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explorator 26.28 ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ?October 29, 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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Neanderthal stone tools from Poland's Moravian Gate area:




Evidence of shoes (flip flops?) being used in the Mesolithic:



Study suggests early hominids might have had a cannibalistic side 1.45 million years bp:



Study suggests Neanderthals knew how to start a fire and regularly used it:



Study suggests part of the Neanderthal genome came from an extinct lineage of modern humans:





... another paper in a similar vein it seems:



Mone on Neanderthal/sapiens interbreeding:



Suggestion that Neanderthals were a 'different human form' rather than a separate species:



Study of when the first modern humans reached Europe (60 000 years bp?):




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AFRICA
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More on the chi-rho tattoo found on a medieval body excavated in Sudan:









A study of South African pots (137 CE - 1643 CE) sheds light on herders' diets:



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Brief item on the find of a pair of tombs from the Valley of the Kings (date?):



A genetic study of mummified baboons from Egypt suggests inter alia the regions of Punt and Andulis may have been the same place but at different times:






More on venomous snakes in ancient Egypt:



More on the recent finds at Tuna al-Gebel:



More on additional rooms found in Sahura's pyramid:



Feature on the Pharos of Alexandria:



Researchers have recreated the scent of an ancient mummified person:





Folks went out to watch the sun alignment at Abu Simbel:



Feature on the sarcophagus of Ramses II (currently on tour):



Study suggests the existence of human settlements in the area of Isfahan some 5000 years bp:



Remains of a 'royal' wall/gateway associated with Cyrus the Great from southwestern Iran:



A Sassanian funerary complex of some sort from the area to be flooded by the Chaparabad Dam:



Overview of this year's excavations at Tell Muhammad (Iraq):



A massive 2700 years bp Lamassu sculpture (missing the head, but it's already in a museum) from near Mosul:









Feature on Yale's tablet with a portion of the Epic of Gilgamesh:



A 5000 years bp 'mother goddess' figurine from Izmir's Yesilova Mound:





A pair of cuneiform inscriptions an a Urartian temple from Turkiye's Van province:



On the use of 'nano lime' to protect the sculptures at Nemrut:



... and a feature on Mount Nemrut:



Feature on some students working on the Cape Gelidonya shipwreck site:



More on the 11 000 years bp sculptures found at Karahan Tepe:







... and the 11 000 years bp boar sculpture from Gobekli Tepe:



More on violence in the MIddle East 4500-3300 BCE:



15 000 years bp beads from Israel are the oldest-known use of plant-based red pigments:




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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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An update on recent finds (I think) at the excavations at the Minoan palace at Archanes:




Overview of the excavations at Kouklia-Marchella (various periods) on Cyprus:




An intact Etruscan tomb from the Osteria necropolis (Italian):



Archaeologists are excavating a 4th century BCE stoa found partially submerged at Salamis:





... and with a focus on an image of Ajax found during the excavations:



A Roman burial and 2000 years bp coin found during water pipeline work in Hampshire:



A 2000 years bp section of Roman road from Altino (Italian):



A 1900 years bp or so Greek inscription found in the Roman baths at Hisarya (Bulgaria):



Overview piece on finds made over the past while at Magna Roman Fort:



A 2nd century 'headless barbarian' statue from Athens (?) was revealed (not a lot of details here):



A sealed 2nd century Roman sarcophagus from Reims (we may have mentioned this a few weeks ago):





A Roman-era 'cube burial' (?) from Yalova (Turkiye):



A 2nd-4th century CE building complex with mosaics from central Athens:



I think we mentioned these Roman coin hoards found in Wales back in 2018 which have been declared treasure:



Declassified Cold War satellite images have revealed hundreds of Roman 'forts' (there's a rethink happening) in the Syrian desert:

















cf:

Possible/claimed find of the bronze pupil of one of the Riace bronzes:




More on the remains of a 2300 years bp Celtic (and later Roman) settlement at Munich:



More on traces of pigment being found on the Parthenon Sculptures:



More on the Greek helmet found at Elea-Velia:



More on political graffiti inside a Pompeii residence:




More on the 'ornate' Roman sandal found in a well in Spain:






More on what a Greek papyrus revels about ancient trade routes:



Plans to resume the excavations at Carlisle's Roman Bath:



The Medusa mosaic in Burdur is to be covered to protect it from winter weather:



The Mithraeum of Santa Maria Capua Vetere in Caserta has reopened to the public:



Reviews of Mary Beard, *Emperor of Rome*:




... and related interview:



A mock trial of Cicero regarding his execution of Catiline resulted in his (Cicero's) acquittal:




On how the Iliad still resonates with people:



Not sure where to put this item on Greek kingdoms in ancient China:


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Roman Archaeology Blog:



Rogueclassicism:


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A farmer in Poland came across some Neolithic (probably Funnelbeaker culture) points:



A 4000 years bp hand axe found during an 'archaeology event' in Knaresborough:



More on the 5000 years bp multi-room tomb found on Orkney:








Iron Age finds from Bedford are leading to changes in plans for a solar farm:



Remains of an Iron Age settlement and burial from Worcestershire:



A 2200 years bp Celtic 'die' from Poland:





Pipeline construction near a church in Freising (Germany) revealed a 15th century burial with a skeleton with a prosthetic hand:





400 piece of Reformation-era stained glass from a dig at St Matthew's Church in Coldridge:



Fragments of a 17th century Iconostasis from the attic of a Polish church:



More on the find of a Crusader-era sword in a burial in Finland:



More on the 18th century cold bath found under Bath Assembly Rooms:





More on European seaweed consumption:




More on the coin of Esunertos:



More on that cross-shaped medieval reliquary from Poland:



More on the possibly Shakespeare-trodden floorboards revealed at St George's Guildhall:




More on that 17th century 'child vampire burial' from Poland:



The Ninfeo della Poggia has reopened on Rome's Palatine Hill:



Subsiding concerns for a 12th century 'leaning tower' in Bologna:



Hyping a CT scan study ?of some gold bracteates from Vindelev (Denmark):



Plans (and funding) to investigate submerged 'Stone Age' settlements in the Baltic and North Seas:



A study of 800 years bp teeth have revealed remains of assorted antibodies:


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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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Not sure where this item on 'early Holocene' finds from Mongolia should go:





A sheep-drawn chariot from Qin's Mausoleum site in Xi'an:





More on ancient grenades found stashed near the Great Wall:





The Sizhou Ruins site will soon open to the public:



7000 years bp shark-tooth knives from Indonesia:





Neolithic petroglyphs from Andra Pradesh:



A 3rd century BCE ring well from Puducherry:



The archway of a 12th century Qutub mosque in Delhi was restored:



The ASI has started restoration work in Balban's tomb in the Mehrauli Archaeological Park:



Concerns for a Mauryan period assembly hall in Patna:



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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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More on that dingo burial:



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NORTH AMERICA
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Road construction in Oshkosh is delayed after the find of an 'extensive' Native American village:



Feature on a former slave quarters in Roxbury:



Feature on a number of the oldest sites in the Americas (both North and South):



More on that 19th century shipwreck under a street in St Augustine:



Plans to restore a Russian Orthodox church in Anchorage:


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Lower water levels in the Amazon have revealed a number of 2000 years bp carved human faces:




















More on the Amazon having 10 000 pre-Columbian earthworks to find:






More on the giant Aztec snake head revealed after an earthquake in Mexico City:







Study suggests immigrants in pre-Hispanic Cancun were treated like locals:



Feature on Zelia Nuttall:


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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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How early science fiction imagined aliens:



Pondering when humans began burying their dead:



Marking the 400th anniversary of Shakespeare's First Folio:





Feature on some seminal science books:



Feature on Gladstone's library:



Feature on weird medieval art:



The Swedish Academy Dictionary is officially completed but not quite done:



On the Teddy Roosevelt Presidential Library:



More on women as hunters:




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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Some gold jewelry stolen from Ukraine was recovered in Spain:







... but there do seem to be questions:



Concerns for sites in Nagorno-Karabakh:



Concerns for sites in Gaza:



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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Using AI to figure out what ancient languages sounded like:



Trying to reconcile a couple theories about Indo-European language origins:




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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Laughing Cavalier:



cf:

Bonnie Prince Charlie's sword:



Ramses and the Gold of the Pharaohs:



Land Carries our Ancestors:



Secret Room Drawings (Michelangelo?):



Hans Holbein:



cf:

Mickalene Thomas:



More on the reopening of the Greco-Roman museum of Alexandria:




More on a missing Rodin sculpture:



More on items missing from Scotland's museums:



The AMNH is removing human remains from its exhibits:



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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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An 18th century Bristol Old Vic theatre token is coming to auction and might still be valid:



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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Using DNA to make links between skulls stolen from Africa a century ago and their descendents:



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THE TECHY SIDE
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Interesting robotic GPR device:



Plenty of coverage of the facial reconstruction of Peru's 'Ice Maiden':













Feature on how they do facial reconstructions:


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CLIMATE MATTERS
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A study of the impact of climate change on human populations in Europe during the Neolthic and Bronze Ages:


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TOURISTY THINGS
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Belize caves:



'Weird' walks in the UK:



Latest tourists behaving badly involves a large group having a BBQ on West Kennet Long Barrow:


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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Israel in Egypt:



Rodelinda:



Partnership:



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CRIME BEAT
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Monza police recovered five ancient coins that were for sale on a website:




Roman and Ottoman coins found in a Bulgarian treasure hunter's luggage:




Nice background piece on the thefts at the British Museum:


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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 Met (and others?) are about to return 1400+ items to India, apparently:





Australia returned a number of smuggled items to China:



A stolen painting missing since 1945 was recovered and returned to the Bavaria State Painting Collection:



Wounded Knee descendants are trying to get items back from the American Museum of Natural History:



Feature on repatriation of artifacts by Mexico:



Feature on Nepal's recent repatriation successes:



Feature on the Acropolis Research Group and their repatriation efforts:



More on the Cleveland MoA fighting the seizure of a statue by the New York district attorney:



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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Hera on ancient coins:



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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Janet Martin:



Joseph Solodow:



Natalie Zemon Davis:



Petros Themelis:



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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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