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Possible evidence of the little-known-about Tepuztecos people found during highway expansion in Mexico:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/archaeologists-uncover-vestiges-of-the-tepuztecos/148320

Feature on Joel Palka's work on the importance of waterscapes in ancient Maya culture:

https://news.asu.edu/20230815-asu-archaeologist-highlights-importance-waterscapes-ancient-maya-culture

Feature on possible mercury poisoning issues among the Maya:

https://bigthink.com/the-past/maya-mercury/
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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 ============================================================
On the search for remains of an airplane in Lake Huron associated with the Tuskegee airmen:

https://www.freep.com/story/news/local/michigan/2023/08/18/tuskegee-airman-plane-wreckage-recovered-lake-huron/70621091007/
https://www.ctinsider.com/news/article/wreckage-from-tuskegee-airman-s-plane-that-18302981.php
https://www.abc12.com/news/state/wreckage-from-tuskegee-airmans-plane-recovered-from-lake-huron/article_21493939-c8db-58b1-a7a3-8475cd2e5bb4.html
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2023-08-18/wreckage-from-tuskegee-airmans-plane-that-crashed-during-wwii-training-recovered-from-lake-huron

A study of possible use of atlatls by prehistoric women:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-atlatl-weapon-prehistoric-females-equalized.html

.. a semi related piece:

https://www.ynetnews.com/magazine/article/hkfqx6n3h

Vlad the Impaler may have had a blood-related medical condition:

https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/vlad-the-impaler-may-have-cried-tears-of-blood-chemical-analysis-of-his-letters-finds
https://www.jpost.com/science/article-755092

A project to recreate the voyage of the Beagle:

https://apnews.com/article/ship-retrace-charles-darwin-voyage-two-centuries-348b53ecdeac9ff449bcf268fdfb640c

A project replicating an Iron Age village in Scotland:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-66478550

Feature on London's Lawn Road Flats:

https://daily.jstor.org/the-spy-who-shared-my-foyer/

Feature on the photographer Yevonde:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/18/arts/design/yevonde-photography.html

... and Berenice Abbott:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/arts/design/berenice-abbott-photographs-new-york.html

Feature on Brown U's Carrie Tower:

https://www.brown.edu/news/2023-07-17/carrie-tower

Feature on Luigi Palmieri's life on Mount Vesuvius during some eruptions:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-defiant-volcanologist-survived-5-eruptions-while-living-on-mount-vesuvius/
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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On the heritage lost in the Maui fires:

https://time.com/6305270/maui-wildfire-history-museums-artifacts-lost/ https://www.npr.org/2023/08/18/1194500944/priceless-connections-to-hawaiis-ancient-past-were-lost-when-cultural-center-bur
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11692-230818-maui-fire-artifacts

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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Feature on a 'carved language' from Australia:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0g4d8vq/a-message-from-the-world-s-oldest-living-culture

Feature on historical linguistics (European languages):

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-europe-ancient-languages-great-migration.html https://archaeonewsnet.com/2023/07/new-insights-into-the-origin-of-the-indo-european-languages.html

More on the deciphering of the Kushan script:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/ancient-kushan-script-successfully-deciphered-reveals-new-language-2343216
https://www.history.com/news/ancient-kushan-script-decoded ============================================================
PHILOSOPHERS AND MATTERS PHILOSOPHICAL ============================================================
Victor Nuovo on Skepticism:

https://www.addisonindependent.com/2023/08/17/victor-nuovo-explaining-skepticism/

Feature on Aristotle on Perception and Experience:

https://www.thecollector.com/aristotle-theory-perception-experience/

Aristotle's rules for a good life:

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2023/08/aristotle-10-rules-happy-life/674905/
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Warring States Chariots:

http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_L6MJa71j.html http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2023-08/14/content_102512137.htm

Jade at the Shanxi Museum:

https://www.chinadaily.com.cn/a/202308/18/WS64df30e9a31035260b81cf72.html

Saxton Atlas:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leeds-66543963

Early in the week we learned that items from the British Museum had been found to be missing or stolen:

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12413917/Items-British-Museum-collection-missing-stolen-damaged-Staff-member-dismissed-police-investigating.html

... and that a 'worker' had been sacked because of it:

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/16/arts/design/british-museum-theft.html https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/16/british-museum-sacks-staff-member-after-items-vanish-from-collection
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-staff-member-items-b2394199.html
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1430/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1430/pub/1430/page/2/article/NaN
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museum-worker-sacked-over-missing-items-including-jewellery-lqxbqm2vn
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-museum-sacks-staff-member-treasures-missing-stolen-damaged/
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-museum-treasures-stolen-inside-job/ https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-66527422 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2023/08/16/british-museum-theft-stolen-missing-damaged-jewelry-gold/
https://www.wsj.com/articles/british-museum-fires-employee-after-gems-gold-jewelry-stolen-41066bd9
https://www.reuters.com/world/uk/british-museum-sacks-member-staff-over-missing-stolen-items-2023-08-16/
https://abcnews.go.com/Business/wireStory/british-museum-staff-member-dismissed-after-items-found-102317279
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/british-musuem-theft-treasures-artifacts-employee-fired/
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-755046 https://news.artnet.com/art-world/the-british-museum-has-fired-an-employee-after-discovering-valuable-objects-missing-from-its-collection-2350676
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museum-fired-staffer-missing-stolen-damaged-items-1234677206/
https://www.cnn.com/style/british-museum-employee-gold-artifacts-theft-police/index.html
https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1217877/british-museum-says-staff-member-dismissed-after-items-were-found-to-be-missing-stolen-or-damaged/

... and there was concern for the state of the artifacts:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1430/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1430/pub/1430/page/10/article/NaN

... and then we learned the BM was aware of the thefts three years ago and that things were being sold on eBay (apparently):

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/17/british-museum-theft-warned-ebay-gold-antiquities-police/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1431/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1431/pub/1431/page/3/article/NaN
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12424737/British-Museum-chiefs-accused-showing-lack-reaction-alerted-treasures-institution-potentially-sold-online-early-2021.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12420225/Pictured-Stolen-British-Museum-treasures-worth-50-000-offered-eBay-little-40-expert-curator-sacked.html
https://artreview.com/sacked-british-museum-curator-allegedly-sold-stolen-antiquities-on-ebay/
https://www.jpost.com/international/article-755351 https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/18/media-reports-identify-objects-stolen-from-the-british-museum-posted-on-ebay

... and then the Telegraph suggested the 'thief' was curator Peter Higgs:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/17/british-museum-stolen-artefacts-peter-higgs-curator/
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/17/british-museum-employee-sacked-over-missing-items-was-senior-curator
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museum-missing-jewels-artefacts-vnx6sps9g
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/british-museum-man-family-named-innocence-b2394757.html
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/17/british-museum-antiquities-thief-identified-as-veteran-curator-peter-higgs
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museum-missing-jewels-artefacts-vnx6sps9g
https://www.lbc.co.uk/news/british-museum-curator-sacked-named-john-higgs-56-missing-gold/
https://www.thedailybeast.com/british-museum-staffer-fired-over-missing-jewels-was-senior-curator-peter-higgs
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-12416899/British-Museum-thief-selling-stolen-artefacts-eBay-three-years-ago-bosses-did-expert-told-spotted-Roman-jewellery-sale-online.html
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/british-museum-staffer-fired-stolen-items-veteran-curator-peter-higgs-1234677248/
https://hypebeast.com/2023/8/british-museum-fires-curator-looting-artifacts

... while Higgs' family insisted he was innocent:

https://metro.co.uk/2023/08/17/pictured-british-museum-worker-sacked-after-artefacts-theft-19352657/

... and there was a feature on previously-stolen items from the BM:

https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-theft-which-items-b2394898.html

... and one one theft from UK museums by staff is a 'common' problem:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2023/aug/18/thefts-by-staff-a-common-problem-in-uk-museums-say-experts

... and the BBC had a good roundup of what we actually know so far:

https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-66543589

... and most recently we were told that Hartwig Fischer resigned because of the theft revelations:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/08/18/staff-allege-british-museum-director-resigned-over-thefts/
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1432/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1432/pub/1432/page/23/article/NaN

... and that the thefts were kept 'secret' for eight months:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museums-missing-artefacts-were-kept-secret-for-8-months-jln5rh2db

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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED ============================================================
A nice price fetched by that Eid Mar denarius:

https://artdaily.com/news/161326/42-BC-coin-marking-assassination-of-Julius-Ceasar-sells-for--240-000

A Renaissance-era book collection is coming to Sotheby's:

https://www.barrons.com/articles/renaissance-era-book-collection-set-to-fetch-25-million-at-sothebys-c9edf395

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Genome analysis of Otzi suggests he was balding, dark-skinned, and more:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-fresh-dna-oetzi-iceman-roots.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2023/08/230816114103.htm https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/otzi-the-iceman-may-have-been-bald-and-getting-fat-before-his-murder-5300-years-ago
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/aug/16/otzi-iceman-receding-hairline-dark-skin-tone-study-reveals
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/16/europe/otzi-the-iceman-physical-traits-scn/index.html
https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1430/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1430/pub/1430/page/19/article/NaN
https://apnews.com/article/oetzi-iceman-mummy-dna-ab10b8cf0801971b384cf7b0ce25d00d
https://arkeonews.net/otzi-the-iceman-had-dark-skin-bald-head-and-anatolian-ancestry-new-study-rewrites-ancient-history/
https://www.science.org/content/article/otzi-tyrolean-iceman-had-dark-skin-and-receding-hairline
https://archaeonewsnet.com/2023/08/otzi-dark-skin-bald-head-anatolian-ancestry.html
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2023/08/genome-study-reveals-that-iceman-otzi-had-dark-skin-and-male-pattern-baldness/148293
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/famed-5300-year-old-alps-iceman-was-a-balding-middle-aged-man-with-dark-skin-and-eyes-180982744/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/11689-230817-otzi-genome-sequenced

cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666979X2300174X?via%3Dihub
https://www.cell.com/cell-genomics/fulltext/S2666-979X(23)00174-X https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02562-0

A genetic study of 3rd-16th century inhabitants of the Canary Islands:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-genetic-3rd-16th-century-people-canary.html

A genetic study suggests there was a shift in Bronze Age population in Eastern Europe:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-dna-reveals-shift-bronze-age.html https://archaeonewsnet.com/2023/08/new-research-links-early-europeans-cultural-and-genetic-development-over-several-thousand-years.html

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-023-02143-4 ============================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial reconstruction is of Bonnie Prince Charlie and based on death masks:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/aug/18/from-bonnie-prince-charlie-to-richard-iii-other-historical-faces-brought-to-life
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-66533482 https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/1431/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/1431/pub/1431/page/32/article/NaN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/18/uk/bonnie-prince-charlie-real-face-intl-scli-scn-gbr/index.html

Using LiDAR-equipped drones to survey the site of the Battle of the Bulge:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-drones-reveal-secrets-world-war.html https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/drones-equipped-with-lasers-uncover-secrets-of-bloody-wwii-battle
https://www.newsweek.com/secrets-america-bloodiest-wwii-battle-revealed-drone-1819691
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-12405135/Uncovering-secrets-one-WWIIs-bloodiest-battles-Archaeologists-use-drones-peer-dense-forest-cover-battlefield-Battle-Bulge-revealing-previously-unknown-dugouts-bomb-craters-artillery-emplacements.
html https://www.nationalgeographic.com/premium/article/hidden-details-from-wwii-battle-of-the-bulge-revealed-by-drone-lidar-scans
https://www.science.org/content/article/laser-mapping-reveals-detailed-secrets-world-war-ii-s-most-notorious-battle
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/drone-scans-reveal-new-information-from-battle-of-the-bulge-180982749/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11687-230815-second-world-war

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-02572-y

Similar (it seems) technology used to study pueblos in the Lion Mountain area of New Mexico:

https://phys.org/news/2023-08-technology-reveals-picture-ancient-native.html ============================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS
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Using some 19th century weather records from the Hudson Valley to track climate change:

https://www.timesunion.com/news/article/kinderhook-weather-records-climate-change-18294599.php

Pondering climate change and heritage preservation:

https://www.wired.com/story/climate-change-heritage-preservation-venice/ ============================================================
TOURISTY THINGS
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Sheki:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20230816-sheki-the-caucasus-unsung-culture-capital

Rock statues of San Agustin, Colombia:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/colombia-san-agustin-archaeology-statues

Berlin palaces:

https://www.dw.com/en/taking-a-palace-tour-through-berlin/video-66505768

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CRIME BEAT
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British and Swiss police broke up a crime ring and recovered a stolen Ming Dynasty vase:

https://apnews.com/article/britain-switzerland-ming-vase-e26a250064df3d2dc3c1f30669f00f12
https://www.scmp.com/news/world/europe/article/3231665/british-police-recover-stolen-ming-dynasty-vase-worth-us25-million
https://www.aa.com.tr/en/europe/3-british-men-convicted-after-police-recover-stolen-vase-worth-25-million/2971900
https://www.cotswoldjournal.co.uk/news/national/23734240.three-convicted-2m-ming-dynasty-vase-stolen-museum/

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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 Mutter Museum in Philadelphia is facing scrutiny about its medical collection:

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/aug/13/medical-mutter-museum-philadelphia-specimen-ethics
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/13/science/mutter-medical-museum.html

... as is the Smithsonian's 'brain collection':

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/smithsonian-brains-collection-racial-history-repatriation/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/interactive/2023/takeaways-smithsonian-human-brains-remains-collection/

Three southeast Asian countries say the Denver Art Museum has some of their stolen heritage:

https://www.denverpost.com/2023/08/14/cambodia-thailand-vietnam-stolen-antiquities-denver-art-museum/
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/16/denver-art-museum-cambodia-thailand-vietnam-restitution-emma-bunker

Belgium returned 20 pre-Columbian artifacts to Mexico:

https://mexiconewsdaily.com/culture/20-pre-columbian-artifacts-repatriated-to-mexico-from-belgium/

More on the US returning 266 (and maybe 42 more?) artifacts to Italy:

https://www.cnn.com/style/italy-us-repatriate-looted-ancient/index.html https://www.euronews.com/culture/2023/08/14/united-states-returns-266-stolen-antiquities-to-italy-including-etruscan-vases-and-roman-m
https://www.dailysabah.com/arts/italy-reclaims-266-ancient-artifacts-worth-millions-from-us/news
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2023/08/14/more-stolen-archaeological-treasures-return-to-italy-from-the-us-menil
https://www.artdependence.com/articles/266-antiquities-seized-in-us-returned-to-italy/
https://news.artnet.com/art-world/us-returns-266-ancient-artifacts-italy-2350644
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/antiquities-seized-art-dealer-robin-symes-shelby-white-returned-italy-1234676954/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/11684-230815-u-s-repatriation-italy

More on the return of the 'Wounded Indian' to Boston:

https://apnews.com/article/wounded-indian-sculpture-revere-5e492a63f20d94093fdaf8f9a26079a6
https://www.metro.us/wounded-indian-sculpture-given-in-1800s-to-group-founded-by-paul-revere-is-returning-to-boston/

Pondering how the Rosetta Stone could ever be returned:

https://www.egyptindependent.com/how-do-we-return-the-rosetta-stone-to-egypt/ ============================================================
NUMISMATICA
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Feature on some recent coin seizures:

https://www.numismaticnews.net/world-coins/ancient-coin-seizures-gain-attention

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n33.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v26/club_nbs_esylum_v26n34.html ------------------------

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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OBITUARIES
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Goran Burenhult:

https://www.independent.ie/regionals/sligo/news/swedish-archaeologist-who-carried-out-work-at-ancient-county-sligo-burial-site-in-carrowmore-has-passed-away/a1148930082.html

Jean-Louis Georgelin:

https://apnews.com/article/french-general-notre-dame-cathedral-dies-paris-cea6abb2f10adedc432a0e785c8d0c7e
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/19/world/europe/jean-louis-georgelin-dead.html ============================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3306-audio-news-from-archaeologica-august-5th-through-the-12th-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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