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Analysis of archaeological remains suggests that Stuarts Town is probably under Beaufort and not Spanish Point:
https://www.postandcourier.com/hilton-head/did-archaeologists-find-a-1684-scottish-settlement-under-beaufort-the-results-are-in/article_11b2cbbc-a326-11ed-a61e-c7dd31c0246b.html
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/archaeologists-are-closer-to-solving-the-mystery-of-missing-stuarts-town/146145
A project to map Cahokia:
https://www.brynmawr.edu/news/mapping-cahokia-will-be-largest-project-its-kind-all-americas?mibextid=uc01c0
Hurricane Ian did not damage the Manasota Key Offshore archaeological site, apparently:
https://www.miamiherald.com/news/article272434648.html
More on that 13 900 years bp bone projectile point found in 1970s Washington (state):
https://today.tamu.edu/2023/02/02/texas-am-led-research-team-identifies-oldest-bone-spear-point-in-the-americas/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11187-230208-manis-bone-point
Feature on Kate Hayfield's work in archaeology:
https://thecourier.com/news/442953/findlay-archaeologist-said-her-work-isnt-like-indiana-jones/
Feature on the diet of Ice Age First Nations folks in southern Ontario:
https://www.dispatch.com/story/opinion/columns/2023/02/12/column-ice-age-americans-may-have-dined-on-mastodons-and-maybe-dogs/69878082007/
Feature on the 1846 fight for Black voting rights in New York:
https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/state-archives-ledger-show-1846-fight-black-17762691.php
cf:
https://digitalcollections.archives.nysed.gov/index.php/Detail/objects/72601
Feature on the petroglyphs at Parowan Gap:
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2023/1/22/2148710/-Come-Walk-With-Us-Parowan-Gap-UT-Petroglyphs?utm_campaign=recent
Feature on beer brewing in 19th century Albany:
https://www.timesunion.com/business/article/beverage-explorer-says-albany-riches-beer-brewing-17762050.php
Plans for John Brown's farm in the Adirondacks:
https://www.adirondackexplorer.org/stories/state-and-local-partners-build-plans-for-john-brown-farm
Feature on the Totten and Crossfield Purchase:
https://www.adirondackalmanack.com/2023/02/the-heart-of-the-adirondacks-the-totten-crossfield-purchase.html
Feature on York's activities during the Lewis and Clark expedition:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/york-a-true-american-hero-of-the-lewis-and-clark-expedition/146148
Feature on dealing with the racism 'embedded in American archaeology':
https://www.cbc.ca/documentaries/the-nature-of-things/racism-is-embedded-in-american-archaeology-q-a-with-cree-m%C3%A9tis-archaeologist-paulette-steeves-1.6739675
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
Remains of 5th century CE 'elite' dwellings at Chichen Itza:
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexicos-chichen-itza-site-researchers-discover-ancient-elite-residences-2023-02-11/
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/at-mexico-s-chichen-itza-site--researchers-discover-ancient--elite--residences/48279102
Latest finds from the Great Pyramid of Cholula site:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/new-discoveries-at-great-pyramid-of-cholula/146158
A number of circular mound Maya burials from El Naranjo:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/archaeologists-uncover-burials-with-shell-flowers-and-green-quartz-earrings/146176
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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 ============================================================
Some 'secret letters' written by Mary, Queen of Scots while imprisoned have been decoded:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-codebreakers-decipher-lost-letters-mary.html https://www.livescience.com/mary-queen-of-scots-cryptic-prison-letters-finally-deciphered
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/08/mary-queen-of-scots-prison-letters-finally-decoded
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-64569883 https://www.cnn.com/2023/02/07/world/mary-queen-of-scots-lost-letters-scn/index.html
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1240/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1240/pub/1240/page/13/article/NaN
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/10/1155701113/mary-queen-of-scots-ciphers-prison-letters
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/codebreakers-discoverand-decipherlong-lost-letters-by-mary-queen-of-scots-180981613/
Interview with Enzo Traverso about his book *Singular Pasts: the I in Historiography*:
https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2023/02/first-person-histories-reframe-past
An appeal in that Van Gogh art case:
https://english.elpais.com/culture/2023-02-09/appeals-court-will-hear-dispute-over-control-of-van-gogh-art.html
A portrait of Abraham Lincoln ('most lifelike') has gone on display:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2023/02/10/abraham-lincoln-portrait-gallery-travers/
A mural of Washington crossing the Delaware is undergoing restoration:
https://mercerme.com/historic-mural-of-washington-crossing-the-delaware-is-rediscovered/
Leonardo appears to have had a handle on gravity:
https://arstechnica.com/science/2023/02/leonardo-noted-link-between-gravity-and-acceleration-centuries-before-einstein/
Feature on the Hyakumantao darani at the Beinecke:
https://www.wshu.org/connecticut-news/2023-02-10/a-1200-year-old-scroll-finds-a-home-next-to-the-gutenberg-bible
Feature on medieval attitudes toward women and their legacy:
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2023/02/writer-of-going-medieval-turns-her-attention-to-periods-attitudes-on-sex/
Feature on 'hidden doodles' in assorted manuscripts:
https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20230208-the-tech-revealing-hidden-doodles-in-old-books-and-objects
Feature on Lluis Domenech on the centennial of his death:
https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2023/feb/08/barcelona-other-great-architect-lluis-domenech-i-montaner-five-best-buildings
Feature on Britain's 'most chaotic' traditions:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230203-the-unruly-ancient-rituals-still-practised-today
Feature on the post-WWI Polish-Soviet war:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3ct38tp
Feature on Frances Ellen Watkins Harper:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/obituaries/frances-ellen-watkins-harper-overlooked.html
Windows from Notre Dame are undergoing restoration in Cologne:
https://www.dw.com/en/notre-dame-windows-undergo-restoration-in-cologne/a-64600501
Some general features on what archaeology is about:
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/archaeology-today/dust-to-data/ https://www.sapiens.org/archaeology/what-do-archaeologists-do/
Feature on the growing popularity of metal detecting in the UK:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/feb/05/metal-heads-the-thriving-detectorist-scene-digging-up-britains-past
More on Impressionist paintings and their connection to air pollution:
https://www.livescience.com/hazy-impressionist-landscapes-actually-depicted-smog-choked-skies-new-study-says
Review of Marion Turner, *The Wife of Bath*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/books/review/the-wife-of-bath-marion-turner.html
Review of Carmela Ciuraru, *Lives of the Wives*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/books/review/lives-of-the-wives-carmela-ciararu.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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The earthquake in Syria caused damage to the citadel of Aleppo:
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/aleppos-war-scarred-citadel-damaged-earthquake-2023-02-07/
https://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/aleppo-s-war-scarred-citadel-damaged-in-earthquake/48267048
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20230207-aleppo-war-scarred-citadel-damaged-in-earthquake/
https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20230206-quake-damages-ancient-citadel-in-syria-s-aleppo
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/earthquake-damages-ancient-citadel-in-aleppo-180694
... and other sites in Syria:
https://www.wsj.com/livecoverage/turkeyearthquake/card/historic-syrian-sites-pummeled-in-earthquakes-ntQ7LvbOCMylRvFn7qpr
Turkey's Gaziantep Castle was pretty much destroyed:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-64541894 https://www.thedailybeast.com/second-century-gaziantep-roman-castle-destroyed-by-huge-earthquake
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/06/fears-for-ancient-sites-after-earthquake-destroys-parts-of-gaziantep-castle-turkey
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/06/ancient-castle-used-byzantines-destroyed-turkey-earthquake/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/06/huge-earthquake-in-turkey-and-syria-devastates-heritage-sites-including-2000-year-old-castle
https://www.vice.com/en/article/93ax53/turkey-earthquake-gaziantep-castle https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/turkey-earthquake-historic-gaziantep-castle-destroyed
https://www.newsweek.com/turkey-earthquake-gaziantep-castle-dating-back-roman-empire-collapses-1779127
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/earthquake-in-turkey-today-damages-ancient-gaziantep-castle/
https://www.npr.org/2023/02/06/1154806617/earthquake-turkey-historic-gaziantep-castle
https://edition.cnn.com/travel/article/gaziantep-castle-destroyed-turkey-earthquake/index.html
https://arkeonews.net/deadly-7-7-quakes-hit-turkey-destroys-historical-gaziantep-castle/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11183-230207-earthquake-gaziantep-castle
.. the Hatay Museum was damaged:
https://arkeonews.net/earthquakes-caused-slight-damage-to-hatay-archeology-museum/
... and damage to Iskenderun-Alexandretta:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/10/iskenderun-alexandretta-ancient-city-earthquake-turkey/
... and general coverage of damage to sites in Syria and Turkey:
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/historic-sites-damaged-earthquakes-turkey-syria-unesco-rcna69341
https://www.rfi.fr/en/international-news/20230209-three-ancient-cities-damaged-in-turkey-syria-quake
https://today.duke.edu/2023/02/earthquake-hit-region-generosity-and-cultural-significance
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-unesco-alarm-quake-turkey-syria.html https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1204218/concern-for-seleucid-eramonuments/ https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/unesco-several-world-heritage-sites-damaged-or-destroyed-in-quakes/
https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/turkiyes-rich-southeast-heritage-severely-damaged-after-quakes/news
... three historic mosques destroyed in Turkey:
https://www.middleeasteye.net/discover/turkey-earthquake-iconic-mosques-destroyed
... and Gobekli Tepe escaped damage:
https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2023/02/prehistoric-world-heritage-site-gobekli-tepe-survives-turkey-earthquakes
Comparisons of the earthquake with previous ones in the region:
https://www.wsj.com/articles/what-the-great-lisbon-earthquake-of-1755-tells-us-about-this-weeks-disaster-4d03c657?
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/02/07/history-turkey-syria-earthquake/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.
eyJzdWJpZCI6IjE4NjE0NDMiLCJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNjc1NzQ2MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNjc3MDQxOTk5LCJpYXQiOjE2NzU3NDYwMDAsImp0aSI6IjAxY2FlZDQ2LTYyNGItNDYyMC1hMzhmLTdlNDk2YjhhZjU5YSIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9
3b3JsZC8yMDIzLzAyLzA3L2hpc3RvcnktdHVya2V5LXN5cmlhLWVhcnRocXVha2UvIn0.87LeGu_Ff1Xfuzf69DHMfHVOvRA88B_kN-y8rgO0Rf4
The annual Roman/history spins on Valentine's Day:
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/valentines-day-2023-origins-backgrounds-182933270.html
https://www.mainlinemedianews.com/2023/02/06/brown-te-amo-catullus-and-sentiments-of-love-from-roman-antiquity/
https://news.umanitoba.ca/lessons-on-love-from-ancient-greeks-and-taylor-swift/
... and cupid:
https://www.mentalfloss.com/posts/cupid-valentines-day-origins https://fortune.com/2023/02/08/valnetines-day-cupid-roman-god-mythology/
... and a history of Valentine's Day cards:
https://apnews.com/article/valentines-day-cards-history-1ed39b67dfb913b53e3700e415b87779
https://www.history.co.uk/articles/the-strange-history-of-valentines-day-cards
... and the heart as a symbol of love:
https://scrippsnews.com/stories/why-is-the-heart-the-symbol-of-love/ ============================================================
PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Feature on Anaximander and the development of scientific thinking:
https://www.economist.com/culture/2023/02/08/anaximander-is-a-hero-in-the-development-of-scientific-thinking
Resons not to be a Stoic:
https://theconversation.com/3-reasons-not-to-be-a-stoic-and-try-nietzsche-instead-198307
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Labyrinth ~ Knossos, Myth, and Reality:
https://greekreporter.com/2023/02/11/minoan-artifacts-oxford-museum/ https://marlborough.news/news/exploring-the-minotaur-and-the-labyrinth-at-the-ashmolean-museum/
Executions:
https://theconversation.com/what-historic-executions-in-london-can-tell-us-about-our-contemporary-appetites-for-pain-and-vulnerability-198904
Hogarth:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-64516131
Freud's Antiquity:
https://museumcrush.org/the-psychology-of-collecting-freuds-antiquity-at-the-freud-museum/
George McJunkin:
https://www.victoriaadvocate.com/news/highereducation/museum-introduces-exhibit-featuring-black-archaeologist-for-black-history-month/article_add8b576-a4d2-11ed-8a39-2b0d2b5485b4.html
Vermeer:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/09/arts/design/vermeer-painter-rijksmuseum-review.html?
https://apnews.com/article/new-york-city-netherlands-painting-entertainment-d0fa6bda598d22711ce9a16b2bd69c81
Leon Monet:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/feb/07/the-other-monet-impressionists-brother-is-star-of-new-exhibition
cf:
https://museeduluxembourg.fr/fr/agenda/evenement/leon-monet
Anne Boleyn:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/feb/12/anne-boleyn-reputation-as-temptress-recast-new-exhibition
On the plethora of 'blockbuster' exhibitions:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-02-08/vermeer-rijksmuseum-exhibition-2023-in-amsterdam-is-latest-bucket-list-art-show
The Allard Pierson Museum is doing a major provenance check of its collection:
https://nltimes.nl/2023/02/09/allard-pierson-museum-investigating-19000-archaeological-objects-obtained
Deaccessioning at the Brauer Museum of Art to fund student dorm construction is being criticized:
https://hyperallergic.com/799773/indiana-university-brauer-museum-catches-heat-for-plan-deaccession-works/
When museums bet on the Superbowl:
https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-kansas-city-art-museums-artful-super-bowl-wager/
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A recently-rediscovered Brueghel the Younger work is coming to auction:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/07/unusually-large-brueghel-the-younger-paintingrediscovered-in-france-offered-at-paris-auction-for-600000
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial reconstruction is of a Nabataean woman:
https://www.independent.co.uk/tv/lifestyle/history-archeology-ancient-saudi-arabia-nabataea-b2276517.html
https://uk.sports.yahoo.com/news/reconstruction-nabataean-woman-help-understanding-000100430.html
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/saudi-arabia-nabataean-woman-archeological-discovery/index.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11188-230209-nabataean-woman-face
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TOURISTY THINGS
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10 archaeological sites in Greece:
https://www.thetravel.com/best-archeological-sites-in-greece/
Menorca megaliths:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230205-menorcas-mysterious-tables-for-giants
Buddhist remains in Swabi:
https://tribune.com.pk/story/2399496/aziz-dheri-and-the-footprints-of-buddhism-in-k-p
... and Purana Qila:
https://theprint.in/features/purana-qila-is-being-dug-up-again-asi-wants-to-reach-all-the-way-to-the-mahabharata-era/1352926/
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CRIME BEAT
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Arrest of ten suspects in Sri Lanka accused of illegal excavations:
http://www.colombopage.com/archive_23A/Feb09_1675921651CH.php
More on a court upholding the charges of antiquities trafficking against a former Louvre director:
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/02/10/appeals-court-upholds-antiquities-trafficking-charges-jean-luc-martinez-jean-francois-charnier
Feature on artifact theft and sale:
https://brownpoliticalreview.org/2023/02/raiders-of-the-lost-art-brown-political-review/
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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 ============================================================
France is returning the Djidji Ayokwe drum to the Ivory Coast:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/french-museum-returns-talking-drum-to-ivory-coast-180981577/?
Switzerland returned a 2500 years bp Chavin head to Peru:
https://www.admin.ch/gov/en/start/documentation/media-releases.msg-id-92892.html
Efforts to bring Civil War items back to Vermont:
https://www.vermontpublic.org/local-news/2023-02-07/high-school-student-leading-charge-to-bring-civil-war-artifacts-back-to-vermont
France wants the body of Napoleon III back:
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1243/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1243/pub/1243/page/27/article/NaN
Another feature on UK items folks want back:
https://hir.harvard.edu/monarchy-and-museum-ethics/
More on returns of 14 items from the US to Italy:
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/02/06/d-a-bragg-returns-14-stolen-antiquities-to-italy/
OpEd on the Benin Bronzes in the British Museum:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/feb/05/british-museum-benin-bronzes-nigeria
OpEd on the Guggenheim art lawsuit:
https://seattlespectator.com/2023/02/08/guggenheim-art-lawsuit-raises-questions-about-property-ethics/
Suggestion that some 'loot' plundered from Ethiopia might be in storage in Yorkshire:
https://www.yorkshirepost.co.uk/heritage-and-retro/heritage/historians-bid-to-trace-lost-loot-plundered-by-the-british-during-colonial-war-in-ethiopia-that-was-last-seen-in-leeds-general-infirmary-in-1868-4017467
A Swiss collector is wondering if some things in his collection might be Nazi loot:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/07/arts/bruno-stefanini-collection-looted-art.html
A settlement in a dispute over a looted Klimt:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/10/arts/design/ronald-lauder-klimt-painting-restitution.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on Dionysus on ancient coins:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/god-of-wine-dionysus-on-ancient-coins/
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n06.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n07.html ------------------------
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Jane F Gardner:
https://blogs.reading.ac.uk/classics-at-reading/2023/02/03/professor-jane-f-gardner-1934-2023/
Robert Williamson:
https://www.legacy.com/us/obituaries/capitalgazette/name/robert-williamson-obituary?id=42402647
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:
https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3258-audio-news-from-archaeologica-january-29th-through-february-4th-2023
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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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