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explorator 23.31 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? November 22, 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, Lampros Kallenos,
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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Feature on the debate over where modern humans first appeared:



Suggestion that stone handaxes had a 'practical and spirtual' side for early hominids:



More on that recently-found Paranthropus robustus skull:



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AFRICA
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Evidence of ?repeated occupation of the West African coast 62 000 - 25 000 years bp:






In case you missed the news about the underwater sites found near Tunis (various periods):



An interview with Maeve Leakey:



Feature on the ancient kingdom of Kerma:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Last week we mentioned original pigments at the temple of Esna had been found:



... and this week we're reading about conservation of the temple:



... and how the temple is revealing the names of some previously-unknown (name-wise) constellations:



More on the 100 or so more 2500 years bp sarcophagi revealed at Saqqara last week:















... and some overviewish things about recent finds at Saqqara:




An interesting 1800 years BCE tomb reveals evidence of a possible ancient Egyptian gynaecological treatment:




More on the recent analysis of the First Book of Breathing papyrus:



Feature on Amarna:



An archaeologist is urging for conservation of the Achaemenid-era Bostan Khani Dam:



Feature on efforts to preserve Iraq's antiquities from theft and the like:



Evidence that folks in Israel were contending with lead pollution some 3000 years bp:




Interesting evidence found of Iron Age silver counterfeiting prior to the invention of coinage:




Feature on toilets in ancient Israel:



More on the Iron Age fort in the Golan:



More on those four 1000 years bp gold coins found in the Western Wall Plaza:



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The big news this week appears to be the find ?(and casting) of two more victims of Vesuvius at Pompeii:

















... while a fresco of Theseus and Ariadne was also revealed:



A Punic tomb from Zejtun:




Turkish fishermen netted a large bronze statue of a woman off the coast of Marmaris:





Recent finds from Vryokastraki (near Kythnos) ... various periods:



Red figure pottery from Gravina (Italian):



Possible remains of Caligula's palace have been revealed ?beneath a 19th century office building:





... and a feature on Caligula:



A inscriptional letter of Severus and Caracalla found at Nicopolis ad Istrum in the 1920s has been reassembled and translated:




37 burials and remains of hypogea from Marsala (date?):



A Late Roman 'burgus' from excavations at the Pomodiana Fortress in northwest Bulgaria:



Europa Nostra has called for Thessaloniki antiquities to be preserved on site:



Anthony Barrett's new book on Nero is spawning some revisionist commentary by various folks:




... and an article with a similar spin seems unaware of Barrett's book:



Feature on Jennifer Stager's mosaic course:



Hypish on Eric Rebillard's book on ealry marthyr narratives:



Feature on the Pantheon:



Feature on what ancient Romans ate:



Feature on death in ancient Greece:



... and a related piece:



... and ancient Greek ideas about the afterlife:



An Ecce Romani love story:



More on that head of Hermes (?) found in downtown Athens last week:















More on figures of Demeter and Persephone being found at Anapa (Russia):




More on the (Roman) Barbegal mlll complex in France:







More on that Roman-era glass vase from Autun:




More on that Apollo seal from Israel's Tzurim Valley National Park:



More on MEPs asking the UK to return the Parthenon Marbles:




More hype for the LEGO Colosseum coming out just in time for Saturnalia:




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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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I think we mentioned the find of the 5000+ years bp 'upright' burial of the 'lady of Bietikow':



5 000 years bp kilns from a site in the Karlovo Valley (Bulgaria):



Interesting 4000+ years bp clay mask/figurine from a mound near Providiya (Bulgaria):




Mesolithic and Bronze Age finds from a dig at an estate in the New Forest:





A massive 8th-11th century Muslim necropolis from near Zaragoza (Spain):








Evidence that an 11th century fortress in Bulgaria was destroyed by Crusaders during the Third Crusade:



A 13th century clergyman's burial from Veliko Tarnovo:



An inscribed horse shoulder blade (1300 CE or so) from the Rusocastro Fortress:




A study of the impact of the transition from tribal to feudal living in 14th century Poland:






Finds from various periods from a housing development site in East Cambridgshire:




Remains of a 16th century military person from the bottom of a Lithuanian lake:








Evidence of a 'coverup' of a massacre at Shelford during the English Civil War:



Plans to restore Lindow Man's peat bog:



In case you were wondering why the Stonehenge tunnal was a controversy:



... and more coverage of it being approved:




Feature on five Scottish stone circles:



Scientists are trying to recreate the smell of 16th century Europe for some reason:




Concerns for the Davidank Orthodox monastery:



On how profits from slavery impacted the Scottish Highlands:



More on finds being made in the vicinity of the Gjellestad ship (and their implications):




More on the cache of musket balls ?associated with Bonnie Prince Charlie:





More on the Henry VIII jousting yard find:




More on remains of a medieval port in Eindhoven:




More on the burial of those 30 000+ years bp twins:



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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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Neolithic finds (mostly ... some later items too) from China's Anhui province:




Song Dynasty porcelain from a family cemetery in Shaanxi:



A 10th century 'romanesque' bathhouse from Xinjiang:



More on those 3000 years bp leather balls from China:



Feature on the Terracotta Warriors:



Feature on the Silk Road:



Late Jomon era finds from a dig in Fukushima:



XRay imaging of 3600 years bp pottery shards from Kyushu revealed impressions made by various weevils:







A recently-found Edo period document reveals a sort of Hosokawa clan code of conduct:






A 1300 years bp Lord Vishnu temple from Pakistan's Swat district:








An interesting 16th century copper plate documenting abduction of women and their ransom:



Concerns (?) for remains of an unfinished 13th century shrine in the Warangal Urban district:



Excavating an Otago gold-rush cemetery has commenced:



A 'road of bones' found in Siberia may be associated with Russia's 1917-22 civil war:



Another apology from an Australian mining company ... nothing destroyed though (yet):


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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence that ice melt was a major source of water for Ancestral Pueblans in New Mexico:










A 170+ years bp (i.e. pre-contact) artifact of some sort from a Kelowna beach:




Latest from the dig at Colonial Williamsburg's First Baptist Church:




Plenty of finds from Revolutionary-War era site in Wethersfield (CT):





Some more remains from Fort Douglas have been found on the University of Utah campus:



Another possible lost Black cemetery site on MacDill Air Force base:





Erosion revealed a possible 200 years bp shipwreck from Crescent Beach (Florida):







Feature on 'hobby archaeologists' in Ohio:



Feature on the Chicago Fire:



Challenging the slave-holder claim regarding Alexander Hamilton:



More on the search for the home of Harriet Tubman's father:



Reviewish of Thomas Ricks, *First Principles*:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Feature on LIDAR locating Maya sites:




Pondering the Dominican Republic's African past:



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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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Not sure where to put this one on whether Jesus was 'ugly' and how the early church portrayed Him:



... or this one on the lessons of France's wars of religion and the US:



Suggestion that a piece of 'graffiti' on the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence may have been done by Michelangelo:



A sketch of Christ is 'almost certainly' the work of Leonardo, apparently:





How coffee changed Britain:



Feature on chess as a metaphor for the world:



Lessons from Chaucer and Beowulf:



Feature on 'art replicator' Adam Lowe:



What the microbiome of some of Da Vinci's drawings reveal:






Claims that Dutch Schultz buried a pile of cash in New York somewhere is sparking treasure hunts:



Feature on five ancient rulers who changed the world but whose bodies have never been found:



Feature on labyrinths in fiction:



Some unpublished Tolkien essays on Middle Earth are going to be published:



Feature on assorted philosophers:



Concerns for the London home of Rimbaud and Verlaine:



On the evolution of the 1918 flu pandemic:



The Founding Fathers apparently didn't think about the possibility of a president refusing to step down:



More on that botched sculpture restoration in Spain:



More on reactions to that Mary Wollstonecraft statue:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Mabel Remington Colhoun photos:



Al Sabah Collection:



Feature on the Royal Chariots Museum:



Marking the 118th anniversary of the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir:





... related:



In case you missed the plans for a museum (and dig) in Benin City:




Plans to turn an island near Sozopol into an archaeology museum:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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That Caratacus coin fetched a nice price at auction:




Some recently-found 'unknown Constable' drawings are coming to auction:



Marie Antoinette had a very expensive shoe:




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ON THE DNA FRONT
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On reconciling genetic code evolution and Darwin's theories:



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THE TECHY SIDE
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Rochester Institute of Technology students revealed that a 15th century manuscript is a palimpsest:




Interesting tech study of pigments of a Fayoum mummy portrait:




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TOURISTY THINGS
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Roman sites in Scotland:



Naples:



Ankara:



Feature marking UNESCO's 75th anniversary with a focus on Heritage Sites:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Lysistrata:



Ammonite:


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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Hyping Bettany Hughes' latest documentary, coming to the Smithsonian Channel in the US:




A Spanish documentary on mummified remains from the Canary Islands:


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CRIME BEAT
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A statue of Zeus and other items recovered in a bust in Turkey's Zonguldak province:



An Egyptian national in MInya was arrested for digging under his home:



Arrests in the Green Vault heist:





A theft of John the Baptist relics from Sliven eight years ago is still unsolved:



Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:



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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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Egypt returned coins to a number of countries:





The US returned a Late Period relief to Egypt:



Pondering the British Museum and the Benin Bronzes:



More on Switzerland returning items to Italy:



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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the last coins of the Roman Empire:



Oxford has a new project investigating the origns of coinage:



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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Jean-Marie Dentzer:



Jan Morris:



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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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