===============================================================
explorator 18.41-42 January 24, 2016 ===============================================================
If you're having problems getting 'the whole issue', read Explorator online at:
https://exploratornews.wordpress.com/
Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Bob Heuman, Barbara
Saylor Rodgers, Frank MacKay, Allan Brockway, Karen Crawford, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always
hoping I have left no one out).
================================================================
EARLY HOMINIDS
================================================================
Two new hominin fossils from Sterkfontein:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-south-africa-sterkfontein-caves-hominin.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uotw-sas021116.php
Latest from Qesem Cave suggests some early hunter-gatherer types were eating turtles/tortoises:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/02/science/hunter-gatherers-turtle-qesem-cave-israel.ht
ml?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss&_r=0
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-turtle-soup-perchance-prehistoric-penchant.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/afot-tsp020116.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160201151657.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/when-cave-dwellers-got-the-mu
nchies-they-turned-to-roasted-tortoise/2016/02/08/4f934736-c9c6-11e5-ae11-57b6aeab99
3f_story.html
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=31523 http://news.yahoo.com/prehistoric-man-enjoyed-roasted-tortoise-appetizers-israeli-archa
eologist-103247188.html
Sediba apparently had a ‘weak jaw’:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-early-human-ancestor-didnt-jaws.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3433594/Early-humans-glass-jaws-cracke
d-simply-biting-nuts-Fossils-dispute-claims-2-million-year-old-species-ate-seeds-tree-bar
k.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline#ixzz3zbpMEHwu
General feature on Neanderthals:
http://www.theguardian.com/guardian-masterclasses/2016/feb/12/human-evolution-under
standing-neanderthals-origins-species-course-masterclass
Suggestion that ‘cultural superiority’ of sapiens led to Neanderthals’ demise:
http://news.stanford.edu/news/2016/february/neanderthals-feldman-culture-0204.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-neanderthal-extinction-due-human-cultural.html http://phys.org/news/2016-02-humans-evolved-technology-culture.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/tuob-heb020216.php http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3426706/Neanderthals-wiped-modern-hum
ans-ARTISTIC.html
Heidelbergensis was no slouch, apparently:
http://www.senckenberg.de/root/index.php?page_id=5210&year=2016&kid=2&id=3895
On the gorilla-human split:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-gorilla-fossil-humans-million-years.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
Timbuktu has ‘recovered’ its mausoleums:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=84878
Studying the San people’s hunting tradition:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2016/researchers-study-poison-ar
row-hunting-tradition-of-the-san
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uok-nrs020116.php
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A 4500 years b.p. funeral boat find:
http://praguemonitor.com/2016/02/02/czech-archaeologists-find-unique-4500-year-old-bo
at-egypt
http://iforumeng.cuni.cz/IFORUMENG-578.html http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-boat-in-egyptian-
necropolis
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-archaeologists-unearth-unique-egyptian-boat.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archeologists-find-rare-4500-year-old-egypt
ian-funerary-boat-180958020/
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/archaeologists-uncover-4500-year-old-funeral-boat-fro
m-ancient-egypt-and-its-extraordinarily-preserved
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/4500-year-old-boat-found-near-pyramids-
160202.htm
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/well-preserved-solar-boat-foun
d-under-egyptian-tomb/news-story/02963385455499a1d163f9d522fa21ea?from=public_a tom
http://www.christianpost.com/news/archaeology-discovery-4500-y-o-funeral-boat-found-n
ear-egyptian-pyramid-156466/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3426564/Ancient-Egyptian-boat-discovered
-near-pyramids.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Some guys were trying to sell pieces of one of the pyramids:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/186879/Egypt/Politics-/Three-arrested-for-
breaking-off-and-selling-pieces.aspx
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/africaandindianocean/egypt/12147062/
Three-arrested-for-selling-Giza-Pyramid-stones-for-20.html
… and Egyptian archaeologists called for better security:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/186973/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egyptian-a
rchaeologists-call-for-tougher-security-.aspx
… and someone claimed a journalist was harming tourism by reporting it:
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/antiquities-official-blames-journalists-harming-to
urism-through-pyramids-stone-selling-video
Another guy got in trouble for climbing a pyramid and videoing the whole thing:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/186663/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/German-te
en-faces-life-ban-from-Egypt-after-scalin.aspx
A pile of antiquities are missing from the Saqqara galleries:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/187462/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Investigati
ons-underway-on-disappearence-of--artef.aspx
People were griping about a Karnak Amun-Re restoration:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/186849/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Karnak-Am
unRe-statue-not-recently-restored-as-clai.aspx
Some followup (wrong word) from the Khentkaus III excavations:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3427852/Did-climate-change-end-reign-pha
raohs-Queen-s-tomb-sheds-light-dark-period-ancient-Egypt-4-600-years-ago.html?ITO=14
90&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/02/01/researcher-says-discovery-in-tomb-of-ancie
nt-egyptian-queen-could-be-a-present-day-warning/#038;%23038;%23038
http://www.ibtimes.com.au/discovery-archeologists-bashed-skull-queen-egypt-sparks-en
d-world-speculations-1503238
Recreating Hetepheres’ throne:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/2016/02/09/throne-fit-for-egyptian-queen-created-harvar
d-years-later/ayNHkuhHvwwSnsMYsacQOL/story.html
On identifying mummies:
http://www.livescience.com/53636-mummy-identification-still-uncertain-science.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/mummy-identification-still-uncertain-sci
ence-160208.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/mystery-mummies-who-are-they-photos-
160208.htm
What Zahi Hawass is up to:
http://www.novinite.com/articles/173005/Egypt's+'Indiana+Jones'+to+Reveal+Details+of
+Tutankhamun's+Death+in+Sofia+Lecture
Looting in Iraq brought to light a fragment of the Epic of Gilgamesh:
https://aeon.co/opinions/how-looting-in-iraq-unearthed-the-treasures-of-gilgamesh
A hiker found a seal of Thutmose III in Israel:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207422 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/hiker-discovers-3500-year-old-egyptian-seal-in-galilee
/2016/02/02/
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.701007 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israeli-hiker-discovers-3500-year-old-Egyptian-seal-in-
Galilee-443605#xtor=EPR-1-[Newsletter]
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3431618/Ancient-Egyptian-scarab-seal-exti
nct-volcano-Israel-3-500-year-old-carving-represents-Pharaoh-Thutmose-III-resembles-Mi
llennium-Falcon.html
Feature on the Gath dig:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/the-big-gath-dig-goliath-s-hometown/
… and a Timna dig update:
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x3q6x1d
More on Babylonian astronomy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/01/29/science/babylonians-clay-tablets-geometry-astrono
my-jupiter.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/babylonians-tracked-jupiter-with-fancy-math-tab
let-reveals/
Pondering Jerusalem’s terraces:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.701948
Concerns for the Western Wall:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/207375 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Prominent-archaeologist-claims-Western-Wall-constru
ction-will-cause-irreparable-damage-443604
… and it sounds like it might turn into a saga:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-Antiquities-Authoritys-campaign-against-religious-plura
lism-at-the-Western-Wall-443519
On Biblical spelling errors:
http://www.purdueexponent.org/campus/article_b9cb2b07-e7e0-5122-8859-566e15c9256
4.html
This new Synagogues website is worth a look:
http://synagogues.kinneret.ac.il/
What Aren Maeir is up to:
http://www1.biu.ac.il/indexE.php?id=33&pt=20&pid=33&level=2&cPath=33&type=1&news
=2594
Nice feature on Khaled al Asaad:
http://www.apollo-magazine.com/one-museums-tribute-to-the-murdered-syrian-archaeolo
gist-khaled-al-asaad/?utm_source=Adestra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=201602 04_Weekly_Round_Up_5
An ancient Omani ruler burial:
http://timesofoman.com/article/76572/Oman/Heritage/Archaeological-team-discovers-Anci
ent-Omani-ruler
OpEds on ISIL and cultural heritage:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/02/05/isis-erasing-our-cultural-heritage-in-syria/
http://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2016/02/the-looting-of-syrias-archaeological-treasures/
459996/
================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Evidence of silver mining near the Mycenean acropolis at Thorikos, some 5000 years
b.p.:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160210110630.htm http://phys.org/news/2016-02-years-silver-shores-aegean-sea.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/gu-s5y021016.php
Tracing the source of marble preserved underwater at Baia:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-manganese-source-submerged-roman-marble.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160210110802.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/f-sf-lam021016.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2016/discovering-the-source-of-m
arble-used-in-roman-buildings
Very interesting Roman fresco found in London:
http://www.mola.org.uk/blog/discovery-ornate-roman-fresco-revealed http://artdaily.com/news/84809/Roman-fresco-hidden-beneath-the-streets-of-London-unco
vered-by-archaeologists-
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/roman-wall-painting-discovered-in-london-419891
Remains of a major temple with a huge arcade at Colchester:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/12150373/Remains-of-e
xtraordinary-Roman-arcade-found-in-Colchester.html
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/extraordinary_roman_arcade_found_in_colchester_is_greate
st_find_of_its_kind_1_4412792
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3440402/Enormous-Roman-arcade-Essex-
magnificent-temple-400ft-long-arched-structure-largest-kind-UK.html
http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/14265990.display/
Roman road found during Hadrian Wall car park construction:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-35511868
A Roman canal system near the Dead Sea:
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/02/03/roman-era-canal-system-unearthed-near-dead-se
a/
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=31531
A Roman brooch with an interesting palindrome:
http://www.livescience.com/53663-ancient-roman-brooch-contains-lovely-palindrome.htm
l
In case you missed the ‘ancient Greek laptop’ silliness:
http://www.livescience.com/53629-greek-statue-not-using-laptop.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/no-the-ancient-greeks-didnt-have-laptops-
160205.htm
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/02/04/no-thats-not-a-laptop-on-an-anci
ent-greek-grave-marker/#1ec8c885348a
Feature on finds from Tuva (these seem to be Scythian):
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0212-focus-on-tuva-stunning-treasu
res-and-macabre-slaughter-in-siberias-prehistoric-valley-of-the-kings/
… while the ‘Ice Princess’ reburial didn’t work out:
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0574-legal-bid-fails-to-rebury-remains-of-25
00-year-old-tattooed-ice-princess/
Feature on the restored pyramid of Cestius:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/04/romes-lonely-pyramid-of-cestius-gets-a-ne
w-lease-of-life
http://news.yahoo.com/2-000-old-rome-pyramid-getting-visibility-cleanup-175141163.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/2000-year-old-rome-pyramid-getting-visibi
lity-after-cleanup/2016/02/03/317c7338-ca9f-11e5-b9ab-26591104bb19_story.html
Isotope analysis on a pile of 2000 years b.p. burials from Rome suggest there was a
large immigrant population:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-clues-human-migration-imperial-rome.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160210165705.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/p-cah020516.php http://www.livescience.com/53674-first-migrants-to-imperial-rome.html http://www.livescience.com/53672-photos-migrants-to-ancient-rome.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3440906/Who-Rome-s-mystery-immigrant
s-Skeletons-ancient-cemetery-travelled-city-North-Africa-Alps-2-000-years-ago.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0211/Who-walked-the-roads-to-Rome-Isotopes-p
rovide-clues
http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0147585
… related:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-humans-migrants.html
Studying the ‘life cycle’ of Roman pottery:
http://news.uark.edu/articles/33521/u-of-a-researchers-help-capture-lifecycle-of-roman-po
ttery
Plans to restore an important Temple of Augustus in Turkey:
http://www.todayszaman.com/national_ministry-launches-projects-to-restore-ancient-rom
an-temple_411378.html
Very interesting frescoes emerging from a church find in Cappadocia:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/historic-church-discovered-in-turkeys-nevsehir-could-c
hange-history-of-orthodoxy.aspx?pageID=238&nID=94309&NewsCatID=375
Some ancient school lessons:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/12152081/Ancient-Greek-manus
cript-reveal-Roman-life-lessons.html
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/10/ancient-greek-manuscripts-reveal-life-les
sons-from-the-roman-empire
Some Cheshire Roman hoards are on display:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-35560821
I think we mentioned this new mosaic:
http://www.apollo-magazine.com/this-is-the-best-of-the-roman-tradition-a-new-mosaic-unv
eiled-in-israel/
Nice feature on the Lazarus project:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/lazarus-project-the-scientists-who-are-deciphering-unre
adable-ancient-texts
Concerns for Amphipolis:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/205895/article/ekathimerini/life/who-will-save--amphipolis
Conservation costs at Rome:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160202-the-colossal-cost-of-ancient-rome
A Kyrenia ship update:
http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/02/04/project-being-launched-to-protect-kyrenia-shipwreck/
http://in-cyprus.com/bi-communal-kyrenia-shipwreck-protection/
… and a Mazotos shipwreck update:
http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/02/07/a-wreck-of-historic-importance/
LiDAR locates some ‘lost’ Roman roads in the UK:
http://news.yahoo.com/lost-roads-ancient-rome-discovered-3d-laser-scanners-16155939
3.html
http://www.livescience.com/53681-roman-roads-discovered-lidar-maps.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3436936/Britain-s-lost-Roman-roads-disco
vered-2-000-years-Maps-reveal-new-key-route-used-conquer-Northern-England.html?ITO
=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
On the Greeks and MLK Jr:
http://www.rawstory.com/2016/02/how-the-ancient-greeks-contributed-to-martin-luther-kin
g-jr-s-fight-against-racism/
http://news.holycross.edu/blog/2016/02/03/martin-luther-king-jr-in-dialogue-with-the-ancie
nt-greeks/
Plato is still high on college reading lists:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/03/what-ivy-league-students-ar
e-reading-that-you-arent/
A tenure dispute of interest:
http://cookcountyrecord.com/stories/510662929-former-uic-greek-studies-professor-says-
colleagues-torpedoed-tenure-application-demands-4-million
On Alexander the Great’s feeling about beards:
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/03/off-with-their-beards/426873/
Pondering Homer:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/feb/09/can-homers-iliad-speak-acros
s-the-centuries
The annual Super Bowl and Roman numeral opEds:
http://www.newsweek.com/super-bowl-50-nfl-423478 http://wbt.com/latin-teacher-not-happy-about-super-bowl-not-using-roman-numerals/
http://harrisondaily.com/opinion/david-holsted-thinking-xxiv-vii-ccclxv-about-roman-nume
rals/article_b33b88cc-c9fb-11e5-a6ab-cfe6edb7a8dc.html
Something about the Zeugma mosaics:
http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/02/09/anatolian-mosaics-to-be-presented-to-the-
world
On Roman ‘half time’ shows:
http://www.livescience.com/53615-horrors-of-the-colosseum.html
What Nevzat Cevik is up to:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nID=94890&NewsCatID=37 5
What David Mulroy is up to:
http://wuwm.com/post/local-scholars-translation-aeschylus-agamemnon-makes-classic-
more-accessible
More pondering of what ‘Classic’ should be/is:
http://dailyprincetonian.com/news/2016/02/thinking-about-names-and-classics/
More on York ‘gladiator’ DNA and related things:
http://3dprint.com/116934/gladiators-in-britain/
More on Minoan shipwrecks:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeologists-find-bronze-age-shipwreck-off-turkeys-
southwest-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=94665&NewsCatID=375
http://news.az/articles/turkey/104823
Review of Whitmarsh, *Battling the Gods*:
http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2016/02/who-were-first-atheists
Review of Beard, *SPQR*:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/spqr-review-mary-beard-explains-why-ancie
nt-rome-still-matters-20160129-gmham3.html
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/saturdayextra/europe-and-the-limits-of-the-
roman-legacy/7148524
-----
Latest reviews from BMCR:
http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A 9000 years b.p. fish fermentation site from Sweden:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-early-settlement-nordic-region-date.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/e-2fb020816.php https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/09/rotten-luck-archaeologists-hail-unique-
mesolithic-fermented-fish-find
Very interesting 8500 years b.p. upright burials from Germany:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160211-oldest-cemetery-burial-europe-baby
-upright-germany-hunter-gatherer/
Evidence of hunter/gatherers on Skye some 8000 years b.p.:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35533108 http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/nut-eating-hunter-gatherers-lived-on-sk
ye-8-000-years-ago-1-4025200
Bronze Age offerings/burial from Orkney:
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art546824-orkney-sanday-s
keleton-cist-grave-goods
Studying ‘Ava’s’ burial:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35558638
More from Britain’s ‘Pompeii’:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35492599
Iron Age finds from near Falkirk:
http://www.falkirkherald.co.uk/news/local-news/find-forges-a-link-to-our-iron-age-1-402392
2
Excitement about a badger-excavated cremation burial near Stonehenge:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-35523757 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3438781/Exciting-Bronze-Age-cremation-si
te-unearthed-near-Stonehenge-BADGER-Human-remains-4-000-year-old-artefacts-near-an
imal-s-sett.html
… meanwhile, many of the remains found at/near Stonehenge appear to belong to women:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-35461309 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0207/Stonehenge-bigwigs-included-women-stud
y-suggests
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/powerful-women-buried-at-stonehenge-16
0203.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3430211/Stonehenge-burial-pit-Neolithic-el
ite-contains-surprising-number-women-suggests-females-played-key-role-society-rights-
men.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
… a nice photogallery:
http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/pictures/Stonehenge-pictures-years/pictures-280785
33-detail/pictures.html
… and they’re still talking about the road:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-35539796
Remains of a 7th/8th century village on Anglesey:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-35539771 http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/medieval-village-discovered-anglese
y-first-10869422
A ‘mysterious’ Anglo Saxon gold mount find:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-35556202
ALS (isn’t that LiDAR?) reveals some medieval Prussian sites in Poland:
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,408250,laser-reveals-secrets-of-early-medie
val-prussians.html
A site associated with the Massacre of Glen Coe:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35558646
Henry VIII’s head injuries may have influenced his martial behaviour:
http://www.livescience.com/53662-king-henry-viii-head-injuries-behavior.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-henry-viii-brain-injury-nfl.html
They pulled a 600 years b.p. shipwreck intact out of a Dutch river:
http://www.nltimes.nl/2016/02/10/600-year-old-shipwreck-recovered-intact-from-dutch-rive
r/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/medieval-trading-ship-raised-to-surface
-almost-intact-after-500-years-on-riverbed-in-netherlands-a6870221.html
http://uatoday.tv/society/rare-medieval-shipwreck-brought-to-surface-in-the-netherlands-5
89775.html
Those Viking ‘sun crystals’ are back in the news:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-vikings-crystal-sunstones-america.html
The unfulfilled legacy of London’s Great Fire:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35418272
… meanwhile, they’ve figured out exactly (!) where it started:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12109005/great-fire-of-london-origin.html
Funding for Hylton Castle:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-35461671
Jorvik Viking Centre needs funding after the floods:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-35550226
Concerns for Barnard Castle:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-35536991
Hereford Cathedral is replacing a long-missing cross:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-35512338
Restoring the site of the Battle of Waterloo:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/history/10218931/Rescuing-the-farm-where-Wellington-won-th
e-battle-of-Waterloo.html
Trying to save the tradition of writing Britain’s laws on vellum:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/politics/12150896/MPs-plan-last-ditch-bid-to-save-the-th
ousand-year-old-tradition-of-recording-Britains-laws-on-Vellum.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/11/world/europe/critics-ruffled-as-parliament-turns-the-p
age-on-parchment.html
The Vynes’ Henry VIII window has been restored:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-35462455
Plans to tear down Folkstone training camp:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/army-base-where-canadians-trained-in-the-g
reat-war-faces-wrecking-ball/article24012937/
More on Vikings and worms and latrines and stuff:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-genes-latrinesvikings-worms-clues-emphysema.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160204085109.htm
-----
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Some 1700 years b.p. dumplings excavated from a tomb in Xinjiang:
http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/article_xinhua.aspx?id=319752
Some NSFW material (maybe) from a burial in China:
http://www.scmp.com/tech/science-research/article/1908627/sex-toys-or-religious-relics-
wooden-phalluses-found-lost
A study of Chamorros (Guam) migration waves:
http://www.guampdn.com/story/news/2016/02/10/archaeologists-two-waves-chamorro-mi
gration/80097560/
http://www.mvariety.com/cnmi/cnmi-news/local/83672-differences-among-ancient-chamor
ro-remains-bolster-two-migrations-theory
http://www.postguam.com/news/local/differences-among-chamorro-remains-bolster-two-
migration-theory/article_2866db78-ceee-11e5-a18a-77c659e335e7.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-archaeologists-chamorros-migration.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3442186/Archaeologists-present-findings-Cha
morros-migration.html
… and some pre-migration details:
http://www.pacificnewscenter.com/local/7861
An early Lapita site:
http://fijivillage.com/news/New-early-Lapita-site-discovered-in-Bua-krs529/
Finds from the Shamala river:
http://www.realfarmacy.com/ancient-indian-river/
A 900 years b.p. Buddhist temple from Nilphamari:
http://www.thedailystar.net/backpage/900-year-old-temple-found-nilphamari-510211
A 600 years b.p. Ming cup is coming to auction:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=85030
A 19th century shipwreck off West Australia:
http://www.watoday.com.au/wa-news/bunbury-dpaw-site-workers-stumble-across-suspect
ed-19th-century-shipwreck-20160208-gmova3.html
More on that Buddha ‘post hole’ (which apparently isn’t being reported quite accurately):
http://www.chinapost.com.tw/art/arts/2016/02/01/457489/Buddha-post.htm
An interesting ‘Samurai Police Manual’ (for want of a better term):
http://www.livescience.com/53582-samurai-martial-arts-manual-for-cops-revealed.html
On the evolution of the Australian prime minister (sort of):
http://theconversation.com/lacking-a-script-individuals-drove-the-evolution-of-prime-mini
sterial-power-53741
Not sure if we mentioned cat domestication in China:
http://www.livescience.com/53567-leopard-cats-domesticated-ancient-china.html
More on the oldest tea:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=84782
-----
Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:
http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
I think we mentioned these ancient footprints found near Tucson, Arizona:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ancient-footprints-discovered-in-arizona/
… there was also some vandalism near Tucson:
http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/31181585/vandals-strike-ancient-archeological-sit
e-near-tucson
Illegal digging at Fort Ellis:
http://missoulian.com/news/state-and-regional/illegal-dig-at-historic-fort-ellis-prompts-arc
haeological-concerns/article_dc044eb1-8aa1-5982-902d-6be71dbb70af.html
Road construction in Illinois reveals a Cahokia site:
http://www.dailyillini.com/article/2016/02/university-archaeologists-uncover-ancient-settl
ement
A pile of sites (12 000 years b.p in some cases) from Nevada:
http://westerndigs.org/nearly-20-stone-tool-sites-up-to-12000-years-old-discovered-in-nev
ada/
Pondering some Kotzebue finds:
http://www.adn.com/article/20160201/kotzebue-construction-workers-stumble-across-arch
aeological-find
http://www.thearcticsounder.com/article/1605locals_may_provide_clues_to_origins_of
Preserving petroglyphs found on Eagle Mountain (Utah):
http://fox13now.com/2016/02/08/city-officials-developers-work-to-preserve-petroglyphs-di
scovered-in-eagle-mountain/
… related opEd:
http://www.sltrib.com/opinion/3504124-155/op-ed-native-american-rock-panels-are
On the implications of Siberian mammoth finds for North America:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2016/02/07/01-mammoth-find-in-siberia-
could-change-understanding-of-americas-discovery.html
They’re back at the Erebus:
http://phys.org/news/2016-02-underwater-archaeologists-explore-erebus.html
On urban archaeology in New York:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/nyregion/awakening-the-bowerys-ghosts.html?smid=
tw-nytimes&smtyp=cur
On Mardi Gras’ roots in Alabama:
http://www.npr.org/2016/02/08/465758335/for-mardi-gras-les-bon-temps-rouler-in-mobile-
ala-too
Arguing over Acoma traditions:
http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-11510-the-professor-and-the-pueblo.html#.Vq50
JUk7xb8.facebook
Something about squash:
http://mennoworld.org/2015/11/23/feature/cmu-squashes-false-tale-with-story-of-growing-
relations/
George Washington’s still is back in the news:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/14/upshot/george-washington-the-whiskey-baron-of-mou
nt-vernon.html
Some Abe Lincoln stuff:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/02/12/abraham-lincoln-happy-birth
day-kentucky-illinois-indiana/80280914/
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Latest from the Jaguar City:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160209-honduras-lost-city-archaeology-disc
overy-jaguar-sculptures-photos/
Pre-Conquest remains in Buenos Aires:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2405467&CategoryId=14093
90 sites from Arequipa (Peru):
http://www.andina.com.pe/ingles/noticia-90-archaeological-sites-found-in-arequipa-peru-5
96905.aspx
An ‘upgrade’ in UNESCO status of Machu PIcchu:
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-unesco-machu-picchu-improves-and-leaves-endange
red-heritage-list-108730
There’s a ‘chill’ in the art market:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/08/arts/international/inklings-of-a-chill-in-the-art-market.
html
-----
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
http://goo.gl/1VdeA
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Suggestion that Michelangelo was suffering from arthritis when he was doing St Peter’s:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12136831/Michelangelo-battled-t
hrough-painful-arthritis-to-design-St-Peters-Basilica-portraits-show.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/michelangelo-may-have-had-arthritis-18095
8056/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/09/science/michelangelo-arthritis-hands-portraits.html
On an 18th century ‘tea cartel’:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/02/465329683/cuppa-thugs-these-brutal-smu
gglers-ran-an-18th-century-tea-cartel
Interesting Transylvanian theme park:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/01/27/arts/transylvania-subterranean-theme-park/?sr=twCNN02
0316transylvania-subterranean-theme-park0146AMStoryGalPhoto&linkId=20917789
A lost Bosch turns up in a US museum:
[continued in next message]
--- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05
* Origin: fsxNet Usenet Gateway (21:1/5)