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explorator 19.18 August 28, 2016 ===============================================================
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Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Bob Heuman, Rick Heli,
David Critchley, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Jim Plouffe, Feral Boy, Luc Jannsens, Richard
Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, Rick Pettigrew, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses
this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... apologies for taking so long to get this out this a.m....

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EARLY HOMINIDS
================================================================ Rethinking/pondering the genus homo:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/agi-rh-082516.php http://scienmag.com/redefining-homo-does-our-family-tree-need-more-branches/

Hype for a book on some ‘celebrity hominid’ skeletons:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/historian-traces-rise-celebrity-hominid-fossils

More on Otzi’s clothing:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/08/18/iceman-dressed-to-kill/ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/science/otzi-the-icemans-patchwork-ensemble.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0818/Frozen-fashion-What-was-Oetzi-the-Iceman
-wearing-when-he-died

More on 250 000 years bp butchering in Jordan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/science/carving-the-meat-before-meals-250000-year
s-ago.html


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AFRICA
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A militant Islamicist who was involved in all the destruction in Timbuktu now regrets his
actions:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-37152191 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/23/world/europe/ahmed-al-mahdi-hague-trial.html http://www.dw.com/en/jihadi-pleads-guilt-at-iccs-timbuktu-trial/a-19491683

The New York Times reprised some coverage of the very short Anglo-Zanzibar war:

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1896/08/28/103386754.html

Concerns for the San people:

http://edition.cnn.com/2016/05/24/travel/basarwa-botswana-culture-crisis/index.html?sr=t
wCNN082716basarwa-botswana-culture-crisis0128AMStoryGalLink&linkId=28106579


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Not sure if we mentioned this 3300 years bp mummy with some very interesting/important tattoos:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/egypt-archaeology-mummy-tattoo-1.3730337

A Kushite Dynasty burial from Luxor’s West Bank:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/241662/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Burial-cha
mber-discovered-in-Asasif-on-Luxors-west.aspx http://www.archaeology.org/news/4789-160825-luxor-granite-sarcophagus

A 4500 years bp mallet is coming to auction after being found in someone’s closet:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-37128788

Feature on seven finds from Egypt:

http://www.livescience.com/55898-egypt-archaeology-discoveries.html

Some ancient Egyptian texts are being translated into English for the ‘first’ time:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-work-translate
d-into-english-for-penguin-classics/news-story/1f70a371f99db1af34b0c42938be65e4 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/23/ancient-egypt-written-works-published
-book-english-first-time http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-egyptian-stories-will-be-published-e
nglish-first-time-180960244/

They’re moving things to the Grand Egyptian Museum:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/241486/Heritage/Museums/Antiquities-min
istry-starts-transportation-of-Tuta.aspx

Looks like Tut will be going on a Japanese tour:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/240451/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/AlAhram-a
nd-antiquities-ministry-sign-protocol-for.aspx

… and Japan is helping to finance the Grand Egyptian Museum in a major way:

http://egyptianstreets.com/2016/08/22/egypt-to-receive-451-million-loan-from-japan-to-fun
d-grand-egyptian-museum/

A 4200 years bp toy from Acemhoyuk:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/08/26/archeologists-discover-4200-yr-old-rattle-i
n-central-turkey http://www.archaeology.org/news/4794-160826-turkey-acemhoyuk-rattle

A ‘secret tunnel’ from Alacahoyuk (we may have mentioned this already):

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/.aspx?pageID=238&nid=103034&NewsCatID=375

On the origins/history of Istanbul:

http://www.dailysabah.com/feature/2016/08/25/tracing-istanbuls-roman-ottoman-roots-ba
ck-to-7-hills

Syria’s head of antiquities is forging links with Scotland:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14702710.Syrian_head_of_antiquities__I_need_Sc
ottish_help_to_save_my_nation__39_s_cultural_sites_and_artifacts/

The Gath excavations are revealing affinities/connections with Cyprus:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.738150

A first-century stone vessel factory from near Cana:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-stone-age-factory-from-time-of-jesus-surfaces-in-gali
lee/

A guy who inherited a pile of antiquities turned them in to the IAA:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=35891 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/3500-year-old-treasures-retrieved-from-
the-sea-by-electric-plant-worker/2016/08/23/ http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.738232 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Family-returns-3500-year-old-metal-relics-illegally-inhe
rited-by-father-to-IAA-464828 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/216814 http://www.livescience.com/55852-worker-discovers-bronze-age-treasures-in-israel.html
http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/08/23/3500-year-old-artifacts-found-at-sea-in-hadera-giv
en-to-israel-antiquities-authority/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/4788-160824-israel-metal-artifacts

… among which was a Crusader-era hand grenade:

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/27495/20160826/rare-discovery-hand-grenade-f
rom-the-crusaders-era-baffles-archaeologists.htm http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.738232

An interview with Adam Aja about the Ashkelon dig:

http://www.bridgton.com/one-on-one-with-adam-aja-museum-curator-and-senior-staff-mem
ber-?f-ashkelon-dig/

A majority of artifacts seized in Lebanon and Syria are apparently fakes:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/almost-70-of-smuggled-objects-seized-in-syria-and-leb
anon-are-fakes-antiquities-chief-says/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
They’re beginning to ‘decipher’ that Etruscan inscription found at Poggio Colla a few
months ago:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-significant-etruscan-discoveries-decades-female.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/smu-oot082416.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160824135508.htm http://blog.smu.edu/research/2016/08/24/one-of-the-most-significant-etruscan-discoverie
s-in-decades-names-female-goddess-uni/ http://www.livescience.com/55907-etruscan-tablet-holds-lost-language.html http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/27488/20160826/discovery-of-uni-goddess-na
me-found-on-ancient-etruscan-temple-stone.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/etruscan-discovery-names-g
oddess-uni
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4792-160826-etruscan-stele-uni

Remains of a Roman ‘flood bank’ beneath a demolished Gloucester bus station:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-37198597

Some sort of bathing structure from Metropolis:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/well-preserved--bath-structure-found.aspx?PageID=23
8&NID=103154&NewsCatID=375

A nice Poseidon mosaic from a bath dig at Aegae:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-poseidon-mosaic-found-in-southern-turkeys-ad
ana.aspx?pageID=238&nid=103069&NewsCatID=375 http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/08/23/ancient-mosaic-depicts-poseidon-hailing-
bath-goers

Burnswark appears to have played an important role in the Romans’ invasion of Scotland:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-37194266 http://www.archaeology.org/news/4793-160826-scotland-roman-invasion

Some Roman items found near Camelon Roman fort:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art560751-camelon-roman-f
ort-falkirk-iron-age http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/outside-the-walls-excavation
s-within-the-annexe-at-camelon-roman-fort http://www.archaeology.org/news/4781-160823-roman-bolt-goad

A hypocaust was found during the dig at Lufton Roman Villa:

http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/lufton-roman-villa-dig-ends-with-amazing-surprise-discove
ry/story-29647032-detail/story.html

The anniversary (maybe) of the eruption of Vesuvius was marked with an ‘hour by hour’
account:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2016/08/24/august-24-79-an-hour-by-hour-acco
unt-of-vesuvius-eruption-on-the-1937th-anniversary/

… and why you would have liked living in Pompeii:

http://www.chron.com/life/article/9-reasons-you-would-have-really-liked-living-in-9179032
.php

Some painted plaster from the Chedworth Roman Villa dig:

http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/14706841.Rare_mosaic_and_painted_plaster_
uncovered_at_Chedworth_Roman_Villa_reveals_how_ancient_villa_was_decorated/

… and they’ve concluded the dig at Chedworth for the season:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-37193116

A marble church floor from Stratonikeia (I can’t quite figure out the date):

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/church-floor-found-in-city-of-gladiators-in-western-turke
y.aspx?pageID=238&nID=103268&NewsCatID=375

What the ancient Greek of the Iliad sounded like:

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/25/491389975/the-sound-of-ancient-greek-in-the-illiad
http://wamu.org/programs/all_things_considered/16/08/25/the_sound_of_ancient_greek_
in_the_illiad

Interesting feature on a couple of Etruscan sarcophagi:

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/can-two-etruscan-sarcophagi-teach-us/?utm_source=Ad
estra&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=20160827_Weekly_Round_Up_34

A good article on vomitoria:

http://www.livescience.com/55899-what-is-a-vomitorium.html

Feature on Greek and Roman magic, curses, and the like:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/guide-ancient-magic-180960129/?no-ist

In case you were pondering becoming a Roman gladiator:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zpc2wxs

Honours for Nanno Marinatos:

https://lcsl.uic.edu/classics-mediterranean/news/2016/08/23/classics-head-nanno-marin
atos-chosen-2016-most-distinguished-greek-american-in-the-field-of-education

Remembering Elaine Fantham:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/elaine-fantham-scholar-was-a-rock-star-of-th
e-classics-world/article31303986/

More on the ‘human sacrifice’ on Mount Lykaon:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/08/28/does-a-major-discovery-show-the-gree
ks-secretly-sacrificed-a-teenage-boy-to-zeus.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-ancient-greeks-engage-human-sacrifice-
180960111/?no-ist

More on ‘steroids’ at the ancient Greek Olympics:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/opinion/83494733/fair-play-in-ancient-sport-was-divine-assist
ance-the-greeks-steroids

More on the harbour at Triport:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/NEWS/14695109.Southampton_expert_divers_make_major_ discovery_at_underwater_Roman_site/


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

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http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================ Neolithic/copper artifacts from Osnabruck are ‘significant’:

http://www.dw.com/en/significant-prehistoric-artifacts-found-in-northern-germany/
a-19488875
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4783-160823-germany-copper-artifacts

A Neolithic (?) logboat from Monmouthshire:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-37167370

A ‘mysterious’ stone structure beneath a Neolithic dump in Orkney:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-37154410 http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14697685.Ancient_structure_discovered_on_Orkne
y/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4779-160822-ness-brodgar-stones

They have to wait another year to see of more Bronze Age items turn up at Dartmoor:

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/year-long-wait-to-yield-more-bronze-age-finds-on-dartm
oor/story-29650680-detail/story.html

Finds from various periods at a dig in Merthyr Tydfil:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/local-news/merthyr-dig-unearthed-items-more-118049
31

A nice Anglo Saxon pendant found by a metal detectorist:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-37186258

Metal detectorists in Finland found some 1000 years bp jewellery:

http://yle.fi/uutiset/hobbyists_stumble_across_1000_year-old_jewellery_in_western_finl
and/9115185

A medieval ‘baby alarm’ from the Crimea:

http://presstv.ir/Detail/2016/08/23/481256/Russia-Crimea-baby-archaeologists-

An altar piece designed by Thomas Hardy was found in a Windsor church:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-berkshire-37176636

Those Civil War Dunbar prisoners found a while ago will be reburied in Durham:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-37173781 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/24/remains-of-scottish-soldiers-who-died
-400-years-ago-to-be-reburied-oliver-cromwell http://www.scotsman.com/news/no-return-to-scotland-for-1650-battle-of-dunbar-prisoners-
1-4211091 http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14701520.No_return_to_Scotland_for_bones_of_Cr
omwell_s_1650_Battle_of_Dunbar_prisoners/ http://www.archaeology.org/4790-160825-durham-dunbar-soldiers

Assorted coverage of the earthquake in Italy this week … haven’t seen any mention of
damage to sites etc., however:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-37182824 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-37207734 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/world/europe/italy-earthquake-aftermath.html

Cf:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/why-does-italy-suffer-so-many-eart
hquakes-and-how-will-tourists-be-affected-a7206706.html

Queen Victoria’s wedding coronet is coming to auction (with an export ban):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-37199222

… feature on other items with export bans:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-37207958

… and Joan of Arc’s ring is staying in France:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/26/joan-of-arc-ring-stays-in-france-after-app
eal-to-queen

… but it doesn’t seem to be an issue with Victoria’s stockings:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-37013567

Studying what they were eating in Ireland during the Iron Age:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/4780-160822-ireland-iron-age

They’ve rebuilt Shakespeare’s last home:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-37142453

More on the astronomical alignment of Scottish stone circles:

http://www.livescience.com/55832-ancient-stone-circles-align-solstice-sun.html

More on the oldest tree in Europe:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-europe-oldest-inhabitant.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160819114224.htm http://www.livescience.com/55841-europes-oldest-tree.html


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http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================

A 50 000 years bp needle from Denisova Cave:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0711-worlds-oldest-needle-found-in-si
berian-cave-that-stitches-together-human-history/

Neolithic facial ornaments from Siberia:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/4791-160825-neolithic-arctic-labret

1000 years bp temple from Dinajpur:

http://www.thedailystar.net/country/1000-yr-old-temple-excavated-1274377

An earthquake in Myanmar (which doesn’t seem to be getting as much television attention as the one in Italy) witnessed damage to several sites … assorted coverage:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-quake-scores-myanmar-heritage-bagan.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-37183943 http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asia/other/2016/08/26/476641/Myanmar-weighs.htm http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/quake-damages-scores-myanmars-heritage
-bagan-temples-41638315 http://www.dw.com/en/ancient-buddhist-temples-damaged-as-68-earthquake-rattles-myan
mar/a-19501324

Flooding has damaged petroglyphs at Helan Mountain:

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2016-08/26/content_39169375.htm http://www.archaeology.org/news/4795-160826-china-helan-mountain-floods

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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Overviewish of things they’ve found on Mount Ranier over the past few years:

http://www.seattleweekly.com/news/scientists-believe-humans-began-visiting-more-than-
mount-rainier-9000-years-ago-what-were-they-doing-up-there/

Digging a 3500 years bp site in Nunavut:

http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674scientists_piece_together_ancient_hi
storical_site_in_nunavut/

A 16th century Spanish fort on Parris Island:

http://coastalcourier.com/section/6/article/82781/

Having found the Erebus, they’re now searching for the Terror:

http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/article/archaeologists-resume-search-sir-john-franklin
s-hms-terror http://motherboard.vice.com/read/deep-trekker-franklin-expedition-hms-erebus-terror-robo
ts-parks-canada

The Huntington library is working on decoding a pile of Civil War telegrams:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-ca-cm-civil-war-telegrams-20160810-snap-s
tory.html

Digging up railroad history in Ottawa:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/rail-turntable-bayview-station-lrt-excavated-1.3732
809 https://kitchissippi.com/2016/08/23/old-railway-roundhouse-excavation-ottawa/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/4787-160824-ottawa-railway-wheelhouse

Feature on Shaker Songs:

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/27/490519051/the-stewards-of-a-disappearing-faith-and-10-00
0-songs

Feature on the evolution of the National Mall:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/lifestyle/the-evolution-of-the-national-mall/

Feature on Utah cacao finds:

https://nhmu.utah.edu/chocolate

Cf:

http://www.livescience.com/13533-prehistoric-chocolate-trade-cacao-chaco-canyon-puebl
oans.html
http://www.livescience.com/5293-sign-chocolate-ancient.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/03/110329-chocolate-turquoise-trade-pre
historic-peoples-archaeology/
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/04/us/04cocoa.html http://news.sciencemag.org/2013/01/earliest-evidence-chocolate-north-america

Rethinking the dates for the importation of scarlet macaws to New Mexico;

https://gamblershouse.wordpress.com/2016/07/31/dating-the-macaws/

Cf:

http://archaeology.about.com/od/Ancestral-Puebloan-Cultures/fl/Breeding-Scarlet-Macaw
s-in-Prehistoric-North-America-Casas-Grandes.htm http://www.academia.edu/12170738/Ritual_Change_and_the_Distant_Mesoamerican_Ico nography_Scarlet_Macaws_and_Great_Kivas_in_the_Mimbres_Region_of_Southwester n_New_Mexico

George Washington (and others) slept here:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/26/arts/design/george-washington-really-slept-here-so-
did-his-slave.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

On the California ‘egg rush’:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/08/15/487644637/the-gold-hungry-forty-niners-al
so-plundered-something-else-eggs?sc=17&f=1001


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
1100 years bp human remains from an interesting meeting site in Bolivia:

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Archeologists-in-Bolivia-Unearth-1100-Year-Old-Bo
nes--20160822-0013.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/4782-160823-bolivia-tupi-guarani

150+ petroglyphs from Chile:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/archaeologists-identify-more-than-150-rock-art-
paintings-in-chile/

Feature on the pyramid at Cholulu:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/worlds-largest-pyramid-lay-hid
den-under-a-mountain-for-centuries/news-story/2002f54306a3a2a6e3b401b6eff86e60?fro
m=public_rss http://www.sciencealert.com/the-world-s-largest-pyramid-is-hidden-under-a-mountain-in-m
exico

Plans for a DNA study on the Lady of Cao:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-harvard-dna-study-on-lady-of-cao-110303

How archaeologists distinguish between bloodletting tools and normal cutlery:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-maya-bloodletting-tools-or-kitche
n-knives-how-archaeologists-tell-difference-1-180960232/

More on the Dresden Codex:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-ancient-mayan-copernicus.html http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/08/maya-calendar-dresden-codex-venus-tables
-archaeology-science/

More on the Maya’s issues with drought:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-demise-maya-civilization-shortage-cultures.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/vuot-tdo082316.php

More on Sara Parcak’s plans for Peru:

http://www.bizjournals.com/birmingham/news/2016/08/23/uab-archaeologist-to-use-1-mill
ion-ted-prize-in.html


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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
A rather pricey doll’s house:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-37200007

Feature (obituary) on Nietzsche:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/01/13/obituaries/nietzsche-obits.html?rref=colle
ction%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

On how handwriting evolved:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/books/review/history-and-uncertain-future-of-handwri
ting-anne-trubek.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

How beer shaped civilization:

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/how-alcohol-shaped-our-civilization-according-to-a-beer-ar
chaeologist

In case you need a dodo skeleton:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-auction-house-composite-skeleton-dodo.html

A 15th century Chumash has been restored:

http://jewishexponent.com/headlines/2016/08/rosenbach-celebrates-restored-15th-centur
y-chumash

Feature on mudlarkers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/kidspost/meet-londons-mudlarkers-the-men-an
d-women-who-search-its-shores-for-history/2016/08/26/f9f4ad4a-6b98-11e6-99bf-f0cf3a64
49a6_story.html

Feature on public archaeologists:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-archaeologists-crews.html https://theconversation.com/scientists-at-work-public-archaeologists-dig-before-the-const
ruction-crews-do-58611

Victor Nuovo is looking at Spinoza now:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/?q=node/39927

Feature on 7 shipwrecks:

http://www.livescience.com/55884-science-of-famous-shipwrecks.html

… and 10 historical mysteries:

http://www.livescience.com/11361-history-overlooked-mysteries.html

How to tell what a human sacrifice looks like:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/08/17/what-does-ancient-human-sacrif
ice-look-like/

Concerns for David’s ankles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/magazine/davids-ankles-how-imperfections-could-bri
ng-down-the-worlds-most-perfect-statue.html

Feature on Michelangelo’s start in forgeries:

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-how-michelangelo-got-his-start-by-forging-anti
quities

Analyzing Bosch:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160809-hidden-meanings-in-the-garden-of-earthly-del
ights

They’re planning on publishing the Voynich Manuscript:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/21/tiny-spanish-publisher-wins-rights-voyni
ch-manuscript-book-no-one-can-read http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/23/491033798/mysterious-encrypted-me
dieval-manuscript-set-to-be-published-in-replica https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/08/22/spanish-publisher-to-
release-copies-of-voynich-manuscript-a-book-no-living-person-can-understand/

Feature on the origins of the book:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160822-the-mysterious-ancient-origins-of-the-book

Interesting feature on the origins of dieting:

http://sciencenordic.com/19th-century-undertaker-introduced-world-dieting

Looted art apparently funds Jihadists in Europe now:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/looted-art-helps-fund-jihadists-in-europe-1472164857

The Russian spin on Pokemon Go:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-pokemon-mad-russians-ivan-terrible-app.html

They’re again looking for that Nazi gold train:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-resumes-nazi-gold.html http://www.livescience.com/55780-search-for-mythical-nazi-gold-train-resumes.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/search-mythical-nazi-gold-train-resumes-194834010.html

Review of Raboy, *Marconi*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/books/review/marconi-by-marc-raboy.html?rref=colle
ction%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Della Robbia:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/19/arts/design/the-art-of-della-robbia-from-earth-and-wat
er-pure-beauty.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Nudes from the Prado:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/12/arts/design/now-showing-porn-fit-for-spanish-kings.h
tml?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&_r=0

Fire of London:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/10/arts/international/the-great-fire-and-the-rebirth-of-lon
don.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Emperor’s Treasures:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/emperors-treasures-chinese-art-from-the-national-palace-mu
seum-taipei-review-1471469258

Bosch:

http://www.dw.com/en/grotesque-demons-and-distorted-human-figures-500-years-of-hiero
nymus-bosch/a-19296470

18th century French Fashion:

http://www.npr.org/2016/08/09/489179987/vive-le-confort-for-corseted-courtiers-this-dres
s-was-a-french-revolution

They’re talking about a Gertrude Bell museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/aug/09/gertrude-of-arabia-gertrude-bell-home-
museum-redcar

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THE TECHY SIDE
================================================================
A Mixtec manuscript (Codex Selden) gets the hyperspectral imaging treatment this week:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-high-tech-imaging-reveals-precolonial-mexican.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160818102601.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/e-hir081816.php http://www.livescience.com/55823-hidden-images-on-mexican-manuscript-revealed.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/22/life-in-mexico-before-the-spanish-conquest-c
ould-be-revealed-by/ http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/aug/21/hidden-codex-reveals-secrets-of-life
-in-mexico-before-spanish-conquest?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/hidden-images-mixtec-manuscript-codex-selden-0
4119.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scan-reveals-Mesoamerican-manuscript-18
0960218/

Plans to study ‘pigtails’ to find the original mutineers of the Bounty:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-forensic-analysis-pigtails-mutineers-hms.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/kcl-fao081916.php

Feature on the work of restorers in a lab in Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/.aspx?pageID=238&nID=103155&NewsCatID=375

… and semi-similar at the Musee d’Orsay:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/16/arts/design/showtime-at-the-musee-dorsay-watching-
varnish-dry.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Using neutron tomography on aboriginal artifacts:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-ancient-australian-indigenous-artefact-non-invasively.html

… and protein analysis on bog bodies:

http://sciencenordic.com/new-method-reveals-secrets-bog-bodies

What Amy Hubbard is up to:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-professor-dead-people-teeth.html

… and some semi-related study of the dental histories of Irish famine victims:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160810180646.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/p-iao080416.php

The Jubilees Palimpsest Project has a techy aspect:

https://www.stmarytx.edu/2016/digital-archaeologist-grant/

Xrays reveal a hidden Degas:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/08/05/488824963/x-rays-reveal-hidden-port
rait-under-painting-by-edgar-degas?sc=17&f=1001

A development in dendrochronology in regards to ‘resetting’ some C14 dates:

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/14688268.Tree_rings_could_help_us_nail_exact_dat
es_for_ancient_events__Oxford_archaeologist_discovers/ https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160817091040.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/uoo-trs081616.php https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/17/traces-of-sun-storms-locked-in-tree-rin
gs-could-confirm-ancient-historical-dates-astrochronology http://scienmag.com/tree-rings-reveal-secret-clocks-that-could-reset-key-dates-across-the
-ancient-world/

================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Humans have been warming the planet for longer than we thought, apparently:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-humans-climate-years.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160824135035.htm http://www.livescience.com/55878-human-driven-warming-began-200-years-ago.html http://www.dw.com/en/humans-have-warmed-the-planet-for-180-years/a-19498234

Feature on the climate-effects of the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1815:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/capital-weather-gang/wp/2016/08/24/200-years-ag
o-this-week-corn-froze-on-the-stalk-in-august/

================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Belgrade:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/08/25/travel/what-to-do-36-hours-in-belgrade.ht
ml?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel

Mount Etna:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/travel/italy-sicily-mount-etna.html?rref=collection%2
Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel

Dry Tortugas National Park:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/28/travel/dry-tortugas-national-park-florida-keys.html
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160824-a-surreal-time-lapse-of-an-exotic-sky

Mark Twain’s Heidelberg:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/21/travel/mark-twain-heidelberg-germany.html

Black Forest:

http://www.dw.com/en/step-back-in-time-in-germanys-black-forest/a-19385640


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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Theft of assorted antiquities from a San Francisco shop:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Valuable-ancient-Greek-artifacts-stolen-from-SF-91845
30.php
http://sfist.com/2016/08/25/antiques_heist_leads_to_50k_loss_of.php

Four charged with illegal digging near Tallahassee:


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