BHR-70
Brit-Am Historical Reports
28 April 2011 24 Nissan 5771
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am version of Explorator 13.51
2. Minoans in Ancient Canaan.
3. Celtic British Chieftain Named "Addedomaros" i.e. Add-Edom??
4. Interesting Paper on Biblical Chronology.
5. Metallic Roads in Britain Prior to Arrival of Romans!
6. Archaeology: Brit-Am version of Explorator 14.01
7. Archaeology: Brit-Am version of Explorator 13.52
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am version of Explorator 13.51
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of heart disease/clogged arteries in Egyptian mummies?:
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/04/the-curse-of-the-mummies-arteries.html?ref=hp
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-mummy-scanning-ancient-egyptians-heart.html
http://www.npr.org/2011/04/09/135269340/egyptian-mummies-diagnosed-with-clogged-arteries?ft=1&f=1004
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/world/even-ancient-egyptians-managed-to-clog-up-their-arteries-20110404-1cyjj.html
http://www.dailypilot.com/news/education/la-heb-mummies-heart-disease,0,2464403.story
http://www.latimes.com/health/boostershots/la-heb-mummies-heart-disease,0,5014594.story?track=rss
http://news.yahoo.com/s/hsn/20110403/hl_hsn/mummiesshowheartdiseaseisanancientproblem
Feature on a mummy's prosthetic toes:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/discoblog/2011/02/14/walk-like-an-egyptian-with-prosthetic-toes/
Some residual lead codices coverage, despite bloggers' best efforts:
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/international/first_ever_jesus_art_KVXCug7GxBkR0hhIYDRpKN
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110403/world-news/bid-for-oldest-christian-writings
http://news.scotsman.com/world/Jordan-seeks-return-of-ancient.6745387.jp
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90001/90777/90854/7339832.html
http://www.mercurynews.com/breaking-news/ci_17763743?nclick_check=1
Peter Thonemann stepped in:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7173961.ece
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/239742/Unholy-row-as-new-expert-calls-ancient-scrolls-fakes-
Some blog posts from academics on the matter:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2011_03_27_archive.html#7454369078247746754
http://tomverenna.wordpress.com/2011/04/07/comment-about-lead-codices-and-media/
http://deorientation.blogspot.com/2011/04/jesus-mona-lisa-smile-update-better.html
http://tomverenna.wordpress.com/2011/04/08/the-inscription-from-madaba-lead-codices-and-the-mona-lisa-of-galilee/
Not sure where to put this 'adventures in assyriology' piece:
http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2011/apr/08/adventures-assyriology/
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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Last week lead codices ... this week, bizarre claims about why Rome fell:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8438210/Fall-of-Roman-Empire-caused-by-contagion-of-homosexuality.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1374823/Row-senior-Italian-historian-blames-collapse-Roman-Empire-homosexuality.html
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/uk/Historian-says-gays-caused-downfall-of-Rome-sparks-row/articleshow/7930908.cms
... but the Telegraph includes other thoughts as well:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8438599/What-led-to-the-fall-of-the-Roman-Empire.html
... and ponders Rome's nuttiest emperors:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/8438454/Romes-most-controversial-emperors.html
Hyping the eagle that inspired the book:
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/education/s/2090523_reading_archaeologists_shed_light_on_roman_eagle
Finding links between climate change and Roman poetry:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-climate-history.html
http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2011/04/a-match-of-climate-and-history/
cf:
http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/04/09/on-climate-change-and-the-fall-of-the-roman-empire-redux/
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Pondering why that 2500 years b.p. brain from York managed to 'survive':
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110406-oldest-brain-britain-archaeology-science-world/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/pictures/110406-oldest-human-brain-britain-science/(photos)
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/preserved-brain-bog-england-110406.html
... and pondering Britain's 'Bronze Age Recession':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12989605
Can't remember if we mentioned these 4000 years b.p. items which
were found in an Irish dumpster a couple of years ago ... this is a
followup:
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Mysteries-uncovered-by-4000-BC-treasures-discovered-in-dumpster-119171039.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Somewhat vague item on finds from an 'ancient nomadic hunter-gatherer' group
in New Mexico:
http://www.kwes.com/Global/story.asp?S=14415351
A different sort of petroglyph in Utah:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-utah-art-glimpse-hawaiian-life.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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How the Civil War changed modern medicine:
http://news.discovery.com/history/civil-war-modern-medicine-110331.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Turkey:
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/152360/discover-hidden-city.html
2. Minoans in Ancient Canaan
While it has been generally accepted that the Philistines originated in the Aegean, new archaeological research from the Levant shows that they were not the first Aegean peoples to influence the area of Canaan. How strange that we've gone from a "legendary" Minos, to the excavation of the Bronze Age Minoan civilization, to a gradual confirmation of its thalassocracy, as described by the ancient authors.
Archaeologists Uncover Evidence of a Minoan Presence Among Ancient Canaanites
http://dienekes.blogspot.com/2011/04/minoans-in-ancient-canaan.html
A recent and ongoing excavation at the remains of an expansive Middle Bronze Age Canaanite palace in the western Galilee region of present-day Israel is opening a new window on the possible presence of ancient Minoans at an ancient Canaanite palace, revealing what may be the earliest known Western art found in the eastern Mediterranean.
Known as Tel Kabri (located near its namesake kibbutz not far from historic Acco and the resort town of Nahariya on the coast of Israel), the site features an early Middle Bronze Age (MB I) palace dated to the 19th century B.C.E., making it, along with ancient Aphek and possibly Megiddo, the earliest MB palace discovered in present-day Israel. This conclusion was drawn as a result of excavations conducted there as recently as December 20, 2010 to January 10, 2011. But the tell-tale signs of an Aegean presence or influence at the site show up in a later developmental phase of the palace structure some 150 to 200 years later in the overlying MB II palace dated to the 17th century. Reports Dr. Eric Cline of George Washington University and Co-Director of the excavations along with Assaf Yasur-Landau of Haifa University, "Excavations conducted by [Aharon] Kempinski and [Wolf-Dietrich] Niemeier from 1986 to 1993 at the site of Tel Kabri -- now identified as the capital of a Middle Bronze Age Canaanite kingdom located in the western Galilee region of modern Israel -- revealed the remains of a palace dating to the Middle Bronze (MB) II period (ca. 1700 - 1550 B.C.E.). Within the palace, Kempinski and Niemeier discovered an Aegean-style painted plaster floor and several thousand fragments originally from a miniature Aegean-style wall fresco."(1) The new excavations under the direction of Cline and Yasur-Landau have added to the discovery. Reports Cline, et al., "During the 2008 and 2009 excavations at Tel Kabri more than 100 new fragments of wall and floor plaster were uncovered. Approximately 60 are painted, probably belonging to a second Aegean-style wall fresco with figural representations and a second Aegean-style painted floor."(2)
comments:
Gregor Brand said...
The article reminds me of the theory (Michael Astour and others) that those Minoans spoke North-Western Semitic. Maybe the Minoans and the Canaanite people were indeed closely related.
3. Celtic British Chieftain Named "Addedomaros" i.e. Add-Edom??
PLoS ONE 6(4): e18621. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0018621
Celtic British coin Coin bearing name Addedomaros ca. before 25/30 BC
You can find information about it at http://www.celticcoins.com/pages/ABC.pdf
4. Interesting Paper on Biblical Chronology
http://www.redatedkings.com/download/Redating.pdf
5. Metallic Roads in Britain Prior to Arrival of Romans!
Britannia Superior: Why Roman roads may not be quite as Roman as we think
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/mar/15/britannia-roman-roads-iron-age
Extracts:
The discovery of a metalled and cambered road dated to the first century BC in Shropshire has raised the possibility that iron age Britons were the first to build 'proper' roads
Archaeologists working at a quarry in Shropshire have found a metalled and cambered road dated to the first century BC.
The long-held belief that the Romans introduced "proper" roads to the UK has been thrown into doubt after the discovery of a thoroughfare engineered by iron age Britons.
Archaeologists working at a quarry in Shropshire have found a metalled and cambered road dated to the first century BC ? around 100 years before the Roman invasion.
The discovery seems to show that the iron age Britons were better and more imaginative engineers than they are generally given credit for.
It may also give an insight into the relationship between the tribes that lived in the region, as the road was almost certainly created to take heavy traffic, suggesting a thriving trade route.
The road, which is 1.5 metres high and six metres wide, was unearthed at Bayston Hill quarry, near Shrewsbury, which fittingly is owned by modern-day roadbuilders Tarmac.
It was initially assumed that the metalled road found at the site was built after the invasion, but it did not quite fit in with the known Roman road network.
The road was found to include brushwood, a deep clay foundation and cobbles taken from the river Severn. Archaeologists sent off samples of the brushwood and the sediment found in the road and were hugely excited when the results showed it was built in several phases, the latest of which was the century before the Roman invasion of AD43.
There are other, older-established paths, such as the Jurassic Way that links Oxfordshire and Lincolnshire, but they are not engineered, rather beaten down by use. There is also evidence of hard surfaces being laid within iron age settlements.
So far, 400 metres of road has been found, and ruts in it add to the idea that it could have been a trade route. Malim believes that in the iron age, the route could have connected the Wrekin hill, thought to be the "capital" of the Cornovian tribe, to the Ordovices further west. It could also hint that farm produce was being moved from the Midlands into Wales, with perhaps minerals being transported the other way.
Evidence of animal dung and dung beetles has also been found, indicating that before construction of the road it had been used in more ancient times as a livestock droveway.
6. Archaeology: Brit-Am version of Explorator 14.01
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 14.01
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EARLY HUMANS
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Apparently right-handedness has been a human trait for quite a while:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/04/110419131543.htm
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/neanderthals-were-overwhelmingly-right-handed-110421.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2011/04/19/scitech/main20055405.shtml
http://cosmiclog.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2011/04/20/6503053-righties-ruled-600000-years-ago
http://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode.cfm?id=ancient-europeans-were-mostly-right-11-04-21
Using fossil teeth to figure out what early humans ate:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-teeth-menus-ancestors.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Interesting site associated with 'desert kites' for herding wild animals to
slaughter:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-ancient-walls-reveal-evidence-mass.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/42650339/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/ancient-herders-walls-guided-gazelles-mass-slaughter-20110418-122202-787.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2011/04/20/ancient-stone-structures-herded-gazelles-to-mass-slaughter/
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/73078/title/Killing_fields_of_ancient_Syria_revealed
The BBC was recalling a recording of Tutankhamun's 'trumpets':
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-13092827
More on surveying Gallipoli:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5h8-O_zLWi7BXYFaakiW5G8RE0QrQ?docId=bc4021853eda49238c05ac852120064d
http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/nationworld/sns-ap-eu-turkey-mapping-gallipoli,0,588102.story?track=rss
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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Synthesizing all sorts of info about Roman Cumbria:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-13109618
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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An Iron Age mass grave including women and children from Derbyshire:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1378190/Iron-Age-mass-grave-reveals-slaughter-women-children.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-13082240
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/apr/18/iron-age-hill-fort-graves-peak-district
Bronze and Iron Age remains on the proposed new Inverness Campus:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-13131884
Slideshow of the replica Anglo-Saxon burial chamber at Sutton Hoo:
http://www.eveningstar.co.uk/news/gallery_replica_anglo_saxon_burial_chamber_unveiled_at_sutton_hoo_so_visitors_can_get_close_to_a_king_1_872005
'William' was apparently the most popular English name in medieval times:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-william-popular-medieval.html
Our Anglo-Saxon legal heritage:
http://www.legalweek.com/legal-week/blog-post/2044623/legal-heritage-times-anglo-saxon-period
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Suggestion that Indian mariners were riding the monsoons as early as the 2nd
century B.C./B.C.E:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2011-04/20/c_13837268.htm
http://www.telegraphindia.com/1110419/jsp/nation/story_13872601.jsp
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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On biblical skepticism:
http://www.pekintimes.com/opinions/columnists/x128429436/Olar-Im-skeptical-of-Bible-skepticism
The NYT had a nice feature on the Haggadah:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/18/arts/design/the-washington-haggadah-at-metropolitan-museum-of-art.html
Pondering Amish 'mythology':
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-probing-romanticize-amish.html
Charles II's 'star' may have been a supernova:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-royal-star-supernova-astronomers.html
Review of Simon Schama, *Scribble, Scribble, Scribble*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/24/books/review/book-review-scribble-scribble-scribble-by-simon-schama.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Myth and Coinage:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_5895_15/04/2011_387827
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HUMOUR
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Google Exodus:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIxToZmJwdI
7. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.52
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Evidence of a Minoan presence among the Canaanites:
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/april-2011/article/archaeologists-uncover-e\
vidence-of-a-minoan-presence-among-ancient-canaanites
Jordan has launched a major online antiquities database:
http://www.boston.com/news/science/articles/2011/04/12/jordan_creates_online_arc\
haeology_treasure_trove/
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/n/a/2011/04/12/international/i10324\
7D63.DTL(04-12
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/174576.html
... and thankfully this Sodom-was-destroyed-by-a-meteorite story hasn't hit
the major airwaves yet:
http://www.blitzquotidiano.it/scienza-e-tecnologia/meteorite-distrusse-sodoma-es\
plosione-bombe-atomiche-800375/
Feature on four Haggadot from Bar Ilan U's Rare Book and Manuscript
Collection:
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=216404
More on the lack of archaeology in the Gaza Strip:
http://www.reuters.com/article/2011/04/14/us-palestinians-archaeology-idUSTRE73D\
22G20110414
http://www.foxnews.com/scitech/2011/04/15/archaeology-gaza-strip/
http://in.news.yahoo.com/feature-sands-not-lights-cover-gaza-archaeology-sites-2\
0110414-044410-392.html
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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Evidence of a Minoan presence among the Canaanites:
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/april-2011/article/archaeologists-uncover-e\
vidence-of-a-minoan-presence-among-ancient-canaanites
The Greek side of 'Rule Britannia':
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-british-britannia.html
Latest ship recreation is a replica of a Roman military riverboat:
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1633039.php/Replica-o\
f-Roman-military-riverboat-launched
Nice video report of chariot racing at Jerash:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/1/hi/programmes/fast_track/9451742.stm
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Viking woman is latest to get the facial reconstruction treatment:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-13064786
Big bucks for a 600 years b.p. ring found by a metal detectorist in
Fleckney:
http://www.harboroughmail.co.uk/news/local-news/ring_discovery_nets_finder_a_coo\
l_42_000_1_2595053
... while the Dallinghoo Gold is causing a rift between erstwhile friends:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1376400/300k-gold-coin-sparks-bitter-rif\
t-metal-detecting-friends.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/top-stories/2011/04/14/pair-in-dispute-over-reward-\
for-finding-iron-age-treasure-told-to-split-150-000-between-them-115875-23059818\
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... and a Suffolk Museum hopes to buy the hoard:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-13070118
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A Maori adze from 15th-century site in Porirua:
http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/4895570/Adze-found-near-site-of-Kupes-landing
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Nice feature on Civil War photography:
http://news.discovery.com/history/civil-war-photography-warfare-110411.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Pondering the Maya collapse:
http://scientistatwork.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/04/14/maya-collapse-and-modern-soc\
iety/
... while volcanic ash found in canals might explain why Mayan cities did so
well with poor soil:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2011/04/110414-maya-volcanoes-eruptions-\
ash-tikal-science-volcanic/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Famous crackpots whose deaths changed their reputations:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/04/14/heroes-in-death_n_848913.html#s264270&t\
itle=Ignaz_Semmelweis_July
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