BHR-71
Brit-Am Historical Reports
20 May 2011 16 Iyar 5771
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.02
2. Archaeology; Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.03-04
3. The Old Scottish Language Dictionary.
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.02
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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EARLY HUMANS
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Pondering the genetic side of Neanderthal hybridization:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2011/04/neandertal-hybridization-haldanes-rule/
An overviewish thing of human evolution:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/apr/25/evolution-human-history-apes
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Bronze Age remains of a Caspian horse from northern Iran:
http://www.cais-soas.com/news/index.php'option=com_content&view=article&id=361:the-oldest-remains-of-caspian-horse-discovered-in-north-of-iran-&catid=59
http://news.discovery.com/animals/ancient-royal-horse-iran-110429.html
More on Jordan's giant archaeological database:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp'int_sec=2&int_new=46514
Israel Finkelstein on the political side of archaeology in Jerusalem:
http://www.forward.com/articles/137273/
... in regards to which, horizontal excavations in the Old City seem to be a
good example of same:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/jerusalem-s-time-tunnels-1.357872
Feature on what the Israelites left in Egypt:
http://www.jpost.com/Features/MagazineFeatures/Article.aspx'id=217926
Very nice feature/recollection of Yigael Yadin:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Features/Article.aspx'id=218262
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Stories based on those 'pills' from an ancient shipwreck keep coming around:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-13190376
Robin Lane Fox chooses his top ten classical myths:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/home/moslive/article-1381208/Oedipus-Helen-Troy-Ten-greatest-classical-myths.html
I think we've had this story about Cyprus' antiquities database before:
http://www.cyprus-mail.com/archaeology/digital-archive-cyprus-antiquities/20110428
One I missed ... a nice feature on sling bullets:
http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Ancient_slingers_added_insult_to_injury_researcher_says_999.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Feature on Icelandic sagas:
http://historytoday.com/janina-ramirez/sagas-iceland-creating-terra-nova
Review of Margaret George, *Elizabeth I*:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/book-world-elizabeth-i-by-margaret-george/2011/04/05/AFjgNoHF_story.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Looking for history of the Kazakhs from the genetic side of things:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-04-penn-anthropologists-delve-genetic-history.html
More on brain surgery in Tibet:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail/176518.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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The secret origins of New York:
http://www.elpais.com/articulo/portada/origen/secreto/Nueva/York/elpepuculbab/20110430elpbabpor_25/Tes
Review of Gary Gallagher, *The Union War*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/book-review-the-union-war-by-gary-w-gallagher.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Review of Arthur Phillips, *The Tragedy of Arthur*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/01/books/review/book-review-the-tragedy-of-arthur-by-arthur-phillips.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/28/books/excerpt-the-tragedy-of-arthur-by-arthur-phillips.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Tyre:
http://arabnews.com/lifestyle/travel/article374642.ece
An iTravelJerusalem video on scrolls found at Ketef Hinom:
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx'id=217946
2. Archaeology; Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.03-04
From David Meadows.
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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... and this seems to be an appropriate place to mention a guy who mummifies
chickens for educational purposes:
http://www.boingboing.net/2011/05/04/mummifying-chickens.html
Feature on the dig at the Elah fortress and the attendant issues:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/magazine/the-keys-to-the-kingdom-1.360222
Somewhat disjointed account of the archaeological potential of Erbil:
http://www.kurdishglobe.net/display-article.html'id=E79A5E6FD33C9907058FEE18CF709AEC
Interview with Hagal Amitzur about Jewish Galilee:
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads/files/LM-030511b.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads/files/LM-030511c.mp3
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads/files/LM-030511d.mp3
A neolithic site in Jordan suggests earliest buildings may have been
'community centres':
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-neolithic-humans-life.html
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2011/05/first-buildings-may-have-been-co.html
A pair of sites (one 300 B.C.E., the other') from Jubail (suddenly there's
archaeology in Saudi Arabia'):
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article381390.ece
http://www.eturbonews.com/22798/saudi-arabia-reveals-new-historical-finds-dating-back-1st-centur
Saudi Arabia has 'recovered' a pile of artifacts:
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm'method=home.con&contentid=20110510100338
Feature on a 1000 years b.p. Yeshiva in France:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4063535,00.html
The ancient port of Beirut threatened':
http://phoenicia.org/obliterating_Phoenician_harbor.html
Israel Finkelstein on the City of David:
http://www.forward.com/articles/137273/
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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Potentially something fishy about this Minoan-precursor-to-the-Antikythera-
Mechanism claim:
http://www.athensnews.gr/portal/1/40058
cf.: http://rogueclassicism.com/2011/05/14/minoan-antikythera-mechanism/
Hype for a Bettany Hughes-hosted show on Atlantis/Thera:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/hay-festival/8498311/Carving-out-the-buried-secrets-of-the-lost-city-of-Atlantis.html
There was a symposium on Greek food:
http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/news_europe/2011-05-09/ancient-greek-food-revival-workshop.html
http://www.skynews.com.au/world/article.aspx'id=610885&vId=
http://www.skynews.com.au/offbeat/article.aspx'id=610762&vId=2391490&cId=Offbeat
Review of Gillian Darley, *Vesuvius*:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/8495359/Vesuvius-by-Gillian-Darley-review.html
Mary Beard reviews a couple of books about Hannibal:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/the_tls/article7174896.ece
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting 'Celtic princess and child' burial from somewhere in Germany:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-13225829
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Archaeologists-find-2600-year-old-Celtic-Princess-buried--in-Germany-121434514.html
A Bronze Age hoard found on an island off Cornwall a couple of
years ago has gone on display:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-13320959
A Viking site from Temple Bar (Ireland):
http://www.thejournal.ie/archaeologists-find-new-viking-site-in-temple-bar-131090-May2011/
Studying Royal Navy mutinies:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-neck-grog-mutinies-reveal-unrest.html
More on that bog butter find:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0512/1224296752974.html
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence that rice did originate in China:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-rice-china-genome.html
http://www.geneticarchaeology.com/research/Rices_origins_point_to_China_genome_researchers_conclude.asp
... and more in India in general:
http://mangalorean.com/news.php'newstype=local&newsid=236317
Using language to track the origins of the Japanese people:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/04/world/asia/04language.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-japanese-language-korean-peninsula.html
Pondering the growth (maybe) of the Aboriginal population:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2011/05/11/3211825.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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On Isaac Newton and the American Revolution:
http://helenair.com/lifestyles/health-med-fit/article_ea6a77b0-760c-11e0-bfc4-001cc4c002e0.html
George Washington's beer recipe:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/battle-to-save-remains-of-400yearold-wreck-2280815.html
Feature on the mounds in Ohio:
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/science/stories/2011/05/01/ohios-mounds-are-works-of-art.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2011/04/ohios-davincis-of-dirt.html
Evidence of a 'lost civilization'/pre Clovis people along the West Coast':
http://crosscut.com/2011/05/11/history/20892/Lost-civilization-along-West-Coast--New-evidence-says-yes/
A theory about those strange Chumash beads found at assorted Channel Islands
sites:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-05/uoc--fue050611.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/05/110509091603.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-05-ucla-expert-chumash-indians-roughly.html
Somewhat strange (to me) theory that, based on DNA, there were no more than
70 people in North America some 14 000 years b.p.:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1385290/North-America-populated-70-people-claims-stunning-new-DNA-research.html
On use of history in American politics:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/us/politics/05barton.html
cf:
http://6thfloor.blogs.nytimes.com/2011/05/05/how-christian-were-the-founders-redux/
Review of Andrea Wulf, *Founding Gardeners*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/05/08/books/review/book-review-founding-gardeners-by-andrea-wulf.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The African Origins project is trying to find the origins of 70000 Africans
brought to the Americas:
http://translate.google.ca/translate'u=http%3A//agencia.fapesp.br/13792&hl=en&langpair=auto|en&tbb=1&ie=ISO-8859-1
Review of David Abulafia, *The Great Sea*:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/8460696/The-Great-Sea-by-David-Abulafia-review.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-great-sea-a-human-history-of-the-mediterranean-by-david-abulafia-2279458.html
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NUMISMATICA
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More on the Iceni gold coins going on display:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-13265239
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Lod Mosaic:
http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/61655/pieces-of-history-ancient-roman-mosaic-from-israel-on-display-at-legion-of-/
Heracles to Alexander the Great:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704436004576297192623295516.html'mod=googlenews_wsj
Dura Europos:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703580004576180814272379544.html
3. The Old Scottish Language Dictionary
From: Charlene Mathe
Subject: article of interest for you
Hi Yair -
I thought you might be interested in this brief article:
http://tinyurl.com/3npt26e
A lost, legendary dictionary is rediscovered. Where was it found, and what language is it for?
Extracts:
In James Boswell's travelogue, Boswell In Holland 1763-64, the author writes: 'The Scottish language is being lost every day, and in a short time will become quite unintelligible. To me, who have the true patriotic soul of an old Scotsman, that would seem a pity.' With those words, along with the encouragement of his good friend, Samuel Johnson, Boswell set out to collect a list of terms specific to the Scottish language ' the first Scots dictionary. Thirty-nine pages and eight hundred Scots words and phrases were compiled before the author abandoned the work altogether.
Boswell is probably best known for the biography, The Life of Samuel Johnson, an account of Johnson's travels around Scotland throughout the 1770's. Find out why you should thank Mr. Johnson for making dictionaries easier to use, here.
Over Two-hundred and forty years later, Dr. Susan Rennie, a lexicographer and leading expert in the Scots language, has discovered Boswell's draft, in his own handwriting, buried deep within the stacks at the University of Oxford's Bodleian Library; its pages draped in 18th century Scots jargon. Literary scholars, brace yourselves!
John Jamieson's An Etymological Dictionary of the Scottish Language Vol I: To Which Is Prefixed A Dissertation On the Origin Of the Scottish Language, published in the early 1800's, followed later by revised editions, is a collection of words interpreted by Ancient and Modern Scottish writers. It is important to note Jamieson's efforts because it is within a collection of his papers, purchased by the Bodleian Library in 1927, that Boswell's manuscript surfaced. Boswell's writings, bequeathed to his son, sold at auction in 1825. Whether or not Jamieson purchased the writings as part of his research is unknown.
The term Scots dates from the mid-14th century ' a contraction from Scottis, the northern variant of the word Scottish. Sometimes referred to as Doric, or Teri dialect (depending on the specific Scottish region), Scots is a Germanic language primarily spoken in non-Scottish Gaelic areas of Scotland such as the Lowlands and parts of Ulster.
The Early Scots language began to take shape around the thirteenth century via the Old Norse language ' a North Germanic language spoken by the Scandinavian-influenced Middle English speakers from the North and Midlands of England. The Scots language continued to evolve due in large part to the influence of the Romance and Gaelic languages. Throughout the late 13th and early 14th centuries, the Early Scots dialect became the 'prestige language' throughout most of eastern Scotland. By the early 1700's, the Scots language became an independent 'sister language' to the Modern English language.
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