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explorator 24.26 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?October 17, 2021
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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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6 million years bp 'pre-human' footprints identified on Crete:










The search for a 'lost medieval village' on the estate where Princess Diana grew up revealed a Neanderthal site:





A study reveals a possible Neanderthal hunting tactic:




This week, the 'Out of Africa' focus seems to be on the importance of the Arabian peninsula in the process (really a DNA thing):




cf:

... and more on applying AI to 'Out of Africa':



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AFRICA
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Feature on Christiansborg Castle (Ghana) and the excavations in the area:



Feature and book excerpt on the importance of African slaves and other trade items that created the modern world:



Feature on some of Africa's 'iconic' architecture:



Review of Howard French, *Born in Blackness*:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Work at a fortress of Rameses III at Tell el-Retaba revealed two more walls:



Three large stone ram heads found during excavations near the Avenue of Sphinxes:




In case you've ever seen the thing about Ramses II needing a passport:



Feature on cats in ancient Egyptian culture:



Feature on the 'cremated mummy' currently buried in Middlebury, Vermont:



Brief item (mostly a photo) on the excavation of an ancient watermill in Hamedan (Iran):



Train station construction in Istanbul is revealing finds from the 5th century BCE to the early Turkish Republic:





Finds from an even greater expanse of time (8500 years) from a sub-sea tunnel construction effort, also in Istanbul:



More on Turkey's UNESCO sites:



Interesting feature on professional acrobats in various ancient Middle Eastern cultures:



Rethinking slavery in the Ancient Near East:



Just a bit early for Halloween comes the story of the 'oldest drawing of a ghost' being found on a 3500 years bp Babylonian tablet in the British Museum:




A 1500 years bp winemaking complex from Yavne (is this new?):






















... with complaints that the media 'erased' any Jewish connection with it:



Khirbet Qeiyafa is being suggested as being part of David's Kingdom of Judah:



Feature on Jerusalem in the Persian Period:



Feature on Second Temple Judaism and ritual purity:

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More on 12 0000 years bp evidence of ?'complex fishing tools and techniques' from Israel:



More on the purported cosmic burst at the purported site of Sodom:



Arutz Sheva continues the Palestine v Israel archaeology campaign:



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This Week in the Ancient Near East Podcast:



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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Bronze Age workshop complex from Erimi:



The latest victim of Vesuvius has been excavated in Herculaneum:







A head of a Roman-era statue from the sea off Preveza (Greece):




Remains of ?a Roman-era fortification wall in Seville:




Excavation of the Novae Legion camp in Svishtov (Bulgaria) has revealed Roman 'cookware' in the 'house of the centurion':



Feature on the 2021 dig season at Kythnos:



What they've learned about/from the 7th century BCE Otranto shipwreck (Italian):



Feature on the excavation of a tomb of a Scythian warrior in Ukraine:



A study has figured out the source of the marble used to make a statue of Apollo on Delos:






The remains of Caligula's palace on the Esquiline have opened to the public:




An antiquities dealer is celebrating fifty years in business with an exhibition of Greek black glaze pottery:



More on 400 rock-cut tombs dating to 1800 years bp from Blaundus:




More on the 2000 years bp Roman altar from Canakkale:




More on the analysis of the human remains in the 'tomb of Nestor's Cup':




More on the restoration of mosaics in Metropolis:




More on the concrete of the tomb of Caecilia Metella:



Concerns for a Roman villa site near Piazza Amerina which is in the way of railway construction (Italian):



Archaeological concerns for plans for a solar farm near Centuripe:



I think we've mentioned the plans to restore the Temple of Zeus Lepsynos in Euromos (Turkey):




Another statistics-based study on how only one in four Roman emperors died of natural causes:



cf:

They're apparently searching for a third Riace bronze:



An Egyptian official has revived claims that the tomb of Alexander is in Siwa:




Review of Mary Beard, *Twelve Caesars':



The Supreme Court cleared Boudica of terrorism charges in a mock trial this week:



Feature on the bombing of Pompeii during WWII:



Feature on what we've learned from gladiator burials at Ephesus:



Feature on a veterans group in New England reading assorted Classical literature in their book club:



Pondering whether all roads did lead to Rome:



Feature on Medusa in Roman Britain:



Feature on ancient Roman efforts to find the source of the Nile:



Feature on the Lotus Eaters:



Feature on Schliemann:



Feature on Actaeon:



Feature on the 'Spring Fresco' at Santorini:



Feature on Aristotle's tomb:



Feature on Dolichiste:



Feature on Pavlopetri:



Feature on the possible Greek involvement creating the Terracotta Army sculptures:



Latest feature on the decline of Classics:



More reaction to the BM's reaction to UNESCO's suggestion regarding the Parthenon Marbles:



... and an overviewish thing on the Marbles' current condition:



Feature on the Marbles as 'narrative art' (two parts):




Latest Pasts Imperfect newsletter:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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14 000-11 000 years bp cave art from the Romanelli Cave:




Fecal analysis study suggests miners were eating cheese and drinking beer in Austria some 2700 years bp:















cf:

Archaeologists are returning to the Bronze Age Cruguel tumulus in Brittany. which was largely destroyed during WWII:



'High tech archaeological surveys' have revealed potential sites at Burscough Priory:



A metal detectorist find of Bronze Age Axe heads and some medieval hammered coins is leading to talk of a dig in Furness:



A pair of wealthy 1500 years bp burials from Bavaria:



Remains of medieval structures from a site on Llanddwyn Island:



More on the 300 years bp 'golden sun bowl' from a site in Austria:






More on that 1300 years bp 'matching ski' find from Norway:



Concerns for the ruins of St John the Baptist Hospital in High Wycombe:



Feature on finds made in Norfolk and Waveney over the past while:



Feature on the 'strangeness' of Viking homes:



Feature on Ireland's 'naked sweathouses':



Feature (spooky) on Hampton Court Palace:



Feature on the ?1500 years bp 'massacre site' at Sweden's Sandby Borg:



Feature on some recent interpretations of post-Roman Britain:


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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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Four 1900 years bp tombs from Hunan:




Torrential rains damage 'thousands' of sites in Shaanxi:



Interesting restoration of a 2800 years bp (very large) chariot from Shaanxi found back in 2014:



China is celebrating 100 years of modern archaeology:



... and President Xi is calling for developing archaeology with 'Chinese features':







More on the remains of 4700 years bp wooden structures from Hunan:



Marking the 50th anniversary of the excavation of the tomb of King Muryeong:



More on the evidence for human sacrifice at the Wolseong Palace:



A 4th century sculpture from Nalgonda:



The ASI has commenced digging at Adhichanallur:



Assorted Buddhist sites are being connected with the inauguration of a new Kushinagar airport:



Feature on India's stepwells:



Feature on mummies in Papua:



Feature on the Ayaz-Kala fortress site:



Feature on the Pacific Matildas project aiming to recognize women pioneers in archaeology in Oceania:



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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Australia honoured Glenn Summerhayes:



Interesting feature on the 'Black Duck Songline':


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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence of tobacco use in Utah some 12 300 years b p:












cf:

Hundreds of thousands of stakes off the coast or of the Salish Sea have been determined to be very complex fish traps:




Craft brewing in the Pacific Northwest apparently dates back to the 19th century:






The site of the home of a formerly enslaved person was revealed at the Pensacola Lighthouse site:



Overviewish feature on the results of the dig at the 'ghost town' of Terrace, Utah (which was once the home of Chinese rail workers):

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Using GPR to try to locate a lost cemetery of a 'ghost town' near Homer, Nebraska:



A study suggests a 'popular theory' about Native American origins in Japan has been 'debunked':







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New Mexico wants to make archaeological surveys mandatory:



More on the remains of that Black Church at Colonial Williamsburg:





More on the study of 'dark-zone' cave art in various states:





A profile of City of Boston archaeologist Joe Bagley:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A genetic study of the Tiwanaku people suggests the groups was more genetically homogeneous than previously thought:



Feature on a tablet covered with Easter Island glyphs revealed by a 3d model:



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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:



Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:



Ancient MesoAmerica News:


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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting feature on trying to identify an enslaved black child portrayed in an 18th century portrait:




The BBC apparently described Alfred Dreyfus as a 'notorious Jewish spy':



Feature on women's role in medieval health care:



Feature on the first art:



Possible confirmation of the identity of a relic skull as Santiago el Mayor:



Feature on Black footballer Andrew Watson:



Feature on alchemist Nicolas Flamel:



... and also one on John Dee and his son:



Feature on Edgar James Banks:



Feature on five historic codes that haven't been 'cracked':



Feature on 11 'lost' cities:



Feature on all the unexploded ordinance that keeps turning up in Britain:



Feature on the 'toxic fungus' which may have affected the Salem Witch trials:



Feature on Charles Dickens' antisemitism (and other things):



Interesting censorship of Michelangelo's David in Dubai:



... and a feature on David:



Suggestion that Columbus' fear of Islam affected his view of Native Americans:



... and how he used science and superstition to his benefit in Jamaica:



On attempts to recreate the type of mead known as Bochet:



Feature on the origins of Halloween:



Feature on the racism behind 'aliens built the pyramids' and other such theories:



Feature on tattooing:



Feature on reliquaries:



Pondering the world's 'greatest' paintings:



Feature on the Orient Express:



Oxford is offering courses on a dozen 'rare' Jewish languages:



Feature on India's 'hidden languages':



Review of Andrew Blaunder, *Now Comes Good Sailing*:



Review of Matthew Sturgis, *Oscar Wilde*:



More on a Milanese monk's mention of North America 150 years before Columbus:



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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Criticizing/rethinking Columbus Day:



Mexico City has replaced a statue of Columbus with a statue of an Indigenous woman:




A plaque put up near the Cecil Rhodes statue at Oxford isn't going over well:



Hype for a statue of Mary McLeod Bethune at Statuary Hall:



The Taliban apparently want to protect the Bamiyan Buddhas:



Latest 'blackface' scandal revolves around a production of Othello:



... and an OpEd:



Pondering what Europeans actually discovered:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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A study of raising turkeys in the American Southwest:



cf:

Possible evidence of the presence of dogs in Costa Rica, some 12 000 years bp:






More on humans raising cassowaries:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Secrets of Gold:



Faberge in London:



Unearthing My Past:



Colonizing the Past:



Black Newstead:



Poussin and the Dance:



Tut's second shrine has been transferred to the GEM:



The recently-found Ryedale Hoard bronzes have been acquired by a Yorkshire museum:





There's a new Spanish Gallery in Edinburgh:



Pondering the long-term effects of Covid on UK museums:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A pair of carved stone sphinxes from an English garden turned out to be ancient artifacts and fetched a nice price at auction:





Big bucks for a 16th century maiolica dish:



A Tiepolo drawing found in an attic at Weston Hall will be auctioned:



A recently-restored Joshua Reynolds painting is coming to auction:



Much anticipation for a Van Gogh waterlcolour coming to auction:




Results from that auction of Al Capone-related memorabilia:



More on the auction of a Shoeless Joe Jackson signed baseball photo:


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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More on the evolution of HepB



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THE TECHY SIDE
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An analysis of assorted changes in gold production in the Caucasus in three or so millennia BCE:



Studying Late Pleistocene tooth enamel to figure out human rainforest adaptation in Southeast Asia:






Feature on the coming 'era of technology' for archaeology:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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A climate study linking changes in the Antarctic to Maori fires (i think we mentioned the study) is causing controversy:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Germany's 'best' towns:



Offa's Dyke:



More sites are being added to Western Wall Tunnels tours:



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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Thomas Mann's piano was played again after a long journey:



Clara Schumann:



Feature on Wilhelm Furtwangler:


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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Looking at the historicity of 'The Last Duel':




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CRIME BEAT
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Looted items dating back to the 4th century BCE found hidden in a laundry in Foggia (Italian):




A bust of a team of tombaroli at the archaeological site of Kamarina (Italian):




A man was arrested for 'damaging' Stonehenge while metal detecting:







Another Monson Mavunkal fake confirmed/identified:



The Denver Art Museum still has six items connected to Douglas Latchford:



Mehrdad Sadigh admits he was mass producing fakes for years:



Assorted art trade groups are banding together to prevent looted Afghan artifacts from reaching the Western market:



Interpol marked International Archaeology Day by listing a pile of looted art and antiquities:



More on that BYU professor and grad student identifying Mayan forgeries:


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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 Neolithic petroglyph of a doe that disappeared years ago has been located in a museum in France:




Winchester College has recovered a stolen vase after 60 years:



Cambridge is returning its bronze cockerel to Nigeria:



A verdict on that Scythian gold in a Dutch museum is being postponed:



The British Museum is being encouraged to return some sacred items taken from Ethiopia 150 years ago:



The Sami people have asked the Queen of Denmark to help get a sacred drum back:



Germany has agreed to return some 1000 (!) Benin bronzes:



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NUMISMATICA
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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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T. James Luce:





Albert J. Raboteau:



Thanasis Kalpaxis:



Evi Touloupa:



Diana Walton:


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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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