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explorator 24.48 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? March 20, 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, Karen S. Young,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay, Ken Berry,
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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CUT AND PASTE CORRIGENDA
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Last week we mentioned a digital reconstruction of Rome with an erroneous link ... here's what it should have been:


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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Not sure where to put this one ... study suggests human communication began with gestures:



cf:

... or this one, on why early humans started using hafted tools:



cf:

More on 500 000 years bp humans recycling flint tools to preserve ancestors' memories:




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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Five tombs of 'senior officials' from Saqqara dating to the Old Kingdom/First Intermediate Period:



















We're reading agin of plans to give the Great Pyramid the muon scanning treatment:




Latest CT scans of a mummy to try to link her to some nested coffins:



More on the 4000 years bp administrative centre found at Kom Ombo:



Feature on Maite Mascort's work at Oxyrhynchus:



Feature on the Greeks and ancient Egypt:



7000+ years bp stone tools from Iran's Gav-Bast Mountain:





Some 7th/8th century glazed bricks recovered from a smuggler in Switzerland are going on display in Iran:



Archaeologists cut a drainage system to protect a royal bas-relief at Persepolis:



Feature on the rebirth of archaeology in Iraq:



A study of the 'colored skeletons' found at Catal Hoyuk:





Feature on Nabonidus' antiquarian leanings:



In case you want a break to play an ancient Mesopotamian board game:



More (ipdated?) on that 9000 years bp shrine from the Jordan desert:



Pavement restoration at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre will allow some archaeology to be done:




The 4th millennium BCE 'Lord of the Desert' stele found in a storage room is on display at the Israel Museum:



cf:

Purim seems to have occasioned this piece on Ahasuerus being identified as Xerxes I:



... and a feature on Iranian Jews purchasing the tomb of Queen Esther and Mordechai:



Feature on kings and dynasties of ancient Israel:



Opeddish sort of thing on the problem of politics in Jerusalem archaeology:



... and one on Israel's 'war' on Palestinian cultural heritage:



Feature on osteoarchaeologist Eftymia Nikita's work:



Feature on Murdhi Jalbakh Al-Fahiqi's work finding sites and petroglyphs in Saudi Arabia:



Saudi Arabia is launching a program to get 'the younger generation' interested in archaeology:



Ongoing concerns for sites in Yemen:


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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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The kothon of Motya (Sicily) apparently isn't an artificial harbour but rather is a sacred pool dedicated to Baal:







cf:

Evidence of women's activities (apparently) from an early Iron Age site outside Thessaloniki:



Overview of the 2021 season at Agios Ioannis/Vretsia:



The lower part of a statue of Minerva was found at Castro (Italian):





I think we mentioned this abandoned mausoleum and silver extraction facility found at the Grange Farm site:






A fresco fragment from Pompeii in the Getty might be looted:



A pre-Invasion (!) Roman helmet is going on display in Sussex:



A follow up to that Pompeii 'intact burial' found a few months ago ... turns out they were deliberately mummified:



Funding to preserve a Roman mosaic found at Colchester:



More on the 'Ithaca' program which uses AI to fill in missing bits of Greek inscriptions:






More on the mosaics revealed at Negrar di Valpolicella (Italian):



More on the Roman shipwreck found off Mallorca:




More on the mosaic found at London's Southwark:



More unpaywalled iterations of the New York Times piece on Pompeii from a couple weeks ago:




Feature on the find of the Rutland Roman Villa site:



Feature on the basilica beneath the Porta Maggiore:



Feature on the Belogradchik Fortress:



Feature on Roman use of sanctions (sort of):



A study of peasant life in Roman Spain:



Plans for more digging at Falerii Novi (Italian):



The Kasta tomb at Amphipolis will be opening to the public:






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



Reviews of Mary Beard, *Twelve Caesars*:




Review of Richard Buxton, *The Greek Myths that Shape the Way We Think*:



Feature on Mary Beard's bursaries:



Feature on Jack Mitchell's rendering of Star Wars as epic poem:



Feature on Kyle Helms' research into graffiti at Pompeii:



Comparing Ukraine and Melos:



... in a similar vein:



Feature on the Charioteer of Delphi:



Feature on the Ides of March:



Feature on Julius Caesar:



Feature on Rome's rise to empire:



Feature on female merchants in ancient Rome:



Feature on Plato in Sicily:



Feature (by Bart Ehrman) on early Christianity:



Feature on Blackness in antiquity:



Feature on the Pantheon:



Feature on the theatre at Larissa:



Nice feature on the Roman antiquities at the Villa Aurora:



Feature on Nashville's Parthenon:



Feature on Heracleion:



Feature on the Library of Alexandria:



... and another:



Feature on a somewhat anachronistic bridge in Sparta:



Feature on the legacy of Aeschylus:



Pi Day seems to have spawned features on Archimedes:




Feature on women gladiators:



Not sure where to put this comparison of Noah and Odysseus:



Latest on the proposal to solve the Parthenon Sculptures argument with 3d scanning:



... which the British Museum has denied permission for (which might lead to a lawsuit):



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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A study ?of handprint petroglyphs in Spain suggests many were made by children:



cf:

A project looking for 8000 years bp hunter-gatherer sites on the Cairngorn Plateau:



A study has identified likely burial sites of 65 or so 'Dark Age' British royals:





Brief item on the possible identification of the site of the Battle of Brunanburh:



14th century burials and a sarcophagus found beneath Notre Dame:



















Finds from various periods at a development site on Western Quayside, Haverfordwest:





A metal detectorist found an 18th century silver cufflink in Sprotson:



A9 construction is occasioning a dig near a Jacobite battle site in Scotland:



The search for the 'lost town' of Ravenser Odd in the Humber estuary:




More on the 'world's oldest' mummy in Portugal:



More on the 5th/6th cnetury CE Pictish stone find from Scotland:




More on the Burton Agnes drum and its conservation:



More on reindeer hunting points and sites from Norway's melting glaciers:



Funding for a survey of Gosbecks Archaeological Park in Colchester:



Concerns wind projects threaten Mesolithic sites in Doggerland:



Trying to get the Herefordshire Hoard back in Herefordshire:




Another feature on Vikings not wearing horned helmets:


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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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12 000 Paleolithic items from the Yeyuan site in Shaanxi:



China is celebrating six major finds from 2021:






Feature on jade burial suits from China:



Feature on China's Yangshao Culture:



More on 40 000 years bp evidence of ochre use from Xiamabei:



Feature on mermaids in Japanese folklore:




A Bronze Age Tagar culture human bone amulet from Siberia:




A 3500 years bp menhir from Mahbubabad:






Excavations are getting underway at a Thulukkarpatti site:



Using archaeology to study the spread of Buddhism to Telangana:



Latest on what's happening at the Mes Aynak site:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Studying food production/agriculture among the Mithaka people:



Studying early firewood use in Australia's Western Desert:




Plenty of 19th century artifacts revealed during a dig in central Christchurch:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence of a human presence in the Yukon some 24 000 years bp:



The (well preserved) 131 years bp wreck of the SS Atlanta was located in Lake Superior:



More on that 460 years bp hunting bow from Alaska:





More on the identification of the 17th century wreck of the Sparrow Hawk near Cape Cod:






More on that unexploded Civil War shell from a Georgia battlefield:



Plans to 'resink' some 18th century shipwrecks found near Alexandria a few years ago:



Searching for unmarked Black burials in Elizabeth City:



Feature on the USF field school at Weedon Island Preserve:



Feature on the search for Native American sites in the Adirondacks:



Feature on George McJunkin:



Feature on Ohio's Serpent Mound:



Feature on ships in the US which are designated as landmarks:



Feature on Sybil Ludington:



Pondering states' rights in the US Constitution:



Pondering 'cancel culture' in 1832:



A judge has ruled New York State illegally took some Mohawk land in the 1800s:



Ongoing vandalism concerns at sites in Utah:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Excavations at the Templo Mayor sit at Tenochtitlan have revealed a pile of starfish intended as ritual offerings:






Remains of a 17th century cemetery from Recife (Brazil):



More on wealth/power 'equality' at Monte Alban:




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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 garden statue turns out to be a lost Canova work:



Feature on Trowelblazers and the history of women in archaeology:



On the history of pasta:



On ancient knowledge of astronomy:



On recreating Renaissance cosmetics and the like:



cf:

Studying how 'metal soaps' contribute to the deterioration of oil paintings:



Feature on Botticelli's 'Birth of Venus':



In case you were wondering about the broken 'killing stone' in Japan:



Something about letters from Black Americans to their former enslavers:



Victor Nuovo on Genesis and good and evil:



Feature on Kathe Kollwitz's art:



Feature on the first war crimes trial:



Feature on art's approach to women's bodies:



Feature on tools and techniques used by archaeologists:



Feature on projects trying to 'resurrect' extinct animals:



Feature on the mutiny Magellan had to deal with:



Rethinking witch accusations in various periods of Spanish history:



More on the find of the wreck of the Endurance:



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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Features on Pi (and Pi Day)




On media coverage of the Black Death and comparisons made with COVID:



On COVID and the future of archaeology:



Feature on the Greek roots of cities in Ukraine:



The Hermitage has withdrawn demands for the return of things they loaned to Italy, apparently:



More on concerns/efforts to save Ukraine's cultural heritage:







Feature on St Gertrude's Day:



... and a study of where St Patrick was from:



... and on St Parick's Day:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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More on geese being domesticated in China some 7000 years bp:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Descendants of the Builders:



Kore 670:



Donatello:



Cleopatra between Egypt and Italy:



Rubens 'Baptism of Christ':



Trompe l'oeil:



Biblical Archaeology:



More on the reopening of Iraq's national museum:



Concerns about an Immersive Van Gogh show:



Feature on South Korea's Greek mythology museum:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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The Ides of March last week spawned features on an Ides of March coin coming to auction in a few months, apparently:






On the price fetched for that medieval gold cross found by a Norwich detectorist:



A nice price for a Rubens portrait:



OpEd on museums and 'blood antiquities':



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA suggests TB made it to South America via seals:




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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial (and full body) reconstruction is of a 4000 years bp woman from Sweden:




On using computer predictive models to find hunter-gatherer sites:





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TOURISTY THINGS
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Topkapi Palace harem:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Pondering what happened to Cesar Franck's symphony:



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CRIME BEAT
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An arrest of antiquities smugglers in Libya:



Again we read of 'Turkish backed factions' conducting illegal excavations in Afrin:



Vandalism at the La Sergente Neolithic tomb in Jersey:



More on the bust of a Jerusalem resident in possession of 1500 years bp 'incantation bowls':



More on the results of Operation Pandora VI:



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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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This week, we are reading that Turkey is denying that the Siloam inscription would be returned to Israel:





... which gives rise to an OpEd:



OpEd on repatriation from museums:



Some stolen Nepalese artifacts found in the Barakat Gallery in London were returned:



More on the return of a sacred drum from Denmark to the Sami people:



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NUMISMATICA
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Princeton has acquired a major Byzantine coin collection:



Feature on mints:



Feature on ancient Greek coins of Paeonia:



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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David Mayer Gradwohl:



Neil Faulkner:



Herbert Benario:



Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky:



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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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