BHR-67
Brit-Am Historical Reports
24 March 2011 18 Adar-Sheni 5771
Contents:
1. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.47
2. Jews in Bristol and Old Ireland. Iberia to Ireland: Seville oil and Sephardi
3. Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.48
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.47
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Ancient Egyptians in Chad?:
http://www.unreportedheritagenews.com/2011/03/ancient-egyptians-made-arduous-trek-to.html
Feature on Lev Eppelbaum's work at locating potential sites in Israel and
environs:
http://www.aftau.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=14094
http://scienceblog.com/43504/scanning-antiquity-underfoot/
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-scanning-antiquity-underfoot.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2011-03/afot-sau030811.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110308101447.htm
Mughrabi Bridge latest:
http://www.jpost.com/NationalNews/Article.aspx?id=211203
... and there are renovations going on at the Dome of the Rock:
http://www.jpost.com/VideoArticles/Video/Article.aspx?id=211277
Dr Leen Ritmeyer's Blog:
http://blog.ritmeyer.com/
Paleojudaica:
http://paleojudaica.blogspot.com/
Persepolis Fortification Archives:
http://persepolistablets.blogspot.com/
Archaeologist at Large:
http://spaces.msn.com/members/ArchaeologyinEgypt/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Simon Price's AIA talk on chemical warfare at Dura in back in the news:
http://www.livescience.com/13113-ancient-chemical-warfare-romans-persians.html
http://www.newser.com/story/113638/roman-soldiers-likely-hit-by-chemical-weapon.html
That Cumbria farmer who cashed in on the Roman helmet is 'unchanged' (in
case you were worried):
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-12662829
Atlantis silliness masquerading as National Geographic hype:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110312135018.htm
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/education/conn-scholars-research-into-atlantis-featured
In case you have no idea what the Ides of March is about for some reason:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20110312/pl_ac/8044908_what_is_the_ides_of_march
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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A pair of Bronze Age burial pots were revealed when a standing stone in
Scotland fell over:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-12689919
http://news.scotsman.com/scotland/Ancient-burial-pots-discovered.6731401.jp
http://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/Article.aspx/2170758?UserKey=#ixzz1G5jowVbH
They're laser-scanning Stonehenge:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-12688085
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/2010052/stonehenge_being_scanned_with_lasers/index.html?source=r_science
cf: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qxAnanfB_rg
This Celtic find doesn't seem to have made its way to the English press:
http://www.nzz.ch/nachrichten/panorama/opfergaben_in_basler_keltensiedlung_gefunden_1.9756135.html
A Sarup site from Norway (article in Norwegian):
http://www.aftenposten.no/fakta/innsikt/article3846334.ece
Contract archaeology in Sweden threatened?:
http://scienceblogs.com/aardvarchaeology/2011/03/draft_bill_threatens_future_qu.php
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 30 000 years b.p. ochre mine in Western Australia has been given
heritage status:
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/heritage-status-for-wa-ochre-mine-site/story-e6frg8n6-1226017265120
New Zealand Archaeology eNews:
http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Haven't had a 'lost colony' search for a while:
http://www.charlotteobserver.com/2011/02/27/2088257/finding-the-first-lost-colony.html
... and we've never had a mansard roof story:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/06/realestate/06streetscapes-mansard-roofs.html
More on those Channel Islands finds:
http://www.dailyemerald.com/news/university-anthropologists-uncover-evidence-of-ancient-seafaring-community-1.2075453
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-california-islands-evidence-early-seafaring.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/science/08obsea.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Companion piece to the Nimrud Ivories piece (in the Museums etc. section)
all about Agatha Christie's 'secret life' as an archaeologist:
http://www.cnn.com/2011/WORLD/europe/03/12/uk.christie.writer.archaeology/index.html
Not quite sure where this one goes ... a huge number of Jewish texts lost
during WWII were found in Manhattan:
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/08/nyregion/08books.html
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NUMISMATICA
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A small hoard of gold coins (from France!) from Leicestershire:
http://www.thisisleicestershire.co.uk/news/Golden-wonder/article-3302753-detail/article.html
http://www.metro.co.uk/news/857562-treasure-hunter-strikes-gold-by-unearthing-2-000-year-old-coins
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Nimrud Ivories:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20110309/world-news/3-000-year-old-ivories-go-on-show
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5hdfwzg-DEt4WP6MXR2WbS_mZfXJg?docId=CNG.5a4c8cec946c1d67ba07611801ac90e4.c91
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ukpress/article/ALeqM5gFXyxdjz0-YGjaZ6P0sjtEgLz9kw?docId=B24847851299501966A000
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-12675883
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/history/agatha-christie-the-ivory-statues-and-our-own-indiana-jones-2235172.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2011/mar/07/british-museum-assyrian-treasures-agatha-christie
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1364051/Nimrud-Ivories-cleaned-Agatha-Christie-s-face-cream-display-London.html
19th Century Holy Land Photography:
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0305-beliefs-getty-20110305,0,7922912.story
http://www.palisadespost.com/lifestyles/content.php?id=6469
Nubia:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=45652
Afghanistan: Crossroads of the Ancient World:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/8368022/Afghanistan-Crossroads-of-the-Ancient-World-British-Museum-review.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/ancient-wonders-of-afghanistan-2234155.html
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=45363
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/arts/relics-of-a-treasured-afghan-past/story-e6frg8n6-1226017257691
2. Jews in Bristol and Old Ireland
Iberia to Ireland: Seville oil and Sephardi
http://dna-forums.org/index.php?/blog/2/entry-123-iberia-to-ireland-seville-oil-and-sephardi/
Those tales of the Irish all descending from Iberians may not hold good. But dig around a little and you do find some connections. Susan Flavin, a PhD student at Bristol University has been delving into Bristol customs accounts and port books to investigate trade between Ireland and Bristol towards the end of the sixteenth century.*
Bristol has been trading with Ireland since the town first grew up in such a handy place to do just that in Anglo-Saxon times. Since so many Irish records went up in smoke when the record office in Dublin was destroyed in 1922, the Bristol records provide useful clues to Irish trade. It turns out that in 1594 Irish merchants exported four times more Spanish hat wool to England than they did Irish wool, and by 1600, Seville oil made up 11 per cent of Irish exports to Bristol. This is intriguing. Clearly there was plenty of sea traffic along the Atlantic seaboard in Elizabethan times.
This may help to explain another Iberian export: Sephardic Jews. Jews forced out of Spain in 1492 mainly fled to Portugal, but that provided only a brief haven until the expulsion of Jews from that country too in 1496. It seems that some Jewish refugees then made their way to the south of Ireland. Youghal in County Cork was the first town in the British Isles to have a Jewish Mayor: William Annyas in 1555, the grandson of Gil Anes of Belmonte, Portugal.
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 13.48
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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AFRICA
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The changing maps of Africa:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-12675464
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Plans to build a vacation village on an archaeological site in the Negev is
raising hackles:
http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/week-s-end/losing-the-lost-town-1.349975
Not sure if we've mentioned the 'God's Wife' thing yet (and not sure why
this is really news):
http://news.discovery.com/history/god-wife-yahweh-asherah-110318.html
What happens at Purim:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/03/19/purim-history-what-you-ne_n_837107.html
... and Landminds this week was talking with Stephen Gabriel Rosenberg about
the Megilla and Purim:
http://www.foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/downloads/files/LM%20-%20Mar162k11.mp3
Things are heating up in a different direction in regards to archaeology in
various parts of Jerusalem:
http://www.jordantimes.com/?news=28517
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 Atlantis silliness grew big time in last Sunday's papers (and beyond):
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-lost-city-atlantis.html
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/hottopics/detail?entry_id=84958
http://www.vancouversun.com/business/technology/Canadians+part+search+fabled+city+Atlantis/4435954/story.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/spain/8381219/Lost-city-of-Atlantis-buried-in-Spanish-wetlands.html
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/europe/researchers-claim-they-found-atlantis-in-a-spanish-swamp/article1941953/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1365824/Has-real-lost-city-Atlantis-finally--buried-mud-flats-Spain.html
http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2011/03/14/atlantis_found_national_geographic
http://www.physorg.com/news/2011-03-lost-city-atlantis.html
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/us_tsunami_atlantis;_ylt=A0wNdNhWv3tN6QwBk1ms0NUE;_ylu=X3oDMTNuMmMxaGQ2BGFzc2V0A25tLzIwMTEwMzEyL3VzX3RzdW5hbWlfYXRsYW50aXMEY2NvZGUDbW9zdHBvcHVsYXIEY3BvcwM4BHBvcwM1BHB0A2hvbWVfY29rZQRzZWMDeW5faGVhZGxpbmVfbGlzdARzbGsDbG9zdGNpdHlvZmF0
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=212935
cf:
http://www.bib-arch.org/reviews/review-digging-through-the-bible.asp (on a
tome by Richard Freund)
http://robertcargill.com/2011/01/07/eric-cline-reviews-richard-freund/
More on the disappearance of the Ninth Legion:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/go/rss/int/news/-/news/magazine-12752497
http://www.express.co.uk/posts/view/234990/They-vanished-into-thin-air
... and Charlotte Higgins comments on some historical problems in The Eagle:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/charlottehigginsblog/2011/mar/15/kevin-macdonald-the-eagle
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remains of a medieval mill of some sort from Dublin:
http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/ireland/2011/0315/1224292163264.html
Recent finds from Iceland:
http://www.medievalists.net/2011/03/19/archaeology-in-iceland-recent-developments/
Fleas are definitely implicated in the spread of that plague thing:
http://www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/8907567.All_bites_are_off___fleas_did_spread_plague/
Brighton schoolkiddies have built a Neolithic-style chalk house:
http://www.brightonandhovenews.org/2011/03/brighton-school-children-build-replica-neolithic-house/
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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NORTH AMERICA
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On old growth tree stumps and fire history:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2011/03/110314111246.htm
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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What the Mayans can teach us about wind turbines:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-1367949/What-Mayans-teach-wind-turbines.html
Analysis of Pueblo vessels suggests chocolate was a major trade item:
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/71308/title/Pueblo_traded_for_chocolate_big-time
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2011/03/17/Chocolate-seen-as-ancient-trade-offering/UPI-52621300412957/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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First it was an Irish Hamlet ... now a Holi Macbeth?:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/nri/art-culture/Is-Shakespeares-Macbeth-based-on-a-Holi-legend/articleshow/7734376.cms
Feature on tsunamis in various times in history:
http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/culture/37-history/6729-civilization-and-tsunamis
St Patrick and his day:
http://news.discovery.com/history/who-was-st-patrick.html
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CRIME BEAT
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A Rodin statue was stolen from the Israel Museum:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/rodin-statue-stolen-from-israel-museum-2237411.html
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NUMISMATICA
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The Suffolk Hoard is coming to auction soon:
http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=18499
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