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explorator 20.15 August 6, 2017 ===============================================================
If you're having problems getting 'the whole issue', read Explorator online at:
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo,
Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley, Rick Heli, Allan
Brockway, Val Moore, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
... a very busy week
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Pondering the origin of the genus homo:
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-paper-genus-homo-response-environmental.ht
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170804100410.htm
On sapiens diet and Neanderthal ‘displacement’:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170804082912.htm
A number of early hominin sites in Saudi Arabia are causing a bit of a rethink:
https://www.livescience.com/59998-46-prehistoric-sites-saudi-arabia.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/human-artifacts-found-46-ancient -lakes-arabian-desert-180964303/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5778-170801-saudi-arabia-desert
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AFRICA
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More on Chinese burials in Kenya:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201707310840.html http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-08/01/content_30319104.htm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ===============================================================
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Feature on Tut’s ‘camping bed’:
https://www.livescience.com/59999-king-tut-camping-bed-ancient-marvel.html
Suggestion that an early pharaoh might have been a ‘giant’:
https://www.livescience.com/60044-ancient-egyptian-pharaoh-first-human-gian t.html
Five people were killed while illegally digging in Sohag:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/274570/Egypt/Politics-/ Five-killed-while-illegally-digging-for-antiquitie.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com/five-killed-illegal-ancient-artifact-excavation -sohag/
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2441088&CategoryId=13003
Latest on plans to restore Alexandria’s Eliyahu Hanavi Synagogue:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/274710/Heritage/Islamic/ Restoration-of-Alexandrian-Jewish-synagogue-is-und.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com/eliyahu-hanavi-synagogue-restoration-alex andria/
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170803-egypt-to-bear-cost-of-alexandri a-synagogue-renovation/
Zahi Hawass was receiving awards …
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/15388/Hawas-receives-Golden-Gala-awar d-at-Magna-Graecia-Film-Fest
… and trying to reestablish good relations with Italy, antiquities-wise:
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2017/08/ 02/zahi-hawass-says-italy-egypt-can-reestablish-relationship_e3bf7cad-125d- 4c2f-8e68-6739af7c4443.html
They’re hyping hidden chambers in the pyramids again:
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/the-great-pyramid-of -giza-is-hiding-mysterious-chambers-that-could-be-about-to-reveal-their-secret s/news-story/ba28e717d3018b8bd23efa38232ada2d
Medieval/Islamic Period Coptic inscriptions from the St Beshoy monastery:
http://www.menafn.com/1095671887/Egypt--Coptic-inscriptions-accidentally-di scovered-at-ancient-monastery
Concerns for the Al Mandara Mill:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/274604/Heritage/Islamic/ Construction-will-not-encroach-on-Alexandrias-hist.aspx
Concerns that a Baghdad pipeline is damaging sites:
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/07/bismayah-gas-pipeline-iraq -baghdad.html#ixzz4oKr0Xdni
Suggestion that Catal Huyuk was war-free for 4000 years:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/no-wars-in-catalhoyuk-for-4000-years-.aspx ?pageID=238&nid=116245&NewsCatID=375
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/03/catalhoyuk-4000-years-of-pea ce-without-war
No, it’s not an ancient fidget spinner:
https://www.livescience.com/60022-ancient-fidget-spinner-lookalike-is-weapon .html
The site of Julias may have been found:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/New-evidence-of-Lost-City-of-Julias-unearth ed-near-Sea-of-Galilee-501701
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/christian-archaeologists-may-have-u nearthed-lost-kinneret-city-of-3-apostles/2017/08/06/
Using seals to confirm the existence of Biblical names:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/researcher-gives-seal-of-approval-to-53-biblical- characters-existence/
Feature on Tiberias:
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.805152
Lawrence Schiffman on a Talmud-burning incident in the 13th century:
http://lawrenceschiffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/ when-talmud-was-burned.pdf
More on evidence for the burning of Jerusalem some 2600 years b.p.:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/bible-passage-jerusalem-burning- city-david-capture-accurate-archaeologists-burnt-artefacts-ash-a7871286.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/archaeological-find-jerusalem-proves-bible-pass age-historically-true-123315016.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/2600-year-old-archeological-discovery-shows-biblical- passage-be-true-2574781
In case you missed the Canaanite-DNA-in-Lebanon story:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/science/ancient-canaanites-bible-lebano n.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2017/present-day-leban ese-are-direct-descendants-of-ancient-canaanites
More on that Byzantine wine press:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/byzantine-wine-press-found-isra eli-desert-180964243/
Suggestion that ISIL mostly targets Islamic sites:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/isis-destruction-of-ancient-sites -hits-mostly-muslim-targets.aspx
… and a feature on the folks who trade it for them:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-men-who-trade-isis-loot-1502017200
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Plenty of excitement over the find of a ‘little Pompeii’ (not really) in France:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/02/world/europe/france-roman-neighborhoo d-sainte-colombe-vienne.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20170802-archaeologists-unearth-little-pompeii-s outheast-france
https://www.thelocal.fr/20170801/france-archaeologists-uncover-little-pompeii https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/02/france-archaeologists-uncove r-little-pompeii-south-of-lyon
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/roman-ruins-france-lyon-vien ne-little-pompeii-discover-site-archaeologists-benjamin-clement-a7874386.ht
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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-40800527 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/02/welcome-little-pompeii-roman-nei ghbourhood-discovered-france/
http://www.dw.com/en/little-pompeii-discovered-in-southern-france/a-39930664 http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/25541-archaeologists-unearth-roman-relics https://www.grazia.fr/culture/arts-architecture/une-petite-pompei-decouverte-d ans-la-vienne-862803#
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/archaeologists-unearth-little-pompeii-in-sou theastern-france/
http://mentalfloss.com/article/503324/archaeologists-uncover-little-pompeii-bu ried-beneath-ash-france
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/little-pompeii-of-vienne-is-most-except ional-excavation-of-a-roman-site-in-40-or-50-years/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/welcome-little-pompeii-roman-neighbourhood-10 2254259.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/archaeologists-uncover-little-pompeii-southeast- france-151035362.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/c/video/c2f8fb1e-791d-11e7-8c17-533c 52b2f014
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/04/541538827/uncovering-a-little-pompeii-in-france http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/08/04/little-pompeii-discovered-near-lyon-i n-f?videoId=372252489&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=WorldNews&video
Channel=117760
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/europe/95480069/Little-Pompeii-found-in-souther n-France
https://hyperallergic.com/394056/archaeologists-discover-a-little-pompeii-in-s outhern-france/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-little-po mpeii-eastern-france-180964311/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5781-170802-france-roman-neighborhood
A 2500 years bp sarcophagus containing the bones of a male and female
from Antandrus:
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/07/31/contents-of-2500-year-old-sar cophagus-discovered-in-turkeys-balikesir-revealed
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5774-170731-turkey-antandrus-sarcophagus
A 1500 years bp burial at the Carthage Circus:
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.804548
Latest from the dig at Troy:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-unveil-mysteries-of-trojan-war. aspx?pageID=238&nid=116282&NewsCatID=375
Hotel construction in Sophia is continuing despite the discovery of Roman
ruins on the site:
http://www.novinite.com/articles/181956/Construction+of+a+Luxury+Hotel+is+ Continuing+in+Sofia+Despite+the+Discovery+of+an+Ancient+Roman+Necrop
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https://www.balkaninsight.com/en/article/roman-tombs-vanish-under-hyatt-hot el-in-bulgaria-08-01-2017
Feature on that chariot race mosaic recently found on Cyprus:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/ancient-mosaic-cyprus-roman-ch ariot-race-archaeology-spd/
Digging has resumed at Lagina:
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/03/archaeological-excavations-to -resume-at-turkeys-ancient-site-of-lagina
Excavations are done at Geronissos for the season:
http://in-cyprus.com/archaeological-excavations-at-geronissos-island-complet ed/
A Swiss team will be working at Orikum:
http://www.tiranatimes.com/?p=133433
Evidence of an ancient earthquake at Assos:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/traces-of-ancient-earthquake-in-assos-.aspx ?pageID=238&nid=116328&NewsCatID=375
… they also found an 1800 years bp stylus:
http://www.trtworld.com/life/archaeologists-discover-1800-year-old-writing-tool -in-turkey-415564
First we read that an ancient theatre was found beneath a school in Antalya:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-theater-found-under-school.aspx?p ageID=238&nid=116147&NewsCatID=375
… then officials were denying it:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/culture-ministry-denies-claims-about-ancien t-theater-under-antalya-school-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=116219&NewsCatID=3
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Plans for Dorchester’s Roman market:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-40800400
Another dustup over race in the Roman Empire:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/dna-romans/535701/
Cf:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/27/alt-right-commentator-gets-sch ooled-historian-diversity-roman/
A hoard of Roman silver found in Fife three years ago is going on display:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40778533 http://www.fifetoday.co.uk/news/roman-silver-discovered-in-fife-set-to-go-on-na tional-display-1-4518615
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15445164.Silver_hoard_found_by_teena ge_detectorist_will_be_shown_for_first_time_at_National_Museum_of_Scotla
nd/
http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/livingston-teen-s-roman-silv er-find-to-go-on-display-1-4519009
The Boldre Roman Hoard is going on display too:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-40768334
On the Roman view of suicide (in an Antony and Cleo context):
https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/07/31/mark-antony-cleopatra- and-the-roman-perception-of-suicide/
… and some of the finds made by Classical archaeologists this summer:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/08/05/classical-archaeologist s-found-a-lot-of-amazing-things-this-summer/
A cinaedus in the Roman army?:
https://theconversation.com/a-trans-soldier-in-the-ancient-roman-army-81735 https://www.livescience.com/60010-trans-soldier-ancient-roman-army.html http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/A-trans-soldier-in-the-ancient-Roman- army-11726126.php
http://www.greenwichtime.com/news/article/A-trans-soldier-in-the-ancient-Rom an-army-11726126.php
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/A-trans-soldier-in-the-ancient-Roman-army- 11726126.php
Feature on Xanthos:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/city-of-sorrows-wait-for-visitors-.aspx?pageI D=238&nid=116191&NewsCatID=375
Looks like the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles might be part of the Brexit negotiations:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/04/greek-mep-demands-elgin-marble s-become-part-brexit-negotiations/
http://www.ekathimerini.com/220696/article/ekathimerini/news/brexit-could-se e-return-of-parthenon-sculptures
Peter Jones’ latest in the Spectator:
https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/08/beauty-and-the-beasts-2/
Features on Christos Tsirogiannis (see also the Museum section):
https://www.wsj.com/articles/meet-the-looted-antiquities-sleuth-1501694182 http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/08/04/meet-the-greek-archaeologist-chasing- looted-antiquities-but-shunned-by-greece/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26643-report-greek-archaeolo gist-chases-looted-antiquities.html
http://publicradioeast.org/post/archaeologist-who-hunts-stolen-art
Feature on that Warrior Grave dig:
https://www.hamilton.edu/news/story/griffin-warrior-grave-pylos-greece-archae ology-anne-feltovich-jessica-williams-classics
What Patrick Burns is up to:
http://isaw.nyu.edu/news/library-research-spotlight-patrick-j-burns
A guide to the Iliad:
http://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-homers-iliad-80968
An interesting mosaic purchase in France:
https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2017/french-museum-buys-ancie nt-mosaic-from-auction-in-monaco/
A Colossus of Rhodes connection to Game of Thrones?:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/how-the-colossus-of-rhodes-inspired-game-of-th rones
Finding parallels between ancient Greece and the modern US:
http://news.stanford.edu/2017/08/02/ancient-rome-influence-usa-examined-ne w-class/
The Castle Howard antiquities collection has been ‘saved for the nation’:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15455045.Castle_Howard_art_saved_for_na
tion/
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/northyorkshire/ryedale/ 15455364.Castle_Howard_artefacts_acquired_for_the_nation/
Albania is trying to figure out what to do with all the shipwrecks off its shores:
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-sunken-treasures-albania-coastal.html http://thechronicleherald.ca/world/1491350-wrecks-sunken-treasures-lie-under -albanias-coastal-waters
http://www.tribtown.com/2017/08/02/eu-albania-underwater-treasures/
On ancient Greek colour words:
https://aeon.co/essays/can-we-hope-to-understand-how-the-greeks-saw-their-w orld
On DH Lawrence and the Etruscans:
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/d-h-lawrence-among-the-etruscans/
Latest coverage of attempt to read Herculaneum papyri:
http://physicsworld.com/cws/article/news/2017/aug/01/x-rays-pick-out-letters-o n-ancient-scrolls
Hadrian’s Wall Visitors’ Centre has opened:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-40732385
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Studying Neolithic Irish funeral practices:
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-secrets-ancient-irish-funeral-revealed.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uoo-soa080217.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2017/neolithic-irish-fun erary-rites-included-deconstruction-of-the-body
A Pictish fort find in Scotland (we may have mentioned this):
https://www.livescience.com/59990-pictish-fort-unearthed-in-scotland.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/dark-ages-fort-built-mysterious-142500919.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dig-finds-new-artifacts-europes-l ost-people-180964289/
Iron Age (and other eras) find from a Malthouse Farm construction site:
http://www.getsurrey.co.uk/news/surrey-news/malthouse-farm-iron-age-settle ment-13384916
Plans to investigate/feature on a 2500 years bp vitrified fort near Ben Nevis:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/mystery-of-2-500-year-old-hillfort-by-ben-nevi s-to-be-probed-1-4520808
Interesting 17th century plague burial from London:
http://www.newsweek.com/medieval-graveyard-london-body-snatchers-plague -bedlam-644250
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5777-170801-london-body-snatchers
Tram construction in Antwerp revealed ‘massive’ 16th century wall remains:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-belgium-archaeology-gate-idUSKBN1AH4SX http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/news/95441101/16th-century-walls-unearthed-in-A ntwerp
http://www.novinite.com/articles/181899/'Monumental'+16th+Century+City+W alls+Unearthed+by+Antwerp+Tram+Works+in+Belgium
http://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/2105015/antwerp-studies-500 -year-old-walls-discovered-belgian-city
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5780-170801-antwerp-city-walls
A 17th century infirmary from Trnava:
https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20618066/archaeologists-uncover-remains-of-infirm ary-in-trnava.html
Assorted finds from a Portsmouth dredging operation:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-40787660 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/01/german-bomber-36-anchors-hum an-skull-found-portsmouth-dredged/
Finds from various periods at an Exeter student housing construction site:
http://www.devonlive.com/incredible-roman-finds-unearthed-during-exeter-stu dent-flats-development/story-30470457-detail/story.html
Feature on Scotland’s ‘top six’ archaeological sites:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/15446761.Six_stunning_site s_unearthed_in_search_for_Scotland_s_hidden_gems/
http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/scotland-s-top-six-historical- hidden-gems-revealed-1-4519550
http://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/six-stunning-sites-unearthed-in-sear ch-for-scotland-s-hidden-gems-1-4519285
On mapping shipwrecks and war dead in and around the Orkneys:
https://www.livescience.com/60041-famed-shipwrecks-and-war-graves-mappe
d.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5788-170804-hms-vanguard-shipwreck
They never did finish that castle in Longtown:
http://www.kidderminstershuttle.co.uk/news/regional/herefordshire/15449090. Dig_reveals_village_castle_was_left_unfinished/
Funding for the Sheffield Castlegate revamp:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-40775382
Restoration of a 12th century Myndtown church is complete:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-40750160
Plans for the Sutton Hoo site:
http://www.ipswichstar.co.uk/news/4m-project-to-transform-sutton-hoo-experie nce-for-visitors-gets-go-ahead-1-5136309
Day of Archaeology post from Must Farm:
http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/waterlogged-wonders-from-must-farm-bronz e-age-boats-bowls-boxes-and-buckets/
More on the Bronze Age wheat ‘lunchbox’:
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-archaeologists-key-tracking-ancient-wheat.html http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2017/bronze-age-box-c ontaining-ancient-wheat-found-in-swiss-alps
More on the display of St Cuthbert’s coffin:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-40763079
More on moonlit ritual stones at Davidstow:
http://www.camelford-today.co.uk/article.cfm?id=108583&headline=Is%20ston e%20most%20decorated%20in%20southern%20Britain?§ionIs=news&sea
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Very interesting Bronze Age burial from Omsk:
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/features/ancient-warrior-unearthed-marc hing-to-afterlife-with-his-dagger-drawn-wearing-stylish-earrings/
Plenty of coverage for the find of a large statue at Angkor Wat (or Angkor
Thom … the description varies):
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-archaeologists-angkor-wat-large-statue.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/01/ancient-statue-unearthed-at-c ambodias-angkor-temple-complex
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40788658 https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/for-archaeologists-a-dream-find-at-angk or-park-133096/
http://www.khmertimeskh.com/5075891/angkor-era-guardian-statue-found/ http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/archaeologists-angkor-wat-find-l arge-buried-statue-48946319
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11897813 https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-statue-unearthed-cambodias-angkor-co mplex-044729516.html
http://artdaily.com/news/97927/Nearly-two-metre-tall-ancient-statue-unearthed- at-Cambodia-s-Angkor-complex
http://gizmodo.com/magnificent-sandstone-statue-uncovered-near-legendary-c -1797426629
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/singapore-field-schools-excavation-at- angkor-wat-unearths-ancient-guardian-statue ‘
http://www.straitstimes.com/singapore/how-singapore-team-uncovered-ancien t-guardian-statue-in-angkor-wat
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/angkor-wat-archaeological-park-s tatue-khmer-empire-spd/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5776-170801-cambodia-angkor-thom-statue
Latest from Beijing’s Summer Palace:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-08/01/content_30312196.htm http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1058870.shtml
A well-preserved 12th century mummy from the Zeleny Yar necropolis (I think
we mentioned this one):
http://metro.co.uk/2017/08/04/mummy-found-with-perfect-hair-and-eyebrows-af ter-900-years-6829532/
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/world-news/635210/Mummy-Arctic-Circle-Rus sia-polar-princess-eyelashes-hair-intact-archeologists-discovery
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/06/900-year-old-mummy-of-polar- princess-discovered-near-arctic-circle
China and India are fighting over who originated Tibetan medicine:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/world/asia/unesco-tibetan-medicine-indi a-china.html
… while an old map might reignite a dispute between Japan and South Korea:
http://www.dw.com/en/156-year-old-map-may-reignite-japan-south-korea-islan d-dispute/a-39966162
Concerns for a Gupta era shivlingam in Bundi:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/five-foot-long-shivlingam-from-gu
pta-era-lies-neglected-in-bundi/articleshow/59888278.cms
More on the early arrival of humans in Australia:
https://www.livescience.com/59874-humans-arrived-australia-65000-years-ag o.html
More on those recently-found petroglyphs from Australia:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rangers-fighting-fires-uncover-ab original-rock-art-180964276/
More on deciphering oracle bones:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/museum-offers-15000-letter-deci phering-oracle-bones-180964213/
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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ===============================================================
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NORTH AMERICA
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Some 3000 years bp footprints from Arizona:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/backhoe-archaeology/ 535827/
Excavating a Groswater site on Newfoundland:
http://www.thelabradorian.ca/community/2017/7/31/uncovering-a-2000-year-ol d-settlement.html
http://www.cbncompass.ca/community/2017/7/31/uncovering-a-2000-year-old- settlement.html
http://www.northernpen.ca/community/2017/7/31/uncovering-a-2000-year-old-s ettlement.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5775-170731-canada-seal-processing
Plenty of unmarked burials around a Virginia church:
http://pilotonline.com/news/local/history/at-least-unmarked-graves-discovered -around-virginia-s-oldest-church/article_544e0757-feed-537a-b863-281b74de8 466.html
Latest from the Queen’s Marque site:
http://thechronicleherald.ca/novascotia/1491121-another-relic-discovered-at-q ueen%E2%80%99s-marque-site
Followup to the Fort Macleod story from last week:
http://globalnews.ca/news/3637690/archaeologists-dig-up-new-artifacts-at-hist oric-fort-macleod-town-site/
Feature on audioarchaeology at Chaco Canyon (again):
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-soundscapes-pastadding-dimension-archaeolo gical-picture.html
http://theconversation.com/soundscapes-in-the-past-adding-a-new-dimension-t o-our-archaeological-picture-of-ancient-cultures-80861
https://www.livescience.com/60040-chaco-canyon-soundscape-revealed.html http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Soundscapes-in-the-past-Adding-a-new-di mension-11730169.php
Studying Clovis points:
https://phys.org/news/2017-07-cultural-diversification-early-north-american.ht ml
Feature on the Camp Verde meteorite:
http://azdailysun.com/lifestyles/columnists/ask-a-ranger-unearthing-the-myste ry-behind-the-meteor/article_3894f8d2-bbfb-5f0d-8d6c-2b3daacb7feb.html
That canoe found in Louisiana a few months ago has been conserved:
http://www.kxxv.com/story/36056242/texas-am-conserves-prehistoric-canoe http://www.kplctv.com/story/36057278/texas-scientists-say-la-flooding-unmas ked-prehistoric-canoe
A potential slave burial site in Brooklyn:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/04/nyregion/19th-century-diary-suggests-sl aves-are-buried-in-brooklyn-lot.html
Plans to preserve a burial mound at Fort Smith:
http://5newsonline.com/2017/08/03/team-set-to-preserve-indian-mound-locate d-in-center-of-fort-smith/
More on the development of maize crops in early North America:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170803141056.htm https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142813/#038;%23038;%23038;campaig n_id=RSS%7CNSNS-
More coverage of the dig at Louisbourg:
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/rescue-archaeology-project-a ims-to-give-new-insights-into-louisbourgs-history/article35839489/
?cmpid=rss1
https://www.sootoday.com/national-news/skeletons-can-tell-you-a-lot-exhumin g-remains-at-18th-century-fort-684265
http://lethbridgeherald.com/news/national-news/2017/07/30/skeletons-can-tell- you-a-lot-exhuming-remains-at-18thcentury-fort/
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/why-archaeologists-are-exhuming-skeletons-at -an-18th-century-cape-breton-fort-1.3525281
http://globalnews.ca/news/3636032/unb-students-head-to-cape-breton-to-perfo rm-rescue-archaeology-before-graveyard-disappears/
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Peruvian archaeologists are getting tired of alien mummy claims:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/08/how-to-fake-an-alien-mu mmy/535251/
http://news.ku.edu/2017/08/03/documentary-exploring-evidence-extraterrestri al-life-ancient-peru-based-pseudoscience
Possible discovery of the tomb of the first historian of the Americas:
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/07/27/inenglish/1501149491_780251.html
Studying lakes around Machu Picchu:
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,415114,polish-divers-discover-se crets-of-the-inca.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5783-170803-machu-picchu-lakes
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
http://goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ===============================================================
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Assorted coverage of Passchendaele:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40767601 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-40739915 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-40669719
… and WWI trenches in England:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/05/miles-of-forgotten-trenches-d ug-in-england-during-first-world-war-unearthed-again
… and more Jane Austen:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/03/books/jane-austen-tour-england.html
Humans and megafauna extinction again:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/what-happened-worlds-most- enormous-animals-180964255/
… and altering forests:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/mpif-hhb080117.php
… and building farms/cities much earlier than previously thought (not sure about this one):
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/evidence-that-humans-had-farms-300 00-years-earlier-than-previously-thought/
Feature on some interesting medieval statuary that was recently
rediscovered:
https://phys.org/news/2017-08-scientists-mystery-luckless-apostles-paris.htm
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I don’t think we’ve mentioned the Lusitania telegraph find/recovery:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/telegraph-recovered-wreck-lusita nia-180964267/
A recovered Basquiat might be a forgery:
https://www.artforum.com/news/id=70089
Feature on assorted art movements:
https://hyperallergic.com/393700/art-movements-215/
… and sexual innudendo in assorted art:
https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-not-so-subtle-sexual-innuendo-ren aissance-art
Feature on Mozart:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/classical-music/forget-amadeus-real-tragedy -behind-mozarts-final-act/
Feature on John Dowland:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170801-the-ed-sheeran-of-16th-century-en gland
Feature on the Book of Miracles:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2017/aug/04/the-book-of-mi racles-16th-century-german-illustrated-manuscript
Feature on petroglyphs in various places:
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/08/03/540805776/animal-images-in-pre historic-rock-art-looking-beyond-europe
http://nhpr.org/post/animal-images-prehistoric-rock-art-looking-beyond-europe
Victor Nuovo is back to Spinoza:
http://www.addisonindependent.com/201708victor-nuovo-spinoza-pursuit-truth -means-peace-and-piety
On the ‘decipherment’ of assorted languages:
http://www.thedailybeast.com/inside-the-deadly-pursuit-of-unsolved-language
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More on the Sistine Chapel:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-40734899
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ===============================================================
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King Arthur:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-40725177
Chagall:
http://www.npr.org/2017/07/31/540515346/art-exhibit-features-chagalls-works-f or-ballet-and-opera
Hokusai:
http://www.nippon.com/en/views/b02336/
Tiffany Mosaics:
http://www.npr.org/2017/08/03/540891752/tiffany-is-known-for-lamps-and-stain ed-glass-but-he-made-magical-mosaics-too
Ancient Glassmaking:
http://artdaily.com/news/97980/Unprecedented-exhibition-highlights-the-artistr y-and-technical-virtuosity-of-glassmakers-in-the-ancient-world
The Met got a pile of attention for a looted vase in its collection (again) that it
returned:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/31/arts/design/ancient-vase-seized-from-m et-museum-on-suspicion-it-was-looted.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
https://www.artforum.com/news/id=70087 https://hyperallergic.com/393527/metropolitan-museum-greek-vase-looted/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/08/01/540930943/met-museum-t urns-over-ancient-vase-suspected-looted-from-italy
… and shortly after that was returning a bull’s head in its collection to Lebanon:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/01/arts/design/met-museum-relic-lebanon.h tml?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://www.standardrepublic.com/2017/08/met-museum-turns-over-another-reli c-with-disputed-past-to-prosecutors/11107.htm
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2017/08/03/US-tug-of-w
ar-over-disputed-relic-from-Lebanon.html
http://observer.com/2017/08/met-museum-turns-over-two-looted-objects-to-aut horities/
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