Author Topic: July 2016 Archeology - Miscellaneous (Read 1508 times)

Aisling · « **on:** July 04, 2016, 02:06:29 pm »

Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

Plenty of items related to the centennial of the Battle of the Somme (all different):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-36680052
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36690510
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36149839
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36585199
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36652140
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36670644
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36656300
http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/ztngxsg
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160630-images-from-the-battle-of-the-somme
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/opinion/sunday/how-jrr-tolkien-found-mordor-on-the-western-front.html (for Tolkien fans)
http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/Recalling-Britains-bloodiest-battle-1ff01ca8-b0cf-4569-b58c-3dd61948c70e-ds
http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-battle-of-the-somme-and-the-death-of-martial-glory-61681
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-battle-that-continues-to-haunt-europe/2016/06/29/51556a50-3d56-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html

Franz Ferdinand’s obituary:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/archduke-franz-ferdinand-world-war

Feature on the Sefer Ha Zohar:
https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/06/25/glinter-kabbalah/cz5YaC9jDc3ZVwTB6L7e7L/story.html

Interesting feature on the conservation of a ‘stone age’ arrowhead:
http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/watch-university-reading-archaeologists-piece-11521261

Feature on some sunken cities:
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/24492/20160629/5-incredible-underwater-ancient-cities-will-blow-away.htm

On social climbing Shakespeare:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/theater/shakespeare-coat-of-arms.html

Marking the bicentennial of the Brothers Grimm:
http://www.dw.com/en/grimms-german-legends/a-19364025

Big bucks for Churchill’s campaign car:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36682562

On ancient wheat:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/27/483278049/nothing-says-hip-like-ancient-wheat

Rethinking human pigmentation:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-paper-current-gain-loss-heavy.html

On the origins of assorted foods:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160624-the-unlikely-and-disgusting-origin-of-our-favourite-foods

On the history of going to the beach:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inventing-beach-unnatural-history-natural-place-180959538/

On the apple pie in history:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/03/482854462/as-chinese-iranian-and-indonesian-as-apple-pie

On why the wealthy moved to cities in the 18th century:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/what-the-1880s-tell-us-about-why-the-rich-are-moving-to-cities-today/

Feature on the first public historian:
http://www.historytoday.com/eleanor-parker/first-public-historian

Feature on the plague in various times:
http://www.livescience.com/55259-the-plague.html

Feature on the Renaissance:
http://www.livescience.com/55224-the-renaissance-the-rebirth-of-science-culture.html

Audio feature on Colin Renfrew:
http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/audio-colin-renfrew-on-a-life-in-archaeology/

On the effects of castration on a 19th century opera singer:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/06/28/how-castration-and-opera-changed-the-skeleton-of-19th-century-singer-pacchierotti/#1be50c42c783

Find of a Jewish escape tunnel near Vilnius:
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/484215874/archaeologists-discover-tunnel-dug-by-jews-to-escape-nazis-in-lithuania

Latest genome to get press attention is the olive:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-decoding-genome-mediterranean-emblematic-treethe.html

DNA identifies the remains of an extinct species of tilapia in a 7th century shipwreck:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.726236

Fred C. Cook has died:
http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2016-07-01/story/brunswick-archaeologist-fred-c-cook-dead-74

…as has Douglas Scwartz:
http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/douglas-schwartz-a-towering-figure-in-archaeology-dies/article_e4c21653-07e7-5f16-9026-7ee7d75e1f2f.html

Aisling · « **Reply #1 on:** July 04, 2016, 04:21:01 pm »

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Feature on the Renaissance:

Forgot to correct the link to the above article. You can find it here: http://www.livescience.com/55230-renaissance.html

Aisling · « **Reply #2 on:** July 17, 2016, 02:02:58 pm »

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Just in case anyone missed the Miscellaneous posts from last week, see below. These were posted under the June thread in error.

Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

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

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

Recreating a 16th century Basque whaling boat:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smiths...eye-180959675/

Poking around Shakespeare documents finds some interesting things:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-...nts-180959673/

On the early history of the cannabis trade:
https://www.newscientist.com/article...-dope-dealers/

The New York Times reprinted the obit for Sir Arthur Conan Doyla:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/p...herlock-holmes

On what nearsighted people did before glasses were invented:
http://www.npr.org/sections/health-s...before-glasses

Another Noah’s Ark replica … this time, in Kentucky:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/201...e_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...ars-later.html

Feature on the Tunguska meteorite impact:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160...out-of-nowhere

They’ve figured out why the Codex purpereus is purple:
http://www.livescience.com/55310-uri...nt-gospel.html

Using 3d scanning techniques to recreate the ‘brain’ of a 17 000 years bp child from Italy:
http://www.thelocal.it/20160708/1700...gatherer-brain

Not sure where to put this one … tracking the human skeleton trade with instagram:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristina.../#c81ecdd30b10

On evidence for Arabia once being wetter:
https://www.insidescience.org/conten...er-arabia/4071

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

John Lindstrom has died:
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/artic...dies-at-age-67

Aisling · « **Reply #3 on:** July 17, 2016, 02:03:56 pm »

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Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

UNESCO has announced 9 (or maybe four) new heritage sites:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-unesco-world-heritage-sites.html

… and comments on cultural heritage destruction and threatened:
http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54458

On chastity belts:
http://www.livescience.com/55390-what-are-chastity-belts.html

Interesting study of Rembrandt’s self portraits:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/science/rembrandt-old-master-optics-mirrors.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&_r=0

Feature on Arthur Conan Doyle’s spiritualist side (obituary reprint):
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/30/obituaries/nf-doyle.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

Pondering the origin of Biriyani:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36423412

Going along with the exhibition mentioned elsewhere, Van Gogh apparently sliced off his whole ear:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36772253

… related animation project looks interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/movies/animating-life-of-vincent-van-gogh-in-loving-vincent.html

What happened on the original Bastille Day:
http://time.com/4402553/bastille-day-history-july-14/?xid=fbshare

A 100 years bp ‘jaws’ tale:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160713-the-true-story-of-jaws

On ‘untranslatable’ words:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-magic-of-untranslatable-words/

On the history of clear sodas:
http://www.livescience.com/55354-crystal-pepsi-weird-history-of-clear-soda.html

More on climate change not affecting humans’ technological development:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uotw-tac071216.php

Elaine Fantham has died:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S46/86/01E38/?section=topstories

…as has Beatrice de Cardi:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/14/beatrice-de-cardi-obituary

…and Dimitris Maronitis:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/07/12/greek-academic-dimitris-maronitis-passes-away-at-87/

… also J. Michael Holquist:
http://news.yale.edu/2016/07/12/memoriam-j-michael-holquist-scholar-slavic-language-and-literature

…and William H. McNeill:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/books/william-h-mcneill-professor-and-prolific-author-dies-at-98.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

Aisling · « **Reply #4 on:** July 24, 2016, 02:52:26 pm »

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A Viking ship recreation is having regulatory issues in the Great Lakes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/22/us/viking-ship-draken-harald-harfagre-great-lakes.html

A sound-based method of ‘recovering’ proto Indo European language:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-mother-tongue.html

An ‘irrelevant note’ in a DaVinci notebook apparently isn’t irrelevant:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-reveals-leonardo-da-vinci-irrelevant.html

While some scribblings in medieval manuscripts were probably made by children:
http://www.livescience.com/55489-doodles-found-in-medieval-manuscript.html

What hunter-gatherers tell us about social networks:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/cp-whc071316.php

A shipwreck hunter feature:
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/21/best-job-ever-shipwreck-hunter-unearths-lost-history-and-treasures/

A handy guide to dating old maps:
http://xkcd.com/1688/

Pondering Rembrandt’s self portraits:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-rembrandt-have-help-180959809/

Assorted ‘lost’ mysteries:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/amelia-earhart-famous-lost-city-shipwreck-plane-nefertiti/

On Louis XVI’s flight from Paris:
http://www.historytoday.com/richard-cavendish/louis-xvis-flight-paris

Feature on ‘bezoars’:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3702274/The-human-pearls-Balls-ingested-food-worn-charms-Persian-doctors-Kings-Queens-revealed.html

Concerns for Carrara marble:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36865396

The history of ‘food porn’:
http://www.livescience.com/55522-food-porn-is-actually-centuries-old.html

Some Bronte material is returning home:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-36844945

On the history of war and food:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/19/485827670/quiz-how-much-do-you-know-about-war-and-food

Folks will probably be interested in this bookstore:
http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Snack-Bites/100-Year-Old-Theater-Converted-Into-Stunning-Bookstore-460622

On collecting antiquities:
http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/amazon-exhibition_the-changing-attitude-to-collecting-artefacts-/42306856?&ns_mchannel=rss&srg_evsource=rss

On assorted ‘forgotten’ cultures:
http://www.livescience.com/55430-bizarre-ancient-cultures.html

More on the sites which have just received heritage status:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-are-unescos-new-world-heritage-sites-180959822/

More on van Gogh’s ear:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36848666

More on climate not affecting human technological response:
http://scienmag.com/technological-and-cultural-innovations-amongst-early-humans-not-sparked-by-climate-change/

More on the origins of early farmers:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36788165

Studying teeth for evidence of ancient vitamin deficiencies (etc.):
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/20/science/teeth-vitamin-d-deficiency-archaeology.html

This week, it’s the domesticated barley genome that is getting attention:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-genome-year-old-barley-grains-sequenced.html

Christine Mahany has died:
http://www.stamfordmercury.co.uk/news/local/well-known-stamford-archaeologist-dies-1-7491074

…as has Jack Rogers:
http://www.drjackrogers.com/

..and John Lidstrom:
http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/renowned-gj-archaeologist-dies-at-age-67

Aisling · « **Reply #5 on:** July 31, 2016, 04:58:55 pm »

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A copy of David on display in Russia is causing concern:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36913915

… while Renaissance nudity is still shocking, apparently:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/jul/25/renaissance-art-nudity-cover-up-sistine-chapel-leonardo-censorship

… related in an illuminated manuscript:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/fitzwilliam-museum-experts-get-to-the-bottom-of-a-historical-cover-up/story-29548781-detail/story.html

Pondering the voices Joan of Arc heard:
http://www.livescience.com/55597-joan-of-arc-voices-epilepsy.html

Some neglected women of history:
http://www.livescience.com/55485-amazing-women-history-forgot.html

On the history of arsenic:
http://www.livescience.com/29522-arsenic.html

Hidden adult themes in Beatrix Potter:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160728-the-hidden-adult-themes-in-beatrix-potter

Feature on sites we’ve lost over the past century or so:
http://www.livescience.com/55560-historical-treasures-recently-lost.html

Study tying the rise of tuberculosis to fire use:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-early-emergence-tuberculosis.html

Feature on Edwardian postcard use:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-postcards-link-edwardian-social-media.html

A ‘lost’ Charles le Brun painting has been restored:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36882097

On ‘technopanics’ in history:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160701-historys-greatest-technopanics

A database of whalers:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-ancestor-whales-museum-database-clues.html

Tracking population heights over the past century or so:
http://www.dw.com/en/study-finds-dutch-men-are-the-worlds-tallest/a-19428519

DNA also suggests a variety of rice types were grown in Asia:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-grain-rice-ancient-dna-view.html

More on the genetic origins of the first farmers:
http://phys.org/news/2016-07-dna-analyses-reveal-genetic-identities.html

Feature on turtles and tortoises on ancient coins:
http://www.coinweek.com/featured-news/turtles-tortoises-ancient-coins/

Ursula Franklin has died:
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/canadian-scientist-educator-ursula-franklin-remembered-as-global-pioneer/article31112167/?cmpid=rss1

…as has PV Parabrahma Sastry
http://www.telugumirchi.com/en/other-news/eminent-archaeologist-and-historian-passes-away.html

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