开云体育

===============================================================
explorator 23.22 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? September 20, 2020
===============================================================
You can read explorator online at:

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?


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, John Hall,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay, Towse Harrison,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

================================================================
EARLY HOMINIDS
================================================================
Suggestion that early humans at Olduvai may have cooked food in hot springs:










A set of 120 000 years bp hominin footprints from Saudi Arabia:












... and a suggestion that dust may have played a role in 'Out of Africa':



A 48 000 years bp child Neanderthal's tooth from northern Italy:







Funding for a study of 300 000 years bp wooden items from the Schoningen site in Germany:



================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
First news I've ever had of a dig in Mozambique:


================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Restoration of a number of ram statues at Karnak has been completed:



Egypt has completed its 'development' of the Philae Temples area:



There seem to be some conflicting reports about highways being constructed on the Giza Plateau:




They're still making Tutankhamun-related discoveries (in this case, a scarf):



... and Tut's cuirass has undergone some conservation work at the GEM conservation centre:



Feature on Amenhotep III and Tiye:



Interesting feature on a granite inscription from Djoser's time related to failure of the NIle flood:



Review of *The Riddle of the Rosetta* (paywall):



More on the dozen or so 2500 years bp sealed sarcophagi from Saqqara:







Racing to excavate a Mede/Achaemenid-era necropolis at Mersin before it is flooded by dam waters:



Excavations at a number of sites in Piranshahr have commenced:



77 potential sites have been identified in Iran's Kerman province:



Paleolithic (maybe) finds made by shepherds in eastern Turkey:



4500 years bp (?) deity figurines from Kultepe:





Suggestion that 3000 years bp grain from Hattusha had been collected as taxes:




A 2600 years bp Phoenician wine press site from Tel Burak (Lebanon):











Feature on the impact of women archaeologists at a dig in the 5000 years bp Seyitomer Mound (Turkey):



Feature on Max von Oppenheim's work at Tel Halaf:



A 2nd Temple era inkwell from Gush Etzion:



Pottery stolen from the Tomb of the Patriarchs a while ago is the focus of a recent study:



Looking at images of the zodiac and sun gods in ancient synagogues in Israel:



Genuinely not sure where to put this one: a Palestinian official has claimed that Israel is looting Palestinian antiquities:





Review of Cline, *Digging Up Armageddon*:



More on the suggestion that an earthquake may have caused the destruction of a Canaanite
temple at Tel Kabri 3700 years bp:











More on reexamination of the evidence from Arad resulting in the suggestion that literacy in ancient Judea may have been more widespread:





Feature on the New Year in early Israel:



... and the history of the pomegranate:



Feature on the 'Petra of Saudi Arabia':



An introduction to Sasanian art:



Feature on marriage and women in ancient Babylon:



Pondering the name of Jesus' mother:



================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
A 2400 years bp mask of Dionysus from Daskyleion:



A Roman-era column from Sabaudia (Italian):



... and one from near Murcia:



Remains of a Roman road near Palermo (Italian):




Remains of a Roman amphitheatre from Foggia (Italian):




Plans to excavate the necropolis near Zerzevan Castle:



On a Roman bridge in Edinburgh (not sure about this one):



Rethinking the fate of the Turmogo people who fought Rome in Spain:



Cyprus plans to 'spruce up' archaeological sites in Polis:



Studying the durability of Roman roads:



Italy is seeking a new director at Pompeii:




Feature on Alessandro D'Alessio's work on Nero and the Domus Aureus:



Feature on the Oracle of Delphi:



Feature on the Torlonia collection (paywalled):



Feature on Hollywood's portrayal of gladiators:



Feature on drinking in ancient Greece:



Feature on Roman flying phalluses:



Feature on the Vicus Caprarius:



Feature on the purported origins of the 'marathon swim':




Feature on the 'most devious' emperors in Roman history:



Feature on Cleopatra:



Feature on why you should read the classics (broadly construed):



Commemorating the 2500th anniversary of the Battle of Salamis:



In case you were wondering about the 'Circus Maximus Experience':



What Marcus Aurelius thought about Hadrian:



This week's 'tourists behaving badly' installment involves someone who crashed their drone in the Colosseum:




Classics at Wake Forest is moving with the times:



Review of *Thebes: the Forgotten City of Ancient Greece* (paywalled):



More on the remains of a large Roman temple found near Norwich:



More on that study of use of fractions in Linear A:




More on that Roman 'gaming piece' found in Chester a while ago:


-----
Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Remains of a 3000 years bp settlement from Warsaw:




A pair of skulls from a 'megalithic dolmen' from Spain:



An 'Anglo Saxon' cemetery dating to the 7th century (maybe) has been revealed in Suffolk:





Excavations of the ?500 years bp cemetery uncovered during Leith tram construction continue:



I think we've mentioned this very well-preserved 17th century Dutch 'fluyt' shipwreck from the Baltic:





The remains of the 'long lost' 17th century Danish warship Delmenhorst have been located:



A 'secret crypt' associated with the Templars found in a Polish chapel is being spun with the expected 'Holy Grail' hype:





Church renovations in Protaras (Cyprus) revealed the remains of a priest beheaded by the Ottomans in the 17th century (among other things):



Some new details have been spotted in the Lion's Courtyard at the Alhambra:




Apparently 'who's buried in Montaigne's tomb' is a mystery:




A medieval Scottish coin found in Norfolk has been declared treasure:



Feature on the Germanic 'barbarian' tribes:



Feature on the impact of the Vikings on London:



Neil Oliver has a podcast visiting assorted sites in the UK:



More on the proposed redating of the Nebra Sky Disk:






More on a European 'economic area' in the Bronze Age:



----------
Archaeology in Europe News:



Medievalists.net:



Viking Archaeology Blog:



================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Ming/Qing Dynasty porcelain from a factory site (t appears) in Yunnan:



An iron plate from a Qing Dynasty shipwreck was taken out of the water:



1700 years bp burials from Siberia are painting a picture of warfare and sacrifices:





A 1200 years bp sculture of Lord Vishnu excavated from the vanks of Gundaru River:




The site of Sinauli has been officially designated as 'nationally important':



Feature on India exporting monkeys and the like to Africa and Europe some 2000 years bp:



Really vague item on evidence of Indigenous women (apparently) creating tools in Queensland (date?):



BHP seems to be learning from Rio Tinto's experience:


================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A burial of a War of 1812 soldier from a construction site in Burlington (Vermont):



... and the dig on a Horse Island War of 1812 site continues:




On the search for one of the US's first Black churches at Colonial Williamsburg:




Evidence of an 18th century tavern from a dig on a NC farm:




Researching a 120 years bp Hagerstown (Md) cabin with 'historic African American ties':




Early 20th century trolley tracks revealed during construction in Walla Walla:



Feature on the not-lost Lost Colony:



Feature on wildfire archaeology:



... related:



Feature on the 1920 election:



Feature on Arlington Springs Man:



Rethinking the myths associated with the Mayflower:



... related:



More on drone revelations in Kansas:



================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A bone from a ?sediment core taken on one of the Bahamas has been linked to the Lucayan people (13th century CE):




Remains of a shipwreck found in 2017 off the Yucatan have been identified as a 19th century 'Mayan slave ship':













Protestors in Colombia topped a statue of Sebastian de Belalcazar:




Feature on Maya sites in Guatemala:



-----
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:



Ancient MesoAmerica News:


================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
================================================================
Feature on assorted amulets used in ancient times to ward off disease:




Feature on Cleopatra's Needle:



Interesting feature on the 'retro-carpentry' going on during the restoration of Notre Dame:



Questioning whether Forrest Fenn's buried treasure really was found:



On the history of 'cheers':



On an Indian royal woman used in 19th century immunization campaigns:



Not sure where this one goes: home renovations in Detroit uncovered a number of piece of Inuit art:



Folks might be interested in this Ice Age cave bear found 'perfectly preserved' in the Russian Arctic:








Seeking justice for the victims of the 'satanic panic' under James VI:



Looking at the Dutch Royal Family's golden carriage:



Feature on various women philosophers:



Pondering why speech prevailed over sign language:



Rethinking the idea of the city:



Feature on the Montezuma Orchard Restoration Project:




Pondering the line between 'art' and 'pornography':



An edition of Shakespeare's last play was found in a college in Spain:



On a recently-rediscovered Gauguin manuscript:



On the history of leprosy:



Feature on 'great organs':



A tapestry version of Raphael's 'School of Athens' has been restored and returned to the French parliament:



Feature on what pumpkins were originally like:



Feature on Reinhart Koselleck's theory of history:



Review of Sabar, *Veritas*:



... related:



More on Notre Dame's crypt being opened to the public again:



================================================================
ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
================================================================
DNA suggests horse domestication likely did not begin in Anatolia:



================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Ravishing: The Rose in Fashion:




Egyptian Mummies:





The Pitt Rivers museum has taken some shrunken human heads off display:





Feature on Sweden's Disgusting Food Museum:



Herman Parzinger is about to overhaul Berlin's 'dysfunctional museums':



More on the British Museum's acquisition of Hokusai drawings:




An oped on the UK's colonial past:



... and in a similar vein:



... and possibly related on looted items in museums:



San Joaquin county (CA) has a new digital museum:




A Night at the Louvre (on the daVinci exhibition last yeat)



More items heading to the GEM:



More on that Benin Bronzes protester at the MoL a while ago:



================================================================
AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
================================================================
Mexico is suing an auction house over the sale of historical documents:



A silver denarius of Octavian is coming to auction:



================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT
================================================================
Studying DNA to figure out the peopling of East Asia:





A study of Viking DNA is suggesting they were a 'well-travelled' mixed population:
















The grandson of Warren G Harding wants the former president exhumed for DNA purposes:



================================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
================================================================
Questioning the 'accuracy' of facial reconstructions from a mummy portrait (compared to the mummy):



Interesting study of 4500-2000 BCE fingerprints in petroglyphs from Los Machos (Spain):






A 'disgusting but effective' new way to date ancient sites:



More on analyzing ceramic cookware:




================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
================================================================
Latest suggestion regarding the cause of the Little Ice Age:


================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Troy and Assos:



Ravenna:



A slavery tour of London:



Yazilikaya:



================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
================================================================
Herod Antipas' palace is the site of an opera:



================================================================
TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
================================================================
Simcha Jacobovici and Samuel Jackson have teamed up on a documentary about the Trans Atlantic slave trade:


================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Police on Rhodes confiscated a number of artifacts:



Sentencing for a man who was caught stealing items from the regional museum of Antofagasta:



Egypt upheld the sentences of some antiquities smugglers:



A huge pile of 'irreplaceable' books stolen from a London warehouse in 2017 were found in a house in rural Romania:





On idol smuggling in India:


----------
conflict antiquities:



anonymous swiss collector:



Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:



Looting Matters:



Illicit Cultural Property:



SAFE:



================================================================
REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
================================================================
I think we mentioned the UK returning three stolen idols to India:





India seeks the return of Buddha's Bowl from Afghanistan:



Another opEd pondering the return of African art:



================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Feature on some Vandalic coinage:



Latest e-Sylum:



... and the one which should appear later today:


------------------------

Coin Week:



================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Lionel Walrond:



Stephen F. Cohen:



================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:


================================================================
GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:



About.com Archaeology:



Archaeology Briefs:



Atlas Obscura:



Heritage Daily:



Sapiens Archaeology:



Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:


================================================================
PODCASTS/VODCASTS
================================================================
Archaeosoup:



Archaeology Podcast Network:


================================================================
EXPLORATOR is a free weekly newsletter bringing you the latest
news of archaeological finds, historical research and the like.
Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of
the 'ancient world' (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history up to a century or so ago is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge!
================================================================
Useful Addresses
================================================================
You can read Explorator online at:



Past issues of Explorator are also available on the web via our
page:

/g/explorator

To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to:

[email protected]

To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to:

Unsubscribe: [email protected]

To send a 'heads up' to the editor or contact him for other
reasons:

rogueclassicist@...
================================================================
Explorator is Copyright (c) 2020 David Meadows. Feel free to
distribute these listings via email to your pals, students,
teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. These
links are not to be posted to any website by any means (whether
by direct posting or snagging from a usenet group or some other
email source) without my express written permission. I think it
is only right that I be made aware of public fora which are
making use of content gathered in Explorator. Thanks!
================================================================