on that leather 'mouse' from Vindolanda:






More on the sinkhole outside the Pantheon:



Feature on Stephanie Frampton's work on writing in the ancient world:



Feature on 'hidden artifacts' in the Parthenon:



Feature on Orpheus and Eurydice:



Feature on boxing in ancient Greece:



Feature on Classics as perceived by 'first generation classicists' in the US:



Feature on making haste slowly:



Pondering war and power in Classical Greece and lessons to be learned:



Latest feature on the Antikythera mechanism:



The British Museum reprised its Pompeii Live walkthrough:




Greece is calling for the return of the Parthenon Marbles again:




... and Australia seems to be leading the push for the return as well:



More on building height restrictions near the Acropolis:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence that Palaeolithic hunters in the Czech Republic ate wolf meat:



Neolithic evidence of a house mouse presence in a Serbian village (2500 years earlier than previously thought):





The oldest cave art in the Czech Republic is now dated to 7000 years bp:



An interesting 4000 years bp burial of a woman in Brandenburg:





A 2800 years bp burial of a jewellery-bedecked woman near Lyon:





Origin problems with an 1100 years bp brooch found by a metal detectorist:



Looking for the remains of Red Hugh O'Donnell in Spain:





... and apparently finding some bones:



Latest finds during renovations at Auschwitz:




Concerns for underwater sites in the North and Baltic Seas:



Feature on the Spillings hoard:



Feature on the palace of Henry VIII at Otford:



Latest interpretation of the 'Towie Ball':



More on Norway's plans to excavate the Gjellestad Viking ship:





More on William Wallace's (maybe) 'hidden fortress':



More on the Tap O'Noth hillfort:




More on damage inflicted by medieval arrows:


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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 2000 years bp bonze pot filled with a 'mystery liquid' from a burial in Henan:



A Northern Song Dynasty burial of a couple from Hunan:



Plans to complete the excavation of Nanhai No. 1 in 2021:



More on hares in Neolithic China:



More on archaeological cooperation along the Silk Road:



Dental evidence is revealing dietary and other habits from Japan's Edo Period:




Excavations have resumed at Keeladi:



A votive stupa find from Vadnagar:



An idol of Vishnu from Uttar Pradesh:




A number of pillars are the latest finds from Ayodhya (they're still arguing about this site):





A study tracking the spread of rice across Asia:




... while another study has identified the first cultivated rice in Central Asia:




Interesting feature on the various cultures represented in petroglyphs in a Murray River rock shelter (Australia):





This week, humans are off the hook for megafauna extinction in Australia:




Concerns from plenty of Maori sites in Marlborough:


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NORTH AMERICA
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The site of a major Seminole Wars battle may have been located:



... and long-time Explorator reader/correspondent Patrick Swan ?has a podcast related to the find:



Funding for battlefield sites in 11 states:



They opened up a 105 years bp time capsule from Arlington Cemetery:



Feature on Chaco Canyon:



More on Cahokia and corn cultivation:





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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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15 000 years bp remains of 60 mammoths at an airport construction site near Mexico City:







Remains of a 15th century Inca settlement in Catamarca:



Drone use has helped rediscover some 'lost' Nazca geoglyphs:



Feature on the Toxcatl Massacre:



Feature on Kuelap:


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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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Not sure where to put this interesting item on the use of cadaver dogs in archaeology:





Plans (apparently) to recover the Titanic's Marconi telegraph:







Suggestion that a revival of Gothic architecture might be a good thing:



Some olive trees which burned in Cyrpus this week had been established with Franks were in control:



Feature on sites in England which inspired Tolkien:



Questioning a quotation of Galileo:



The 'secret' of Italian Renaissance domes:



Feature on Raphael:



Feature on child labour:



On the history of 'racial capitalism' ?in the US:



A woman won a Picasso in a raffle:



Feature on Japan's Ainu people:



Keeping an eye on this story of 'Faberge antiquities' being shipped to Panama and being sanctioned:



More on the high-res 'Night Watch':


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CORONACOPIA
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On the plague of Athens:



Questioning the impact of Justinian's plague:



How Romans dealt with pandemics:



... and a feature on pandemics from antiquity:



On disease in Greece's 'mythological past':



Feature on someone doing virtual tours of Hadrian's Wall:



Sites and museums in Rome are reopening:




... as is the site of Paestum:



... as is the Acropolis and sites in Greece:




... but some think museums to remain shut:



How the plague contributed to the return of Ashkenazi Jews to Jerusalem:



On past pandemics in Africa:



... and 'ancient plagues' more generally:



Using DNA to identify past pandemics:



The pandemic is causing insolvency issues for the Globe theatre:





... and concerns at historic British castles:



On chronocentric predictions of pandemic outcomes:



Feature on plague doctors:



On 'blaming the sick' in US history:



Love in the time of pandemics in literature:



Review of Zachary Carter's biography of JOhn Maynard Keynes:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Paywalled article on cat domestication (I think ... it might be the mouse story from Serbia):



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA has traced the oldest Russian connection to Native Americans to ?a place near Lake Baikal in Siberia:









Large scale genome analyses in China are tracking migration of early farmers:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Pompeii (MAC):



Hyping the impending opening of the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization in Fustat:



Latest transfers to the GEM:



The MFA in Houston has reopened:




Interesting social-distancing strategy in Italian museums:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial reconstruction is a 900 years bp priest whose remains were found in Lincoln Cathedral:



... and one of Henry VII based on his death mask:



I think we've mentioned these developments in C14 dating:



More on text revealed on previously-thought-to-be-blank DSS fragments:








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AUCTIONS AND RELATED
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Interesting auction of some WWII spy gear:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Tokyo:



Roman ruins outside of Rome:


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PERFORMANCES
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Ovid and the Art of Love (assorted interviews and reviews):



The Trip:



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CRIME BEAT
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The acquisition problems for the Museum of the Bible continue, with the revelation that the Gilgamesh Dream Tablet has been forfeited by the US Attorney:











... and so Hobby Lobby is suing Christie's as a result:



Some followup coverage in the wake of Ariel Sabar's piece in the Atlantic last week regarding MOTB/Hobby Lobby/Dirk Obbink:



Nice OpEd by Robert Cargill on the Hobby Lobby/MOTB collecting practices:



Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:


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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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A 19th century coin from Siraf (Iran):



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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John Driscoll:



Kurt Rudolph:



Cecily Giles:


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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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