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EARLY HOMINIDS
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What analysis of Neanderthal teeth reveals about diet and ‘medicine’:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-dental-plaque-dna-neandertals-aspirin.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/snrc-nae030617.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170308131218.htm http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39205530 https://www.yahoo.com/news/neanderthal-used-aspirin-tooth-pain-study-181706637.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/03/08/neanderthal-
microbes-reveal-surprises-about-what-they-ate-and-who-they-kissed/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/mar/08/neanderthal-dental-tartar-reveals-plan
t-based-diet-and-drugs http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2017/03/08/neanderthals-medicines-diet/
http://www.dw.com/en/neanderthals-dined-on-woolly-rhinos-and-used-aspirin/a-37867503
http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/health/neanderthal-self-medicate-spain-belgium/ index.html https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/03/neanderthal-dental-plaque-shows-w
hat-a-paleo-diet-really-looks-like/518949/ http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/03/08/519048010/some-neanderthals-were-veg
etarian-and-they-likely-kissed-our-human-ancestors?sc=17&f=1007 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5363-170308-neanderthal-dental-plaque http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/03/08/ciencia/1488991377_990681.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/delving-neanderthal-dental-plaque-under
stand-how-they-lived-and-ate-180962449/ http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2017/the-diet-of-neanderthals-at-el
-sidron

On some Denisovan skulls from China:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0305/Ancient-skulls-unearthed-in-China-could-be
long-to-little-known-extinct-human-species http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/03/ancient-skulls-may-belong-elusive-humans-cal
led-denisovans

More on early hominid pointillism:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/science/france-cave-art-pointilism-seurat.html


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AFRICA
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Racing to save Nubian history:

http://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/archaeologists-race-to-save-nubian-history-from-
nile-waters-q6r2rnckw

Feature on Great Zimbabwe:

http://www.livescience.com/58200-great-zimbabwe.html


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Plenty of excitement over the discovery of a pair of colossal 19th Dynasty statues in a
Cairo slum:

https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/03/10/most-important-recent-discovery-ramsees-ii-colo
ssus-found-in-egypt/ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-archaeology-idUSKBN16G2A2?feedType=RSS&fe
edName=lifestyleMolt https://www.yahoo.com/news/pharaoh-statues-found-muddy-cairo-123716459.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/09/look-on-my-works-ye-mighty-ozymandia
s-statue-found-in-mud http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/09/archaeologists-hail-big-discovery-egypt-stat
ue-depicting-ramses/ http://www.dw.com/en/archeologists-in-egypt-discover-massive-statue-of-pharaoh-ramse
s-ii-in-cairo-slum/a-37893751
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.776563 https://phys.org/news/2017-03-archeologists-egypt-massive-statue-cairo.html http://www.news.com.au/world/breaking-news/statue-probably-depicting-ramses-ii-found/
news-story/68da7d27be24a10b592ff493398deb48 http://www.smh.com.au/world/colossus-probably-depicting-ramses-ii-found-in-egypt-2017
0309-guv2ca.html http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/africa/90271115/Colossus-thought-to-be-of-Pharaoh-Ramses-
II-found-in-Egypt-slum-one-of-the-most-important-discoveries-ever https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/world/middleeast/egypt-pharaoh-statue-ramses.htm
l https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2017/03/11/archaeologists-went-di
gging-in-a-slum-they-found-a-massive-pharaoh-statue/ http://www.latimes.com/world/la-fg-cairo-statue-20170310-story.html http://www.voanews.com/a/egypt-cairo-likely-ramses-statue-unearthed/3757525.html
http://nhpr.org/post/massive-ancient-statue-discovered-submerged-mud-cairo http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/03/09/519488251/massive-ancient-statue-di
scovered-submerged-in-mud-in-cairo http://www.csmonitor.com/World/Middle-East/2017/0310/Buried-treasure-huge-statue-of-
Egyptian-king-unearthed-in-Cairo-neighborhood http://www.nbcnews.com/news/world/egyptians-find-massive-3-000-year-old-statue-cairo-
slum-n731681 http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/archeologists-egypt-discover-massive-stat
ue-cairo-slum-46039074 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/egypt-pharaoh-ramses-statue-discovered-ca
iro/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/huge-statue-egyptian-pharaoh-discovered-c
airo-180962497/

… although there was criticism of the excavation methods:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/03/10/ministry-antiquities-defends-using-excavator
-extract-ramses-ii-statue/
http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/03/11/618056/ http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/officials-deny-any-damage-newly-discovered-kin
g-ramses-ii-statue-during-excavation http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/03/11/618056/ http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/world/2017/03/09/ancient-egyptian-royal-s
tatues-unearthed-in-cairo/98949710/

… and subsequent digging will be more ‘advanced’:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/ramses-ii-excavation-be-completed-using-more-
advanced-techniques-ministry-sources : http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2017/03/12/Egypt-to-complete-Ra
mses-II-excavation-using-safe-techniques-.html

A number of Sekhmet statues were found in Luxor:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/trove-of-statues-of-war-goddess-sekhmet-found-in-luxor-20
170309-guukaw.html

… alongside a toppled statue of Amenhotep III:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/260538/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Statue-of-A
menhotep-III,--of-goddess-Sekhmet-unear.aspx http://www.archaeology.org/news/5360-170308-amenhotep-temple-statues

Tourism is down in Egypt:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/03/09/617775/

… or is it?:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/03/08/50-increase-foreign-inflow-archaeological-sit
es/

Feature on the Persian Empire:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/bbc-history-magazine/persian-empire-myth-vs-reality

Remember the Jordan Lead Codices? The Antiquities Ministry has finally declared them
to be fake:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/antiquities-agency-chief-says-jordan-codices-fak
e

I think we mentioned this 4000 years bp ‘engraved dolmen’ find from northern Israel:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4255 http://www.livescience.com/58166-rock-art-discovered-in-israel-dark-ages-tomb.html
http://www.livescience.com/58165-photos-ancient-dolmen-rock-art-israel.html http://www.livescience.com/58168-rare-rock-art-in-dark-ages-tomb-video.html http://www.timesofisrael.com/massive-4000-year-old-boulder-tombs-force-rethink-of-bron
ze-dark-age/
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.775318 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/226096 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/4000-years-old-mysterious-tomb-with-rock-art-e
xposed-in-upper-galilee/2017/03/05/ http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rock-art-discovered-in-dark-ages-tomb-in-israel/ https://www.yahoo.com/news/israeli-experts-mystery-bronze-age-dolmen-174531240.ht
ml http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/4000-year-old-structure-with-mysterious-engravings-di
scovered-in-Galilee-483256 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5354-170306-israel-dolmen-art http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=94294

Remains of a Roman road near Beit Natif and/or Beit Shamash:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4258 http://www.livescience.com/58167-roman-road-unearthed-in-israel.html http://www.livescience.com/58162-photos-roman-road-coins-israel.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-route-connected-roman-emperors-163200196.html
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archeologists-discover-2000-year-old-Emperors-Road-
near-Beit-Shemesh-483480
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.775816 http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2017/3/8/israeli-archaeologists-uncover-2000-year-old-roa
d-from-roman-period https://www.israel21c.org/archaeologists-uncover-roman-era-road-near-bet-shemesh/
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/03/07/israeli-archaeologists-discover-ancient-r
oad-near-jerusalem http://www.archaeology.org/news/5357-170307-israel-roman-road http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=94351

A Crusader shipwreck off Acre:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.776208

Feature on the restoration of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Restoring-Christianitys-Holy-of-Holies-481171

Review of a new book on the Babatha Archive:

http://www.gloucestershirelive.co.uk/professor-from-university-of-gloucestershire-discov
ers-ancient-family-tale-from-dead-sea-documents/story-30177129-detail/story.html

More on that 1800 years bp Hebrew inscription from a Peqiin synagoge:

http://artdaily.com/news/94022/1-800-year-old-Hebrew-inscriptions-found-on-a-column-ca
pital-in-Peqiin-Village

More on items found in Mosul tunnels after ISIL was driven out; details sometimes
paired with the sacking of the Museum:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-antiquities-idUSKBN16H1V5 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/08/mosul-iraqi-troops-find-assyrian-treasur
es-in-network-of-isis-tunnels http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4934194,00.html http://pictures.reuters.com/archive/MIDEAST-CRISIS-IRAQ-ANTIQUITIES-RC1F01B071E0.
html
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/isis/1.776536 https://www.yahoo.com/news/jihadist-tunnels-save-assyrian-winged-bulls-mosul-005838
652.html http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/assyrian-artifacts-discovered-abandoned-tunnel
s
http://www.arabnews.com/node/1064576/middle-east http://www.chinapost.com.tw/international/middle-east/2017/03/10/493213/ Rubble-and.htm http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/assyrian-treasures-found-in-is-tun
nels/news-story/ae530944b023068cbf3091a13f728770 http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-mosul-museum-ruins-iraq-forces-advance/ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-antiquities-idUSKBN16H1V5?feedTy
pe=RSS&feedName=worldNews http://www.news24.com/World/News/archaeologists-find-treasures-in-mosel-tunnels-201
70307

More on the ‘empty Museum’:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-mosul-museum-ruins-iraq-forces-advance/ http://www.wsj.com/video/mosul-antiquity-museum-they-destroyed-everything/ 7390BBCE-B6A6-40D4-B966-7184E2E0BBE5.html http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/rubble-and-ash-in-mosul-museum-retaken.aspx?pageI
D=238&nid=110617&NewsCatID=375 https://www.yahoo.com/news/priceless-remains-lie-ruins-mosul-museum-114143267.htm
l

More on the damage in Palmyra:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/world/syria-palmyra-ancient-roman-monument-damaged-isis-war-
1.4010440
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/226162 http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/isis/syria/1.775283 http://www.newsweek.com/isis-damages-ancient-roman-monument-palymyra-563943 http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/islamic-state-destroys-ancient-roman-monu
ment-in-palmyra/news-story/81937188390443ecee57bd4736c2ecf4

More on remains of a palace beneath Jonah’s tomb:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/mosul-palace-ancient-2600-years-
discovered-isis-shrine-destroyed-archaelogists-iraq-a7620076.html


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Another planter-is-actually-a-Roman-sarcophagus story … from Blenheim Palace:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/08/blenheim-palace-discovers-marble-flowerpot
-actually-300k-roman/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/world/europe/roman-sarcophagus-english-garden.h
tml http://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2017/03/10/Ancient-Roman-coffin-used-as-flowerpot-for-ce
nturies-restored/5171489157295/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5369-170310-blenheim-palace-sarcophagus

Finds are causing issues in Thessaloniki again:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/23798-new-archaeological-find-in-thessa
loniki-subway-rekindles-old-tensions.html

This Roman coin hoard from Merano doesn’t seem to be getting much attention:

http://video.repubblica.it/socialnews/un-tesoro-a-merano-oltre-3mila-monete-romane-sott
o-terra/269730/270182

Concerns for a Roman wall in Slovenia:

http://www.total-croatia-news.com/politics/17241-slovenia-constructing-border-fence-on-a
ncient-roman-wall

Doing math Roman style:

http://www.cityweekly.net/utah/do-the-math/Content?oid=3904957

Feature on Britannia on Roman coinage:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=28493

On the origins of the Scythians:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/lmsu-wdt030717.php https://phys.org/news/2017-03-scythians.html

Feature on the Battle of the Aegates Islands:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/10/day-241-bc-battle-aegates-brings-roman-vict
ory-first-punic-war/

Feature on Norba:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170303-the-italian-city-that-stood-up-to-rome

Feature on Ambiorix:

http://www.brusselstimes.com/brussels/7683/ambiorix-and-belgium-a-mythical-bond

On the demise of the Library of Alexandria:

http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/books/who-killed-the-library-of-alexandria-an-excerpt-fr
om-james-crawfords-fallen-glory-the-lives-and-deaths-of-the-worlds-greatest-lost-building
s

Studying the effects of the ‘falling’ Roman empire:

http://theconcourse.deadspin.com/as-the-roman-empire-fell-its-people-stopped-talking-to-
1793011377

What Jay Mickelson is up to:

http://www.capjournal.com/news/latin-banquet-turns-the-clock-back-to-ancient-rome/
article_b65886c4-0229-11e7-8fbf-ebbeccda0eda.html

What Michele Salzman is up to:

https://ucrtoday.ucr.edu/45162

Brock was honouring Richard Parker:

http://www.brockpress.com/2017/03/brock-university-archaeological-society-celebrates-t
he-career-of-dr-richard-parker/

Another piece explaining Trump via Thucydides:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/national/public-service/thucydides-history-of-the-pelop
onnesian-war-a-2400yearold-text-that-explains-trump-20170303-guq08m.html

Review of Heaney’s Aeneid VI translation:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/mar/07/aeneid-vi-seamus-heaney-review-virgil-
epic-underworld

More on that orichalchum found in a shipwreck off Gela:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/orichalcum-the-lost-metal-of-atl
antis-may-have-been-found-on-a-shipwreck-off-sicily/news-story/e52dfb6ee238fcfd3e583
e75e26d6bd8


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Interesting study of 4000 years bp pollen found in that ‘Ava’ burial from Scotland a while
ago:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-39191527 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5358-170307-scotland-achavanich-pollen

Studying remains of some 7000 years bp clothing from France:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5362-170308-france-shell-embroidery

Studying cattle in Finland:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/03/170310091946.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2017/finnish-cattle-and-sheep-end
ured-harsh-conditions-in-the-middle-ages

Feature on women’s guilds in the Middle Ages:

http://theconversation.com/the-fragility-of-womens-rights-how-female-guilds-wielded-pow
er-long-ago-73265

Caynton Caves are getting some press attention:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-39193347

… another cave site in Nottingham has items dating to the 13th and 14th century:

https://nottstv.com/archaeologists-previously-undiscovered-cave-site-find-hundreds-artef
acts/ https://nottstv.com/previously-undiscovered-city-centre-caves-completely-changing-unde
rstanding-of-nottingham/

I think we mentioned this interesting Crossrail burial:

http://www.livescience.com/58146-2-male-skeletons-found-holding-hands.html

On the Great Storm of 1703:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170309-in-1703-britain-was-struck-by-possibly-its-wors
t-ever-storm

On Viking fighting techniques:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/03/vikings-fight-warfare-battle-weapons/

The Neolithic flint mine at Grime’s Graves is opening to the public:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-norfolk-39235113 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/mar/06/prehistoric-norfolk-mine-grimes-grav
es-to-open-second-pit-to-public

More voices suggesting the Stonehenge tunnel plan will ruin the site:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/stonehenge-tunnel-plan-would-ruin-site-say-int
ernational-advisers-35509099.html http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/15139779.International_experts_join_cal
l_to_scrap_Stonehenge_tunnel_bid/ http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/15139779.International_experts_join_call_to_
scrap_Stonehenge_tunnel_bid/

Arguing over the Galloway Viking hoard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-39217039 http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15135992.Row_over_Galloway_s_Viking_hoard_de epens/

More on that Bronze Age weapon hoard from Scotland:

http://artdaily.com/news/94015/Archaeologists-discover-rare-Bronze-Age-weapon-hoard


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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
2000 years bp Bronze items from Sichuan:

http://www.deccanherald.com/content/599686/2000-year-old-bronze-ware.html

On the search for Genghis Khan’s tomb:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39038615

Study suggests the Silk Road may have followed routes created by Nomadic herders:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/wuis-nsr030217.php https://phys.org/news/2017-03-silk-road-evolved-grass-routes-movement.html https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-nomadic-herders-beat-path-silk-road http://www.archaeology.org/news/5364-170309-silk-road-paths http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2017/silk-road-was-structured-by-e
cological-strategies-of-nomadic-herders

… and they’re still looking for the ‘starting point’:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-03/08/c_136113141.htm http://www.archaeology.org/news/5361-170308-china-port-city

Remains of a 10th century tree-lined street from Japan:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201703090001.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5367-170310-japan-aoyayokogi-trees

Finds from various periods from Khargone:

http://www.dailypioneer.com/state-editions/350-rare-ancient-antiquities-found-in-khargon
e-district.html

More on the finds from Chanhon jo Daro:

http://www.thedailystar.net/world/french-team-uncovers-mysteries-indus-civilisations-ind
ustrial-hub-1373833

I think we mentioned these medieval burials from Siberia:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5327-170223-russia-medieval-burials

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http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

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NORTH AMERICA
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I think we mentioned this study of the Ute ‘trail/road system’:

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/routes-trails-crisscrossed-area-long-before-euro
pe

Reinterring remains found at UGa:

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-03-07/uga-going-ahead-reinterment-plans-remai
ns-uncovered-construction-project http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-03-11/sting-death-uga-s-handling-baldwin-hall-r
emains-faces-criticism

A pile of ‘historic’ burials from a Philadelphia construction site:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/A-race-to-excavate-huge-number-of-historic-graves-fou
nd-on-building-site.html http://www.phillytrib.com/construction-site-unearths-centuries-old-coffins/article_0daf0fc8
-bd1d-5d02-b28d-828a16386960.html http://www.nj.com/camden/index.ssf/2017/03/rutgers_team_helping_with_philly_burial_s
ite_excav.html http://www.post-gazette.com/news/state/2017/03/10/Construction-unearths-centuries-old-
coffins-in-Philadelphia/stories/201703100166 http://www.philly.com/philly/news/Race-to-dig-at-historic-cemetery-a-mere-hint-of-what-ail
s-Philadelphias-oversight-of-buried-treasures.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5368-170310-philadelphia-historic-cemetery

‘Historic’ burials beneath a St Augustine wine shop (we may have mentioned these):

http://www.ajc.com/lifestyles/historic-skeletons-found-under-florida-shop-during-repairs/
NAsFlCNUBptyArrF91atEM/ http://www.wftv.com/traffic/news/historic-skeletons-found-under-florida-shop-during-repair
s/501209015 http://www.springfieldnewssun.com/lifestyles/historic-skeletons-found-under-florida-shop
-during-repairs/NAsFlCNUBptyArrF91atEM/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-early-colonists-unearthed-st-augus
tine-180962385/

There might be plenty of burials beneath an Austin chapel:

http://www.mystatesman.com/news/local-govt--politics/dozens-graves-may-under-oakwo
od-cemetery-chapel-officials-say/mdQN6fOOHPvSyNd4lXzDTO/

Catching up with the Old Vero Man site:

http://www.tcpalm.com/picture-gallery/news/local/indian-river-county/2017/03/09/
old-vero-man-dig-site-telling-a-13000-year-old-story/98970470/

Trying to connect platinum and Clovis:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/uosc-udo030917.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2017/discovery-of-platinum-may-h
elp-solve-clovis-people-disappearance

Still talking about Jefferson’s mistress:

http://wwlp.com/2017/02/23/archaeologists-dig-up-more-on-thomas-jeffersons-alleged-mi
stress/

Marking Andrew Jackson’s 250th:

http://www.tennessean.com/story/opinion/2017/03/11/andrew-jackson-250-presidents-leg
acy-isnt-pretty-but-neither-history/98816804/

On Dolly Madison:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/arts/design/dolley-madison-saving-washington-new
-york-historical-society.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

More on concerns for sites in Utah:

http://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2017/03/02/archaeology-utah-culture-history-pre
servation/98535848/


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Asking developers on Antigua to be more aware of archaeology:

http://antiguaobserver.com/leading-archaeologist-pleas-for-developers-to-assess-their-si
tes/

More on that Maya jade pendant:

http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/feature/a_pendant_fit_for_a_king

More on the ‘Lost City of the Monkey God’:

http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/People-hadn-t-set-foot-in-this-a
ncient-lost-10981239.php https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/this-adventurer-found-the-trip-w
orth-it--despite-the-flesh-eating-disease/2017/03/03/fcb4cfec-f94b-11e6-be05-1a3817ac21
a5_story.html


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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Pondering the February Revolution in a ‘what if’ sort of way:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/opinion/the-february-revolution-and-kerenskys-mis
sed-opportunity.html

On early Mormon polygamous marriages:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/early-polygamous-mormon-marriages-through
-the-eyes-of-the-wives/2017/03/03/15a08ec4-f537-11e6-8d72-263470bf0401_story.html

Latest incunabula digitization:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-russian-library-digitizes-oldest.html

Checking out a claim about a bust of Nicholas II:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39192971

On Jane Austen’s eyesight issues:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-39208356 https://www.nytimes.com/
2017/03/09/books/jane-austen-arsenic-glasses-death.html

On Zaida ben Yusuf’s photography:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/09/us/gallery/tbt-zaida-ben-yusuf/index.html

Feature on Luther:

http://www.dw.com/en/luther-is-famous-but-we-know-so-little-about-him/a-37907857

They’ve ‘decoded’ Mona Lisa’s smile:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-mona-lisa-decoded-science-happy.html

Identifying Jack the Ripper’s last victim:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-jack-ripper-victim.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-03/uol-uol031017.php

Theorizing about hunter-gatherer movements:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-dartmouth-modern-hunter-gathers-relocate-maximize.html

In case you need to brush up on your leprechaun lore:

http://www.livescience.com/37626-leprechauns.html

Concerns for the Titanic:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20170310-the-wreck-of-the-titanic-is-being-eaten-and-may-
soon-vanish

On Hollywood portrayals of archaeologists:

http://www.timesunion.com/technology/businessinsider/article/11-things-Hollywood-gets-
wrong-about-being-an-FBI-9178234.php http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/11-things-Hollywood-gets-wron
g-about-being-an-FBI-9178234.php


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Hercules Segers:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/arts/design/a-dutch-masters-surreal-visions.html?rr
ef=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign&_r=0

Colosseum History:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/03/06/exhibition-reveals-hidden-history-colosseu
m-fall-rome-fortresses/ http://www.dw.com/en/new-exhibition-reveals-secret-history-of-romes-colosseum/ a-37835265

Terracotta Warriors:

https://news.artnet.com/exhibitions/terracotta-warriors-met-883898

A Third Gender:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/10/arts/design/when-japan-had-a-third-gender.html

Michelangelo and Picasso:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-39232650

Seurat:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170306-why-the-circus-fascinated-modern-artists

Tang Dynasty Shipwreck:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/world/2017-03/07/content_28469581.htm

Henry Hudson:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/nyregion/new-york-map-henry-hudson-river.html?rr
ef=collection%2Fbyline%2Fsam-roberts

There was a strike at the Louvre:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/09/arts/design/vermeer-louvre.html?rref=collection%2
Fsectioncollection%2Farts

I think we mentioned the Grand Egyptian Museum is opening next year:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/grand-egyptian-museum-open-mid-2018-antiquiti
es-minister-0


================================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
================================================================
Still talking about pictish facial reconstructions:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-murder-victim-pictish-man-face-digitally-recreated
/

================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
What DNA tells us about the origins of Australia’s aborigines:

https://phys.org/news/2017-03-aboriginal-hair-years-country.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/08/science/aboriginal-australians-dna-origins-australi
a.html http://theconversation.com/dna-reveals-aboriginal-people-had-a-long-and-settled-connect
ion-to-country-73958
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-australia-39202348 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5365-170309-australia-first-australians http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0309/Hair-apparent-Study-links-modern-Australia
n-Aboriginals-with-the-continent-s-earliest-settlers

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Sudan:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20170228-africas-most-misunderstood-country

Sabine hills:

http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2017-3-8/sabine-hills

Petra:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/middle-east/90225830/Petra-Jordan-Why-this-w
orld-wonder-continues-to-woo-tourists

Ramla:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170307-an-underground-boat-to-islamic-glory


================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A bust at Beit Shana:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/226206 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Antiquities-theft-from-Second-Temple-period-prevented-
in-central-Israel-483386 http://www.pressreader.com/israel/jerusalem-post/20170307/281711204441372

A stolen book from Syria surfaces in Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-book-stolen-in-syria-seized-in-turkey.aspx?pa
geID=238&nid=110579&NewsCatID=509

… also in Turkey:

http://www.dailysabah.com/investigations/2017/03/10/historical-artefacts-dating-back-10
00-years-seized-during-vehicle-control-in-istanbul

Some Islamic shrine elements stolen in Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/260626/Heritage/Islamic/Door-and-decorat
ive-elements-of-Sultan-AlKamel-AlA.aspx

Another burial mound bust:

http://navajotimes.com/wires-wp/index.php?id=1716684000&kid=Kmv1uov5e9yd9HYx

Latest Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/03/culture-crime-news-27-february-05-ma
rch-2017.html


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/

================================================================
REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
The Lewis Chessmen are becoming a repatriation issue of sorts:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/islands/western-isles/1189811/time-for-ches
smen-to-be-return-to-their-home-on-isle-of-lewis/

================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A Kushan coin find:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/jaipur/kushan-dynasty-coins-found-in-tonk-village-
baffle-experts/articleshow/57484211.cms http://www.ptinews.com/news/8483483_800-ancient-copper-coins-discovered-in-Budgam.
html

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