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explorator 21.13 July 22, 2018
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Astudillo, Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David
Critchley, Frank MacKay, Trevor Watkins, Rick Heli, Shelley Wachsmann,
Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Neanderthals may have started their own fires:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-neanderthals.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/health-science/watch-an-ar
chaeologist-spark-a-fire-with-neanderthal-technology/2018/07/19/
fe287028-8b52-11e8-9d59-dccc2c0cabcf_video.html
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/07/neanderthals-fire-my
stery/565514/
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-neanderthals-could-make-fir
e-new-study-suggests-1.6292123
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/19/ciencia/1531997681_016482.html
https://cosmosmagazine.com/archaeology/neanderthals-used-flint-and-pyrit
e-to-spark-fires

http://www.archaeology.org/news/6803-180719-neanderthal-fire-starter

More on those homo erectus-associated tools from China:

https://www.news.com.au/world/what-we-know-about-human-evolution-may-soo
n-be-turned-on-its-head/news-story/d938d0d4e8922c263a1d4130d541cdab
https://sciencetrends.com/discovery-of-oldest-stone-tools-outside-of-afr
ica-hints-at-unidentified-human-ancestors/

More on walking and climbing australopithecines:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-human-evolution-trees.html

More on Otzi's last meal:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180712114602.htm
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Neanderthals-could-start-fires-with-
their-stone-13087974.php

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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That sarcophagus in Alexandria gave us the full-court press this week
.... first came the hype:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/307180/Heritage/Ancient-Egy
pt/The-mystery-of-Alexandria-sarcophagus-may-be-revea.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com/mysterious-sarcophagus-opened-two-days-e
gypts-moa-says/
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/2018/07/news-alexandria-egypt
-coffin-sarcophagus-archaeology/

Then came the silly warnings:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/07/17/alexandria-tomb-cof
fin-mummy-curses/

Then came the 'reveal' that it contained three 'mummies':

http://english.ahram.org.eg/News/308226.aspx
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/54440/Important-facts-about-Alexand
ria%E2%80%99s-ancient-sarcophagus
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/54322/LIVE-UPDATE-Opening-of-ancien
t-sarcophagus-in-Alexandria
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-archaeology-sarcophagus/
mystery-egypt-sarcophagus-found-not-to-house-alexander-the-greats-remain
s-idUSKBN1K92LL
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/19/world/middleeast/egypt-black-sarcopha
gus-opened.html
https://www.livescience.com/63110-mysterious-black-sarcophagus-opened.ht
ml
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-44893804
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2018/07/19/egyptian-archaeologists-reve
al-contents-mysterious-giant-sarcophagus/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/19/three-mummies-egyptian-bla
ck-granite-sarcophagus-alexandria
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/black-sarcophagus-egypt-what-
is-inside-curse-alexandria-a8455156.html
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/20/c_137336288.htm
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/reuters/mystery-egypt-sarcophagus-found-not
-to-house-alexander-the-great-s-remains/44269104
https://www.yahoo.com/news/eww-experts-open-black-sarcophagus-203410716.
html
https://www.dw.com/en/egypt-sarcophagus-remains-not-those-of-alexander-t
he-great/a-44756467
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2018/07/19/egypt-sarcophagus-w
hat-they-found-massive-ancient-tomb/802720002/
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/105628832/ancient-sarcophagus-found
-at-egyptian-building-site-opened
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/20/630778612/in-egypt-ancient-coffins-conten
ts-finally-revealed
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/07/20/archaeologists-find
-unexpected-contents-inside-alexandria-coffin/
https://www.zmescience.com/science/big-black-sarcophagus-egypt-2007-2018
/ http://www.ibtimes.sg/pharaohs-curse-turned-false-after-archaeologists-o
pened-2000-year-old-sarcophagus-egypt-26767
https://www.newsweek.com/three-foul-smelling-mummies-unearthed-tomb-1033
885
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6801-180719-egypt-three-warriors

Then came the incredible post-opening silliness:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/black-sarcophagus-egypt-blood
-red-liquid-drink-petition-curse-alexandria-a8458036.html
https://metro.co.uk/2018/07/20/people-want-to-drink-the-red-liquid-from-
newly-opened-4000-year-old-sarcophagus-7740238/
http://time.com/5345125/egypt-black-sarcophagus-juice-for-mummies/

An Old Kingdom pottery workshop from Aswan:

https://phys.org/news/2018-07-archaeologists-ancient-pottery-workshop-eg
ypt.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/archaeologists-find-anc
ient-pottery-workshop-in-egypt/2018/07/19/db698692-8b5e-11e8-9d59-dccc2c
0cabcf_story.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/archaeologists-find-ancient-p
ottery-workshop-egypt-56688355
http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/2018-07/20/c_137336309.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6805-180720-old-kingdom-pottery

I think we mentioned this 2500 years bp mummification workshop from
Saqqara:

https://egyptianstreets.com/2018/07/15/archaeologists-discover-hidden-mu
mmy-workshop/
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-archaeologists-egypt-mummification-worksho
p.html
https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-in-egypt-discover-mummifica
tion-workshop/
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/14/a-goldmine-mummies-secrets
-uncovered-in-egypt
http://www.ibtimes.sg/archaeologists-discover-2000-year-old-ancient-buri
al-site-along-mummification-workshop-egypt-26719
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/new-egypt-ancient-burial-site-coul
d-help-reveal-mummification-secrets-1159354
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2018/07/16/archaeologists-discover-mu
mmification-workshop-near-egypts-pyramids
https://www.latercera.com/tendencias/noticia/egipto-arqueologos-hallan-m
ilenario-centro-momificacion-ayudara-estudiar-preservaban-los-cuerpos/
243918/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mummification-workshop-and-tro
ve-burial-relics-found-egypt-180969640/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/6791-180716-saqqara-burial-shaft

Feature on the Gurob ship model:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/egyptian-ship-model-sheds-light-on-bronze-ag
e-warfare-and-religion/

cf: http://www.vizin.org/Gurob/Gurob-as-exc.html

14 400 years bp (pre-agriculture!) flatbread from a site in Jordan:

https://humanities.ku.dk/news/2018/archaeologists-discover-bread-that-pr
edates-agriculture-by-4000-years/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-07/uoc--adb071118.php
https://phys.org/news/2018-07-archaeologists-bread-predates-agriculture-
years.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/07/180716151513.htm
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-44846874
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2018/jul/16/archaeologists-find-earl
iest-evidence-of-bread
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/bread-history-coo
king-stone-age-middle-east-archaeology-discovery-a8450276.html
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-earliest-pita-14-400-years-
old-found-in-jordan-s-black-desert-1.6273569
https://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Worlds-oldest-bread-found-at-prehistor
ic-site-in-Jordan-562680
https://www.timesofisrael.com/bread-was-being-baked-in-jordan-4000-years
-before-the-start-of-agriculture/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2018/07/16/
bread-farming-neolithic/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2018/07/16/
these-crumbs-come-from-the-worlds-oldest-bread-it-might-have-resembled-a
-pita/
https://www.cnn.com/2018/07/17/health/bread-jordan-desert-intl/
index.html
https://www.dw.com/en/revolutionary-evidence-proves-bread-existed-before
-agriculture/a-44702764
https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/worlds-oldest-bread-crumbs-jordan-pi
ta-discovery-13079411.php
https://www.thelocal.dk/20180717/danish-archaeologists-find-14000-year-o
ld-bread-in-jordan
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-bread/worlds-oldest-bread-fou
nd-at-prehistoric-site-in-jordan-idUSKBN1K62JB?feedType=RSS&feedName=sci
enceNews
https://www.newsweek.com/bread-early-humans-archaeology-1027726
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-discover-eviden
ce-bread-baked-advent-agriculture-180969667/
http://sciencenordic.com/following-new-trail-crumbs-agricultures-origins
https://www.npr.org/2018/07/18/630008575/archaeologists-find-14-500-year
-old-bread
https://gizmodo.com/discovery-of-14-000-year-old-toast-suggests-bread-ca
n-b-1827631358
https://www.latercera.com/tendencias/noticia/cientificos-descubren-los-h
umanos-hacian-pan-4-mil-anos-desarrollar-la-agricultura/246119/
https://elpais.com/elpais/2018/07/14/ciencia/1531557609_401411.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/6795-180717-hunter-gatherer-bread