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explorator 23.07 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? June 7, 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).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Questioning the Neanderthal connection to Nerja petroglyphs:





Suggestion that low genetic diversity contributed to the demise of the Neanderthals:


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AFRICA
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Interesting feature on Thierry Tillet's work in the Sahara:



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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They're making plans in Egypt for the time after archaeological sites reopen:




Funding for renovating the Bab el Azab archaeological area:




Latest feature pondering the Pharaoh of Moses:



Feature on assorted technology being used to protect Egypt's heritage and teach students:



Remains of a Sassanid-era stone well from the Isfahan Hills (Iran):



Feature on Persepolis:



Interesting feature on magnetometer use in archaeology at Uruk:



DNA from 'the lady in the well' in Turkey is confirming migration from Central Asia to the Mediterranean coast in the Late Bronze Age:





More on geometry at Gobekli Tepe:



Using DNA to help piece together the DSS:




















... related podcast:

Radiocarbon dating has been used to confirm that 'Wilson's Arch' and related structures date to the reign of Herod:













A find of an 1800 years bp 'waterspout' from Tzipori National Park is being given an 'idolatrous' spin:










A 3000 years bp (or so) stele of a Mesopotamian moon divinity from e-Tell/Bethsaida:



... and in case you missed it, another 'Bethsaida' candidate is currently dealing with flooding:




The so-called 'Tomb of the Kings' has (finally) reopend to the public after a decade of renovations:




Joshua's Altar is highlighting to political side of Israeli archaeology:



More on 2700 years bp traces of cannabis from an altar at Tel Arad:












General feature on archaeology in Saudi Arabia:




... and assorted Saudi artifacts:



Feature on the continued production of 'Tyrian Purple':



Review of Fournet, *The Rise of Coptic*:


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 1900 years bp statue of a women from Patara:




... and an inscription (probably similar date) honouring a senator from the same place:





A 3rd/4th century CE gold necklace find from Brno:



Not sure how recent this is, but it mentions the find of the oldest Liburnian port:



The scene on one of those sarcophagi found in an olive grove in Turkey a couple of years ago has been identified:



... while that statue of Trajan found at Laodicea last years has been restored and put on display:



Pondering some 1800 years bp water channels from Zerzevan Castle:



Funding to explore a Phoenician shipwreck of Xlendi (Malta):



Archaeological sites on Paphos are going to be connected:



Bettany Hughes' latest documentary series was getting some hype this week, first on a temple of Nemesis found on Lesbos:



... and an episode on Pompeii:



... and one on eastern Mediterranean shipwrecks:



... and Dr. Hughes penned a piece on the series for the Telegraph:



... and a general hype piece:



What Robert Knapp is up to:



Applying the Aeneid to the current zeitgeist:



The SCS released a statement on the death of George Floyd:



Feature on Angeliki Kottaridi's work with sites associated with Philip of Macedon:



Feature on funerary inscriptions in Rome:



... and a related feature on the emotions depicted therein:



Feature on Roman-era tombs from Mersin:



Feature on those 'mangled' burials found during A14 construction a couple of years ago:



Feature on ancient Greek science:



How ancient Greeks dealt with propaganda and disinformation:



Feature on Hannibal and Cannae:



Feature on Roman games in the Colosseum:



Feature on Cyrenaica:



Feature on Viroconium/Wroxeter:



Feature on Venta Icenorum/Caistor:



Feature on Roman London:



Feature on that 'helmet of Miltiades':



Feature on Olous:



Feature on Milman Parry's last words:



A retelling of Psyche:



Feature on the Romans' legacy in Britain:




Feature on Augustus' stoicism:



Greece has opened some submerged sites to divers:



Opeddish thing on Greco-Roman civilization dominating history for too long:



Latest OpEd calling for the return of the Parthenon Marbles:



Surviving having a boss like Caligula:



More on the mosaics rediscovered near Verona:




More on the finds from Civita Giuliana:



More on the shipwreck from ancient Viminacium:



More on the Roman bath structure found at Baden:



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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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DNA is being used to ponder interactions between various 'Stone Age' cultures in Europe:





Remains of some 5000 years bp textiles from the Ness of Brodgar:







Erosion in Yorkshire revealed some Bronze Age beaver fur:



Interesting 18th/19th century burials from a Copenhagen construction site possibly connected to the Royal Surgical Academy:




Low tide revealed a 200 years bp shipwreck on a Devon beach:



Pommelte (the 'German Stonehenge') is opening to the public:



Interesting recent mosaic find from Coventry:



Possible sites revealed during a spell of dry weather in Aylesbury:



Remains of a WWII German shipwreck off Kent has been given heritage protection:




Rethinking the purpose of a tower at St Giles' Cathedral (Edinburgh):



Pondering the Picts:



Questioning the existence of the Anglo-Saxon era (hmmmmm):



... but legitimate pondering of whether the use of the term Anglo-Saxon is correct:



'Treasure' was found 23 times in Northamptonshire last year:



... and 24 times in North West Yorkshire:



... and 34 times in East Riding and Hull:



More on those Neolithic/Bronze Age burials from a skate park in Gloucestershire:



More on that Viking Burial found during home renovations:



More on that Viking ship burial detected on Edoya Island:




More on the search for the remains of ?'Red Hugh' in Spain:



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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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Using DNA to connect human migration and increased farming in northern China over a rather large range of time (7500-1700 years bp):





Feature on China's relations with the West in the past:



Interesting 1600 years bp saddle find from a cave burial in Mongolia:




A database has been created for the Imjin War (16th century):



Studying the diet of folks living in Papua New Guinea 4500 years bp:




An Angkor-era cow sculpture from Preah Vihear province (Cambodia):




A Mughal-era stone sugar mill from a village near Agra:




Restoration of some Chaukhandi tombs has commenced:



Summer fires have revealt Indigenous artifacts in Australia:



Rio Tinto apologized for blowing up a 46 000 years bp Aboriginal heritage site:



... and suggest it was a misunderstanding:



... even though they knew about the site six years ago:




... and an OpEd stemming from the foregoing:



Interesting feature/site all about Cook:



Reclaiming Angkor Wat's modern history:



More on possible wax stencils being used to create some petroglyphs in Australia:






More on female warrior burials from Mongolia:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Pondering the impact of the arrival of humans on megafauna in North America:





Studying how First Nations folks used sea otters:



A 1000 years bp (maybe) arrowhead from a Connecticut beach:





A survey of the Prairie Grove Battlefield site (Arkansas):




Zuni pottery fragments from a site in downtown Tucson (!):




Evidence of another 'lost' African-American cemetery in Clearwater:






The final phase of the dig at the Cochrane Ranche (Alberta) is under way:



A wildfire in Utah did some damage to some transcontinental railroad history sites:



Marking the anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre (various coverage):




Feature on Lafayette Square:



Feature on Grover Cleveland:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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9600 years bp burials from Belize are shedding light on when people began eating maize:







A huge 3000 years bp Maya structure from Tabasco:
















... combining both of the above stories:



What DNA reveals about the early peopling of the Caribbean:







More on mammoth bones beneath Mexico City's airport:




More on the questioning of the 'collapse' of Easter Island society:


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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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The AIA released a statement on social justice:



Pondering why Germans are so 'orderly':



Feature on Edward Hopper:



Feature on ancient toys:



On P.G. Wodehouse's 'perfect sentences':



Latest on the restoration work at Notre Dame:



Prague has put up a replica of a statue destroyed in 1918:



On the importance of the Cinchona tree:



They colorized a photo of Charles Dickens:



Not sure about this Nazi diary revealing location of buried gold in Poland story:



On the use of religion by various leaders in history:


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CORONACOPIA
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The Colosseum reopened:






... as did other Italian sites:




... and Italians are rushing to sites to see them before tourists show up again:



How European museums are welcoming back visitors:



... and the Prado reopened:



Feature on a family going through lockdown in Vindolanda:



On how an epidemic led to the Louisiana Purchase:


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AUCTIONS AND RELATED
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We mentioned this auction as upcoming last week ... an ancient coin found 40 years ago fetched a good price:



... and more ancient coins are coming to auction:



Drawing attention toward Christie's upcoming auction of Egyptian and Roman antiquities:




Some interesting things in some Isaac Newton papers (which are coming to auction):



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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I think we had this 'DNA from 6000 years bp chewing gum' story a while ago:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Raphael:



Pompeii:



The British Museum director released a statement on George Floyd:



Items transfered to the Sharm El-Sheikh museum:



Plans for a Mary Shelley/Frankenstein Museum in Bath have been approved:



Feature on some online museums:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial reconstruction is of a 7500 years bp woman from Gibraltar:



A machine to scan ancient feces:



More on detecting ancient beer:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Finding climate change clues in art historical settings:



Feature on some early climate change predictors (of the human variety);


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TOURISTY THINGS
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World heritage sites in Turkey:



Aachen Cathedral:



La Mosquitia:



Pergamon:



Istanbul:



Meroe:



Ermine Street:


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PERFORMANCES
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An Iliad:



Medea (reading):




Antigone in Ferguson:



Celebrating Beethoven's 250th birthday (missed it):



On various productions of Coriolanus:



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CRIME BEAT
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Egyptian police in MInya seized 374 artifacts from someone's house:



Feature on looted African objects coming to auctions:



Opeddish on nighthawking:


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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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Cook's anniversary is bringing up the Gweagal Shield dispute again:



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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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Oliver O'Grady:



Robert K. Englund:



Norman Lamm:


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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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