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https://www.nbc4i.com/news/local-news/columbus/columbus-archaeologists-excavate-19th-century-human-remains-near-north-market/
More on flotsam from New York being identified as being from the SS Savannah:
https://apnews.com/article/science-new-york-city-bronx-savannah-oceans-dc09efafd9b191d0715a084516527ed5
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/fire-island-flotsam-ss-savannah-2262253 https://www.archaeology.org/news/11256-230227-savannah-hybrid-ship
More on experimental archaeology and the development of Chaco Canyon:
https://www.colorado.edu/today/2023/02/22/scientists-may-have-solved-chaco-canyon-mystery-hauling-logs-their-heads
https://www.sciencealert.com/1000-years-ago-ancient-puebloans-built-a-mysteriously-vast-city-we-may-finally-know-how
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2023/03/02/scientists-may-have-solved-a-chaco-canyon-mystery-2/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11261-230301-chaco-canyon-construction
Feature on some artifacts excavated at the Battle of Camden site:
https://www.chronicle-independent.com/news/kershaw-county/unearthed-history-battle-camden-part-iii-artifacts/
Feature on the history of robbing of Indigenous burials in New England:
https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/indigenous-grave-robbing-new-england-17810749.php
An enslaved peoples' burial ground in the Hudson Valley (NY) is being preserved:
https://www.timesunion.com/hudsonvalley/news/article/lloyd-slave-burial-ground-preservation-17808577.php
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ============================================================
A delivery man in Peru was found in possession of a 600+ years bp remains of a mummified person that his father had owned:
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-peru-police-pre-hispanic-mummy-ex-delivery.html https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64797080 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/mummy-found-man-cooler-bag-spiritual-girlfriend-peru/
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-733126 https://www.sciencealert.com/former-delivery-man-found-with-a-600-year-old-mummy-girlfriend-in-his-cooler-bag
A previously-unknown Moai statue was found on Easter Island:
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-moai-statue-easter-island-volcano.html https://www.livescience.com/new-moai-statue-that-deified-ancestors-found-on-easter-island
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-64821698 https://apnews.com/article/moai-statue-rapa-nui-easter-island-807e5de7b5cd006e73ce57402bfce302
https://www.stuff.co.nz/world/south-pacific/300821067/new-easter-island-statue-found-in-volcanic-craters-dry-lake
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/archaeologists-on-easter-island-have-discovered-a-previously-unknown-moai-statue-buried-in-a-dried-out-lake-bed-2261978
https://arkeonews.net/new-moai-statue-discovered-on-easter-island/ https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-moai-statue-found-on-easter-island-180981717/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11260-230301-easter-island-moai
Accounting for the high percentage of woman remains in the Hueyi Tsompantli:
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/02/female-remains-in-aztec-skull-rack-are-associated-with-the-origin-myth-of-huitzilopochtli/146301
More on the 30 Chancay burial found in Peru:
https://www.dw.com/en/pre-inca-graves-discovered-in-peru/a-64833744
Feature on Richard Hansen's efforts to preserve sites in El Mirador:
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-03-01/guatemala-maya-environment-drug-cartels-climate-change
This month's Ancient America's zoom events:
https://mikeruggerisevents.tumblr.com/
... and the March edition of the Aztlander:
https://aztlander.wordpress.com/2023/03/04/march-2023-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 ============================================================
Not sure where to put this one: a study suggests assorted ancient texts in various cultures describe of feeding behaviour of whales:
https://www.livescience.com/terrifying-sea-monster-hafgufa-described-in-medieval-norse-manuscripts-is-actually-a-whale
https://phys.org/news/2023-02-mysterious-behavior-whales-ancient-manuscripts.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/980816 https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/mar/01/ancient-texts-power-new-light-shed-on-mysterious-whale-behaviour-that-captured-imagination
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1261/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1261/pub/1261/page/55/article/NaN
https://www.newscientist.com/video/2361926-ancient-depictions-of-norse-sea-monsters-may-be-feeding-whales/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-mythical-sea-monsters-may-have-been-whales-with-unusual-dining-habits-180981729/
cf:
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/mms.13009
Feature on runes:
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-runes-advanced-roman-alphabet.html
On the role of robots in saving the UK's photograph archive:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/photography/what-to-see/how-robots-saved-britains-postwar-photograph-archive/
A Queen Victoria sketchbook will be reunited with other artworks of hers:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-dorset-64815207
Feature on Catherine the Great:
https://www.livescience.com/all-about-history-127
Feature on changes to the UK's Treasure Act:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/01/toothpicks-hair-locks-treasure-act-museums
Pondering the future of the antiquities trade:
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/antiquities-collectors-art-market-provenance/
Pondering the origins of a painting ascribed to Dali:
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-salvador-dali-paint-this-enigmatic-artwork-180981723/?
Feature on the statue of David and ideas about masculinity:
https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20230227-the-original-and-most-iconic-male-model
Feature on Hagia Sophia and Mezquita:
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2023/mar/04/mezquita-hagia-sophia-two-sacred-symbols-culture-wars-belie-complex-history
On the history of the kebaya:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230302-the-asian-blouse-that-tells-a-tale-of-many-cultures
On the beginning of arguing about gender:
https://unherd.com/2023/03/the-gender-wars-started-in-1531/
Review of David Waldstreicher, *Phillis Wheatley*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/books/phillis-wheatley-david-waldstreicher.html
Review of Reid Mitenbuler, *Wanderlust*;
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/26/books/review/wanderlust-reid-mitenbuler.html
Review of Naoise MacSweeney, *The West*:
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/what-to-read/west-naoise-mac-sweeney-review-time-give-western-civilisation/
Review of Jennifer Wright, *Madame Restell*:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/books/review/madame-restell-by-jennifer-wright.html
More on that frozen Siberian bear:
https://arkeonews.net/3500-year-old-perfectly-preserved-ancient-frozen-bear-found-in-siberian/
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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OpEd applying the Melian Dialogue (strangely) to the war in Ukraine:
https://nationalinterest.org/feature/lessons-melian-dialogue-case-against-providing-military-support-ukraine-206264
Ancient structures in Hatay survived the earthquakes:
https://www.dailysabah.com/gallery/ancient-structures-remain-standing-in-hatay-despite-turkiye-quake/images
... as did sites in Anazarbus:
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/quake-bypasses-7500-years-old-anazarbus-ancient-city-in-turkiye/news
... and an overview of damage done to other sites:
https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/one-month-after-quake-cultural-properties-damage-assessment
Turkiye is taking measures to protect artifacts from earthquakes:
https://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ministry-takes-measures-to-protect-artifacts-from-quakes-181312
The coronation chair to be used by Charles III is undergoing restoration:
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-64798077 https://www.cnn.com/style/article/coronation-chair-restoration-gbr-scli-intl/index.html
In case you missed the president of Mexico's 'elf' photo:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/feb/27/mexican-president-andres-manuel-lopez-obrador-photo-elf-alux
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS ============================================================
A study of kurgan burials suggests the Yamnaya culture was first to ride horses 4000=5000 years bp:
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-world-horse-riders-black-sea.html https://www.livescience.com/worlds-1st-horseback-riders-swept-across-europe-roughly-5000-years-ago
https://www.npr.org/2023/03/03/1160961227/scientists-find-signs-of-horse-riding-in-ancient-human-remains
https://abcnews.go.com/Lifestyle/wireStory/evidence-horseback-riding-dates-back-5000-years-97615176
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/archaeologists-find-evidence-that-horseback-riding-began-at-least-5000-years-ago
https://apnews.com/article/horse-horseback-riding-archeology-5caf7da564dbafad6aa50379b0927220
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-03-04/ty-article/archaeologists-identify-the-earliest-horse-riders/00000186-a265-d6e6-a3af-fb7563fb0000
https://www.dw.com/en/scientists-say-ancient-europeans-rode-horses-5000-years-ago/a-64883617
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-733324 https://www.harvardmagazine.com/2023/03/first-human-horseback-riding https://www.science.org/content/article/earliest-evidence-horseback-riding-found-eastern-cowboys
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/humans-started-riding-horses-5-000-years-ago-new-evidence-suggests/
cf:
https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.ade2451
On the origins (2) of 'indigenous wines':
https://www.decanter.com/wine-news/grapevines-first-cultivated-11000-years-ago-says-study-498726/
https://wineanorak.com/2023/03/02/big-news-new-genetic-evidence-shows-that-the-grapevine-was-domesticated-in-two-locations-and-3000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought/
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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Feature on Kouri-Vini:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230228-kouri-vini-the-return-of-the-us-lost-language
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PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Feature on Damaris Masham:
https://aeon.co/essays/out-of-john-lockes-shadow-damaris-masham-and-her-philosophy
On classical philosophy and office politics:
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/why-aristotle-beats-the-apprentice-in-big-business-8jf7bsj8s
On family values in Epicurus:
https://www.thecollector.com/epicurus-on-the-values-of-family-and-friendship/
On the 'downsides' of Stoicism:
https://bigthink.com/thinking/stoicism-popular-downsides/ ============================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Labyrinth:
https://the-past.com/review/whats-on/labyrinth-knossos-myth-and-reality/
Islanders:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/mar/05/islanders-the-making-of-the-mediterranean-fitzwilliam-museum-cambridge-review-art-of-extraordinary-intimacy
Rome of the Republic:
https://www.artandobject.com/news/new-capitoline-museums-exhibit-will-delight-archaeologists-not-tourists
Golden Mummies of Egypt:
https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2023/03/achieving-divinity-golden-mummies
Sassoons:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/02/arts/design/sassoons-jewish-museum-art-exhibition.html
Le Catillon Celtic Coin Hoard:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-jersey-64799297
Dickens:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-jersey-64799297
The Alamo Collections Center is now open:
https://sanantonioreport.org/new-ralston-collections-center-alamo-opening/
The Philadelphia MoA now has a department for African and African diasporic art:
https://whyy.org/articles/philadelphia-museum-of-art-brind-center-african-and-african-diasporic-art/
Fordham's museum of Greek, Etruscan, and Roman art has reopened:
https://news.fordham.edu/arts-and-culture/museum-of-greek-etruscan-and-roman-art-reopens/
The Argos Archaeological Museum is reopening:
https://news.gtp.gr/2023/02/28/peloponnese-argos-archaeological-museum-ready-to-reopen/
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
Big bucks for a looted Kandinsky:
https://apnews.com/article/kandinsky-munch-nazi-looted-art-sothebys-5e62cd857490bc41094daaf71fc934e3
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ON THE DNA FRONT
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A study of the DNA of early hunter-gatherers in Europe:
https://www.mpg.de/19941740/0223-evan-ice-age-survivors-150495-x https://phys.org/news/2023-03-ice-age-survivors-paleogenomics.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230301120846.htm https://www.livescience.com/unknown-lineage-of-ice-age-europeans-discovered-in-genetic-study
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-03-01/ty-article/study-of-age-hunters-changes-what-we-know-about-european-ancestry/00000186-98a8-d027-a5de-bef8d0fc0000
https://apnews.com/article/europe-ice-age-archeology-ancient-humans-discovery-1be896899e155ecacdee3efd97ba8b9d
https://www.science.org/content/article/ancient-dna-upends-european-prehistory https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/01/science/dna-hunter-gatherers-europe.html
cf:
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-05726-0 https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-01987-0
A DNA study (7000-5000 years bp) from several sites in southern Spain (not sure if this overlaps with the above):
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-oldest-human-genome-southern-spain.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/03/230301120829.htm
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Feature on LiDAR:
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/feb/23/lidar-technology-archeology-radical-thinking
Strontium and dendrochronology help to identify the source of some 400 years bp timbers in Denmark:
https://news.ku.dk/all_news/2023/03/tree-rings-and-strontium-point-researchers-to-the-provenance-of-400-year-old-timber/
https://phys.org/news/2023-03-tree-strontium-provenance-year-old-timber.html
cf:
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0278513 ============================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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Review of Peter Frankopan, *The Earth Transformed*:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/feb/27/the-big-idea-why-you-cant-leave-climate-out-of-history
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Imber and Tyneham:
https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230226-englands-twin-ghost-villages
Sites at Oxford associated with CS Lewis:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/28/travel/cs-lewis-oxford-narnia.html
Bar'am synagogue:
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/2023-03-02/ty-article-magazine/exploring-israel-a-visit-to-a-1-600-year-old-synagogue/00000186-a308-de2a-a1ee-a31fe4230000
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED ============================================================
Feature on Escolania de Montserrat:
https://www.theguardian.com/music/2023/mar/03/unchanged-melody-the-all-boys-choir-that-survived-700-years-of-conflict
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CRIME BEAT
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The statue of the Little Mermaid in Copenhagen was vandalized again:
https://apnews.com/article/denmark-little-mermaid-copenhagen-vandalism-russian-flag-7487b88c6a00bd997e6b540a7e65f448
Feature on art and antiquities being used for money laundering purposes:
https://www.occrp.org/en/27-ccwatch/cc-watch-briefs/17373-art-and-antiquities-an-attractive-market-for-money-laundering-faft-argues
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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 ============================================================
Cambridge is returning some Australian spears taken by Captain Cook:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-64820618 https://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/cambridge-news/cambridge-university-return-captain-cooks-26357321
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/03/02/aboriginal-spears-captain-cook-returned-australia/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/cambridge-university-to-return-australian-spears-seized-by-captain-james-cook-v68cx0qqq
Switzerland returned a number of items to Iraq:
https://www.iraqinews.com/iraq/iraq-receives-antiquities-in-switzerland/
Interesting feature on the recovery of stolen statuary from India:
https://theamericanscholar.org/the-goddess-complex/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the coins of Carthage:
https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/the-coins-of-carthage-during-hannibals-war-with-rome/
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n09.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n10.html ------------------------
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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OBITUARIES
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Howard R Lamar:
https://news.yale.edu/2023/02/24/howard-r-lamar-eminent-historian-and-former-yale-president
John Richard Wilson:
https://www.ualberta.ca/the-quad/2023/03/lowering-the-flag-john-richard-wilson.html
Pierre Apraxine:
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/03/arts/pierre-apraxine-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/3262-audio-news-from-archaeologica-february-19th-through-the-25th-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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