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explorator 24.41 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?January 30, 2022
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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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New hints of Neanderthal sites for northern Iran:



Plenty of coverage of questioning the theory that eating meat (cooking) is a trait which made us 'human':














cf:

A number of public radio segments this week were discussing various aspects of the Neanderthals:




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A reassessment of finds from the 1928 dig in Shukbah Cave is questioning use of Nubian Levallois technology as a marker for homo sapiens movements:


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AFRICA
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Tracing leafy vegetable use in West African diet back 3500 years bp:




Feature on Gedi (Kenya):



Review of Howard W. French, *Born in Blackness*:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A restored 5th century church site in Gaza was opened to the public:






More on the sphinxes (and other items) of Amenhotep III from Luxor:






The 30 Greco-Roman burials from Aswan are still getting press coverage too:



More on that mummified foetus:






Feature on Egyptian writing through the ages:



Feature/study on how volcanic eruptions may have led to unrest in Egypt (we may have had this a while ago):



Not sure where to put this one: Egypt is offering assistance to Nigeria in preserving recovered Benin artifacts:



Seeking a permanent research centre at the Paleolithic site of Mirak (Iran):



Study suggests a major drought 4200 years bp 'toppled empires' from Mesopotamia to India:



Restoration of a temple in Iraq that was damaged by Daesh has revealed evidence of 'hybrid camels' in its artwork:





I think we mentioned this evidence that millet was being grown in Mesopotamia some 3500 years bp prior to the introduction of irrigation:



More on the evidence of a prayer room/church beneath the al-Nuri mosque in Mosul:



More on European archaeologists returning to Iraq:



Feature on the myssterious 'squill' plant and its use in Mesopotamian medicine/magic:



23 000 years bp animal remains of a hunter-gatherer camp on the Sea of Galilee suggests humans were handling the Ice Age very well at the time:








cf:

A Hebrew amulet from the Mount Ebal/Joshua's Altar site in Samaria:





... and a background piece on the site:



Another report on 'destruction' of sites in Judea and Samaria:



Perhaps coincidentally, we're also reading of funding for protection and repair of heritage sites in Judea and Samaria:




More on evidence of parasites among the elite from a Jerusalem toilet:




Feature on Sennacherib's siege of Lachish:



Feature on the Tower of David renovations:



Evidence of a 4000 years bp settlement from Oman:






... and it doesn't appear to be the same place as the 'board game' site that's been in the news:



Evidence for a 3600 years bp settlement site on the eastern Arabian Peninsula:



Reviewish/interviewish of Katherine Pangonis' *Queens of Jerusalem*:


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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 Phoenician inscription from Cyprus:




Roadwork revealed Iron Age and Roman structures at a Bedfordshire village site:





Roman finds from a controversial development site near Kendal:



Evidence of a Roman-era community of skilled craft workers from a site near Alconbury:




Plenty of Roman finds from a hospital site in Colchester:



A new 'fragment' of Hadrian's wall revealed near Carlisle:



... while Newcastle feels it should be hyping its bits more:



A 4th century (maybe) peacock mosaic from Salona:



A study of the building materials found in the Curia of Pompey:




In case you missed the 2500 years bp Scythian burials from Siberia last week:




More on that 1800 years bp intact blue Roman glass bowl from Nijmegen:






More on the Roman amphitheatre find in Switzerland:






More on that carved Roman (maybe) wooden figure found during HS2 construction:



More on the badger-revealed coin hoard from Spain:



Plans to 'upgrade' the site of the Sanctuary of Artemis at Aulis:



Feature on the restoration of the Diolkos:



New plans for a 'Roman quarter' in York:





Feature on Allison Emmerson's work on Romans' attitudes toward the dead:



Feature on Irene Peirano Garrison's Latin Prose composition course at Harvard:



Feature on Leanne Jansen's research on Cicero's integrity:



A profile of Archondia Thanos and her archaeological work:



Feature on Russell Lawson's work on ancient science:



Feature on some of Madeline Miller's works:



Mary Beard on kissing in the Roman world:



An ASCSA fellowship for Sanjaya Thakur:



Feature on Charles Darwin's debt to Epicurus (first in series, apparently):



Debunking the myth of Spartan infanticide:




Feature on mosaics from Hatay on display around the world (seems repatriation-connected):



Feature on the Amazons:



Feature on the Battle of Thermopylae:



Feature on Pliny the Younger (probably paywalled):



Feature on the find of a statue of Antinous at Delphi in 1894:



Feature on the Pythagorean (joke) Cup:



Feature on Carl Sagan and Eratosthenes:



Feature on the Palace of Galerius in Thessaloniki:



Feature on Magnesia:



Feature on the Temple of Hercules Gaditanus:



On Latin as the language of science:



Greece is pondering promoting ancient military tourism:



More on Classics at UVermont:



Greece is again calling for the Parthenon Sculptures' return, noting perfect replicas are possible:




OpEds calling for the return of the Parthenon sculptures:




In case you missed the photos of Athens and other sites in the snow:



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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A 16th century BCE bronze dagger from Slovakia:





A skull of a (possibly Black) medieval woman from a burial ground in Bohemia:



Spain is excavating/restoring historic synagogues:



Carlisle Castle has restored some 'carvings' believed to have been made by 15th century prison guards:



The Carrickgollogan neolithic tomb in Ireland has collapsed:




More on 5500 years bp beer straws:



More on the small size of medieval warhorses:



More on motives for medieval grave robbing:



Feature on the Puxerloch Cave Castles:



Feature/review on Stonehenge (Paywalled):



Feature on Stonehenge (not paywalled):



Feature on the birth of the Renaissance in Italy:


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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 survey of an Eastern Zhou Dynasty mausoleum from Henan:






... not sure if this item is connected to the above:



More on the latest finds from Qin's tomb:





Feature on the 'golden age' (now) of Chinese archaeology:



Feature on recent finds from Tibet:



Recreating a 7th/8th century coffin in a tomb in Asuka:



More on satellite imagery and the Kofun tombs:




Some restoration work at Angkor Wat has been completed:



Cemetery renovations (?) revealed assorted 2nd century CE (apparently) artifacts and a wall at a site near Haripur:




Plans to resume excavations at Gangaikondacholapuram:



Feature on ancient scripts in Kashmir:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Evidence of Indigenous Australians building large outrigger canoe type things some 3000 years (or more) bp:



Maori artifacts from a school site in Christchurch:



Feature on the wreck of The Alert which appears every now and then on a beach in Tasmania:



... and some wrecks that appeared off the coast of New South Wales:


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NORTH AMERICA
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A study of 17th century food remains from James Fort:




Digging at a historic property at York Village (Maine) has resumed earlier than expected:



Renovations of a large115 years bp building in Okanogan (Washington) revealed two large murals:



Worries about possible Native American burials on a development site in Nashville:



Overviewish thing on the Jamestown Rediscovery project:



Conservation work on a concretion of items from an 18th century British shipwreck revealed a 'USA' button:




More on a 370 years bp Spanish cross found at a site in Maryland:





Latest feature on Poverty Point:




Feature on Matt Peeples work at Chaco Canyon:



Feature on Native American grave houses in Oklahoma:



Review of Ben Raines, *The Last Slave Ship*:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Not sure if this is a 'repatriation' story but archaeologists are said to have recovered a 'coyote man' sculpture:





More on structures recently found at Machu Picchu:





... and Peru is reopening the citadel site after recent floods:



Feature on John Hoopes' recent publications on pre-Columbian artifacts and sites:



Feature on Alex Bazarsky's LiDAR work with Maya sites:



Feature on Reginald Murphy's work looking for pre-Columbian sites on Antigua:



Feature on the Rupac site:



Feature on the moai statues:



A listing of assorted zoom lectures and conferences relating to the Ancient Americas:


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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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Feature on eleven 'dazzling' hoards:



Feature on the evil eye:



Feature on the history of vegetarianism:



On the history of porridge:



Feature on sexism influencing Darwin's theories:




cf: ?

Feature on bees in art in various times and cultures:




cf:

Feature on skull modification and its effects:



A 12th century monk is the first account of 'ball lightning' from England:



Feature on Gainsborough's Blue Boy:



Manet's portrait of Eva Gonzales is the latest to get the xray treatment:



Feature on Judith Leyster:



cf:

Catalonia has pardoned some women executed for witchcraft in the past:



Some Jane Austen manuscripts have been donated in an attempt to save Honresfield Library from auction:



Some of Picasso's heirs are trying to get into the NFT scene:



Victor Nuovo on Leibniz:



On the history of hotpot:



Reviewish of Roosevelt Montas, *Rescuing Socrates*:



On the history of 'sleaze' in British politics (book review):



Feature on a Sumatran tree bark book:



Some repatriation-inspired Onion humour:



Review of Bill Hayes, *Sweat*:



Review of Ranulph Fiennes, *Shackelton*:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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On Yale's connections to slavery:



Princeton Theological Seminary is removing the name of Samuel Miller from the Princeton Seminary Chapel:



Some Shema Yisrael pendants were found at Sobibor prior to Holocaust Remembrance Day:







... and some Holocaust-era photos recently found:



Feature on the role of doctors in Holocaust atrocities:



OpEd on recent Holocaust revisionism:



The Getty has released a collection of photos from the archives of HCBUs:



The Dresden State Art Collections is being criticized for renaming some works:



More features on Edmonia Lewis in anticipation of her stamp:




A statue of Ponce de Leon in Puerto Rico was hauled down:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Questioning the evidence of small-scale animal husbandry in northwest Europe 4800 BCE or so:



Another feature on domestic horse origins:



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LANGUAGE RELATED
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On the invention of 'shooketh':


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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The Rare Collection:




King Tut:



Ramses the Great:



Pompeii in Color:



Angkor 3d:



Tudors:



Nebra Sky Disc:





Behind the Roar:



OpEd on the need for museums to return looted items:



... and decolonizing museums:



Plans for a new museum for underwater antiquities at Piraeus:



More on the M&S loans to a Leeds gallery:


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A huge result for a Henry III gold penny:








A 19th century Japanese coin also fetched a high price:



Big bucks for Botticelli's 'Man of Sorrows':




Pondering the legality of a potential Sotheby's sale of an Egyptian statue:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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The DNA to create 'small dogs' was already present in wolves, apparently:



In case you missed the DNA evidence for the development of the 'kunga':


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THE TECHY SIDE
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A global database of archaeological radiocarbon dates:



Another dating method for human remains:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Climate change concerns for items in UK peat bogs:








Connecting an 8200 years bp burial ground north of Moscow to 'climate stress':





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TOURISTY THINGS
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Amphipolis:



Carnac stones:



Matanzas:



Coumboscuro:



Bhutan Pilgrimage trail:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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'Forgotten' composers:



Macbeth:



Some Paris dramas:



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CRIME BEAT
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A metal detectorist was arrested while poking around a medieval castle:



A sculpture of the Virgin of Candelaria was stolen in Santiago:



A man was arrested for trying to steal a tile from the Alhambra:



An effort to unite Mekong River countries against illegal trafficking of antiquities:



Some details about the provenance of some of Steinhardt's looted items:




The Dresden Green Vault jewelry heist is underway:



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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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France approved the return of some Nazi-looted artworks:




More on a Lebanese museum returning items taken from Syria:



More on US returns to Iraq:



More on research into items looted by Nazis from Greece:



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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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Richard Leakey:



Martha Sharp Joukowsky:



Anna Ritchie:



Reza Mostofifard:



Heidemarie Koch:



R Nagaswamy:





Johan Hultin:



Jonathan Brown:



Robert Farris Thompson:



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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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