explorator 12.12

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explorator 12.12                                    July '12', 2009
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hoping I have left no one out).

We're heading to a cottage for a couple of days and while it claims
it has internet access, it might be dialup and/or might not exist
at all ... so just in case, I'm sending this issue out a bit early
lest you all fall into paroxysms of withdrawal on Sunday (as I
read some of you did last week).
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EARLY HUMANS
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Diseases carried by Homo sapiens are now being blamed for the
demise of the Neanderthal:

http://jp.dk/uknews/article1748034.ece

... while a volcano eruption 74 000 years b.p. "drastically"
reduced the human population of the time:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090702170128.htm
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AFRICA
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What is possibly Africa's oldest ceramic has been found in Mali:

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/news_digest/Archaeologists_hit_jackpot_in_Mali.html?siteSect4
&sid935272&cKey47128029000&ty=nd
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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I think we had this DNA-tests-on-fetuses-in-Tut's-tomb story
before:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/technology/science/dna-tests-tried-on-fetuses-in-king-
tuts-tomb/article702570/

Some monuments were found buried near the stairway of the Egyptian
Museum in el-Tahrir:

http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/EgyptOnline/Culture/000002/0203000000000000001176.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-70260.html
http://www.egyptiangazette.net.eg/gazette/tourism/detail_8_88.shtml

The UN's nuclear agency is getting involved with mummies:

http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID1376&Cr=iaea&Cr1
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-69493.html

Another CT scan to solve a 'mummy mystery' (or not):

http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/UK-News/Mystery-Of-Egyptian-Mummies-Deepens-Following-CT-
Scans/Article/200907115331076?lpos=UK_News_First_Home_Article_Teaser_Region_2&lid=ART%
29ICLE_15331076_Mystery_Of_Egyptian_Mummies_Deepens_Following_CT_Scans

Another quarry used by Herod in his various building projects
has been found:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid46443730536pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132231
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid 601088&sid§UxM9gYQoEE
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090706/ap_on_sc/ml_israel_ancient_quarry_5
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1098195.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h-QceyqTd7QB2zFv_b6PgxTSKoTgD9995BB00
http://jta.org/news/article/2009/07/06/1006330/ancient-quarry-uncovered-in-jerusalam

Interesting excavation starting up in Sidon:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id4030>
;


Plenty of coverage of a UNESCO report on damage done to Babylon by the
US military:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/us-military-damaged-ancient-babylon-site-20090710-deuh.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8142929.stm
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid583696>
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/us-military-damaged-ancient-babylon-site-20090710-de
uh.html
http://www.middle-east-online.com/english/?id3107
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2009/07/09/international/i054236D89.DTL&a
mp;type=science
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/07/10/2622210.htm
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hYZIpEAwUtMB_AcIgjEnAwm6vGigD99B4D9O0

... and here's the UNESCO report:

http://unesdoc.unesco.org/images/0018/001831/183134e.pdf

Somewhat vague item on some pottery found at Homs:

http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2009/07/06/234465.htm

Recent finds in the Mount Zion excavation:

http://jamestabor.com/2009/07/07/extraordinary-finds-at-the-mt-zion-excavation/

Report of the seventh season of the BM dig at Kom Firin:

http://www.britishmuseum.org/pdf/Kom%20Firin%202008a.pdf

Can't remember if we mentioned that Meresamun has her own Facebook
page:

http://www.facebook.com/meresamun

More on the Lod Mosaic:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/world/middleeast/09lod.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/07/01/AR2009070100957.html
http://news.yahoo.com/nphotos/image-made-available-Israel-Antiquities-Authority-Monday-Jul
y-6-2009/photo//090701/481/0ca2d99ae2ef4ad3a70ac0906735fe4f/

More on that quarry near Jericho:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622103831.htm

More on the Ilisu dam:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,635054,00.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Nice OpEd on Latin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/opinion/07iht-edmotyl.html

Feature on the Euphronios Krater:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/arts/design/08abroad.html?ref=arts

High tech looks at the Michigan papyri:

http://www.physorg.com/news166200717.html

A temple for Antinous at Tivoli?:

http://science.orf.at/science/news/61986

Assorted finds from Heraklea Lynkestis:

http://macedoniaonline.eu/content/view/7456/2/
http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1328

Excitement over the 'Parion Princess' sarcophagus:

http://www.hurriyet.com.tr/english/domestic/12047968.asp?scr=1

Some intact Etruscan cosmetics:

http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/10/ancient-ointment.html

A Roman tunnel at Plovdiv:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id5595

Repairs for Colchester's Roman wall:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/4481572.Repairing_the_Roman_wall_is_like_painting_the_F
orth_Bridge/

They're learning about corrosion from the Apoxyomenos found a decade
ago:

http://www.physorg.com/news166268029.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/07/090708094832.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-70431.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Mesolithic/Neolithic remains from Schela Cladovei (Romania):

http://www.balkantravellers.com/en/read/article/1319

Interesting Iron Age reamins keep turning up at the Illerup River
Valley
site:

http://www.cphpost.dk/news/local/87-local/46220-students-uncover-hundreds-of-iron-age-rema
ins.html

Traces of a medieval village in Espoo (Finland):

http://www.hs.fi/english/article/Archeologists+unearth+early+medieval+village+in+Espoo/113
5247145462

A possible henge in a Lincolnshire field:

http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/news/Ancient-henge-largest-county/article-1138043-deta
il/article.html

Finds from various periods at a Cambridge University dig:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/cambridgeshire/8138362.stm
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence of substantial fish consumption by humans in China some
40 000 years b.p.:

http://www.genengnews.com/news/bnitem.aspx?nameW795414>
http://www.physorg.com/news166120605.html

A pile of prehistoric sites from central Java:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/07/08/15-new-prehistoric-sites-found-c-java.html

A 1400 years b.p. royal tomb from a Qi dynasty member:

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2009/07/07/2009070700839.html

Interesting 6th century Javanese boat find:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2009/07/10/ancient-boat-reveals-shipbuilding-skills-jav
a%E2%80%99s-seafarers.html

Chinese archaeologist have sketched the layout of Xanadu:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-07/08/content_11673561.htm

An eighth century Islamic vase from Japan:

http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/07/06/Shards-of-ancient-vase-found-in-Japan/UPI-253112468
96638/

Historical tensions in China's Xinjiang province:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId6376623

More on the 'obsidian trail':

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090622152033.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Things weren't so great for the pilgrims:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/the-american-dream-not-for-all-the-pilgri
ms-1732760.html

A First Nations site near Calgary:

http://calgary.ctv.ca/servlet/an/local/CTVNews/20090710/cgy_dig_morley_090710/20090710/?hu
bÊlgaryHome

They're digging at Chimney Rock again:

http://durangoherald.com/sections/Features/Outdoors/2009/07/10/Chimney_Rock_Chaco_or_not/

Looking for evidence of early Americans in the waters of the Gulf
Coast:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/mc-ues070909.php

Evidence of a human presence in Florida 13 000 years b.p.?:

http://www.scrippsnews.com/node/44395

Revealing Rhode Island's slave trade connections:

http://www.projo.com/ri/newport/content/NEWPORT_SLAVERY_DIG_07-07-09_EBEEC5K_v59.38ad7fe.h
tml

... and an opinion on the proposed RI name change:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/05/opinion/05vowell.html


Sam's Club or a mound ... which do you think they chose in Oxford?:

http://www.montgomeryadvertiser.com/article/20090705/NEWS02/907050307/1007/NEWS01/Oxford+t
o+remove+dirt+from+Indian+mound

Selling off chunks of a church:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/06/26/arts/design/26antiques.html

More on the Chesterfield site:

http://www.thesouthern.com/articles/2009/07/03/breaking_news/doc4a4e13c15bf22863652239.txt

More on Meriwether Lewis' possible murder:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId6342997
http://www.tennessean.com/article/20090709/NEWS01/907090334/1001/NEWS

... and Henry Hudson's fate:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31784738/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Widening of the Panama canal is revealing some interesting stuff:

http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/662167

Interesting feature on the Maya:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/science/2009-07-05-maya-belize_N.htm

I've only found this one in the Italian press ... a gold-covered
burial from Belize:

http://www.libero-news.it/adnkronos/view/150979

On what we learn from Chile pepper domestication:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/06/090619152137.htm

Zapotecs in general may have had a thing for femurs:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/fm-fmc070809.php
http://www.fieldmuseum.org/museum_info/photos/feinman_mexico.zip

Did maize consumption lead to the rise of Andean civilization:

http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/45413/description/Maize_may_have_fueled_ancient
_Andean_civilization
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-70241.html

On the Medieval Warm Period and Inca success:

http://wattsupwiththat.com/2009/07/08/the-medieval-warm-period-linked-to-the-success-of-ma
chu-picchu-inca/

More on Chinchorro arsenic poisoning:

http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-68195.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The Codex Sinaiticus is online now:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/in_depth/8135415.stm
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/nm/20090706/wr_nm/us_britain_bible_codex
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/worlds-oldest-bible-published-i
n-full-online-1733208.html
http://features.csmonitor.com/innovation/2009/07/06/worlds-oldest-bible-now-preserved-onli
ne/
http://www.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/07/06/ancient.bible.online/index.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId6312433

They figure they've identified the remains of Copernicus:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-07/uu-aoc070709.php
http://dsc.discovery.com/news/2009/07/09/copernicus-blue-eyes.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090708/sc_space/copernicusremainsverifiedbydnaanalysis

Did Galileo discover Neptune?:

http://www.physorg.com/news166355079.html
http://www.scienceblog.com/cms/galileos-notebooks-may-reveal-secrets-new-planet-22824.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/space/20090710/sc_space/newtheorygalileodiscoveredneptune

Folks are going to be living statues on the Fourth Plinth:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId6308924
(including, I am told, Mike Pitts, the editor of British Archaeology)

Nice feature on Roget's Thesaurus:

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/education/article6643975.ece
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/books/article6644646.ece

In case you're wondering about Dan Brown's next one:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/07/dan-brown-drumroll-the-book-cover-revealed/


Reviewish sort of thing on a book about Calvin:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/04/us/04beliefs.html

Review of Richard Holmes, *The Age of Wonder*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/09/books/09maslin.html

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TOURISTY THINGS
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Turkey:

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/getaways/07/09/travel.snaps.turkey/index.html

Tyre:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id3890
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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[please send in suggestions! current digs only please!]

Ongoing:

Dhiban (Jordan):

http://dhiban.wordpress.com/

Whitehall Roman Villa:

http://www.whitehallvilla.co.uk/

Mount Lykaion:

http://mountlykaion.wordpress.com/

Roman Binchester:

http://binchester.blogspot.com/

Gabii Project:

http://lapisgabinus.blogspot.com/

Tel Kabri:

http://digkabri.wordpress.com/2009-dig-blog/

Pyla-Koutsopetria (three blogs in one! twitter too!):

http://www.und.nodak.edu/instruct/wcaraher/PKAPBlogAggregator.html

Grand Pre:

http://grandpre2009.wordpress.com/

Norton Community Archaeological Group:

http://nortoncommarch.wordpress.com/

Tel Dan:

http://teldan.wordpress.com/

Hopkins in Egypt Today:

http://www.jhu.edu/egypttoday/index.html
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CRIME BEAT
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A Raphael Golb update:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gznCOrQo0Iw8H1s_BUyqyDXHcO8AD99AEOUO0

An update to the Roxanna Brown death-in-custody situation:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2009425908_prisondeath07m0.html
http://chronicle.com/news/article/6747/us-government-settles-case-stemming-from-death-of-a
ntiquities-scholar

A couple of guilty pleas (already) in that Utah case:

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId6376598&ft=1&f01

Smuggling in Bethlehem:

http://beth.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID9136

Apparently there are a lot of fake Russian paintings around:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/06/arts/design/06arts-REPORTFINDSA_BRF.html

The Netherlands returned some purloined antiquities to Iraq:

http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5jagRDR28FC8WayLKN0EE9w4RcJHgD99B0VLO0
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/07/09/iraq-antiquities.html

More coverage of the Cleveland Museum's returns:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/ohio-news/italy-unveils-antiquities-returned-by-us-mus
eum-187221.html
http://www.cbc.ca/arts/artdesign/story/2009/07/02/italy-cleveland.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ieF6zwJhG7nYx0bFa6CN2UH2soNQD996B52G0
http://www.azstarnet.com/news/299548
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/02/cleveland-museum-returns-works-to-italy/?scp=
1&sq=cleveland&st=cse

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NUMISMATICA
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Tutbury Castle's collection is at the BM:

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/burtonmail-news/DisplayArticle.asp?IDC2206

A gold coin of Tiberius brought an okay price:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB124717490410619707.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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An Antiquity of Imagination:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/arts/design/10cotter.html

Macao's Past:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/arts/10iht-jessop.html

A brush fire came close to the Getty t'other day:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/brush-fire-forces-evacuation-at-getty-center/


The DSS exhibition at the ROM is bringing in the crowds:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/arts/rom-scrolls-attendance-beyond-expectations/articl
e1211946/

Some letters relating to the early history of baseball won't be
coming to auction after all:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/08/sports/baseball/08auction.html
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ON THE WEB
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Pre-Raphaelites:

http://www.preraphaelites.org/
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