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explorator 23.13 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?July 19, 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, Sebastian Hyams,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay, Jona Lendering,
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 1.4 million years bp handaxe made from a hippopotamus bone by some homo erectus:










Study suggests the Negev was a 'lush bridge out of Africa' some 1.8 million years bp:



Another study suggests the early hominid settlement of Europe was probably the result of several 'waves':




Evidence of chert use by the inhabitants of Nahal Me'arot Caves (Israel) some 500 000 years bp:



Not sure there's anything new here in this item on homo luzonensis:



More on 120 000 years bp stringed shells from Qafzeh Cave:




More on Turkana Boy's large chest:


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AFRICA
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Interesting feature on the earliest glass production south of the Sahara:



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The reiteration of the long-standing idea that the Hyksos were an 'internal takeover' was news this week:











Remains of a Ptolemaic era wall from Nagaa Hamadi:




An interesting group of rock cut chambers near Abydos (wide range of dates, but they're stressing Ptolemaic):






Egypt marked the 221st anniversary of the founding of the Rosetta Stone:



... and Google joined in with an app to read/translate hieroglyphs (Fabricius)







Feature on some tombs Egyptian archaeologists would really like to find:



Feature on the 'Screaming Mummy':



Feature on fabrics in ancient Egypt:



Feature (video) on KV-64:



Plans for the Tahrir Complex:



More on Egypt breaking their own law when they loaned Tut items to the UK:



More on those 10 000 years bp flint figurines (maybe) from Jordan:




Studying ancient irrigation practices in the Lisan Peninsula (Jordan):



Feature on protecting archaeological heritage in Jordan:



Remains of a pair of Parthian-era workshops from Isfahan (Iran)



An Islamic era petroglyph referring to 'Iran':



Feature on Bronze Age Tepe Gariran:



Feature on the various aqueduct works in western Iran:



Latest finds from Ecbatana:



French archaeologists are conducting hush hush excavations in Syria:




4000 years bp petroglyphs on a trio of stone dolmens from northern Israel (we may have mentioned these):



A Second Temple era mikveh find in the Lower Galilee is getting in the way of highway construction:



Pondering the animal remains from Abel Beth Maacah:



A study pondering the possible antiquity of some cisterns in the Negev:



Latest site claimed to be the location of Ziklag:



An interview with Joe Uziel about the future plans for the DSS:



Feature on 'biblical archaeology' in Israel:



More on that 'hidden' Byzantine church (and spring) found in Istanbul (last week it was Constantinople):



Feature on the Hanging Gardens of Babylon:



The Hagia Sophia transformation into a mosque continued to generate coverage:



... including a piece noting the mosaics would be covered:



... and a feature on the previous restoration of those mosaics:




... and a feature on the mosaics in general:



... and plans for a museum to house portable icons and other relics:



... and op eds:

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... and some recognition of the political context:







... and Greece was seeking help of some sort from its European allies:



Feature on the sites covered by the Ilisu Dam project:



Feature on the Beyazit State Library:


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 1st century statue (from a funerary monument?) from Altino (Italian):






Roman-era burial featuring a gold diadem found during construction in Izmir:



[Much of the news this week was in languages other than English]

Three amphorae found off the coast of San Felice Circo (Italian):








Remains of a mosaic from Porto Torres (Italian):



Late antique ceramics from a shipwreck (apparently) off Arezzo (Italian):



... not sure if this one aff Marauso is the same shipwreck as the above (Italian):



From the Netherlands comes word of Roman-era horse fittings by metal detectorists (Dutch):



Athens' metro extension to the Piraeus is revealing finds from various periods:





Just starting to hear now (in English) of the controversy growing over plans for a roof over the tomb of Augustus:



... and this 'duomo' excavation seems related (Italian)




The restoration of the Temple of Zeus in Agrigento continues:





Some recently-found Roman finds from Colchester are going on display:



Feature on Claudius' visit to Colchester:




That Roman wall for sale in Colchester was purchased by the town council before it came to auction:




People in Pompeii were apparently happier than those in Victorianish England:



... and some gardens in Pompeii have been recreated:



The UK is trying to prevent the ?export of a mosaic from Roman Dorset that was auctioned off a couple years ago:



The site of a Roman city in Malaga may have been located:



Evidence that the Mediterranean was two degrees warmer during the Roman Empire:




The Peristera shipwreck off Alonissos is now an underwater museum:



The Herodes Atticus theatre has reopened:



They're performing operas in the Circus Maximus:





... and they've lit up the Temple of Hadrian:



... and thee will be moonlight tours of the Colosseum:



Sparta wants to boost archaeology-based tourism:



Funding for the excavation of the Hellenistic theatre in Agrigento:




Feature on Greek limestone sculptures on Cyprus:



Feature on ancient Greek 'travel guides':



Feature on Lake Nemi:



Feature on some upcoming events related to the 2500th anniversary of Thermopylae:



... and a feature on Salamis:



Feature on Timgad:



Feature on Salona:



Feature on Baiae:



Feature on the Villa dei Papiri (and the Getty):



Feature on the Antikythera Mechanism:



Feature o Yourcenar's *Memoirs of Hadrian*:



They've digitized much of Alan Wace's research:



OpEd on 'decolonizing' Classics:



Feature on UKentucky's Latin program:



Mary Beard was criticizing Boris Johnson's Greek and Latin:



Arlington students did well on the NLE:



Reviews of Greg Woolf, *The Life and Death of Ancient Cities*:




Feature on Astrid Van Oyen and her work on Roman storage:



Just so you know, next week Epdaurus will be livestreaming a performance of the Persians:




More on determining the origins of Roman glass:



More on the Ionic capital find from Gela:



More on the paleochristian burials from Autun:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Study suggests that climate was the major factor influencing movement of first farmers across Europe:




Evidence of Neolithic textiles from the Ness of Brodgar:



A LaTene era chariot burial from Heuman (Dutch):



Evidence of major Iron Age religious structures at Navan Fort:







Remains of a large Iron Age settlement at St Neots:



Puzzling over thousands of firepits from a long time range in Loykja (Norway):



Evidence of a Viking trade centre on the Island of Hinnoya (Norway):




A Viking-era toilet from Denmark:



Some earthworks in Romania thought to be the product of 16th century Turkish invaders are older than previously thought:



Tram construction in Leith has revealed a number of medieval burials:





Interesting study comparing diets of medieval Danes and Italians:





Evidence of medieval 'recycling' in Javea (Spain):



Feature on the dig at Bury Castle:



Finds from various periods at a dig in downtown Reykjavik:



A major WWI bunker system has been found on a hill in Flanders:



As might have been hoped for, those recent shaft finds near Stonehenge have delayed a decision about the tunnel:





The Orfordness Lighthouse was dismantled to save it from falling into the sea:



Dunston Staiths has been preserved:



... as has Dolphinholme Worsted Mill:



Nantes' St Pierre et St Paul Cathedral was on fire yesterday (arson is suspected):









Studying syphilis in 18th century London:



Feature on the Druids:



More on the PAS hitting the 1.5 million mark ... this time with news about what's been found in Northamptonshire:



More on that Iron Age murder/execution victim (and other items) found during HS2 works:







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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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4 000 years bp burials from Guangzhou:



A Sui Dynasty burial in Shaanxi is providing info on 'posthumus marriage culture':



Tang Dynasty paper documents excavated in Xinjiang:



Nepal plans to excavate a possibly Ramayana site:



Excavations have commenced at a possible human settlement site in Sivagalai:



... and some 'graffiti-inscribed' potsherds have been found there:



Concerns for a 14th century stepwell in Nizammudin:



A ruling in a case involving diamonds from a temple in Kerala:



Shell middens in South Australia are documenting 29 000 years of Aboriginal occupation of the area:








I think we mentioned this 1000 years bp cat burial from Kazakhstan:




Feature on some excavations along the Silk Road:



Feature on the history of Hong Kong:



Feature on the 'hidden' Angkor Wat:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Folks are retesting the 14 000 years bp coprolites from the Paisley Caves:








I thing we mentioned these 8000+ years bp artifacts from Northampton (MA) which are now delaying roundabout construction:



Studying oyster middens along the Georgia coast:





Study suggests that some Indigenous groups in Georgia successfully resisted European influence for 150+ years after DeSoto's arrival:







Remains of a sweatlodge feature in the Yellowhill Community (NC):



Modified bison scapulas ('hoes') from a Manitoba site are shedding light on possible pre-contact First Nations agrarian activities:




Plenty of news about the search for Tulsa Race Massacre burials but nothing found yet:










... some background:




Suggestion that Blackbeard deliberately grounded the Queen Anne's Revenge:




The chairman of Fox has acquired a property in Utah with petroglyphs:



Feature on the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project:



Feature on the Culper Spy Ring:



Frederick Douglass documents acquired by Yale will be digitized:



More on that buffalo jump find in Wyoming:




More on the Zion Cemetery burials in Tampa:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of 'forced migrations' by pre-Colonial Incas:



Remains of an Aztec palatial structure in Mexico City's Zocalo plaza:





Some items also mention possible remains of Hernan Cortes' house:







Damage to a pre-Hispanic aqueduc site in Texcoco is irreversible, apparently:



Studying how ancient peoples of Patagonia dealt with climate change:




Feature on El Tajin:


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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 SWBTS archaeology profs whose program was cancelled have relocated:



On who invented the bagpipes:



Feature on mummification in various ancient cultures:



Feature on food history:



Feature on African slave traders:



Raphael's death was caused by medical error:



Feature on the invention of the police:



On Jesse Strang's scam:



On some spinoff effects of pandemics:



... and the masks they wore in 1918:



... and how theatres in New York didn't close in 1918:



Feature on the Brooklyn Historical Society's online map collection:



Feature on art involving horses:



Feature on Hans Posse, Hitler's 'art buyer':



Rethinking the date/time of Vermeer's ?'View of Delft':



They've formally confirmed bones found near Yekaterinburg are those of Tsar Nicholas II and family:



They're still looking for the remains of Hans Holbein:


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CURRENT EVENTS: STATUES AND THEIR LEGACIES
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Statues of Juan de Onate are coming down in New Mexico:



They're hesitating removing a bust of a Confederate general and KKK leader from the Tennessee Capitol building:



On the origins of an Andrew Jackson statue in Jackson, Mississippi:



A statue of a union soldier in Saratoga Springs was vandalized:





A Virgin Mary statue at a Boston church was set on fire:



Not sure if this destruction of Buddha in Pakistan is considered in this same category:




Greenland is pondering the fate of a statue of Hans Egede:



On the tradition of toppling statues in Western culture:



... similar, on the politics behind statues:



Other OpEddish things:




The renaming of the Washington Football team seems part of this too:



... related:



Plimoth Plantation will by changing its name:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Oldest evidence of the use of horses in the Bronze Age comes from Kazakhstan:




Studying the evidence for the domestication of cats in Neolithic central Europe:





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ON THE DNA FRONT
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More on ?the 'intermixing' of Native Americans and Polynesians:




... and some criticism of the claim:




Tree DNA is being used to link a holocene-era tsunami to Doggerland:






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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Pompeii:



Feature on what's happening at the Mosul Museum:



Interview with Katherine A Schwab about the Met Museum's plaster cast collection:



Museums in New York City aren't opening just yet:



Some sort of dispute over an El Greco at the Detroit Institute of Arts:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest CT scan of a mummy is on one of the Siberian variety and reveals assorted wounds and tattoos:




Suggestion that LiDAR would be useful in Guam:



Using tooth protein to determine the sex of human remains:


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Bonham's appears to have sold a 'wine jug' despite being warned it had been looted previously:



Egyptian antiquities are on the block at Christie's:



A handwritten Sherlock Holmes manuscript is coming to Sotheby's:



Latest vampire-slaying kit auction:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Almunecar:



Basel:



Naples:



Aksum:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Richard II:



The Oddysey will be livestreamed (not a spelling error):



... and in case you missed the livestreaming of the Persians at Epidaurus:




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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Plenty of hype for that documentary about the search for Cleopatra at Taposiris Magna:






... and a related opeddish thing:



The Old Guard has Classical overtones:




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CRIME BEAT
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A man in northern Greece was arrested for possession of thousands of ancient coins and other items:



A metal detectorist working along Hadrian's Wall was arrested:


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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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A Denver museum has returned a number of items to Kenya:




New Zealand has returned a Hawaiian cloack and helmet have 241 years:



France is looking at using a law to return colonial-era artifacts:




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NUMISMATICA
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Feature o a Byzantine Follis:



... and coins of Illyrian emperors of the 3rd century:



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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Molly Neptune Parker:



David Stronach:



Jimmy Dunn:



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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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