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explorator 26.08 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?June 11, 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, Christopher Kimberley,
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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Study suggests homo naledi buried their dead in caves (and other things):





















cf:



... but there's already pushback on the claim:



Study suggests Neanderthals had more complex adhesive creation techniques than previously thought:




Latest study suggesting Neanderthals and sapiens may have lived together in Europe 54 000 years ?bp:



A 30 000 years bp site in Spain suggests humans were wearing seashells (and freshwater ones) as ornaments:




Interview with Ludovic Slimak:



On Neanderthal DNA in modern humans and its effects:



More on the 700 000 years bp site with tools and animal bones from Greece:






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AFRICA
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A DNA study is being used to suggest farming in Africa arrived from Iberia 7400 years bp:



cf:


Feature on queens of ancient Nubia:




Feature on lost cities of the Nigerian Sahara:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Feature on a 3300 years bp mural depicting an awful lot of Egyptian bird species (I think we mentioned this a while ago):



Interesting study of the contents of a Ptolemaic-era Bes vase:



Archaeologists in Cairo are trying to prevent the demolition of tombs:




Leiden's National Museum of Antiquities is no longer allowed to excavate in Saqqara because of an exhibition:

















More on the mummified persons' portraits recently found in Fayoum:



More on the mummification workshop revealed at the Saqqara necropolis:



7000 years bp relics from Sufian Hill (Iran):



Evidence of Chalcolithic settlements in Tepe Kohneh Sufian (Iran):



Remains of 4500 years bp structures and a cemetery from Kalat-e Yavor:



Using AI to identify new sites in Mesopotamia:



... and more on using AI to read ancient Mesopotamian texts:



Drought in Iraq has revealed remains of a submerged settlement (we may have had this):



Suggestion that a drought was behind the 'Bronze Age Collapse':



More on the study of Dmanisis Gora to understand its resilience in the transition from Bronze to Iron Ages:



Remains of a Roman (? ... date seems off) garrison found at the Zerzevan Castle dig:




Turkiye has unveiled a new ship word underwater excavation purposes:



12 000 years bp bone 'flute'/bird whistles from a site in Israel:











cf:

Study suggests David's Jerusalem wasn't where it is currently thought to have been:



More on evidence of dysentery in Iron Age Jerusalem:



More on Bronze Age burial practices at Megiddo:



Feature on wine making in ancient Judea and environs:



More on 4300 years bp copper ingots from Oman:






More on 8000 years bp 'blueprints' from 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 Greek town (found last year) near Grevena:



2000 or so votive offerings from a sanctuary site on Kythnos:











A Roman-era shipwreck is among three wrecks found off the coast of Tunisia:






Roman finds from Alston Moor are going to be analyzed:



More on Legio X Fretensis coins from Apsaros:




More on that study of Roman 'liquid gypsum' burials:








More on the study of the contents of a Roman perfume from Spain:





More on all the Roman-era tweezers found at Wroxeter:




More on the Pan figurine found during a dig at the St Polyeuctos church in Istanbul:



More on the carving of a face, cornucopia, and phallus at a Roman fort in Spain:



Cyprus has launched a digital heritage website:



FSU is marking fifty years of digging at Cetamura del Chianti:



The domus ?of Titus Macro in Aquileia has reopened to the public:



Feature on professional athletes in ancient Greece and Rome:



Feature on the restoration of a recently-rediscovered underwater mosaic at Baiae:



Honor Cargill-Martin on Messalina:



Joel Christensen on Greek heroic myth and western education:



Feature on some Roman armour from Kalkriese:



Feature on male nudity in Greek art:



Pondering the location of Cleopatra's tomb:



Feature on Tartessos:



Feature on the San Casciano dei Bagni bronzes:



Feature on Tarquinius Superbus:



Feature on Etruscan sea power:



Feature on Icarus:



Feature on Pontevedra being founded by Trojans:



Feature on Alexander's preparations to fight the Persians:



Feature on the location of Troy:



Feature on lions in ancient Greece:



Another modern trial of Socrates where he was found 'not guilty':



We're reading of eruption concerns for the Campi Flegrei:



Latest Pasts Imperfect:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Neolithic textiles and dwellings from the submerged La Marmotta site near Rome:




Plenty of outcry over the removal of 7000 years bp standing stones from Carnac to build a hardware store:









... while someone set the Men Scryfa standing stone on fire:



Drones have revealed 7000 years bp petroglyphs in caves in Spain:





cf:

Bronze Age/Chalcolithic petroglyphs from near Monblanc (Spain):




A piece of decoratively-carved piece of oak found in peat during construction in Wales has been dated between 4640 and 4605 BCE:













A Bronze Age barrow burial ground near Stonehenge:






Kitchen renovations in Denmark revealed a large rune stone (date?):




An 1100 years bp scramasax (sword) find from an excavation in Skalby (Sweden):



Excavations in Ria de Vigo (Spain) have revealed a medieval stone phallus claimed to have been used to sharpen weapons:





Remains of Chichester's Norman castle have been revealed:



An 18th century cast iron headstone from Shropshire:



Excavations of a 19th century burial ground in Poland have revealed a number of 'vampire burials':



More on petroglyphs from Sweden:




More on the find of the submerged medieval church of Rungholt:






More on evidence of bubonic plague in Bronze Age England:



Mont-Saint-Michel is celebrating its 1000th anniversary:



Feature on the Sweet Track roadway in Somerset:



Feature on witch trials in 16th/17th century Scotland:


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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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A 6000 ?years bp pottery pig whistle from Jiangsu:





Plenty of Western Zhou Dynasty finds from an excavation at Dushan in Zhejiag:



Overview of finds from a Shang Dynasty site in Handan:



Feature on the submerged 1400 years bp ruins in Qiandao Lake:


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Feature on oracle bone inscriptions:





A 3rd century BCE Buddhist elephant sculpture from Odisha:




A 5th century CE Mahishasura ?Mardhini plaque from Deerghasi:



A 13th century 'tomb-like' structure from a dig at the Siri Fort:



Some pieces of gold were found during the excavations at Viudhunagar's Vembakottai site:





A dig at the historic port of Palur is underway:



The ASI has restored a pair of domes in the 16th century Purana Qila that collapsed in the 1990s:



Feature on plans (a century ago) for an underwater train at Kolkata:



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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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More on Australian petroglyphs depicting Moluccan boats:



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NORTH AMERICA
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A mastodon tooth from a California beach:



An Ice Age site in the Kisatchie National Forest:



10 000 years bp (maybe) quartz tools from a site in Lac Philippe (Quebec):




Study suggests folks in Alaska during the Ice Age survived on freshwater fish:



Overview of a dig at a 6000 years bp site in Washington associated with the Kalispel tribe:




Latest finds from the Sarabay site on Big Talbot Island includes indigenous and Spanish pottery:




Feature on excavating a 19th century Detroit saloon:



Feature on a field school dig on the campus of the Illinois Institute of Technology:



Feature on the search for sites associated with Old French Peoria:



... perhaps semi-related dig in East Peoria:



A time capsule found under Philip Schuyler's statue when it was removed in Albany:





The Biden administration has banned drilling near Chaco Canyon:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A cache of Late Classic Maya ritual offerings from Uxmal:




Evidence of a Toltec settlement near Tula:



A pre-Spanish-conquest stone glyph from a church in Puebla:



A study of the Muralla la Cumbre suggest the Chimu people built it to protect Chan Chan from El Nino effects:



AI used to find more Nazca geoglyphs:





A project mapping shipwrecks in the Bahamas:



Feature on the Olmecs:


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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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Pondering the origins of idolatry:



Feature on the diary of a York woman writing during the Napoleonic Wars:




Feature on what we learn from grave goods:



A grant to restore Armenian manuscripts:



A possible identification of a 15th century manuscript of a medieval comedy act:



Feature on the oldest maps in the world:



Feature on the history of tattoos:



Feature on the history of dyes:



Feature on Galileo's artsy side:



The lead tablets of the Oracle of Dodona have been added to UNESCO's 'Memory of the World' listings:



... as was the Kyrgyz epic 'Manas':



On the history of the Crostata di ricotta e visciole:



An 18th century harp played by Jane Austen's cousin has been restored:



Review of J.C. Hallman, *Say Anarcha*:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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The Dutch Supreme Court has ruled that Crimean artifacts that were at a Dutch museum should be returned to Ukraine:



Concerns for sites arising from the Kakhovka flooding:



Feature on a dozen items Russia has looted from Ukraine:



Concerns for sites and artifacts in Sudan:




The British Museum's relationship with BP seems possibly fuzzy:



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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Anyang: China's Ancient City of Kings:



Luxury and Power:




Picasso:



Kurgan Stela:



Pallas Athena:



A Surya idol:



Thoma Cromwell's prayer book:



Sana'a's National Museum has reopened:



The Manchester Jewish Museum revealed the contents of a 150 years bp time capsule:



More on the Met and provenance:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Tracing Chile's indigenous roots through DNA (and linguistics):


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THE TECHY SIDE
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The latest facial reconstruction of Tutankhamun:





Feature on assorted tech used by archaeologists:



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TOURISTY THINGS
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Italian archaeology sites:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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A study of medieval music:



Orlando Consort:



Reviews of Patrick Mackie, *Mozart in Motion*:




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CRIME BEAT
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A thief in Israel was caught with a number of ancient coins, including one of Mattathias Antigonus:





Someone attacked a painting of Jesus in Hamburg:




More on Israel police seizing a number of clay pavement bricks marked with Legio X symbols:


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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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A 15th century panel stolen 44 years ago was recovered in Southampton:





Germany returned a number of stolen artifacts to Italy:




More on Symes-related items being returned to Italy:




... and the problem of obvious fakes being among them:




German museums have 40 000 artifacts looted from Cameroon:



On African Americans seeking reparations for past losses:



More on the problematic ownership issues of the Benin Bronzes:




... and probably related:


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NUMISMATICA
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Part 2 of a feature on Tunisian coinage:



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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Dennis E. Groh:



Ilan Sharon:



Michael Rogers:



Clive Roffee:



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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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