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explorator 26.27 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?October 22, 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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Study of the 'integration' of Neanderthal DNA into the sapiens genome:







More on Neanderthals hunting cae lions:









More on a child homo erectus jawbone from a high altitude site in Ethiopia with tool-making finds as well:





cf:

Another (podcast) about Neanderthal intelligence:



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AFRICA
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Iron Age pottery from a site in Weenen:



Study of water supply and the Garamantian Empire:



A Chi-Rho tattoo on a 1300 years bp body excavated near a medieval monastery in Sudan:


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Overview of finds from the 3000 years bp burial ground being excavated at Tuna el-Gebel:












A study of an Egyptian papyrus suggests there were far more venomous snakes in the region than there are now:






Brief item on a papyrus shedding light on trade between Alexandria and Muziris in the 2nd century CE:



More on the 5000 years bp intact wine jars from the tomb of Meret-Neith:







More on the storage rooms found in Sahura's pyramid:



More on the restoration of the ceiling of the temple in Esna:




Review of Islam Issa, *Alexandria*:



Remains of a fortress of some sort dating to the Kingdom of Urartu from Qareh-Tappeh:



An update on an ongoing dig at a Sassanid temple site in Bazeh Hur:



Feature on Fayum portraits:



Feature on wealth inequality in empires and cities of the Ancient Near East:



More on evidence of violence in the Mesopotamia and the Middle East 4500 - 3300 BCE:





A 3000 years bp necropolis in Batman (Turkiye):






A 2500 years bp Persian 'palace dish' from Oluz Hoyuk:




A 'water nymph' statue found at Amasra is now being identified as Aphrodite:





Overview of the excavation of a 350 years bp Ottoman bath in Canakkale:



15 shipwrecks (various periods) off the coast of Antalya and Mersin:




More on the 11 000 years bp statues of a boar and a phallus-clutching guy from Gobekli and Karahan Tepe:





More on the 1700 years bp iron trident find from Assos:




A 9000 years bp necklace from a child burial in Jordan:



Feature on the excavations at Magdala (this seems a year or two old):



More on assorted 400 years bp ?'magic' and 'ritual' artifacts found on the Darb al-Hajj pilgrimage road:



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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 (?) Greek helmet from excavations at Elea-Velia:




An interesting 2000 years bp Roman sandal from a well in Lucus Asturum (Spain):





I think we mentioned this 2000 years bp child's shoe from Durrrnberg:



Xrays have revealed decorative markings on one of the swords found at Cotswolds:



A 1900 years bp inscription from the Roman bath at Hisarya (Bulgaria):




I think we mentioned this 1800 years bp medusa phalerum from Perre:



Evidence of an Iron Age Celtic and later Roman settlement at Munich:




... and it was densely populated:



Study suggests the Romans were 'pioneers' of silver recycling:






cf:

Overview of the ongoing dig at Halaesa/Castel di Tusa in Sicily:



A Roman coin (date?) and burial found during work on a pipeline for the Havant Thicket reservoir (UK):




A 2nd century statue of a 'barbarian' (headless) found in the warehouse of Hadrian's Library:



A 2nd century sealed Roman sarcophagus from the site of Durocortorum (France):



A 3rd century coin hoard found in Wales back in 2018 have gone on display (?):



More on the AI-assisted identification of a word from a Herculaneum papyrus:














More on the 2200 years bp 'tomb of Cerberus' from near Naples:




More on traces of pigment on the Parthenon Sculptures:



More on the find of electoral graffiti inside a Pompeii villa:



The mosaics found in Southwark last summer are going on permanent display:



The theatre at Larissa has been restored and reopened to the public:



Reviews/interviews of Emily Wilson's Iliad translation:






Review of Victoria Houseman's biography of Edith Hamilton:



Review of Natalie Haynes, *Divine Might*:



Review of Sarah Ruden, *Vergil: The Poet's Life*:



Feature on the ROMkomma project cataloging and publishing Greek coins in its collection:





Feature on life in the Roman army (hyping an upcoming exhibition):



Feature on sexuality in ancient Rome:



Feature on the Greek temple under the cathedral in Syracuse:



Feature on Prometheus and Oppenheimer:



The British Museum is again offering to lend the Parthenon Sculptures to Greece:





Latest Pasts Imperfect newsletter:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Study suggests Europeans have been consuming seaweed for thousands of years:











cf:

6000 years bp farmers on the Baltic coast were incorporating fish into their diets:




Evidence that urbanization in the area of Paris began in 4200 BCE or so:



A study of exploitation of beavers during Neolithic times in what would become the Netherlands:




A study of the oldest pieces of Baltic amber in the Iberian peninsula suggests the trade existed some 5000 years bp:






A study of the 'non-exploitative' economy of the Iberian peninsula during the Chalcolithic:





The Bronze Age 'Saint-Belec slab' is being considered a 'treasure map' for archaeologists:









An interesting 3000 years bp tomb with several burials from Orkney:




A 3000 years bp funerary stele from the Las Capellanias burial complex in Spain:



A metal detectorist found a hoard of Bronze Age jewelry in a Swiss carrot field:











A metal detectorist found a ca 50 BCE coin bearing the image of the hitherto unknown king Esunertos in Hampshire:





A 6th century CE iron folding chair from a woman's burial in Bavaria:



A 'rumoured' hoard of 10th century silver jewelry has been recovered in Poland and sent to a museum for further study:



A medieval 'love motto' ring found by a metal detectorist in Essex:



Renovations at a church in Ryde have revealed an 800 years bp font:



A Crusader-era enkolpion (reliquary) from excavations at a 14th/15th century manor at Lodz:




Cycle trail construction the the Small Carpathian Mountains has revealed a long-used (at least 14th-19th centuries) mining site:




A possible 18th century shipwreck (and older?) off the coast of Lagos (Portugal):



A trio of shipwrecks associated with the Dunkirk evacuation have been found:



More on the 9500 years bp footwear from the Cueva de los Murcielagos:



More on cannibalism as a Magdalenian funerary practice:



More on questioning the origins of Stonehenge's Altar Stone:




More on Vikings having paned glass in the 9th century:



More on runes revealing the power of Viking queen Thyra:



More on the Crusader-era sword found in a burial in Finland (we are reading of a cemetery find too):










More on the coin hoard found in a fireplace and associated with the Glencoe Massacre:




Feature on Stonehenge before the Druids:



Feature on Viking artifacts emerging from melting glaciers:



Feature/study of fibulae exchanged by Celtiberian leaders:



A Thor's hammer pendant found back in 2016 was declared treasure (as were other items):



The birthplace of the Bronte sisters is up for sale:



The restoration of the HMS Victory is coming 'just in time', apparently:



Funding for restoration of Priory House in Dunstable:



A new database for monuments relating to the Civil War:



A Cornish farmer's diaries are going on display:



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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 Shang Dynasty 'building complex' from Zhejiang:




Evidence from Yuyao that folks were eating acorns back in Han Dynasty times:



A Western Han Dynasty tomb from Guangzhou:



A cache of Ming Dynasty (maybe) 'grenades' from a site on China's Great Wall:









Overview of recent finds from shipwrecks associated with the Maritime Silk Road:





A Neolithic petroglyph of a stag from Palnadu:



An Alupa dynasty inscription announcing the death of the king from Mangaluru:



Feature on the monoliths of Meghalaya:



Feature on Polynesians bringing breadfruit trees to Hawaii:



... while Hawaiians are concerned about evidence of its history:


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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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A dingo burial in a midden in New South Wales:





cf:
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NORTH AMERICA
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Overview of the dig at Colonial Michilimackinac:



The wreck of The Africa was found in Lake Huron:



More on the 19th century shipwreck found during roadwork in St Augustine:












More on the wreck of the Huronton in Lake Superior:



Feature on Vikings in Newfoundland:



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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An earthquake in Mexico City revealed a 500 years bp snake sculpture:




Study suggests there may be 10 000-24 000 undiscovered earthworks in the Amazon rainforest:




... while drought in some areas in the Amazon have revealed assorted other sites and artifacts:



Petroglyphs in some Puerto RIco caves have been dated to 700-400 BCE:







Latest study of mummified feces is shedding light on pre-Columbian diet in the Caribbean:


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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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An Acheulean handaxe depicted in the 15th century Melun Diptych:



New lead oxide pigments have been detected in the Mona Lisa and Last Supper:



On the history of the bathroom:



Analyzing the champagne from an 1840 shipwreck:



Rethinking some sexual aspects of the Renaissance:



Napoleon's post mortem is going on display:



Feature on 10 of the oldest jokes in the world:



Feature on Gustaf Kossinna's theories on heirarchies of human societies:



More on revising the male-female/hunter-gatherer idea:





Review of Brian Mechant, *Blood in the Machine*:


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CURRENT EVENTS:
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A 12th century Greek Orthodox church in Gaza was destroyed:



Concerns for sites in Gaza:



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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL
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Feature on Skepticism:



... and Dialectic:



Feature on the Milesian school of philosophy:


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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Legion:



Dutch Throne:



Good and Evil of Money:



Renaissance Women Artists:



Yorkshire People and Parishes:



The British Museum is planning to digitize its entire collection:










... and George Osborne was saying the thefts at the BM were an inside job:






... and there are plans for an exhibition of the stolen items:



Meanwhile, some 2000 items are missing from Welsh museums:



New York's American Museum of Natural History is removing all human remains from display:



More on the reopening of Egypt's Greco-Roman Museum:




More on the Pergamon Museum closing for 14 years for renovations:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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Plenty of interest in items from the Rothschild family collection:



Big bucks for an (in)famous Columbus letter:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A study of where Neanderthal DNA still lingers:



cf:

Feature on paleomicrobiology:



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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Pondering why climate change led to the downfall of some civilizations but not others:



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TOURISTY THINGS
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Sanliurfa:



Unsung Irish castles and abbeys:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Killers of the Flower Moon background:




Feature on Bach's Goldberg Variations:



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CRIME BEAT
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A Glasgow museum doesn't known where its copy of a Rodin statue is:






A couple in Ioannina were arrested for illegal possession of antiquities:



Feature on the ongoing investigation into Michael Ward's antiquities dealings:


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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 Cleveland Museum of Art is fighting the New York district attorney's seizure of its statue:









A 300 years bp painting stolen by an American sodlier during WWII was returned to a German Museum:



OpEd on stolen artifacts:



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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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Victor Nuovo:




Paul Woodruff:



Diana Chapman Kamilli:



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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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