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More on Dom Pedro's heart touring Brazil:
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dom-pedro-heart-portugal-brazil ============================================================
CURRENT EVENTS:
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On the history of Labor Day in the US:
https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/2022/09/02/what-is-labor-day/7960694001/
Latest 'glue-in' damaged a Rubens in Munich:
https://www.dw.com/en/climate-activists-damage-frame-of-a-rubens-painting-in-munich/a-62927968
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/climate-activsts-rubens-british-museum-joseph-hotung-morning-links-1234637724/
Oregon's Swastika Mountain might be renamed:
https://www.npr.org/2022/08/29/1119688609/oregon-renaming-swastika-mountain-halo
Scotland is set to vote on the pardoning of witches:
https://www.france24.com/en/tv-shows/the-51/20220902-exorcising-the-ills-of-the-past-scotland-set-to-vote-on-pardoning-witches
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
Connecting dog genomes and human activities:
https://www.the-scientist.com/sponsored-article/dog-ancestry-provides-clues-to-ancient-human-activities-70449
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LANGUAGE RELATED ============================================================
Feature on the royal roots of French in Quebec:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220829-the-royal-roots-of-quebecs-french
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Phoenician sarcophagus:
https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/valletta-museum-unveils-ancient-phoenician-sarcophagus.977552
Visions of Egypt:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/02/new-exhibition-looks-at-how-the-west-created-the-fantasy-of-ancient-egypt
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118720/British-exhibition-reveals-impact-of-ancient-Egyptian-arts-on-creativity
Cuerdale Hoard:
https://www.blogpreston.co.uk/2022/08/the-cuerdale-hoard-vikings-rule-in-preston/
Roman Glass:
https://www.thenationalnews.com/arts-culture/art/2022/08/29/british-museum-displays-newly-restored-ancient-glass-vessels-damaged-in-beirut-explosion/
Dickens Letters:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/aug/30/unseen-charles-dickens-letters-to-go-on-display-for-first-time
Donatello:
https://www.dw.com/en/donatello-italian-renaissance-star-gets-solo-exhibition/a-62994243
cf: https://www.smb.museum/en/exhibitions/detail/donatello/
Cartier and Islamic Art:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220831-how-islamic-art-and-design-conquered-the-world
cf: https://dma.org/art/exhibitions/cartier-and-islamic-art-search-modernity
Feature on the use of VR at the Mosul Heritage House Museum:
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-virtual-reality-revives-iraq-war-ravaged.html
An archaeological museum has opened in Isfahan:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/476273/Archaeological-museum-opened-to-public-in-Isfahan
I'm sure we'll be hearing more about this collection of early Chinese porcelain and jade bequeathed to the British Museum:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/aug/29/british-museum-joseph-hotung-bequest-chinese-porcelain-jades
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/chinese-treasures-left-to-british-museum-drp9htl3g
Latest Nazi-era case revolves around the Guelph Treasure:
https://apnews.com/article/travel-lawsuits-museums-ddeec59b4186e059e0b0be29d9864b36
The National Museum in Rio continues to try to recover from that fire back in 2018:
https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-09-02/el-museo-nacional-de-rio-lucha-por-recomponer-su-coleccion-tras-el-catastrofico-incendio-de-2018.html
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A cache of 17th/18th century gold coins found during kitchen renovations bay in 2019 is coming to auction:
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/gold-coins-england-kitchen-intl-scli/index.html
https://www.cbs58.com/news/coins-worth-up-to-290-000-found-under-kitchen-floorboards
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/118877/Home-renovation-in-northern-England-reveals-rare-set-of-gold
Joseph Hotung's (huge) art collection is coming to auction:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/29/hong-kong-collector-joseph-hotung-auction-sothebys
An Adirondack guideboat:
https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2022/09/ausable-river-association-to-auction-adirondack-guideboat.html
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ON THE DNA FRONT ============================================================
DNA from a mass burial of apparent medieval pogrom victims have Asheknazi connections:
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-medieval-mass-burial-centuries-earlier-ashkenazi.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-09-bodies-uk-mediaeval-anti-semitic-massacre.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/08/220830131610.htm https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/aug/30/jewish-remains-found-in-norwich-well-were-medieval-pogrom-victims-study
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/30/europe/medieval-well-mystery-bodies-scn/index.html
https://www.dw.com/en/17-bodies-found-at-shopping-mall-construction-site-were-medieval-ashkenazi-jews/a-62969497
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-715841 https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-02356-w
cf: https://www.cell.com/current-biology/fulltext/S0960-9822(22)01355-0
A study of 10 000 years of 'natural selection' in Europe seen via DNA:
https://www.biorxiv.org/content/10.1101/2022.08.24.505188v1
More on medieval evidence of Klinefelter syndrome:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2022-08-30/dna-medieval-skeleton-genetic-condition-trisomy-klinefelter/101376444
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-715869
More on DNA and IndoEuropean origins:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/early-european-language-spread-by-word-not-sword-8ssm38qt3
https://scitechdaily.com/the-southern-arc-vast-genetic-study-reveals-insights-into-migration-patterns-and-language-development/
https://greekreporter.com/2022/08/28/dna-indo-european-proto-greek/
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial recreation is of 'Penang Woman':
https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-facial-reconstruction-woman-malaysia/ ============================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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Not sure if we mentioned this sunken medieval village emerging from the Scar House Reservoir:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-62677584
Plenty of things are emerging from melting Swiss glaciers:
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/society/archaeology_swiss-glaciers-surrender-secrets-of-the-past/44466602
Drought has revealed a steamboat that sank in the Missouri River over a century ago:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/drought-reveals-steamboat-north-alabama-missouri-river/
More on sites revealed by drought in Spain:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/aug/30/historic-monuments-resurface-as-severe-drought-shrinks-spains-reservoirs
More on sites revealed by low waters on the Tigris and Euphrates:
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/08/falling-waters-euphrates-tigris-rivers-reveal-submerged-archaeological-sites
... and more on the 1st century CE Roman fort revealed in Spain:
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11161091/Roman-settlement-flooded-create-reservoir-visible-entirety-drought-Spain.html
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2022/08/30/spain-roman-military-camp-drought/4691661855391/
More on the Viking-era arrowhead from a melting Norwegian glacier:
https://www.livescience.com/viking-three-sided-arrowhead-norway https://sciencenorway.no/archaeology-viking-age-vikings/the-last-person-who-touched-this-three-bladed-arrowhead-was-a-viking/2069302
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/world/article265075029.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/10794-220829-norway-iron-arrowhead ============================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
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Aphrodisias:
https://www.dailysabah.com/ds-tv/city-of-aphrodite-takes-visitors-on-historical-journey-in-turkiye/news
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Joan of Arc:
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2022/09/joan-of-arc-nonbinary-globe/671321/
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CRIME BEAT
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Big news this week is investigators seizing 27 looted antiquities from the Met:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/arts/design/met-museum-looting.html https://politpost.com/2022/09/02/investigators-citing-looting-have-seized-27-antiquities-from-the-met/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/met-museum-looted-art-new-york-b2158733.html
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/met-museum-artifacts-seized-new-york-looting/index.html
https://www.axios.com/2022/09/02/new-york-investigators-artifacts-met-13-million
https://news.yahoo.com/investigators-seize-27-looted-antiquities-195100118.html
https://www.art-insider.com/manhattan-da-raids-the-met-seizes-antiquities-for-repatriation/4064
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/09/03/new-york-greek-antiquities-met/
... including a Hindu artifact:
https://hyperallergic.com/757491/manhattan-da-to-seize-looted-hindu-artifact-from-met-museum/
https://observer.com/2022/09/another-antiquity-suspected-of-being-looted-will-be-seized-from-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art/
... a sort of preliminary piece:
https://www.icij.org/investigations/hidden-treasures/flurry-of-seizures-intensify-pressure-on-the-met-over-artifacts-linked-to-accused-traffickers/
Meanwhile, several German museums are implicated in an Egyptian trafficking investigation:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/30/german-museums-latest-to-be-implicated-in-far-reaching-criminal-investigation-into-antiquities-trafficking
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/antiquities-trafficking-investigation-expands-1234637874/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/simonian-german-museums-2168971
French dealer Didier Wormser is standing trial for looted Egyptian antiquities:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/02/french-art-dealer-didier-wormser-stands-trial-for-trafficking-looted-egyptian-antiquities
https://menafn.com/1104802360/French-Art-Dealer-Didier-Wormser-Stands-Trial-For-Trafficking-Looted-Egyptian-Antiquities
More on the seizure of that 3000 years bp Egyptian artifact in Memphis (Tenn.):
https://phys.org/news/2022-08-agents-memphis-seize-shipped-ancient.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/08/31/ancient-egyptian-lid-mummy-customs-border-protections-seized
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/news/us-authorities-seize-3000-year-old-egyptian-artefact
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/u-s-customs-has-seized-a-3000-year-old-egyptian-artifact-in-memphis-1234637655/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/us-customs-seizes-a-3000-year-old-egyptian-artifact-in-tennessee-180980673/
Feature on Stefan Guericke and his past smuggling activities in Greece:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/09/01/antiquities-smuggler-greece/
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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/
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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ============================================================
The FBI is returning a number of mosaics to Italy:
https://www.fbi.gov/news/stories/fbi-returns-2000-year-old-italian-art-that-languished-in-a-storage-facility-090122
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/US/2022/09/03/fbi-returns-ancient-roman-mosaic-medusa-2000-years-old-italy/6881662254277/
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/fbi-returns-italian-art-los-angeles/index.html
Nice backgrounder on the looting of artifacts in Cambodia and their ending up in western collections:
https://www.eurasiareview.com/02092022-a-looting-matter-cambodias-stolen-antiquities-oped/
A pile of Panamanian artifacts returned from the Netherlands:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/over-300-panamanian-artifacts-returned-netherlands-ministry-2022-08-30/
Native American human remains and cultural items were fond in storage at the University of North Dakota (and will be returned):
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/09/01/north-dakota-university-native-american-ancestral-remains/7960032001/
https://www.cnn.com/2022/08/31/us/north-dakota-native-american-bones-artifacts-repatriation-reaj/index.html
Greece is happy with a deal returning 161 items (mostly from the Met):
https://apnews.com/bfe272b17395914295561461d1e684a4 https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/09/01/greek-artefacts-leonard-stern-returned-metropolitan-museum
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/greece-heralds-deal-to-recoup-161-ancient-treasures-from-us/2022/08/30/ce4e16d4-28ae-11ed-a90a-fce4015dfc8f_story.html
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1192181/greece-heralds-deal-to-recoup-161-ancient-treasures-from-us/
https://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/greece-heralds-deal-recoup-161-ancient-treasures-us-89071936
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/a-trove-of-161-ancient-artifacts-greece-2168681
Seems to be a deal being discussed to return items to Thailand from the US:
https://www.pattayamail.com/thailandnews/u-s-negotiates-with-museum-for-return-of-thailands-historical-artifacts-408646
Iraq has repatriated over 200 more items:
https://www.kurdistan24.net/en/story/29386-Iraq%27s-culture-ministry-receives-over-200-antiquity-pieces:-Ministry
Seems to be a potential Nepali repatriation story here:
https://www.nepalitimes.com/banner/nepali-ritual-altar-in-berlin/
Hong Kong's Palace Museum supports repatriation efforts:
https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3188648/hong-kong-palace-museum-support-repatriating-cultural
More on the Getty orpheus and the sirens returns:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/64992
More on the Museum of the Bible returning a Gospel manuscript to Greece:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/museum-of-the-bible-returns-centuries-old-gospel-manuscript-to-greece-180980670/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Celtiberian coins:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coinweek-ancient-coin-series-coins-of-the-celtiberians/
Feature on coins of Akragas:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-greek-coins-eagles-akragas/
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n35.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n36.html ------------------------
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Richard Taruskin:
https://www.newyorker.com/culture/postscript/the-monumental-musicology-of-richard-taruskin
Peter Davison:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/peter-davison-obituary-lcnzwlfh0
Trudy Harrington-Becker:
https://www.mccoyfuneralhome.com/obituaries/Gertrude-Becker-3/#!/Obituary
Mario Benzi:
https://www.cittadellaspezia.com/2022/09/01/addio-al-professor-mario-benzi-grande-studioso-delle-civilta-antiche-nel-mediterraneo-460578/
https://www.cfs.unipi.it/2022/08/31/dipartimento-in-lutto-per-la-scomparsa-di-mario-benzi/
Stanley Turkel:
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/03/nyregion/stanley-turkel-dead.html
Vera Menchik (archived):
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/09/02/obituaries/vera-menchik-overlooked.html
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ============================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:
https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3203-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-21st-through-the-27th-2022
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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/ ============================================================
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COMPLETE HISTORY OF STONEHENGE EXCAVATIONS
1611. King James VI and I investigated Stonehenge to see "The stone which the builders refused", "The stone which the builders reiected", and "the stone which the builders disallowed". King James Version: 1611
1616. Doctor William Harvey, Gilbert North, and Inigo Jones find horns of stags and oxen, coals, charcoals, batter-dashers, heads of arrows, pieces of rusted armour, rotten bones, thuribulum (censer) pottery, and a large nail. Long, William, 1876,
Stonehenge and its Barrows. The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, Volume 16
1620. George Villiers, 1st Duke of Buckingham, dug a large hole in the ground at the center of Stonehenge looking for buried treasure. (Diary)
1633-52. Inigo Jones conducted the first 'scientific' surveys of Stonehenge. Jones, I, and Webb, J, 1655, The most notable antiquity of Great Britain vulgarly called Stone-Heng on Salisbury plain. London: J Flesher for D Pakeman and L Chapman
1640. Sir Lawrence Washington, knight, owner of Stonehenge, fished around Bear's Stone (named after Washington's hound dog). Bear's Stone profile portrait a local 17th century attraction. (G-Diary) The Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History
Magazine, Volumes 15-16
1652. Reverend Lawrence Washington, heir of Stonehenge, commissions Doctor Garry Denke to dig below Bear's Stone, reveals lion, calf (ox), face as a man, flying eagle, bear (dog), leopard, and hidden relics. Bear's Stone (96) renamed Hele 'to conceal,
cover, hide'. (G-Diary)
1653-6. Doctor Garry Denke auger cored below Hele Stone 'The stone which the builders rejected' on various occasions. Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone, concrete discovered at 1-1/3 'yardsticks' (under flying eagle). Elizabeth Washington, heir of
Stonehenge. Denke, G, 1699, G-Diary (German to English by Erodelphian Literary Society of Sigma Chi Fraternity). GDG, 1-666
1666. John Aubrey surveyed Stonehenge and made a 'Review'. Described the Avenue's prehistoric pits. (the 'Aubrey Holes' discovered by Hawley, not Aubrey). Aubrey, J, 1693 (edited by J Fowles 1982), Monumenta Britannica. Sherborne, Dorset: Dorset
Publishing Co
1716. Thomas Hayward, owner of Stonehenge, dug heads of oxen and other beasts. (Diary)
1721-4. William Stukeley surveyed and excavated Stonehenge and its field monuments. Surveyed the Avenue in 1721 extending beyond Stonehenge Bottom to King Barrow Ridge. Surveyed the Cursus in 1723 and excavated. Stukeley, W, 1740, Stonehenge: a temple
restor'd to the British druids. London: W Innys and R Manby
1757. Benjamin Franklin observes the Hele Stone (96) "Seven Heads": lion, calf (ox), face as a man, flying eagle, bear (dog), leopard, and sardine; "Ten Horns": Altar of Burnt Offering (4 horns), Altar of Incense (4 horns), and Torah scroll (2 horns);
and all of the other 'hidden' relics buried there. (Diary)
1798. Sir Richard Hoare and William Cunnington dug at Stonehenge under the fallen Slaughter Stone 95 and under fallen Stones 56 and 57. The Ancient History of Wiltshire, Volume 1, 1812
1805-10. William Cunnington dug at Stonehenge on various occasions. Cunnington, W, 1884, Guide to the stones of Stonehenge. Devizes: Bull Printer
1839. Captain Beamish excavated within Stonehenge. (Diary)
1874-7. Professor Flinders Petrie produced a plan of Stonehenge and numbered the stones. Petrie, W M F, 1880, Stonehenge: plans, description, and theories. London: Edward Stanford
1877. Charles Darwin digs at Stonehenge to study 'Sinking of great Stones through the Action of Worms'. Darwin, Charles, 1881, The Formation of Vegetable Mould, Through the Action of Worms, with Observations on Their Habits. London: John Murray
1886. Kaiser Wilhelm Society founder 33° mason Friedrich Wilhelm Denke confirmed with his auger drilled core samples (under bear, leopard and calf) Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone and concrete 4 feet (1.2 meter) beneath Stonehenge Hele Stone base.
(FW-Diary)
1901. Professor William Gowland meticulously recorded and excavated around stone number 56 at Stonehenge. Gowland, W, 1902, Recent excavations at Stonehenge. Archaeologia, 58, 37-82
1919-26. Colonel William Hawley extensively excavated in advance of restoration programmes at Stonehenge for the Office of Works and later for the Society of Antiquaries. Hawley excavated ditch sections of the Avenue, conducted an investigation of the
Slaughter Stone and other stones at Stonehenge, and discovered the 'Aubrey Holes' (misnamed) through excavation. Hawley, W, 1921, Stonehenge: interim report on the exploration. Antiquaries Journal, 1, 19-41 Hawley, W, 1922, Second report on the
excavations at Stonehenge. Antiquaries Journal, 2, 36-52 Hawley, W, 1923, Third report on the excavations at Stonehenge. Antiquaries Journal, 3, 13-20 Hawley, W, 1924, Fourth report on the excavations at Stonehenge, 1922. Antiquaries Journal, 4, 30-39
Hawley, W, 1925, Report on the excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1923. Antiquaries Journal, 5, 21-50 Hawley, W, 1926, Report on the excavations at Stonehenge during the season of 1924. Antiquaries Journal, 6, 1-25 Hawley, W, 1928, Report on
the excavations at Stonehenge during 1925 and 1926. Antiquaries Journal, 8, 149-76 (Diary) Pitts, M, Bayliss, A, McKinley, J, Boylston, A, Budd, P, Evans, J, Chenery, C, Reynolds, A, and Semple, S, 2002, An Anglo-Saxon decapitation and burial at
Stonehenge. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 95, 131-46
1929. Robert Newall excavated Stone 36. Newall, R S, 1929, Stonehenge. Antiquity, 3, 75-88 Newall, R S, 1929, Stonehenge, the recent excavations. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 44, 348-59
1935. Young, W E V, The Stonehenge car park excavation. (Diary)
1942. Company 'C', 63rd Signal Battalion, U.S. Army Signal Corps, WWII confirmed Tabernacle of G-D beneath Heel Stone in 1942 whilst at Shrivenham, Oxfordshire, U.K., on All Hallows' Eve of '42, before Shipping-out to Operation Torch invasion at Algiers (
Eastern) in the Mediterranean Theatre of Operations, during WWII. On the 31st day October of '42 (a Saturday) it was G-D of "C" Company, the 63rd Signal Battalion, caught Witching, and Core drilling; Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone, Bluestone
concrete (volcanic ash and tuff) at 3 to 4 'yardsticks' from GL beneath Slick-side Heel Stone (the Northeast face), and Bluestone sandstone ("micaceous stump") at 4 'yardsticks' from GL underneath Hele Stone; the Sun of righteousness Helios Stone. (see
redacted "Top Secret" Arrest Report expunged '42)
1950. Robert Newall excavated Stone 66. Newall, R S, 1952, Stonehenge stone no. 66. Antiquaries Journal, 32, 65-7
1952. Robert Newall excavated Stones 71 and 72. (Diary)
1950-64. A major campaign of excavations by Richard Atkinson, Stuart Piggott, and Marcus Stone involving the re-excavation of some of Hawley’s trenches as well as previously undisturbed areas within Stonehenge. Atkinson, R J C, Piggott, S, and Stone, J
F S, 1952, The excavations of two additional holes at Stonehenge, and new evidence for the date of the monument. Antiquaries Journal, 32, 14-20 Atkinson, R J C, 1956, Stonehenge. London. Penguin Books in association with Hamish Hamilton. (second revised
edition 1979: Penguin Books)
1966. Faith and Lance Vatcher excavated 3 Mesolithic Stonehenge postholes. Vatcher, F de M and Vatcher, H L, 1973, Excavation of three postholes in Stonehenge car park. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 68, 57-63
1968. Faith and Lance Vatcher dug geophone and floodlight cable trenches. (Diary)
1974. Garry Denke and Ralph Ferdinand set out to confirm Sir Lawrence Washington, knight and Reverend Lawrence Washington's revelation (G-Diary). Auger cores 1.2m (4ft) below Heel Stone 96 (under face as a man). Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone,
concrete confirmed. No coal in cores. Stonehenge Free Festival. Denke, G W, 1974, Stonehenge Phase I: An Open-pit Coalfield Model; The First Geologic Mining School (Indiana University of Pennsylvania). GDG, 74, 1-56
1978. John Evans re-excavated a 1954 cutting through the Stonehenge ditch and bank to take samples for snail analysis and radiocarbon dating. A well-preserved human burial lay within the ditch fill. Three fine flint arrowheads were found amongst the
bones, with a fourth embedded in the sternum. Atkinson, R J C and Evans, J G, 1978, Recent excavations at Stonehenge. Antiquity, 52, 235-6 Evans, J G, 1984, Stonehenge: the environment in the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age, and a Beaker burial.
Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 78, 7-30 (Diary) Alexander Thorn and Richard Atkinson. NE side of Station Stone 94. (Diary)
1979-80. George Smith excavated in the Stonehenge car park on behalf of the Central Excavation Unit. Smith, G, 1980, Excavations in Stonehenge car park. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 74/75 (1979-80), 181 (Diary) Mike Pitts
excavated along south side of A344 in advance of cable-laying and pipe-trenching. In 1979, discovered the Heel Stone 97 original pit (96 original Altar Stone pit). Survey along the Avenue course identified more pits. In 1980, excavated beside the A344
and discovered a stone floor (a complete prehistoric artifact assemblage retained from the monument). Pitts, M W, 1982, On the road to Stonehenge: Report on investigations beside the A344 in 1968, 1979, and 1980. Proceedings of the Prehistoric Society,
48, 75-132
1981. The Central Excavation Unit excavated in advance of the construction of the footpath through Stonehenge. Bond, D, 1983, An excavation at Stonehenge, 1981. Wiltshire Archaeological and Natural History Magazine, 77, 39-43.
1984. Garry Denke (and Hells Angels) seismic survey. Auger cores 1.2m (4ft) below Heel Stone 96 (under lion head). Gold, silver, brass, iron, wood, bone, concrete reconfirmed. No coal in cores. Stonehenge Free Festival. Denke, G, 1984, Magnetic and
Electromagnetic Surveys at Heelstone, Stonehenge, United Kingdom (Indiana University of Pennsylvania). GDG, 84, 1-42
1990-6. A series of assessments and field evaluations in advance of the Stonehenge Conservation and Management Programme. Darvill, T C, 1997, Stonehenge Conservation and Management Programme: a summary of archaeological assessments and field evaluations
undertaken 1990-1996. London: English Heritage
1994. Wessex Archaeology. Limited Auger Survey. Cleal, R M J, Walker, K E, and Montague, R, 1995, Stonehenge and its landscape: twentieth-century excavations (English Heritage Archaeological Report 10). London: English Heritage.
2008. Timothy Darvill and Geoffrey Wainwright set out to date the construction of the Double Bluestone Circle at Stonehenge and to chart the history of the Bluestones, and their use. Darvill, T, and Wainwright, G, 2008, Stonehenge excavations 2008. The
Antiquaries Journal, Volume 89, September 2009, 1-19 (Diary) Mike Parker Pearson, Julian Richards, and Mike Pitts further the excavation of 'Aubrey Hole' 7 discovered by William Hawley, 1920. Willis, C, Marshall, P, McKinley, J, Pitts, M, Pollard, J,
Richards, C, Richards, J, Thomas, J, Waldron, T, Welham, K, and Parker Pearson, M, 2016, The dead of Stonehenge. Antiquity, Volume 90, Issue 350, April 2016, 337-356
2012-3. Stonehenge A344 road excavated and removed. (Diary)
HISTORICAL TIMELINE OF CONCRETE
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