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explorator 26.13 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? July 16, 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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DNA was extracted from Paranthropus robustus fossils:




cf:

Pondering the fate of Neanderthals on the Camp Flegrei:



More on the 300 000 years bp 'giant' hand axes found in England:








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AFRICA
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Feature on the find of the shipwreck of the gold-laden Bom Jesus in the Namibian desert:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Xray/chemical imaging analysis reveals changes made by artists to 3000+ years bp tomb paintings in the Theban Necropolis:
















cf:

People seem to be questioning the safety of the Bent Pyramid for tourists:



Feature on the Book of the Dead:



Overview of recent finds from excavations at Nimrud:



Feature on the Epic of Gilgamesh:



Outrage over the destruction of a 300 years bp mosque/minaret in Basra:





A Hellenistic mosaic from Sinop:



Drought is negatively affecting the Urartian Kesis Lake in Turkiye:



Turkiye's archaeology season has officially 'opened':



Turkiye is opening the Iznik theatre to the public:



Feature on Turkiye as a leader in underwater archaeology:



The excavations at Huqoq have revealed some more mosaics (I think we knew about Samson a while ago?):








Skulls found in Te'omim Cave are being interpreted as possible evidence of necromancy in Late Roman times:








cf:

Evidence of a tsunami hitting Caesarea Maritima in early medieval times:




More on the 2500 years bp burials of 50 or so women in the Negev:





More on the recent claims about the extent of David's kingdom:



Feature on underwater archaeology in Israel:



Feature on smelting copper in the Chalcolithic age:



With army backup, Israeli settlers are excavating a site in Palestine:



... and Israel is allocating major funds to 'protect' antiquities in the West Bank:



... which obviously isn't sitting well with the Palestinian Authority:





Feature on standing stone circles at AlUla (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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A 6th century BCE kouros figure from Selinunte (Italian):



Also from Selinunte comes possible evidence of port structures associated with Megara Iblea (Italian):







Evidence of 1st century BCE remains of a Celtiberian city in Spain:




The 1st century CE Roman tomb from Spain that revealed the patchouli smells has also revealed some amber beads:



A bronze hand possibly associated with Jupiter Dolichenus from the excavations at Vindolanda:



Also from Vindolanda comes evidence of the presence of the 9th Cohort of the Batavians:



Remains of a Roman domus found during house repairs in Fano (Italian):



Not sure if this dig at Fife's East Lomond should go here:



A 'middle empire' piazza and fountain from Nora (Sardinia ... Italian):




A 3rd/4th century elite Roman burial (possibly a soldier) from Wales:





3rd/4th century Roman burials and an aqueduct pipe from Belgrade:




Not sure about the dating of this 'Roman' ring find in Binchester by a metal detectoriat:



Study of the colonization of Italy by Greeks and Romans via pollen:



Digging is underway at a fortress site on Mount Hatis (Armenia):



More on the excavations in the past at Enkomi:



More on the excavations at the 3000 years bp site of Hala Sultan Tekke:










More on the 2500 years bp Phoenician shipwreck off the coast of Spain:



More on a fresco depicting a precursor of pizza in Pompeii:



More on the head of Venus (probably) found in the Piazza Augusto Imperatore:





More ?on the Roman-era pewter hoard from Suffolk:



More on the opening of Largo Argentina to the public:



Feature on mosaics and mosaicists during the Roman Empire:



Feature on the Carnyx:



Feature on the durablity of Roman concrete:



Feature on Alexander's children:



Feature on Cleopatra's 'inner circle':



Feature on the Battle of Mycale:



Feature on the Battle of Salamis:



Feature on Smyrna:



Feature on a manuscript of Hippocrates found at St Catherine's Monastery a while ago:



Feature on Mycenean chariots:



Noel Malcolm doesn't agree with Sadiq Khan regarding the Parthenon Sculptures:



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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A 5000 years bp 'polishing stone' from Dorset:






A metal detectorist found a 3500 years bp gold bead in Gweek:



A 3500 years bp gold armlet (?) found by a metal detectorist near St Austell has been declared treasure:



A 3000 years bp wooden comb and a gold hair ring from a burial in Wales:







A 3000 years bp twisted gold torc found by a metal detectorist near Mistley (Essex):




Overview of a dig at a site connected to the Bronze Age Durotriges people in Dorset:



3000 years bpp bronze axes and other tools found by a metal detectorist in Wales:




The Stonehenge tunnel has been officially approved:





A 1000 years bp (or so) burial ground at a hotel construction site in Dublin:







Road construction in Brandenburg der Havel revealed a 1000 years bp burial ground:



Medieval finds at a swimming pool development site in Abbey Fields:




A 13th-15th century building and an archbishop's seal from excavations at St George's (Yuriev) Monastery in Russia:



A coin hoard of almost 5000 15th/16th century coins found by metal detectorists in Romania:



Finds from various periods, including three burials, during renovations at a Dutch parliamentary complex:



A hoard of 500 years bp gold coins from a medieval monastery in Germany:



Excavations at the University of Gloucestershire have revealed an 18th century wall of a church and porch:




Overview of the ongoing dig at the site of the Battle of Waterloo:



A fire has done major damage to the Saint-Georges de Descartes church:



... while another fire destroyed the Notre-Dame de l'Assomption church in Drosnay:



Road construction in Oxford has revealed an arch of some sort:



An 'after the dig' piece on recording 8000 items found at the Round Mounds dig on the Isle of Man last year:



More on the 'Ivory Lady' burial from Spain:










More on 4000 years ?bp evidence of Yersina pestis from a pair of burials in Austria:



More on those Bronze Age petroglyphs from Norway:



More on the 'Dutch Stonehenge':



More on the Iron Age cremation burial from Hallstatt:




More on that 9th/10th century sword (and double burial) find from a backyard in Heiland (Norway):







More on the possible identification o the site of the Viking stronghold of Jomsborg:



The 'Cross of the Pelican' from an Abbey in Perugia has been restored after being damaged in the 2016 Perugia earthquake:



Feature on Viking longhouses:


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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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Shang Dynasty finds from the Zhuyanling site in Guangdong:



A fragmentary inscription from a temple dating to the Ming Dynasty found in Hebei:



Feature on the Longyou Caves:



Feature on the importance of the trees of China:



Interview with Chinese archaeologist Fang Hui on ongoing work:



A dig at Angkor Wat investigating the conversion from Brahmanism to Theravada Buddhism:



A clay doll (and other finds ... date not specified) from the Vembakottai excavation site:



Study on why the coastal city of Sopara was abandoned some 2000 years bp:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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A physiological model study of early colonizers of New Zealand:


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NORTH AMERICA
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A 13 000 years bp blade of some sort found in 2021 in a South Carolina river:



A cache of 700+ Civil War-era coins from a Kentucky corn field:






A study of matriarchal aspects of the Muwekma Ohlone Tribe:



cf:

Rethinking the traditional story of the setting of the Adirondacks:



An update on the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre graves investigation:



A study and map of the Erie Canal:



cf:

More on evidence of human occupation in Oregon 18 000 years+ bp:








Concerns for eroding sites in the Grand Canyon:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Sloth bone pendants suggest a human presence in Brazil some 25 000 years bp:











cf:

A 3000 years bp sealed corridor ('the condor's passageway') at a Chavin temple site in Peru:







A 2000 years bp burial ground in Quito (Ecuador):



16 obsidian and flint knives found near a 600-1050 CE Maya altar in Kuluba:



A Zapotec 'entrance to the underworld' (date) beneath a 16th century Catholic church in southern Mexico:




Possible identification of a 19th century slave shipwreck off the coast of Brazil:





The fire that burned some Moai on Easter Island last October did more damage than previously thought:



More on the use of AI to find Nazca geoglyphs:


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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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'Censored' (edited?) pages of William Camden's history of Elizabeth I's reign:



Feature on Renaissance makeup materials:



Durer painted himself in the centre of a Renaissance altarpiece out of revenge, apparently:



AI has identified a 'mystery painting' as being by Raphael:



Chaucer wrote a note asking for time off work:



Background to the painting of Whistler's Mother:



Feature on the Crystal Palace dinosaur park:



Feature on a 400 years celebrated baby jumping ritual in Spain:



Feature on the former popularity of the swastika in the US:



Feature on the history of the wheelchair:



Feature on making olive oil in various periods of history:



Feature on the history of pointy hats:



Feature on Bobby Jones at the US Open, 100 years bp:



More on women engaging in hunting:



Review of Adler and Strohm, *Alle Thyng Hath Tyme*:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Searching for graves at a Native American boarding school in Nebraska:












... but nothing so far, it seems:



The heat wave in Europe is closing archaeological/touristy sites in Greece:







Arguing over a Confederate statue in Arlington National Cemetery:



Bristol is pondering its connection with the slave trade:



Ongoing concerns for Ukrainian heritage:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Feature on the history of chickpeas:



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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Researchers have deciphered an 'unknown Kushan script':







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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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Feature on Plato and justice:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Dunhuang Along the Silk Road:



China's Hidden Century:



Thomas Wolsey's cardinal hat:



A cipher associated with Oliver Cromwell has been put on display:



Finds from the Yangtze River Estuary No 2 shipwreck are now on display:



The Iranian relief recovered in the UK is now on display at the National Museum of Iran:



The Rijksmuseum has acquired four 17th century silver and gold salt cellars:



A new museum of Cycladic art is being built on Naxos:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A Viking die is coming to auction:



A first edition of the Hobbit fetched a nice price:



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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using AI to understand networks from the Mesolithic to 'antiquity':



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TOURISTY THINGS
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How the tickets at the Pantheon are going:



The Acropolis is dealing with huge numbers of tourists:



This week's tourist behaving badly is a Canadian teen who was caught carving their name into a 1200 years bp Japanese temple:









... and a Swiss tourist was caught carving her name into the Colosseum:






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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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The League:


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CRIME BEAT
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Customs authorities seized and 11th century Buddha statue and other items in Bengluru:



Feature on the illicit antiquities trade:



... and singling out the Catawiki site for its role in the sale of antiquities:


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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 a stele from Zeugma to Turkiye:




The US is returning a pair of antiquities to Libya:




The Netherlands is returning colonial-looted items from Sri Lanka Indonesia:




Germany returned 40 illegally-smuggled statuettes to Egypt:




A museum in Illinois is returning items to Kenya:



A French woman returned a marble fragment to Greece:



Italy is seeking the return of some items in the Louvre:




A painting stolen from a church in France 50 years ago is back where it came from:



More on Switzerland's return of a sculpture fragment to Egypt:




On the real issue with the disputed head of Severus in the Ny Carlsberg Glyptotek which Turkiye wants returned:



OpEd questioning the return of Benin Bronzes:



... which is probably connected to things like this:



OpEd on a Koh Ker item at the Met:



The National Museum of Ireland is rethinking its repatriation policy:


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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on coins of Pompey:



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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George Martin:



Marga Minco:



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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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