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explorator 23.29 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?November 8, 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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Tooth analysis suggests Neanderthal children grew and were weaned similarly to modern homo sapiens:








Pondering whether there were wars between Neanderthals and homo sapiens:





Review of Rebecca Wragg Sykes, *Kindred*:



More on the 260 000 years bp Florisbad skull study:




More on traces of Denisovan DNA found in a 34 000 years bp burial from Mongolia:








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AFRICA
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Not sure where to put this one -- feature on five ways African antiquities end up in Europe:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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ARCE has created some virtual tours of Egyptian artifacts and sites:



Plans to boost tourism at the Giza pyramids:



The 800 years bp Shali Fortress is opening to the public to boost tourism in Siwa:



Review of Netflix's documentary on the recent finds at Saqqara:



... I think this is late coverage of that find:



Feature on some monastic rules in 4th/5th century CE Egypt:



More on inks used by Egyptian scribes:



Assyrian soldiers some 3000 years bp may have exhibited the first recorded symptoms of PTSD (this seems like something from a few years ago):



An archaeology survey has resumed at Tappeh Gerdi-Gouran (Iran):



Remains of ramparts and towers (maybe) of a Parthian fortess from northern Iran:



Studying Achaemenid water management efforts:



Feature on using AI to restore and reconstruct broken cuneiform tablets:



... related feature (maybe) on cuneiform:



Tracking the effects of the search for water in the UAE and Oman over the past 10 000 years:



Finds from a wide range of periods (5200 - 1200 BCE at least) from AlUla (Saudi Arabia):



More on humans dealing with climate change at Tel Tayinat 4500 years bp and 3000 years bp:









A Byzantine church in the Golan Heights appears to have been built on an earlier temple of Pan:



The IAA is showing off some of its coin collection:



I think we mentioned this Crusader-era 'escape tunnel' revealed at the Tower of David:



Not sure if we've mentioned the renewed claims about purported nails used in Jesus' crucifixion:



More on the 'facelift' at the Tower of David:



Latest example of politics and archaeology clashing in the Palestinian territories:



The Syrian Orthodox Church has put a 4th century church up for sale in ?Mardin:


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Latest finds from the Mycenean necropolis at Trapeza:



Remains of the forum of Castrum Novum were revealed at Santa Marinella recently (Italian):




4th-2nd century BCE figurines of Demeter and Persephone from Anapa (Russia):



Several interesting finds from various periods from Kythnos:



A 1st century CE Roman military inscription from Alus (Bulgaria):



An appeal is allowing ?property development on a potentially significant Roman site in Milton Keynes:



I think we mentioned this intact amphora found off the coast of Hvar (Croatia):




In case you missed the coverage of the 2000 years bp seal stone depicting Apollo found in Jerusalem:





Chemical concerns for Pompeiian frescoes:




Some preliminary assessment of the earthquake damage done to sites and museums in Samos, Ikaria, and Chios:



... and a project to protect Mycenae better from potential fires in the future:



Latest results of investigations at the Temple of Neptune at Paestum (Italian):



The Colosseum has closed again:



Concerns for Roman mosaics in a Roman villa in Bulgaria:



On the synagogue at Ostia:



Feature on wines and vineyards of Pompeii:





Feature on Nicopolis ad Istrum:



Feature on ancient Greek graffiti left in Egypt:



Feature on paying taxes in ancient Athens:




Interesting feature on gold and silver Roman coins found in India:



Feature on some important Greek sculptures that aren't in Greece:



Feature on Archimedes and the siege of Syracuse:



Feature on chariot racing in ancient Rome:



Feature on the Etruscans:



Feature on life in a Roman legion:



... and how legions 'worked':



... and one on the growth of the Roman army:



Feature on the mausoleum of Augustus:



... and the Augustus of the Primaporta:



Interesting podcast on the eruption of Vesuvius:



Feature on some musical versions of the Eurydice story:



Feature on Hannibal's elephants (I think we had this a while ago):



Feature on some of the ancient items highlighted at the latest TEFAF (virtual) Arts Fair:



Features on the aftermath of Caesar's assassination:




Feature on Xena's use of Greek myth:



The lessons of the Antonine plague:



A virtual tour of ancient Olympia:



Herica Valladares has a new book out:



BU Classics marked Halloween with a virtual reading of ancient ghost stories:



Latest comparison of the US and the Roman republic:



Feature on the influence ancient Greece and Rome had on the US 'Founding Fathers':



Review of Peter Stothard, *The Last Assassin*:



Seeking a return to use of Latin in scientific naming:



Remembering when Sean Connery called for the return of the Parthenon Marbles:



... and Stephen Fry has now asked the British Museum to 'stand on the right side of history' and return them:





More coverage of the controversy over plans to 'cement the Acropolis':



... although it is connected with disability access, it seems:



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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remains of an 8000 years bp dwelling and child burial from Molise (Italian):




Remains of a 7000 years bp ceramics 'workshop' (kilns) from the Bazovets Settlement Mound in Bulgaria:





2500 BCE apparently saw a 'boom' in construction of henges, as a study of the Mount Pleasant henge in Dorset suggests:








Interesting study of ?the 5000 years bp 'Lady of Bietikow' skeleton from Gemany:



A 3300 years bp bronze sword find in the Czech Republic seems to have sparked dig plans:




A tooth wear study of burials from 4000 years bp sites in Spain suggests the existence of gender differentiation of tasks:




An Iron Age burial from a Sutherland estate:



Plenty of finds from a Pictish site in Shetland:



A medieval church inscription from Zavala (Bosnia Herzegovina):




Remains of a medieval monkey from a latrine in Basel:



North Yorkshire villagers doing some cobble restoration came across a pre-16th century well:



Workers fixing a lamp in the Palace of Westminster revealed a Henry VIII-era window:



The remains of the hexagonal tower keep of the Rosocastro Fortress (Bulgaria) have been excavated:



Overviewish thing on finds made during A14 construction in the UK:



Feature on 16th-18th century witch trials in Denmark and other Nordic countries:



Feature on the shipwreck of the San Giacomo di Galizia:



Searching for the grave of Britain's first black army officer:



Feature on the Battle of Brunanburh:



Feature on how Norwich Castle was built:



Feature on plans for Dublin and York archaeologists to study Vikings together:



Finds from various periods from a dig in Polotsk (Belarus, I think):



Excavations of a 15th century synagoge in Buda begin next week:



Plans to move a stave church in Stiege:



The Spanish defence ministry is purchasing a ship to help search for shipwrecks:



Funding for St Paul's Cathedral:



Concerns for archaeological sites at a housing development site in Wales:



More on 'Gravettian Art Culture' being revealed in some Paleolithic bison paintings from Spain:




More on the remains of the Ancrum Old Bridge found in the Teviot River:




More on that 11th century stonemason's 'selfie' in the Santiago de Compostela Cathedral:






More on the find of the Henry VIII-associated jousting field:




A possible decision on the Stonehenge tunnel may be coming this week:



Review of a book on the Visigoths:


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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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Cooking preferences were apparently a major driver of acceptance of crop staples in prehistoric China:





Interesting study revealing Bronze Age travel routes of herders in Xinjiang:






Plans to rebuild the Shuri Castle in Okinawa:



... semi related is the story of a descendent of Ryukyu royalty insisting on independence from Japan:



Plenty of coverage of a 8000 years bp dismembered child burial from Alor Island (Indonesia):












On the importance of horses in building the Mongolian empire:



Feature on the effectiveness of China's Great Wall:



Feature on Fiona Foley's work studying First Nations in Queensland:



I think we mentioned this 'stencil graffiti' from Australia a while ago:



Feature on 'Observation Post Rock' (Afghanistan):


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NORTH AMERICA
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A possible Acadian settlement site in Louisiana:




Latest on the search for graves associated with the Tulsa Race Massacre:



The wreck of the Pere Marquette 18 has been located:



More on the latest theory on the Lost Colony:




More on the 300 years bp slave quarters being excavated on a Maryland plantation site:








Feature on the Electoral College:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence women participated in 'big game hunting' in the Andes, some 9000 years bp:




















Someone has figured out some Inca units of measurement (maybe):




More on Maya water filtration:





Machu Picchu has reopened:



A listing of some zoom talks that are available this week:



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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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Explaining what the 'common era' is:



Feature on the collapse of civilizations:



On Van Gogh likely suffering from alcohol withdrawal:







Feature on the veracity of the King Arthur tales:



Feature on the Turin Shroud:



Feature on Mortimer Wheeler in India:



Arguing over who had the largest empire:



Mexico is seeking an apology from the Vatican for the Church's role in the Spanish conquest:



On one of the Salvation Army's battles ... against skeletons:



Feature on the woman who made Beethoven's pianos:



Marking the 200th anniversary of the birth of Frederich Engels:



Feature on political parties and elephants and donkeys:



Feature on 'bad words' in the Middle Ages:



Feature on Robert Musil:



If you haven't seen the video of that 19th century snowball fight in Paris:



On the birth of the animal rights movement:



Feature on Milton's Lycidas:



Feature on Pope Alexander VI's scandalous party in 1501:



I think we mentioned that Darwin's theories needed some tweaking:



Feature on the Mahabharata:



Pondering archaeology:



Review of Wilson, *The Mystery of Charles Dickens*:



Review of Allport, *Britain at Bay*:



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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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On the role of the horse in human prehistory:



More on dog varieties in the Ice Age:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Pompeii:



Role of the Woman in Ancient Rome:



Turner:



Cezanne:



Conservation concerns for mummies in museums during the pandemic:



Feature on the National Museum of Egyptian Civilization:



Some recent museum openings in Egypt:



Plans to make a 19th century British rail building into a museum:



UK museums are closing again:


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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More hype for that Caratacus coin coming to auction:



... while a 12th century coin found near Pickering by a metal detectorist fetched a very large price:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA suggests 'trench fever' is much older than previously thought:








A study spanning 6000 years of the population dynamics of nomadic empire folks on the eastern Eurasian Steppe:







A study of medieval genetic data from the Ural region coupled with Hungarian archaeological evidence:



Feature on African 'gene migration':



More on that Viking DNA story from a few weeks ago:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Postulating a climate change connection as a driver of hominin extinctions:



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TOURISTY THINGS
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Aegina:



Colombres:



San Bartolome hermitage:



Xanten:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Bacchae:



Schubert:



On how White Russian dancers revolutionized dance in China:



Feature on a 100 years bp recording of Yiddisher Black cantors:



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CRIME BEAT
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Strange tale of a busted sale of an 'Aladdin's lamp' in India:



Arrests of a Dakahlia resident excavating antiquities at home:



Bulgarian police seized the collection of an 'exiled oligarch':



A (replica) cannon in Schenectady was stolen:


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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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The US returned 45 stolen items to Pakistan:





Italy returned a piece of a sarcophagus to Egypt:




Latest opinion on the Benin Bronzes and their return:



A Nazi-looted Pissarro dispute is back in court:



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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Roman coins from the Hannibalic War era:



In case you missed the results of that Ides of March coin auction:




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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Jim Coulton (pdf):



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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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