BHR-32
Brit-Am Historical Reports
11 March 2010 25 Adar 5770
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.45
2. Roman Place-Names. Are they Celtic or Germanic?
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.46
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.45
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
Subject: [Explorator] explorator 12.45
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explorator 12.45 February 28, 2010
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EARLY HUMANS
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Latest piece on homo floresiensis (not sure there's anything
new here):
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/21/hobbit-rewriting-history-human-race
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10628724
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Much coverage of Eliat Mazar's recent claims of finding solomonic
fortifications in Jerusalem:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/spages/1151695.html
http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/nationworld/2011150903_apmlisraelancientwall.html?syndication=rss
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601104&sid=ayIaI8YxoAa4
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/jerusalem-city-wall-possibly-build-by-solomon-discovered.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35522099/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/4/20100222/twl-biblical-accuracy-supported-by-new-e-41f21e0.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100223/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_israel_ancient_wall_8
http://www.newkerala.com/news/fullnews-57544.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100222/twl-ancient-wall-found-in-jerusalem-prob-3cd7efd.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7293745/Jerusalem-wall-discovery-proves-Biblical-kings-existed.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1252936/Archaeologist-discovers-significant-Jerusalem-city-wall-10th-century-BC.html?ITO=1490
http://www.physorg.com/news186058773.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/02/100222094757.htm
http://www.jpost.com/Israel/Article.aspx?id=169388
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/Israel+beyond+politics/Jerusalem_wall_10th_century_BCE_22-Feb-2010.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-02/thuo-hua022210.php
http://www.thetrumpet.com/index.php?q=7003.5506.0.0
... and some 'local' coverage of same:
http://newsok.com/edmond-professor-student-dig-into-kings-past/article/3442691
... and coverage with a video interview:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136130
Jodi Magness is talking about the DSS:
http://media.www.tcudailyskiff.com/media/storage/paper792/news/2010/02/26/News/Archaeologist.Disproves.Widespread.Beliefs.About.The.Dead.Sea.Scrolls-3880578.shtml
Not sure how old this one is ... a feature on one of the Geoarchaeologists
who was looking at tsunamis in the Mediterranean:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com/field/explorers/goodman-beverly-09.html
cf (from last year):
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/33243284/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Latest brouhaha in the West Bank:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/8530335.stm
Some rather late coverage of that 'round Noah's ark' story:
http://cnews.canoe.ca/CNEWS/Features/Talker/2010/02/25/13023586-qmi.html
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
Persepolis Fortification Archives:
http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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They still find things at Knossos!:
http://www.ana.gr/anaweb/user/showplain?maindoc=8461334&maindocimg=8460962&service=144
Very interesting story of a burial at York turning out to
be an 'elite' African woman:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/north_yorkshire/8538888.stm
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/26/roman-york-skeleton
http://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/news/Ebony-and-ivory-Roman-York.6107355.jp
http://uk.reuters.com/article/idUKTRE61P3R320100226
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2010/02/26/Woman-in-Roman-tomb-was-of-African-descent/UPI-43301267214653/
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/science/living/article7042984.ece
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A Bronze Age 'arena' at a hill fort in Tipperary?:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2010/0225/1224265140601.html
Photos from that Devon Bronze Age shipwreck:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/02/photogalleries/100224-shipwreck-bronze-age-treasure-salcombe-britain-pictures/#025928_600x450.jpg
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NORTH AMERICA
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Yet another theory on the peopling of the Americas:
http://www.vancouversun.com/technology/Scientists+turn+migration+theory+head/2615220/story.html
Digging for 'Black stories' in Charlottesville:
http://www.c-ville.com/index.php?cat=121304062461064&ShowArticle_ID=11802202104422406
Interesting story of a slave who shipped himself to freedom:
http://cityroom.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/02/26/when-special-delivery-meant-deliverance-for-a-fugitive-slave/
cf:
http://documents.nytimes.com/when-special-delivery-meant-deliverance-for-a-fugitive-slave#p=1
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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In case you're tracking that replica Phoenician ship that's
sailing around Africa:
http://www.dispatch.co.za/article.aspx?id=382308
On the origins of small dogs:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/8530423.stm
WSJ's picks as the five best historical mystery novels:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748704804204575069371115999474.html?mod=WSJ-Books-LS-Books-11
Hmmm ... microbes might be complicating hair analyses and the like:
http://www.livescience.com/history/gold-corpse-hair-100225.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Lydia:
http://www.sundayszaman.com/sunday/detaylar.do?load=detay&link=202852
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CRIME BEAT
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A bust in Lebanon found a sarcophagus and other items in the house of
a Baalbek sheikh:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=112069
Followup on the theft of that pirate skull:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/pirates-head-taken-off-again/story-e6frg6so-1225833605152
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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A History of the World (BM)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/
Lydians and their World:
http://www.haberler.com/yapi-kredi-paranin-uygarligini-istanbul-a-getirdi-haberi/
http://www.haber7.com/haber/20100218/Lidyalilar-ve-Dunyalari-Sergisi-Acildi.php
http://www.ykykultur.com.tr/sergi/?yer=Vedat-Nedim-Tor
2. Roman Place-Names. Are they Celtic or Germanic?
http://www.archaeology.ws/roman.html
Brit-Am Comment:
This article claims that numerous place-names in England that were previously unanimously considered on linguistic grounds to beof Celtic origin were actually Germanic. We are not qualified to say whether the argument is right or wrong. We strongly suspectit is wrong but who knows?
The significance of the article is in the fact that this relatively new argument is seriously being considered by a minority of linguists and other researchers.
When we ourselves propose HEBREW origins for certain place-names one of the counter-arguments is the claim that linguists have "proven" otherwise, given other explanations that are unanimously accepted by academia.
We see here that linguistic explanations that were held in the past will not necessarily be held in the future.
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.46
Date: Sun, 07 Mar 2010 15:27:07 +0000
From: rogueclassicist <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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AFRICA
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A lost Jewish tribe in ... Zimbabwe???:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/africa/8550614.stm
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A Syrian 'stonehenge'? (and other Neolithic finds):
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/syrias-stonehenge-neolithic-stone-circles-alignments-and-possible-tombs-discovered-1914047.html
Some recent finds in Jerusalem (not sure we mentioned these yet):
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2010/March/New-Jerusalem-Finds-Point-to-the-Temple-Mount/
A riot erupts at a proposed dig of a burial cave in Tzippori:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3859042,00.html
Khirbet Qeiyafa has been identified as the biblical Neta'im:
http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=2654
A boost for Palestinian archaeology (?):
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153361
Nice radio broadcast feature on reading ancient texts (not just ANE):
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2007
Feature on the DSS:
http://www.twincities.com/ci_14522261
Interview with Scott Korb:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1153110
More on Eilat Mazar's wall find:
http://www.thecuttingedgenews.com/index.php?article=11995
More on the Madaba Map:
http://www.israel21c.org/201003017743/briefs/new-excavations-confirm-madaba-map
Review of Christopher de Bellaigue, *Rebel Land*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/07/books/review/ONeill-t.html
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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A quern stone from near Chaigley:
http://www.longridgenews.co.uk/features/Exciting-find-for-museum-bosses.6119348.jp
On the influence of Classical authors in the 17th century US:
http://www.thesmartset.com/article/article03021001.aspx
Roger Travis has an interesting teaching method:
http://chronicle.com/blogPost/Classics-Professor-Requires/21625/
More on that African burial at York:
http://www.physorg.com/news186653530.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/evidence-of-upper-class-africans-living-in-roman-york-1914553.html
http://www.physorg.com/news186653530.html
More on that palace from Gabii:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/prince-palace-rome.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Five more burials have been found at La Pava de Mochumi:
http://enperublog.com/2010/03/04/more-tombs-at-the-la-pava-de-mochumi-site/
Not sure where to classify this one ... evidence of Mormon
participation in the 1847 Mexican War:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36676
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Brewing ancient ales:
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/food/sc-food-0305-drink-beer-archeologist-20100305,0,7534254.story
On snow and eruvim:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/06/us/06religion.html
More on the origins of small dogs:
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2010/02/26/2830172.htm
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Byzantine Ghost Towns of Syria
http://www.forteantimes.com/features/fortean_traveller/2977/byzantine_ghost_towns_of_syria.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Israeli police are seeking help in recovering some purloined
Maimonides manuscripts:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/181473
... and I think we mentioned this Israeli 'clock heist' a while
back ... here's an update:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=36620
A bust at a site in Israel:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136285
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NUMISMATICA
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A major hoard of coins dating back to Alexander the Great from
Syria:
http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/WireHeadlines/2010/03/05/coins-from-alexander-the-great-found-78.php
http://www.courierpostonline.com/article/20100304/NEWS01/100304036/1001/RSS
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35708172/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.northjersey.com/r?19=961&43=515347&44=86702552&32=4497&7=309037&40=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.northjersey.com%2Fnews%2F86702552_A_jackpot_in_ancient_coins.html
http://news.therecord.com/article/679690
http://www.english.globalarabnetwork.com/201003025027/Travel/archaeological-findings-hellenistic-coins-discovered-in-northern-syria.html
http://www.forbes.com/feeds/ap/2010/03/04/general-ml-syria-ancient-coins_7406777.html?boxes=financechannelAP
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hcbGNxzxuvDJ_cHishQIPlTcf2RgD9E7TD080
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/03/04/AR2010030401944.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/feedarticle/8973974
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100304/ap_on_re_mi_ea/ml_syria_ancient_coins
http://www.latercera.com/contenido/659_231101_9.shtml
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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More on those reunited Bible fragments on display in Israel:
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601088&sid=a.bndSY3UN70
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ON THE WEB
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Ancient DNA:
http://www.isogg.org/ancientdna.htm
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