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explorator 23.11 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?July 5, 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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Stone tools dating from 620 000 to 850 000 years bp from Gabon (not sure how 'new' this is):



Another rethink of early hominids and their relationship with megafauna:



DNA linked to COVID-19 apparently was inherited from Neanderthals:


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AFRICA
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How Africa contributed to the Roman Empire:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Egypt has reopened the Baron Empain Palace:




On the safety precautions taking place at assorted pyramids:



Feature on Seti I's tomb:



OpEd on how the June 30 revolution was good for archaeology in Egypt:



A Parthian era horse burial from Isfahan:



Latest finds from the dig at what is believed to be Ecbatana:



Feature on a pollen study connected to the Bronze Age collapse:



Some seals are being used as evidence of rebuilding Jerusalem after the 1st Temple exile (I think we had a version of this):









More on women and teenagers working as potters at Tell es-Safi/Gath:



A feature on the search for David's 'Lost Empire':



A project mapping Jewish heritage sites in Iraq and Syria:



A podcast tour of that underground site near the Western Wall that's been in the news for a couple of weeks:



Feature on the only person 'allowed to touch the DSS' (Tanya Bitler):



Feature on what a 'House of God' is:



More on the status of Jewish sites in Palestine under Trump's plan:



More on plans to turn Hagia Sophia into a mosque in a week or so:



... and related opeds:



A 19th century watchtower at Ras Al Khaimah has been restored:



Feature on the impact of the Ilisu Dam project:



More on Natufian folks eating snakes and lizards some 15 000 years bp:





More on that Jordanian ammunition stash found near the Western Wall:


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A sarcophagus fragment (maybe) found in Istanbul:



Latest finds from Bergama suggest it was settled earlier than previously thought:




A Roman anchor and evidence of a 6th-4th century BCE shipwreck off Ventontene:




150 3rd century (and later) ?burials from Autun:




In case you missed the ?coverage of Roman kilns being found at Luxor:




Excavation have resumed at the Roman-era Silifke Castle in Mersin:



Excavations will resume at the site of Pisa's Roman amphitheatre:



... and the Greek theatre in Agrigento:



The Roman Baths at Bath are reopening with assorted safety measures:




Safety measures are also in place at Pompeii:



... and there's a nice feature on Pompeii too:



Concerns about a potential 4th century BCE wall collapse in Caserta:



Donations are pouring in to help save Fishbourne Roman Palace from permanent closure:



The UK is trying to prevent the export of some Roman hound sculptures:



Major funding for the Alba Fucens site:



Feature on Roman finds at Cartimandua:



Feature on the Romans' impact on the Midlands:



Feature on Yeovil's Roman road:



Feature on Thera:



Feature on Silphium:



Feature on an inscription from Delphi and early Church history:



Feature on the role of women in the early Christian church:



Feature on Eudaimonia:



Feature on the Lion of Chaeronea:



Feature on the Greek influences on American independence:



Feature on some of Rome's 'famous' buildings:



Feature on a 2300 years bp Scythian woman's boot found in the Altai mountains a while ago:



Feature on Roman crucifixion methods:



Reviewish/hype for Astrid Van Oyen, *The Socio-Economics of Roman Storage*:



Review of Andrew Bayliss, *The Spantans*:



Robert E Wolverton is retiring after a long career:



Peter Jones is pondering Tiberius:



In case you're collecting, the village of Suscepan ?(Montenegro) is supposedly another candidate for the 'real' site of Troy:



... and just to make it more interesting, there's a suggestion that the Trojan War was a civil war:



More hype for Aizanoi opening for tourists in Turkey (with boat tours!):





More on recent finds from the wreck of the Mentor:



More on the eruption of Alaska's Okmok volcano being tied to the fall of the Roman Republic:







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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Chemical analysis suggests that Stonehenge's stones were transported by land, not rafts:



Neolithic remains from a site near Piestany (Slovakia):



Remains of 10th/11th century fortifications from Poznan (Poland):




Finds from various periods (Roman, medieval) from York's Guildhall:



Remains of a 13th century wall near a church in Zvolen (Slovakia):




Evidence that remains of French Revolution guillotine victims may be hidden in the walls of the Chapelle Expiatoire:





A ship used by the Dutch West India Company for slave trade purposes has been identified in a print:



People living near a Cardiff hillfort are asked to dig in their gardens:



Parasite evidence is linking medieval Bristol to a German port:



Someone has tracked down the earliest name of a cat in the UK:



Feature on the Neolithic site of La Bureba:



Feature on dietary changes at Pictish Portmahomack:



Feature on Tintagel and the Dumnonians:



Feature on restoring Portugal's painted tile art:




More on that Neolithic circle found near Stonehenge:




More on royal incest evidence from Newgrange:



More on those medieval child burials (with coins in their mouths) found in Poland:







More on the 9th century Viking 'homestead' recently found on Iceland:



More on ancient fishing tackle from Norway:



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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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Earliest evidence of 'processed' traditional Chinese medicine from Western Han dynasty tomb in Jiangxi:



A large Sui dynasty family burial site from Shaanxi:



A possible winter camp site associated with Genghis Khan:



Latest finds from the Keeladi excavations include some 'weighing stones':



7000 years bp underwater Aboriginal site off the north west coast of Australia:
















Remains of a 19th century mining camp in a New South Wales national park:




I think we mentioned this dig finding 19th century remains of Brisbane's 'Chinatown':



Searching for convict burials in Tasmania:



An investigation has been launched in the wake of that blowing up of an Aboriginal site by a mining company:



Feature on Nan Madol:



A 19th century photo might be the earliest known image of a Maori person:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Wildfires damaged petroglyphs in Utah:



Latest finds from the dig at Colonial Michilimackinac:




Latest finds from the Zion cemetery in Tampa:



... and archaeologists want to check whether there are burials beneath Tropicana Field in St Petersburg:



Feature on an 'amateur archaeologist' digging a Native American site somewhere in Coshocton County ?(Ohio, I think):



Feature on a 11 000 -13 000 years bp mining site being preserved/studied in Wyoming:



Feature on why the British strategy during the American Revolution was destined to fail:



Feature on how states got their names:



Feature on how Schenectady dealt with the 1918 flue pandemic:




More on something other than tobacco being found in a 1400 years bp pipe from Washington state:





More on corn being connected to Cahokia's rise:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of 10 000+ years bp ochre mines in underwater caves off the Yucatan:










I think we mentioned this cave beneath the Pyramid of the Moon at Teotihuacan:



A 19th century perfume from a shipwreck off Bermuda:



Feature on the death mask of Pakal:



More on evidence of water pollution from Tikal:






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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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On how revolutions happen:



What Montaigne did when he was fleeing the plague:



Feature on Simeon Solomon:



A project to catalog all Hebrew texts in Italy:



Separated portraits of a 16th century couple have been reunited after 125 years apart:



Suggestion that DaVinci had 'quick eye':



Feature on the British Museum Library:



Feature on Zoroastrian literature:



Feature on Ashoka's philosophical outlook:



Feature on historical fiction through the ages:



Feature on Frederick Douglass:



Interesting lockdown activity recreating Bronze Age tombs from Wales in Minecraft:



Plans to bring back a 19th century Sasparilla Beer:



On race in American literature:



Pondering the legacy of the 19th amendment:



Marking the 100th anniversary of baseball's Negro Leagues:



Feature on Typhoid Mary:



Interesting feature on bestiaries:



More on the use of dogs to find archaeological sites:



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CURRENT EVENTS: STATUES AND THEIR LEGACIES
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York Minster's statue of Constantine is now being 'looked at':




Someone is bringing up Kemal Ataturk memorials in Australia:



... while one in Washington was defaced:



... and a Columbus statue in Baltimore was torn down:




... and a feature on Columbus:



A Confederate relief in Georgia is being brought up:



... with some protests already:



Latest in the General Schuyler statue (Albany) situation:



Bristol's Colston Arms pub is to be renamed:



On the 'tradition' of pulling down statues in the US:



... similarly, but with a broader historical focus:



... but suggesting that toppling King George's statue wasn't the same:



A time capsule was found in a Confederate monument in Raleigh, NC:



Mount Rushmore's sculptor was being brought up:



Meanwhile, some Russian businessman wants to buy up statues being torn down in the US:



... not sure if that's connected to proposals for a 'National Garden of American Heroes':



OpEd on the idea of 'hero':


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A 12th century coin depicting a Yorkshire baron (rather than King John) is coming to auction:



Nigeria protested the impending sale of some looted Igbo artifacts:




... but Christie's sold them anyway:






That Francis Bacon Aeschylus triptych fetched a major price:




A section of Colchester's Roman wall is coming to auction:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Fall of Pompeii:






Sunken Cities:



A call for museums to play a social justice role:



... and decolonize their collections:



A feature on how UK museums are dealing with the Black Lives Matter movement:



Feature on looted African objects in various museums:



UK museums have started reopening:





First we're hearing (I think) of an Akhenaten museum in El Minya:



The GEM is 90% complete, apparently:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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On satellite technology being used to identify 14 000 sites in northeastern Syria (not sure how fresh this is):



Historic England is apparently going to be doing some high-tech scanning of artefacts:



On the use of AI in various historical situations:



Studying paleomagnetism in ice might be useful:



More on the facial reconstruction of an 8000 years bp skull from a Swedish site:






... and that 900 years bp priest from LIncoln Cathedral:



More on the excavation of the Gjellestad Ship:


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A man in Tennessee apparently carries Beothuk DNA:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Thebes (Egypt):



Venice:



St Helena:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Tartuffe:



Feature on some Black Composers:



... in a similar vein:




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ANIMAL DOMESTICATIONS
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DNA suggests Bronze Age breeders had a bias for male horses:


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CRIME BEAT
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Facebook's involvement in the sale of human remains is now getting looked at:



... and their plans to deal with antiquities trafficking are being questioned:



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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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Not sure where to put this feature on where many museum items *should* be:



France returned some 19th century human remains to Algeria:



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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Augustus' Gais and Lucius denarius:



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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Marc Fumaroli:



David Stronach:



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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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