BHR-55
Brit-Am Historical Reports
1 November 2010 24 Cheshvan 5771
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.27
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.28
3. Name Changes and Name Adoption Amongst Ancient Germanic Tribes
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.27
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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AFRICA
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A coin find in Kenya is causing a rethink of Chinese-African history:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-11531398
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Also on the DSS front, the SWBTS has acquired three more DSS fragments:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/tx/7259943.html
http://www.txnp.org/Article/?ArticleID=12348
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Looking at Neolithic Cyprus:
http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Oct10/ManningCyprus.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-archaeologists-uncover-early-neolithic-cyprus.html
A fair bit of coverage for remains of a shipwreck which seems to confirm the
location
of the Battle of the Aegates during the Punic Wars:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/39727737/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/40-wild-birds-play-a-gibson-les-paul-guitar-20102010/
http://www.livescience.com/history/ancient-shipwreck-possibly-identify-battle-site-101018.html
Remains of some Roman murder victims from Germany (maybe just
one ... the article is in German):
http://www.express.de/regional/bonn/archaeologe-findet-ermordeten-roemer/-/2860/4748852/-/index.html
Vampires and the like in the ancient world:
http://thedp.com/article/demystifying-history-vampires
A new translation of the Iliad:
http://www.booktrade.info/index.php/showarticle/29898
On the origins of Carthage (not the one you're thinking of):
http://www.thepilot.com/news/2010/oct/24/whered-that-name-come-from/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A possible 12th century royal court from Aber (Wales):
http://www.northwalesweeklynews.co.uk/conwy-county-news/local-conwy-news/2010/10/21/archaelogists-may-have-discovered-12th-century-royal-court-in-aber-55243-27512832/
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting 'fortifications' at a site near James City (Virginia):
http://vagazette.com/articles/2010/10/23/news//doc4cb509399fe0e769075279.txt
How Little Big Horn was won:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/How-the-Battle-of-Little-Bighorn-Was-Won.html
First Nations remains from various periods at a site near Strasburg Creek
(Ontario):
http://news.guelphmercury.com/News/Local/article/708033
A dig in Oregon has uncovered buildings associated with one of
Jacksonville's first settlers:
http://kdrv.com/news/local/192626
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More on rethinking pre-Columbian settlements in the Amazon:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-10/uog-ndc101710.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-discoveries-pre-columbian-settlements-amazon.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Some professor has reconstructed how the language of Shakespeare actually
sounded:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-professor-audience-shakespeare-words-accent.html
A sort of historical overview of jokes:
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/jokes-not-just-a-laughing-matter
On poetry that doesn't rhyme:
http://www.slate.com/id/2271417/
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BLOGS AND PODCASTS
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Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Ben Hur:
http://www.abc.net.au/7.30/content/2010/s3044967.htm
Old Testament Handel:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/18/arts/music/18handel.html
Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/10/24/theater/24meacham.html
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HUMOUR/DON'T EAT THAT ELMER
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Second thoughts about that Mayan doomsday thing (folks still
take this seriously?):
http://news.discovery.com/space/the-2012-mayan-calendar-doomsday-date-might-be-wrong.html
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am version of Explorator 13.28
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 13.28
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AFRICA
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DNA evidence from the Yoruba people suggests an influence of climate change
on human development:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20827832.800-past-climate-change-influenced-human-evolution.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A mummy from the Science Museum of Minnesota just had the CT treatment:
http://www.startribune.com/local/106354743.html
Joann Fletcher on Egyptian women:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/ancient/egyptians/women_01.shtml
A 7th century B.C.E. garden find from Ramat Rachel:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-10/afot-pl-102810.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101028113622.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-73411.html
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=13233
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-paradise-lost-.html
Ehud Netzer has died after a fall at Herodium:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=42169
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ehud-netzer-archeologist-who-located-herod-s-tomb-dies-at-76-1.321674
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/world-middle-east-11655704
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Science/2010/10/29/15873666.html
http://www.iol.co.za/famed-archaeologist-netzer-dies-1.689809
http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20101029/en_afp/israelarchaeologynetzer_20101029075827
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j9bU4SYkFzE38T8xTyHvtVPGsIuA?docId=CNG.bce52d27432dbbd81c047be70a9f1f57.8e1
http://www.seattlepi.com/national/1107ap_ml_israel_obit_netzer.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3976590,00.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101029/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_obit_netzer
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140339
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=193217
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-10-ehud-netzer-israeli-archaeologist-dies.html
Somewhat strange call for a halt to the Tal Arqa excavations:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=120499
Finds from various periods at Tall al-Shir (Syria):
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201010257806/Travel/syrian-german-archaeologists-mamluk-byzantine-and-abbasid-layers-unearthed.html
... and a similar description for Tel al-Hasaka:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201010267819/Culture/syria-hasaka-archaeological-treasures-of-the-old-levant.html
SBTS is digitizing its DSS fragments ... not sure if this is connected to
Google's project:
http://www.sbcbaptistpress.org/BPnews.asp?ID=33954
Sagas-in-the-making over some UNESCO classifications of Jerusalem sites:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/news.aspx/140345
http://www.haaretz.com/news/diplomacy-defense/israel-slams-biased-unesco-decisions-on-jerusalem-west-bank-holy-sites-1.321868
... and the latest from the Mugrabi Gate:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140341
More on the Googlization of the DSS:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140166 (video)
http://www.inn.co.il/News/News.aspx/210374 (also video)
http://www.cnnstudentnews.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/10/19/dead.sea.scrolls.google/(more
video)
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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In case you missed it, here's why aspiring spies should study Classics:
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2010/10/why-aspiring-spies-should-study-classics/65025/
Some Punic tombs found during school construction in Tal-Virtu:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20101030/local/ancient-tombs-discovered-on-school-construction-site
... speaking of Roman remains, those headless Romans found at York a while
back apparently had diverse origins:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/10/101028-headless-skeletons-ancient-romans-england-exotic-science/
For some reason that real-cause-of-death-at-Pompeii is making the rounds
again:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8083939/Pompeii-victims-killed-by-heat-not-suffocation.html
http://www.theprovince.com/Heat+from+Vesuvius+killed+residents/3720909/story.html
http://www.smh.com.au/world/pompeians-died-from-intense-heat-not-smoke-20101025-170tz.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Finds from various periods during construction of an interchange in
Pennsylvania:
http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2010/10/27/penndot-unearths-4000-year-old-artifacts/
Rethinking the 'Woodland decline':
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2010/10/24/materials-dispute-woodland-decline.html?sid=101
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Ditto this one ... Ozzy Osbourne has had the DNA thing done and is
apparently related to Neanderthals, some royalty, and Jesse James:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1323455/Weve-suspected-official-Ozzy-Osbourne-IS-Neanderthal.html
http://www.thestar.com/living/article/882549--science-confirms-the-neanderthal-in-ozzy-osbourne?bn=1
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/view/159801/Ozzy-Osbourne-the-caveman-Rocker-s-DNA-link-to-the-Stoned-Age/
Skeletal evidence has freed Columbus for blame in regards to syphilis (I thought this was done years ago):
http://news.discovery.com/history/columbus-didnt-sail-syphilis-back-to-europe.html
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2010/10/25/ancient-skulls-vindicate-columbus-spreading-syphilis/
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/breaking-news/columbus-crew-skeletons-free-of-syphilis/story-fn3dxity-1225943389642
The science behind stained glass:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/blog/2010/oct/29/science-magic-stained-glass
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HUMOUR
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A tribunal has ruled the Sacking of Carthage to have been illegal:
http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2010/10/25/sacking-of-carthage-was-unlawful-tribunal-rules/
3. Name Changes and Name Adoption Amongst Ancient Germanic Tribes
Recent posts in Germanic-L
on the thread,
Scandinavia and Scania, Nos 8-9.
gave the following points worth noticing:
(a)
> Would these Angles be the people who Tacitus called Anglii, who later took residence in Thuringia - or were they the later group who took the name of Angles prior to immigrating to Britain?
There have been discussions here in the past about various parts of the North Sea Coast becoming depopulated at various times, raising the possibility that the later peoples who called themselves by old, familiar tribal names like Frisians and Angles might not be the same peoples that were mentioned in earlier Roman sources like Tacitus. The suggestion is that later inhabitants of these areas took the ancient names of the places in which they had come to live.
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> 'For example, in Gesta Danorum, Humbli has two sons named Dan and Angul, progenitors of the Danes and Angles.
..the Humbli in the 'Origin of the Danes' is most likely the personification of the historic Cimbri. Herein Humbli/Cimbre assume the mantel of an elder or father-figure; while the Angul/Angle and Dan/Danes, the oldest followed by a younger offspring.
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