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August 2014 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« on: August 20, 2014, 07:49:46 pm »
Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

Still not sure where to put this one … the UPenn Museum (re)discovered a 6500 years b.p. ‘skeleton in its closet’:
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-museum-rediscovers-ancient-skeleton-storage.html

Pondering whether zero originated in Cambodia:
http://www.phnompenhpost.com/post-weekend/did-ancient-cambodians-invent-zero

Feature on Lawrence of Arabia:
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/11383293.The_legend_of_Lawrence_of_Arabia/

Feature on investing in the antiquities market:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/18/arts/international/the-lure-of-antiquities.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

The Art Institute of Chicago is the latest to put its catalogs online:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=72190

The Smithsonian has a massive crowdsourcing project:
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=72110

Mourning an aged Swedish eel (no … really!):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28721701

Various items related to the centennial of the outbreak of WWI (these are all different in focus):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-28624516

… Sassoon’s war diaries are now online:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28581726
cf: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-28705819

… while a marching song had its centenary too:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-28729178

… and posters:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2014/07/29/the-posters-that-sold-world-war-i/?hpid=z11

Happy birthday to the traffic light:
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-traffic.html

Sanksrit is apparently controversial:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-28755509

A statue of Jesus in Mexico has human teeth:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28703877

Strange tale of a 19th century lawyer who shot himself to prove his case:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28805895

Another view of the Atari dig:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2014/08/why-we-dug-atari/375702/

Review of Michael Schmidt, *The Novel*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/10/books/review/the-novel-by-michael-schmidt.html?ref=books

On geophysical methods of locating sites:
http://sciencenordic.com/archaeology-without-shovel

Several passings to note this week:
Colin Pendleton:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/aug/13/colin-pendleton-obituary

Robert H. Ellsworth:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/08/arts/design/robert-h-ellsworth-whose-life-was-devoted-to-chinese-art-dies-at-85.html?ref=design

Abby Robbins:
http://www.herald-citizen.com/obituaries/item/2163-abigayle-robbins

Magdalena Midgley:
http://www.heraldscotland.com/comment/obituaries/magdalena-midgley.24925851

Shuka Dorfman:
http://artdaily.com/news/71926/The-Israel-Antiquities-Authority-mourns-the-passing-of-its-Director-General-Shuka-Dorfman

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Re: August 2014 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #1 on: August 27, 2014, 07:20:32 pm »
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Latest look-what-turned-up-in-museum-storage find are some barnacles associated with Charles Darwin:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-28895586

Sophia Tolstoy’s side of the story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/20/books/kreutzer-sonata-variations-has-a-scorned-wifes-rebuttal.html?ref=books

On the Golden Ratio:
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/904011-the-golden-ratio-a-sacred-number-that-links-the-past-to-the-present/

On the language of hymns:
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/15/340700735/falling-in-love-with-language-through-the-power-of-hymns?sc=17&f=1032&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

An early brain scan thingy:
http://www.npr.org/2014/08/17/340906546/the-machine-that-tried-to-scan-the-brain-in-1882?sc=17&f=1007&utm_source=iosnewsapp&utm_medium=Email&utm_campaign=app

What archaeologists do:
http://www.penn.museum/blog/research/sitz-unseen-looking-at-archaeological-sites/

On the iceberg that hit the Titanic:
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-exceptional-iceberg-titanic.html

On the history of dice:
http://www.neatorama.com/2014/08/18/Rollin-Bones-The-History-of-Dice/

… and mason jars:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/17/business/authenticity-repurposed-in-a-mason-jar.html

More WWI related items:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/travel/100-years-of-gratitude.html

More on shipwreck booze:
http://www.ottawasun.com/2014/08/20/200-year-old-bottle-of-booze-found-on-shipwreck-still-drinkable-researchers-say

Computer-generated artistic influence:
http://arxiv.org/abs/1408.3218

Emmanuel Kriaras has died:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2014/08/24/lexicographer-philologist-emmanuel-kriaras-dies-at-107/

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Re: August 2014 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #2 on: August 31, 2014, 04:16:05 pm »
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Pondering the developmental implications of making stone-tipped spears:
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-stone-tipped-spears-lethal-early-cognitive.html

What we can learn from 14th century Venice about Ebola:
http://phys.org/news/2014-08-14th-century-venice-ebola-emerging.html

The fate of a Crimean gold exhibition is turning into a saga:
http://www.aljazeera.com/indepth/features/2014/08/war-over-crimean-gold-proxy-ukraine-russia-amersterdam-201482392137799800.html

Interesting Victorian porcine talent show:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-28982145

Folks might be interested in the ‘hellenizing’ of Skopje:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28951171

An Indian museum is being somewhat reticent about its Dalis:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-india-28923863

An incredible number of historic images on Flickr:
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-28976849

That skeleton they rediscovered in a Philly museum is going on display:
http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/weird/2014/08/28/museum-to-display-6500-year-old-human-skeleton/14763951/

… meanwhile, an Egyptian sarcophagus was just hanging out in an English home:
http://www.essexchronicle.co.uk/Indiana-Jones-Egyptian-sarcophagus-propped-wall/story-22842914-detail/story.html

Another side to Arthur Conan Doyle:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28954510

On how that little ‘chinese tune’ came to be associated with China:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/08/28/338622840/how-the-kung-fu-fighting-melody-came-to-represent-asia

Paper on tracking migrations with DNA:
http://biorxiv.org/content/biorxiv/early/2014/03/21/003517.full.pdf

Sam Hunter has died:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/26/arts/sam-hunter-curator-and-museum-founder-dies-at-91.html?ref=obituaries

...as has Frans Bruggen:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/25/arts/music/frans-bruggen-pioneer-in-early-music-dies-at-79.html?ref=obituaries

...and Jean Redpath:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/24/arts/music/jean-redpath-prolific-scottish-folk-singer-dies-at-77.html?ref=music

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