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10 December 23 Kislev 5770
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version Explorator 12.32
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.33
3. Were the Irish Ever Slaves of the English?
Two Complementary Sources
(a) The Irish as Slaves
(b) Not Only Irish but English Royalists Also Enslaved
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Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.32
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 12.32
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explorator 12.32 November 29, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Feature on a Bronze Age temple to the storm god Adda:
http://www.archaeology.org/0911/abstracts/storm_god.html
Semi-touristy thing on the quarry tentatively identified as
Gilgal:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull&cid=1259243015612
Review of/commentary on Shlomo Sand, *The Invention of the
Jewish People*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/books/24jews.html
More on that Hammurabi seal (impression) from Tel Al-Dabaa:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2009/973/he2.htm
More on evidence for heart disease in mummies:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/health/24heart.html
http://www.courierpress.com/news/2009/nov/25/mummys-curse-the-issue-heart-disease-not-a-new/?partner=yahoo_feeds
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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This week's silliness is the amount of press attention given to
a movie claiming Jesus built a church in Somerset and learned
math from the Druids:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1231308/Did-Jesus-REALLY-stay-England-A-new-film-claims-built-church-Somerset-learnt-maths-Druids.html
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/australian-news/6523819/did-jesus-headline-glastonbury-first/
http://www.reuters.com/article/lifestyleMolt/idUSTRE5AP3H620091126?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20091126/lf_nm_life/us_britain_jesus_glastonbury_1
They've rebuilt a Pictish throne:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/8380610.stm
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Haven't had a facial reconstruction item for a while ... but now
we do: a 16-year-old servant girl from Korea (1500 years b.p. ...
unfortunate headline on the Daily Mail version):
http://joongangdaily.joins.com/article/view.asp?aid=2913088
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1230829/1-500-years-buried-alive-scientists-resurrect-16-year-old-servant-girl.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Possible remains of Canada's earliest English settlement:
http://www.canada.com/entertainment/Stone+wall+have+defended+Canada+oldest+British+settlement/2253478/story.html
Review of John Manbeck, *Historic Photos of Brooklyn*:
http://www.newyorker.com/talk/2009/09/21/090921ta_talk_mcgrath
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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The obligatory Thanksgiving origin stuff:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/opinion/24east.html
... and a history of leftovers:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1862562,00.html
Interesting feature on the Waldseemuller Map:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history-archaeology/69384287.html#
... and in this context we should probably mention a feature on
Alfred Russel Wallace:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/24/science/24cabi.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Pretty big payday in regards to that Anglo-Saxon hoard:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/8380382.stm
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/5/20091126/tuk-anglo-saxon-treasure-hoard-valued-at-45dbed5.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/11/26/AR2009112601029.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSTRE5AP1NR20091126
... related:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/8382360.stm
... while a Swedish detectorist isn't happy with his payday:
http://www.thelocal.se/23498/20091126/
Nice price for Cromwell's boots:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/berkshire/8381327.stm
... and some miniatures of Elizabeth I and friend:
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/tol/arts_and_entertainment/visual_arts/article6932239.ece
Another facial reconstruction (we mentioned one above) is making the
Page Museum nervous:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/11/the-skeleton-that-the-page-museum-doesnt-want-you-to-see.html
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.33
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 12.33 December 6, 2009
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AFRICA
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Feature on saving manuscripts in Timbuktu:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8386866.stm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/programmes/world_news_america/8387544.stm (video)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Not only did the Egyptians have heart problems ... they had
bad teeth:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/mummies-teeth-disease-diagnosis.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34258529/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-4160.html
Nice feature on Kathryn Bard (although she does promote the
'clumsy archaeologist' image) and her digs in Egypt:
http://www.bu.edu/today/2009/11/25/archaeologist-kathryn-bard-s-amazing-egyptian-digs
Not quite sure where/what this dig is in Jerusalem or whether we've
covered it, but there's an interesting technique involved:
http://liveshots.blogs.foxnews.com/2009/12/05/ancient-hall-opened-in-jerusalem/
Another take on the Cambyses army thing:
http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=209177
A burial dating to the first millennium B.C./B.C.E. in Arbil (Iraq):
http://www.azzaman.com/english/index.asp?fname=news\2009-12-01\kurd.htm
Iraq is trying to cash in on the ruins of Babylon:
http://www.eturbonews.com/13104/iraq-hopes-babylon-ruins-translate-tourist-dollars
A different view of the US troops' presence on sites in Iraq:
http://wcco.com/specialreports/iraq.antiquities.protect.2.1343486.html
Latest in the Temple Mount Saga:
http://www.thejc.com/news/israel-news/24589/arab-scholar-blasted-over-temple-mount
('Arab Scholar blasted')
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/134693 (similar)
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A sunken Roman city off the coast of Libya:
http://www.ansamed.info/en/top/ME13.XAM19315.html
http://www.adnkronos.com/AKI/English/CultureAndMedia/?id=3.0.4068375201
Weirdness about soundwaves and temples:
http://www.prweb.com/releases/ancient_temples/archaeology/prweb3243374.htm
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Britain was cut off from Europe as little as 30 000 years b.p.?:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6672515/Britain-cut-off-from-Europe-by-super-river-as-little-as-30000-years-ago.html
... then there was that sudden (it now seems) Ice Age thing:
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=63304&CultureCode=en
... then some 6000 years b.p., "French" farmers crossed over and
'civilized' Britain:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/6711968/French-farmers-civilised-Britain.html
http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg20427374.200-french-immigrants-founded-first-british-farms.html?DCMP=OTC-rss&nsref=online-news
Evidence of Neolithic cannibalism from Germany?:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8394802.stm
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/50351/title/Contested_signs_of_mass_cannibalism_
Somewhat vague item about the discovery of some gold items
from the arrival of the Hungarian tribes to the Carpathian
basin:
http://www.caboodle.hu/nc/news/news_archive/single_page/article/11/ancient_gold/?cHash=4b6a65eec3
A 'Viking' anchor from Skye:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/8393952.stm
http://www.nstgroup.co.uk/news?RSSID=1294&TL='Viking' anchor found in Skye
A metal 'recycling centre' near York:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/4769193.Viking____recycling____centre_discovered_at_battle_of_Fulford_site_near_York/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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China had bronze rather early:
http://www.physorg.com/news178992526.html
http://www.sciencealert.com.au/news/20090312-20338.html
Searching for shipwrecks along Australia's coast which pre-date
Captain Cook:
http://www.smh.com.au/national/wreck-may-hold-clue-to-nations-discovery-20091129-jyvw.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting items about John Brown:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/opinion/02reynolds.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/02/opinion/02horwitz.html
cf:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/opinion/l05brown.html
Very interesting 17th century document pertaining to the first
English colony in Canada:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Will+holds+vital+historical+clues/2306295/story.html
Some passing mention of a Jewish presence in Montana in the 1800s:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/us/05religion.html
Item on the Hall of Fame for Great Americans:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/05/nyregion/05metjournal.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Hair analysis suggests ancient Peruvians had a lot of stress:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/ancient-peru-stress-hair-cortisol.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-3517.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/34241697/ns/technology_and_science-science/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Excellent feature in Archaeology Magazine about assorted
archaeological hoaxes and fakes:
http://www.archaeology.org/online/features/hoaxes/
What really killed Jane Austen?:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/SHOWBIZ/books/12/02/jane.austen.death/index.html
On the origins of pet rats:
http://www.independent.com/news/2009/dec/04/ancient-origins-modern-pet-rats/
Horse racing was better before the Brits got involved, apparently:
http://www.physorg.com/news178913102.html
Feature on sunken cities:
http://www.newscientist.com/special/drowned-cities-myths-secrets-of-the-deep
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Armenia:
http://www.eturbonews.com/13000/armenia-ancient-and-beautiful-country-hosts-many-unesco-world-he
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NUMISMATICA
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Some coins dating to the Wars of the Roses fetched a nice price:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/northamptonshire/8391439.stm
A history of the US $20 gold coin:
http://media-newswire.com/release_1107088.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Drawings by Rembrandt and his Pupils:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12/06/arts/design/06rembrandt.html
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ON THE WEB
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Some handy pages from Wikipedia that some might find useful:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Short_chronology_timeline
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_the_Ancient_Near_East
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Pharaohs
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cities_of_Ancient_Egypt
Rare Book School:
http://www.rarebookschool.org/
3. Were the Irish Ever Slaves of the English?
Two Complementary Sources
(a) The Irish as Slaves
Sender: H-Net List for British and Irish History <H-ALBION@H-NET.MSU.EDU>
Subject: Irish slaves
From: "Dora Smith"
Extract:
I've recently uncovered reports that in the 17th and 18th centuries, large numbers of Irish Catholics were shipped overseas as slaves. They were specifically sent to South America, to the West Indies, and to Virginia. The greatest number of them seem to have gone to the West Indies. They included prisoners of war and political prisoners, people sentenced for petty offenses, and young people removed from their families, most often apparently by gangs that were given specific quotas to fill, that roamed the countryside kidnapping people. The justifications for this are that the Puritans didn't regard Catholics as Christians, and in medieval Europe it was customary to enslave Moslems and the Eastern Orthodox who weren't 'Christians" either, as well as Africans;
This is not the same thing as the later practice of deporting people to Australia, in which case once they got there they were free to go where and do as they liked.
There also seems to be ambiguity in what it meant for Irish Catholics to be sent to the West Indies. Cromwell's edict that forced Catholic Irish to give up their lands and move to southwestern Ireland gave anyone who didn't comply the alternative of benig sent to the West Indies; the edict does not say on what terms they were sent there. Apparently many were sent there as slaves. Nonetheless the Puritans did often in quite nasty terms admit to sending Irish Catholics into slavery.
(b) Not Only Irish but English Royalists Also Enslaved
Note: In the English Civil War (1642-1651) the Royalists were those who backed King Charles-1against the Parliamentarians. The Royalists Lost. After the War the Royalists Made New Attempts from bases in Ireland and elsewhere. They Kept Losing.
Re: Irish slaves
From: Anna Suranyi
Extract:
Some of the material about "Irish slaves" on the internet, or indeed in print by amateur historians, should be taken with a grain of salt. Hilary Beckles has an excellent book: "White servitude and Black slavery in Barbados, 1627 - 1715." You might also look at the work of John Wareing, Nini Rodgers, etc. It should be noted that while there considerable amounts of unwilling Irish indentured servants sent to the colonies, they were outnumbered by English and Scots, that most of the Irish servants were royalist troops, and that a considerable percentage of those sent from Ireland were actually English royalist troops. There were indeed gangs kidnapping Irish youths, but there were more gangs kidnapping English youths. The British government made efforts to protect both English and Irish youths from going into servitude involuntarily. Unless they were criminals (or even if), they were unlikely to be kept in servitude for life, assuming that they survived the conditions of indenture. There is also plenty of evidence of voluntary Irish servants going to the colonies, including the Caribbean. Furthermore, it is extremely unlikely that Irish servants were treated worse than African slaves, as the latter had no protections under law. You can find Irish servants in court records complaining about abuses - evidence that abuses occurred, to be sure, but also evidence that there was some recourse. There are few similar records regarding slaves, despite well documented and severe abuse, including murder. Certainly this was an era when servants of all ethnicities could be treated with extreme brutality, and a period in which many of the English held great disdain for the Irish.
Anna Suranyi
Endicott College
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