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explorator 24.27 October 24, 2021
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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, Patrick Swan,
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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Over 800 Neanderthal stone tools from the Bawa Yawan shelter site and environs in western iran:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/466204/Hundreds-of-stone-tools-found-at-Iran-Neanderthal-site
Pondering why homo erectus left Africa:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2021/10/mystery-why-our-ancestors-left-africa/620426/
https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/ubeidiya-homo-erectus/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-drove-homo-erectus-out-of-africa-180978881/
Short feature on Neanderthal use of tar:
https://indianapublicmedia.org/amomentofscience/how-did-neanderthals-invent-tar.php
More on the 'pre-human' footprints on Crete:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/humanlike-footprints-in-crete-dated-to-6-million-years-muddle-archaeologists-1.10301706
https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/20/new-evidence-rete-footprints-6-5-million-years-old/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oldest-human-like-footprints-dated-to-605-million-years-ago-180978889/
More on the Neanderthal items found at Princess Diana's childhood home:
https://www.livescience.com/neanderthal-artifacts-princess-diana-childhood-home https://www.northantslive.news/news/northamptonshire-news/amazing-40000-year-old-archaeological-6076761
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shells-likely-carved-by-neanderthals-discovered-at-princess-dianas-former-home-180978910/
More on evidence of 120 000 years bp clothing from a Moroccan cave:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/evidence-of-fur-and-leather-clothing-among-worlds-oldest-found-in-moroccan-cave-180978689/
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AFRICA
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Tracking how humans modified the landscape of Madagascar over the past 1000 years:
https://news.psu.edu/story/673071/2021/10/19/research/small-scale-foragers-left-more-footprints-landscape
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-small-scale-foragers-left-footprints-landscape.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211019223151.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/932096 https://www.sciencealert.com/satellite-data-shows-even-small-ancient-gatherer-communities-shaped-the-landscape
cf:
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fevo.2021.689399/full
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ============================================================
A mummy found a couple of years ago turns out to be 1000 years older than initially thought, with implications for when the practice of mummification began:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/24/mummys-older-than-we-thought-new-find-rewrites-the-history-books
Byzantine-era amphora from the Andraos Palace site at Luxor:
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/10/19/luxor-2/
A 'mentally unstable' man attacked a ram/sphinx statue in Tahrir Square:
https://www.egyptindependent.com/mentally-unstable-man-attempts-to-destroy-ram-statue-in-tahrir-square/
https://abcnews.go.com/International/man-attempting-demolish-ancient-sphinx-cairo-caught/story?id=80703982
More on the three large stone ram heads found near the Avenue of the Sphinxes:
https://www.livescience.com/ram-head-statues-luxor-avenue-of-sphinxes https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/426726.aspx https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10113297/Archaeologists-discover-three-statues-ram-heads-near-Egypts-Karnak-Temple.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/giant-ram-head-statues-found-in-egypt-180978914/
More on Egypt's plans to investigate alleged Pharaonic artifacts in Afghanistan:
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1936511/middle-east
Plenty of folks were on hand for the sun alignment at Abu Simbel:
https://egyptindependent.com/over-1200-tourists-witnesss-sun-alignment-on-king-ramses-iis-face-at-abu-simbel/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/109114/56-ambassadors-witness-the-solar-alignment-at-Abu-Simbel-temple
Feature on daily life in ancient Egypt:
https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2021/10/daily-life-in-egypt
Review of Edward Dolnick, *The Writing of the Gods*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/19/books/review/the-writing-of-the-gods-rosetta-stone-edward-dolnick.html
Officials have ruled out digging wells in Cyrus' Tomb:
https://www.iranintl.com/en/20211018255461
I think we mentioned these 11 000 years bp heads and 'phallic pillars' from Karahantepe (Turkey):
https://www.livescience.com/human-head-carving-pillars-turkey-karahantepe http://www.archaeology.org/news/10096-211022-turkey-karahan-tepe-pillars
A late Neolithic relief from Tas Tepeler featuring a frontal portrait of a man apparently holding his phallus:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10110929/Archaeology-Neolithic-relief-frontal-depiction-man-holding-phallus-Turkey.html
A Hasmonean-era silver coin hoard from Modiin-Maccabim-Reut:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/archaeologists-excavate-hoard-of-rare-silver-coins/141715
Latest find from the City of David (from ten years ago?) is an amethyst seal stone depicting a plant of some sort (it varies by publication):
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/rare-biblical-balsam-tree-found-depicted-on-2000-year-old-amethyst-seal-682678
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/seal-showing-biblical-persimmon-and-maybe-an-ibis-found-in-jerusalem-1.10314184
https://www.timesofisrael.com/plant-for-cleopatras-scent-and-temple-rite-found-on-ancient-jerusalem-seal/
https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/incredible-second-temple-era-amethyst-seal-found-under-the-kotel/2021/10/21/
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315447 https://www.ynetnews.com/culture/article/hyyclmkut https://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2021/10/21/archeology-israel-ancient-seal-shows-extinct-plant_90b20c1f-7915-4ee7-881b-ae8b9517c3e6.html
A mosaic from what some think is the 1500 years bp Church of the Apostles in what some people think is the site of Bethsaida:
https://www.timesofisrael.com/researchers-uncover-mosaic-in-what-they-think-is-bethsaidas-church-of-apostles/
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/church-of-the-apostles-in-bethsaida-mysteriously-buried-archaeologists-discover-1.10310760
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10117041/Mosaic-floors-1-500-year-old-lost-Church-Apostles-discovered-Israel.html
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/10/22/greek-writing-found-on-mosaic-floors-from-the-1500-year-old-lost-church-of-the-apostles/
A diver found a 900 years bp (likely Crusader) sword off the Carmel coast of Israel:
https://www.livescience.com/barnacle-encrusted-crusader-sword-israel https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/18/sharp-eyed-diver-finds-crusaders-ancient-sword-israel
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/18/world/middleeast/crusader-sword-found-israel.html
https://www.nytimes.com/video/world/middleeast/100000008031337/sword-artifact-israel-mediterranean-discovery-crusades.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-58963025 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/crusader-sword-mediterranean-sea-israel-b1940417.html
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-israeli-scuba-diver-ancient-crusader.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2021/10/19/900-year-old-crusader-sword-israel/
https://www.npr.org/2021/10/19/1047256097/crusader-sword-scuba-diver-israel https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/900-year-old-crusader-sword-found-by-scuba-diver-off-israels-coast-682306
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/315245 https://www.timesofisrael.com/diver-pulls-900-year-old-crusader-sword-from-seafloor/
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/766/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/766/pub/766/page/47/article/233623
https://www.cbc.ca/news/science/sword-israel-1.6216278 https://www.aol.com/amateur-diver-finds-900-old-160313707.html https://metro.co.uk/2021/10/19/diver-finds-a-900-year-old-sword-that-fought-in-the-crusades-15446244/
https://www.dw.com/en/israeli-diver-finds-900-year-old-crusader-sword/a-59545798
https://www.algemeiner.com/2021/10/18/sharp-eyed-diver-in-israel-recovers-crusader-sword-from-mediterranean-seabed/
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/crusader-sword-israel-scli-intl-scn/index.html
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/diver-discovers-crusader-sword/141706 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62506 https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/diver-finds-900-year-old-crusader-sword-in-israel/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/19/900-year-old-crusader-sword-found-on-seabed-off-israels-coast/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/diver-finds-crusader-sword-off-israels-coast-180978884/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10089-211019-israel-crusader-sword
... and an overviewish thing on recent items found in Israeli waters:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/swords-gold-and-shipwrecks-israeli-waters-keep-on-revealing-treasures-682491
From the same era comes first evidence of a possible Crusader camp in Galilee:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/first-archaeological-evidence-for-crusader-camp-found-in-israel-682262
https://www.timesofisrael.com/first-evidence-of-crusader-war-camp-discovered-in-northern-israel/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10112191/First-evidence-wartime-campsite-used-Crusaders-invade-Holy-Land-Israel.html
https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/22/israeli-archaeologists-discover-crusader-encampment/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-ever-crusader-encampment-unearthed-in-israel-180978896/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10092-211020-israel-crusader-camp
... and a ballista ball with an Arabic inscription from a Crusader Castle at Arsuf:
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/MAGAZINE-unique-arabic-inscription-found-on-ballista-ball-at-crusader-castle-in-israel-1.10318988
More on the 'wine factory' excavated at Tel Yavne:
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-and-practice/let-the-wine-flow/?mqsc=E4138008&dk=ZE13O0ZF0
https://www.winespectator.com/articles/byzantine-behemoth-massive-1-500-year-old-winery-discovered-in-israel
Feature on some purple-dyed wool found at Timna earlier this year:
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/uncategorized/arch-tech-purple-threads-from-the-days-of-david-and-solomon/?mqsc=E4137934&dk=ZE13O0ZF0
Feature on seven 'lesser known' archaeological sites in Israel:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-7-lesser-known-archaeology-sites-in-israel-1.10304683
Feature on a broken pot handle found by the Temple Mount Sifting Project:
https://tmsifting.org/en/2021/10/18/the-educational-value-of-a-stolen-pot-handle/
A 4500 years bp incense burner from Muscat (Oman):
https://www.muscatdaily.com/2021/10/23/4500-year-old-incense-burner-discovered-in-saham/
In case you missed the identification of the oldest known drawing of a ghost (on a 3500 years bp cuneiform tablet in the British Museum):
https://www.livescience.com/oldest-ghost-drawing-babylonian-exorcism-tablet https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/worlds-oldest-drawing-of-ghost-discovered-on-babylonian-tablet-report-682225
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62496 https://boingboing.net/2021/10/19/oldest-known-drawing-of-a-ghost-found-on-ancient-babylonian-tablet.html
https://hypebeast.com/2021/10/oldest-ghost-drawing-british-museum https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3500-year-old-babylonian-tablet-may-hold-earliest-known-ghost-image-180978923/
Folks are apparently questioning the motives behind Russian restoration of Syrian sites:
https://insidearabia.com/critics-question-russian-restoration-of-syrian-archaeological-sites/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ============================================================
Evidence of a prehistoric habitation layer at Ioannina:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/18/prehistoric-habitation-layer-unearthed-at-ioannina/
Latest finds from the Cycladic site of Therasia:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/22/therasia-the-new-excavation-finds-from-the-prehistoric-settlement/
Latest (Hellenistic?) finds from Alexandria Troas:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-finds-come-to-light-in-alexandria-troas-168766
Probably a crime story (more to come, I suspect) but Israeli police found a 2300 years bp Greek coin of some sort:
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1170437/ancient-coin-with-the-head-of-zeus-found-in-northern-israel/
http://www.china.org.cn/world/Off_the_Wire/2021-10/23/content_77827205.htm
Not sure why this hasn't hit mainstream sources ... a major (15 kg!) 1st/2nd century Roman silver coin hoard from Augsburg:
https://news.in-24.com/news/225148.html https://www.sn.at/panorama/international/bedeutender-silberschatz-der-roemer-in-augsburg-entdeckt-111101146
https://tg24.sky.it/cronaca/2021/10/23/germania-archeologia-ritrovamenti
A 1900 years bp pot depicting a phallus-drawn chariot from a building site in Kelvedon (did we mention this a while ago?):
https://www.the-sun.com/news/3884324/ancient-pot-decorated-large-willies/
Overviewish thing (almost touristy) on recent finds from Stratonikeia:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/turkeys-city-of-gladiators-awaits-visitors-with-its-new-unearthed-artifacts/2397401
Remains of a 1600 years bp church from the site of Priene:
https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/1600-year-old-church-unearthed-in-priene-ancient-city-in-aydin
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/first-church-in-priene-unearthed-168733
A 6th century coin hoard from Phanagoria:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/10/06/archaeologists-coin-ancient-phanagoria/
The excavation season at Dascylium has come to an end:
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/excavation-season-ends-in-dascylium-ancient-city-in-nw-turkey/2398408
More on the latest find of a victim of Vesuvius at Herculaneum:
https://www.livescience.com/skeleton-vesuvius-victim-discovered https://www.ansa.it/english/news/2021/10/15/sensational-fugitive-skeleton-found-at-herculaneum_851ecd2d-00fe-4803-9263-3daae68ff7aa.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/15/sensational-skeleton-buried-in-vesuvius-eruption-found-at-herculaneum
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10087-211018-italy-vesuvius-herculaneum
More on the hundreds of 1800 years bp painted rock-cut tombs from Blaundus:
https://www.livescience.com/rock-cut-chamber-tombs-turkey https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/19/hundreds-ornate-rock-cut-tombs-turkey/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/10088-211018-turkey-rock-tombs
More on Boudicca being acquitted of atrocities in a mock trial:
https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/boudicca-norfolk-acquitted-supreme-court-uprising-8422334
More on box seats at the Pergamon theater:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-lukios-woz-ere-personalized-seats-found-in-pergamon-turkey-1.10307800
More on the source for the marble for a statue from Delos:
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/45539-geological-report-colossus-of-the-naxians-on-delos-marble-source-identified.html
Funding for work at the Greek theatre in the Valley of the Temples in Agrigento:
https://siciliatv.org/2021/10/18/valle-dei-templi-finanziati-scavi-per-il-teatro-greco/
A restored grape harvest mosaic is going on display in Hatay:
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/mosaic-depicting-grape-harvest-to-go-on-display-in-turkeys-hatay/news
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62515
Anti-flood efforts on the Acropolis apparently are working:
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1170164/anti-flood-works-on-acropolis-do-the-trick/
Some folks have recreated garum and are selling it:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/recoving-the-recipe-for-garum-180978846/
There's a new Asterix comic out set in Sarmatia with Amazons and Griffins:
https://www.dw.com/en/asterix-and-the-griffin-when-war-becomes-a-womens-issue/a-59577401
Interesting feature on polychromy on the 4th century BCE statue of the 'Lady of Baza':
https://www.archaeology.org/issues/446-2111/digs/10065-digs-spain-lady-of-baza
Feature on Isabella Caneva's work in Turkey:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/italian-archaeologist-spends-half-century-in-excavations-in-turkey-168691
Feature on Paul Touyz's work on satyrs in Greek drama:
http://today.ku.edu/2021/10/19/goat-song-examines-origins-mythical-satyrs-culture-and-drama
Feature on Kelly P. Dugan's work:
https://tripod.domains.trincoll.edu/features/professor-spotlight-professor-dugan-advocates-for-disabled-students-staff-faculty/
Review of Pat Barker's Trojan War reimaginings:
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/10/25/the-many-wars-of-pat-barker
Review of Aaron Poochigian's translation of Aristophanes:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v43/n20/emily-wilson/punishment-by-radish
Review of James Porter, *Homer: The Very Idea*:
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2021/11/homers-range
Feature on Euripides' Trojan Women:
https://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-euripides-the-trojan-women-an-unflinching-look-at-the-brutality-of-war-162426
Feature on the connection between magic and scents in the ancient world:
https://theconversation.com/smells-like-witch-spirit-how-the-ancient-worlds-scented-sorceresses-influence-ideas-about-magic-today-169066
Feature on Plato's Republic and C.S. Lewis:
https://www.tor.com/2021/10/20/malacandra-as-utopia-platos-republic-as-reflected-in-c-s-lewis-out-of-the-silent-planet/
Pondering the connections between philosophy and public relations:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/forbescommunicationscouncil/2021/10/21/is-there-overlap-between-philosophy-and-pr/
Feature on Roman sites/life in Wales:
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/lifestyle/nostalgia/fascinating-little-known-sites-show-21924774
Feature on romantic 'red flags' in the Iliad:
http://udallasnews.com/2021/10/20/romantic-red-flags-in-the-iliad/
Feature on witches in Latin literature:
https://newcriterion.com/issues/2021/11/homers-range
Feature on a 7th century Corinthian shipwreck found off the coast of Italy a couple years ago:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/18/magna-graecia-corinthian-ship-7th-century-bc-found-italy/
Feature on Pytheas:
https://www.livescience.com/first-western-description-british-isles
Feature on the Roman bath at York:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/roman-bath
Feature on a rethink of a Roman lead figurine being a warrior, not a slave:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62490
Feature on the connection between Greek philosophy and climate change:
https://theconversation.com/how-ideas-from-ancient-greek-philosophy-may-have-driven-civilization-toward-climate-change-169714
https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/21/ancient-greek-philosophy-climate-change/
Feature on eight powerful women of ancient Rome:
https://www.livescience.com/powerful-roman-women
Feature on depictions of phalluses all over the ancient Roman world:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/the-ancient-worlds-secret-weapon-the-ejaculating-phallus
Feature on 'the greek foot':
https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/14/greek-foot-medical-explanation/
Feature on the various claims regarding the location of Alexander's tomb:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/21/alexander-the-great-tomb-2/
Feature on the Caryatids:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/20/five-caryatids-in-athens-still-waiting-for-their-lonely-sister/
Feature on daily life in ancient Greece:
https://greekreporter.com/2021/10/16/ancient-greece-growing-up-in-athens-and-sparta/
Feature on gladiators:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/5-fast-and-furious-facts-about-the-lives-of-gladiators
Folks might be interested in the 'trojan asteroids' near Jupiter:
https://wapo.st/3n3qrp5
Latest feature on Classics and Race:
https://paw.princeton.edu/article/color-classics
Latest Parthenon Report piece advocating for the return of the Marbles:
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/10/24/the-parthenon-report-of-fish-and-floodgates/
Latest Pasts Imperfect newsletter:
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-102121
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ============================================================
A Bronze Age roundhouse from a possible development site near Camborne:
https://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/bronze-age-roundhouse-discovered-proposed-6097179
"Several" 1000 years bp burials fount during work at a church in Bruges:
https://www.vrt.be/vrtnws/en/2021/10/21/_thousand-year-old-graves-among-the-oldest-finds-in-bruges/
What we're learning from the 500 years bp wreck of the Gribshunden:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/extraordinary-500-year-old-shipwreck-rewriting-history-age-discovery-180978825/
Study of the effects of medieval roads on landscape transformation in Germany:
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-ancient-road-lake.html
Another medieval hoard from Zawichost-Trojcy:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/second-treasure-hoard-found-in-zawichost-trojcy/141747
Six 18th century (or earlier) burials beneath a Cork pub:
https://www.irishexaminer.com/news/munster/arid-40724982.html https://www.rte.ie/news/2021/1020/1254779-munster-skeletal-remains/ https://www.irishcentral.com/news/skeletons-cork-pub http://www.archaeology.org/news/10093-211021-ireland-cork-burials
A 17th century New England shilling turns up in a collection kept in a 'sweet tin':
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-58982457
A 'weapons collection' found in the cellars of a long-ago demolished building in Poland:
https://polandin.com/56526744/archaeologists-discover-large-antique-weapons-collection
A 'good luck farthing' was found under the mast of the HMS Victory:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-58981472
A dig at a 19th century 'summer house' at Attingham will resume shortly:
https://www.shropshirelive.com/features/2021/10/20/archaeological-dig-to-continue-this-autumn-at-attingham/
More on that pair of 1500 years bp burials from Bavaria (with a focus on an ivory comb find):
https://www.livescience.com/rich-burials-bavaria-beard-comb https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/archaeologists-find-unique-luxury-goods-in-medieval-graves/141743
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1500-year-old-ivory-beard-comb-found-in-grave-in-bavaria-180978893/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10091-211019-germany-bavaria-graves
Restoration of Parliament has revealed what might be the world's oldest municipal gas lighting system still in use:
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/769/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/769/pub/769/page/22/article/232375
Pondering witch hunts in early modern Britain:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2021/oct/24/why-the-witch-hunt-victims-of-early-modern-britain-have-come-back-to-haunt-us
Feature on a very interesting Gallic vase found at Autun last year:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62522
Feature on the Vikings in Scotland:
https://www.heraldscotland.com/news/19660097.vikings-scotland/
Feature/reconstruction of Warden Abbey:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-58897916
The Chester House Estate has (finally) opened to the public:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-58956660
Funding for Jane Austen's house:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-58927351
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Archaeology in Europe News:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
Medievalists.net:
https://www.medievalists.net/category/news/
Viking Archaeology Blog:
http://viking-archaeology-blog.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ============================================================
I think we mentioned these four 1900 years bp burials from Hunan:
https://ukranews.com/en/news/808143-4-ancient-tombs-unearthed-in-china-s-hunan
Interesting 1300 years bp 'cold case' from China:
https://www.scmp.com/news/people-culture/environment/article/3153399/1300-years-later-scientists-paint-picture-murder
China is listing the top 100 finds of the past century:
http://www.ecns.cn/news/culture/2021-10-19/detail-ihasacat0472849.shtml https://english.cctv.com/2021/10/22/ARTIGgxlIDG2qCRejdVwHHQO211022.shtml http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202110/19/WS616e0d96a310cdd39bc6fb33.html https://ukranews.com/en/news/808706-china-lists-top-100-archaeology-findings-of-past-century
More on Xi's promotion of Chinese archaeology:
https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202110/18/WS616cac63a310cdd39bc6f6cb_2.html
An 11th century yoni from Viet Nam's Quang Ngai province:
https://en.nhandan.vn/culture/item/10636802-thousand-year-old-yoni-found-in-quang-ngai-province.html
Heavy rains have damaged a number of pagodas in Bagan (Myanmar):
https://www.irrawaddy.com/news/burma/pagodas-damaged-in-myanmars-temple-city.html
Speculation that Sumatran fishing crews may have located the fabled site of Srivijaya:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/oct/22/have-sumatran-fishing-crews-found-the-fabled-island-of-gold
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10122973/Lost-Island-Gold-Sumatran-fishermen.html
Concerns for the Prohm Kel temple at Angkor Wat:
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/50952309/prohm-kel-temple-in-state-of-dilapidation/
... while work has started on restoring Angkor Wat's eastern entrance:
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asiapacific/2021-10/20/c_1310257280.htm
A study of 'female craniometrics' is supporting a 'two layer model of human dispersal in Eastern Eurasia 16 000 - 5300 years bp:
cf:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-00295-6
More on human adaptation to rainforest living in southeast Asia:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/18/early-modern-human-adapted-to-a-rainforest-environment/
A fish symbol was found on a ring well at Keeladi:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/fish-symbol-found-on-ring-well-at-keeladi/article37081440.ece
Plans for an excavation at Korkai:
https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=886263 https://www.thestatesman.com/states/tamil-nadu-excavation-port-city-pandyan-empire-korkai-1503020333.html
https://news.abplive.com/tamil-nadu/tamil-nadu-archaeology-minister-thangam-thennarasu-says-marine-excavation-commence-soon-korkai-port-see-details-1488781
Calls for a dig at Porpanaikottai:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/call-for-excavation-at-porpanaikottai/articleshow/87144731.cms
Whether there will be an eighth phase of excavations at Keeladi is uncertain:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/no-decision-yet-on-eighth-phase-excavation-at-keeladi-says-min/articleshow/87144309.cms
Plans for restoration of the Nandana Fort in Pak:
https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=885498
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ============================================================
Feature on Alexandrina Grant and the 'convict strain':
https://theconversation.com/hidden-women-of-history-how-lady-swindler-alexandrina-askew-triumphed-over-the-convict-stain-169023
More on pioneering women archaeologists in the Pacific:
https://www.uwa.edu.au/news/article/2021/october/putting-the-first-women-archaeologists-of-the-pacific-back-on-the-map
Latest from the investigations into Rio Tinto's site destructions:
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/inquiry-into-the-destruction-of-46000-year-old-caves-at-juukan-gorge-comes-with-a-warning/R6XMQQ4U7LURE2YOTKNEDSZIW4/
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NORTH AMERICA
============================================================ Feature/overviewish thing on the Gault site in Texas:
https://www.kxxv.com/news/traveling-texas-with-ann-harder/traveling-texas-archaeological-site-unearths-wealth-of-information
Tree ring analysis and C14 suggests that Vikings were in North America exactly 1000 years bp:
https://phys.org/news/2021-10-europeans-americas-years.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/10/211020135924.htm https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/oct/20/vikings-settled-north-america-1000-years-ago-solar-storm
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-58996186 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/vikings-discover-christopher-columbus-america-b1941786.html
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/20/science/vikings-newfoundland-age.html https://www.reuters.com/lifestyle/science/goodbye-columbus-vikings-crossed-atlantic-1000-years-ago-2021-10-20/
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/tree-rings-radioactive-carbon-signs-vikings-north-america-rcna3383
https://www.wsj.com/articles/viking-artifacts-give-precise-date-for-europeans-earliest-presence-in-north-america-11634742000
https://cphpost.dk/?p=128894 https://elpais.com/ciencia/2021-10-20/los-vikingos-ya-estaban-en-america-hace-ahora-justo-1000-anos.html
https://nationalpost.com/news/canada/goodbye-columbus-vikings-crossed-the-atlantic-1000-years-ago
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/768/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/768/pub/768/page/60/article/232226
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/ancient-solar-storm-pinpoints-viking-settlement-americas-exactly-1000-years-ago
https://www.sciencealert.com/breakthrough-discovery-shows-vikings-were-active-in-north-america-1-000-years-ago
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/newfoundland-vikings-10195.html https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/10/vikings-were-in-north-america-by-1021-ce/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/10/study-identifies-date-of-norse-settlement-in-the-americas/141730
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03972-8 https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/10/21/europeans-in-the-americas-1000-years-ago/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10094-211021-newfoundland-norse-vinland
More on 12 000 years bp evidence of tobacco use in Utah:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earliest-evidence-tobacco-use-smoking-pipe-burned-seeds-plants
More on the transcontinental railroad workers' residence and other structures from Terrace, Utah:
https://news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-unearth-first-ever-house-163226145.html https://www.archaeology.org/news/10090-211019-utah-railroad-workers
More on Craft brewing in the Pacific Northwest:
https://www.spokanepublicradio.org/post/craft-brewing-pacific-nw-dates-so-far-back-archaeologists-are-case-0
Feature on assorted Mi-kmaq finds in PEI over the past decade:
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/pei-exhibit-archeology-acadian-mi-kmaq-1.6220034
The Moravian Church settlement in Bethlehem, PA is seeking Heritage Status:
https://www.dw.com/en/german-settlement-in-us-applies-for-world-heritage-status/av-59561316
Kamloops has hired an archaeologist:
https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/local-news/city-of-kamloops-welcomes-archaeologist-to-its-staff-4542182
Bone fragments from under a parking lot in Guelph, Ontario:
https://kitchener.ctvnews.ca/bone-fragments-discovered-under-baker-street-lot-in-guelph-1.5634713
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