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October 2014 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« on: October 05, 2014, 06:49:42 pm »
Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

Salt is bad for archaeology:
http://www.science20.com/inside_science/the_enemy_of_archaeology_is_not_people_its_salt-145869 ?

Out of our period but interesting … a Stuka from the waters off Croatia:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/croatia/11135753/Remains-of-WWII-dive-bomber-found-off-the-coast-of-Croatia.html

Feature on Wedgewood and the BM:
http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2014/10/04/wedgwood-and-the-british-museum/

… related:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=73331

Ireland is voting on an out-of-date blasphemy law:
http://newsdaily.com/2014/10/ireland-to-vote-on-removal-of-blasphemy-law-last-used-in-1855/

Keeping fit in Victorian times:
http://www.bbc.com/news/health-28858090

On the rise and fall of the stethoscope:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29376437

… and we might as well mention the blood pressure thing too:
http://theconversation.com/health-check-what-do-my-blood-pressure-numbers-mean-29212

On historical piracy in the Eastern Mediterranean:
http://www.ekathimerini.com/4dcgi/_w_articles_wsite4_1_04/10/2014_543428

Not sure if they’e recreated some170 year old shipwreck beer or are still planning to:
http://www.euronews.com/2014/10/04/finnish-brewers-aim-to-recreate-170-year-old-beer-from-shipwreck/

A lost 1916 Sherlock Holmes movie has been found:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-29474334

An original Mozart sonata found in Budapest:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/86f52d80eef05d7edc079e0e3ee8896f.htm

Roland Besenval has died:
http://www.sciencesetavenir.fr/archeo-pal

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Re: October 2014 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #1 on: October 19, 2014, 08:23:55 pm »
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Digging up Cecil B. deMille’s sphinxes:
http://news.discovery.com/history/giant-sphinx-from-ten-commandments-film-unearthed-141017.htm

The Vatican is limiting visitors to the Sistine Chapel:
http://newsdaily.com/2014/10/vatican-to-limit-sistine-chapel-visitors-to-protect-fragile-frescoes/

170 years b.p. beer recreation:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2795477/get-ship-wrecked-170-year-old-beer-sunken-boat-recreated-lab-buy-bottle-90.html

Pondering why kid’s heads were/are reshaped:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20141013-why-we-reshape-childrens-skulls

Indiana Jones is not a good image for an archaeologist:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/movies/indiana-jones-no-pinup-boy-for-archaeologists-20141013-114vxz.html

How the bicycle got its spokes:
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-bicycle-spokes.html

Remembering the Spanish flu epidemic of 1918:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29541235

The Portable Antiquities Scheme documented its one millionth find:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=73571

The Times reviews its Woolf coverage:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/books/review/worthwhile-woolf.htmlhttp://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/12/books/review/worthwhile-woolf.html

Ongoing concerns for the Warburg Institute:
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/11/books/warburg-institute-threatened-by-funding-woes.html

How English became the language of Science:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29543708

On philosophers as scientists:
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-defense-philosophers-scientists.html

On the attraction and perils of lead:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29568505

Remembering KonTiki:
http://bangordailynews.com/2014/10/10/opinion/contributors/the-kon-tiki-man-at-100-and-his-kindred-spirits-in-maine/

Review(ish) of Jerry Broten, *Great Maps*:
http://www.wired.com/2014/10/greatest-maps-history-collected-one-fantastic-book/

Fine tuning the human genome:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141008121952.htm

3d printing of medieval teeth:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2014/3d-printing-of-medieval-berliners-teeth-creates-new-resource-for-researchers
 Cf http://www.poweredbyosteons.org/2013/06/whence-earliest-berliners-part-1.html

A method for dating water:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141015090448.htm?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+sciencedaily+%28Latest+Science+News+--+ScienceDaily%29

A scan of Rene Descartes’ skull revealed and osteoma:
http://phys.org/news/2014-10-father-philosophy-forensic-scrutiny.html


Ali Mazrui has died:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/intellectual-giant-ali-mazrui-1933-2014-081004873.html

...as has Gerald Larue:
http://www.smh.com.au/comment/obituaries/it-aint-necessarily-so-20141011-114mls.html

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Re: October 2014 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #2 on: October 26, 2014, 01:03:46 pm »
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Britain is going to digitize the papers from the India Office
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29702694?ocid=socialflow_twitter

On the origin of ‘round the bend’:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-magazine-monitor-29761017

A photographer’s notebook associated with Captain Scott’s hut in the Antarctic:
http://www.livescience.com/48418-antarctic-expedition-notebook-discovered.html

Napoloeon’s hat is coming to auction:
http://newsdaily.com/2014/10/napoleons-two-cornered-hat-up-for-grabs-at-french-auction/

Interesting suggestion that some ancient redheads may have only been so after death:
http://www.livescience.com/48384-ancient-redhead-myth.html
cf http://rspb.royalsocietypublishing.org/content/281/1796/20141755.abstract?sid=e340cf0f-4e5f-4951-bf63-f3af890dd305 (abstract)

Pondering the ‘new religion’ of the Jedi:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-29753530

… and the paeleodiet
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/oct/22/what-language-tells-us-about-stone-age-diet-linguistics

… and tea in Morocco:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/tea-in-morocco-its-in-the-blood/2014/10/20/8f7730c0-54b9-11e4-892e-602188e70e9c_story.html

Remembering/learning from the Spanish flu:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141022123454.htm
 cf: http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2334/14/510

They still find WWI ordinance in Belgium:
http://newsdaily.com/2014/10/world-war-one-bombs-a-part-of-life-in-belgium-even-100-years-on/

Latest on the Turin Shroud:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/oct/23/turin-shroud-jesus-christ-medieval-easter-ritual-historian-charles-freeman

On the swastika:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-29644591

Yale is digitizing its collection of papyri
http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2014/10/20/libraries-digitize-papyrus-collection/

A method for dating ‘trapped water’
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/10/141015090448.htm

 On use of drones in archaeology:
http://www.nbcnews.com/tech/innovation/high-tech-drones-give-archaeologists-birds-eye-view-past-n231936

Edwin Good has died:
http://www.paloaltoonline.com/obituaries/memorials/edwin-m-ted-good?o=4069

...as has Gough Whitlam:
http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2014/oct/21/gough-whitlam-remembered-a-devoted-classicist

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