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explorator 25.22 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? September 18 ?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, ?David Brear,
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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This error wasn't cut and paste related: last week I suggested that development of York's Roman Quarter had been approved; it hasn't. It has been recommended for approval.

Apologies for any confusion caused.


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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Recent excavations in Romania are shedding light on the lives of the earliest modern humans in Europe (40 000 years bp):





More on that 1.8 million years bp tooth from Georgia (not the US one):







Latest feature on Neanderthal-Sapiens interbreeding:


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AFRICA
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Beads from a cave near Lake Malawi suggest European traders used already-established Indigenous trade routes:



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Not sure where to put this breaking story: a Ramses II-era burial cave found at a popular beach near Tel Aviv:







Excavations at the Saqqara necropolis have revealed several blocks of white cheese dating to the 26th Dynasty:






... not sure if that was part of the 6th season of the Egyptian mission at Saqqara getting underway:



Illegal digs at the ancient site of Memphis revealed a pair limestone rooms covered in hieroglyphics and dating to the New Kingdom:



A hoard of Fatamid/Mameluke -era coins from a site in Esna:








Egypt has resumed the restoration of Beni Hasan tombs:



Feature on the Rosetta Stone:



Photo feature on the 100th anniversary of the discovery of Tutankamun's tomb:



... and a feature on the origins of his funerary mask:



... and an interesting OpEd on Egyptians reclaiming their history:





More on the Nile's role in transporting material to build the pyramids at Giza:



More on Zahi Hawass's apparent impending announcement of having found the mummy of Nefertiti:





Iraq is open to tourists again:




Feature on the Hanging Gardens:



Possible evidence of animal herding at Abu Hureyra 12 800 to 12 300 years bp:









cf:

249 Hittite glyphs found in a tunnel at the ancient site of Hattusa:





Four Aramaic inscriptions (date?) from Turkey's Van region:



I think we mentioned this 1600 years bp writing set found in Istanbul:




A 5th century CE Roman bath in Mersin was restored:



More on that ornamental wall plate from an Urartian castle:



Feature on the Neolithic Ba'ja site in Jordan:



Feature on the latest season at Khirbet Balu'a (Jordan):



Feature on camels in the Ancient Near East:



A monumental structure near Beit Guvrin long thought to be a synagogue is actually and 1800 years bp Roman temple, apparently:




A Palestinian farmer in Gaza unearthed an impressive Byzantine-era mosaic:













Really a repatriation story ... a silver quarter shekel recovered in 2017 and dating to the Great Revolt was returned to Israel from the US:




















Another report of settlers 'breaking into' the site of Sebastia:



More on that Paleo-Hebrew 'Dead Sea Scroll' fragment recovered by Israel from Montana:




Feature on UNC's involved in the dig at Huqoq:



Feature on Herodium:



Feature on the Bible confirming the existence of assorted folks:



A pair of sites dating to 6500 BCE in Abu Dhabi:



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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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Overview of finds at a 1st century CE Roman camp site near Uzice:



Overview of recent finds at Tarquinia (Italian):



A Hadrian's wall 'turret' found at a development site near Ouseburn:



Roman-era harbour 'equipment' near Pula:



Underwater finds of architectural elements (?) off Ponza:






Digging has resumed at a Hellenistic-era site at Catena (Italian):



New excavations are underway at Ostia Antica (Italian):



Excavations continue at the theatre of Perinthos site:



Interesting experimental archaeology project to test ancient sailing abilities:



cf:

Possibly a crime story, but a senior citizen in Italy learned that her deceased hubby had a cache of antiquities in his closet (Italian):





That Roman figurine of Venus found at a Kings' Walk development site a while ago is going on display:



Excavations continue at the Sanctuary of Apollo site in Mugla:



In Cyprus the state 'has a responsibility' to finance restoration of monuments:



More on the reburial of that 'unique' Roman villa site in Scarborough:



More on the 'ethnicity' of the Griffin Warrior:



Feature on the University of Toronto's involvement in the dig at Falerii Novi:




Feature on Joseph Howley's classes at Columbia College:



Honours for Daniel Mendelsohn:



Feature on the Pantheon:



Feature on 'famous' sarcophagi in Turkish museums:



Feature on Pythagoras:



Feature on Roman prisons:



Feature on US cities with 'ancient' names:



Feature on Roman bathrooms:



Feature on silphium:



Feature on a 2300 years bp 'curse jar' found in the Athenian Agora a few years ago:



The Acropolis Museum will be hosting a meeting about the return of the Sculptures:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Searching for ties between Wales and Ireland some 30 000 years bp:



Remains of a 7000 years bp circular structure from a site near Prague:





Study suggests that 6000 years bp Scottish farmers weren't using manure to fertilize their crops:




An Iron Age cremation burial in a mound in northwest Poland:



A 2000 years bp dog skull from an Iron Age structure did at Long Melford:



Medieval finds from Ovriokaston on Lesvos:




A dig at Ghent Cathedral revealed some 'bone walls' and a painted 14th century vault, among other things:



100 medieval child burials (and more?) from a dig at St Saviours:





Latest finds from the 15th century wreck of the Gribshunden off Sweden:



cf:

A 16th century heating unit from a castle in Poland:




Feature on the USheffield dig at Bishop's House in Meersbrook Park (17th century?):



Remains of a huge Victorian-era cellar found the wake of pub demolition in Hull:



More on that 'vampire burial' in Poland:



More on that medieval burial of a woman including a 'folding chair':




cf:

More on the 17 'Jewish' bodies found in a medieval English well:



More on the 'Spanish Stonehenge':



Latest on the search for the body of Red Hugh O'Donnell:




Feature on a reassembled 5000 years bp pot found 42 years ago In Fife:




Feature on the Carnac Alignments:



Feature/study on Viking women and textiles:



Feature on Mother Shipton's Cave:


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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 Shang Dynasty gold 'funeral mask' from a tob in Zhengzhou:






Overview of what has been salvaged so far from the Yangtze River Estuary No. 2 shipwreck:



Overview of recent Xia and Shang Dynasty excavation projects:



Study suggests synthesized lead white cosmetics were being used in China at least from the early Spring and Autumn period:




Interesting feature on saving antiquities in China's Forbidden City during WWII:



'Ice Age' finds from Pilanduk Cave in Palawan:







A 2300 years bp burial at an excavation site in Ho Chi Minh City:




Stone tools (date?) from a cave in Maharashtra:



Not sure if these giant stone jars from India are a new find or a repeat of the finds from a few months ago:




A 400 years bp Naick stone inscription from near Theni:



Not sure if we've mentioned this particular Hindu site v mosque dispute in Gyanvapi:



Feature on Chola naval dominance:



Remains of a Buddhist temple found in Kyrgyzstan are opening to the public:



More on that evidence of 30 000 years bp amputation from Indonesia:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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A project to digitize finds associated with the Pandora shipwreck:


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NORTH AMERICA
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A 17th century (?) Jesuit 'trade ring' from the Fort St Joseph site:






18th century Catholic artifacts from the Fort Vancouver dig:



A project has figured out the Inuit history behind a British museum's collection of whaling artifacts:



I think we mentioned this study of Cahokia's North Plaza a while ago:



More on evidence of the site of the Native American village of Palica beneath a 19th century house in St Augustine:




Plans for more DNA extraction from Tulsa Race Massacre burials:



Feature on Serpent Mound and the Milky Way:



Feature on Nan Rothschild, *Buried Beneath the City*:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A site associated with Moche artisans of various types from the Licapa II site in the Chicama Valley of Peru:



Petroglyphs (date?) from the Inca Trail near Machu Picchu:



Overviewish piece on the excavations at the Maya site of Sak Tz'i in Mexico:




Concerns for a possible 8000 years bp cave site with a human skeleton in it ... on the Maya Train route:












... and the government says the skeleton was registered back in 2019 and isn't threatened:




... while the find of remains of a major Maya city on the route appears to have halted the project:



More on the Spanish Lookout site in Central Belize:






More on the burials of Wari craftsmen from the Castillo de Huarmey burial ground in Peru:



More on a study revealing the violent deaths of some South American mummies:






Feature on the Cacaxtla site:



Feature on some colossal Olmec heads:



Feature on ritual drug use among the Maya:


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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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Arguing over the 'oldest civilization':



Feature on some of the medieval medical manuscripts recently digitized at Cambridge:



Feature on Norman Daly's creation of a fake Iron Age civilization:



On an unknown portrait of Champollion:



Feature on 10 artists' studios:



Feature on John Louis Petit:



A small town painting purchase turns out to be a Kooning stolen in 1985:



On the history of the 'Adoration of the Blessed Sacrament':



A replica of one of Magellan's ships is sailing the St Lawrence:



On the importance of Louis XIV's anal surgery:



On how rituals created human society:



Feature on historical apples:



Feature on the Carte du Ciel project:



Interesting gallery of photos from 100 years ago:



Suggestion that Gregor Mendel may have fabricated his data:



More on the 'revision' to the Cincinnati Art Museum's 'unicorn' sculpture:



Review of Johanna Drucker, *Inventing the Alphabet*:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Feature on Britain's royal family history:



On how cartoonists have dealt with the death of a monarch:



The 'Stone of Destiny' is returning to Westminster:



Feature on the 'lying in state' thing:



On what King Charles and Dracula have in common:



On the cost of removing connections to Confederate names at US military bases:



Pondering why it's taking so long to return Native remains in the US:



... related:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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On what DNA reveals about donkey domestication:





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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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Applying Seneca's thoughts to modern situations:



... and the Stoics:



... in a similar vein:



Feature on Friedrich Schelling and his Naturphilosophie:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Samaritans:



Making an Impression (intaglios):



Lindisfarne Gospels:



Chroma:



In case you missed it, the Met will be exhibiting a number of Cycladic items before they're returned to Greece:



Plans for a museum of Harappan culture in Rakhigarhi:



OpEd on provenance issues and museums:



Feature on the Humboldt Forum's 'new' approach to ethnological collections:




Feature on Athens' Museum of Modern Art (I think):


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Notice of sale of a Yemeni artifact at a Paris auction:


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA suggests a late Roman burial in Cheddington contarios a mother, her child, and a mother or 'aunt-in-law':


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THE TECHY SIDE
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A study of the 'purple' gold of the Alhambra:





On the Italian source for Roman Egyptian blue:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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A study of the 'Little Ice Age' and its lessons for today:



cf:

Latest 'drought-revealed' site is a ghost town in California's Lake Isabella:



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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Germany's Regensburger Dosmpatzen choir has to admit girls for the first time in over 1000 years:



Her Story:



Haydn:


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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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More on the Kingsley Porter 'fake death' documentary:



The US and the Holocaust:



Four Winters:


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CRIME BEAT
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I think we mentioned these nine inscriptions, stolen 80 years ago, and recovered in Ostia (Italian):







The IAA raided the hole of a suspected illegal antiquities dealer in Modi'in:



Four arrested for illegal excavations at a site in Taxila:



Tamil Nadu authorities siezed a number of artifacts from the residence of a French national in Auroville:



More on Georges Lofti's claims of innocence:


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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 repatriation case involving the Babel stele was reversed (!):



The V&A appears to be about to return items to Ghana:





The Haida Gwaii Museum received a number of items from a small British museum:



I think we mentioned Egypt retrieved 16 items from the US:



... or maybe it was six:




... and then there were two from Belgium:






Another feature on items Egypt wants returned:






OpEd on colonial artifacts in Germany:



OpEd on ownership of the Benin Bronzes:



... and how they're on display in Berlin for one last time:



... and how a London museum is returning the ones in their possession:



Mexico repatriated a number of items from various nations:



OpEds on repatriation in general:




On the debate in Greece over the return of the Cycladic figures from the Met:





... and Met plans to exhibit things before they return them:



The Getty returned 'Orpheus and the Sirens' to Italy:






More on the Met having to return 21 items:



More on the return of some long-stored mosaics to Italy from the US:



More on returns of items to Libya from the US:



More on the Kohinoor diamond issue:







... and the Great Star of Africa:



... and features on other things the British Empire took from other nations:


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NUMISMATICA
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The ANS has launched an online coin resource for Bactrian Indo-Greek coins:



Feature on Sikyon staters:



On Genghis Khan's introduction of paper money and its effects:



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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Joyce Reynolds:



Rosamond K. Sprague:



Gwendolyn Midlo Hall:




Lise Manniche:



Maximilian Lerner:



Rainer Michael Boehmer:



BB Lal:




M.A. Qaiyum:




Peter Davison:



Dimitris Pandermalis:







Donna Watkins:



Irene Papas:





[archived] Vera Menchik:


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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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