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Brit-Am Historical Reports
30 May 2010 17 Sivan 5770
Contents:
1. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.05
2. Example of European Tribes Switching and Adopting Names
3. Another Point of View re Ireland in WW2
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.05
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 13.05 May 23, 2010
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EARLY HUMANS
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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More on that brouhaha over hospital expansion in Ashkelon:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/middle_east/8685657.stm
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100516/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_graves_9
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israel-graves-in-ashkelon-er-row-are-byzantine-not-jewish-1.290547
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100520/wl_mideast_afp/israelreligionjudaismarchaeology_20100520152513
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Ancient-cemetery-39is-not-Jewish39.6309972.jp
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=175732
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/haredim-riot-in-jerusalem-after-bones-removed-from-barzilai-hospital-site-1.290735
... and a recent pagan altar find is supporting archaeologists'
identification of the site as 'pagan':
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3892222,00.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3890540,00.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/05/20/world/main6503009.shtml
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011911585_apmlisraelancientgraves.html?syndication=rss
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/37258852/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5jbo2HzQY1D88-2NM1xvIP6-4xZuQ
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/20/AR2010052002509.html
... related:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5ikJf2Yoq4wB9rpWUcKIO7UojiAtwD9FPCLCO2
The state of archaeological sites in Israel:
http://www.globalpost.com/print/5543866
A project to preserve heritage on the West Bank:
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=76403&CultureCode=en
A project to figure out the original Torah text:
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=176056
Not sure if we've mentioned this incipient saga of burials at the
Museum of Tolerance yet:
http://palestinenote.com/cs/blogs/news/archive/2010/05/18/museum-of-tolerance-unearths-thousands-of-skeletons.aspx
Review of Itamar Singer, *The Hittites and Their Civilization*:
http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/ancient-history-the-hittites-thousand-gods-1.7388
More on that aqueduct/bridge associated with the Sultan's Pool:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3889581,00.html
Review of Hayim Tawil (et al), *Crown of Aleppo*:
http://www.forward.com/articles/128121/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Latest C14 dating puts Stonehenge at 3400 years b.p.:
http://feeds.wired.com/~r/wired/index/~3/U8nj9-cSP7Y/
This week's facial reconstruction is of that 'knight' found during
Stirling Castle renovations:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/tayside_and_central/8687199.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/tayside_and_central/10138060.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7736059/Face-of-medieval-knight-reconstructed-by-computers.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Using pigs, dogs, and chickens to track human migration in the
South Pacific:
http://bigpondnews.com/articles/OddSpot/2010/05/18/Ancient_pigs_help_colonisation_study_463181.html
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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They're still poking around Port Angeles:
http://www.seattlepi.com/local/6420ap_wa_port_angeles_settlements.html
The endangered historic places list:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20100519/lf_nm_life/us_usa_endangered
Nice APOD of the Milky Way over the Great Gallery on the walls of
Horseshoe Canyon:
http://antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod/ap100519.html
Review of Barbara Kerley, *The Extraordinary Mark Twain*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/16/books/review/Cohen-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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White explorers to the Caribbean apparently had problems identifying
smiles:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/7732776/White-explorers-couldnt-recognise-a-smile-on-native-symbols.html
Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Potato history:
http://www.dailyadvance.com/news/baked-fried-or-boiled-potatoes-make-great-story-23025
More on geographic models in archaeology:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/05/100514094838.htm
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Greece:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/travel/23foraging.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/05/22/rickstevesrickstevestmsarticlecfmid218.DTL
Greece (n the footsteps of Herodotus):
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/2/4c48e028-63aa-11df-a32b-00144feab49a.html
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CRIME BEAT
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In case you missed the big art theft in France this week:
http://www.news24.com/World/News/New-art-theft-in-France-20100522
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/21/world/europe/21theft.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=127006718
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/world/europe/22iht-paris.html
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NUMISMATICA
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An old French coin from Israel (!):
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/6986780.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/137550
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3890004,00.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Birth of Impressionism:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=38183
Magna Carta:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/22/arts/design/22magna.html
A Day in Pompeii:
http://www.abc.net.au/local/stories/2010/05/20/2904572.htm
A History of the World (BM)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Different versions of Robin Hood:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/23/movies/homevideo/23kehr.html
2. Example of European Tribes Switching and Adopting Names
Note from Germanic-L List
The Bajuwari are almost certainly nothing but Langobards and Thuringians under a different name. In turn, according to T?ken, Knipper and Alt (in Kulturwandel in Mitteleuropa, p. 36) the "groups that historical sources call Langobards in Moravia and Lower Austria, where probably Thuringians, who in their new settlements revived an older name that was associated with that region 300 years earlier during the Markomanni wars."
3. Another Point of View re Ireland in WW2
Ireland, Nazis, and victimization (Chotkowski)
From: Charles Chotkowski <chotkowski@hotmail.com>
http://h-net.msu.edu/cgi-bin/logbrowse.pl?trx=vx&list=h-holocaust&month=0211&week=b&msg=pYrwujo8nBipIg9yNKYKsQ&user=&pw=
Recent contributions from Yair Davidiy (Nov. 5) and Osher Doctorow (Nov. 7) make sweeping generalizations which require comment.
Ireland remained neutral in World War II not because the Irish were pro-Nazi, but because they were anti-British. Some 80 years later, few realize how bitter and vicious the Irish struggle for independence was (e.g., the Easter Rising, the Black & Tans, etc.). Eamon De Valera himself was condemned to death by the British, and only escaped the fate of his comrades in the Easter Rising because he was born in New York.
The Irish implemented their neutrality in ways that favored the Allies. German diplomats were restricted in their activities (e.g., no use of encoded telegrams) so they could not gather military intelligence. Irish citizens were permitted to enlist in the British armed forces, and Allied air crews forced to land in Ireland were released instead of being interned.
During the war, Ireland suffered shortages of foodstuffs and other necessities, not because of the war, but as a result of British policy. The Brits used their NAVICERT (i.e., navigation certificate, without which no merchant ship could cross the Atlantic) system unnecessarily to restrict Irish imports. Given these shortages, the Irish capacity to admit refugees was limited.
Ambassador Joseph P. Kennedy was not pro-Nazi; he was a pessimist by nature, and feared that a second world war would lead to an economic and social collapse of Europe and America. Thus in the summer of 1939 he told a colleague that he hoped Britain would betray Poland, rather than start a war. His call in the 1930s for dictator and democratic countries to try to get along was no different in principle from calls in the 1950s and 1960s for the
peaceful coexistence of communist and capitalist countries. Just as supporters of peaceful coexistence were not necessarily pro-Communist, so Kennedy was not pro-Nazi.
I submit that whether a European nation was pro-Nazi or anti-Nazi was not a function of religion or ancient tribal history going back to Roman times, but rather a result of geography, national aspirations, and attitude toward the Versailles peace settlement.
Thus Catholic Lithuania welcomed the Germans in 1941 because it hoped to regain the independence lost to the Soviets in 1940, and Protestant Latvia and Estonia welcomed them for exactly the same reason. The Catholic Poles and Czechs, annexed by Germany, were anti-Nazi, but the Catholic Slovaks were pro-Nazi because Hitler
supported their independence from the Czechs. Similarly the Hungarians (Catholic and Protestant) hoped the Germans would help them regain lost territory in Ruthenia and Transylvania.
All civilized nations have legal systems that distinguish between victims and victimizers; this includes, among others, European nations and nations settled by Europeans. It is also true that people are less sensitive to the plight of victims other than themselves, and that in the course of history victims can become victimizers. I do not agree that Hindus and Jews are exceptional. When they have power and feel threatened, Hindus and Jews behave no differently (no better and no worse) than others: the Hindus in postwar India, the Jews in Israel today.
Charles Chotkowski
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