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explorator 23.33 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? December 6, 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, David Standing,
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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A study of Neanderthal teeth:




Feature on Neanderthals:



A podcast on Denisovans in China:



More on Neanderthals and their tolerance of smoke:



More on Neanderthal thumb capabilities:





More on that Paranthropus robustus skull that was found a couple years ago:


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AFRICA
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Glass beads from medieval sites are helping to map out African trade routes:








Feature on Cushites in the Hebrew Bible:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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An instagram model had an 'inappropriate' photoshoot at Saqqara and apparently caused some trouble:








Interesting feature on Isaac Newton's view of the pyramids:



An engineer is suggesting the number of stones required to build the pyramids may be overestimated:



Egypt seems to be starting to hype the impending 'Royal Mummies Parade':




Some century-old footage of the Nile Valley might be of interest:



A 5th century church site in northern Iran is being restored:



Feature on the Code of Hammurabi:



Feature on Cyrus and the beginnings of the Persian Empire:



Feature on being a subject of the Persian Empire:



More on that 4200 years bp goddess figurine from Kultepe:



Feature on sites in Instanbul:



An update on the dig(s) at the site of Persepolis:



The ancient gateway of Tus is being restored:



General feature/slide show on sites in the UAE:



Review of a book on an ancient Assyrian doctor:



On UNESCO's restoration of the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul:



I think we mentioned this 'game dice' find from Beit El:




Pondering Judean 'Pillar Figurines':



Podcast/interview with Amit Re'em about the Tower of David site:



Feature on the four oldest New Testament manuscripts:



More on claims of finding Jesus' childhood home:



More on that Temple Mount Sifting Project gold bead find:





More on petroglyphs at Mount Karkom:



More on those 1000 years bp gold coins found near the Western Wall a few weeks ago:



Interview with Christopher Rollston on how fake DSS are made:



Suggestion that Goliath might not have been so gigantic after all:




More on Saudi Arabia opening the site of Hegra to the public:



UNESCO wants to inspect what's going on at Hagia Sophia:



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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An 8th century BCE burial site with burned wood from Gela (Italian):



Eight burials (Classical/Hellenistic) from a site on private land in Ilia:









The head from a statue of a Hellenistic priest from a dig at the theatre site at Laodicea:





Buildings from various periods (mostly Archaic) from a dig at Antissa:



A child burial and statuary (among other things; various periods) from Prusias ad Hypium:



A dig prior to coal mining in southern Bulgaria has revealed evidence of three settlement sites (Thracian, Roman, Byzantine):




Remains of a Roman-era sewage system from the Amida Tumulus/Syedra:





Remains of a Roman villa (and some medieval burials) found during electricity grid construction at Venafro (Italian):





I think we've mentioned this altar to Pan embedded in a Byzantine church wall in Banias:








A study of sediment cores from six sites over 1600 years in Greece suggest there was an integrated market economy and more:







A study suggests pyroclasts protected Pompeii paintings while buried, but damage them once they are exposed:









Feature on structural remains found at a Romano-Celtic site at Priors Hall, Corby:



A Roman burial site from York Station:





Analysis of some burials from a 3rd/4th century site in Sicily (?) suggests 'trench fever' existed long before WWI:





An interview with Emma Pomeroy and Jess Johnson about recent finds at Pompeii:



Another feature on recent finds from Pompeii:



A tourist-free Pompeii is allowing for more finds:



A 1500 years bp kiln from Silistra (Bulgaria):



Funding to make some ancient Greek theaters more accessible:




The University of Palermo is returning to digging at Sabratha and other sites near Leptis Magna:



A campaign to further investigate the Roman villa site at Norton Disney:



Reviewish think of a study of the Celtiberico-Romano site of Los Rodiles:



More on that dig at a Roman legion headquarters site in Serbia:






Feature on an inscription from Septimius Severus from Bulgaria which expresses his gratitude for a gift/bribe the town gave him:



Feature on John Travlos' work:



Feature on preserving historical scents:



Feature on Hadrian:



Feature on Boudicca:



Feature on an amulet/anti-curse tablet/magical thing found in London a while ago:



Pondering the assassination of Julius Caesar:



... and an interesting artistic recreation project based on same:



Feature on theories about the fall of the Roman Empire:



... and when the Roman Empire fell:



... and why the Roman Empire fell:



Pondering how long it actually took to build Rome:



Opeddish thing on the importance of Homer and Virgil:



Natalie Haynes on lessons for Donald Trump from Roman emperors:



Review of *The Invention of Medicine: From Homer to Hippocrates*:



Review of *The Socrates Express*:



In case you were wondering, the LEGO Colosseum is already sold out:



... but in case you were wondering what it was like to build it:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Rethinking the purpose of 'Venus figurines':








Study suggests Doggerland survived an tsunami:






.... but someone thinks it was destroyed from climate-change related factors:



A mystery 'pit' skeleton (site has Bronze Age and Roman finds) from dig at Bishop's Stortford:



An early Celtic tomb excavation near Hueneburg:



A Viking-era silver hoard from Stockholm:



Latest from the Gjellesad ship excavation:



A metal detectorist found a medieval knife near Penicuik:



Remains of a medieval settlement, hitherto unknown, at Vidin (Bulgaria):



A 'murder mystery' medieval burial found during Edinburgh tram construction:



17th-19th century burial of a woman found on an Aberdeen-area beach:




A dig is just underway at the Thanet Parkway Station site:



... as is a dig hoping for Romano-British finds at Plympton:



Plans for a dig in Glasgow to find the first Hampden Stadium:



More on prehistoric arrows (and more) emerging from melting ice/snow in Norway:





More on that possibly medieval mass grave found during moat exavations in the Netherlands:



More on that Islamic necropolis from Tauste:







Pondering the disappearance of Greenland's Vikings:



The UK is redefining 'treasure' to protect more artifacts found by the public:







There were some major protests about the Stonehenge decision this week, leading to the closure of the site:






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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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Evidence from a Xia Dynasty site in Henan for a multigrid settlement pattern:



A late Spring and Autumn period noble burial from Henan:



Eastern Han Dynasty muralled tombs from Dezhou:



120 Xiongnu burials (nomads) from China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region:



Study suggests Palaeolithic migration to the Ryukyu islands of Japan was deliberate (i.e. not accidental):







Hero stones from a site in Sentharapatti:



A Chola period inscription from near Sankarapuram:




Feature on 19th century Osaka:



Angkorian-era (or later) pottery kiln from a dig at Angkor Thom:




Plans to rebury some 19th century individuals in Perth:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Latest on the search for the home of Harriet Tubman's father (and her birthplace):



Latest finds from the dig at Colonial Williamsburg's Custis Square:




Ancestral Puebloan finds from a site in Nevada:




Some 19th century garbage/trash from the site of a new bus maintenance facility in Salt Lake City:






Fire destroyed a 128 year old East Village church:






More on Alexander Hamilton as slave-owner (or not):



More on that Puebloan turkey feather blanket:





More on hallucinogenic plant depictions in California petroglyphs:




Feature on the debate over when people came to the Americas:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Studying population size and centralization of power in Peru 10 000 - 1000 years bp:





Study of earthworks in southwestern Amazonia is causing a rethink of how humans altered the rainforest fome 2000 years bp:







Studying 'informal commerce' in the colonial Caribbean:






A structure beneath the Main Plaza at Monte Alban:




More on that huge Ice Age petroglyph find in Colombia:














... and a related editorial:



More on Maya water filtration:




More on women as hunters:




Feature on San Lorenzo Tenochtitlan:



A handy list of some upcoming Zoom-hosted lectures on the ancient Americas:



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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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Divers in the Baltic brought up a Nazi Enigma machine:






... and there are plans to restore it of course:



The British Library has acquired a 400 years bp copy of John Donne's work:



On previous cancelled Christmases:



A feature on Hanukkah:



Interesting feature on the ceiling of the archbishop's palace at Seville:



Venture Smith is providing a new look at the slave trade:



How captive peoples benefitted their captors:



Feature on Religion and Archaeology:



Interesting feature on an Italian rabbi who tried to talk Henry VIII out of divorce:




Feature on a dozen 'enduring places':



Feature on methods archaeologists use to determine where to dig:



Feature on a long-lived presidential grandson:



Feature on when Frederick Douglass met his former enslaver:



Feature on all the 'dead people' we've been digging up lately:



Feature on Tolkien and Lewis at Oxford:



Studying 'women and swearing' in Australia:



Feature on the ancient beer recreation trend:



A possible relaunch of Time Team:



A 'mystery smudge' in explorer Jorgen Bronlund's diary:




Tolkien's house is up for sale:




In case you were wondering about the Kraken:



On the numerous copies of Newton's Principia that have been recently identified:



Interesting find of some Great Western Railway posters in an attic:



More on microbes and the like on DaVinci drawings:




Review of *The Age of Wood*:



Review of *The Glorious American Essaey*:



Review of *A Question of Freedom*:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Daily Life in an Ancient Judean Town:



Buddhist art:




Roman gold:



Slavery:




Mesopotamia:



Trojan Cups:



Feature on the underwater museum at Alonissos:



In case you wondered about the British Museum's Great Court:



The Rijksmuseum van Oudheden is doing a live restoration of a Roman sarcophagus:


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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One of the first commercially-printed Christmas cards is coming to auction:



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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on dendrochronology:



... and its application to climate shift studies in East Asia:



A grant to create a VR experience around a medieval book of hours:



On applying neural nets to archaeological finds:



On finding sites with satellites:



Feature on wood preservation:



On making 3d photos of buildings available on the internet:



More on the examination of those mummies found back in 1615:



More on Egyptian ink:



More on the CT scan of that mummy of a five-year-old girl:




More on archaeologists in the time of COVID:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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What finds from Utah's Danger Cave reveal (portend?) about climate change:



On the effects of climate change at Cahokia:




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TOURISTY THINGS
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Hamburg:



Patmos:



Pyrgi:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Messiah:



Tantalus:



Feature on four American composers:



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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Reviewish thing of Secrets of the Saqqara Tomb:


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CRIME BEAT
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Turkish police seized a stolen relief depicting a gladiator (article in Turkish):



... no picture, but the same thing in English:



A Turkish official arrested for smuggling artifacts out of Syria:



European auction houses caught selling stolen Greek artifacts:



A woman on Kalymnos arrested for trafficking antiquities:



A bag found with illegally excavated items from the Valle of the Templi (articles in Italian):




Some illegal metal detectorists were arrested in Crotone (article in Italian):



How German librarians caught a book thief:



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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Some background on the Benin bronzes:



A Greek monastery is seeking the return of some items from Bulgaria:



Opeddish thing on the (non) return of some Indian idols:



A Bronze horse taken during the Second Opium War ?has been returned to China:



A Nazi art case is heading to the Supreme Court:



More on the Netherlands returning an Ife terracotta to Nigeria:



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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coinage of Rhegium:



Feature on coining houses:



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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Irina Antonova:



Edda Bresciani:



John Coles:



David Hackett:



Tom Winnifrith:



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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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