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explorator 23.18 August 24, 2020
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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, Ralph Ellis,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay, Patrick Swan,
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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Reviewish of Rebecca Wagg Sykes *Kindred: Neanderthal Life, Love, Death, and Art*:

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-020-02420-3

More on evidence of 200 000 years bp bedding from South Africa:

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-years-humans-beds.html https://www.sciencealert.com/early-humans-were-making-surprisingly-sophisticated-beds-200-000-years-ago
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/border-cave-beds-08750.html https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-find-200000-year-old-bedding-south-african-cave-180975592/

More on suggestion that 130 000 years bp flint points fro Israel marking out the 'Out of Africa' route:

https://www.livescience.com/early-humans-out-of-africa-flints.html ================================================================
AFRICA
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Feature on the ancient civilization of the Sudan:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/sudan-land-kush-meroe-ancient-civilization-overlooked-180975498/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================

Finds from this year's dig at the Montu Temple site in Karnak:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/new-finds-at-montu-temple-in-egypts.html

Really a tech story, but the results of the latest 3d scanning of some animal mummies are rather interesting:

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-animal-mummies-unwrapped-hi-res-d.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/08/200820143836.htm https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/sr-axi081820.php https://www.livescience.com/animal-mummies-smashed-and-strangled.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/20/scans-peek-beneath-wrappings-of-ancient-mummified-animals
https://www.bbc.com/news/stories-53841256 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/su-amu081820.php https://www.sciencenews.org/article/microct-xray-ancient-animal-mummies https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/high-res-3d-x-rays-reveal-the-secrets-of-mummified-ancient-egyptian-animals/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8972-200821-egyptian-animal-mummies

Pondering Nefertiti's 'lost tomb':

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/90884/Nefertiti%E2%80%99s-lost-tomb-Separation-from-Akhenaten-or-a-plot-for

Interesting feature on the Fayum portraits:

https://aeon.co/videos/haunting-dispatches-from-the-edge-of-the-roman-empire-just-before-its-collapse

Half a dozen foreign archaeological missions are resuming work in Egypt:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-allows-6-foreign-archaeological-missions-to-resume-work/

A trio of monasteries in Naqada have been restored:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/90979/Egypt-s-Min-of-Tourism-Antiquities-completed-restoration-of-3

Egypt's archaeological areas will be opening on September 1:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/91086/Egypt%E2%80%99s-archeological-areas-to-be-opened-on-September-1-with

A temporary Tut exhibition in London has returned to Egypt:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/91130/Egypt%E2%80%99s-Tutankhamun-temporary-exhibition-to-return-back-from-London-to

Why Zahi Hawass isn't happy with Bill Gates:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/90969/Zahi-Hawass-I-invited-Bill-Gates-to-lunch-to-donate

Hawass was also talking about all sorts of archaeological matters:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/90971/All-evidence-of-building-the-Great-Pyramids-are-revealed-Nefertiti%E2%80%99s

... and that Tut and all the other Pharaohs were Egyptian, not Hebrew:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/90972/Archaeologists-Tutankhamun-and-all-Pharaohs-are-Egyptians-not-Hebrew

On incestuous marriages not being a thing in Ancient Egypt:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/91024/Incestuous-marriages-did-not-prevail-in-Ancient-Egypt

More on that statue of a priest of Hathor from Mit Rahina:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/egyptian-archaeologists-find-statue-of.html

Kuhdasht Cave (Iran) has provided evidence of occupation in various periods:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451370/Kuhdasht-cave-has-ample-evidence-of-prehistorical-dwellers-archaeologist

Paleolithic sites from a survey in Iran's Kerman province:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/451472/Archaeologists-find-Paleolithic-sites-in-southeast-Iran

13 more burials found at Persepolis:

https://en.mehrnews.com/news/162349/VIDEO-13-skeletons-discovered-in-hidden-layers-of-Persepolis

Interesting 2700+ years bp child burial from Van:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/pg/photo-gallery/archaeological-excavations-in-van-unveil-child-skeleton-with-two-dragon-head-bracelets/0
<a href="http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/59380">The History Blog » Blog Archive » Urartu child buried with dragon-head bracelets</a>

A 'Judges' era' Canaanite fortress from near Kiryat Gat:

https://www.jewishpress.com/news/religion/canaanite-fortress-from-judges-era-uncovered-in-excavations-near-kiryat-gat/2020/08/23/

Evidence of Jerusalem's 586 BCE destruction layer:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/the-ashes-of-jerusalems-biblical-fall-still-show-at-dig-near-old-city-639230

Interesting conclusions from a study of Cilician pottery in Israel and Turkey in the Persian period:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/cilicia-pottery-shows-israel-part-of-vast-trade-route-in-persian-period-639349
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00758914.2020.1772633

Finds from various periods from a dig in Safed:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/from-16th-century-well-to-48-war-centuries-of-history-unveiled-in-safed-639081
https://www.timesofisrael.com/time-tunnel-through-four-centuries-uncovered-in-northern-city-of-safed/

Suggestion that Tel Rosh is actually the site of Rehob:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeologists-propose-new-identification-for-biblical-tel-rosh-639257

I think we menioned this evidence of the 'Incense Road' through Israel (from Yemen to Petra, then westward):

https://mosaicmagazine.com/picks/history-ideas/2020/08/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-ancient-israels-incense-road/

Another interpretation of the Huqoq mosaics:

https://blogs.timesofisrael.com/the-huqoq-elephant-mosaic-explained/

Turkey converted another historic church (at Chora) into a mosque:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/08/21/turkey-converts-another-ancient-orthodox-church-into-a-mosque/
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-turkey-religion-chora/after-hagia-sophia-turkeys-historic-chora-church-also-switched-to-mosque-idUSKBN25H1AZ
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/After-Hagia-Sophia-Turkey-turns-another-museum-15505256.php

A study of assorted 7000 years bp stone monuments in the Nefud Desert of Saudi Arabia:

https://www.shh.mpg.de/1804195/vast-stone-monuments https://www.esquireme.com/mysterious-stone-artefacts-found-in-saudi-arabia-stonehenge
https://www.sciencealert.com/first-detailed-study-deepens-the-mystery-of-vast-stone-monuments-in-saudi-arabia
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8963-200818-desert-stone-structures

Feature on a survey of sites in the Baluchistan mountains:

http://www.asor.org/anetoday/2020/08/survey-baluchistan

Feature on Palmyra:

https://www.grunge.com/238525/the-desert-city-that-became-one-of-the-richest-in-the-roman-empire/

Feature on ancient astrology:

<a href="https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/ancient-astrology-data-science">Astrologers Were the Quants of the Ancient World - Atlas Obscura</a>

More on that 9000+ years bp evidence of cremation from Northern Israel:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/evidence-of-most-ancient-cremation-in-near-east-found-in-israel-638856
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/08/this-9000-year-old-skeleton-is-the-oldest-cremation-in-the-near-east/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/stone-age-crematorium-found-israel-180975574/

More on that Second Temple period stone 'table' from near Beit El:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/second-temple-period-stone-table-unearthed-near-beit-el-639096

More on that 1600 years bp church site from Tyana:

https://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/une-eglise-de-1600-ans-decouverte-lors-de-fouilles-dans-l-ancienne-capitale-hittite-en-turquie-20200811

More on that 1200 years bp 'soap factory' in the Negev:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeologists-bedouin-community-unearth-oldest-soap-factory-in-israel-638826
https://www.timesofisrael.com/earliest-soap-factory-in-israel-discovered-in-negev-shows-seeds-of-early-islam/
https://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/285398 https://www.jns.org/1200-year-old-soap-factory-uncovered-in-southern-israel/ https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-israel-s-oldest-known-soap-factory-found-in-negev-1.9076537
https://www.clevelandjewishnews.com/jns/1-200-year-old-soap-factory-uncovered-in-southern-israel/article_037af937-9d7d-5a4c-ba96-c882d911b45b.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/1200-year-old-olive-oil-soap-factory-discovered-israel-180975599/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8960-200817-islamic-soap-factory

More on the site of the Battle of Arsuf:

https://www.livescience.com/third-crusade-battlefield-found.html

More on mysterious 'giant mounds' in Jerusalem:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-mysterious-giant-mounds-in-jerusalem-baffle-archaeologists-1.9067001

19th century finds from a dig in Turkestan:

https://astanatimes.com/2020/08/archaeologists-uncover-new-historical-finds-near-khoja-ahmed-yassawi-mausoleum/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8964-200819-kazakhstan-caravanserai-school

Feature on the Serce Port shipwreck (1026 CE):

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/glass-wreck-reveals-traces-of-east-west-maritime-trade-in-southwestern-turkey/news

On efforts to save historical buildings in Beirut:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20200820-beirut-explosion-the-battle-to-save-the-citys-buildings

The ongoing fight against looting of sites in Iraq:

https://www.npr.org/2020/08/20/886540260/in-iraq-authorities-continue-to-fight-uphill-battle-against-antiquities-plunder

An ongoing seminar with Lawrence Schiffman on the DSS (youtube playlist ... there's more to come):

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLv-toJDlltDk05fGgmoFrzT1HJPai5c4Q

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Work on a visitor's centre at Tas-Silg uncovered remains of a Roman temple:

https://timesofmalta.com/articles/view/roman-temple-halts-work-on-tas-silg-visitors-centre.812484
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8966-200819-malta-roman-temple

Drones have revealed Eretria's port from 2400 years bp:

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/drone-footage-shows-two-ports-110001332.html

Finds from various periods, including a 'fortified Hellenistic centre' of Cape Chiroza (Bulgaria):

https://sofiaglobe.com/2020/08/19/archaeology-fortified-hellenistic-centre-found-at-bulgarias-cape-chiroza-site/

Remains of a gymnasium and bathhouse from Smyrna:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/new-discoveries-at-ancient-greek-city.html

An amphitheatre (?) find from Mastaura (Turkey):

https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/colosseum-like-structure-unearthed-in-western-turkey-157526

Recent Roman finds from the Tossal site in La Cala:

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/08/21/romans-got-to-benidorm-first/

A pair of 4th century amphoras off Spain's Costa Blanca:

http://www.sfltimes.com/news/ancient-amphora-found-off-spains-east-coast

I think we mentioned this Roman gaming piece from Chester Northgate:

https://www.cheshire-live.co.uk/news/chester-cheshire-news/roman-gaming-counter-uncovered-chester-18793013
https://www.chesterstandard.co.uk/news/18660924.roman-artefacts-found-chester-northgate-development-site/
http://www.deeside.com/first-archaeological-finds-revealed-from-chester-northgate-site-including-a-gaming-piece/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8968-200820-england-roman-chester

How COVID has affected digs on Cyprus:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/08/23/history-all-the-poorer-as-covid-stymies-archaeological-excavations/

Fishbourne Roman Palace is reopening:

https://www.chichester.co.uk/news/people/heres-when-fishbourne-roman-palace-reopening-public-2944553

Hyping Roman remains in Cumbria:

https://www.nwemail.co.uk/news/18657676.step-back-time-exploring-cumbrias-roman-treasures/

Some idiot tourist is wanted for climbing on top of the baths at Pompeii to take a selfie:

https://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italy-tourist-climbs-onto-roof-of-pompeii-baths-for-selfie.html
https://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2020/08/17/tourist-scales-pompeii-baths-to-take-photos_87453be5-b08e-43c9-85a2-e966c80dd342.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/08/18/italian-police-hunt-tourist-posed-selfie-pompeii-ruins/
https://www.ilmattino.it/napoli/cronaca/pompei_turista_sale_sul_tetto_delle_antiche_terme_per_scattare_un_selfie-5409785.html

Paywalled feature on recent finds from Pompeii:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-latest-project-to-preserve-pompeii-reveals-new-treasures-11597837940

Protection for a Roman fort site revealed at Burscough:

https://www.champnews.com/story.asp?id=GN4_ART_1712949

Restoration of some prehistoric homes in Lemba has been completed:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2020/08/17/restoration-works-to-prehistoric-lemba-homes-completed/

In case you missed Daniel Voshart's photorealistic recreations of Roman emperors:

https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/21/21395115/roman-emperors-photorealistic-portraits-ai-artbreeder-dan-voshart
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8653943/Artist-uses-AI-tech-reveal-Roman-emperors-looked-2-000-years-ago.html

Edith Hall on 'working class classics':

https://aeon.co/essays/why-working-class-britons-loved-reading-and-debating-the-classics

Interesting alternative identification of the Riace bronzes:

https://www.repubblica.it/scienze/2020/08/16/news/i_bronzi_di_riace_erano_5_e_non_2_ed_erano_biondi-264772142/

Interesting feature on a 12th century BCE griffin-decorated alabastron from Lefkandi:

https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/griffin-family-lefkandi/

Feature on the amphitheatres of the Roman empire:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/bread-circus-roman-amphitheatres-where-what-happened-colosseum/

Feature on how Cleopatra's affairs shaped the ancient world:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/ancient-egypt/cleopatra-love-affairs-julius-caesar-mark-antony/

Feature on Nero:

https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/nero-versus-christians

Feature on the Roman Republic:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/roman-republic-guide-how-senate-plebeians-citizenship-women-democratic-fall-end/

Feature on the Parthenon in various periods:

https://smarthistory.org/destruction-memory-parthenon/

Feature on 'spoiled' gladiators:

https://www.thebigsmoke.com.au/2020/08/19/the-real-gladiators-were-well-funded-well-fed-egotists/

Feature on the Battle of Thermopylae:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2020/08/20/the-battle-of-thermopylae/

Feature on the Trojan War:

https://www.grunge.com/237323/the-trojan-war-finally-explained/

Feature on Roman 'street foods':

https://medium.com/exploring-history/the-street-foods-of-ancient-rome-7f3d7e27d45d

Feature on the throne at Knossos:

https://greece.greekreporter.com/2020/08/20/the-mystery-of-the-oldest-throne-in-europe-at-the-cretan-palace-of-knossos/

Feature on the klismos (chair):

https://richmondmagazine.com/home/goods/goddess-approved/

Feature on how Stoics would handle a lockdown:

https://theconversation.com/what-would-seneca-say-six-stoic-tips-for-surviving-lockdown-144346

Feature on Roman responses to immigration:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/the-romans-welcomed-migrants-with-open-arms

Feature on Crassus:

https://elpais.com/revista-de-verano/2020-08-17/craso-el-general-romano-que-perdio-la-cabeza-un-dia-de-calor.html

Feature on sexual content in the Odyssey:

https://elpais.com/revista-de-verano/2020-08-16/las-aventuras-eroticas-de-ulises.html

Feature on the Punic Wars:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/roman/what-were-punic-wars-when-fought-who-won-rome-vs-carthage/

Feature on damnatio memoriae:

https://thoughtleader.co.za/lukewaltham/2020/08/20/damnatio-memoriae-ancient-romes-cancel-culture/

Feature on some insults related to Caesar:

https://psyche.co/ideas/what-jibes-about-caesar-tell-us-about-sex-in-ancient-rome

Feature on some 'Roman Legionnaire Modesty Shields':

https://www.atlasobscura.com/places/roman-legionnaire-modesty-shields

Online festschirt for James Evans with all sorts of ancient astronomy articles:

https://archive.nyu.edu/handle/2451/61288

Susanna Braund has been named a Fellow of the Royal Society of Canada:

https://research.ubc.ca/nine-ubc-faculty-members-elected-royal-society-canada

Applying Herodotus' Histories to modern times:

https://www.brynmawr.edu/news/political-sciences-joel-schlosser-turns-herodotus-histories-examine-modern-era

Reviewish of Alice Oswald's *Nobody*:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/24/alice-oswalds-homeric-mood

I wasn't aware of this trireme reconstruction known as the Trireme:

https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/thematic-tourism/41267-modern-day-%E2%80%9Cviking%E2%80%9D-boards-ancient-greek-trireme-warship-in-athens-video.html

More on the underwater museum at Alonissos:

https://news.gtp.gr/2020/08/04/greeces-first-underwater-museum-alonissos-opens-public/
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Roman Archaeology Blog:

http://romanarc.blogspot.com/

Rogueclassicism:

http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
15 000 years bp 'engraved stones' from Jersey are the earliest evidence of human art in the British Isles, apparently:

https://phys.org/news/2020-08-earliest-art-british-isles-jersey.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/19/engraved-stones-found-on-jersey-an-art-form-of-15000-years-ago
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-53835146 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/stone-age-art-prehistoric-artists-english-channel-islands-mammoths-a9678406.html
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/326/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/326/pub/326/page/50/article/73804
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8643365/Britains-oldest-artwork-revealed-Markings-Ice-Age-stones-Jersey.html
https://www.nhm.ac.uk/discover/news/2020/august/the-earliest-art-in-britain-was-created-in-the-ice-age.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/engraved-stones-found-to-be-earliest-known-human-art-british-isles-180975625/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8971-200821-jersey-magdalenian-plaquettes

Remains of a 6500 years bp village in Topolita (Romania):

https://www.romania-insider.com/traces-prehistoric-village-topolita

Study suggests that millet was rather quickly added to the Bronze Age diet when it arrived in Europe:

https://www.uni-kiel.de/en/details/news/191-rispenhirse https://phys.org/news/2020-08-rapid-foreign-food-tradition-bronze.html https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/rapid-acceptance-of-foreign-food.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8970-200820-bronze-age-millet

Evidence of a prehistoric site of some sort on the shores of a lake on the Sligo-Leitrim border:

https://www.irishtimes.com/news/environment/prehistoric-site-discovered-at-lake-on-sligo-leitrim-border-1.4334157

Not sure if we mentioned this Iron Age hillfort in the Chiltern Hills:

https://entertainmentoverdose.co.uk/news/archaeology-triumph-hidden-iron-age-fort-discovered-by-resident-scientists-stuns-scientists-195125.html

At least 100 late antique/early medieval 'mass independent' burials from La Rioja (Spain):

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/08/12/death-pits-discovered-in-spain-with-in-excess-0f-100-tombed-skeletons-found-in-la-rioja/

Remains of a medieval sacristy and possibly thousands of burials at Westminster Abbey:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/aug/23/lost-medieval-sacristy-uncovered-at-westminster-abbey

A medieval workshop site from Jersey:

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2020/08/17/archaeological-finds-shed-light-on-medieval-grouville/

A 400 years bp Dutch 'fluit' shipwreck from the Baltic:

https://www.euronews.com/2020/08/21/a-400-year-old-ship-has-been-found-in-the-baltic-sea

Plans to look for medieval remains in Beverley:

https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/archaeologists-look-medieval-remains-back-beverley-shop-2947146

Rethinking the post-monastic-massacre Iona:

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/discoveries-iona-rewrite-history-sacred-isle-2946015
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8969-200820-iona-viking-christianity

Plenty of interesting 15th century finds from the attic of a Tudor house at Oxburgh Hall in Norfolk:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2020/aug/17/restoration-of-norfolk-hall-uncovers-tudor-and-elizabethan-finds-oxburgh-hall
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-53804700 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/secret-catholics-stash-in-the-attic-bsmwr80xk
https://www.edp24.co.uk/features/heritage/oxburgh-hall-norfolk-discovery-under-floorboards-1-6796085
https://www.cnn.com/2020/08/19/world/oxburgh-hall-artifacts-trnd/index.html https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2020/08/20/15th-century-manuscript-among-hidden-treasures-at-British-manor-house/9351597934042/
https://aleteia.org/2020/08/22/artifacts-discovered-in-england-suggest-catholics-once-secret-worship/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/catholic-relics-tudor-manor-1902708 https://advisor.museumsandheritage.com/news/archaeologist-unearths-600-year-old-treasure-trove-under-flooring-at-norfolk-tudor-house/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/thousands-rare-artifacts-discovered-underneath-attic-floorboards-tudor-manor-180975578/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8962-200818-attic-floor-artifacts

For some reason a 4000 years bp burial ground in South Wales was being used as a garbage dump:

https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1322170/archaeology-bronze-age-history-ancient-history-wales-gelligaer-common-uk-excavation-spt

London's Tower Bridge was 'stuck open' for a while this week:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/London-s-famous-Tower-Bridge-gets-stuck-in-an-15507519.php

Feature on the student who found the Havering Hoard:

https://www.standard.co.uk/go/london/arts/havering-hoard-harry-platts-museum-of-london-a4528331.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8646801/Rookie-treasure-hunter-finds-Londons-largest-haul-Bronze-Age-goods-dig.html

Feature on some Templar tunnels in Italy:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08nysf4/the-templar-town-with-a-hidden-underground-twin-

Feature/study of the 'quality' of Goth jewellery:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/08/quality-of-goth-jewellery-was-comparable-to-the-romans/134781

Suffolk is apparently the 'third best' place in the UK to find archaeological 'treasures':

https://www.sudburymercury.co.uk/news/suffolk-3rd-best-place-to-find-archaeological-treasures-1-6798397

Finds from various periods in Shropshire declared treasure:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/local-hubs/south-shropshire/craven-arms/2020/08/19/coroner-declares-historic-discoveries-found-in-shropshire-as-treasure/

Seeking protection for an Oldham mural:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-53808567

Feature on the Celts in Britain:

https://www.historyextra.com/period/iron-age/celts-britain-romans-who-were-they-human-sacrifice/

More on Bronze Age pig figurines from Poland:

https://www.thefirstnews.com/article/pulled-pork-archaeologists-hit-the-pig-time-after-digging-up-bronze-age-childrens-toy-pigs-14965
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8967-200819-poland-pig-figurines

More on the redating of the Yarm helmet:

https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/26987/20200821/ancient-viking-helmet-dated-back-10th-century.htm
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/britains-first-viking-helmet-discovered.html

More on a medieval sword and other items being found in a Polish lake:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/medieval-sword-and-artefacts-found-at.html

More on that WWI uboat wreck off the Yorkshire coast:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/sunken-u-boat-gives-up-its-secrets-2zs0cdj57

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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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18 000 years bp stone tools from Indonesia are providing evidence of long term human presence on assorted Indonesian islands:

https://www.anu.edu.au/news/all-news/stone-tools-reveal-how-island-hopping-humans-made-a-living
https://phys.org/news/2020-08-stone-tools-reveal-island-hopping-humans.html https://theconversation.com/stone-tools-from-a-remote-cave-reveal-how-island-hopping-humans-made-a-living-in-the-jungle-millennia-ago-144570
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8973-200821-indonesia-obi-caves

A 3000 years bp stone tomb find from Qinghai:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-08/16/c_139294991.htm http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2020-08/17/content_76606367.htm

Feature on the unusual preservation of Spring and Autumn/Warring States burials in Lijiang:

http://www.tellerreport.com/life/2020-08-18-why-are-the-remains-of-the-sarcophagus-in-the-ancient-tombs-of-the-spring-and-autumn-period-and-warring-states-period-in-lijiang-not-decayed-for-thousands-of-years.BJFeFXr3tzP.html

Feature on some Tang Dynasty tomb mural restorations in Shaanxi:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2020-08/19/c_139302129.htm

Government recognition for research into ancient Chinese chime stones:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-08/uoh-ria081920.php

1500+ burials (17th-20th century) at a development site in Osaka:

https://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20200817/p2a/00m/0na/019000c https://www.archaeology.org/news/8965-200819-japan-osaka-cemetery

A Buddhist site at Mound Dillu Roy (Pakistan) reveals evidence of town planning:

https://www.app.com.pk/national/excavation-of-buddhist-site-dillu-roy-unveils-ancient-town-planning/

Heavy rains in Sindh are raising concerns for a royal burial ground:

https://tribune.com.pk/story/2260157/royal-graveyard-at-risk-of-being-washed-away

... and similar weather allowed floodwaters to reach the feet of the Leshan Buddha:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/aug/19/china-floods-100000-evacuated-as-waters-reach-leshan-giant-buddha-statue
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-53831271

... and related evacuations, of course:

https://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/3097942/100000-chinese-evacuated-yangtze-river-floods-threaten-world

A bottle of olives from the 1800s from an Invercarvill (NZ) site:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/122498565/bottle-of-olives-from-1800s-found-at-invercargill-cbd-demolition-site

Seems to be some 'clandestine' archaeology going on at a Wairau Bar site (NZ):

https://www.stuff.co.nz/pou-tiaki/122486935/marlborough-company-and-director-deny-carrying-out-works-at-archaeological-site

More on 2000 years bp banana cultivation in Australia:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/people/anthropology/clues-to-cultivation-in-the-torres-strait/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/2000-year-old-traces-banana-farming-found-australia-180975583/
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NORTH AMERICA
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Indigenous finds by trail maintenance workers at Deep Creek (BC):

https://www.wltribune.com/news/trail-maintenance-workers-discover-indigenous-artifacts-at-deep-creek/

The site of the Battle of Tar Bluff (SC) has been found:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-locate-south-carolina-battlefield-where-patriot-john-laurens-died-180975626/

The COVID thing has halted further exploration of the Franklin wrecks:

https://www.cp24.com/news/covid-19-puts-brakes-on-further-exploration-of-franklin-wrecks-1.5066555

Latest theory on the Lost Colony seems reasonable:

https://www.pilotonline.com/news/vp-nw-not-lost-20200817-qgmblubzt5dyjm3jrcop25ssoq-story.html
https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/4aypdq/lost-colony-of-roanoke-mystery-solved-new-book-claims
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/bristol-news/bristol-archaeologists-help-solve-great-4443084

Discussing African American cemeteries revealed in Clearwater:

https://www.abcactionnews.com/news/region-pinellas/community-weighs-in-on-lost-now-rediscovered-clearwater-cemeteries
https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/special-reports/erased/archaeologists-chart-path-for-two-destroyed-black-cemeteries-in-clearwater/67-e67c0c27-fdbb-40e0-beda-54cecb2412e5
https://www.fox13news.com/news/124-graves-from-two-black-cemeteries-found-in-clearwater

... and a feature on saving historic Black cemeteries:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/2020/08/historic-black-cemeteries-at-risk-can-they-be-preserved/

Six graves found during high school construction in Upper Arlington (OH):

https://fox8.com/news/six-graves-found-during-construction-of-new-high-school-in-southern-ohio/

Reviewish sort of thing of an item on ancient Pueblo dogs:

http://news.unm.edu/news/unm-student-professor-coauthors-of-book-chapter-about-pueblo-dogs

On Susan B. Anthony's arrest for 'unlawful' voting:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-susan-b-anthony-was-arrested-1872-180975587/

On Louisa May Alcott (and others) wrote about suffrage:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/08/18/books/suffrage-authors.html

Feature on Leonora O'Reilly:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/21/obituaries/leonora-oreilly-overlooked.html

Feature on Jovita Idar:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/07/obituaries/jovita-idar-overlooked.html

A pile of Lincoln's letters are now online:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/library-congress-crowdsourcing-program-completes-transcriptions-lincolns-letters-180975569/

Pondering the legacy of Junipero Serra:

https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2020-08-16/latinos-debate-over-california-legacy-junipero-serra
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A 1300 years bp burial from Northwest Mexico:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/08/1300-year-old-burial-unearthed-in.html

Marking the 110th anniversary of the first flight in Chile:

https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/nunoa-dos-hermanos-franceses-y-un-endeble-avion-110-anos-del-primer-vuelo-en-chile/ESKRSHQIEZF3LMZETCBGHDHHTE/

Studying evidence of a colonial-related battle in Argentina in 1845:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2020-08-21/en-busca-de-las-cadenas-olvidadas-de-la-ultima-gran-batalla-colonial-argentina.html


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