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explorator 23.12 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?July 12, 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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A study of Turkana Boy (h. erectus) suggests he had a large chest like a Neanderthal:







Evidence from Qafzeh Cave in Israel suggests early humans were wearing shell necklaces (and had string) some 120 000 years bp:














Evidence that 'prehistoric humans' in Israel were eating elephants and hippos, inter alia:




Something paywalled about blaming prehistoric hominid DNA for our current issues:


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AFRICA
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Feature on medieval Somaliland:



Feature on Chinguetti (Mauretania):


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Feature on the pyramid of Unas and the pyramid texts therein:



On Tut's 'last tour' out of Egypt:



... which has raised some questions about whether it is breaking Egypt's own laws:



Egypt's El Sakakini Palace will be reopening soon:



Egypt's Islamic sites haven't reopened yet, apparently:



Finds and sites from various periods in Kerman:



Feature on Bronze Age Tepe Gariran:



Feature on the 'oldest settlement on the Iranian Plateau':



A project to resture late Bronze Age finds from Tepe Rivi:



More on that Parthian era horse burial from Isfahan:





Feature on Florian Klimscha's work on seeking the origins of metallurgy in the Levant:



Interesting evidence of microlith use from Mount Carmel some 20 000 years bp:



Meanwhile, some 10 000 years bp artifacts from Jordan are being connected to burial and exhumation rituals:





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4200 years bp megalithic structures and petroglyphs from a site in the Yehudiya Nature Reserve:








Pottery apparently suggests that the Tomb of the Patriarchs was a 'pilgrimage site' in First Temple times:



Review of Paula Fredricksen, *When Christians Were Jews*:



Feature on the Hasankeyf dam and its effects:




Feature on that inscription associated with King Midas found a while ago:



Not sure where to put this ... Turkey officially turned Hagia Sophia into a mosque:











... despite appeals from scholars not to:



... and doubts from the Greek archbishop that they'd do it:



... and other pressures:




... and Greece is now threatening sanctions:




... since Greece considers it a provocation:




... and you kind of wonder what's in store for these documentary producers:



There was only one feature on Hagia Sophia itself, oddly enough:



Interestingly, there were also photos of a recently-found 'hidden church' (Byzantine) from "Constantinople":



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A new method to date and determine the origins of Roman clear glass:






Bits of a temple (it seems) from Gela:





... with some 'controversy' already:



Recent underwater finds from Baia:




I think we mentioned this Roman bathing complex found in Baden a while ago:



A new racecourse track in Chelmsford City was scanned by metal detectorists and turned up some Roman coins:



Feature on a Greek inscription from Aphrodisias relating to the Jewish community there:



Feature on Claudius in Colchester:



Feature on the Antonine plague:



A bust identified as Julius Caesar found at Aquinum a while back is returning 'home':



Greece has opened an underwater museum off Alonissos:




Review of Jacqueline de Romilly, *Life of Alcibiades*:



Interesting feature on a 'British Indian' studying Classics:



New York public schools seem to be doing a good job with Latin:



Not sure about this feature trying to connect Spartans and Jews:



In case you missed the Roman road maps in the style of the London Underground:



More on an Alaskan volcanic eruption contributing to the fall of the Roman Republic:




More on that paleochristian necropolis in Autun:




More on that leather 'mouse' from Vindolanda:



More on that 13 year old 'Amazon' warrior burial:



... and a feature on the Amazons:



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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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7000 years bp evidence of tooth decay from some burials in Poland:




Evidence that Torun structures dating back some 7000 years bp were rather large:



Latest HS2-related find being hyped is an Iron Age murder/execution victim buried with his hands tied up (among other things):










Study suggests the Norman Conquest of 1066 had little impact on people's diet and health:









Latest research suggests the Cerne Abbas Giant was a medieval creation:







The medieval castle site of Slot Oud Haerlem was identified during a geophysical survey:



A medieval papal seal from Shropshire was identified as the 1.5 millionth find for the Portable Antiquities Scheme:






The 1.5 millionth item found by the PAS spawned a number of articles on 'treasures' found by the British public, including a 'top ten':




... and a bronze age cup was another highlight:



... and five from Leicestershire:



... and seven from Suffolk and Norfolk:



... and where things have been found in Bury:



... and a related feature on mudlarking:



Meanwhile, the Winchelsea Cricket Club apparently was tricked into giving access to metal detectorists:



Interesting digital reconstruction of Canterbury Cathedral's Trinity Chapel:








Some Georgian-era graffiti from a 'stately home' in south Yorkshire:



A 16th century shipwreck (possibly) off the coast of northern Italy:



Latest (potential) developments in the search for Red Hugh O'Donnell:




Concerns for the wreck of the London:



Some 17th century books were 'rediscovered' in the Paphos municipal library:



Offroad bikers damaged a 3000 years bp ring cairn near Swansea:



Perhaps of interest is a plan to retintroduce European bison to Britain:



More on Neolithic fishing items from Norway:



More on damage caused by medieval arrow technology:



More on that Minecraft recreation of a 5000 years bp Welsh tomb:



More on those shafts near Stonehenge:


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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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I think we mentioned this Sui Dynasty 'family cemetery' from Shaanxi:



... and this 'winter camp' site associated with Genghis Khan:



A group of 'spherical' dolmens (date?) from near Palani:



A large lidded intact burial urn (date?) from the Adichanallur site in Tuticorin:



... and more:



The fort connected with Doolah Darya Khan has been located near Makli:



Plenty of 'bipolar flakes' found during hospital construction in New South Wales:




Trying to figure out a 'mystery log' found on Kangaroo Island:



More on underwater Aboriginal sites off the coast of Australia:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Draining of a lake in Northern Ontario revealed a stone circle:



A followup on that Utah fire which hit a petroglyph site:



A bison jump site in Wyoming:



Rethinking the dating of Indigenous sites based on European goods:



Fire has destroyed a 249 years bp church in California:




Latest on the search for a possible mass grave associated with the Tulsa Race Massacre:



Feature on the excavation of the Terror:



Feature on slavery on Long Island:



Marking the 10th anniversary of the Suffrage Movement:




The US Supreme Court ruled that half of Oklahoma is Native American land:



More on burials in Zion Cemetery in Tampa:




More on possible burials under Tropicana Field:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An update on those older geoglyphs recently found at Nazca:



More on that underwater ochre mine off the Yucatan:











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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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Apparently plans are to rebuild Notre Dame exactly like it was:




A plant has been grown from 32 000 years bp seeds from the Siberian permafrost:



How the Black Death made the rich richer:



Feature on the philosophy of Zhuangzi:



The Beinecke has acquired a collection of Douglass Family papers:



The pandemic is threatening one of the world's major violin makers:



Not sure where to put this item on linguistic evidence being used to identify contact between Carthaginians and Germanic peoples:



Feature on gay marriages on a 19th century prison ship:



Feature on Virginia Woolf's letters about her brother:



On the history of ice cream:



Interesting feature on pickling in prehistory:



Burning Man through the eyes of an archaeologist:



Being critical of Indiana Jones:



...and the idea of aliens building things:



Pondering the 'whiteness' of archaeology and its effects:



Three US aircraft shot down over the Pacific have been found:



On the Illuminati:



Feature on the Decameron:



Review of a book about Butch Cassidy:



More on dogs sniffing out archaeological sites:


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CURRENT EVENTS: STATUES AND THEIR LEGACIES
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Eleven Confederate statues in Richmond will be coming down:



A Confederate monument in Arlington cemetery is still standing:



... and folks are wondering about statues of Confederate women:



... and Union monuments in the west:



Bridgeport removed its Columbus statue:



A suggestion (serious?) that the Arch of Titus should be torn down:



A Frederick Douglass statue was vandalized in Rochester:



An Ohio city has declared itself a 'sanctuary' for unwanted statues from across the US:



A feature on Georgia's Stone Mountain relief:



A call for Liberia to change the name of its capital:



Pondering public statues in the history of art:



Reviewish thing of Catherine Nixey, *The Darkening Age* with a destruction of statues focus:



... and in a similar vein:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Kazakh pastoralists appear to have had cats as pets more than 1000 years bp:









More on preference for male horses in the Bronze Age:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Lots of spins being put on DNA evidence that Native Americans 'mixed with' Polynesians in the 12th/13th centuries CE:

















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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Pompeii:




Treasures of Ancient Egypt:



Ancient Women:



Van Gogh:



Arab artifacts at the Louvre:



Feature on the National Gallery (UK) reopening:



The Uffizi is drawing attention to Black figures in Renaissance art:



Sicily is opening a museum dedicated to mythology:



The Louvre reopened:



Another fire at a Brazilian museum:



Museum tickets are in high demand/sold out in Europe apparently:



... and the Vatican Museums aren't crowded at all:



Egypt's Royal Chariots/Carriages Museum ?will reopen soon apparently:



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THE TECHY SIDE
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Nice feature on one of the folks who do those facial reconstructions:


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AUCTIONS AND SALES
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Big bucks for a Ming-era 'encyclopedia':



That 12th century Yorkshire baron's coin fetched a nice price:



Interesting items associated with assorted 20th century scientists are coming to auction:



Auctions are "crimped' because they've been forced online:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Classical Weimar:



16th century London:



Patara:



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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Open air plays at St Alban's Roman Theatre will resume soon:




Hype for Being Beethoven:



Pondering Hamilton:



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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Using a Hittite 'SOS letter' to hype a doc about Egypt:


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CRIME BEAT
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Temples in Myanmar are being looted during the tourist slump:



A Brooklyn man was caught smuggling artifacts in a 'dirty suitcase':





A major theft at Tehran's Anthropology Museum:



That guy who tried to steal the Magna Carta from Salisbury Cathedral was sentenced:



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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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Austria returned some items to Iran:


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NUMISMATICA
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Renewal of a MOU with Italy is causing concerns among coin collectors:



Feature on some interesting ancient 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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Arthur Keaveny:



Donald Russell:



Ola Mae Spinks:



Vera Lynn:



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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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