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explorator 25.40 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? January 22, 2023
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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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I think we mentioned this redating of hominin footprints in Spain to 295 800 years bp:



Trying to figure out the diet of homo erectus from tooth analysis:



Another tooth study compared Neanderthal and homo antecessor teeth:



cf:

Climate change apparently didn't affect Neanderthal hunting strategies at the Cobe-Grenal (France) site:




Study/feature on artistic abilities of Neanderthals:




Not sure where to put this item on the role of altruism in human development:



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AFRICA
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War-related concerns for Ethiopian antiquities:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 16 metre long copy of a Book of the Dead from a site in Siaqqara (first such in a century!):






Another crocodile find ... this time, ten 5th century BCE crocodile mummies from tombs at Qubbat al-Hawa:










cf:

Excavations at the Faiyum Oasis necropolis have revealed a child buried with 142 dogs (date?):




More on the recently-found 18th Dynasty (or so) apparently royal tomb find at Luxor:















Restoration of a number of columns of the Great Hypostyle Hall at Karnak is complete:





Another feature on Egypt wanting the return of the Rosetta Stone from the British Museum:



Feature on the large number of excavations currently underway led by Egyptian archaeologists :



Feature on literature in ancient Egypt:



Feature/interview on a biography of George Reisner:



Remains of a 5000 years bp stoneware workshop at Jiroft:



Evidence of a 3rd millennium BCE settlement site in northwestern Iran:



A Sassanid-era petroglyph of a horseman from Marvdasht:



Excavations at Seymarah have revealed finds ranging from the Parthian era to the early Islamic period:



A pair of Amorite-Akkadian bilingual inscriptions found thirty years ago have (finally) been published:



Feature on how Late Bronze Age kings dealt with rumours:



Feature on the 'Baghdad Battery':



A three-room Urartian tomb find from Ercis (Turkiye):



The DAI is marking 25 years of research at Gobekli Tepe:



Feature on Catalhoyuk:



cf:

Feature on conserving ancient manuscripts in Iraq:



A study of Middle Paleolithic hunting evidence from the Nahal Mahanayeem Outlet (Jordan):



cf:


Overview of the Beit Ras excavations, with a focus on glass production there:




Not sure if we mentioned this find of a Bar Kokhba revolt coin from the Nahal Darga Nature Reserve:



1300 years bp Silk Road-connected textiles from trash deposits in the Aravah:







More on the find of 4000+ years bp ostrich eggs found next to a fire pit site in the Negev:





Israel's Techniion and the University of Haifa have launched a collaboration project:



Feature on excavations in El-Araj:



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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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A DNA study suggests that at least one group in Minoan Crete was practicing endogamy/cousin marriage:














cf:

An Etruscan necropolis from Vetulonia (all coverage Italian):





Archaeo-spelologists found a 647 metre section of an Augustan aqueduct in Naples (Italian):



Overview of recent finds from the site of Tenea:




Remains of a Gallo-Roman rural settlement site in Beziers:



More on the reopening of the House of the Vettii in Pompeii:




... and a related feature on Roman sexuality:



More on the reasons for the durability of Roman concrete:






More on the identification of a Temple of Poseidon at Samikon:





More on Hipparchus' Star Catalog:



More on finds from the Colosseum drains:



More on coins of Sponsian:



More on the remains found during Thessaloniki Metro construction of the past years:



More on the San Casciano dei Bagni bronzes:



Feature/hyping the Alma Mater Studiorum of Unibo working at Thuburbo Maius in Tunisia:



Greece is planning to protect the site of Poltinopoli:



A UCL project studying interactions between Greece and Egypt from prehistory to the Byzantine era:



Joel Christensen on ancient reunions:




Jane Draycott on Cleopatra Selene:



Review of Christopher Beckwith, *The Scythian Empire*;



Feature on Madeline Miller's myth retellings:



Feature on A.E. Stallings' poetry:



Feature on the enduring attraction of Classics:



Feature on food and sex in Greek literature:



Review of Graver and Long, *Fifty Letters of a Roman Stoic*:



Review of Peter Stothard, *Crassus: The First Tycoon*:



Feature on a possible Etruscan wine-making site found a couple decades ago in Tuscany:



Feature on the Domus Aurea:



Feature on the death of Cleopatra:



Feature on Plato's Timaeus:



Feature on Plato's Theaetetus:



A virtual tour of Ancient Athens:



In regards to the Parthenon Sculptures, we read this week of 'secret talks' going on:






... and of a 20-year loan agreement proposal:



... and more OpEds from various viewpoints:





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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Evidence of a Mesolithic settlement site from North Yorkshire:









A study of evidence for violence and warfare in Neolithic communities of Northwest Europe:



A study of Bronze Age Balearic Islanders' eating and social habits:




2000 years ?bp waterlogged wooden remains (including a ladder) from a highway construction site in Bedfordshire:






1800+ years bp runestone find from near Oslo:






















Carbon dating has pushed the founding of Gdansk back to ca 930 CE:




Latest HS2-related finds seems to be evidence of Civil War damage at Coleshill Manor (this will be on Digging for Britain):








Mapping Iron Age tunnels in Scotland:





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An Iron Age farmstead site in Newsham:



Finds from various periods at a construction site in Gap (France):



More on the 7000 years bp mass burial of decapitated people from Slovakia:







More on the 3000 years ?bp ritual well from Germany:




More on the 'princely Hun' burial from Romania:





More on the current dig at Sheffield Castle:



More on the 'Harpole treasure' found in Northamptonshire:



More on 'cave writing' on ancient petroglyphs:




In case you missed the neutron imaging of a 900 yeas bp pendant from Germany:



Arguing over preserving a 1901 bridge in Prague:



Three finds from various periods found by detectorists in Shropshire have been declared treasure:





Feature on the project to rebuild the Newport Ship:




Feature on ram-shaped gravestones in Georgia:



Feature on the Mount Keeffe Chalice:



Feature on the Red lady of Paviland:



Feature on Britain's 'greatest' archaeological discoveries:



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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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40 000 years bp evidence of human activity from a site in Ziyang City (Sichuan):






21 royal Han burials from Hunan:



Remains of 240 royal storehouses dating to the Northern Wei Dynasty in a plaace site in Luoyang city:



43 burials spanning four dynasties from the Dongsanlingzi Tombs excavations:



Feature on China's rewriting of Tibetan history:



Overview of a ANA and UHawaii dig at Angkor Wat:



... while restoration of a causeway at Angkor Wat is almost complete:



Connecting Qing dynasty isolationism to modern China:



A possible 11th/12th century CE Shiva lingam from Aarey:



Mughal era coins and other finds from Bazar-Navagaon:



Revising the history of Calicut:



cf:

On the 'Scythian' or whatever it is culture revealed by Russian archaeologists a couple weeks ago:





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NORTH AMERICA
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An NSF grant to study Cahokia:






... and one to study hurricane-damaged sites in Florida:



Account of a Brown dig at a 19th-century Providence family residence:



Introductory sort of thing on a dig happening in Charlottesville (Va):



The Elam Ives House in Hamden was saved and is undergoing restoration:



Feature on Isaac Shelby:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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2000 years bp Zapotec murals depicting warfare from tombs in southern Mexico:



A study of the Maya obsidian market in Guatemala:




A pre-construction survey of a pipeline site in southern Mexico reveal a possible Maya settlement site:




A recently-excavated statue of Xipe Toltec has gone on display at the Templo Mayor:



Another theory on the purpose of the Nazca lines:



I think we mentioned that LiDAR has revealed some 964 pre-Hispanic Maya settlement sites in northern Guatemala:




INAH is working to conserve petroglyphs at the Kawa Siski cave:



More on the alignment of Olmec sites to the 260 day calendar:



Feature on the Cantona 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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Study suggests rats might not have played such a critical role in plague perseverance:






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A sword in Chicago's Field museum once considered a replica is now considered authentic:





Feature on Matisse's The Dance:



The previous owner of the Voynich Manuscript has been revealed:



Plans to preserve some of Alexander Graham Bell's experimental recordings:



Feature on Isaac Newton's use of Greek:



Feature on the 'Slave Bible':



Feature on how Hebrew came to be written right to left:



Feature on the Crystal Skulls:



Feature on the use of 'bioweapons' by various ancient cultures:



Feature on 'filthy place names' in the UK:



Another feature on historical 'scent':



Interesting photo of samurai in front of the Sphinx of Giza:



A rare lead compound discovered in The Night Watch:



Scientists have figured out 'Leonardo's Paradox':



cf:

Pondering why humans live where it's cold:



In case you're in the market for a medieval Swedish castle:



More on the Van Gogh at the DIA:




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CURRENT EVENTS:
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In case you missed the controversy/firing at a Minnesota university over a prof's showing a depiction of Muhammad:

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Plans to change the name of the Thames River in Connecticut to the Pequot River:




Review of Nicolai Petro, *the Tragedy of Ukraine*:



... and a column by the author:



Feature on abortion in the mid-19th century US:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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On the importance/role of donkeys in human history:



cf:

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Islanders: The Making of the Mediterranean:





Quantity and Quality (Greek Terracottas):



Cy Twombly:



Dressing the Georgians:



Vermeer:



Tutankhamun:



Garden of Civilization:



Hyping the impending opening of the Iznik Archaeology Museum:




Feature on how many Greek artifacts the British Museum holds and has on display:



The Sudan National Museum is close to reopening:



Jerusalem's Armenian Museum has reopened:



The Hunterian is removing the skeleton of the 'Irish Giant' from display:




The Odessa Museum is keeping some items which were being smuggled out ot the country:



Feature on some 'essential' works at the Met:



The Santa Barbara Museum of Art is being sued over a Nazi-looted drawing:



Pollock's Toy Museum is closing:



The British Museum is rethinking its use of the term 'mummy':


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Some paintings by Queen Victoria are coming to auction:



Newton's personal copy of Opticks is coming to auction:



Big bucks for a gold Roman medallion:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A DNA-based study of mobility of Anatolian and Levantine populations in the Pre-Pottery Neolithic B:



cf:

DNA suggests Asian hunter-gathers covered a wide range and went back and forth across the Bering Land Bridge:





A study of the African origins of a group of enslaved persons from a South Carolina cemetery:




Using DNA to identify a WWI Canadian soldier:


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THE TECHY SIDE
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China is working on recreating the appearance of a Neanderthal boy (no photo!):



An Egyptian sarcophagus from a Cambridge museum went through the CT scanner:



More on the facial recreation of one of the Jericho skulls:




... and of Rameses II:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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On the role of climate change in the rise and fall of Persian empires:



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TOURISTY THINGS
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Roman Colchester:



Tamil Nadu:



Dresden:



Political protests have closed Machu Picchu:





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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Study suggests Beethoven's Elise never really existed:



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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Hyping decapitated burials (Roman/Iron Age) from Wintringham to be shown on Digging for Britain:




... and in another episode, an Iron Age shield from Everards:


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CRIME BEAT
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Paintings stolen in a Colorado art heist a few weeks ago have been recovered:



Egypt has reduced the sentence against a businessman accused of trafficking antiquities:



A former museum director in Jordan was imprisoned for counterfeiting ancient coins:


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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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Bulgarian customs agents returned 3000 or so ancient coins to Turkiye:




Glasgow Life Museums returned seven items to India:



Amiens wants Madonna to lend/return a painting in her possession:






German museums have no plans to return the bust of Nefertiti or the Pergamon Altar:



A Maori group is seeking the return of artifacts sold at Sotheby's:



An artist has proposed a 'treasure swap' of an Assyrian lamassu to the British Museum:




On pesticides on artifacts returned from Germany:



The University of Albany will be retuning a large number of human remains and funerary objects to some Native American peoples:



University of Tennessee is failing to return Native American human remains:



... see also:



OpEd on the Benin Bronzes returns:



OpEd on who owns historical patrimony:



Pondering why nations reclaim artifacts:



More on the US return of an artifact to the Palestinian Authority:






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NUMISMATICA
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A spelling mistake on a Victorian silver coin:



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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George Huxley:



Susann Palmer:




Wayne A. Meeks:



Joan O'Brien:




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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

[the site had security issues this morning]

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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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