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Brit-Am Historical Reports
20 August 2010 10 Elul 5770
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13:18
2. Potatoes Enabled the Industrial Revolution
3. Nazis told porkies about 'pig' Hitler's war
by Lucinda Cameron
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13:18
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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EARLY HUMANS
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AFRICA
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The Phoenician city of Auza may have been somewhere else (according to John
Boardman):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38675025/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20100812/sc_livescience/ancientphoeniciancityrelocated
http://www.livescience.com/history/auza-phoenician-ancient-city-100811.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/08/12/historys-mysteries-ancient-phoenician-city-relocated/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Looks like they're ready to send another robot up the shafts of the Great
Pyramid:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38696014/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/robot-to-explore-mysterious-tunnels-in-great-pyramid-2046506.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/tech/837502-robot-to-explore-tunnels-of-great-pyramid-in-giza
http://www.yorkshireeveningpost.co.uk/news/Leeds-expert-may-unlock-secrets.6465700.jp
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/0813/Robot-to-explore-Great-Pyramid?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fscience+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+%7C+Science%29
http://news.cnet.com/8301-17938_105-20013217-1.html
There seems to be some second thoughts hovering around claims of Cyrus
Cylinder extracts
on some horse bones from China:
http://www.payvand.com/news/10/aug/1078.html
http://www.mehrnews.com/en/NewsDetail.aspx?NewsID=1130332
Phoenician burial ground from Amrit:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201008086827/Culture/syrian-archaeologists-discovery-of-cemetery-building-casts-light-on-phoenician-religious-traditions.html
Interview with Israel Finkelstein on assorted matters archaeological:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2446
Interview with Shahr Poni on conservation issues in Jerusalem:
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page73/files/Aug11Landminds3-lr.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page73/files/Aug11Landminds4-lr.mp3
Feature on recent finds in Sidon:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=117736
Feature on Dura Europos:
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/dura_europos/
Feature on the Tel Beth Shemesh dig (same as last week, but with the right
url this time!):
http://www.yorknewstimes.com/articles/2010/08/05/news/doc4c5a0b8779d9c381138275.txt
Followups to that fake tombstone story:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139095
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138949
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138966
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/world/2010-08/07/c_13434674.htm
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/138998
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=305219
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=184762
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/world/middleeast/14israel.html
... and the Temple Mount saga/accusations continue:
http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/36758/islamic-movement-tried-remove-evidence-jewish-jerusalem
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Thracian temple in western Turkey (?!):
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=0804133943030-2010-08-04
Repeat of that 'what-really-killed-the-pompeiians' story:
http://www.minnpost.com/globalpost/2010/08/10/20378/scientists_question_accepted_wisdom_on_what_killed_pompeiians_when_mt_vesuvius_erupted
Review of Carl Richard, *Why We're All Romans*:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/reviews/books/4274-book-review-qwhy-were-all-romansq
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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They're investigating the total destruction of a pair of ring forts in
Ireland:
http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/kfcwqlmheysn/rss2/
Arguing about the meaning of Pictish carvings/engravings:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-10924743
Mary Queen of Scots' hubby's murder scene:
http://news.scotsman.com/news/Crime-scene-where-Mary-Queen.6473103.jp
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-10951977
Latest account of the Stonehenge visitors' centre saga:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/12/business/global/12stonehenge.html
Review of Richard Toye, *Churchill's Empire*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/books/review/Hari-t.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/15/books/review/excerpt-churchills-empire.html
'Thor's Hammer' in a Viking grave (different spin on something we've seen):
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100810-thor-thors-hammer-viking-graves-thunderstones-science/
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NORTH AMERICA
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A major bison kill site from Montana:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39836
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100808/ap_on_re_us/us_bison_kill_site
http://www.ktvq.com/news/ancient-bison-kill-site-uncovered-in-montana/
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2010/08/08/archaeologists-working-american-indian-reservation-mont-uncover-ancient-bison/
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20100809/NEWS02/708099858/1008/SPORTS02
http://www.newkerala.com/news2/fullnews-17778.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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What the 'common' Maya were up to:
http://www.news-gazette.com/news/university-illinois/2010-08-12/ui-profs-maya-research-aims-illuminate-commoners.html
At Teotihuacan, bones of dead folk were fashioned into housewares:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/08/100810-science-archaeology-ancient-mexico-human-bones-teotihuacan/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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In case you were wondering how that world heritage status thing worked:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/uk-10894625
On efforts to save a dying Inuit language:
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/08/13/greenland.inuit.language/index.html?section=cnn_latest
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2010/aug/13/inuit-language-culture-threatened
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Rhodes:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/feature/20100811-mini-guide-to-rhodes,-greece
Al Azem Palace:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201008096849/Travel/azem-palace-in-syria-archaeological-architectural-style-dating-back-to-1740.html
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NUMISMATICA
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A coin of Ptolemy V from Israel:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=39906
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/139066
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israeli-archaeologists-discover-rare-2-200-year-old-gold-coin-1.307401
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=184495
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/08/12/israel.rare.coin/?hpt=C2
http://www.ajc.com/news/nation-world/israel-finds-rare-2-589808.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5izQrG_KQ9SKdjlc9m6WHQTcaZiCAD9HHDEO81
http://www.popfi.com/2010/08/12/2200-year-old-coin-uncovered-in-israel/
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/08/12/2740459/rare-coin-discovered-in-israel
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20100811/wl_mideast_afp/israelarchaeologycoin
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/August/Rare-2200-Year-Old-Coin-Found-in-Israel/
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7101665.html
Ayyubid coins from Syria:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201008106852/Related-news-from-Syria/archaeologists-islamic-coins-unearthed-in-syria-dating-back-to-ayyubid-era.html
A strange eBay auction involving a 1933 penny:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1302005/Mystery-1933-penny-Coin-valued-80-000-offered-eBay-suddenly-withdrawn.html
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Link:
http://www.coinlink.com/News/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Roman Days: The Age of Conquest:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/08/14/arts/14iht-roman.html?_r=1
Pre-Islamic Saudi Arabia:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/aug/10/louvre-saudi-arabia-exhibition
More on the renovations at the Israel Museum:
http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/israel_news/100_million_facelift_transforms_israel_museum/20070
2. Potatoes Enabled the Industrial Revolution
http://racialreality.blogspot.com/
Michael Pollan, in The Botany of Desire, traces the cultural shift from South to North in Europe to the introduction of the potato:
When the potato got to Europe, it changed the course of European history. Before the potato, the northern tier of Europe, the population was relatively small and was held back by regular famines caused by failures of the grain harvest.
The further north you go, the dicier it is to grow wheat. And so the center of gravity in Europe, before the potato, was the Mediterranean, where you could grow grain more reliably. The potato did very well at the more northerly areas. It did very well in wetter areas, and it did very well in really poor soils.
So suddenly there was this vast new source of calories that could underwrite the growth of the population, such as never would have happened without the potato.
Since one individual can grow so much food, you need fewer people in the fields to support an urban population. So it's really hard to imagine the Industrial Revolution proceeding as it would without the potato to kind of support it. This New World food remade the Old World.
3. Nazis told porkies about 'pig' Hitler's war
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/nazis-told-porkies-about-pig-hitlers-war-2301083.html?from=dailynews
By Lucinda Cameron
Wednesday August 18 2010
NEW research has undermined the idea that Hitler was a World War One hero whose wartime experiences propelled him to power.
A new book challenges the commonly held notion that he was considered a brave member of his close-knit regiment, and that his experience during the Great War radicalised him and formed his world view.
Dr Thomas Weber's book, 'Hitler's First War', argues that this story was a fabrication created by propagandists to broaden Hitler's appeal to German society.
Newly discovered letters and papers suggest Hitler was referred to as a "rear area pig" (etappenschwein) by comrades, as rather than carrying messages between trenches on the front line, he was a dispatch runner up to 5km back.
The book suggests the Nazi Party suppressed and discredited accounts of World War One that showed him as anything other than heroic. Dr Weber said: "The myth of Hitler as a brave soldier was used by the Nazi party in order to extend its appeal beyond the far right.
"They went to great lengths to protect this idea, and through my research I discovered that a memoir written by one of his comrades was significantly altered between its publication in 1933 and the outbreak of World War Two."
He suggested that the fact Hitler was awarded the Iron Cross had more to do with being known by the officers who could make recommendations, than his heroics in battle.
'Hitler's First War' will be available in bookshops from September 16.
- Lucinda Cameron
Irish Independent
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