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explorator 26.04 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?May 14, 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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Earliest evidence of cancer in humans comes from a 1.7 million years bp Paranthropus robustus or Homo ergaster bone:




A 300 000 years bp footprint find from Germany:




Study suggests we get our nose-shape gene from Neanderthals:








A tooth enamel study is shedding light on hunting habits of Neanderthals and other early humans in western Europe:





... and possible spinoffs for developing new antibiotics:



Study suggests early humans preferred/adapted to 'mosaic landscapes':



More on the study of fossilized soot and what it reveals about occupation of the Nerja Caves (Spain):




More on the study of tools suggesting there were three migrations of homo sapiens into Europe:




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AFRICA
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Using isotope data to track ecological change in Lesothos over the past 60 000 years:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Byzantine and Late Period burials and texts from the Meir Necropolis in Assiut:











In case you missed the find of a 2nd century CE Buddha statue from Berenike:




Feature on mummified canines in ancient Egypt:



Feature on Champollion:



Feature on Egyptian use of meteoric iron:



A project to record petroglyphs and inscriptions from the desert in southern Egypt:



Latest 'curse of the mummy' account making the rounds:




The Greek necropolis of Alexandria has opened to the public:




... and the pyramid of Khufu will reopen within a month:



3000 years bp evidence of rice cultivation from Qale-Kesh (Iran):



Feature on the Qale-Gardan site:



The search for the Laodicea Temple continues:



Tree rings suggest climate change may have played a role in the fall of the Hittite Empire:



More on the use of AI to translate Akkadian tablets:





Assorted 4500 years bp structural and tomb remains from the site of Mobolla in western Anatolia:




A call for more research of possible sites in eastern Jerash:



Followup to that Mount Ebal 'curse tablet' find from a while ago ... now published in a peer reviewed (but not specialist) journal:




cf:

Feature on the Mesha Stele:



Israel plans to turn biblical Sebastia into an archaeological park (!):



A Neolithic 'cattle cult site' from Saudi Arabia:



Dozens of skeletons found in a 7 000 years bp stone tomb 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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A metal detectorist came across a Roman coin in Poland:



Overview of finds from the past weeks digging at a Romano-British site in Cockermouth (more detail than previous accounts):




A metal detectorist's Iron Age/Roman finds from Monmouthshire back in 2019 have been declared treasure:








Archaeologists have discovered 2000 more fragments of a mural which once adorned the theater in Cartagena:



Remains of a Late Roman watchtower located near the Schaaren am Hochrhein (Switzerland):





A 3rd century CE mosaic depicting Aeneas and company from a site in Turkiye:





A study of a late 3rd century CE Roman purse excavated at Merida:



The Vatican is restoring a gilded statue of Hercules once struck by lightning:









Something about a dispute over burial mound excavations in Ukraine:



More on the use of muography to identify a 2500 years bp burial/settlement at Naples:










More on the use of Google Earth to identify three Roman camps in the Jordanian desert:




More on the find of a burial of a Roman-era doctor (with instruments) in Hungary:



More on the 'fortlet' recently found along the Antonine Wall:



More on protected status being given too three sections of a Roman wall revealed in London over the years:




More on the Roman temple to Mars (and others?) at La Chapelle-des-Fougeretz:



Restoration efforts at Stratonicea (the 'city of gladiators') continues:



The Wiltshire Museum has acquired a Roman bronze vessel hoard found in Wilcot back in 2017:




The Kasta Tomb at Amphipolis as opened to some visitors in a limited sort of way:



Plans to restore the temple of Asklepios in Trikala:



Review of Honor Cargill-Martin's biography of Messalina:




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



Review of Jennifer Saint, *Atalanta*:



Feature on Stefania Giudice's conservation work at Pompeii:



Feature on mothers' lives in ancient Greece:





Feature on the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest:



Mary Beard on the search for Cleopatra's daughter:



Feature on the maritime transport of sculptures in the ancient Mediterranean:



Feature on Scotland in Roman times:



Feature on Oedipus:



Feature on Sulla:



Feature on the Riace bronzes:



Feature on the Venus de Milo and her missing arms:



Feature on the popularity of Greek mythology on TikTok:



Feature on Thucydides:



Feature on plaster casts of victims of Pompeii:



Feature on the Battle of Thermopylae:



Feature on the Battle of Plataea:



Feature on Hannibal and his elephants:



Interesting 'declassified' account of efforts to return the Parthenon sculptures back in 1983:




... meanwhile, the current Greek PM is looking for an 'innovative' 'win-win' solution to the dispute:








... and India will be backing Greece in its efforts:



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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Hyping a just-starting (?) dig at a Mesolithic site in Dartmoor:



A Neolithic 'ritual cache' of figurines of women from the Verteba Cave in Ukraine:





Remains of a 7000 years bp (!) road underwater off the coast of the Croatian island of Korcula:















A study of the copper trade in Neolithic Europe:



A study suggests Neolithic items in Orkney may have had colour:



A 3700 years bp flint dagger find by an 8-year-old in Norway:





A 3500 years bp bronze dagger find by a metal detectorist in a forest near Krasnystaw (Poland):




A 3000 years bp bakery (with flour remains!) ?from a dig in Armenia:





A Viking-era buckle/brooch from a dig in Norway:



Spanish researchers are trying to figure out the backstory of six skeletons from the Caleta de Arriba site on Gran Canaria:






Remains of a 16th century fortress at the Arenberg Castle site in Leuven:



19th century burials/crypts from Tbilisi:



In case you missed the Egyptian and Roman figurines found in Lublin (Poland):





More on the identification of a coin depicting Charlemagne's Queen Fastrada:




High expectations for an upcoming dig in Lincoln:



A project documenting a recently-found 'lost village' (medieval) in Yorkshire:



Feature on a dig at the 12th century Stavanger Cathedral (Norway) back in the 1960s:



Feature on Time Team and the 'Band of Brothers' dig in Wiltshire:



Feature on Germany's Pommelte site:



Feature on Bosnia and Herzegovina's stecci stones:



A papal bull of Boniface IX which was found in a Polish cemetery in 2021 has been restored and will go on display:




Delapre Abbey has acquired a sword used by a local resident at Waterloo:


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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 ceramics in a Northern Wei Dynasty official's tomb in Shanxi:




Hyping a new branch of the Project to Trace the Origins of Chinese Civilization:



Feature on the Confucian Canon Project:



Study of the impact of Mongol conquests on cities in Central Asia:



cf:

A pair of Buddhist stupas from Madhya Pradesh's Bandhavgarh:



... this seems related to the previous item:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Plenty of Aboriginal stone tools excavated at a future hospital site in New South Wales:



Latest research into the Batavia shipwreck:





More on the Electric Resistivity Tomography examination of the Red Lily Lagoon region:




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NORTH AMERICA
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Some of the first migrants to the Americas apparently had Chinese origins, and there were (at least) two migrations:







A bone fragment from Alaska's Lawyer's Cave found in the 1990s has been identified as belonging to a woman 3000 years bp:





Plenty of 18th century finds from the Swan Tavern site in Charlottesville:



Hyping a just-started dig by Bard archaeology students at Fisher Center's Maya Lin Building site:



Musket balls from the Fort Necessity battlefield:



More on the quarantine hospital and cemetery site found underwater off the coast of Florida:





Feature on the most endangered historic places in the US:



cf:

A 19th century military quarters in Albany may be destroyed:



Hopes for more digs at the site where a Henry VI coin was found in Newfoundland:



Feature on the (now stolen) Old Chatham Bell:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A possible 12 000 years bp skeleton find from Brazil:



A 4000 years bp temple find from Peru:




Feature on what they learned from a 2000 years bp pile of condor excrement in the Andes:



Part two of a feature on the ancestors of the Taino people on St Thomas:



Latest on the approval of the Maya Train construction:


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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 some metal detectorists:



Feature on abortion in the Ancient Near East and Greco-Roman worlds:



Feature on the use of nuclear technology in heritage contexts:



Feature on Elizabeth Siddal:



Feature on the evolution of modern singing:



Feature on Nancy Hale:



This year's Pulitzer Prizes:



More on the search for Nazi treasure in a Dutch village coming up empty:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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On the history of Mother's Day:






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LANGUAGE RELATED
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A database tracking languages that die off:



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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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On Plato and 'heretical' music theory in his philosophy:



On Aristotle and leisure:



On Neoplatonism:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Luxury and Power: Persia to Greece:



Manet/Degas:



Livorno Hoard:



Picasso:



Sarah Bernhardt:



Van Gogh:



John Soane drawing office:



Feature on the reopening of the Mosul Museum:






The Met museum is putting together a provenance research team to figure out what looted art it possesses:








A clumsy visitor damaged a Chinese bronze at the Minneapolis Institute of Art:



The Poole Museum is moving a number of items prior to renovations, including an Iron Age longboat:



The Abenaki First Nation is asking a Burlington museum to remove a photo of its ancestors:


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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Howard Carter's 'address book' is up for sale:



High auction expectations for some Qing-era jars found in a London thrift store:



A 123 years bp schooner will be leaving Maine after auction:



Criticism over a Nazi-linked jewellery sale:


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ON THE DNA FRONT
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More on the DNA found on a pierced deer tooth pendant from the Denisova Cave:





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TOURISTY THINGS
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Canakkale:



Temple of Artemis:



Tourists were arrested at Machu Picchu for taking nude photos:



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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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Some scholarly reactions to the Netflix Cleopatra kerfuffle:







Other opinions/coverage:









Reviews of the actual program:




Zahi Hawass's Cleopatra documentary was posted:






... and an Egyptian-government-owned broadcaster in Egypt announced they were making a new one:





... and a feature on the search for Cleopatra's tomb in Alexandria:


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CRIME BEAT
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A gang of thieves is blowing up church safes in search of silver:



A number of historically-significant jewellery items were stolen from a Rotherham museum:



Plenty of convictions in Egypt for antiquities smuggling:



Nice feature on the backstory to that attempted sale of an Eid Mar aureus:



A Ukraine MP was found in possession of a large collection of antiquities:



More on this year's Operation Pandora finds:


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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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Britain returned 6000 artifacts to Iraq:








Italy returned four smuggled artifacts to Egypt:






Latest twist in the Benin Bronzes return saga is a presidential decree assigning ownership of the bronzes to a royal person:





... leading to Cambridge delaying its returns:




... and an OpEd:



A US citizen has returned antiquities to Italy after reading about looted items:




The US returned some looted antiquities that had been loaned to the Met to China:









Australia will be returning an 800 years bp temple relief to Nepal:




The US returned 40 illegally exported items to Nepal:



Italy is starting to deal with Fascist-era colonial collections:







India is expecting a number of returns from various countries:



... and they plan to put pressure on the UK to return items (especially the Kohinoor diamond):




More on US returns of items to Yemen:



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NUMISMATICA
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Coverage of the Rome and Coinages of the Mediterranean conference:



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 F Gardner:



George Pepe:



Ludwig Koenen:



Donald Heldman:



Chris Strachwitz:



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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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