explorator 21.21

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explorator 21.21 September 16, 2018
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one out).


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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Remember that 70 000 years bp 'hashtag' from Blombos Cave? It's now
being touted as the oldest drawing made by humans:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/c-dot091018.php
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/uotw-mgd091118.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-piece-silcrete-blombos-cave-predates.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180912133531.htm
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/12/science/
oldest-drawing-ever-found.html
https://www.livescience.com/63565-worlds-oldest-drawing.html
http://sciencenordic.com/archaeologists-find-world%E2%80%99s-oldest-draw
ing
https://www.wsj.com/articles/is-this-the-worlds-oldest-hashtag-153677160
1
https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2018/09/12/archaeologists-just-fo
und-oldest-drawing-its-year-old-hashtag/
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-45501205
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/oldest-drawing-ev
er-south-africa-blombos-cave-art-hashtag-rock-ochre-a8534696.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/12/earliest-known-drawing-f
ound-on-rock-in-south-african-cave
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/12/first-ever-drawing-man-hasht
ag-shows-early-humans-capable-abstract/
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-73-000-year-old-abstract-ar
t-found-in-south-africa-s-blombos-cave-1.6468244
https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/science/2018/09/12/earliest-drawing-
human-history-discovered-africa/1279611002/
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-earliest-human-drawing-
20180914-story.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-crisscrossed-lines-called-worlds-o
ldest-drawing
https://globalnews.ca/news/4444358/worlds-oldest-drawing-south-africa/
https://www.dw.com/en/oldest-known-drawing-a-hashtag-found-in-south-afri
ca/a-45469721
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/the-oldest-drawing-in-the-world-
was-done-with-an-ocher-crayon/
http://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-06657-x
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=27003
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/12/647178335/researchers-discover-ancient-ha
shtag
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/south-african-cave-stone-may-bear-wo
rlds-oldest-drawing
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/09/news-ancient-humans-a
rt-hashtag-ochre-south-africa-archaeology/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6962-180912-blombos-cave-ochre

A 70 000 years bp site in Armenia:

https://armenpress.am/eng/news/947296/

Otzi's tattoos are getting attention again:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-otzi-icemans-tattoos-reve
al-about-copper-age-medical-practices-180970244/
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AFRICA
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Humans arrived on Madagascar earlier than previously thought and did
bad things to megafauna:

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-ancient-bird-bones-redate-human.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/zsol-abb091218.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180912144434.htm
https://www.livescience.com/63568-humans-killed-elephant-birds-madagasca
r.html
https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-45495400
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/new-find-clears-madagascars-first
-settlers-wiping-out-worlds-largest-bird
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6967-180913-madagascar-elephant-birds
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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All the Egyptian artifacts at the Brazil Museum were destroyed, alas:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2018/09/09/all-700-egyptian-relics-in-brazils
-national-museum-destroyed-antiquities-ministry/

More on the 800 Middle Kingdom burials from that necropolis at Lisht:

https://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-800-tombs-discovered-massive-grav
e-site-lurking-between-two-1119616
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/archaeologists-unearth-more-than
-800-tombs-at-ancient-egyptian-city-of-the-dead/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/09/news-800-egyptian-tom
bs-lisht-middle-kingdom-parcak-archaeology/

More on the tomb of Mehu opening to the public:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/ancient-egyptian-tomb-to-open-for-touri
sts-78-years-after-discovery/
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/egypt-opens-4000-year-old-tomb-giz
a-public-its-discovery-1941-1183960
https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/egypt-tomb-mehu-africa/index.html
https://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/45533234

Evidence from a 13 000 years bp Natufian cave suggests beer-making may
have predated cereal cultivation:

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-evidence-hypothesis-beer-cultivate-cereals
.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/e-apt091218.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180912111907.htm
https://news.stanford.edu/2018/09/12/crafting-beer-lead-cereal-cultivati
on/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/13000-year-old-brewery-discovered-in-israe
l-the-oldest-in-the-world/
https://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archaeologists-uncover-13000-year-old-
brewery-in-the-Carmel-567145
https://www.jns.org/archeological-evidence-finds-ancient-israel-made-cra
ft-beer/
https://www.dw.com/en/an-early-beer-archaeologists-tap-ground-at-worlds-
oldest-brewery/a-45480731
https://www.sciencealert.com/archaeologists-discover-worlds-oldest-beer-
brewery
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/traces-13000-year-old-beer-fou
nd-israel-180970282/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6963-180912israel-beer-brewing

... and just to confuse matters, that 14 000 years bp bread from Jordan
story returned as well:

http://www.guinnessworldrecords.com/news/2018/9/14-000-year-old-bread-fo
und-in-jordan-539848

Earleist convent in Israel at Horvat Hani?:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-earliest-convent-i
n-israel-built-on-site-of-miraculous-birth-1.6464875

That underwater church find in Iznik may be where the Council of Nicaea
was held:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/was-council-of-nicaea-church-just-found-un
der-a-lake

Excavating a Seljuk-era bazaar in Alanya Castle:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/only-seljuk-era-bazaar-in-anatolia-bein
g-unearthed-136856

Medieval finds from Gabala:

https://www.azernews.az/culture/137440.html

More on the Al Ain mosque find:

https://www.thenational.ae/opinion/comment/connecting-the-dots-how-a-1-0
00-year-old-mosque-uncovered-in-al-ain-anchors-the-uae-to-a-greater-flow
-of-human-history-1.770075

Feature on the Aramaic DSS:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-artifacts/dead-sea-sc
rolls/aramaic-dead-sea-scrolls/

Feature on cuneiform fakes:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2018/06/Spot-Fake-Cueiform-Tablets
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of excitement over the find of a hoard of gold coins in a
theatre at Como:

https://www.livescience.com/63542-ancient-gold-coins-italian-cinema.html
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2018/09/10/bonisoli-hails
-roman-coins-discovery_f08a35dd-3ed3-4025-818f-5c4068081164.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/09/10/cache-ancient-roman-gold
-was-found-by-crew-building-luxury-apartments/
https://www.newsweek.com/priceless-5th-century-gold-coins-mint-condition
-unearthed-under-italian-1113125
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/09/europe/roman-gold-coins-italy-theater-trn
d/index.html
http://www.euronews.com/2018/09/09/hundreds-of-roman-gold-coins-discover
ed-in-italian-theatre
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/videos/2018-09-09/imperial-gold-coins-dis
covered-video
https://pickle.nine.com.au/2018/09/10/09/33/roman-coins-found-jug-como-i
taly-theatre
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-14/hundreds-of-roman-coins-found-in-s
oapstone-jar-under-theatre/10248988
https://abcnews.go.com/International/hundreds-gold-coins-dating-romes-im
perial-era-found/story?id=57720521
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2018/09/11/300-rare-gold-
coins-found-italy-under-cressoni-theater/1264502002/
https://www.npr.org/2018/09/10/646445359/hundreds-of-roman-gold-coins-fo
und-in-theater-basement
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6955-180910-italy-imperial-coins

Protocycladic finds from Kythnos:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/121227/protocycladic-archaeological-discovery-
on-kythnos-island-sheds-light-on-era/

A 6th century BCE Greek altar from Phanagoria:

http://tass.com/science/1020851

An altar to Tyche with an inscription from Nicopolis ad Istrum:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/09/15/altar-of-destiny-goddess-tyc
he-with-demosthenes-epigram-inscription-found-in-ancient-roman-city-nico
polis-ad-istrum-in-bulgaria/

... and a gladiator relief from the same site:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/09/06/gladiator-fight-relief-disco
vered-in-ancient-roman-city-of-nicopolis-ad-istrum-near-bulgarias-veliko
-tarnovo/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6968-180913-bulgaria-gladiator-relief

I think we mentioned this mosaic find from Switzerland:

https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/culture/archaeological-hotspot_intricate-ro
man-mosaic-discovered-in-western-switzerland/44375732

Assorted Roman finds from Chester:

https://www.chesterchronicle.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/roman-find
s-chester-hq-dig-15132818

Analysis of a woman's skeleton from Eleutherna suggests she was a
'master ceramacist':

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/meet-female-artisan-whose-mast
erful-ceramics-defied-ancient-greek-gender-norms-180970288/

What they're learning from a Roman fort find at Gwynedd:

https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/discovery-roman-fort-chang
ing-what-15143660

Concerns for the temple of Artemis Agrotera in Athens:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/232476/article/ekathimerini/news/archaeologi
sts-voice-alarm-over-artemis-agrotera-temple-in-athens

Pondering some eye cream in a soldier burial found at Aizanoi:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/what-was-eye-cream-doing-2200-
year-old-aizanoi-tomb-180970266/

Zadar's Roman forum apparently isn't public property:

https://www.total-croatia-news.com/news/30969-zadar-s-iconic-forum-isn-t
-public-property-according-to-court

Feature on the appropriation of the fasces and other Roman symbols:

https://hyperallergic.com/459504/fasces-fascism-and-how-the-alt-right-co
ntinues-to-appropriate-ancient-roman-symbols/

In Our Time this week was discussing the Iliad:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0bh5x1y

On some pre Roman cultures in Italy:

https://www.thelocal.it/20180911/four-civilizations-in-italy-that-pre-da
te-the-roman-empire

Mark Zuckerberg is apparently 'fascinated' by Augustus:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2018/09/10/mark-zuckerberg-fascin
ated-roman-emperor-augustus/
https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/10/facebook-ceo-mark-zuckerbergs-love-for-a
ugustus-may-give-insight.html
https://www.moneycontrol.com/news/business/mark-zuckerbergs-running-of-f
acebook-may-be-inspired-by-an-ancient-roman-emperor-2941411.html
http://www.ctpost.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Mark-Zuckerberg
-has-been-fascinated-by-Augustus-13230246.php
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/hail-augustus-zuckerberg-declares-lov
e-for-roman-emperor-nflkxjzdx

Some Oedipal humour:

https://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/mallardfillmore/s-2122580

What we learned from Milo:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/09/13/what-an-ancient-greek-wrestl
er-taught-us-about-building-strength/

Some hype for an interesting documentary on Athens:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2018/sep/14/city-with-a-past-why-clas
sical-and-modern-athens-are-at-war

Another gladiator school piece:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/family-holidays/rome-gladiator-school
-grupo-storico-colosseum-review/

Another feature on unwrapping Herculaneum papyri (still no new texts!):

http://mentalfloss.com/article/540956/science-virtually-unwrapping-charr
ed-scrolls-herculaneum

Anger over dropping Latin from the Greek school curriculum:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/232297/article/ekathimerini/news/anger-over-
scrapping-of-latin-classes

What Thomas Howe is up to:

https://www.southwestern.edu/live/news/12899-preserving-the-past-for-pos
terity

Review of Barker, *The Silence of the Girls*:

https://www.economist.com/books-and-arts/2018/09/15/pat-barker-beautiful
ly-fills-in-the-gaps-in-the-iliad

More on mill use in Roman times:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/roman-breadmakers-vacation-11092018/

More on Homer's Odyssey and social network theory:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/homer-s-odyssey-into-social-networks-
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Plenty of prehistoric pottery from Scotland's Central Belt:

https://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/scotland-s-largest-haul-of-prehistori
c-pottery-found-1-4798794
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6964-180912-scotland-neolithic-pottery

A first millenium BCE child burial from Novgrad:

https://www.novinite.com/articles/192059/Archaeologists+Discovered+a+Bur
ial+of+a+Child+from+1+Millennium+BC+in+Northern+Bulgaria

A dog out on a walk with his/her owner dug up some 3000 years bp bronze
artifacts in the Orlicke Mountains:

https://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/dog-discovers-bronze-age-treas
ure-in-kostelec
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6971-180914-bronze-age-treasure

Searching for an ancient hillfort at Cluny Hill in Forres:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/moray/1561331/archaeological-d
ig-at-moray-monument-to-discover-evidence-of-an-ancient-hillfort/

I think we've had bits and pieces on the Northern Emporium Project
(Ribe) before:

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-thousands-scandinavia-viking-city.html
http://sciencenordic.com/thousands-objects-discovered-scandinavia%E2%80%
99s-first-viking-city
https://www.thelocal.dk/20180913/thousands-of-objects-discovered-in-scan
dinavias-first-viking-city
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6966-180913-denmark-ribe-vikings

A medieval burial from Wartenburg (Poland):

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C30863%2Cremains-victim-lith
uanian-invasion-1354-discovered-pompeii-warmia.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6957-180910-poland-warmia-skeleton

Finds from various periods from a quarry site near Sedgefield:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/16832816.medieval-skeletons-among-
finds-at-quarry-site-near-sedgefield/

Looking for a 'lost' 14th century friary in Inverkeithing:

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/721690/gardens-dug-up-in
-search-for-lost-14th-century-friary-in-inverkeithing/

A 14th century 'poor people's quarter' found at Peperikon:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/09/13/14th-century-poor-peoples-qu
arter-discovered-in-ancient-medieval-rock-city-perperikon-in-southern-bu
lgaria/

A medieval sarcophagus from Lincoln:

https://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/lincoln-news/archaeologists-make
-surprise-discovery-old-1993609
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6959-180911-lincoln-medieval-sarcophagus

Henry VII's likely birthplace has been located in Pembroke Castle:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/sep/16/likely-birthplace-of-hen
ry-vii-found-in-pembroke-castle

This year's finds from the Old Oswestry Hillfort site:

http://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/16831879.old-oswestry-hil
lfort-mystery-set-to-be-unravelled/
https://www.shropshirelive.com/features/2018/09/10/hillfort-revelation-i
n-store-for-finale-of-oswestry-heritage-festival/

Some sort of metal detecting event in Oxfordshire:

https://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/16870133.metal-detectorists-descend-on
-oxfordshire/

Pondering Germany's colonial past in Africa:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/world/europe/germany-colonial-history
-africa-nazi.html

I don't think I've mentioned the AIA's dig blog for the Achill Island
dig this year yet:

https://www.archaeological.org/news/achillisland/29456

Seeking protection for Bosworth Field:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/09/12/bosworth-field-must-saved-na
tion-protect-ancient-battlefields/?WT.mc_id=tmg_share_em

Cluny's treasures are on display to the public now:

https://fr.aleteia.org/2018/09/12/journees-du-patrimoine-le-tresor-de-cl
uny-enfin-expose-au-public/

More on the hidden passage at Vyborg Castle:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-game-board-unearthed-
hidden-chamber-medieval-vyborg-castle-180970246/

More on that mammoth kill site in Austria:

https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/animals/gruesome-mammoth-kill
-site-discovered-in-austria/news-story/da741d9b9e0bac094dc34bb468f3f872
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http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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254 medieval copper coins from near the Khirki mosque:

http://www.uniindia.com/news/india/asi-discovers-254-copper-coins-belong
ing-to-medieval-period-in-premises-of-khirki-mosque/1349208.html
https://www.ndtv.com/delhi-news/archaeological-survey-of-india-discovers
-254-medieval-era-coins-at-khirki-mosque-in-delhi-1915604
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6969-180914-india-khirki-mosque

There are also concerns for the 660 years bp Khirki mosque due to bat
waste:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/delhi-news/bat-waste-causing-damage-to-66
0-year-old-khirki-mosque/story-zOZhtzUVbPcGTHwMj4RefK.html

A 14th century coin from Palani:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/rare-coin-dating-to-14t
h-century-found-near-palani/articleshow/65815432.cms

Feature on Queensland's Native Mounted Police camps:

https://theconversation.com/how-unearthing-queenslands-native-police-cam
ps-gives-us-a-window-onto-colonial-violence-100814

Recent finds from the Sydney Metro Harbour tunnel work:

https://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/mosman-daily/sydney-metro-ha
rbour-tunnel-works-1850s-home-artefacts-found/news-story/a28e80a20fa6b24
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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

https://us14.campaign-archive.com/home/?u=ddab09cab5362c9613318bd92&id=b
917a20ae5
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NORTH AMERICA
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Remains of a whaling wreck from Canada's High Arctic:

https://ucalgary.ca/utoday/issue/2018-09-13/expedition-uncovers-first-wh
aling-wreck-ever-found-canadas-high-arctic
http://www.chesterlestreetadvertiser.co.uk/educationzone/news/16861788.n
orth-graduate-finds-whaling-ship-wrecked-in-arctic-in-1902/

1000 years bp human remains from somewhere in Texas:

http://www.tpr.org/post/ancient-remains-discovered-under-frio-county-bri
dge
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6960-180911-texas-native-american

Feature on the Adena Pipe:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20180909/archaeology-does-adena-mound-pipe-
depict-dwarf-with-goiter

Revisiting Albany's great fire of 1848:

https://www.timesunion.com/local/article/Touring-phantoms-of-The-Great-F
ire-of-1848-13220514.php

Review of *The Standing Rock Portraits*:

https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/09/us/standing-rock-portraits-cnnph
otos/index.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Evidence of an extensive live animal capture/trade network in
Mesoamerica:

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-wild-animals-routinely-captured-ancient.ht
ml
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/p-waw090518.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180912144430.htm
https://www.livescience.com/63558-copan-bones-jaguar-captivity.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/maya-captured-traded-and-s
acrificed-jaguars-and-other-large-mammals-180970271/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6965-180912-copan-animal-trade

Not sure if we've mentioned this 1500 years bp Maya altar from La
Corona:

https://news.tulane.edu/pr/tulane-archaeologist-leads-team-major-maya-fi
nd
https://phys.org/news/2018-09-ancient-altar-reveals-mayan-game.html
http://theweek.com/speedreads/795951/archaeologists-discover-ancient-art
ifact-theyre-comparing-game-thrones
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6970-180914-la-corona-altar

Mexico City is sinking, and its affecting monuments:

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/14/647601623/mexico-city-keeps-sinking-as-it
s-water-supply-wastes-away

Plans to restore what might be the oldest house in Mexico:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/world/article/Experts-restore-what-might
-be-oldest-house-in-13223663.php
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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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Interesting feature on fake miniatures depicting Islamic science:

https://aeon.co/essays/why-fake-miniatures-depicting-islamic-science-are
-everywhere

Feature on Occitan:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180911-occitan-the-language-the-french
-forbade

Feature on the restoration of the Blue Boy:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-project-blue-boy-2018
0914-story.html

Feature on Edinburgh's clock tower:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20180913-scotlands-clock-thats-almost-ne
ver-on-time

On racist views of the Middle Ages:

https://www.csmonitor.com/EqualEd/2018/0912/History-lesson-Scholars-take
-aim-at-racist-views-of-Middle-Ages

Feature on Artemisia Gentileschi:

https://theconversation.com/explainer-artemisia-gentileschi-a-baroque-he
roine-for-the-metoo-era-100676

On evidence for historical hurricanes:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/rockyplanet/?p=2251887

Not sure if we've mentioned the Mona Lisa thyroid disease theory yet:

https://www.livescience.com/63526-mona-lisa-thyroid-disease.html

Feature on assorted ancient tunnels:

https://theweeklyobserver.com/ancient-underground-tunnels-12000-years-ra
nging-scotland-turkey/62845/

Feature on Jeremy Bentham's rings:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/experts-are-searching-19th-cen
tury-philosophers-strange-memorial-rings-180970273/

Marking the 150th anniversary of Little Women:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/books/little-women-alcott-anniversary
.html?action=click&module=Editors%20Picks&pgtype=Homepage

Feature on Lady Mary Wroth:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-45433726

On early cheese and lactose intolerance:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/archaeologists-find-traces-of-72
00-year-old-cheese-on-croatian-pottery/

France is starting up a lottery to fund heritage preservation:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-45509572

Something about 19th century trade theory:

https://news.yale.edu/2018/09/10/path-breaking-work-adapted-19th-century
-trade-theory-modern-day

On Victorian 'Magic Lanterns':

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/victorian-magic-lanterns-were-
19th-century-version-netflix-180970286/

Reviewish/interviewish on the history of milk:

http://www.wamc.org/post/10000-year-history-milk
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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I Object:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/british-museum-traces-history-
dissent-ancient-egypt-today-180970258/
https://www.historyextra.com/period/modern/
dissent-through-the-centuries/

Medieval Monsters:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/arts/design/medieval-monsters-review-
morgan-library.html
https://www.themorgan.org/exhibitions/medieval-monsters

Delacroix:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/arts/design/delacroix-review-metropol
itan-museum-of-art.html
https://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2018/delacroix

The Ancient Greek Technology Museum has opened:

https://news.gtp.gr/2018/09/14/grand-opening-ancient-greek-technology-mu
seum-kostas-kotsanas/

More items arrived at the Grand Egyptian Museum:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/311463/Heritage/Ancient-Egy
pt/Ancient-Egyptian-artefacts-from-AlBahnasa-arrives-.aspx
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2018/09/12/pieces-of-three-giant-obelisks-tra
nsferred-to-gem-for-restoration/
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/57512/Min-of-Antiquities-to-launch-p
romotional-campaign-for-GEM

On what survived the Brazil Museum fire:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-45463948

Related:

https://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/13092018-picture
-emerges-brazil-museum-fire

More (assorted) reactions to the Brazil Museum fire:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/world/americas/brazil-museum-fire-ind
igenous.html
http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-mccormack-brazil-museum-fire-
funding-20180909-story.html
https://www.gazettenet.com/Losing-a-museum-losing-the-world-20088378

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THE TECHY SIDE
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On graphene gilding for preservation purposes:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/uoic-iep091118.php

Interesting application of AI to decipher medieval graffiti:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/artificial-intelligence-can-no
w-decipher-medieval-graffiti-180970222/

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A single gene mutation is being connected to long distance running in
humans:

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-gene-mutation-humans-optimal-long-distance
.html

Using DNA to study the population movements of the Longobards:

https://phys.org/news/2018-09-6th-century-barbarian-social-migration-pal
eogenomics.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-09/ifas-u6b091018.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/09/180911132115.htm
https://www.newsweek.com/a-1115705
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/barbarian-dna-ita
ly-hungary-cemeteries-ancient-rome-a8532796.html
https://www.iflscience.com/editors-blog/dna-from-barbarians-grave-sheds-
surprising-light-on-mysterious-period-of-history/
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/09/using-medieval-dna-to-track-the-
barbarian-spread-into-italy/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6958-180911-genome-barbarian-invasion

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Following Sisi across Europe:

https://www.dw.com/en/across-europe-with-empress-sisi/g-45426869

Aran Islands:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/10/travel/aran-islands-ireland-jm-synge.
html

Uzbekistan shrines:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-45471033
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PERFORMANCES
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Anton Reicha:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/07/arts/music/anton-reicha-ivan-ilic-bee
thoven.html

On Beethoven's Fifth:

https://www.dw.com/en/beethovens-fifth-symphony-the-truth-about-the-symp
hony-of-fate/a-45472113

Antigone in Ferguson:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/theater/antigone-in-ferguson-michael-
brown.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Strange vandalism involving dabbing of artifacts with oil in Athens:

https://www.dw.com/en/bulgarian-women-on-trial-for-damaging-antiquities-
in-athens/a-45434398

Stealing a very expensive 'lunch box' (?):

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-45492997

Another twist in the Gurlitt affair:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cornelius-wasnt-only-gurlitt-s
ibling-inherit-nazi-looted-art-180970270/

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2018/09/culture-crime-news-3-9-se
ptember-2018.html

conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

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

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

SAFE:

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

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
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A Nazi-looted Renoir was returned to relatives of the original owner:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/09/13/nazis-stol
e-a-jewish-mans-century-old-renoir-painting-in-1941-now-its-been-returne
d-to-his-only-living-heir/

The story behind that repatriation of a Colombus letter:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2018/09/10/actualidad/1536577909_675090.html

Sotheby's returned an item to Greece:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2018/09/09/rare-stolen-antiquity-return
s-to-greece/

OpEd on stealing back colonial era treasures:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/09/12/
is-it-okay-to-steal-back-looted-colonial-era-treasures/

More on that Nataraja in Australia which was stolen from India:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-09-13/dancing-shiva-art-gallery-of-south
-australia-stolen-from-india/10233036
http://www.wtva.com/content/national/493129691.html

More on Germany's return of a Sican mask to Peru:

https://tdn.com/news/world/peru-celebrates-return-of-stolen-gold-mask-fo
und-in-germany/article_935558ba-48e3-53e5-9580-e19906f87062.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n36.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v21/club_nbs_esylum_v21n37.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Edwin P. Menes:

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/memoriam-edwin-p-menes

Nancy Blomberg:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/obituaries/nancy-blomberg-dead.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/
2777-audio-news-from-archaeologica-2-september-8-september-2018
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CONFERENCES
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CBA Wessex 60th Anniversary Conference (November 2018):

http://cba-wessex.org.uk/cba-events/annual-conference-2018/

Jews and the Americas (February 2019):

https://networks.h-net.org/node/73374/announcements/1932330/jews-and-ame
ricas-68th-annual-conference-center-latin-american

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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:

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

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

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

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

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

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/

The Book and the Spade:

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