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explorator 23.35 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? December 20, 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, Lucas Livingston,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

... currently trying to figure out how to include youtube links here without attaching a thumbnail preview ... stay tuned

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Homo erectus was around 200 000 years earlier than previously thought, apparently:



Suggestion that Neanderthals may have hibernated (!):




More on that Neanderthal child burial from France:



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AFRICA
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Mummified baboon skulls are shedding light on trading relations of the kingdom of Punt:









Very interesting study of ivory from a 16th century shipwreck located off Namibia:










see also:

Feature on the Nubian pyramids of Sudan:



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A study of 19th/18th century BCE mummy was found evidence of the oldest gynaecological treatment found so far:





A roundupish thing about 2020 in the realm of Egyptian antiquities:



Egypt continues to hype a Saqqara-related announcement that will be coming in January:



Not sure where to put this ... a missing artifact from the Great Pyramid was found in a cigar box at the University of Aberdeen:













Review of Wilkinson, *A World Beneath the Sands*:



Feature on Suez:



More on counterfeit silver hoards from Egypt-ruled Canaan:





Feature on 500 BCE Persepolis:



Feature on the 'Dead Cities' of Northwestern Syria:



Feature on taking photos at various sites in Iraq:



A 'mysterious structure' with mass graves from Istanbul:



Concerns for a Byzantine-era cistern in 'Constantinople' (Greek source):



Concerns for the 500 years bp shrine of Asude Hatun in Istanbul:



Some 3000 years bp 'spooning skeletons' from one of the Bethsaidas:



Finds from various periods during construction work in Jaffa:



I think we mentioned this olive press found at Yodfat a while ago:



A major ceramic 3rd/4th century CE oil-lamp workshop from Beit Shemesh:




Just to confuse things, we also read of an Islamic-era oil lamp workshop from Tiberias:




... and the 2000 years bp glass candlestick from Tel Usha:



... and the Hasmonean-era candle holder from the City of David:



A 1600 years bp Roman figurine workshop was (re)discovered at Beit Shemish ?(connected to the oil-lamp workshop?):





A 13th century Arabic inscription from the Tower of David site:



Lawrence Schiffman on the story of Chanukah:



Related feature on Rabbi's knowledge of Jewish history in the Greek Period:



The Lod Mosaic has returned to Israel:



More on the (re)opening of parts of the Herodium:



More on the 'throne room' find from the fortress at Machaerus:



General feature on archaeology in Saudi Arabia:



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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8th century BCE funeral pyres from Gela (we may have mentioned this):



Roman baths (and more) revealed in downtown Amman during drainage construction:








Remains of a Roman villa near Wrexham:




Roman-era finds from office construction in Hungary:



A Roman sarcophagus (date?) from a school site in Cologne:



A new section of the Imperial Fora was revealed along the via Alessandrina (coverage in Italian):




Work is being done to 'recover' the cliff/rock sanctuary in the Valley of the Temples (coverage in Italian):






Remains of 66 Roman military camp locations identified in Spain:



Interesting study under way of London's 'Spitalfields Lady':






Hyping evidence of the Romans in Scotland:



Concerns for Thessaloniki's Byzantine 'identity':



Plans to incorporate a Hellenistic site at Geroskipou within hotel construction:



Restoration of Augustus' mausoleum should be complete in March, apparently:





The annual top ten list of Greek archaeological finds:



Plans to excavate the original entrance to the Roman theatre in Cartagena:



Not sure what's actually happening at the site of Sebastia:



Not sure where to put this item on Classics For All getting cozy with an antiquities auction (and later leaving):



More on the recently-found mosaic at the Chedworth Roman Villa:



Interesting feature on museum labels relating to Black Africans in Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art:



On what Athenian justice would be like in a modern context:





Charlotte Higgins on why she chose to study Classics:



Review of Fox, *The Invention of Medicine*:



Interesting feature on an Attic red figure psyketer depicting hoplites on dolphins:



Feature on Thermopylae:



Feature on Antiochus Epiphanes:



Feature on Greece and Rome's influence on Irish politics and identity:



Features (different) on Saturnalia:




Feature on how Greeks and Romans used to celebrate:



Feature on the authorship of the Prometheus Bound:



Some Nero revisionism:



Feature on the trial of Socrates:



Apparently metal-detectorists get awards for finding things:



Seems to be some new interest in the mines at Lavrio:



A 'culturally significant' sculpture of Cleopatra was saved from export from the UK:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Suggestion that there may have been ice-free portions of the Alps when Otzi was walking around:



A major Pictish site in Aberdeenshire:



An empty hairdresser's salon in London was revealed to date to the 14th century:



Evidence of a hitherto unidentified medieval settlement site in northern Bulgaria:




I think we've mentioned this evidence of a large tower from Kost Castle (Czech Republic):




Speculation that a metal detectorist may have found Charles I's lost 'epiphany crown':



Signatures of 17th century stonemasons found during work on sea defences in Portsmouth:



Tram work in Leith has uncovered 350+ burials over the past six months:



Archaeology folks at UCC have recreated a 2400 years bp logboat:



Searching for the funeral urn of Calderon de la Barca:



Latest in the search for Red Hugh's remains:



Since we haven't heard about the purported Holy Grail in a while:



Scotland's best archaeological finds in 2020:



Arguing (sort of) over the Oriflama shipwreck cargo:



Latest additions to the protected list:




More on the surge of finds in the UK during lockdown:




... including the Tudor gold coin hoard:





More on the Anglo Saxon cross from the Galloway Hoard:






More on that bronze Celtic figurine with gold eyes from Slovakia:




More on that 5000 years bp skull with evidence of a violent death from Cova Foradada:



More on the thousands of burials in that Islamic necropolis in Tauste:




More on the updates to the definition of treasure in the UK:



Feature on some medieval recipes:



Feature on efforts to limit Christmas celebrations during the English Civil War era:



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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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Remains of a 6000 years bp paddy field from Zhejiang:



100+ burials dating to the Han Dynasty from Henan:



The remains of the Old Summer Palace are being excavated in Beijing:




A rediscovered (!) giant religious sculpture in a rock face in Chongqing:




A 1400 years bp brick-lined tomb from Viet Nam:




5500 years bp stone tools from Tirupattur district:



The ASI is planning a dig in the bazaar in Hampi:



Buddhist-related finds (300/400 years bp?) from a Uttarkashi village:



Also Buddhist-related finds (3rd century BCE- 12th century CE) from a known mound site near Lucknow:




On preserving colonial 'memories' in Mumbai:



More on evidence of the Indus Civilization having a high-meat diet:



Feature on a Jewish community in India's 'Jew town':



Feature on the Indonesian 'rice table' and its colonial connections:



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NORTH AMERICA
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Archaeologists are looking for evidence of the Three Blaze Trail in Idaho:




A 19th century 'message in a bottle' from a Boston home:




Feature on some human remains from the French and Indian War awaiting reburial:



Feature on New York history:



More on evidence of Native American psychedelic use from California's Pinwheel Cave:



In case you missed the study of the GI tracts of some natural mummies from Arizona:



Review of Lynne Cheney, *Virginia Dynasty*:



More on the ongoing discussion of the Cerutti mastodon site:



More on those 100 years bp whiskey bottles hidden in the walls of a home in upstate New York:



San Francisco's 19th century Cliff House restaurant is closing:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of 10 800 years bp crop cultivation in Amazonia (we may have had this a while ago):



Drawing sociopolitical conclusions from 6000 years bp teeth from northern Peru:





Names of warriors from the Temple of the Jaguars in Chichen Itza have been 'deciphered':



Evidence a a major structure in the main plaza at Monte Alban (Oaxaca):



More on the newly-found section of that Aztec skull tower in Mexico City:












More on the 'clockface' layout of villages in the Brazilian rainforest:




More on the 'Sistine Chapel of the Amazon':



Feature on the Inca road system:


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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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A non-geography-specific top ten finds list:



A top ten finds of the decade list:



Paper on alcohol use in antiquity:



Feature on the last speakers of Tsakonika:



Feature on Defoe's plague journal:




Feature on dreidels:



Feature on the Magi:



... and of course there's one on the Star of Bethlehem:



Feature on the origins of Christmas:



Feature on assorted plants associated with Christmas:



Feature on Mertxe Urteaga's work in Spain's Basque Country:



Feature on archaeologist Jane Dieulafoy's 'crime':



On the African roots of vaccination in the US:



Yale has acquired a collection of photographs documenting the evolution of medicine in the US:

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Feature on 'humoural theory':



Feature on a Vietnamese clock collector:



Tapestries on display in Strasbourg reveal the origins of Notre Dame in Paris:



Review of a book with some Churchill revisionism:



Something about dressing for the plague:



Feature on what the 'stone age' sounded like:



... and what the past smelled like:



Feature on the Mormons:



Feature on 'broomstick weddings':



Excerpt from a biography of Sylvia Pankhurst:



Review of a book on a possible plot to assassinate Lenin by the US:



A followup to the Mary Wollstonecraft statue brouhaha:



In case you want to see a timelapse of the flooding of St Mark's Square:



In case you want to watch the Solstice at Stonehenge live this week:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Tantra:



Archaeology of Music:



Napoleon's Barge:



Epic Iran:




An award for the underwater museum at Peristera:



Feature on the Luxor Museum:



The West Berkshire Museum has acquired some Roman and medieval treasure finds:



A new law in Greece will allow museums to lend collection items for periods of 25 years:



Colonial controversy from the Humboldt Forum:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A different sort of auction: getting time to hang out with the Mona Lisa:



Christie's had an auction of ancient things the other day:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A study of corn DNA is shedding light on its domestication over the past 9000 years:







Interesting linkage of 5000 years bp human remains in BC to some 2500 years bp remains and a modern local:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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A non-destructive method to analyze Egyptian embalming materials:







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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Climate change is being implicated in the demise of Central Asian river civilizations, not Genghis Khan:







A study of weather patterns in Europe ca 12 000 years BCE:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Roman sites outside of Italy:



Greek grottos:



Vaucluse:



Baden-Wurttemberg:



Ancient Ohio Trail:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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An Iliad:



Feature on Handel's Messiah:



On why we need Beethoven:



... in a similar vein:



On the mystery of Beethoven's metronome:



Feature on Beethoven and his zeitgeist:



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CRIME BEAT
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A French metal detectorist was arrested with 27 000+ artifacts:










A watch once owned by Woodrow Wilson was stolen from an antiques dealer in London:



Another arrest in the Dresden Green Vault heist:



Egypt is demanding Italy hand over Italian diplomats involved in a smuggling case:





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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A statue of Cybele was repatriated to Turkey and has gone on display:




Interesting feature on the BM identifying a Sumerian relief that had to be returned to Iraq:



A Nazi-looted Kandinsky work will be returned to Jewish heirs:



Captain Scott's scales were returned to Antarctica (!):



Feature on how the Benin bronzes were taken:



... while French MPs have approved the return to items to Benin and Senegal:



... with a related opEd:



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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on provenances of ancient coins:



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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Artemis Joukowsky:



Ian Jenkins:






Mortimer Chambers:



Johan de Roos:



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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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