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explorator 21.28 November 4, 2018
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John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo, Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David
Critchley, Richard Miller, Ian Tompkins, Don Buck, 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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A bit of Out of Africa stuff ... 300 000 years bp stone tools from Ti's
al Ghadah:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181029130948.htm
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/mpif-ehm102518.php
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/science/arabian-peninsula-green.html
https://newsroom.unsw.edu.au/news/science-tech/scientists-find-evidence-
earliest-hominins-arabian-peninsula-0
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/archaeologists-find-300000-year-
old-stone-tools-in-saudi-arabia/
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fossils-hint-hominids-migrated-throu
gh-green-arabia-300000-years-ago
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7115-181101-green-saudi-arabia

Reconstructing a Neanderthal ribcage:

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-reconstructs-neandertal-ribcage-clues-anci
ent.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/uow-srn102518.php
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181030121921.htm
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/neanderthal-breathing-techniq
ue-skeleton-chest-ribcage-fossils-bones-a8609256.html
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2018/10/30/neanderthals-upright-indi
viduals-skeleton-proves/
https://www.cnn.com/2018/10/30/health/neanderthal-thorax-breathing-ribca
ge-study/index.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7110-181031-neanderthal-breathing-capaci
ty

A study of Neanderthal teeth suggests they were exposed to lead and
other things (there might be two studies here):

https://phys.org/news/2018-10-earliest-exposure-year-old-neanderthal-tee
th.html
https://phys.org/news/2018-11-teeth-environments-ancient-humans-neandert
hals.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/10/181031141423.htm
https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/neanderthal-teeth-reveal-lead-ex
posure-and-difficult-winters/
https://theconversation.com/what-teeth-can-tell-about-the-lives-and-envi
ronments-of-ancient-humans-and-neanderthals-104923
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=28456
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7116-181101-neanderthal-child-tooth

Linking HPV to Neanderthals:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181102083428.htm
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/?p=28510
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AFRICA
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On ritual cemeteries for animals across Africa:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ritual-cemeteries-cows-hum
ans-pastoralist-expansion-across-africa-180970683/

Feature on medieval remains in Ethiopia:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/11/03/how-ethiopias-medieval-r
uins-inform-its-modern-day-ethnic-strife/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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The remains of a 4500 years bp ramp system in an Eastern Desert quarry
is bringing out the pyramid-mystery-finally-solved crowd:

https://www.sciencealert.com/ancient-egyptian-ramp-reveals-how-giant-sto
nes-were-transported-out-of-quarries-pyramids
https://www.newsweek.com/how-were-pyramids-built-scientists-discover-how
-ancient-egyptians-moved-huge-1195783
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=121528
05
https://www.livescience.com/63978-great-pyramid-ramp-discovered.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/7109-181031-egypt-quarry-ramp

Marking the 96th anniversary of the discovery of Tut:

https://egyptindependent.com/luxor-celebrates-the-96th-anniversary-of-di
scovering-the-tomb-of-tutankhamun/

China and Egypt have signed some sort of archaeological MOU:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/315261/Heritage/Ancient-Egy
pt/China-signs-its-first-MoU-with-Egypt-in-the-archae.aspx

More on that 'pharoah's booth' find:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1393861/middle-east

Finds from biblical Dan suggest worship of idols and Yahweh:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-israelites-in-bibl
ical-dan-worshipped-idols-and-yahweh-too-1.6612851

In the wake of the Museum of the Bible's confession, a feature on DSS
fakes:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-dead-sea-scroll-fa
kes-abound-and-scholars-admit-they-share-the-blame-1.6600900

.... and related:

https://www.salon.com/2018/10/29/lessons-from-the-museum-of-the-bibles-f
ake-dead-sea-scrolls-how-not-to-buy-looted-antiquities/

Feature on the Hasmonean rulers:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/people-cultures-in-the-bible/
people-in-the-bible/hasmonean-rulers/

Feature on the meeting place of the Council of Nicaea:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/
biblical-archaeology-sites/nicea-church-council-of-nicea/

Prehistoric finds and petroglyphs from northwest Iran:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/429201/Prehistoric-relics-petroglyphs-di
scovered-in-northwest-Iran

Remains of a medieval water supply network at Alamut castle:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/429203/Centuries-old-water-supply-syste
m-found-in-Alamut-castle

On politics v archaeology in Iraq:

http://www.brownpoliticalreview.org/2018/10/still-recording-syria-future
-journalism-assad-regime-2/

More on the Canaan-Egypt fish trade:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/daily-life-an
d-practice/canaan-and-egypt-ancient-fish-trade/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Cyclopean walls in Bulgaria are being linked to the Myceneans:

http://archaeologyinbulgaria.com/2018/10/24/3200-year-old-cyclopean-maso
nry-fortress-found-in-south-bulgaria-shows-ancient-thrace-was-part-of-my
cenaean-civilization/

Remains of a couple of archaic kouroi from Atalanti:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/234328/gallery/ekathimerini/in-images/
archaeologists-unearth-ancient-statues-in-atalanti-region

Vague item on the find of a 'Roman imperial hall' from Smyrna (?):

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2018/10/26/roman-imperial-hall-found-a
t-construction-site

A metallurgical site from Apollonia/Sozopol:

https://www.novinite.com/articles/192719/Unique+Discovery%3A+Archaeologi
sts+Found+the+Oldest+Metallurgical+Plant+in+Bulgaria

Second century CE roman latrine mosaics from Antiochia ad Cragum:

https://www.livescience.com/64000-dirty-jokes-mosaics-discovered.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7119-181102-turkey-latrine-mosaic

A number of strigils were among the finds from burials in Assos:

https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture-and-art/2-000-year-old-athletes-tools-u
nearthed-in-nw-turkey/1297924

Assorted sculptures from the Roman baths site in Jerash:

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/french-diggers-excavate-aphrodite-
zeus-sculptures-jerash-1207702

Latest from the University of Cyprus' excavations at the Laona tumulus:

https://www.pio.gov.cy/en/press-releases-article.html?id=4365#flat

Latest finds from the Abermagwr Roman villa in Ceredigion:

http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/article.cfm?id=124594&headline=Wealth%20a
t%20empire%E2%80%99s%20edge&sectionIs=news&searchyear=2018
https://www.aol.co.uk/news/2018/10/22/excavations-reveal-details-about-1
-800-year-old-roman-villa-in-w/

Possible Roman remains at a Hurworth housing development:

https://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/darlington/16995696.roman-r
emains-found-at-controversial-hurworth-housing-development/

Hopes of Roman finds from a school construction site in Yatton:

http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/archaeological-dig-at-north-end-i
n-yatton-1-5753675

Surveying underwater Bronze Age sites off the coast of Croatia:

https://www.croatiaweek.com/archaeologists-discover-oldest-olive-groves-
in-croatia-dating-3500-years/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/7091-181023-bronze-age-croatia

Feature on the history of digs at Sardis:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/10/harvard-archaeologists-pr
obe-the-secrets-of-sardis/

.... and Antioch:

https://www.princeton.edu/news/2018/11/01/uncovering-antioch

.... and the bathing complex at Doliche:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2018-10/coe-wts103018.php

Feature on beasties mentioned in Caesar's Gallic Wars:

https://cosmosmagazine.com/biology/identifying-the-beasts-in-caesar-s-fo
rest

On efforts to preserve archaeological relics at Aidonia: