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September 2016 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« on: September 11, 2016, 03:14:15 pm »
Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

Another piece of a lost Magritte has been found:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-37299450

Pondering the Star Spangled Banner:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/03/arts/music/colin-kaepernick-national-anthem.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic

Feature on assorted digital archives:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/arts/design/digital-troves-providing-insights-and-reuniting-antiquities.html

Feature on the Feejee mermaid hoax:
http://www.livescience.com/56037-feejee-mermaid.html

The search for Amelia Earhart will continue:
http://niku2017.strikingly.com/

A bad novel by Napoleon Bonaparte is coming to auction:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/sep/07/napoleon-bonaparte-failed-novelist-manuscript-goes-to-auction

On London’s ‘plague pits’ and the tube:
http://www.bbc.com/autos/story/20160906-plague-pits-the-london-underground-and-crossrail

Othello as a story of domestic abuse:
http://theconversation.com/to-a-modern-audience-othello-is-simply-another-story-of-domestic-abuse-63646

Challenging Chomsky’s theory of language learning:
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/evidence-rebuts-chomsky-s-theory-of-language-learning/

Latest claims of hidden images in the Sistine Chapel:
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-michelangelo-sistine-chapel-hidden-female.html

On the history of handwriting:
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/08/31/review-anne-trubek-history-and-uncertain-future-handwriting

A painting of Frederick Douglass has gone missing:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/08/29/famed-painting-frederick-douglass-missing-fisk/89559298/

The annual (it seems) feature on trepanation:
http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160826-why-our-ancestors-drilled-holes-in-each-others-skulls

On the history of Yellow Fever:
http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/08/28/491471697/yellow-fever-timeline-the-history-of-a-long-misunderstood-disease

Pondering the purpose of Iron Maidens:
http://www.livescience.com/55985-are-iron-maidens-torture-devices.html

On an Oscar Wilde love letter:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37277397

Some ‘Shakespearean’ phrases weren’t coined by him, apparently:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37285815

On the origins of Labor Day (in the US):
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/09/04/labor-day-history/89826440/

Statistical studies of Neolithic cities’ collapse:
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-statistical-evidence-neolithic-collapse.html

Feature on women’s clothing:
http://theconversation.com/from-bonnets-to-fez-to-burkinis-clothing-has-long-made-us-uneasy-64541

On the history of the chair:
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/03/492090626/better-sit-down-for-this-one-an-exciting-book-about-the-history-of-chairs

On the ‘new’ Beatrix Potter story:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37265912

On the importance of ‘old book smell’ for conservators:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-video-priceless-artifacts.html

Latest dental plaque study is on the diet of Mesolithic foragers in the Balkans:
http://phys.org/news/2016-08-ancient-dental-plaque-diet-mesolithic.html

Humans have preferred black pigs throughout history, apparently:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-history-humans-pigs-black.html

Antony Jay has died:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/08/30/arts/television/antony-jay-a-machiavelli-scholar-and-a-creator-of-yes-minister-dies-at-86.html

…as has Florence Lister:
http://www.durangoherald.com/article/20160906/NEWS01/160909750/-1/s

…and Kenneth R. Thompson:
http://v1.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/Deaths.20160829.93378676/BDAStory/BDA/deaths

… as well as David Trump:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160901/local/maltas-archaeology-icon-dies.623743

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Re: September 2016 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #1 on: September 18, 2016, 01:05:01 pm »
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Suggestion (surely this can’t be new) that Van Gogh suffered from some form of psychosis:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/16/arts/design/vincent-van-gogh-doctors-historians-weigh-in-amsterdam.html

A half dozen Dutch old masters paintings have now been attributed to Hercules Segers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/17/arts/international/rijksmuseum-attributes-six-works-to-a-dutch-old-master.html

A stuffed human being in a Spanish museum:
http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-37344210
… and other strange relics:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160915-are-these-the-strangest-relics-in-history

On the history of electronic tolls:
http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/09/15/487804992/music-spies-and-exact-change-the-strange-history-of-electronic-tolls

Hype for the forthcoming Atlas Obscura:
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/09/15/493797964/think-youve-seen-it-all-this-atlas-might-change-your-mind

On the hobbit-like existence of archaeologists:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/people/how-an-archaeologists-day-is-a-lot-like-a-hobbits.aspx


Just in case you’ve forgotten this side of the Amelia Earhart theorizing:
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/amelia-earhart-castaway-on-island-for-months-desperately-trying-to-make-radio-contact-as-searches-failed-group-says

On shopping for cars a century ago:
http://www.npr.org/2016/09/12/492841796/gas-electric-or-steam-car-shopping-100-years-ago

Archaeological therapy for injured soldiers:
http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/09/18/archaeological-therapy-injured-soldiers/

On ‘Broadside Ballads’:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-37386026

Pondering a potential Degas:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/arts/design/did-degas-make-this-plaster-an-expert-now-says-yes.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

The tank is 100 years old:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-37302722

Beethoven apparently snubbed the aristocracy:
http://www.dw.com/en/why-beethoven-snubbed-princes-and-put-his-music-first/a-19544501

Review of Kluger, *Indelible Ink*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/18/books/review/indelible-ink-richard-kluger.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

MIT has developed technology to read books without opening them:
http://www.slashgear.com/mit-researchers-develop-camera-that-can-read-books-without-opening-them-11455613/

Desmond M Clarke has died:
http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/desmond-m-clarke-fearless-philosopher-and-distinguished-scholar-1.2793591

… as has Florence Lister:
http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20160906/NEWS01/160909925/0/FRONTPAGE/Florence-Lister-prominent-archaeologist-dies-at-96

… and Elizabeth Colson:
http://www.dailycal.org/2016/09/11/campus-anthropology-professor-emerita-elizabeth-colson-dies-99/

…and also John Belle:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/13/nyregion/john-belle-restoring-new-york-city-landmarks.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fobituaries

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Re: September 2016 Archeology - Miscellaneous
« Reply #2 on: September 25, 2016, 03:27:50 pm »
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Data mining courtesy of: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Explorator/messages

There is an Indiegogo campaign to fund the search for Amelia Earhart:
https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/we-can-find-amelia-earhart#/

On assorted popular depictions of the Middle Ages:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/5-myths-about-the-middle-ages/2016/09/22/e56c4150-7f50-11e6-9070-5c4905bf40dc_story.html

Feature on punctuation:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2016/09/24/punctuation-past-and-present-new-word-order/90422412/

Pondering the ownership of antiquities:
https://www.firstthings.com/blogs/leithart/2016/09/who-owns-antiquities

Pondering what to do with the house Hitler was born in:
http://www.dw.com/en/future-of-hitlers-birth-house-under-debate/a-19563214

Cosmopolitan misunderstands NASA:
http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-37419182

They’re resuming the search for the burial place of the poet Lorca:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-spain-resumes-poet-lorca-burial.html

In case you want to know more about the latest MacArthur fellows:
https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/class-2016/

On Canadian accents:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160921-where-does-canadas-accent-come-from

Feature on the first transatlantic telegraph cable:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/p042ywz6

In case you couldn’t see the Harvest Moon eclipse last week:
http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap160923.html

The Tate has acquired a Carlile portrait:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-37427612

Climate connections are is being connected to human migration and the Faroe Islands:
http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/umass-amherst-research-traces-past-climate-human-migration-faroe-islands

What DNA tells us about cat domestication:
http://phys.org/news/2016-09-dna-hints-cat-domestication-history.html

… and there’s a study of elephant genomes too:
http://www.nature.com/news/elephant-history-rewritten-by-ancient-genomes-1.20622

Baldness is apparently a good thing:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160921-the-benefits-of-going-bald

Feature on what lies beneath our feet (hard to describe this one):
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/20/science/whatever-we-dig-up-well-end-up-buried.html

Victor Nuovo continues to look at Spinoza:
http://www.addisonindependent.com/201609nuovo-spinoza-search-idea

John Mulvaney has died:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-09-22/professor-john-mulvaney-dies-aged-90/7867808

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