explorator 15.27

[rogueclassicist]

================================================================
explorator 15.27 October 21, 2012
================================================================
Editor's note: Most urls should be active for at least eight
hours from the time of publication.

For your computer's protection, Explorator is sent in plain text
and NEVER has attachments. Be suspicious of any Explorator which
arrives otherwise!!!

================================================================
================================================================
Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, A.Landreau,
“Jerry”, Hernan Astudillo, Rick Heli, Mata Kimasitayo, Richard Campbell,
A. Landreau, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
================================================================
EARLY HOMINIDS
================================================================
A sort of roundup of the latest genomic type research into Neanderthals:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121012-neanderthals-scien
ce-paabo-dna-sex-breeding-humans/
cf:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2012/10/neandertal-one-stop-shoppi
ng/

One of the mostly puzzlingly-written intros to a news piece I’ve read
(and
it happens to do with Neanderthals):

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-eastern-eurasian-archaic-humans-featured.htm
l

Interview with Jean-Jacques Hublin:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/Neanderthal-expert-weighs
-in-on-ancient-ancestors-3946613.php

More on Neanderthals and humans coexisting in Israel:

http://zeenews.india.com/news/eco-news/neanderthals-and-humans-may-have-c
o-existed-in-israel_803162.html
================================================================
AFRICA
================================================================
Latest destruction in Morocco involves some Neolithic petroglyphs:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j8YTcHzPr8qkQj8Be68Bkd
E6L1pA?docId=CNG.bbe1d6490ab6ef1279c6c7aa83c20199.261
================================================================
ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
================================================================
Overviewish thing on the dig at Tel el Hammam:

http://www.biblearchaeology.org/post/2012/10/19/Coming-and-Going-Doors-an
d-Doorways-in-the-Biblical-World.aspx#Article

Hype for a conference about recent finds in Jerusalem:

http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=288464

Nice feature on Petra:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/a-861876.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/atlantis-sand-unlocking-mysteries-pet
ra/story?id=17520115

Feature on the excavations at Hattusas:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/history-of-hattusas-excavation-on-displa
y.aspx?pageID=238&nID=32392&NewsCatID=375

Tracing olive trees in the Garden of Gethsemane back to the time of
Jesus:

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-jerusalem-olive-trees-linked-christ.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x_uKS69tVGY

Egypt is trying to stop an auction of antiquities in the UK (not much
detail):

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/ministry-calls-halt-uk-auction-egypt
ian-antiquities

Not sure if this is new or not … the creation of an Iraq-Italy
cultural centre
in Iraq:

http://al-shorfa.com/en_GB/articles/meii/newsbriefs/2012/10/15/newsbrief-
03

Latest damage in Syria:

http://world.time.com/2012/10/15/landmark-mosque-in-aleppo-burned-in-figh
ting/

Latest on the Gospel of Jesus’ Wife thing (nothing really new):

http://www.livescience.com/24139-gospel-of-jesus-wife-faces-authenticity-
tests.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/jesus-wife-papyrus-121020.html

Latest in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/252220

More on UChicago’s Demotic dictionary:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W8RJGc6ph5Y

More on the opening of the Serapeum:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/tour-bulls-tombs
================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
================================================================
Practice Latin, feed the world:

http://freerice.com/frapi/category_selected/1797185

Tomb raiders lead Italian officials to an apparent shrine of Juno:

http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/18434/Tomb-raiders-lead-to-new-
archaeological-find.html

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of some Roman burials … by a cat:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/oct/18/cat-2000-year-old-roman-catac
omb
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2012/10/19/Ancient-Roman-catacomb-found-b
y-a-cat/UPI-38011350675303/
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/cat-leads-owner-discovery-ancient-ro
man-ruins-211428133.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/18/rome-tomb-unearthed_n_1980901.ht
ml
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/feline-indiana-jones-discovers-new-
roman-ruins-article-1.1188325

Suggestion that Alexandria was aligned to mark Alexander the Great’s
birthday:

http://www.livescience.com/23994-ancient-city-alexandria-sun.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-archaeoastronomers-alexandria-built-align-al
exander.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/egypt-alexandria-king-sun-align-astrono
my-121016.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2218469/Ancient-city-Alexa
ndria-built-align-sun-day-Alexander-Greats-birth.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://world.greekreporter.com/2012/10/18/alxandria-built-to-arise-with-t
he-rising-sun/

Sundial from Chalkidiki:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2012/10/17/old-sundial-found-in-chalkidik
i/

Did Roman girls giggle?:

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/10/did-the-romans-giggle.ht
ml

The subliminal messages of Roman mosaics in Spain:

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-romans-greek-myths-mosaics-civilization.html
http://www.sciencecodex.com/the_romans_used_greek_myths_in_their_mosaics_
as_symbols_of_civilization-100103

Thracian site found during highway construction near Dren:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144276

… and a Roman mosaic from downtown Sofia:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144160

… and a lamp from Dueltum:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/14/archaeology-antique-lamp-in-the-shape-of
-a-dog-found-at-bulgarias-deultum-roman-site/

A hoard of Roman solidi found near St Alban’s are going on display:

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-english-city-roman-gold-coins.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-19986855
http://www.stalbansreview.co.uk/news/9987939.Roman_gold_coins_hoard_found
_in_St_Albans/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2218640/Novice-treasure-hunter-bo
ught-basic-metal-detector-40-Roman-coins-worth-100-000.html?ito=feeds-ne
wsxml
http://www.hemeltoday.co.uk/news/local/first-time-berkhamsted-metal-detec
tor-finds-one-of-uk-s-largest-roman-coin-hoards-worth-100-000-1-4379649
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/first-time-treasure-hunter-
discover-trove-of-roman-era-gold-coins/

A possibly-previously-purloined head of Agrippina the younger was
recovered:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/ancient-roman-artifact-is-se
ized-by-italian-officials/
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/entertainment/Ancient+statue+found+decades+a
fter+theft/7413531/story.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/10/18/us-italy-statue-pix-idUSBRE89H0
JB20121018
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/headlines/2012/10/first-time-treasure-hunter-
discover-trove-of-roman-era-gold-coins/

… but it might not be Agrippina:

http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/18440/Recovered-bust--not-Nero-
s-mother--says-art-superintendent.html

The UW Madison folks are heading to Troy:

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-205_162-57535128/archaeologists-plan-new-dig-
at-troy/
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-uw-madison-archaeologists-mount-troy.html
http://www.livescience.com/24003-archaeologists-plan-new-dig-at-troy.html

What Dwight Castro is up to:

http://www.wcn247.com/classics-professor-reveals-discoveries-about-the-fo
undations-of-the-u-s-based-on-the-roman-republic-1.2930948#.UIPh22d0YW
k
What Gregory Aldrete is up to:

http://news.uwgb.edu/log-news/faculty-staff/10/15/aldrete-new-book/

What Kristin Vines is up to:

http://www.chattanoogan.com/2012/10/19/236703/Baylor-s-Vines-Sixth-At-Wor
ld-Fencing.aspx

Marking the 60th anniversary of the decipherment of Linear B:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/cracking-the-code-the-decipherment-of-
linear-b-60-years-on/

Learning from Cato:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/rob-goodman/cato-stoicism-modern-stresses_b
_1986735.html

American tourists apparently are smuggling a lot out of FYROM:

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/22062/2/

More coverage of the purported discovery of the tomb of Roxane:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2012/10/14/archaeology-tomb-in-northern-greece-coul
d-be-that-of-widow-and-son-of-alexander-the-great-reports-say/

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
================================================================
Tomb found near Sweden’s ‘stonehenge’:

http://www.thelocal.se/43820/20121015/
http://news.discovery.com/history/sweden-stonehenge-tomb-121017.html

A Bronze Age ‘sauna’ from Assynt:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19976653

Another interesting detail in that Richard III thing:

http://news.discovery.com/history/richard-iii-body-nearly-destroyed-12101
6.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-10-foot-grave.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121015085028.htm

Last week we mentioned the Ness of Brogdar excavations … they have
a dig diary online:

http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar/

Finds from various periods underwater near Portimao:

http://www.theportugalnews.com/news/archaeologists-work-to-uncover-shipwr
eck-remains-in-portimao/27026
http://www.maritime-executive.com/article/archeologists-uncover-shipwreck
-remains-in-portimao

A 17th century shipwreck from Cadiz is going to be moved:

http://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2012/10/19/divers-prepare-to-move-
17th-century-shipwreck-in-cadiz/

Germany is trying to protect Baltic shipwrecks:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/german-archaeologists-attaching
-signs-to-protect-baltic-shipwrecks-a-861830.html

Top ten archaeological finds from Ireland:

http://www.irishcentral.com/roots/Top-ten-archaeological-finds-in-Ireland
---PHOTOS-174391661.html

Visit Stonehenge on Google Streetview:

http://maps.gstatic.com/m/streetview/?cbll=51.178958,-1.826552&z=3&layer=
c&panoid=VxzhBNNu-VGQC8HtVIaY3A&cbp=12,103.97,,0,-6.65

Review of Jane Gleeson-White, *Double Entry*:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/double-entry-venice-modern-finance-account
ing-jane-gleeson-white

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
================================================================
ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
================================================================
Building blocks for Angkor Wat were brought by canal:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21628874.300-building-blocks-of-ang
kor-wat-were-shipped-in-by-canal.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/15/angkor-wat-built-ancient-canals-
google-earth_n_1967927.html

Feature on Wang Anshi:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-19962432

A collection of old Korean tomes has been discovered:

http://m.yna.co.kr/mob2/en/contents_en.jsp?cid=AEN20121017005200315&domai
n=3&ctype=A&site=0100000000&mobile

More on pandaphagic prehistoric humans:

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-chinese-scientist-prehistoric-ate-pandas.htm
l

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultu
ral-heritage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Possible evidence of a Viking outpost on Baffin Island:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/10/121019-viking-outpost-sec
ond-new-canada-science-sutherland/

A major First Nations site along the Babine River in British Columbia:

http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/canada/ancient-village-along-bc-river-re
veals-1300-years-of-first-nations-history-174896271.html

Still looking for remains of Fort Caroline:

http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2012-10-14/story/unf-students-and-prof
essors-keep-search-fort-caroline

They’ve settled the dispute about where Francis Drake landed in
California:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/us/article/Feds-end-argument-where-Sir-Francis
-Drake-landed-3967549.php
http://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/Point-Reyes-declared-Drake-landing-
site-3966058.php

Marking the end of the expedition associated with the Queen Anne’s
Revenge:

http://www2.nbc17.com/news/2012/oct/19/divers-mark-end-queen-annes-expedi
tion-ar-2707952/

Interesting video of someone who witnessed Lincoln’s assassination:

http://news.discovery.com/history/witness-to-lincoln-shooting-gotta-see-v
ideo-121018.html

Feature on Brigham Young:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/21/books/review/brigham-young-pioneer-prop
het-by-john-g-turner.html?ref=books

Review of Henry Wiencek, *Master of the Mountain*:

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/18/163025651/master-jefferson-defender-of-libe
rty-then-slavery

More on Kennewick Man:

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/12/162795379/prehistoric-kennewick-man-was-all
-beefcake

cf:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1427297 (2003)
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1427095 (2003)
http://www.nytimes.com/2004/07/20/science/an-8-year-fight-ends-over-a-920
0-year-old-man.html?pagewanted=all&src=pm (2004)
================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
================================================================
A dozen prehispanic burials from Nyarit:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58371

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
================================================================
Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/news-new/audio-news-from-archaeologica

Archaeonews Podcast:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2012/archaeo-news-pod
cast-215

Videonews from The Archaeology Channel:

http://archaeologychannel.us/video-guide/video-news-from-tac-new

On the changing ‘voices’ of literature:

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-voices-older-literature-differently-today.ht
ml

Feature on population changes over the past 100 000 years:

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/oct/100-000-years-of-dramatic-population
-changes

… and a probably-related feature on pre-agricultural populations:

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-prehistoric-human-populations-prospered-agri
cultural.html

Study of sediments from a Japanese lake is extending the range of
radiocarbon
dating:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-10/haog-asl101912.php
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2012/10/a-new-leap-forward-for-ra
diocarbon-dating/
http://www.nature.com/news/core-sample-sends-carbon-clock-farther-back-in
-time-1.11622
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/10/121018141834.htm
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn22396-muddy-lake-bed-holds-radiocar
bon-rosetta-stone.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Con
line-news

Latest study on human lifespans:

http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-10-big-rapid-gains-human-lifespan.html

A new technique for identifying bones which could be used for DNA
analysis:

http://cen.acs.org/articles/90/web/2012/10/Method-Detects-Damage-Fossil-B
ones.html

Trying to recreate the sound of a Baroque organ:

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-recapturing-baroque.html

Latests saints:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/opinion/sunday/two-more-saints-from-a-s
tate-of-grace.html

Charles Darwin had a bad day:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2012/10/18/163181524/charles-darwin-and
-the-terrible-horrible-no-good-very-bad-day

Review of a book about Arthur Conan Doyle’s Arctic Adventure:

http://www.tnr.com/book/review/one-whale-too-many-arthur-conan-doyle’s-
arctic-adventure

Last season for Time Team:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.co.il/2012/10/time-team-to-down-tools-in-2
013.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
================================================================
Rome (according to Lindsey Davis):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/article-2217581/Holidays-Italy-Author-L
indsey-Davis-reveals-unmissable-sights-Rome.html

Assorted Europe:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/in-europe-sharing-moments-wit
h-history.html

Plovidiv:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/in-plovdiv-bulgaria-roman-gra
ndeur-east-of-italy.html

Spanish monasteries:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/monastery-hopping-in-spain.ht
ml

Siena:

http://travel.nytimes.com/2012/10/14/travel/36-hours-in-siena-italy.html?
ref=travel
================================================================
BLOGS
================================================================
About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

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

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Major art theft in the Netherlands:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/arts/design/kunsthal-rotterdam-defends-
security-after-theft-of-art.html
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2012/10/16/world/europe/ap-eu-netherlands
-art-heist.html?hp
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2012/10/16/arts/design/20121016Heist_SS.
html?ref=design
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/several-valuable-pain
tings-stolen-in-heist-from-dutch-exhibition-featuring-picasso-matisse/
2012/10/16/50120994-1764-11e2-a346-f24efc680b8d_story.html

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/
================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n43.html

… and the one that will appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n44.html


n.b. there’s news of a gold coin hoard in the ‘Classics’ category ...

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/
================================================================
EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
================================================================
City of Gold: Tomb and Temple in Ancient Cyprus:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58436

Aphrodite:

http://austin.culturemap.com/newsdetail/10-10-12-14-22-the-gods-of-love-n
ew-aphrodite-exhibit-at-san-antonio-museum-of-art/

Bronze:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/arts/20iht-melikian20.html

Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=58376#.UIP3cGd0YWk

Manet:

http://phys.org/news/2012-10-facebook-manet-friends.html

Rise and Fall of Prohibition:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/american-spirits-at-the-nat
ional-constitution-center.html?ref=design

Mantegna to Matisse:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/mantegna-to-matisse-at-the-
frick-collection.html?ref=design

The Getty has purchased the Knoedler Gallery archive:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/design/getty-institute-buys-knoedl
er-gallery-archive.html?ref=design
================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
================================================================
Pierrot Lunaire:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/19/arts/music/pierrot-lunaire-at-the-perfo
rming-garage.html?ref=music

Moscow Sretensky Monastery Choir:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/arts/music/moscow-sretensky-monastery-c
hoir-at-carnegie-hall.html

American Classical Orchestra:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/17/arts/music/american-classical-orchestra
-opens-at-alice-tully-hall.html?ref=music

Followup to that Mahler photograph thing from last week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/18/arts/music/man-with-mahler-photo-compla
ins-of-pressure-from-schoenbergs.html?ref=music

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Frank Moore Cross:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/10/20/us/frank-moore-cross-biblical-scholar-a
nd-dead-sea-scrolls-interpreter-dies-at-91.html
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/archaeologists
-biblical-scholars-works/the-end-of-an-era/
http://asorblog.org/?p=3450&utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=fr
ank-moore-cross-an-appreciation

Maria Rosa Menocal:

http://news.yale.edu/2012/10/15/memoriam-mar-rosa-menocal
================================================================
PODCASTS
================================================================
The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
================================================================
EXPLORATOR is a weekly newsletter representing the fruits of
the labours of 'media research division' of The Atrium. Various
on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of the
ancient world (broadly construed: practically anything relating
to archaeology or history up to World War II or so is fair
game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of
charge!
================================================================
Useful Addresses
================================================================
Past issues of Explorator are available on the web via our
Yahoo site:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/

To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to:

Explorator...@yahoogroups.com

To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to:

Explorator-...@yahoogroups.com

To send a 'heads up' to the editor or contact him for other
reasons:

roguecl...@gmail.com
================================================================
Explorator is Copyright (c) 2012 David Meadows. Feel free to
distribute these listings via email to your pals, students,
teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. These
links are not to be posted to any website by any means (whether
by direct posting or snagging from a usenet group or some other
email source) without my express written permission. I think it
is only right that I be made aware of public fora which are
making use of content gathered in Explorator. Thanks!
================================================================