开云体育

===========================================================
explorator 25.08 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? June 12, 2022
===========================================================
You can read explorator online at:

? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?


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, Adrienne Mayor,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

nb Next week's issue will likely be a day late again due to anticipated internet issues.
============================================================
EARLY HOMINIDS
============================================================
I think we had reports on this 120 000 years bp jewellery from Morocco a few months ago:



More on the 50 000+ year use of the Ceva de Ardales as an art venue for early humans:





============================================================
AFRICA
============================================================
A study of the implications of a 65 000 years bp 'Swiss Army Knife' style on early human communication in Africa:













Concerns for underwater heritage at various sites in Africa:



Feature on scuba diving beneath pyramids in Sudan:



============================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
============================================================
More on the find of a 6th Dynasty tomb of an important Egyptian official at Saqqara:



More on the 250+ sarcophagi and figurines from Saqqara:





More on efforts to recreate Cleopatra's perfume:



More on efforts to recreate Egyptian methods of producing olive oil:



An interview with Rita Lucarelli on the Egyptian Book of the Dead:



Feature on Tut at Amarna:



Feature on a statue of Khafre:



On using AI to translate Egyptian texts:



15 Egyptian conservationist folks will be getting some museology training in Italy:



Evidence of a Paleolithic human presence in Iran's Sarbisheh Plain region:



Neolithic obsidian tools from a 9000 years bp site in northwestern Iran:



5th-2nd millennium BCE settlement from Iran's Marvdasht plain:



6000 years ?bp evidence of 'administrative management' (maybe) from the Kale-Kub site in Iran:



Researchers have identified the site of the residence of King Khosrow (7th century CE) in Iraq:



More on the 3400 years bp Mitanni-era city in the Tigris which was revealed by drought in Iraq:









A Mycenean figurine from the excavations at Ayasuluk Tepe (is this recent?):



Feature on Gobekli Tepe:









Evidence of one ?of the earliest (7th/8th century CE) Islamic burials from Syria:








cf:

A Bar Kochba coin from a cave in Nahal Tekoa (this might come up in Hebrew and flip to English):



Israel has extended the IAA's powers into the West Bank:



On some possible early alphabetic writing from Tel Lachish:



Feature on recreating ancient bread of Israel:



cf:

Feature on evidence of Judean 'deportees' in Babylonian texts:



Feature on the Dead Sea Scrolls:



Feature on board games from Tell es-Safi/Gath:



Feature on Petra and the spice trade:



Feature on archaeology around Abu Dhabi:


-----
This Week in the Ancient Near East Podcast:



============================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
============================================================
Remains of a massive 5th century BCE ?'monumental terrace' from Castiglione della Pescaia (all coverage is Italian so far):






Overview of this year's excavations at the Late Cypriot site of Dromolaxia-Vyzakia:





An intact Hellenistic tombstone from the Arachthos river in Epirus:



A terracotta pithos from Prusias ad Hypium:



A Roman road is suggesting the Romans went further into Wales than previously thought:




... related:



A bronze cup and a figure of Mars from the Gallo-Roman sanctuary near Rennes:



Le Mans' Roman walls are 50 years younger than previously thought:



Evidence of a late Roman walled settlement in what would become Madrid:



The dig at a Roman fort site in Alderney has concluded:



GPR suggests there might be remains of a Roman settlement beneath Longis Common in Guernsey:



A study of coins found with victims of Vesuvius:



A US-funded restored Thracian Tomb near Sveshtari was unveiled this week:




Pompeii's House of Ceres has reopened:



Latest on plans to 'revive' the site of Plato's Academy:




More on wool production in Bronze Age Italy:





More on that recently-identified ephebe list from a National Museum of Scotland collection:








More on that silver 'penis pendant' from Kent:




More on the genome of that victim of Vesuvius:



More on 100+ settlements beyond Hadrian's Wall:




More on the Late Hellenistic bronze bed burial of a woman from Kozani:




More on the rude graffiti from Vindolanda:








The 'Fagan Fragment' was permanently restored to the Acropolis Museum:






Feature on how the ancient Greeks dealt with large numbers of the dead:




An interview with Stephanie McCarter about her Metamorphoses translation:



Feature on when Hadrian's Wall was built:



... and the wall in general:



Feature on the Minoans:



Feature on the Baths of Caracalla:



Feature on 'saviour gods' in Ancient Greece:



Feature on what ancient Greeks knew about blood:



Feature on some curse tablets from a well in Athens found a while ago:



Feature on some experimental archaeology involving elephants:



Feature on the missing half of the Colosseum:



Feature on ancient Greek 'dragon houses':



Feature on Greek influence on the Latin alphabet:



Feature on Plato's Republic:



A sort of overviewish piece on the Parthenon Sculptures situation:



... and they won't be a topic of conversation when ministers meet this week:



-----
Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


============================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
============================================================
Brief item on Ice Age finds off Jersey:



More on 15 000 years bp cave petroglyphs being composed/viewed with flickering fires:



A pair of Halstaat-era swords found during fire station construction in Bavaria:




A massive late Iron Age frog burial (!) from near Cambridge:



Finds from various periods at a dig at Lincoln Central Market:



Possible 2000 years bp human remains for a former police headquarters site in North Yorkshire:




Two pieces of a VIking sword found a year apart by metal detectorists in Norway have been reunited:





A metal detectorist in Hungary came across a Viking-era coin:



Remains of a 14th century watermill complex at Blenheim:



A 14th century Turkish (maybe) saber from a monastery excavation in northern Greece:





Human remains from a dig at a medieval Cork pub site suggest the folks met a violent end:



After being found back in 2007, the location of the wreck of the Gloucester has been revealed:














More on the find of the ridder of the HMS Invincible:





More on efforts to save an 'underwater Lascaux' off southwestern France:




A 'top 11' list of finds made over the years from the Medieval Park in Oslo:



A 300 years bp gold ring found in Shropshire has been declared treasure:



Four medieval/Anglo-Saxon coins from Norfolk have been declared treasure:



120 burials (so far) from the dig at Leicester Cathedral:



Locals saved Malmesbury Abbey when a fire broke out recently:




The dig at the Nunnery Heritage Site in Alderney has concluded:



Plans for a dig at the Strath Brora site in Clyne:



Plans to turn a Bronze Age settlement site in Birzebbuga (Malta) ?into an archaeological park:



Protected status for a pair of Victorian cabmen's shelters in London:



Feature on some rock crystal points and blades from various sites in Iberia:



Feature on the Viking legacy in Scotland:


----------
Archaeology in Europe News:



Medievalists.net:



Viking Archaeology Blog:



============================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
============================================================
Latest finds from the Sanxindui ruins site is a bronze altar:



25 Shang Dynasty tombs from Henan:




Wei/Jin dynasty 'watercourses' from Henan:



A Spring and Autumn Period burial of an upper class pregnant woman from Shanxi:





Northern Dynasties period plinths from Hebei:



Traces of gold, silver, and colored glass on Buddhist statuary at the Longmen Grottoes in Henan:



Feature on where archaeology in China is headed:



Concerns about how China is using archaeology to justify its treatment of Uyghurs:



Petroglyphs (pre 300 CE) from a cave near Krishnagiri:




A dig in Kolkata has revealed 12 layers of human occupation dating back to the 1st century CE:




Excavations at a Roman trading site in Puducherry will be resuming:



Feature on the excavations at the Nalanda University site:



Feature on the search for the tomb of Genghis Khan:


============================================================
AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
============================================================
Plans to investigate an unidentified shipwreck on Bribie Island:


============================================================
NORTH AMERICA
============================================================
Latest finds from the ongoing dig at Colonial Michiilimackinac:




A project to locate a destroyed 17th century settlement in Beaufort (we may have mentioned this):



A pair of 19th century buildings in Jersey City will be preserved after a court fight:



Feature on the dig at the Collier Lodge Site in Michigan:



Feature on the dig at Fort Mose State Park:



Feature on an 18th century home in Manhattan:



Feature on 'stigmaria':



Feature on the Timucua people:



Feature on a dig at the Siksika Reserve:


============================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
============================================================
Stone points from a Mexican cave are the basis of a claim that humans were in central Mexico at least 26 500 years bp:



Two more shipwrecks have been located near the wreck of the San Jose:







... and Colombia was sharing pictures of the San Jose:







More on the head of a Maya maize divinity found at Palenque:






More on the 1000 years bp Aztatlan burials from Mazatlan:




More on Incan drugging child sacrifice victims:




More on passageways beneath the Chavin de Huantar temple in Peru:




Plans to restore a 1500 years bp looted Maya temple facade:



Feature on what we're learning from ancient Maya toilets:


-----
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:



Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:



Ancient MesoAmerica News:


============================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
============================================================
Feature on when people were eating Egyptian mummies:





... similar:



Questioning the accuracy of death scenes in Shakespeare:




The Duke of Rutland's plans to sell a Poussin were thwarted:




The Vatican has loan an unfinished DaVinci to the French chateau where he died:



On why Munch's The Scream isn't screaming:



A Renaissance masterpiece found in a 90 year-old's bedroom:

?

Feature on the smile in art:



Using tree rings to shed light on Stradivarius' craft:



Pondering why the Industrial Revolution happened:



Feature on George Bass:


============================================================
CURRENT EVENTS:
============================================================
Blaming a Neanderthal gene for a million COVID deaths:



The El Rocio pilgrimage is resuming in Spain in the wake of COVID:



A different sort of response to Civil War monument omissions:



... while arguing about Stonewall Jackson continues:



I think we mentioned these seized antiquities from Ukraine going on display at the British Museum:






Report suggests Russians are targeting specific Ukrainian artefacts:



Ukraine is accusing Russia of destroying an Orthodox monastery:



Putin is drawing inspiration from Peter the Great, it seems:






A story of 'duelling statues' related to the conflict:



The UK press was concerned about trigger warnings about human remains in an archaeology class:


============================================================
ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
============================================================
Study suggests chickens were domesticated much later than previously thought (1500 BCE ... in Asia):

















On the spread of millet from East Asia to Central Europe:



============================================================
PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICCAL
============================================================
On talking to your children to understand philosophy:


============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
============================================================
Erotic art of Pompeii:



Ancient Greeks:



Tutankhamun: Excavating the Archive:




Extraordinary Exporation: The Edwardian Discovery of Coria:



Funding threat for the Viking Age Museum in Oslo:



Feature on some museums in Berlin:



Van Gogh:



English Heritage has launched a Roman face pot gallery:



Concerns relating to fakes in the National Museum of Slovenia:



Feature on the Makah Museum:



============================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT
============================================================
A DNA study of hunter-gatherer folks in Thaliland:



A DNA study of inhabitants of the Wallacean islands:





============================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
============================================================
Feature on the facial reconstruction (done ages ago) on Avgi:



============================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
============================================================
Archaeological sites near Athens:



Roman sites in Switzerland:



Abu Dhabi:



Madaba:



Channel Islands National Park:


============================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
============================================================
Cesar Franck:



============================================================
TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
============================================================
Becoming Elizabeth:


============================================================
CRIME BEAT
============================================================
That British geologist accused of smuggling antiquities in Iraq was sentenced to 15 years:

















... and he plans to appeal:



A violent robbery at the Andean Museum:




A report from the Clooney Foundation suggests the trade in stolen antiquities funds conflict in the Middle East and antiquities dealers should be prosecuted for war crimes:







Another case of a tourist damaging the Spanish Steps:




More countries are joining the civil case against the Lovre:



More on the destruction of artifacts at the Dallas MoA by some guy who was mad at his girlfriend:





More on the 'smearing' of the Mona Lisa:



----------
conflict antiquities:



anonymous swiss collector:



Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:



Looting Matters:



Illicit Cultural Property:



SAFE:



============================================================
REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
============================================================
In the wake of accusations against the Louvre's former director, Egypt is demanding the return of assorted items:






... while Egypt recovered over 5000 items last year, apparently:



Not sure if this is repatriation or not, but the city of Drummondville has 'entrusted' a number of items associated with the Waban-Aki Nation to a historical society:



Harvard is being encouraged to return a pile of human remains in its possession:



The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture in Santa Fe is returning some human remains to local groups:



Some recovered items in India were returned to temples:



More on the US and Australia returning items to Tamil Nadu:



More on Sweden's return of a Mycenean ring to Greece:



============================================================
NUMISMATICA
============================================================
Feature on some ancient coins recently at auctions:



Latest e-Sylum:



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


------------------------

Coin Week:



============================================================
OBITUARIES
============================================================
John Merriman:



Jim Murphy:



============================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
============================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:



============================================================
GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
============================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:



About.com Archaeology:



Archaeology Briefs:



Atlas Obscura:



Heritage Daily:



Sapiens Archaeology:



Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:


============================================================
PODCASTS/VODCASTS
============================================================
Archaeosoup:



Archaeology Podcast Network:


============================================================
EXPLORATOR is a free weekly newsletter bringing you the latest
news of archaeological finds, historical research and the like.
Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of
the 'ancient world' (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history up to a century or so ago is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge!
============================================================
Useful Addresses
============================================================
You can read Explorator online at:



Past issues of Explorator are also available on the web via our
page:

/g/explorator

To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to:

[email protected]

To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to:

Unsubscribe: [email protected]

To send a 'heads up' to the editor or contact him for other
reasons:

rogueclassicist@...
===========================================================
Explorator is Copyright (c) 2022 David Meadows. Feel free to
distribute these listings via email to your pals, students,
teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. These
links are not to be posted to any website by any means (whether
by direct posting or snagging from a usenet group or some other
email source) without my express written permission. I think it
is only right that I be made aware of public fora which are
making use of content gathered in Explorator. Thanks!
===========================================================