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explorator 19.22 September 25, 2016
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Rick Heli, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, Rick Pettigrew,
and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping
I have left no one out).
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Homo sapiens remains in a homo floresiensis cave:
http://www.nature.com/news/human-remains-found-in-hobbit-cave-1.20656
http://www.archaeology.org/4854-160921-modern-humans-liang-bua
Jewellery from a site in France has been confirmed as being made by Neanderthals,
apparently:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-evidence-ancient-jewelry-grotte-du.html https://www.scienc
edaily.com/releases/2016/09/160920090400.htm
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/neandertals-made-their-own-jewelry-new-meth
od-confirms
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/353/6306/1350?rss=1
… this item on differentiating between Neanderthals and Sapiens seems related to the
above:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2016/new-method-differentiates-b
etween-modern-humans-and-neanderthals
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4851-160920-france-neanderthal-proteins
On what Otzi sounded like:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/09/22/otzi-iceman-voice-reconstruction/
http://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-what-oetzi-the-iceman-sounded-like
… and how he died:
http://www.livescience.com/56199-otzi-iceman-killed-by-sneak-attack.html
… and where the copper for his axe came from:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160923140105.htm
Feature on 25 years of Otzi research:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-stone-age-mummy-revealing-secrets.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/stone-age-mummy-still-revealing-secrets-25-years-063902
470.html
http://www.dw.com/en/25-years-of-%C3%96tzi-discovery-the-ice-mans-secrets/ g-19557656
http://artdaily.com/news/90217/Stone-Age-mummy-Oetzi-still-revealing-secrets--25-year
s-on
http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2016/09/659-697114-9-otzi-el-hombre-de-hie
lo-inagotable-fuente-de-informacion-a-25-anos-de-su.shtml
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AFRICA
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The Sidi Yahya mosque in Timbuktu has been restored:
http://www.dw.com/en/timbuktus-restored-sidi-yahya-mosque-carries-political-weight/
a-19563483
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Studying assorted skin samples from Egyptian mummies:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-dying-ancient-egyptevidence-inflammation-infection.html
A Brazilian team will be excavating in Egypt:
http://www2.anba.com.br/noticia/21872677/al-sharq/brazilians-to-excavate-tombs-in-egy
pt/
There’s a conference on Thebes going on right about now:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/244515/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/ Archaeological-conference,-second-hall-of-tomb-of-.aspx
Egypt’s Malawi Museum has reopened:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/244246/Heritage/Museums/Upper-Egypts-
Malawi-Museum-to-reopen-Thursday.aspx
The latest Cahiers de Karnak is out:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/244229/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/ Egypts-fifteenth-edition-of-the-Cahier-de-Karnak-o.aspx
Review of Wilkinson, *Writings from Ancient Egypt*:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/09/22/new-book-egyptian-hieroglyphics-
read-translation/
Russia is going to send an archaeological team to Syria, apparently:
http://rbth.com/international/2016/09/23/russia-to-send-archaeological-expedition-to-syri
a_632619
Remains of a monumental garden area at Petra:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.744119
First evidence of a Jewish presence in Abila:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.743438
Bedouins are helping to excavate a site in the Negev:
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=36513
An Ottoman-era fisherman’s house from Ashkelon:
http://www.livescience.com/56187-ottoman-era-fisherman-house-unearthed-israel.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/unprecedented-israeli-discovery-o
f-ottoman-era-house-provides-fascinating-glimpse-into-lives-of-a7322541.html
http://artdaily.com/news/90289/Archaeologists-find-a-fisherman-s-house-on-the-beach-in-
Ashkelo-
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/fishermans-house-discovered-on-ashk
elon-beach/2016/09/20/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Article.aspx?id=468229
Feature on Dead Sea Scrolls (connected to the Ein Gedi thing in the techy section):
http://www.livescience.com/16241-dead-sea-scroll-gallery.html
Iraq is struggling with the smuggling issue:
http://www.iraqoilreport.com/daily-brief/iraq-struggles-stop-antiquities-smuggling-19798/
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/09/smuggling-antiquities-iraq-babylon.ht
ml
Studying the antiquity of the sugar industry in Jordan:
http://jordantimes.com/news/local/veteran-archaeologist-explores-jordan%E2%80%99s-a
ncient-sugar-industry
http://world.greekreporter.com/2016/09/22/greek-archaeologist-exploring-jordans-rich-an
cient-sugar-industry/
http://www.albawaba.com/business/sweet-secrets-greek-archaeologist-digs-evidence-jor
dans-ancient-sugar-industry-885550
A virtual reality Second Temple tour is available at the Western Wall:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Virtual-reality-tour-of-Second-Temple-available-at-Wes
tern-Wall-complex-468226
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4855837,00.html
Nice feature on what epigraphy tells us:
http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/ancient-texts-offer-wealth-information-archaeolog
ists-local-epigrapher-says
Questioning the antiquity of Almaty:
http://www.eurasianet.org/node/80606
More on that female figurine from Catal Hoyuk:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/science/8000-year-old-statue-turkey.html
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/archeology/neolithic-female-statuette-from-8000-5500-
bc-found-in-turkey/
More on tiles from Temple Mount:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/archeologists-restore-flooring-that-adorned-the
-second-temple-of-jerusalem/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0907/After-2-000-years-archaeologists-restore-T
emple-Mount-tile-patterns
More on that inscribed scale weight:
http://hamodia.com/2016/09/19/ancient-artifacts-found-tiferes-israel-synagogue-jewish-q
uarter/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Getting plenty of press attention this week was the discovery of human remains at the
Antikythera shipwreck site:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-year-old-skeleton-mediterranean-shipwreck.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160919160803.htm
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/science/human-remains-ancient-roman-antikythera-
shipwreck.html
http://www.livescience.com/56163-skeleton-found-on-antikythera-shipwreck.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-archaeology-antikythera-idUSKCN11Q250
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/archaeologists-hope-2000-year-old-skull-from-
shipwreck-can-be-used-to-build-ancient-mariners-dna-profile
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/09/20/2000-year-old-skeleton-discovered-during-s
econd-phase-underwater-excavation-of-antikythera-shipwreck/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/09/20/a-skeleton-fr
om-the-site-of-the-ancient-worlds-most-famous-shipwreck-could-reveal-creator-of-the-first-
computer/
http://www.nature.com/news/human-skeleton-found-on-famed-antikythera-shipwreck-1.20
632
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/28934/20160920/amazing-discovery-research
ers-found-2000-year-old-skeleton-ancient-antikythera-shipwreck.htm
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/19/antikythera-shipwreck-yields-human-
bones-bringing-hope-for-dna-secrets-from-the-deep
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/antikythera-wreck-human-skeleton-disc
overy-secrets-worlds-most-mysterious-a7322216.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/ct-greek-shipwreck-skeleton-artifacts-2
0160921-story.html
http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/ancient-greek-shipwreck-bones-found/
news-story/b3d4aabc84020f7e805dae6c5ab84ba2
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-20/22c000-year-old-skeleton-found-at-mediterranea
n-shipwreck/7860072
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/09/19/ancient-sailor-found-in-mysteri
ous-antikythera-mechanism-shipwreck/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0919/Antikythera-shipwreck-A-skeleton-may-yiel
d-2-000-year-old-DNA
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/human-skeleton-found-on-famed-antikythera-sh
ipwreck/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/skeleton-could-unlock-new-details-about-lif
e-aboard-antikythera-shipwreck-180960515/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4846-160919-antikythera-human-remains
… and there’s hype for a BBC documentary related to the site:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p047wnls
Interesting burial near Dorset wherein the deceased’s feet had to be bent back to fit in
the sarcophagus:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-37451012
http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14761148.Unearthed__skeleton_of_Roman_m an_found_during_dig/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4863-160923-roman-england-sarcophagus
Remains of a Roman oven and other items from a dig near Falkirk:
http://www.livescience.com/56168-roman-oven-discovered-in-scotland.html
Plenty of hype for the latest shoe found at Vindolanda due to it’s soccer-boot-like
appearance:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/21/roman-sandle-found-at-hadrians-wall-looks-j
ust-like-david-beckha/
Not sure if we mentioned this find of a Roman military base at a crematorium site:
http://www.funeralservicetimes.co.uk/6027-ancient-roman-military-base-found-at-cremato
rium/
I think we mentioned this cache of Roman sling bullets from Scotland:
http://www.scotsman.com/news/largest-haul-of-roman-bullets-found-in-scotland-1-42352
35
http://www.itv.com/news/border/update/2016-09-20/roman-bullets-unearthed-near-ecclefe
chan/
On Roman mines near Kent:
http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/how_county_provided_building_blocks_to_roman_emp
ire_s_reign_1_4709151
Overviewish thing on finds from the Hadrian’s Villa dig this summer:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/columbia-researchers-at-hadrians-villa-uncover-new-clues-a
bout-everyday-life-in-ancient-rome-1474483336
Thankfully, the ‘chinese skeletons in Rome’ story got scant attention, but just so you’re
aware:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/09/23/chinese-skeletons-in-roman-brit
ain-not-so-fast/#6c54f3f1ef9b
Interesting Bronze Age (it seems) finds by a Swedish team near Larnaca airport:
http://sciencenordic.com/swedes-uncover-rich-cypriot-graves
Excavations at Kourion reveal evidence of a massive 4th century earthquake:
http://famagusta-gazette.com/excavation-at-ancient-cypriot-city-provides-evidence-of-ma
ssive-th-century-p36242-69.htm
An interesting Roman statue has returned to Gaziantep:
http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/09/24/romani-bambino-statue-brought-back-hom
e-to-gaziantep-after-85-years
Ongoing concerns for the security of sites in Cyprus:
http://in-cyprus.com/cyprus-archaeological-sites-in-disarray/
In case you missed John Kerry’s Carthage reference:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/09/23/the-ancient-tragedy-jo
hn-kerry-used-to-explain-syria/
A call for Latin to be taught in all UK state schools:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/education-news/latin-classics-taught-state
-primary-school-professor-dennis-haynes-leading-academic-a7322446.html
http://schoolsweek.co.uk/academic-calls-for-return-of-the-classics-in-all-schools/
… related:
http://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/mea-culpa-why-i-love-latin-1.2798639
… and on the decline of Classics:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/killing-off-the-classics-elite-subjects-fall-from-
prominence-1.2793506
What Cristina Carusi is up to:
http://www.dailytexanonline.com/2016/09/18/classics-professor-gives-lecture-on-upcomi
ng-book-material
Another feature on what vomitorium really means:
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/greatmomentsinscience/latins-most-misu
sed-word-vomitorium/7857798
Feature on Roman gladiators:
http://blog.oup.com/2016/09/roman-gladiators-facts/
There’s a conference on the Parthenon Marbles this weekend:
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/18706-international-conference-on-parth
enon-marbles-this-weekend-in-athens.html
The archaeological museum of Kos has reopened:
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/18645-restored-archaeological-museum
-of-kos-opens-to-the-public.html
Feature on the installation of Athena Parthenos at the Met:
http://www.slate.com/articles/video/video/2016/09/watch_athena_parthenos_get_install
ed_in_the_metropolitan_museum_of_art_video.html
More on those statues of Aphrodite from Petra:
http://www.livescience.com/56100-aphrodite-statue-from-petra.html
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/education/article102733687.html
More on Turkey and Austria’s archaeological spat:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/austria-and-turkey-are-butting-heads-over-
archaeological-dig-180960379/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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I think we mentioned this Iron Age broch found in Scotland:
http://www.shetnews.co.uk/news/13351-new-broch-site-excites-archaeologists
http://www.archaeology.org/4861-160923-scotland-iron-age-broch
… and this 5000 years bp burial from the Ukraine:
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,411146,scientists-reconstructed-5-thousand
-years-old-elite-tomb-discovered-in-ukraine.html
Remains of an Anglo Saxon ‘palace’ near Sutton Hoo:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-37412519
http://www.archaeology.org/4852-160920-england-rendlesham-palace
That Cochno stone that was in the news the past couple of weeks has been reburied:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-cochno-stone-reburied.html
Sketches from a dig on Orkney:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-37416773
Feature on King Harold:
http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14763335.HISTORY__The_short_reign_and_viol
ent_death_of_King_Harold/
More on those petroglyphs from Scotland:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/amateur-archeologist-discovers-significant
-amount-scotlands-known-rock-art-180960511/?no-ist
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/17/rock-art-amateur-archaeologist-scotla
nd
More on that burnt cheese from Denmark:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/09/21/494748670/3-000-year-old-cooking-fail-fo
und-at-a-danish-dig-site
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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23 000 years bp fish hooks from a cave near Okinawa:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-ancient-fish-okinawa-earlier-maritime.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37402183
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/18/worlds-oldest-fish-hooks-okinawa-japan
-sakitari-cave
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0919/World-s-oldest-fish-hooks-What-they-tell-u
s-about-Paleolithic-Japan
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/19/asia/japan-okinawa-worlds-oldest-fish-hooks/
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/world-s-oldest-fishhook-found-okinawa
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-oldest-fish-hooks-discovered-okina
wa-180960529/
http://www.archaeology.org/4845-160919-okinawa-fish-hooks
Remains of an 8000 years bp settlement in central Iran:
http://www.payvand.com/news/16/sep/1126.html
http://en.mehrnews.com/news/119827/8-millennial-settlement-uncovered-in-west-central-
Iran
Latest on that 4200 years bp figurine ‘caught’ by a Siberian fisherman:
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0256-pagan-god-caught-in-river-by
-fisherman-confirmed-as-being-up-to-4200-years-old-and-unique/
An 800 years bp head wound suggests death by boomerang:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-wound-ancient-aborigine-boomerang.html
http://www.livescience.com/56194-boomerang-attack-archaeological-evidence.html
http://www.sciencealert.com/newly-analysed-skeletal-remains-show-how-deadly-a-boom
erang-can-be
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/deadly-boomerang-australia-aboriginal-wea
pon/
A section of the Great Wall has been covered with cement:
http://edition.cnn.com/2016/09/21/asia/great-wall-china-cement-repair/index.html
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/22/495044250/call-it-the-great-sidewalk-
chinese-officials-under-fire-for-repairs-to-great-wal
Latest hunt begins for Genghis Khan’s tomb:
http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/travel-leisure/article/2020903/why-everyones-looking-wro
ng-place-genghis-khans-tomb
Feature on a Chinese Jewish community in Kaifeng:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/25/world/asia/china-kaifeng-jews.html
Kerala’s former rulers are in court over some temple treasures:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/sep/24/former-maharajahs-accused-over-templ
e-treasures?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
Studying Jomon dog burials:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/prehistoric-japanese-graves-provide-best-evid
ence-yet-dogs-were-our-ancient-hunting
http://www.archaeology.org/4848-160919-japan-hunting-dogs
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting 800 years bp burial of a disabled woman in Arizona:
http://westerndigs.org/grave-of-disabled-woman-reveals-touching-tale-of-care-in-prehisto
ric-arizona/
Evidence of prehistoric folks visiting glaciers 10 000+ years bp in Wyoming:
http://wyomingpublicmedia.org/post/artifacts-indicate-prehistoric-people-visited-glaciers
More on the find of the Terror:
http://www.livescience.com/56110-doomed-shipwreck-hms-terror-possibly-found.html
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/18/494451702/newly-found-hms-terror-could-provide-clues-to
-fateful-1848-shipwreck
… and a look at the Erebus too:
http://www.thepeterboroughexaminer.com/2016/09/19/exploring-the-erebus-with-guest-ar
chaeologist
… and a medical study of the fate of the crew:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-insights-franklin-mystery.html
The excavation of the Tristan de Luna site in Florida continues:
http://wuwf.org/post/uwf-archaeologists-find-more-evidence-daily-life-1559-luna-settleme
nt
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4847-160919-florida-luna-settlement
Bones found near a San Antonio hospital are likely from an historic burial ground:
http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Bones-may-be-from-historic-burial-grou
nd-9242806.php
http://www.expressnews.com/news/local/article/Remains-may-be-from-historic-cemetery
-9242807.php
Plans for the Old Spanish Trail in Utah:
http://www.sltrib.com/news/4181889-155/plan-puts-new-attention-on-old?fullpage=1
Feature on documenting shipwrecks in the St Lawrence:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/quebec-research-shipwrecks-st-lawrence-river-
1.3768410?cmp=rss
http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/researchers-work-to-document-lost-shipwre
cks-of-the-st-lawrence
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/canada/finding-canadas-other-shipwrecks-group-see
ks-to-document-history-hiding-underwater-across-the-country
On ‘nasty’ US election campaigns:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/23/politics/election-2016-personal-attacks/index.html
Feature on black Civil War soldiers:
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/21/494734329/family-heirloom-national-treasure-rare-photos-
show-black-civil-war-soldiers
More on that mammoth skull from California:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-well-preserved-rare-mammoth-skull-unearthed.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0915/Did-humans-drive-California-s-mini-mamm
oth-to-extinction
http://www.cnn.com/2016/09/14/us/mammoth-skull-fossil-found-california
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Interesting geoglyphs from Peru:
http://www.livescience.com/56232-ancient-circular-geoglyphs-discovered-in-peru.html
http://www.livescience.com/56235-photos-ancient-circular-geoglyphs-peru.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4862-160923-peru-quilcapampa-geoglyphs
On recovering lost/stolen manuscripts in Peru:
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/09/22/actualidad/1474579784_002596.html
More on indigo dye use in Peru some 6000 years bp:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-15/oldest-known-use-of-indigo-dye-in-6000-year-old-
fabric-from-peru/7847810
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0916/Did-ancient-South-Americans-wear-blue-je
ans
http://scienmag.com/6200-year-old-textile-dyed-indigo-found/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/earliest-evidence-indigo-dye-found-ancient
-peruvian-burial-site-180960477/
More on that Maya codex being genuine:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/maya-codex-once-thought-be-sketchy-real-t
hing-180960466/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/09/08/grolier-codex-oldest-confirmed-a
mericas/
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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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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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There is an Indiegogo campaign to fund the search for Amelia Earhart:
http://link.rm0002.net/go/kHXg8E_3Z4ZozdVm4yzS6g2/
On assorted popular depictions of the Middle Ages:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/5-myths-about-the-middle-ages/2016/09/22/
e56c4150-7f50-11e6-9070-5c4905bf40dc_story.html
Feature on punctuation:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/09/24/punctuation-past-and-present-ne
w-word-order/90422412/
Pondering the ownership of antiquities:
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2016/09/who-owns-antiquities
Pondering what to do with the house Hitler was born in:
http://www.dw.com/en/future-of-hitlers-birth-house-under-debate/a-19563214
Cosmopolitan misunderstands NASA:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37419182
They’re resuming the search for the burial place of the poet Lorca:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-spain-resumes-poet-lorca-burial.html
In case you want to know more about the latest MacArthur fellows:
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/class-2016/
On Canadian accents:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160921-where-does-canadas-accent-come-from
Feature on the first transatlantic telegraph cable:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p042ywz6
In case you couldn’t see the Harvest Moon eclipse last week:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160923.html
The Tate has acquired a Carlile portrait:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37427612
Baldness is apparently a good thing:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160921-the-benefits-of-going-bald
Feature on what lies beneath our feet (hard to describe this one):
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/science/whatever-we-dig-up-well-end-up-buried.html
Victor Nuovo continues to look at Spinoza:
http://www.addisonindependent.com/201609nuovo-spinoza-search-idea
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Rembrandt’s First Paintings:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/arts/international/what-rembrandt-did-as-a-teenager-
4-of-his-sense-works-are-reunited.html
Face of Britain:
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/19/494591296/the-face-of-britain-tells-a-nations-history-throu
gh-portraits
Klimt:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160920-who-was-the-woman-in-gold
Last Days of Pompeii:
http://www.cityweekend.com.cn/shanghai/article/art-review-last-day-of-pompeii
Piranesi:
http://host.madison.com/entertainment/piranesi-exhibition-opens-in-moscow/article_e4b
4dc03-06fe-5de6-9ff0-d13dd185a1da.html
Jerusalem 1000-1400:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/23/arts/design/jerusalem-as-a-place-of-desire-and-deat
h-at-the-metropolitan-museum.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign
Contraposto Studies:
http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/arts-culture/97366-at-philly-museum-nauman
s-slices-of-life-explore-classical-ideals
The National Museum of African American History opened this week:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/24/495302034/national-museum-of-afric
an-american-history-opens-its-doors
https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/national-museum-of-african-america
n-history-and-culture/guided-tour/
El Bosco:
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/09/23/actualidad/1474623272_503948.html
Nice feature on Mexico City’s Museum of Anthropology:
http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/22/inenglish/1474530946_097503.html
http://www.livescience.com/56099-oldest-indigo-dyed-fabric-discovered-peru.html
http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/19/album/1474242200_903164.html
There’s a new museum for Kitora tomb murals:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/09/25/national/museum-displaying-ancient-kitora
-tomb-murals-opens-nara/
Cyprus is planning a new museum:
http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/09/20/competition-announced-design-new-cyprus-museum/
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Plenty of coverage of the techy ‘unrolling’ of the Ein Gedi scroll:
http://uknow.uky.edu/content/scroll-en-gedi-high-tech-recovery-mission
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-digitally-unwrapped-scroll-reveals-earliest.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/22/science/ancient-sea-scrolls-bible.html
http://www.livescience.com/56196-dead-sea-scroll-virtual-unwrapping.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/09/21/ancient-scroll-read-hebrew-text/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-37440597
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/sep/21/jubilation-as-scientists-use-virtual-un
wrapping-to-read-burnt-ancient-scroll
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/09/computers-decipher-ancient-hebrew-ein-ge
di-scroll-bible-archaeology/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/09/22/495044358/computer-scientists-solv
e-mystery-of-the-ein-gedi-scroll-by-virtual-unwrapping
https://www.yahoo.com/news/1-700-old-dead-sea-scroll-virtually-unwrapped-135249419.
html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-virtually-peak-inside-ancient-bibl
ical-charred-scrolls-180960559/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0922/How-University-of-Kentucky-scientists-unf
urled-an-ancient-biblical-scroll
http://www.timesofisrael.com/3d-tech-proves-hebrew-bible-unchanged-for-2000-years/
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2016/ein-gedi-scroll-virtually-unw
rapped
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4856-160922-en-gedi-scroll
Again we’re hearing about LiDAR use in Cambodia:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/science/angkor-wat-cambodia-archeaology.html
http://www.theage.com.au/world/new-technology-discovers-the-secrets-of-cambodias-kh
mer-empire-20160920-grkqya.html
http://www.smh.com.au/world/new-technology-discovers-the-secrets-of-cambodias-khme
r-empire-20160920-grkqya.html
Finding sites in the Appenines with drones:
http://www.livescience.com/56186-drones-reveal-ancient-cult-site-italy.html
http://www.foxnews.com/tech/2016/09/24/ancient-cult-site-in-rugged-mountains-revealed-
with-drones.html
http://www.archaeology.org/4855-160921-italy-drone-settlement
Latest facial reconstruction is the Lord of Sipan:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-archaeology-idUSKCN11S20O?feedType=RSS&fe
edName=lifestyleMolt
http://akipress.com/news%3A582755/
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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DNA from Australian aborigines is suggesting a single (it’s kind of difficult to tell from all
of these articles on the same study) ‘Out of Africa’ event:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-unprecedented-aboriginal-australians-africa-migration.html
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-human-dna-tied-exodus-africa.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-37408014
http://www.livescience.com/56191-unknown-branch-of-humanity-possibly-discovered.ht
ml
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0922/Where-did-Australia-s-aboriginals-come-fr
om-Genomic-data-reveals-clues
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0922/Single-migration-from-Africa-DNA-offers-cl
ues-to-humanity-s-origins
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/09/21/human-migration-challengin
g-the-chronology-of-our-first-road-trip/
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/09/almost-all-living-people-outside-africa-trace-b
ack-single-migration-over-50000-years?rss=1
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2106791-the-most-detailed-look-yet-at-how-early-hu
mans-left-africa/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/09/22/indigenous-australians-most-ancient-civilis
ation-on-earth-extens/
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/sep/21/indigenous-australians-most-a
ncient-civilisation-on-earth-dna-study-confirms?subid=16450490&CMP=EMCNEWEML66 19I2
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-tests-suggest-aboriginal-australians-h
ave-oldest-society-planet-180960569/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4857-160922-australians-papuans-dna
http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/09/21/ciencia/1474473625_137920.html
… but maybe there were two:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160921131119.htm
What DNA tells us about cat domestication:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-dna-hints-cat-domestication-history.html
http://www.livescience.com/56222-early-cats-travelled-with-vikings.html
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