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explorator 15.37                            December 30, 2012

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,

John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,

Rochelle Altman, Hernan Astudillo, Dorothy King, David Critchley,

Mata Kimasitayo, Richard Campbell, Bob Heuman,Richard C. Griffiths,

and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses thisweek (as always hoping

I have left no one out).



A rather sparse issue to close out 2012 ... Happy New Year!!

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EARLY HOMINIDS

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On the role of environmental changes in human evolution:



http://phys.org/news/2012-12-fluctuating-environment-driven-human-evolution.html



Feature on Svante Paabo and his neanderthal genome work:



http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/story/2012/12/20/sci-genome-nda-neanderthals-e\

volution.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT

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Ritual vessels and structures dating to 2750 B.C./B.C.E from Tel Motza:



http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Temple_vessels_Bib\

lical_Tel_Motza_26-Dec-2012.htm

http://phys.org/news/2012-12-archeologists-unearth-king-david-era.html

http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=49087

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1975\

&module_id=#as

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=59791#.UOA5LaywWSo

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=6864

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163586



A court ruling has preserved some sites in Caesarea:



http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163575#.UOA4ZqywWSo

http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/court-nixes-planned-caesarea-neighborhood-t\

o-save-antiquities.premium-1.489737





Nice feature on remains of a Christian empire in Yemen:



http://www.spiegel.de/international/world/buried-christian-empire-in-yemen-casts\

-new-light-on-early-islam-a-874048.html



Something appears to be heating up between Simcha Jacobovic and Amos

Kloner:



http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/89182/



Plenty from Temple Mount this week … first, a comptroller report is not

going

to be published:



http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/258484



… and a report that the Waqf is continuing to destroy antiquities:



http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163528#.UOA5-aywWSo



… or at least carting them to the dump before archaeologists can look at

them:



http://www.timesofisrael.com/temple-mount-authority-carts-off-antiquities-to-the\

-dump/



… and the possibilty of a court fight to keep the Waqf from destroying

antiquities:



http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/163583#.UOA5t6ywWSo



Feature on frankincense:



http://blogs.timesofisrael.com/after-1500-years-frankincense-returns-to-the-holy\

-land/



Review of a couple of books relating to the DSS and the Essenes:



http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/the-dead-sea-scrol\

ls-a-biography-by-john-j-collins---the-essenes-the-scrolls-and-the-dead-sea-by-j\

oan-e-taylor-8432074.html



More on the earliest depiction of a pharaoh:



http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-pharaoh-found-121228.html



More (very detailed) coverage of Ramesses III’s demise:



http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/688/47/Death-of-a-pharaoh.aspx

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/science/ramses-iii-had-his-throat-slashed-new-\

study-suggests.html

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)

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Remains of Hadrian’s Athenaeum/Auditorium (maybe) have been excavated:



http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/dec/26/hadrians-hall-roman-emperor-arts-cen\

tre

http://presstv.com/detail/2012/12/29/280700/ancient-arts-center-found-in-rome/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/12/27/hadrian-auditorium-ancient-roman-arts-c\

enter_n_2370106.html



Remains of a Roman theatre (maybe) from Kent:



http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2253091/2-000-year-old-Roman-thea\

tre-discovered-garden-archaeological-school.html



A Corinthian helmet was rescued from some smugglers:



http://eazygreece.com/2011/12/17/2-700-year-helmet-saved/





Feature on Lincoln when the Romans were there:



http://www.thisislincolnshire.co.uk/Lincoln-grew-retirement-settlement-Roman-sol\

diers/story-17690979-detail/story.html



Feature on the Pergamon Museum:



http://eu.greekreporter.com/2012/12/26/greek-treasures-in-berlins-pergamon-museu\

m/



Nice feature on the Ludovisi Sarcophagus:



http://smarthistory.khanacademy.org/ludovisi-battle-sarcophagus.html



An OBE for Mary Beard:



http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/News/Honours-for-our-heroes-28122012.htm

http://timesonline.typepad.com/dons_life/2012/12/obe.html



Teaching Latin for 45 years (and counting):



http://www.mlive.com/business/west-michigan/index.ssf/2012/12/silver-collar_jobs\

_45_years_an.html



An interesting visualization of all of Zeus’ affairs:



http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2012/12/all-of-zeuss-affairs-visualize\

d/



More on efforts to save the Gladiator Tomb:



http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/entertainment/sydney-confidential/russell-crowe\

-goes-into-battle-to-save-his-brave-gladiators/story-e6frewz0-1226544281738



Latest reviews from BMCR:



http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html



Visit our blog:



http://rogueclassicism.com/

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)

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A 16th century water mill from the North York moors:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-20820830



The largest Viking ship is headed to the British Museum:



http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/9768967/Largest-Viking-ship-in-the-world-\

on-the-way-to-British-Museum.html



The Torrey Abbey restoration might finish early (!):



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-20669404



Feature on the restoration of the 15th century St Etienne de Corbeil:



http://secteurcorbeilstgermain.catholique.fr/Les-travaux-de-restauration-photos(\

French,

but scroll down for photos)



Notre Dame celebrated its 850th:



http://bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-20800151



More on Neolithic carpenters and wells:



http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0051374





Archaeology in Europe Blog:



http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/



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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC

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We may have mentioned this engraved Paleolithic stone artifact from

Shuidonggou before:



http://phys.org/news/2012-12-engraved-stone-artifact-shuidonggou-paleolithic.htm\

l



Feature on those Buddhist sites threatened by a Chinese mine in

Afghanistan:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/opinion/sunday/chinese-led-copper-mining-threa\

tens-afghan-buddhist-monasteries.html?ref=opinion&_r=0



East Asian Archaeology:



http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-her\

itage-%E2%80%93-2052010/



Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:



http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/



New Zealand Archaeology eNews:



http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm

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NORTH AMERICA

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More finds from the Adena site at Pig’s Point:



http://www.capitalgazette.com/news/local/centuries-old-burial-rituals-uncovered-\

at-pig-point/article_3329de25-cfe6-551d-9e22-2253b7bc6266.html



Feature on the Fort Ancient earthworks:



http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/12/23/still-lots-to-learn-a\

bout-fort-ancient-earthworks.html

http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-moorehead-circle-ceremonial-mac\

hine.html



A nice restoration of Irvington Town Hall:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/nyregion/the-tiffany-reading-room-in-irvington\

-town-hall.html?ref=design



Feature on a Canadian archaeological company:



http://www.theglobeandmail.com/report-on-business/getting-paid-to-dig-up-the-pas\

t/article6695128/?cmpid=rss1

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA

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Interesting underwater finds from Nevado de Toluca (700-900 A.D. or so):



http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=59798#.UN3dG6WI3nE

http://www.inah.gob.mx/index.php/english-press-releases/59-findings/4755-mexican\

-archaeologists-report-new-findings-in-nevado-de-toluca



Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:



http://goo.gl/1VdeA



Ancient MesoAmerica News:



http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/

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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST

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Audio news from Archaeologica:



http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20121223.mp3



Archaeonews podcast:



http://www.stonepages.com/podcast/archaeo-news-2012-12-22.mp3



They’re digging at one of Jane Austen’s homes:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-20678244



Another/followup piece on that artificial language thing we mentioned

last week:



http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/culture/2012/12/out-loud-ithkuil.html



The British Museum has restored some early phonograph records:



http://phys.org/news/2012-12-british-museum-early-domestic-phonograph.html



Pondering ‘the whole nine yards’:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/27/books/the-whole-nine-yards-seeking-a-phrases-o\

rigin.html



Latest in the megafaunal extinction debate:



http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/12/121226222838.htm



History Today has put up a pile of articles (for free) from 2012:



http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2012/12/best-history-today-2012



The BBC has a sort of ‘year in archaeology’ piece:



http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-20795347



Another mathematical puzzle solved:



http://news.discovery.com/history/mathematicians-century-old-secrets-unlocked-12\

1227.html#mkcpgn=rssnws1





Not sure if we mentioned the world ending on Christmas Eve (more

Mayan calendar stuff):



http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/mayan-news-the-end-will-not-arrive\

-on-friday-a-874393.html



… or this town in Turkey, which was a focus of doomsday events:



http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/sirince-village-readies-for-doomsday-events.asp\

x?pageID=238&nID=36946&NewsCatID=379



Ancient Digger:



http://www.ancientdigger.com/

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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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CRIME BEAT

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Looting Matters:



http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/



Illicit Cultural Property:



http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/



SAFE:



http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

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NUMISMATICA

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Latest e-Sylum:



http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n53.html



… and there might be one today numbered thusly, but I don’t

guarantee it:



http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n54.html



Ancient Coin Collecting:



http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/



Ancient Coins:



http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/



Coin Week:



http://www.coinweek.com/

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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED

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Societe Anonyme:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/23/nyregion/a-review-of-societe-anonyme-at-the-ya\

le-university-art-gallery.html?ref=design



Inventing Abstraction:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/21/arts/design/inventing-abstraction-1910-1925-at\

-moma.html?ref=design





French museums seek public funding help:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/arts/design/french-arts-institutions-turn-to-c\

rowdfunding.html?ref=design



Feature on Amsterdam’s new Stedelijk Museum:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/24/arts/design/amsterdams-new-stedelijk-museum.ht\

ml?ref=design

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED

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Restoration Comedy:



http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/theater/reviews/restoration-comedy-by-amy-\

freed-at-the-flea-theater.html?ref=arts



Messiah:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/25/arts/music/riverside-choral-society-at-alice-t\

ully-hall.html?ref=music



Some Stradivarius performances:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/arts/music/daniel-hope-and-karen-gomyo-violini\

sts-at-met-museum.html?ref=music



A review of the 2012 theatre world in London:



http://www.nytimes.com/2012/12/26/arts/26iht-lon26.html?ref=arts





Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:



http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama



... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:



http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal



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OBITUARIES

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Evelyn Byrd Harrison:



http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/in-memoriam-evelyn-byrd-harri\

son



Glenys Lloyd-Morgan:



http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguardian/2012/dec/06/glenys-lloyd-morgan-obituary

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PODCASTS

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The Book and the Spade:



http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm



Stone Pages Archaeology News:



http://news.stonepages.com/



Archaeologica Audio News:



http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp



Naked Archaeology Podcast:



http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/

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