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Astudillo,
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Barbara Saylor Rodgers, David Emery, David Perlmutter, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Not sure where to put this one … on the evolution of assorted diseases in humans:

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/02/09/513883557/video-from-measles-to-syphilis-how-we-created-the-golden-age-of-germs


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AFRICA
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A trio of 4000 years bp (give or take) temples from the Sudan:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/swiss-archeologist-shines-light-sudans-buried-past-005631065.html

http://www.france24.com/en/20170210-sudan-archaeology-temples-discovered-kerma-dogi-ancient-bonnet-history

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1052261/offbeat http://www.archaeology.org/news/5270-170210-sudan-dogi-gel

I think this goes here … Henry Gates’ research into African civilizations:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/04/opinion/sunday/the-history-the-slaveholders-wanted-us-to-forget.html

More on those 12 000 years bp prostate stones from Sudan:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5243-170201-sudan-prostate-stone

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A major building complex from Qantir:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/257745/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Monumental-building-complex-discovered-at-Qantir-i.aspx
http://aa.com.tr/en/culture-and-art/archaeologists-in-egypt-unearth-pharaonic-structures/743252
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/02/07/pharaonic-structures-discovered-in-egypt
https://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/08/02/2017/Archaeologists-in-Egypt-unearth-pharaonic-structures

… which includes a mortar pit with impressions of children’s feet:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/german-archaeologists-discover-ancient-mortar-pit-impressions-egyptian-children-s-feet


… and painted wall fragments:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5256-170207-egypt-pi-ramesses

Encroachments on the Dahshour necropolis were removed this week:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/257919/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Encroachments-removed-from-Dahshour-necropolis-sit.aspx


Feature on some ‘mummy princesses’:

http://discovermagazine.com/2017/march/the-eternal-princesses

More on that royal scribe burial from Luxor:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/3-000-old-tomb-royal-135800426.html

Excavating ‘Anatolian food culture’:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-in-turkeys-southwest-reveal-anatolian-food-culture-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=109377&NewsCatID=375


Plenty of excitement/coverage over the discovery of another (looted) Dead
Sea Scrolls cave:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-dead-sea-scroll-cave-found-near-qumran-but-scrolls-are-gone/

http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/after-60-years-archaeologists-find-new-dead-sea-cave-but-no-scrolls/

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Hebrew-University-archaeologists-find-12th-Dead-Sea-Scrolls-cave-480966

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/hebrew-university-archaeologists-find-12th-dead-sea-scrolls-cave/2017/02/08/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/224652 http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.770515 http://www.livescience.com/57798-dead-sea-scrolls-turn-70.html http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/archaeologists-unearth-new-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-n718876

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/70-years-after-dead-sea-scrolls-were-found-new-discoveries-await/

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0209/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-12th-cave-that-once-housed-scrolls-discovered

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0209/New-Dead-Sea-cave-discovery-jumpstarts-hunt-for-ancient-treasures

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2017/02/09/archeologists-say-they-have-found-a-cave-that-once-held-dead-sea-scrolls-a-first-in-60-years/

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/02/09/514294579/archaeologists-excavate-12th-cave-they-say-once-housed-dead-sea-scrolls

http://www.washingtonpost.com/video/national/archaeologists-race-to-find-ancient-scrolls/2017/02/09/961f00dc-eec8-11e6-a100-fdaaf400369a_video.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/new-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-discovered-archaelogists-artefacts-2000-year-old-antiquities-west-bank-a7571696.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/09/archaeologists-discover-new-cave-believed-have-held-dead-sea/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38916687 https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/02/08/in-surprise-discovery-israeli-archaeologists-uncover-12th-dead-sea-scrolls-cave/

http://www.smh.com.au/world/found-additional-cave-that-once-held-dead-sea-scrolls-20170209-gu9p6a.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-might-have-found-another-dead-sea-scroll-cave-180962092/

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-archaeologists-12th-dead-sea-scrolls.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/thuo-af1020817.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2017/12th-dead-sea-scrolls-cave-excavated-near-qumran

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5259-170208-qumran-cave-12

… and the discovery might help detect forgeries, apparently:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/02/dead-sea-scrolls-cave-discovered-judea-israel-west-bank-forgeries/


… while some scholars think everything needs a bit more study:

http://news.nd.edu/news/new-dead-sea-scroll-cave-reports-may-be-premature-scholar-says/


They’re digging at Kiryat Ye’arim, ‘where the Ark of the Covenant once
stood’:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-to-break-ground-at-biblical-site-where-ark-of-the-covenant-stood/

https://www.rt.com/news/376745-ark-covenant-israel-excavation/

They’ve opened the Miqve Path in Jerusalem National Park:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4249

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/New-mikve-path-at-2000-year-old-site-to-be-unveiled-in-Jerusalem-National-Park-480628

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/iaa-to-inaugurate-new-mikvah-path-at-the-walls-around-jerusalem-national-park/2017/02/05/


Latest tomb threatened by the Ilisu Dam project:

https://www.dailysabah.com/travel/2017/02/06/archaeologists-engineers-race-to-save-ancient-tomb-from-being-submerged


More on excavations resuming at Masada:

http://www.israel21c.org/new-masada-expedition-gets-underway/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
A 4th century mosaic floor from Leicester:

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/largest-roman-mosaic-floor-found-in-leicester-for-30-years/story-30110162-detail/story.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5253-170206-leicester-mosaic-floor

A very large 4th century mosaic from Cyprus:

http://www.ntd.tv/2017/02/08/ancient-mural-unearthed-cyprus/

The House of the Chaste Lovers at Pompeii is opening to the public:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/02/07/pompeiis-house-of-chaste-lovers-to-open_77ccacd3-f776-416b-adbf-dc0a503ea388.html

http://artdaily.com/news/93694/Pompeii-unveils-Roman-kiss-for-Valentine-s-day https://www.yahoo.com/news/pompeii-unveils-roman-kiss-valentines-171935196.html

Bulldozing going on at a Bristol Roman Villa site is causing concern:

http://www.bristolpost.co.uk/watch-fury-as-developers-bulldoze-bristol-roman-villa-site-without-showing-locals-what-they-found/story-30121784-detail/story.html


Roman finds from pre-construction digs in Warwickshire have gone on
display:

http://www.rugbyadvertiser.co.uk/news/roman-find-on-show-at-rugby-s-archaeology-gallery-1-7813797


The ‘Great Pompeii Project’ is a success:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/02/09/great-pompeii-project-sets-example_c25b4449-c334-43a2-9e6f-a122d40e37d7.html


Feature on Tartessos:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/features/the-etruscans-phoenicians-and-tartessos.htm


Suggestion that Ionian Greeks were the first to use ‘GPS method’ to
navigate:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/22876-cartography-professor-ancient-greeks-in-ionia-first-used-gps-method-to-navigate.html


Feature on the Roman economy:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-roman-economy-was-a-powerhouse-1792097743


A Classics professor mystery solved:

http://lsa.umich.edu/classics/news-events/all-news/search-news/the-case-of-the-missing-professor.html


Honours for Classicists at UNC:


http://classics.unc.edu/2017/02/08/three-classics-instructors-named-recipients-of-2017-unc-teaching-awards/


More on that ILS inscription found in New York:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/remains-abandoned-gilded-age-mansion-ancient-roman-artifact-reveals-its-secrets-180962071/


More on Dan Gallagher going to Cornell:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/02/renowned-vatican-latinist-joins-classics-faculty



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
13 000 years bp ‘hunting tools’ from Denmark:

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-tools-people-denmark.html http://www.startribune.com/hunting-tools-tell-how-first-people-in-denmark-lived/413388013/


12 000 years bp pebbles from Italy are thought to have some sort of ritual funerary purpose:

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-broken-pebbles-clues-paleolithic-funeral.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/uom-bpo020817.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2017/pebbles-used-as-spatulas-to-decorate-the-dead-12000-years-ago

Pondering an Iron Age burial on Lewis:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38919314

I think we mentioned this high status Viking warrior burial from Scotland:

http://www.livescience.com/57793-viking-warrior-grave-has-ax-sword.html http://www.livescience.com/57859-mysterious-viking-ship-burial-discovered.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5261-170208-scotland-ardnamurchan-viking

An Anglo Saxon church and some interesting animal burials from Shropshire:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-38922138 http://www.shropshirelive.com/2017/02/10/archaeologists-discover-possible-anglo-saxon-church-and-mysterious-ancient-animal-burials/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5268-170210-england-animal-burial

A medieval wall beneath a Coventry car park:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-38867619

Finds from various periods at Marston Moretaine:

http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/news/iron-age-discovery-for-budding-archaeologists-in-marston-moretaine-1-7792261


Tony Robinson has joined the Stonehenge Tunnel protest (plus others):

http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/uk_national_news/15072650.TV_s_Tony_Robinson_joins_Stonehenge_road_tunnel_protest/

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/feb/08/stonehenge-tunnel-heritage-groups-warn-over-ancient-barrow

Concerns for a Bronze Age bog road in Westmeath:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/protect-our-oldest-bog-road-plead-historians-35443560.html


More on that rich Celtic burial in Germany:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/iron-age-secrets-exhumed-riches-filled-crypt



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http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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A ‘cluster’ of 2200 years bp boat coffins from Sichuan:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-02/08/c_136041761.htm http://www.archaeology.org/news/5260-170208-china-boat-coffins

An Angkor-era smelting furnace from Cambodia:

https://www.cambodiadaily.com/morenews/dig-unearths-ancient-furnace-in-hunt-for-cambodias-past-124687/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5257-170207-cambodia-iron-smelting

A general (and consort) burial dating to 564 CE has plenty of interest:

http://www.livescience.com/57766-tomb-of-chinese-general-princess-found.html

http://www.livescience.com/57764-photos-figurine-tomb.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/08/tomb-ancient-general-princess-discovered-china/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-tomb-of-chinese-general-and-princess-filled-with-figurines/

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0208/Ancient-love-uncovered-Scientists-reveal-contents-of-Chinese-general-s-tomb

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5255-170206-china-general-tomb

Mapping Japan’s Kiyotosakuoketsu tomb:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201702100042.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5269-170210-japan-kiyotosakuoketsu-tomb

Four 19th century shipwrecks off the coast of Queensland:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/australia/88854895/Four-19th-century-shipwrecks-found-off-Australian-coast

http://www.news.com.au/national/queensland/four-19thcentury-shipwrecks-found-off-queensland/news-story/408e9250ba260177aa5908898d396493


Assorted coverage relating to a conference on Mohenjo Daro this past week:

https://tribune.com.pk/story/1321710/let-us-re-excavate-moen-jo-daro-urges-archaeologist/

http://nation.com.pk/karachi/12-Feb-2017/moenjo-daro-conference-concludes https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/185775-Experts-for-more-research-on-Mohenjo-Daro

Rambling feature on Tahitian navigation:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/nelson-mail/news/89280126/On-the-trail-of-ancient-voyaging-link-with-Tahiti


I don’t quite follow this diet study’s conclusions relating to gender inequality:

http://www.nature.com/articles/s41562-017-0059

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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A 10 000 years bp site from Pennington Gap:

http://www.wcyb.com/news/virginia/lee-county/archaeologists-find-historic-native-american-sites-in-pennington-gap/319755355


16th century human remains from St Augustine:

http://www.actionnewsjax.com/news/local/human-remains-dating-back-to-the-1570s-believed-to-have-been-found-in-st-augustine/491839550


Few remains of prehistoric buildings or villages in Ohio:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170212/john-switzer--from-stump-little-evidence-remains-of-prehistoric-ohio-houses-villages


On climate change and Cahokia:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/10/513963490/1-000-years-ago-corn-made-this-society-big-then-a-changing-climate-destroyed-the


A mid 19th century beer vault turns up beneath a Williamsburg construction site:

http://www.constructionequipmentguide.com/hidden-beer-vault-found-underneath-williamsburg-construction-site/32545


Concerns for organic artifacts in Yellowstone:

http://www.wyomingnews.com/news/organic-artifacts-in-yellowstone-being-lost-to-ice-melt/article_57550878-eb72-11e6-930b-1f3cf374583a.html


A ‘new’ photo of Harriet Tubman:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/02/11/new-photo-shows-beautiful-resilient-harriet-tubman/97804370/

http://www.neatorama.com/2017/02/08/New-Photograph-of-Harriet-Tubman-Found/

Frederick Douglass on controlling slaves with food:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/02/10/514385071/frederick-douglass-on-how-slave-owners-used-food-as-a-weapon-of-control


No cosmic impact demise for Clovis Culture:

http://westerndigs.org/clovis-culture-ice-age-fauna-werent-wiped-out-by-cosmic-impact-study-says/


Yale has renamed Calhoun College:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-38947134 http://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/yale-protests-john-calhoun-grace-murray-hopper.html?smid=fb-nytopinion&smtyp=cur

http://news.yale.edu/2017/02/11/yale-change-calhoun-college-s-name-honor-grace-murray-hopper-0


More on geometry in Chaco Canyon:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/01/evidence-that-an-ancient-pueblo-site-was-built-out-of-golden-rectangles/


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
An untouched 1700 years bp tomb from Colima:

http://www.livescience.com/57844-mexican-tomb-uncovered.html http://www.inah.gob.mx/es/boletines/5901-pequena-ventana-a-panteon-prehispanico-tumba-de-tiro-hallada-en-la-ciudad-de-colima

Plenty of interest in earthworks (this is the ‘Stonehenge’ stuff hinted at
in the past few weeks) in the Amazon:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/uoe-hoa020617.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170207092752.htm http://www.livescience.com/57775-humans-altered-amazon-rainforests-geoglyphs.html

http://www.livescience.com/57770-mysterious-amazon-geoglyphs-photos.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/02/06/hundreds-ancient-earthworks-resembling-stonehenge-found-amazon/

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0207/Do-these-ancient-geoglyphs-hold-a-secret-to-preserving-the-Amazon

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2017/amazonian-rainforest-was-managed-by-ancient-geoglyph-builders

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5258-170207-amazon-landscape-geoglyphs

Marking the liberation of Chile:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/opinion/sunday/how-we-overcame-tyranny-before.html



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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Metal detectorists are being encouraged to learn some basic archaeology so
they don’t damage sites:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15072021.Metal_detectorists_urged_to__brush_up_on_skills__to_avoid_damaging_treasures/

http://martini.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/15072021.Metal_detectorists_urged_to_leave_the_spadework_to_the_professionals_/


Latest ancient beer recreation is a 5000 years bp Chinese recipe:

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/02/06/recreate-5000-year-old-chinese-beer-recipe/

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-students-recreate-year-old-chinese-beer.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5267-170210-china-fermented-porridge

Some of the usual Valentine’s Day coverage:

http://www.burtonmail.co.uk/valentine-s-day-2017-how-did-the-romans-celebrate-st-valentine-s-day/story-30096762-detail/story.html


Pondering the art of the Russian Revolution:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-38911009

On ‘American Gothic’:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170208-how-american-gothic-became-an-icon


What orangutans reveal about language evolution:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38907681

Losing a vintage dress at the cleaners:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-38935251

On the history of mechanical refrigeration:

http://www.livescience.com/57797-refrigerator-history.html

… and lighting:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-38650976

Saving ‘The Battle of Atlanta’:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/08/us/a-painstaking-mission-to-save-atlantas-colossal-civil-war-painting.html

http://www.npr.org/2017/02/09/514160314/atlanta-rolls-up-moves-an-old-oil-painting-all-374-feet-and-12-tons-of-it


A 14th century university uprising:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/10/day-1355-university-fracas-ends-93-dead-birth-600-year-long/


On some famous quotes:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-38563240


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Tunnel (Crossrail finds):

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-skeletons-london-exposed-rail-line.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/feb/08/exhibition-offers-extensive-insight-into-londons-history-thrown-up-by-crossrail

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-38919314 https://www.yahoo.com/news/skeletons-londons-past-exposed-rail-line-dig-180321302.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-exhibition-britain-archaeology-crossr-idUSKBN15P222
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-exhibit-reveals-8000-years-londons-history-180962105/
https://www.ft.com/content/ff1b6964-ee09-11e6-ba01-119a44939bb6

Repatriated Persian artifacts:

https://phys.org/news/2017-02-iran-ancient-persian-artifacts.html http://www.artfixdaily.com/news_feed/2017/02/09/5981-iranian-museum-exhibits-over-500-artifacts-repatriated-from-the-w

Beyond Caravaggio:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=93710

Botticelli:

http://pilotonline.com/entertainment/arts/exhibits/largest-collection-of-renaissance-master-sandro-botticelli-coming-to-the/article_0b36120d-f092-5f30-8841-dd10710e5596.html


Lautrec:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=93561

Egypt’s Sunken Mysteries:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/%E2%80%98egypt-s-sunken-mysteries-exhibition-opens-zurich


Greco Roman Egypt:

http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2017/02/rare-and-vivid-2000-year-old-mummy-mask-on-display-at-art-museum-feb-2-july-15/


Washington’s Slaves:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/06/arts/george-washington-mount-vernon-slavery.html


Fake Photos:

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/02/05/513252650/long-before-there-was-fake-news-there-were-fake-photos

http://www.clarkart.edu/Exhibition/Photography-and-Discovery

Robots:

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2017/feb/07/science-museum-london-trove-of-robotic-delights-holds-a-mirror-to-human-society
https://phys.org/news/2017-02-years-evolution-robots.html https://www.cnet.com/au/news/robots-london-science-museum-exhibition/ http://chicago.suntimes.com/news/london-exhibition-charts-500-years-of-evolution-of-robots/
http://www.dw.com/en/robots-a-500-year-quest-to-make-machines-human/a-37455366 http://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/2017/0208/Robots-have-been-around-for-500-years-New-London-exhibit-traces-their-evolution


Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/216041/article/ekathimerini/whats-on/antikythera-mechanism--athens--february-10---may-28


The Met has ‘museum workouts’ now:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/02/08/513765866/raise-your-he-art-rate-with-a-workout-at-the-met


The Met also has made a huge number of its images available:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/07/arts/design/met-museum-makes-375000-images-available-for-free.html


A history of the Louvre:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/europe/from-castle-to-museum-a-brief-history-of-the-louvre/articleshow/56990827.cms



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THE TECHY SIDE
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Latest facial reconstruction is St Magnus:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-38892669

The Lithodomos VR project looks interesting:

http://www.theage.com.au/small-business/smallbiz-tech/archaeology-turns-to-virtual-reality-with-lithodomos-startup-20170203-gu4rux.html

http://www.smh.com.au/small-business/smallbiz-tech/archaeology-turns-to-virtual-reality-with-lithodomos-startup-20170203-gu4rux.html


Feature on the use of assorted tech at a dig in Spain:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170210084750.htm


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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================

DNA suggests a long period of stability in the East Asian hunter-fisher population:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/dna-points-millennia-stability-east-asian-hunter-fisher-population?tgt=nr


More on DNA suggesting Baltic hunter-gatherers learned to farm
independently:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2017/baltic-hunter-gatherers-began-farming-without-influence-of-migration

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5254-170206-baltic-first-farmers


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Using colonial records to study Australian climate:

http://theconversation.com/delving-through-settlers-diaries-can-reveal-australias-colonial-era-climate-72652


Shifting monsoons affected human development in China over the millennia:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-02/teia-sma020617.php

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Angkor Wat (more on the effects of tourism):

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38776022

Hiraizumi:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170202-a-pure-land-inspired-by-treachery

Greece:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/travel/destinations/2017/02/06/greece-ancient-ruins/97571402/



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CRIME BEAT
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Caught ‘red handed’ at a Byzantine site:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4919032,00.html

A truck full of Bronze Age items from Hungary:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/hungary-bronze-antiquities-found-truck-date-900-bc-45350613
http://www.pressreader.com/usa/the-washington-post/20170209/281788513804225 http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/news-wire/hungary-bronze-antiquities-found-in-truck-date-to-bc/article_47f374df-4871-50a4-a303-39423e218393.html

A bust in Apollonia:

http://www.timesunion.com/news/crime/article/Albania-stops-smugglers-of-230-ancient-Apollonia-10926694.php

http://www.therepublic.com/2017/02/12/eu-albania-apollonia-artifacts/

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/02/4402.html

Paris has a ‘spiderman thief’:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/arts/design/for-paris-spiderman-stealing-5-museum-masterpieces-was-no-sweat.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign



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 ================================================================
Latest Nazi-loot repatriation:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=93642


India is reflecting on some repatriation efforts:

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-over-28-antiquities-retrieved-from-abroad-till-date-govt-2313964

http://indianexpress.com/article/india/over-28-antiquities-retrieved-from-abroad-till-date-govt-4510645/


A sarcophagus fragment was returned to Greece:

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2017/02/09/manhattan-district-attorney-returns-ancient-sarcophagus-to-greek-consulate/

http://courthousenews.com/looted-200-a-d-sarcophagus-returned-to-greece/ http://newyork.cbslocal.com/2017/02/10/greek-sarcophagus-returned/ http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/illegally-trafficked-sarcophagus-fragment-returned-greece-45424934

A prehistoric stone axe was returned to Egypt:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5265-170209-egypt-stone-ax

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NUMISMATICA
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A Roman hoard from New Forest is going on display (not sure what this
hoard
is called):

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15086070.1_600_Roman_coins_buried_in_New_Forest_field_set_to_finally_go_on_show/


Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n06.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n05.html


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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2555-audio-news-from-archaeologica-29-january-2017-4-february-2017

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OBITUARIES
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Peter Charles Woodman:


http://www.irishtimes.com/life-and-style/people/obituary-prof-peter-woodman-1.2962379

Ivor Noel Hume:

http://www.vagazette.com/news/vanews-ivor-noel-hume-famed-archaeologist-dies-at-89-20170206-story.html

http://wydaily.com/2017/02/08/obits-ivor-noel-hume-89/

Deborah Campbell:

http://triblive.com/local/westmoreland/11914975-74/campbell-bollman-scott

Roy Swartz:

http://www.toledoblade.com/Deaths/2017/02/10/Roy-S-Swartz-1925-2017-Teacher-helped-preserve-Civil-War-landmark.html


Thomas Jacobsen:

http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/thomas-jacobsen

Judith Romney Wegner:

https://networks.h-net.org/node/28655/discussions/165414/obituary-dr-judith-romney-wegner

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CONFERENCES
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Canada Before Confederation: Early Exploration and Mapping (Nov. 2017)

https://independent.academia.edu/ConferenceCanadabeforeConfederationEarlyMappingandExploration14981763

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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

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

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

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http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm ================================================================
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