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explorator 24.46 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?March 6, 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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Feature on the evidence for head injuries among various early humans:


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AFRICA
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Evidence from a 80000-92000 years bp site in South Africa that humans were 'innovating':





cf:

A study of human impact on a settlement on the Zanzibar Archipelago in the first millennium or so CE:




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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Remains of First Intermediate Period silos and administrative structures from Kom Ombo:







Five 13th century BCE (maybe) water wells associated with the Horus Military Road from the North Sinai:




Plans for another muon scanning project for the Great Pyramid:



Feature on a group studying faunal remains from the Gaza Strip:



More on the Roman-era furnace and other structures found in Luxor beneath a destroyed palace:



More on Tut's meteoric iron dagger originating in Syria:




More on the cache of mummification supplies from Abusir:




An interesting feature comparing ancient Egypt and early China:



Feature on the 'lost city' of Aten:



Excavations at the Iron Age site of Qareh Hasanlu (Iran) have resumed:



A study of the construction of an Achaemenid-era dam:



Feature on the ancient Persians:



An overview of the past month's finds in Turkey:



We're hearing again of Turkish-backed 'factions' bulldozing sites in Afrin:



Not sure this is news ... it seems to be about a possible site for Magdala:



Searching for the home of Peter the Apostle:



Feature/interview on Neolithic settlement patterns in Jordan:



Feature on an antiquities dealer in Israel:



More on the 9000 years bp shrine/religious structure from the Jordanian desert:




Review of Guy MacLean Rogers, *For the Freedom of Zion*:



A 6500 years bp pearl from a burial in Qatar:





More on the 18th century shipwreck found in the Red Sea off the coast of Haql:



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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 1st century CE horse burial from Germany:



Surveys suggest there's a major Roman villa site in Rutland where that mosaic was found a few weeks ago:




Study suggests that Roman emerald mines in the Eastern Desert were taken over by nomads in the4th-6th centuries CE:









I think we mentioned a few weeks ago (maybe Italian coverage) this find of marble inlay slabs from Pompeii:



Burials found at the site of a new football stadium in Gloucestershire are thought to be Roman:





A roman gold coin of Volusianus from a dig in Hungary:





Evidence of furniture making, perhaps, from a 4th century Roman settlement site excavated a few years ago:



A metal detectorist found a Roman fibula on a UK beach:



Overviewish piece on recent Roman finds from Carlisle:



A study of the Fournoi shipwreck has revealed a pile of early Byzantine pottery:




A Phoenician sarcophagus found at Rabat a couple decades ago is being restored:





A Roman fort in Holland is being linked to the Roman conquest of Britain (paywalled):



A remote-sensing survey of the submerged city of Baia:



Suggestion that a tsunami led to the abandonment of Belo Claudia in the 4th century:



Plans for a high-tech survey of the Trimontium Roman fort site:



Plans to restore the Cirencester hare mosaic:



Plans to resture assorted sites in northern Greece:



On plans to remove and relocate finds from the Venizelos Metro Station:



More on the 6th century BCE helmets found at Velia:



More on the 4th century Roman coin hoard found at a Bristol construction site:



More on evidence of large-scale Roman silver extraction at the Grange Farm site:



More on that Southwark Roman mosaic find:






More on the 'feast' mosaic found at Germanicia a few weeks ago:



Latest addition to the replica of the Kyrenia shipwreck:



Review of Barry Strauss, *The War that Made the Roman Empire*:



Feature on a Roman bronze mask from Carlisle:



Feature on a Roman-era copper figurine depicting a man in the native dress of Britons found in 2015:



Feature on poor leadership in ancient Greece during plagues:



Feature on Roman lavatories/bathrooms/washrooms:



On ancient Greeks understanding the non-inevitability of war:



Feature on Aesop:



Feature on the 'invention' of Socrates:



Feature on Kybele:



Feature on Medusa:



Feature on the ?Persians burning the Acropolis in 480 BCE:



Feature on the sound of ancient Greek:



Feature on a votive Greek sculpture of an ear:



Feature on Greek myths popular in art history:



Feature on Eirene:



Feature on Pavlopetri:



There's an app/website for the entire Parthenon frieze:





Comparing Putin and Agamemnon:



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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Study suggests the Venus of Willendorf originated in Italy:














cf:

Evidence of hunter-gatherer mummification in 8000 years bp Portugal:









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Grains found at the 7000 years bp pile dwellings site in Switzerland suggest links of some wort with Italy/the western Mediterranean:






cf:

School children in Aylsham found a Bronze Age flint knife:



Suggestion that Stonehenge was an ancient solar calendar:


















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A shipwreck off Plymouth includes artifacts associated with the slave trade:



Feature on excavations of a Napoleonic War-era barracks at Weeley:



Feature on all the finds being made during HS2 construction:



Studying 90 Viking-age iron artifacts to determine their origin:



More on 5300 years bp evidence of ear surgery from Spain:




More on 5000 years bp ochre-tinted burials from Serbia:




More on the Bronze Age burial mount found during the search for Oxford's 'lost college':



More on medieval floor tiles from a friary in Gloucester:



Feature on using drones to survey sites in Westmeath:



Feature on the search for the submerged bits of medieval Dunwich:



Feature on an 18th century shipwreck visible twice a year near Hastings:



Feature on assorted things found in the Thames:



I think we mentioned this study of a medieval Trondheim burial and what it tells us about how pandemics work:




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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 a 40 000 years bp 'innovative' hunter-gatherer culture in northern China:

















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Paleolithic petroglyphs from a site in Hainan:



Evidence of a Song Dynasty street market from Dengzhou City:




I think we mentioned this Shang Dynasty 'clan cemetery' find from Henan:



More on that Buddhist temple excavation in Pakistan:



Feature on the Kushans:



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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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19th century human remains from a Christchurch home site:


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NORTH AMERICA
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4000 years bp Native American shell ring villages in Georgia may have been abandoned because of climate change issues:




Interesting glass plate photos from the SS Central America shipwreck:



A possible 19th century shipwreck off Bald Head Island (NC):



... and a very deep 19th century shipwreck in Lake Superior:



They're digging in the middle of winter at Colonial Williamsburg:



More possible Tulsa Race Massacre victims found:





Feature on how Buffalo Bill and General Sheridan saved Yellowstone national Park:



Handy list of Ancient Americas zoom events:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More on the pre-Inca sacrifical human burials from Cajamarquilla:





More on the study of the Zapotec 'great frieze' at Azompa:





More on that 5000 years bp burial of a drowning victim in the Atacama Desert:



Feature on the Huaca Montegrande site:



The paper behind that story on hallucinogen use among the Wari:



Latest Aztlander Magazine:



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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 Dickens and 'Bleak House':



Feature on tea and the Industrial Revolution:



... and on the transition from eating tea to drinking it:



Feature on Neoclassicism as a response to Rococo:



Latest on the Villa Aurora:



Latest update the the World Monuments Fund endangered list:



On Henry VIII's 'type' and mixing up of portraits because of it:



Edgar Allen Poe's pocketwatch was donated to the Poe museum:



Feature on Corbezzolo honey:



Pondering who invented the bicycle:



Feature on 'earth ovens':



Feature on shipwrecks:



Feature on Barbara Shermund:



Folks are looking into one of those 'mummified mermaids':



On da Vinci's helicopter:



The Telegraph seems to be promoting 'treasure hunting':




A clump of George Washington's hair (maybe) from Union College:



Review of Jack E. Davis, *The Bald Eagle*:



Review of Ira Rutkow, *Empire of the Scalpel*:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Feature on Saint Olga of Kyiv:



Feature on Ukraine as 'borderland':



On the history of Ukraine:



On protecting heritage at Ukraine's largest art museum:



Concerns for various heritage sites in Ukraine:












... and wondering about Faberge eggs Russia loaned to the UK:



Latest unmarked graves finds from a Canadian residential school:




Pondering the disappearance of a statue of Voltaire in Paris:



Some Presidents' Day items:




OpEd on the need for new 'language' about race:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Feature on tomato domestication:



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A genetic link between Iberian and Israeli dogs:



More on Mesopotamian 'war donkeys':



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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Review of Silvia Ferrara, *The Greatest Invention*:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Stonehenge:




Holbein:



Donatello:



Dura Europos:



The Galleria Archeologica of Turin's royal palace has reopened:



The Acropolis Museum is lending a nice Kore to the Royal Ontario Museum:



Feature on the Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology:



Interesting use of Virtual Reality in a National Gallery exhibition:



A number of colossi were relocated to the GEM:





... and we're being told it's 99% ready to open:



An interview with Neil MacGregor:


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A medieval gold cross found by a metal detectorist in 2019 is coming to auction:



High expectations for a 'leopard' coin found by a Norfolk metal detectorist:





A major result for a Magritte:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Studying DNA from a pair of 5000 years bp skeletons from Serbia:



Finding genetic 'fingerpritns' of migrations to the UAE:



Feature on Love Dalen's work with ancient DNA:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using dendrochronology to study medieval and early modern building activity:



Latest facial reconstruction is a 4000 years bp woman from Sweden (images seem different in these):



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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Study suggests modern sea level rise began in 1863:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ithaca:



Rome:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Marking the 100th anniversary of Nosferatu:



Casulana:



Drumfolk:



Feature on Herbert Blomstedt:



Wagner:



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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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The Pirates:


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CRIME BEAT
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Police in Turkey seized a relief portraying Eros:



Ancient/Byzantine coins seized at the Cairo Airport:



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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 Nazi-auctioned Kandinsky was returned to Jewish heirs:




The US returned assorted items (including a skull) to France:



... and some gold ingots:



Steinhardt-related returns to Jordan:









Palestinians seem to have been left out of the Steinhardt returns:





More on Steinhardt-related returns to Greece:






More on the return of a Moai to Easter Island from Chile:




More on returns to the Dominican from Puerto Rico:




An interview with Matthew Bogdanos:


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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the Sestertius:



Feature on ancient coins and modern object biographies:



Feature on the coins of Lydia:



Latest e-Sylum:



... and the one which should appear later today:


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Coin Week:



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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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