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May 2016 Archeology – Miscellaneous
« on: May 01, 2016, 01:39:22 pm »
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Feature on how the Black Death spread:
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/how-europe-exported-black-death

Nice feature on how to promote your dig:
http://asorblog.org/2016/04/27/11828/

… but folks might want to be aware of this aspect of digs too:
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/25/secret-life-archaeologist-soil-sandwiches-sexism-sites

On assorted mythical beasties:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-myth-reality-fabled-beasts-real-life.html

Justus Rosenberg is an interesting guy:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/01/nyregion/professor-justus-rosenberg-has-a-past.html

… as was Hertha Marks Ayrton:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/04/27/hertha-marks-ayrton-the-english-pioneer-who-blazed-a-trail-for-w/

Another one from the early days of Explorator … seems the Book of Kells was always being brought up … it’s back in the news:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160425-the-book-of-kells-medieval-europes-greatest-treasure

On the history of cosmetic surgery:
http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-ugly-history-of-cosmetic-surgery-56500

Self help advice from Walt Whitman:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/30/books/walt-whitman-promoted-a-paleo-diet-who-knew.html

Questioning the identity of Shakespeare:
http://www.npr.org/2016/04/25/475551898/2-shakespearean-actors-revive-debate-over-the-bard-s-identity

On Shakespeare’s influence:
http://www.nytimes.com/video/theater/100000004351406/there-is-no-escaping-shakespeare.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

A Cervantes autograph manuscript:
http://ccaa.elpais.com/ccaa/2016/04/29/andalucia/1461941658_272714.html

Not sure where to put this one on art along the Tiber:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/27/world/europe/tiber-river-rome-cleanup.html

Big bucks for the founding rules of baseball:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/25/sports/baseball/founding-rules-of-baseball-sell-for-3-million-in-auction.html

Latest ancient beer recreation:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/israeli-brewery-recreated-2000-year-old-beer-180958883/

… and Noah’s ark will apparently sail again:
http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/04/27/ark-of-noah-replica-to-travel-to-brazil-sdg-orig.cnn

A history of suits:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36173491

… and leopard skin prints:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/29/arts/design/dressed-to-kill-the-power-ofleopard-prints.html

More on the history of the potato:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/04/25/the-secret-ancient-history-of-the-potato-that-could-change-the-story-of-civilization/

More on Germany’s beer purity law:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/04/29/475138367/germanys-beer-purity-law-is-500-years-old-is-it-past-its-sell-by-date?sc=17&f=1001

More on the antiquity of some fairy tales:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/tale-as-old-as-time-some-fairy-tales-may-be-6000-years-old/

Studying the data from inland ice records:
http://phys.org/news/2016-04-citizen-scientists-rare-ice-industrial.html

More on Sarah Parcak’s work:
http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-26/space-archaeologists-and-activists-are-using-satellites-unearth-history

On the history of the Nickel:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/brief-history-nickel-180958941/

Jane Kelley has died:
http://www.ucalgary.ca/facultyandstaff/memoriam/kelley
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Re: May 2016 Archeology – Miscellaneous
« Reply #1 on: May 15, 2016, 07:20:02 pm »
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Cave art near Bamberg turns out not to be made by humans at all:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-stone-age-art-upper-franconian.html

Feature on trepanation (not sure where to put this one):
https://www.sciencenews.org/article/risky-skull-surgery-done-ritual-reasons-6000-years-ago

In case you’re wondering what paleoscatologists do:
http://www.theguardian.com/careers/2016/may/12/paleoscatologists-dig-up-stools-as-precious-as-the-crown-jewels

Feature on Vermeer’s ‘Girl With a Pearl Earring*:
http://www.dw.com/en/masterpieces-revisited-girl-with-a-pearl-earring/a-19251666

Interesting feature on Wyeth’s ‘Christina’s World’:
http://www.livescience.com/54671-christinas-world-painting-nervous-system-disorder.html

Feature on ‘favourite works of art’:
http://www.dw.com/en/famous-works-of-art-which-is-your-favorite/a-19231685

On some of Ulysses S. Grant’s love letters:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/05/08/the-doting-devoted-love-letters-of-ulysses-s-grant/

A ‘basement Rembrandt’ goes on display:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/early-rembrandt-found-in-basement-goes-on-display-180959036/

Feature on the Diamond Sutra:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/Five-things-to-know-about-diamond-sutra-worlds-oldest-dated-printed-book-180959052/

On creating Shakespeare’s First Folio:
http://shakespeareandbeyond.folger.edu/2016/05/03/creating-shakespeares-first-folio/

On the Amateur Cloud Society:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/08/magazine/the-amateur-cloud-society-that-sort-of-rattled-the-scientific-community.html

Some really old cognac came to auction:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/10/let-them-drink-cognac-a-famous-french-restaurant-auctions-off-pre-revolutionary-booze/

… as did some interesting 19th century Holy Land photos:
http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Snack-Bites/A-View-of-Israel-The-19th-Century-452774

… and a Rodin:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36255283

Even ‘Antique’s Roadshow’ nods every now and then:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/11/477666576/70s-high-school-art-project-mistakenly-valued-at-50k-on-antiques-roadshow

Feature on Mme de Pompadour:
http://www.npr.org/2016/05/10/477369874/more-than-a-mistress-madame-de-pompadour-was-a-minister-of-the-arts

Feature on the Knights Templar:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160510-the-hidden-world-of-the-knights-templar

A Napoleonic-era journal turns up in a Tasmanian bookshop:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-36219991

Marking the Battle of the Somme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-36286846

Not sure where to put this one: a Confederate colony is celebrated in Brazil:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/09/world/americas/a-slice-of-the-confederacy-in-the-interior-of-brazil.html

DaVinci was first to study friction:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-leonardo-da-vincithe-systematic-friction.html

Latest ‘Man in the Iron Mask’ identification:
http://www.livescience.com/54669-man-in-the-iron-mask-identified.html

On the origins of sports betting:
http://www.greatbigstory.com/stories/walk-til-you-drop-the-story-behind-sports-betting

They’re linking Leicester’s football success to Richard III somehow:
http://www.livescience.com/54634-is-richard-iii-ghost-football-fan.html

Remnants of Irish musical history …. In India:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-ancient-irish-musical-history-modern.html

The earliest depiction of Niagara Falls was saved:
http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/may/08/earliest-view-of-niagara-falls-saved-from-export-after-public-appeal

Looking for Leonardo’s DNA:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-leonardo-da-vinci-dna-experts.html

In case you wondered what an anthropologist does:
https://theconversation.com/what-does-an-anthropologist-actually-do-55321

What happens when you don’t keep pigeons away from your monument:
http://www.seeker.com/25-tons-of-pigeon-poo-found-in-medieval-monument-1769560480.html

Pondering the ‘Dark Ages’:
http://www.historytoday.com/ian-mortimer/defending-%E2%80%98dark-ages%E2%80%99

Pondering the effectiveness of plague quarantines:
http://www.livescience.com/54705-plague-eyam-quarantine.html

Another one on rising seas and archaeological sites:
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/rising-seas-are-swamping-our-archaeological-heritage/

A DNA study suggests humans were in Arabia 10 000 years earlier than previously thought:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/uoh-rph051116.php

… and the origins of dromedary domestication:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-dromedary-domestication.html

Questioning a study tracing Ashkenazi Jews’ origins to Turkey:
http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/339910/scholars-blast-new-study-tracing-ashkenazi-jews-to-khazars-of-ancient-turke

… and studying the genetic roots of a Jewish community in India:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-genetic-bene-israel-india-jewish.html

New tech to determine whether jaw bones come from a male or female:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-techniques-jaw-bone-woman.html

Rethinking skeletal ‘markers’ of bad health:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-skeletal-marker-physiological-stress-good.html

Charles Thomas has died:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/08/charles-thomas-obituary
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Re: May 2016 Archeology – Miscellaneous
« Reply #2 on: May 22, 2016, 11:43:35 am »
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Turns out fire hardened spear aren’t that great:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/05/turns-out-fire-hardened-spears-arent-as-badass-as-we-thought/

Compendium piece on assorted vampire/zombie type burials:
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/zombie-archaeology/483195/

The remains of a Canadian soldier killed in WWI in Belgium have been identified:
http://www.chilliwacktimes.com/national/379692881.html

Pondering Nathan Drake and other video game archaeologists:
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2016/may/16/uncharted-4-looter-adventurer-character-cultural-appropriation

Pondering whether farmers or nomads had their language spread more:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/farmers-vs-nomads-whose-lingo-spread-the-farthest/

Implications of an archaeologist shortage in the UK:
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/lack-archaeologists-will-bring-uk-halt/

The nature v nurture debate renewed:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-nature-nurture-important-anthropologist.html

On the evolution of the human nose:
http://www.livescience.com/54801-genes-for-nose-shape-identified.html

Assorted ‘ruins’ photos:
http://www.bbc.com/news/in-pictures-36316942

Seeking stories from the Battle of Jutland:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-36350334

Feature on a 10 year restoration of a Renaissance piece at the Fitzwilliam:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-36310280

When Dickens met Dostoevsky:
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/when-dickens-met-dostoevsky/

Review of Montefiore, *The Romanovs*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/22/books/review/the-romanovs-1613-1918-by-simon-sebag-montefiore.html

What Eske Willerslev is up to:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/17/science/eske-willerslev-ancient-dna-scientist.html

Fritz Stern had died:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/books/fritz-stern-a-leading-historian-on-modern-germany-dies-at-90.html

… as has Robert W. Gutman:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/19/books/robert-w-gutman-biographer-of-wagner-and-mozart-dies-at-90.html?smid=nytcore-iphone-share&smprod=nytcore-iphone
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Re: May 2016 Archeology – Miscellaneous
« Reply #3 on: May 29, 2016, 09:04:31 pm »
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Pondering the Anthropocene:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2016/05/22/01-is-it-time-for-human-era-to-be-named-maybe.html

On Shakespeare and Germaine Greer:
http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-how-shakespeare-helped-shape-germaine-greers-feminist-masterpiece-59880

On the history of walls:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/upshot/what-history-teaches-us-about-walls.html

On Lascaux and the origins of writing:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/cave-art-ice-age-paleolithic-writing-first-signs/

On humans and fire:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-crucial-interaction-mankind-explored.html

On the evolution of the ‘Victorian pastime’ of running:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/05/27/how-running-went-from-victorian-pastime-to-the-most-popular-activity-on-earth/

A ‘previously unrecorded’ Shakespeare First Folio fetches a good price:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=87555

Native Americans are protesting an auction in France:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/25/479455188/native-americans-protest-planned-auction-of-sacred-objects-in-france

A call for more diversity in archaeology:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/2016/may/23/archaeology-must-open-up-become-more-diverse

Feature on assorted ‘cultural protection’ heroes:
http://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/24/Heroes-Who-Died-Protecting-Precious-Knowledge/

Training refugees to preserve antiquities:
http://www.worldcrunch.com/migrant-lives/in-italy-training-war-refugees-to-preserve-antiquities/c17s21146/

A bunch of looted WWII art has turned up in a Moscow Museum:
http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/antiquities-looted-during-world-war-ii-have-been-mysteriously-discovered-in-moscow

Trying to revive Irish storytelling:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160502-how-the-irish-lost-their-words

Toilet history:
http://www.nature.com/news/the-secret-history-of-ancient-toilets-1.19960

Interesting 200 year old anatomical models:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160526-why-these-anatomical-models-are-not-disgusting

Latest 19th century beer recreation:
http://www.livescience.com/54916-carlsberg-recreates-historic-beer.html

Pondering medieval murderous rabbits in manuscripts:
http://boingboing.net/2016/05/25/why-medieval-monks-filled-manu.html

Pondering the ban of women from Mount Athos:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36378690

Feature on the effects of the eruption of Mount Tambora in 1816:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/weather/2016/05/26/year-without-a-summer-1816-mount-tambora/84855694/
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