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explorator 26.17 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?August 13, 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, Caroline Tully,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a slow week
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Study suggests homo erectus was in Europe for a while, then around 1.1 million years bp 'left' because of the cold for a few hundred thousand years:when they were replaced:









Climate is also being studied as a factor in 'early human inbreeding':



A bone from the Grotte du Renne cave in France is leading to speculation about an unknown lineage of homo sapiens:



All the speculation attached to homo naledi over the past while:



A 40 000 years bp bracelet from the Denisova Cave:



More on the 'unusual' 300 000 years bp jaw found in China:










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AFRICA
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Feature on the petroglyphs in Tassili N’Ajjer National Park (Algeria):


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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More on the 2300 years bp shipwreck off El Alamein:







Feature on Abu Simbel:



Feature on three Egyptian pharaohs:



Feature on Ancient Egyptian religion:



Feature on what Cleopatra looked like:



Hyping an impending excavation at Iran's Sepahbod-Khorshid Cave, which has 'ancient architectural elements':



Feature on Palaeolithic petroglyphs in Bawa Yawan:



Feature on the recreation of a 3200 years bp Mesopotamian perfume:



Feature on 'ceremonial standards' in Mesopotamian art:



A 3800 years bp cuneiform tablet find from the Accana mound in Hatay:





Excavations at Cavustepe Castle suggest the Urartian people built it with potential earthquakes in mind:



A study of the differences between men's and women's jaws in the Middle Ages near the Kortik Tepe mound:



A roundup of archaeology finds in Turkey over the month of July:



Overview of the Hirbet Atarus (Iron Age) site in Jordan:



ACOR will be working in Jordan to restore some heritage sites:



A Roman military amphitheatre from Megiddo:



Overview of the recent finds at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:



More on the 2500 years bp 'anti-evil-eye' disk found on an Israel beach:



More on the 1500 years bp ?'magical mirror' from the Usha site:





More on suggestions of ancient necromancy from Teomim Cave near Jerusalem:



Interview with Jodi Magness on her work at Huqoq:



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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 5th century (or later) cache of figurines and the like from the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento:







A 2400 years bp prytaneion site in Albania with a large number of drinking vessels:




Remains of a Roman bathing complex (date?) from Cologne:




Remains of a possible Roman bridge in the mud of the river Wye near Chepstow:



Excavations at a Roman bathing complex in Merida have revealed an iron grate which would have covered a window:





A possible Roman villa near the site of a future police station in Cambridge:



A study has used LiDAR to identify a Roman road network that spanned Devon and Cornwall:














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Hyping an upcoming dig at a possible Roman site in Norfolk:



Fireworks led to a fire at the Ba?os de la Reina site in Calpe (Spain):



Arguing over holding concerts in the Circus Maximus:



An overview of some of the recent finds from Pompeii:



More on the remains of Nero's theatre near the Vatican:



More on the 2000 years bp Roman domus from Melite (Malta):



More on the 3rd/4th century CE Roman shipwreck found by Serbian coal miners:





More on the Medusa mosaic found at Merida:



More on the Roman gemstone from an excavation dive near Venice:




Interview with Tom Holland on Pax:



Review of Robin Lane Fox, *Homer and His Iliad*:



OpEd questioning recent portrayals of Spartans:



Feature on Vesuvius and Stabiae:



Feature on astrology and imperial legitimacy in Rome:



Feature on Roman libraries:



Feature on the military decorations of Spurius Ligustinus:



Feature on the diet of gladiators:



Feature on Alexander IV:



Feature on Sappho:



Feature on Delphi:



Feature on the Heraia:



Feature on a Greek amulet from the time of the Antonine plague in London:



Feature on ancient Greek messengers:



Feature on who built the Parthenon:



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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 36 200 years bp carving from Grotte des Gorges:



The missing body of a 35 000 years bp figurine from the Hohle Fels cave has been found but they're not sure what the animal is:




8000 years bp evidence of a 'stilt village' in Albania's Lake Ohrid:









A study of the Middle Neolithic circular enclosure of Goseck:



4000 years bp skeletons of a pair of (possibly sacrificial) red deer found during water work in Navenby:



A skeleton found in Alderney last May is 2500 years bp:



A metal detectorist in Anglesey came across a hoard of Iron Age gold coins:





An Anglo-Saxon burial site from near Donington:



A Viking burial site at Bicker Fen:



The third dig at an 8th century monastery site in Cookham is underway:




Archaeologists are excavating the 13th century Augustinian monastery of Himmelpforte:



Remains of a possible 14th century synagogue from Wroclaw:



Remains of the town of Wartsberg, destroyed in the 14th century (Poland) have been located:




A burial of a possible 15th century countess from near the Binnenhof in the Hague:



A possible 500 years bp well from next to a Grantham car park:



Assorted 15th/16th century small finds from the Tallinna Reaaldool dig:



Restoration work at Naples' state arcive revealed an unknown 16th century chapel:



A 17th century 'Vampire' child burial from Poland:









A detectorist in Sudbury came across a Celtic stater and an Edward III quarter noble:



Finds from a wide range of dates from a 'dig' in Worcestershire:



A report on an aerial image survey of Southdowns archaeological sites:



Repairs to Tamworth Castle are almost complete:



Graffiti damage to the Anchor Church site has been repaired:



More on the 16 000 years bp cave entrancefind in Germany:



More on the 2800 years bp meteoric iron arrowhead from Switzerland:




More on the re-identification of a skeleton from the Isles of Scilly as a woman:




Feature on the identity of a high-statues 2850 BCE burial in Spain:



More on the find of Exeter Cathedral's medieval crypt and other finds:

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A follow-up to that dolphin burial mentioned last week:



Feature on Viking funerals:



Feature on the Viking diet:



Northumberland had eight 'treasure finds' last year:



Plans to digitize the finds of the Swedish mission in Cyprus:



Kents Cavern in Devon has been sold to a hotel company:



A Victorian steamship wreck near Sutton Hoo has been given official protection:



A curious heritage destruction story (Crooked House pub):



A project to recreate the Sutton Hoo Anglo-Saxon ship is underway:


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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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Plenty of petroglyphs from various Dynasty periods ?from a cave in Zhejiang:



Suggestion there might be traps in Qin's tomb:




Feature on what we're learning about the ancient port of Shuomen from recent archaeological finds:



More on the giant panda remains from royal burial in Xi'an dating to the Western Han Dynasty:





More on 3700 years bp use of coal in China:




More on evidence of curry in southeast Asia some 2000 years bp:



Feature on the settlement of the Tibetan plateau:



A quartz crystal 'weighing unit' from Keeladi:




Assorted finds, including a brick water canal (Sangam-era?) from Porpanaikottai:





2600 years bp Sargat culture jewelry from a pair of mounds in Siberia:



A Bronze Age pyramid structure from Kazakhstan:










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NORTH AMERICA
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Hyping funding for an underwater survey of Revolutionary War-era shipwrecks in the York River:



A study refuting another study claiming that a 4th century CE cosmic event led to the decline of Hopewell culture:





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Pondering the abandonment of Cahokia:



Musqueam finds have paused some construction at the Vancouver airport:




Overview of a dig ?at a Wsanec nation site in Cordova Bay:



Overview of finds from a dig at the Old Bezanson townsite near Grande Prairie:



More on that Kentucky Civil War-era coin hoard:



A grant for more research into the Battlefield of Ridgefield site:



Review of Sarah Newman, *Unmasking Waste*:



Feature on the evidence for the earliest evidence of a human presence in the Americas:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An extensive 1300 years bp settlement site from Mexico's Guerrero state:



Suggestion that a 'stilt village' in the Amazon may have had a 'celestial layout':



More on the excavation of a 1500 years bp Teotihuacan site in Mexico City:







Feature on the Kuluba site (Maya) in the 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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Katherine Parr's prayerbook has gone on display:



Feature on collecting antiquities 'the right way':



Magdalene College is digitizing a number of manuscripts associated with Samuel Pepys:



Archaeologists are seeking protection for a wooly mammoth site in the Cotswolds:



The British Museum has reached a settlement with that poetry translator they failed to credit:








Marking the 850th birthday of the Leaning Tower of Pisa:



Feature on 30 lost burials archaeologists would like to find:



Feature on 'The Octagon House':



Feature on the Jacuzzi family:



On the origins of the swastika:



Latest study trying to diagnose Vlad the Impaler:



On what pots say (and don't say) about people:



Pondering humans' fascination with the past:



More on Camden's 'uncensored' history of Elizabeth I's reign:



More on women taking part in hunting:



Review of Kenneth W Harl, *Empires of the Steppes*:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Russia has damaged over 760 cultural heritage sites in Ukraine:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Using DNA to find the African origin of cattle in the Americas:





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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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Feature on Plotinus:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Laborers of the Tell en-Nasbeh Excavations:



Ancient Lives:



Tracing Freud on the Acropolis:



Xlendi is now home to a deepwater archaeological park:




Repairs are in store for the Scarborough Rotunda Museum:



A Roman coin hoard acquired by the Dorset Museum has gone on display:



Aftermath of the Denver Art Museum's cutting of ties with Emma Bunker:



Hyping the opening of the Greco-Roman Museum in Egypt:



70 percent of the 'major artifacts' are in place at the GEM:



Changes at the Barnes Foundation:



The Chrysler Museum in Virginia will be returning a 'Wounded Indian' statue to Boston:



More than 800 items from some Canadian national museums have gone missing:





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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A suffragette card game found in a Leicestershire cupboard is coming to auction:



High hopes for an Edward VIII coin coming to auction:




A major collection of 16th century books is coming to Sotheby's:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Not sure if we mentioned this genetic family tree for some Neolithic people in France:




A study of genetic-related thinks with some 'stone age' Central and Eastern European populations:





More on the genomic study of Holocene shell mound builders in Brazil:



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TOURISTY THINGS
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Verona:



Monemvasia:



This week's 'tourist behaving badly' piece involves a tourist carving a heart and initials into the Leaning Tower of Pisa:





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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Review of Patrick Humphries, *Cleopatra and the Undoing of Hollywood*:



Bard Music Festival coverage:



Mostly Mozart:



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CRIME BEAT
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Feature on the mafia's role in antiquities smuggling:



An Israeli arrested in Antalya over a possibly stolen ancient bell:



Police in Iran recovered some looted Islamic-era pottery:



Feature on past looting of artifacts in Cambodia:



... and Australian museums may have more than 100 looted Cambodian antiquities:



Suggestion that blockchain could help stop antiquities smuggling:


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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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The US returned 42 items to Italy:






... not sure if the 42 are part of the 266 reported elsewhere being returned to Italy from the US:






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Australia returned a trio of statues to Cambodia:



Feature on efforts to track down stolen Thai antiquities:



Feature on the repatriation efforts of Nepal, Indonesia, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Cameroon:



Report on repatriation successes (and more anticipated) for Indian artifacts:





700 items loaned to the Victoria and Albert Museum from India a century ago have yet to be returned:



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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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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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