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explorator 26.16 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? August 6, 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, Andrew Szegedy-Maszak,
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 300 000 years bp jawbone from China is triggering talk of a possible third human species:





cf:

More on the Hula Valley flint source finds:



More on evidence of 300 000 years bp woodworking skills by early humans:



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AFRICA
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Evidence of the first (17th century) English slave fort (Fort Kormantine) on Ghana's coast:



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A 2300 years bp shipwreck (looks Greek) off the shore of Alamein:





More on the 100+ Roman burials at a site in Gaza:



More on the xray/chemical analysis of some Egyptian funerary paintings:




More on the pair of mummification workshops recently revealed at Saqqara:



Feature on ancient Greek settlements in Egypt:



Feature on Abu Simbel:



Egypt has a large budget for the restoration of antiquities:




Zahi Hawass is suggesting Egypt 'invest in' Egyptian antiquities found in Saudi Arabia:



Evidence of a Parthian administrative center in northeast Iran:



Feature on changes to the writing systems of various cultures in the Ancient Near East:



Review of Emily H Wilson, *Inanna*:



Statue heads of Aphrodite and Dionysus from Aizanoi (not sure of the date of this find):




Feature on the renovation (not sure what that word implies) of the ancient synagoge at Sardis/Sart:



A 'chapel' of uncertain date from Istanbul's Bagcilar district:




More on the dig (various periods) at Zerzevan Castle (some dating issues in the headline):



Restoration of the 2000 years bp King's Daughter Roman bath in Turkiye is almost complete:



An ornate Neolithic necklace from a child's grave in Jordan:













cf:

Feature on Clare Rasmussen's work studying Roman water distribution practices in Jordan:



A 2500 years bp marble disc (with anti-evil-eye properties, apparently) ?at a beach near the Yavne-Yam site:



A Roman military amphitheatre find near Tell Megiddo:



A 1500 years bp 'magic mirror' piece from the Usha archaeological site:









More on the find of remains of a building burned during the Babylonian siege of Jerusalem:




More on the latest Huqoq mosaic finds:




More on the 'Rebellion coin' find made just in time for Tisha B'Av:



More on that 900 years bp Crusader sword find from the sea off Israel:





Study of gemstones found in the Arabian-Nubian Shield to reveal ancient trade routes:







Feature on Jay Rogosin's work in the Old City:



Another incident of Israeli forces 'raiding' the archaeological site of Sebastia:



UNESCO is considering ruling that Jericho is a Palestinian World Heritage site:



... and a related OpEd:


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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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Excavation of a 5th-4th century BCE fortress at the Laona-Palaepaphos site (Cyprus) is now complete:





Archaeologists in Bulgaria believe they're close to the site of a third Thracian decorated tomb:



Overview of NYU's three-month dig on Geronisos Island (mostly Hellenistic finds):




Overview of surveys and excavations of the harbour, island and coast of Cape Drepanum (Late Hellenistic - Roman):



A 2400 years bp structure (possibly a prytaneion) from Bushat (found in 2018):



Coal miners in Serbia revealed remains of a 3rd/4th CE Roman ship:









Overview of the underwater excavations at the Akrotiri-Dreamer's Bay site:





A study of Roman aqueduct maintenance in Divona (France):




cf:

Recent finds from the Villa San Marco site at Stabia:





2nd century CE (maybe) pottery from a dig in Cowley:



An 'unusual' potter's signature or graffito from a Roman tile kiln site in Menety:



A possible Roman villa site at a future police station site in Cambridge:



A Roman gemstone depicting a mythological figure of some sort from an underwater excavation near Venice:





A Roman-era steelyard beam from Milecastle 46 on Hadrian's wall:



Evidence of a Roman-era cat from near Darlington:



More on the most recent finds from the Antikythera wreck:



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









More on the remains of a 1st century BC-2nd CE Roman domus from Melite:





More on the 1st/2nd century CE Medusa mosaic from Merida:






More on the Roman shipwreck off the coast of Civitavecchia:





More on the ongoing excavations at Amphipolis:



More on the Roman coin hoard from Cornwall with some ?'mysteriously swapped' coins:




Greece is limiting the number of tourists visiting the Acropolis:




A 'previously hidden' section of London's original Roman wall has gone on display:




Plans/hopes for excavation or the Burscough Roman fort site:




A study on the (in)authenticity of a pair of Etruscan-Corinthian vases:



Restoration work on three entablature blocks on the Temple of Epicurean Apollo:



University of Arkansas researchers have developed some virtual tours of Roman sites:



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



Figuring out the provenance of a 2nd century gladiator funerary relief in Thessaloniki:



A pair of features on ancient Roman holiday travels:




Feature on recent Roman finds in Britain:



Feature on Olivia Heffernan's research on mystery cults:



Feature on Victoria Pagan's work on a Tacitus Encyclopedia:



Interview with Patrice Rankine on the relevance of Classics:



On Barbie and the Odyssey:



Pondering the origins of Greek Fire:



Feature on astrology and imperial legitimacy in ancient Rome:



Feature on libraries in ancient Rome:



Feature on Anaximander's map of the known world:



Feature on Menelaus:



Feature on the gladiator diet:



Feature on a well-decorated Roman soldier:



Feature on Roman numerals:



Feature on Herculaneum:



Feature on Sappho:



Feature on Aesop's Fables:



Feature on the battle of Chaeronea:



Feature on the battle of Pydna:



Feature on Sparta's lack of walls:



Feature on early 'stressed poetry' evidence from Ancient Greece:



Activists 'repaid' the British Museum for 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 16 000 years bp cave entrance which hasn't been entered since from Germany:




A study of the 14 000 years bp skeleton of a woman (dubbed Linya) who was buried in the Pyrenean foothills:



A 12 000 years bp homo sapiens skull fragment revealed by drought in Italy last year:



A man digging a pool in his backyard in Scotland revealed 8000 years bp (maybe) dolphin remains and a possible prehistoric tool:




5800 years bp monuments from Dorstone Hill in Hereforshire:



A pair of 4th millennium BCE (maybe) dolmens from the La Lentejuela site in Spain:



Foundations of a 12th century high altar from the Exeter Cathedral excavations:






... and a 900 years bp medieval crypt:





A 700 years bp iron spearhead found by a metal detectorist in Poland:



Salvaging of a 400 years bp shipwreck near the city of Lubeck (Germany) has been completed:




Big Dig 2 in Rochdale has revealed a Victorian grain mill and a public weighing station (inter alia):





Victorian structure foundations found during an upgrade to a Warwick rail station:



More on the 4000 years bp burials found at a future rocket launch site in the Shetland Islands:




More on the Bronze Age meteoritic iron arrowhead found in Switzerland:














More on the identification of a skeleton found in 1999 on the Isles of Scilly being identified as a woman:









More on the medieval pocket sundial found in Hesse:



More on the search for remains of a legendary Victorian performing elephant:



More on that 'indulgence seal' from the Priory at Mottisfont in Hampshire:



Rethinking the ivory figure from the Hohle Fels cave:




Five finds (various dates) from Wales were declared treasure:



Efforts to protect from 'piracy' a potential major trove of artifacts in the River Shannon near Portumna:



Plans to 'fatten up' the Uffington White Horse:







Preservation work at Tintern Abbey is underway:



Some serious cracks in the Siena Duomo Cornice of the Popes was repaired:



A conflict between a Pictish hillfort site and carbon offsetting ideas in Scotland:



Plans to rebury Matthew Flinders' remains in Lincolnshire:



Suggestion that Venice be put on UNESCO's heritage danger list:




The Red Tower in York is reopening to the public:



Feature on shared horse and human Viking burials:


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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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Earliest evidence of systematic use of coal as a fuel source comes from a Song Dynasty site in northern China:




Giant panda remains from a royal burial in Xi'an dating to the Western Han Dynasty:




More on restoration efforts at Angkor Wat's eastern entrance:





Halmidi and Talagunda are arguing over whose Kannada inscription is older:



Excavations at Benisagar suggest the site was continuously inhabited from the 5th century CE to 16th/17th:



A 10th century Jain sculpture from Rajapalayam in Tamil Nadu:



A report that 31 antiquities have been stolen over the past decade from protected monuments in India:



An Indian court approved the survey of the Gyanvapi Mosque to determine whether it was built over a Hindu temple:



... and the survey is underway:





... and so far they have found remains of 'fragmented idols':




Pondering the fate of India's maharajahs:



A 12th century sabre found by three brothers in Kyrgyzstan:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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Study suggests oral stories of Australia's First Nations might be 10 000 years bp:


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NORTH AMERICA
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Divers located seven shipwrecks off the Iles-de-la-Madeleine:





Digging will be resuming at the Alamo's Plaza de Valero this month:



A human bone from a disturbed Indian mound in St Petersburg:



More on evidence of a human presence in Oregon some 18 000 years bp:



More on the Civil War coin hoard from a Kentucky cornfield:



Feature on the Newark Earthworks:



Feature on the Balzac site near Calgary:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Study suggests that 'Luzio', who lived in the region of present day Sao Paolo 10 000 years bp, was a descendent of the population that settled the Americas at least 16 000 years bp:



A Teotihuacan village site in Mexico city was (finally) excavated:



Archaeologists may have discovered the lost settlement of Apancalecan in Mexico:





A pre-Columbian site from Chagres (Panama):



More on the find of a Zapotec 'entrance to the underworld' beneath a church in southern Mexico:

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More on the find of the Maya settlement of Ocumtun:



Concerns because Peu has more ancient sites than they're able to protect:



A study of ?Mesoamerican urbanism:


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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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Another review of the 'historical accuracy' of Indiana Jones' latest:



A replica Viking sailing craft passed though the Bosporus this week:



A study of how babies react to Van Gogh:




A British couple found a lost John Constable painting:



Feature on Kiyohara Yukinobu:



Feature on European artists focusing on peasants in the 16th century:



Feature on some historical conspiracy theories:



Feature on buying antiquities:



Feature on the creation of Paul Bunyan:



Feature on the origins of x as a variable in math:



More on women doing hunting in hunter-gatherer contexts:



Review of Jonathan W. White, *Shipwrecked*:



Review of Peter Heather, *Christendom*:



Review of Janet Wallach, *Flirting With Danger*:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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A project to identify First Nations burials in a forgotten Toronto cemetery:



The war in Ukraine is sparking the revival of some Cossack traditions:



More on the search for antiquities in the wake of the destruction of the Kakhovka dam in Ukraine:


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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Feature on when cats started hanging out with humans:



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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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What Socrates would have thought about AI:



Feature on the philosophers depicted in Raphael's *School of Athens*:



Feature on Epictetus:



Feature on Duns Scotus:



Feature on Aristotle's six 'most important' works:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Luxury and Power:




Ancient Lives:



Tracing Freud on the Acropolis:



Scythian Gold:



Plans for the 'biggest museum of the world' in Delhi:



Plans for a Parthian cemetery in western Iran to become an open-air museum:



Plans for a revamp of a nautical museum in Castletown:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Feature on an EID MAR denarius coming to auction:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A genomics study of Holocene shell mound builders in Brazil:



cf:

A DNA study of kinship relationships between Europeans and enslaved persons from Rehoboth Beach (Delaware):



A study of DNA links of descendants of enslaved persons in Maryland:








cf:

A DNA study reveals a Bronze Age shift of population in East-Central Europe:



More on DNA suggesting a diverse population at precolonial Machu Picchu:





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THE TECHY SIDE
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This week's facial reconstruction is the 45 000 years bp Zlaty kun woman:



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TOURISTY THINGS
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Tigris River:



Lalish:



The Acropolis of Athens:



This week's installment of 'Tourists behaving badly' involves German tourists who toppled a 150 years bp Italian fountain statue while taking a photo:





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CRIME BEAT
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A guilty plea from a Mississipi man accused of taking artifacts from a protected site:



A 19th century monstrance was stolen from a church in Saint-Gall (Switzerland):



Suggestion that blockchain could protect antiquities from being looted:



Feature on protecting Baltic shipwrecks from looters:



Feature on the search for Cambodia's stolen 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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A Rochester museum has returned Native American remains to the Oneida Nation:



The US retuned a large Olmec item to Mexico:



Feature on returning Nazi-looted art:



More on the National Gallery of Australia returning sculptures to Cambodia:









... and perhaps more will follow:




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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the earliest coins in Kashmir:



Feature on ancient Greek coins of Aiolis:



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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Dan Tompkins:



Kate Fielden:



Alice L. Laffey:



John Wallace O'Hear:



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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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