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Brit-Am Historical Reports
28 March 2010 13 Nissan 5770
Contents:
1. Phoenicia team navigate Cape of Good Hope
2. The Peopling of Anglo-Saxon Britain: Ethnic Percentages
Some interesting Points
Angles in Yorkshire from Southern Denmark and Southern Norway!
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version Explorator 12.49
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1. Phoenicia team navigate Cape of Good Hope
http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/5062357.Phoenicia_team_navigate_Cape_of_Good_Hope/
By Laura Kitching '
A PRIMITIVE sailing venture being led by a Dorset adventurer has overcome its biggest challenge yet.
A team of 15 international sailors have breathed a sigh of relief as they successfully completed one of the toughest stretches of a 17,000-mile voyage around Africa ' navigating the Cape of Good Hope.
This stretch of coastline is a considerable challenge in any modern sailing yacht, but the Phoenicia team managed it in a replica 600 BC Phoenician wooden ship.
Expedition leader Philip Beale, who conceived the project from his base at East Chaldon, near Lulworth, had described it as the 'critical point in the expedition'.
He said: 'It is undoubtedly one of the most dangerous stretches of coastline in the world, and the Phoenicia expedition team have made history by showing incredible seamanship and courage in gale force winds, waves seven meters high and a main sail torn in two before their eyes.
'But these challenges have not deterred the crew as they rounded the Cape during the early hours of Thursday, March 4.'
The ship is now alongside at the North Wharf of the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town where it has been invited to berth alongside other prestigious sailors including Dilip Donde, India's first solo circumnavigator, and a team of sailors onboard 'Majan' ' a state of the art Arabian 100 Trimaran.
Their stop in Cape Town has included a press conference and interviews, and they opened Phoenicia up to public visits over the course of the visit.
The Phoenician Ship Expedition has brought together sailors and adventurers from across the globe as part of the crew.
The expedition launched from Syria in summer 2008, and over the past 18 months an international crew, of up to 16 people on any one leg, have battled against the elements to re-trace the Phoenicians ancient route around Africa.
Follow the voyage progress at www.phoenicia.org.uk
2. The Peopling of Anglo-Saxon Britain: Ethnic Percentages
Some interesting Points
Angles in Yorkshire from Southern Denmark and Southern Norway!
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 14:24:40 +0000
From: Mike Weatherley
Subject: Re: [BRITARCH] Anglo-Saxons
https://www.jiscmail.ac.uk/cgi-bin/webadmin'A2=ind1003&L=BRITARCH&F=&S=&P=122937
In the meantime, my own interpretation (as a Chemist of 25 years experience) is this:
We have a sample of skeletons from the culturally (artefactual/burial rite) Anglian
cemetary of late 5th/6th c. West Heslerton of two dozen individuals. Four contain
Oxygen tooth enamel which can only have originated in Southern Denmark (the
traditional place-of-origin of Angles). This matches the oldest artefacts found in this
cemetery, such as swords of a style which are known to come from Schlezwig. Thus
we can infer that the earliest Angles to colonize West-Heslerton come from here.
The half of the sample who have Oxygen tooth enamel figures in the range marked
yellow in the map probably do not originate in Cumbria, but Southern Norway.
This matches the jewellery artefacts found in the graves, which can be seen to be
typical from both Norway & Denmark for this time. Both the Danish & Norwegian
individuals represent 1st generation imigrants (whether you want to call them invaders
or something else). Lastly, we have a third of the sample which have isotopes in
their teeth that match the local area (Yorkshire). This does not, of course, in any
way imply they are native Britons, only that they are the 2nd/3rd generation offspring
of those original Anglian colonizers. And considering that they are included in those
graves which share Anglian grave-goods/burial orientation, there is no reason to think
that they were anything other than culturally Anglian, just like their parents.
I would also refer the list to Sir Walter Bodmer's 'Face Of Britain' genetic survey
(conducted between 2006 & 2009) which found conclusively that there is a strong
correlation between geography and genetic origin across England & Wales. While
blood & tissue types in the West (Cornwall, Wales - yes, and Cumbria!) can be
seen to be of more ancient 'Celtic' stock, the East coast of England is roughly
three-quarters Scandinavian to only one part native. Overall, the population of England
& Wales comes out to almost exactly 50:50 Celtic/Anglo-Saxon as measured by their
genetic markers. Which certainly agrees with the earlier studies by Weale etc (also
featured in 'Britain AD') which suggest a 50%+ replacement of native genes. Which
was laughed at, at the time it was published, though it doesn't look so silly now. And
if we take the mean estimate of a population of England & Wales c. 400 as 4 million,
then 50% of that is... Well, you do the maths, we do the pizza.
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 12.49
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Ancient tombs in Ashkelon are getting in the way of hospital
expansion:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/136634
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/afp/100321/world/israel_health_religion_jews_1
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/35988176/ns/technology_and_science-science/
Latest in the Mughrabi Gate saga:
http://www.thenational.ae/apps/pbcs.dll/article'AID=/20100325/FOREIGN/703249906/1135
... and East Jerusalem in general seems to be the subject of a number of
articles:
http://www.salon.com/news/opinion/feature/2010/03/23/jerusalem_israel
http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE62N2JZ20100324
... and it looks like the sanctuary of Abraham will soon be a saga:
http://aawsat.com/english/news.asp'section=7&id=20371
... whatever the case, politics and archaeology in Israel are a
scary mix:
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/tre62n33d-us-palestininians-israel-jerusalem-digs/
A recent Talmudic find via the Cairo Genizah:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-3866469,00.html
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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What did Alexander the Great ever do for us':
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1260702/The-father-civilisation-Alexander-Greats-hunger-knowledge-gave-Old-Testament-algebra-robots.html
Pondering temple prostitution:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,685716,00.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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I think we've mentioned this 'fossilized' 13th century brain before:
http://scienceblogs.com/neurophilosophy/2010/03/fossilized_13th_century_brain.php
More on the Staffordshire Hoard staying in Midlands:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/mar/23/staffordshire-hoard-anglo-saxon-grant
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/this-britain/staffordshire-hoard-to-stay-in-britain-for-good-1926154.html
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/03/24/grant-ensures-anglo-saxon-treasure-will-go-to-museums/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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On the origins of iron and steel in India:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2010-03/uoe-nrc032210.php
More on those Tarim Basin mummies:
http://news.scotsman.com/news/DNA-experts--reveal-China39s.6168665.jp
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NORTH AMERICA
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On the 'Don't Tread on Me' flag:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php'storyId=125184586
'Back channel' gloom during the Revolutionary War:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/arts/design/23redcoats.html
Things Lincoln didn't say:
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php'storyId=125169095
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Biblical plagues apparently really happened:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/7530678/Biblical-plagues-really-happened-say-scientists.html
Summers were wetter in the Middle Age:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/03/100324184600.htm
On 're-creation' portraits (not sure what to call this one):
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/23/science/23paint.html
Possible evidence of a major tsunami in the Atlantic some 2000 years ago:
http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/europe/news/article_1543702.php/Oceanographers-find-signs-of-Atlantic-disaster-2-000-years-ago
On Icelandic volcanoes' effect on climate:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20100322/ap_on_sc/eu_iceland_volcano
History's most destructive volcanoes:
http://www.livescience.com/environment/most-destructive-volcanoes-100323.html
Review of Judith Shulevitz, *The Sabbath World*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Goldstein-t.html
Review of Nell Painter, *The History of White People*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/03/28/books/review/Gordon-t.html
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CRIME BEAT
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Feature on looting in Lebanon:
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp'edition_id=1&categ_id=1&article_id=113179#%23ixzz0jQI4AXek
http://technology.iafrica.com/features/2320384.htm
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