Brit-Am Ephraimite Forum no. 103
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4 May 2009, 10 Iyar 5769
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
12.01
2. The Little Ice Age and Scotland (1645-1715)
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator
12.02
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
12.01
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explorator 12.01 April 26, 2009
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EARLY HUMANS
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Interesting detail about Neanderthal births:
http://sciencenow.sciencemag.org/cgi/content/full/2009/420/2
More on Neanderthal subgroups:
http://www.livescience.com/history/090414-neanderthal-groups.html
More coverage of the homo floresiensis bones being displayed:
http://www.livescience.com/history/090422-hobbit-cast.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/21/science/21hobb.html
http://www.time.com/time/health/article/0,8599,1892606,00.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Four temples with inscriptions from the Sinai are shedding light
on the Hyskos:
http://www.physorg.com/news159552735.html
http://www.drhawass.com/blog/press-release-new-kingdom-temple-discovered-sinai
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080682.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1080538.html
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iyy_p39sNj5_F4SGHgS0j-rv-XrQD97MSNMO0
http://www.news24.com/News24/Technology/News/0,,2-13-1443_2504875,00.html
http://www.zawya.com/Story.cfm/sidANA20090421T125403ZBAC27/New%20carvings%20shed%20light%20on%20pharaohs'%20dark%20age
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090421/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_egypt_temple_discovery_5
http://www.gulf-times.com/site/topics/article.asp?cu_no=2&item_no=286070&version=1&template_id=37&parent_id=17
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/04/21/tech/main4959915.shtml?source=RSSattr=HOME_4959915
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090421/sc_nm/us_egypt_archaeology_2
Not sure why the 'chemical warfare' at Dura Europos is making the
rounds again:
http://www.livescience.com/history/090413-nhm-chemical-warfare.html
A (tongue-in-cheek, I hope) Ark of the Covenant suggestion:
http://news.scotsman.com/opinion/Robert-McNeil-Lost-Ark-of.5187620.jp
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting cat 'burial' in the walls of a house in Ugborough:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/-/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8011361.stm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/5200089/400-year-old-mummified-cat-found-in-walls-of-cottage.html
A plan to test folks in Wales to prove Bronze Age Mediterranean origins:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/north_west/8007969.stm
Solving (maybe) the mystery of some cracks in the Maltese landscape:
http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/newshome/Researchers-solve-Maltateaser.5193890.jp
http://www.di-ve.com/Default.aspx?ID=72&Action=1&NewsId=60076&newscategory=31
A parking lot marker in Sweden turns out to be a runestone:
http://politicom.moldova.org/news/church-lot-rock-actually-ancient-runestone-198713-eng.html
How the tulip arrived in Europe:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090416105353.htm
More coverage of Hapsburg inbreeding:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/revealed-the-inbreeding-that-ruined-the-hapsburgs-1668857.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Has the language of the Indus civilization been found/deciphered?:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/apr/23/indus-civilisation-language-symbols
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-04/uow-ise041909.php
http://blog.wired.com/wiredscience/2009/04/indusscript.html
Review of a couple of tomes about Hindu history:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/26/books/review/Mishra-t.html
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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They're not going to posthumously review William Wallace's conviction:
http://www.theherald.co.uk/news/news/display.var.2502950.0.No_review_of_William_Wallaces_conviction_for_treason_in_1305.php
Can't remember if I mentioned the World Digital Library yet:
http://www.mymotherlode.com/news/world/news_detail.php?ID=209244&DK=World%20Digital%20Library
http://pantagraph.com/articles/2009/04/21/news/doc49edd90383a94983172511.txt
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/chi-library_tab_22apr22,0,1841137.story
http://www.france24.com/en/20090420-unesco-world-digital-library-launches-online-culture
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30324140/
On the domestication of the horse:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090423142541.htm
Some viking words made their way into English:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090421111659.htm
In case you were wondering about the Pulitzers:
http://www.pulitzer.org/awards/2009
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Kadesh:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog
Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Henry VIII:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/apr/25/henry-viii-exhibition
Looted Afghan Treasures:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/5201198/Looted-Afghan-treasure-to-go-on-show.html
2. The Little Ice Age and Scotland
(1645-1715)
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8010513.stm
By Steven McKenzie
Highlands and Islands reporter, BBC Scotland news website
Extracts Only:
[See URL above for more notes and a report that the sun is cooling down - at
least so far as the earth is concerned.]
Some scientists believe a similar "quiet spell" is connected to a cooling of
temperatures in a period of time called the Maunder Minimum.
Also known as the Little Ice Age, it lasted 70 years from 1645 to 1715 and
featured The Great Frost which froze the River Thames in London for days.
Interestingly, this period coincided with some of the most dramatic events in
Scotland's history.
A king was forced into exile, there was rebellion, famine, an ill-fated Scottish
bid to establish a colony in Central America and a sandstorm buried a coastal
estate.
The span of 70 years also saw the signing of the Act of Union in 1707 and the
unsuccessful Jacobite rising of 1715.
Temperatures in Scotland during the Little Ice Age were 1.5C to 2C cooler than
they are today. In the summer, this shortened the growing season and devastated
staple crops.
Dr Tony Pollard, director of the Centre for Battlefield Archaeology at the
University of Glasgow, said climate change had to be considered among a range of
factors that drove spells of unrest and hardship in the 17th and 18th centuries.
He said bouts of depopulation of the Highlands and Islands, which he described
as being "on the fringes of climatic optimum at best", could also be connected
to extreme weather.
The Maunder Minimum is punctuated by events that changed the course of Scottish
history.
In 1603, a member of the Scottish Stuart dynasty, King James VI, succeeded to
the English Crown.
Eighty-five years later - in the midst of the Little Ice Age - his grandson
James VII (II of England) saw his place on the throne challenged by a government
fearful of his support of Catholicism.
Encouraged by the government, William of Orange, the Dutch Protestant husband of
James's elder daughter Mary invaded England in 1688.
The British army and navy deserted to William, and James fled to France.
Scottish Catholics, led by Viscount Dundee, fought for James at the battle of
Killiecrankie in 1689 and won, but Dundee died in combat and the campaign
collapsed.
James's attempt to regain the throne by taking a French army to Ireland failed
and he was defeated at the Battle of the Boyne in 1690.
The king spent the rest of his life in exile in France, dying there in 1701.
From the late 1600s to the start of the 18th Century there were troubled times
in Scotland, which Dr Pollard believes could be linked in part to climate
change.
He said: "We have what were called the Seven Ill Years from 1695 to 1702 when
there were major crop failures and one of the spin-offs of that was the Darien
expedition, an attempt to make good elsewhere but turned out to be a disaster
for Scotland."
Scots signed up to and invested their life savings into the Darien Venture lured
by the promise of rich, fertile lands and friendly Indians.
However, the attempt to raise a colony in an area of Panama in Central America
ended in hundreds of deaths and the company set up to lead it losing more than
?232,884.
Seven years later, Scotland joined England in the Act of Union. Part of the deal
was the writing off of Scotland's debts, much of it a result of the venture.
The institution set up to administer this money eventually became the Royal Bank
of Scotland.
Dr Pollard said the effects of the Maunder Minimum could be read in the records
of landowners' rent demands, which were often paid in produce rather than hard
cash and with drops in rental possibly a reaction to crop failures due to bad
weather.
The rise in stealing cattle - which happened in the Highlands and the Borders -
may also have been associated with the colder climate.
Dr Pollard said: "If there was a crisis in arable farming, stealing the
neighbour's cattle must have been appealing."
The late Prof HH Lamb, a world renowned climatologist, investigated the impact
of the Little Ice Age on Scotland for part of his book Climate History and the
Modern World.
He wrote of arctic ice expanding further south and of reports of Inuit people
arriving on Orkney between 1690 and 1728. One was said to have paddled down the
River Don in Aberdeen.
Snow remained all year round on the tops of mountains, including the Cairngorms.
Between 1693 to 1700, Prof Lamb said there were severe famines as crops failed.
Children were sold into slavery and two-thirds of the population died through
cold and starvation, while many others were reduced to begging, drawing the
climatologist to conclude that the fall in temperature and worsening weather hit
the country harder than Black Death.
With weather patterns disrupted, fierce were winds battered the land.
In 1694, a sandstorm raged at Culbin on the Moray Firth near Nairn, burying
homes and ruining an estate.
Marram grass that had kept the long and wide stretch of sands from shifting had
previously been ripped up for thatching roofs and as fuel for heating.
Brian Fagan in his book The Little Ice Age: How Climate Made History 1300-1850
wrote of the local laird becoming a pauper in a matter of hours and appealing to
the Scottish Parliament for tax relief.
John Martin, of Elgin, wrote of the storm at the time: "The wind comes rushing
down through the openings between the hills, carrying with it immense torrents
of sand, with a force and violence almost overpowering.
"Clouds of dust are raised from the tops of the mounds and are whirled about in
the wildest confusion and fall with the force of hail.
"Nothing can be seen but sand above, sand below and sand everywhere. You dare
not open your eyes but must grope your way about as if blindfolded."
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
12.02
From: David Meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Latest CT scan of a mummy reveals a mummified puppy at the owner's
feet:
http://www.upenn.edu/almanac/volumes/v55/n31/mummies.html
Rachel Elior's theories on the Essenes continue to get coverage,
this time with some critique by Geza Vermes:
http://www.standpointmag.co.uk/node/1173/full
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1239710803395&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
The 2008 excavation report from Bethsaida:
http://www.unomaha.edu/bethsaida/reports/Excavations_report_2008a.pdf
Follow the dig at Tall Jalul:
http://jalul.wordpress.com
... and that scan of the bust of Nefertiti is now being used to prove
the bust wasn't 'faked by Hitler':
http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/266036,nefertitis-hidden-face-proves-berlin-bust-is-not-hitlers-fake.html
More coverage of that 'Dark Age' Temple in Turkey:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2009/04/090429-dark-ages-temple.html
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-30279.html
More on that Hebrew inscription from near the Gihon Spring:
http://www.newkerala.com/nkfullnews-1-28247.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090425203201.htm
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Some Roman burials from Bethlehem:
http://www.maannews.net/en/index.php?opr=ShowDetails&ID=37371
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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The 'Little Ice Age' in Scotland:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8010513.stm
'Early' evidence of amputations:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/hereford/worcs/8025710.stm
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NORTH AMERICA
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An allele is suggesting Native Americans all descend from a single
population:
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2009/04/29/native.americans.descended.a.single.ancestral.group.dna.study.confirms
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2009/04/090428223836.htm
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=9101
Some heritage roses in New York:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/23/garden/23garden.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Sidebarish sort of thing on 10 voyages that changed the world:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SPORT/04/28/ten.voyages/index.html
On the evolutionary skills of ancient breeders:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20227064.200-ancient-breeders-show-intelligent-design.html
Britain has its first female poet laureate:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/world/europe/02poet.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/5256745/Poet-Laureate-Changing-with-the-times.html
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/WORLD/europe/05/01/britain.poet.laureate/
... and in case you want to know all about this poet laureate business:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/s/1113085_poet_laureate_all_you_need_to_know
Backlash from Google Earth's inclusion of some historical maps
of Japan:
http://tech.yahoo.com/news/ap/20090502/ap_on_hi_te/as_japan_google_dark_secrets
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Calcutta:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2009/05/03/travel/03calcutta.html
Athens:
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/ricksteveseurope/2009139295_websteves28.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Kadesh:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog
Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Russian Folk Costumes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/arts/28iht-Ffolk.html
A (negative) review of Berlin's Jewish Museum:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/05/02/arts/design/02conn.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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King David:
http://theater2.nytimes.com/2009/04/28/theater/reviews/28king.html
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ON THE WEB
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How to Pack Books:
wiki.coinbooks.org/index.php/How_to_Pack_Books
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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Noah's tomb is in Ajerbaijan:
http://www.interfax-religion.com/?act=news&div=5972
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