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https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/archaeologists-date-earliest-known.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8859-200716-oregon-human-coprolites

I thing we mentioned these 8000+ years bp artifacts from Northampton (MA) which are now delaying roundabout construction:

https://www.masslive.com/news/2020/07/native-artifacts-delay-northampton-roundabout-construction-until-at-least-august.html

Studying oyster middens along the Georgia coast:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200714182152.htm https://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/44084/20200715/researchers-find-ancient-native-americans-sustainably-harvested-managed-oyster-reefs.htm
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/ancient-oyster-shells-provide.html

Study suggests that some Indigenous groups in Georgia successfully resisted European influence for 150+ years after DeSoto's arrival:

https://source.wustl.edu/2020/07/rewriting-history-new-evidence-challenges-euro-centric-narrative-of-early-colonization/
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/wuis-rhn071520.php https://phys.org/news/2020-07-evidence-euro-centric-narrative-early-colonization.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200715131215.htm https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/new-evidence-challenges-euro-centric.html

Remains of a sweatlodge feature in the Yellowhill Community (NC):

https://www.theonefeather.com/2020/07/sweat-lodge-earth-feature-found-in-yellowhill-community/

Modified bison scapulas ('hoes') from a Manitoba site are shedding light on possible pre-contact First Nations agrarian activities:

https://discoverwestman.com/local/bu-s-invite-to-melita-dig-site-dating-back-200-years
https://www.newsoptimist.ca/news/manitoba-ancient-hoes-point-to-indigenous-gardeners-1.24172687

Plenty of news about the search for Tulsa Race Massacre burials but nothing found yet:

https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/racemassacre/not-yet-discovered-victims-archaeologists-offer-update-as-cemetery-search-continues/article_9cb2e180-8390-556f-8817-9b6961c995e9.html
https://www.houstonchronicle.com/news/article/No-bodies-found-yet-in-search-for-Tulsa-massacre-15407890.php
https://tulsaworld.com/news/local/racemassacre/archaeologists-extend-oaklawn-test-site-in-search-of-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-victims/article_9cb2e180-8390-556f-8817-9b6961c995e9.html
http://www.wboc.com/story/42371884/search-for-tulsa-massacre-victims-resumes-no-remains-yet
https://ktul.com/news/local/crews-continue-digging-in-search-of-1921-tulsa-race-massacre-graves
http://oklahoman.com/article/5666946/excavation-continues-at-potential-mass-grave-site-in-tulsa
http://ktul.com/news/local/as-week-one-of-mass-graves-search-ends-new-discovery-found
https://www.newson6.com/story/5f10d35ca07b476c8c37b21d/archaeologists-optimistic-about-mass-graves-search-at-oaklawn-cemetery

... some background:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2020/07/13/tulsa-digs-mass-graves-race-massacre-oaklawn-cemetery/
https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2020/07/17/us/tulsa-massacre-mass-graves.html

Suggestion that Blackbeard deliberately grounded the Queen Anne's Revenge:

https://www.newsobserver.com/news/state/north-carolina/article244270542.html http://wcti12.com/news/local/ecu-researcher-blackbeard-likely-grounded-queen-annes-revenge-off-nc-coast-in-1718

The chairman of Fox has acquired a property in Utah with petroglyphs:

https://moabtimes.com/2020/07/09/fox-corp-ceo-acquires-property-rock-art-along-mill-creek/

Feature on the Cedar Mesa Perishables Project:

https://the-journal.com/articles/181699-cedar-mesa-perishables-project-examines-1000yearold-fiber-wood-artifacts

Feature on the Culper Spy Ring:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p08kdvj0/the-secrets-of-the-mysterious-culper-spy-ring

Frederick Douglass documents acquired by Yale will be digitized:

https://www.npr.org/sections/live-updates-protests-for-racial-justice/2020/07/14/890495525/frederick-douglass-documents-newly-acquired-by-yale-reveal-hope-for-the-country

More on that buffalo jump find in Wyoming:

https://trib.com/news/state-and-regional/friends-find-bison-jump-in-carbon-county/article_c3897258-1196-5f00-a82d-185fddbed831.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8850-200713-wyoming-buffalo-jump

More on the Zion Cemetery burials in Tampa:

https://www.wtsp.com/article/news/special-reports/erased/archaeologists-present-findings-from-two-week-excavation-at-site-of-missing-black-cemetery/67-16504288-63c5-411a-850a-1fc74711894f
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Evidence of 'forced migrations' by pre-Colonial Incas:

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-multi-disciplinary-evidence-migration-pre-colonial-incas.html

Remains of an Aztec palatial structure in Mexico City's Zocalo plaza:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-53397164 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/14/ancient-aztec-palace-ruins-found-landmark-building-mexico-city/
https://www.dw.com/en/archaeologists-discover-ancient-aztec-palace-ruins-in-mexico-city/a-54166113

Some items also mention possible remains of Hernan Cortes' house:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/archaeologists-uncover-more-mexico-city-history-under-pawnshop/
https://aldianews.com/articles/culture/social/home-shame-hernan-cortes-house-discovered-mexico-city/59492
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2020/07/14/palace-axayacatl-hernan-cortes-house-remains-found-mexico-city/5436169002/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/aztec-palace-unearthed-180975319/ https://www.archaeology.org/news/8855-200715-mexico-axayacatl-courtyard

Damage to a pre-Hispanic aqueduc site in Texcoco is irreversible, apparently:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/archaeologist-says-damage-to-texcoco-site-irreparable/

Studying how ancient peoples of Patagonia dealt with climate change:

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-ancient-peoples-patagonia-climate-insights.html http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/44098/20200718/ancient-patagonia-communities-offer-insights-adapting-climate-change.htm

Feature on El Tajin:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2020/07/el-tajin/134179
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
The SWBTS archaeology profs whose program was cancelled have relocated:

https://www.christianpost.com/news/ex-swbts-professors-launch-new-archaeology-program-at-nashville-liberal-arts-university.html

On who invented the bagpipes:

https://lethbridgenewsnow.com/2020/07/16/who-really-invented-the-bagpipes/

Feature on mummification in various ancient cultures:

https://www.livescience.com/mummification.html

Feature on food history:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/artgenetics-food-history-study-wellness-scn/index.html

Feature on African slave traders:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-53444752

Raphael's death was caused by medical error:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/17/medical-error-lead-to-painter-raphaels-death-study-finds

Feature on the invention of the police:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/the-invention-of-the-police

On Jesse Strang's scam:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/books/review/king-of-confidence-miles-harvey-james-jesse-strang.html

On some spinoff effects of pandemics:

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/07/20/how-pandemics-wreak-havoc-and-open-minds

... and the masks they wore in 1918:

https://www.theatlantic.com/photo/2020/07/photos-influenza-masks-1918/614272/

... and how theatres in New York didn't close in 1918:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/theater/spanish-flu-1918-new-york-theater.html

Feature on the Brooklyn Historical Society's online map collection:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/16/arts/new-york-historical-maps.html

Feature on art involving horses:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/horse-power/

Feature on Hans Posse, Hitler's 'art buyer':

https://www.dw.com/en/hans-posse-the-man-who-curated-hitlers-stolen-art/a-54171048

Rethinking the date/time of Vermeer's 'View of Delft':

https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/new-analysis-prompts-rethinking-of-date-time-for-vermeers-view-of-delft/

They've formally confirmed bones found near Yekaterinburg are those of Tsar Nicholas II and family:

https://www.dw.com/en/russia-forest-bones-confirmed-to-be-last-tsar-of-russia-and-the-romanov-family/a-54223877

They're still looking for the remains of Hans Holbein:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/jul/16/bones-hans-holbein-lockdown-arts-grisliest-mystery-plague-london-renaissance
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CURRENT EVENTS: STATUES AND THEIR LEGACIES ================================================================
Statues of Juan de Onate are coming down in New Mexico:

https://www.npr.org/2020/07/13/890122729/statues-of-conquistador-juan-de-o-ate-come-down-as-new-mexico-wrestles-with-hist

They're hesitating removing a bust of a Confederate general and KKK leader from the Tennessee Capitol building:

https://fox17.com/news/local/potential-removal-of-confederate-general-kkk-leader-bust-wont-be-decided-until-2021-nathan-bedford-forrest-tennessee-nashville

On the origins of an Andrew Jackson statue in Jackson, Mississippi:

https://www.wjtv.com/living-local/focused-on-mississippi/focused-on-mississippi-origins-of-the-andrew-jackson-statue/

A statue of a union soldier in Saratoga Springs was vandalized:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Civil-War-soldier-smashed-in-Congress-Park-15412758.php
https://dailygazette.com/article/2020/07/16/civil-war-union-statue-found-toppled-in-saratoga-springs-congress-park-honored-bemis-heights-battalion
https://dailygazette.com/article/2020/07/17/saratoga-civil-war-statue-demolished-by-vandals

A Virgin Mary statue at a Boston church was set on fire:

https://www.wcvb.com/article/virgin-mary-statue-set-on-fire-at-boston-church-saint-peter-parish-in-dorchester/33287717

Not sure if this destruction of Buddha in Pakistan is considered in this same category:

https://www.startribune.com/pakistani-police-arrest-4-men-who-destroyed-statue-of-buddha/571817371/
https://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2020/07/18/world/asia/ap-as-pakistan-buddha-statue.html

Greenland is pondering the fate of a statue of Hans Egede:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-53429950

On the tradition of toppling statues in Western culture:

https://timesofsandiego.com/uncategorized/2020/07/14/western-culture-has-a-hallowed-tradition-of-felling-offensive-statues/

... similar, on the politics behind statues:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/comment/why-public-statues-are-political-acts

Other OpEddish things:

https://www.motherjones.com/anti-racism-police-protest/2020/07/confederate-monuments-iconoclasm/
https://www.spectator.co.uk/article/Italy-owes-Wales-reparations-for-the-wrongs-of-the-Roman-Empire

The renaming of the Washington Football team seems part of this too:

https://time.com/5866481/native-american-mascots/

... related:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/14/arts/design/washington-football-logo-native-american.html

Plimoth Plantation will by changing its name:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massachusetts-plimoth-plantation-change-its-name-180975323/
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ================================================================
Oldest evidence of the use of horses in the Bronze Age comes from Kazakhstan:

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-ancient-evidence-horsemanship-bronze-age.html https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/most-ancient-evidence-of-horsemanship.html

Studying the evidence for the domestication of cats in Neolithic central Europe:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/ncui-5yo071320.php https://www.inverse.com/science/are-cats-even-domesticated https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/07/how-ancient-cats-lived-on-the-brink-of-domestication/
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/5000-years-of-history-of-domestic-cats.html
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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
More on the 'intermixing' of Native Americans and Polynesians:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/native-americans-polynesians-meet-180975269/
https://gizmodo.com/native-americans-voyaged-to-polynesia-long-before-europ-1844305610

... and some criticism of the claim:

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-ancient-americans-polynesia-evidence-doesnt.html https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2020/07/did-ancient-americans-settle-in.html

Tree DNA is being used to link a holocene-era tsunami to Doggerland:

https://phys.org/news/2020-07-ancient-dna-doggerland-uk-europe.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2020-07/uow-bis071620.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2020/07/200716101619.htm https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/tsunami-britain-atlantis-6200-bc-archaeology-a9622591.html
https://www.newswise.com/articles/view/734800/?sc=c52 ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Pompeii:

http://cphpost.dk/?p=116260

Feature on what's happening at the Mosul Museum:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/iraq-mosul-museum-reconstruction-antiquities

Interview with Katherine A Schwab about the Met Museum's plaster cast collection:

https://www.wiltonbulletin.com/arts-leisure/article/Curator-focuses-on-preservation-through-casts-and-15407074.php

Museums in New York City aren't opening just yet:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/arts/design/nyc-museums-phase-4.html

Some sort of dispute over an El Greco at the Detroit Institute of Arts:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/arts/design/detroit-institute-art-el-greco.html
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest CT scan of a mummy is on one of the Siberian variety and reveals assorted wounds and tattoos:

https://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/this-tattooed-tashtyk-man-was-found-half-a-century-ago-yet-now-for-the-first-time-we-can-see-his-lifelike-face/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/8854-200714-siberia-tashtyk-mummy

Suggestion that LiDAR would be useful in Guam:

https://www.guampdn.com/story/opinion/readers/2020/07/13/guams-archeologists-could-use-lidar-over-historical-places/5424015002/

Using tooth protein to determine the sex of human remains:

https://www.ucdavis.edu/news/archaeologists-use-tooth-enamel-protein-show-sex-human-remains/
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ================================================================
Bonham's appears to have sold a 'wine jug' despite being warned it had been looted previously:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2020/07/18/bonhams-sold-2500-year-old-wine-jug-warned-had-looted-claims/

Egyptian antiquities are on the block at Christie's:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/89574/Egyptian-antiquities-to-be-auctioned-at-Christie%E2%80%99s-on-July-6

A handwritten Sherlock Holmes manuscript is coming to Sotheby's:

https://news.justcollecting.com/sherlock-holmes-handwritten-manuscript-arthur-conan-doyle-auction-sothebys/

Latest vampire-slaying kit auction:

https://www.livescience.com/vampire-slaying-kit-auction.html ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Almunecar:

https://www.euroweeklynews.com/2020/07/13/discover-almunecars-historic-roman-ruins-and-hot-springs/

Basel:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20200713-basel-the-birthplace-of-hallucinogenic-science

Naples:

https://theconversation.com/from-the-grand-tour-to-my-brilliant-friend-how-naples-captured-our-imagination-141724

Aksum:

https://blog.britishmuseum.org/historical-city-travel-guide-aksum-6th-century-ad/
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ================================================================
Richard II:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/17/theater/richard-ii-review-andre-holland.html

The Oddysey will be livestreamed (not a spelling error):

https://www.avpress.com/showcase/catch-the-oddyssey-online-this-weekend/article_e40022ae-c7c8-11ea-b186-1fd171eb48e1.html

... and in case you missed the livestreaming of the Persians at Epidaurus:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/170167/first-live-streamed-performance-as-the-persians-premier-at-epidaurus/


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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS ================================================================
Plenty of hype for that documentary about the search for Cleopatra at Taposiris Magna:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2020/jul/12/sensational-egypt-find-offers-clues-in-hunt-for-cleopatras-tomb
https://www.arabnews.com/node/1704351/offbeat https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-8517179/Egyptian-mummies-discovered-Taposiris-Magna-temple-Nile-delta.html
https://www.express.co.uk/news/world/1310910/egypt-cleopatra-queen-pharaoh-coins-discovered-alexandria-taposiris-magna-spt

... and a related opeddish thing:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2020/07/16/hunt-cleopatras-tomb-review-will-free-tvs-ancient-egyptian-curse/

The Old Guard has Classical overtones:

https://www.newsweek.com/old-guard-netflix-andy-andromache-scythia-amazon-meaning-origin-explained-age-1517411
https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/movies/a33284335/old-guard-netflix-andromache-scythia-charlize-theron/
https://www.vox.com/culture/2020/7/17/21324902/the-old-guard-review-gay-song-of-achilles
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CRIME BEAT
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A man in northern Greece was arrested for possession of thousands of ancient coins and other items:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/254786/article/ekathimerini/news/man-in-northern-greece-found-with-thousands-of-ancient-coins-jewellery

A metal detectorist working along Hadrian's Wall was arrested:

https://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/metal-detector-hadrians-wall-northumberland-18614266
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conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
A Denver museum has returned a number of items to Kenya:

https://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/news/e2-80-9cwe-shouldn-e2-80-99t-be-curating-people-e2-80-99s-souls-e2-80-9d-denver-museum-repatriates-sacred-carvings-to-kenyan-tribes/ar-BB16xHCr
http://www.archaeology.org/news/8851-200713-repatriation-vigango-mijikenda

New Zealand has returned a Hawaiian cloack and helmet have 241 years:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/cloak-helmet-hawaii-captain-cook-180975298/

France is looking at using a law to return colonial-era artifacts:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/france-looks-at-law-for-returning-colonial-era-artifacts/2020/07/16/17967ea6-c760-11ea-a825-8722004e4150_story.html
https://www.forbes.com/sites/carlieporterfield/2020/07/16/france-would-return-african-artifacts-through-proposed-new-law/

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature o a Byzantine Follis:

https://coinweek.com/coins/coin-profiles/ancient-coins-coin-profiles/the-byzantine-anonymous-follis-coinweek-ancient-coin-series/

... and coins of Illyrian emperors of the 3rd century:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/coins-of-the-illyrian-emperors-of-the-third-century/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n28.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v23/club_nbs_esylum_v23n29.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Molly Neptune Parker:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/07/15/us/molly-neptune-parker-dead.htmlj

David Stronach:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/david-stronach-obituary-2wwhkpq0f

Jimmy Dunn:

http://www.christianorigins.div.ed.ac.uk/2020/07/06/helen-bond-remembers-j-d-g-jimmy-dunn/

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/2978-audio-news-from-archaeologica-july-5-through-july-11-2020
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Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Atlas Obscura:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/

Heritage Daily:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/

Sapiens Archaeology:

https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
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