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explorator 24.20 September 5, 2021
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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,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, 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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Evidence of 'bursts' of human migratory activity through Saudi Arabia over the past 400 000 years, tied to climate:

https://phys.org/visualstories/2021-09-prehistoric-climate-repeatedly-channelled-human.amp
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210804123500.htm https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/610471/SAUDI-ARABIA/Early-human-migrations-from-Africa-dating-back-400000-years-discovered-in-Al-Nufud-desert
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1921331/saudi-arabia https://www.independent.co.uk/climate-change/news/early-humans-arabia-climate-change-b1912882.html
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/paradigm-shift-in-human-evolution-early-humans-left-africa-via-arabia-1.10165119
https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/01/world/early-humans-arabia-migration-scn/index.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/once-green-prehistoric-arabia-drew-early-humans-from-africa/2021/09/01/31e165ea-0b44-11ec-a7c8-61bb7b3bf628_story.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/green-prehistoric-arabia-drew-early-humans-africa-79768876
https://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2021-09-02/climate-change-early-human-migration-through-arabia/100419726
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/arabia-stone-age-tools-humans-migration-green-lakes-desert
https://www.sciencealert.com/humans-made-at-least-five-climate-driven-trips-into-arabia-over-the-last-400-000-years
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/02/prehistoric-climate-change-and-human-migrations-across-arabia/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9976-210903-arabia-oasis-migration

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03863-y

400 000 years bp elephant bone tools from the Castel di Guido site in Italy:

https://www.colorado.edu/today/2021/08/30/researchers-identify-record-number-ancient-elephant-bone-tools
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-ancient-elephant-bone-tools.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/08/210830144755.htm https://www.independent.co.uk/independentpremium/world/elephant-bone-tools-colorado-university-b1911652.html
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/castel-di-guido-elephant-bone-tools-10016.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/record-number-of-elephant-bone-tools-found-at-a-400-000-year-old-site-near-rome
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/ancient-hominids-crafted-advanced-bone-tools-carved-from-elephants/141156
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/humans-turned-elephant-remains-into-a-surprising-array-of-bone-tools/

cf: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0256090

An analysis of a 43 000 or so years bp Neanderthal child's tooth found in Iran back in 2017:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464420/New-study-sheds-light-on-Neanderthal-tooth-discovered-in-western
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9972-210902-iran-neanderthal-tooth

More on that 76 000 years bp Neanderthal hunting camp found near Madrid:

https://www.cenieh.es/en/press/news/neanderthal-hunting-camp-center-iberian-peninsula
https://www.eurasiareview.com/30082021-a-neanderthal-hunting-camp-in-center-of-iberian-peninsula/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/a-neanderthal-hunting-camp-in-the-center-of-the-iberian-peninsula/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9962-210830-spain-neanderthal-hunting

Feature on some Neanderthal hand axes used for teaching at the University of Saskatchewan:

https://news.usask.ca/articles/colleges/2021/neanderthal-hand-axes-connect-usask-students-to-the-past.php

On the success of the Neanderthals as a species:

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-09-01/rebecca-wragg-sykes-neanderthals-were-very-successful-at-what-they-did-they-were-not-failures.html

Another feature on Doggerland and environs:

https://www.science.org/content/article/relics-washed-beaches-reveal-lost-world-beneath-north-sea
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================

Pondering the obsession with Ancient Egypt:

https://bigthink.com/culture-religion/pharoah-groupies-obsessed-ancient-egypt

An aid offering to conserve sites in Luxor:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/08/31/usaid-offers-17m-to-conserve-archeological-sites-promote-tourism-in-luxor/

Extreme heat is apparently affecting Egypt's archaeological heritage:

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/09/extreme-heat-takes-toll-egypts-archaeological-heritage

Plans to make the city of Fustat into an open air museum:

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2021/08/egypt-make-oldest-islamic-capital-africa-open-museum

Recent finds from digs along the Great Wall of Grogan:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464568/Great-Wall-of-Grogan-excavations-give-clues-to-life-in-northern

Studying inscriptions at Persepolis to determine the evolution of Persian writing:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464522/Inscriptions-in-Persepolis-palace-hold-clues-about-evolution

Restoration of a pair of Safavid-era fortresses in Iran's Sistan-Baluchestan province has commenced:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/464555/New-restoration-work-starts-on-fortresses-in-southeast-Iran

7000 years bp burials and structures from the dig at the Arslantepe Mound:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/over-20-graves-house-ruins-found-in-arslantepe-mound-167632

Interesting Urartian burial including a man, a dog, and assorted other animals near Cavustepe Castle (Van):

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/urartian-grave-excites-archaeologists-167478 http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62114

Digging has resumed at Hasankeyf Castle:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hasankeyf-castle-undergoing-excavations-167505
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/archaeological-excavations-to-enlighten-turkeys-hasankeyf-castle/news

A major excavation project is under way in Trabzon:

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-begin-in-trabzon-to-bring-to-light-traces-of-four-empires-167564

Overview of archaeological finds in Turkey in August:

https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/august-2021-turkish-archaeology

A First Temple period 'fraudulent weight' find from the City of David:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/weight-used-to-cheat-in-trade-during-first-temple-era-found-in-jerusalem-678446
https://www.timesofisrael.com/stone-cold-sting-ancient-jerusalem-weight-points-to-2700-year-old-hustle/
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/sy2jrlc11y https://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/rare-first-temple-era-fraudulent-weight-uncovered-in-ancient-jerusalem/2021/09/02/

A Second Temple quarry site from Jerusalem:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-archaeologists-find-jerusalem-stone-quarry-from-second-temple-period-1.10183620
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/313046 https://www.timesofisrael.com/quarry-that-may-have-been-source-of-second-temple-stones-uncovered-in-jerusalem/

I think we mentioned this 1500 years bp 'church to an unknown martyr' found in Israel a few years ago:

https://www.livescience.com/church-unknown-martyr-unearthed-israel.html

More on the rethinking about the purpose of Qumran:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/cairo-genizah-paper-may-hold-key-to-secrets-of-qumran-dead-sea-scrolls-678045
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/dead-sea-scrolls-site-mystery-solved-qumran-jerusalem-1.10155326

Feature on the Bet Guvrin-Maresha archaeological park:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/bet-guvrin-maresha/141300

Feature on Moses Shapira:

https://www.ancientjewreview.com/read/2021/8/31/the-myth-of-moses-shapira#_edn4

Feature on the Third Crusade and the Treaty of Jaffa:

https://www.jpost.com/middle-east/on-this-day-treaty-of-jaffa-signed-ending-the-third-crusade-678438

Feature on restoring artifacts damaged in the Beirut explosion:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/09/05/arts/beirut-blast-art-restoration.html

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https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Remains of a Roman theatre near Cordoba:

https://www.finestresullarte.info/archeologia/teatro-romano-ategua-cordova

Coverage (in English) of the find of two rostras from the battle of the Aegades off Sicily:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9943277/Archaeology-Four-450lb-ancient-Roman-battering-rams-recovered-coast-Sicily.html
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/raised-from-the-deep-romes-deadly-weapon-c09rz6r68
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/ancient-warship-rams-discovered-at-the-site-of-the-battle-of-the-egadi-islands/141290
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/03/two-bronze-warship-rams-discovered-at-the-battle-of-the-aegates-site/

A Roman necropolis from the Castel di Tora site (Italian):

https://percevalasnotizie.wordpress.com/2021/08/31/archeologia-scoperta-una-necropoli-romana-a-castel-di-tora-ri-foto/

Brief item on the dig at a Roman bath site in Carlisle:

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19557365.archaeological-findings-carlisle-showing-rich-roman-history/
https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19554531.big-finds-already-uncovered-roman-dig/

Overview of this year's dig at Despotikon:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/despotikon-2021-its-excavation-and-restoration-works/

Latest finds from the sanctuary of Artemis Amarysia dig:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/01/the-new-finds-at-the-sanctuary-of-artemis-amarysia/

Excavations at Kastabala continue to reveal structures:

https://www.dailysabah.com/life/history/excavations-continue-to-unearth-ancient-city-of-kastabala
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ephesus-of-cukurova-being-unearthed-167539

Not sure where to put this one: a WWII Nazi bunker revealed inside a Roman fort on Guernsey:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-guernsey-58331065 https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9943683/World-War-Two-Nazi-bunker-discovered-inside-ancient-Roman-fort-Guernsey.html
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-roman-tower-was-turned-into-nazi-fortress-678666
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/wwii-nazi-bunker-discovered-inside-roman-fort-1234602877/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/archaeologists-unravel-the-history-of-alderneys-roman-fort/141278
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-uncover-world-war-ii-bunker-within-roman-fort-180978547/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9964-210830-alderney-german-bunker

Using robots to help piece together fragmented frescoes from Pompeii:

https://www.laprensalatina.com/robots-help-piece-together-the-fresco-puzzles-of-pompeii/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/robot-tackles-the-puzzles-of-pompeii-3rgkcnp8r
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/713/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/713/pub/713/page/55/article/214691

Doing similar things without robots st the House of the Harpist Roman villa site in France:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/sep/03/its-exactly-like-a-puzzle-experts-on-piecing-together-roman-fresco-find

The dig at Rossett Roman Villa has resumed:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-58427470 https://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/19555526.rossett-archaeologists-begin-dig-roman-villa/

More on the purported find of a statue of Alexander the Great from the al-Shabty excavations in Egypt (still no photo?):

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/421930.aspx https://dailynewsegypt.com/2021/08/29/egypt-unearths-remains-of-suburb-from-greek-roman-eras-in-alexandria/
https://egyptindependent.com/town-dating-back-to-greek-and-roman-eras-unearthed-in-alexandria/
https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/29/2200-year-old-sculpture-alexander-great-discovered/
https://www.argophilia.com/news/new-archaeological-finds-stir-interest-in-alexander-the-great-tomb/229677/
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/08/31/alexander-the-great-statue-discovery-sparks-renewed-interest-to-find-his-grave/
https://www.wionews.com/world/egypt-dig-uncovers-a-2200-year-old-alexander-the-great-statue-409483

More on that well-preserved burial from Pompeii:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/08/pompeii-tomb-reveals-formerly-enslaved-mans-rise-to-wealth-and-power/

More on the statue of Hygieia from Aizanoi:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-unearth-headless-statue-grecian-health-goddess-western-turkey-180978555/

More on the restoration of that Roman 'chandelier' in Spain:

https://www.theolivepress.es/spain-news/2021/08/30/roman-chandelier-restored-nearly-2000-years-later-on-in-alicante-area-of-spain/
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2021-08-27/the-roman-empires-largest-oil-lamp.html

More on that lion-eating-a-barbarian key handle:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/roman-psychological-warfare-in-britain-archaeologists-think-theyve-found-the-key
https://news.yahoo.com/roman-psychological-warfare-britain-archaeologists-123834794.html

The fortress at Aigosthena has been fully restored:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/08/30/ancient-fortress-at-aigosthena-in-west-attica-now-fully-restored/

Reviews of Charlotte Higgins, *Greek Myths*:

https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/weaving-stories/ https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/a-story-of-women-and-weaving-a-new-retelling-of-the-greek-myths
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/greek-myths-by-charlotte-higgins-review-2xpgg7vgj

... and a column on Greek Myth by CH:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/sep/03/fruits-of-the-loom-why-greek-myths-are-relevant-for-all-time

Feature on Gisela Richter:

https://www.harlemworldmagazine.com/gisela-marie-augusta-richter-archaeologist-art-historian-and-harlem-resident-1882-1972/

Feature on using GPR to reveal assorted ancient sites in Spain:

https://english.elpais.com/usa/2021-09-01/how-to-detect-ancient-buried-cities-without-any-digging.html

Feature on the assassination of Julius Caesar and the fall of the Republic:

https://www.history.com/news/julius-caesar-assassination-fall-roman-republic

Feature on the Library of Alexandria:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/01/ancient-library-alexandria-treasures-mankind/

Feature on Roman ruins across Europe:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/travel/destinations/2021/09/01/the-roman-ruins-hidden-across-europe/

Feature on Roman humour:

https://antigonejournal.com/2021/08/what-romans-found-funny/

Feature on the Varus disaster:

https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/incompetent-scapegoat-varus-disaster/

Suggestion that the Romans were doing cataract surgery:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/714/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/714/pub/714/page/39/article/214972

cf: https://www.ajo.com/article/S0002-9394(21)00122-7/fulltext

Feature on how Greek knowledge was preserved in the Islamic age:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/03/how-scholars-of-the-islamic-golden-age-saved-ancient-greek-knowledge/

Feature on Archytas and mathematical mechanics:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/03/ancient-greek-general-archytas-was-founder-of-mathematical-mechanics/

Feature on Eratosthene's measurement of the circumference of the earth:

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-09-05/eratosthenes-measured-circumference-of-the-earth-2200-years-ago/100434560

Feature on Petra:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/01/needs-edit-apostolis-to-give-publish-date-the-greek-inspired-architecture-of-the-ancient-city-of-petra/

Feature/opeddish thing on Pliny and Christianity:

https://www.heritage.org/civil-society/commentary/plinys-problem-christianity-and-ours

Feature on piracy and Delos:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p09tvctz/how-pirates-destroyed-the-capital-of-the-roman-slave-trade

Latest installment in that series on the history of the Parthenon Marbles:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/09/04/parthenon-report-what-does-justice-require/

... in a similar vein:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/09/04/the-history-of-the-parthenon-marbles/

An attempt to relate Thucydides to our times:

https://hellenicnews.com/losing-the-knack-for-disaster-thucydides-and-our-time/

What Aristotle can teach teenagers during lockdown:

https://spectator.com.au/2021/09/lockdown-with-aristotle-and-a-teenager/

More complaints about changes on the Acropolis:

https://www.brown.edu/news/2021-09-03/acropolis

Reactions to changes in Classics at Princeton:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/whiteness-and-the-humanities?cid2=gen_login_refresh&cid=gen_sign_in
https://www.theamericanconservative.com/dreher/persecution-propaganda-princeton-joshua-katz-racism/
https://nypost.com/2021/09/01/profs-princeton-diversity-offices-attack-on-universitys-history-and-the-anti-woke/

... and the Cambridge Museum cast collection:

https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/09/off-colour-3/

Reflecting on 9/11 via Greece and Rome:

https://theconversation.com/at-the-20th-anniversary-of-the-9-11-attacks-ancient-greece-and-rome-can-tell-us-a-lot-about-the-links-between-collective-trauma-and-going-to-war-166876

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Roman Archaeology Blog:

http://romanarc.blogspot.com/

Rogueclassicism:

http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Remains of a 10 000 years bp settlement (possibly Butovo culture) near the Black Sea in Russia:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-remains-of-10000-year-old-settlement-in-russia-678701
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/09/archaeologists-excavate-traces-of-10000-year-old-mesolithic-settlements/141294

Remains of a 5700 years bp dwelling in Cork:

https://www.irishamerica.com/2021/09/5700-year-old-neolithic-house-discovered-by-archaeologists-in-cork/

Pile dwellings on the banks of Lake Ohrid in the Balkans range from the Neolithic to the Bronze Age:

https://phys.org/news/2021-09-farmers-europe-balkans-date-5th.html https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/212037?returnurl=https://www.alphagalileo.org/en-gb/Item-Display/ItemId/212037
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/the-first-farmers-of-europe/141168 https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/09/02/the-first-farmers-of-europe/

A pair of settlements (Late Neolithic and Late Bronze Age) from the Czech Republic:

https://english.radio.cz/archaeologists-discover-two-prehistoric-settlements-hradec-kralove-region-8726939
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9967-210831-prehistoric-czech-settlements

A pair of 3500 years bp (maybe) stone balls from a tomb on Orkney:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/islands/3442598/archaeologists-discover-rare-polished-stone-balls-in-orkney-tomb/
https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/two-mysterious-stone-balls-found-buried-in-5500-year-old-disappearing-tomb-in-orkney-3368676

A Bronze Age hillfort site with plenty of artifacts in France is being touted as a possible 'lost capital city':

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9942967/Archaeology-Bronze-Age-hillfort-filled-treasure-unearthed-France-lost-capital-city.html

38 5th/6th century Christian burials near Varvarin:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210902-the-mysterious-medieval-tunnel-found-by-accident

A Viking-era (maybe) long knife from a site in Poland:

https://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news%2C88972%2Crare-scandinavian-combat-knife-found-poland.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9968-210831-poland-viking-knife

A coffin containing two burials (probably monks) from the King's Quarter excavations in Gloucester:

https://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/news/gloucester-news/coffin-containing-two-human-burials-5870768

A medieval silver hoard from southwest Russia believed hidden from the Mongol invasion:

https://www.livescience.com/medieval-silver-hoard-russia.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/9975-210903-russia-medieval-jewelry

I think we mentioned this 1600 years bp 'pagan idol' from an Irish bog a couple weeks ago:

https://www.livescience.com/pagan-idol-unearthed-ireland.html https://www.irishpost.com/news/huge-1600-year-old-pagan-idol-found-in-irish-bog-219037

... and this 'lost monastery' associated with Cynethryth:

https://www.livescience.com/monastery-queen-mercia-england.html https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/archaeologists-find-lost-monastery-ruled-by-queen-of-mercia/

... and this Viking coin hoard found by a metal detectorist on the Isle of Man:

https://www.coinworld.com/news/precious-metals/metal-detectorist-finds-viking-coin-hoard-in-the-isle-of-man

A 400 years bp hawking ring from Eastchurch:

https://www.kentonline.co.uk/sheerness/news/detectorist-finds-treasure-252802/

Home renovations at a mansion in Brittany revealed a trove of 239 17th century gold coins:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62125 https://www.capitalfm.co.ke/business/2021/09/french-home-renovation-yields-rare-gold-coin-treasure/

A dig at Rock Hall found a 19th century coin, among other things:

https://www.theboltonnews.co.uk/news/19555290.archaeological-dig-rock-hall-discovers-19th-century-coin/

Significant 19th century finds (including a kiln) near John Constable's home in East Bergholt:

https://www.eadt.co.uk/news/housing/what-was-found-at-east-bergholt-heath-road-8287834

A dig is under way in Mojacar (Spain):

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/08/30/new-archaeology-campaign-begins-in-mojacar/

The dig at Gwynedd Hillfort has resumed:

https://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/19551375.gwynedd-archaeological-trust-resumes-excavating-gwynedd-hillfort/

Archaeologists are set to resume digging at Chirk Castle:

https://www.bordercountiesadvertizer.co.uk/news/19550525.archaeologists-return-chirk-castle-historic-building-dig/

Restoration of the Whitfield Tabernacle in Bristol is under way:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-58403258

More on that 6000 years bp burial ground from Transylvania:

https://www.livescience.com/transylvanian-urns-offerings.html https://www.newsweek.com/6000-year-old-transylvanian-skeletons-found-urns-their-heads-1625577
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neolithic-skeletons-show-odd-burial-practice-transylvania-180978556/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9966-210831-transylvania-cemetery-urns

More on that so-called 'Arthur's Stone' being older than Stonehenge:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/2004758-2004758 https://www.news24.com/arts/Culture/archaeologists-are-a-step-closer-to-telling-the-origin-story-of-the-stone-that-inspired-the-chronicles-of-narnia-20210902
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62134 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/an-ancient-monument-associated-with-King-Arthur-is-Older-than-Stonehenge-180978541/

More on the identification of that 17th century fluyt in the Gulf of Finland last year as the Swan:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/62098

More on the finds (including a silver yad) from the Vilnius synagogue which was destroyed during WWII by the Nazis:

https://www.brusselstimes.com/news/182873/excavation-of-destroyed-synagogue-in-lithuania-exposes-new-findings/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-lithuanian-synagogue-destroyed-nazis-and-soviets-unearthed-180978542/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9970-210901-lithuania-great-synagogue

Plans to map burials in 19 000 English churchyards:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/aug/31/graves-in-19000-english-churchyards-to-be-mapped-online

... this seems related to the above:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/711/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/711/pub/711/page/73/article/213890

A study of the origins of European plagues after the Black Death:

https://www.pnas.org/content/118/36/e2101940118

Feature on that medieval tunnel found near Tintern Abbey a while ago:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210902-the-mysterious-medieval-tunnel-found-by-accident

A Stalin-era mass grave from the Ukraine:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210830-stalin-era-mass-graves-unearthed-in-ukraine
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20210830-stalin-era-mass-graves-unearthed-in-ukraine
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/officials-unearth-stalin-era-mass-grave-ukraine-180978570/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9971-210901-ukraine-mass-graves
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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 ================================================================
A study suggests 'ritual beer drinking' was going on at a site in Qiaotou some 9000 years bp:

https://home.dartmouth.edu/news/2021/09/study-shows-beer-drinking-9000-years-ago-southern-china?tags=891&page=90
https://phys.org/news/2021-08-evidence-beer-years-southern-china.html https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2109034502/ https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9944499/Experts-ancient-pottery-linked-beer-drinking-9-000-years-ago-southern-China.html
https://www.sciencealert.com/beer-was-drunk-in-southern-china-9-000-years-ago-but-it-wasn-t-for-recreation
https://www.newsweek.com/9000-year-old-burial-site-includes-some-humanitys-first-beer-1625970
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/traces-of-9000-year-old-beer-found-in-chinese-burial-ground-678700
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/08/burial-site-reveals-evidence-of-beer-drinking-9000-years-ago-in-china/141162
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-9000-year-old-beer-found-china-180978563/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9973-210902-china-ancient-beer

58 pre-Qin burials from Guangzhou:

https://archive.shine.cn/nation/58-tombs-excavated-in-Guangzhou/shdaily.shtml http://en.people.cn/n3/2021/0831/c90000-9890109.html http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_oI095NVN.html

cf: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0255833

Burials and structures from various periods from Chenzhou:

https://www.bignewsnetwork.com/news/271017166/over-30-cultural-relics-discovered-in-central-china-city

A project to restore the Mati Temple Grottoes in Zhangye City is under way:

http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_swF3DJ5y.html https://news.cgtn.com/news/2021-09-01/Restoration-begins-of-1-600-year-old-Mati-Temple-Grottoes-in-NW-China-13c3sMikT4I/index.html

In case you missed the study of a 7200 years bp Toalean culture burial from South Sulawesi:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/aug/26/genetic-fossil-intact-dna-from-woman-who-lived-7200-years-ago-discovered-in-indonesia
https://www.the-scientist.com/news-opinion/7-200-year-old-skeleton-offers-clues-to-early-human-migration-69135

A 1200 years bp sculpture of Durga from workers extracting sand in the river Jhelum:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/ancient-idol-of-goddess-durga-found-in-jks-budgam/article36214367.ece
https://zeenews.india.com/india/1200-year-old-ancient-sculpture-of-goddess-durga-discovered-in-jammu-and-kashmir-2390149.html

Coverage of the excavation of Mahakal Temple in Ujjain:

https://www.freepressjournal.in/indore/ujjain-archaeological-finds-of-excavation-in-mahakal-temple-inspected

The 11th season of digs at Pattanam are under way:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/kerala/11th-season-of-excavations-begins-at-pattanam/article36256744.ece

Overviewish thing on finds made over the past few decades from the Yen Bai site (Viet Nam):

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/over-6300-artifacts-excavated-at-yen-bais-archaeological-site/207331.vnp

Feature on the Trung sisters:

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/history-and-civilisation/2021/09/these-elephant-riding-warrior-sisters-freed-ancient-vietnam-from-chinese-rule
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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND ================================================================
Concerns for submerged Indigenous sites off the coast of Australia:

https://phys.org/news/2021-08-archeological-discoveries-australia-highlight-lack.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/926829 https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-31/archaeologist-call-for-greater-protection-submerged-heritage/100419636
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-08-31/undersea-archaeology-off-nt-coast-important-australian-history/100419400

cf: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/03122417.2021.1949085 ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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Study suggests the people who occupied Poverty Point some 3000 years bp were 'sophisticated engineers':

https://source.wustl.edu/2021/09/new-evidence-supports-idea-that-americas-first-civilization-was-made-up-of-sophisticated-engineers/
https://phys.org/news/2021-09-evidence-idea-america-civilization-sophisticated.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210902101122.htm

Assorted imaging methods have revealed a number of 'shell ring' sites along the southeastern coast of the US:

https://news.psu.edu/story/666605/2021/08/19/research/remote-sensing-and-machine-learning-reveal-archaic-shell-rings
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/08/31/remote-sensing-and-machine-learning-reveal-archaic-shell-rings/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9965-210830-archaic-shell-rings

Concerns over a house being build on a Civil War site in Helena:

https://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2021/aug/29/helena-house-being-built-on-historic-civil-war/

Overviewish thing on finds from a dig at Sagamore Hill:

https://www.liherald.com/stories/a-revealing-unearthing-of-bits-of-history-at-sagamore-hill,134481?

Plans to search for remains of a mission school on the campus of Williamette University:

https://www.salemreporter.com/posts/4933/salem-archeologists-and-historians-plan-to-use-radar-to-discover-site-of-1840s-mission-school

Feature on Lauren Ritterbush and her work researching the Kanza people:

https://news.yahoo.com/kristina-jackson-neighbors-archaeology-professor-222000999.html

Feature on David Ruggles:

https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/news/2021/09/02/david-ruggles-first-black-bookstore-owner-antislavery-abolitionist-journalist-printer/8158701002/

Feature on Robert Carter III:

https://www.cnn.com/2021/09/05/us/robert-carter-iii-deed-of-gift-slavery-anniversary/index.html

Feature on the history of iron mining in the Adirondacks:

https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/more-than-a-parking-lot-upper-works-is-an-experience-in-itself

Feature on a hurricane that hit the Louisiana area during the Civil War:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/09/05/hurricane-last-island-louisiana-ida/

Feature on the Harlem Hellfighters:

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/harlem-hellfighters-segregated-world-war-unit-earned-congressional-gol-rcna1825

A push for greater recognition for Native American peoples from the DC area:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2021/09/03/native-americans-dc-culture-lione/

Review of Robert Levine, *The Failed Promise*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/30/books/review-failed-promise-reconstruction-frederick-douglass-andrew-johnson-robert-levine.html


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