Brit-Am Ephraimite Forum no. 97
Brit-Am Ephraimite Discussion. News and Issues concerning the Lost Ten Tribes and Judah in the World Today.
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Ephraimite Forum no.97
22 February 2009, 28 Shevet 5769
Contents:
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
11.43
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
11.44
3. The Origins of the African Slave Trade by
Piero
Scaruffi
1. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
11.43
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explorator 11.43 February 15, 2009
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EARLY HUMANS
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We now have a Neanderthal genome:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/science/13neanderthal.html
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=100648070
http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20090212/sc_nm/us_neanderthal_1
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/science/article5719640.ece
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/12/neaderthal-genome
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7886477.stm
http://www.reuters.com/article/scienceNews/idUSTRE51B5CV20090212
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/science-unlocks-neanderthal-secrets-1608222.html
http://www.france24.com/en/20090212-scientists-map-neanderthal-genome-0
... and, of course, someone already wants to bring a Neanderthal back to
life:
http://tierneylab.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/02/13/why-not-bring-a-neanderthal-to-life/
More on how early hominid faces changed/adapted:
http://www.wctv.tv/home/headlines/39396822.html
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AFRICA
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More on pygmy origins:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/80beats/2009/02/09/did-farmers-scatter-pygmy-populations-across-africa/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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One of my cut-and-paste problems last week was in relation to this
piece on using hyperspectral imagery to analyze a 10th century B.C./B.C.E
Hebrew ostrakon:
http://www.laserfocusworld.com/display_article/352592/12/none/none/INDUS/Headwall-spectral-imager-helps-decipher-10th-century-B.C.-Hebrew-tex
Concerns for Iran's six salt men:
http://www.newkerala.com/topstory-fullnews-93567.html
Something about the Ark of the Covenant:
http://www.enterprisenews.com/news/x1358534046/Brocktonian-claims-discovery-of-religious-artifact
More on the search for the 'real' Robinson Crusoe:
http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/0,1518,605963,00.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Visit our blog:
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
Blegen Library News:
http://blegen.blogspot.com/
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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NORTH AMERICA
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Bureaucracy and Black History Month:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/12/education/12amistad.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Jerusalem:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304767407&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Sussita:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304692969&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
Judean Hills:
http://www.jpost.com/servlet/Satellite?cid=1233304695732&pagename=JPost/JPArticle/ShowFull
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Kadesh:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog
Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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More on that Syriac Bible theft:
http://www.presstv.ir/detail.aspx?id=85114§ionid=3510212
http://www.emol.com/noticias/internacional/detalle/detallenoticias.asp?idnoticia=343612
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ON THE WEB
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OBITUARIES
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Rabbi Joseph Baumgarten:
http://www.jewishtimes.com/index.php/jewishtimes/news/jt/local_news/remembering_rabbi_joseph_baumgarten/10579
2. Archaeology: Brit-Am Version of
Explorator
11.44
From: David Meadows <rogueclassicist@gmail.com>
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explorator 11.44 February 22, 2009
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Israel offered 'voluntary relocation' to some 1500 Palestinian
residents living on an archaeological site in Jerusalem:
http://www.haaretz.com/hasen/pages/ShArt.jhtml?itemNo=1065674
A press releaseish/interviewish thing on Simcha Jacobovici:
http://www.newstimes.com/ci_11753397
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Visit our blog:
http://www.atrium-media.com/rogueclassicism
Blegen Library News:
http://blegen.blogspot.com/
Mediterranean Archaeology:
http://medarch.blogspot.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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New research suggests Elizabeth I's navy had some 'supergun'
technology:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7899831.stm
They've (possibly) found the location of Robert the Bruce's palace:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2009/feb/22/robert-the-bruce-palace-remains
Some metal detectorists have come across some 3000 b.p. or thereabouts
copper ingots in Devon:
http://www.thisissouthdevon.co.uk/news/Detector-bronze-hidden-3-000-years-ago/article-692592-detail/article.html
The 'essence' of Stonehenge (very nice):
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/picturegalleries/uknews/4602637/The-essence-of-Stonehenge.html
More on the 'Stirling Heads':
http://scotlandonsunday.scotsman.com/scotland/Mystery-of-39second-Crown-Jewels39.5004379.jp
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Review of James Palmer, *The Bloody White Baron*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/02/22/books/review/Goodwin-t.html
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DIG DIARIES/BLOGS
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Tel Kadesh:
http://sitemaker.umich.edu/kelseymuseum.digdiary/read_our_blog
Tel Dan:
http://teldan.wordpress.com/
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DON'T EAT THAT ELMER (A.K.A. CVM GRANO SALIS)
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In case you missed the Google Earth/Atlantis thing:
http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage/news/article2255989.ece
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/worldnews/article-1150846/Hopes-dashed-Google-Ocean-image-lost-city-Atlantis-proves-sort.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/science/nature/7903169.stm
http://i.gizmodo.com/5157949/atlantis-found-on-google-earth-official-explanation-is-dubious
3. The Origins of the African Slave
Trade
by Piero
Scaruffi
http://www.scaruffi.com/politics/slavetra.html
Brief Extracts:
In 1807 Britain outlawed slavery. In 1820 the king of the African kingdom of
Ashanti inquired why the Christians did not want to trade slaves with him
anymore, since they worshipped the same god as the Muslims and the Muslims were
continuing the trade like before.
Ancient slavery, e.g. under the Roman empire, would not discriminate: slaves
were both white and black (so were Emperors and Popes). In the middle ages, all
European countries outlawed slavery (of course, they retained countless
"civilized" ways to enslave their citizens, but that's another story), whereas
the African kingdoms happily continued in their trade.
Robert Davis estimates that 1.25 million European Christians were enslaved by
the "barbary states" of northern Africa. The USA bombed Morocco, Algiers, Tunis
and Tripoli in 1801 precisely to stop that Arab slave trade of Christians. The
rate of mortality of those Christian slaves in the Islamic world was roughly the
same as the mortality rate in the Atlantic slave trade of the same period.)
Christians took over in black Africa, though. The first ones were the
Portuguese, who, applying an idea that originally developed in Italian
seatrading cities, and often using Italian venture capital, started exploiting
sub-Saharan slaves in the 1440s to support the economy of the sugar plantations
(mainly for their own African colonies of Sao Tome and Madeira).
The Dutch were the first, apparently, to import black slaves into North America,
but black slaves had already been employed all over the world, including South
and Central America.
Scholars estimate that about 12,000,000 Africans were sold by Africans to
Europeans (most of them before 1776, when the USA wasn't yet born) and
17,000,000 were sold to Arabs.
Everything else is true: millions of slaves died on ships and of diseases,
millions of blacks worked for free to allow the Western economies to prosper,
and the economic interests in slavery became so strong that the southern states
of the United States opposed repealing it. But those millions of slaves were
just one of the many instances of mass exploitation: the industrial revolution
was exported to the USA by enterpreuners exploiting millions of poor immigrants
from Europe. The fate of those immigrants was not much better than the fate of
the slaves in the South. As a matter of fact, many slaves enjoyed far better
living conditions in the southern plantations than European immigrants in the
industrial cities (which were sometimes comparable to concentration camps). It
is not a coincidence that slavery was abolished at a time when millions of
European and Chinese immigrants provided the same kind of cheap labor.
It is also fair to say that, while everybody tolerated it, very few whites
practiced slavery: in 1860 there were 385,000 USA citizens who owned slaves, or
about 1.4% of the white population (there were 27 million whites in the USA).
That percentage was zero in the states that did not allow slavery (only 8
million of the 27 million whites lived in states that allowed slavery).
Incidentally, in 1830 about 25% of the free Negro slave masters in South
Carolina owned 10 or more slaves: that is a much higher percentage (ten times
more) than the number of white slave owners. Thus slave owners were a tiny
minority (1.4%) and it was not only whites: it was just about anybody who could,
including blacks themselves.
Dinesh D'Souza wrote, "What is uniquely Western is not slavery but the movement
to abolish slavery".
What is unique about the USA, in particular, is the treatment that blacks
received AFTER emancipation, which is, after all, the real source of the whole
controversy, because, otherwise, just about everybody on this planet could claim
to be the descendant of an ancient slave).
By the time the slave trade was abolished in the West, there were many more
slaves in Africa (black slaves of black owners) than in the Americas.
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