BHR-59
Brit-Am Historical Reports
3 January 2011 27 Tevet 5771
Contents:
1. Contrary to Impressions the Ancient Celts Used Writing!
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
13.35.
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
13.36.
1. Contrary to Impressions the Ancient
Celts Used Writing!
Brit-Am Relevance:
We hold that amongst the so-called
Celtic peoples of Western Europe there were many of Israelite descent.
The extracts below add to the plentiful evidence that at some stage these
peoples had enjoyed a high standard of civilization.
This adds some additional historical background of interest to Brit-Am beliefs.
From: "Chris and Tom Tinney, Sr."
Subject: [ROOTS-L] HANDWRITING UPON THE WALLS OF TIME
Date: Sun, 29 Jun 2003 18:29:49 -0700
HANDWRITING UPON THE WALLS OF TIME
http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/
read/ROOTS/2003-06/1056936589
Extracts:
Phoenicians Brought Writing!
Pliny, born circa A.D. 23 - 79, scholar, historian, and scientific encyclopedist,
born at Novum Comum in northern Italy but mainly resident of Rome, mentions the
Phoenicians in his thirty seven book work: Natural History. This record,
considered by some as the apex of ancient science after the time of the school
of Aristotle, stated that: "To the Phoenician people belongs the glory of having
invented letters and discovered the sciences of astronomy, navigation and the
art of war."
Ancient British Tin Trade
The word Iktin and its variations, Ictis, Mictis, Mictim, Mictin, is discussed
in C. F. C. Hawkes' paper, Ictis disentangled, and the British Tin trade, Oxford
Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 3, No. 2, July 1984, pages 211-234. Apart from
Caesar's De Bello Gallico, nearly all the relevant
sources are in Greek, and one of the few in Latin is from previous Greek. . . .
Pytheas and Timaeus, before and after 300 B.C., Polybius and Posidonius, before
and after 100, Diodorus in the middle first
century and Strabo near its end. Pliny, after the middle first century A.D.,
quotes Timaeus. Each of these three groups throws light on the trade.
Ancient Britons
Additionally, mention is made that the inhabitants of Brettanike who dwell
throughout the promontory called Belerion are more than usually friendly
[differential] to strangers, as noted on page 219.
...The Druids of the Gallic Provinces and the region of Britannia are evaluated
by Pliny, in his work: The Natural History [Historia Naturalis]. Pliny, [A.D.
23-79] indicates this void
in the recesses of Nature [British Isles], cultivate magic art, with ceremonials
so august, that she might almost seem to have been the first to communicate them
to the people of Persia.
Oral traditions and Writing
...Evidence of an early Celtic written, not oral tradition, for the creation and
preservation of complex and lengthy Irish Celtic pedigrees, is recorded in the
writings of Diodorus of Sicily, about 40 B.C., concerning the druids:
"Accordingly, at the burial of the dead, some cast letters, addressed to their
departed relatives, upon the funeral pile, under the belief that the dead will
read them in the next world." Reference: Diodorus Siculus Book v. ch. 28.
This contemporary witness testimony from 40 B.C., shows clearly that the Celts
DID write; that they DID compose "letters"; apparently, very expensive objects
available only to the educated elite.
Ancient Ireland was involved in trade relationships, the artifacts showing
,multiple extensive connections to literate Middle Eastern societies [that
required written contracts], back to circa 1000 B.C. This would have required,
at least a small group of literate individuals within the social elite, to
create and record these transactions: to establish and maintain internal trade
routes and road systems, as well as preserve and record the genealogies of elite
family members that were involved in these exchange relationships. Reference:
Chariotry and the road systems in the Celtic World.
Mention is made of Pomponius Mela who wrote a treatise on geography, done circa
A.D. 44. Speaking about the Gauls and their druids, [and noting also that one
Julius Caesar wrote that the druids of the area of present day France had
doctrines supposed to be derived from Britain]; concerning the Gaulish custom of
burning the dead, (also noted by Valerius Maximus circa A.D. 20): "Business
accounts and payments of debts were passed on to the next world . . ." Witness
number Two and Witness number Three, both contemporary accounts from A.D. 20 and
A.D. 44: the druids could record business accounts and payments of debts; they
DID write and read.
Ireland had business continental European connections, as noted by R. H. Kinvig,
Late Emeritus Professor of Geography in the University of Birmingham, [England],
(in his book published 1975, The Isle of Man, page 23), . . . the western part
of Britain was nearer greater supplies of copper in Wales, western Scotland and
Ireland, and tin in Cornwall. Ireland possessed supplies of gold, particularly
in the Wicklow area, which made the nation a great center of interest.
Of the commodities for which Britain was famous, Strabo lists grain, cattle,
gold, silver and iron. These things, he says, were exported from the island
along with hides, slaves and hunting dogs. Diodorus mentions tin as a principal
export, noting that it came from Belerium (Cornwall) and was taken on horseback
through Gaul to Massilia and Narbo. [See: Britain, the Veneti and beyond, Oxford
Journal of Archaeology, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1982, pages 39-68.]
Irish genealogies or names were capable of being preserved by each new
generation of poets from at least the second century A.D., "on 'tablet-staves',
as the manuscripts call them, the catchwords of many poems, sagas and
genealogies." Recent finds in the British Isles show that family information was
preserved on "tablet-staves", or "thin slivers of wood" as early as A.D. 100, in
the British Isles;
Ogham inscriptions dated primarily from the 4th to 8th centuries A.D.,
geographically connect Ireland, Great Britain and the Isle of Man; "with (5)
five in Cornwall, about (30) thirty in Scotland and more than (40) forty in
Wales." [Dictionary of Celtic Mythology, by James MacKillop, published 1998 by
Oxford University Press.]
Celtic education is evaluated from the writings of "Polyhistor, Posidonius,
Timagenes, Diodorus Sicilius, Strabo, Caesar and Livy".
"Documentary evidence exists from classical sources to confirm that schools had
been established amongst the Celtic peoples at the latest by the second century
BC . . ."
"Celtic society . . . druids or scholars . . .were in fact a scholarly order . .
." "Caesar describes the druids as priests, judges and teachers . . . He speaks
of colleges in Britain where the druids received their training . . . 'these
people have to memorise a great number of verses . . .'" "Inscriptions of
Gaulish Celtic . . . dating from as early as the third century BC, have been
identified . . ." "Together with the famous Coligny Calendar (a sophisticated
scheme of lunar calculations, written in Gaulish Celtic in the first century BC)
. . ."
"Dio Chrysostom (40-112 AD) . . . speaks of . . .'The Celts appointed Druids . .
. versed in . . . wisdom without whom the kings were not allowed to adopt any
plan or course so that in fact it was these who ruled and the kings became
subordinates and instruments of their judgements.'"
"... The Coligny Calendar . . . is a sophisticated five-year synchronisation of
lunation within the solar year." Cross-Channel Seamanship and Navigation in the
Late First Millennium B.C., by Sean McGrail, Oxford Journal of Archaeology, Vol.
2, No. 3, November 1983, pages 299-338, mentions . . . "The Celtic world also
had a working knowledge of astronomy, information that was needed in
direction-finding and in sea tidal prediction."
IMPORTANTLY: Aethicus of Istria, the author of Cosmography of the World, is
cited when he traveled to Ireland in the third century AD "and says he 'remained
there for some time EXAMINING THEIR BOOKS'." [emphasis mine] St Patrick,
unfortunately, is noted in the Tripartite Life as "burning the books of the
druids".
The contemporary historical records of the Irish people over time suggest that
"Celtic practice in Ireland generally followed continental European precedents",
as early as the third century BC. The accounts of the "various waves of Celtic
invasions that occurred in pre-Christian Ireland", including the extant
genealogies, can be evaluated within the structure of a society involved in an
educational process that included:
(a) training the elite by extensive years of memorization of Celtic history;
(b) repetition of the oral traditions of history and genealogy; also,
(c) the accumulation of some written records.
Respectfully yours,
V. Chris & Tom Tinney, Sr.
Genealogy and Family History Internet Web Directory
http://www.academic-genealogy.com
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
13.35
Brit-Am Relevance:
This list shows Archaeological Reports
and Discussions etc that were made available from the Internet over a week.
We have culled reports of lesser immediate relevance to Brit-Am Interests.
Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
13.35
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 13.35 December 19, 2010
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EARLY HUMANS
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All those early humans chowed down on each other, apparently:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/cannibalism-early-humans-bones-101213.html
cf:
http://www.slate.com/id/2278240/pagenum/all/#p2
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Prehellenistic temple find (and more) from Tal Ahmar (Syria):
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201012138355/Related-news-from-Syria/archaeologists-pre-hellenistic-temple-discovered-in-southern-syria.html
Iron Age remains from Oman:
http://gulfnews.com/news/gulf/oman/iron-age-settlements-unearthed-in-oman-1.729771
Concerns after a storm damages Caesarea:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-antiquities-chief-caeserea-storm-damage-a-national-disaster-1.330789
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3998013,00.html
http://www.theage.com.au/world/storm-batters-antiquities-20101216-18zk0.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8204323/Ruins-of-Caesarea-in-danger-of-falling-into-the-sea.html
They're drilling deep into the Dead Sea ... might be interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/18/world/middleeast/18deadsea.html
More on lost civilizations beneath the Persian Gulf:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2010/1210/Is-there-a-lost-civilization-under-the-Persian-Gulf?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fscience+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+%7C+Science%29
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
Archaeologist at Large:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Concerns after a storm damages Caesarea:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/israel-antiquities-chief-caeserea-storm-damage-a-national-disaster-1.330789
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3998013,00.html
http://www.theage.com.au/world/storm-batters-antiquities-20101216-18zk0.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8204323/Ruins-of-Caesarea-in-danger-of-falling-into-the-sea.html
... and that big storm seems to be the same one which exposed a Roman statue
in Ashkelon:
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/roman-statue-discovered-in-ashkelon-after-storm-damage-1.330629
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1339051/The-sea-gave-Wonder-Israel-ancient-Roman-statue-buried-thousands-years-uncovered-storm.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=10&categ_id=4&article_id=122572
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10694576&ref=rss
http://news.yahoo.com/s/artinfo/20101215/en_artinfo/freed_by_a_storm_an_ancient_roman_maiden_appears_on_an_israeli_beach_1
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BD3CW20101214
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/12/14/israel.storm.statue/index.html?section=cnn_latest
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/14/5648784-violent-storm-reveals-ancient-art-on-the-coast-of-israel-
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7232331.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/15/ancient-roman-statue-unco_n_797110.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/11999231
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11995443
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/12/14/AR2010121404646.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/12/14/world/main7149503.shtml
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141159
http://photoblog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/14/5648784-violent-storm-reveals-ancient-art-on-the-coast-of-israel-?chromedomain=cosmiclog
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/roman-statue-discovered-in-ashkelon-after-storm-damage-1.330629
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=199422
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BD3CW20101214
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-11995443
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE6BD3CW20101214
Paul Cartledge and James Romm discuss Alexander the Great:
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/12/two-great-historians-on-alexander-the-great-part-one/
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/17/two-great-historians-on-alexander-the-great-part-two/
On the origins of the word 'comet':
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/17/132141801/science-diction-the-origin-of-the-word-comet
Jeffrey Schwarz' work on infant sacrifice in Carthage is one of Archaeology
Magazine's
top ten stories of the year:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-12/uop-ppc121510.php
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/pittsburgh/s_714150.html
Review of Caroline Alexander, *The War the Killed Achilles*:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/18/war-killed-achilles-alexander-review
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Humans help vultures colonize the Canary Islands:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-humans-vultures-colonize-canary-islands.html
Pondering 'Woodhenge':
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1337890/Woodhenge-Is-greatest-discoveries-archaeology--simple-farmers-fence.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A sort of overviewish thing of recent finds in China:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90782/90873/7235037.html
Early settlers on New Zealand cleared forests much faster than previously
thought:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-early-settlers-rapidly-zealand-forests.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101213151417.htm
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/12/14/3092679.htm
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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DNA tests for some bones found near Waco:
http://www.wacotrib.com/news/Ancient-bones-in-Bosque-County-draw-DNA-study.html
Still pondering, apparently, pardoning Billy the Kid:
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BG0E220101217
Some funding for Ellis Island:
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/15/american-express-gives-100000-to-ellis-island-group
More on that Canadian birchbark canoe found in England:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/ontario/oldest-known-canadian-birchbark-canoe-found-in-shed-in-england/article1836383/
Review of Virginia Scharff, *The Women Jefferson Loved*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/19/books/review/Wulf-t.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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They were crossbreeding 'wolf-dogs' at Teotihuacan:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-experts-ancient-mexicans-crossbred-wolf-dogs.html
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/unleashed/2010/12/ancient-mexicans-bred-wolf-dog-hybrids-anthropological-study-finds.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101216/ap_on_re_la_am_ca/lt_mexico_wolf_dog
http://www.mycentraloregon.com/news/world/441536/Experts-Ancient-Mexicans-crossbred-wolfdogs.html
http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/boletines/8-investigaciones-y-estudios-historicos/4771-teotihuacanos-cruzaban-canidos-con-fines-rituales
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Only on the periphery of our purview, but evidence from ancient copper mines
is suggesting new things about the earth's magnetic field:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/12/magnetic-copper-slag/
A woman among the Magi?:
http://www.stlbeacon.org/arts-life/books/106897-viviano-writes-about-a-woman-magi
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OBITUARIES
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Ehud Netzer:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/ehud-netzer-israeli-archaeologist-best-known-for-excavating-king-herods-winter-palace-2161600.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/obituaries/2010/1211/1224285300750.html
Michael Samuels:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/dec/15/michael-samuels-obituary
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HUMOUR
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Ice Age:
http://www.creators.com/comics/43/70676_thumb.gif
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
13.36
Brit-Am Relevance:
This list shows Archaeological
Reports and Discussions etc that were made available from the Internet over a
week.
We have culled reports of lesser immediate relevance to Brit-Am Interests.
Reports concerning the Land of Israel, Western Europe, and matters of Biblical
Significance etc have been given a premium.
Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
13.36
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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AFRICA
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Humans are being blamed for the demise of the Elephant bird on
Madagascar:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-elephant-bird-raiders-habitat-loss.html
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Remains of a city dating back to the second century A.D./C.E. on Socotra
Island:
http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-112310.html
http://www.sabanews.net/en/news231597.htm
They're starting to assess the damage at Caesarea:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/render-unto-caesarea-1.332670
Pondering Israelite chariots:
http://www.bib-arch.org/scholars-study/israelite-chariots.asp
A number of West Bank sites are receiving funding:
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=200500
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141275
The Palestine Exploration Fund has put a pile of photos up on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/palestineexplorationfund/
Some Jordanian dolmens have been saved from destruction:
http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleNO=11228
Feature on Aramaic at Oxford:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/education/2010/dec/21/aramaic-language-oxford-university
Latest on the Temple Mount thing:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141245
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141285
Another feature on the Rhind papyrus:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2013749583_egyptpuzzles26.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Cartledge and Romm continue their discussion of Alexander the Great:
http://blogs.forbes.com/booked/2010/12/20/two-historians-talk-alexander-the-great-part-3/
Review of Steven Saylor,*Empire*:
http://www.philly.com/inquirer/entertainment/books/20101219_Survival_of_the_lucky_in_Rome.html
Review of Caroline Alexander, *The War That Killed Achilles*:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/dec/18/war-killed-achilles-alexander-review
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A prehistoric (maybe) bead from Suffolk:
http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/possible_prehistoric_bead_is_found_in_suffolk_1_761704
Did the Scots reach Iceland before the Vikings?:
http://www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2010/12/did-scots-visit-iceland-new-research.html
An Anglo-Saxon settlement from Northumberland:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-12048486
New signage for Boudicca Way:
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/news/new_signage_for_boudicca_way_1_756956
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Feature on Kabul's Old City:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/pictureshow/2010/12/24/132267994/visiting-kabuls-old-city
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A solstice-related 'Hammonasset line'?
http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/hc-hammonasset-line-solstice-1215-20101220,0,5056454.story
Pondering South Carolina's secession:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/dancing-around-history/
They're thinking of using DNA to check whether John Wilkes Booth actually
'got away':
http://news.blogs.cnn.com/2010/12/24/did-abraham-lincolns-assassin-get-away-dna-could-end-questions/
Review of Joseph Ellis, *First Family*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/books/review/21book.html
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Someone is looking at the evidence for turkey domestication:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/12/101222071825.htm
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=92756&CultureCode=en
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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A roundup of the year in archaeology:
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2010/12/22/5698141-scientists-uncover-gems-and-genomes
... and a slide show in a semi-similar vein:
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/national/galleries/archeological_wonders/archeological_wonders.html
... a couple more from Discover Magazine's top 100:
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jan-feb/89
cf:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-chinese-site-excavation-science-stories.html
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jan-feb/81
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/jan-feb/72
DNA studies pointing to the original Indoeuropeans:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2010/12/some-of-the-indo-europeans-found/
... and celebrants at Stonehenge had to deal with snow:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-12061134
On the influence of the KJV:
http://www.npr.org/2010/12/22/132262167/thank-the-king-james-bible-for-favorite-phrases
Some historical stuff about Tuberculosis:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/21/health/21global.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Appian Way:
http://www.statesman.com/life/travel/exploring-romes-appian-way-1145865.html
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BLOGS
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Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Biblical Archaeology Review Jan/Feb 2011:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/
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NUMISMATICA
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Lod Mosaic:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/24/arts/design/24galleries-THEROMANMOSA_RVW.html
Before Pythagoras:
http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-108257.html
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ON THE WEB
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Tel Yavne dig:
http://www.telyavne.com/index.html
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HUMOUR
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Bronze Age transition:
http://www.creators.com/comics/42/70578_thumb.gif
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am version of Explorator 13.37
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
13.36
Brit-Am Relevance:
This list shows Archaeological
Reports and Discussions etc that were made available from the Internet over a
week.
We have culled reports of lesser immediate relevance to Brit-Am Interests.
Reports concerning the Land of Israel, Western Europe, and matters of Biblical
Significance etc have been given a premium.
Archaeology: Brit-Am version of Explorator 13.37.
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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EARLY HUMANS
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Controversial claims regarding some teeth found in Qesem Cave in Israel:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=human-remains-spark-spat
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101231/full/news.2010.700.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/loom/2010/12/29/oldest-homo-sapiens-fossil-journalistic-vaporware/
... some of the earlier coverage:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=43747
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/breaking-news/find-may-be-worlds-oldest-human-remains-say-israeli-archaeologists/story-e6frf7jx-1225977631694
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20101227/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_teeth
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/12/27/israel-ancient-human-rema_n_801632.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/8227204/Did-the-first-humans-come-out-of-Middle-East.html
http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2010/12/researchers_ancient_human_rema.html
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/tech-mainmenu-30/environment/5693-discovery-in-israel-could-change-view-of-mans-origins
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=201076
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1341973/Did-humans-come-Middle-East-Africa-Scientists-forced-write-evolution-modern-man.html
Evidence of a more 'passable' Sahara is adding weight to the 'Out of Africa'
theory
(not quite sure how):
http://www.livescience.com/animals/fish-possibly-swam-across-sahara-101228.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Welsh engineering firm is being enlisted to help preserve Djoser's
pyramid:
http://www.pasthorizons.com/index.php/archives/01/2011/21st-century-welsh-technology-to-save-egyptian-pyramid
Rethinking the dating of a fortress previously ascribed to King Solomon at
Tel Qudadi based on the find of a pottery sherd from Lesbos:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/sciencefair/post/2010/12/king-solomons-fortress-wasnt-after-all/1
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=13609
http://www.newkerala.com/news/world/fullnews-114714.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-secrets-ancient-tel-aviv-fortress.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-12/afot-soa122810.php
Rethinking how long Jews continued to use Greek versions of the Bible (if
that's the right word at that time):
http://www.admin.cam.ac.uk/news/dp/2010122002
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-12-ancient-bible-fragments-reveal-forgotten.html
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/biblical-studies/message/23540
That Phoenician ship recreation of the circumnavigation of Africa appears
to have completed its mission:
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/countdownto2012/de2012news/8764448.The_history_maker/
A preservation project at Aleppo seems to be an interesting model to ponder:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/27/arts/design/27preserve.html
Geza Vermes on Herod the Great:
http://standpointmag.co.uk/text-janfeb-11-herod-the-terrible-or-herod-the-great-geza-vermes-reappraisal
... and somewhat related, BAR brought together a pile of articles dealing
with Ehud Netzer's work:
http://members.bib-arch.org/collections-netzer.asp
... and an article on Herod's Tomb by Netzer himself:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/article.asp?PubID=BSBA&Volume=37&Issue=1&ArticleID=7
Appeals to make public the report on destruction of Temple Mount by the
Waqf:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141386
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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An illegal dig has led to the discovery of the site of "Germenicia" (surely
'Germanicia'):
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/n.php?n=1219122200169-2010-12-19
What Ovid can teach West Point types about their lives as soldiers:
http://www.tnr.com/article/books-and-arts/80650/ovid-metamorphoses-west-point
Review of Caroline Alexander, *The War that Killed Achilles*:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-war-that-killed-achilles-by-caroline-alexander-2171528.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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German archaeologists have found a 2600 years b.p. Celtic burial:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/0,1518,736942,00.html
http://www.thelocal.de/sci-tech/20101228-32083.html
Archaeologists are going to check out Sherwood Forest's "Thing":
http://news.bbc.co.uk/local/nottingham/hi/people_and_places/history/newsid_9155000/9155982.stm
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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The 'Bradshaw art' petroglyphs from Australia retain their vivid colours
because they are 'alive':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12039203
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Glen Beck is promoting an archaeological DVD of dubious merit:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2010/12/29/dvd-stirs-up-archaeological-spat.html?sid=101
World War I finally ended, in case you missed it:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/opinion/26macmillan.html
Response to that 'no cancer in ancient times' claim of a few weeks ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/28/health/28cancer.html
Review of Michael Korda, *Hero: The Life and Legend of Lawrence of Arabia*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/26/books/review/Macintyre-t.html
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OBITUARIES
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Vendyl Jones:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/200784
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/141371
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