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explorator 24.11 July 4, 2021
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You can read explorator online at:

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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More on assorted DNA found in the Denisova Cave:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/pleistocene-sediment-dna-from-denisova.html

More on the homo longi skull identification(a.k.a. 'dragon man') from China:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/homo-longi-09804.html https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/stunning-dragon-man-skull-may-be-elusive-denisovan-or-new-species-human
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/dragon-man-fossil-may-replace.html
https://cosmosmagazine.com/dragon-man/ https://www.archaeology.org/news/9812-210628-china-dragon-man

More on the homo nesher ramla skull find:

https://science.sciencemag.org/content/372/6549/1429 https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/a-new-type-of-homo-unknown-to-science.html
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AFRICA
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More on 13 400 years bp evidence of a series of hostilities in Sudan:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/world-s-first-war-13-400-years-ago-was-not-isolated-event-1.9849856
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A commission has been established to study the artifacts Egypt recently received from France (more in the 'repatriation' section):

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/105545/Egypt%E2%80%99s-Antiquities-Committee-examines-restores-Egyptian-artifacts-recovered-from-France

Feature on 'Luxor's lost golden city':

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/105578/Luxor-s-%E2%80%98Lost-Golden-City%E2%80%99-An-accomplishment-of-the-Egyptian

Feature on 'Monument M' from Dara:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/30/the-mysterious-tomb-of-dara-reconsidered/

More on that 26th Dynasty stele found by a farmer near Cairo:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-egypt/new-stele-of-biblical-pharaoh-found/

A study of probable air quality issues at Catal Huyuk:

https://www.ncl.ac.uk/press/articles/latest/2021/06/prehistoricairpollution/ https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/nu-phw063021.php https://phys.org/news/2021-06-prehistoric-homes-modern-air-quality.html https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/domestic-dwellings-at-catalhoyuk-would.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9821-210701-neolithic-air-pollution

11 new sites have been found around Gobekli Tepe:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/new-sites-discovered-around-turkeys-ancient-marvel-gobeklitepe/news
https://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/turkey-discovers-new-sites-near-famed-gobeklitepe-3575342

Feature on Gobekli Tepe:

https://www.chicagotribune.com/opinion/commentary/ct-opinion-neolithic-man-beer-parties-turkish-dig-20210629-agkj3ds6k5dnpbwrbgvlqto7ty-story.html
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/culture/worlds-oldest-temple-in-turkey-increasingly-draws-more-attention/2290569

... and more on the comet strike 13 000 years bp purportedly recorded there:

https://www.livescience.com/comet-impact-neolithic-period-human-civilization.html
https://www.sciencefocus.com/planet-earth/did-a-huge-comet-impact-ignite-civilisation-on-earth-as-we-know-it/
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/comet-strike-may-have-sparked-key-shift.html

Feature on wax tablets in the Ancient Near East:

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2021/07/assurbanipals-ipad

A Zand-era bath house in Khoy (Azerbaijan) as been restored:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/462696/Centuries-old-public-bathhouse-gains-former-glory

Feature on archaeologists conducting illegal digs in Iran:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2021/06/28/irans-poirot-among-wave-vigilante-archaeologists-leading-illegal/
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/645/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/645/pub/645/page/49/article/189279

Plans for excavations at the Masumzadeh mound site near Bojnurd (Iran):

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/462519/Archaeologists-to-probe-once-prosperous-hill-in-northeast-Iran

... and a followup survey of the marivan plain:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/462587/Archaeologists-to-shed-new-light-on-Marivan-plain

Restoration works around Mosul's Al Nouri mosque are causing controversy:

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/27/world/middleeast/unesco-mosul-reconstruction.html

... while foreign governments have pledged a pile of money for restoration/maintenance of sites destroyed by ISIL;

https://www.rudaw.net/english/middleeast/iraq/270620214

Feature on lithic finds in the Bisitun cave:

https://www.penn.museum/blog/museum/the-scrapers-of-bisitun-cave/

More on Tal Banat as a 4500 years bp war memorial:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/massive-tomb-syria-white-monument-1985163

A study of the population of Alalakh in the Bronze Age suggests the majority were raised locally and descended from locals:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-foreigners-international-age.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/mpif-wat062921.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210630173639.htm https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/researchers-use-genetic-and-isotopic.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/07/01/where-are-the-foreigners-of-the-first-international-age/

Feature on the 3200 years bp reliefs of the Yazilkaya Rock Temple (Turkey):

https://hyperallergic.com/659649/scholars-decipher-hittite-yazilikaya-rock-temple-reliefs-depicting-cosmos/

An overview of finds in Turkey this past month:

https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/june-2021-turkish-archaeology

A 1000 years bp (maybe) burial from Perre:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/1000-year-old-human-skeleton-unearthed-in-se-turkeys-perre-site/news

OpEd on the politics of archaeology in Turkey:

https://www.yenisafak.com/en/columns/yusufkaplan/turkey-needs-to-break-the-chains-of-archaeological-imperialism-3575774

A pile of basalt pestles from a 15 000 years bp Natufian cave site near Carmel:

https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/15000-year-old-tools-shed-light-on-community-relations-in-ancient-israel-672478
https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/natufians-in-northern-israel-brought-basalt-from-afar-15-000-years-ago-1.9955795
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-021-88484-1

The mystery of prehistoric shark teeth found at a 2900 years bp site in the City of David (and elsewhere):

https://phys.org/news/2021-07-city-david-sharks-teeth-mystery.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-07/gc-tco070121.php

Feature on Eilat Mazar's 'final discovery' (a 2000 years bp gold ring):

https://watchjerusalem.co.il/1271-babys-gold-ring-an-intriguing-historical-connection-to-dr-mazars-final-discovery

'Interesting' claims in a feature about the Madaba Map:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium.MAGAZINE-why-roads-aren-t-marked-on-the-madaba-map-the-earliest-map-of-the-holy-land-1.9961540

More on a study of what ancient Judeans actually ate and its implications for observing kashrut:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/israeli-archaeologists-discover-what-ancient-judeans-actually-ate-1.9837609

More on evidence of sea level rise in the Hellenistic-era eastern Mediterranean:

https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-israel/rising-seas-changing-fortunes/

Not sure if this is a 7000 years bp cave site or one demonstrating 7000 years of occupation ... from the Umm Jirsan cave:

https://www.saudigazette.com.sa/article/608243/SAUDI-ARABIA/Heritage-Commission-announces-new-7000-year-old-discovery-in-Umm-Jirsan-Cave

A survey of the Al-Jouf (Saudit Arabia) region is under way:

https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/608383 https://www.arabnews.com/node/1887096/saudi-arabia

127 sites found during a survey of Masirah Island:

https://www.omanobserver.om/article/1103040/oman/127-archaeological-sites-found-on-masirah-island
https://timesofoman.com/article/103377-we-love-oman-archaeological-sites-in-masirah-island

Review of Stefan Reif, *Bouncing Back -- and Forward*:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/the-scholar-who-defied-odds-to-unveil-the-treasures-of-the-cairo-genizah-book-review-672627

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================ Dendrochronology has dated the Vasca Votiva pool to between 1436 and 1428 BCE:

https://www.livescience.com/bronze-age-infinity-pool-supernatural-rituals.html https://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/32032/20210701/ancient-infinity-pool-suspected-archaeologists-hold-supernatural-water-rituals-bronze.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9823-210702-italy-reflecting-pool

An 1800 years bp headless statue of a woman from Metropolis:

https://greekherald.com.au/news/1800-year-old-headless-greek-statue-found-at-turkeys-metropolis-site/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9734105/Headless-1-800-year-old-statue-woman-unearthed-Turkeys-City-Mother-Goddess.html

A Roman-era sarcophagus containing two skeletons from Sydney Gardens in Bath:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-somerset-57640337 https://www.bathecho.co.uk/news/community/roman-sarcophagus-unearthed-sydney-gardens-94962/
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9741259/Roman-sarcophagus-discovered-Bath-contained-two-skeletons-one-laid-feet.html
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/2000-year-old-roman-coffin-unearthed-in-uk-enlightens-on-funeral-rituals-672327
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/sarcophagus-cremation-burial-from-roman-times-discovered-in-bath-672816
https://newsroom.bathnes.gov.uk/news/rare-ancient-roman-sarcophagus-discovered-baths-sydney-gardens
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/ancient-roman-sarcophagus-two-skeletons-bath-england-1234597638/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9816-210629-bath-roman-sarcophagus

A relief of a 'naked horseman' found at Vindolanda:

https://www.vindolanda.com/news/carved-stone-depicting-mystery-horseman-uncovered
https://www.livescience.com/naked-roman-carving-hadrians-wall.html https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-57636657 https://www.hexham-courant.co.uk/news/19404882.mystery-naked-horseman-carving-dug-vindolanda-roman-fort/
https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/history/newcastle-volunteers-find-roman-carving-20918504
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9737807/Carved-stone-depicting-naked-horseman-uncovered-near-Hadrians-Wall.html
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/61662 https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/07/ornate-stone-carving-discovered-at-roman-fort-near-hadrians-wall/139608

Finds from various periods, including a couple of Pompeiian amphorae, from the waters near Cagliari (Italian):

https://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/arte/2021/07/02/recuperata-anfora-di-pompei-nelle-acque-davanti-a-nora_87ff688f-1d2b-4ead-ab17-542492fe58f7.html
https://www.castedduonline.it/cagliari-controlli-ai-siti-archeologici-sommersi-recuperati-un-cannone-due-anfore-e-preziosi-reperti/
https://www.ilmattino.it/napoli/cultura/i_tesori_di_pompei_scoperti_mare_sardegna_recuperati_intatti_dopo_duemila_anni_fondo_marino-6058056.html

Decapitated burials dating to the 3rd century CE from a Cambridgeshire quarry site:

https://www.elystandard.co.uk/news/quarry-decapitated-bodies-east-cambs-8102016

Excavations have resumed at Lyttos after 40 years:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/07/02/excavations-are-beginning-in-ancient-lyttos/

Excavations at Metroplis have resumed as well:

https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/2021-excavations-start-in-turkeys-metropolis-ancient-city/news

Hopes of finding a 'Roman chamber' at the site of a necropolis at Carmona:

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/06/28/hopes-new-roman-chamber-will-be-discovered-in-carmona/

Court approval for plans to move artifacts found during Thessaloniki metro construction:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1163703/council-of-state-green-lights-removal-of-antiquities-from-thessaloniki-metro-station/
https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/02/greek-court-green-lights-removal-thessaloniki-metro-antiquities/
https://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/44912-greek-culture-minister-welcomes-court-s-decision-on-thessaloniki-metro-antiquities.html
https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/07/01/thessaloniki-metro-antiquities-greek-minister/
https://www.ekathimerini.com/news/1163747/thessaloniki-metro-finds-to-be-removed/

... related opEd:

https://www.athina984.gr/en/2021/07/01/k-karamanlis-to-thema-ton-archaiotiton-krithike-as-mi-dichasei-kaneis-allo-ti-thessaloniki/

A study of a Roman coin hoard found near Berlicum a while ago suggests they were deposited specifically for 'safe crossing' of the River Aa:

https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2021/06/roman-coins-as-offering-for-safe-crossing
https://phys.org/news/2021-06-hoard-roman-coins-safe.html http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/61691

Confirmation of Roman gold mines in central Portugal:

https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2021-07-03/researchers-confirm-existence-of-ancient-roman-gold-mines-in-central-portugal/60839

More on the remains of a 2nd century BCE Roman military camp in Portugal:

http://www.exeter.ac.uk/news/research/title_864744_en.html https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2021/06/28/experts-discover-camp-used-by-roman-soldiers-sent-to-conquer-northwest-iberia/
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/lomba-do-mouro-camp-09803.html https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/experts-discover-camp-used-by-10000.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9814-210629-portugal-roman-camp

... and a feature on the history of Roman Portugal:

https://www.theportugalnews.com/news/2021-06-30/a-misty-history-of-roman-portugal/60739

Red tape seems to be messing up operations of that underwater museum site at Peristera:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1163322/bureaucratic-ballast-sinking-archaeological-research-project/

An item circulating on the 'oldest wine in Europe' being found in Greece is actually about a decade old and has been superceded a couple times already:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/06/27/oldest-wine-europe-ancient-greece/

... and so is this item on moveable Roman stages (at least 4 years old):

https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/03/discovery-reveals-ancient-greek-theaters-used-moveable-stages-over-2000-years-ago/

More on the opening of the Colosseum's hypogeum to the public:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/lifestyle/travel/rome-s-colosseum-reopens-after-extensive-restoration-in-pictures-1.1248760
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/romes-colosseum-opens-newly-restored-094943142.html https://news.artnet.com/art-world/lower-levels-colosseum-open-public-1984267 https://www.news18.com/photogallery/photogallery/in-photos-romes-colosseum-opens-underground-tunnels-to-public-for-first-time-3905312.html
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/colosseums-underground-tunnels-open-to-visit-for-1st-time/news
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tunnels-beneath-romes-colosseum-are-open-public-first-time-180978080/

More on the upcoming dig at Birdoswald Roman Fort:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-57612323

The burial monument at Amphipolis will be opening to the public next year:

https://www.athina984.gr/en/2021/06/25/episkepsimo-to-proto-examino-toy-2022-to-tafiko-mnimeio-tis-amfipolis/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/06/30/burial-monument-of-amphipolis-ready-to-be-visited-by-2022/

Feature on the improvements at the newly-reopened Domus Aurea:

https://archinect.com/news/article/150271882/domus-aurea-reopens-with-an-improved-ramp-and-entryway-from-an-italian-maestro

Feature on a Turkish olive grove which is a major source, it appears, of Roman imperial-era sarcophagi:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/61684

Feature on a group trying to revive production of garum:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/garum-fish-sauce

Feature on the implications of some recently-found 'shackled' Roman burials:

https://hyperallergic.com/659856/sensational-headlines-about-shackled-beheaded-skeletons-in-roman-britain-contribute-to-historical-misunderstanding-slavery/

Interesting reflection on the peer-review implications of the Gospel of Jesus' Wife debacle:

https://www.chronicle.com/article/a-scholarly-screw-up-of-biblical-proportions

A study of Bronze Age silver production at Laurion:

http://intarch.ac.uk/journal/issue56/9/index.html

Feature on the survival of Virgil:

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/reading-like-a-roman

Feature on ancient 'artistic swimming':

https://www.swimmingworldmagazine.com/news/artistic-swimming-ancient-roman-spectacle-to-modern-olympic-sport/

Feature on the Sacred Band of Thebes:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/06/the-sacred-band-of-thebes-the-elite-military-unit-of-same-sex-lovers/139599

Feature on the 'gate to hell' at Hierapolis:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20210629-turkeys-mysterious-portal-to-the-underworld

Feature on the 'lost' Roman fort in Glasgow:

https://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/history/lost-roman-fort-under-glasgow-20927452

Feature on Hypatia:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/06/30/hypatia/

Feature on ancient tattoos:

https://www.ancientworldmagazine.com/articles/greek-tattoo-culture-part-1/

Feature on London's Roman fort:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/07/londons-roman-fort/139617

Feature on Yemen in Roman times:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/how-yemens-marib-became-frontier-roman-expansionism

Feature on the site of Argentomagus:

https://www.timetravelrome.com/2021/06/29/the-gallo-roman-site-of-argentomagus-in-france/

Feature on the Venus de Milo:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/01/the-discovery-of-the-venus-de-milo-statue/

... and its effect on Western ideas about beauty:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/02/how-the-aphrodite-of-milos-statue-shaped-the-western-idea-of-female-beauty/

Feature on the oracle of Delphi:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/06/30/ancient-greek-oracle-delphi/

Feature on ancient Greek wine:

https://www.thenationalherald.com/food_travel_wine_spirits/arthro/ancient_greeks_and_their_taste_for_salty_wine-2789395/

Feature on Ptolemy and the astrolabe:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/07/01/ptolemys-invention-of-the-astrolabe-measured-time-and-the-stars/

Suggestion that the National Museums of Scotland's recent change in attitude toward repatriation might have implications for the Parthenon Marbles:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2021/06/28/speculation-grows-parthenon/ https://www.thenational.scot/news/19402893.pressure-grows-uk-hand-back-elgin-marbles-scottish-decision/

Feature on Xena:

https://greekreporter.com/2021/06/29/hollywood-created-greek-warrior-princess/

Another feature on the revival of Stoicism:

https://www.vice.com/en/article/xgxvmw/the-revival-of-stoicism

On Tacitus and 'cancel culture':

https://www.spectator.com.au/2021/07/a-word-to-the-wise/

On the myth of a 'white Rome':

https://aeon.co/essays/colonialism-is-built-on-the-rubble-of-a-false-idea-of-ancient-rome

Comparing Nero and Boris Johnson:

https://www.conservativewoman.co.uk/nero-and-the-johnson-empire/

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Rogueclassicism:

http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
DNA suggests a 5000 years bp 'Latvian' hunter-gatherer was the earliest (so far) person to die from yersina pestis:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-year-old-earliest-strain-plague.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2021-06/cp-t5m062421.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210629161338.htm https://www.livescience.com/5000-year-old-man-had-plague.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2021/jun/29/5000-year-old-hunter-gatherer-is-earliest-person-to-die-with-the-plague
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-57658859 https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/5000-year-old-patient-zero-of-bubonic-plague-found-in-latvia-study-672437
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/earliest-strain-of-plague-found-in-5-000-year-old-body-in-latvia-1.9952043
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/this-5000-year-old-man-had-earliest.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2021/07/01/plague-case-5000-years-ago-in-latvia/
https://gizmodo.com/scientists-say-theyve-found-the-earliest-case-of-the-pl-1847193175
https://www.zmescience.com/science/this-5000-year-old-man-may-have-been-the-oldest-plague-victim/

cf: https://www.cell.com/cell-reports/fulltext/S2211-1247(21)00645-8

A 4000 years bp 'snake staff' from a lake in Finland:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-ancient-snake-finland.html https://www.livescience.com/ancient-snake-stick-shaman-staff-discovered.html https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9733539/Stone-age-wooden-snake-staff-Finland.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/4400-year-old-shamans-snake-staff-discovered-finland-rcna1291
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/sinuous-stone-age-snake-sculpture-unearthed-in-finland
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/61679 https://www.gizmodo.com.au/2021/07/this-carved-snake-may-have-been-the-staff-of-a-stone-age-shaman/
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/4000-year-old-serpent-shaped-stick.html
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2021/06/archaeologists-discover-4400-year-old-serpent-staff/139586
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/4000-year-old-snake-staff-discovered-finland-180978101/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9818-210630-finland-wooden-snake

Interesting study suggests merchants were using 'standardized' weights in Bronze Age Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-western-eurasia-years.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/06/210629191721.htm https://www.sciencemag.org/news/2021/06/these-ancient-weights-helped-create-europe-s-first-free-market-more-3000-years-ago
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/researchers-investigate-spread-of.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9820-210701-bronze-age-weights

Seven early Christian/Viking age burials from southern Sweden:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/61667 https://sputniknews.com/europe/202106281083256039-thousand-year-old-christian-viking-era-graves-found-on-residential-plot-in-sweden/

Remains of a medieval road being connected with Robert the Bruce near the site of the Battle of Bannockburn:

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/lost-medieval-road-used-by-robert-the-bruce-uncovered-near-battle-of-bannockburn-site-3288013
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9744613/Archaeology-Lost-medieval-road-uncovered-used-Robert-Bruce-700-years-ago.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/9819-210630-scotland-medieval-road

Hundreds of medieval burials excavated from a Pembrokeshire beach site:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-57685284 https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/skeletons-bodies-beach-pembrokeshire-storms-b1877558.html
https://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/skeletons-women-children-uncovered-popular-20953996
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9749755/Around-200-medieval-skeletons-unearthed-Pembrokeshire-beach.html
https://metro.co.uk/2021/07/02/pembrokshire-around-200-medieval-skeletons-found-buried-at-beach-14866149/
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/skeletons-found-metres-away-popular-20947939

Remains of an 800 years bp bridge found near Eye castle:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-57652145 https://www.edp24.co.uk/news/eye-castle-suffolk-medieval-bridge-discovery-8096224

A 1000 years bp church built by Otto the Great beneath a German cornfield:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-9749637/Remains-100ft-long-1-000-year-old-church-built-Otto-Great-discovered-Germany.html
https://www.zenger.news/2021/06/29/ear-it-is-amazing-1000-year-old-church-discovered-under-a-cornfield/
https://aleteia.org/2021/06/30/1000-year-old-church-from-holy-roman-empire-excavated-in-germany/

Evidence of a Christian community in 12th century Islamic Iberia:

https://phys.org/news/2021-06-food-christian-12th-century-islamic.html

Evidence of pork consumption in medieval Islamic Sicily:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/ham-fisted-haram-medieval-islamic-sicily-ate-pork-study-finds-672374

cf: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0252225#sec002

A 13th century relief in a Scottish Abbey may commemorate the assassination of an abbot:

https://www.scotsman.com/heritage-and-retro/heritage/13th-century-carving-records-abbots-assassination-at-scottish-abbey-3294908

Remains of a 500 years bp structure on a convent construction site in Clondalkin:

https://dublingazette.com/news/clondalkin-councillors-archaeological-56482/

More on 13th century gold coins being found by a metal detectorist in Norfolk:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-57520248 https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/metal-detectorist-discovers-black-death-period-coins-180978065/

More on plague victims from Cambridgeshire being individually/carefully buried:

https://www.royston-crow.co.uk/news/clopton-black-death-study-8085180

More on 'Anglo Saxon' having more to do with language and culture than genetics:

https://www.sfu.ca/sfunews/stories/2021/06/being-anglo-saxon-a-matter-of-language-and-culture--not-genetics.html
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/being-anglo-saxon-was-matter-of.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/9815-210629-britain-anglo-saxon

More on folks keeping 'mementos' from loved ones' burials:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/tradition-of-keeping-mementos-in-memory.html

More on the search for remains of some missing US WWII airmen in an Arundel field:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-57663496 https://edition.cnn.com/2021/06/30/europe/us-veterans-dig-gbr-scli-intl/index.html

An inscription on a seal we mentioned a couple of weeks ago was figured out by someone on Twitter:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-57678500

Feature on a 'smuggler's cave' from Teeside (I don't think this is a recent discovery):

https://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/smugglers-cave-complete-tunnels-held-20868390

Feature on Dover Castle's 'Great Tower':

https://archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/interpreting-dover-castles-great-tower.htm

Feature on the language of the Vikings:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/what-language-did-the-vikings-speak

Feature on how a 17th century illustration is helping to locate Viking ship burials in Denmark:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2021/07/how-a-17th-century-illustration-is-helping-archaeologists-find-viking-ships/

Suggestion that Stonehenge was actually the 'base' of a huge Neolithic temple:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-9750957/Architects-concept-Stonehenge-rocks-base-Neolithic-temple-brought-life-models.html

Marking the centennial of preserving London's Hampstead Heath:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-57656978
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Archaeology in Europe News:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

Medievalists.net:

https://www.medievalists.net/category/news/

Viking Archaeology Blog:

http://viking-archaeology-blog.blogspot.com/

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A study suggests the 5000 years bp Majiayao culture had plenty of cultural exchanges with other societies:

http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_viQhIISS.html

Qing Dynasty ceramics from a Maluku (Indonesia) site:

http://www.xinhuanet.com/english/asiapacific/2021-06/29/c_1310034672.htm

Remains of an 8th century CE imperial residence structure from Nara:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14385163 http://www.archaeology.org/news/9822-210702-nara-imperial-residence

Also from Nara comes a study of 1300 years bp parasite egges from a toilet structure:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/14371700

More on the remains of an apparent 3000 years bp shark attack victim from Japan:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/61658 http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/645/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/645/pub/645/page/33/article/189209
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/archaeologists-resolve-enigma-of-man-savaged-3-000-years-ago-in-japan-1.9945494
https://www.newsweek.com/3000-year-old-remains-believed-oldest-known-victim-shark-attack-1606092
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2021/06/3000-year-old-shark-attack-victim-found.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncover-3000-year-old-shark-attack-victim-180978076/

1600 pieces of movable type dating to the Joseon Dynasty:

http://www.arirang.co.kr/News/News_View.asp?nseq=279259

'Medieval' petroglypsh from Gadwal (not sure about that terminology):

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/historians-discover-rare-rock-art-site-in-gadwal/articleshow/84103140.cms

Remains of a 4000 years bp settlement (with a long history of occupation) from a dig in Odisha:

https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/4000-year-old-settlement-found-during-odisha-excavation/article35109780.ece
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/archaeologists-unearth-remains-of-4-000-years-old-settlement-in-odisha-s-balasore-1823455-2021-07-03
https://www.thestatesman.com/cities/bhubaneshwar/archeologists-discover-4000-year-old-human-settlement-odisha-1502978581.html

Remains of a Chola-era palace in Ariyalur:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/remains-of-chola-era-palace-amid-artefacts-at-ariyalur-excavation-site/articleshow/83972857.cms

Interesting burials (date?) from Tamil Nadu:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/human-skeleton-found-inside-burial-urn-in-tn-excavation-site-101625256411822.html
https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/others/5-more-human-skeletons-found-at-the-archaeological-site-near-madurai-101625386283109.html

A probable well structure (2300 years bp?) from Kodumanal:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/coimbatore/stone-well-like-structure-found-at-kodumanal-archaeological-site/articleshow/84079734.cms
https://www.thehindu.com/news/national/tamil-nadu/2300-year-old-step-well-found-near-erode/article35126862.ece

A trio of Aasiriyam inscriptions (13th-16th centuries CE) from Pudukottai:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/trichy/3-aasiriyam-stone-tablets-unearthed-in-pudukottai/articleshow/84102490.cms

Erosion concerns for the Chirand site in Bihar:

https://www.hindustantimes.com/cities/patna-news/famous-archaeological-site-in-bihar-faces-threat-of-erosion-101624801867323.html

Feature on Sharada Srinivasan's work tracing the history of metallurgy in India:

https://www.thehindu.com/society/history-and-culture/the-dancer-frozen-in-bronze/article35078401.ece

More on dating of Cagayan petroglyphs to 3500 years bp:

https://www.manilatimes.net/2021/06/29/news/regions/cagayan-cave-art-is-3500-years-old/1804959

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