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explorator 20.28 November 5, 2017 ===============================================================
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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, Rick Heli, Allan Brockway, Bob
Heuman, Stan Nadel, Don Buck, Tim Parkin, David Emery, Richard C.
Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
A lot of 'borderline' archaeology coverage this week for some reason
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Returning to the Neanderthal-sapiens interbreeding theme:
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mating-neandertals-reintroduced-lost -dna-modern-humans
Homo sapiens “outlasted” Neanderthals, apparently:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/01/ humans-didnt-outsmart-the-neanderthals-we-just-outlasted-them/
http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/humans-didnt-outsmart-the-neandertha ls-we-just-outlasted-them
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/01/humans-didnt-outsmart-neanderthals- outlasted-them/
On early hominid tool-making:
https://www.zmescience.com/science/information-sharing-stone-age/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Easily the big archaeology story of the week was the suggestion that
cosmic rays had helped detect a ‘great void’ in the Great Pyramid:
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/30637/Cosmic-ray-imaging-finds-hidde n-structure-in-Egypt-s-Great
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/science/pyramids-giza-void.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/02/archaeolgists-discover-m ysterious-void-deep-within-great-pyramid-of-giza
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41845445 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-pyramid/cosmic-ray-imaging-fin ds-hidden-structure-in-egypts-great-pyramid-idUSKBN1D21IY
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/98511341/Cosmic-rays-reveal-mysteri ous-void-in-Egypts-Great-Pyramid
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/11/02/mysterious-void-great-pyra mid-giza-could-finally-reveal-pyramids/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/particle-physicists-detect-mysterious-big-120 012396.html
https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/great-pyramid-giza-void-disc overed-khufu-archaeology-science/
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/cosmic-rays-outer-sp ace-pyramids/544574/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/02/ cosmic-rays-reveal-mysterious-void-in-egypts-great-pyramid/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cosmic-ray-particles-reveal-s ecret-chamber-in-egypts-great-pyramid/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/scientists-confirm-theres-a-myst erious-void-in-the-great-pyramid/
http://www.newsweek.com/giza-great-pyramid-ancient-egypt-secret-chamber- everything-you-need-know-700085
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/02/561468384/scientists-s ay-theyve-found-hidden-space-in-great-pyramid-of-giza?sc=17&f=1001
http://www.smh.com.au/world/cosmic-rays-reveal-mysterious-void-in-egypts -great-pyramid-20171102-gzdxqm.html
http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/11/how_scient ists_discovered_a_massive_hole_in_the_great_pyramid.html
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/01/ciencia/1509537816_384789.html http://www.ibtimes.co.in/giant-void-discovered-khufus-great-pyramid-giza -help-cosmic-rays-748085
… and the Ministry wasn’t happy how it was announced:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/280880/Heritage/Ancient-Egy pt/ScanPyramids-mission-rushed-in-announcing-discover.aspx
http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/egypt/egypt-critical-of-hasty-pyramid-anno uncement-1.2118124
http://abcnews.go.com/International/great-pyramids-previously-hidden-voi d-hailed-scientists-dismissed/story?id=50907655
… and it was quickly pointed out that this void has long been known:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/280853/Heritage/Ancient-Egy pt/Void-within-Great-Pyramid-of-Giza-not-a-new-discov.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com/newly-discovered-gap-khufu-pyramid-alrea dy-known-zahi-hawass/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/egypt-archaeologist-criticises-pyramid-void-d iscovery-135656899.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/11/04/what-archaeolo gists-want-you-to-know-about-the-great-pyramid-void/
http://www.france24.com/en/20171104-egyptian-archaeologist-criticises-vo id-discovery-great-pyramid-khufu-tomb
Eight Old Kingdom burials from near Luxor (not sure if we’ve had this
one yet):
https://qtelegram.com/egypt-a-tomb-of-the-pharaonic-era-reveals-eight-mu mmies/15946
A number of tombs, including a ‘cursed’ one, near the Pyramids have
also been opened:
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-tomb-cursed-giza-pyramid-workers-r eopen-698463
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/egypt-cursed-tomb-opened-public-fi rst-time-discovery-30-years-ago-1042560
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-egypt-cursed-tomb-men-163957956.html
Assorted coverage remembering the discovery of Tut’s tomb:
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/30912/Today-in-history-tomb-of-king- Tutankhamun-discovered
https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2017/11/04/On-This-Day-Howard-Carter-finds- King-Tutankhamens-tomb/6971509765493/
http://www.postandcourier.com/charleston_scene/celebrate-discovery-of-tu t-s-tomb-and-unlocking-of-egyptian/article_7176313a-bd7e-11e7-863b-bf290 a8f2503.html
The Djoser Pyramid wll soon be inaugurated:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/30085/Djoser-Pyramid-to-be-inaugura ted-in-2017
A solar eclipse mentioned in Egyptian records and the Bible (associated
with Joshua) apparently has been identified (expect skepticism on this
one):
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171029220104.htm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/30/first-solar-eclipse-ever-reco rded-took-place-3000-years-ago/
https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/oldest-recorded-solar-eclipse-helps- date-the-egyptian-pharaohs
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egyptian-and-biblical-texts-reveal-oldes t-known-solar-eclipse-and-695921
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Miracle-described-in-Book-of-Joshua-may -have-been-earliest-recorded-solar-eclipse-510903
https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/30/ciencia/1509320354_876281.html
Remains of a pregnant woman found in the purported King Solomon’s
Mines:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archaeologists-discover-rare-remains-of -pregnant-woman-in-King-Solomons-Mines-510965
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.820180 http://www.ibtimes.com/archaeologists-find-pregnant-womans-skeleton-anci ent-copper-mines-israel-2608677
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/pregnant-egyptian-woman s-remains-discovered-in-king-solomons-mines/2017/11/01/
https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/11/01/israeli-archaeologists-unearth-pre gnant-womans-remains-at-king-solomons-mines/
This claim of the discovery of Naboth’s Vineyard didn’t make it into
any mainstream source:
https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/eric-metaxas/yet-another-find-biblica l-proportions-naboths-vineyard-discovered
… or the so-called ‘footprints of God’ (plenty of ‘iffy’ things this week, no?):
http://www.pulse.ng/communities/religion/archaeologists-find-footprints- of-god-near-river-jordan-id7527794.html
A 1500 years bp ‘chicken’ from Kinneret:
http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/247954/woman-goes-swimming-in-the-kinner et-stumbles-on-priceless-1500-year-old-relic
On the Bible and archaeology:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.818795
Lawrence Schiffman on the Dead Sea Scrolls:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Seventy-years-of-the-Dead-Sea-S crolls-510977
… and a feature on an important one:
https://www.jewishlinknj.com/features/21409-the-most-important-dead-sea- text-a-lost-paragraph-from-the-book-of-samuel
Hype for a book on ancient Israel:
http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2017/10/uw-religion-today-the-ancient-israel ites-through-archaeology,-history-and-text.html
Hopes for learning from renovations to the Orukaya Dam:
https://www.dailysabah.com/environment/2017/10/30/2200-year-old-dam-will -shed-light-on-climate-and-vegetation-change-in-northern-turkey
Studying copper mining in Jordan:
http://menafn.com/1096039902/Jordanian-scholar-digs-deep-into-copper-min ing-in-ancient-times
Iran blocked a rally planned at the tomb of Cyrus the Great:
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/29/10/2017/Iran-blocks-illegal-rall y-at-ancient-king-s-tomb
https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-blocks-illegal-rally-ancient-kings-tomb- 153458425.html
… and there was some sort of ‘plot’?:
https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-foils-plot-involving-tomb-of-cyrus-the-gr eat/4090877.html
Another feature on ISIL’s attacks on culture:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/the-crumbli ng-of-a-culture-islamic-states-attack-on-antiquity/news-story/7b268c5fdb 3d0db588812cb8d6b768c0
… and they’re apparently selling plenty of things on eBay, Facebook,
etc.:
http://observer.com/2017/11/isis-selling-stolen-artifacts-on-ebay-amazon -facebook-whatsapp/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
An interesting ‘lion helmet’ dating to the Punic Wars:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.821064
Remains of a silver Thracian wreath from Bulgaria:
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6060-171031-bulgaria-silver-wreath
Archaeologists may have found the site of the Serdica mint:
http://www.novinite.com/articles/184942/Archaeologists+May+Have+Found+Mi nt+of+Ancient+Roman+City+Serdica+in+Bulgaria%E2%80%99s+Capital+Sofia
Suggestion that pagans in late Roman Palestine embraced Christianity ‘quickly’:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.820696
Tomb finds from Roman Corinth/Tenea:
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-greece-haul-jewels-and-golden-coins-unco vered-2000-year-old-tombs-698275
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/11/02/haul-of-jewels-and-gold-coins -uncovered-in-ancient-greek-city-of-tenea/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27963-ancient-artifacts-u nearthed-from-2-000-year-old-tombs-in-corinth-greece.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6064-171101-greece-tenea-tombs
A Roman era gold necklace from Heraclea Sintica:
http://www.novinite.com/articles/184888/Ancient+Roman+Gold+Necklace+Disc overed+by+Archaeologists+in+Ancient+City+Heraclea+Sintica+in+Southwest+B ulgaria
Some Roman skeletons from Ramsgate:
http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/roman-era-skeletons-uncovered-13
4703/
A sarcophagus cover from Gumushane (Turkey):
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/11/03/construction-workers-find- ancient-sarcophagus-cover-in-turkeys-gumushane
On underwater archaeology off Naxos:
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27964-underwater-search-o ff-naxos-island-coast-yields-rich-finds.html
There will be plenty of interest in Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate -the-odyssey-into-english.html
https://boingboing.net/2017/11/04/emily-watsons-translation-of.html
Pondering the plague of Cyprian:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/solving-the-mystery- of-an-ancient-roman-plague/543528/
On sex and violence in ancient art:
https://qtelegram.com/violence-and-sex-the-shocking-art-of-the-ancient-r emeasured/16242
On the aqueduct on Samos:
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/thematic-tourism/ 27937-wondrous-eupalenion-aqueduct-of-samos-declared-international-landm ark-of-engineering.html
Feature on Honor Frost:
https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20171029/life-features/ Honor-Frost-a-legacy-in-the-field-of-underwater-archaeology.661705
What Robert Harris is up to:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/robert-harris-author-of-the-cicero-tr ilogy-on-the-bloody-lessons-from-rome-ignored-by-todays-leaders-flx2brnb
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What Ann Woods is up to:
http://ucsdguardian.org/2017/10/31/professor-ann-woods-from-the-louvre-t o-the-lecture-hall/
Rethinking how the Portland Vase was made:
https://newatlas.com/portland-vase-mystery-solved/51958/
On historians’ involvement in Assassin’s Creed:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/assassins-creed-origins-historian-1 .4382255
… but criticism for the portrayal of Cleopatra:
https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/11/2/16593124/assassins-creed-orig ins-cleopatra
On the ancient Long Jump:
https://ancientsport.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/reconstruction-of-the-anci ent-long-jump/
On Greek marathons:
https://sports.yahoo.com/greek-marathons-where-runners-pit-themselves-ag ainst-history-025847609.html
On Scythian tattoos:
https://blog.britishmuseum.org/ancient-tattoos-getting-under-the-skin-of -the-scythians/
On making mosaics at the Zeugma Museum:
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/11/02/learning-the-art-of-mosaic -making-at-zeugma-mosaic-museum-southeast-turkey
Concerns for Hadrian’s Wall:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/10/31/hadrians-wall-succumbing-f oreign-invasion-nearly-2000-years/
On William V Harris:
http://gothamist.com/2017/11/01/columbia_professor_steps_down.php
More on the drinking water at Pompeii:
http://sciencenordic.com/pompeii-residents-were-screwed-volcanic-eruptio
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More on the Roman ‘theatre’ in Jerusalem:
http://www.entertainment-news.online/2017/11/02/archaeologists-just-exhu med-ancient-roman-theater-tell-us-jerusalem-western-wall/
Review of Harper, *The Fate of Rome*:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/review-romes-cosmic-retribution-1509133738
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Identifying ‘Torbrex Tam’ as Stirling’s oldest resident:
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/stirlings-oldest-resident-r evealed-4000-11449217
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bronze-age-farmer-tam-is-earliest-cit y-resident-r29fhm7jn
A Pictish petroglyph of a ‘big nosed warrior’ from near Perth:
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/rare-pictish-carving-of-big-nosed-warr ior-found-near-perth-1-4602051
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/536172/ historic-pictish-stone-found-during-multi-million-pound-perth-roadworks- project/
http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/significant-pictish-stone-u nearthed-road-11461229
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/31/martin-luth er-shook-the-world-500-years-ago-but-did-he-nail-anything-to-a-church-do
or/
They’re still not sure about skeletons buried in Halton Castle:
http://aboutmanchester.co.uk/mystery-of-the-halton-castle-skeletons-deep
ens/
Latest in the mapping of ‘Doggerland’:
http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15640479.Mysteries_of_lost_No rth_Sea_kingdom_of_Doggerland_surfacing___thanks_to_Bradford_researchers
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A 13th century coin is declared treasure:
http://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk/news/medieval-coin-from- 13th-century-france-is-declared-to-be-treasure-1-8839597
Interesting 17th century silver hawk ring:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-41763074
Options to preserve the Sutz Lattrigen neolithic site:
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-ways-neolithic-site.html
Concerns for a 2500 years bp castle near Exmouth:
http://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/news/a-2-500-year-old-castle-near-exmout h-needs-your-help-1-5260692
Possible protection for a site associated with the Battle of
Winwick/Red Bank:
http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/15632934.Field_which_played_a_m ajor_role_in_Second_Civil_War_could_be_protected/
More on the leprotic Viking squirrels:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/10/31/did-the-viking-squir rel-trade-spread-leprosy/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Paleolithic beads from a site in Ningxia Hui:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/30/c_136715334.htm https://www.archaeology.org/news/6058-171031-china-paleolithic-beads
Wells and other signs of a settlement from a site in Beijing:
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1073062.shtml
73 tombs from Zhengzhou:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-11/02/content_34019601.htm
A 2400 years bp burial with horse and chariot from Henan (we may have
mentioned this one):
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/01/c_136720716.htm http://www.dnaindia.com/science/report-archaeologists-discover-2400-year -old-horse-chariot-pit-in-china-2557015
https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/archaeologists-discover-2400year old-horse-chariot-pit-in/1179315
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6063-171101-china-chariot-pit
They’re still looking for Zheng He’s lost ‘treasure ship’:
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2118421/hunt-ming-dynasty -admiral-zheng-hes-lost-treasure-ship-heats
On social inequality in Tahiti 1000 years bp:
http://flathatnews.com/2017/10/31/understanding-social-inequality-1000-y ears-ago-dr-jennifer-kahn-gives-talk-about-culture-in-french-polynesia/
Kyrgyzstan reburied a mummy and there was major political fallout,
apparently:
http://www.tol.org/client/article/27305-kyrgyzstan-archaeology-mummy-psy chics-culture-ministry.html
http://nypost.com/2017/10/31/this-country-is-in-political-turmoil-over-t he-reburial-of-its-only-ancient-mummy/
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/outrage-kyrgyzstan-reburies-only-ancient-mummy -041558361.html
http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/31/10/2017/Outrage-after-Kyrgyzstan -reburies-its-only-ancient-mummy
They’re still arguing over the purpose of the Taj Mahal:
https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/the-claim-taj-mahal-is-tejo-m ahalaya-temple-palace-is-concocted-and-self-built-c/303703
On strange things found along the Silk Road:
https://arstechnica.com/video/2017/10/the-strangest-things-archaeologist s-have-found-on-the-ancient-silk-roads/
Pondering a mystery burial near Sydney Harbour found back in the 1960s:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-02/mystery-burial-aboriginal-woman-ba lls-head-sydney-curious-sydney/9069892
More on that figurine from a potato field in Siberia:
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/10/30/ancient-statuette-discover ed-at-potato-field-in-russia
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NORTH AMERICA
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Digging a site at a Cape Cod farm:
https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/massachusetts/articles/ 2017-10-29/archaeologists-digging-for-ancient-artifacts-at-cape-farm
Excavating Pilgrim-related remains in Massachusetts:
http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20171024/archaeology-teams-come-up-wit h-interesting-finds-in-plymouth
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6055-171027-massachusetts-pilgrim-homes
Excavating a sod house near Iqaluit:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/archaeology-qaummaarviit-inookie-inu it-heritage-1.4383894
https://ca.news.yahoo.com/team-excavates-sod-house-near-111800740.html
On prehistoric hunting on a Lake Huron ridge:
http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2017/10/29/Prehistoric-people-hunted-ca ribou-on-ancient-Lake-Huron-ridge.html
A pile of 18th century remains in Philadelphia were apparently dumped
in a landfill:
https://whyy.org/articles/archaeologist-claims-hundreds-18th-century-phi lly-remains-dumped-landfill/
… possibly related:
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/bones-arch-s treet-construction-site-pmc-orphans-court-20171030.html
The search for the ‘route’ of the first ‘Americans’ continues to be pondered:
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6363/592?rss=1 https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/majority-of-scientists-now-agree -that-humans-came-to-the-americas-by-boat/
… including now the ‘kelp highway’:
https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/the-first-americans-may-have- migrated-along-a-coastal-kelp-highway
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/11/02/ first-americans-kelp-highway/
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6363/604.21
Latest from the Franklin Expedition dives:
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674parks_canada_releases _new_images_of_2017_franklin_dives_in_nunavut/
What Jack Ray is up to:
http://ksmu.org/post/msu-professor-returns-previous-site-continue-diggin g#stream/0
On life in Wyoming, 10000 years bp:
http://planetjh.com/2017/11/01/real-wyoming-natives-for-10000-years-shee peaters-knew-how-to-live-with-nature/
Feature on Clovis points:
http://knau.org/post/earth-notes-clovis-points
Calusa artifacts revealed by Hurricane Irma are headed to a museum:
http://news.wgcu.org/post/hundreds-calusa-artifacts-unearthed-irma-be-cu rated-museum
Feature on Hopewell copper interests:
http://www.dispatch.com/news/20171029/archaeology-copper-was-sacred-to-h opewell-regardless-of-its-source
More on turquoise mining in the southwest:
https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/ua-research-sheds-new-light-early-turqu oise-mining-southwest
Review of Wood, *Friends Divided*:
http://www.npr.org/2017/11/01/560097237/friends-divided-digs-into-the-bu mpy-bonds-between-2-presidents?sc=17&f=1008
Review of Shorto, *Revolution Song*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/books/review/russell-shorto-revolutio n-song.html
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Studying pre Columbian petroglyphs from Puerto Rico’s Mona Island:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uol-nro102717.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171029220108.htm http://www.newsweek.com/puerto-rico-mona-island-cave-art-early-humans-ci vilization-696239
http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/30/ancient-cave-paintings-were-made-by-island ers-tripping-on-drugs-7040130/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lost-art-tainos-culture -british-archaeologists-island-mona-caribbean-a8026321.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/7f4eb5b5-fc7c-3b5f-a1d4-c683b634a24e/ ss_mysterious-rock-art-uncovered.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6057-171030-taino-rock-art
Studying pre-Inka elites:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/pre-inka-elites-and-the-social-li fe-of-fragments
https://phys.org/news/2017-10-pre-inka-elites-social-life-fragments.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/this-fascinating-pre-incan-society-high-andes-l acked-social-hierarchies-1645520
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6072-171103-argentina-infant-urns
Feature on the survival of the church of Santa Prisca de Taxco:
https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/11/02/actualidad/1509650615_533672.html
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
http://goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
On the embalming of Lenin:
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2017/10/29/Learn-the-secret-be hind-the-embalming-of-Vladimir-Lenin-s-body.html
An 18th century painting of Mecca is coming to auction:
https://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2017/10/29/ Rare-1791-painting-of-Mecca-1917-Saudi-diary-up-for-auction-at-Sotheby-s
.html
On the history of locks:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/home-improvement-tips/
history-of-locks/
With Hallowe’en, there were a number of witch-related items this week …
a facial reconstruction:
http://nypost.com/2017/10/31/scientists-recreate-face-of-scottish-witch- using-3d-wizardry/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/31/face-witch-died-1704-digitall y-reconstructed/
… what we’ve learned from Salem:
http://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-salem-says-were-thinking-about-witch es-and-witch-hunts-all-wrong-694200
… and an overviewish sort of thing:
https://www.bustle.com/p/how-long-have-witches-existed-these-ancient-myt hs-about-witches-will-give-you-nightmares-3067204
There were also a number of items related to the 500th anniversary of
the Reformation:
http://www.frontiersman.com/faith/the-th-anniversary-of-the-reformation/ article_376582e8-be73-11e7-86f6-47976545d830.html
http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2017/october/500th-anniversar y-of-reformation.html
… and how it affected beer:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/31/561117731/the-other-refor mation-how-martin-luther-changed-our-beer-too?sc=17&f=1008
On the Neolithic revolution and climate change:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uop-ctn103117.php
Grammar changes, no matter what grammarians think:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/01/resistance-to-changes-in -grammar-is-futile-say-researchers
Interesting item on the search for a lost royal Burma ruby:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-41838026 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/burmese-royal-descendant-on-mission-t o-discover-fate-of-missing-ruby-q2swzn33f
John Donne did more than write poetry:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/nov/03/scurrilous-manuscript-th at-could-have-undone-john-donne-discovered
Pondering Marvel’s Thor:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-smithsonian- folklorist-thinks-about-marvels-cleaned-version-thor-180967052/
Feature on Russian Revolution propaganda posters:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41833406
Gurlitt’s collection is on display:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41850650 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41847096
Why a DaVinci is in a contemporary auction:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/arts/christies-leonardo-da-vinci-auct ion.html
More on that Mary, Queen of Scots portrait revealed by xrays:
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6061-171031-scotland-mary-portrait
Review of Isaacson’s biography of DaVinci:
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/books/review-leonardo-da-vinci-biogra phy-walter-isaacson.html
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Renaissance portfolios:
http://www.newsadvance.com/lifestyles/lynchburg-college-exhibit-features -translated-renaissance-era-folios/article_959e1af9-c181-54ba-9846-41a20 530488e.html
Persepolis:
http://www.rmo.nl/english/exhibitions/fascination-with-persepolis
Nineveh:
http://www.rmo.nl/english/exhibitions/nineveh
Vikings (UK):
https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/reviews/review-vikings-rediscover -legend.htm
Vikings (Canada):
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/new-rom-exhibi t-challenges-common-perceptions-of-thevikings/article36829066/
Scythians:
http://www.kcwtoday.co.uk/2017/10/scythians-warriors-ancient-siberia/ https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/exhibition-review-scythians- warriors-of-ancient-siberia-1.671656
Living With Gods:
https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/arts/living-with-gods-people-places- and-worlds-beyond-exhibition-review-full-of-surprises-a3672171.html
https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/the-british-museum-is-l iving-with-gods-in-a-religious-exhibition
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/exhibition-powerful-makes-cry -living-gods-british-museum-review/
https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21730852-why-humans-need-s piritual-dimension-their-lives-neil-macgregor-living-gods
https://www.ft.com/content/ed8d73ae-bf19-11e7-823b-ed31693349d3
Minoans:
http://brooklynrail.org/2017/11/artseen/Restoring-the-Minoans-Elizabeth- Price-and-Sir-Arthur-Evans
Terracotta Army:
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-10/31/content_33951442.htm
Tut:
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/30657/Tutankhamen%E2%80%99s-gold-bel ongings-to-exhibit-soon
Emotions:
http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2637719/greek-antiquity-and-emot ions-at-acropolis-museum-athens
Catal Huyuk:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/catalhoyuk-skeletons-draw-museum-visito rs-121661
The British Museum won’t have a presence in Abu Dhabi:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museums-deal-with-abudhabi-be comes-history-08d0cpfqv
… but the Louvre connection is getting a lot of hype:
http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/louvre-abu-dhabi/rich-history-of-louvre-par is-to-enrich-abu-dhabi-museum-1.2116379
http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/culture/peek-into-other-museums-through-lou vre-abu-dhabi-1.2117037
Japan is funding a major portion of the Grand Egyptian Museum’s costs:
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/30465/Japan-pays-75-of-Grand-Egyptia n-Museum%E2%80%99s-costs
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using technology to map the Mayan aquifer:
http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/new-technology-helps-map-mayan-aquifer/
On Digital preservation:
https://news.utexas.edu/2017/10/30/preservation-for-the-digital-ages
Latest look at a child mummy:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/3d-scan-2000-year-old-child-mummy/
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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:
http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Morocco:
https://www.ft.com/content/41788bbc-60aa-11e7-8814-0ac7eb84e5f1
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CRIME BEAT
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An attempt to smuggle a 18th century Coptic icon was foiled:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/42/280612/Heritage/Coptic/ Hurghada-airport-officials-foil-attempt-to-smuggle.aspx
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/10/30/authorities-seize-attempt-smugglin g-copper-coptic-icon/
http://www.egyptindependent.com/coptic-artifact-seized-hurghada-airport- smuggled/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6062-171031-egypt-coptic-icon
Feature on forger Islam Akhun:
https://www.kashmirmonitor.in/Details/135443/islam-akhun-the-great-centr al-asian-forger
An apparently looted artifact showed up at TEFAF:
http://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2017/10/29/5938-authorities-seize-a ncient-artifact-at-tefaf-new-york
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/arts/design/ancient-limestone-relief- seized-european-fine-art-fair.html
https://news.artnet.com/market/relief-seized-tefaf-new-york-1132610 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-seize-dealers-persian-plunder- q02qblf3n
A number of items were stolen from Tel Al-Fara’een:
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/30101/79-rare-antiques-stolen-from-T el-Al-Fara-een
Feature on looted antiquities for sale online:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-online-bazaar-for-looted-antiquities-15 09466087
Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime news:
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/10/culture-crime-news-23-29- october-2017.html
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