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explorator 20.34 December 17, 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, Jan Pieter van de Giessen, David Critchley, Barbara Saylor
Rodgers, Rick Heli, Bob Heuman, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W.
Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no
one out).

n.b. As often this time of year, I will be unsure of internet access
next week, so it is likely that next week's issue might have to be
postponed. Enjoy the holiday period, whatever you're celebrating
(Hanukkah, Festivus, Christmas, Saturnalia, and any I've missed).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Studying the locomotion of early Pleistocene hominins:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-locomotion-hominins-pleistocene-efficient- current.html

On human/Neanderthal interaction:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/11/science/where-did-neanderthals-come-f rom.html

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AFRICA
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Searching for shipwrecks associated with the slave trade:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-africa-42313939/hunting-the-shipwrecks- of-the-slave-trade

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A pair of 3500 years bp tombs from Luxor:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-egypt-archaeologists-mummy-luxor.html http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/283041/Heritage/Ancient-Egy pt/Two-ancient-Egyptian-New-Kingdomera-tombs-opened-a.aspx https://www.livescience.com/61163-two-ancient-egyptian-tombs-discovered.
html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/egypt-mummy-ancient-tomb- ministry-antiquities-luxor-draa-abou-naga-thebes-discovery-a8101846.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/70445d55-bfa8-31d1-88b5-c6b59d9ca6b6/ ss_two-3,500-year-old-tombs.html http://www.dw.com/en/archaeologists-discover-two-ancient-tombs-in-egypt/ a-41724358 https://www.thedailybeast.com/two-3500-year-old-tombs-discovered-in-egyp
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https://www.yahoo.com/news/egypt-archaeologists-discover-mummy-luxor-164 725835.html http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/3500-year-old-tombs-uncover ed-in-egypt-one-has-a-mummy.aspx https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/two-3500-year-old-tombs-opened -egypt-180967490/
https://www.archaeology.org/6154-171117-luxor-two-tombs

3000 years bp child burials (and more) from Gebel el Silsila:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/285343.aspx https://phys.org/news/2017-12-archaeologists-uncover-burial-sites-statue
.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-42364085 https://www.livescience.com/61209-children-graves-gebel-el-silsila.html http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/archaeologists-uncover-burial -sites-statue-egypts-aswan-51785320 http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/3500-year-old-mummified-child-corpses-found-by- archaeologists-egypt-1651579 http://www.archaeology.org/news/6208-171214-egypt-aswan-artemis

A pair of Late Period fortresses near Ismailia:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/12/12/2-late-period-fortresses-discovere d-near-ismailia/ http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/generalnews/2017/12/15/ strength-of-egypts-canal-of-the-pharaohs-re-emerges_c62069d4-0e29-4c4b-a 5b7-b30231622743.html

Feature on Qurna:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/greatest-clash-egyptian-archaeolo gy-fading-anger-lives-on-180967452/

On challenges at Heliopolis:

https://www.thenational.ae/world/mena/egypt-s-heliopolis-archaeologists- face-modern-problems-at-ancient-site-1.685084

Various spins on this Tiberias menorah find:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-uncover-bittersweet-end-of- 1800-year-old-tiberias-menorah/ http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Ancient-menorah-inscribed-on-stone-slab -discovered-in-Tiberias-mosque-517797 https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/12/13/israeli-archaeologists-reveal-hanu kkah-related-discoveries-on-eve-of-holiday/

A Hasmonean-era lamp find:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/in-porcupines-den-mother-and-daughter-disc over-2200-year-old-hasmonean-lamp/ http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Mother-and-daughter-discover-ancient-cl ay-lamp-from-Hellenistic-period-517808 http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/12/12/israeli-archaeologists-reveal- hanukkah-related-discoveries-on-eve-of-holiday

… and  I  think we mentioned this Hasmonean-era town find:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/239259

On the wool trade in Hazor, 3500 years bp:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.828899

A Muslim burial ground is deemed not old enough to delay roadwork:

https://www.haaretz.com/.premium-1.828459

Feature on Judaean Desert texts outside of Qumran:

http://thetorah.com/proto-masoretic-text/judean-desert-texts-outside-qum
ran/

Feature on archaeology in Kuwait:

http://www.kuna.net.kw/ArticleDetails.aspx?id=2668697&language=en

Feature on some interesting Negev petroglyphs:

http://asorblog.org/2017/12/12/visitors-intermediate-bronze-age-crescent -headed-figures-negev-rock-art/

More on the origins of the Natufian culture:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/New-research-challenges-origins-of-anci ent-Middle-East-Natufian-culture-517349  

More on those ‘structures’ in Saudi Arabia:

https://www.livescience.com/61203-ancient-stone-structures-saudi-arabia- photos.html http://www.archaeology.org/issues/283-1801/trenches/6194-trenches-saudi- arabia-lava-mounds

More on that cuneiform find from Iraqi Kurdistan a while back:

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/283-1801/trenches/6187-trenches-iraq- bronze-age-tablets ================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Latest finds from Corinth’s harbour:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/dec/14/new-underwater-discoveri es-in-greece-reveal-ancient-roman-engineering http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/28862-new-excavations-in- ancient-greek-harbour-of-corinth-reveal-roman-engineering.html https://www.archaeology.org/news/6209-171214-greece-lechaion-harbor

Feces from Kea reveal all sorts of parasites and the like:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-ancient-feces-reveal-parasites-earliest.ht
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uoc-afr121117.php http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/ancient-faeces-reveal-parasites-descr ibed-in-earliest-greek-medical-texts https://www.livescience.com/61198-hippocrates-poop-parasites-proof.html http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-greek-parasites-plagued-bronze-age-islan d-feces-reveal-749167 http://www.ibtimes.com/ancient-poop-shows-greeks-had-parasitic-worms-con firms-historic-texts-2629142 https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/12/15/archaeologists -find-intestinal-worms-in-burials-from-the-time-of-hippocrates/
#2a2624e66c4e https://www.archaeology.org/6212-171215-hippocrates-intestinal-parasites

Rome revoked Ovid’s exile the other day:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/16/ovids-exile-to-the-remotes t-margins-of-the-roman-empire-revoked http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/15/better-late-never-rome-revoke s-exile-poet-ovid-2000-years-death/ http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2017/12/14/rome-revokes-ovi ds-exile_b9612e94-50f7-45ce-a179-4b3d9ada49fc.html

Marking the beginning of Saturnalia:

http://www.mainlinemedianews.com/mainlinesuburbanlife/opinion/as-i-see-i t-ancient-roman-saturnalia-festival-beckons-area/article_6b6e9e83-b21a-5 5f1-b94f-da7b0c4b4582.html

On brothels in Pompeii:

https://theconversation.com/the-grim-reality-of-the-brothels-of-pompeii-
88853

Cf: http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/secret-lives-ancient-roman-sex-workers-unco vered-pompeii-graffiti-1651562

On the realities of homosexuality in ancient Greece:

https://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-myth-of-the-ancient-greek-g ay-utopia-88397

What Mary Beard is up to (assorted things related to her *Women and
Power*):

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/historian-mary-beard-connects-greek-myths-twit ter-trolls-121636961.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/books/review/podcast-mary-beard-women -power.html

… and campaigning for Classics:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-south-yorkshire-42341632

What Richard Thomas is up to (*Why Bob Dylan Matters*):

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2017/12/professors-book-probes-th e-influence-of-ancient-poets-on-bob-dylan/

Review of Emily Wilson’s *Odyssey* translation:

http://www.eugeneweekly.com/20171214/lead-story/tell-me-old-story

Review of Emily Katz Anhalt’s book on myth:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/books/review-enraged-emily-katz-anh alt-yale-university-press

On ancient grants of immunity:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/12/11/trump-mueller-and-th e-ancient-history-of-grants-of-immunity/#1703ec2059f1

Latest Homerathon:

http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/schools/ac-cn-homerathon-20171214-sto ry.html

A somewhat strained attempt to tie climate change to the fall of Rome:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2017/12/15/climate-change-rome/ #.WjaDaLSpln4
http://www.sanduskyregister.com/story/201712080027

More on plans to charge admission to the Pantheon:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/rome-pantheon-chargi ng-visitors-may-2018-tickets-start-a8107516.html https://www.thelocal.it/20171212/romes-pantheon-monument-church-charging -visitors-2-fee-may https://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-tourism-pantheon/ancient-roman- pantheon-to-start-charging-entry-fee-in-2018-idUSKBN1E51Q6

More on that tomb from Orchomenos:

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/283-1801/trenches/6196-trenches-greec e-mycenaean-chamber-tomb

More on additional finds from the Antikythera shipwreck:

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/283-1801/trenches/6192-trenches-greec e-antikythera-bronze-statue

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Studying the ‘efficiency’ of a 5000 years bp club from the Thames:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-neolithic-thames-beater-person.html https://www.livescience.com/61140-prehistoric-wooden-club-weapons.html http://www.ibtimes.com/archaeologists-recreate-ancient-murder-watch-how- people-were-beaten-death-2627452 http://www.archaeology.org/news/6206-171213-neolithic-skull-injuries

Bronze Age burial on the shore of Loch Ness:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15771572.Mystery_of_the_4_000_year_ol d_Loch_Ness_grave/ http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-42351956 https://www.archaeology.org/6214-171215-scotland-cist-beaker

A Celtic hoard from Jersey:

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/12/16/celtic-coins-found-in-fiel d-could-be-next-major-hoard/

Studying some burials of Anglo Saxon women:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/12/12/anglo-saxon-gr aves-show-older-women-were-not-respected-in-death/#7bbbc09818b6

Interesting finds from a medieval church cemetery in Norway:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-historic-unearthed-medieval-cemetary.html https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/archaeological-findings-v ikings-13122017/

I  think we mentioned this medieval burial from Plovdiv:

http://www.novinite.com/articles/186189/Medieval+Grave+Excavated+in+Sout hern+Bulgaria http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-human-skeleton-discovered-buried-mysteri ous-arrow-chest-archaeologists-747096 http://www.archaeology.org/news/6202-171212-bulgaria-medieval-plovdiv

English Civil War coins from Nottinghamshire:

http://www.nottinghampost.com/news/local-news/metal-detector-enthusiasts -find-english-918285

Finds from various periods from Long Melford:

https://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/news/digs-unearth-evidence-of-long-me lford-s-ancient-history-1-8285197

Studying ‘provincial governance’ in the Middle Ages:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/dgo-goa121317.php

Seems appropriate that a football player whose jersey has AIA
emblazoned on it ( i .e. Tottenham) would find a pile of archaeological
items during a renovation (Tottenham still lost to Man City):

https://www.standard.co.uk/sport/football/tottenham-news-spurs-star-mous a-dembele-finds-1m-treasure-in-hotel-basement-a3720861.html https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/667454/Tottenham-Hotspur-Sp urs-Premier-League-Mousa-Dembele-hotel-Belgium-Antwerp

Interesting medieval burial from Dundee:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-42311255 https://www.eveningtelegraph.co.uk/fp/dig-dundees-howff-unearths-hidden- treasures/

Pondering the anglo-saxon origins of the English:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-idea-english-common-anglo-saxon-myth.html

Expectation of Culloden relics at a housing site:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/archaeologists-warn-of-culloden-relic s-at-housing-site-1-4638783

More on the “phallic Stonehenge” theory:

http://nationalpost.com/news/world/stonehenge-cast-phallic-shadows-for-f ertility-cult-study-suggests-others-think-thats-bonkers http://www.montrealgazette.com/news/world/stonehenge+cast+phallic+shadow s+fertility+cult+study/16247827/story.html http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/europe/stonehenge-is-a-fertil ity-monument-built-to-cast-penis-shadows-says-study/news-story/ 214556288fb5ef3744f47046181037a5 https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/stonehenge-casts-ph allic-shadows-as-part-of-cults-fertility-play-36396275.html

… perhaps related (from the Onion):

https://www.theonion.com/historians-uncover-evidence-stonehenge-once-pro minent-d-1821339070

More on that windmill doodle at Isaac Newton’s early home:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6157-171211-england-newton-graffiti

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Remains of early humans from Borneo:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-evidence-early-humans-jungles-ofborneo.htm
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https://theconversation.com/we-found-evidence-of-early-humans-in-the-jun gles-of-borneo-87336

A Song Dynasty tomb from Shanxi:

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/283-1801/trenches/ 6189-trenches-china-song-tomb

… not sure if this one with ‘soup bowls’ is the same as the above ( I  don’t think it is):

https://www.livescience.com/61170-china-tomb-full-of-soup-bowls.html https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/666560/ancient-soup-bowl-Zh ou-Shaanxi-China-Baoji-City-skeleton-discovery-humans-tombs-treasure http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/soup-soul-ancient-chinese-ritual-tureen-bowls-d iscovered-zhou-dynasty-era-tomb-1651317 http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-tomb-full-soup-bowls-found-china-745919 https://www.archaeology.org/news/6201-171212-china-ritual-tureen

… but this might be:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/a/201712/13/WS5a30dd5ea3108bc8c672facd.html


The Tusi fortress in Hunan had an elaborate drainage system:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/10/c_136815457.htm

Studying Maori use of obsidian:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11958208&r
ef=rss
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6203-171212-new-zealand-obsidian

Burials of British soldiers from Ruapekapeka Pa:

https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/te-manu-korihi/346241/british-soldiers-lo st-graves-uncovered-at-ruapekapeka http://www2.nzherald.co.nz/northland-age/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503402&o bjectid=11960524 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11960494 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/history/news/article.cfm?c_id=500832&objectid= 11960524&ref=rss https://www.stuff.co.nz/auckland/local-news/northland/99890611/ remains-found-at-ruapekapeka-p http://www.archaeology.org/news/6213-171215-battle-ruapekapeka-pa

Remains of a 19th century pub from Sydney:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-12-11/200-year-old-wheatsheaf-hotel-ruin s-in-paramatta/9247362 https://www.archaeology.org/news/6156-171211-australia-early-pub

More on those 12 000 years bp fish hooks from Indonesia:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-archaeologist-world-oldest-funereal-fish.h
tml
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/anu-aaf121117.php https://www.livescience.com/61206-ancient-fishhooks-found-in-burial.html

http://www.smh.com.au/act-news/anu-archaeologist-finds-worlds-oldest-fun eral-fish-hooks-in-indonesia-20171211-h02fio.html http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-fishing-hooks-found-burial-site-could-re write-our-understanding-744265 https://www.archaeology.org/news/6155-171211-alor-fish-hooks

More on petroglyphs from Indonesia:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-indonesian-island-unusually-rich-cave.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/anu-iif121217.php http://www.archaeology.org/news/6211-171214-kisar-rock-art
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NORTH AMERICA
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Followup to the find of a dugout canoe in Florida last October:

http://staugustine.com/news/local-news/2017-12-16/it-s-beautiful-specime n-dugout-canoe-may-be-first-found-area

On medicine in George Washington’s time:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/george-washingtons-hard-death- shows-limits-medicine-his-time-180967531/

A couple of centuries ago they almost razed Independence Hall in
Philadelphia:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/amazon-or-independence-hall-devel opment-v-preservation-city-philadelphia-180967463/

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Feature on Seville Heritage Park (Jamaica):

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/283-1801/trenches/6197-trenches-jamai ca-seville-heritage-park

Feature on that Waka royal burial from a while back:

https://www.archaeology.org/issues/283-1801/trenches/6191-trenches-guate mala-waka-maya-tomb

Studying teeth from Lake Titicaca:

https://sciencetrends.com/tooth-wear-lake-titicaca-basin-foragers-signal s-processing-wild-tubers-prior-domestication/

An astronomical observatory from Cusco:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-peru-ancient-astronomical-observ atory-found-in-cusco-692974.aspx

Other Wari finds from Cusco:

https://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Pre-Hispanic-Temple-of-the-Wari-C ivilization-Found-in-Peru-20171215-0008.html

Feature on an Aztec map and 1500s Mexico:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/rare-aztec-map-mexico-codex- quetzalecatzin/

More on Venezuelan petroglyphs:

https://www.livescience.com/61155-drone-maps-ancient-rock-art-venezuela.
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/ucl-vra120517.php

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A Waldseemuller map at auction was questioned for authenticity this
week:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/10/arts/design/why-experts-dont-believe- this-is-a-rare-first-map-of-america.html

Some pieces on Hanukkah:

http://atlantajewishtimes.timesofisrael.com/
the-true-miracle-of-chanukah/ http://www.sdjewishworld.com/2017/12/13/chanukah-in-myth-and-history/

Early feature on the magi:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/ jesus-historical-jesus/bible-scholar-brent-landau-asks-%E2%80%9Cwho-were -the-magi%E2%80%9D/

Some Raphaels were identified at the Vatican:

http://www.cnn.com/style/article/raphael-paintings-vatican/index.html

Feature on Lord Sligo:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/the-irish-lord-who-freed-jamaic a-s-slaves-1.3327194

Feature on Sir Hans Sloane:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-private-collector-who-made-the-briti sh-museum/

Feature on Emilie du Chatelet:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/five-things-know-about-french- enlightenment-genius-emilie-du-chatelet-180967561/

MI5 was looking at Vere Gordon Childe:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/skara-brae-archaeologist-was-mi5-targ et-8qqnzxm6l

Belgium has ended its telegram service:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-42359914

How potatoes brought peace to Europe (sort of):

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-potatoes-peace-humble-tuber-conflict.html

On the origins of Hummus:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171211-who-invented-hummus

… and the cheese wheel:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/12/15/569399619/reinventing-th e-cheese-wheel-from-farmhouse-to-factory-and-back-again

Review of Manet, *Growing Up with the Impressionists*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/08/books/review/growing-up-with-impressi onists-julie-manet-diary.html

More on early use of meteoric iron:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/early-iron-dagger-was-a-gift-from-the -gods-scientists-say-d37gmpf2j

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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Watlington Hoard:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15712459.Viking_hoard_worth___1_3m_to_go _on_show_in_York/

Langston Hughes:

https://news.yale.edu/2017/12/08/christmas-lift-holiday-lines-langston-h ughes-view-beinecke?utm_source=YNemail&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=yn- alumni-12-11-17

Greek Money:

https://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2017/12/human-face-money

Gurlitt:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171212-the-nazi-art-hoard-that-shocke d-the-world

Scythians:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/stepping-out-in-style-with-the-scythians
/

Pompeii:

http://knau.org/post/brain-food-unlocking-hidden-life-ancient-pompeii

Cultures in Clay:

https://news.vanderbilt.edu/2017/12/11/cultures-in-clay-exhibit-showcase s-4000-year-old-writing-system/

The British Museum has some new Asian galleries:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/dec/12/amaravati-buddhist-art-b ritish-museum
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-12/15/c_136826717.htm

Protests over the removal of some Catalan items from a city museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/dec/11/scuffles-break-out-as-artw orks-removed-from-catalan-citys-museum

… Background: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/12/10/catalonia-brace d-violence-judge-orders-seizure-disputed-religious/

Italy’s National Jewish Museum opened:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/national-jewish-museum-opens-in-italy/

How selfies are affecting art museums:

https://www.npr.org/2017/12/13/570558113/i-came-i-saw-i-selfied-how-inst agram-transformed-the-way-we-experience-art

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Scans of a pair of mummies from Aswan reveal early (possibly earliest)
examples of breast cancer:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/12/171214101215.htm https://phys.org/news/2017-12-oldest-cases-breast-cancer-myeloma.html

This appears to be a different mummy scan:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2017/12/egyptian_mummy_secrets_re vealed_at_crouse_hospital.html

On use of virtual reality at archaeological sites:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-virtual-reality-world-inaccessible-archaeo logical.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/virtual-reality-allowing-see-s ome-worlds-most-inaccessible-archaeological-sites-180967534/

Cf: this tour of a Pictish cave:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-create-3d-model -mysterious-bone-filled-cave-scotland-180967443/

High tech analysis of ancient artwork:

https://phys.org/news/2017-12-scientists-ancient-artwork.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/uoc--sfu121117.php

On the facial reconstruction front, we have a Wari noble woman:

https://www.livescience.com/61216-ancient-wari-queen-reconstructed.html https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/12/wari-noblewoman-queen-el-cas tillo-face-reconstruction-archaeology/ http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-face-peruvian-queen-buried-gold-and-jewe ls-revealed-first-time-1200-747907 http://www.vancouversun.com/news/world/experts+facial+reconstruction+tec hnology+bring+ancient/16293267/story.html

… and a soldier from the Battle of Dunbar:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-42311397 https://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/reconstruction-technology-rev eals-the-face-of-17th-century-scottish-soldier-36407043.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/6210-171214-soldiers-battle-of-dunbar

Cf: https://www.dur.ac.uk/archaeology/research/projects/europe/
pg-skeletons/

Spy satellites reveal sites in Afghanistan:

https://www.livescience.com/61197-silk-road-outpots-revealed-by-spy-sate llites.html http://www.newsweek.com/afghanistan-thousands-ancient-sites-including-11 9-football-field-sized-camel-748425 http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/12/spy-satellites-are-revealing-afgh anistan-s-lost-empires https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/893072/afghanistan-mystery-solved-s ilk-road-spy-satellite-unesco-history-archaeologists http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/spy-satellites-found-thousands-taliban-threaten ed-silk-road-archaeological-sites-afghanistan-1651783 http://www.archaeology.org/news/6205-171213-afghanistan-mapping-project

They’re finding some interesting things about palimpsests:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/archaeologoists-only-just-beginni ng-reveal-secrets-hidden-ancient-manuscripts-180967455/


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DNA in Peru suggests the arrival of the Incas was met with some
resistance:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-12/mpif-gpt120817.php https://phys.org/news/2017-12-genetics-ancient-resistance-inca.html

Interesting study of Irish DNA:

https://www.archaeology.org/6207-171213-ireland-genetic-map

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Bristol tunnels:

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/journey-through-castle-pa rks-hidden-934313#ICID=nsm

Quedlinburg:

http://www.dw.com/en/exploring-quedlinburg/av-41808141 http://www.dw.com/en/world-heritage-site-quedlinburg/av-38950919

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CRIME BEAT
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A Torah from Turkey turns out to be fake:

http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/middle-east/162528-171212-an cient-torah-uncovered-in-turkey-actually-a-crude-fake-experts

Looters at Hurvat Dvora claimed they were hunting porcupines:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/just-hunting-porcupines-claims-antiquities -robber/ http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Six-antiquities-thieves-arrested-for-lo oting-protected-northern-sites-517949

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/12/culture-crime-news-27-nov ember-11-december-2017.html

conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

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

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

SAFE:

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

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
The Vatican is returning some items to Ecuador:

http://artdaily.com/news/101052/Vatican-returns-shrunken--warrior--head- to-Ecuador
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=news&p=1324662

More on items being returned to Lebanon from the US:

https://www.courthousenews.com/new-york-bids-bon-voyage-to-marble-statue s-looted-from-lebanon/ http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2017/12/16/Manhattan-prosecutor- returns-3-ancient-sculptures-worth-5-mln-to-Lebanon.html http://www.wsbtv.com/news/manhattan-prosecutor-returns-3-ancient-sculptu res-to-lebanon/664529300 http://www.archaeology.org/news/6215-171215-statues-lebanon-repatriated ================================================================
NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n51.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n52.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
Dido and Aeneas:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/15/arts/music/dido-aeneas-purcell.html ================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/ 2673-audio-news-from-archaeologica-3-december-2017-9-december-2017

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CONFERENCES
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Theoretical Archaeology Group (Dec. 2017):

http://tag2017cardiff.org/

Hidden Cultural Heritage (April 2018):

http://www.cicop.net/hch/

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

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

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

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