BHR-84
Brit-Am Historical Reports
2 February 2012 9 Shevat 5772
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.41.
2. How the European conquest affected Native Americans.
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.40.
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1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.41.
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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AFRICA
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Czech archaeologists have located a long-lost Meroe-era temple in the
Sudan:
http://praguemonitor.com/2012/01/27/czech-archaeologists-discover-long-lost-temple-sudan
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of the translation of a cuneiforum tablet with some
bad jokes/riddles:
http://www.livescience.com/18147-ancient-riddles-decoded-mesopotamia.html
http://in.news.yahoo.com/ancient-mesopotamians-enjoyed-riddles-sex-beer-politics-101226303.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2092775/Tablet-crude-jokes-riddles-beer--dating-time-biblical-Exodus.html
Interesting study of animal mummies suggests the animals were 'fed' prior to
mummification:
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egyptians-animal-mummies-120127.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46164406/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.canada.com/technology/Egyptian+birds+were+prior+mummification+study/6050746/story.html
Pondering whether the Merneptah Stele mentions Israel:
http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-topics/ancient-israel/does-the-merneptah-stele-contain-the-first-mention-of-israel/
Recent finds from Istanbul (various periods):
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/24/science/istanbul-yields-a-treasure-trove-in-ancient-bathonea.html
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/12025/1205819-115-0.stm
Feature on ancient wine:
http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/FoodAndWine/Article.aspx?id=255308
LandMinds interviews Steve Weiner:
http://foundationstone.org/LandMinds10/page32/files/LM-15Jan12a.mp3
Feature on Masada:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Opinion/Article.aspx?id=254663
More on those Jewish scrolls from Afghanistan:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/01/120123152528.htm
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2012/01/24/3091330/mystery-swirls-around-judaic-manuscripts-discovered-in-afghanistan
http://news.yahoo.com/ancient-jewish-scrolls-found-north-afghanistan-144850424.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/01/23/us-afghanistan-jewish-scrolls-idUSTRE80M18W20120123
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2012/Jan-26/161077-ancient-jewish-scrolls-found-in-afghanistan.ashx
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 mysterious Roman structure from Venta Icenorum:
http://www.livescience.com/18055-mysterious-winged-structure-ancient-rome.html
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/latest_building_found_at_roman_town_near_norwich_looks_like_a_spaceship_1_1187593
http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-winged-structure-ancient-rome-discovered-143605645.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2091204/Bizarre-winged-structure-Norfolk-Roman-ruins.html
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46102508/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-16739777
Feature on the search for Aegean (and hopefully, Minoan) shipwrecks:
http://www.nature.com/news/underwater-archaeology-hunt-for-the-ancient-mariner-1.9880
Vandals hit some Samnite tombs in (old) Capua:
http://corrieredelmezzogiorno.corriere.it/napoli/notizie/arte_e_cultura/2012/26-gennaio-2012/devastate-tombe-sannitichedi-santa-maria-capua-vetere-1903023202580.shtml
Review of Colin McEvedy, *Cities of the Classical World*:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/jan/27/cities-classical-world-colin-mcevedy-review
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Remember that mass Viking grave from Dorset a few years back? Latest
theory suggests they were mercenaries:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/9035958/Mass-grave-belonged-to-Viking-mercenaries.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-16708401
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-viking-mass-grave-linked-elite.html
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Pondering the origin of a jade tool found in New Guinea:
http://www.livescience.com/18153-ancient-jade-tool-mystery.html
Possible clarification of the link between Asians and early Native
Americans:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-genetic-footprints-africa.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/uop-pac011912.php
http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/december-2011/article/new-genetic-research-suggests-link-between-earliest-native-americans-and-southern-siberia
France has returned a number of Maori heads to New Zealand:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/australiaandthepacific/newzealand/9033102/France-returns-20-Maori-heads-to-New-Zealand.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Plans to use genotyping to figure out what happened to Lost Colony settlers:
http://the-scientist.com/2012/01/01/lost-colony-dna/
More on the effect of European conquest on the Native American population:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-european-conquest-affected-native-americans.html
Review of Matthew Bowman, *The Mormon People*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/books/the-mormon-people-matthew-bowmans-timely-church-history-review.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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A stalagmite study suggests climate change affected ancient Mesoamericans:
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/25/4213455/blame-it-on-the-rain-scientists.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Feature on the inspiration for Indiana Jones (maybe):
http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/history-of-geology/2012/01/26/roy-chapman-andrews-and-the-kingdom-of-the-cretaceous-skulls/
Review of Cullen Murphy, *God's Jury*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/29/books/review/gods-jury-the-inquisition-and-the-making-of-the-modern-world-by-cullen-murphy-book-review.html
http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ptolemais:
http://www.dawn.com/2012/01/28/the-ancient-city-of-ptolemais.html(slideshow)
Egypt:
http://www.montrealgazette.com/technology/Cruising+royal+route+pharaohs/938311/story.html
Istanbul/Aegean Coast:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/27/istanbul-and-aegean-coast_0_n_1237041.html
Segovia:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/spain/9032496/Segovia-Spain-A-cultural-city-guide.html
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Hajj:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2012/jan/29/hajj-heart-islam-british-museum-review
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2012/jan/27/hajj-exhibition-saudi-cultural-vandalism
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/reviews/hajj-journey-to-the-heart-of-islam-british-museum-london-6296070.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-reviews/9045068/Hajj-at-British-Museum-Seven-magazine-review.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2012/01/26/british-museum-haj-show-seeks-to-explain-islamic-ritual-to-both-non-muslims-and-muslims/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-16750633
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2092056/British-Museum-Hajj-Exhibition-Mysteries-Muslim-pilgrimage-Mecca-revealed.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
Gold of the Incas:
http://www.smvk.se/smvk/jsp/polopoly.jsp?d=266&l=en_US
Roads of Arabia:
http://arabnews.com/saudiarabia/article568270.ece
A private Kurdish archaeological museum:
http://www.kurdishglobe.net/display-article.html?id=2A60BDA9C8E50ED74E610674DE952DC1
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Canterbury Tales:
http://theater.nytimes.com/2011/12/17/theater/reviews/the-canterbury-tales-remixed-at-soho-playhouse-review.html
History of the World:
http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/01/25/theater/reviews/history-of-the-world-at-the-living-theater.html
2. How the European conquest affected Native Americans
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-european-conquest-affected-native-americans.html
January 24, 2012
Extracts:
Researchers from Germany and the United States suggest that the European conquest triggered the loss of more than half the Native American population. The results of their study provide new insight into the demise of the indigenous population. Experts recognise that Native Americans died while at war or due to diseases when Europeans first arrived in the Americas; the question this latest study addresses is how the overall population was impacted by the conquest. Extensive genetic analysis proved that a transient contraction in population sizes by some 50% occurred approximately 500 years ago. The findings substantiate historical records indicating how the European settlers impacted the peoples of North and South America: diseases, wars, famine and slavery all played a part. The study was presented in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS).
Using the deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) of Native American women in North and South America, a two-man research team from the Gotingen University in Germany and the University of Washington in the United States drew up a family tree of contemporary and ancient Native peoples.
Overall, 137 mitochondrial genomes and 63 old subsequences of this genome were assessed. The researchers pointed out that the mitochondrial genome is passed on through the maternal lineage. ... About 500 years ago later, the population shrank by half.
"These losses were not limited to specific regions, but rather distributed across both American continents, with the severest impacts occurring in the most densely populated regions," said Dr. Lars Fehren-Schmitz of the Gotingen University. This decline did not last very long; the indigenous population started to grow again quite quickly. "This new population growth suggests that the cause of the decline can only be attributable to fast- and short-acting factors, for example, from diseases brought over by the Europeans in combination with war and famine, and was not due to centuries-long processes, as is commonly assumed," he added.
Said Brendan O'Fallon of the University of Washington: 'We really saw a big, sudden decrease in population among the Native Americans about 500 years ago. That's, of course, right when the Europeans first arrived. It was sort of a new line of evidence that, really, confirmed, I think, what a lot of people's previous suspicions were but maybe hadn't really been documented in this one area.
"The basic idea behind that is that when a population size is fairly small, lots of people tend to share the same ancestors at about the same time. The bigger the population size, the longer it takes everyone to find a common ancestor. So, the tree is just overall bigger."
3. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of Explorator 14.40
From: david meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Trying to decide whether that stuff the Sumerians drank actually was beer:
http://www.physorg.com/news/2012-01-fermented-cereal-beverage-sumerians-beer.html
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112457360/did-sumerians-really-produce-beer/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/46044929/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.livescience.com/17996-sumerian-beer-alcohol-free.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-01/m-tfc011712.php
What Ron Tappy is up to:
http://www.pittsburghlive.com/x/pittsburghtrib/news/s_776135.html
cf: http://www.zeitah.net/2011%20Brochure%20-%20Final%201.2.pdf
More coverage of challenges to the identification of a 'seal' from the
Temple:
http://www.jewishtribune.ca/TribuneV2/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5361&Itemid=53
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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On lead as an artifical sweetener:
http://io9.com/5877587/the-first-artificial-sweetener-poisoned-lots-of-romans/
Visit our blog:
http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Continued interest in the 16th century Jewish convert, Maria Lopez:
http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=254308
Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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France is planning a Napoleonland:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/9027394/France-plans-Napoleonland.html
More on brucellosis:
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/201201150400/NEWS01/201150465
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