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explorator 25.09 June 19, 2022
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay, Brian Colless,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).
Happy Fathers Day to all the fathers and father figures out there.
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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The 1.6 million years bp homo erectus from Gongwangling may represent the earliest hominin population in China:
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-homo-erectus-gongwangling-earliest-population.html
https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-site-could-location-oldest-known-early-human-fossils-china-1716187
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10637-220616-china-homo-erectus
Evidence of hominin fire creation in Israel some 800 000 years bp:
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-evidence-ancient-campsite-israel.html https://www.utoronto.ca/news/ai-powered-archaeology-draws-out-hidden-evidence-fire-use-early-humans
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-709319 https://www.timesofisrael.com/old-flame-israeli-researchers-find-evidence-of-fire-use-nearly-1-million-years-ago/
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/news/354814 https://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/israeli-scientists-uncover-traces-of-fire-dating-back-at-least-800-millenia/2022/06/14/
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-06-13/ty-article/archaeologists-detect-hominin-use-of-fire-a-million-years-ago-in-israel/00000181-5c3d-d75c-ad83-fefd9c7c0000
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10922739/Worlds-oldest-campfire-Ancient-flint-tools-humans-tamed-fire-1-MILLION-years-ago.html
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2323899-ai-finds-hidden-evidence-of-ancient-human-fires-1-million-years-ago/
https://www.science.org/content/article/artificial-intelligence-may-have-unearthed-one-world-s-oldest-campfires
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10638-220616-israel-fire-flint
cf:
https://www.pnas.org/doi/epdf/10.1073/pnas.2123439119 ============================================================
AFRICA
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Feature on Kush:
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/the-rise-fall-and-underestimated-rule-of-kush
Review of Paddy Docherty, *Blood and Bronze: the British Empire and the Sack of Benin*:
https://www.rfi.fr/en/africa/20220614-blood-and-bronze-unveiling-the-british-empire-s-brutality-in-nigeria-paddy-docherty-benin-bronzes-lord-salisbury-george-annesley
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ============================================================
Khufu-era stone granite stone blocks found in the Temple of the Sun at Matariya/Heliopolis:
https://egyptindependent.com/photos-stone-blocks-date-to-king-khufu-era-in-temple-of-the-sun-in-heliopolis-unearthed/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/116763/Egypt-discovers-blocks-dating-back-to-Khufu-s-reign-at
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/116792/Unearthing-stone-blocks-from-reign-of-King-Khufu-deemed-important
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/06/new-archaeological-discovery-king-khufus-reign
https://www.wam.ae/en/details/1395303057033 http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2022-06/14/content_78269512.htm https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/stone-blocks-from-reign-of-king-khufu-discovered-at-heliopolis/143827
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/06/15/stone-blocks-from-reign-of-king-khufu-discovered-at-heliopolis/
On the journalistic origins of Tut's curse:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/18/origin-tutankhamuns-curse-unwrapped-journalist-mad-not-getting/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/994/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/994/pub/994/page/26/article/NaN
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/curse-of-pharaohs-tomb-was-invented-by-rival-reporter-z7gnkw7xg
In case you're wondering about the Tut Opera:
https://egyptindependent.com/tutankhamun-opera-to-be-held-in-luxor-in-november-5-zahi-hawass-from-italy/
Searching for evidence of Pleistocene human presence on the Iranian plateau:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/473675/Archaeologists-look-for-traces-of-Pleistocene-humans-on-Iranian
Evidence of Uruk-era urbanization from Iran's South Khorasan province:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/473559/Archaeologists-in-eastern-Iran-excavate-relics-from-4th-millennium
A Seleucid-era tumulus (empty?) from Tepe Naqarechi (Iran):
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/473642/Archaeologists-discover-Seleucid-tumulus-find-no-traces-of-missing
A different sort of archaeological story ... a survey of Tall-e Kakestar (Iran) suggests there is no archaeological site there:
https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/473607/Tall-e-Khakestar-stratigraphy-survey-finds-no-archaeological
Trying to figure out the identity of Palmyra's 'anonymous god':
https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/warsaw-archaeologist-solves-100-year-old-mystery-surrounding-identity-of-anonymous-god-31058
More on the 7th/8th century Islamic burials from Syria:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/116742/First-Muslims-in-the-Levant-Archaeological-evidence-in-Syria-reveals
Questioning the recent suggestion that climate change caused the fall of the Akkadian Empire:
https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2022/06/climate-fall-akkadian-empire
More on the 3400 years bp Mitanni-era city emerging from the Tigris:
https://www.dw.com/en/the-bronze-age-city-in-iraq-gifted-to-archeology-by-drought/a-62061527
https://www.wionews.com/videos/german-kurdish-archaeological-team-discover-3400-year-old-city-in-iraq-487797
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/ancient-city-emerges-as-mosuls-dam-is-drained-g8vd8jg0k
https://the-past.com/news/archaeologists-explore-bronze-age-site-emerging-from-mosul-dam/
Looters revealed a 2700 years bp Urartian temple near the city of Van:
https://arkeonews.net/treasure-hunters-revealed-a-2700-year-old-urartian-temple-in-the-east-of-turkey/
Feature on the Saffron Monastery in Turkiye:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-06-14/ty-article-magazine/the-early-christian-monastery-built-on-a-sun-god-temple-in-turkey/00000181-6165-d0db-af99-79fd7dfe0000
Feature on cuneiform:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/the-ancient-secrets-revealed-by-deciphered-tablets/p0bcq7gs
More on the recently-found section of the Jerusalem aqueduct:
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/jerusalem-aqueduct/?mqsc=E4144742&dk=ZE2260ZF0
... sort of related item on Hezekiah's Tunnel:
https://armstronginstitute.org/724-an-ingenious-sluice-gate-in-hezekiahs-tunnel-revealed-by-new-research
More on that Jacob the Proselyte tomb curse:
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93a59y/archaeologists-discover-ancient-tomb-marker-cursing-all-who-enter-in-israel
An interview with Joe Uziel and recent evidence for a Biblical earthquake:
https://www.israeltoday.co.il/read/surprised-by-archaeological-proof-for-bible-earthquake/
Opeddish sort of thing on recent finds in Gaza:
https://english.alaraby.co.uk/features/gazans-unearth-archaeological-goldmines-feat-chance
A 15th century inscription from Saudi Arabia:
https://arkeonews.net/1419-year-old-islamic-inscription-found-in-saudi-arabia/
Study suggests 6th century drought paved the way for the emergence of Islam:
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-droughts-sixth-century-paved-islam.html https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2022-06-16/ty-article-magazine/megadrought-contributed-to-fall-of-jewish-kingdom-in-arabia-rise-of-islam-study-suggests/00000181-6bf9-d82b-a3ab-ebfd877f0000
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/droughts-in-the-sixth-century-paved-the-way-for-islam/143889
Yemen is trying to get European countries to ban auctions of Yemeni antiquities:
https://www.arabnews.com/node/2105321/middle-east
Feature on the rise of the Ottoman Empire:
https://www.livescience.com/all-about-history-118
Review of a novel with the DSS as the center of the plot:
https://www.jpost.com/judaism/article-709639
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This Week in the Ancient Near East Podcast:
https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ============================================================
A prehistoric necropolis site from Centuripe (Italian):
https://qds.it/nuova-scoperta-archeologica-carcaci-area-minacciata-discarica/ https://mediterraneoantico.it/articoli/scoperto-un-sito-preistorico-a-centuripe-enna/
Overviewish piece on finds made by the Swedish mission excavating a site near the Larnaca airport:
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202206/1267964.shtml
A Gallo-roman worship complex from near Rennes:
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/116864/Remains-of-a-2-100-year-old-Gallo-Roman-worship
https://arkeonews.net/an-important-gallo-roman-worship-complex-was-discovered-near-rennes-france/
Remains of a Roman road and associated settlement found prior to housing development work in Wickham:
https://cotswoldarchaeology.co.uk/wickham-roman-roadside-settlement-and-wells/
Road construction in Swindon is delayed by the find of Roman remains:
https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/20215704.southern-connector-road-swindon-delayed-discovery-roman-remains/
https://www.wiltshirelive.co.uk/news/wiltshire-news/roman-remains-hindering-progress-brand-7214831
I think we mentioned this 1800 years bp patterned mosaic find from Pergamon:
https://arkeonews.net/an-1800-year-old-geometric-patterned-mosaic-was-discovered-in-turkeys-ancient-city-of-bergama/
A metal detectorist in Romania came across a major hoard of Roman coins:
https://www.romania-insider.com/silver-coin-treasure-found-central-romania https://www.g4media.ro/a-2000-years-old-treasure-with-about-300-roman-coins-discovered-in-mures-county-by-a-treasure-hunter.html
Some recently found Roman Gold coins are considered to be part of the Broads Hoard:
https://www.edp24.co.uk/lifestyle/heritage/roman-aurei-coins-found-norfolk-broads-9043340
Excavations are under way at Bulgaria's Aquae Calidae:
https://sofiaglobe.com/2022/06/12/archaeological-season-begins-at-bulgarias-aquae-calidae/
A chunk of stone fell off the Porta Maggiore this week:
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-roman-gate-bits-ancient-stone.html https://www.thelocal.it/20220615/roman-gate-closed-off-after-bits-of-ancient-stone-break-away/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/italy-rome-porta-maggiore-ruins-b2101486.html
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-gate-closed-after-bits-of-ancient-stone-fall-off-174595
Plans for more excavations at the Molinete hill in Cartagena:
https://murciatoday.com/green_light_for_further_archaeological_excavation_of_the_molinete_hill_in_cartagena_1789823-a.html
More on phallic graffiti from Hadrian's Wall:
https://theconversation.com/the-discovery-of-a-new-phallic-carving-in-roman-northern-england-is-more-than-funny-it-could-be-a-powerful-talisman-184266
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-709217 https://www.iflscience.com/ancient-roman-dick-pic-reveals-1-700-year-old-grudge-carved-into-stone-64083
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/06/archaeologists-unearth-phallus-graffiti-carved-in-stone-at-ancient-roman-fort/
More on the Hellenistic grave inscription found in a river in Epirus:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/12/ancient-tombstone-discovered-riverbed-greece/
More on that identification of an 'ephebic yearbook' inscription:
https://www.indonewyork.com/breaking/ancient-athenian-tablet-identifies-as-2000-year-old-graduation-yearbookn-h37337.html
... and the Onion's spin:
https://www.theonion.com/ancient-greek-yearbook-discovered-on-2-000-year-old-t-1849073215
Latest Pasts Imperfect newsletter:
https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-61622
Paper on wine production in Roman and pre-Roman Italy:
https://www.ajaonline.org/state-discipline/4508
Feature on Linear A:
https://aeon.co/essays/without-a-rosetta-stone-can-linguists-decipher-minoan-script
Feature on Pythagoras:
https://www.thedailybeast.com/from-communing-with-animals-to-obsessive-bean-hatred-pythagoras-was-one-weird-dude
Feature on some curse tablets from a well in Athens:
https://www.indonewyork.com/breaking/discoveries-of-30-curse-tablets-show-how-athenian-bathhouse-well-became-h37348.html
Feature on Roman millefiori glass:
https://www.nola.com/entertainment_life/arts/article_e3e0bbbc-e909-11ec-940a-4353c33ef2eb.html
Feature on the Ryedale Hoard:
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/64340
Feature on Roman Britain:
http://hnn.us/article/183349
Feature on the Gallic attack on the Oracle of Delphi:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/12/gauls-attacked-oracle-delphi/
Feature on the Palace of Knossos:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/13/inside-cretes-minoan-palace-of-knossos/
Feature on the Kerameikos:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/16/kerameikos-from-potters-quarter-to-greeces-largest-necropolis/
Feature on psychedelics and the Eleusinian Mysteries:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/13/psychedelics-ancient-greece-eleusinian-mysteries/
Feature on daily life in ancient Greece:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/14/ancient-greece-growing-up-in-athens-and-sparta/
Feature on some of Plato's ideas:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/15/plato-best-worst-ideas/
Feature on Archestratus and ancient Greek food:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/17/archestratus-and-the-secrets-of-ancient-greek-gastronomy/
Feature on the muses:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/16/muses-of-greek-mythology/
Feature on Aegae:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/15/aegae-the-cradle-of-ancient-macedonia/
Feature on what Elon Musk could learn from Aristotle:
https://theconversation.com/twitter-town-square-what-elon-musk-could-learn-from-aristotle-184766
Feature on one of Pompeii's recently-famous victims:
https://theconversation.com/the-explosive-history-of-the-2-000-year-old-pompeii-masturbating-man-180557
In case you're unaware of the threat to Classics at Roehampton:
https://tribunemag.co.uk/2022/06/fighting-for-higher-education-university-cuts
George Osborne is suggesting a sharing arrangement is possible regarding the Parthenon Sculptures:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/06/15/there-is-a-deal-to-be-done-with-greece-over-parthenon-marbles-says-british-museum-chairman-george-osborne
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/jun/16/parthenon-marbles-george-osborne-british-museum-greece
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/george-osborne-seeks-deal-on-elgin-marbles-tclpn03t7
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/15/greece-britain-could-share-elgin-marbles-museum-chair-flags/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1004/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1004/pub/1004/page/32/article/NaN
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/art-industry-news-british-museum-chairman-other-stories-2130704
https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/06/15/britain-may-share-controversial-parthenon-marbles-with-greece-suggests-president-of-britis
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1186804/british-museum-suggests-a-sharing-arrangement-of-parthenon-sculptures/
https://www.thenationalnews.com/world/uk-news/2022/06/15/parthenon-marbles-deal-could-be-struck-between-uk-and-greece/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/06/16/british-museum-hints-at-sharing-the-parthenon-sculptures-with-greece/
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/15/parthenon-marbles-shared-greece-uk/ https://newseu.cgtn.com/news/2022-06-15/British-Museum-chief-says-return-of-Parthenon-Marbles-possible-1aTjYbwCkFi/index.html
... meanwhile a group of British MPs have called for their return:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/jun/18/parthenon-marbles-must-return-to-greece-british-mps-and-peers-write
... and there was a major demonstration at the BM yesterday demanding the reunification of the marbles:
https://greekreporter.com/2022/06/19/reunify-parthenon-marbles-acropolis-museum/
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1187129/london-protest-calls-for-return-of-the-parthenon-marbles-to-greece/
https://www.thenationalherald.com/british-museum-protesters-want-parthenon-marbles-back-in-greece/
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Roman Archaeology Blog:
http://romanarc.blogspot.com/
Rogueclassicism:
http://rogueclassicism.com/ ============================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ============================================================
Bronze Age (and later) finds from a school development site in Houghton Regis:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-61809230 https://www.centralbedfordshire.gov.uk/news/article/736/roman_remains_revealed_on_houghton_regis_site_set_for_new_school
Latest HS2-related find is a major 5th/6th century Anglo Saxon burial site near Wendover:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/16/stunning-anglo-saxon-burial-site-found-along-hs2-route
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/hs2-anglosaxon-wendover-buckinghamshire-iron-age-b2102189.html
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/hs2-anglo-saxon-burial-site-graves-b2102308.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-61810503 https://www.euronews.com/culture/2022/06/16/141-anglo-saxon-graves-discovered-in-england-alongside-jewellery-weapons-and-earwax-remove
https://metro.co.uk/2022/06/16/hs2-uncovers-the-largest-anglo-saxon-burial-ground-in-the-uk-16833785/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1005/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1005/pub/1005/page/25/article/NaN
https://jerseyeveningpost.com/morenews/uknews/2022/06/16/hs2-archaeologists-find-anglo-saxon-burial-ground-containing-nearly-140-graves/
https://www.bucksherald.co.uk/news/people/video-shows-anglo-saxon-swords-and-shields-among-astonishing-fifth-century-finds-in-wendover-3731182
https://guernseypress.com/news/uk-news/2022/06/15/hs2-archaeologists-find-anglo-saxon-burial-ground-containing-nearly-140-graves/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10919825/Anglo-Saxon-burial-containing-141-skeletons-unearthed-HS2-archaeologists-Buckinghamshire.html
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/06/17/vast-anglo-saxon-burial-ground-discovered-during-work-on-the-uks-hs2-rail-route
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/64347 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/discovery-of-anglo-saxon-burials-of-national-significance/143860
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/06/17/archaeological-discoveries-illuminate-the-anglo-saxon-dark-ages/
An Anglo Saxon ring with a Roman stone found by a metal detectorist in Kingsey a couple years ago:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-61764960
Remains of a 8th century (maybe) Viking shipyard at Birka:
https://arkeonews.net/archaeologists-find-viking-age-shipyard-in-swedish-island/
A metal detectorist found a missing piece of a Viking sword found last year:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/06/220615211314.htm https://arkeonews.net/unique-viking-age-sword-found-in-norway/ https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/viking-age-shipyard-discovered-birka-sweden-1234632212/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/archaeologists-find-viking-age-shipyard/143855
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/06/16/unique-viking-age-shipyard-discovered-at-birka/
A 7th/8th century shipwreck from a stream near Bordeaux:
https://www.euronews.com/2022/06/17/archaeologists-discover-1300-year-old-shipwreck-in-southwest-france
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/archaeologists-race-time-study-crumbling-1300-year-old-shipwreck-rcna33855
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/french-archaeologists-in-race-against-time-to-learn-secrets-of-medieval-boat-fj25f98ct
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10928519/Archeologists-race-against-time-save-1-300-year-old-shipwreck-France.html
https://arkeonews.net/1300-year-old-shipwreck-found-in-southwest-france/ http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/64330
Kitchen renovations in a Denmark town revealed a 1200 years bp runestone:
https://cphpost.dk/?p=134801
Study suggests the source for ivory used in 12th century artifacts from Kyiv was Greenland:
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-norse-settlers-walrus-ivory-kyiv.html https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-709756 https://partner.sciencenorway.no/archeology-geography-ntnu/old-norse-settlers-traded-walrus-ivory-with-kyiv/2040705
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10640-220617-medieval-ivory-trade
A development site in Herne Bay is revealing 1000 years bp artifacts:
https://www.kentonline.co.uk/herne-bay/news/1-000-year-old-artefacts-found-at-huge-housing-development-268865/
A metal detectorist came across a medieval Norwegian coin in Hungary:
https://www.livescience.com/viking-king-coin-discovered-hungary http://www.archaeology.org/news/10635-220615-medieval-silver-coin
Burnley's 'lost' medieval village may have been located:
https://www.burnleyexpress.net/news/people/archaeological-evidence-unearths-burnleys-lost-medieval-village-at-ightenhill-once-visited-by-king-edward-ii-3731848
Suggestion that human remains from the Battle of Waterloo may have been ground up for fertilizer (!):
https://phys.org/news/2022-06-bones-fallen-waterloo-soldiers-sold.html https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/956065 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/18/mystery-of-waterloos-dead-soldiers-to-be-re-examined-by-academics
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/06/18/ghoulish-theory-may-finally-solve-mystery-missing-waterloo-dead/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/993/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/993/pub/993/page/44/article/NaN
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-709776 https://www.iflscience.com/soldiers-bones-from-the-battle-of-waterloo-may-have-disappeared-as-bags-of-fertilizer-64112
https://www.discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/scientists-may-have-found-where-the-bodies-of-waterloo-went
More on the massive Iron Age frog burial (sort of) from near Cambridge:
https://www.livescience.com/amphibian-death-pit-iron-age-village/ https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/archaeologists-baffled-by-b2103301.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/jun/12/mass-frog-burial-baffles-experts-at-iron-age-site-near-cambridge
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-61784186 https://www.cambridgeindependent.co.uk/news/thousands-of-ancient-frog-bones-found-at-cambridgeshire-site-9258954/
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/thousands-of-frog-bones-found-in-the-uk-puzzle-archeologists-14062022/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/64317 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/06/frog-mystery-uncovered-near-iron-age-roundhouse/143832
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/06/15/more-than-8000-frog-bones-found-by-an-iron-age-roundhouse/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/housands-of-frog-bones-found-at-iron-age-settlement-180980251/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10631-220613-england-ditch-frogs
More on the medieval human remains found beneath a Cork pub and their 'violent end':
https://www.irishcentral.com/news/skeletal-remains-nancy-spains-pub-cork https://www.thejournal.ie/nancy-spains-skeletons-cork-barrack-street-5788938-Jun2022/
https://www.irishmirror.ie/news/irish-news/more-bodies-which-met-violent-27213707
More on the find/identification of the site of the wreck of the Gloucester:
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-709257 https://the-past.com/news/wreckage-of-17th-century-warship-hms-gloucester-discovered-off-norfolk-coast/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/64307 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shipwreck-gloucester-james-king-england-180980250/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10630-220613-shipwreck-york-gloucester
More on the burials being revealed at the Leicester Cathedral dig:
https://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/news/leicester-news/gallery/more-120-ancient-graves-uncovered-7187925
Anger in Limerick in the wake of the bulldozing of a Rath/Cashel site:
https://www.limerickleader.ie/news/local-news/837062/anger-over-destruction-of-ancient-archaeological-monument-in-county-limerick.html
Calls for the remains of St Olave's Church to be officially listed:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-61797757
Hyping a just-under-way dig at a friary in Inverkeithing:
https://www.dunfermlinepress.com/news/20217629.inverkeithing-archaeological-dig-find-human-remains-friary/
A project to restore three 16th century synagoges in Venice:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/synagogues-venice-500-year-old-jewish-ghetto-180980259/
Old photos are helping to restore the Old Monastery of Agios Dionysios in Olympus:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/06/17/guided-by-a-forgotten-photograph-a-damaged-monastery-is-being-restored/
Plans for upgrades to Caerphilly Castle are described as 'Disneyesque':
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/994/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/994/pub/994/page/23/article/NaN
Feature on historic English pub interiors:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-61797983
Feature on the 'ghost town' of Granadilla (Spain):
https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0cdpdns/the-spanish-ghost-town-that-should-be-underwater
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Archaeology in Europe News:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
Medievalists.net:
https://www.medievalists.net/category/news/
Viking Archaeology Blog:
http://viking-archaeology-blog.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ============================================================
From Sanxindui comes word of 13 000 new finds being made:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-06-13/Some-13-000-relics-unearthed-from-new-Sanxingdui-ruins-site-discovery-1aPcmE2dNRK/index.html
https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2206136744/ http://global.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202206/13/WS62a6eb76a310fd2b29e62657.html http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2022-06/17/content_78275194.htm https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202206/1268014.shtml https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202206/1268088.shtml http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2022-06/13/content_78267620.htm https://news.artnet.com/art-world/sacrificial-relics-sanxingdui-2130848 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/13000-sacrificial-relics-bronze-box-altar-sanxingdui-china-1234631951/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/sanxingdui-china-archaeology-artifacts-sacrificial-pits-shu-kingdom-rcna33643
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/64322 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/trove-of-13000-artifacts-sheds-light-on-enigmatic-chinese-civilization-180980254/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10634-220615-china-sanxingdui-pits
... including some 'paper thin' copper items:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-06-13/Paper-thin-copper-pieces-excavated-at-Sanxingdui-archaeological-dig-1aPYlNUBH7G/index.html
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-06-17/Wonders-of-Sanxingdui-The-bronze-sheet-1aVQb0TSHV6/index.html
... and a sacrificial altar:
https://www.cnn.com/2022/06/14/asia/china-archaeology-sanxingdui-altar-discovery-intl-hnk/index.html
https://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/sacrificial-altar-among-13-000-relics-unearthed-at-sanxingdui-archaeological-site-in-china-1.5945838
https://english.cctv.com/2022/06/15/VIDErZ6QhMLjrRf2v9MVZU11220615.shtml
... and a large bronze figurine:
https://news.cgtn.com/news/2022-06-16/Large-bronze-figurine-freshly-unearthed-from-China-s-Sanxingdui-Ruins-1aUqJdei6wU/index.html
... and four of the pits have been dated to 3000 years bp:
http://www.ecns.cn/news/cns-wire/2022-06-13/detail-ihazcpzs6469711.shtml
... and a piece has been 'matched' with an earlier find:
http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_ygJxxcYb.html
... some background pieces:
http://www.ecns.cn/news/2022-06-14/detail-ihaziuqy8685892.shtml https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3181763/why-archaeologists-are-so-excited-chinas-sanxingdui-ruins
https://www.scmp.com/news/china/science/article/3181557/ancient-treasure-trove-sheds-light-mysterious-chinese-kingdom
Remains of three large Wei and Jin Dynasty watercourses from Henan:
http://www.china.org.cn/china/2022-06/13/content_78266696.htm
The 'supine acrobat' from the 'acrobats pit' at Qin's tomb has gone on display:
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2022-06/13/content_78266931.htm?f=pad&a=true
China has opened up a 'relic hospital' in Chongqing:
https://www.scmp.com/video/china/3181898/china-opens-relic-hospital-chongqing-better-preserve-world-heritage-dazu-rock
Deva fragments from Angkor Thom's west gate:
https://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/deva-fragments-collected-angkor-thoms-west-gate
https://www.khmertimeskh.com/501096947/deva-statue-fragment-discovered-in-excavation/
"Prehistoric" petroglyphs from a site in Tiruvannamalai district:
https://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay?newsID=969776
Possibly related petroglyphs from Bargur:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/ancient-rock-paintings-found-in-bargur/article65536228.ece
Assorted 2000 years bp finds from Odisha's Bargarh district:
https://theprint.in/india/2000-year-old-artefacts-believed-to-be-of-post-mauryan-period-found-in-odishas-bargarh/994004/
https://odishabytes.com/post-mauryan-site-discovered-in-odishas-bargarh-excavation-by-asi-sought/
Remains of a Maurya-era wall from Tilaurakot:
https://kathmandupost.com/province-no-5/2022/06/13/ruins-of-maurya-era-wall-unearthed-in-tilaurakot-kapilvastu
A 900 years bp Jain inscription from Kolanupaka:
https://telanganatoday.com/telangana-900-year-old-jain-inscription-found-in-kolanupaka
Excavations in the 'laterite caves' of Kudalllur have revealed three closed chambers and a passageway (date?):
https://www.onmanorama.com/travel/travel-news/2022/06/17/edappal-rock-cut-cave-excavation.html
Concerns for a Sri Krishnadevaraya era inscription in Palnadu:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/inscription-dating-back-to-sri-krishnadevaraya-period-in-palnadu-lies-neglected/article65520405.ece
... and for a 12th century one at Kolanupaka village:
https://www.newindianexpress.com/cities/hyderabad/2022/jun/19/12th-century-inscription-lies-in-neglect-2467259.html
Plans to study possible links between Indus signs and some graffit in Tamil Nadu:
https://www.deccanherald.com/national/south/tn-to-study-possible-links-between-graffiti-and-indus-signs-1117625.html
Feature on Shruthesh Acharya and the inscriptions he has read:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/mangaluru/this-archaeological-researcher-has-decoded-25-inscriptions/articleshow/92212815.cms
... and the ASI's epigraphy department:
https://www.newindianexpress.com/thesundaystandard/2022/jun/19/archaeological-survey-of-india-deciphers-74000historical-inscriptions-2467156.html
The ASI is seeking help determining the antiquity of an idol it recently seized:
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/andhra-pradesh/asi-help-sought-to-ascertain-antiquity-of-seized-idol-asp/article65526510.ece
Excavations at Patna Museum have commenced:
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/patna/archaeological-excavation-at-patna-museum-to-be-started-soon-official/articleshow/92265874.cms
An 18th century mummified shaman find from Siberia:
https://www.newsweek.com/shaman-burial-site-discovered-siberia-preserved-clothing-1716823
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ============================================================
150 years bp building remains and artifacts from a dig in central Christchurch:
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