[continued from previous message]

https://www.dailypress.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-jamestown-rediscovery-bacons-rebellion-0916-20210917-4uw7agvjjvg3blllbhvoccic7i-story.html
https://www.pilotonline.com/virginiagazette/va-vg-jamestown-rediscovery-bacons-rebellion-0916-20210917-4uw7agvjjvg3blllbhvoccic7i-story.html

A dig in Idaho is revealing more about the life of Polly Bemis:

https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/post/idaho-archaeology-dig-finds-new-clues-about-life-polly-bemis#stream/0

Assorted 'rare' artifacts from a dig at Pope's Tavern in Alabama:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-alabama-popes-tavern-civil-war-180978626/

They found a 108 years bp license plate under Calgary's Centre Street Bridge:

https://livewirecalgary.com/2021/09/17/108-year-old-licence-plate-unearthed-under-calgarys-centre-street-bridge/

They're still looking for evidence of the Lost Colony:

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/16/1037400052/sir-walter-raleigh-lost-colony-archaeologists-search
https://www.wral.com/archaeologists-resume-search-for-lost-colony/19873911/ https://www.wral.com/archaeologists-hope-for-historic-discovery-on-new-dig-at-lost-colony-site/19878296/
https://www.wilm-tv.com/archaeologists-resume-search-for-lost-colony/ https://www.obxtoday.com/archeologists-digging-for-new-clues-at-the-lost-colony/

I think we mentioned this restored log cabin in Hagerstown and its connection with the Maryland Black community:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/hagerstown-log-cabin-black-neighborhood-/2021/09/16/cc6235a8-14aa-11ec-9589-31ac3173c2e5_story.html

Feature on a Chinese camp in the Sierra Nevadas associated with the Gold Rush:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/15/travel/california-asian-history.html

Feature on Virginia's 'Forgotten 14':

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/09/17/remembering-virginias-forgotten-14/

Feature on New Philadelphia, Illinois:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/new-philadelphia-ill-was-a-formerly-enslaved-mans-vision-for-an-integrated-town/2021/09/10/76191022-0ccb-11ec-a6dd-296ba7fb2dce_story.html

Feature on a Vermonter who cleans grave markers:

https://www.vpr.org/vpr-news/2021-09-13/i-dont-believe-in-an-afterlife-why-this-tiktok-famous-vermonter-cleans-graves

Feature on Cornell's Underground Railroad Project:

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2021/09/excavation-explore-churchs-role-underground-railroad

Feature on the history of Filipinos in Louisiana:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/filipino-louisiana

Not sure where to put this item on the sale of a Missouri cave with 1000 years bp Native American petroglyphs:

https://hyperallergic.com/677162/osage-nation-decries-sale-of-cave-containing-indigenous-art/
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/16/us/osage-nation-cave-auction.html https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Missouri-cave-with-ancient-Native-American-16458770.php
https://wtop.com/lifestyle/2021/09/missouri-cave-with-ancient-native-american-drawings-sold/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/missouri-cave-picture-osage-nation-auction-180978627/

================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Latest find made during the Maya Train works is an inscribed Chochola vessel:

https://www.theyucatantimes.com/2021/09/inah-discover-a-thousand-year-old-vessel-in-the-works-of-the-maya-train-in-yucatan/

Ceremonial offerings and a staircase at the pre-Columbian site of Xochitecatl:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/archaeologists-discover-ceremonial-offerings-and-a-staircase-to-the-spiral-pyramidal-monument-at-xochitecatl/141388

A shipwreck dating to the 1720s has been confirmed in Coral Bay (Virgin Islands):

http://www.virginislandsdailynews.com/news/coral-bay-shipwreck-dates-to-around-1720-other-wrecks-possible/article_85cd490d-6989-5239-a32a-5298251c058e.html

Pondering the collapse of the Maya:

https://www.livescience.com/why-maya-civilization-collapsed.html

Feature on the role of women in Chile's independence movement:

https://m.elmostrador.cl/braga/2021/09/18/las-mujeres-durante-la-independencia-de-chile-el-importante-rol-de-las-intelectuales-observadoras-y-revolucionarias-de-la-epoca/

Review of Fernando Cervantes, *Conquistadores*:

https://www.npr.org/2021/09/15/1034745716/atrocities-of-conquistadores-take-shape-in-new-history-by-mexican-born-author

Additions of Mike Ruggieri's youtube finds relating to the Ancient Americas:

https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/

-----
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:

https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Study suggests the development of 'dairying' contributed to 'massive' Bronze Age Eurasian steppe migrations:

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-enabled-massive-steppe-migration.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210915111005.htm https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/milk-fuelled-the-great-bronze-age-migration-776vlpx23
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/16/milk-enabled-massive-steppe-migration/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9999-210917-yamnaya-milk-consumption

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03798-4

A 17th century 'missing' Italian masterpiece was identified in a New York church:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/19/us/masterpiece-church-iona-college-trnd/index.html

Assorted features on the progress of the restoration of Notre Dame:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/18/notre-dame-restoration-ready-to-start-as-safety-work-completed

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/notre-dame-cathedral-france-opening-scli-intl/index.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/18/world/europe/notre-dame-cathedral-restoration.html
https://apnews.com/article/sports-europe-france-paris-2020-tokyo-olympics-1653357d9b54ccb7fed94f1417392d88
https://architosh.com/2021/08/two-years-in-autodesks-assistance-to-notre-dame-in-paris/

Feature on Cecil Rhodes' role in inspiring WWI:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/19/the-kaiser-and-the-paperweight-how-cecil-rhodes-helped-inspire-the-first-world-war

Feature on Dante:

https://www.dw.com/en/dante-still-a-classic-after-700-years/g-59129522

Feature on the 'Black Mariner':

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/the-forgotten-tale-of-a-black-mariner-during-the-age-of-exploration

Feature on Shakespeare's Sonnet 65:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/13/poem-of-the-week-sonnet-65-by-william-shakespeare

Latest application of Marcus Aurelius to modern problems:

https://psyche.co/ideas/lost-perspective-try-this-linguistic-trick-to-reset-your-view

Feature on all those 'Washington slept here' things:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/opinion/politics-infrastructure-george-washington.html

On dating historic houses from their timber:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/realestate/dating-historic-houses.html

Feature on partying in medieval Arabic tales:

https://psyche.co/ideas/party-crashing-was-a-serious-business-in-medieval-arabic-tales

Feature on early Black photographers:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/smithsonian-black-photographers-history

Feature on 'fashion provocation' in history:

https://theconversation.com/beyond-aocs-tax-the-rich-dress-5-acts-of-fashion-provocation-that-changed-history-167974

Not sure where to put this item on oxygen levels and Paleolithic caves:

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2021/09/altered-states-paleolithic-caves

Comparing Thomas Cromwell to assorted modern politicians:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-58453617

Explaining a supernova seen in 1181:

https://www.livescience.com/cosmic-mystery-ancient-china-supernova https://www.sciencealert.com/astronomers-think-they-may-have-solved-a-900-year-old-supernova-mystery

cf: https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.3847/2041-8213/ac2253

Feature on the Knights Templar:

https://www.livescience.com/knights-templar.html

Feature on the history of tattoos:

https://www.inverse.com/culture/tattoo-history-colonialism

Feature on Edmonia Lewis:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/edmonia-lewis-african-american-woman-sculptor-mary-beard/

Feature on Muriel Gardiner:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-58399839

Feature on Thomas Mann:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/books/review/reflections-of-a-nonpolitical-man-thomas-mann.html

Explaining things found inside the walls of Iron Age homes:

https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/iron-age-britain-houses/

A reassessment of the 'tree of language':

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/14/researchers-reconstruct-major-branches-in-the-tree-of-language/

Reviewish on the history of sourdough bread:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/14/us/sourdough-bread-history-book-eric-pallant-wellness/index.html

More on the Vinland Map being fake:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/09/its-all-in-the-ink-vinland-map-is-definitely-a-fake-new-analysis-finds/

More on that recently-found 'Merlin manuscript':

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rediscovered-medieval-manuscript-offers-new-twist-on-arthurian-legend-180978705/

================================================================
CURRENT EVENTS: ================================================================

Feature on Kisha Supernant, who is involved in the search for burials at Residential Schools in Canada:

https://laconnerweeklynews.com/Content/Home/Home/Article/La-Conner-alum-leading-in-locating-boarding-school-burial-sites/-2/-2/5393

Ongoing concerns for antiquities coming under control of the Taliban:

https://theconversation.com/the-talibans-rule-threatens-whats-left-of-afghanistans-dazzlingly-diverse-cultural-history-167780

Ongoing concerns for archaeology departments in the UK:

https://inews.co.uk/news/uk/archaeology-future-multiple-uk-courses-jobs-face-axe-funding-cuts-1202853

Latest threatened statue is that of Father Junipero Serra a the California state capitol:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/sep/15/california-governor-save-statue-father-junipero-serra

More on the removal of the statue of Robert E. Lee:

https://news.yale.edu/2021/09/13/memory-and-memorials-yale-scholars-work-influences-removal-lee-statue

================================================================
ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ================================================================
Domestication of goats in Iran happened earlier than previously thought:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/domestication-of-goats-in-iran-was-earlier-than-thought-1.10210436

On what fossilized dog poop reveals about their domestication:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/fossilized-poop-shows-how-ancient-dogs-adapted-to-people/

In case you missed that study of a 2200 years bp date palm leaf from an Egyptian temple:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210907160552.htm ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
1821 Before and After:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/17/new-works-from-the-louvre-for-the-exhibition-1821-before-and-after/

Some Maya stele have been installed in the Great Hall of the Met:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62212

Van Gogh (Study for Worn Out):

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-58586492 https://www.dw.com/en/new-van-gogh-drawing-unveiled-in-amsterdam/a-59206778 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62264

Muriel Gardiner:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-58399839

Frans Hals:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2021/sep/16/frissons-filth-frans-hals-laughing-cavalier

cf: https://www.wallacecollection.org/art/exhibitions-displays/frans-hals-the-male-portrait/

Antarctic:

https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-58594371

cf: https://sgmuseum.gs/shackletonslastquest/

Benin:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/exhibition-of-26-works-that-will-be-returned-to-benin

Feature on a private museum in Gaza:

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2021/0914/In-Gaza-a-museum-filled-with-history-picked-up-along-the-way
https://news.yahoo.com/gaza-museum-filled-history-picked-132438559.html

The opening of the GEM in November will feature Zahi Hawass' opera about Tut, apparently:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/gem-opens-with-10-day-festival-debut-of-opera-tutankhamun-egyptologist/

A museum-related NFT item:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/hermitage-goes-virtual-with-nft-exhibition

An underwater museum (Africa's first) is opening in Kenya:

https://mg.co.za/africa/2021-09-14-africas-first-underwater-museum-set-to-open-in-kenya/

Feature on Peru's new national museum:

https://hypebeast.com/2021/9/museo-nacional-del-peru-archaeological-collection

A BYU student has developed a technique to detect forged artifacts in museum collections:

https://www.abc4.com/news/digital-exclusives/fake-history-byu-student-develops-technique-to-detect-forged-artifacts-in-museum-collection/
https://www.kuer.org/arts-culture-entertainment/2021-09-17/are-there-forgeries-at-the-museum-yes-and-byu-researchers-arent-surprised

A digital guide for all the Greek archaeological museums:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/17/new-digital-interactive-guide-with-all-of-the-greek-archaeological-museums/

A huge 11th century Japanese scroll is among the items being catalogued by the Birmingham Museum:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-birmingham-58610193 ================================================================
AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
Mexico is trying to halt a German auction of some pre-Columbian artifacts:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/mexico-attempts-to-halt-german-auction-of-pre-colombian-artefacts

A copy of the US constitution is coming to auction:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/sothebys-puts-rare-us-constitution-copy-for-auction/2021/09/17/a2637982-17b7-11ec-a019-cb193b28aa73_story.html

================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
A study of DNA from 45 000 years bp suggests prehistoric humans 'rarely' mated with their cousins:

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-prehistoric-humans-rarely-cousins.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210914124950.htm

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-25289-w

DNA suggests 3 genetic origins for modern Japanese populations:

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-ancient-dna-rewrites-early-japanese.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210917161149.htm

cf: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.abh2419 ================================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
================================================================
Latest Neanderthal facial reconstruction is Krijn, from the Netherlands:

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-krijn-netherland-oldest-neanderthal.html https://www.livescience.com/neanderthal-facial-reconstruction-tumor.html https://www.archaeology.org/news/9994-210915-neanderthal-krijn-reconstruction

cf: https://www.rmo.nl/en/exhibitions/temporary-exhibitions/doggerland/ https://www.rmo.nl/en/news-press/news/the-first-dutch-neanderthal-now-has-a-face/

... while DNA has contributed to facial reconstruction of three ancient Egyptians:

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egyptian-mummies-faces-dna-2000-years-old-1629706

Latest 'fix'/adjustment for C14 dating:

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-scientists-statistical-archaeology-dating-problem.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210915161409.htm

cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440321001436 ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
A study of climate effects on landscapes and Neanderthals (maybe?) in Hanover some 120 000 years bp:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210916142806.htm ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Zippori:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-a-glimpse-in-to-the-grandeur-of-the-past-in-ancient-village-zippori-1.10218149

Formosa:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-island-with-an-ancient-history-that-explains-the-world
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
On the various versions of Bruckner's Fourth:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/arts/music/symphony-bruckner-hrusa-bamberg.html

================================================================
TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ================================================================
The Mad Women's Ball:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/mad-womens-ball-amazon-hysteria-culture-queue/index.html
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A Cairo court has rejected Ratib's appeal in his looting antiquities involvement case:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/court-rejects-ratibs-appeal-in-antiquities-trafficking-case/

Some Buddha heads were looted from a storage facility in Bamiyan:

https://www.scmp.com/news/world/russia-central-asia/article/3148625/ancient-artefacts-including-buddha-heads-looted

Latest in the Bouvier case:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/17/arts/design/yves-bouvier-dmitry-rybolovlev-geneva.html

More on missing Mesopotamian items showing up in Norway:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/ancient-mesopotamian-artefacts-norway-b1913730.html
----------
conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

================================================================
REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
Remember that Scythian gold that is the subject of a dispute between the Netherlands and Russia? Here's the latest:

https://tass.com/politics/1337179

The Philadelphia MoA is returning a Nazi-looted Renaissance shield to the Czech Republic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/13/arts/design/philadelphia-museum-franz-ferdinand-shield.html
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62239 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ceremonial-medieval-shield-looted-by-the-nazis-will-return-to-czech-republic-180978688/

More on the US returning items to Nepal:

https://www.nepalitimes.com/latest/us-returns-another-antiquity-to-nepal/

... and there's possibly more on the way:

https://www.nepalitimes.com/here-now/2-more-nepali-antiquities-traced-to-us-museum/

More on the return of the Royal Doors to Cyprus:

https://in-cyprus.philenews.com/royal-doors-of-agios-anastasios-church-in-turkish-occupied-north-returned-to-church-of-cyprus/

Something about a 'decolonization loophole' which would allow the British Museum to return items to Ethiopia:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2021/09/16/british-museum-could-return-sacred-ethiopian-artefacts-exploiting/
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/726/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/726/pub/726/page/24/article/219172

================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Feature on the Mexico City Mint:

https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/oldest-known-mint-site-discovery

Feature on trees on ancient coins:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/trees-on-ancient-coins/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n37.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v24/club_nbs_esylum_v24n38.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3103-audio-news-from-archaeologica-september-5-through-september-11-2021

================================================================
GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Atlas Obscura:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/

Heritage Daily:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/

Sapiens Archaeology:

https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ================================================================
EXPLORATOR is a free weekly newsletter bringing you the latest
news of archaeological finds, historical research and the like.
Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of
the 'ancient world' (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history up to a century or so ago is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge!
================================================================
Useful Addresses ================================================================
You can read Explorator online at:

https://exploratornews.wordpress.com/

Past issues of Explorator are also available on the web via our
groups.io page:

https://groups.io/g/explorator

To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to:

explorator+subscribe@groups.io

To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to:

Unsubscribe: explorator+unsubscribe@groups.io

To send a 'heads up' to the editor or contact him for other
reasons:

rogueclassicist@gmail.com ================================================================
Explorator is Copyright (c) 2021 David Meadows. Feel free to
distribute these listings via email to your pals, students,
teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. These
links are not to be posted to any website by any means (whether
by direct posting or snagging from a usenet group or some other
email source) without my express written permission. I think it
is only right that I be made aware of public fora which are
making use of content gathered in Explorator. Thanks! ================================================================

--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)