Just for the sake of variety, and because I'm going away for the weekend (this doesn't often happen; just a family thing though), the GGG digest is a day early. This contrasts with the day late approach which I've sometimes used in the past. ;') Additional topics may arise, but digest members can read them in the next issue. Have a great weekend and week, all.
Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest #62
Saturday, September 24, 2005
Ancient Europe
3000-year-old settlement found in Switzerland
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/23/2005 6:50:00 AM PDT · 1 reply · 1+ view
Stone Pages | 16 September 2005 | SAPA, AFP
A settlement believed to be nearly 3000 years old has been discovered near Roman tombs in northern Switzerland, archeologists said. The hamlet near Frick, in Argau district, dated from about 900 BCE, the district's archeological department said. Excavations revealed stone foundations for the Celtic tribespeople's wooden dwellings, ceramics, animal bones and charred grain. Archeologists also found Roman tombs nearby dating from about 100 AD which contained glass containers, bronze ornaments, ceramics and other objects.
Epigraphy and Language
The Phaistos Disk
Posted by SunkenCiv
On Bloggers & Personal 09/22/2005 8:12:35 AM PDT · 9 replies · 107+ views
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Ancient Egypt
Cleopatra Found Depicted In Drag
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/22/2005 4:43:04 PM PDT · 28 replies · 718+ views
Discovery News | 9-21-2005 | Jennifer Viegas
Cleopatra Found Depicted in Drag By Jennifer Viegas, Discovery News Sept. 21, 2005 -- A relief image carved approximately 2,050 years ago on an ancient Egyptian stone slab shows Cleopatra dressed as a man, according to a recent analysis of the artifact. The object is only one of three known to exist that represent Cleopatra as a male. The other two artifacts also are stelae that date to around the same time, 51 B.C., at the beginning of Cleopatra's reign. Researchers theorize that the recently discovered 13.4 x 9.8-inch stela probably first was excavated in Tell Moqdam, an Egyptian city that...
Ancient Rome
Enthusiast uses Google to reveal Roman ruins (googling, googlemaps)
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/17/2005 10:41:50 PM PDT · 13 replies · 271+ views
Nature ^ | 14 September 2005 | Declan Butler
Luca Mori was studying maps of the region around his town of Sorbolo, near Parma, when he noticed a prominent, oval, shaded form more than 500 metres long. It was the meander of an ancient river, visible because former watercourses absorb different amounts of moisture from the air than their surroundings do. His eye was caught by unusual 'rectangular shadows' nearby... "Mori's research is interesting in its approach," says Manuela Catarsi Dall'Aglio, an archaeologist at the National Archaeological Museum of Parma. He says the find may be similar to a villa the museum is currently excavating at Cannetolo di...
Sofia Perched on Huge Ancient Amphitheatre
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/17/2005 10:22:42 PM PDT · 4 replies · 121+ views
Sofia News Agency ^ | 14 September 2005 | staff
The ruins of the largest on the Balkans area amphitheatre emerged from beneath the ground in Sofia making Bulgaria's capital the third in Europe perched on such ancient building. So far, only Madrid and Paris have had large amphitheatres within the city's boundaries... Archaeologists have unearthed thousands of bronze and one gold coin with the image of Emperor Constantinos the Great.
Asia
China Exclusive: Chinese Archaeologists Discover Worlds Earliest Millet
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/17/2005 7:05:56 PM PDT · 32 replies · 478+ views
China Daily ^ | 9-2-2005 | Xinhua
China Exclusive: Chinese archaeologists discover world earliest millets (Xinhua) Updated: 2005-09-02 16:14 Chinese archaeologists have recently found the world earliest millets, dated back to about 8,000 years ago, on the grassland in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. A large number of carbonized millets have been discovered by Chinese archaeologists at the Xinglonggou relics site in Chifeng City. The discovery has changed the traditional opinion that millet, the staple food in ancient north China, originated in the Yellow River valley, Zhao Zhijun, a researcher with the Archaeology Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences, told Xinhua on Friday. Carbon-14...
Climate
Groundbreaking Research Sheds Light On Ancient Mystery (Easter Island)
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/19/2005 4:36:30 PM PDT · 59 replies · 1,640+ views
Rochester Instityute Of Technology ^ | 8-31-2005 | Will Dube
Release Date: Aug. 31, 2005 Contact: Will Dube (585) 475-4954 or wjduns@rit.edu Groundbreaking Research Sheds Light on Ancient Mystery RIT researcher creates new population model to help predict and prevent societal collapse A researcher at Rochester Institute of Technology is unraveling a mystery surrounding Easter Island. William Basener, assistant professor of mathematics, has created the first mathematical formula to accurately model the islandís monumental societal collapse. Between 1200 and 1500 A.D., the small, remote island, 2,000 miles off the coast of Chile, was inhabited by over 10,000 people and had a relatively sophisticated and technologically advanced society. During this time,...
Let's Have Jerusalem
Israeli archaeologists unveil Byzantine mosaic, table
Posted by nickcarraway
On News/Activism 09/22/2005 1:02:58 AM PDT · 15 replies · 481+ views
Middle East Times ^ | September 20, 2005
CAESAREA, Israel -- Israeli archaeologists on Monday unveiled a Byzantine mosaic that had been buried under sand dunes for 50 years, along with a newly discovered, highly rare table dating from the same era. The so-called mosaic "carpet" measuring 16 meters (53 feet) by 14.5 meters, was uncovered in the Israeli coastal resort of Caesarea and has been dated by archaeologists to the fifth and sixth centuries. Bordered by a frieze of running animals, including lions, panthers, wild boars, antelope, elephant, dog and bull, interspersed with fruit trees, remains of the floor were first found during military exercises in 1950....
Scholars Discover New Testament Inscription
Posted by FreeManWhoCan
On News/Activism 12/13/2003 5:09:59 PM PST · 13 replies · 70+ views
AP & AOL News ^ | Nov. 21 2003 | KARIN LAUB, AP
JERUSALEM (Nov. 21) - A barely legible clue - the name "Simon" carved in Greek letters - beckoned from high up on the weather-beaten facade of an ancient burial monument. Their curiosity piqued, two Jerusalem scholars uncovered six previously invisible lines of inscription: a Gospel verse - Luke 2:25.
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis
Mystery Surrounds 'Porcelain Of The Southwest'
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/18/2005 3:55:14 PM PDT · 46 replies · 1,365+ views
Science Daily ^ | 9-7-2005
Source: University Of Arizona Date: 2005-09-07 Mystery Surrounds 'Porcelain Of The Southwest' Caitlin OíGrady hopes to crack a mystery that has puzzled archaeologists and potters for more than 100 years. Caitlin O'Grady, a Ph.D. student in Materials Science and Engineering, works on several pots in UA's Arizona State Museum. She's unraveling the secrets of the technology used to create prehistoric Sikyatki pottery. (Arizona State Museum Photo) It surrounds small pieces of broken Hopi pottery, some of which are now in OíGradyís lab in the Materials Science and Engineering (MSE) department at The University of Arizona. OíGrady, an MSE Ph.D. student,...
Prehistory and Origins
Neanderthal Teeth Grew No Faster Than Comparable Modern Humans'
Posted by DaveLoneRanger
On News/Activism 09/19/2005 2:11:50 PM PDT · 62 replies · 761+ views
Ohio State Research ^ | Monday, September 19, 2005 | Staff
(Embargoed until 5 p.m. ET, Monday, September 19, 2005, to coincide with publication in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.) COLUMBUS , Ohio ñ Recent research suggested that ancient Neanderthals might have had an accelerated childhood compared to that of modern humans but that seems flawed, based on a new assessment by researchers from Ohio State University and the University of Newcastle . They found that the rate of tooth growth present in the Neanderthal fossils they examined was comparable to that of three different populations of modern humans. And since the rate of...
The Roots Of Civilization Trace Back To ... Roots
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/19/2005 3:25:13 PM PDT · 27 replies · 471+ views
Eureka Alert ^ | 9-19-2005 | Mark Cassutt
Contact: Mark Cassutt cassu003@umn.edu 612-624-8038 University of Minnesota The roots of civilization trace back to ... roots MINNEAPOLIS / ST. PAUL- About five to seven million years ago, when the lineage of humans and chimpanzees split, edible root plants similar to rutabagas and turnips may have been one of the reasons. According to research by anthropologists Greg Laden of the University of Minnesota and Richard Wrangham of Harvard University, the presence of fleshy underground storage organs like roots and tubers must have sustained our ancestors who left the rain forest to colonize the savannah. They have published their research in...
Getting Medieval
Medieval Ancestors Measured Up To Our Height Standards
Posted by blam
On News/Activism 09/19/2005 3:32:59 PM PDT · 177 replies · 2,358+ views
The Times/British Archaeology ^ | 9-19-2005 | Norman Hammond
September 19, 2005 Notebook: Archeology Medieval ancestors measured up to our height standards By Norman Hammond, Archaeology Correspondent OUR ANCESTORS were as tall as we are, contrary to popular belief. Over the past five millennia the average height of men in Britain has remained stable at about 170cm (5ft 7in), and that of women at 160cm (5ft 3in). We may be surprised at how small the armour worn by the Black Prince or King Henry V was, but such giants on the battlefield were not physically large and were towered over by contemporaries of all classes. ìThe enduring myth that...
Secrets of Ancient Iceland, Dispatch 3: Seeing the context
Posted by SunkenCiv
On General/Chat 09/17/2005 10:53:52 PM PDT · 2 replies · 133+ views
Penn State ^ | Friday, August 26, 2005 | Nancy Marie Brown
Day after day, the Glaumbaer group moved dirt, looking first for the chalky white tephra left by the eruption of Mount Hekla in 1104, and then for any sign of peat ash or bone or the mottled earthy colors of a turf wall under the tephra. I worked mostly on my knees in the shallow, wide holes, using a dustpan and trowel... For medieval Iceland, Durrenberger has yet another source of ethnographic information: sagas written down in the 12th and 13th centuries that tell of the settlement of Iceland 200 or more years before... In Durrenberger's reading of the sagas,...
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany
Long-lost Titian portrait to be sold at auction
Posted by FairOpinion
On News/Activism 09/17/2005 10:25:39 PM PDT · 32 replies · 620+ views
Reuters ^ | Sept. 16, 2005 | Jeremy Lovell
LONDON (Reuters) - A unique portrait by Italian Old Master Titian, painted over and rediscovered more than 400 years later, is expected to make more than 9 million dollars when it is sold at auction in December. Revealed by X-rays and painstakingly restored, Titian's Portrait of a Lady and her Daughter was unfinished when the Renaissance master died in 1576 and painted over with Tobias and the Angel, probably by one of Titian's pupils, Leonardo Corona. "It is a singularly beautiful picture. There is an intimacy in the relationship between the mother and daughter. There is no doubt about that,"...
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Welcome to Digest number 63. From here on out, and due to circumstances beyond my control, these digests probably won't be quite so pretty. Sorry for the inconvenience (in case there is some). Think of it as a fiscal year changeover if that helps. ;')
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Gods, Graves, Glyphs
Weekly Digest number 63
Saturday, October 1, 2005
Ancient Europe:
27,000 Year-Old Grave of Two Babies Found (Austria)
Reuters/Yahoo News | 9-24-2005
Posted on 09/24/2005 3:27:17 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490717/posts
Experimental Archeology: 8000 year old dug out canoe on display
AGI | Sept. 24, 2005 | AGI
Posted on 09/25/2005 9:29:48 PM PDT by FairOpinion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491287/posts
Dig Unearths 1,500 Year Old 'Tarbat Man' (Pict)
North Star | 9-22-2005
Posted on 09/23/2005 4:05:01 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490272/posts
Big ancient Scythian drawings found in Altai Mountains (Russia)
Kazinform | Sept. 23, 2005 | Kazakh Info Agency
Posted on 09/26/2005 8:48:37 PM PDT by FairOpinion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491899/posts
Czech Archaeologists Excavate Ancient Greek Town Flattened By Bohemian Celts
Radio Czech | 9-23-2005
Posted on 09/24/2005 6:50:32 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490778/posts
Ancient Greece:
Archeologists make historic discovery (Tomb of Odysseus)
The Madera Tribune | 8/27/05 | Thomas Elias
Posted on 09/23/2005 7:37:53 PM PDT by wagglebee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490367/posts
Search Locates Homer's Ithaca
BBC | 9-29-2005
Posted on 09/29/2005 1:52:09 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493777/posts
Biology and Cryptobiology:
Transmission Of Tuberculosis Is Linked To Historical Patterns Of Human Migrations
Eureka Alert | 9-26-2005 | Maria A, Smit
Posted on 09/27/2005 5:38:31 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492487/posts
Icy World Found Inside Asteroid
Science News Magazine | 9-30-2005 | Ron Cowen
Posted on 09/30/2005 8:19:40 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494622/posts
Life Without Light
Digital Learning Center for Microbial Ecology | Kirsti Ritalahti
Posted on 09/28/2005 6:39:45 PM PDT by strategofr
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1493242/posts
Secrets of largest fish revealed
BBC | 09.24.05 | Richard Black
Posted on 09/25/2005 6:56:18 PM PDT by Coleus
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1491237/posts
Epigraphy and Language:
Geologist says 'Runestone' found in 1898 by Olof Ohman is not hoax; local descendents agree
Isanti County News Minnesota | 9/21/05 | Rachel Kytonen
Posted on 09/23/2005 7:25:11 PM PDT by solitas
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490363/posts
Evolutionary Tools Help Unlock Origins Of Ancient Languages
Scientific American | 9-23-2005 | Sarah Graham
Posted on 09/23/2005 4:44:55 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1490287/posts
Grammar Analysis Reveals Ancient Language Tree
Nature.com | 9-22-2005 | Jennifer Wild
Posted on 09/27/2005 11:09:48 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492262/posts
Ancient Rome:
Roman Theatre Goddesses Unearthed In Crete (Athena and Hera)
Evening Echo | 9-30-2005
Posted on 09/30/2005 12:29:05 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494397/posts
Statues of Ancient Goddesses Found.
Yahoo | 9/30/2005 | A Greek Fellow, Nickolas whom AP will not let me C and P
Posted on 09/30/2005 2:03:49 PM PDT by Little Bill
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1494450/posts
Let's Have Jerusalem:
The Goddess Of The Israelites
Mail and Guardian | 9-25-2005 | Colin Bower
Posted on 09/25/2005 3:20:31 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491152/posts
First Temple-era seal discovered [Jerusalem]
Jerusalem Post | 9/27/5 | ETGAR LEFKOVITS
Posted on 09/27/2005 3:55:29 PM PDT by SmithL
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-religion/1492422/posts
Israel finds proof of Solomons Temple
AP | 9-27-2005 | None
Posted on 09/28/2005 11:05:53 AM PDT by professor_boris
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493004/posts
Israel to Open New Archaeological Site Near Sensitive Shrine in Jerusalem's Old City
ABC | Sep 27, 2005 | Associated Press
Posted on 09/29/2005 9:43:42 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1493600/posts
Rabbinate Recognizes Bnei Menashe as “Descendants of Israel"
Arutz Sheva | 3-31-05
Posted on 03/31/2005 9:05:10 AM PST by SJackson
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1374681/posts
'Lost tribe' of Israel Faces Summer Evac
WND | July 5, 2005 | Aaron Klein
Posted on 07/05/2005 6:12:42 AM PDT by Esther Ruth
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1436777/posts
India's Lost Tribe Recognized As Jews After 2,700 Years
The Telegraph (UK) | 9-17-2005 | Peter Foster
Posted on 09/16/2005 5:56:52 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1486127/posts
Rabbis convert India's 'lost tribe of Israel'
Worldnetdaily.com | 9/27/2005 | Aaron Klein
Posted on 09/27/2005 9:46:08 AM PDT by SirLinksalot
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492212/posts
Rabbis convert 'lost tribe of Israel'
WorldNetDaily | By Aaron Klein
Posted on 09/28/2005 7:32:27 PM PDT by Iam1ru1-2
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493271/posts
Ancient Egypt:
CLEOPATRA WAS A BLONDE
(terrific brief history of Egypt's rich past; optimistic democratic future)
TO THE POINT.COM | MARCH 24, 2005 | DR. JACK WHEELER
Posted on 03/26/2005 1:14:24 PM PST by CHARLITE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1371417/posts
Khufu Pyramid: King's Chamber, Tomb View
PBS | Updated November 2000 | NOVA
Posted on 09/27/2005 10:02:31 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1492221/posts
Asia:
Ancient Porcelain Clue To Maritime Silk Road
China.org | 9-23-2005 | China,org
Posted on 09/23/2005 4:19:25 PM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1490281/posts
A fragment of ancient script found by Shymkent archeologists, Kazakhstan
Kazinform | Tuesday, September 27, 2005 | staff
Posted on 09/27/2005 10:20:41 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1492631/posts
Cambodian archaeological sites being decimated: archaeologists
Yahooooooo! | Fri Sep 23, 4:05 AM ET | AFP
Posted on 09/28/2005 10:06:04 PM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1493348/posts
India:
Archipelago-Subcontinent Ties Ancient
Jakarta Post | 9-26-2005 | Rita A. Widiadana
Posted on 09/26/2005 11:16:39 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491582/posts
Holy Cow Statue Discovered In Mazandaran
CHN (Cultural Heritage News) | 9-28-2005
Posted on 09/28/2005 11:21:52 AM PDT by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1493020/posts
Replica of Buddha's tooth stolen from Myanmar temple
AP | 08/14/05
Posted on 08/14/2005 10:02:19 PM PDT by LwinAungSoe
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1463497/posts
Australia:
Australia's dingo dogs face extinction
AP | 10/7/2003
Posted on 10/07/2003 1:24:29 PM PDT by presidio9
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/996913/posts
No making cents of a coinfusion ('Mahogany Ship' coin not Phoenician?)
Warrnambool Standard | September 27, 2005 | Matt Neal
Posted on 09/28/2005 10:35:01 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1492979/posts
PreColumbian, Clovis, and PreClovis:
Ancient Peruvian artefacts seized
BBC News | Sept. 24, 2005 | Simon Watts
Posted on 09/25/2005 5:57:21 PM PDT by FairOpinion
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491209/posts
Long-sought Maya City — Site Q — found in Guatemala
EurekAlert | September 27, 2005 | Staff
Posted on 09/27/2005 7:15:10 AM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492114/posts
Prehistory and Origins:
Ancient DNA May Be Misleading Scientists
ABC Science News | 2-18-2003
Posted on 02/18/2003 12:42:14 PM PST by blam
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/846186/posts
Prehistoric skeletons found in cave near Oujda, eastern Morocco
Morocco Times | Wednesday (?) September 27, 2005 | Susan Searight-Martinet
Posted on 09/28/2005 9:18:30 AM PDT by SunkenCiv
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1492924/posts
Climate:
Photo: Lower water levels reveal medieval bridge in Spanish reservoir
Reuters via Yahoo! | 9/23/05
Posted on 09/23/2005 10:18:06 AM PDT by dead
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1490076/posts
Catastrophism and Astronomy:
Evidence for Major Impact Events in the late Third Millennium BC
Evidence of Astronomical Aspects of Mankind's Past and Recent Climate Homepage
FR Post 9-4-2 | Timo Niroma
Posted on 09/04/2002 4:48:54 PM PDT by vannrox
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/744698/posts
Getting Medieval:
1478 Assassination Solved. The Humanist Did It.
NYT | March 6, 2004 | FELICIA R. LEE
Posted on 03/07/2004 3:08:22 PM PST by farmfriend
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1092764/posts
How Leonardo gave top surgeon change of heart
London Times | 9/28/05 | Dalya Alberge
Posted on 09/29/2005 6:49:35 PM PDT by wagglebee
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1493957/posts
Preserving a 460 year old wreck
European Synchrotron Radiation Facility
Posted on 09/27/2005 7:11:48 AM PDT by DaveLoneRanger
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1492111/posts
Thoroughly Modern Miscellany:
Autumn,1942: It came down to one Marine, and one ship.(61 yrs ago)
Prev. posted on Enter Stage Right and Free Republic | October 23, 2000 | Vin Suprynowicz
Posted on 10/26/2003 12:18:06 PM PST by MadelineZapeezda
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1008503/posts
Gen. Patton Speech to His Troops
Posted on 11/07/2004 5:35:21 PM PST by CT CONSERVATIVE
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/1273923/posts
600 barrels of loot found on Crusoe island
The Guardian | Monday September 26, 2005 | Jonathan Franklin
Posted on 09/25/2005 7:30:39 PM PDT by Candor7
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1491247/posts
end of Gods, Graves, Glyphs, Weekly Digest number 63, Saturday, October 1, 2005