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explorator 24.35 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? December 19, 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, Jona Lendering,
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 125 000 years bp Neanderthal site in Germany suggests they were clearing forests (among other things):












cf:

Feature on ancestors to the Neanderthals:



Feature/update on the Orozmani homo erectus site:



Documentary hype for a 215 000 years bp mammoth butchery site near Swindon:






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AFRICA
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Interesting study of some Namib Desert petroglyphs:



Plans to restore hundreds of historical Jewish sites in Morocco:



Feature on some queens of Nubia:



More on the recovery of lalibela from rebel hands in Ethiopia:



More on the redating o Ethiopian monoliths:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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13 000 ostraca from Ptolemaic times down to the Islamic era from Sohag:






Possibly a crime story, but workers in Nagaa Al-Ouroba came across a statue head that appears to be ancient:



More on the tombs from Minya containing two persons with 'golden tongues':



The 'Lost City' found in Egypt is being designated one of the 'most important' of the year:




The dig in the Douzlakh Salt Mine (Iran) has concluded:



I think we mentioned these figurines (various periods) from the Burnt City:




... and there's more from the site:



Receding water levels from the Ataturk Dam allowed excavations of a 4000 years bp mound in Adiyaman:



A 3500 years bp (or so) fragment of a 'stargazer' figure from Mugla:



A medieval (maybe?) 'living area' overlooking Lake Van:



Feature on the fall of Constantinople:



Feature on ongoing efforts to restore sites in Syria:



Feature on Soviet Assyriology and its aftermath:



More on the find of a second 2000 years bp synagogue at Migdal:













Concerns for assorted burial cave sites in Jerusalem:



Feature on the site of Gezer:



I think we mentioned this item on the historical accuracy of the Bible and sites in the Timna Valley:



Assessing the fallout from the hype associated with that Tell el-Hammam 'asteroid':



Feature on translating the Torah into Greek:



Pondering the veracity of the mass suicide at Masada:



A number of workers were trapped in a tunnel at a site in Galilee (they seem to have made it out ok):



Overviewish piece on the excavations at a 3rd-1st millennium BCE site at Qamira (Oman):



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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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Possible find of the 'lost' sanctuary of Melqart/Temple of Hercules near Cadiz:







... but there might be some controversy:




A number of Greek/Roman statue heads were unearthed in Knidos:





A torso of Hercules from the ongoing excavations at Aizanoi:



A pair of over life-size Roman statues (without heads) from the excavations at Blaundus:





A Roman-era (?) gold-plated chest and coin from near Ankara:



A seized mosaic from Izmir province has been put 'under protection':



More on luxury trade items from some burials on Cyprus:



More on evidence of crucifixion from Roman Britain:




A study of the sources for Roman silver coinage in the Iberian peninsula:



cf:

... and a similar sort of study involving assorted ingots (mostly copper) from a 600 years bp shipwreck site off France (found in the 1960s):






A preview of plans to mark the 1900th anniversary of Hadrian's Wall:



... and more on the suggestion the Wall came after existing 'Anglo-Scots' defences:



Hadrianopolis plans on promoting its mosaics:



A few items on the Antikythera Mechanism this week (the Scientific American one is really good):





Excellent study questioning the view that the Greeks regularly practiced infanticide:





A study of assorted aspects (including marine life growing on) one of the rams found off the Aegades:



Study suggests that gold 'fell out of favour' in the Caucasus 4000 years or so bp:



Reviewish item on a book examining evidence of Greeks and Romans in Kashmir:



Reviewish of Mary Beard, *Twelve Caesars*:



Review of a couple of books on Seneca:



Latest item on the Dirk Obbink/Hobby Lobby case:



Feature on the work of David Stone:



Feature on Mike Toumazou on the occasion of his retirement:



Feature on Robert Littman and his long stay at the University of Hawaii:



Feature on Tana Allen and her use of LEGO in the Classics classroom:



Feature on Thomas J. Jones:



An interview with Anne Carson:



Feature on modern reuse of ancient Roman construction materials at what was once Viminacium:






Feature on the Huntingdon hoard:



Feature on Roman Segovia:



Feature on the Roman remains in Merida:



Feature on Roman remains at Silchester:



Feature on Phanagoria:



Feature on the fall of Carthage:



Feature on Julius Caesar in France:



Feature on the importance of the Classical Tradition in art:



Feature on toys (dolls) in the Roman empire:



Feature on the Vapheio cups:



Feature on Britan's 'lost Roman legion':



OpEddish suggesting 'meta' and 'omicron' are part of a 'classics comeback':



Latest claim that the Greeks discovered Iceland:



... while there's also an item wondering whether ancient Greeks visited Britain:



Stephen Fry stepped into the Parthenon Sculptures issue this week:









... and there was a response to George Osbourne's views expressed a week or so ago:



... while others were thinking 'loan' proposals should be a 'last resort':



... and Boris Johnson's opinion from the 1980s that they should be returned was revealed:





A nice overview on the whole Parthenon Sculptures debate:



... and a 'year in review' piece on the sculptures:



... and an optimistic opEd:



... and let's not forget the British Museum has a Caryatid too:



On Boris Johnson as Greek hero:



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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Plenty of interest in a 10 000 years bp burial of an infant girl (dubbed 'Neve') in an Italian cave:


















cf:

Neolithic child burials in a mound in Denmark:



Bronze Age finds from Slovakia's Trencin Region:



New evidence suggests humans had settled on the Faroe Islands some 350 years before the Vikings arrived (i.e. ca 500 CE):








cf:

A lyre from Sutton Hoo might have affinities with a similar one from Kazakhstan:






cf:

Some Viking-era brooches found by metal detectorists on the Isle of Man are on display for the first time:




A possible Anglo-Saxon burial site has brought house construction to a halt in Hart Village:



A 13th century falconry-related figurine from downtown Oslo:








A medieval pendant is being singled out as the millionth find made by the public in the UK:








Another pendant find reveals a hitherto unknown Anglo-Saxon name:






... and assorted 'treasure finders' are being praised for waiving their right to a reward:




Feature on the restoration of a reused Roman-era rock crystal jar found in the Galloway hoard:






Remains of a late medieval cart track from Finchingfield:



Hospital construction the the Crimea came across remains of a 19th century synagogue:



More on large Iron Age longhouses from Norway:



More on that medieval ink pen from a fortress site in Ireland:






More on that ornate Viking sword from Scotland that was given the xray treatment:




More on the diet of the builders of Stonehenge:



More roundups of 'treasure finds' in various parts of the UK, such as Wiltshire and Swindon:



... and Hampshire:



... East Yorkshire:



... Nottinghamshire:



... Thames shore:



Feature on five significant finds from the UK last year:



A farmer was fined for destroying a Neolithic site on Skye:



Investigating claims that the tomb of a 17th century lawyer who tortured Protestants was 'raided':



Feature on the use of drones to record UK coastal heritage:



cf:

Another item on the Viking 'blood eagle' execution:


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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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8000 years bp evidence of alcohol use in China:




A Shang Dynasty 'city' site featuring burials and other items from Henan:




Charred remains of tea from a Warring States period tomb from Shandong:



A tomb in Shaanxi has been confirmed as belonging to the Han Dynasty emperor Wen:









China is considering using muon detection technology to find the 'secret chamber' associated with Qin's tomb:





More on the bronze (copper?) Buddha statues dating to Eastern Han Dynasty times from Shaanxi:





Some more boundary stones from Hong Kong's first colonial settlement have been found:



A study of evidence for millet bread from the long-occupied site of Kadebakele in southern India:




cf:

2700 years bp (maybe) petroglyphs from Kongana Siddhar cave in Perumalai:



A 2300 years bp apsidal Buddhist temple from Pakistan:




17th century sculptures revealed at Telangana's Munagala ?temple site:



Remains of a British-era 'hanging house' found inside the Delhi Assembly:




Mining-associated concerns for a 2300 years bp Buddhist site in Andra Pradesh:



Plans to resume excavations in Keeladi next year:



... while this year's finds are being written up:



Feature on the city of Dwarka:



Part two of a feature on the ancient history of Kashmir:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Humans are back on the hook for contributing to extinction of megafauna in Australia:



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NORTH AMERICA
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A 'mystery object' from a Revolutionary War site in Saratoga National Historical Park turns out to be a kitchen gadget:



Searching for Benedict Arnold's 'smuggling tunnel':



Feature on archaeology sites associated with the Tla'amin First Nation:




Feature on Inuvialuit archaeologist Letitia Pokiak:



Feature on the Franklin expedition:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Possible evidence of pre-Columbian headhunting from some burials in Nicaragua:



Sea level fall is being associated with the decline of the Sambaqui culture some 2000 years bp:





Evidence of an Aztec 'New Fire' ritual from Mexico City:





Another theory on the decline of the Rapa Nui:



More on that 800/1200 years bp 'bound mummy' from Peru:





Feature on Incan terracing technology:


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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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A study of Dutch white paint:



Feature on the Knights Templar:



Feature on how turkeys became holiday food:



Feature on the history of fruitcake:



On the wildest parties in art:



Feature on five ancient cities that don't exist any more:



Arguing about the invention of the airplane:



A Phoenician ship replica is setting sail for Spain:



On the history of sea shanties in New England:



The Honresfield library has been saved for the UK:



Pondering the idea of 'Big History':



Feature on historical women's roles in sex trafficking:



Feature on the history of the limpet:



Feature on Darwin's microscope:



More lists of the top archaeological discoveries for 2021 (coverage varies, of course):




Feature on Mary Queen of Scots letterlocking:



Review of a new translation of *Arabian Nights*:



Review of Roosevelt Montas, *Rescuing Socrates*:



Review of Joe Moshenska, *Making Darkness Light*:



Review of Cynthia Saltzman, *Napoleon's Plunder*;



Review of Hannah Matson's recent book on human adornment:



Review of a book on Italy's forgotten artists:



OpEd on 'Great Books':



More reaction to the Notre Dame restoration:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Some interesting history of Advent hymns:



On the Antiques Roadshow and colonialism:



The time capsule in the Robert E Lee statue base in Richmond may have been located:



More on COVID and the Greek alphabet:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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The oldest dog remains in North America (11 000 years bp?) come from Haida Gwaii:





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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Feature on 1500 endangered languages:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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You Will See What Your Can't See:



Ibero-American art in Spain:



Visions of India:



Sanhedrin Trail:



From Istanbul to Byzantium:



Maps of Renaissance Tuscany:



African Origin of Civilization:



Stonehenge:



Heritage of Rasheed:



Ancient Greeks:







Mycenae:



Forgotten Women Artists:



Indigenous Enslavement:



Followup to removing the Sackler name from museums:



Renovations under way for several galleries at the Met:



A Maryland Civil War museum has acquired a Union soldier's ID tag:



Feature on five African museums:



More on Afghanistan's National Museum under the Taliban:



More on the Getty acquisition of a bust of Germanicus (maybe):


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A 16th century globe is coming to auction:





... as is a photo of the Rosettis by Lewis Carroll:



A miniature by Sarah Biffin exceeded expectations:



Feature on how the auction of a stolen letter of Cortes was halted:



Paul Revere artifacts found in a Boston attic fetched a nice price:



Pondering that Albrecht Durer coming to auction soon:


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A genome-wide study of DNA from the Sudan:



I think we mentioned this DNA study of the settlement of Polynesia:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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I think we mentioned this high-tech mummy-unwrapping technique:



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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Study suggests that warming actually led to the 'Little Ice Age':





cf:

Climate change is being linked to the Vikings leaving Greenland:



On the long (apparently) history of climate change concerns:



On what clam shells reveal about climate change:




Climate change concerns at Jamestown Island:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Seven Rome monuments:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Pondering the future of Classical Music:


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CRIME BEAT
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Treasure hunters have plundered Tukey's Pihr Mound:



Vandalism of some Despenaperros petroglyphs:



Spanish police recovered some stolen Visigoth coins:



Prominent Egyptian businessman Hassan Rateb (and 20 others) have been formally charged with smuggling/excavating antiquities:





Egypt also deported an ambassador from the UAE for smuggling antiquities:



I think we mentioned this hoard of stolen antiquities found in a tunnel and dating to the Bar Kokhba ?revolt:










Antiquities-related arrests in Thessaloniki:




A smuggling bust in Turkey included some shrunken heads from the Amazon (!):




A bust of a gang of seniors who apparently smuggled items across Europe via train:



Police in Romania recovered 100 stolen medieval coins:



Feature on Balkan-based looters' use of Facebook in their dealings:



In the wake of the Steinhardt thing, a feature on Christos Tsirogiannis' work identifying looted antiquities:



... and another major case from the Manhattan DA office which seems to focus more on the returns being made to Italy, than the people/museums involved:











Ongoing looting by 'occupation mercenaries' in Afrin:




More on the Steinhardt 'settlement':


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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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An exhibition of Benin Bronzes before their return:



Feature on some Benin Bronzes in a small New Zealand museum:



Feature on the role of 'netizens' in Thailand's repatriation efforts:



Another Gurlitt-related return from a Swiss museum:



More on Egypt recovering 30 000 items over the past decade:



More on Israel returning items to Egypt:



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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the ancient Celtic coinage of Britain:



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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Mike Ingram:



Michael Eisenstadt:



Robert Farris Thompson:




Julius S Scott:



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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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