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explorator 24.30 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?November 14, 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, David Emery,
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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Study suggests folks living in Qesem Cave 400 000 years ?bp were selective regarding what they were eating:



Tools found in Kermanshah (western Iran) may be associated with homo erectus:



Feature on the homo erectus finds from Orozmani (Georgia):



Pondering why modern humans took so long to get to Europe:



More on that partial skull of a homo naledi child from Rising Star Cave:






cf:

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A possible 5th Dynasty 'sun temple' has been located beneath another one at Abu Gorab:





Inscribed blocks from a temple of Nectanebo at Matariya/Heliopolis:






More on the tomb of Ramses II's treasurer:




A major 'prehistoric' (10 000 years bp?) site from southwest Iran:



Archaeologists are back at the Chehrabad Salt Mine site:



More on that 2700 years bp Assyrian wine-making site:



A study of Neolithic cloth found at Catal Huyuk over the years reveals a variety of materials:







Evidence of 5000 years bp structures from Panaztepe:




Seven 'enigmatic' burials (date?) found during restoration of the Boukoleon Palace:



Evidence of a structure damaged by an earthquake which hit Perre (Turkey) in the 6th/7th century CE:




Recent associated finds relating to 5000 years bp megaliths in Jordan:



A study of how the Sennacherib-era siege ramp at Lachish was constructed (and used):









cf:

More on that 1400 years bp amethyst ring from Yavne:








More on the remains of a Crusader camp at Tzippori:



Feature on the Cave of the Patriarchs:



Feature on Martin Worthington translating Babylonian dialogue for the Eternals:




Assorted digs have resumed in Oman:



I think we mentioned this 4000 years bp burial of a pair of Umm an-Nar culture women in the UAE:



More hyping of archaeology in Saudi Arabia:



Feature on the Templar stronghold on Arward:


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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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Assorted household items from an officer's quarters in a legionary site at Novae (Bulgaria):




Painted masonry from Hadrian's Villa:



Remains of Gallo-Roman mosaic floors beneath a stable at the Chateau di Marigny in France:



Latest finds at Aizanoi include a bone workshop and an oil lamp shop:



Roman coins 'scattered' in some Herefordshire fields:



Overviewish on the recent survey of the Antikythera shipwreck:



A new group will be digging at the Carlisle Cricket Club site:



More on the 'enslaved quarters' revealed at a Pompeiian villa:





















More on the huge Roman coin hoard from Augsburg:




More on statue heads of Aphrodite and Dionysus from Aizanoi:




.... and the Roman statuary from beneath a Norman church at Soke Mandeville:



... and we mentioned a while ago the statue of Alfred the Great incorporating a Roman Minerva body:




More on the latrine found at the theatre in Smyrna:



More on the metal detectorist ?find of a Roman battle site in Switzerland:



Archaeologists in Cyprus 'downed tools' in protest of plans for dividing responsibility for antiquities:




Marking the anniversary of the discovery of Philip of Macedon's (maybe) tomb:



Review of Robin Waterfield, *The Making of a King*:



Review of Mary Beard, *12 Caesars*:




Review of Anne Carson, *H of H Playbook*:



Review of Guy Bradley, *Early Rome*:



Feature on Dr Debby Sneed's work on evidence for accessible ramps at ancient Greek healing sanctuaries:



Applying computational modelling to the Roman economy:



Feature on the Phaistos disk:



Feature on a plaster head from Mycenae:



Feature on the Romans in Hull:



Feature on the Phanagoria site:



Feature on Daidalos:



Feature on Alexander:



... and something about the popularity of his hairstyle on TikTok:





Feature on Plato as mythmaker/mythbuster:



Feature on a shop in Greece making 'official' copies of ancient art:



Feature on Nashville's Parthenon replica:



Feature on Ambleside Roman Fort:



Feature on Hera:



Feature on the Sanctuary of Dodona:



Feature on Episkyros:



Feature on ancient Greek yoyos:



Microsoft has made a digital recreation of ancient Olympia:











... and anti-flooding works are under way at the actual site of Olympia too:



Greece is seeking a formal meeting about the Parthenon Marbles and is offering to lend other items in exchange (again):












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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1200 (+) Mesolithic tools found along the Dee River in Aberdeenshire:





A study of 4th/3rd millenium BCE textiles from the Iberian peninsula:



An updated study of the diet and lifestyle of Blair Atholl Man:



Latest finds from a dig on Holy Island include coins of Eadberht:



A lost room of Tudor paintings found during restoration of a manor house in Yorkshire:





More on the Neolithic finds from a cave on Hvar:



More on the medieval tannery found at a Yorkshire abbey:




More on that huge Anglo Saxon hoard from Norfolk:






More on chalk plaques from near Stonehenge:



They still haven't located the burials of the victims of the sinking of the Royal Anne Galley:



A Brighton man found a network of hidden tunnels beneath his 500 years bp Brighton house;



Construction of a replica Anglo-Saxon ship from Sutton Hoo is under way:





Pondering the tomb effigy of the 'Black Prince':



Feature/study of the 500 years bp wreck of the Gribshunden:



A study of Palermo's child mummies:




The Ad Gefrin site is getting a major visitor's centre:



Restoration of a medieval mural from Somerset depicting a knight is under way:



Plans to digitally reconstruct synagoges destroyed on Kristallnacht:



Concerns following work on the church of Santa Maria del Castillo in Castronuno:



Feature on what we get wrong about the Vikings:



Covid is delaying the exhibition of a Germanic prince tomb found back in 2005 in Poprad:



Earl Spencer on the dig at Althorp Estate:



Review of Amy Licence, *Living Like a Tudor*:



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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 5500 years bp pentagonal-shaped dwelling from Taiyuan:




31 Han Dynasty burials from Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region:



29 Eastern Han Dynasty tombs from Shandong:



Possible royal Western Zhou Dynasty burials from Zhejiang:





More on the 1300 years bp 'homicide victim' in a tomb-robber's shaft in a Ningxia tomb in China:




Feature on some Shang Dynasty 'fortune telling bones':



A study correlating volcanic eruptions to the collapse of various Chinese dynasties over the past 2000 years:



cf:


Remains of a possible dwelling of an empress from Kyoto:



Excavations are underway at the site of a region buried in the 1783 eruption of Mount Asama (Japan):



A Pandya-era inscription from a Shiva temple in Tamil Nadu:



A Vishwakarma idol (date?) from Nizamabad

The Pakistan-Italian Archaeological Mission on Banbhore is getting their season started:



A study of social inequality over time in assorted states in Southeast Asia:



cf:

Feature on those earliest Sulawesi ?paintings:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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A study of the archaeological history of Parramatta (in Sydney):





19th century bluestone paving was revealed in Dunedin:



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NORTH AMERICA
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A DNA study of fish bones suggests the Tsleil-Waututh nation was using sustainable fishing practices for at least 2000 years:









A 15th century English silver coin found in Newfoundland:









Archaeologists are scanning Monpelier with metal detectors:



Archaeologists think they're close to finding the site of de Soto's battle with Chief Tascalusa:



More on the 1200 years bp canoe from a Wisconsin lake:







More on Vikings in North America 1000 years bp:



More on petroglyph sites in Utah:



More on remains of Chinese railroad workers' housing in Utah:



... and theres a musical about the people:



More on evidence of the antiquity of tobacco use in Utah:



Hyping potential for shipwreck finds in Lake Michigan's new marine sanctuary:



Feature on Black Civil War veterans settling in Iowa:



Feature on the history of Niskayuna's Craig Hotel:



Feature on the Camp Rathbun (aviation archaeology) site in Deseronto:



Feature on ?a section of the Erie Canal in Albany:



A document featuring early use of the phrase 'United States of America':


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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25 (or more?) Chimu culture burials from Chan Chan:













Overviewish piece on the evidence of 'pre Columbian headhunting' from burials at El Rayo (Nicaragua):



More on the 2000 years bp burials found during gas pipe work in Lima:





Feature on the Nasca people:



Some 17th century letters have been translated that give the indigenous side of things in 17th century wars in Brazil:


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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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This week, humans are being said to have 'hastened' the extinction of the woolly mammath:




cf;

Study of the spread of Transeurasian languages along with agriculture:






On reconstruction an unwritten ancient African language:



Feature on the Illuminati:



Feature on the Crusades:



The Night Watch is visible from the back for a while:



The Prado is suggesting now that the Salvator Mundi might not be by Leonardo:



Pondering whether Shakespeare was antisemitic:



Feature on Galileo:



Feature on Charles Warren:



Feature on Queen Charlotte:



Feature on Beatrix Potter:



Marking the anniversary of Magellan's circumnavigation (I think):



Feature on Agatha Christie:



Feature on 100 famous historical figures:



An anonymous donor saved a painting for Wimpole Hall:




Feature on Hatch the dog on the Mary Rose:



Feature on assorted ancient holiday celebrations:



Feature on the ancient word for 'green':



Feature on the history of 'human excreta':



Something about 'the final duel' in 1387:



More on a recovered stolen painting possibly being a Rembrandt:



Review of Robert Gross, *The Transcendentalists and their World*:



Review of Dan Jones, *Powers and Thrones*:



Review of Kevin Birmingham, *The Sinner and the Saint*:



Reviewish of *The Wordhord: Daily Life in Old English*:



Concerns for the catapult industry (Onion):


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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The Wampanoag people are telling the real story of their relationship with the Pilgrims:



Feature on the 'ancient art' of raising turkeys:



Feature/study of war diaries:



cf:

The tomb of the unknown soldier is 100 years old:



Records of 320 000 Punjab soldiers who fought in WWI were revealed and will be digitized:



Wilmington (NC) is confronting a race-inspired massacre in its past:



A Cardiff museum has taken down a slave-owner's portrait:



London's National Gallery has identified 67 patrons with slavery connections:




Not sure about this one ... a video which purportedly shows the Taliban using remnants of Bamiyan Buddhas for target practice:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Feature on dog breeds that have disappeared over time:



A study of neolithic sheep from Anatolia:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Ancient Peru:






Shema:



Art of Weights and Measures:



Roman altars:



Eucalyptusdom:



Feature on the underwater museum at Peristera:



The Messolonghi archaeological museum is about to open:



Egypt is planning to restore the Aswan Museum on Elephantine island:



Concerns arising over the renovation of a museum in Tbilisi:



A major donation to the Getty for the study and display of antiquities:



The Royal British Columbia Museum is starting 'decolonizing':


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Big bucks for Marie Antoinette's diamond bracelets:




... and for a Nazi-looted Van Gogh:



Another copy of the Mona Lisa is coming to auction:



A branch of the American Legion sold a Norman Rockwell:



More on Anne Boleyn's wooden bird:







Feature on a Hollywood-connected Roman statue coming to auction at Sotheby's:


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Interesting study tracing a genetic mutation in a Utah family back to Denmark:



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There's a DNA lab at the Izmir archaeological site:



Another feature on Viking DNA and identity:



More on Tarim Basin mummies origins:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on recent radiocarbon calibrations:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Climate concerns for sites on Orkney and Easter Island:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Susa:



Miletus Cave:



European cathedrals:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Seven Pompegranate Seeds:



Orpheus:



Othello:


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CRIME BEAT
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13 'archaeological manuscripts' and other items seized at the Cairo airport:



... and Egyptian authorities also recovered 16 items being smuggle via the Safaga port:



Thousands of ancient coins recovered in a raid on a jewelry stor in Ashkelon:


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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 Denver Art Museum is repatriating some Khmer artifacts to Cambodia:










Benin Bronzes from France have started returning home:



The Smithsonian is returning its Benin Bronzes, apparently:




... and the Seminole people are trying to recover human remains:



Feature on Egyptian items in foreign museums (with a repatriation angle):



OpEds on western museums needing to return things:






... specifically looking at the Bristol Museum:


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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the archaic smile on 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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Kenneth Reckford:



Quandra Prettyman:



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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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