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explorator 25.24 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? October 2, ?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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A million years bp homo erectus skull from China's Hubei province:










Another feature pondering the 'demise' of the Neanderthals:



Feature on six recent developments regarding human origins:




Study linking evolutionary changes and climate:


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AFRICA
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A pre-colonial 'traitor' burial from Senegal:



Feature on Nigeria's most prized antiquities:



Feature on Great Zimbabwe:



Feature on Zanzibar's Stone Town:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Marking the 200th anniversary of the 'decoding' of hieroglyphs via the Rosetta Stone:







... and features on the Rosetta Stone and the growing calls for its repatriation:










More on the sarcophagus of Ramses II's treasurer from Saqqara:





More hype for claims about Nefertiti:




... although this week we were reading more about a possible door in Tutankamun's tomb leading to Nefertiti's:








Feature on tomb-raiding in ancient Egypt:



Feature on how the pyramids were built:



Feature on Howard Carter:



An Egyptian citizen gave 125 artifacts to the Supreme Council of Antiquities:



Evidence of a 7000 years bp herder's camp on a mountain top in Iran's Gilan province:



Reviewish of Roger Matthews et al., *The Archaeology of Iran*:



A 12 000 years bp 'public building' from Boncuklu Tarla (Turkiye):




A 4000 years bp cylinder seal from the Blaundos excavations:



Ottoman-era cups from a dig in the Agora of Izmir:




Overview of archaeology in Turkiye for the month of September:



More on the 8000 years bp structure from Catalhoyuk:





A Google Doodle last week honoured Jale Inan, Turkiye's first woman archaeologist:




Report on the 2022 survey at Khirbet al-Mudayna al-Aliya (Jordan):



Report on ?Khirtbat al-Mafjar Archaeological Project at Jericho:



Digging continues at the site of that major mosaic find in Gaza:



Construction in Gaza threatens the site of a Byzantine church:



5th/6th century CE (?) mosaics (and more) from near the caliph's palace site at Khirbat al-Minya:












More on environmental damaged caused by 3000 years bp mining in the Timna Valley:




More on 3300 years bp evidence of opium use at Tel Yehud:





More on the Ramses II-era brial cave from near Tel Aviv:





I think we've mentioned the identification and mapping of 350+ 'kites' across northern Saudi Arabia and southern Iraq:



Feature on Aphrodisias:



3000 years bp settlement sites from Oman:




More on concerns for monuments in the Middle East in general:



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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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Study of an eruption of Vesuvius 4000 years bp:








cf:

A possible Bronze Age 'workshop complex' from Erimi (Cyprus):



Four burials, including a child in an amphora (date?) from Anemurium:





A 2500 years bp 'washbasin' and more from a dig at Klazomenai:




A 3rd century BCE ceramics production site at Santa Gada di Laino Borgo (Italian):



A 2000 years bp Roman (maybe) anchor found during windfarm construction in the North Sea:












The dig at the legionary fort site at Novae revealed a 'fridge', among other things:





An inscription from Aigai found back in 2005 about Roman tax collectors has been translated:



More on the possibility silphium isn't extinct:





More on the statue of Hercules found at the site of Philippi:





More on the Roman-era sundial find from Aizanoi:



More on the Roman mosaic (and site in general) at Folkestone (and concerns for it relating to coastal erosion):




More on food insecurity and Palmyra:



More on the find of a mouthpiece from a Roman cornu at Vindolanda:



More on the 'turret' find at Hadrian's Wall in Newcastle:



A recreation of 4th century BCE Roman armour:



A study of stone spheres found at various Greek sites suggest they might be from some ancient Greek board game:








cf:

A project to re-erect some of the columns at Selinunte:



The Catacomb of Commodilla is opening to the public:



Review of Irene Vallejo, *Papyrus: The Invention of Books in the Ancient World*:



Review of Peter Stothard, *The First Tycoon*:



Review of Jacob Mackey, *Belief and Cult*:



Feature on the Vapheio gold cups:



Feature on the concept of a 'laureate':




Feature on iPad use by archaeologists at Pompeii:






Feature on Greeks in India:



Feature on how Alexander became 'Great':


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 17 000 years bp horse's head find from Croatia:



A 10 000 years bp infant burial and 'baby carrier' from Arma Veirana:






cf:

7000 years bp fish traps from a mountain site in Norway (!):



A study of 'social resistance' of 4000 years bp communities in the Iberian peninsula:




A 3600 years bp sauna find from Nijmegen:



Study suggests folks were using Crannogs as 'party sites' from prehistoric to post-medieval times:





Plenty of medieval finds from a dig at Carrignacurra Castle:




Remains of a number of monks buried at the Abbey Grounds in Wicklow dating to 800 years bp or so:



Evidence of a 15th/16th century building in the courtyard of Branicki Palace:



A study of the wreck of the Gribshunden suggests it served as a 'floating castle':



The wreck of the SS Mesaba has been located in the Irish Sea:








More on the 7000 years bp 'ring structure' found near Prague:




More on the mass burial at Vrable:



In case you were wondering about the Fenland Black Oak table found a decade ago:



The maze at Glendurgan Garden in Cornwall has been restored:



Conservation of Navan's medieval town wall is getting underway:



Missing angels from the Saint Nicolas basilica in Nantes have been found:



Metal detectorists in Cornwall didn't find any 'treasure' last year:



... nor did detectorists in Wigan:



... nor Southampton:



... but plenty was found in Shropshire:



... and Buckinghamshire:



Meanwhile a metal detectorist in Gloucestershire found 'treasure' twice in ten days:



More on the 'Spanish Stonehenge':



Feature on who built Stonehenge:



Feature on some 16th century Jewish tombstones used to make columns for a monument in Italy:



Feature on documenting the petroglyphs in Cosquer Cave (Spain):



A 200 years bp swimming pool in Bath has reopened:


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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 2500 years bp 'water city' from Jiangsu:





A Dian Kingdom site in Yunnan confirms Western Han Dynasty control of the region:




Overview of finds made at the Guantian site in Hunan:



More on the 3000 years bp gold mask find from Zhengzhou:




Feature on the Terracotta Warriors:



Finds from various periods at a dig outside Chennai:



26 Ajanta-era Buddhist caves from Madhya Pradesh:









Suggestion that India's Mughal empire may have ended because of drought:



Study suggests the arrival of Europeans had a devastating effect on Pacific Island populations:



cf:

Colonial-era Dutch artifacts found during metro construction in Jakarta:



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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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More on 19th century finds from downtown Christchurch:





More on the petroglyphs from the Marra Wonga rock shelter:



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NORTH AMERICA
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A burial ground for enslaved people in North Carolina (date?):



Hyping an upcoming dig in Boston searching for Underground Railroad finds:



More on the 10 000+ years bp fish weir find off the coast of Alaska:



More on the 3000 years bp canoe from Lake Mendota:







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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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12 000 years bp Gomphotheres remains from Chile:




I think we mentioned Early Classic Maya settlement site in Belize:



A 600-800 years bp Chancay and Huaura burial ground found in Lima:






Obsidian mines used by the pople of Teotihuacan have been identified:



Study suggests cacao wasn't exclusively used by Maya elites:






cf:

More on Maya cities and mercury contamination:








A pair of sites on the Mayan Train route will be opened to the public:



Feature on pyramids in Mexico:



Feature on how pre-Incans may have 'discovered' the equator:


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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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Not sure where to put this one on the actual 'paleo diet':



On how black became the colour of funerals:



Feature on very old food remains found in various archaeological contexts:



Feature on Van Leeuwenhoek and the microscope:



Studying Vermeer's techniques:




Norway's National Museum has acquired an Artemisia Gentileschi painting:



Feature on T.S. Eliot's *The Waste Land*:



On 'whiteness' and British colonialism:




On Nikola Tesla's xray:



Grace Ioppolo on preserving manuscripts associated with English professional theatre:



Feature on the Art Loss Register and its misuse:



Feature on a 'prayer duel' in Illinois 115 years ago:



More on the 700 years bp missal page purchased at an estate sale:




Review of Scheeres and Gilbert, *Listen, World*:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Researching damage to various artworks during the invasion of Ukraine:



Cambridge has acknowledged its gains from the slave trade:



A call for Harvard to immediately return the human remains in its possession:



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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Feature on the Chinese language:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Ritual and Memory:



Stonehenge:



From Faliron:






Painters of Pompeii:




Clara:



Turner:



cf:

Cezanne:



cf:

Making an Impression:



The UK's new Charities Act will allow museums in England and Wales to return items on 'moral grounds':






... and deaccessioning is now 'allowed' to help fund 'direct care' of collections:




The Prado has compiled a list of artworks confiscated during the Civil War:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Feature on the use of DNA to track migration of people across Eurasia:



More on genomes and Anglo-Saxon migration:




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THE TECHY SIDE
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Facial recreation of a 31 000 years bp woman from a Czech Republic site:





Facial recreation of a 700 years bp Scots woman:



Feature on various technologies being used for archaeological-type purposes:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Feature on how desertification is affecting sites:



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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Mahler's 'Resurrection' manuscript has landed in Cleveland:




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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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On Napoleon's love letters:


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CRIME BEAT
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Hundreds of items seized from a former dealer's home in Israel:



A Qatari sheik is accusing a dealer of selling him forgeries:


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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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Egypt recovered a figurine of Isis from Switzerland:






The Museum of Houston returned a wooden sarcophagus cover to Egypt:




The Buxton Museum and Art Gallery returned a number of Haida artifacts:


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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the Athenian tetracrachm:



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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R. Ross Holloway:



Joseph L. Malone:



Joe Brussard:



Joyce Reynolds:



BB Lal:



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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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