Author Topic: September 2014 Archeology - Miscellaneous (Read 1105 times)

Aisling · « **on:** September 07, 2014, 06:55:31 pm »

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Not sure where to put this study of 4th century tunics associated with St Ambrose:
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-reconstruct-veneration-saints-4th-century-tunics.html

Sell the Mona Lisa?
http://www.france24.com/en/20140902-could-france-sell-mona-lisa-pay-off-its-debts/

Humans are being blamed for plenty of extinctions:
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-extinctions-human-era-worse-thought.html

Tracing the origins of the modern population boom:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/ehs-mpb090214.php ?

Paris is losing touch with Hemingway:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-28951095

Latest on the Victoria-Brown potential affair:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/opinion/a-queens-forbidden-love.html?_r=0

Investing in antiquities:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/03/arts/international/investments-in-antiquities-pay-off-in-new-museum-in-the-south-of-france.html?ref=arts

Bill Gates has a history project of sorts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/07/magazine/so-bill-gates-has-this-idea-for-a-history-class.html

A parrot sparks a fight:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29079683

A medieval manuscript donation to the University of York:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=72633

Lord Carnarvon’s house is up for sale:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2745252/Would-YOU-want-house-jinxed-Curse-Tutankhamun-Magnificent-palazzo-owned-Lord-Carnarvon-goes-market-30million-house-isn-t-thing-buying.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

A 1000 years b.p. Iraqi hangover cure:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/healthy-living/2014/09/04/1-000-year-old-Iraqi-hangover-cure-now-modern-favorite.html

On the popularity of a German WWI game:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29050369

Old ship logs are revealing info about climate (and other things):
http://www.npr.org/2014/09/03/341697516/old-ship-logs-reveal-adventure-tragedy-and-hints-about-climate

On the genetics of rabbit domestication:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/08/140828142744.htm

Aisling · « **Reply #1 on:** September 18, 2014, 09:45:51 pm »

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The Kon Tiki expedition was a bit misleading, it seems:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-voyage-kon-tiki-misled-world-about-navigating-pacific-180952478/?no-ist

Pondering how wars should be remembered:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29174556

One of Lawrence of Arabia’s maps is coming to auction:
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/variety/2014/09/12/Map-drawn-by-Lawrence-of-Arabia-to-be-auctioned-in-London-.html

… as is a poem by AE Housman:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2749193/Handwritten-draft-Housman-s-famous-WWI-poem-derided-Germany-suggesting-British-troops-mercenaries-set-sell-15-000.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

A ‘hidden’ portrait of Elizabeth I (and more):
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=72788#.VBWySleC9YU

Feature on ‘destroyed cities’:
http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/petra-and-greece-feature-in-list-of-fascinating-cities-of-destruction/story-e6frfqai-1227054986274?from=public_rss

Ten great shipwreck discoveries:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/canada/11085969/Ten-great-shipwreck-discoveries.html

Feature on limekilns:
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2013/09/lime-kilns.html

… and the evolution of the circulating fan:
http://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2014/09/circulating-fans-air-conditioning.html

Science comes to the rescue of art:
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-science-art.html

Latest evidence for a cosmic impact causing the Younger Dryas period:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2014-09/uocp-mds091114.php

Mapping Ashkenazi DNA:
http://medicalxpress.com/news/2014-09-dna-sequence-ashkenazi-jews.html

Herbert Lottman has died:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/11/arts/herbert-lottman-biographer-of-french-figures-dies-at-87.html

Aisling · « **Reply #2 on:** September 21, 2014, 02:17:22 pm »

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Marking Yeats 150th anniversary:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-29285412

On the power of red:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29240820

On Freud’s influence on English:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29251040

On the return of the longsword:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/16/sports/for-longsword-a-comeback-ages-in-the-making.html

Trying to revive the Manx language:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-29171457

Finding out more about the ‘unknown eruption’:
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-eyewitness-accounts-mystery-volcanic-eruption.html

Rethinking Venus figurines:
http://nhpr.org/post/looking-beyond-notions-erotica-prehistoric-art

A previously-unknown Constable:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2759624/Previously-unknown-Constable-painting-Hampstead-Heath-discovered-museum-staff-prepared-exhibition.html

This year’s MacArthur recipients:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/17/arts/macarthur-awards-go-to-21-diverse-fellows.html

Followup to that Glasgow Art school fire:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-29203857
Review(ish) of Dan Jurafsky, *The Language of Food*:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2014/09/15/346794301/language-of-food-reveals-mysteries-of-menu-words-and-ketchup
Multispectral imaging reveals some hidden text on a map used by Columbus:
http://www.wired.com/2014/09/martellus-map/

John McIlwaine has died:
http://www.brad.ac.uk/life-sciences/news-and-events/news/john-mcilwaine.php

... as has Donald Bailey:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/15/donald-bailey-obituary

Aisling · « **Reply #3 on:** September 28, 2014, 02:48:16 pm »

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Did Marco Polo reach Alaska?:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11124102/Did-Marco-Polo-discover-America-in-13th-century.html

Tipping history:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-29348952

The kilogram marked an anniversary:
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-kilogram-celebrates-125th-birthday.html

Some original Mozart manuscripts turn up:
http://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2014/09/27/encuentran-en-budapest-partituras-originales-de-la-marcha-turca-de-mozart/

Ten greatest ruins list:
http://www.accuweather.com/en/features/trend/ten_of_the_worlds_greatest_rui/34178648

All sorts of booze recreations … now we have a shipwreck perfume recreation:
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/150-year-old-perfume-found-in-shipwreck-unveiled-as-new-fragrance-1.2022096

What’s the big deal with equinoxes?:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2014/0922/First-day-of-autumn-Why-do-we-celebrate-equinoxes-anyway

Angelina Jolie is involved in a biopic project about Richard Leakey:
http://www.3news.co.nz/entertainment/jolie-to-shoot-archaeologist-biopic-2014092206

Review of Salvatore Basile,*Cool*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/21/nyregion/a-look-at-our-love-affair-with-air-conditioning.html

More on Sobibor:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/09/18/archaeologists-sobibor_n_5843846.html

On the use of drones in archaeology:
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22329883.900-airchaeological-drones-search-for-ancient-treasures.html#.VCgiOFfCe9Y

Feature on digital archaeology:
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-digital-archaeology-exploration.html

DNA analysis suggests there have been more mothers than fathers throughout history:
http://phys.org/news/2014-09-manly-men-feminine-women-linked.html
cf:http://www.investigativegenetics.com/content/5/1/13
John McIlwaine has died:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2014/sep/28/john-mcilwaine

...as has Duchess of Devonshire:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-29348946

... and Gerald A. Larue:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/local/on-faith-local/gerald-a-larue-religious-scholar-who-debunked-bible-stories-dies-at-98/2014/09/22/46829878-4299-11e4-b47c-f5889e061e5f_story.html?wprss=rss_local

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