BHR-79
Brit-Am Historical Reports
6 November 2011 9 Cheshvan 5772
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.26
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.27
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.28.
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.26
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Second Temple miqveh found near Kibbutz Zor'a:
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4134818,00.html
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/148686#.TpWvJOxXGZZ
Eilat Mazar is rather critical of the Elad association and IAA:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/top-archaeologist-decries-jerusalem-dig-as-unscientific-tourist-gimmick-1.389244
http://forward.com/articles/144184/
cf: http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2011/10/11/neve-gordon/concealing-the-past/
... while archaeology is being used in Palestine's bid for statehood:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4134091,00.html
Latest from Tel Burna:
http://telburna.wordpress.com/2011/10/10/google-earth-image-of-tell/
http://telburna.wordpress.com/2011/10/11/article-on-negebite-pottery-published-by-amit-dagan/
More on digitizing the DSS:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBBLF357soE&feature=uploademail
http://www.thejewishweek.com/arts/museums/dead_sea_scrolls_access_all
The Bible History Daily's Week in Review (I'm curious whether others can
click this):
http://whatcounts.com/dm?id=9115C9B7CC89FD328FB6F8F0B49401E63800056256428243
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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Interview with Adrienne Mayor on enemies of Rome:
http://thebrowser.com/interviews/adrienne-mayor-on-enemies-ancient-rome
Review of a couple of tomes about children in the Roman empire:
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article796886.ece
Review of David Mattingly, *Imperialism, Power, and Identity*:
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2011/10/imperialism-power-and-identity
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Confirmation of a major Viking site at a County Louth village:
http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Major-Viking-site-discovery-described-as-mind-blowing-131442918.html
Latest on the three stone circles at Stanton Drew:
http://www.thisisbath.co.uk/Stanton-Drew-8211-new-Great-Circle-entrance/story-13556812-detail/story.html
They've figured out the genetic side of the Black Death:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-15278366
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/4755328.stm
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-reconstruct-genome-black-death.html
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=black-death-genome
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/13/science/13plague.html
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/2011/10/whats-next-after-sequencing-the-black-death.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/12/black-death-genome-sequenced-dna
http://news.yahoo.com/deadly-black-death-bug-hasnt-changed-170111133.html
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRZYb2Jl22g&feature=digest_refresh_thu
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21228344.800-black-deaths-origin-is-identified-at-last.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Some mystery tombs along the Silk Road:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/culture/2011-10/12/c_131187122.htm
A Maori adze find is confirming (sort of) an oral tradition:
http://tvnz.co.nz/national-news/ancient-maori-tool-found-in-old-lyttleton-post-office-4459812
Archaeologists are calling for a major part of Mohenjodaro to be reburied
for preservation
purposes:
http://www.dawn.com/2011/10/16/call-for-reburial-of-ill-preserved-moenjodaro-part.html
Tantalizingly vague item on a Cimmerian necropolis find in
Kabardino-Balkaria (I'm guessing
this is in Asia, but might be wrong ... this part of the world always
challenges me from a
geographic point of view):
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/culture/18793.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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More on the use of a drone to map out burial mounds in Russia:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=drone-reveals-burial-sites
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44847461/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/tiny-drone-reveals-ancient-royal-burial-sites-130007879.html
http://www.livescience.com/16443-micro-drone-archaeology-burial-sites.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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The first map of Australia is coming to auction:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/australia/8824477/Worlds-first-map-of-Australia-goes-on-sale.html
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HUMOUR
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For future archaeologists:
http://failbook.failblog.org/2011/10/14/funny-facebook-fails-planning-way-in-advance/
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.27
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Not sure where to put this one ... an Ugaritic inscription from Tiryns
(maybe):
http://www.ufg-va.uni-hd.de/md/zaw/ufg/mitarbeiter/17._cohen-maran-vetters.pdf
Rethinking the location of Gan Hamelech:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-researchers-jerusalem-s-trendiest-street-built-over-biblical-site-1.391423
Saudi Arabia seems to be taking antiquities a bit more seriously:
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article520367.ece
OpEd on the antiquities trade in Israel:
http://www.bibleinterp.com/opeds/ker358019.shtml
Nice feature on various aspects of the Cairo Geniza:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/reuniting-the-dispersed-fragments-1.391259
http://www.haaretz.co.il/magazine/1.1522698 (in Hebrew, but with a nice
slide show)
cf:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/afot-ptt101811.php
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-piecing-priceless-cairo-genizah.html
http://www.genizah.org/index.htm
Review of Hoffman and Cole, *Sacred Trash*:
http://mobiletrunk.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=99241419
Feature on Sukkot iconography through the ages:
http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/50055
More on that miqveh from Tzora:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Ritual_bath_Second_Temple_Period_discovered_23-Oct-2011.htm
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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Very interesting Etruscan find of a depiction of a woman giving birth:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51197
http://news.discovery.com/history/etruscan-mother-birth-art-111019.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/10/111020025756.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2051729/Ancient-unprecedented-artwork-showing-woman-childbirth-discovered-blind-archaeologist-dig.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ancient-depiction-childbirth-etruscan-site.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-10/smu-rda101811.php
http://blog.smu.edu/research/2011/10/ancient_childbirth_scene_is_ne.html
... and a UT Arlington student was there:
http://www.cisionwire.com/university-of-texas-at-arlington/r/ut-arlington-graduate-student-helps-to-unearth-ancient-images-of-childbirth,c9177279
More Roman remains in India:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Marketplace-of-the-ancient-world-Roman-remains-near-Tambaram-show-2000-yr-old-trade-links/articleshow/10410302.cms
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Viking boat burial from Scotland:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=51213
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/19/viking-burial-ship-found-scotland(video)
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/viking-boat-burial-uncovered-002747938.html
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/historic-sites/viking_burial_boat_surfaces_after_1_000_years_1_1917446
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-viking-boat-burial-uk-mainland.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-15333852
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/archaeologists-find-viking-burial-site-scotland-14774354
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/44960443/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.guelphmercury.com/news/world/article/611777--archaeologists-unearth-ancient-viking-boat-burial-site-on-west-coast-of-scotland
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-viking-boat-burial-site-on-west-coast-of-scotland/2011/10/19/gIQAZCQswL_story.html
http://www.batangastoday.com/viking-burial-site-viking-boat-unearthed-in-scotland/17959/
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112404376/archaeologists-unearth-viking-boat/index.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-15333852
... and, of course, there's some Viking cultural invading going on too:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/tv-and-radio/2011/oct/23/viking-culture-invasion-tv-books
Archaeologists are poking around Newgrange again:
http://www.independent.ie/national-news/search-on-for-a-second-passage-in-newgrange-2908492.html
A mystery object from the Staffordshire Hoard:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/mystery-gold-object-emerges-from-the-staffordshire-hoard
... and a nice feature on the Hoard itself:
http://ngm.nationalgeographic.com/2011/11/gold-hoard/alexander-text
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Another theory on the Little Ice Age:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-team-european-ice-age-due.html
DNA has revealed the cause of the Black Death:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/8823748/Black-death-DNA-unravelled.html
More on neutron imaging:
http://www.ornl.gov/info/features/get_feature.cfm?FeatureNumber=f20111012-00
Showing the non-Indiana-Jones side of archaeology:
http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=340100
Hype for a book which will apparently challenge a millennium of
scholarship about the Crusades:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/historian-peter-frankopan-is-challenging-a-millennium-of-scholarship-in-his-view-of-the-first-crusade/story-e6frg8nf-1226166509828
Interesting item on 'language fossils' that are stuck in your brain:
http://discovermagazine.com/2011/oct/08-the-brain-language-fossils-buried-in-your-cells
An APOD of the Draconids over some Celtic ruins in Spain:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap111019.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Libya:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/8841356/Libya-is-back-on-the-map.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/international/5788386/Libya-eyes-post-war-tourism
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:
http://archaeology.about.com/
Archaeology Briefs:
http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/
Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:
http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/
Time Machine:
http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Archaeo News 201:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2011/archaeo-news-podcast-201
Latest from the Archaeology Channel:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Les Gaulois:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hs3ScrBs2o6Y2OsD7FlXVREO_1cA?docId=CNG.9c21252ab1b3ed62f1d6aa69fd8db7b6.3e1
Warriors of the Plains:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-15392681
Dura Europos:
http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Columnists/Article.aspx?id=241958
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.28.
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 14.28
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Evidence of Assyrian trepanation from Kultepe (I think ... some characters
are garbled in this one):
http://www.aina.org/ata/20111028204303.htm
Nice 'backgrounder' on Hanukkah:
http://www.phillyburbs.com/lifestyle/holidays/holiday_traditions/a-little-background-on-hanukkah/article_26d8f2d6-00cc-11e1-a7a2-001a4bcf6878.html
... and a feature on the 'real' "occupiers":
http://www.jewishpress.com/pageroute.do/50095
Quite the kerfuffle over the Elad contract in the City of David:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/israeli-ngo-elad-group-has-veto-power-over-jerusalem-s-city-of-david-1.391619
... but the High Court ruled the contract legal:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/high-court-critical-of-elad-contract-in-city-of-david-park-but-rules-it-legal-1.392184
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=243280
... and the Mughrabi bridge is back into full saga form:
http://www.jpost.com/Headlines/Article.aspx?id=243110
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149063
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=243189
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149078
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/149083#.Tqx_r3Ik-uI
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/222984
cf: http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-EdContributors/Article.aspx?id=243165
... and there's an uproar-in-the-making over treatment of graves at the
Museum of Tolerance site:
http://www.haaretz.com/culture/arts-leisure/grave-concerns-1.391852
... oh ... and there's a McDonalds at Masada:
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/features/all-in-all-a-hamburger-1.391188
http://www.haaretz.com/print-edition/news/mcdonald-s-at-masada-not-worth-killing-yourself-for-1.386158
Dig opportunities in Israel:
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early%20History%20-%20Archaeology/Archaeological_Excavations_Israel_2012.htm?mid=50
The Dead Sea is nominated as one of the seven natural wonders:
http://www.janglo.net/index.php?option=com_adsmanager&page=display&catid=99&tid=177874
Feature on Acre:
http://www.macon.com/2011/10/29/1763443/crusader-town-being-rediscovered.html
Review of Simon Montefiore, *Jerusalem: The Biography*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/30/books/review/jerusalem-by-simon-sebag-montefiore-book-review.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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Feature on Septimius Severus:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/opinion/29iht-edmeyer29.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Searching for a second passage tomb at Newgrange:
http://www.meathchronicle.ie/news/meatheast/articles/2011/10/26/4007335-search-for-second-passage-tomb-at-newgrange/
It apparently took a while for farming to catch on in Europe:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2011/oct/24/food-ancient-cooking-pots-farming
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-ancient-cooking-pots-reveal-gradual.html
A Bronze Age "treasure trove" from a Pembrokeshire field:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-15493977
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/2011/10/29/bronze-age-treasure-trove-found-in-pembrokeshire-field-91466-29681996/
A site dating to 3500 B.C. or so in Belfast:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/15477796
Feature on assorted British legends:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-15428024
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a shipwreck associated with Kublai
Khan:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-pacific-15452071
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/japan/8848282/13th-century-Mongolian-wreckage-discovered-off-Japanese-seabed.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-10-mongolian-kamikaze-japan-coast.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2011/1028/1224306622337.html
http://articles.cnn.com/2011-10-25/asia/world_asia_japan-archaeology-shipwreck_1_fleet-ship-invasion
http://www.cnn.com/2011/10/25/world/asia/japan-archaeology-shipwreck/
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/envoy/archeologists-believe-shipwreck-found-off-japan-belongs-kublai-145206810.html
http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/89163/mongol-shipwreck-found
http://newsfeed.time.com/2011/10/26/japanese-researchers-discover-medieval-mongol-shipwreck/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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... and Prince Charles is a descendant of Vlad the Impaler:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Latest-News-Wires/2011/1027/Vlad-the-Impaler-Prince-Charles-a-descendant-of-Dracula
More on the Black Death genome:
http://www.nature.com/news/2011/111025/full/478444a.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Jerash:
http://www.thehindu.com/life-and-style/metroplus/article2576859.ece
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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DSS:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/10/29/arts/design/the-dead-sea-scrolls-at-discovery-times-square-review.html
http://www.nytimes.com/slideshow/2011/10/29/arts/design/20111030-scroll-ss.html
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/arts/index.ssf/2011/10/dead_sea_scrolls_are_among_the.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/stone-dead-sea-scrolls-111027.html
http://www.nypost.com/p/news/local/manhattan/scroll_fmj4lTdySYAgxYjDKMiFYN
http://www.myfoxny.com/dpp/news/the-dead-sea-scrolls-exhibit-nyc-20111028
http://www.nydailynews.com/ny_local/2011/10/28/2011-10-28_dead_sea_scrolls_ancient_pieces_of_hebrew_bible_discovered_in_caves_head_to_time.html
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