Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,

John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo,

Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Rick Heli, Allan Brockway, Bob Heuman,

Stan Nadel, Don Buck, Tim Parkin, David Emery, Richard C. Griffiths,

and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have

left no one out).

A lot of ‘borderline’ archaeology coverage this week for some

reason …

================================================================

EARLY HOMINIDS

================================================================

Returning to the Neanderthal-sapiens interbreeding theme:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/mating-neandertals-reintroduced-lost-dna-modern-humans

Homo sapiens “outlasted” Neanderthals, apparently:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/01/humans-didnt-outsmart-the-neanderthals-we-just-outlasted-them/

http://nationalpost.com/news/canada/humans-didnt-outsmart-the-neanderthals-we-just-outlasted-them

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/11/01/humans-didnt-outsmart-neanderthals-outlasted-them/

On early hominid tool-making:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/information-sharing-stone-age/

================================================================

ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

================================================================

Easily the big archaeology story of the week was the suggestion that cosmic rays had helped detect a ‘great void’ in the Great Pyramid:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/30637/Cosmic-ray-imaging-finds-hidden-structure-in-Egypt-s-Great

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/science/pyramids-giza-void.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/02/archaeolgists-discover-mysterious-void-deep-within-great-pyramid-of-giza

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-41845445

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-pyramid/cosmic-ray-imaging-finds-hidden-structure-in-egypts-great-pyramid-idUSKBN1D21IY

https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/98511341/Cosmic-rays-reveal-mysterious-void-in-Egypts-Great-Pyramid

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/11/02/mysterious-void-great-pyramid-giza-could-finally-reveal-pyramids/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/particle-physicists-detect-mysterious-big-120012396.html

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/great-pyramid-giza-void-discovered-khufu-archaeology-science/

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/cosmic-rays-outer-space-pyramids/544574/

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/02/cosmic-rays-reveal-mysterious-void-in-egypts-great-pyramid/

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/cosmic-ray-particles-reveal-secret-chamber-in-egypts-great-pyramid/

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/scientists-confirm-theres-a-mysterious-void-in-the-great-pyramid/

http://www.newsweek.com/giza-great-pyramid-ancient-egypt-secret-chamber-everything-you-need-know-700085

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/02/561468384/scientists-say-theyve-found-hidden-space-in-great-pyramid-of-giza?sc=17&f=1001

http://www.smh.com.au/world/cosmic-rays-reveal-mysterious-void-in-egypts-great-pyramid-20171102-gzdxqm.html

http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/future_tense/2017/11/how_scientists_discovered_a_massive_hole_in_the_great_pyramid.html

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/11/01/ciencia/1509537816_384789.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.in/giant-void-discovered-khufus-great-pyramid-giza-help-cosmic-rays-748085

… and the Ministry wasn’t happy how it was announced:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/280880/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/ScanPyramids-mission-rushed-in-announcing-discover.aspx

http://gulfnews.com/news/mena/egypt/egypt-critical-of-hasty-pyramid-announcement-1.2118124

http://abcnews.go.com/International/great-pyramids-previously-hidden-void-hailed-scientists-dismissed/story?id=50907655

… and it was quickly pointed out that this void has long been known:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/280853/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Void-within-Great-Pyramid-of-Giza-not-a-new-discov.aspx

http://www.egyptindependent.com/newly-discovered-gap-khufu-pyramid-already-known-zahi-hawass/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/egypt-archaeologist-criticises-pyramid-void-discovery-135656899.html

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/11/04/what-archaeologists-want-you-to-know-about-the-great-pyramid-void/

http://www.france24.com/en/20171104-egyptian-archaeologist-criticises-void-discovery-great-pyramid-khufu-tomb

Eight Old Kingdom burials from near Luxor (not sure if we’ve had this one yet):

https://qtelegram.com/egypt-a-tomb-of-the-pharaonic-era-reveals-eight-mummies/15946

A number of tombs, including a ‘cursed’ one, near the Pyramids have also been opened:

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-tomb-cursed-giza-pyramid-workers-reopen-698463

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/egypt-cursed-tomb-opened-public-first-time-discovery-30-years-ago-1042560

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-egypt-cursed-tomb-men-163957956.html

Assorted coverage remembering the discovery of Tut’s tomb:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/30912/Today-in-history-tomb-of-king-Tutankhamun-discovered

https://www.upi.com/Top_News/2017/11/04/On-This-Day-Howard-Carter-finds-King-Tutankhamens-tomb/6971509765493/

http://www.postandcourier.com/charleston_scene/celebrate-discovery-of-tut-s-tomb-and-unlocking-of-egyptian/article_7176313a-bd7e-11e7-863b-bf290a8f2503.html

The Djoser Pyramid wll soon be inaugurated:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/30085/Djoser-Pyramid-to-be-inaugurated-in-2017

A solar eclipse mentioned in Egyptian records and the Bible (associated with Joshua) apparently has been identified (expect skepticism on this one):

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171029220104.htm

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/30/first-solar-eclipse-ever-recorded-took-place-3000-years-ago/

https://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/oldest-recorded-solar-eclipse-helps-date-the-egyptian-pharaohs

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egyptian-and-biblical-texts-reveal-oldest-known-solar-eclipse-and-695921

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Miracle-described-in-Book-of-Joshua-may-have-been-earliest-recorded-solar-eclipse-510903

https://elpais.com/elpais/2017/10/30/ciencia/1509320354_876281.html

Remains of a pregnant woman found in the purported King Solomon’s Mines:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archaeologists-discover-rare-remains-of-pregnant-woman-in-King-Solomons-Mines-510965

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.820180

http://www.ibtimes.com/archaeologists-find-pregnant-womans-skeleton-ancient-copper-mines-israel-2608677

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/pregnant-egyptian-womans-remains-discovered-in-king-solomons-mines/2017/11/01/

https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/11/01/israeli-archaeologists-unearth-pregnant-womans-remains-at-king-solomons-mines/

This claim of the discovery of Naboth’s Vineyard didn’t make it into any mainstream source:

https://www.cnsnews.com/commentary/eric-metaxas/yet-another-find-biblical-proportions-naboths-vineyard-discovered

… or the so-called ‘footprints of God’ (plenty of ‘iffy’ things this week, no?):

http://www.pulse.ng/communities/religion/archaeologists-find-footprints-of-god-near-river-jordan-id7527794.html

A 1500 years bp ‘chicken’ from Kinneret:

http://www.tabletmag.com/scroll/247954/woman-goes-swimming-in-the-kinneret-stumbles-on-priceless-1500-year-old-relic

On the Bible and archaeology:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.818795

Lawrence Schiffman on the Dead Sea Scrolls:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Seventy-years-of-the-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-510977

… and a feature on an important one:

https://www.jewishlinknj.com/features/21409-the-most-important-dead-sea-text-a-lost-paragraph-from-the-book-of-samuel

Hype for a book on ancient Israel:

http://www.uwyo.edu/uw/news/2017/10/uw-religion-today-the-ancient-israelites-through-archaeology,-history-and-text.html

Hopes for learning from renovations to the Orukaya Dam:

https://www.dailysabah.com/environment/2017/10/30/2200-year-old-dam-will-shed-light-on-climate-and-vegetation-change-in-northern-turkey

Studying copper mining in Jordan:

http://menafn.com/1096039902/Jordanian-scholar-digs-deep-into-copper-mining-in-ancient-times

Iran blocked a rally planned at the tomb of Cyrus the Great:

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/29/10/2017/Iran-blocks-illegal-rally-at-ancient-king-s-tomb

https://www.yahoo.com/news/iran-blocks-illegal-rally-ancient-kings-tomb-153458425.html

… and there was some sort of ‘plot’?:

https://www.voanews.com/a/iran-foils-plot-involving-tomb-of-cyrus-the-great/4090877.html

Another feature on ISIL’s attacks on culture:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/business/wall-street-journal/the-crumbling-of-a-culture-islamic-states-attack-on-antiquity/news-story/7b268c5fdb3d0db588812cb8d6b768c0

… and they’re apparently selling plenty of things on eBay, Facebook, etc.:

http://observer.com/2017/11/isis-selling-stolen-artifacts-on-ebay-amazon-facebook-whatsapp/

================================================================

ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)

================================================================

An interesting ‘lion helmet’ dating to the Punic Wars:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.821064

Remains of a silver Thracian wreath from Bulgaria:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6060-171031-bulgaria-silver-wreath

Archaeologists may have found the site of the Serdica mint:

http://www.novinite.com/articles/184942/Archaeologists+May+Have+Found+Mint+of+Ancient+Roman+City+Serdica+in+Bulgaria%E2%80%99s+Capital+Sofia

Suggestion that pagans in late Roman Palestine embraced Christianity ‘quickly’:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.820696

Tomb finds from Roman Corinth/Tenea:

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-greece-haul-jewels-and-golden-coins-uncovered-2000-year-old-tombs-698275

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/11/02/haul-of-jewels-and-gold-coins-uncovered-in-ancient-greek-city-of-tenea/

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27963-ancient-artifacts-unearthed-from-2-000-year-old-tombs-in-corinth-greece.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6064-171101-greece-tenea-tombs

A Roman era gold necklace from Heraclea Sintica:

http://www.novinite.com/articles/184888/Ancient+Roman+Gold+Necklace+Discovered+by+Archaeologists+in+Ancient+City+Heraclea+Sintica+in+Southwest+Bulgaria

Some Roman skeletons from Ramsgate:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/thanet/news/roman-era-skeletons-uncovered-134703/

A sarcophagus cover from Gumushane (Turkey):

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/11/03/construction-workers-find-ancient-sarcophagus-cover-in-turkeys-gumushane

On underwater archaeology off Naxos:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27964-underwater-search-off-naxos-island-coast-yields-rich-finds.html

There will be plenty of interest in Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/02/magazine/the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english.html

https://boingboing.net/2017/11/04/emily-watsons-translation-of.html

Pondering the plague of Cyprian:

https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/solving-the-mystery-of-an-ancient-roman-plague/543528/

On sex and violence in ancient art:

https://qtelegram.com/violence-and-sex-the-shocking-art-of-the-ancient-remeasured/16242

On the aqueduct on Samos:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/thematic-tourism/27937-wondrous-eupalenion-aqueduct-of-samos-declared-international-landmark-of-engineering.html

Feature on Honor Frost:

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20171029/life-features/Honor-Frost-a-legacy-in-the-field-of-underwater-archaeology.661705

What Robert Harris is up to:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/robert-harris-author-of-the-cicero-trilogy-on-the-bloody-lessons-from-rome-ignored-by-todays-leaders-flx2brnbz

What Ann Woods is up to:

http://ucsdguardian.org/2017/10/31/professor-ann-woods-from-the-louvre-to-the-lecture-hall/

Rethinking how the Portland Vase was made:

https://newatlas.com/portland-vase-mystery-solved/51958/

On historians’ involvement in Assassin’s Creed:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/assassins-creed-origins-historian-1.4382255

… but criticism for the portrayal of Cleopatra:

https://www.polygon.com/features/2017/11/2/16593124/assassins-creed-origins-cleopatra

On the ancient Long Jump:

https://ancientsport.wordpress.com/2017/11/01/reconstruction-of-the-ancient-long-jump/

On Greek marathons:

https://sports.yahoo.com/greek-marathons-where-runners-pit-themselves-against-history-025847609.html

On Scythian tattoos:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/ancient-tattoos-getting-under-the-skin-of-the-scythians/

On making mosaics at the Zeugma Museum:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/11/02/learning-the-art-of-mosaic-making-at-zeugma-mosaic-museum-southeast-turkey

Concerns for Hadrian’s Wall:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/10/31/hadrians-wall-succumbing-foreign-invasion-nearly-2000-years/

On William V Harris:

http://gothamist.com/2017/11/01/columbia_professor_steps_down.php

More on the drinking water at Pompeii:

http://sciencenordic.com/pompeii-residents-were-screwed-volcanic-eruption

More on the Roman ‘theatre’ in Jerusalem:

http://www.entertainment-news.online/2017/11/02/archaeologists-just-exhumed-ancient-roman-theater-tell-us-jerusalem-western-wall/

Review of Harper, *The Fate of Rome*:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/review-romes-cosmic-retribution-1509133738

—–

Latest reviews from BMCR:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/

================================================================

EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

================================================================

Identifying ‘Torbrex Tam’ as Stirling’s oldest resident:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/stirlings-oldest-resident-revealed-4000-11449217

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/bronze-age-farmer-tam-is-earliest-city-resident-r29fhm7jn

A Pictish petroglyph of a ‘big nosed warrior’ from near Perth:

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/rare-pictish-carving-of-big-nosed-warrior-found-near-perth-1-4602051

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/536172/historic-pictish-stone-found-during-multi-million-pound-perth-roadworks-project/

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/significant-pictish-stone-unearthed-road-11461229

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/10/31/martin-luther-shook-the-world-500-years-ago-but-did-he-nail-anything-to-a-church-door/

They’re still not sure about skeletons buried in Halton Castle:

http://aboutmanchester.co.uk/mystery-of-the-halton-castle-skeletons-deepens/

Latest in the mapping of ‘Doggerland’:

http://www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/15640479.Mysteries_of_lost_North_Sea_kingdom_of_Doggerland_surfacing___thanks_to_Bradford_researchers/

A 13th century coin is declared treasure:

http://www.pontefractandcastlefordexpress.co.uk/news/medieval-coin-from-13th-century-france-is-declared-to-be-treasure-1-8839597

Interesting 17th century silver hawk ring:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-41763074

Options to preserve the Sutz Lattrigen neolithic site:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-ways-neolithic-site.html

Concerns for a 2500 years bp castle near Exmouth:

http://www.exmouthjournal.co.uk/news/a-2-500-year-old-castle-near-exmouth-needs-your-help-1-5260692

Possible protection for a site associated with the Battle of Winwick/Red Bank:

http://www.warringtonguardian.co.uk/news/15632934.Field_which_played_a_major_role_in_Second_Civil_War_could_be_protected/

More on the leprotic Viking squirrels:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/10/31/did-the-viking-squirrel-trade-spread-leprosy/

—–

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

================================================================

ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

================================================================

Paleolithic beads from a site in Ningxia Hui:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/30/c_136715334.htm

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6058-171031-china-paleolithic-beads

Wells and other signs of a settlement from a site in Beijing:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1073062.shtml

73 tombs from Zhengzhou:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-11/02/content_34019601.htm

A 2400 years bp burial with horse and chariot from Henan (we may have mentioned this one):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/01/c_136720716.htm

http://www.dnaindia.com/science/report-archaeologists-discover-2400-year-old-horse-chariot-pit-in-china-2557015

https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/archaeologists-discover-2400yearold-horse-chariot-pit-in/1179315

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6063-171101-china-chariot-pit

They’re still looking for Zheng He’s lost ‘treasure ship’:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2118421/hunt-ming-dynasty-admiral-zheng-hes-lost-treasure-ship-heats

On social inequality in Tahiti 1000 years bp:

http://flathatnews.com/2017/10/31/understanding-social-inequality-1000-years-ago-dr-jennifer-kahn-gives-talk-about-culture-in-french-polynesia/

Kyrgyzstan reburied a mummy and there was major political fallout, apparently:

http://www.tol.org/client/article/27305-kyrgyzstan-archaeology-mummy-psychics-culture-ministry.html

http://nypost.com/2017/10/31/this-country-is-in-political-turmoil-over-the-reburial-of-its-only-ancient-mummy/

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/outrage-kyrgyzstan-reburies-only-ancient-mummy-041558361.html

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/31/10/2017/Outrage-after-Kyrgyzstan-reburies-its-only-ancient-mummy

They’re still arguing over the purpose of the Taj Mahal:

https://www.outlookindia.com/website/story/the-claim-taj-mahal-is-tejo-mahalaya-temple-palace-is-concocted-and-self-built-c/303703

On strange things found along the Silk Road:

https://arstechnica.com/video/2017/10/the-strangest-things-archaeologists-have-found-on-the-ancient-silk-roads/

Pondering a mystery burial near Sydney Harbour found back in the 1960s:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-02/mystery-burial-aboriginal-woman-balls-head-sydney-curious-sydney/9069892

More on that figurine from a potato field in Siberia:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/10/30/ancient-statuette-discovered-at-potato-field-in-russia

—–

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html

================================================================

NORTH AMERICA

================================================================

Digging a site at a Cape Cod farm:

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/massachusetts/articles/2017-10-29/archaeologists-digging-for-ancient-artifacts-at-cape-farm

Excavating Pilgrim-related remains in Massachusetts:

http://www.patriotledger.com/news/20171024/archaeology-teams-come-up-with-interesting-finds-in-plymouth

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6055-171027-massachusetts-pilgrim-homes

Excavating a sod house near Iqaluit:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/archaeology-qaummaarviit-inookie-inuit-heritage-1.4383894

https://ca.news.yahoo.com/team-excavates-sod-house-near-111800740.html

On prehistoric hunting on a Lake Huron ridge:

http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2017/10/29/Prehistoric-people-hunted-caribou-on-ancient-Lake-Huron-ridge.html

A pile of 18th century remains in Philadelphia were apparently dumped in a landfill:

https://whyy.org/articles/archaeologist-claims-hundreds-18th-century-philly-remains-dumped-landfill/

… possibly related:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/pennsylvania/philadelphia/bones-arch-street-construction-site-pmc-orphans-court-20171030.html

The search for the ‘route’ of the first ‘Americans’ continues to be pondered:

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6363/592?rss=1

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/11/majority-of-scientists-now-agree-that-humans-came-to-the-americas-by-boat/

… including now the ‘kelp highway’:

https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/the-first-americans-may-have-migrated-along-a-coastal-kelp-highway

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/11/02/first-americans-kelp-highway/

http://science.sciencemag.org/content/358/6363/604.21

Latest from the Franklin Expedition dives:

http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674parks_canada_releases_new_images_of_2017_franklin_dives_in_nunavut/

What Jack Ray is up to:

http://ksmu.org/post/msu-professor-returns-previous-site-continue-digging#stream/0

On life in Wyoming, 10000 years bp:

http://planetjh.com/2017/11/01/real-wyoming-natives-for-10000-years-sheepeaters-knew-how-to-live-with-nature/

Feature on Clovis points:

http://knau.org/post/earth-notes-clovis-points

Calusa artifacts revealed by Hurricane Irma are headed to a museum:

http://news.wgcu.org/post/hundreds-calusa-artifacts-unearthed-irma-be-curated-museum

Feature on Hopewell copper interests:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20171029/archaeology-copper-was-sacred-to-hopewell-regardless-of-its-source

More on turquoise mining in the southwest:

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/ua-research-sheds-new-light-early-turquoise-mining-southwest

Review of Wood, *Friends Divided*:

http://www.npr.org/2017/11/01/560097237/friends-divided-digs-into-the-bumpy-bonds-between-2-presidents?sc=17&f=1008

Review of Shorto, *Revolution Song*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/30/books/review/russell-shorto-revolution-song.html

================================================================

CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

================================================================

Studying pre Columbian petroglyphs from Puerto Rico’s Mona Island:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uol-nro102717.php

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171029220108.htm

http://www.newsweek.com/puerto-rico-mona-island-cave-art-early-humans-civilization-696239

http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/30/ancient-cave-paintings-were-made-by-islanders-tripping-on-drugs-7040130/

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/lost-art-tainos-culture-british-archaeologists-island-mona-caribbean-a8026321.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/7f4eb5b5-fc7c-3b5f-a1d4-c683b634a24e/ss_mysterious-rock-art-uncovered.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6057-171030-taino-rock-art

Studying pre-Inka elites:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/pre-inka-elites-and-the-social-life-of-fragments

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-pre-inka-elites-social-life-fragments.html

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/this-fascinating-pre-incan-society-high-andes-lacked-social-hierarchies-1645520

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6072-171103-argentina-infant-urns

Feature on the survival of the church of Santa Prisca de Taxco:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/11/02/actualidad/1509650615_533672.html

—–

Mike Ruggeri’s Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/

================================================================

OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

================================================================

On the embalming of Lenin:

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2017/10/29/Learn-the-secret-behind-the-embalming-of-Vladimir-Lenin-s-body.html

An 18th century painting of Mecca is coming to auction:

https://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2017/10/29/Rare-1791-painting-of-Mecca-1917-Saudi-diary-up-for-auction-at-Sotheby-s.html

On the history of locks:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/home-improvement-tips/history-of-locks/

With Hallowe’en, there were a number of witch-related items this week … a facial reconstruction:

http://nypost.com/2017/10/31/scientists-recreate-face-of-scottish-witch-using-3d-wizardry/

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/10/31/face-witch-died-1704-digitally-reconstructed/

… what we’ve learned from Salem:

http://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-salem-says-were-thinking-about-witches-and-witch-hunts-all-wrong-694200

… and an overviewish sort of thing:

https://www.bustle.com/p/how-long-have-witches-existed-these-ancient-myths-about-witches-will-give-you-nightmares-3067204

There were also a number of items related to the 500th anniversary of the Reformation:

http://www.frontiersman.com/faith/the-th-anniversary-of-the-reformation/article_376582e8-be73-11e7-86f6-47976545d830.html

http://www.christianitytoday.com/edstetzer/2017/october/500th-anniversary-of-reformation.html

… and how it affected beer:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/10/31/561117731/the-other-reformation-how-martin-luther-changed-our-beer-too?sc=17&f=1008

On the Neolithic revolution and climate change:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uop-ctn103117.php

Grammar changes, no matter what grammarians think:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/01/resistance-to-changes-in-grammar-is-futile-say-researchers

Interesting item on the search for a lost royal Burma ruby:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-41838026

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/burmese-royal-descendant-on-mission-to-discover-fate-of-missing-ruby-q2swzn33f

John Donne did more than write poetry:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/nov/03/scurrilous-manuscript-that-could-have-undone-john-donne-discovered

Pondering Marvel’s Thor:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-smithsonian-folklorist-thinks-about-marvels-cleaned-version-thor-180967052/

Feature on Russian Revolution propaganda posters:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-41833406

Gurlitt’s collection is on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41850650

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-41847096

Why a DaVinci is in a contemporary auction:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/03/arts/christies-leonardo-da-vinci-auction.html

More on that Mary, Queen of Scots portrait revealed by xrays:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6061-171031-scotland-mary-portrait

Review of Isaacson’s biography of DaVinci:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/books/review-leonardo-da-vinci-biography-walter-isaacson.html

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/

================================================================

MUSEUM MATTERS

================================================================

Renaissance portfolios:

http://www.newsadvance.com/lifestyles/lynchburg-college-exhibit-features-translated-renaissance-era-folios/article_959e1af9-c181-54ba-9846-41a20530488e.html

Persepolis:

http://www.rmo.nl/english/exhibitions/fascination-with-persepolis

Nineveh:

http://www.rmo.nl/english/exhibitions/nineveh

Vikings (UK):

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/reviews/review-vikings-rediscover-legend.htm

Vikings (Canada):

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/art-and-architecture/new-rom-exhibit-challenges-common-perceptions-of-thevikings/article36829066/

Scythians:

http://www.kcwtoday.co.uk/2017/10/scythians-warriors-ancient-siberia/

https://www.thenational.ae/arts-culture/art/exhibition-review-scythians-warriors-of-ancient-siberia-1.671656

Living With Gods:

https://www.standard.co.uk/goingout/arts/living-with-gods-people-places-and-worlds-beyond-exhibition-review-full-of-surprises-a3672171.html

https://londonist.com/london/art-and-photography/the-british-museum-is-living-with-gods-in-a-religious-exhibition

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/exhibition-powerful-makes-cry-living-gods-british-museum-review/

https://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21730852-why-humans-need-spiritual-dimension-their-lives-neil-macgregor-living-gods

https://www.ft.com/content/ed8d73ae-bf19-11e7-823b-ed31693349d3

Minoans:

http://brooklynrail.org/2017/11/artseen/Restoring-the-Minoans-Elizabeth-Price-and-Sir-Arthur-Evans

Terracotta Army:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-10/31/content_33951442.htm

Tut:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/30657/Tutankhamen%E2%80%99s-gold-belongings-to-exhibit-soon

Emotions:

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2637719/greek-antiquity-and-emotions-at-acropolis-museum-athens

Catal Huyuk:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/catalhoyuk-skeletons-draw-museum-visitors-121661

The British Museum won’t have a presence in Abu Dhabi:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museums-deal-with-abudhabi-becomes-history-08d0cpfqv

… but the Louvre connection is getting a lot of hype:

http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/louvre-abu-dhabi/rich-history-of-louvre-paris-to-enrich-abu-dhabi-museum-1.2116379

http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/culture/peek-into-other-museums-through-louvre-abu-dhabi-1.2117037

Japan is funding a major portion of the Grand Egyptian Museum’s costs:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/30465/Japan-pays-75-of-Grand-Egyptian-Museum%E2%80%99s-costs

================================================================

THE TECHY SIDE

================================================================

Using technology to map the Mayan aquifer:

http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/new-technology-helps-map-mayan-aquifer/

On Digital preservation:

https://news.utexas.edu/2017/10/30/preservation-for-the-digital-ages

Latest look at a child mummy:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/3d-scan-2000-year-old-child-mummy/

================================================================

ON THE DNA FRONT

================================================================

Dienekes’ Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

================================================================

TOURISTY THINGS

================================================================

Morocco:

https://www.ft.com/content/41788bbc-60aa-11e7-8814-0ac7eb84e5f1

================================================================

CRIME BEAT

================================================================

An attempt to smuggle a 18th century Coptic icon was foiled:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/42/280612/Heritage/Coptic/Hurghada-airport-officials-foil-attempt-to-smuggle.aspx

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/10/30/authorities-seize-attempt-smuggling-copper-coptic-icon/

http://www.egyptindependent.com/coptic-artifact-seized-hurghada-airport-smuggled/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6062-171031-egypt-coptic-icon

Feature on forger Islam Akhun:

https://www.kashmirmonitor.in/Details/135443/islam-akhun-the-great-central-asian-forger

An apparently looted artifact showed up at TEFAF:

http://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2017/10/29/5938-authorities-seize-ancient-artifact-at-tefaf-new-york

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/29/arts/design/ancient-limestone-relief-seized-european-fine-art-fair.html

https://news.artnet.com/market/relief-seized-tefaf-new-york-1132610

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/police-seize-dealers-persian-plunder-q02qblf3n

A number of items were stolen from Tel Al-Fara’een:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/30101/79-rare-antiques-stolen-from-Tel-Al-Fara-een

Feature on looted antiquities for sale online:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/the-online-bazaar-for-looted-antiquities-1509466087

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime news:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/10/culture-crime-news-23-29-october-2017.html

More on looted antiquities at Frieze Masters:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/10/23/looted-greek-antiquities-allegedly-on-sale-at-london-art-fair/

conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

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

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

SAFE:

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

================================================================

REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY

================================================================

Pakistan has recovered a huge number of antiquities:

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=20329&SEO=pakistani-authorities-recover-antiquities

Egypt received eight items from France:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/29877/Egypt-retrieves-8-looted-antiquities-from-France

http://www.egyptindependent.com/egypt-recovers-8-ancient-antiquities-france/

Still not sure where to put the ongoing Persian antiquities dispute with the US:

https://financialtribune.com/articles/art-and-culture/75249/persian-antiquities-dispute-with-us-remains-unresolved

Lebanon is trying to repatriate items:

https://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/11/lebanese-step-up-fight-to-get-their-antiquities-back.html

================================================================

NUMISMATICA

================================================================

Interesting cache of coins from Scotney Castle:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/nov/03/cache-of-antique-coins-found-in-drawer-at-scotney-castle

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-kent-41869587

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6071-171103-england-scotney-castles

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n44.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n45.html

————————

Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

================================================================

AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS

================================================================

Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2666-audio-news-from-archaeologica-22-october-2017-28-october-2017

================================================================

OBITUARIES

===============================================================

Linda Nochlin:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/01/obituaries/linda-nochlin-groundbreaking-feminist-art-historian-is-dead-at-86.html

================================================================

CONFERENCES

================================================================

Canada Before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping (Nov. 2017)

https://independent.academia.edu/ConferenceCanadabeforeConfederationEarlyMappingandExploration14981763

Bones to Drones: Science in Archaeology (Nov. 2017)

http://cba-wessex.org.uk/cba-events/the-cba-wessex-annual-conference-women-in-wessex/

Theoretical Archaeology Group (Dec. 2017):

http://tag2017cardiff.org/

Hidden Cultural Heritage (April 2018):

http://www.cicop.net/hch/

================================================================

GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS

================================================================

Archaeology Magazine News Page:

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

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

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

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

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

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/

================================================================

PODCASTS/VODCASTS

================================================================

Archaeosoup:

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

The Book and the Spade:

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

================================================================

EXPLORATOR is a free weekly newsletter bringing you the latest

news of archaeological finds, historical research and the like.

Various on-line news and magazine sources are scoured for news of

the ‘ancient world’ (broadly construed: practically anything relating

to archaeology or history up to a century or so ago is fair

game) and every Sunday they are delivered to your mailbox free of

charge!

================================================================

Useful Addresses

================================================================

Past issues of Explorator are available on the web via our

Yahoo site:

http://www.yahoogroups.com/neo/groups/Explorator/conversations/topics

To subscribe to Explorator, send a blank email message to:

Explorator-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

To unsubscribe, send a blank email message to:

Explorator-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com

To send a ‘heads up’ to the editor or contact him for other

reasons:

rogueclassicist@gmail.com

================================================================

Explorator is Copyright (c) 2017 David Meadows. Feel free to

distribute these listings via email to your pals, students,

teachers, etc., but please include this copyright notice. These

links are not to be posted to any website by any means (whether

by direct posting or snagging from a usenet group or some other

email source) without my express written permission. I think it

is only right that I be made aware of public fora which are

making use of content gathered in Explorator. Thanks!

================================================================