Author Topic: June 2016 Archeology - Miscellaneous (Read 1810 times)

Aisling · « **on:** June 05, 2016, 01:03:19 pm »

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Lots of attention for a study suggesting dogs were domesticated independently on two occasions:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-dogs-domesticated-world.html

Agriculture apparently ‘saved’ males:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/scp-mws060316.php

Pondering the world wide effects of potato blight:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-potato-disease-world.html

A Viking ship recreation:
http://sciencenordic.com/replica-viking-ship-will-recreate-norse-voyages-greenland

The changing view of the universe:
http://phys.org/news/2016-05-copernicus-revolution-galileo-vision-view.html

On hidden messages in Alice in Wonderland:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160527-alice-in-wonderlands-hidden-messages

… while a rare copy of the story is coming to auction:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/31/rare-copy-of-alices-adventures-in-wonderland-expected-to-fetch-2-million-at-auction/

A WWII German encryption device turns up on eBay:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/29/479943359/museum-finds-piece-of-wwii-history-for-sale-on-ebay

… of related interest:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36446422

Podcast on Shakespeare and religion:
http://www.folger.edu/shakespeare-unlimited-episode-49

Latest really ancient beer recreation:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160526-a-beer-older-than-the-bible

Interesting feature on Geneva warehouses and what’s in them:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/arts/design/one-of-the-worlds-greatest-art-collections-hides-behind-this-fence.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

OpEd on the importance of historians:
http://www.historytoday.com/charles-west/sorry-vice-chancellor-we-need-more-historians-sixth-century

Big bucks for a Ming cup:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-36419623

What coral can tell us about human history:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-scientists-coral-history.html

On ‘death photography’ in Victorian England:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-36389581

Review of Thompson, *Possession*:
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/01/479728899/possession-charts-the-tangled-paths-of-art-and-antiquities

Using a computer to fake a Rembrandt:
http://www.dw.com/en/computer-fakes-a-work-by-rembrandt/a-19297687

I think we had this Shakespeare and Germaine Greer piece before:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/31/shakespeare-brought-erotic-poetry-to-housewives-germaine-greer-s

More on Phoenician DNA:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0529/Ancient-Phoenician-DNA-suggests-a-new-model-of-human-migration

Eddie O’Hara has died:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-merseyside-36418137

…as has Jane Fawcett:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/30/obituaries/jane-fawcett-british-decoder-who-helped-doom-the-bismarck-dies-at-95.html

… and Yang Jiang:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/books/yang-jiang-chinese-author-and-translator-dies-at-104.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

Aisling · « **Reply #1 on:** June 12, 2016, 12:16:59 pm »

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A Sistine Chapel replication in Mexico:
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2016/06/viva-cristo-rey-sistine-chapel-replicated-in-mexico-over-the-tomb-of-plutarco-elias-calles/

Assorted lost ‘underwater worlds’:
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/eco-tourism/stories/7-lost-underwater-worlds

Assorted meteoric iron artifacts:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/from-king-tut-to-kitchen-knives-meteorite-made-relics-span-centuries/

The Shlomo Moussaieff glass collection is coming to auction … here’s the catalog:
http://www.christies.com/zmags/?ZmagsPublishID=4cd752a3&SaleTitle=&SaleId=0&GUID=&JumptoLot

The adventures of that Noah’s Ark recreation:
http://gu.com/p/4kqc2?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

A call for the burial of the Elephant Man’s remains:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/09/elephant-man-skeleton-should-be-given-christian-burial-say-campaigners

A database of human reproductive habits or something like that:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-centuries-old-database-reveals-clues-human.html

Latest identification of the strain of plague:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608142540.htm

Mapping 6000 years of human settlements:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160607093505.htm

Searching/finding property belonging to Holocaust victims:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-items-belonging-to-auschwitz-victims-newly-uncovered

Some humour:
http://assets.amuniversal.com/95290c700a91013463a7005056a9545d

Feature on restoring Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’:
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/features/magazine-36466835/36466835

… and one on restoring Piombro’s ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’:
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-06-08/decade-long-restoration-of-masterpiece-is-complete/

On cross dressing in Victorian England:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160608-the-cross-dressing-gents-of-victorian-england

Feature on how humans have affected the planet over the millennia:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160606154851.htm

On the history of antiquities collectors:
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/marble-mad-and-very-extravagant/485666/

Xrays reveal hidden text in bookbindings:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/04/x-rays-reveal-medieval-manuscripts

On the decline of humanities jobs:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/06/new-study-documents-long-term-losses-new-humanities-faculty-jobs

Australia’s English sparrows didn’t come from England:
http://theconversation.com/city-sparrows-came-to-australia-via-india-59730

A Shakespearean twitter war:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/09/two-scholars-engage-debate-twitter-and-elsewhere-over-king-lear

Feature on Rembrandt’s first masterpiece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/arts/design/rembrandts-first-masterpiece-a-portrait-of-a-biblical-betrayal.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Interesting ‘love letters’ coming to auction:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/arts/design/letters-from-a-secret-courtship-in-19th-century-brooklyn-evoke-a-jane-austen-plot.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&_r=0

Feature on ‘death photography’:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36389581

More on dog domestication:
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/06/10/481501974/did-man-make-his-best-friend-twice

Review of a bunch of books about Shakespeare:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/books/review/shakespeare-in-full.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

Digital Iconographic Atlas of Numismatics in Antiquity:
http://ww2.unime.it/diana/?q=node/14

On the role of climate change in human evolution:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/did-ancient-climate-change-ignite-human-evolution/

Aileen Ward has died:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/08/books/aileen-ward-scholar-and-biographer-dies-at-97.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

…as has Hugh Honour:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/books/hugh-honour-art-historian-and-author-dies-at-88.html

Aisling · « **Reply #2 on:** June 19, 2016, 01:40:33 pm »

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Interesting feature on the spread of cities over 5000 years or so:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/history-of-cities-urbanization-map_us_576433f3e4b0fbbc8bea3eda?section

Feature on an antique guitar:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2016/06/17/after-three-centuries-precious-guitar-finally-visits-doctor/ipOCMnqoCEJIYF5qxWrYRN/story.html?s_campaign=email_BG_TodaysHeadline&s_campaign=

Why maps have north at the top:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160614-maps-have-north-at-the-top-but-it-couldve-been-different

A summer reading list for fans of archaeology:
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/17/an-archaeology-summer-reading-list/
A sort of overviewish thing on archaeology:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/06/16/where-are-all-the-prehistoric-women-and-children/

Pondering when long hair for women became popular:
http://time.com/4348252/history-long-hair/

A comprehensive, digital edition of the Bible:
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=34347

On the history of the apricot:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/14/481932829/moon-of-the-faith-a-history-of-the-apricot-and-its-many-pleasures

… and celery:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/13/481617408/celery-why

… and Trappist cheese:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160608-the-elusive-cheese-with-no-recipe

Feature on death rituals:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-mummification-sky-burialswhy-deathrituals.html

Haven’t heard about the Amber Room in a while:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/world/what-in-the-world/could-long-lost-amber-room-be-stashed-under-a-nazi-bunker-in-poland.html

Latest shipwreck beer recreation (we may have had this one):
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-14/worlds-oldest-beer-brought-back-to-life-scientists-claim/7496532

More on Auschwitz victims’ belongings:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-items-belonging-to-auschwitz-victims-newly-uncovered/

Feature on some recent ancient hoard finds:
http://www.coinweek.com/education/numismatic-history/hordes-hoards-recent-classic-finds-ancient-coins/

A feature on LiDAR:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-lidar-amazing-laser-technology-archaeologists.html

DNA is shedding light on the origin of domestic goats:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ancient-dna-analysis-domestic-goats.html

DNA study of the demise of megafauna in Patagonia:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ancient-dna-storm-felled-ice.html

Another piece on concerns for sites when climate change is going on:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2093905-race-to-save-hidden-treasures-under-threat-from-climate-change/

… in a similar vein:
http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/arctic-archaeologists-race-to-save-ancient-sites-from-encroaching-ocean-1.2277524

Gillett Griffin has died:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S46/59/99Q97/?section=topstories

…as has Bekmukhanbet Nurmuhanbetov
http://www.kazakh-tv.kz/en/view/news_kazakhstan/page_162355_

Aisling · « **Reply #3 on:** June 26, 2016, 03:04:55 pm »

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On the development of cubism:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/arts/design/two-views-of-cubism.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

… while a Picasso fetched big bucks at auction:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/arts/design/picassos-femme-assise-sells-for-63-7-million-an-auction-high-for-cubism.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Some Bloomsday-associated items:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/travel/bloomsday-james-joyce-dublin-paris-london.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel

… and Solstice:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0621/Summer-solstice-celebrated-this-year-with-the-arrival-of-a-strawberry-moon

On Manet and Degas:
http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-when-manet-met-degas-61081

Love letters from the Somme:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36600646

Feature on Michelangelo’s ‘Creation of Adam’:
http://www.dw.com/en/a-masterpiece-the-creation-of-adam/a-19347559

… and Raphael’s Sistine Madonna:
http://www.dw.com/en/masterpieces-revisited-the-sistine-madonna/a-19344833

… and a Degas with a really long title:
http://theconversation.com/heres-looking-at-edgar-degas-woman-seated-on-the-edge-of-the-bath-sponging-her-neck-61196

On Henry VIII as a Brexit pioneer:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/world/europe/a-british-divorce-from-europe-henry-viii-blazed-the-trail.html

All about Rosie the Riveter:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160602-the-truth-about-rosie-the-riveter

A ‘secret agent’ bought paintings to return them home:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-36584086

Feature on assorted sea monsters:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160620-the-monsters-hidden-beneath-the-sea

On the history of the university:
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/06/20/historian-evaluates-universities-beginning-until-now-essay

On Emily Dickenson’s gardens:
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/18/482478311/nevermind-the-white-dress-turns-out-emily-dickinson-had-a-green-thumb

On Muhammad Ali’s original name:
http://news.yale.edu/2016/06/09/muhammad-ali-originally-named-ardent-abolitionist-and-yale-alumnus-cassius-clay

More on maps with north pointing up:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160614-maps-have-north-at-the-top-but-it-couldve-been-different

Feature on some librarians’ skills at book restoration:
http://chronicle.com/article/3-Librarians-Bring-Skills-in/236835

Looking for sites with Cold War spy photos:
http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/among-the-remnants/488279/

Ralph Stanley has died:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/arts/music/ralph-stanley-whose-mountain-music-gave-rise-to-bluegrass-dies-at-89.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

… as has Lorna Kelly:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/nyregion/lorna-kelly-dies-at-70-left-the-sothebys-rostrum-to-help-the-poor.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

… and David Jonathan Thatcher:
http://www.foxnews.com/us/2016/06/22/one-two-remaining-airmen-who-flew-in-world-war-ii-doolittle-raid-dies.html

… as well as James Campbell:
http://timescolumns.typepad.com/stothard/2016/06/remembering-professor-james-campbell.html

Aisling · « **Reply #4 on:** July 10, 2016, 01:38:26 pm »

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The D-PLACE database might be useful:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-massive-open-access-database-human-cultures.html

On lessons of history for the US (don’t quite get this one):
http://www.historytoday.com/peter-frankopan/victims-their-own-success

Recreating a 16th century Basque whaling boat:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/theres-lot-more-basque-boat-meets-eye-180959675/

Poking around Shakespeare documents finds some interesting things:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researcher-unearths-trove-new-shakespeare-documents-180959673/

On the early history of the cannabis trade:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2096440-founders-of-western-civilisation-were-prehistoric-dope-dealers/

The New York Times reprinted the obit for Sir Arthur Conan Doyla:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/arthur-conan-doyle-sherlock-holmes

On what nearsighted people did before glasses were invented:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/07/484835077/what-did-nearsighted-humans-do-before-glasses

Another Noah’s Ark replica … this time, in Kentucky:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/06/noahs-ark-encounter-kentucky-replica-unveiled?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Feature on the Enlightenment:
http://www.livescience.com/55327-the-enlightenment.html

Marking the 100th anniversary of Dada:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/arts/dada-100-years-later.html

Feature on the Tunguska meteorite impact:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160706-in-siberia-in-1908-a-huge-explosion-came-out-of-nowhere

They’ve figured out why the Codex purpereus is purple:
http://www.livescience.com/55310-urine-dye-found-in-ancient-gospel.html

Using 3d scanning techniques to recreate the ‘brain’ of a 17 000 years bp child from Italy:
http://www.thelocal.it/20160708/17000-year-old-italian-skull-reveals-hunter-gatherer-brain

Not sure where to put this one … tracking the human skeleton trade with instagram:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/07/06/this-archaeologist-uses-instagram-to-track-the-human-skeleton-trade/#c81ecdd30b10

On evidence for Arabia once being wetter:
https://www.insidescience.org/content/what-ancient-rock-art-reveals-about-wetter-arabia/4071

Archaeology suggests there’s no link between climate change and human innovation:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-archaeology-link-climate-early-human.html

John Lindstrom has died:
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/renowned-gj-archaeologist-dies-at-age-67

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