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Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, David Perlmutter, Barbara Saylor Rogers, Bob Heuman, Kris Curry, Feral Boy, Jessica Fitzpatrick, Adrienne Mayor, Marice Rose, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out). ================================================================
EARLY HOMINIDS
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Pondering why homo sapiens is the only homo that has survived:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20150929-why-are-we-the-only-human-species-still-alive

Archaeologists have returned to Shanidar:

http://www.nature.com/news/archaeologists-ousted-by-isis-return-to-ancient-iraqi-cave-1.
18487

More homo naledi skepticism:

http://alumni.berkeley.edu/california-magazine/just-in/2015-10-01/bones-contention-why-
cal-paleo-expert-so-skeptical-homo

More on early hominin hearing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/science/the-world-heard-by-hominins.html

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AFRICA
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Feature on Kongo civilization and art:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2015/10/01/arts/design/kongo-power-figure-mangaak
a-met-museum.html?_r=0

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Scans suggest there are hidden rooms in Tut's tomb:

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-egypt-king-tut-tomb-hidden.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-34410720 http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/king-tuts-tomb-reveals-two-secret-chamb
ers-150929.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/02/us-egypt-nefertiti-idUSKCN0RV46G20151002?f
eedType=RSS&feedName=scienceNews http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/11906040/ Scans-suggest-Queen-Nefertiti-may-lie-concealed-in-King-Tuts-tomb.html http://www.reuters.com/video/2015/10/02/egyptian-tomb-reveals-hidden-chambers?video
Id=365802478&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=WorldNews&videoChannel=117760 https://uk.yahoo.com/digest/20151001/british-archaeologist-reveal-details-quest-find-que
en-nefertitis-tomb-00166458 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/09/150928-king-tut-tomb-door-nefertiti-archaeol
ogy-egypt/

... but they really haven't found anything yet (and folks are skeptical):

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2015/10/01/egypt-queen-nefertiti-king-tutankh
amen/73153332/

... despite Egypt's hopes:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/queen-nefertiti-tomb-egypt-hope
s-big-discovery-from-the-past-can-boost-its-flagging-tourism-industry-a6675986.html

... an important interview with Egypt's antiquities minister on same:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/151933/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/INTERVIE
W-Egypts-antiquities-minister-speaks-on-se.aspx

... and related items (which are mostly repeats):

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-british-archaeologist-aims-nefertiti-tomb.html http://www.abc.net.au/worldtoday/content/2015/s4324047.htm http://phys.org/news/2015-10-egypt-pledges-fast-nefertiti-tomb.html http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/01/a-mystery-inside-king-
tuts-tomb-has-nefertiti-been-hiding-there-for-3000-years/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/british-archaeologist-aims-to-pinpoint-nefertitis-tomb-2/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0930/Does-King-Tut-s-tomb-have-hidden-chambe
rs http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/sep/29/british-archaeologist-aims-to-uncover-q
ueen-nefertiti-tomb http://news.nationalpost.com/news/king-tuts-tomb-could-have-hidden-chambers-boosting-
theory-theres-a-queen-buried-in-mausoleum-walls http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/new-king-tut-s-tomb-search-can-start-soon-egypt-pled
ges-1.3252097?cmp=rss

Feature on Egyptian animal mummies:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/arts/design/animal-mummies-unwrapped.html

I think we had this one on the world's oldest papyrus:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/ancient-egypt-shipping-mining-farming-economy
-pyramids-180956619/

The Sekhemka statue saga continues:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-34428993

A 3000 years b.p. dog burial from the kingdom of Urartu:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2015/09/29/dog-skeleton-dating-back-3000-years-disc
overed

Interesting Kiryat Gat mosaic in Israel depicts an ancient Egyptian city:

http://www.livescience.com/52336-byzantine-mosaic-shows-egyptian-settlement.html
http://www.livescience.com/52335-photos-ancient-church-mosaic.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0930/Why-a-rare-Egyptian-mosaic-is-going-on-di
splay-in-an-industrial-park-in-Israel http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Rare-Byzantine-period-mosaic-disc
overed-30-September-2015.aspx http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4149 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4705146,00.html http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Rare-1500-year-old-old-mosaic-discovered-dep
icting-streets-buildings-of-ancient-Egypt-419384 http://www.haaretz.com/life/archaeology/1.677993 http://www.timesofisrael.com/byzantine-era-mosaic-to-be-displayed-in-southern-israel/
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/09/29/1500-year-old-mosaic-found-on-church-floor-i
n-israel-depicts-rare-scene-from-neighboring-ancient-christian-community/ #038;%23038;%23038

Vandals hit a Bar Kochba-era site:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=28637 http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/02/bar-kokhba-era-antiquities-site-razed-by-palestini
an-vandals/

I think we mentioned this new bit of the Epic of Gilgamesh:

http://news.discovery.com/history/art-history/new-gilgamesh-verse-is-epic-15100.htm#m
kcpgn=rssnws1

Not sure if this discovery-of-Sodom/ Tall el Hammam story is really news:

http://theweek.com/speedreads/580159/archaeologists-discover-possible-ruins-ancient-s
odom-holy-land

Seliuk-era finds in Tokat:

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2015/09/29/seljuk-era-archeological-findings-uncover
ed-in-ancient-greek-city

An Iraqi historian claims a 'Jewish mafia' is behind antiquities thefts in the Middle East:

http://www.jpost.com/Arab-Israeli-Conflict/Iraqi-historian-claims-Jewish-mafia-behind-anti
quities-theft-in-Middle-East-419513 http://www.albawaba.com/editorchoice/iraqi-archaeologist-warns-%E2%80%98internation
al-jewish-mafia%E2%80%99-stealing-arab-artifacts-749454 http://www.timesofisrael.com/jewish-mafia-looting-mideast-antiquities/

Marina Rustow is one of this year's MacArthur Grant recipients:

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/29/444527433/out-of-cairo-trove-genius-grant-winner-mines-d
etails-of-ancient-life http://news.yale.edu/2015/09/29/two-yale-alumni-win-macarthur-foundation-grants

The US has offered a reward to get ISIS to stop plundering antiquities:

http://thehill.com/policy/defense/255442-us-offers-5-million-reward-to-stop-isis-from-plun
dering-antiquities

While a raid on an ISIS stronghold netted a pile of ancient artifacts, apparently:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/30/isis-raid-netted-stolen-treasure-trove-of
-ancient-artifacts.html

We're still getting the articles about their antiquities sale/funding activities:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/isis-relying-on-smuggling-antiquities-to-fund-terror/

... and there was a conference on same:

http://thewellesleynews.com/2015/10/03/daeshs-destruction-of-antiquities-sparks-interdi
sciplinary-conference/ http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/02/confronting-looting-to-order-and-cultural-rackete
ering-in-syria/

Nice feature on the folks now defending Syria's heritage from ISIS:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/sep/29/they-are-barbarians-meet-the-man-maam
oun-abdulkarim-defending-syrias-heritage-from-isis

Not sure if we mentioned the suggestion that museums provide a 'safe haven' for Syrian
antiquities (for now):

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/museum-directors-release-plan-to-help-pro
vide-safe-havens-for-endangered-antiquties/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20
Main&contentCollection=Arts&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs&region=Body


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
The big news this week is the announcement that the Amphipolis tomb was actually a
heroon for Hephaestus (plenty of misleading headlines weeded out):

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-excavator-ancient-grave-greece-honored.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/11906037/Ancient-Greek-grav
e-for-Alexander-the-Greats-friend-Hephaestion.html http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-34417796 http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/seal-hints-alexander-the-greats-beloved-f
riend-at-tomb-151001.htm http://www.ekathimerini.com/202104/article/ekathimerini/news/amphipolis-tomb-may-hav
e-been-dedicated-to-alexanders-companion-hephaestion http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3255495/Massive-underground-complex-G
reece-WASN-T-Alexander-Great-s-tomb-Huge-monument-tribute-closest-friend-trusted-gen
eral.html http://artdaily.com/news/81919/Mystery-Greek-tomb-was-dedicated-to-companion-of-Alex
ander-the-Great--Experts
http://in-cyprus.com/light-shed-on-amphipolis-mystery/ http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/Grave-in-Greece-honours-Alexander-the-Greats-best-frie
nd-amphipolis-Hephaestion http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/excavator-ancient-grave-greece-honored-al
exanders-pal-34159668 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/excavator-ancient-grave-in-greece-honore
d-alexanders-pal/2015/09/30/5a38700c-67b1-11e5-bdb6-6861f4521205_story.html

... but some disagree:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/10/02/greek-archaeologist-amphipolis-tomb-not-con
structed-for-alexander-the-greats-pal/

CT scans were done on a bunch of Pompeii casts:

http://www.thelocal.it/20150929/scans-of-petrified-victims-show-pompeii-in-gold-health
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/new-scans-reveal-how-victims-
of-ancient-pompeii-eruption-lived/2015/09/29/5dbb2ade-66c7-11e5-9223-70cb36460919_
gallery.html http://www.thelocal.it/20150929/scans-of-petrified-victims-show-pompeii-in-gold-health

... and there were features (again) about how great ancient Roman teeth were:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/how-the-people-of-pompeii-really-
died/408454/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11902097/Ancient-Romans-had-
perfect-teeth-thanks-to-healthy-low-sugar-diet.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/09/30/ancient-pompeiians-had-good-d
ental-health-but-were-not-necessarily-vegetarians/ http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/for-perfect-teeth-and-waistline-follow-the-po
mpeii-diet/story-fnb64oi6-1227552936831

... and they're working at the Republican baths at Pompeii:

http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/160709/New-technology-helps-Pompeii-therm
al-baths-excavation.html http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2015/10/01/new-project-studies-pompeii-ba
ths_51f367d2-8c60-4e34-8356-01f96ce9018c.html

We were also hearing more about what they've found on the Antikythera shipwreck:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/0930/2-000-year-old-Greek-shipwreck-yields-am
azing-treasures http://www.livescience.com/52331-antikythera-shipwreck-treasures.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/wreck-yields-treasures-of-ancient-greece
s-1-percent-150928.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 https://uk.news.yahoo.com/antikythera-shipwreck-treasures-reveals-top-165933718.html
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/antikythera-shipwreck-artifacts-shed-light
-ancient-greeces-1-percent-n435811 http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/09/30/2-000-year-old-shipwreck-keeps-yieldin
g-treasure.html http://blogs.nature.com/aviewfromthebridge/2015/09/29/beyond-the-antikythera-mechani
sm/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/antikythera-shipwreck-yields-new-cache-
ancient-treasures-180956775/ http://www.whoi.edu/news-release/antikythera-shipwreck-excavation http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2015/antikythera-shipwreck-excav
ated-by-marine-archaeologists

Finds from ancient Soli:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-end-at-ancient-soli-.aspx?pageID=238&ni
d=89308&NewsCatID=375

I think we mentioned the work being done at the Minoan site at Sissi:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2015/new-archaeological-work-at-s
issi-examines-minoan-complex

Complaints about the marble used in restorations at Aspendos:

http://arts-entertainment.bgnnews.com/kitchen-grade-marble-used-in-the-restoration-of-an
cient-city-of-aspendos-haberi/9791

... and the ministry defended its decision:

http://www.todayszaman.com/national_ministry-stands-by-white-marble-used-in-ancient-t
heaters-restoration-says-it-will-turn-darker-in-time_400139.html

... and the archaeologist who complained about it was reassigned:

http://national.bgnnews.com/archeologist-who-revealed-botched-restoration-of-aspendos-
reassigned-haberi/9918

... while Aspendos was 'left to its fate':

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ankaras-aspendos-left-to-its-fate-.aspx?pageID=238&n
id=89247

... and there are plenty of botched restorations in Turkey, apparently:

http://www.todayszaman.com/national_turkey-now-home-to-vast-number-of-botched-reno
vations_400382.html

Another tourist caught carving their initials into the Colosseum:

http://www.thelocal.it/20150922/another-tourists-carves-into-the-colosseum

A section of Hadrian's wall was repaired:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-34424053

Feature on 'blaming the victim' at Pompeii:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/10/did-the-people-at-pompeii-get-wha
t-they-deserved/408586/

... and a slideshow of Pompeii today:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/scenes-of-pompeii/2014/04/17/bda7865a-c645-11
e3-bf7a-be01a9b69cf1_gallery.html

Interesting/strange discovery of a bit of Solon's Prayer to the Muses:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/69326/oops-ancient-greek-poem-accidentally-printed-vesse
l-2000-years-ago

Dmitri Nakassis is getting at MacArthur Grant:

http://www.news.utoronto.ca/macarthur-fellowship-goes-u-t-archaeologist https://www.michigandaily.com/section/news/university-alum-receives-macarthur-fellows
hip http://www.pappaspost.com/university-of-toronto-classics-professor-researching-ancient-
greece-wins-625000-macarthur-fellowship-known-as-genius-grant/

What William Childs is up to:

http://www.lawrentian.com/archives/1006357

What Padilla Peralta is up to:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/despite-immigration-hurdles-path-ivy-league-profes
sor-n437411

Some classical nomenclature on Ceres:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ceres-mountains-and-craters-named-food

Pondering Cicero:

http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/features/article1614804.ece?CMP=OT
H-gnws-standard-2015_10_03

BBC's History Extra magazine had a pile of features on ancient Rome this week ... the 8
bloodiest Roman emperors:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/international-history/8-bloodiest-roman-emperors-hist
ory

... Roman Roads:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/international-history/why-did-romans-build-straight-ro
ads

... Roman religion:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/international-history/religion-ancient-rome-what-did-th
ey-believe

... shopping in ancient Rome:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/romans/shopping-ancient-rome

... Roman elections:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/romans/elections-late-roman-republic-how-did-they-w
ork

... gladiators:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/feature/gladiators-facts-ancient-rome

... street life (and danger):

http://www.historyextra.com/article/romans/dangerous-streets-ancient-rome

... the rise of Augustus:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/premium/bloody-rise-augustus

... a couple things about Pompeii:

http://www.historyextra.com/feature/z-life-pompeii http://www.historyextra.com/article/international-history/5-facts-about-pompeii

... foundation of Rome:

http://www.historyextra.com/feature/romans/who-founded-ancient-rome

Classics is threatened at Calvin College:

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2015/09/calvin_college_recommends
_elim.html

Pondering Aesop's Fables:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/magazine/letter-of-recommendationaesops-fables.ht
ml

Review of Tom Holland, *Dynasty*:

http://www.ilkleygazette.co.uk/news/13801779.Thrilling_look_at_the_age_of_Caesars/

Review(ish) of Robert Harris, *Dictator*:

http://new.spectator.co.uk/blog/2015/10/dictator-the-last-in-robert-harris-trilogy-on-ancient
-rome-focuses-on-cicero-and-his-secretary-tiro/

Review of Rush, *Penelope's Web*:

http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/books/book-review-penelope-s-web-by-christopher-rus
h-1-3898169

Review of Adrienne Mayor, *Amazons*:

http://archaeology.about.com/od/booksandbooklists/fl/The-Amazons-Lives-and-Legends-
of-Warrior-Women-A-Review.htm

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Ancient Britons mummified their dead, apparently:

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-mummification-commonplace-bronze-age-britain.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/uos-mwc092515.php http://www.livescience.com/52349-bronze-age-britain-mummies.html http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/01/preservation-society-how-bronze-age-br
itons-mummified-the-dead http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/11903395/Bronze-Age-B
ritons-mummifed-their-dead-scientists-say.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1002/Were-Bronze-Age-Brits-making-mummies http://www.cbsnews.com/news/bronze-age-britons-mummified-their-dead/ http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2015/evidence-for-mummification-i
n-bronze-age-britain http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-mummies-britian-20150930-story.h
tml

Evidence of Mesolithic hunter-gatherers on Skye:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-34413699

A Bronze Age boat from Kent:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-34377640 http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2015/bronze-age-log-boat-discove
red-in-kent

A Bronze Age hoard from Transylvania:

http://www.livescience.com/52329-ancient-booty-discovered-in-transylvania.html http://www.livescience.com/52330-photos-ancient-bronze-weapons-transylvania.html
(photo) http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/draculas-booty-discovered-in-transylvani
a-150930.htm

A Bronze Age 'sauna' from Orkney:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/13791467.Orkney_s_Bronze_Age_sauna/ http://www.burnhamandhighbridgeweeklynews.co.uk/news/national/13791274.Bronze_Ag
e__sauna__unearthed_on_Orkney/ http://www.historic-scotland.gov.uk/index/news/news_article.htm?articleid=47237 http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2015/archaeologists-uncover-bron
ze-age-sauna-house-at-links-of-notland

Walrus bones from Iceland might hint at the origins of the Lewis Chessmen:

http://icelandmag.visir.is/article/2200-year-old-walrus-bones-suggest-most-famous-medi
eval-chess-set-might-be-icelandic-origin


Nice feature on Viking prestige items:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/09/2015/viking-symbols-of-travel-pre
stige-and-adventure

50 medieval burials near Lichfield Cathedral:

http://www.livescience.com/52346-medieval-graves-saint-pilgrimage.html http://www.livescience.com/52343-photos-medieval-skeletons-lichfield-cathedral.html
(photos)

Opening a 1000 years b.p. bishop's coffin:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/11900082/Hair-raising-
moment-archaeologists-open-a-1000-year-old-coffin.html

Evidence that medieval Hungarian warriors were good archers:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/09/30/brawny-bones-reveal-10th-centu
ry-hungarian-warriors-were-accomplished-archers/

Plans to dig at a Teesdale 'shrunken village':

http://www.darlingtonandstocktontimes.co.uk/news/13788590.Archaeology_dig_of_Teesd
ale_medieval__quot_shrunken_village_quot_/

Feature on Thor Ballylee:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/04/arts/design/the-tower-that-enchanted-yeats.html

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
A Bronze Age burial from Omsk:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0430-builders-in-omsk-stumble-acros
s-bronze-age-burial-site/

Arakan inscriptions found at Kyaukta (Burma):

http://www.burmanet.org/news/2015/09/29/narinjara-ancient-inscribed-tablets-found-in-ky
auktaw/

The ASI is done digging a Sangam site in Keezhadi:

http://www.newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/ASI-Ends-Mission-at-2500-yr-old-Vil
lage-in-Keezhadi-Onsite-Museum-in-Pipeline/2015/09/28/article3050856.ece

A Mataram Hindu temple excavation:

http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2015/09/30/archeologists-unearth-ancient-mataram-
hindu-temple.html

An 800 years b.p. turtle-shaped brick tomb from Shanxi:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-10/04/c_134683662.htm

They're excavating Dandong No. 1 again:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-09/29/c_134672127.htm http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2015-10/04/content_22076391.htm

Feature on Aboriginal petroglyphs:

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-video-highlights-aboriginal-art.html

On restoring the Taj Mahal:

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-taj-mahal-nine-year-mud-tackle.html http://timesofoman.com/article/68497/World/India/Archaeologists-said-the-lengthy-period
-was-needed-to-properly-and-safely-clean-particles-from-the-four-minarets-and-the-main-d
ome-of-the-famed-Taj-Mahal

-----

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
A Wooly Mammoth excavation in Michigan:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/science/under-a-farmers-field-a-woolly-mammoth-in-
michigan.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience

Very interesting 1150 years b.p. mass grave from California:

http://westerndigs.org/mass-grave-found-in-california-reveals-prehistoric-violence-agains
t-outsiders/

Human remains of unspecified date from near Haines (Alaska):

http://www.alaskapublic.org/2015/10/01/human-remains-found-in-dirt-pile-in-haines/

Flooding a couple years ago revealed some amazing sites (including a buffalo jump)
now being excavated at the FM Ranch near Calgary:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/alberta-flood-buffalo-jump-1.3253110?cmp=rss
http://www.metronews.ca/news/calgary/2015/10/01/calgary-students-assess-flood-impact
-on-historical-site.html http://globalnews.ca/news/2253978/archaeologists-dig-at-gem-of-a-find-along-bow-river-s
outheast-of-calgary/

Latest from the Franklin Expedition dig (still looking for the Terror):

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/erebus-terror-artifacts-1.3244303 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/franklin-expedition-erebus-artifact-1.3254273

Working out what happened at the Parker's Revenge battle site:

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-archeologists-uncover-secrets-revolutionary-war.html
http://www.seattletimes.com/nation-world/archaeologists-uncover-secrets-of-revolutionar
y-war-site/#038;%23038

An indoor well near Fort Williamsburg:

http://wydaily.com/2015/09/30/local-news-jamestown-unearthed-archaeologists-confirm-i
ndoor-well-found-near-fort/

Three Civil War cannons from the Pee Dee River:

http://phys.org/news/2015-09-archaeologists-pluck-civil-war-cannons.html http://www.livescience.com/52347-civil-war-cannons-recovered.html http://www.dispatch.
com/content/stories/national_world/2015/09/29/civil-war-cannons-recovered-from-river.ht
ml http://news.yahoo.com/blast-past-3-civil-war-cannons-pulled-river-131630576.html
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Archaeologists-to-pluck-3-Civil-War-cannons-from-653
6405.php http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/30/us/south-carolina-civil-war-cannons-pulled-from-150-
year-bath.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience

Latest from the CSS Georgia:

http://savannahnow.com/exchange/2015-09-29/css-georgia-still-yielding-surprises

Studying the outhouses of the American Southwest:

http://www.startribune.com/professor-historic-outhouses-underappreciated-in-southwest/
330434011/

Feature on Hinckley Mounds near Provo:

https://www.ksl.com/?sid=36690256&nid=1012&title=provos-hinckley-mounds-reveal-det
ails-about-fremont-indians

On the SITLA Cave Towers Stewardship Project:

http://trustlands.utah.gov/sitla-cave-towers-stewardship-project/ http://www.friendsofcedarmesa.org/volunteers-work-with-state-on-improvements-at-cave-t
owers-site/

Mapping Native American sites in Minnesota:

http://nativetimes.com/index.php/culture/history/12180-msu-team-mapping-minnesota-s-
native-american-sites

How Green's Fork got its name (maybe):

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation/2015/09/28/indiana-town-greens-fork-killer/
72978202/

A 367 years b.p. 'water bond' is still paying:

http://news.yale.edu/2015/09/22/living-artifact-dutch-golden-age-yale-s-367-year-old-wate
r-bond-still-pays-interest

Pondering Church's *Aurora Borealis*:

http://www.usgs.gov/blogs/features/usgs_science_pick/aurora-borealis-painting-pays-tri
bute-to-civil-wars-end/

More on evidence of salmon fishing in ancient Alaska:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150921182109.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/22/science/oldest-find-of-salmon-remains-in-north-ameri
ca.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
DNA and Machu Picchu:

http://phys.org/news/2015-10-ancient-dna-unravel-mystery-machu.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/gwu-uad092915.php

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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 ================================================================
An ancestor of the Black Death, preserved in amber:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-09/osu-bia092815.php http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/09/150928152503.htm http://news.discovery.com/animals/insects/black-death-bacteria-found-on-frozen-in-time-f
lea-150929.htm

Evidence of a 73 000 years b.p. megatsunami:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/10/02/scientists-say-
an-ancient-megatsunami-flung-boulders-nearly-as-high-as-the-eiffel-tower/?tid=sm_tw

Marking the 150th anniversary of Alice in Wonderland:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/arts/design/feting-alice-forever-young-at-150.html

On Australian circuses:

http://theconversation.com/circus-and-politics-a-very-australian-mix-48320

Feature on Henri Rousseau:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20151002-henri-rousseau-the-untrained-godfather-of-mo
dern-art

Some humour:

http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/ucomics.com/crstr150924.gif

Some archaeologist graffiti on Mount Ida:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/british-archaeologists-19th-century-engraving-found-o
n-turkeys-mount-ida.aspx?pageID=238&nid=89252

What maps say about us:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20150917-what-maps-reveal-about-ourselves

All the MacArthur Grant recipients:

https://www.macfound.org/fellows/class/2015/

cf: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/29/arts/macarthur-genius-grant-winners-for-2015-are-an
nounced.html

On the history of horses:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-secret-lives-of-horses/

On blurbs:

http://www.npr.org/2015/09/27/429723002/forget-the-book-have-you-read-this-irresistible-
story-on-blurbs


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Celts:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/oct/04/celts-great-torque-snettisham-hoard-briti
sh-museum-alice-roberts http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3256881/Warriors-art-slaughter-fearsome-brutal-
ancestors-thrilling-exhibition-British-Museum-shows-Celts-created-weapons-beautiful-blo
odsoaked.html

The Athens of Travellers:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/202170/article/ekathimerini/life/athens-museum-sheds-light-
on-two-19th-century-lovers-of-antiquity

Hair in the Classical World:

http://fairfield.edu/lassochannel/press/pr_index/index.lasso?id=4386

Penelope:

http://www.tehrantimes.com/index_View.asp?code=249743

Berlin Metropolis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/02/arts/design/hope-and-dread-are-infused-in-berlin-met
ropolis.html

Myth and Nature:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/01/arts/international/a-greco-roman-tour-of-myth-and-nat
ure.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel

Hemingway:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/books/review-hemingway-man-of-few-words-and-man
y-mementos-at-the-morgan.html

Oller:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/27/arts/design/francisco-oller-exhibition-explores-impre
ssionism-and-the-caribbean.html

Ganesha:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-34377460

Garstang's Archive:

http://www.dailysabah.com/events/2015/09/28/archaeologist-john-garstangs-archive-on-d
isplay-at-rcac

Philippine Gold:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/arts/design/review-philippine-gold-treasures-of-forgo
tten-kingdoms.html

Peggy Guggenheim's kin don't like how her collection is being displayed:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/23/peggy-guggenheims-kin-lose-bid-to-challen
ge-how-her-collection-is-displayed/

Pondering Marion True:

http://hyperallergic.com/241632/marion-true-does-not-deserve-our-sympathy/

More on the new head of the BM:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/25/hartwig-fischer-to-lead-british-museum/
http://news.yahoo.com/british-museums-german-head-workaholic-man-action-140451175
.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/london-culture/hartwig-fischer-named-british-museum-direc
tor/
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34389372 http://www.salon.com/2015/09/29/german_appointed_director_of_british_museum/

... related:

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/tinker-tailor-soldier-curator-is-there-a-mole-at-the-british-
museum/

The Detroit Institute of Arts has a new director:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/09/16/detroit-institute-of-arts-names-new-director-
salvador-salort-pons/

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THE TECHY SIDE
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A Dark Age royal (maybe) family's remains are the latest to get the facial reconstruction
treatment:

http://www.edinburgh.gov.uk/news/article/1943/could_cramond_hold_the_secret_of_scotl
and_during_dark_ages http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3256581/Are-faces-murdered-Scottish-roya
l-family-Reconstructions-Dark-Age-bodies-shed-light-mysterious-mass-grave.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/skeletons-found-in-edinburgh-c

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