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explorator 25.28 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? October 30, ?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 study of the frontal sinuses of early humans:





cf:

Studying whether Paleolithic ancestors had a paleo diet:




More on that Neanderthal family from a Siberian cave:




More on Neanderthals being carnivores:




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AFRICA
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Feature on Mansa Musa:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The celebrations of the finding of Tutanhamun's tomb continue with a feature on chariots found in the tomb:



... and a necklace:



... three shabtis:



... his chair:



... his writing materials holder:



... the fetuses of his daughters:



... and nine other 'treasures':



... and a feature on Tutankhamun as a warrior:



... and more on suggestions Carter stole jewellery from the tomb:



... and an overview of the discovery and its aftermath:



... and ongoing debates about his tomb:



.. on Ernest Harold Jones, who was part of the excavation team:



On the recently-revived debate over the identification of Nefertiti's tomb:



More on the sun alignment activities at Ramses II's temple in Aswan:



More on the Rosetta Stone:



Feature on tomb-raiding in the New Kingdom:



Elamite-era burials from the basin of the Khersan Dam in Iran:



Digging is just getting underway at the Seymareh site:



Concerns for and a call for resumption of excavations at Isfahan's Ashraf Hill site:



Feature on some giant reliefs of Sennacherib in Iraq:



A US mission is digging in Iraq:



More on the reliefs found while restoring the Mashki Gate in Mosul:











11 000 years bp grinding stones from a Gobeklitepe temple complex:



Iraq is working on preserving some 'Baghdadi-style' heritage buildings:



More on the location of the tomb of St Nicholas in Turkey:



Ongoing concerns for archaeological finds in the Gaza Strip:



A cache of WWI Arab weaponry near Jaffa:



More on medieval graffiti from David's Tomb:






Feature on Isaiah and his times:



Feature/interview with Rachel Hallote on archaeology and politics:



More on 'kites' in Saudi Arabia:



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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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8th/7th century BCE ?Etruscan burials from the Ponte Rotto necropolis (Italian):



A dig at La Alcuida (Alicante) is hoping to find some context for the Dama de Elche sculpture:



Overview of this season's finds at Amphipolis:



Overview of the dig season at the Late Bronze Age settlement site of ?Erimi-Pitharka this year:



Remains of an Augustan-era amphitheatre (?) from Siponto (Italian):



Google Earth images helped to find a villa complex (with bath house) in Kent:





A Roman villa with kilns site from a Wakefield village housing development site:





Components of a domus water system were found at Stabiae:








A 1st century CE (or later) 'salt warehouse' from the Lio Piccolo 'maritime villa' site (Italian):




Remains of a 2000 years bp odeion (maybe) and other structures from Lissos:







Remains of a 1st-3rd century Roman watchtower from Volubilis:





A very large Roman column base (maybe) from the foot of Mount Hermon in Israel:



Vague item on ?a 'coffin rest with Roman inscription' from Antalya:



Small Roman finds dating to the 4th century or so from the dig at Farndon:




Late Roman-era offering vessels (and more) from excavations at ancient Antioch (Antakya):









More on the 2100 years bp burial of a woman (possibly a priestess of Aphrodite) from Phanagoria:





A 4th/5th century pin found by a metal detectorist in Norfolk:



7th century CE remains of a business/dining district at Ephesus:






More on the possible Roman ford at Evesham:










More on the palimpsest of Hipparchus' star catalog:







The site of a Roman camp in Uffington has been given protected status:



Restoration plans for a Dacian fortress at Sarmisegetuza:



Review of James Porter, *Homer: The Very Idea*:



What Rebecca Benefiel is up to:



Feature on William Sanders Scarborough:



Feature on the Folkestone mosaic:



Feature/book hype on the Traprain Treasure:



Feature on ancient Greek views of populists and dictators:



Feature on a mock trial of Alexander the Great last week:



Feature on colour in classical art:



Feature on the ongoing search for more evidence of the 'Kariv group' in Ukraine:



Feature on 'loaded dice' in ancient Rome:



Feature on Kleisthenes:



Feature on ancient perfumery:



Feature on Egyptomania in ancient Rome (and later):



Feature on the 'invention' of the Classical temple:



Feature on the House of Menander:



Feature on an earthquake that hit Crete in 365 CE:



Feature on protecting antiquities in Greek museums during WWII:



Feature on horses in ancient Greece:



Feature on some ancient Greek traitors:



Feature on the 'allure' of a Classics degree:



Rather late repeat of a feature on the dig at Falerii Novi:



A nice 'ancient Mediterranean history' quiz:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Analysis of cereal grains preserved at the 4th milliennium BCE site at Balbridie reveal regional variations in farming practices:



Excavations of a Late Iron Age burial ground near Koping (Sweden) revealed to Viking-era swords (and more):




A gold sword pommel dating to ca 700 CE from Stirling is now in the possession of Scotland's national museums:








A hoard of 'unhacked' Viking silver found during the excavation of a Viking house at Taby:



Not sure if we mentioned this metal detectorist find of some Viking-era hack silver near Stjordal:






A DNA study suggests the 'herring trade' began at least in Viking times:



Overview/book hype of what excavations at Richmond Castle revealed:



A 14th century funerary slab with original red paint from a tomb in Saint-Quentin (France):



The cargo of the 15th century wreck of the Skafto off Sweden is shedding light on medieval trade routes:








cf:

The 'sister' shipwreck to the Vasa (which sank in 1629) has been located off the coast of Stockholm:













A 400 years bp ring find by a metal detectorist in Kent:



A 'virtual autopsy' on a 17th century child mummy from an Austrian tomb suggests they died due to vitamin D deficiency:







A 19th century embossed brass button from a dig at Dulverton Leat:



More on the 300+ burials beneath a former Wales department store:



More on a 'mysterious structure' in Cork Harbour being identified as a tomb:



More on the Saqqaq people on Greenland some 4500 years bp having a more varied diet than previously thought:




More on the high seafood diet of a 2000 years bp Orkney woman:



Funding to conserve a medieval church and mosque on Cyprus:



Feature on the Old Fortress of Corfu:



Feature on the early civilization of the Azores:


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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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Feature on the site of Xanadu:



Restoration of an Angkor Wat causeway is almost complete:



A 1st century inscribed bowl from Telangana:



A major study of inscriptions in the Madurai Meenakshi Amman temple:



A 170 years bp wooden inscription find from a temple in Odisha:




Feature on the Gupta dynasty:



Feature on the date of the Mahabharata war (?):


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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More on documenting First Nations Australians carvings in boab trees:


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NORTH AMERICA
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I think we mentioned this 11 000 years bp fish weir found off the coast of Alaska:





The exact location of the Revolutionary War prison at Camp Security in Pennsylvania was revealed this week:








Low water levels of the Mississippi revealed Civil War-era bullets and a cartridge box plate in Memphis:



Drought has also allowed 1100 more feat of the Smallin Civil War Cave to be mapped:




Exhumations have resumed for DNA to identify Tulsa Race Massacre victims:




Review of Kerri Greenidge, *The Grimkes*:



Review of Sam Roberts, *The New Yorkers*:



Review of Stacy Schiff, *The Revolutionary*:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A stele depicting two unidentified Mayan deities was found during Mayan Train excavations in Uxmal:





Plenty of finds (including bullets from Spanish guns) from a dig at Tayasal (Guatemala):






Eight colonial-era mummies from Lima (we may have mentioned this find):




A study of urbanization and landscape modifications at Calakmul:










Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Andean News has a few items of interest:



US Army bullets found at the site of the 1918 Porvenir massacre:



Feature on Costa Rica's Retes archaeological site:


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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 Bronze Age astronomy in various cultures:



Feature on Jacques-Louis David's nudes:



Feature on the idea of the 'wicked stepmother':



Feature on the search for the Endurance:



Feature on ancient viruses in melting glaciers:



Feature on the 'Great Moon Hoax' of 1835:



Feature on perceptions of Satan in the 19th century:



Folks are 'uncensoring' a Gentileschi nude:



Feature on da Vinci's 'Lady with an Ermine':



Pondering when humans began using roads:



Pondering da Vinci's sexuality:



Pondering the idea of 'red gold':



Feature (hype) on a documentary on Josiah Wedgewood:



Feature on 19th century women's rights in Norway:



On US founding fathers and illuminati conspiracy theories:



Arguing over where St Nicholas was buried:



Again we are reading of plans to build a bridge to Sicily:



Review of Natalie Livingstone, *Women of Rothschild*:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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This week, the art-related protestors attacked a Monet with mashed potatoes:





... and the response:



The 'Girl with the Pearl Earring' was also a target:



A feature on some art-related protests from the past:



... and similar:



The annual items on the origins of Halloween:






... and why Victorian houses seem haunted:



On slave narratives and ghost stories:



Russian troops removed the bones of Grigory Potemkin from Kherson:



... while Putin's martial law decree has apparently 'legalized' looting of art:


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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Feature on the strangeness of English:



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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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Feature on Maimonides:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Hoards:




Alexander the Great:



Enheduanna:



cf:

Dacia:




Anglican Cathedrals:



cf:


A 'makeover' at the Emily Dickinson museum:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A Charles Darwin autograph manuscript is coming to auction:



A high price is expected for Rubens' Salome:



A followup of sorts to that Levi's jeans auction:



The Kiowa people are trying to prevent Bonham's from selling some of their art:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA suggests there were two genetically distinct populations in Britain at the end of the last Ice Age:












cf:

More on the 'Black Death' and its effect on immune systems, as seen in DNA:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using archaeomagnetic dating on assorted Biblical sites:













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TOURISTY THINGS
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10 archaeological sites in Greece:



Roman sites in Britain:



Coal mining towns in the US:



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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Cambridge Greek Play:



All Quiet on the Western Front:



Clara Schumann and Florence Price:



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CRIME BEAT
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Arrests at an archaeological site in North Macedonia:



A theft of 700+ items from the Sohag museum isn't getting as much coverage as you'd think:



... there were some arrests, apparently:




The trial of 11 Egyptians and one American for smuggling Egyptian antiquities is under way:



20+ ancient items seized in an operation in Termoli (Italian):




Illegal excavations at a synagogue site near Aleppo:



A dozen folks in Iraq arrested for antiquities smuggling activities:



More on the major bust at the Nuweiba Seaport:




Feature on Facebook's 'flawed plan' to deal with antiquities trafficking on its site:


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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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Zimbabwe is seeking the skulls of some 'anti colonial heroes' from some UK museums:



India seeks the return of a pair of idols from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art:



How the Steinhardt situation reveals the politics of the art world:



Feature arguing against repatriation of museum items:



... and why some academics hesitate to repatriate Indigenous remains:


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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Kushan coins:



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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Thomas Cahill:







Lionel Sanders:



Robert Laurence Miller:



John P. Meier:



Shi Xingbang:



Gordon Fee:



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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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