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explorator 23.36 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? December 27, 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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Studying the development of homo floresiensis:



Pondering COVID-19 and the Neanderthals:



On the impact of fire use on human development:



More on claims early hominins may have hibernated:





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AFRICA
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Feature on the rock-cut churches of Lalibela:



More on ivory from a Portuguese shipwreck:




More on baboon bones and the land of Punt:




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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Egypt has completed the restoration of a (Ptolemaic) Temple of Isis at Aswan:








Egypt and the British Museum partnered up to restore a 6 000 years bp mural found at Kom el Ahmar:





Folks were observing the sun-alignment at Karnak this week:




More on that Great Pyramid-associated artifact found in a cigar box in Scotland:



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Feature on the El-Silik family's antiquities-related work over the decades:



Evidence of a 9900-9200 years bp tsunami hitting the coast near Tel Dor:









Evidence that Iran had its own independent writing system some 4400 years bp:



... similar:



An Achaemenid column base from a garden in Iran's Fars province:



A 3800 years bp burial of an infant in a 'jar' is among numerous items from various periods excavated at Jaffa:





... and with more emphasis on Greek-era finds from Jaffa:



Followup thoughts to the recent finds in Amman:



A study of tooth tartar suggests Bronze/Iron Age Canaanites were importing exotic spice and foods (bananas!) from southeast Asia:




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A 2 000 years bp mikveh found near Gethsemane:












In the same area (it appears) come remains of a Byzantine Church somehow associated with the Last Supper:




Not sure why this recreation of the flooring of the Roman-era Temple is making the rounds again:





Evidence that a 12th century Crusader wall from the Old City was actually built by Muslims in the 13th:



More on the lamp workshop from Beit Shemesh:



More on (Canaanite this time) 'counterfeit' silver:



More on the 'spooning couple' from one of the Bethsaidas:



More on the Herodium:




Feature on growing new Judean date palms from seeds found in excavations:



Feature on an oil pressing site at Yodfat:



Feature on the Artabba fortress:



Feature on Kiryat Ye'arim:



Feature on Phoenician banking:



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Sewer work in Baalbek revealed some Roman-era mosaics:




An Illyrian helmet find from a burial in Croatia:



A dig in Essex is raising postulations that the site was a victim of reprisals after Boudicca's revolt:





... there's also word of a Boudicca-related coin hoard find by a metal detectorist:




Remote sensing has identified 66 Roman military sites in Spain (I think we mentioned this):








They're finishing up excavating that thermopolium found in Regio V at Pompeii a couple years ago and opening it to the public:























A 'lost' sanctuary of Apollo at Frangkissa (Cyprus) has been relocated:



Pondering the death of a young Celt mentioned in an inscripton in Spain:



The restored Mausoleum of Augustus will be opening to the public in March:




Concerns for the Agrippa monument on the Acropolis:



Plans to rebuild the floor (retractable!) of the Colosseum:






Interview with Andrea Achi on recent finds from Pompeii:



Germany and Italy want to participate in excavations at Duzce (Turkey):



Review of Peter Stothard, *The Last Assassin*:



Reviewish of Paul Cartledge, *Thebes*:



More on the study of the Spitalfields Lady:





Feature on the Rediscovering the Antonine Wall project:



Feature on the Greek theatres at Sicyon and Messene:



Feature on the Venus de Milo:



Feature on the Spinario:



Feature on Plato in Sicily:



Feature on Schliemann:



Feature on learning Latin with dyslexia:



Suggestion that UVM should surrender its motto in light of recent moves:



Top ten finds from Turkey and Northern Cyprus:



Interview with Matthew Adams about the excavations at the Roman military base at Legio:



On the lessons the Antigone has for the US:



In case you need a Poseidon snowman inspiration:



In case you missed the order for Classical architecture for government buildings in the US:



... related opEd:



On George, Amal, and the Parthenon Marbles:




More on the Gal Gadot as Cleopatra brouhaha:



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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A neolithic style burial chamber might be a hint to the location of the lost village of Dode, it is hoped:



Possible tourist finds for a recently-found passage tomb near Newgrange:



A study suggests some 11 000 years bp human bone artifacts from 'Doggerland' were used as weapons or tools:





... see also:



... and more on speculation regarding why Doggerland sank:



A 12th century (royal?) cache of coins and jewellery from Poland:



A metal detectorist found some 17th century jewellery associated with Staffordshire nobility:



Infrastructure works revealed an 18th century quayside site in Peel:



A grant to study the provenance of the Galloway Hoard:




Feature on Offa's Dyke:



Feature on megaliths at Ggantija:



Feature on how the British handled cold weather in the past:



Revisiting the find of the Marlow Warlord burial:



A long history of Brexit:



Review of Neil Price's tome on the Vikings:



More on the rethinking of the purpose of Venus figurines:



More coverage of speculation about the location of the Holy Grail:


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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 of sun worship from a 3500 years bp burial from Chinas' Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region:



China's neolithic Shamao ruins have made a top ten list:



Song Dynasty era Buddhist cliff reliefs from Shahe (we may have mentioned these):



Overviewish thing on archaeology in Quanzhou:



Remains of a 1000 years bp wall at Mahakaleshwar temple:




A study/inspection of the domes of the 300 years bp mosque Khudabad:



I think we mentioned this 1400 years bp brick-lined tomb from Viet Nam:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Hopes for recognition of the Great Dismal Swamp's 'safe haven' history:



A dispute over a Native American site in upstate New York:



I think we mentioned how these Fort William Henry soldiers' remains await reburial:



Features on Mills and Buck's work documenting Black history in New Jersey:




Feature on recent finds from Mount Ranier:



Feature on the first Christmas (maybe) in America:



Feature on Christmas in the US during the 1918 flu pandemic:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Feature on Mexcaltitan as the purported home of the Aztecs:



... and one on Caral as possibly the oldest city in the Americas:



Features on the Maya calendar:




Machu Picchu has reopened after protests led to its closure:



Review of a biography of Simon Bolivar:



More on the Amazonian 'Sistine Chapel' petroglyphs (plenty of photos):


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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 study of 300 years of smallpox epidemics (London):




Suggestion that Roman ghost stories may have inspired Dickens' Christmas Carol:



Might have missed this a few months ago: on use of robotic technology in the restoration of the Sagrada Familia cathedral in Spain:



Thomas Beckett's 'favourite little book' may have been identified:



Feature on courtship in 18th century France:



A very expensive book on Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel:



Some 120 years bp chocolate was found among Australian poet Banjo Peterson's belongings:



The annual speculation on the Star of Bethlehem:






... and who the Magi were:



A history of Jews and Christmas:



On Advent and King Lear:



Feature on Christmas in the southern hemisphere:



On that time when Quetzacoatl officially replaced Santa in Mexico:



A photo of Calderon de la Barca has been identified:



Feature on the Apostle Peter:



Feature on the 'radical' history of quilting;



Feature on Mabel Calhoun:



Of possible interest is a 57 000 years bp mummified/frozen wolf pup find from the Yukon:












Questioning Durer's authorship of the Lament on Luther:



COVID has lead to the Queen letting go some of her art curators:



Feature on the Pleiades in various cultures:



Bubonic plague revisionism:



Feature on what the Stone Age sounded like:



Feature on the Villa Wolkonsky in Rome:



Feature on how Islam fueled colonization of the Americas:



Feature on the 'darkness' of the Dark Ages:



Feature on Virginia Woolf:



Feature on possible origins of assorted mythical beasties:



Some thinking about that 19th century snowball fight movie:



Overview of some of the archaeology-based stories which caused a rethinking of women's roles:



Review of a couple of books on paleoanthropology:



Review of Francesca Fiorani's study of Leonardo:



More on the ancient Spartan dialect:



More on the biomes of DaVinci's drawings:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Speculating whether 2020 is the worst year in history:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Navajo Textiles:



Ramses and the Pharaoh's Gold (approved by the Ministry):



The US Congress approved a couple of new museums honoring women and Latino American culture:




The Met is highlighting some of its major artworks:



Egypt's Textile Museum's holdings are being transferred to the NMEC (maybe):



The Acropolis Museum now has an online interactive component to their collection:






The Louvre is taking steps in case the Seine floods:



More on honours for that underwater museum at Alonissos:




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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA is shedding light on the peopling of the Marianas (and Polynesian) islands:






DNA is also revealing details about the Caribbean's original islanders:








DNA has established a connection between soe 5000 years bp remains, 2500 years bp remains, and a modern woman and her grandaughter (I think we had this):



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THE TECHY SIDE
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A couple of facial reconstructions this wek ... first Peru's 'Lady of El Paraiso':






... and the new AI sort of thing for Aristotle:



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TOURISTY THINGS
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Milos catacombs:



Acropolium of Carthage:



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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Sissi:



A Christmas Carol:



El Cid:



12 Days of Tudor Christmas:



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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Hyping a new documentary about Santorini:



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CRIME BEAT
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Theft of 22 idols from a 13th century Shiva temple in Odisha:



An attempted smuggling bust in Hatay:



A bust in Egypt of a 'gang' manufacturing counterfeit antiquities:



I think we mentioned this treasure hunter in the US who is refusing to forfeit the loot:



A bust in Thessaloniki for trying to sell religious icons via the Internet:



... while Bosnian Serbs claim that an idon given to a Russian minister was not stolen:



More on that French metal detectorist caught with 27 000+ artifacts:


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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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Switzerland returned some smuggled antiquities to Iran:



... and they're going on display:



Correction to something from last week: a Nazi-looted Kandinsky work won't be returned to Jewish heirs:



OpEd on Africa presenting a united front regarding repatriation:



OpEd on keeping the Benin bronzes in the UK:



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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins which may have contributed to Caesar's assassination:



Feature on coins of client kings and queens of Rome:



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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Reginald Foster:



Anthony Birley:



Ian Jenkins:



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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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