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explorator 23.32 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? November 29, 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, Jeffrey Spier,
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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Neanderthal thumbs preferrred to grasp things with handles, apparently:







A genetic study suggests Neanderthals could 'tolerate' smoke:




Suggestion that increases in homo sapiens' body and brain size can be connected to processing foods:



A study of a femur suggests Sahelanthropus tchadensis wasn't a hominin:


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AFRICA
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Study suggests humans persistently occupied the ?South African coast from 35 000 - 10 000 years bp:





More on 'repeated' occupation of the West African coast in Mesolithic times:




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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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This took longer than expected ... media focus on 'curses' found at Saqqara:




Feature on Egyptian sarcophagi (mostly the ones from Saqqara):



Feature on Egypt's 'lost tombs':



In case you missed the study of the pigment of a Faiyum mummy portrait:





The Sura Project is putting a pile of photos from Jean Capart's archives online:



More on constellation depictions at the Esna temple:



An 'accidental' find of Achaemenid pottery from southern Iran:



The recently-found Karahantepe site in southeastern Turkey might be older than Gobeklitepe:



The 'biggest' early Bronze Age goddess statue found at Kultepe:






Feature on a 4500 years bp olive oil processing site in Jordan:



Feature on Eliot Braun's work with copper finds from Jordan:



Feature on Nebuchadnezzar:



Feature on an underwater dig near Mount Carmel:



Latest Temple Mount Sifting Project find is a 3000 years bp (maybe) gold bead found by a nine-year-old:






Claims of the find of the 'childhood home of Jesus' were making the rounds this week:









More on forging/counterfeiting/alloying silver in early Iron Age Israel:





More on the 3000 years bp fort remnants from the Golan:



Feature on petroglyphs at Mount Karkom from various periods:



Pondering the location of other fake DSS (with a Museum of the Bible connection):



Suggestion Qumranites may have been preparing for the 'War of Gog and Magog':



Questioning the stature of Goliath:



A 2900 years bp 'Urartu archaeological park' is opening to the public:



Feature on the site of Hegra (Saudi Arabia):




UNESCO's reaction to what's happening at Hagia Sophia:


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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An Archaic structure from Epidaurus:



A 6th century BCE Picene burial from Sirolo (Italian):





Roman-era statuettes of assorted deities from Kibyra:





Assorted Roman-era finds from a rescue dig by a Bulgarian coal mining company:



A Roman necropolis on a solar energy farm near Volpiano (Italian):




Overviewish thing on finds at a dig of the VII Claudia Legion headquarters in Serbia:







... and one on the excavation of a Roman domus/villa in Pegue:



Not sure about these ones .. Roman items found by some metal detectorists in Ryedale:



Not sure where this one should go ... a 4th/5th century CE well in a Christian monastery built on a Temple of Apollo on St Ivan Island:



In case you've missed the hype about the LEGO Colosseum (it's apparently sold out already):





Latest example of a tourist returning something they took from a site ... this time, the Forum:








A mosaic stolen from Apamea appears to be the oldest depiction of a Roman water wheel:




Roman-era mining galleries at Ladik (Turkey) are opening for tourist purposes:



Plans to make Eraclea Minoa more tourist friendly (Italian):



More on that recently-found pair of victims at Pompeii:













... and Mary Beard's commentary on claims made regarding the above:



I think we've mentioned this restoration of a vineyard near Pompeii:



... and this oldest bottle of olive oil, recently identified in the Naples museum:



Review of Stephen Fry,*Troy*:



Feature on the Antonine Wall:



... and why folks might have Roman items in their Glasgow back yards:



Interesting feature on a 17th century tapestry depicting the abduction of Helen:



Feature on upper class Roman feasting:




Feature on Justinian's Code:



Feature on Greeks and blue:



Feature on the copy of the Parthenon frieze in Perth:



Feature on ancient Greek life expectancy:



... and what it was like being elderly in ancient Greece:



... and how folks survived Old Age:



Feature on women in Greek myth:



OpEddish thing on modern historians and Roman history:



A film award for the ASCSA:



In case you need a gift guide for your Classicist friends:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Norway ice melt has revealed a cache of arrows, some as old as 6000 years bp:











... cf:

Feature on the 2400 years ?bp 'Lady of Baza' statue from Spain (possibly paywalled):



A medieval burial featuring a stone 'grave pillow' from Veliko Tarnovo:




... and finds from various periods from Stara Gazora:



A medieval settlement with apparent metalworking facilities from Poland:




A medieval mass burial from Vianen (Netherlands) found during moat excavations:




After a wait of three years, the 16th century wreck of the ?Shiedam off the Cornish coast has commenced:




Work at Portsmouth's seafront have revealed traces of 17th century military defences:



An 18th century gun carriage lifted from the Dnipro river:



A Victorian-era bath from Bath (seems appropriate):



More on that large Islamic necropolis from Spain:

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Feature on Swedish runestones:



Feature on Aggersborg:



Feature on the Galloway Hoard:



OpEd on the Stonehenge tunnel decision:



Concerns for sites in Armenia:



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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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A 5000 years bp jade processing site from Henan:



Also from Henan are some 4000 years bp granaries:





Remains of a 4000 years bp city from China's Anhui province:



A pair of tombs (Eastern Zhou ad Jin Dynasties respectively) from Shaanxi:



Feature on the Forbidden City:



More on ancient ballplaying in China:



Oldest (maybe) reference to Ashoka from a terracotta Brahmi inscription from Telangana:







Clumsy locals came across some wall-like structures (date?) in Bihar's Chandan River:



A 1st/2nd century CE habitation site from Guntur:



More on that 1300 years bp Hindu temple in Swat:




Some stolen idos were reinstalled in a Rajagopalaswamy temple:



A 'double climate disaster' may have led to the demise of Harappan civilization:



Interesting various-period finds from six rock shelter sites in the Pilbara:



Feature on Russia's Kolmya highway:



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NORTH AMERICA
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A 4000 years bp projectile point from Canada's Parliament Hill:



Evidence of pre-contact hallucinogen use from fibers found in petroglyphs in Pinwheel Cave (California):












cf:

Study of barley and other plants exploited by First Nations associated with bison herds:







Study of an 800 years bp turkey feather blanket shows it was made up of 11 500 feathers (and other implications):








Burials and other items from that dig at the First Baptist Church site at Colonial Williamsburg:




I think we've mentioned this Revolutionary War burial site near Lake George:



Feature on the role of taverns in early American society:



Feature on the Calverton archaeology project (Maryland):



A stash of Prohibition-era whiskey from an upstate New York house:



More on that 19th century shipwreck revealed by Eta in Florida:






More on Puebloan using lava tubes as water sources:



Concerns for Native American sites in Arizona:



Hypish/Reviewish thing ?on a book on Pueblo Bonito chocolate jars:



Honours for Scott Hamilton:



The Choctaw people finally received some of their land:



Feature on the Gila Cliff Dwellings:



Feature on Marquette and Jolliet:



Feature on the 1876 presidential election:



Review of David Brown's biography of Henry Adams:




Review of a book on enslaved people who sued for freedom before the Civil War:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Petroglyphs being dubbed 'the Sistine Chapel of the Ancients' from a cliff face in Colombia:



A structure of some sort from the Main Plaza at Monte Alban:



Heavy rains have damaged quite a few ancient structures in the Yucatan:



Feature on Teotihuacan:



More on women as hunters in ancient Peru:


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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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Feature on the discovery of Lithium:



Feature on American food:



An update on the restoration work on Notre Dame:



Darwin's handwritten pages for the Origin of the Species are going online:



How the Black Death came to an end:



An early backgrounder on Christmas:



Interesting feature on 'The Death of General Wolfe':



An Austrian village has changed its name:




On some Shakespearean insults:



A study of the fate of the Denmark Expedition in 1906:






Reading a Yeats poem a hundred years later:



Feature on Freemasonry:



Marking Engels' 200th birthday:



Not sure where to put this item on the GCR's 'Aktion Licht':



How Los Angeles avoided the 1919 epidemic's second wave:



More on the microbiome of DaVinci's drawings:




More on that recently-identified (maybe) DaVinci drawing:



More on that old ?copy of Shakespeare found in Seville:



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AMERICAN THANKSGIVING
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On the date:



Rethinking what happened with the Pilgrims:



On what was really on the menu at the first Thanksgiving:



On Thanksgiving during the 1918 pandemic:



Assorted Thanksgiving mythbusting:



On George Washington's slave who cooked a Thanksgiving meal:



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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Studying the development of horseback riding in early China:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Priests of Amun:



Latest from the Egyptian Museum in Tahrir:



Copernicus:



On the 'most prominent' artifacts now in Egypt's Administrative Capital Museum:



Folks might find the newly-created 'Curators in Quarantine' youtube channel of interest:



Feature on some colonialism related items in Australian museums:



Hyping the Hong Kong Palace Museum:



Feature on the Met at 150:



The British Museum wants help naming its Nero exhibition:



The Cairo International Airport Museum is opening soon:



... as is a new archaeological museum in Ermionida (Greece):


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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How Sotheby's and Christie's are faring during the pandemic:


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Feature/hype for Viviane Slon's work with ancient DNA:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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A new xray technique on a 1900 years bp Egyptian mummy revealed what is thought to be a 5-year-old child:






How archaeologists are making use of AI:





... similar:



... and also similar:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Climate change is raising concerns about Lebanon's cedars:



Something about photography and climate change:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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On plans to turn some Scottish castles into hotels:



Bavaria:



A 'haunted' Sicilian castle:



Gordion:



Sparta:



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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Bakkhai:



Ammonite:



A documentary is raising questions about Chopin's sexuality:



cf:

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Feature/reviewish thing on that Saqqara documentary (which is excellent, by the way):



A documentary on the challenges of restoring Notre Dame:


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CRIME BEAT
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A pair of Darwin notebooks may have been stolen 20 years ago:









Not sure why there isn't more about this find of a network of European auction houses selling stolen Greek artifacts:



Israeli police confiscated a 450 years bp Torah klafim from a house in a Druze village in northern Israel:




Egyptian authorities at the Rafah Land Port seized 9 antiquities:



Vandalism at a Roman site in Finistere (Italian):


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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 Netherlands returned a 600 years bp Ife artifact to Nigeria:





Canada is returning an item stolen from India over a century ago:



A German museum is returning a Native American scalp:



More on the US returning a Late Period Egyptian relief which was for sale online:




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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the coins of Phanes:



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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Daniel Cordier:



Maria Moscholiou:




Patrick Beckett:



Roberto Junco:



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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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