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Brit-Am Historical Reports
13 December 2010 6 Tevet 5771
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.32
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.33
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.34
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.32
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A number of 'dolmen tombs' dating to ca 4000 B.C.E. from various sites in
Syria:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201011258161/Travel/archaeologists-tombs-dating-back-to-5th-millennium-bc-stonecopper-age-unearthed-in-syria.html
http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2010/11/25/320523.htm
Latest (sort of ... I think we've heard this one before) theory on how the
pyramids were built:
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/kiwi-may-have-solved-mystery-pyramids-3921043?ref=rss
I think we've had this King Solomon's Mines story before too:
http://sandiegonewsroom.com/news/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=42912:claire-harlin-writing-for-sdnewscom&catid=87:regional-news&Itemid=89
cf: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/ancient/quest-solomons-mines.html
Nice feature on Robert Cargill's role in the Golb trial:
http://www.jewishjournal.com/world/article/slander_lies_and_the_dead_sea_scrolls_20101123/
Article on Egyptian sailing vessels:
http://www.antiquity.ac.uk/ant/017/0027/Ant0170027.pdf
Suggestion that the Western Wall really has no connection to the Temple:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=42861
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=196329
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140782
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=196527
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A Roman legionary bathhouse found in Jerusalem:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/11/22/israel.discovery/index.html
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=42753
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1747&module_id=#as
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1955618/ancient_roman_bathhouse_discovered_in_jerusalem/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.jewishjournal.com/articles/item/ancient_roman_bathhouse_uncovered_in_jerusalem_20101122/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/23/3073693.htm
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2010/11/22/2741852/1800-year-old-roman-bathhouse-uncovered-in-jerusalem
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hP1r-JJu5eqe906_1N60Lu0_U7cA?docId=e649af7396e94dca86fafcc06d008557
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3988053,00.html
http://www.news24.com/SciTech/News/Ancient-Roman-bath-found-in-Jerusalem-20101122
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131519544
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=196259
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?ID=196282&R=R1
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-israeli-archaeologists-uncover-roman-pool.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/11/23/ancient-roman-pool-uneart_n_787490.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Bronze Age cairn from Dounreay has turned out be empty:
http://www.johnogroat-journal.co.uk/news/fullstory.php/aid/8928/Remains_taken_from_ancient_burial_chamber.html
A prehistoric star map from Wales?:
http://www.stonepages.com/news/archives/004126.html
How they identified Eadgyth:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-eadgyth.html
More on those Sutton Hoo excavation photos:
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/features/new_sutton_hoo_photographs_unearthed_1_734070
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-11803037
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence for exploitation of salt mines in Azerbaijan from possibly the
second
millennium B.C.:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101125201448.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Pondering the reasons for the disappearance of the Effigy Mound people:
http://lacrossetribune.com/news/local/article_21a8b0ba-f503-11df-a1a0-001cc4c03286.html
On pilgrims, Thanksgiving, and beer:
http://www.mercurynews.com/holidays/ci_16652766?source=most_viewed&nclick_check=1
... on Puritans and Puritanism:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/24/opinion/24hall.html
... and the truth about the first Thanksgiving:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2010/11/22/131516586/who-brought-the-turkey-the-truth-about-the-first-thanksgiving
... and 'socialist' pilgrims:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/21/weekinreview/21zernike.html
... Winslow Homer's view of Thanksgiving 1860:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/an-american-thanksgiving-skewered-and-roasted/
Yiddish is alive and well in the Catskills:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/26/arts/26klezmer.html
Review of Edmund Morris, *Colonel Roosevelt*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/books/review/Ward-t.html
More on 'Viking-Indian' children in Iceland:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101123-native-american-indian-vikings-iceland-genetic-dna-science-europe/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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I didn't know Muhammad's existence was doubted, but evidence from papyri
suggest he did:
http://www.rnw.nl/english/article/evidence-says-muhammad-existed
Feature on pet-keeping in antiquity:
http://www.archnews.co.uk/featured/3911-pet-keeping-and-animal-sacrifice-as-seen-economically-and-archaeologically.html
BBC and Discovery Channel will be putting together a History of the World:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/22/bbc-and-discovery-channel-join-forces-for-history-of-the-world/?ref=arts
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Imagining the Past in France:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/news/la-ca-getty-france-20101128,0,6746819.story
http://www.vcstar.com/news/2010/nov/26/pages-from-the-past-lavishly-illustrated-texts-j/
Before Pythagoras:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/27/arts/design/27tablets.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/23/science/23babylon.html
http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/exhibitions.htm
World of Khubilai Khan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/20/arts/20iht-MELIK20.html
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.33
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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They've almost completed clearing mines from Karkamis (Carcamesh):
http://www.todayszaman.com/news-228762-mine-clearing-work-in-karkamis-nears-completion.html
Some items relating to archaeology on the Arabian peninsula:
http://arabnews.com/lifestyle/art_culture/article204752.ece
Assorted finds from various periods at a few sites in Syria (different
summaries
of finds from different sites):
http://www.dp-news.com/pages/detail.aspx?l=2&articleId=65189
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201012038268/Related-news-from-Syria/french-archaeologists-buildings-dating-back-to-4th-millennium-bc-unearthed-in-syria.html
What we can learn from Pharaoh's dogs:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,732654,00.html
Not sure there's anything new in this 'King Solomon's Mine' story:
http://www.gmanews.tv/story/129808/mine-from-time-of-king-solomon-found
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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No Romans needed to explain Chinese blondes:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/11/no-romans-needed-to-explain-chinese-blondes/
Robert Garland has been working on Hannibal:
http://www.maroon-news.com/news/office-hours-robert-garland-1.1816647
More on that legionary bath in Jerusalem:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/cultura/piscina/romana/medio/Jerusalen/elpepucul/20101122elpepucul_8/Tes
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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They've found some interesting things in that Neolithic tomb site on the
Orkneys which we mentioned a month or so ago:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11890292
http://www.officialwire.com/main.php?action=posted_news&rid=265201&catid=2
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/12/03/Ancient-burial-site-found-in-Scotland/UPI-45121291428767/
A "heathen" reburial in Iceland:
http://icelandreview.com/icelandreview/daily_news/?cat_id=16539&ew_0_a_id=370909
Feature on Armenia's 'Stonehenge':
http://asbarez.com/88327/cnn-international-explores-the-secrets-of-armenias-stone-henge/
Virtually reassembling some Tudor tomb monuments:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-space-science-renaissance-tombs.html
More on 'ball bearings' and Stonehenge:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/11/101130010931.htm
http://gizmodo.com/5703358/could-this-be-how-stonehenge-was-actually-built
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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More on that old Azerbaijan salt mine:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-oldest-salt-date-azerbaijan.html
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A 500 years b.p. or so dugout canoe find from near Tallahassee:
http://www.firstcoastnews.com/news/florida/news-article.aspx?storyid=179862
Fish traps in the Courtenay Estuary are much older than previously thought:
http://www.canada.com/Fish+traps+almost+1400+years/3923435/story.html
What they've found in the search for the Alamance Battleground:
http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/battleground-39098-alamance-fought.html
Not sure why this is news, but water resources in the colonial US affected
settlement patterns:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-resources-important-role-patterns-human.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Semi-touristy thing on assorted ancient cultures in Mexico:
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/g/a/2010/12/01/mexico_mix_great_civilizations.DTL
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On competition between farmers and hunter-gatherers:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-farmers-hunter-gatherers-ancestors-space.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-12/iop-fsd120110.php
... while humans are back on the hook for mammoth extinction:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/9384757
... and Australian megafauna:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-humans-climate-responsible-megafauna-extinctions.html
... and psychoanalyzing Schumann from his music:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/28/arts/music/28schumann.html
Picasso's electrician has a pile of hitherto unknown Picassos:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2010/11/29/3079555.htm
... while someone else thinks Christopher Columbus was actually Polish:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1333895/Christopher-Columbus-Polish-Portuguese-claim-historians.html
On the origins of Chanukah/Hannukah:
http://www.qgazette.com/news/2010-12-01/Features/The_Story_of_Chanukah.html
A couple of interesting uses of technology in archaeology:
http://www.depauw.edu/acad/articles/?id=26185
http://www.depauw.edu/acad/articles/?ID=26149
Archaeology as a teaching and learning tool:
http://www.archaeological.org/sites/default/files/files/NSSSA_news_BT_Article_2010.pdf(page
2)
Review of *The first English Dictionary of Slang 1699*:
http://chronicle.com/blogs/pageview/how-to-survive-a-17th-century-mugging/27827
Review of Robert Darnton, *Poetry and the Police*:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/04/affair-fourteen-robert-darnton
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Leptis Magna:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/8167751/Leptis-Magna-Libya-Rome-by-the-sea.html
Libya in general:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/activityandadventure/8167914/Libya-getting-there-and-where-to-stay.html
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BLOGS AND PODCASTS
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Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Bactrian Hoard:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/afghanistans-ancient-jewels-to-sparkle-in-london-2146993.html
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/153448.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1334479/The-golden-haul-Afghanistan-Priceless-collapsible-crown-display-Britain-time.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/8168062/Priceless-Afghan-treasures-star-in-new-British-Museum-exhibition-after-being-hidden-for-25-years.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/nov/29/afghanistan-treasure-british-museum
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/gallery/2010/nov/29/art-afghanistan?intcmp=239
Imagining the Past in France:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2010/12/getty-medieval-manuscripts-art-review.html
Museums are lining up to host the Staffordshire Hoard:
http://www.birminghammail.net/news/top-stories/2010/12/02/staffordshire-hoard-receiving-interest-from-around-the-world-97319-27752516/
... and the Hoard won the "Acquisition of the Year" award:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=42920
Big bucks for a first edition of the Star-Spangled Banner:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-11914644
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ON THE WEB
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Famous Mayflower descendents:
http://www.mayflowerhistory.com/Genealogy/famousdescendants.php
Treasure Enterprises of Australia
http://www.treasureenterprises.com/Miscellaneous/Archaeology_in_australia.htm
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.34
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 13.34
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... tied, of course, to a Biblical flood ... which started in Canada (!):
http://www.canada.com/technology/Massive+Canadian+melt+have+triggered+flood+biblical+proportions/3954124/story.html
Some guy digging in his garden in Derby found an Egyptian bust dating to ca
1750 B.C./B.C.E. (!):
http://www.thisisderbyshire.co.uk/news/4-000-year-old-relic-uncovered-city-garden-worth-163-10-000/article-2977315-detail/article.html
Pondering Egyptian dog breeding:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/0,1518,732654,00.html
A sealed jar from Qumran:
http://www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2010/12/whats-inside-sealed-jar-discovered-at.html
More finds from various sites and various periods in Syria:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201012108335/Travel/archaeologists-pottery-jars-and-statues-unearthed-in-south-of-syria.html
Some recent finds from Jableh:
http://www.sana.sy/eng/35/2010/12/05/322354.htm
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201012058295/Related-news-from-Syria/archaeologists-unearthed-mosaic-dating-back-to-byzantine-era-in-syria.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Horses supposedly used by Roman emperors are being recognized as a distinct
breed:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/othersports/equestrianism/8168647/Roman-emperors-horses-to-be-recognised-as-distinct-breed.html
cf:
http://rogueclassicism.com/2010/12/04/roman-imperial-horses/
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Medieval England was more prosperous than previously thought:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-medieval-england-today-poorest-nations.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101205234308.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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They're finding evidence of a rather larger population once living near
the Ocumulgee mounds site:
http://www.macon.com/2010/12/07/1367701/more-early-dwellings-at-ocmulgee.html
New (I think) evidence of Anasazi-associated cannibalism (we had this back
in September)
[we should note that Jim Potter denies the cannibalism quotes attributed to
him in the
article]:
http://durangoherald.com/article/20101203/NEWS01/712039914/0/s/Taboo-topic
cf:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/genocide-native-americans-ethnic-cleansing.html
The historical legacy of iron smelting:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-iron-legacy-soil-high-manganese.html
Native folks in what would become the northeastern US adapted frequently to
climate change:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-indigenous-peoples-climate.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Climate change threatens archaeological treasures (we get this once a year
or so)
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/climate-change-historic-treasures.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Analyzing ancient coins to retrace trade routes and the like:
http://www.canada.com/life/Canadian+scientists+using+ancient+coins+trading+routes/3941054/story.html
http://www.timescolonist.com/news/canada/Canadian+scientists+using+ancient+coins+trading+routes/3941054/story.html
http://www.thespec.com/news/local/article/282454--ancient-coins-buy-mcmaster-researchers-a-look-at-the-past
http://www.montrealgazette.com/Canadian+scientists+using+ancient+coins+trading+routes/3941054/story.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-ancient-coins-modern-society.html
http://www.ctv.ca/CTVNews/SciTech/20101210/researchers-coins-historic-connections-101212/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Before Pythagoras:
http://www.nyu.edu/isaw/exhibitions/before-pythagoras/
Norman Rockwell:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/10/arts/design/10rockwell.html
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ON THE WEB
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Endangered Languages Database:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-endangered-languages-database-online.html
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OBITUARIES
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Ehud Netzer:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/dec/07/ehud-netzer-obituary
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