BHR-56
Brit-Am Historical Reports
8 November 2010 1 Kislev 5771
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.29.
2. Minoans in Canaan Galilee.
3. Was Most Ancient Bronze (a copper and tin alloy) actually Brass (copper and zinc)!
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.29
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Feature on the dig at Tel Esur:
http://newmedia-eng.haifa.ac.il/?p=3795
A tribute to Ehud Netzer (audio):
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/Radio/News.aspx/2645
Pondering who lived at Qumran (still):
http://www.jpost.com/ChristianInIsrael/Features/Article.aspx?id=193690
Latest Temple Mount development (if it can be called that):
http://www.imra.org.il/story.php3?id=49848
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140477
Atiqot in English is now available online:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/140405
cf: http://www.atiqot.org.il/
More on that Ramat Rachel garden:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/40033240/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://news.yahoo.com/s/livescience/20101105/sc_livescience/storyofancientpowerrevealedinroyalgarden
http://www.livescience.com/history/ancient-palace-garden-royal-power-101103.html
More on papyri and 'concerns of the ancient world':
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101029092045.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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The Romans were apparently the 'first' to create 'ecofriendly' houses:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1326664/Romans-invent-eco-friendly-house.html
Can't remember if we had this 'exotic origins' connection for those headless
skeletons from York
which were dug up a few years ago:
http://news.discovery.com/archaeology/headless-gladiators-archaeology.html
http://sify.com/news/ancient-english-cemetery-of-exotic-headless-romans-found-in-york-news-international-kk4pufdbfcg.html
More on causes of death at Pompeii:
http://environment.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101102/pompeii-mount-vesuvius-science-died-instantly-heat-bodies/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2010/11/101102/pompeii-mount-vesuvius-science-died-instantly-heat-bodies/
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/pompeii-heat-blast-brought-death-at-six-miles-2393044.html
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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We mentioned plans to poke around this Neolithic dolmen near
Maghera a few weeks ago ... they have found some interesting stuff inside:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/megalithic-tombrsquos-secrets-revealed-after-5500-years-14995096.html
A guy doing some landscaping on Orkney did the archaeological thing and
stumbled on a Neolithic tomb complex:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11656142
A Bronze Age hoard from an Essex field:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11651691
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NORTH AMERICA
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Trying to figure out why some folks left 'East St Louis' some 800 years
b.p.:
http://www.bnd.com/2010/11/04/1463109/archaeologists-are-grabbing-their.html
Some skulls were mailed to Brigham Young University for some reason:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=42359
http://www.greatfallstribune.com/article/20101105/NEWS01/101105004/1002/RSS
http://www.ktvq.com/news/mystery-skulls-date-back-to-1100-a-d-/
Commemorating Lincoln's election:
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2010/11/05/us/politics/AP-US-Civil-War-Lincoln.html
... and Jefferson Davis' 'premonition':
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/11/02/premonition-at-vicksburg/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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The Maya converted wetlands to farmlands:
http://www.nature.com/news/2010/101105/full/news.2010.587.html
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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Europe's plagues appear to have originated in China:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/01/health/01plague.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/8102278/Black-Death-may-have-originated-in-China.html
http://www.physorg.com/news/2010-11-plague-china-scientists.html
Beer contributed to the rise of civilization (well of course it did!):
http://www.livescience.com/culture/beer-helped-rise-of-civilization-101104.html
On what an Arctic lake tells us about climate:
http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2010/11/el-gygytgyn-climate-core/
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GENERAL MAGAZINES AND JOURNALS
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Biblical Archaeology Review Nov/Dec 2010:
http://www.bib-arch.org/bar/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Book of the Dead:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=42254
http://www.cnn.com/2010/WORLD/europe/11/04/egyptians.book.dead/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-manual-to-the-afterlife-goes-on-show-2123193.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/ancient-egyptian-book-of-the-dead-british-museum-london-2127227.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/egyptian-scrolls-give-tips-on-the-afterlife-in-london-show-2125069.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/nov/02/egyptian-book-dead-exhibition(slideshow)
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2010/nov/02/egyptian-book-of-the-dead
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/nov/06/egyptian-book-of-dead-tom-holland
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/entertainment-arts-11669904
http://londonist.com/2010/11/review_ancient_egyptian_book_of_the.php
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-11669904
Afghan Gold:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/afghanistan/8108076/British-Museum-to-exhibit-Afghan-gold.html
Infinity of Nations:
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/06/arts/design/06infinity.html
A painting of Henry VIII's Nonsuch Palace is expected to fetch a good price:
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/22/20101103/tuk-life-us-britain-painting-nonsuch-fa6b408.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-11688182
Review of Neil MacGregor's *History of the World* book:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/nov/07/history-of-world-100-objects-review
A History of the World (BM)
http://www.bbc.co.uk/ahistoryoftheworld/explorerflash/
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OBITUARIES
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Ehud Netzer:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/culture-obituaries/8113656/Ehud-Netzer.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/middleeast/la-me-ehud-netzer-20101106,0,6554760.story
http://www.latimes.com/news/obituaries/la-me-ehud-netzer-20101106,0,235783.story?track=rss
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/2010_10_24_archive.html#8842089207722107789
2. Minoans in Canaan Galilee
Canaan
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canaan
Extract:
Tel Kabri contains the remains of a Canaanite city from the Middle Bronze Age (2000-1550 B.C.). The city, the most important of the cities in the Western Galilee during that period, had a palace at its center. Tel Kabri is the only Canaanite city that can be excavated in its entirety because after the city was abandoned, no other city was built over its remains. It is notable because the predominant extra-Canaanite cultural influence is Minoan; Minoan-style frescoes decorate the palace.[40]
3. Was Most Ancient Bronze (a copper and tin alloy) actually Brass (copper and zinc)!
Iron Age
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_age
Extract:
It should be noted that the majority of "bronze" of the bronze ages are actually brass from a compositional standpoint, being a mix of copper and zinc (and sometimes other metals derived from sulfides such as arsenic, lead, antimony and other elements that commonly occur with copper), rather than a mix of copper and tin. Brass items are regularly found in archeological digs, but generally mislabled as "bronze". There are three very important reasons for this. First, the common ores of copper that were mined in the ancient world, such as cuprite, normally occur intermixed in the same rocks with the sulfides of zinc such as sphalerite. Two, zinc has a lower melting point than tin, and despite it being thus easier to smelt than tin, it would require a great deal of extra effort with the crude furnaces of the ancient world to separate out the zinc. Three, brass is far stronger than bronze and thus would be more desirable as a metal.
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