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https://phys.org/news/2022-11-graves-tulsa-massacre-victims.html https://www.livescience.com/unmarked-graves-tulsa-race-massacre https://www.cnn.com/2022/11/01/us/tulsa-massacre-burials-excavation-reaj/index.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2022/11/03/1921-tulsa-race-massacre-more-graves-discovered-search-victims/8255724001/
https://abcnews.go.com/US/24-graves-excavated-including-children-probe-1921-tulsa/story?id=92593263
https://www.fox23.com/news/17-adult-graves-discovered-1921-mass-graves-excavation-tulsa/FQX466ILPJF2TPRT5EW6LLIZ4E/

More 19th century bue jeans from an Arizona mineshaft:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/cache-of-19th-century-blue-jeans-discovered-in-abandoned-arizona-mineshaft-180981014/

Searching for a 'lost' Genoa Indian School cemetery:

https://omaha.com/news/local/search-team-narrows-in-on-possible-site-of-genoa-indian-school-cemetery/article_1bc41f28-56d4-11ed-b2fa-b72f190890a4.html

Overviewish of work being done by Liberty University a some sites in New London:

https://wset.com/news/local/archaeology-restoration-work-at-liberty-university-owned-properties-reveal-clues-to-18th-century-life-lynchburg-new-london-virginia-november-2022

85 years bp historic camera gear from Walsh Glacier in the Yukon:

https://www.sciencealert.com/85-years-after-it-was-abandoned-explorers-find-a-historic-cache-of-camera-gear

More on the find of the location of Camp Security:

https://apnews.com/article/science-pennsylvania-york-b5a20248c0807ed3927741ef46899c1c
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10961-221101-pennsylvania-revolutionary-war

More on bullets found at the site of a 1918 Texas border massacre:

https://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/nation-world/national/article268093867.html

More on theft going on at that shipwreck that recently emerged from the Mississippi:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2022/11/01/louisiana-brookhill-ferry-shipwreck/
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/us-canada/300729183/a-centuryold-shipwreck-was-unearthed-and-then-the-thieving-began

Feature on some of the witch trials that happened in New York State:

https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/culture/article/witchcraft-trials-new-york-state-17546934.php

Feature on purported runes in Oklahoma:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20221030-the-mysterious-viking-runes-found-in-a-landlocked-us-state

Review of Stacy Schiff, *The Revolutionary*:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/01/1131345583/the-revolutionary-review-samuel-adams-stacy-schiff-founding-father

Review of Andrew K. Diemer, *Vigilance*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/01/books/review/vigilance-andrew-k-diemer.html ============================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
Study shows that a child's 'trophy head' in Peru had ingested a psychoactive plant prior to their death:

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-evidence-psychoactive-nazca-people-peru.html https://www.livescience.com/psychoactive-plants-peru-trophy-head/ https://www.sciencealert.com/before-being-ritually-sacrificed-this-nazca-child-was-drugged-with-psychedelics
https://www.iflscience.com/ancient-trophy-head-child-was-high-on-psychedelic-cactus-before-ritual-sacrifice-66011
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10967-221104-peru-nazca-drugs

cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440322001467

I think we've mentioned the use of LiDAR at the Calakmul site:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/calakmul-manors-discoverd-2204550 https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/10/31/new-urbanization-and-landscape-modifications-at-ancient-maya-city/

Plenty of finds from a dig at the Maya site of Tayasal:

https://www.sciencealert.com/the-last-maya-city-reveals-a-trove-of-buried-secrets-and-spanish-bullets

Efforts to preserve an 18th century shipwreck found in Antiqua last year:

https://antiguaobserver.com/work-underway-to-protect-200-year-old-antiguan-shipwreck/

Feature on the role of chocolate in the Ecuadorian Amazon:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0db285p/the-surprising-role-chocolate-played-for-ancient-humans

Mike Ruggeri's listing of Ancient Americas Zoom events for November:

https://mikeruggerisevents.tumblr.com/

... and his November 2022 Aztlander Magazaine of the Americas:

https://aztlander.wordpress.com/2022/11/03/november-2022-aztlander-magazine-of-the-americas/
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:

https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ============================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ============================================================
Feature on Guy Fawkes:

https://www.cnn.com/travel/article/guy-fawkes-bonfire-night/index.html

Feature on Eleanor of Aquitaine:

https://www.livescience.com/all-about-history-123

Mary, Queen of Scots ate well while imprisoned:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/nov/05/mary-queen-of-scots-jailed-monarch-papers-british-library

Feature on six discoveries to 'rival' Tutankhamun's tomb:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2344998-six-archaeological-discoveries-to-rival-tutankhamuns-tomb/

Feature on all the folks who worked on the invention of the light bulb:

https://www.livescience.com/43424-who-invented-the-light-bulb.html/

Feature on six other 'stones' that helped scholars figure out ancient languages:

https://discovermagazine.com/the-sciences/besides-the-rosetta-stone-other-stone-texts-have-interpreted-ancient

Plans for a study of a manuscript made during the Wars of the Roses:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-63472049

Feature on images of rhinoceroses over the years:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/11/03/history-of-rhino-images-illustrates-changing-human-rhino-relations/

Feature on assorted mythical Middle Eastern beasties:

https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/middle-east-mythical-beasts-where-find-them

Feature on vigilantes at the polls in the 19th century US:

https://theconversation.com/vigilantes-at-the-polls-were-a-threat-in-the-19th-century-too-but-the-laws-put-in-place-then-may-not-work-in-2022-193287

On the use of technology for deciphering ancient manuscripts:

https://news.osu.edu/technology-offers-a-bridge-between-ancient-contemporary-worlds-scholars-say/

Arguing over the authenticity of a Vermeer:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/01/museums-spar-over-authenticity-of-painting-ahead-of-major-vermeer-show
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/02/arts/design/rijksmuseum-disputed-vermeer-painting.html

... while a 'crude imitation' of a Rembrandt is considered to be genuine:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/04/rembrandt-sketch-raising-of-the-cross-not-fake-revealed-as-work-of-dutch-master
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65607 https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/overlooked-oil-sketch-attributed-to-rembrandt-1234645569/

Feature on how Picasso was influenced by Ingres:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/02/1131922622/picasso-ingres-face-to-face-norton-simon

A study of hand bones of 19th century woman industrial workers:

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-19th-century-bones-insights-daily.html

A Sustainability journal issue about sustainable archaeology:

https://www.mdpi.com/journal/sustainability/special_issues/archaeology_sus

Feature on what to do when you find ancient artifacts under your house:

https://www.discovermagazine.com/planet-earth/what-happens-when-you-find-ancient-artifacts-under-your-house

Review of Malcom Gaskill, *The Ruin of All Witches*:

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2022/10/malcolm-gaskill-ruin-of-all-witches-hugh-parsons-review.html

Review of Adam Rutherford, *Control*:

https://www.npr.org/2022/11/03/1133882189/control-eugenics-and-the-corruption-of-science
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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On the origins of Hallowe'en:

https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-63402457 https://hoptownchronicle.org/halloweens-celebration-of-mingling-with-the-dead-has-roots-in-ancient-celtic-celebrations-of-samhain/

The protestors who targeted the 'Girl with a Pearl Earring' were fined:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/nov/02/just-stop-oil-protesters-who-targeted-girl-with-a-pearl-earring-jailed-by-dutch-court

... on the incident:

https://www.france24.com/en/environment/20221027-more-and-more-desperate-measures-climate-protesters-target-another-priceless-artwork

... while a Van Gogh in Rome was targeted with pea soup this week:

https://apnews.com/article/travel-business-europe-ec94fbfcb42d0e2b021c049e5bd566da

... and some Goyas in Spain:

https://www.reuters.com/business/cop/activists-glue-themselves-goya-paintings-spanish-climate-protest-2022-11-05/

How museums are dealing with the activists:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/arts-culture/article/3197848/amid-recent-art-attacks-should-museums-become-high-security-zones-how-institutions-are-responding
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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Feature on the Cynics:

https://press.princeton.edu/ideas/gurus-of-degrowth-say-hello-to-the-ancient-cynics
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Hieroglyphs:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg25634110-300-hieroglyphs-unlocking-ancient-egypt-review-two-hundred-years-on/
https://www.spectator.com.au/2022/11/written-in-stone/

Nelson in His Own Words:

https://the-past.com/news/collection-of-nelsons-unseen-letters-goes-on-display-for-first-time/

El Siglo D'Oro:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/27/arts/design/spanish-colonial-artisans-lacma.html

Broken items at Taiwan's national palace museum seem to be a bit of a scandal:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/oct/31/taiwan-museum-admits-breaking-artefacts-worth-66m
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-11-04/taiwan-museum-staff-face-discipline-after-breaking-chinese-treasures?
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/three-chinese-artifacts-worth-77m-broken-at-national-palace-museum-taiwan-1234645165/

Some permanent exhibition halls in Egypt's Royal Chariots Museum have opened:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/120272/Two-permanent-exhibition-halls-open-in-Royal-Chariots-Museum

Norfolk Museums seem to be having budget issues:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-63492429

Feature on the British Museum's 1972 Tutankhamun exhibition:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11389753/How-1-6million-queued-Tutankhamuns-treasures-British-Museums-1972-exhibition.html

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A very rare Maxentius coin is coming to auction:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/65554

A first-edition of the US Constitution is expected to bring in a large price:

https://www.cnn.com/style/article/first-edition-us-constitution-auction/index.html

An emerald from the Atocha shipwreck is coming to auction:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-colombian-emerald-was-lost-in-a-shipwreck-for-300-years-now-its-owner-is-selling-it-to-support-ukraine-180981061/

In case you're wondering about the Villa Aurora:

https://www.rfi.fr/en/europe/20221031-family-feud-casts-shadow-over-future-of-roman-villa-with-caravaggio-mural

Vietnamese authorities are trying to recover an imperial seal coming to auction in France:

https://en.vietnamplus.vn/authorities-working-to-recover-imperial-seal-to-be-auctioned-in-france-spokeswoman/243253.vnp

More hype for the upcoming auction of Paul Allen's collection:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/nov/05/paul-allen-late-microsoft-co-founder-art-collection-expected-fetch-record-1bn-charity-auction

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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On DNA and early human adaptations:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/10/221031212802.htm

DNA suggests two groups migrated to Britain after the last Ice Age:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/prehistoric-dna-reveals-two-groups-migrated-to-the-uk-after-the-last-ice-age-180981020/

... and another study on the diversity of the medieval British population:

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-dna-ancient-britain-diverse.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/nov/06/the-plot-thickens-new-study-reveals-complex-identity-of-ancient-britons

A study of the genetic diversity of Neolithic Mesopotamia:

https://www.jpost.com/science/article-721555

What DNA reveals about the peopling of South America:

https://www.fau.edu/newsdesk/articles/ancient-dna-south-america https://phys.org/news/2022-11-ancient-dna-analysis-early-peopling.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/11/221102085438.htm https://news.yahoo.com/neanderthal-denisovan-dna-discovered-ancient-000000914.html
https://arkeonews.net/unexpected-results-of-ancient-dna-study-analysis-sheds-light-on-the-early-peopling-of-south-america/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/11/04/ancient-dna-analysis-unravels-the-early-peopling-of-south-america/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10965-221103-south-america-migrations ============================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial recreation is of a 660 years bp warrior (whose face was cleaved with an ax) found in a mass burial in Gotland:

https://www.livescience.com/facial-reconstruction-medieval-battle-gotland-sweden
https://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/brutal-medieval-attack-warriors-axe-28403037

... and a 19th century 'vampire' from Connecticut:

https://www.livescience.com/vampire-burial-dna-connecticut https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-721480 https://www.latercera.com/que-pasa/noticia/cientificos-reconstruyen-rostro-de-persona-enterrada-como-vampiro-hace-mas-de-200-anos/7S6DRV63KBB2PACYZF6RLYPFS4/

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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Feature on finds from melting glaciers:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/11/01/glaciers-melting-climate-archaeology-europe/
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/glaciers-artefacts-archaeology-climate-change-b2217630.html

Why climate change is a concern for archaeology:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/climate-change-is-adding-urgency-to-archaeology/
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/climate-change-destroy-archaeology-study-1234645161/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/04/in-100-years-all-these-antiquities-will-be-gone-as-cop27-opens-in-egypt-climate-crisis-is-still-taboo-subject-at-art-and-heritage-institutions
https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/climate-and-environment/archeologists-say-climate-change-is-gravely-impacting-the-preservation-of-artifacts-and-significant-cultural-sites-1.6128319
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Olympia:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/11/03/exploring-ancient-olympia-one-of-the-worlds-most-well-known-historical-sites-2/

Choquequirao:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/these-remote-inca-ruins-rival-machu-picchu

Timgad:

https://azertag.az/en/xeber/Timgad___an_excellent_example_of_Roman_town_planning_UNESCO_World_Heritage_Site_in_Algeria-2359766

Reasons to visit Egypt:

https://www.dw.com/en/10-reasons-to-visit-egypt/g-60878071 ============================================================
PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Feature on the sound of older violins:

https://phys.org/news/2022-11-capturing-subtle-combination-tones-violins.html https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/nov/01/i-like-your-tone-research-suggests-why-older-violins-sound-so-good

cf: https://asa.scitation.org/doi/10.1121/10.0014600

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CRIME BEAT
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Subhash Kapoor was sentenced to ten years in prison:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/arts/india-convicts-antiquities-dealer-subhash-kapoor.html
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/subhash-kapoor-prison-india/index.html https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/02/disgraced-antiquities-dealer-subhash-kapoor-sentenced-to-10-years-in-prison-by-indian-court
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/subhash-kapoor-ten-year-sentence-2202695

Three Egyptians doing some illegal digging had to be rescued after being trapped in a tunnel:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/inbrief/three-egyptians-rescued-after-trapped-tunnel-during-illegal-digging

A 90-year-old had his major collection of artifacts and art seized this week:

https://elpais.com/espana/2022-11-01/el-diogenes-del-arte-un-nonagenario-de-murcia-acumulo-antiguedades-durante-70-anos-sin-documentos-de-compra-legitima.html
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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 ============================================================
The RISD Museum retuned a Benin Bronze:

https://www.browndailyherald.com/article/2022/11/risd-museum-returns-stolen-benin-bronze-sculpture-to-nigerian-national-collection

The British Museum is toying with the idea of returning items, it appears:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-11392617/British-Museum-return-greatest-objects-warns-against-dismantling-work-generations.html

Cambodia is 'suspicious' about assorted statuary in British museums:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/30/cambodia-highly-suspicious-statues-british-museums-hunt-looted/

... while a looted 'Standing Sandstone Vishnu' sculpture was returned to Cambodia from a private US collector:

https://www.manhattanda.org/d-a-bragg-returns-7th-century-antiquity-tocambodia/

Assorted British museums agree to return warrior skulls in their possession to Zimbabwe:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2022/10/30/british-museums-agree-return-warrior-skulls-taken-trophies-zimbabwe/

Iraq is seeking Interpol's help in retrieving looted artefacts:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/iraq/2022/10/31/iraq-complains-to-interpol-as-it-seeks-return-of-looted-artefacts/
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/iraq-lodges-complaints-to-interpol-to-recover-artifacts/

The campaign is continuing for the return of the Monteleone chariot (Italian):

http://www.umbria24.it/politica/biga-di-monteleone-trafugata-nuovo-ministro-alla-sindaca-avremo-modo-di-lavorare-insieme
https://www.lanazione.it/umbria/cronaca/biga-di-monteleone-il-sindaco-scrive-al-ministro-sangiuliano-promette-lavoreremo-insieme-1.8245990

Croatia is working on returning Holocaust-looted art:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/arts/design/croatia-jewish-art-restitution.html

Feature on the Smithsonian's return policy:

https://www.washingtonian.com/2022/10/31/how-do-stolen-artifacts-get-returned/

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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n44.html

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

https://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n45.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Thomas Cahill:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/books/thomas-cahill-dead.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/obituaries/2022/10/31/thomas-cahill-ireland-author-dead/

Lois Hinckley:

https://www.centralmaine.com/2022/10/27/obituarylois-vivian-hinckley/

Robert Laurence Miller:

https://www.columbiatribune.com/obituaries/pclm0338903

Andrew Edmunds:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/11/01/in-memoriam-london-art-dealer-and-restaurateur-andrew-edmunds-represented-a-special-and-vivid-chapter-in-sohos-history

David O'Connor:

https://almanac.upenn.edu/articles/david-oconnor-anthropology http://www.thedp.com/article/2022/11/penn-professor-david-bourke-oconnor-death

Ofer Bar-Yosef:

https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2022/11/ofer-bar-yosef-82/

Mike Smith:

https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/7963740/dr-deep-time-hangs-up-his-hat/?cs=27802

Philip Hiat:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/us/philip-hiat-dead.html

John Meier:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/30/obituaries/msgr-john-meier-dead.html

Katherine Duncan-Jones:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/04/books/katherine-duncan-jones-dead.html

Hannah Pick-Goslar:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/03/world/europe/hannah-pick-goslar-dead.html

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3216-audio-news-from-archaeologica-october-23rd-through-the-29th-2022

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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ============================================================
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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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/ ============================================================
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