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explorator 25.49 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?March 26, 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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A study modelling Neanderthal migration:



The most recent version of the human 'family tree':



More on bow-and-arrow use in Europe some 54 000 years bp:



More on Neanderthals dining on elephants:



More on Neanderthals collecting animal skulls as 'trophies':


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AFRICA
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7000 years bp tools used for bleeding cattle from an excavation in northern Sudan:




Using copper artifacts to study cutlural connections to South Africa between the 5th and 20th centuries CE:




cf:

Searching for evidence of Jewish heritage in Morocco:





Feature on Mauretania's Chinguetti manuscripts:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Broken statuary, including fragments of depictions of Ramesses II, Ramesses IX, Psamtik II, and Horemheb from a sun temple at Heliopolis:






Plenty of mummified animal remains, including 2000+ Ptolemaic rams' heads (and more) from the Ramesses II temple site in Abydos:






Restoration at Luxor's Temple of Esna have revealed a (probably Ptolemaic) depiction of the Zodiac:











More on the 'hidden corridor' revealed a few weeks ago in the Pyramid of Khufu:



Feature on Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt and her efforts to save monuments when the Aswan High Dam was built:



Feature on five things about Tutankhamun:



Feature on Nazis and Egyptology:



Feature on the Unfinished Obelisk in Aswan:



Feature on the new approach to studying Egyptian mummified persons:



Feature on the 'oldest song in the world' (found at Ugarit back in the 1950s):



A study of trade networks in West Asia in the third millennium BCE:



Feature on five ways ancient Persia contributed to the modern world:



Interview with Andrew Koh about his archaeochemistry investigations:



Feature on Susanne Kenner's work with 4000 years bp pottery from Jordan's Hujayrat Al Ghuzlan:



Historic structures in Istanbul are being 'strengthened':



More on the Roman-era mosaic at Shoham which was 're-exposed' last week:









More reaction to the Darius ostrakon 'mix up':



Feature on Yodfat and the burials of rebels there:



Feature on the context of ancient covenants:



A late 6th century 'pearling town' site on Siniyah island in the UAE:















Restoration of 310 sites in Oman is ongoing:




... and thousands more are on the list for restoration:



More on mustatil excavations 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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Remains of a 3rd millennium BCE boat from Ferrara (Italian):




Some 'abandoned' mosaic flooring from Pompeii dating to the earthquake of 62 CE:



A 1st/2nd century CE Venus figurine from a rubbish dump site in Rennes:



Evidence of a Roman-era settlement from Cordovado (Italian):



Evidence of a Roman military camp at Villneuve-sur-Lot:



A collection of pottery placed upside down along the walls of enslaved persons' quarters from Pompeii/Civita Giuliana:






A Roman mosaic revealed at a shopping centre construction site in Colchester:






A 'mysterious' cist-burial-like structure from near Torreano (date?):




Hopes for Bronze Age/Roman finds as a pre-M5 construction project begins in Gloucestershire:




More on the Roman mosaic revealed at Olney:











More on the Roman-era tomb from Sagalassos 'sealed' with nails and bricks:



More on the contest to help reveal the text on charred scrolls from Herculaneum:






More on 'self-healing' Roman concrete:





More on the Bronze Age importance of copper deposits near Hala Sultan Tekke:




More on the 1800 years bp Roman spa/mansion in Reims:



Review of Davie and Mount, *Et Tu Brute?*:



Feature on the Locus Ludi project:



Feature on some ancient ideas about AI:



Feature on an Indian Buddhist monk buried in the Kerameikos in the 1st centery CE:



Feature on ancient Greek helmets:



Feature on the giant statue of Dionysus of Apollonas on Naxos:



Feature on Roman enslaved persons:



Feature on the Colossus of Rhodes:



Feature on Alma-Tadema's *Roses of Heliogabalus*:



Feature on Pompey's Pillar in Alexandria:



Feature on Hypsipyle:



Feature on Socrates' trial:



Feature on a 3rd century CE portable sundial in a museum in Kavala:



Feature on the Greek antecedents to Yellowjackets:



Pondering why Hollywood has abandoned ancient Greece:



The Vatican officially returned its Parthenon Sculptures to Greece:









... and an opEd on why Britain shouldn't 'apologize' for the sculptures:



... and that Greece couldn't be trusted to return them in a 'loan' situation:





... and so the Sculptures in the British Museum should stay:




Another anti-Osborne-plan opEd:



More on the attack on an archaeologist on Mykonos:




... and Greek government reaction:



Latest Pasts Imperfect newsletter:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Prehistoric (date?) petroglyphs from the Cova de la Vila in Spain:





A prehistoric (maybe) ring ditch from Derbyshire:



A 3200 years bp 'golden tomb' of a couple found in Armenia:



Study rethinking the 'Stonehenge calendar' as a modern construct:





cf:

... and the argument continues:



Remains of a Viking-era 'hall' of some sort near Hune (Denmark):



More on the medieval gold and silver hoard found in the Netherlands:




More on 400 years bp wall painting found during renovations of a York kitchen:







More on the Greek-Revolution-era shipwreck off Halkidiki:



More on Notre Dame's iron support features:





... and hopes to reopen in late 2024:



More on the burials found in Notre dame a few months ago:



Conservationists have purchased the Hembury Hillfort site:



Hyping an upcoming dig with hopes for Norman conquest finds at Lowther Castle:



... and an upcoming dig in Ashton prior to housing construction:



... and a project to survey/map underwater sites in the North Sea and Adriatic:




Bronze Age finds are returning to Lewis for exhibition:



Feature on the Red Lady of Paviland:



Feature on the 'hand of Preles':



Feature on who built Stonehenge:



Feature on bog bodies:


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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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Remains of a pair of 5500 years bp domestic structures from Shanxi:




Tang Dynasty burials from Shanxi:



Western Han Dynasty bamboo and wooden strips from Yunnan:






A cluster of buildings dating to the Song Dynasty is shedding light on military defenses in Chongqing:




An ornate brick chamber tomb dating to the Jin Dynasty from Shanxi:



A Scythian-Saka era temple/mound (5th century BCE) has been restored by archaeologists in Kazakhstan:



More on the 2000 years bp antler-instrument from Viet Nam:




Folks were watching the equinox sunrise at Angkor Wat:



Concerns for a 1000 years bp Shiva temple in Chilkur:



Questioning the claims of a 31 000 years bp amputation in Indonesia (in the news a few months ago):


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Report suggests Australia needs to make a greater effort to protect its underwater heritage:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Overview of a dig at a potential NHL arena site in LeBreton Flats:



More on evidence of the spirituality of enslaved persons found near Harriet Tubman's birthplace a while ago:



More on the wreck of the Ironton in Lake Huron:



Feature on Tlingit petroglyphs at the Petroglyph Beach State Historic site in Alaska:



Feature on Canada's first 'settlers' in the Yukon:



Feature on Yellowstone's Obsidian Cliff:



Feature on the history of copper mining in Vermont:



Feature on all the bones found beneath Benjamin Franklin's London home back in the 1990s:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A Maya burial chamber from Palenque:






A study of the skeletal remains of Lady SAS from Palenque:





More on the 1400 years bp Moche wall paintings from Panamarca (Peru):




Feature on the Cast War of Yucatan:


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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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A study of a portrait of Henry VIII shows that it was updated as he aged:



Feature on archaeoastronomy:



Feature on Margaret Bryan and her astronomy research:




cf:

The National Portrait Gallery has digitized a silhouette portrait album:



Feature on reassembling/reuniting a De Vos painting :



Pondering claims Vermeer's daughter painted some of his portraits:



Feature on what we learned from Beethoven's DNA:













cf:

Feature on the use of psychedelics in various ancient societies:



Feature on Lord Byron's visits to Turkiye:



Feature on Titanic survivor Gretchen Longley:



Feature on the Caravaggio in the Villa Aurora:



Feature on matrilineal societies:



Feature on Richard Henry Greene:



Feature on Samuel Seabury:



Feature on a 15th century map of the Mediterranean:



Interesting copy of Othello:



On the uses of AI in archaeology:



Plans for Oscar Wilde's Reading gaol:



A pair of American teens have 'new' proof of the Pythagorean theorem:



More on DaVinci's mother:




Pondering why we should study 'what if' history:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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A Vienna Museum has a different sort of climate protest in mind:



Protests in France contributed to a fire at Bordeaux's town hall:



Major funding for a memorial to the enslaved at Montpelier:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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On the origins of grape domestication:




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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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Feature on Epicureanism:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Pocklington Shield:



Anglo-Saxon Suffolk:




Madonna of Kyiv:



Coronation Treasures:



Notre Dame:



Antikythera Mechanism:



After Impressionism:



Plans for a new museum at Chichen Itza:




A 'green museum' is planned for the site of Plato's Academy:



Plenty of attention for a study which suggests that more than a thousand items at the Met are linked to art smugglers:









... and items at the Art Institute of Chicago were also linked to trafficking:




On 'Imperial Loot' at the British Museum:



More on museums changing their use of the word 'mummy':


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Questions about a Nepalese sculpture coming to auction at Christies:



Big bucks for a Guarneri violin:



... and for a print of Hokusai's 'Great Wave':



More on the upcoming auction of the Codex Sassoon (1100 years ?bp Hebrew Bible manuscript):





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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A study of the genome of early inhabitants of Tibet:






A study of DNA and disease among Europe's first farmers:



A study of inhabitants of a 5000 years BCE collective burial from Mentesh Tepe in Azerbaijan:



A study of the DNA of the Sandomierz chessmen:



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TOURISTY THINGS
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Famous clocks of Europe:



Lake District stone monuments:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Feature on castrati:



Great Expectations:



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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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The Lost King:



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CRIME BEAT
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Thousands of items looted from Iraq two decades ago are still on the black market:



Afghanistan has intercepted 50+ antiquities smuggling attempts in the past year and a half:



More on the fraudulent sale of an Ides of March denarius a week or so ago:



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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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Italy returned four items to Egypt:



The US returned 29 items to Greece:










... including that Ides of March coin that was auctioned a couple weeks ago:




A dozen antiquities were also returned by the US to Turkiye:






... including three from the Met:




Australia returned a Hanuman idol to India:



Nepal wants a necklace back that's in the possession of the Art Institute of Chicago:


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NUMISMATICA
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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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Jane Gardner (pdf):



George Huxley:



John Bramble:



Joan Oates:



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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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