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explorator 20.02 May 7, 2017 ===============================================================
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo,
Kathleen, Jennifer Cosham, Kris Curry, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,
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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Feature on what we know and don’t know about assorted early hominids:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2129775-ancient-humans-what-we-know-and-still-dont-know-about-them/


A project to catalog handprints in various cave paintings in Europe:

https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/to-unlock-the-secrets-of-prehistoric-hand-paintings-experts-catalog-them-in-3d

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5535-170505-europe-prehistoric-hand-paintings

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/project-making-3d-scans-ancient-handprints-180963103/

We mentioned this 1.7 millions years bp El Kherba (Algeria) site last week
in a different section; should probably be mentioned here as well:

https://phys.org/news/2017-04-climate-early-human-algerian-site.html

Comparing modern and neanderthal bone breaks (sort of):

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/water-tubing-accidents-table-run-ins-cause-neandertal-injuries


More on Neanderthal DNA being extracted from cave sediment:

http://www.theage.com.au/technology/sci-tech/scientists-show-how-to-extract-ancient-neanderthal-dna-from-cave-sediment-20170501-gvwf10.html

http://www.smh.com.au/technology/sci-tech/scientists-show-how-to-extract-ancient-neanderthal-dna-from-cave-sediment-20170501-gvwf10.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-technique-pulls-ancient-human-dna-out-cave-soil-180963084/



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AFRICA
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Pondering the underwater archaeology potential of Kenya:

https://www.newsghana.com.gh/kenyas-underwater-archeology-potential-immense/


Petroglyphs in Botswana and Lesotho have been dated to 5700 years bp:

http://www.nature.com/news/dreams-of-the-stone-age-dated-for-first-time-in-southern-africa-1.21924

More on the blade making techniques seen at Sibudu Cave:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/middle-stone-age-man-learned-205436449.html


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A 4000 years bp ‘funerary garden’ outside a tomb in Luxor:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/267024/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Unique-funerary-garden-unearthed-in-Thebes.aspx

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/snrc-aff050417.php https://phys.org/news/2017-05-egypt-year-funerary-garden-luxor.html http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/egypt-4000-year-funerary-garden-discovered-luxor-47203242

http://www.timesofisrael.com/4000-year-old-model-garden-found-outside-egypt-tomb/

http://www.ibtimes.com/ancient-egypt-tombs-showed-funeral-gardens-archaeologists-finally-find-one-4000-years-2535105

http://www.thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/03/05/2017/4,000-year-old-model-garden-found-outside-Egypt-tomb

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5529-170503-luxor-funerary-garden http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2017/discovery-of-4000-year-old-egyptian-funerary-garden

Some illegal diggers in Egypt were killed when their house collapsed:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/266921/Egypt/Politics-/-Two-men-killed-in-house-collapse-as-they-dig-ille.aspx


Restoration work on the Djoser pyramid is almost complete:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/4617/Antiquities-Ministry-finishes-90-of-restoration-works-at-Djoser-pyramid


What Nora Shawky is up to:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egyptian-archaeologist-aims-lead-her-first-excavation-year-sharqiya-0


Feature on Howard Carter:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/3090/In-The-Footsteps-Of-Egyptologist-Howard-Carter


… and the Tut Conference is going on in Cairo:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/268042/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Tutankhamun-conference-to-be-held-on-Saturday-in-C.aspx

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/4699/International-conference-uncovering-Tutankhamun%E2%80%99s-secrets-starts-Saturday

Funding approved for the Antiquities Ministry:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/cabinet-allocates-le172-billion-support-antiquities-ministry-projects


… and there are fines for assaulting tourists now:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/le10000-fine-imposed-assaulting-tourists-new-antiquities-law


… and a possible life sentence for antiquities trafficking:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/1/64/268102/Egypt/Politics-/Egypt-cabinet-approves-bill-raising-max-penalty-fo.aspx


More on those possible eunuch burials from Quesna:

https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/05/01/burial-patterns-provoke-ambiguous-sexual-characteristics-in-ancient-egypt/


Feature on churches and burials found at HIppos Sussita:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.787712

Evidence for pre modern settlements in Qatar:

http://www.gulf-times.com/story/546844/Archaeologists-uncover-Qatar-s-pre-modern-settleme

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/05/05/2017/Qatar-Museums-reveals-5-year-archaeological-record

What we’re learning about the kingdom of Edom:

http://en.ammonnews.net/article.aspx?articleno=35026 http://jordantimes.com/news/local/excavations-overturn-long-held-beliefs-about-ancient-kingdom-edom-%E2%80%94-jordanian-scholar


A missing Hittite funerary stele turned up buried in a garden:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/lost-stele-found-buried-in-a-garden-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=112720&NewsCatID=375


Feature on the British Museum’s training of Iraqi archaeologists:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/01/training-fieldwork-iraqi-archaeologists-of-the-future-qalatga-darband

http://www.iraqoilreport.com/daily-brief/field-iraqs-archaeologists-future-22535/

On antiquities theft in the West Bank:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.786039

Pondering the history of Israel:

http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865679224/Did-ancient-Israel-have-a-real-history.html


The Old Hormuz Port has been located:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/news/116710/Old-Hormuz-Port-rediscovered-after-700-years


Plans for an underwater dig at Ayla:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/underwater-search-planned-clues-early-islamic-city-ayla


A bust on a US-bound cargo ship:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/4678/Ninety-nine-artifacts-seized-before-smuggling-to-Europe


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
They’re finally restoring the Mausoleum of Augustus:

http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/ancient-roman-monument-turned-eyesore-gets-needed-makeover/

http://www.newser.com/article/75165c413b824bc598c2b885cf1845d1/ancient-roman-monument-turned-eyesore-gets-needed-makeover.html

http://gazette.com/ancient-roman-monument-turned-eyesore-gets-needed-makeover/article/feed/457528

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5526-170502-rome-augustus-mausoleum http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rome-finally-restoring-mausoleum-augustus-180963132/

Remains of a Mithraeum in Zerzevan Castle:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/underground-mithras-temple-discovered-in-diyarbakir-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=112646&NewsCatID=375

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/05/02/1700-year-old-temple-reveals-ancient-religion-in-east-anatolia

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/611449/Discovery-Archaeology-Roman-Empire-Turkey-Cult-Temple-Mithras-Zerzevan-Castle-Diyarbakir

http://www.rudaw.net/english/kurdistan/040520171 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5525-170502-zerzevan-castle-mithraeum

Concerns for columns on Beirut’s waterfront:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2017/May-04/404411-roman-columns-left-by-coast-face-uncertain-future.ashx


Making connections between Zeugma and Palmyra:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/traces-of-palmyra-seen-in-ancient-zeugma.aspx?pageID=238&nid=112674


Feature on a Roman dig in Leicester:

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/hundreds-flock-to-archaeological-dig-revealing-city-s-roman-history/story-30316378-detail/story.html

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/07/c_136262212.htm

A (rather sketchy) apple from Pompeii is coming to auction:

http://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/15264444.Petrified_apple_from_Pompeii_to_go_on_sale_at_Harewood_antiques_fair/


Features on Rome’s new ‘metro museum’:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/05/rome-unveils-museum-metro-station-packed-hundreds-ancient-artifacts/


Feature on Nilotic wall paintings in Pompeii:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/paintings-ancient-egypt-pompeii-garden-show-just-how-cosmopolitan-romans-were-1620235


Feature on Roman handwriting:

http://www.newyorker.com/tech/elements/how-to-decode-an-ancient-romans-handwriting


On the role of the Roman navy saving people from Pompeii (this was in the
news a month or so ago):

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/programs/nightlife/pompeii/8501048

Feature on London’s Roman wall:

http://www.kcwtoday.co.uk/2017/05/retracing-ancient-footsteps-around-londons-roman-wall/


What Kathleen Coleman is up to:

http://www.thesandb.com/article/scholar-of-roman-history-explores-ancient-biography.html


What Martha Nussbaum is up to:

https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2017/05/02/jefferson-lecture-martha-nussbaum-discusses-anger-and-politics-blame


What Mary Beard is up to:

http://news.yale.edu/2017/04/28/noted-classicist-and-scholar-english-pays-visit-yale


On barbarian ‘dress codes’:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/05/05/real-romans-dont-wear-pants-barbarian-dress-codes-from-rome-to-game-of-thrones/


On Caligula’s horse:

http://theconversation.com/mythbusting-ancient-rome-caligulas-horse-75837

Not sure if we mentioned this item on comedy in ancient Rome:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/when-actors-mixed-politics-and-comedy-ancient-rome-180963005/


Latest ‘Thucydides Trap’ news:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/05/03/526436207/from-ancient-greece-lessons-on-the-risk-of-a-modern-accidental-war


Apparently not many museums want to ‘borrow’ the Parthenon Marbles from
the
BM:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/limited-interest-in-borrowing-parthenon-marbles/


More on the Mycenean chamber tomb found on Salamis:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5524-170502-mycenean-chamber-tomb

More on restoration plans at Caesarea:

http://www.tnp.sg/lifestyle/travel/ancient-roman-temple-israel-gets-38-million-restoration



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A cache of two dozen 3000 years bp bronze axes from Norway:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-year-old-axes-farmer-field-mid-norway.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502084628.htm

A lost garden turns up at Culzean Castle:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15261909.Workers_find___39_lost__39__castle_garden/

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15265429.Archaeologists_discover_remains_of_lost_walled_garden_buried_under_stately_home/

Latest from the Hyde Abbey dig:

http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/15258470.More_discoveries_at_the_Hyde_Abbey_community_dig_in_Winchester/


Plans to dig up a tennis court to look for the body of St Edmund:

http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/plan-for-bury-st-edmunds-abbey-tennis-courts-dig-in-hunt-for-st-edmunds-body-1-4997426

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/st-edmund-s-lost-remains-could-be-under-old-tennis-courts-1-4998774
http://www.theweek.co.uk/bury-st-edmunds/84135/is-st-edmund-buried-in-bury-st-edmunds

Plans and funding to poke around Derby Cathedral:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-39761948

Some WWI training tunnels found in England:

http://www.livescience.com/58969-wwi-tunnels-discovered-in-england.html

More on Vikings growing grapes:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5521-170501-denmark-viking-grapes


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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Burials of nomads dating to 1800 years bp from central China:

http://www.ecns.cn/2017/05-04/255957.shtml http://www.archaeology.org/news/5533-170504-china-nomad-cemetery

A 1400 years bp tomb featuring a ‘blue monster’ mural (and others) from Shaanxi:

http://www.livescience.com/58903-ancient-tomb-with-blue-monster-mural-discovered.html

http://www.livescience.com/58901-photos-ancient-tomb-mural-creatures.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-tomb-with-blue-monster-mural-unearthed-in-china/

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/37756/20170502/blue-monster-naked-deity-and-more-scientists-unearth-ancient-tomb-with-mysterious-murals-in-china.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5534-170505-chinese-mural-tomb-unearthed

Recently-found walls might belong to Baiya city:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/06/c_136261580.htm http://www.asianage.com/world/south-asia/060517/archaeologists-discover-remains-of-ancient-city-ruins-in-china.html


A Qing dynasty tomb from Hunan:

http://www.india.com/news/agencies/ancient-family-tomb-found-in-china-2090766/


32 jars found beneath a Buddha in Thailand’s Wat Daeng Temple:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5522-170501-thailand-ayutthata-jars

Some ancient Samoan features:

http://sobserver.ws/en/08_05_2017/local/19707/Unearthing-prehistoric-Samoan-history.htm


Suggestion that the Huns had their own alphabet:

http://english.donga.com/Home/3/all/26/914798/1

More on those model Chinese looms:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/model-looms-are-missing-link-chinas-textile-history-180962990/

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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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Archaeologists are back looking at the Terror:

http://www.livescience.com/58904-archaeologists-return-to-franklin-expedition-shipwreck.html

http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674parks_canada_team_in_nunavut_to_examine_hms_terror_under_ice/

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/archaeologists-return-to-franklin-expedition-shipwreck/


They’re reanalyzed Shuka Kaa and found definite links to First Nations
peoples:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dna-ancient-skeleton-linked-todays-indigenous-peoples-180962831/


A 19th century Durham boat in Oneida Lake:

http://www.syracuse.com/news/index.ssf/2017/05/oswego_county_divers_discover_early_19th_century_boat_in_oneida_lake.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5528-170503-new-york-canal-boat http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shipwreck-identified-rare-canal-boat-180963129/

A potentially significant site found during an emergency dig in Davenport (Iowa):

http://globegazette.com/news/iowa/excavation-uncovers-major-iowa-archaeological-site/article_76945ace-935e-513f-b5e3-d0946d7c39b2.html


Looking for remains of Civil War earthworks in Franklin (Tennessee):

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5530-170503-tennessee-franklin-earthworks

There might be a lot of bodies buried on the UMMC campus:

http://www.northjersey.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/05/07/7-000-bodies-could-buried-mississippi-campus/312352001/


Interesting early 19th century plumbing from Philadelphia:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/05/06/discovered-philadelphias-high-tech-totally-natural-plumbing-of-1812/


Researching the origin of some Hopewell meteoric iron beads:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/scientists-discover-origins-ancient-hopewell-cultures-meteorite-jewellery-1619103


Feature on the petroglyphs of Utah’s Parowan Gap:

http://www.sltrib.com/blogs/fishing/5239298-155/stop-and-explore-the-petroglyph-wonders


Feature on Jamestown:

http://www.radiotimes.com/news/2017-05-05/jamestown-follow-in-the-footsteps-of-the-first-british-settlers-in-america


Feature on ads seeking runaway slaves:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/04/11/hunting-down-runaway-slaves-the-cruel-ads-of-andrew-jackson-and-the-master-class/
More commentary on purported 130 000 years bp human presence in
California:

http://scienceblogs.com/gregladen/2017/05/02/about-that-130000-human-occupation-in-california/

http://www.sandiegouniontribune.com/opinion/letters-to-the-editor/sd-mastodon-bones-conclusions-20170502-story.html

http://blogs.plos.org/onscienceblogs/2017/05/05/news-about-ancient-humanity-humans-in-california-130000-years-ago-homo-naledi-find-is-much-younger-than-expected/

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/26/ciencia/1493225013_884467.html


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Pre-Inca gold from Cajamarca:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-pre-inca-pieces-found-in-cajamarca-111610

Petroglyph(s?) from Costa Rica:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5532-170504-costa-rica-rock-art

An anchor being linked to Christopher Columbus from near the Turks and
Caicos:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/christopher-columbus-anchor-space-map-discovery-channel-a7716331.html


Feature on amaranth cultivation:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/05/01/526033083/why-mexican-chefs-farmers-and-activists-are-reviving-the-ancient-grain-amaranth



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http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Not sure where to put this piece on experimental archaeology involving
reindeer herders:

http://www.rcinet.ca/en/2017/05/01/canadian-researchers-count-on-siberian-reindeer-herders-to-solve-archaeological-mystery/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5527-170502-arctic-reindeer-harness

… or this one on a model for migration and cultural development:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-early-culture-migration-population-growth.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/su-hma050217.php

Feature on Christos Tsirogiannis’ work:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/museum-goers-beware-that-ancient-artifact-may-be-hot.aspx


How the ‘forbidden fruit’ became an apple:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/04/30/526069512/paradise-lost-how-the-apple-became-the-forbidden-fruit


On medieval rules and domestic chicken evolution:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170502204556.htm

Feature on the history of beer and the like:

https://vinepair.com/articles/the-5000-year-history-of-human-alcohol-consumption/?goal=0_b653fb8c99-4004f5bb4f-46523097&mc_cid=4004f5bb4f&mc_eid=379904ec00

… and a related story on a still-producing century-old winery:

https://vinepair.com/wine-blog/schloss-vollrads-oldest-winery/?goal=0_b653fb8c99-4004f5bb4f-46523097&mc_cid=4004f5bb4f&mc_eid=379904ec00


Feature on Roma culture:

http://www.livescience.com/44512-gypsy-culture.html

What we can learn from the Piltdown Man hoax:

http://www.livescience.com/58985-piltdown-man-hoax-teaches-scientists-today.html

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/Behind-closed-doors-What-the-Piltdown-Man-hoax-11122533.php


A row of sorts over Goya’s tapestry workshop:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39702735

… and a feature on his illness:

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/04/28/ciencia/1493369467_634675.html

A database of ‘at risk’ archaeological sites has been launched:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-database-archaeological-sites.html http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/14046/20170502/archaeological-sites-risk-public-database.htm

On the development of public libraries in the US:

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/how-libraries-became-public

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/library-babel-fish/how-libraries-became-public-ii


On May Day origins:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39775647

On the origins of the mint julep:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/05/05/foodanddrink/cocktail-history-mint-julep-kentucky-derby/index.html


Review of Cline, *Three Stones Make a Wall*:

http://www.startribune.com/review-three-stones-make-a-wall-by-eric-h-cline/420667233/


Review of Norwich, *Four Princes*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/books/review/four-princes-henry-viii-francis-i-charles-v-suleiman-john-julius-norwich.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks



Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Martin Luther:

http://www.dw.com/en/rebel-or-ruffian-who-was-martin-luther/g-38680189

Art of the Picnic:

http://www.dw.com/en/the-art-of-the-picnic/g-38568511

Cheese:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170503-why-cheese-is-arts-greatest-muse

Viking hoards:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2017/05/viking-hoards-exhibit-in-great-britain-may-through-nov.html


Gargoyles:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/nyregion/anonymous-arts-museum-rural-shrine-to-city-decorations.html


Work on Egypt’s Grand Museum has resumed (didn’t know it had stopped!):

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/1/4655/Egypt-to-resume-Grand-Museum-construction-by-Japanese-loan




The Met wants to charge admission to folks from out of state:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/arts/design/the-metropolitcan-museum-of-art-admission-fees-tickets-de-blasio.html


A guide to the Louvre:

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/arts/design/culture-make-the-most-of-the-louvre.html


Feature on Sofia’s Archaeology Museum:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/05/01/sofias-archaeological-museum-the-fascination-is-justified/


A Museum of Migration is opening in London:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/museum-migration-opens-london-180963095/



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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Using DNA to track migration of Bantu speaking people:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-genetic-analysis-reveals-patterns-migration.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170504161501.htm

There’s a dog genome project:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dog-genome-project-reveals-secrets-canine-family-tree-180963053/



Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Angel roofs:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/gallery/20170427-the-extraordinary-angel-roofs-of-england-


St Croix:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/travel/st-croix-virgin-islands-alexander-hamilton.html


China’s ‘water towns’:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/explore-chinas-ancient-water-towns-180962834/


Beijing:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/01/travel/beijing-china-history-sacred-city-temples-culture.html


Cuzco:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/02/travel/cuzco-peru-budget-travel.html

Lima:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/27/travel/lima-peru-budget-travel-food-art-surfing.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel


Genoa:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/25/travel/genoa-italy-charm-alternative-rome-florence-venice.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel



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CRIME BEAT
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Feature on Jonathan Bourne’s looting activities:

http://www.mensjournal.com/adventure/articles/how-a-california-anesthesiologist-became-one-of-americas-largest-antiquities-looters-w475572


Roman jewellery stolen from a shop in York:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/local/northyorkshire/yorkharrogate/15267583.Theft_of_gold_and_silver_Roman_jewellery___images_released_of_two_men/



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 ================================================================
Turkey has repatriated a lot of artifacts over the past decade:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/05/02/turkey-retrieved-over-4000-smuggled-artifacts-archaeologist-says


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NUMISMATICA
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A Roman coin from Dumfriesshire:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/dumfriesshire-museum-displays-rare-roman-10340246

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n18.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n19.html


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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
Los Elementos:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/arts/music/review-is-los-elementos-opera-thats-beside-the-point.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts


Cyrano:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/arts/music/review-metropolitan-opera-cyrano-de-bergerac-roberto-alagna-jennifer-rowley.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fmusic


Twelfth Night:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/28/theater/review-forced-merriment-in-a-twelfth-night-for-the-masses.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftheater


Marking Monteverdi’s 450th:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/05/arts/music/singing-happy-450th-birthday-to-monteverdi.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts




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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2613-audio-news-from-archaeologica-23-april-2017-29-april-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Burton Watson:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/03/books/burton-watson-dead-translator-of-japanese-and-chinese-literature.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks


Albert Henrichs:

http://www.thecrimson.com/article/2017/5/1/albert-henrichs-dies/

Richard Darrah:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/may/04/richard-darrah-obituary


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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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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:

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Tying the spread of homo sapiens to the development of grassland:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/asu-gbf051117.php https://phys.org/news/2017-05-grassy-earliest-homo.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170515111616.htm

Studying the diet of early hominins in east Africa:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5555-170516-ethiopia-climate-change

Feature on the Shanidar 3 skeleton:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/05/17/at-night-at-the-museum-a-neanderthal-skeleton-comes-out-of-the-vault/?utm_term=.c137e1ccbcbf&wpisrc=nl_science&wpmm=1



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AFRICA
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Latest from the Tombos (Sudan) site:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-archaeologist-excavation-tombos-sudan-nile.html


Meanwhile Sudan and Egypt are scrapping over some sort of Angelina Jolie
movie possibly in the making (I don’t quite get this):

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-39972853

Tunisia is seeking Heritage Status for a Jewish pilgrimage site:

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Tunisia-to-seek-UNESCO-World-Heritage-status-for-Jewish-pilgrimage-site-490761


Seeing the tourist potential of Islamic sites in Africa:

http://www.theafricareport.com/North-Africa/archaeologists-seek-to-promote-tourism-in-africas-old-islamic-sites.html



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A stone inscribed with the cartouche of Nectanebo II was recovered from an illegal dig:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/new-discovery-stone-block-dates-back-30th-dynasty-king-nectanebo-ii-sohag/

http://www.livescience.com/59181-egypt-stone-pharaoh-found-looting-hole.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5564-170518-egypt-abydos-cartouche

Tut’s funerary bed is on the move:

http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/tutankhamun%E2%80%99s-funerary-bed-finds-new-home-976130


Egypt is officially registering its Jewish sites/artifacts:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/05/egypt-jewish-cemeteries-registered-ministry-neglect-heritage.html


Pondering the ‘politeness’ of Ancient Egyptians:

http://asorblog.org/2017/05/16/ancient-egyptians-polite-exploring-politeness-late-egyptian/


More on the mummies from Minya:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2017/05/14/cachette-cemetery-non-royal-mummies-newly-discovered-el-minya/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/may/14/egypt-archaeologists-find-17-new-mummies-in-necropolis

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/05/14/528368929/photos-17-mummies-unearthed-in-egypt
http://www.nbcboston.com/news/national-international/Archaeologists-Discover-17-Mummies-in-Egyptian-Desert-422175543.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/17-mummies-discovered-central-egypt-140637095.html http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/38017/20170515/rare-discovery-17-mummies-unearthed-in-ancient-burial-site-in-egypt.htm
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5551-170515-egypt-mummy-cachette

… and the 3800 years bp ‘princess burial’ from Dashur:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/burial-chamber-royal-princess-possibly-150300171.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/egyptian-princess-may-have-been-buried-newly-discovered-pyramid-180963288/

… and the ‘mongoose on a leash’:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/tomb-drawing-shows-mongoose-leash-142300393.html

… and the funerary garden:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/first-evidence-ancient-egyptian-funerary-garden-found-luxor-180963252/


More on Egypt’s increased tourism hopes:

http://www.smh.com.au/world/discovery-of-ancient-burial-chamber-ignites-hope-for-egypts-struggling-economy-20170514-gw4qzi

More on Egypt’s plans to crack down on antiquities smuggling etc.:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/05/egypt-approve-amendments-antiquities-law-violators-tomb.html

Feature on the dig at Khirbet Iskandar:

http://menafn.com/1095481939/Khirbat-Iskandar-reveals-crucial-time-span-in-history-of-Jordan-%E2%80%94-Italian-archaeologist


I think we mentioned plans to look for remains of the (underwater) city of Ayla:

http://www.livescience.com/59176-underwater-search-for-ancient-city.html

In case you’ve always wanted to live like a Hittite (?):

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/life-of-hittites-to-be-revived-with-village-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=113303&NewsCatID=375


A 9000 years bp stone used for starting fires from near Ramat Beit
Shemesh:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4283

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-unearths-ancient-fire-making-stone-in-time-for-Lag-Baomer-490694

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/archaeology-news/rare-prehistoric-slab-discovered-on-highway-38/2017/05/15/


Rethinking dietary restrictions in Leviticus:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.788626

Feature on Masada:

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.789492

More on those WWI finds from Israel:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4281

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4959675,00.html http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=42305 http://www.livescience.com/59049-wwi-artifacts-found-in-israel.html https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/05/11/remnants-of-wwi-battle-found-in-archaeological-dig-in-central-israel/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5543-170510-wwi-weapons-israel

Redating the Al Badiyah Mosque:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5559-170517-al-badiyah-mosque

ISIL’s latest damage appears to be a Dura Europos:

http://syriatimes.sy/index.php/don-t-miss/30653-isis-terrorists-destroy-antiquities-in-dura-europos-site-outside-der-ezzour


Prague’s National Museum is the latest to help Syria restore ancient
artifacts:

http://praguemonitor.com/2017/05/16/prague-national-museum-help-syria-restore-ancient-artefacts


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
A Mycenean burial from Kastrouli isn’t getting nearly enough attention:

http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/uc-san-diego-researchers-discover-human-burials-and-artifacts-ancient-mycenaean-tomb


A ‘hunchback’ burial from a Roman necropolis in Spain:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/hunchback-torrenueva-unearthed-roman-cemetery-southern-spain-1622094

http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/05/16/ciencia/1494971794_081718.html

A theft of a ‘door ornament’ at Pompeii:

https://www.thelocal.it/20170518/thieves-steal-6th-century-ornament-from-pompeii

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-ancient-ornamental-stud-stolen-pompeii.html http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/ancient-ornamental-stud-stolen-pompeii-site-closed-47486952

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2017/05/18/sixth-century-bc-relic-stolen-at-pompeii-2_06e113a8-2f36-4f88-8750-729abf717e3d.html

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/general_news/2017/05/18/pompeii-theft-injures-italy-osanna_e482652e-e1de-4d7a-a88c-5f8463dbf796.html


On plans to search for York’s amphitheatre:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15287091.The_hunt_for_York___s_Roman_amphitheatre/


Plans to restore the stadium at Perge:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/perge-stadium-returns-to-its-heyday-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=113206&NewsCatID=375


… and some hype for the mosaics at Perge:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/perge-mosaics-as-magnificent-as-the-ones-in-zeugma-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=112943&NewsCatID=375


Latest warning about the Campi Flegrei:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/campi-flegrei-supervolvano-eruption-vesuvius-naples-pozzuoli-christopher-kilburn-a7737886.html


They’re cleaning the Great Bath at Bath:

http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/news/bath-news/great-bath-roman-baths-been-64960

Concerns about a rock opera about Nero being performed ‘on site’:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/18/anger-rome-rock-musical-based-life-emperor-nero/


An AIA grant for Göksel Sazci:

https://www.archaeological.org/news/grants/24788

Honours for Brian Sowers:

http://bcexcelsior.com/bc-classics-professor-wins-feliks-gross-award/

Plenty of press coverage as a Google Doodle marked the anniversary of the founding of the Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/05/17/Google-marks-the-discovery-of-the-Antikythera-Mechanism-with-new-Doodle/7311495016082/

https://www.cnet.com/news/google-doodle-antikythera-mechanisms-discovery-analog-computer-bronze/#ftag=CAD590a51e

http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/science-technology/805587/Antikythera-mechanism-Google-Doodle-discovery-anniversary-ancient-Greek-computer

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/travel-tech/25345-google-doodle-elects-ancient-greek-artefact-%E2%80%98antikythera-mechanism%E2%80%99.html

… and there were some good features on the device:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/video/2017/may/17/the-antikythera-mechanism-the-worlds-first-computer-video

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.789893 http://www.livescience.com/59144-antikythera-mechanism-discovered-115-years-ago.html

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2017/05/17/actualidad/1494973005_194869.html



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A prehistoric henge of some sort from Newbold-on-Stour:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-coventry-warwickshire-39985586

A Shropshire church may preserve the UK’s oldest sacred site (not
Christian, obviously):

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/05/18/shropshire-church-found-uks-oldest-sacred-site/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-39981488

Possible Pictish sites from Burghead (maybe medieval):

http://www.northern-scot.co.uk/News/Dig-may-have-uncovered-Pictish-properties-in-Burghead-18052017.htm


A 13th century Teutonic castle from Poland:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5552-170515-peace-of-torun

14th century Tudor pottery from a Grimsby ‘school’ dig:

http://www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk/14th-century-tudor-piece-of-pottery-unearthed-as-29-students-join-archaeology-dig/story-30340446-detail/story.html


Searching for Spanish Armada wreck(s) off Co Sligo:

http://www.thejournal.ie/archaeology-spanish-armada-ireland-streedagh-3396385-May2017/


17th century artifacts from a Dublin site:

https://www.rte.ie/news/dublin/2017/0515/875408-dublin-dig/

Studying the human remains from the Mary Rose:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-re-constructing-crew-mary-rose.html

Rethinking why medieval graves may have been reopened:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-medieval-people-reopened-graves-honour.html

Feature on bog bodies:

http://www.canada.com/entertainment/all/bogs+became+miracle+those+seek+understand+prehistoric+past/13376510/story.html


Plans to excavate a ‘country house’ in Perthshire:

https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/perth-kinross/427036/archaeological-dig-will-uncover-ruins-of-country-house-of-many-names/


Plans to investigate a 17th century English earthwork associated with the
Civil War:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5563-170518-civil-war-prince-rupert

Plans to search for tunnel(s) beneath Derry’s walls:

https://www.derrynow.com/news/experts-set-explore-hundreds-year-old-tunnel-exists-derry-walls/163627


On Anglo Saxon queens’ marriages:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/medieval-mothers-had-marry-and-murder-get-their-way-180963282/


More on archaeological sites delaying gasline construction in Albania:

https://seenews.com/news/albania-halts-construction-on-tap-section-over-archaeological-discovery-568210


More on the find of one of the first books printed in England:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/caxton-book-first-printed-england-discovery-university-reading-a7724476.html



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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Evidence of coastal occupation of Australia some 50 000 years bp:

http://www.smh.com.au/wa-news/atlantis-of-the-south-earliest-evidence-of-aboriginal-life-found-in-wa-cave-20170519-gw8nhg.html

http://www.news.com.au/national/western-australia/wa-pilbara-coast-occupied-by-australian-aboriginal-50000-years-ago/news-story/e8f2d71534ad24c3d6841f7df0e6881e

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-evidence-earliest-occupation-coasts-australia.html

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/may/19/indigenous-australian-life-cave-wa-50000-years

https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-aboriginal-australians-left-behind-210842027.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5565-170519-australia-island-cave

This week, we’re learning about what Penang Woman ate:

http://www.freemalaysiatoday.com/category/nation/2017/05/19/archaeologist-stone-age-penang-woman-a-meat-eater/


Assorted Neolithic sites from Northern China:

http://zeenews.india.com/science/archaeologists-discover-neolithic-relic-sites-in-china-2006648.html


2000 years bp astronomical inscriptions from Inner Mongolia:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/19/c_136299149.htm http://www.ecns.cn/2017/05-20/258314.shtml

A 1400 years bp temple site from Linzhang:

http://zeenews.india.com/world/relic-site-in-china-is-1400-year-old-royal-temple-2005899.html?pfrom=article-next-story

What 1000 years bp tomb murals tell us about Chinese fashion:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/chinese-tomb-murals-paint-colorful-picture-1000-year-old-fashions-180963173/


Evidence of fifth-century human sacrifice from a Korean site:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-ancient-human-sacrifice-korea.html http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20170516000966 http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2017/05/17/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/ancient-human-sacrifice-found-south-korea/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5557-170516-korea-wolseong-palace

Much coverage over ‘what to do’ about Mohenjo Daro:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-pakistan-lost-city-mohenjo-daro.html http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/researchers-desperate-to-save-lost-city-of-mohenjo-daro-and-let-it-claim-its-rightful-place-in-history/news-story/3450d5d3afd39ff27c13005736da051c

http://thepeninsulaqatar.com/article/17/05/2017/Saving-Pakistan-s-lost-city-of-Mohenjo-Daro
http://artdaily.com/news/96063/Saving-Pakistan-s-lost-city-of-Mohenjo-Daro

… and they decided to rebury it:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/lost-city-pakistan-mohenjo-daro-5000-years-buried-protect-people-weather-archaelogists-a7742451.html


On 19th century Calcutta:

https://scroll.in/magazine/834289/what-19th-century-calcuttas-street-cries-revealed-about-its-food-and-politics


Not sure if we mentioned this Buddha idol find from Odisha:

http://odishasuntimes.com/2017/05/17/1400-year-old-buddha-idol-unearthed-in-odisha/



More on remains of a 2000 years bp settlement in Uzbekistan:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/05/16/2000-year-old-town-found-in-uzbekistan

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5556-170516-uzbekistan-silk-road

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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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Assorted items found at an ‘Old Halifax’ site:

http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1468410-remnants-of-old-halifax-unearthed-at-queens-marque


Testing a Revolutionary War era musket ball for human blood:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5567-170519-revolutionary-war-shot

17th century (maybe) remains from Alexandria:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/centuries-old-human-remains-found-at-alexandria-waterfront-excavation/2017/05/19/2b6b2d9e-3cc8-11e7-9e48-c4f199710b69_story.html


Digging a Civil War site in Newark:

http://www.nottinghampost.com/big-dig-in-newark-could-unearth-civil-war-past/story-30338971-detail/story.html


Interchange construction in Virginia has revealed some Colonial artifacts:

http://wtkr.com/2017/05/19/colonial-artifacts-discovered-while-surveying-site-of-i-64i-264-improvement-project/

http://www.kansas.com/news/business/article151746197.html

Latest on the burials found during construction at UGA:

http://onlineathens.com/local-news/2017-05-16/bones-unearthed-uga-site-hold-clues-about-lives-those-buried-there

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5560-170517-athens-georgia-graves

Studying high elevation sites in Wyoming:

http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/archaeologists-uncovering-ancient-peoples-widespread-use-of-mountains/article_b589afe6-194b-58d7-a1b1-7442b8c10220.html


Plans to ‘go deeper’ into Paisley Cave coprolites:

http://around.uoregon.edu/content/scientists-deploy-new-technique-one-oregons-paisley-caves


Feature on the Fort Ville-Marie site:

http://montrealgazette.com/feature/375-years-later-montreals-lost-fort-ville-marie-resurfaces


Feature on Chaco Canyon:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/chaco-canyons-ancient-civilization-continues-puzzle


Robert Kennicott’s bones are on display at the Smithsonian (interesting
story):

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/08/03/this-smithsonian-scientists-death-was-a-mystery-150-years-later-his-skeleton-helped-solve-it/

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/14/528185050/smithsonian-solves-150-year-old-mystery-death-of-collector-and-puts-bones-on-dis

https://www.si.edu/Exhibitions/Objects-of-Wonder-5999

More on lost cities in Kansas:

http://www.npr.org/2017/05/10/527817921/kansas-archaeologist-rediscovers-lost-native-american-city


More on lots of ‘asylum’ burials on the Mississippi State campus:

http://www.livescience.com/59045-7000-bodies-under-university-campus.html

More on the Hopewell culture’s meteoric beads:

http://www.nature.com/news/beads-made-from-meteorite-reveal-prehistoric-culture-s-reach-1.21990

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/beads-made-meteorite-show-ancient-trade-network-180963343/



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Trying to figure out who did what over time in the Andes (that’s a bad description):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/asu-rii051717.php https://phys.org/news/2017-05-archaeologists-cultural-shifts-ancient-society.html

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2017/resurrecting-identities-in-the-andes

Evidence of ‘shared governance’ among the Olmecs:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-evidence-ancient-mexico.html

Looking for evidence of the Moche diet:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/05/12/micro-fossils-show-moche-munched-on-marine-meals/#79b3f01e33d3


Studying cranial deformations in Costa Rica:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2436737&CategoryId=13003

More on the recent finds at Tiwanaku:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2436357&CategoryId=14919 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5553-170515-bolivia-tiwanaku-citadel


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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 ================================================================
On prosthetics in the ancient world:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-severed-limbs-wooden-feethow-ancients.html

On coffee, chocolate, tea and medicine:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-coffee-chocolate-and-tea-overturned-1500-year-old-medical-mindset-180963339/


Evidence of Leonardo’s mother:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/20/leonardo-da-vinci-orphan-mother-caterina


They’re still arguing over the authenticity of that purported Caravaggio
from an attic:

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-art-caravaggio-french-attic.html

Suggestion that early farmers engaged in ‘unconscious selection’:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5562-170518-domestication-seed-size

Remains of a Spitfire were found:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/northern-ireland/cockpit-door-the-top-find-as-spitfire-excavation-completed-35714022.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-39906984

… and there are plans to search for an airplane associated with one of the Tuskegee airmen:

http://www.aviationpros.com/news/12334672/uno-archaeologist-to-lead-excavation-of-possible-site-of-downed-tuskegee-airmans-plane


Ringling Brothers is down to its final shows:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39930337

Some St Nicholas relics are headed from Italy to Russia:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-39960384

Digitizing a massive atlas:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massive-royal-atlas-gets-digitized-180963220/


Big bucks for a Picasso:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39929706

Review of Cline, *Three Stones Make a Wall*:

http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/archaeology-review-three-stones-make-a-wall-20170511-gw2f5u.html



Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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All the World is Here:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/art/2017/05/17/fascinating-harvard-exhibit-explores-rise-anthropology/FfwQlPYEpN3QqwbBxlp8aL/story.html


Splendour and Beauty:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1047597.shtml

James Madison:

http://www.fredericksburg.com/news/local/columns/montpelier-exhibit-challenges-the-myth-of-a-founding-father/article_6b654d35-6939-5cf1-be62-685fe3a4b199.html


How 3d technology is changing how we interact with things at museums:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/05/19/five-new-3d-models-of-ancient-artifacts-that-are-changing-how-we-interact-with-museums/

Most of the headlines tout this as a ‘massive Viking camp’ find, but it
seems to be hyping a Virtual Reality display at a Yorkshire museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/may/17/virtual-reality-brings-ninth-century-viking-invaders-camp-to-life

https://phys.org/news/2017-05-viking-army-uncovered-archaeologists.html http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15294156.Viking_camp_brought_to_life_through_virtual_reality_at_museum/
https://www.sheffield.ac.uk/news/nr/viking-army-camp-discovery-research-lincolnshire-1.702544
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5566-170519-viking-army-camp

Some Egyptian mummies from the BM are going on display in Hong Kong:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/15/c_136286255.htm

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Cautions about use of GIS in archaeology:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/dgo-g-051817.php https://phys.org/news/2017-05-canadian-archaeologists-credibility-gis-methods.html


A technique for studying human teeth:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/05/170518140323.htm

More on dating ceramics:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/art/2017-05/11/content_29303276.htm

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Genome research suggests the ‘Beaker Culture’ invaded Britain:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/bronze-age-ldquo-beaker-culture-rdquo-invaded-britain-ancient-genome-study-finds/

http://www.nature.com/news/ancient-genome-study-finds-bronze-age-beaker-culture-invaded-britain-1.21996


… this seems to be the same story:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/may/20/dutch-invaders-stonehenge-ancient-britons


There’s a shared genetic history stretching from Sicily to Cyprus:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-05/mpif-sgh051717.php https://phys.org/news/2017-05-populations-eastern-mediterranean-coast-genetic.html

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2017/sicily-to-cyprus-show-shared-genetic-heritage

Article on the speed of genetic mutations in humans:

https://elife.elifesciences.org/content/6/e24284



Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Machu Picchu:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/08/travel/machu-picchu-cheap-easy-day-trip-cuzco.html


Ancient Ruins in North America:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/travel/tripideas/tour-these-ancient-ruins-in-america-you-never-knew-existed/ss-BBArSYZ?srcref=rss


Burgin ruins:

http://m.jpost.com/app/article/492121


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CRIME BEAT
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Plenty of coverage of a new Council of Europe convention targetting
smugglers:

http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/cyprus-convention-targets-illegal-antiquities-dealers-47457028

http://www.miamiherald.com/news/nation-world/article150964882.html http://famagusta-gazette.com/cyprus-leads-effort-to-stamp-out-trade-in-blood-antiquities-p40438-69.htm
http://omanobserver.om/nicosia-convention-targets-trade-blood-antiquities/

… semi-related feature on the extent of antiquities smuggling:

http://www.wellesley.edu/news/2017/node/117601

Not sure where, exactly to put this thing about Maori skulls:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/a-group-of-far-right-grave-robbers-could-be-digging-up-sacred-maori-sites


Libya put out notice of some looted antiquities:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/culture/libyan-authorities-issue-international-circular-looted-antiquities-libya

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-05/15/c_136286159.htm

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/05/culture-crime-news-8-14-may-2017.html


More on that bust in Hebron:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/eye-on-palestine/palestinian-authority/stolen-antique-coins-jewelry-seized-in-arab-village/2017/05/11/



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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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on dogs on ancient coins:

http://www.coinweek.com/ancient-coins/dogs-on-ancient-coins/

Award for saving a Roman hoard:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/15287910.Museum_wins_top_award_after___30_000_rare_coin_campaign/

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15296294.Museum_that_battled_to_keep_hoard_of_Roman_coins_wins_national_award/

Feature on Robert Freeman:

http://www.laweekly.com/news/rob-freeman-was-one-of-the-countrys-biggest-ancient-coin-dealers-then-he-broke-bad-8234006


Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n20.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n21.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/2618-audio-news-from-archaeologica-7-may-2017-13-may-2017

Latest Strata looks at the Bronze Age Polada Culture:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/video-guide/strata-portraits-of-humanity/2617-strata-may-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Garrett Fagan:

https://classicalstudies.org/scs-news/memoriam-garrett-g-fagan

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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

The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm ================================================================
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo,
Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, Richard Campbell, David Perlmutter,
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Studying the ‘Neanderthal-homo sapiens transition’ in a Czech cave:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/anu-ssl061317.php https://phys.org/news/2017-06-neanderthal-homo-sapiens-transition.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170614114243.htm http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/06/14/Czech-cave-dig-reveals-details-of-Neanderthal-human-transition/7951497460230/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/czech-cave-sheds-light-neanderthal-075530063.html

http://www.ibtimes.com/neanderthals-homo-sapiens-likely-met-over-40000-years-ago-modern-day-czech-republic-2552510
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5660-170615-czech-cave-neanderthals http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2017/new-light-on-neanderthal-homo-sapiens-transition

Paleoproteomics looks like something we’ll be hearing more about:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-scientists-reconstructing-relationship-modern-humans.html


Traces of million years bp fire (making?) in Northern Cape cave:

http://www.sabc.co.za/news/a/007def00417991fc919e932c6b8b577e/Traces-of-million-years-old-fires-discovered-in-N-Cape--20170611


On the evolution of fire making:

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2017/06/15/533030708/what-are-our-best-clues-to-the-evolution-of-fire-making


More on purported European origins for early hominids:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-bulgarian-savannah.html

More on 300 000 years bp homo sapiens:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2017/0608/Just-how-Earth-shattering-are-those-300-000-year-old-Homo-sapiens-fossils

https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/300000-year-old-early-homo-sapiens-sparks-debate-over-evolution/



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AFRICA
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Man-made holes in Sudan may hint at Mesolithic era shelters::

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/sudan-mysterious-holes-drilled-rocks-are-remains-ancient-shelters-banks-nile-river-1625878

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5620-170612-sudan-rock-holes

Digging a site associated with the Kingdom of Kush:

http://www.gulf-times.com/story/553025/Archaeological-dig-in-Sudan-unearths-many-exciting


Remains of a city dating back to the 10th century AD in Ethiopia:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/16/archaeologists-unearth-forgotten-city-ethiopia/

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40301959 http://www.newsweek.com/ethiopia-discovery-islam-africa-harlaa-626634 http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/7950/Egyptian-Indian-and-Chinese-antiquities-discovered-in-Ethiopia

1000 years bp glass beads from Nigeria:

https://www.livescience.com/59462-early-glassmaking-west-africa.html

On the history of fossil hunting in Africa:

https://theconversation.com/its-time-to-celebrate-africas-forgotten-fossil-hunters-77345



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Encroachments on Dashur’s necropolis have been removed:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/270971/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Encroachments-made-since--removed-from-Egypts-Dahs.aspx


Plans to use robots to explore looters’ tunnels in Egypt:

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/these-robots-will-explore-tunnels-dug-by-looters-in-egypt


More on those child burials associated with the construction of Amarna:

http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0617/ancient_egyptian_juvenile_graves.php3

More on that Hellenistic tomb from Alexandria:

http://observer.com/2017/06/egyptian-tomb-artifacts-discovered/

A monumental mikveh from Herod’s palace in Jordan:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.795720 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/hungarian-archaeologists-unearth-herods-fortress-ritual-bath-east-of-jordan-river/2017/06/15/

Multispectral imaging revealed some lines of 600 BCE Hebrew on chunk of
pottery found 50 years ago:

https://www.aftau.org/news-page-archaeology?&storyid4677=2335&ncs4677=3 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/afot-mir061417.php https://phys.org/news/2017-06-multispectral-imaging-reveals-ancient-hebrew.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170614160504.htm http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Advanced-imaging-reveals-rare-Hebrew-inscription-from-First-Temple-period-496878

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.796024 http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4975905,00.html http://www.timesofisrael.com/revolutionary-technology-reveals-dazzling-hidden-text-on-biblical-era-shard/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/history/multispectral-imaging-reveals-ancient-hebrew-inscription-undetected-for-over-50-years/2017/06/15/
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/science/send-more-wine-pottery-archaeology.html

http://www.newsweek.com/scientists-transcribe-invisible-2500-year-old-hebrew-inscription-request-send-625946

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5663-170615-ancient-hebrew-inscription

The stone tower at Gihon Spring is about a 1000 years younger than
previously thought:

http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/chemistry/jerusalem-tower-younger-thought https://phys.org/news/2017-06-jerusalem-tower-younger-thought.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/wios-jty061517.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170615120635.htm https://www.livescience.com/59519-ancient-stone-tower-younger-than-thought.html

A pair of antiquities thieves were caught in the act (by a hiker) at
Tzipori:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Israel-nabs-antiquities-pirates-at-archeological-site-496617

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/israeli-arabs/antiquities-robbers-caught-in-ancient-galilee-town/2017/06/12/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/hiker-helps-stop-antiquities-robbing-gang-in-northern-israel/

More on that Crusader-era ‘escape tunnel’:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.795692

Feature on how cuneiform was used:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-39870485

Lawrence Schiffman on the Magdala Stone:

http://lawrenceschiffman.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/06/magdala-stone.pdf

Saudi Arabia is hosting an antiquities forum:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1114231/saudi-arabia

Training folks to restore mosaics in Jordan:

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/preserving-jordans-heritage-italian-expert-has-trained-50-locals-mosaic-restoration-985


Review of McGovern, *Ancient Brews Rediscovered and Re-created*:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/liquid-time-capsules-1497571568

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
The Getty is returning a statue of Zeus to Italy:

http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-et-cm-getty-repatriation-20170613-story.html


Why London is where it is:

http://londonist.com/london/features/why-is-london-here

Sarah Bond wrote a piece on the need to see the colours in ancient
statuary:

https://hyperallergic.com/383776/why-we-need-to-start-seeing-the-classical-world-in-color/


… which was spun in various ways for political purposes:

http://www.nationalreview.com/article/448501/white-marble-sculpture-white-supremacy


… and resulted in her getting death threats:

http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/2017/06/16/ui-classics-professor-receives-threats-after-online-essay-statuary-race/403275001/


Meanwhile, she also penned a piece on the crocodile hunters at the Roman
games:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/06/12/the-ancient-crocodile-hunters-that-helped-to-supply-the-roman-games/


What John Younger is up to (possibly misquoted in this):

http://news.ku.edu/2017/06/09/art-religious-artifacts-support-idea-minoan-matriarchy-ancient-crete-researcher-says


An interview with Tim Whitmarsh:

https://conatusnews.com/professor-greek-culture-tim-whitmarsh/

Honours for Jack Davis:

http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/albaniaaward.html

What Caius Mergy is up to:

http://lymeline.com/2017/06/local-resident-caius-mergy-graduates-from-middlebury-college/


Mapping Greek ceramic production:

https://uanews.arizona.edu/story/project-maps-greek-ceramic-production-over-five-millennia

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-greek-ceramic-production-millennia.html

About that Nero rock opera in Rome:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2017/06/16/532243973/atop-ancient-ruins-a-rock-opera-about-emperor-nero-leaves-some-romans-unimpresse

https://knpr.org/npr/2017-06/atop-ancient-ruins-rock-opera-about-emperor-nero-leaves-some-romans-unimpressed

http://wfit.org/post/atop-ancient-ruins-rock-opera-about-emperor-nero-leaves-some-romans-unimpressed


On comparing Trump to Julius Caesar:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/trump-is-no-orange-julius-but-he-does-share-traits-with-other-tyrants-of-rome

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/opinion/the-trumpiest-roman-of-them-all.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

… related:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/opinion/a-julius-caesar-for-the-trump-era.html?emc=eta1&_r=0


On Thucydides:

http://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-thucydidess-history-of-the-peloponnesian-war-71550


On some ancient doctors:

https://blog.oup.com/2017/06/famous-doctors-ancient-world/

On recreating Roman wines:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/roman-vineyards-reopening-eastern-galicia-wine-makers-tasting-ribeira-sacra-guimarovaldeorras-adega-a7790436.html


On the Roman propagandistic legacy:

https://www.opendemocracy.net/digitaliberties/jemimah-steinfeld/what-romans-did-for-us-on-age-old-art-of-propaganda


On the inspiration(s) for Wonder Woman:

https://www.bustle.com/p/the-real-life-female-warriors-who-inspired-wonder-woman-62228

http://www.rejectedprincesses.com/blog/trilogy-of-films-on-ancient-women-warrior-tribes-announced


… and a popular joke in the movie:

https://www.buzzfeed.com/arianelange/to-clitorize

Marking the 90th anniversary of the Swedish Mission in Cyprus:

http://famagusta-gazette.com/sweden-marks-th-anniversary-of-swedish-archaeological-mission-in-cyprus-p40800-69.htm


More on the Catacombs of Domitilla:

https://www.livescience.com/59424-paintings-of-christ-in-roman-catacombs.html

https://www.livescience.com/59428-roman-catacomb-frescoes-photos.html http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/17050/20170613/lasers-art-art-restoration-ancient-artifacts-laser-ablation.htm



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Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
5000 years bp tools found during construction in downtown Moscow:

http://tass.com/society/951717

Iron Age and Bronze Age finds from Parliament Hill:

http://camdennewjournal.com/article/archaeological-dig-finds-prehistoric-humans-enjoyed-heath-barbecues


Remains of some Bronze Age roundhouses near Cornwall:

http://www.falmouthpacket.co.uk/news/15346250.Bronze_Age_discovery_on_Helston_housing_site_raises_questions_over_its_future/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5658-170614-england-cornwall-roundhouses

A Viking ‘chief’ burial from Iceland:

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/archaeologists-n-iceland-discover-viking-age-chief-buried-ship-his-sword-and-dog

http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/culture_and_living/2017/06/16/iceland_viking_grave_a_bigger_find_than_we_believed/

… and then another:

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/second-viking-age-ship-burial-found-archaeological-site-n-iceland


Both:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5662-170615-iceland-boat-burials

We also are hearing of four ‘pagan graves’:

http://icelandreview.com/news/2017/06/16/important-archaeological-find-north-iceland


A medieval sword from a peat bog:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,414626,lubelskie-medieval-sword-discovered-at-a-peat-bog.html


Evidence of ‘skinning cats’ in medieval Spain (various spins put on this,
of course):

https://www.livescience.com/59443-medieval-farmers-skinned-cats.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/medieval-farmers-skinned-cats-for-pagan-rituals/

Excavating a possible medieval royal hunting lodge in New Forest:

http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/15349070.Archaeologists_excavate_royal_hunting_lodge_in_New_Forest/


… and a medieval longhouse near Seathwaite Tarn:

http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2017/06/15/second-longhouse-excavation-gets-underway-duddon-valley/


A 14th century abbey wall from Canterbury:

http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/archaeological-excavation-in-canterbury-uncovers-14th-century-abbey-precinct-wall-1-5060380


Remains of a Minton pottery factory:

http://www.stokesentinel.co.uk/historic-minton-kiln-found-under-a-stoke-town-centre-car-park-destined-to-become-student-flats/story-30394324-detail/story.html


More witch markings from Wookey Hole:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-40262004

Some ‘mysterious vaults’ were found by stonemasons working at Blenheim
Palace:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-40264213

Finds from excavations at Auckland Castle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tees-40232402

Latest visitor centre saga is at Clifford’s Tower:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-40221432

UNESCO doesn’t like the Stonehenge tunnel plan:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-40286120

On fixing damage to artifacts done in last year’s earthquake in Italy:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-40264695/restorers-battle-to-fix-thousands-of-pieces-after-last-year-s-quake


Interview with Christopher Ferguson:

http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/q-a/14062017-q-and-a-christopher-ferguson


More on the Montem Mound:

http://www.sloughexpress.co.uk/gallery/slough/116448/has-the-mystery-of-the-montem-mound-finally-been-solved.html

More on ‘Firehenge’ near Avebury:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/excavations-near-avebury-uncover-mysterious-firehenge-800-years-older-than-stonehenge/news-story/5c77e180d84d2ca6bfc04a5d465ad845

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massive-wooden-fire-monument-older-stonehenge-180963642/



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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Suggestion that a Shigir idol may have been carved with beaver teeth:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/others/news/beavers-teeth-used-to-carve-the-oldest-wooden-statue-in-the-world/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5661-170615-shigir-idol-beavers

Early Warring States period (or earlier) tomb from Hebei:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-06/13/c_136362094.htm http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-06/15/content_29756205.htm

Studying the remains of human sacrifice victims at the Shang Dynasty Royal Cemetery:

https://www.livescience.com/59513-ancient-china-human-sacrifice-revealed.html

https://sg.news.yahoo.com/ancient-human-sacrifice-victims-faced-124900148.html


Excavating a 19th century Googong schoolhouse:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-06-15/19th-century-googong-school-house-unearthed/8619050



Australia’s history textbooks still have problems:

http://theconversation.com/history-textbooks-still-imply-that-australians-are-white-72796


Feature on restoring the Great Wall:

https://www.voanews.com/a/great-wall-restored/3902900.html

More on the ‘disappearance’ of the Jenny Lind:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/famous-19th-century-shipwreck-vanished-152800007.html


More on the possible rediscovery of the Pink and White Terraces:

http://www.newser.com/story/244152/researchers-say-theyve-found-lost-wonder-of-world.html



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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
================================================================
Searching for evidence of New Hampshire’s oldest occupants:

http://nhpr.org/post/digging-evidence-new-hampshires-earliest-inhabitants#stream/0


The UW-Madison dig at Aztalan Park:

http://www.dailyunion.com/news/article_614fb63c-5055-11e7-a4a4-0b2032816bcf.html


I think we mentioned this piece on Ohio’s Hopewell culture benefitting
from
immigrants:

http://www.dispatch.com/news/20170611/archaeology--immigrants-aided-creative-boom-by-ancient-ohioans


19th century remains from a Luzerne County dig:

http://wnep.com/2017/06/13/archaeological-dig-unearths-an-interesting-past-in-luzerne-county/


Coverage of a dig in Shreveport:

https://www.ktbs.com/news/there-s-an-archaeological-dig-in-shreveport/article_239c332e-50af-11e7-a9fa-8b998111b1d1.html


Excitement about a possible ‘underground tunnel’ in Halifax:

http://globalnews.ca/news/3528108/underground-tunnel-rumours-fueled-by-discovery-of-old-halifax-sewer-line/

… that turned out to be a sewer pipe:

http://www.thetelegram.com/news/regional/2017/6/15/structure-initially-thought-to-be-possible-halifax-tunnel-just-a-sewer-pipe.html


Looking for Sitka remains in Alaska:

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2017/06/14/woman-with-small-shovel-finds-a-clue-to-sitkas-paleo-past/


Possible shipwreck debris from an Oregon beach:

http://www.dailyastorian.com/Local_News/20170615/possible-shipwreck-debris-uncovered-in-cannon-beach

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2017/06/debris_that_could_be_from_a_10.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5665-170616-oregon-coast-timber

Not sure if we mentioned this find of the wreck of the McCulloch off the California coast:

https://www.livescience.com/59488-historic-shipwreck-mcculloch-discovered.html

https://www.livescience.com/59491-photos-century-old-sunken-ship-found.html http://www.sciencetimes.com/articles/17103/20170614/historic-shipwreck-spanish-american-war-discovered-southern-california-coast.htm

Plans for a dig at the St George River:

https://knox.villagesoup.com/p/dig-seeks-signs-of-elusive-fort-generals-estate-african-presence/1658176


The Shíshálh Archaeological Project has some interesting features:

http://thestarphoenix.com/news/local-news/vibrant-culture-archaeological-project-reveals-faces-of-canadas-past

What Metin Eren is up to:

http://www.crainscleveland.com/article/20170617/NEWS/170619811/ksu-prof-is-an-archaeological-wunderkind


On the history of interracial marriage in Virginia:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2017/06/11/before-loving-v-virginia-another-interracial-couple-fought-in-court-for-their-marriage/


Feature on Mesa Verde:

https://www.livescience.com/27360-mesa-verde.html

On French art and the American Republic:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/arts/design/french-paintings-america-collects-bazille-national-gallery-review.html


More on Chumash relics from Santa Rosa Island:

http://www.independent.com/news/2017/jun/14/ancient-chumash-artifacts-found-santa-rosa/



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
A ‘volcanic’ theory about the El Volcan pyramid in Peru:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mysterious-volcano-shaped-pyramid-discovered-peru-hosted-celebrations-honour-solar-eclipses-1624111

What we’re learning about the Guanacaste people:

http://www.vozdeguanacaste.com/en/articles/2017/06/16/pre-columbian-guanacastecans-wore-their-deads-bones-and-cut-their-enemies-heads


A number of funerary urns from a site in Tiscapa (Nicaragua):

http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=14323&SEO=nicaraguan-experts-discover-archaeological-site


Feature on Tenochtitlan:

https://www.livescience.com/34660-tenochtitlan.html

Feature on Tordesillas:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170615-the-town-that-split-the-world-in-two


More on the Aztec temple excavation in Mexico City:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/science/aztec-temple-mexico-city.html http://observer.com/2017/06/500-year-old-aztec-temple-discovered-mexico-city/

https://www.livescience.com/59468-aztec-temple-in-mexico-city.html http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/aztec-temple-discovered-mexico-city-ehecatl-tenichtitlan-templo-mayor-a7790901.html


More on that mask from Argentina:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mask-challenges-theories-origin-metalworking-south-america-180963630/

https://www.sciencealert.com/this-3-000-year-old-copper-mask-could-rewrite-the-history-books



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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 ================================================================
Someone recreated the Sutton Hoo helmet:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15341423.Sutton_Hoo_helmet_recreated_in_stunning_silver/

The ‘last line of defense’ role of archaeologists:

http://www.hcn.org/articles/archaeologists-protect-ruins-from-destruction-Southwest


A painting from the Scott era was found in Antarctica:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-40245227 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5657-170614-antarctic-watercolor-painting

On promoting the humanities:

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2017/06/13/scholars-unconvincing-case-about-value-humanities-essay


On the word ‘idiot’:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/opinion/trump-and-the-true-meaning-of-idiot.html


On Shakespeare’s ‘politics’:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/06/13/the-trump-family-shouldnt-fight-shakespeare-theyll-lose/


Some Juneteenth coverage:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/dining/juneteenth-food-slavery-abolition.html


An 18th century botanical colouring book:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/14/us/coloring-book-trnd/index.html http://www.botanicus.org/title/b11968564

We may have mentioned this forger before:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/06/the-forger-who-fooled-the-art-world/ http://www.news.com.au/lifestyle/real-life/news-life/master-forger-who-fooled-world-used-mates-face-in-roman-sculpture/news-story/073eecd879b282991269d5c9ba042fd8

On some cultures that practiced human sacrifice:

https://www.livescience.com/59514-cultures-that-practiced-human-sacrifice.html


The stolen brain of St John Bosco was recovered:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/16/stolen-brain-st-john-bosco-found-kettle


Latest Polynesian vessel recreation and its trip:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/traditional-polynesian-vessel-complete-round-world-journey-180963734/

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40316930

On how Pasteur changed chemistry:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/14/science/louis-pasteur-chirality-chemistry.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience


Feature on Ignaz von Dollinger:

https://www.americamagazine.org/arts-culture/2017/06/13/man-who-fought-papal-infallibility


Review of a biography of Machiavelli:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/books/review/be-like-the-fox-machiavelli-biography-erica-benner.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks



Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Age of Empires:

https://hyperallergic.com/374312/from-a-jade-burial-suit-to-terracotta-warriors-a-blockbuster-display-of-chinas-ancient-treasures/


Pompeii:

http://portlandtribune.com/pt/11-features/362885-241681-pompeii-the-exhibition

http://www.oregonlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/06/omsi_pompeii_comes_to_portland.html

Roman hoards:

http://thenantwichnews.co.uk/2017/06/13/roman-hoards-exhibition-opens-at-nantwich-museum/


Hyping the Hatay Archaeological Museum’s soon-to-arrive mosaics:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hatay-to-welcome-worlds-largest-mosaic-collection.aspx?pageID=238&nid=114274&NewsCatID=375


Feature on the items at the San Giovanni metro stop in Rome:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rome-san-giovanni-metro-museum-artifacts-unearthed/



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THE TECHY SIDE
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Studying ancient weapons with xray and neutron technology:

http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/archaeology-x-ray-neutron-15062017/


Feature on the techy side of the multispectral imaging technology used to reveal that Hebrew writing:

http://forward.com/fast-forward/374823/israeli-scientists-read-invisible-words-ancient-pottery-digital-camera/


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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Another piece on using DNA to track migrations:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/ancient-dna-could-unravel-mystery-prehistoric-european-migration-180963702/



Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Italian libraries:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/travel/italian-libraries-hidden-treasures-books-architecture-art.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/13/travel/what-to-read-tour-of-italian-libraries.html


Machu Picchu:

http://www.cnn.com/travel/article/machu-picchu-and-the-sacred-valley-peru/index.html


Dartmoor:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/jun/17/discovering-dartmoor-devon-on-patrol-landscape-detective-mary-ann-ochota



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CRIME BEAT
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Native American objects stolen from a Durango storage facility:

https://durangoherald.com/articles/165517-native-american-artifacts-worth-thousands-stolen-from-durango-storage

https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/colorado/articles/2017-06-14/native-american-artifacts-stolen-in-colorado


Ottoman era Qurans seized at Cairo’s airport:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/271103/Heritage/Islamic/Qurans-from-Ottoman-era-seized-at-Cairo-Internatio.aspx


Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/06/culture-crime-news-5-11-june-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/

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
The American University in Cairo returned some items:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/270845/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/AUC-hands-over-Egyptian-artefacts-from--excavation.aspx
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/7659/AUC-returns-5-000-artifacts-to-Antiquities-Ministry

http://www.egyptindependent.com/auc-hands-over-5000-artifacts-fustat-excavation/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5655-170613-egypt-cairo-repatriation

Meanwhile, Cambridge is refusing to return some artifacts to Australia:

https://www.usnews.com/news/world/articles/2017-06-17/cambridge-university-refuses-to-return-aboriginal-artifacts-to-australia

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-australia-aborigines-idUSKBN1980A6?feedType=RSS&feedName=worldNews


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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n24.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n25.html


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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
I’m really not sure what to do with all this Trump/Julius Caesar stuff
that
has been clogging my mailbox this week … focus varies:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/12/opinions/caesar-free-expression-opinion-maltby/index.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/12/theater/julius-caesar-shakespeare-donald-trump.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/wp/2017/06/16/calpurnia-as-melania-octavius-as-jared-the-public-theater-goes-full-trump-with-julius-caesar-in-central-park/

http://www.cnn.com/videos/politics/2017/06/17/trump-activists-interrupt-caesar-play-jpm-orig.cnn

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/theater/julius-caesar-central-park-trump-protesters.html


La Mere Coupable:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/16/arts/an-operatic-rarity-picks-up-where-mozart-and-rossini-left-off.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts


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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2625-audio-news-from-archaeologica-4-june-2017-10-june-2017
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OBITUARIES
===============================================================
Anne Pippin Burnett:

https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2017/06/12/anne-pippin-burnett-renowned-scholar-greek-poetry-1925%E2%80%932017


Rudolph Masciantonio:

http://www.philly.com/philly/obituaries/20160924_Rudolph_Masciantonio__75__retired_foreign_language_director_for_Philly_schools.html


Ben Finney:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/17/us/ben-finney-dead-hawaii-tahiti.html

Philip Gossett:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/15/arts/music/philip-gossett-scholar-who-brought-operas-back-to-life-dies-at-75.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts


Chana Bloch:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/09/books/chana-bloch-died-poet-and-translator.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks



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CONFERENCES
================================================================
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/


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Astudillo,
Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, Wilfried Zankl, Rick Heli, 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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Evidence (perhaps) of Neanderthal dentistry:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uok-aon062617.php https://phys.org/news/2017-06-analysis-neanderthal-teeth-grooves-uncovers.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170628131510.htm http://www.independent.co.uk/news/neanderthals-dentistry-attempt-prehistory-attempt-homo-sapiens-humans-habilis-krapina-a7813206.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neanderthals-used-toothpicks-treat-aching-teeth-180963883/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5701-170629-croatia-neanderthal-dentistry

What million year bp hyena coprolites reveal about early humans:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/hyenas-toilet-fossils-poop-coprolite/


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AFRICA
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A roundup of recent archaeological finds in Africa:

https://www.africa.com/top-five-latest-archeological-discoveries-in-africa/

Feature on Kush:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-40420910


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Short feature on the Scorpion King:

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/The-Scorpion-King-is-real-here-s-what-this-11245445.php

A pile of stone blocks stored near Luxor are now shown to be from a temple
of Thutmose I:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,414739,polish-egyptologist-identified-fragments-of-a-lost-egyptian-temple-in-a-storage.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5703-170630-egypt-thutmose-i-temple

On the West’s obsession with ancient Egypt:

http://theconversation.com/the-mummy-what-the-wests-obsession-with-ancient-egypt-reveals-79519

More on those 5200 years bp ‘pre hieroglyphs’:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-archaeologists-earliest-monumental-egyptian-hieroglyphs.html
https://sputniknews.com/society/201706261054989902-egypt-expedition-discover-new-hieroglyphs/

More on that prosthetic toe:

https://hyperallergic.com/387047/the-sophisticated-design-of-a-3000-year-old-wooden-toe/

Plenty of coverage of evidence of a ‘neolithic skull cult’ at Gobekli
Tepe:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/aaft-itc062617.php https://phys.org/news/2017-06-skull-fragments-deliberate-lines-gobekli.html https://www.livescience.com/59643-carved-human-skulls-found-cultic-site.html https://www.livescience.com/59644-photos-carved-human-skulls.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/28/turkish-site-evidence-of-neolithic-skull-cult-gobekli-tepe
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.798498 http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/first-evidence-of-skull-decoration-discovered-in-gobeklitepe.aspx?pageID=238&nid=114947&NewsCatID=375
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-apos-skull-cult-apos-190305957.html http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-human-skulls-mysterious-carvings-reveal-11000-year-old-skull-cult-1628150
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-skull-cult-cuts-20170628-htmlstory.html
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/06/remains-from-skull-cult-discovered-at-worlds-oldest-stone-monuments/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/skulls-cult-turkey-archaeology-neolithic-gobekli/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/06/28/carved-skulls-flesh-out-neolithic-cult-evidence/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-temple-shows-evidence-stone-age-skull-cult-180963877/
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2017/first-evidence-of-a-neolithic-skull-cult-at-gobekli-tepe
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5700-170629-turkey-gobekli-tepe-carved-skulls http://elpais.com/elpais/2017/06/28/ciencia/1498673023_981204.html http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/6/e1700564 http://advances.sciencemag.org/content/3/6/e1700564/tab-figures-data

First bodies (dating to 4200 years bp) from Gezer:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.798934

Earliest evidence of plant-based dye use in Israel:

https://www.aftau.org/news-page-archaeology?&storyid4677=2340&ncs4677=3 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0179014 https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/afot-3ta062817.php https://phys.org/news/2017-06-year-old-textiles-earliest-evidence-chemical.html http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/231730 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/evidence-of-plant-dyes-found-in-king-solomon-era-textiles/2017/06/28/
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.798329 http://www.timesofisrael.com/what-color-blue-did-king-solomon-wear-new-evidence-tells-us/
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1307258/photos-evidence-use-plant-dyes-textiles-dating-era-kings-david-solomon.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2017/plant-based-textile-dyeing-found-at-copper-smelting-site-in-the-levant

An interview with Gabriel Barkay:

https://www.worldpittsburgh.org/resources/renowned-biblical-archaeologist-dr-gabriel-barkay-6-3-17/

Pondering where Israel’s antiquities should be kept:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/where-do-israels-antiquities-belong/

Latest from the Western Wall saga (seems to be a few things going on):

http://www.jpost.com/jerusalem/Article.aspx?id=498096 http://www.timesofisrael.com/there-is-already-pluralistic-prayer-at-the-western-wall-heres-what-would-have-changed/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/some-critics-of-western-wall-plan-still-unhappy-after-freeze/

The US Supreme court will hear that long-running case involving Iranian antiquities being used for compensatory purposes:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/supreme-court-takes-dispute-over-iran-antiquities-terror-case-n777106

Feature on some 1000 years bp ‘lost’ Arab poetry that lives on in Hebrew:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170616-the-1000-year-old-lost-arab-poetry-that-lives-on-in-hebrew

Suggestion that “70%” of Palmyra can be rebuilt:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2017/06/28/archeaologist-says-70-of-palmyra-can-be-rebuilt_1003e771-b64b-4c8e-83b8-0a4aa7f362b5.html

Follow up on the Mosque of al Nuri:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-40441936

What ISIL did in Nineveh:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/features/2017/07/02/This-is-what-ISIS-has-been-doing-to-ancient-artifacts-in-Iraq-s-Nineveh-since-2014-.html

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Very interesting 3rd century (maybe) dwelling remains preserved in a fire
near the Caelian:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-subway-uncovers-pompeii-like-scene-rome.html https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jun/26/rome-metro-excavations-unearth-3rd-century-pompeii-like-scene
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/subway-digging-uncovers-pompeii-scene-rome-48284401
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/entertainment/your-brisbane/roman-gladiators-were-war-prisoners-and-criminals-not-sporting-heroes-20170627-gwzqfk.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/1800-year-old-mini-pompeii-unearthed-during-rome-metro-line-excavations-1627949
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/06/26/mini-pompeii-found-in-rome-metro-dig-4_741983a8-7812-450f-8c19-0f0229243101.html
http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/mini-pompeii-found-during-rome-metro-c-works/ https://www.thelocal.it/20170626/mini-pompeii-found-in-rome-while-digging-metro-line
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-3rd-century-dog-found-rome-180963846/
http://roma.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/06/26/news/roma_come_pompei_scoperta_casa_romana_distruttta_da_un_incendio_intatti_parti_di_solaio_mobili_mosaici_e_affreschi-169103421/#gallery-slider=169150376
http://www.lefigaro.fr/culture/2017/06/28/03004-20170628ARTFIG00148-un-nouveau-pompei-decouvert-sur-le-chantier-du-nouveau-metro-a-rome.php
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/remains-3rd-century-dog-found-rome-180963846/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5686-170626-rome-burned-building

… and some recent excavations in Pompeii (apologies for the paywall … I’m trying to find more on this):

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/pompeii-dig-reveals-more-about-roman-ancestors-from-tuscany-b72kpxk5g

South East Glazed Ware found in the South West:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-rare-archaeological-unique-pottery-south.html

A Late Roman gold hoard from Lienden:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2017/06/dutch-gold-coin-hoard-discovered-in-orchard.html

The search is on for remains of a monastery near Peperikon:

http://www.novinite.com/articles/180917/Bulgarian+Archaeological+Expedition+Will+Try+to+Find+the+Largest+Early+Christian+Monastery

The 2017 excavations at Akrotiri have come to an end:

http://in-cyprus.com/archaeologists-wrap-up-2017-excavations-in-akrotiri/

Studying skulls from the necropolis at Portus:

https://www.livescience.com/59670-ancient-roman-skulls-distinct-local-looks.html

Not sure where to put this one … evidence of ‘backgammon’ gaming from
Tripolis:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/artifacts-in-ancient-tripolis-show-that-backgammon-dates-back-2000-years-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=114900&NewsCatID=375

Plans to map the sunken city of Akra:

http://tass.com/society/954191

How Sparta became Spartan:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbahr1/2017/06/30/how-sparta-became-spartan-plutarchs-life-of-lycurgus/

What Kristina Kilgrove is up to:

http://wuwf.org/post/uwf-researcher-study-ancient-skeletons-near-pompeii

Victor Nuovo continues his look at Machiavelli and Livy:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201706victor-nuovo-machiavellis-discourses-livy-part-ii

On Roman surveying techniques:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jun/28/romans-roads-which-direction-build

On gladiators *not* being sporting heroes:

http://theconversation.com/roman-gladiators-were-war-prisoners-and-criminals-not-sporting-heroes-80065

Feature on shoes from Vindolanda:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/huge-shoe-find-reveals-what-13243936

Feature on ‘dormouse fattening jars’:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/dormouse-jars-glirarium-rome

Feature on the ‘Claudius Gateway’ tourist attraction at Colchester:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/local/15377774.REVEALED__The_exhibit_set_to_be_opened_on_the_remains_of_Britain_s_largest_Roman_arcade/

On ancient Greek pessimism:

https://thewire.in/151976/ancient-greeks-good-old-days-better/

Reviewish on Hannibal’s crossing of the alps:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-hannibal-crossed-the-alps-180963671/

Digitizing historical images of Rome:

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/06/29/new-digital-archive-showcases-historical-images-rome/

More on that chariot mosaic from Akaki:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-40402816/cyprus-reveals-rare-roman-horse-race-mosaic-in-akaki
http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/06/26/a-rare-mosaic-is-unearthed-in-remote-cyp?videoId=371968281&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=OddlyEnough&videoChannel=4
http://in-cyprus.com/restoration-work-starts-on-unique-cyprus-mosaic-video/?title=Restoration%20work%20starts%20on%20unique%20Cyprus%20mosaic%20%28VIDEO%29

More on pre-Roman Ippleden:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5696-170628-england-devon-rural-settlement

Review of Man, *Amazons*:

http://theartsdesk.com/books/john-man-amazons-review-real-warrior-women-ancient-world

The coverage of the White House obsession with Thucydides continues:

http://www.gq.com/story/steve-bannon-ancient-greeks


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http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

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A Neolithic figurine from a Polish village:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5697-170628-poland-neolithic-figurine

A Neolithic burial from Silsden:

http://www.keighleyonline.co.uk/community/news/885-exciting-prehistoric-artefacts-unearthed-at-silsden-dig.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5702-170630-england-neolithic-funerary-urn

A ‘hidden square’ at Avebury:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-secret-square-beneath-world-famous-avebury.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/06/28/avebury-stone-circle-weird-square-archaeologists-find/
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-wiltshire-40431673 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jun/29/avebury-stone-circle-contains-hidden-square-archaeologists-find
https://www.livescience.com/59668-avebury-circle-once-a-square.html http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/15377443.New_discovery_at_Avebury_may_answer_century_old_questions/
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/highly-unusual-square-monument-found-within-avebury-stone-circle-surveys-show-35877091.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5699-170629-avebury-square-formation

Digging a hillfort at Oldbury-on-Severn:

http://www.gazetteseries.co.uk/news/15375035.Archaeologists_unearthing_secrets_of_ancient_hillfort_in_Oldbury_on_Severn/

Remains of a Saxon church on Holy Island:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/britain-oldest-churches-lindisfarne-holy-island-archaeologists-uk-monastery-st-aidan-gospels-ancient-a7817006.html
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/first-new-church-found-holy-13241445
http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/saxon-church-uncovered-during-dig-on-holy-island-1-8617307
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5691-170627-england-lindisfarne-church

An 8th century site found prior to road construction in Bratislava:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20570116/impressive-archaeological-site-revealed-under-planned-bratislava-ring-road.html

Assorted sherds from Newport’s medieval kiln:

http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/15376770.Sherds_shed_light_on_town__39_s_pottery_past/

Plans to dig a ‘mysterious site’ near Paisley Abbey:

http://www.renfrewshire24.co.uk/2017/06/26/archaeological-dig-to-explore-a-mysterious-site-near-paisley-abbey/

… and plans to dig a Bronze Age site on the Isle of Man:

http://www.isleofman.com/News/details/83287/archaeologists-to-study-isle-of-man-s-bronze-age-history

… and plans to excavate and conserve the Invincible:

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/15376159.Bournemouth_University_archaeologists_to_excavate_historic_warship_Invincible/

Wondering where King Harold is buried:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/06/25/king-harold-buried-hertfordshire-churchamateur-historians-try/

Marking the 35th anniversary of the raising of the Mary Rose:

http://www.portsmouth.co.uk/business/raising-the-mary-rose-s-history-1-8033182

Criticizing a planned bridge to Tintagel:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/jun/30/bridge-to-tintagel-raises-philosophical-and-practical-objections

Interesting headstones from the UK:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-39508229

More on the Neolithic/Bronze Age finds at Bryn Celli Ddu:

http://www.northwaleschronicle.co.uk/news/177669/neolithic-and-bronze-age-cairn-discoveries-at-anglesey-s-bryn-celli-ddu.aspx


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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
A huge altar from Xinjiang:

http://www.newsweek.com/china-religion-archaeology-629719 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/xinjiang-sun-altar-ancient-china-archaeology-spd/

Renewed/ongoing interest in sites in the Russian Arctic:

http://tass.com/economy/953261

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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 prehistoric Alutiiq fish trap from Kodiak Island:

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2017/06/26/low-tide-reveals-alutiiq-fishing-method-in-kodiak/
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/prehistoric-stone-fish-trap-discovered-alaska-island-48338257
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11883852 http://www.cbs46.com/story/35773962/prehistoric-stone-fish-trap-discovered-on-alaska-island
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5690-ancient-fish-trap-discovered-in-alaska-3

Studying a clam garden site on Russell Island:

http://www.cheknews.ca/archaeology-team-works-with-local-first-nations-to-determine-age-depth-of-ancient-clam-gardens-342283/

Finds suggest the history of St Louis’ founding needs a rethink:

http://news.stlpublicradio.org/post/story-st-louis-beginnings-becomes-more-complicated-new-archaeological-findings#stream/0
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5704-170630-st-louis-founding-artifacts

A Colonial-era brass lock from Michigan:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5684-170626-michigan-colonial-lock

A Revolution-era musket ball from Charleston:

http://www.postandcourier.com/news/tiny-lead-ball-confirms-archaeologists-are-digging-in-right-place/article_4e92c066-5d02-11e7-b92a-47d8da82a83c.html
http://abcnews4.com/news/local/a-1780-bullet-was-found-during-archaeological-excavation-at-aiken-rhett-house
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5705-170630-charleston-revolutionary-war-trench

… and a Revolution-era shipwreck off Florida:

http://www.floridatoday.com/story/news/2017/06/27/florida-frontiers-american-revolution-era-shipwreck/433868001/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=

… while bridge construction threatens the excavation of the Luna:

http://www.pnj.com/story/news/2017/06/29/uwf-pensacola-bay-bridge-construction-threatens-1559-luna-shipwreck-excavation/439319001/

A Civil War map of Gloucester Point: http://www.dailypress.com/features/history/dp-nws-evg-civil-war-fort-map-20170630-story.html

Excavating a Jesuit church in Shreveport:

http://www.heraldsun.com/living/article157894194.html

A time capsule from a Confederate monument in St Louis:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/06/30/us/confederate-monument-time-capsule/index.html

Suggestion Lost Colony settlers moved to Hatteras Island:

http://pilotonline.com/news/local/history/artifacts-show-lost-colony-settlers-moved-to-hatteras-island-lived/article_5031be6a-e3b5-5531-9401-f63701e278d9.html

Feature on the Erie Canal:

http://www.syracuse.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2017/06/erie_canal_at_200_how_a_ditch_transformed_the_empire_state.html

Feature on the site of Canada’s first parliament:

http://www.cbc.ca/radio/day6/episode-344-tomson-highway-the-hidden-site-of-canada-s-first-parliament-top-albums-for-canada-150-and-more-1.4178586/remnants-of-upper-canada-s-1st-parliament-sit-buried-under-a-toronto-car-wash-1.4178589?cmp=rss

On Downton Abbey’s role in the formation of Canada:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-hampshire-40463909/downton-abbey-s-real-life-alter-ego-s-role-in-founding-canada

A legal battle is shaping up over the Franklin artifacts:

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/lawyers-circle-over-the-franklin-searches

Colonial court documents show up on eBay:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-colonial-court-documents-found-ebay-180963864/

More on that 1000 year bp canoe from Louisiana:

http://navajotimes.com/wires-wp/index.php?id=1736099644&kid=Bvx4wT1TuMhUhryg

More on recreating Native American water bottles:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-water-bottles-may-have-exposed-native-americans-toxic-chemicals-180963875/


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A 7000 years bp high altitude site in Peru:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uow-rde062617.php https://phys.org/news/2017-06-document-early-permananet-human-settlement.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170628095929.htm http://www.ibtimes.com/how-humans-evolved-ancient-americans-adapted-live-mountain-environment-2558655
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5695-170628-peru-andean-highland-settlement

A ‘tower of skulls’ from an Aztec site in Mexico City is getting a lot of
press attention:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mexico-archaeology-skulls-idUSKBN19M3Q6 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/jul/01/tower-human-skulls-mexico-city-aztec-sacrifices
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world-0/tower-human-skulls-found-archaeologists-mexico-aztec-history-doubt-a7818841.html
http://www.stuff.co.nz/science/94301544/Tower-of-human-skulls-in-Mexico-casts-new-light-on-Aztecs-culture-of-sacrifice
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/aztec-tower-of-skulls-unearthed-by-archaeologists-in-mexico-city/news-story/4a8102ed169135d5c3ed5f2e8847c185?from=rss-basic

More on those 1000 years bp burials in Nicaragua:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/pre-columbian-cemetery-found-nicaragua-spd/


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http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
A good Canada Day feature:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/30/world/canada/canada-150th-anniversary-celebration-indigenous-people.html

An Alexander Hamilton inspired fourth of July meal:

http://www.tampabay.com/things-to-do/food/cooking/for-fourth-of-july-an-american-feast-inspired-by-founding-father-alexander/2328460

Looking at the history of maps:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/brief-history-maps-180963685/

Acoustic archaeology and cave art:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-acoustic-scientist-cave.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/asoa-ass062017.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170629175551.htm https://www.sciencenews.org/article/sound-reflecting-shelters-inspired-ancient-rock-artists

On the sudden popularity of Pushkin:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-trending-40383837

On the original colour of the Statue of Liberty:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/acs-tso062917.php

On recreating ancient ales and the like:

http://nhpr.org/post/meet-indiana-jones-ancient-ales-and-extreme-beverages http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/06/30/532959384/meet-the-indiana-jones-of-ancient-ales-and-extreme-beverages

On digging while expecting:

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/jul/01/pregnant-in-the-field-blog-photography-have-trowel-will-travel

Much excitement in Russia over St Nicholas relics:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/why-more-than-a-million-russians-have-lined-up-tosee-one-of-theribs-of-saint-nicholas/2017/06/28/02aae204-5696-11e7-840b-512026319da7_story.html


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Age of Empires:

http://isaw.nyu.edu/news/prof-lillian-tseng-reviews-met-exhibition-in-the-art-newspaper

Teotihuacan:

http://observer.com/2017/06/teotihuacan-de-young-exhibition/

Berlin Painter:

http://www.ocala.com/lifestyle/20170629/ticket-to-write-vases-by-ancient-greek-painter-can-bring-goosebumps

Gladiators:

http://visual.artshub.com.au/news-article/sponsored-content/museums/brooke-boland/gladiators-heroes-of-the-colosseum-brings-ancient-rome-to-brisbane-253994

Religion in Early America:

http://www.npr.org/2017/06/28/534765046/smithsonian-exhibit-explores-religious-diversitys-role-in-u-s-history

Gates of Paradise have been installed at the Nelson-Atkins Museum:

https://nelson-atkins.org/gates-paradise-installed-nelson-atkins/

It sounds like it should be honours for the Mytilene Archaeological
Museum, but I think it’s a talk:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/06/26/golden-crown-and-golden-wreath-to-be-presented-at-mytilene-archaeological-museum/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26007-golden-crown-and-wreath-presented-for-first-time-by-lesvos-archaeological-museum.html

The Louvre may lose its ‘most popular museum’ designation:

https://qz.com/1015412/new-yorks-metropolitan-museum-of-art-may-soon-surpass-the-louvre-as-the-worlds-most-popular-museum/


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THE TECHY SIDE
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A new bone identification technique:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-bone-identification-method-human-societies.html

A new xray technique for analyzing artifacts:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-x-ray-technique-ancient-artifacts.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-06/uol-uol062817.php

Latest facial reconstruction is a 500 year bp Dublin man:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/jun/30/researchers-produce-startling-3-d-image-of-a-young/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5693-170627-dublin-facial-reconstruction

… and more on reconstructing faces of First Nations people:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/06/beads-facial-reconstruction-museums-canada/



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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Suggestion that mainland and island Greeks diverged genetically in the
Middle Ages:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.798089 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5692-170627-greece-dna-divergence

… while the South Caucasus region has had very little change over the past
8000 years, apparently:

https://phys.org/news/2017-06-genetic-evidence-south-caucasus-region.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/06/170629143015.htm



Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Southwest England:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/27/travel/southwest-england-avalon-tintagel-totnes-weird-spiritual.html

Acinipo’s Roman Ruins:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2017/jun/28/acinipo-roman-ruins-spain-andalucia


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CRIME BEAT
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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 ================================================================
Some funerary busts from Palmyra were recovered from ISIL:

http://en.abna24.com/news/middle-east/syrian-authorities-seize-four-funeral-busts-in-isis-former-centers-in-palmyra_839808.html
http://www.epa.eu/arts-culture-and-entertainment-photos/archeology-monuments-heritage-sites-photos/palmyra-statues-handed-over-to-syrian-general-directorate-of-antiquities-and-museums-photos-53619614


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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n26.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n27.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/2628-audio-news-from-archaeologica-18-june-2017-24-june-2017

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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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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:

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AFRICA
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A survey of petroglyphs from the Namib Desert:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5843-170815-namibia-initiation-rock-art

Concerns for Somali cave art:

https://www.csmonitor.com/World/Africa/2017/0816/Finding-Somaliland-s-ancient-cave-art-is-hard.-Protecting-it-could-be-harder

https://www.yahoo.com/news/finding-somalilands-ancient-cave-art-hard-protecting-could-203710342.html


The chicken and black rat came to Africa via Indian Ocean trade:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-early-indian-ocean-routes-chicken.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/mpif-eio081717.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170817141533.htm

Feature on Ibrahima Thiaw’s work looking for slave shipwrecks:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-secrets-deep-senegal-slave-shipwreck.html http://artdaily.com/news/98199/Secrets-of-the-deep--Senegal-s-slave-shipwreck-detective



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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Three Ptolemaic burials from Minya (and possibly a large necropolis with more):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/275381/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Three-Ptolemaic-tombs-uncovered-in-Minya,-contents.aspx

http://www.egyptindependent.com/three-ptolemaic-tombs-uncovered-minya-discovery-indicates-large-cemetery/

https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/08/15/three-ptolemaic-tombs-discovered-in-egypts-minya-suggesting-a-large-cemetery/

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/17421/3-Ptolemaic-tombs-discovered-in-Minya

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-egypt-archaeologists-tombs-dating-years.html https://www.livescience.com/60164-three-ancient-tombs-discovered-in-egypt.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/egypt-new-discovery-2000-year-old-tomb-sarcophagi-al-kamin-al-sarwahi-minya-a7895671.html

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-40939274 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11906155 https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/15/three-2000-year-old-sarcophagi-discovered-in-egypt

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egypt-tombs-more-2000-years-old-uncovered-archaeologists-hidden-burial-651126

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.807195 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/ancient-tombs-uncovered-egypt-achaemenid-archaeology-history-spd/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5844-170815-egypt-ptolemaic-tombs

… I think this is the same story, with an overly ambitious headline:

https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/archaeologists-discover-new-pyramids-southern-egypt-1010940


Also in Minya, a Coptic-era monk’s village of some sort:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/275588/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Possible-ancient-monks-complex-discovered-in-Minya.aspx

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/08/20/remains-residential-city-found-minya/ http://saudigazette.com.sa/article/515432/World/Mena/Egypt http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2017/08/18/New-archaeological-discovery-of-churches-and-monasteries-in-Egypt.html

A report (which missed the rounding lesson) that some 32 000+ items have disappeared from Egyptian museums over the past fifty years:

https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170817-egypt-loses-33600-historical-artefacts-over-50-years/

… which was denied by Ministry officials:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/antiquities-ministry-official-denies-robbery-32000-archaeological-pieces-museum/


The Ministry also pointed out how many sites it is digging at:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/08/18/antiquities-ministry-excavating-30-archaeological-sites-every-season/


Major funds for sites and museums in Egypt:

https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/08/18/government-spends-egp-2-5bn-develop-museums-archaeological-sites/
http://www.menafn.com/1095750704/Egypt-collects-EGP200mn-for-restoration-of-Islamic-Coptic-monuments


Feature on the Rosetta Stone:

https://www.livescience.com/60154-rosetta-stone.html

Latest finds (I think we’re talking 12 000 years bp) from Kortik Tepe:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/kortik-hill-offers-thousands-of-artifacts.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116813&NewsCatID=375


Latest finds from Istanbul’s subway construction:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/subway-construction-excavations-fill-gap-in-istanbuls-history.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116851&NewsCatID=375


Vessels with the ‘tree of life’ motif from Domuztepe Mound:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/vessels-with-tree-of-life-motifs-found-in-turkeys-domuztepe.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116699&NewsCatID=375

The longstanding claim that copper was being smelted at Catal Huyuk some
8500 years bp is being explained with a bit more nuance:

http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/mystery-of-8-500-year-old-copper-making-event-revealed-through-materials-science

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uoc-mo8081117.php https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mystery-year-old-copper-making-event-revealed.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170815095111.htm http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mysterious-origins-metal-making-solved-by-analysis-8500-year-old-copper-1635123


Cf: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440317301024

A 2600 years bp Egyptian seal from Mugla:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/mystic-egyptian-seal-found-in-mugla-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116812&NewsCatID=378


We may have mentioned this 3000 years bp female statue from Tayinat:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-archaeologists-uncover-year-old-female-statue.html

http://www.eurasiareview.com/12082017-turkey-found-3000-year-old-female-statue-at-citadel-gate-complex/


More on that stone vessel production site in Galilee:

http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Rare-find-Galilee-excavations-reveal-a-2,000-year-old-stone-vessel-workshop.aspx

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archeologists-unearth-2000-year-old-stone-vessel-production-center-502056

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=44559 https://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-5001775,00.html http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.806640 https://www.livescience.com/60131-jesus-era-stoneware-factory-uncovered.html


Interesting find (maybe) from a Dead Sea Scroll interpretation:

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.806283

An early Islamic-era house from Jordan:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5842-170815-jordan-umayyad-house-unearthed

Remains of a 1000 years bp perfume shop in Sanliurfa:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/19/1000-year-old-perfume-shop-discovered-in-turkeys-sanliurfa


I think we mentioned this 8th centuury CE mosaic workshop from Jerash:

https://www.livescience.com/60132-earthquake-reveals-mosaic-production-practices.html


Concerns for sites in Jordan:

http://www.menafn.com/1095742672/US-scholar-shares-concerns-over-preservation-of-archaeological-sites


We’re reading again of an upcoming antiquities forum in Riyadh:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1146586/saudi-arabia

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
A Hellenistic temple from Umm Qais:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/first-its-kind%E2%80%99-hellenistic-temple-discovered-umm-qais

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5849-170816-jordan-hellenistic-temple

A Roman villa (re)find at Realmonte:

http://www.ibtimes.com/archaeologists-uncover-sicilian-villa-ancient-roman-empire-2578815

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5846-170816-sicily-roman-villa

A metal detectorist found a Roman ‘measuring device’ (in the UK they call
them ‘dividers’):

http://www.heraldseries.co.uk/news/15466752.Metal_detectorist_mistook___39_find_of_his_life__39__for_rusty_tent_peg/


Roman finds from a dig in Bedford:

http://www.bedfordshire-news.co.uk/archaeologist-dubs-bronze-spoon-finding-from-roman-villa-dig-like-8216-sex-on-a-stick-8217/story-30487773-detail/story.html


Possible remains of a Roman temple in the Meon Valley:

http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/15471916.Meon_Valley_dig_unearths_evidence_of_temple/


Not sure when this ‘near Spilsbury’ hoard was found:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/stunned-metal-detectors-discover-hoard-338853#ICID=sharebar_twitter


A Greek inscription from the Crimea:

https://www.kyivpost.com/ukraine-politics/ancient-marble-slab-inscription-found-crimea.html


Plans to excavate the ‘gladiator stadium’ at Laodicea:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/16/gladiators-arena-to-be-unearthed


They’ve found some interesting items (not necessarily ancient) in the
wreck
of Elgin’s ship:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2017/08/15/items-recovered-from-wreck-of-elgins-ship-off-kythira/

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26796-new-impressive-ancient-treasures-discovered-at-historical-kythira-shipwreck.html

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5848-170816-greece-mentor-elgin-excavation

The curator of the Cleveland MoA believes the Cleveland Apollo is a
Praxitelean original:

http://www.clevelandleader.com/cleveland-museum-art-curator-makes-controversial-claim-bronze-apollo-statue-greek-original/


Analysis of silver from Roman coins provides links to Hannibal’s defeat:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/gc-afd081117.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170814092835.htm https://phys.org/news/2017-08-analysis-defeat-hannibal-written-coins.html https://www.livescience.com/60141-ancient-coins-trace-rome-rising-power.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/13/roman-coins-show-evidence-hannibals-defeat-scientists-say/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/14/roman-coins-analysis-tells-hannibal-defeat-rome-rise

https://cosmosmagazine.com/chemistry/roman-conquest-of-spain-written-in-chemistry-of-ancient-coins

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/2200-year-old-coins-record-hannibals-defeat-start-roman-empire-1634912

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/silver-composition-coins-confirms-story-rise-rome-180964513/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5811-170814-rome-silver-coins

Analysis of a tiny piece of pipe, claimed to be from Pompeii, leads to a
theory that antimony was a major health threat:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/uosd-pwh081717.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170817110902.htm https://phys.org/news/2017-08-ancient-pompeii-pipes-contaminated-toxic.html https://www.seeker.com/culture/history/antinomy-poisoning-not-lead-may-have-contributed-to-the-roman-empires-fall

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pompeii-did-antimony-poisoning-lead-downfall-roman-empire-1635637

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5853-170818-pompeii-antimony-water-pipe

Cf: https://rogueclassicism.com/2017/08/18/on-antimony-in-pipes-and-pompeii-yeah-about-that/


The upcoming eclipse spawned an article on the Antikythera Mechanism:

https://www.livescience.com/60144-antikythera-computer-predicted-eclipses.html


Feature on Cicero:

http://www.livelaw.in/cicero-greatest-lawyer-times/

Why study Classics?:

http://www.realcleareducation.com/articles/2017/08/17/why_study_the_classics_110191.html


The SCS statement on diversity in the ancient world and misuse of
Classical
images:

https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2017/08/15/classicists-condemn-use-images-racists


On the claim that all roads lead to Rome:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mythbusting-ancient-romedid-roads.html

In case you haven’t heard enough silliness this week, here’s a claim that Caesar’s invasion of Britain was invented by Alfred the Great:

http://cphpost.dk/news/caesar-conquering-britain-a-9th-century-invention-by-alfred-the-great.html


What Tommye Lou Davis is up to:

http://www.wacotrib.com/news/higher_education/longtime-baylor-administrator-davis-out-as-vice-president/article_02f21ec5-cb98-53bb-b32f-244346b2443e.html

http://www.kwtx.com/content/news/Longtime-Baylor-administrator-to-return-to-classroom-440934523.html


Stephen Fry will be dealing with ancient Greek myth:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/220935/article/ekathimerini/life/stephen-fry-takes-on-mythical-figures-from-ancient-greece
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26801-stephen-fry-takes-on-mythical-figures-from-ancient-greece-in-ontario.html


More on France’s ‘mini Pompeii’:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/archeologists-dig-frances-mini-pompeii-roman-town-frozen-time-fire/


More on citrons as luxury items in the ancient Mediterranean:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/afot-cfl081117.php https://phys.org/news/2017-08-citrus-luxury-item-cash-crop.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170818092100.htm http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Health-and-Science/Citrus-fruit-From-ancient-luxury-item-to-todays-cash-crop-502579

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/history/israeli-researcher-says-citrons-lemons-were-luxuries-in-ancient-mediterranean/2017/08/17/



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Plenty of finds from an Anglo Saxon cemetery on Holy Island:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/complete-skeletons-anglo-saxon-cemetery-13474400

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5845-170815-lindisfarne-anglo-saxon-cemetery-skeletons


… and plenty of Anglo Saxon burials found during the Lincoln Bypass construction:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/mystery-over-400-ancient-graves-346698


A metal detectorist has found a Bronze Age hoard of some sort from Thanet:

http://www.kentlive.news/a-cliftonville-man-has-found-a-gold-coin-and-a-treasure-trove-while-metal-detecting-in-thanet/story-30485584-detail/story.html


Cup and ring marks in Ilkley Moor:

http://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/15479067.Intriguing_cup_and_ring_marks_discovered_on_archaeology_trail_on_Ilkley_Moor/


Searching for remains of a Pictish settlement near Blair Atholl:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/archaeologists-return-to-north-east-seat-of-pictish-kings-1-4536178

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15483296.Blair_Atholl_burial_dig_hopes_to_find_more_signs_of_Pictish_life/

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/search-pictish-settlement-11008380


A metal detectorist found a 6th century coin pendant:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-40962865

A 9th century Arabic coin from Svaty Jur:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20628379/unique-discovery-proves-contact-between-great-moravia-and-orient.html


A medieval church and burials from Lucerne:

https://www.thelocal.ch/20170815/medieval-church-and-skeletons-unearthed-in-lucerne-city-centre


A medieval coin hoard from Denmark:

http://cphpost.dk/news/archaeologists-make-stunning-treasure-find-in-denmark.html


Archaeologists have located and excavated Greenwich Palace:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/greenwich-palace-henry-viii-birthplace-remains-discovered-archaeologists-old-royal-naval-college-a7894331.html

http://artdaily.com/news/98204/Archaeological-find-uncovers-royal-palace-where-Henry-VIII-and-Elizabeth-I-were-born

Remains of Vilna’s 17th century synagogue includes a pair of mikvehs:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/history/two-mikvahs-exposed-in-vilnas-great-synagogue-70-years-after-destruction/2017/08/17/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234046 http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-uncover-the-heart-of-nazi-razed-vilnius-synagogue/

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.807434 http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/Discover-in-Lithuania-archeologists-find-ruins-of-Great-Synagogue-502804

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/great-synagogue-vilna-ritual-baths-that-survived-nazi-soviet-destruction-revealed-1635597

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5851-170817-lithuania-great-synagogue

Plenty of finds (including remains of the crew) during the underwater excavation of the Rooswijk:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-40962097 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/08/17/lost-crew-18th-century-dutch-treasure-ship-found-coast-kent/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/18/treasure-and-intrigue-scientists-unravel-story-of-1740-kent-shipwreck

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/deal/news/team-explores-secrets-of-18th-130720/ http://www.kentnews.co.uk/news/shipwreck-excavations-at-goodwin-sands-shed-new-light-on-voyagers-untold-stories-1-5154772

http://www.ybw.com/news-from-yachting-boating-world/dutch-east-india-company-ship-rooswijk-archaeologists-discovery-58436

http://artdaily.com/news/98194/Bones--silver-found-in-18th-century-Dutch-wreck-off-UK
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/08/shipwreck-rooswijk-dutch-trading-kent-england-artifacts-spd/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5852-170818-england-dutch-shipwreck

Evidence of a 200 years bp ‘refugee camp’ from Galway:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/heritage/archaeologist-finds-200-year-old-galway-refugee-camp-1.3190982


Excavating a 100 years bp Kilwinning cottage:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/secrets-100-year-old-kilwinning-10997665

Plans to dig Caithness’ brochs:

http://www.scotsman.com/future-scotland/tech/caithness-digs-deep-to-discover-secrets-of-its-brochs-1-4533401


Brief hype for a dig at Voden fortress:

http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/08/16/422046/plovdiv-archaeological-excavations-at-voden-fortress-in-asenovgrad-continue.html


A brooch associated with Richard III is coming to auction:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-leicestershire-40961864

Moscow might be a hundred years older than previously thought:

https://themoscowtimes.com/news/moscow-58670

Interesting theory about the Uffington White Horse:

http://archaeology.org/issues/269-1709/from-the-trenches/5830-trenches-england-prehistoric-uffington-white-horse


By the time you read this, they’re probably already digging the Oxford
flood channel:

http://www.thisisoxfordshire.co.uk/news/15482834.Oxford_flood_channel_archaeology_digs_to_begin_within_days/

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/15482834.Oxford_flood_channel_archaeology_digs_to_begin_within_days/


Rethinking some images associated with the Plague:

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/08/18/542435991/those-iconic-images-of-the-plague-thats-not-the-plague


Feature on the Ballachulish goddess:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/who-was-the-2-500-year-old-ballachulish-goddess-1-4534045


Plans for the Globe Theatre:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-40972934

A 5000 years bp possible image of an eclipse from Ireland is being brought
up again for obvious reasons:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/08/18/this-5000-year-old-stone-carving-may-be-the-worlds-first-drawing-of-an-eclipse/

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/18/worlds-first-drawing-of-an-eclipse/

We mentioned this 4000 years bp dagger find from Slovakia:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/16/c_136530140.htm

I think we mentioned the reopening of Joint Mitnor cave, with 3d printed replicas of items that were stolen:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/once-plundered-thieves-ancient-cave-reopens-3-d-replicas-stolen-fossils-180964455/


More on that circular Viking fortress from Denmark:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/thousand-year-old-viking-fortress-reveals-technologically-advanced-society



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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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Neolithic remains from the Kashmir:

http://www.greaterkashmir.com/news/kashmir/stone-age-kashmiri-was-intelligent-skilled-burzahom-findings/257574.html


Evidence of a Vietnamese trading network which operated 4500-3000 years
bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/anu-aua081717.php https://phys.org/news/2017-08-archaeologists-uncover-ancient-network-vietnam.html

http://citynews.com.au/2017/anu-uncovers-vietnamese-trading-network/ http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/archaeologists-uncover-ancient-trading-network-vietnam

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2017/evidence-for-long-distance-neolithic-trading-network-in-vietnam-uncovered

Taking rubbings from a 1st century CE Mongolian cliff inscription:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2107500/archaeologists-discover-story-chinas-ancient-military-might


Possible evidence of a second capital in 8th century Osaka:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201708170055.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5850-170817-japan-ancient-capital-unearthed

A 1000 years bp royal burial from North Korea (!):

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/638688/north-korea-Goryeo-Dynasty-tomb-Kaesong-archeology-kcna-Suk-Jong


Conserving items in Ladakh monasteries:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/agra/asi-comes-to-rescue-of-1000-year-old-antiquities-in-ladakh-monasteries/articleshow/60062684.cms


Not sure about this ‘Great Wall of Siberia’ item:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/discovered-the-great-wall-of-siberia-dating-to-1st-millennium-bc/

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/841374/Great-Wall-Siberia-discovery-Altai-Mountains-achaeology


Roundabout construction in New Zealand reveals an ancient Maori
settlement:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/bay-of-plenty-times/news/article.cfm?c_id=1503343&objectid=11903872

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1&objectid=11903872 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5855-170817-new-zealand-maori-settlement

Feature on life in colonial New Zealand:

https://www.newsroom.co.nz/2017/08/16/42910/how-tough-was-life-in-colonial-new-zealand


The Chinese art market is sputtering, apparently:

https://news.artnet.com/market/2016-chinese-art-market-report-shows-market-in-doldrums-1050767


A history of Guam:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/brief-500-year-history-guam-180964508/


More on dog-eating rituals in Siberia:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2143891-ancient-warriors-killed-and-ate-their-dogs-as-rite-of-passage/#038;%23038;%23038;campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-


More on that well-preserved Siberian mummy:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/meet-the-mummified-polar-beauty-her-long-eyelashes-and-hair-still-intact-after-900-years/

https://elpais.com/internacional/2017/08/11/mundo_global/1502453125_358701.html


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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 1500 years bp midden from Camarines Sur:

http://newsinfo.inquirer.net/923681/1500-yr-old-artifacts-found-in-camsur

Latest from the Fort Edward dig:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/nyregion/french-indian-war-fort-edward-new-york-18th-century-british-troops.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

http://www.lmtonline.com/news/article/Archaeology-dig-on-NY-Colonial-military-site-11883012.php
http://www.njherald.com/article/20170818/AP/308189981 http://www.wcax.com/content/news/Archaeology-dig-on-NY-Colonial-military-site-wrapping-up-441005053.html


Digging the Sandwich site (near Windsor, ON):

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/windsor/indigenous-monitors-added-archaeological-sandwich-roundabout-1.4251857


On efforts to save Mi’kmaq artifacts threatened by erosion:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/saving-mi-kmaq-artifacts-before-they-wash-into-the-sea-1.4251195?cmp=rss


Feature on Benjamin Lay:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/12/opinion/sunday/youll-never-be-as-radical-as-this-18th-century-quaker-dwarf.html


… and Josiah Henson:

http://www.somdnews.com/independent/spotlight/archaeologist-retraces-the-steps-of-an-underground-railroad-pioneer/article_d985d818-4190-53ff-849c-643fef767271.html


… and Martin Frobisher:

https://www.adn.com/nation-world/2017/08/16/how-a-middle-aged-midwestern-nobody-made-his-mark-in-the-arctic/

http://nationalpost.com/news/world/maps-worldwide-were-changed-how-a-novice-explorer-made-his-mark-in-the-arctic-in-1860/wcm/17e974ec-1a1d-4bb0-b3c4-88d844ea34dc

Oldest known photo of a US president:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/16/arts/design/john-quincy-adams-daguerreotype-sothebys-auction.html


On the Russian presence in North America:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/15/us/russia-america.html

Latest on the demise of the Franklin crew:

http://gizmodo.com/new-clues-emerge-about-doomed-expedition-through-the-no-1797855047


In case you want to know about assorted Confederate monuments (varied coverage):

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/08/16/us/confederate-monuments-removed.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40966800 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40978515

Hopes for more study of a possible slave burial ground in Brooklyn:

http://www.nydailynews.com/new-york/call-study-slave-burial-ground-brooklyn-article-1.3421089


More on that Pueblaon petroglyph which might depict an eclipse:

https://www.livescience.com/60129-ancient-rock-art-depicts-solar-eclipse.html



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
A circular wall from Peru:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-peru-3000yearold-circular-stone-wall-found-in-cusco-678217.aspx

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5809-170814-peru-circular-wall-unearthed

Feature on a ‘Mayan Pompeii’:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/mayan-pompeii-offers-snapshot-ancient-village-frozen-time-by-massive-volcanic-eruption-1635133



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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 ================================================================
On the history of department stores:

http://www.bbc.com/news/business-40448607

… and offices:

http://www.smartcompany.com.au/people-human-resources/from-medieval-monks-to-online-connectivity-a-short-history-of-the-office/


Assorted coverage of various eclipses throughout history and human
reactions thereto:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170811-why-do-we-associate-eclipses-with-the-end-of-the-world

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/science/eclipse-discoveries-science.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/science/solar-eclipse-myths.html http://www.fox9.com/fox-content-hub/274567152-story http://www.npr.org/2017/08/16/543532422/how-eclipses-changed-history https://www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/2017/lifestyle/eclipse-myths/ https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/context/eclipses-show-wrong-physics-can-give-right-results
http://theconversation.com/how-ancient-cultures-explained-eclipses-79887 http://www.thedailytimes.com/columns/steve_wildsmith/eclipse-tips-prepare-for-werewolves-and-the-moon-serpent/article_1923e82b-71da-5b62-aed8-0de123d115f6.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/what-folklore-tells-us-about-eclipses-180964488/

How Switzerland transformed the idea of breakfast:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170808-how-switzerland-transformed-breakfast


Almost in our period of purview but of interest … a missing British tank
turned up at the Somme:

http://www.ntnews.com.au/technology/world-war-i-archaeological-dig-at-the-somme-turns-up-missing-british-tank-that-fled-due-to-cowardice/news-story/e9639bcaae9e2e75e3bbe5475a90eb14


… and not in our time period, but of interest is the find of the USS Indianapolis wreck:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/researchers-find-wreckage-of-lost-wwii-warship-uss-indianapolis/2017/08/19/9b432b1c-8520-11e7-ab27-1a21a8e006ab_story.html

http://www.journalgazette.net/news/20170819/researchers-find-wreckage-of-lost-wwii-warship-uss-indianapolis

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Researchers-find-wreckage-of-lost-WWII-warship-11944819.php

https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2017/08/19/wreck-of-warship-uss-indianapolis-found-deep-in-pacific-after-72-years.html

http://www.denverpost.com/2017/08/19/researchers-find-wreckage-uss-indianapolis/


A possibly misleading translation in the King James Bible:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.807467

Feature on Machiavelli:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/public/political-animal/

Victor Nuovo is dealing with Locke and Hobbes this week:

http://addisonindependent.com/201708victor-nuovo-does-mind-always-think

A plea from archaeologists to stop hoarding bones:

https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/stop-hoarding-ancient-bones-plead-archaeologists1/


Using archaeology to rethink osteoarthritis:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/08/15/543402095/creaky-knees

On torches and intimidation throughout history:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/08/15/a-short-history-of-torches-and-intimidation/


Review of a biography of Freud:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/books/review/freud-biography-frederick-crews.html


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Pompeii:

http://eastpdxnews.com/general-news-features/pompeii-comes-to-life-at-omsi/

Feature on the Neanderthal Museum:

http://www.dw.com/en/is-man-the-eternal-migrant-neanderthal-museum-explores-history-of-human-movement/a-40094864

http://www.dw.com/en/two-million-years-of-migration/g-40095881

Suggestion that interactive museum features aren’t good for you:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/can-high-culture-make-you-sick/2017/08/18/4e0e997a-7dd3-11e7-a669-b400c5c7e1cc_story.html



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THE TECHY SIDE
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A 19th century murderer is the latest facial reconstruction project:

https://stv.tv/news/east-central/1395611-face-of-19th-century-killer-revealed-by-modern-forensics/

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-edinburgh-east-fife-40924617

Overviewish sort of thing on assorted technologies used in archaeology:

https://www.nbcnews.com/mach/science/these-technologies-are-giving-new-life-ancient-world-ncna792921


Policy change to use VR to examine shipwrecks in the UK:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/19/no-mary-rose-style-excavation-ships-will-explored-using-vr-instead/




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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Tracing apple DNA this week:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/aug/15/geneticists-trace-humble-apples-exotic-lineage-all-the-way-to-the-silk-road


More on turkey DNA to track Puebloan movements:

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Turkey-bones-may-help-trace-fate-of-ancient-cliff-11859231.php

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John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo,
Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley, David Critchley,
Ken Fisher, Feral Boy, Richard Miller, Bill Kennedy, Allan Brockway,
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Rick Heli, Allan Brockway, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent
for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... a very busy fortnight!

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Neanderthal remains from Vindija Cave are older than previously thought:

https://phys.org/news/2017-09-dating-neanderthal-vindija-cave-older.html

On the use of adhesives by Neanderthals:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-neanderthals.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170831093424.htm https://www.livescience.com/60302-first-adhesive-invented-by-neanderthals.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/07/science/neanderthals-tar-glue.html https://www.sciencenews.org/article/fiery-re-creations-show-how-neandertals-could-have-easily-made-tar
http://gizmodo.com/new-experiment-reveals-secret-behind-200-000-year-old-n-1798636925
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/09/neanderthals-were-distilling-tar-200-thousand-years-ago-in-europe/
http://www.ibtimes.com/how-neanderthals-made-first-glue-tar-make-stronger-weapons-2585232
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/experiments-show-how-neanderthals-made-first-glue-180964718/

Some fossil footprints from Crete are apparently causing an evolutionary rethink:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-fossil-footprints-theories-human-evolution.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170831134221.htm http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/six-million-year-old-human-footprint-discovered-in-crete-raises-major-questions-about-our-evolution/ar-AAr52W3?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartandhp
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/09/01/what-made-these-footprints-5-7-million-years-ago/

Humans are still evolving, apparently:

https://m.phys.org/news/2017-09-large-scale-genetic-humans-evolving.html

What teeth reveal about human ancestors:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-teeth-reveal-secret-ancestors.html

Another challenge to the ‘out of Africa’ theory:


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/humans-came-from-africa-crete-study-australopithecus-early-fossil-a7929521.html

Some evolutionary humour from the Onion:

http://www.theonion.com/article/tearful-anthropologists-discover-dead-ancestor-hum-51286


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AFRICA
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I think we mentioned the search in Libya for the remains of the town of
Barca:

https://www.libyaobserver.ly/culture/libyan-archeology-authority-look-lost-ancient-city-barca

On the monuments men of Timbuktu:

http://www.dw.com/en/monuments-men-of-timbuktu/av-40390133


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Plenty of coverage of a New Kingdom royal goldsmith (and family) tomb find
near Luxor:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/21778/Middle-Kingdom-era-cemetery-unearthed-in-Luxor
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/20185/Discovery-of-a-new-archaeological-necropolis-in-Luxor
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/276757/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Amunre-goldsmith-tomb-uncovered-in-Draa-Abul-Naga-.aspx
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/21778/Ancient-cemetery-dating-back-18th-dynasty-unearthed-in-Luxor
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/21853/Know-about-what%E2%80%99s-inside-newly-discovered-cemetery-in-Luxor
http://www.egyptindependent.com/pharaonic-tomb-uncovered-luxor/ https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/10/world/middleeast/egypt-archaeology-tomb-goldsmith.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
https://www.livescience.com/60364-ancient-goldsmith-tomb-mummies-discovered-egypt.html
https://www.livescience.com/60363-photos-ancient-goldsmith-tomb-egypt.html https://phys.org/news/2017-09-egypt-unearths-goldsmith-tomb-mummies.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-41213024 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/09/egypt-archaeologists-unearth-3500-year-old-tomb-luxor/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/09/mummies-tomb-ancient-egypt-valley-of-the-kings
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-egypt-archaeology-discovery/egypt-archaeologists-unearth-goldsmiths-tomb-near-luxor-idUSKCN1BK0FE?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt
http://www.reuters.com/video/2017/09/09/egyptian-archaeologists-discover-3000-ye?videoId=372502511&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=TopNews&videoChannel=1
https://www.timesofisrael.com/3500-year-old-pharonic-tomb-of-royal-goldsmith-unearthed-in-luxor/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/egypt-announces-discovery-of-3500-year-old-tomb http://www.msn.com/en-gb/news/world/egypt-announces-discovery-of-3500-year-old-tomb-in-luxor/ar-AArxlsJ?li=AAmiR2Z&ocid=spartandhp
http://www.cbs8.com/story/36327821/egypt-announces-discovery-of-3500-years-old-tomb-in-luxor
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/09/africa/egypt-luxor-ancient-tomb/index.html https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2017/09/09/egyptian-archaeologists-discover-3000-year-old-tomb-goldsmith/105445472/
http://www.denverpost.com/2017/09/09/photos-egyptian-tomb-of-a-royal-goldsmith-discovered/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/egypt-dig-unearths-goldsmiths-tomb-mummies-114603526.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/09/luxor-egypt-necropolis-discovery/

… and Zahi Hawass says there’s plentymore to find:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/21993/Zahi-Hawass-Egypt-discovered-only-30-of-its-antiquities

Egyptian looters are apparently seeking aid from professional
archaeologists:

https://www.livescience.com/60246-looters-ask-egyptologists-for-help.html

… and the digging in homes continues:

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/poor-egyptians-dig-up-homes-in-search-of-antiquities-vmcv8mzdn
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/the-times/egyptian-slumdwellers-strike-gold-with-ancient-treasure-at-their-feet/news-story/11c4fcc9e2cf5d5d9528b058f2402f4d

Feature on a smashed Egyptian ‘mystery pharaoh’ sculpture found at Hazor a while ago:

https://www.livescience.com/60270-ancient-statue-head-depicts-mystery-pharaoh.html
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/The-enduring-mystery-of-an-ancient-Egyptian-kings-smashed-sculpture-504118

An 8000 years bp ‘paint workshop’ from Eskisehir:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/31/8000-year-old-paint-workshop-discovered-in-turkeys-eskisehir
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-08/31/c_136571941.htm

I think we mentioned the renewed interest in Plimpton 322 and its
implications for the development of trigonometry:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-mathematical-mystery-ancient-babylonian-clay.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/science/trigonometry-babylonian-tablet.html http://plenglish.com/index.php?o=rn&id=17654&SEO=plimpton-322-trigonometry-preceded-ancient-greeks
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/babylonians-trigonometry-develop-more-advanced-modern-mathematics-3700-years-ago-ancient-a7910936.html

A 7200 years bp ‘ritual storage pot’/model silo from Tel Tsaf:

http://www.haifa.ac.il/index.php/en/home-page3/2568 https://www.timesofisrael.com/find-of-7200-year-old-clay-silo-forces-rethink-of-when-we-began-storing-food/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Unprecedented-7200-year-old-vessel-for-food-storage-rituals-found-in-Jordan-Valley-504401
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/haifa-berlin-scientists-discover-connection-between-pottery-vessel-and-the-development-of-the-elites/2017/09/06/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5895-170906-israel-grain-silo

Latest on Iraq’s ‘Sealand Kingdom’:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/sep/01/castle-sealand-kings-ancient-iraqs-rebel-rulers

A dig at Kiriath Jearim has apparently raised questions about what was in
the Ark of the Covenant:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.809233

A number of First Temple era seals/sealings found near the Old City:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4311 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Seals-from-Judean-Kingdom-period-shed-light-on-life-in-ancient-Jerusalem-504173
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.810495 http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=45109 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/235004 http://www.jewishpress.com/blogs/elder-of-ziyon/first-temple-era-seals-with-biblical-names-in-hebrew-discovered-in-jerusalem/2017/09/05/
https://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-welcomed-jewish-refugees-2300-years-ago-archaeological-finds-show/

Excavating a refugee camp at Masada:

http://forward.com/news/israel/382132/exclusive-new-archaeology-shows-refugee-camp-not-just-rebels-atop-masada/

I think we mentioned the find of a 2000 years b.p. ‘Half shekel’ by an eight-year-old in Israel:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/8-year-old-girl-stumbles-upon-ultra-rare-2000-year-old-half-shekel/
http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/8-year-old-Israeli-girl-finds-2000-year-old-half-shekel-503509
http://forward.com/fast-forward/381114/8-year-old-israeli-girl-finds-2-000-year-old-shekel-coin/

… turns out it was a museum souvenir replica:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/too-good-to-be-true-8-year-olds-rare-coin-not-an-ancient-artifact/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234643 http://forward.com/fast-forward/381152/8-year-old-girls-ancient-coin-is-actually-israel-museum-souvenir/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Discovery-thought-to-be-Second-Temple-coin-is-actually-museum-souvenir-503592

OpEd on the Temple Mount Sifting Project:

http://www.jewishpress.com/indepth/opinions/fund-the-temple-mount-sifting-project-now/2017/08/29/

Reburial at Ofra of bones found in 2013 of some victims of the Revolt
against Rome:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234892

Feature on Lycian writing:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-writing-in-turkey-dates-back-to-2000-bc.aspx?PageID=238&NID=117728&NewsCatID=375

The search is on for remains of St Nicholas:

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/2017/08/31/archeologists-hunt-for-st-nicholass-remains

Feature on students digging at Lachish this past summer:

https://www.oakland.edu/socan/news/2017/fall/students-probe-mysteries-of-the-past-during-archeological-dig-in-israel

Feature on the Spanish mission’s work in Jordan:

http://www.menafn.com/1095784075/Spanish-Archaeological-Mission-strives-to-excavate-Jordans-treasures
http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/spanish-archaeological-mission-strives-excavate-jordan%E2%80%99s-treasures

Iraq has created a new security force to protect its archaeological
resources:


http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2017/09/dhi-qar-iraq-security-antiquities.html

Studying early agriculture in the UAE:

http://gulfnews.com/culture/heritage/archaeologists-shed-light-on-life-in-the-uae-5-000-years-ago-1.2080734
https://www.traveltradeweekly.travel/2015-10-06-15-40-04/travel-channels/item/3520-emirati-archaeologists-investigate-early-agricultural-village
https://www.zawya.com/mena/en/story/Archaeologists_shed_light_on_life_in_the_UAE_5000_years_ago-GN_27082017_280838/
https://www.albawaba.com/entertainment/archaeological-dig-al-ain-life-before-islam-bronze-age-1016106
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2017/08/27/Archaeologists-shed-new-light-on-life-in-the-UAE-5-000-years-ago.html

Another overviewish piece on finds made during Istanbul’s metro
construction:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/new-istanbul-metro-station-to-open-in-besiktas-after-excavations-are-completed.aspx?pageID=238&nid=117355&NewsCatID=375

Germany and Turkey are in some sort of diplomatic spat over Hattusha:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nID=117230&NewsCatID=375

Feature on Babylon:

https://www.livescience.com/28701-ancient-babylon-center-of-mesopotamian-civilization.html

More on the reassessment of a pile of copper slag from Turkey:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.809367

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
A pair of Mycenean burials from Aidonia:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26893-new-mycenaean-tombs-discovered-during-recent-nemea-excavations-in-greece.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5874-170828-greece-chamber-tomb

Some sort of sunken structure off the island of Salamis:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tornos/trends/26937-sunken-ruin-described-by-pausanias-discovered-in-greek-island-of-salamis.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5880-170829-salamis-public-building

A very important Roman cavalry barracks find from Vindolanda:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/09/hadrians-wall-lost-secrets-roman-vindolanda-unearthed
https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/archaeologists-win-lottery-roman-finds-hadrians-wall/
http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/british-archaeology-barracks-hadrian-10092017/

I think we’ve mentioned the find of Roman burials from the Dakhla Oasis:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/five-roman-cemeteries-discovered-dakhla-oasis/ https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/08/24/an-egyptian-archaeological-mission-discovers-five-roman-tombs-in-dakhla-oasis/
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/08/27/roman-empire-traces-discovered-dakhla/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-archaeologists-uncover-tombs-dating-back-to-roman-era/2017/08/24/98f398dc-88eb-11e7-96a7-d178cf3524eb_story.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/2000yearold-tombs-from-roman-period-found-in-egypt/news-story/0613e6fc76aaa7105e2c81028c12e7e7
http://www.menafn.com/1095778082/Egypt--Roman-Empire-traces-discovered-in-Dakhla

Roman (maybe) tweezers from Washingborough:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/washingborough-bypass-dig-unearths-pristine-382978

Remains of some sort of Roman settlement from Newcastle:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-41073983 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/housebuilders-uncover-roman-settlement-in-newcastle-jx35tlm8f
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/remarkable-discovery-made-benwell-housing-13539582

A Roman bath house and spa from Faversham:

http://www.kentonline.co.uk/faversham/news/archaeologists-dig-in-to-reveal-130738/

A second century cistern from Peperikon:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/08/25/archaeology-2nd-century-ce-drinking-water-collection-tank-found-at-bulgarias-perperikon/

Assorted Roman structures from downtown Sofia:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/08/25/archaeology-ancient-tavern-shops2-found-under-sofias-sveta-nedelya-square/

Latest finds from Aspendos:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-at-aspendos-continue-to-uncover-ancient-riches-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=117267&NewsCatID=375
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5877-170828-turkey-aspendos-shops

Soil samples suggest Romans were using lead pipes much earlier than
previously thought:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-harbor-sediment-core-samples-historic.html https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/ancient-mud-documents-legacy-rome-lead-pipes?tgt=nr
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/08/origins-ancient-rome-s-famed-pipe-plumbing-system-revealed-soil-samples
https://arstechnica.com/science/2017/08/plumbing-discovery-reveals-the-rise-and-fall-of-the-roman-empire/
https://www.sciencealert.com/the-rise-and-the-fall-of-the-romans-can-be-charted-in-their-plumbing

A third century Roman coin hoard from Cornwall:

http://www.cornwalllive.com/news/cornwall-news/treasure-hunting-pair-unearthed-nearly-367139
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5869-170824-england-roman-coins

Plans for further digs at a Roman bath site in Carlisle:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-41129589 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-41219665

A very interesting fourth century mosaic find from West Berkshire:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/sep/02/rare-roman-mosaic-found-berkshire-archaeology-project-boxford
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/berkshire-find-archaeology-roman-pegasus-hercules-st-george-a7925381.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/topic/boxford-berkshire-preservation-of-roman-mosaics
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/03/exciting-roman-mosaic-50-years-discovered-community-dig-berkshire/
http://metro.co.uk/2017/09/03/amateur-archaeologists-discover-amazing-1600-year-old-roman-mosaic-6900471/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stunning-roman-mosaic-unearthed-by-amateur-archaeologists-in-berkshire-fplrx997x
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/one-kind-roman-mosaic-depicts-incredible-battles-between-beasts-heroes-ancient-mythology-1637570
http://www.newburytoday.co.uk/news/home/22197/volunteers-dig-up-roman-artefacts.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5891-170901-england-mosaic-floor

Some preliminary observations of victims of Vesuvius found at Oplontis:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/08/24/pregnant-women-and-fetuses-among-vesuvius-victims-archaeologists-reveal/

A pompeiian what-if piece:

http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/what-would-pompeii-be-like-if-vesuvius-never-erupted.aspx

Very questionable remains associated with Pliny the Elder:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/this-skull-pliny-elder-hero-pompeii-1637875 http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.809751

The Colchian Kingdom dig has come to an end for the season:

http://agenda.ge/news/85935/eng

I think we mentioned this dispute over a Roman site in Malta:

https://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20170831/local/residents-fight-pa-over-possible-roman-site.656873

A pair of burials near the Olympic Stadium in Rome:

https://www.thelocal.it/20170824/ancient-roman-tombs-found-near-football-stadium-in-italy
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/24/2-ancient-roman-sarcophagi-found-near-football-stadium-in-rome
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/ancient-roman-sarcophagi-discovered-chance-next-romes-football/
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/nations/italy/2017/08/23/roman-sarcophagi-discovered-near-stadio-olimpico_94468396-1dad-4c03-8a09-f31f3a665f1c.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/08/24/ancient-roman-sarcophagi-discovered-chance-next-romes-football/
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/08/23/roman-sarcophagi-discovered-near-stadio_ce131439-7bb3-4ea9-902a-331e4ef81b05.html

A virtual reconstruction of the Arch of Titus:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.811165

The discovery of the sunken remains of Neapolis off Tunisia are getting
much more press attention now:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-tsunami-sunk-roman-tunisia.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/roman-city-discovered-underwater-ruins-tunisia-tsunami-neapolis-nabuel-cathage-a7924181.html
https://www.thelocal.it/20170901/roman-ruins-sunk-by-tsunami-discovered-in-tunisia
https://www.timesofisrael.com/tsunami-sunk-roman-ruins-discovered-in-tunisia/ http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/tsunami-sunk-roman-ruins-discovered-in-tunisia-20170831
http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/08/major-underwater-roman-ruins-discovered-tunisia-170831185305715.html
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-rome-sunken-city-devastated-tsunami-1600-years-ago-discovered-tunisian-658454
http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/roman-submerged-ruins-04323/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ruins-roman-city-found-underwater-180964738/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5890-170901-tunisia-underwater-neapolis

Hyping the dig at Nicopolis ad Istrum:

http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/08/21/422196/veliko-tarnovo-archaeological-research-starts-in-roman-city-of-nicopolis-ad-istrum.html

… and the Roman theatre dig at Bursa:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-theater-in-bursa-to-regain-identity.aspx?pageID=238&nID=117694&NewsCatID=375

They’ll be digging at Zeugma for quite a while apparently:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/zeugma-excavations-to-last-a-century-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=117576&NewsCatID=375

They’re restored the stadium at Denizli:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-stadium-in-denizli-under-restoration.aspx?pageID=238&nid=116945&NewsCatID=375

Hopes for more research at Chedworth Roman Villa:

http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/15487343.Visitors_could_in_future_see_what_lies_under_the_ground_at_Chedworth_Roman_Villa_in_three_dimensional_scan_of_buried_ruins/

A conservation plan at Hadrian’s Wall:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-41050864

Plans to move Larnaca tennis courts to promote ancient remains:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2017/09/06/larnaca-tennis-courts-moved-showcase-ancient-port-minister-says/

Plans to open the Ploutonion to the public:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/09/07/ancient-gate-to-underworld-complex-will-open-for-tourists

A project to publish all the Greek inscriptions in UK collections:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/09/06/cardiff-uni-to-translate-publish-ancient-athens-inscriptions-of-uk-collections/

Greece is apparently going to use the Brexit negotiations to try and
recover the Parthenon marbles:

http://www.dw.com/en/greece-could-use-brexit-to-recover-stolen-parthenon-art/a-40038439
https://newsline.com/uk-to-lose-its-marbles-greek-activists-seek-brexit-blockade-to-regain-stolen-parthenon-art/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26983-report-brits-fear-greece-may-stall-brexit-over-parthenon-marbles-return.html

Feature on Commodus:

http://www.abc.net.au/radio/melbourne/programs/evenings/commodus/8840516

… and Caligula:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/26/opinion/sunday/caligula-roman-empire.html

… and Lucretius:

http://wamc.org/post/david-nightingale-lucretius-philosopher

Feature on Troy:

https://www.livescience.com/38191-ancient-troy.html

… and Monte Testaccio:

https://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2017/09/06/rod-mengham/the-eighth-hill-of-rome/

… and the Seven Wonders:

http://www.salon.com/2017/08/20/how-we-lost-the-seven-wonders-of-the-ancient-world/

Feature on Tod and the Colosseum:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/fashion-company-paying-maintain-romes-colosseum/

A guide to the Odyssey:

http://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-homers-odyssey-82911

A feature on Silphium:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20170907-the-mystery-of-the-lost-roman-herb

Kathleen Martinez continues to look for the tomb of Cleopatra:

https://dominicantoday.com/dr/local/2017/08/21/dominican-archaeologist-upbeat-on-finding-cleopatra-efe/

Nice collection of Classical one-liners:

https://www.irishtimes.com/culture/books/that-s-a-classic-trinity-publishes-50-favourite-classical-one-liners-1.3205032

Reviews of Daniel Mendelsohn, *An Odyssey*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/sep/05/an-odyssey-a-father-a-son-and-an-epic-daniel-mendelsohn-review
http://www.startribune.com/review-an-odyssey-a-father-a-son-and-an-epic-by-daniel-mendelsohn/443098693/
https://www.theglobeandmail.com/arts/books-and-media/book-reviews/review-daniel-mendelsohns-an-odyssey-is-bewildering-and-beguiling/article36208816/

Review of Man, *Amazons*:

http://www.thestatesman.com/books-education/amazons-myths-realities-significance-wondrous-woman-warriors-1502488771.html

Review of David Ferry’s *Aeneid* translation:

http://www.weeklystandard.com/lost-and-founder/article/2009587

What Jennifer Chi is up to:

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/brooklyn-museum-jennifer-chi-deputy-director-1074644

Concerns for Classics at PLU:

http://www.thenewstribune.com/news/local/news-columns-blogs/matt-driscoll/article172160497.html

In case your university needs a Latin motto:

https://www.mcsweeneys.net/articles/honest-latin-mottoes-for-your-overrated-university

More on what xrays revealed in that Herculaneum fresco:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-08/acs-rah072517.php https://phys.org/news/2017-08-remarkable-artistry-hidden-ancient-roman.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/08/170821085702.htm https://www.seeker.com/culture/x-ray-reveals-ancient-roman-portrait-covered-in-mt-vesuvius-ash
https://www.forbes.com/sites/samlemonick/2017/08/21/science-is-uncovering-the-exquisite-detail-in-this-faded-painting/
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/scientists-unearth-hidden-beauty-of-vesuvius-painting-jgscc59bz
https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/elemental-maps-reveal-hidden-beauty-of-roman-portrait/3007876.article
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/x-rays-reveal-details-portrait-once-hidden-under-vesuvius-ash-180964592/
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/history/captivating-new-look-at-ancient-painting-buried-by-volcano.aspx


More on that Justinianic mosaic from near the Damascus Gate:

https://phys.org/news/2017-08-rare-byzantine-mosaic-revealed-jerusalem.html http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/234406 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/emperor-justinian-mosaic-inscription-unearthed-near-damascus-gate/2017/08/23/
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-archaeology-idUSKCN1B3195 http://forward.com/fast-forward/380811/miraculous-1-500-year-old-mosaic-unearthed-in-jerusalem/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/rare-byzantine-mosaic-revealed-jerusalems-old-city-132841311.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/once-in-a-lifetime-find-of-ancient-greek-inscription-uncovered-at-jerusalems-old-city-gate/
http://www.dw.com/en/rare-1500-year-old-mosaic-discovered-in-jerusalem/a-40214870
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-archaeology/israeli-archaeologists-uncover-rare-1500-year-old-mosaic-idUSKCN1B3195?feedType=RSS&feedName=artsNews
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.808491 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5863-170823-israel-byzantine-inscription

More on the Castle Howard collection:

http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/15490332.The_Roman_treasures_from_Castle_Howard_saved_for_the_nation_in_a___5_4_million_tax_deal/
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15482605.The_Roman_treasures_from_Castle_Howard_saved_for_the_nation_in_a___5_4_million_tax_deal/



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Bronze Age tools from a dig at the Clwydian hillforts site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-east-wales-41187985 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-wales-41187989/archaeologist-thrilled-by-clwydian-range-hillforts-find

An Iron age coin hoard find from near Lincoln:

http://www.granthamjournal.co.uk/news/harlaxton-detectorist-finds-hundreds-of-gold-and-silver-iron-age-coins-1-8141254
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5904-170908-iron-age-coins

I’m sure we’ll get more coverage of a girl’s pulling a medieval sword
from a lake in Cornwall (with the expected Excalibur references):

http://mashable.com/2017/09/04/excalibur-girl-king-arthur-lake-cornwall/#uuiaRt6f6iqH

A dig commences at Cotswalds:

http://www.wiltsglosstandard.co.uk/news/15496554.Scientists_to_start_archaeological_dig_at_historic_site_in_the_Cotswolds/

Suggestion that an Iron Age home at Sutherland was abandoned after a fire:

https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/highlands/1318012/iron-aged-house-was-burned-down/

Remains of a medieval settlement in Jutland:

http://cphpost.dk/news/archaeologists-uncover-medieval-village-in-mid-jutland.html

Assorted sites, including a ringfort, at a Macroom bypass site:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/bronze-age-ring-fort-among-sites-discovered-on-macroom-road-route-457841.html

Hyping a dig at Bourton-on-the-water:

http://www.cotswoldjournal.co.uk/news/15501984.Secrets_at_one_of_Europe__39_s_oldest_towns_to_be_discovered_by_archaeological_dig/

A medieval coin hoard from a Polish castle:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,459512,czluchow-archaeologists-discovered-coins-hidden-from-the-swedes--more-than-350-years-ago.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/rare-350-year-old-treasure-trove-historic-coins-discovered-hidden-polish-castle-1638005

On the Tudor palace dig at Greenwich:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-traces-of-the-tudor-palace-at-greenwich-are-a-truly-remarkable-find/

Latest from Stara Libovna Castle:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20642884/new-discoveries-uncovered-at-stara-lubovna-castle.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5900-170907-slovakia-stara-l-ubovna-castle

Remains of the Scepter shipwreck found in Stockholm:

https://www.thelocal.se/20170906/swedish-kings-scepter-shipwreck-17th-century-warship-found-in-central-stockholm

Assorted coastal settlement remains from Yorkshire:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-settlements-lost-sea-discovered-yorkshire-1638296
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5899-170907-england-tidal-settlements

Remains of 19th century whales from an Orkney Neolithic site dig:

http://www.scotsman.com/regions/inverness-highlands-islands/early-19th-century-whales-found-at-orkney-archaeological-dig-1-4545556
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-scotland-41109126/neolithic-dig-unearths-19th-century-whale-pits

A mass children’s grave in Lanark:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41200949

I think we mentioned this roundhouse from Clachtoll Broch:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/5885-170830-scotland-clachtoll-broch

A Victorian-era well find in a garden:

http://www.sloughobserver.co.uk/news/15512054.Father_and_son_uncover_Victorian_era_well_in_garden/

Funding for a North Yorkshire Iron Age dig:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/15510103.__80_000_Lotto_cash_for_North_Yorkshire_Iron_Age_dig/

Latest of the Venus of Dolni Vestonice:

http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/shapely-czech-venus-reveals-secrets

A restoration controversy at Chartres Cathedral:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/01/arts/design/chartres-cathedral-restoration-controversial.html

Concerns about metal detecting at Vinegar Hill:

http://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/call-for-protection-as-battle-site-stripped-by-metal-detectorists-458639.html

Pondering early iron production in Norway:

http://www.eurasiareview.com/08092017-solving-enigma-of-early-norwegian-iron-production/

‘Digging work’ (by heavy equipment) damaged a fairy fort in Ireland:

http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/outrage-after-ancient-fairy-fort-is-badly-damaged-by-diggers-36112547.html

Notre Dame needs a pile of restoration money, it appears:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/29/100m-needed-save-gargoyles-gothic-arches-notre-dame

They’re still looking for the burial of Matthew Flinders:

http://www.bostonstandard.co.uk/news/could-dig-answer-flinders-mystery-1-8141241

More on a violent medieval London:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/medieval-graveyards-reveal-londons-violent-past-180964652/


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Archaeologists have found the tomb of Tang Xianzu (given the epithet: the ‘Chinese Shakespeare’) (and family):

http://mentalfloss.com/article/504035/archaeologists-discover-tomb-chinese-shakespeare-tang-xianzu
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/08/28/archaeologists-discover-chinese-shakespeares-tomb
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2108911/family-graveyard-chinas-shakespeare-rediscovered
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5875-170828-china-playwright-tomb

Not sure if we mentioned this find of a trio of Buddha statues from
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Evidence of Neanderthals in western Iran:

http://ifpnews.com/exclusive/archaeologists-traces-neanderthals/

Latest fiction incorporating Neanderthals in the storyline:

http://www.cbc.ca/books/why-claire-cameron-wants-to-change-the-way-we-see-neanderthals-1.4352340

Not sure where I’ve been putting this one on ‘Stone Age’ technology development:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-longer-home-key-stone-age.html

More on the genetic legacy of Neanderthals:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/neandertal-dna-european-asian-ancestry http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/you-might-be-a-neanderthal-if


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AFRICA
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Excavating a royal palace site in Rwanda:

http://www.newtimes.co.rw/section/read/221549/ http://allafrica.com/stories/201710110018.html

Study suggests the 14th century Black Death hit sub Saharan Africa as hard
as it hit Europe:

http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2017/did-the-second-plague-pandemic-reach-sub-saharan-africa.php

More on the latest climate change link to the Out of Africa hypothesis:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2149848-cold-climate-may-have-driven-ancient-humans-move-out-of-africa/


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An Old Kingdom pyramidion, associated possibly with Queen Ankhnespepy II
from Saqqara:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/278680/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Old-Kingdom-pyramid-peak-discovered-in-Saqqara.aspx
http://www.egyptindependent.com/french-swiss-archaeological-mission-unearth-mini-pyramid-saqqara/
http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/27555/A-Small-Pyramidion-uncovered-around-Saqqara
https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/10/15/new-pyramidion-discovered-sakkara-necropolis/
http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egyptian-pyramidion-found-next-largest-obelisk-hints-existence-queens-684318
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-egypt-pyramid-belonged-powerful-162327105.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-egypt-archaeologists-discover-pyramidion-clue-queen-ankhnespepy-iis-long-lost-chamber-1643171

Marking the discovery of the tomb of Seti I:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/12/c_136672879.htm

On cats and the ancient Egyptians:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/why-ancient-egyptians-loved-their-kitties-180965155/

Zahi Hawass is criticizing claims of an ‘underground city’ beneath the
Sphinx:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/13/c_136677881.htm

More bits of Psamtik I’s colossal statue from Cairo:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/278505/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/The-lower-part-of-th-Dynasty-king-Psamtik-I-coloss.aspx
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2444454&CategoryId=13936

A 5000 years bp toy chariot from a tomb in Sogmatar:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/stunning-5000-year-old-toy-chariot-found-tomb-ancient-turkish-city-where-moses-may-have-lived-1643180

A 4500 years bp male burial from Corum:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/10/09/4500-year-old-male-skeleton-found-in-northern-turkey

Claims of the decipherment of a lost Luwian inscription with details about
the Sea Peoples and Troy (the Live Science version seems to express the appropriate skepticism):

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-luwian-hieroglyphic-inscription-bronze-age.html https://www.livescience.com/60629-ancient-inscription-trojan-prince-sea-people.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/archaeologists-decipher-ancient-stone-turkey-invasion-mysterious-sea-people-luwain-hieroglyphic-a7992141.html
https://www.zmescience.com/science/history-science/stone-inscription-troy-42342/
http://www.9news.com.au/technology/2017/10/11/14/02/who-were-the-sea-peoples-hieroglyphic-inscription-turkey-solves-ancient-mystery
http://www.independent.ie/world-news/3200yearold-stone-tells-of-invasion-of-mysterious-sea-people-36217376.html
https://sputniknews.com/science/201710111058124569-archeologists-decipher-ancient-stone/
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-hieroglyphs-reveal-answers-bronze-age-archaeological-mystery-1642964
https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/10/12/one-of-the-greatest-puzzles-of-mediterranean-archaeology-deciphered-in-central-turkey
http://www.newsweek.com/mystery-lost-biblical-sea-people-revealed-ancient-hieroglyphs-uncovered-turkey-683110
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/3200-year-old-inscription-lost-language-and-lot-doubt-180965244/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5975-171010-luwian-inscription-translated

What the IDF does in regards to archaeology:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/236648

Karaganda archaeologists have reconstructed the Saryarka pyramid:

http://www.inform.kz/en/karaganda-archaeologists-complete-reconstruction-of-an-ancient-saryarka-pyramid_a3073011

Feature on the Erbil citadel:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/10/world/middleeast/iraq-erbil-citadel.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

What Jutta Haser is up to:

http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/german-scholar-explores-jordan%E2%80%99s-ancient-monasteries

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Pipeline construction has revealed a Roman necropolis in Kutahya:

http://aa.com.tr/en/pg/photo-gallery/roman-burial-ground-found-in-turkeys-kutahya/0
http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/Roman-burial-ground-discovered-in-Turkey-s-Kutahya.html

Roman mosaic find from Idyrus:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/10/10/ancient-greek-mosaics-uncovered-in-southern-turkey/
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27612-ancient-greek-mosaics-discovered-in-southern-turkey.html

A dig in Wales unearthed a stretch of a major Roman road:

http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/roman-a55-north-wales-archaeology-13742114

A Roman ring from a Jersey field:

https://jerseyeveningpost.com/news/2017/10/15/2000-year-old-roman-ring-found-in-jersey-field/

Poland will be establishing a permanent mission in Georgia to dig for
remains of the Colchis kingdom:

http://agenda.ge/news/88600/eng

They’re digging at the eastern gate of Philippopolis (Plovdiv):

https://sofiaglobe.com/2017/10/13/archaeologists-start-excavations-of-eastern-gate-of-philippopolis-in-bulgarias-plovdiv/

A Roman hoard of silver from Fife is going on display:

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/silver-treasure-spanning-1-000-years-to-sparkle-at-national-museum-1-4586294
https://www.thecourier.co.uk/fp/news/local/fife/524672/historic-hoard-of-silver-found-in-fife-village-to-go-on-public-display/

Studying the transition from Iron Age to Roman in Dorset:

https://www.archaeology.co.uk/articles/iron-age-roman-transition-dorset.htm

‘Fake news’ in Roman coins:

http://www.numismaticnews.net/article/coins-identify-fake-news

A ancient counterfeit aureus came to auction:

https://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2017/10/contemporary-counterfeit-ancient-aureus-sells-in-auction.all.html

Feature on Roman remains in Serbia:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-41516191/exploring-serbia-s-rich-and-hidden-roman-history

Feature on garum:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20171011-the-ancient-condiment-that-came-back-from-the-dead

Suggestion that the fall of Rome might have been a ‘biological affair’:

http://www.latimes.com/opinion/op-ed/la-oe-harper-pandemics-rome-20171015-story.html

Feature on a Thracian chariot find from a while back that was making the
rounds on social media this week:

https://www.livescience.com/60678-thracian-chariot-on-reddit-explained.html

On what the Romans did with abusive travel expense claims by officials:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/government-officials-abusing-travel-budgets-is-an-old-problem-ancient-in-fact/2017/10/09/27aaaee4-ad27-11e7-9e58-e6288544af98_story.html
https://www.news-journal.com/news/2017/oct/10/rampell-how-roman-emperors-dealt-with-government-o/

Feature on mentorship in the Odyssey:

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2017/10/the-odyssey-mentorship/542676/

Comparing oligarchies ancient and modern:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/oct/15/oligarchy-lessons-ancient-greece

What Cary Fulton is up to:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-archaeologist-ancient-routes-cyprus.html https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/10/09/Researchers-look-for-ancient-trade-routes-at-the-bottom-of-the-Mediterranean/4201507568124/

What Richard Saller is up to:

http://news.stanford.edu/2017/10/09/richard-saller-step-dean-humanities-sciences/

What Leopold Leeb is up to:

http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2017-10/12/content_41720206.htm

What Eric Cline and Kathy Schwab are up to:

https://www.greenwichsentinel.com/2017/10/13/two-archaeologists-reveal-how-civilizations-collapse-then-and-now-and-how-ancients-painted-their-sculptures/

An interview with Josiah Ober:

http://historynewsnetwork.org/article/166349

What Mark Mastrabgelo is up to:

https://thedickinsonian.com/opinion/2017/10/12/professor-spotlight-marc-mastrabgelo/

The Parthenon Marbles are not part of Brexit negotiations, apparently:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1070054.shtml

UCLA has received funding to establish a Center for Hellenic Culture:

http://www.pressreleasepoint.com/ucla-receives-5-million-establish-center-study-hellenic-culture

On what Stoicism can do for depression:

http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/article/How-the-stoicism-of-Roman-philosophers-can-help-12265085.php

Some Classical reception at Talladega:

http://www.espn.com/jayski/cup/2017/story/_/id/20956789/drivers-win-talladega-iconic-vulcan-hammer-anvil-trophies

A lesson plan for comparing ancient Rome to modern times:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/learning/lesson-plans/then-and-now-exploring-modern-life-amid-relics-of-the-roman-empire.html

More on the assorted finds from the Antikythera shipwreck:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/10/what-mysteries-could-be-unlocked-by-new-antikythera-shipwreck-finds
https://www.zmescience.com/science/archaeology/antikythera-shipwreck-statues-bronze-11102017/

More on the Colosseum opening the upper levels to the public:

https://www.thespec.com/living-story/7622332-colosseum-opens-its-top-levels-to-public/

More on the Pantheon charging an entrance fee:

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/rome-pantheon-tickets-price-cost-charge-visitors-a7985311.html

More on fault lines and Greek sacred sites:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/222454/article/ekathimerini/news/fault-lines-key-to-sacred-sites-of-ancient-greeks-study-claims


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Remains of a Neolithic longhouse from Denmark:

http://cphpost.dk/general/traces-of-4000-year-old-house-discovered-in-north-zealand.html
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5977-171010-denmark-neolithic-longhouse

Prehistoric burials from a Larkhill Garrison site:

http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/15593046.Prehistoric_remains_unearthed_in_Larkhill/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5983-171012-england-larkhill-garrison

Latest find from the Lincoln Bypass construction is some massive 5000
years bp (maybe) structure of soe sort:

http://www.lincolnshirelive.co.uk/news/local-news/archaeologists-unearth-massive-5000-year-603713

Fifth century gold items found at that ‘massacre’ site at Sandy Borg
(Sweden):

https://www.thelocal.se/20171011/gold-coin-sheds-new-light-on-5th-century-swedish-island-massacre
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5984-171012-gold-sandby-borg

Remains of an Anglo Saxon settlement (and other items) found during wind
farm construction in Suffolk:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-41367884 http://www.eadt.co.uk/news/windfarm-cable-archeological-dig-unearths-fascinating-clues-to-our-past-1-5226352
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/10/c_136667878.htm

Plenty of press attention and spins on an apparent ‘Allah’ motif found in
a Viking burial:

https://www.thelocal.se/20171012/why-viking-burial-clothes-contained-inscriptions-to-allah-and-ali
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41567391 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/allah-viking-burial-fabrics-clothes-name-woven-found-islam-uppsala-sweden-funeral-customs-a7996166.html
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/13/viking-burial-clothes-woven-with-allah-unveiled-by-swedish-university
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/14/world/europe/vikings-allah-sweden.html?partner=rss&emc=rss
http://metro.co.uk/2017/10/12/were-vikings-muslim-new-research-finds-allah-woven-into-burial-clothes-6995713/
https://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/islamic-script-found-10th-century-viking-garments-1033146
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/10/viking-funeral-clothes-arabic-sweden-spd/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-vikings-buried-their-dead-clothing-bearing-arabic-word-allah-180965262/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5982-171012-viking-arabic-words

Some 10th century iron found in a stone oven in Topolcany:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20666921/archaeologists-discover-iron-treasure-hidden-in-oven.html

A medieval ring found during water supply work in Bulgaria:

https://sofiaglobe.com/2017/10/10/archaeology-mediaeval-ring-found-during-work-on-water-supply-in-bulgarias-assenovgrad/

A 17th century coin hoard from Poland:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=28720

… and a much larger one from Slovakia:

https://spectator.sme.sk/c/20671070/hundreds-of-coins-found-near-lucivna.html

Studying medieval gilding techniques:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/acs-tmo101117.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171011120324.htm

Feature on a medieval ‘city of the dead’ in Russia:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/world-europe-41587745/is-this-where-the-sick-went-to-die

On the use of silver in Scotland:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-41565591

Publication of an Iron Age site in Scotland found in 2010:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2017/excavating-an-iron-age-dun-in-the-scottish-highlands

More on that copper axe being linked to Otzi:

http://www.ibtimes.com/ax-linked-otzi-iceman-found-archaeologists-switzerland-2599333
http://micetimes.asia/archeologists-made-a-unique-discovery-about-the-alpine-ice-man/

More on those Bronze Age items found in a Swiss Alpine pass:

https://www.livescience.com/60651-bronze-age-artifacts-found-in-alpine-pass.html
https://www.livescience.com/60640-4000-year-old-bronze-age-artifacts-photos.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/swiss-alpine-pass-yields-4-103900824.html http://micetimes.asia/in-the-alps-found-unique-artifacts/


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A Neolithic site near Changchun:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/14/c_136679540.htm

Interesting semi-subterranean dwelling remains (the dating is confusing)
from Sichuan:

http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-10/12/content_33159270.htm

… I’m not sure if these finds are from the same site:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/11/c_136672631.htm

Remains of 800 years bp walls and gates from Baidi township (China):

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/14/c_136679226.htm http://www.daijiworld.com/news/newsDisplay.aspx?newsID=476750 https://www.outlookindia.com/newsscroll/800yearold-pieces-of-walls-gates-excavated-in-china/1167709

Feature on some of China’s lesser-known heritage sites:

http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/2115235/beyond-great-wall-chinas-lesser-known-world-heritage-sites

On the colours of the terracotta army:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/world/china-watch/culture/terracotta-warriors/

Feature on Chinese archaeologists working around the world:

http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/1069823.shtml

A Maori stone adze find from New Zealand:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/dominion-post/news/97403004/Ancient-M-ori-tool-found-on-Waikanae-golf-courses-ninth-fairway
https://www.archaeology.org/news/5987-171013-maori-stone-adze

A mass burial site from Tauranga:

http://www.newshub.co.nz/home/new-zealand/2017/10/surveyors-stumble-across-mass-burial-site-in-tauranga.html

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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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That canoe exposed by Hurricane Irma is still getting press attention:

http://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/florida/fl-reg-historical-canoe-hurricane-irma-20171006-story.html
http://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/fl-reg-historical-canoe-hurricane-irma-20171006-story.html
http://www.startribune.com/mysterious-wooden-canoe-found-in-florida-after-hurricane-may-date-to-1600s/450430843/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/hurricane-irma-cleanup-turns-up-an-ancient-canoe/2017/10/13/7856c4b0-aeab-11e7-be94-fabb0f1e9ffb_story.html
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/canoe-churned-irma-may-date-1600s-180965161/

Plans to dig at James Garfield’s former residence:

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2017/10/president_james_a_garfields_fo.html

Plans to ‘dig’ at St Agnes mound:

https://www.avoyellestoday.com/news/archaeologists-plan-%E2%80%98dig%E2%80%99-st-agnes-mound

Assorted finds from pre-parkway construction on land once owned by Thomas Jefferson:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/5980-171011-jefferson-poplar-forest

Feature on Anna O. Shepard’s work:

http://www.dailycamera.com/news/ci_31358731/boulder-county-history-archaeologist-anna-shepard-pioneered-ancient?source=rss

Descendents of Black Loyalists in Nova Scotia might soon get title to
their land (finally):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-41488953


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Rice was domesticated in the Amazon some 4000 years bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoe-afd100817.php

Interesting wooden sculptures and other items from a Chanchan burial:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-peru-wood-sculptures-and-other-relics-found-at-ancient-chan-chan-684510.aspx

Remains of an Inca citadel from Cusco:

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-peru-inca-citadel-remains-found-in-cusco-686051.aspx
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-10/12/c_136673088.htm

Evidence of ancient Sican human sacrifice:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/pre-incan-grave-skeletons-1000-year-old-human-sacrifices-found-peru-1640974

What Olivia Navarro-Farr is up to:

https://www.ohio.com/akron/news/local/discovery-of-ancient-maya-tomb-has-direct-link-to-college-of-wooster-professor


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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 ================================================================
On clouds in various cultures:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/from-cloud-nine-to-climate-change-heres-why-you-should-always-look-up/2017/10/06/7278bf64-a459-11e7-ade1-76d061d56efa_story.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/match-the-clouds-to-the-artist/031fc876-9da2-4aa1-8d85-04ad28b00c7a_quiz.html

OpEd on ‘Victoria and Abdul’:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/posteverything/wp/2017/10/09/why-does-hollywood-keep-churning-out-racist-fantasies-like-victoria-abdul/

The US and Turkey are having a spat which might impact archaeology:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/10/08/world/us-turkey-halt-visa-service/index.html

Pondering Columbus and his legacy:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/made-by-history/wp/2017/10/09/columbus-swashbuckling-hero-bootstrapping-immigrant-or-genocidal-monster/

… and his Catalan-inflected language:

http://www.chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2017/10/08/christopher-columbuss-catalan-inflected-language/?cid=wb&elqTrackId=4357f9edf3fc4e63b6f6aaf92243c3d8&elq=5dd58188e2cb481c908a37445321fb00&elqaid=15967&elqat=1&elqCampaignId=6889

The Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I has been restored and returned:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/13/armada-portrait-elizabeth-i-restoration-spanish-armada-london-queens-house-greenwich

On causes of death by volcano since 1500 ce:

http://www.ibtimes.com/volcano-causes-death-1500-ad-pyroclastic-flow-projectiles-tsunamis-2599093

Rethinking the origin of cities:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23631462-700-the-real-roots-of-early-city-states-may-rip-up-the-textbooks/#038;%23038;%23038;campaign_id=RSS%7CNSNS-

A daVinci is coming to auction:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/oct/10/only-leonardo-in-private-hands-set-to-fetch-75m-at-auction
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/11/557183483/last-da-vinci-painting-in-private-hands-will-be-auctioned-next-month?sc=17&f=1008
https://www.voanews.com/a/da-vinci-portrait-christ-expected-fetch-one-hundred-million-dollars-at-auction/4064681.html

… and a feature on the Mona Lisa:

http://www.dw.com/en/leonardo-da-vinci-unveiled-his-enigmatic-mona-lisa-500-years-ago/a-40889784

Some Friday 13th stuff:

http://www.dw.com/en/13-cultural-references-that-made-friday-the-13th-unlucky/a-37118529

Feature on some really nice libraries:

https://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/libraries-most-beautiful-world-bibliotheca-alexandrina-national-library-of-austria-bodleian-trinity-a7992821.html

How astronomers had to deal with a supernova in 1604:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-1604-supernova-presented-challenge-astronomers-180965138/

A gold leaf from Napoleon’s crown is coming to auction too:

http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/gold-leaf-from-napoleons-crown-to-go-under-hammer-estimated-to-fetch-usd-177000/articleshow/61038607.cms

On keeping human skulls around the house:

https://arstechnica.com/video/2017/10/why-did-ancient-people-keep-human-skulls-around-the-house/

On the use of beeswax in various historical eras:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/europes-stone-age-fishers-used-beeswax-make-point

Studying lentils and social inequality:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/oct/11/lentils-origins-of-social-inequality

A strange possible poisoning cold case:

http://www.historytoday.com/joseph-kaifala/man-who-would-be-king-or-vicar

Victor Nuovo’s latest looks at the US Constitution:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201710victor-nuovo-reasonableness-constitution

In light of the UNESCO change at the top this week, this item on the
candidate from Qatar was interesting:

https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/27132/Suspicions-prevail-on-smuggled-artifacts-in-Arab-world

… related:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-unesco-vote/frances-azoulay-wins-unesco-director-general-election-sources-idUSKBN1CI15P?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews

Latest ‘lost masterpieces found’ story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-41594195

This year’s MacArthur Grant recipients:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/arts/macarthur-genius-grants.html http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/10/11/556891441/here-are-the-2017-macarthur-genius-grant-winners?utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=npr&utm_medium=social&utm_term=nprnews

A German Cistercian monastery is closing due to a shortage of monks:

http://www.dw.com/en/german-monastery-to-close-its-doors-after-nearly-nine-centuries/a-40954168

On the history of hard apple cider:

https://www.bonappetit.com/test-kitchen/ingredients/article/the-history-of-hard-cider-from-the-old-testament-to-the-apple-orchard

More on the hidden figures revealed in that painting at Yale:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/four-catholic-figures-found-hidden-17th-century-painting-reformation-leaders-180965174/
http://www.nhregister.com/news/article/Yale-painting-s-secret-revealed-A-Protestant-12278655.php

Review of Fitzharris, *The Butchering Art*:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2017/10/13/557367840/the-butchering-art-how-a-19th-century-physician-made-surgery-safer

Some humour on the spread of meditation:

http://www.theonion.com/article/historians-discover-meditation-spread-ancient-chin-57197


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Bloody Gold:

http://www.dw.com/en/what-europes-most-ancient-battlefield-reveals/a-40872262

Qin and Han Dynasties:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2017-10/10/content_33056701.htm

Faces of China:

http://www.dw.com/en/why-chinese-portrait-painting-wasnt-only-for-the-powerful-and-famous/a-40925536

Drawn to Greatness:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/arts/design/a-gathering-of-greats-in-a-trove-of-drawings-at-the-morgan.html

Eleusinian Mysteries:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/27663-acropolis-museum-show-on-eleusinian-mysteries-%E2%80%9Csacred-way%E2%80%9D-in-december.html

Mata Hari:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/13/arts/mata-hari-netherlands.html

Feeding Stonehenge:

https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2017/oct/15/stonehenge-neolithic-man-sweet-pork-rich-cheese-feasts

150 years of archaeology in Spain:

http://www.epa.eu/arts-culture-and-entertainment-photos/archeology-photos/madrid-s-archaeological-museum-presents-exhibit-on-150-years-of-archaeology-in-spain-photos-53821711

The Boston MFA has been given some nice Flemish and Dutch collections:

https://www.mfa.org/give/gifts-of-art/van-otterloo-and-weatherbie-collections https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/arts/the-museum-of-fine-arts-boston-to-receive-two-major-donations.html

Feature on the UCD Classics Museum:

http://www.universityobserver.ie/uncategorized/lesser-spotted-ucd-classics-museum/


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THE TECHY SIDE
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On detecting forged ancient silk:

https://cen.acs.org/articles/95/i41/Forgery-ancient-silk-leaves-chemical.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
DNA of the Rapa Nui people suggest they were rather isolated:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-paleogenomic-analysis-easter-island-mysteries.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/uoc--pas100617.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171012123046.htm https://www.livescience.com/60673-easter-island-dna-evidence.html https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/easter-island-dna-south-america.html http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-easterisland/mystery-surrounding-ancient-easter-island-people-deepens-idUSKBN1CH2EV?feedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews
https://www.yahoo.com/news/secrets-easter-island-doomed-civilization-104225034.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-10-13/who-were-the-ancient-easter-islanders/9040266

A study of Beothuk DNA suggests they were actually two distinct groups:

https://phys.org/news/2017-10-newfoundland-populated-multiple-distinct-groups.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/10/171012143329.htm https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/dna-deepens-mystery-of-newfoundlands-lost-beothuk-people/article36560469/

A study of skin colour and DNA:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/12/science/skin-color-race.html

Studying the genome of a 40 000 years bp Chinese burial:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/caos-gdf101317.php

Dog DNA changes parallel human DNA changes (or something like that):

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2017/10/13/557166894/dogs-and-people-have-more-in-common-than-you-might-think


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Lamanai, Belize:

http://blog.mysanantonio.com/travel/2017/10/the-mystery-of-the-mayas-a-visit-to-lamanai-belize/


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CRIME BEAT
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A major bust in Romania:

https://www.romania-insider.com/romanian-police-5000-artifacts-treasure-hunters/

A British national caught smuggling items from the Ukraine:

http://en.interfax.com.ua/news/general/454577.html

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2017/10/culture-crime-news-2-8-october-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/

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
Turkey is trying to get back some Zeugma mosaics from the US:

http://aa.com.tr/en/culture-and-art/turkey-attempts-to-retrieve-roman-mosaics-from-us/932512

More on the return of the ‘calf bearer’ to Lebanon:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/11/arts/design/looted-antiquity-once-at-met-museum-to-return-to-lebanon.html
http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Lebanon-News/2017/Oct-13/422549-decades-on-stolen-antiquity-to-be-returned.ashx

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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n41.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v20/club_nbs_esylum_v20n42.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/2660-audio-news-from-archaeologica-1-october-2017-7-october-2017
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OBITUARIES
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Tony Sagona:


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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo,
Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Clark Whelton, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Rick Heli,
Bob Heuman,
David Critchley, Gina Salapata, Alan Brockway, Bob Heuman,
David Emery, Rick Heli, 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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A brouhaha over evidence of early hominins in Europe:

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-humans-and-stolen-bones-major-controversy-raises-doubt-about-history-709562

http://www.nature.com/news/archaeologists-say-human-evolution-study-used-stolen-bone-1.22984

The Dali skull from China is causing a rethink of the ‘Out of Africa’
theory:

http://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-skull-evolution-homo-sapiens-homo-erectus-human-710973

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2153242-ancient-skull-from-china-may-rewrite-the-origins-of-our-species/


Study suggests human development was ‘uneven and punctuated’:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/e-hew111617.php https://phys.org/news/2017-11-human-evolution-uneven-punctuated.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171116132657.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2017/neanderthals-survived-at-least-3000-years-longer-in-spain-than-previously-thought

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A Greco Roman mummy from Deir Al Banat:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/281484/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Mummy-discovered-at-Fayoums-Deir-AlBanat.aspx

http://www.egyptindependent.com/greco-roman-mummy-discovered-in-fayoum/ http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/32500/Wooden-coffin-with-mummy-dating-Greco-Roman-Period-unearthed

https://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-find-well-preserved-mummy-in-egypt/

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egyptian-mummy-buried-wearing-golden-sky-god-mask-discovered-long-lost-711739

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/ancient-golden-egyptian-mummy-discovered-battered-coffin-1647466

https://www.geo.tv/latest/167593-archaeologists-find-greco-roman-mummy-in-egypt?5a0b0374404ef


A Temple of Isis from Tell Atrib in Banha:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/isis-temple-unearthed-builders-banha/ https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/32821/A-temple-for-Isis-dating-back-to-Ancient-Egypt-era


They’re still studying and learning from Tut’s tomb:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/281565/Heritage/Museums/Tutankhamuns-gold-sheets-on-display-for-first-time.aspx

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-treasures-tutankhamun-tomb.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171116105129.htm https://www.upi.com/Science_News/2017/11/17/Analysis-of-King-Tuts-treasure-shows-aesthetic-influence-of-Levant/8681510926939/

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6104-171116-egypt-gold-artifacts

More on copper in Egyptian ink:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-ink-ancient-egyptian-papyri-copper.html https://dailynewsegypt.com/2017/11/15/ancient-egyptian-papyri-different-time-periods-geographical-regions-contain-copper/

https://www.zmescience.com/science/copper-traces-egypt-inks/ https://www.archaeology.org/news/6101-171115-egypt-copper-ink

More on muons:

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/17/opinions/move-over-indiana-jones-physicists-the-new-tomb-raiders-opinion-lincoln/index.html


8000 years bp petroglyphs of dogs from the Arabian desert (not sure about
this one):

http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-8000-year-old-rock-art-first-ever-depiction-dogs-and-humans-had-715114

https://www.sciencealert.com/1000-year-old-rock-art-saudi-arabia-earliest-depiction-domestic-dogs-hunting

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/ancient-dog-rock-art-arabian-desert-cliff-images-spd/

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/these-may-be-world-s-first-images-dogs-and-they-re-wearing-leashes

https://www.archaeology.org/6103-171116-dog-rock-art

Remains of assorted levels of habitation from a 5000 years bp mound in Cappadocia:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-settlement-found-in-cappadocia-122364

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6092-171113-turkey-cappadocia-mound

Remains of an Urartian castle in Lake Van:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/underwater-fortress-urartu-lake-van-turkey-archaeology-video-spd/

https://www.yahoo.com/news/huge-underwater-castle-ancient-fairy-095309805.html


A 1400 years bp loom from northern Iraq:

https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/archaeological-treasures-in-iraq-unearthed-just-before-deadly-73-earthquake

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6100-171115-iraq-loom-weights

Assorted finds from Iraq … finds made just before the earthquake last
week:

https://www.seeker.com/culture/archaeology/archaeological-treasures-in-iraq-unearthed-just-before-deadly-73-earthquake

http://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-assyria-iraq-earthquake-loom-seal-genie-griffin-excavation-713651


Wasn’t this 8th century BCE ‘toilet’ from Tel Lachish found a while ago?:

http://www.newsweek.com/toilet-discovered-middle-ancient-jerusalem-shrine-written-bible-king-hezekiah-712800

https://www.yahoo.com/news/toilet-found-3-000-old-192932972.html

Overviewish things on finds from Wabar:

http://timesofoman.com/article/122146/Oman/Heritage/Wabar-listed-on-UNESCOs-World-Cultural-and-Natural-Heritage-list-in-2000


A looted First Temple water system from Gush Etzion:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/police-news/training-idf-soldiers-uncover-large-scale-antiquities-robbery-in-gush-etzion/2017/11/15/


Earliest evidence of eggplant seeds in Israel:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Earliest-evidence-of-eggplant-seeds-in-Israel-unearthed-in-City-of-David-514420

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.823152 https://www.timesofisrael.com/what-was-for-dinner-in-jerusalem-1100-years-ago-a-massive-refuse-pit-tells-us/

Studying a pile of skeletons found near Qumran:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/skeletons-could-provide-clues-who-wrote-or-protected-dead-sea-scrolls

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/dead-sea-scrolls-wrote-protected-excavated-skeletons-qumran-west-bank-archaeology-a8062341.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/who-wrote-dead-sea-scrolls-33-new-skeletons-could-give-answers-2616655


What Hagith Sivan is up to:

http://today.ku.edu/2017/11/06/ku-historian-part-project-examining-complex-history-jerusalem-late-antiquity


Using inscriptions and math to pinpoint ‘lost’ cities:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2017/11/13/ancient-data-modern-math-and-the-hunt-for-11-lost-cities-of-the-bronze-age/

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/early-trade-accounts-used-to-pinpoint-lost-bronze-age-cities-0mqsmzgwg

https://uk.news.yahoo.com/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-clay-tablets-lead-locations-11-lost-cities-131109015.html

Latest ancient ship recreation:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.823439

Syrian and the Czech Republic will be working together on conservation:

http://sana.sy/en/?p=118489

A ‘rediscovered’ Anatolian-Islamic inscription:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/11/16/lost-epitaph-found-by-chance-20-years-later


More on that 4000 years bp ‘infertility tablet’:

https://www.livescience.com/60950-oldest-marriage-contract-infertility-surrogacy.html


More on those ‘stone structures’ seen from the air in Saudi Arabia:

https://www.livescience.com/60917-photos-mysterious-stone-structures-gates-saudi-arabia.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/science/saudi-arabia-gates.html http://www.newsweek.com/saudi-arabia-gates-hell-new-images-reveal-secrets-ancient-mystery-structures-712300

https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/de79ccd7-d10e-3b9e-a6f6-ad1e7342fae3/ss_archaeologists-discover-400.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/saudi-arabia-gates-hell-images-173118774.html

Plans to increase awareness of Saudi Arabian antiquities:

http://www.arabnews.com/node/1193991/saudi-arabia ================================================================
ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Roman structures from Plovdiv:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/11/12/accidental-archaeology-roman-ruins-found-under-illegally-demolished-house-in-plovdiv2/


Roman finds from the Crimea:

http://tass.com/science/976058

Roman remains from a rescue dig in Vratsa:

http://www.focus-fen.net/news/2017/11/16/425088/vratsa-remains-of-three-buildings-from-the-roman-era-found-during-rescue-excavations.html


More on London’s Mithraeum reopening:

https://www.zmescience.com/science/london-mithraeum-museum/

Diocles the Charioteer is getting attention again:

http://bigthink.com/paul-ratner/the-highest-paid-athlete-in-history-actually-lived-in-ancient-rome


Some Antonine Wall projects:

http://www.glasgowlive.co.uk/news/glasgow-news/rediscover-ancient-roman-antonine-wall-13905867


Nice feature on Mithraism:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/mithraic-mysteries

Feature on the Picts:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15670151.Pict_on_by_the_Romans__our_ancient_ancestors_were_civilised_sophisticates_not_hairy_savages/


On the fall of the Republic:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/fall-roman-republic-income-inequality-and-xenophobia-threatened-its-foundations-180967249/


On camels in Roman Britain:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/11/17/were-there-camels-in-roman-britain-new-evidence-suggests-camels-were-common-across-the-empire/#7248780923f8


On the ancient Greek diet:

http://eu.greekreporter.com/2017/11/14/secrets-of-ancient-greek-diet-revealed-by-greek-chef-in-london/

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/tourism-businesses/gastronomy/28203-secrets-of-ancient-greek-diet-unveiled-by-greek-chef-in-london.html


Feature on overseas research opportunities at USC:

https://news.usc.edu/131320/fellowships-like-this-archaeological-dig-in-greece-let-usc-classics-students-get-their-hands-dirty/


What Tim Whitmarsh is up to:

http://www.trinitonian.com/lion-hunting-water-and-flowers-tim-whitmarsh-lectures-on-literary-themes/


What Edith Hall is up to:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/223140/article/ekathimerini/life/diaspora-was-at-the-root-of-the-greek-miracle-says-edith-hall


What Bettany Hughes is up to:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2017/nov/15/reclaim-venus-consensual-love-sexual-power-relations


What Michael Fontaine is up to:

https://news.cornell.edu/stories/2017/11/classicist-michael-fontaine-examines-mental-distress-humanities-podcast


Robert Harris’ *Imperium* is coming to the stage:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/theatre/what-to-see/have-lot-learn-ancient-rome-robert-harris-mike-poulton-bringing/


Reviews of Thomas, *Why Dylan Matters*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/nov/17/the-harvard-professor-of-bob-dylan-studies-my-thesis-is-that-he-has-become-odysseus-richard-f-thomas

https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/saturday-review/review-why-dylan-matters-by-richard-f-thomas-lz8fl6pmf


Reviews of Emily Wilson’s translation of the Odyssey:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/books/the-first-english-translation-of-the-odyssey-by-a-woman-was-worth-the-wait/2017/11/16/692cdf82-c59a-11e7-aae0-cb18a8c29c65_story.html?utm_term=.2f65625dcaa4

http://www.theintelligencer.com/entertainment/article/Book-World-The-first-English-translation-of-The-12365298.php

https://www.bustle.com/p/how-emily-wilson-the-first-woman-to-translate-the-odyssey-into-english-is-rethinking-gender-roles-in-the-greek-epic-3540304

Review of Daniel Mendelsohn’s personal Odyssey:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/books/review/daniel-mendelsohn-an-odyssey-memoir.html


Review of Wilson and Mendelssohn:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2017/12/the-odyssey-and-the-other/544110/


More on that Roman coin hoard from Bulgaria:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/roman-coin-hoard-piece/

More on the acoustics of Greek theatres:

https://www.livescience.com/60906-ancient-ampitheater-acoustics-not-great.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6091-171113-greek-theater-sounds

More on that Pylos ‘combat agate’:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/science/98942695/stunning-3500yearold-masterpiece-forces-rethink-of-bronze-age-greek-art


More on that Roman road from Aachen:

http://www.aachen.de/DE/stadt_buerger/politik_verwaltung/pressemitteilungen/stadtarchaeologie.html


More on that sundial:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-roman-sundial-uncovered-italy-1-180967171/

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Evidence of 8000 years bp winemaking from Georgia:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-earliest-evidence-winemaking-team-year-old.html

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uot-afe110917.php https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/science/georgia-oldest-wine.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-41977709 https://www.livescience.com/60929-oldest-winemaking-dates-to-neolithic.html https://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/worlds-oldest-wine-discovered-by-archaeologists-in-8000yearold-jars-36317850.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/nov/13/evidence-of-worlds-earliest-winemaking-uncovered-by-archaeologists

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-science-wine/drinking-age-oldest-evidence-of-wine-making-found-near-tbilisi-idUSKBN1DD2KM
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/13/earliest-evidence-of-wine-found-in-giant-8000-year-old-jars/

https://www.timesofisrael.com/worlds-earliest-evidence-of-wine-making-found-in-georgia/

http://www.dw.com/en/oldest-evidence-of-grape-wine-making-dates-to-8000-years-ago-say-archaeologists/a-41368760

http://www.euronews.com/2017/11/14/worlds-oldest-wine-made-in-georgia https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.822538 http://www.abc.net.au/news/science/2017-11-14/oldest-wine-georgia-chemistry-neolithic-pottery-chemistry/9143874

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2017/11/13/new-earliest-wine/ http://nhpr.org/post/georgian-jars-hold-8000-year-old-winemaking-clues https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/oldest-winemaking-grapes-georgia-archaeology/
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2017/earliest-known-evidence-of-winemaking-has-been-found-in-georgia

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6094-171113-georgia-oldest-wine

A Bronze Age site beneath a Norse site in Duddon:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cumbria-41980692 https://www.archaeology.org/news/6097-171114-bronze-age-england

A huge medieval mass burial from the Czech Republic:

http://www.newsweek.com/mass-grave-largest-europe-uncovered-714712 https://www.sciencealert.com/30-medieval-mass-graves-kutna-hora-czech-republic-1500-skeletons-middle-ages


An important medieval coin hoard find from the Abbey of Cluny:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-medieval-treasure-unearthed-abbey-cluny.html https://www.thelocal.fr/20171115/medieval-treasure-trove-discovered-by-archaeologists-in-france

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/cluny-abbey-hoard-05433.html https://www.connexionfrance.com/French-news/Ancient-treasure-find-stuns-archaeologists

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6099-171115-france-medieval-treasure

Remains of a medieval farming village from Denmark:

http://sciencenordic.com/lost-medieval-village-discovered-denmark https://www.livescience.com/60931-medieval-farming-village-near-viking-site.html

https://www.livescience.com/60930-medieval-village-denmark-photos.html

A 12th century Norman motte-and-bailey castle hidden in the trees in
County
Down:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-42019714

Looking at the bones in the 16th century ‘Massacre Cave’:

http://www.newsweek.com/scotland-archaeologists-identify-mysterious-bones-discovered-massacre-cave-708283


They’re digging at the castle of Sultan Qalga in the Crimea:

http://tass.com/society/975401

Possible funding to preserve the world’s first cast iron bridge:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/11/13/german-money-could-save-worldsfirst-cast-iron-bridge-shropshire/


More on that Pictish petroglyph:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/pictish-carving-large-nosed-warrior-found-scotland-180967091/

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Plenty of coverage of the possible find of the cremated remains of the
Gautama Buddha:

https://www.livescience.com/60932-in-photos-cremated-buddha-remains-and-buddha-statues.html
http://www.newsweek.com/buddha-buddhism-archaeology-ancient-china-cremated-remains-statues-711524

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/buddha-box-remains-china-thousand-years-old-discover-siddhartha-gautama-china-a8056321.html
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/archaeologists-find-cremated-remains-buddha-ancient-chinese-box-alongside-260-statues-1647883
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/home/science/ancient-chinese-casket-may-contain-buddhas-remains/articleshow/61681468.cms

A Buddhist monastery site:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6098-171114-china-buddha-monks

… while Pakistan is promoting tourism with a recently-found 1700 years bp sleeping Buddha:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/15/pakistan-unveils-remains-of-1700-year-old-sleeping-buddha

https://en.dailypakistan.com.pk/pakistan/1700-year-old-sleeping-buddha-statue-unearthed-in-haripur-district/

https://www.voanews.com/a/pakistan-unveils-seventeen-hundred-year-old-sleeping-buddha-evoking-diverse-heritage-/4117036.html

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/15/pakistan-unveils-remains-of-1700-year-old-sleeping-buddha


Strange story of Buddhist artifacts being saved from smugglers then dumped
in the trash:

http://www.newsweek.com/pakistan-ancient-buddha-statues-saved-smugglers-museum-then-dump-them-trash-714874


I think we’ve mentioned this horse and chariot burial (many) from Henan province:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/14/c_136749918.htm

A hundred Han Dynasty burials from Henan:

https://gbtimes.com/han-dynasty-tombs-pottery-works-and-coins-unearthed-in-henan-province


A cannonball is believed to be a clue to finding the wreck of the San
Francisco off Japan:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-41965080

Finds from Shabran (which seems to have lost something in translation):

http://www.today.az/news/society/166733.html

Plenty of coverage of this ‘Murder Island’ find:

http://www.newsweek.com/human-remains-mysterious-and-brutal-island-massacre-400-years-ago-discovered-712018

http://mentalfloss.com/article/516079/archaeologists-unearth-victims-mysterious-massacre-400-years-ago-australian-island

http://bgr.com/2017/11/14/murder-island-archaeologists-discover-human-skeletons/

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/tv/current-affairs/more-bodies-found-on-the-abrolhos-the-site-of-australias-first-mass-murder/news-story/fd0db5913e936870290d67c066090799

Conserving (sort of) a Shiva temple:

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/underground-shiva-temple-to-be-clean-and-dry-soon/article20462956.ece


Puma is accused of defacing a heritage building in India:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/nov/14/sportswear-maker-puma-accused-of-defacing-17th-century-indian-buildings

http://www.dw.com/en/puma-accused-of-defacing-indian-heritage-building-with-graffiti/a-41372174


Trying to save plenty of shipwrecks from looters:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-11-16/the-race-to-save-dozens-of-wartime-shipwrecks-from-looters/9157016

https://theconversation.com/the-race-to-save-up-to-50-shipwrecks-from-looters-in-southeast-asia-86050

Pondering the beginning of Australia’s human history:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-australia-human-history.html

Remembering the discovery of Mungo Man:

http://www.dw.com/en/australias-ancient-mungo-man-returned-to-aboriginal-burial-ground/a-41417479

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/the-discovery-sent-shockwaves-through-archaeology-but-the-remains-of-mungo-man-still-hold-secrets-of-first-australians/news-story/f455e05ecefd08dff3c3f13dbf431008

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2017/nov/14/finding-mungo-man-the-moment-australias-story-suddenly-changed

… and his remains have been returned:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-42020675 https://phys.org/news/2017-11-oldest-australian-human-year-old-grave.html

Feature on Harappa:

https://dailytimes.com.pk/138475/the-ruins-of-harappa/

Studying ancient barley in China and Tibet:

https://source.wustl.edu/2017/11/ancient-barley-took-high-road-china-changed-summer-crop-tibet/
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http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
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Coverage of the Ealy dig in Albany:

http://www.thisweeknews.com/news/20171113/ealy-dig-reveals-more-than-detritus


Looking at 800 years of settlements at Turquoise Bend (Alaska):

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2017/800-years-of-settlement-at-turquoise-bend-kenai-river-alaska


Women and African Americans could vote in the 18th century for a short
time:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/why-black-people-and-women-lost-vote-new-jersey-180967186/


More on Chaco Canyon:

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2017/nov/08/chaco-canyon-national-park-new-mexico-drilling

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Fire has destroyed a 4000 years bp mural at Ventarron (Peru):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-41972208 https://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/world/2017/11/14/fire-ravages-ancient-archaeological-site-peru/107671576/

http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/13/americas/ancient-peruvian-mural-destroyed-in-fire/index.html

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/peru-temple-fire-ventarron-mural-moche-video-spd/

http://www.peruviantimes.com/13/fire-destroys-years-of-research-at-4500-year-old-ventarron-site/30250/

http://m.france24.com/en/20171113-peru-fire-ravages-ancient-archaeological-site?ref=tw_i

https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/11/13/actualidad/1510547109_132561.html https://www.archaeology.org/news/6093-171113-peru-ventarron-fire

A hitherto unknown passage beneath Chichen Itza:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/mayan-pyramids-1.4402934 https://www.yahoo.com/news/m/06d31a9e-f2d2-3cca-9177-9d7eeaeece54/ss_a-new-sealed-route-could.html

http://www.newsweek.com/mystery-passage-discovered-near-mayan-temple-could-unlock-secrets-710397

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/mayan-temple-hidden-passageway-discovered-chichen-itza-kukulcan-guillermo-de-anda-a8054211.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/hidden-passageway-discovered-under-ancient-114400587.html

http://www.ibtimes.com/secret-passageway-discovered-underneath-mayan-snake-god-temple-2614377

… and you can’t use drones there:

https://verne.elpais.com/verne/2017/11/15/mexico/1510785099_153111.html

A huge Orca geoglyph find near Nazca:

http://www.bradshawfoundation.com/news/index.php?id=Orca-geoglyph-rediscovered-in-Peru

http://www.newsweek.com/nazca-lines-peru-orca-geoglyph-desert-monuments-712544


Feature on the Salitre site:

https://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-short/shellfish-diplomacy

Feature on ‘Juanita’ … twenty years later:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2446439&CategoryId=14095

Panama hasn’t put some important pre-Columbian gold finds made nine years
ago on display yet:

https://phys.org/news/2017-11-panama-pre-hispanic-golden-artifacts-sight.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/the_americas/panamas-pre-hispanic-golden-artifacts-stored-out-of-sight/2017/11/16/7d9716cc-caf4-11e7-b506-8a10ed11ecf5_story.html

http://www.therepublic.com/2017/11/16/lt-panama-archaeology/

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Studying the ancient roots of social inequality:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/tuom-ppa111717.php https://phys.org/news/2017-11-roots-inequality-millennia.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/11/171117190702.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/11/15/long-before-hedge-funds-cattle-drove-inequality-study-says/?utm_term=.d052de4a6b05

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2017/11/how-taming-cows-and-horses-sparked-inequality-across-ancient-world

https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2017/11/15/564376795/from-cattle-to-capital-how-agriculture-bred-ancient-inequality


Feature on Abu Nuwas;

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20171113-the-arab-poet-who-worshipped-wine

Big bucks for a Van Gogh:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/arts/christies-fall-auction-impressionist-modern-van-gogh.html

… and even bigger bucks for DaVinci’s (maybe) Salvator Mundi:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/13/arts/design/davinci-leonardo-dicaprio-christies.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-42000696 http://www.cnn.com/style/article/da-vinci-painting-auction/index.html https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/nov/15/leonardo-da-vinci-masterpiece-salvator-mundi-christies
http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2017/11/da_vinci_painting_of_christ_sells_at_auction_for_record-smashing_450_million.html
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2017/11/15/leonardo-da-vinci-salvator-mundi-sold/868993001/
http://www.dw.com/en/leonardo-da-vinci-painting-smashes-auction-record-at-450-million/a-41402102
https://elpais.com/cultura/2017/11/15/actualidad/1510749174_422089.html

Some previous big buck artworks:

http://www.dw.com/en/most-expensive-artworks-sold-at-auction/g-36408604

… and criticism of the price:

http://www.dw.com/en/opinion-450-million-for-christ-the-art-markets-perversion-of-a-symbol/a-41412027

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/da-vinci-painting-sells-record-breaking-450-million-180967246/


… and a feature on the painting itself:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-salvator-mundi-is-further-proof-of-leonardo-da-vincis-genius/2017/11/16/e0ca2118-cae4-11e7-aa96-54417592cf72_story.html

https://www.insidehighered.com/blogs/technology-and-learning/why-i'm-pretty-sure-isaacson-da-vinci-book-behind-450-million-sale


Smaller bucks for a Captain Scott ‘selfie’ from Antarctica:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-41989588

… and hopes for a leaf from Napoleon’s wreath:

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-france-napoleon-auction/golden-leaf-cut-from-napoleons-crown-goes-under-hammer-in-france-idUSKBN1DF27P

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/11/17/leaf-french-emperor-napoleons-crown-expected-bring-300-times-its-value-gold/873623001/

… and big hopes for a photo of Billy the Kid:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/16/us/billy-the-kid-photo.html

A missing piece of a Magritte was found:

https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/11/15/564351941/80-year-old-mystery-cracked-as-final-missing-piece-of-magritte-painting-found

Feature on Rodin:

http://www.dw.com/en/a-century-on-auguste-rodins-influential-art-still-fascinates/a-41420940


A secret ‘Michelangelo room’ in Florence has opened to the public:

https://www.thelocal.it/20171114/secret-michelangelo-room-florence-open-to-public


Wooden shoes apparently weren’t so great for feet:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-11/uowo-sr111617.php

What Brian Fagan has been working on:

https://www.spectator.co.uk/2017/11/holy-mackerel-civilisation-begins-with-fishing/


On myths and stories:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/long_reads/where-do-stories-come-from-and-who-owns-a8045931.html


More on Chopin’s cause of death:

https://www.livescience.com/60953-chopin-pickled-heart-reveals-cause-of-death.html

https://www.archaeology.org/news/6108-171117-chopin-enlarged-heart
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Scanning Seti:

http://www.newsweek.com/archaeology-egypt-pharaoh-seti-i-tomb-3d-printing-museum-switzerland-factum-710725

http://www.swissinfo.ch/eng/seti-i_life-sized-copy-of-pharaoh-s-tomb-displayed-in-basel/43674140?&ns_mchannel=rss&srg_evsource=rss
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/egyptian-tomb-3d-printer-switzerland-pharaoh-seti-i-valley-kings-factum-foundation-luxor-basel-a8052606.html

Washington’s Tent:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/15/arts/design/washingtons-tent-a-detective-story.html


Ambrogio Lorenzetti:

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/11/ambrogio-lorenzetti-exhibition-in-siena.html

http://www.newliturgicalmovement.org/2017/11/more-from-lorenzetti-show-in-siena.html

Eastern Christians:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/17/arts/eastern-christians-institut-du-monde-arabe.html

https://www.imarabe.org/en/exhibitions/oriental-christians-2000-years-of-history


History of Magic:

https://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/rare-magical-manuscripts-exhibit-180967185/


Gods in Color:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/28135-the-ancient-greek-world-at-gods-in-color-exhibition.html

http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/2664137/archaic-colors-at-acropolis-museum-athens


Pompeii:

https://paradisevalleyindependent.com/events/pompeii-the-exhibition-opens-at-arizona-science-center-this-week/


Terracotta Warriors:

https://www.styleweekly.com/richmond/buried-over-two-millennia-ago-chinas-terracotta-soldiers-come-to-vmfa/Content?oid=5782197

http://www.nbc12.com/story/36854913/terracotta-army-exhibit-opens-saturday-at-vmfa

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/17/c_136758564.htm http://wtvr.com/2017/11/16/terracotta-army-legacy-of-the-first-emperor-of-china-in-richmond/


The Egyptian Museum in Cairo marked its 115th anniversary with some never-before-seen Tut items:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/tutankhamuns-unseen-golden-treasures-go-public-egyptian-museum/

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/32709/60-golden-pieces-of-Tutankhamun-at-Egyptian-Museum-for-1st

http://www.newsweek.com/ancient-egyptian-artifacts-king-tuts-tomb-shown-first-time-after-being-locked-713015

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-11/16/c_136755418.htm

Coverage of the opening of the Museum of the Bible:

https://www.timesofisrael.com/washingtons-bible-museum-wont-touch-political-hot-potatoes/

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/religion/museum-bible-gears-opening-washington-amid-propriety-questions-n821336

http://www.weeklystandard.com/museum-of-the-bible-a-first-look/article/2010511

… and questions about its collection:

https://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/11/museum-of-the-bible-dead-sea-scrolls-forgeries-history-archaeology/

http://www.wbur.org/onpoint/2017/11/16/museum-of-the-bible-puts-spotlight-on-stolen-antiquities

… and its potential impact:


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