BHR-31
Brit-Am Historical Reports
23 February 2010 9 Adar 5770
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.41
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.44
3. Ancient Huns in East Germany were Germanic and Sarmatian?
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.41
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 12.41 January 31, 2010
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EARLY HUMANS
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Trying to explain homo floresiensis' tiny brain:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/01/100126220325.htm
http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-38919.html
http://www.physorg.com/news183808783.html
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AFRICA
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A major cache of Anglo-Boer weaponry has brought a construction
project in King William's Town to a halt:
http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=375303
BBC series on the Lost Kingdoms of Africa (access to videos
limited):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b00pv1m4
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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They're starting to hype DNA test results on Tut:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/01/31/AR2010013100756.html
Feature on the excavations at Tel Kabri:
http://www.gwu.edu/explore/gwtoday/aroundtheworld/uncoveringanancientcivilization
Overviewish thing on recent work in Syria:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201001304589/Travel/archaeological-findings-highlight-syria-role-in-human-civilization.html
Feature on the political side of archaeology in Israel:
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1957350,00.html
Hebrew connections to Ezekiel's tomb:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1144711.html
Review of David O'Connor, *Abydos*:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/2010/983/heritage.htm
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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How to be a gladiator:
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,583784,00.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remains of an Iron Age settlement in Kent:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/kent/8488871.stm
Another item from the Staffordshire Hoard has gone on display:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/staffordshire/8479047.stm
Remains of a Viking settlement in Dublin:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0127/1224263210796.html
Feature on Eliseg's Pillar (Wales):
http://www.leaderlive.co.uk/news/84291/historic-welsh-pillar-that-s-shrouded-in-mystery.aspx
More on Mel Gibson's Viking project:
http://nz.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/6711747/mel-gibson-eyeing-viking-epic/
http://au.news.yahoo.com/a/-/entertainment/6718397/gibson-to-make-viking-epic/
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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I'm not sure whether we've mentioned this DNA story before, but
the results seem to be putting Indo-Europeans in East Asia some
2000 years b.p.:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/55811/title/Skeleton_of_Western_man_found_in_ancient_Mongolian_tomb
The man behind Coleridge's ancient mariner:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jan/31/man-behind-coleridges-ancient-mariner
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Trebizond (not sure if this is really touristy or not):
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/8488238.stm
Aleppo:
http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/01/24/travel/24next.html
David's Tomb:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3830412,00.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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1001 Inventions:
http://edition.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/meast/01/29/muslim.inventions/
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am version of Explorator 12.44
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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AFRICA
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Relics of a pre-Islamic civilization from Ghana:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8518185.stm
http://www.ghanaweb.com/GhanaHomePage/NewsArchive/artikel.php?ID=176867
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/figurines-provide-clues-to-lost-african-civilisation-1903012.html
Claims of bits of the Ark of the Covenant in Zimbabwe:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8522097.stm
Some African genomes:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/18/science/18genome.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Feature on the palace at Ebla:
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201002144792/Travel/archaeologist-royal-palace-of-ebla-living-archive-of-syrias-history.html
Remains of a huge 1400 years b.p. wine press from Israel:
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hX4N6zesUPfO5v4WwfKZA_MTVXDwD9DSFGIO0
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hX4N6zesUPfO5v4WwfKZA_MTVXDwD9DSH9OG0
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136019
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100215/ap_on_sc/ml_israel_ancient_wine_3
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=ayJQcwN1vF34
http://www.physorg.com/news185435572.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=123733224
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/1400_year-old_Byzantine_wine_press_15-Feb-2010.htm
http://www.iol.co.za/widgets/rss_redirect.php?artid=nw20100215095648550C223082&setid=1§id=3&url=iol&vne=0&csect=World
http://jta.org/news/article/2010/02/15/1010638/ancient-wine-press-excavated
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1251146/1-400-year-old-wine-press-discovered-southern-Israel.html
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3850127,00.html
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240
Remains of a canal/aqueduct found near Jerusalem's Jaffa Gate:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136072
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100218/twl-ancient-aqueduct-discovered-in-jerus-41f21e0.html
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1150924.html
http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
More on that Byzantine road in Israel:
http://www.projo.com/art/content/artsun-ancient-road_02-14-10_27HDL4H_v12.14a2fb0.html
http://downloads.cbn.com/cbnnewsplayer/cbnplayer.swf?aid=13824
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/135956
Review of Geza Vermes, *The Story of the Scrolls*:
http://www.economist.com/books/displayStory.cfm?story_id=15543906
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Challenging claims of child sacrifice at Carthage:
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1824418/study_debunks_claims_of_infant_sacrifice_in_ancient_carthage/index.html?source=r_science
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100217114644.htm
http://www.physorg.com/news185629702.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/uop-psd021710.php
cf http://dx.plos.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0009177
... and a nice feature on Carthage:
http://www.historytoday.com/MainArticle.aspx?m=33818
First Minoan shipwreck (now full text):
http://www.archaeology.org/1001/etc/minoan_shipwreck.html
VDH on why Rome fell (and if it matters):
http://www.victorhanson.com/articles/hanson021410.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A medieval monk in Kilkenny wasn't 'suffering':
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0216/1224264553851.html
More on that Bronze Age shipwreck off Devon:
http://www.theage.com.au/world/ancient-ship-found-20100214-nze3.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archeology/7238663/3000-year-old-shipwreck-shows-European-trade-was-thriving-in-Bronze-Age.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/devon/8515627.stm
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://www.archaeology.eu.com/weblog/index.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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A copper workshop from Cahokia:
http://www.bnd.com/homepage/story/1134050.html
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-cahokiamounds-dis,0,7540320.story
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/02/16/Ancient-copper-workshop-big-find-in-Ill/UPI-32451266358813/
Feature on the Pictured Rocks project:
http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/559340/
On one-term presidents:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/14/opinion/14merry.html
On presidential coiffures:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2010/02/15/opinion/20100215_OPART.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:
http://web.mac.com/michaelruggeri
Ancient MesoAmerica News:
http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Not really in our purview, but a pile of folks sent it in, is
a study of auroch DNA:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/low/uk_news/scotland/highlands_and_islands/8516598.s
tm
I must have missed that there was an ownership dispute over the Codex
Sinaiticus:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/Key-document-on-Codex-Sinaiticus-discovered/20216
The story behind *Kidnapped*:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/feb/18/kidnapped-stevenson-true-story-annesley
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Sicily:
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-sicily21-2010feb21,0,3442161.story
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NUMISMATICA
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The Ancient Coin Collecting Guild is challenging restrictions on
importing Cypriot and Chinese coins:
http://mddailyrecord.com/2010/02/15/ancient-coin-group-sues-over-import-ban/
http://www.courthousenews.com/2010/02/15/24687.htm
http://pr-canada.net/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=167518&Itemid=58
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
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3. Ancient Huns in East Germany were Germanic and Sarmatian?
Extracts from Recent Letters on Germanic-L
The latest issue of Arch olgie in Deutschland has an interesting face reconstruction of an artificially elongated skull found at Ketzin in Brandenburg (near Berlin). The artificially deformed skull of Ketzin is the only example from Brandenburg and the northern-most example of all skull deformations.
Interestingly, older literature state that the skull was probably that of a 'mongolic' women, i.e. of somebody belonging originally to the Hunnic tribes. However, the new face reconstruction revealed that she was of European appearance. In other words, she was in all likelihood Germanic.
The woman of Ketzin was buried with East Germanic/Danubian grave goods. Grave goods of a distinct Eastern origin have also come to light in neighboring sites like Waltersdorf (Dahme-Spreewald) , Gross Machnow (Teltow) and Kiekebusch (Spreewald).
It is not known who these people were, but they seemed to disappear in the middle of the 6th century, when the Franks resettled many of them west of the Elbe.
Dirk
The Hunnic skulls shows that only about 5% of them have obvious marks of East Asian origins. Most of them are European. So if there is a deformed skull with European appearance, it can easily be Hunnish.
The Sarmatian (Alanic) tribes became vassals of the Huns and captured northern territories. Sulimirski have shown as early as the 70's that Sarmatian place names are present as far as the Elbe. And indeed, the newest theories state that some Slavic nations formed under Sarmatian (Alanian) leadership, namely the Croatians, Serbs and probably the Polish. Thus, the Sorbs at the Elbe (the "northern Serbs") are an obvious proof, that Sarmatians were present in the area in the early Middle Ages.
And they did practice skull deformation as well.
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