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explorator 23.19 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? August 30, 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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How Neanderthals adapted to climate change:




Using machine learning to differentiate between 'middle stone age' and 'late stone age' toolkits:






A study of hominin dietary shifts via the teeth of paranthropus bosei:





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AFRICA
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Illegal gold hunters have pretty much destroyed the Jabal Maragha site in Sudan:










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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Not sure if we've mentioned these 'mysterious openings' found cut into a cliff near Umm Al-Qaab:



A Roman-era 'pet cemetery' near Berenice includes burials of what have been identified as rhesus macaques (from Inda):









Restoration of 29 ram statues in Luxor has resumed:



Feature on the 'White Crown division' who worked on Cheops' pyramid:



Feature on ancient Egyptian artists:



Feature on Ushabtis:



An assessment of the travelling Tut exhibition over the past while:



All of Egypt's sites and museums will be opening next week:



Interesting feature on Thomas Young's notes regarding efforts to translate the Rosetta Stone:




More on high-res 3d scanning of some wrapped animal mummies:



An 8500 years bp burial from Bilecik (Turkey):



A 5000 years bp 'paint palette' ?and other finds from Kulluoba (Turkey):



Traces of a medieval Islamic settlement site in Qazvin (iran):



Suggestion that ancient Jerusalem was smaller than previously believed:



More coverage of that ?3000+ years bp Canaanite fortress revealed near Kiryat Gat:












A major hoard of 425+ Islamic era (1100 years bp) gold coins found at a dig in central Israel somewhere:

















Light rail construction in Tel Aviv revealed some burials:



A hotel in Nazareth is incorporating/displaying finds made during its construction:



A Viking-era 'neighbourhood' from Istanbul:




More on the 7000 years bp stone monuments from the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia:











More on the 1200 years bp 'soap factory' from near Rahat:




Turkey has 'flagged' (for promotional purposes, it appears) 10 unique sites/artifacts:



Feature on an interesting tomb inscription in Beit Guvrin-Maresha National Park:



Feature on assorted ancient writing and 'mail' systems:



Feature on the Phoenicians:



On efforts to save historical buildings in Beirut:




... and progress restoring sites in Syria:



Linking neo-Hittite statuary to more recent statue events:


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Recent burials from Persepolis may be connected to Alexander's invasion:



... while excavations have commenced at Sillyon, which apparently was not conquered by Alexander:



Remains of a Roman-era dam from Turkey's Konya province:



Feature on a Roman glass factory in Cerro de La Muela:



A 5th century chalice with 'Christian graffiti' found at Vindolanda:




Excavations of the Roman villa at Somma Vesuviana have resumed (Italian):




I think we mentioned this Roman amphitheatre found on private land in Anatolia:




Restoration of the archaic Temple of Apollo on Despotiko is almost complete:



They're making the Roman remains in Costa del Sol easier to understand:



Norton Disney Roman villa needs higher protection, according to Historic England:



Suggestion that HIppocrates had an influence on the development of ancient Greek literature (paywalled):



More on that 'jupiter column' from a well in Germany:



In case you've missed Chris Naunton's ideas about Cleopatra's tomb location:



... and the 'mystery' of her burial:



... and some facts about Cleopatra:



Some 'Vesuvius Day' coverage:




Feature on the Iphigenia at Aulis:



Feature on Mycenean chariots:



Feature on ancient Roman 'traffic control':



Feature on the Bridgness distance slab (now on a postage stamp):



Feature/course on the Parthenon:



... and some recent Parthenon Marbles protests at the BM:



Feature on the Francois Vase:



Feature on Pella:



Pondering what the Romans would have thought about the UK's 'exam obsession':



Another feature on the Antikythera thing:



Eight 'modern' things which really are Roman:



Feature on Roman numerals:



Feature on some ancient pandemics:



In case you need fashion tips from a Roman soldier:



OpEd fearing for the survival of Latin if plants are given 'nicknames':



More on the climate connection to the fall of the Republic:



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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Finds associated with a '6500 years bp 'fertility cult' from Topolita (Romania):



Foundations of a 5700 years bp Neolithic house in Cork:






Not sure if we mentioned this possible settlement site found near a Neolithic Roundel in Poland:



3500 years bp pig figurines from a site in Poland:



Przeworsk culture burials from a site in Poland:



A 1200 years bp Viking burial of a left handed (apparently) warrior with weaponry:




Hungarian researchers believe they have located the tomb of Andrew II:



Remains of Atlantic sturgeon found in a barrel from a 15th century Swedish shipwreck:







Some medieval texts are disputing the tradition that Alfred the Great established the Royal Navy:





A 14th century gold/silver coin hoard from Plzen:



A ten-year-old metal detectorist came across a 17th century sword in Northern Ireland:



Study suggests parasitic infections were common in medieval Europe:




Feature on finds made during a long term dig at York University (UK):



Interesting study of tree graffiti in a Hampshire Forest:



Feature on Carlos III:



Feature/honours for Keith Branigan:




More on the medieval Great Sacristy excavation at Westminster Abbey:







Interesting study of the acoustics of Stonehenge:





Feature on Viking use of slaves:



Feature on the Netherlands' history of slavery:



Feature (paywalled) on the discovery of the underwater site off Bouldnor Cliff a couple decades ago:



Pondering the height of the Dutch:



More on the 15 000 years bp 'earliest art' stones from Jersey:




More on that 17th century Dutch shipwreck from the Baltic:



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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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Pondering the reasons for Southeast Asia's 'missing millennia':



More on the flooding reaching the Leshan Giant Buddha:



A fourth excavation of Yangshao Village has commenced:



Feature on the Longyou Caves:



Feature on Qin's tomb:



Feature on ancient Pacific mariners:



A large Edo-period mass grave (possibly associated with an epidemic) from Osaka:







An overviewish thing on progress on various digs in Tamil Nadu:



... somewhat similar, but with a Vaigai river civilization focus:






Andronovo culture finds (Bronze Age?) from a site in Kazakhstan's Aktobe region:



Rio Tinto executives got a 'slap on the wrist' for blowing up Aboriginal sites:




Feature on the death of Genghis Khan:



More on that ice age puppy's last meal:



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NORTH AMERICA
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A dig in Laval (Quebec) has revealed thousands of burials from the 1830s, including some associated with a cholera outbreak:



A possible African American grave site at a Columbus high school construction site:



Revisiting the US elections of 1920:



Plans to excavate a War of 1812 site on Horse Island:



Plans to excavate an early African American church near Colonial Williamsburg:





... and work continues on the Custis Square excavations at Colonial Williamsburg:



Plans to search for more graves at that school site in Clearwater:



Catching up with events at Tampa's Zion Cemetery:



The University of Florida took down the Loring Monument:





Feature on New York's Schuyler family:



Feature/reviewish thing on the impact of American slavery on production practices around the world:



Feature on the Colfax Riot:



Feature on who could and could not vote after the 19th amendment:



More on the latest theory about the Lost Colony:




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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Mummified remains dating 1100-400 BCE from a copper mine in Chile:




Interesting study of apparent emotions depicted on Maya and Olmec figurines:





A suggestion of privatizing historic sites in Guatemala for conservation purposes:



Feature on the Maya use of sting ray spines:


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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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Recreating ancient recipes seems to be a thing this week ... e.g., an ancient Egyptian bread recipe:



... and Farrell Monaco's ancient (in general) bread recreations:




... and Mesopotamian beer:





... and old Mexican recipes:



Or maybe you want to build a catapult out of newspaper:



Another feature making connections between the 1918 Spanish flu and Covid-19:



... and one on historic approaches to 'uncertainty' during a pandemic:



Scientists have figured out what some mysterious structures in the human heart identified by DaVinci do:



Feature on collective nouns:



There's a new 'translation' of Beowulf:



Feature on Felix Feneon:



Pondering the oldest city in the world:



Marking Hegel's 250th birthday:



A history of thong sandals:



More on Pius XII and the Holocaust:



Review of Michael Gorra, *The Saddest Words*:



Feature on the evolution of ancient empires 'side by side':


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Carian Princess:




Buckingham Palace art:



Kings of the Sun:



Cycladic Art:



The British Museum reopened:





... and ?relocated a bust of ?founder Hans Sloane:









... and spawned opeds on same:







... and the BM also altered other exhibits to clarify links to slavery and colonialism:



... and its director claims the 'loot' in the BM was paid for:



... still, there was a 'creative protest' for the return of the Parthenon Marbles:



The Metropolitan reopened and began its 150th anniversary:



The Cleveland MoA has fixed up its British gallery:



A couple more royal statues arrived at the GEM:



... and the GEM will be marketing/manufacturing things, apparently:



Flooding damaged some artifacts at the Southend museum:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A lock of Lincoln's hair:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Reconstructing the technology used to carve mammoth ivory some 20 000 years bp:





Revised tree ring data is confirming some Mediterranean dates:



What we might be able to learn from residues in ceramic cooking pots:





Some very high res satellite images of sites in Syria are now possible:





Photorealistic recreations of ancient celebs seems to be a thing now:



... and in case you missed the Roman emperors:




More on the digital restoration of Palmyra's Temple of Bel:



More on the establishment of a strontium isotope map for Israel:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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A study of 'abrupt climate change' events and their effects around the world:



More on connections between a megadrought in Asia and the drying of the Sahara:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Chateau de Breze:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Everywoman:



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CRIME BEAT
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Frans Hal's 'Two Laughing Boys' was stolen ... again:







Latest Anonymous Swiss Collection Culture Crime News:



That guy who punched a hole in a Picasso at the Tate Modern 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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Questioning the 'deal' Hobby Lobby is trying to forge with Iraq:



An illegally-exported Cypriot vase is being repatriated from London:



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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on collecting ancient 'fourees':



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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Douglas Latchford:



Alfredo Breitfeld:



Paolo Ferri:



Deirdre Le Faye:



Eusebio Leal:



Elaine Howard:



Nicholas Sturgeon:


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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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