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explorator 26.02 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? April 30, 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 of soot suggests humans were present in the Nerja Cave (Spain) for some 41 000 years:







cf:

More on the 39 000 years bp 'leather punch board' from Spain:


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AFRICA
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More on the stable isotope map of Angola and its uses:



More on the medieval wall paintings from Old Dongola (Sudan):







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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Not sure where to put this find of a Roman-era Buddha statue from an Isis temple in Berenice:














More on the 18th Dynasty tomb of Panehsy:




More on the neutron tomography study of six Egyptian animal sarcophagi:






The mummified remains and objects from Bab el-Gasus (found in 1891) are going online:



Feature on Christiane Desroches-Noblecourt:



Feature on Allard Pierson's study of mummy portraits:



The 'mystery' of an 'impossible statue' currently in the National Museums Scotland may have been figured out:



Feature on the Ishtar Gate:



Nine 3000 years bp child burials from Segzabad (Iran):



'Destruction' concerns for the 9000 years bp Tepe Sarab site:



Sassanid finds from Iran's Khorasan region include a number of plaster images:



Plans to resume digging at Ashraf hill in Iran's Isfahan province:



Interview with Abbas Amanat regarding their *Iran: A Modern History*:



There are apparently no relief images of women at Persepolis:



Turkiye has put an 8000 years bp footprint from Yenisehir on display (some dig details here too):



Israel continues to search for the Siloam Pool:



Dating an olive tree in Wadi Zeitan suggests it is 1500 years bp or so:



Grape seeds dating to the 8th century CE from a Byzantine monastery site in the Negev:





Finds from various periods (including 'triliths') from assorted sites in Oman:




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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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Evidence of Bronze Age and Roman-era occupation near Newquay:




A 5th century red figure plate from the dig at the sanctuary of Odesos:




A 1st century CE Roman burial in Hungary includes medical equipment:








A 2000 years bp Roman suburb, including a bathhouse, from the Xanten military camp site:




Plenty of Roman remains found during a pre-construction dig in Belgium:






A major Roman silver coin hoard from Romania:



A Roman burial at a housing development site in Hinckley/Nuneaton::




... and Roman remains were found at a housing site in Wiltshire:



I think we mentioned these remains of an underwater temple at Pozzuoli with Nabataean connections:







A Roman coin (and other items) hoard from Switzerland:



Evidence via Google Earth of three previously-unknown Roman military camps in the Saudi Arabian desert:




















... and a 'lost' 2nd century Roman fort was found in Scotland:




Study suggests the Nazis were 'wrongly accused' of destroying Caligula's ships at Nemi:




A 'bridal carriage' excavated at Pompeii a couple years ago has been restored/reconstructed:



More on the Roman coin hoard found at Livorno:





More on possible sculpture representing people of Tartessos from a Bronze Age site in Spain:







More on the Gallo-Roman necropolis near a Paris train station:







More on the find of a Hellenistic burial chamber in Naples using muon radiography:





cf:

More on the Roman mosaic found near a vape shop in Colchester:




More on the Roman tunnels under Lisbon:



Museum staff in Littlehampton are searching for a 'missing footprint' from the Angmering Roman villa excavations:



Finds recently declared treasure in Caerwent are hoped to suggest a Roman settlement in the area:



Hyping the upcoming dig at the Carlisle Roman bath site:




Feature on the durability of ancient glass:



Features on Cleopatra:




Feature on Hypatia:



Feature on recent finds from Smyrna:



Feature on Vercingetorix:



Feature on the Antonine Plague:



Feature on how ugly Socrates was (!):



Feature on the Seleucids:



Feature on Dura Europos:



Feature on a ring found a few years ago that was connected to Pontius Pilate:



Feature on the battle of Leuctra:



Feature on some Greek pyramids:




Feature on why Hadrianopolis was abandoned in the 7th century:



Another feature on the Antikythera mechanism:



Another feature pondering whether the Greeks saw blue like we do:



Feature on mosaics from Halicarnassus associated with Phainos:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remains of a major 6000 years bp settlement from France:





2300 years bp Celtic scissors from burials in Munich:



Overview of the excavations of a pottery production site (possibly mentioned in the Domesday Book) in Quedgeley East:



A medieval tableman gaming piece from excavations of a medieval building in Bedforshire:





A metal detectorist in Lancaster found a 15th century ring depicting Mary and Jesus:




Construction workers came across remains of Krakow's medieval Szewska Gate:



A drone survey may have located the site of the Battle of Marston Moor (1644):



More on the 1000 years bp Viking iron hoard found in a basement in Norway:



More on a metal detectorist finding 10th century Viking hacksilver and coins from a Jutland cornfield:






More on the Viking ship find at Karmoy Mound:







More on Norse colonists in Greenland importing timber from North America:



More on the identification of the earliest-known tartan:



A major conservation project at Caenarfon Castle is complete:



Archaeologists in Nottingham are working to preserve a 200 years bp cave site before student housing is built:




Hyping an upcoming Neolithic dig in Jersey:



They're reviewing how archaeological finds in Scotland are processed:



An early notice of a dig at a future police station site in Cambridge:





Feature on the 'Leaning Tower of Bristol':



Feature on 17th century protests in London over river pollution:



Feature on Urnes style brooches found in Norway over the years:



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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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More on powerful women among the Mongolian Xiognu people:





A Yayoi image of a whale on some pottery from Itoshima:



An 1800 years bp 'festival mask' from a site in Osaka:







More on chicken breeding in Japan dating to the 4th century BCE:





Possible antiquities (Buddha statues, swords, a gong) from a cave in Laos:



More on wideranging Polynesian migration:




A student came across a Pandya period inscription in Madurai:



Concerns for a Buddhist cave site at Tamsuli:



Study suggests prolonged droughts may have brought an end to the Indus Civilization:





Isolation is apparently interfering with archaeology in Afghanistan:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Ancient Maori building techniques could apparently withstand earthquakes:


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NORTH AMERICA
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A fragment of a skull found in Louisiana back in 1985 has been dated to 3500 years bp:





A paleogenome study of people who settled in Alaska some 3000 years bp:








A possible 18th century well find in Woodstock (Virginia):



More on the 1000 years bp canoe extracted from Lake Waccamaw in North Carolina:



More on earlier use of horses by Indigneous people:



Plans to investigate a possible 19th century shipwreck on Daytona Beach Shores:






Feature on efforts to preserve adobe churches in New Mexico:



Feature on the collapse of the Dixon bridge 150 years bp:



A study using newspaper ads to trace Indigenous slavery in colonial America:



cf:

Funding to preserve Albany's oldest building:



Mike Ruggeri's listings of Ancient Americas lectures for May:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A 1000 years bp adolescent mummified person bundle from the outskirts of Lima:

















... I think this is related to the above:




INAH archaeologists found an image of the Mayan divinity K'awiil from an area in Mexico:





A study of early inhabitants of Puerto Rico:





cf:

Feature on the strength of Maya masonry:



A pair of anthropologists believe they have figured out the Mayan 819-count calendar system:





cf:

Protestors interrupted a talk in LA by Richard Hansen over his work at El Mirador (Guatemala):


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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 the origins of the Bible:



Study suggests 'digesta' was a source of carbs for Ice Age types;




Pondering the origin of clothing:



A study suggests 18th-century clay pipes were used also as weapons and surgical tools:



Anne Boleyn spent her final days shopping, apparently:



Some 'coronation etchings' depicting Charles II were found in the back of a cupboard:




Feature ranking Vermeers:



Feature on Minerva Parker Nichols:



Feature on the myth of Atlantis:



Feature on the Antiquarian Book Fair:



Feature on the winds of the 1903 Ulysses Storm:



The first mega-tsunami on record since antiquity was triggered by the Tonga volcanic eruption:



Greece is allowing pets at some archaeological sites:



Latest musings about ChatGPT with some ancient Greek spin (for better or worse):



More on the find of the wreck of the Montevideo Maru:



More on the hidden symbols found on the 'Stone of Destiny':




... which is headed to Westminster Abbey:




... and is controversial:



Review of a trio of books on the history of warfare:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Celebrating Rome's 2776th birthday:




Feature on the history of British coronations:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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On the history or olive oil:



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LANGUAGE RELATED
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On efforts to revive the Cornish language:



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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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Feature on monist philosophy:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Shakespeare First Folios:






Lavinia Fontana:



Pompeii:



Silhouette Portraits:



Re:mancipation:



What That Quilt Knows About Me:



cf:

Egyptomania:



Beatrix Potter;



Recent finds from Guangzhou:



Roman antiquities on show in the Roman Forum:



Plans for a Shakespeare Museum in London:



There are three new antiquities museums on Crete:



Pondering the sources of the Met's Native American objects:



An underground tomb museum will be opening in Xinjiang soon:



More on the kylix from the Met that was seized last week:


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A Shakespeare First Folio is up for sale:



Reynolds' 'Portrait of Omai' was saved for the nation:



Questions about some Nazi-connected jewels coming to auction at Christie's next week:



More on the upcoming auction of an Eid Mar denarius:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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There are 10 000+ ancient human genomes so far:



A DNA study of the Picts:






A DNA study of the early inhabitants of Adichanallur:



More on DNA suggesting a multiethnic Mongolian empire:



Feature on Rosalind Franklin's role in the discovery of DNA:



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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on using near-infrared hyperspectral imaging and radiocarbon dating on bone artifacts:



Feature on muon tomography:



Feature on the process of facial reconstructions:

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TOURISTY THINGS
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A high-speed train will connect Rome to Pompeii soon:



Ad Gefrin:



Pompeii's amphitheatre:



Villa of the Mysteries:



Criticism of Italy's use of Botticelli's Venus as an 'influencer':



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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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The Laureate:



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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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In case you've missed some of the chatter about Netflix's upcoming docuseries on Cleopatra:







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CRIME BEAT
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An Iraqi court has confirmed that ISIL smuggled artifacts through Syria and Turkey:



Nighthawking at the Colchester Roman site:





Details from the trial of a pair found guilty of trying to sell some Anglo-Saxon coins:











A follow-up to the 'crayoning' of a statue at Croome:

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55 Hindu relics stolen from temples across India were found in the home of a Chennai-based collector:



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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 a number of items (including Khipus) to Peru:




The Manhattan DA announced the return of three antiquities to Yemen, taken from a Met board member:







The US also returned more than 80 items to Cyprus:




... and assorted items to Bulgaria:



Italy returned an illegally-exported stele to Turkiye:







17th century manuscripts looted during WWI from a Greek monastery rediscovered turing office renovations were returned:




A Hanuman idol stolen in 2012 will be returning to a Tamil Nadu temple:






More on Turkiye waiting for the return of Septimius Severus' head:




Feature on the Shellal mosaic, which seems to be a repatriation case we'll read more about soon:


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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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John Ellis Jones:



Peter Duus:



Robert Ousterhout:



Emily Meggett:



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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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