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Neanderthals were eating turtles at a site in Israel some 60 000 years bp, apparently:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.803364 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5762-170726-israel-freshwater-turtle

Early homo sapiens in southern Africa some 60 000 years bp (give or take)
were culturally flexible:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uotw-cfw072617.php https://phys.org/news/2017-07-early-human-ability-survive-prolonged.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170726102921.htm

More on ‘ghost species’ traces in saliva:

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/science/news/article.cfm?c_id=82&objectid=118946
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http://www.archaeology.org/news/5755-170724-saliva-gene-variant http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2017/clues-to-a-ghost-s pecies-of-ancient-human-found-in-saliva


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Chinese burials (it has been determined) from an island off Kenya:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/29/c_136481481.htm

More on the goldsmith’s tomb in the Sudan:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-kingdom-egyptthe-goldsmith-tomb.html


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A tomb of unspecified date from Sharqia:

http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/13639/The-transfer-of-a-newly-discovered -archaeological-tomb
http://www.egyptindependent.com/pharaonic-tomb-unearthed/

Medieval frescoes from the St Pishoy monastery:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/42/274317/Heritage/Coptic/ Medieval-Coptic-wallpaintings-uncovered-at-Egyptia.aspx http://www.egyptindependent.com/murals-discovered-anba-bishoy-monastery/ https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/07/30/archaeological-murals-discovered-at-s aint-bishoy-monastery/ http://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/14153/Wall-paintings-discovered-in-Mona stery-of-Saint-Pishoy

Feature on Flinders Petrie:

http://www.thenational.scot/culture/15439186.Profile__Flinders_Petrie__contr oversial_founder_of_archaeology/

Bronze Age granaries from Manisa:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-granaries-reveal-history-of-grape-pr oduction--.aspx?pageID=238&nid=115965&NewsCatID=375

Evidence of the Babylonian destruction of Jerusalem:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=430
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http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/233006 http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-jerusalem-finds-shore-up-biblical-account-of -babylonian-conquest/
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/.premium-1.803529 http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4994533,00.html http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4994920,00.html http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/jerusalem/they-were-here-on-tisha-ba v-new-evidence-of-babylonian-destruction-discovered-in-city-of-david/2017/07/ 26/
https://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/1325478/ photos-eve-tisha-bav-evidence-babylonian-destruction-jerusalem-found-city-d avid.html https://www.algemeiner.com/2017/07/26/ahead-of-tisha-bav-evidence-of-babyl onian-destruction-of-jerusalem-unearthed/ http://forward.com/fast-forward/378000/new-evidence-of-babylonian-conquest- of-jerusalem-discovered/

Possible evidence that Second Temple priests fled to Magdala to continue traditions after the Romans took Jerusalem:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Magdala-once-likely-populated-by-elite-Jeru salemites-501003 http://www.timesofisrael.com/new-finds-suggest-second-temple-priests-who-fl ed-the-romans-kept-up-holy-rituals-in-the-galilee/

A 1600 years bp wine press from Ramat Negev:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_heb.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=430
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http://www.timesofisrael.com/1600-years-ago-soldiers-may-have-quaffed-wine -from-this-desert-press/ http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/1600-year-old-stone-wine-presser-fo und-in-Ramat-Negev-500669 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5760-170725-negev-wine-press

Really a DNA story, but the suggestion is they weren’t destroyed but moved
to Lebanon (hmmm):

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/wtsi-pld072617.php https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/cp-wwt072017.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170727122039.htm http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/genetic-study-suggests-present-day-leba nese-descend-from-biblical-canaanites https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/27/science/ancient-canaanites-bible-lebano n.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/a7862936.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2017/07/28/study-disproves-bibles-claim-a ncient-canaanites-wiped/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/the-canaanites-werent-annihilated-they-just-mov ed-to-lebanon/ https://www.newscientist.com/article/2142028-bronze-age-dna-calls-famous-bi blical-slaughter-into-question/#038;%23038;%23038;campaign_id=RSS%7CNS
NS- https://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2017/07/genetic-evidence-suggests-the-cana anites-werent-destroyed-after-all/ http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-canaanite-lebanese-gen etics-20170727-story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2017/07/27/ ancient-dna-solves-mystery-of-the-canaanites-reveals-the-biblical-peoples-fat e/?wpisrc=al_alert-hse&wpmk=1 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/canaanite-bible-ancient-dna-leba non-genetics-archaeology/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5766-170727-lebanon-canaanite-genome

Video on the Solomon’s Stables excavation on Temple Mount:

https://templemount.wordpress.com/2017/07/23/solomons-stables-history-and -destructionruction/

Suggestion that Philistines weren’t ‘pirates’ after all:

http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.802928

Some Foundation Stone interviews of note … first, a Tel Hazor interview with Prof Amnon Ben-Tor

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d0FQfGFaCM0

… and Tel Achziv interviews with Dr Yifat Therani and D. Michael Yasmin.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nxD7A9DoQ3U

Latest from the Tel Burna dig:

https://telburna.wordpress.com/2017/07/29/week-4end-of-season-overview/

Gobekli Tepe is looking for Heritage status:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/unesco-lists-turkeys-gobeklitepe-as-2018-n ominee.aspx?pageID=238&nID=115875&NewsCatID=375

Feature on assorted biblical battles:

https://www.livescience.com/59911-ancient-biblical-battles.html

More on the oldest ‘smiley’ claim:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/worlds-oldest-smiley-face-found- hittite-jug-180964177/

Apparently not much is happening regarding the restoration of Nimrud:

http://www.dw.com/en/still-no-progress-in-restoring-ancient-nimrud/
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A major tomb+inscription find from Pompeii:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2017/07/27/ tomb-depicting-famous-gladiator-brawl-discovered-in-pompeii_223d6f13-f15b- 43d1-8405-a6f11fccd33b.html https://www.the-tls.co.uk/new-inscription-pompeii-reading-lines/ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/edition/world/pompeii-rivalled-rome-for-big-fight-ni ght-shows-tomb-inscription-of-alleius-nigidius-maius-gzbbdvl5p http://www.archaeology.org/news/5768-170727-porta-stabia-tomb

… some Italian coverage:

http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/07/24/news/pompei_scoperta_tomba_ monumentale_con_iscrizione_lunga_4_metri-171550930/ http://napoli.repubblica.it/cronaca/2017/07/27/news/pompei_nigidius_il_libert o_amico_di_nerone_che_offri_giochi_degni_del_colosseo-171740672/ http://www.ansa.it/canale_viaggiart/it/notizie/bellezza/2017/07/26/pompei-em ersa-la-tomba-di-un-impresario_c490dc6d-345f-4c48-ac67-9722f6d10cd8.html

Evidence that the Etruscans were good at beekeeping:

https://www.livescience.com/59970-etruscans-were-expert-beekeepers.html

Remains of the ancient sunken city of Neapolis off the coast of Tunisia:

http://www.ansa.it/sito/notizie/cultura/arte/2017/07/28/scoperta-citta-sommers a-in-tunisia_59b5268b-639b-4ec6-ad7d-49c03b92dbab.html

Looking at the site of the Varian disaster again:

http://www.dw.com/en/unearthing-the-mysteries-of-the-battle-that-created-germ any/a-39817362

A well from Parion/Parium:

https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/07/24/2700-year-old-healing-water-d iscovered-in-parion-ancient-city-in-turkeys-canakkale

A Sarmatian burial from the Crimea (with a typical Pravda headline):

http://www.pravdareport.com/science/mysteries/28-07-2017/
138279-alien_child-0/

Roman-era (empty) tombs from Usak:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-symbolic-graves-unearthed-in-usak. aspx?pageID=238&nid=115943&NewsCatID=375 https://www.dailysabah.com/history/2017/07/25/2000-year-old-empty-tombs-u nearthed-in-usak

A mosaic find from Perge:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/1800-year-old-mosaic-found-in-ancient-city- of-perge.aspx?PageID=238&NID=115733&NewsCatID=375 http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26546-1-800-year-old-mosaic- discovered-in-ancient-anatolian-city-of-perge.html

They’re moving that mosaic found in a farmer’s field to a museum in Gaziantep:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/mosaic-to-move-to-gaziantep-.aspx?pageID =238&nid=116040 They were assessing damage in Kos:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/220446/article/ekathimerini/life/kos-archaeologic al-museum-assesses-quake-damage

… and the museum reopened:

http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/26548-kos-archaeological-mu seum-reopening-to-visitors-on-saturday.html

Excavating Halmyris:

http://theconversation.com/what-were-finding-as-we-excavate-halmyris-a-fronti er-fort-of-the-roman-empire-73577

Another one that is a DNA story … confirmation that the Greeks settled Southern Italy and Sicily (we knew this already, no?):

http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/New-research-proves-ancient-Greeks-colonis ed-Sicily-and-Southern-Italy%20

Malaria was already widespread on Sardinia in the Roman period:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170727103035.htm http://www.news-medical.net/news/20170727/Malaria-already-widespread-on- Sardiniac2a0in-the-Roman-period-research-shows.aspx

Plans to dig at Uzuncaburç:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavation-start-at-turkeys-uzuncaburc.asp x?pageID=238&nid=116073&NewsCatID=375

Feature on Nero, Peter, and Paul:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/nero-the-execution-of-peter-and-paul-and-the-big gest-fake-news-in-early-christian-history

Feature on garum:

http://www.motherjones.com/food/2017/07/fish-sauce-ancient-rome-garum/

Feature on the ballista:

http://www.popularmechanics.com/culture/tv/a27520/game-of-thrones-ballista/

Feature on the Secret Cabinet:

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-trove-erotic-roman-art-scandalized-
french-monarchy

Feature on the Nashville Parthenon:

https://www.artsy.net/article/artsy-editorial-full-scale-replica-parthenon-nashvi
lle-tennessee

Novelizing Euripides:

http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2017/07/31/novelizing-greek-myth

Another feature on Wonder Woman/Amazons:

https://blog.oup.com/2017/07/wonder-woman-amazon-mythology/

Interesting touristy feature at Hadrian’s Wall:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/how-hear-500-roman -cavalry-13385205

Court rules that Italy can seek a new head for the Colosseum:

http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/news/world/article/Ruling-lets-Italy-hunt-als o-abroad-for-new-11362547.php https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/travel/ruling-lets-italy-hunt-also-abr oad-for-new-colosseum-chief/2017/07/25/ddac99d8-7135-11e7-8c17-533c52b2 f014_story.html

… and the archaeo-park got the go-ahead too:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2017/07/25/court-says-ok-to-colo sseum-archeo-park_95e9592f-c438-4377-a193-99affce7ac5a.html https://www.thelocal.it/20170725/top-italian-court-gives-go-ahead-to-colosseu m-archaeological-park http://www.wantedinrome.com/news/italian-court-overturns-ruling-against-colo sseum-park.html http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/italian-high-court-gives-green-light-to-c olosseum-park-and-foreign-museum-directors/

Some Classical connections to Game of Thrones:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2017/07/24/five-references-to-the-a ncient-and-late-roman-world-within-game-of-thrones/

Kristina Killgrove’s Day of Archaeology post:

https://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2017/07/27/a-summer-day-in-th e-life-of-a-roman-bioarchaeologist/

… and another Day of Archaeology post on the Paphos Theatre dig:

http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/roman-theatres-and-contemporary-arts-aust ralian-archaeologists-in-cyprus/

An interesting production of the Eumenides:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/22/opinion/manhattans-district-attorney-vs- aeschylus.html

What Kurt Freudenburg is up to:

https://news.yale.edu/2017/07/24/freudenburg-and-hansen-appointed-endowe d-chairs

What Greg Crane is up to:

https://www.timeshighereducation.com/news/scholars-still-using-new-technolo gy-do-same-damn-thing

Honours for Paul Cartledge:

http://www2.warwick.ac.uk/newsandevents/pressreleases/ classics_expert_honoured/

Victorian women translating Greek:

https://thebestschools.org/review/ladies-greek/

Someone didn’t like the BBC’s portrayal of a diverse Roman Britain:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/27/alt-right-commentator-gets-school ed-historian-diversity-roman/ http://metro.co.uk/2017/07/27/alt-rigth-commentator-gets-shut-down-by-historia n-over-diversity-in-roman-britain-6810143/

Why parents should read the Clouds:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/davidbahr1/2017/07/26/philosophy-leads-to-father -beating-or-why-all-parents-should-read-aristophanes-clouds/

Roman roads of the UK as a tube map:

https://www.shropshirestar.com/news/trending-topics/editors-picks/2017/07/ 27/shropshires-roman-roads-part-of-new-london-underground-style-map/ http://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/london-life/alternative-tube-map-shows-ro man-roads-of-britain-a3598096.html

Latest comparisons of the contemporary US to ancient times:

http://www.smh.com.au/national/public-service/donald-trump-presidency-has- echoes-of-ancient-greece-20170728-gxkq8z

More on that sarcophagus from a London market:

http://www.9news.com.au/world/2017/07/25/16/29/ancient-roman-sarcophagus -unearthed-in-london

In case you missed the Hippocrates palimpsest from st Catharine’s
monastery:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/hippocrates-manuscript-sinai-pal impsests-st-catherines-monastery-spd/


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Grain residue in a Bronze Age ‘lunchbox’ find from the Swiss Alps:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uoy-afk072517.php https://phys.org/news/2017-07-archaeologists-key-tracking-ancient-wheat.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170726091521.htm https://www.livescience.com/59961-bronze-age-lunch-box-in-swiss-alps.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/07/27/traces-bronze-age-era-cereals-di scovered-swiss-mountains/ http://www.foodandwine.com/news/ancient-grains-history-could-be-rewritten-th anks-discovery-in-swiss-alps http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2017/07/ancient-bronze-age-box-discover ed-archaeology-spd/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5764-170726-bronze-age-box

I think we mentioned this 5000 years bp ‘incense pot’ from the Ness of Brodgar:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5756-170724-scotland-neolithic-pot

Prehistoric finds from the site of a new Inverness prison:

http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/Extensive-prehistoric-remains-found -at-site-of-new-Inverness-prison-27072017.htm

Finds from various periods from Hayle dig:

http://www.smallholder.co.uk/news/15434722.Tools_from_Cornwall___s_first _farmers_among_important_archaeological_finds_at_Hayle_construction_sit
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Assorted sites from Azerbaijan:

http://www.today.az/news/society/163486.html https://www.azernews.az/nation/116679.html

An 1100 bp coin and other (Pictish) items from Burghead Fort:

http://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/news/national/15431648.Archaeologists_f ind_Pictish_remains_at_Moray_fort/ http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/1-100-year-old-coin-found-in- royal-pictish-power-centre-1-4513047 http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/uk/archaeologists-find-pictish-remains -at-moray-fort-35964885.html https://www.eveningexpress.co.uk/fp/news/local/archaeologists-from-an-aberd een-university-have-unearthed-artefacts-dating-back-more-than-1000-years-st aff-from-the-university-of-aberdeen-have-been-digging-at-burghead-fort-near-lo ssiemouth-wher/ https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/moray/1294849/burghead-fort-dig-l eads-to-surprise-discoveries/ http://observer.com/2017/07/pictish-fort-burghead-discovery/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5759-170725-scotland-coin-fort

A fifth century baptismal font from Bulgaria:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/07/28/archaeology-ancient-stone-baptismal-vessel -found-at-plovdivs-episcopal-basilica-site/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5772-170728-bulgaria-philippopolis-basilica

Finds from various periods from Bulgaria’s Ruskcastro fort dig:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/07/26/archaeology-ivory-icon-rare-byzantine-gold-c oin-found-at-bulgarias-rusokastro-fortress-site/ http://www.novinite.com/articles/181656/Archaeologist+Found+Extremely+Rar e+Ivory+Icon+in+Burgas http://www.archaeology.org/news/5763-170726-bulgaria-rusokastro-fortress

Medieval burials from Peperikon:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2017/07/29/archaeology-more-than-80-mediaeval-tombs- found-at-bulgarias-perperikon/

A possible monastery beneath a Perth pub?:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/old-monastery-lie-under-perth-1 0888275

18th century epidemic victims from a Polish cemetery:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,415051,poznan-victims-of-the-epi demic-300-years-ago-discovered-in-srodka.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5757-170724-poland-plague-victims

A 150 years bp curling stone from a Peeblesshire farm site:

http://www.bordertelegraph.com/news/15429014.150_year_old_curling_stone _unearthed_on_Peeblesshire__farm/

Sale of that bronze peat bog sword:

https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2017/ancient-peat-bog-bronze-sw ord-sells-to-dutch-museum-at-christies/

Studying the effects of a ninth century Icelandic volcanic eruption on the Dark Ages:

https://www.economist.com/news/science-and-technology/21725165-song-ice- and-fire-events-iceland-explain-years-famine-europes-dark


On the ‘Armenian Stonehenge’:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/unraveling-mystery-armenian-stonehe nge-180964207/

St Cuthbert’s coffin has gone on display:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2017/jul/28/st-cuthberts-coffin-durham-c athedral

England’s ‘oldest hotel’ has been restored after a fire:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-40718707

Heralding the golden age of Scottish archaeology:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/15442386.Welcome_to_the_Golden_Age _of_Scottish_archaeology/

On medieval treatments for male infertility:

https://phys.org/news/2017-07-medieval-men-infertility-treatments.html

Analyzing European earthquakes over time:

http://dro.dur.ac.uk/22472/

More on Tintagel:

https://www.yahoo.com/news/archaeologists-return-legendary-birthplace-king- 163900735.html

More on the ‘race against time’ at an Orkney site:

http://www.scotsman.com/regions/inverness-highlands-islands/orkney-archae ological-dig-is-a-battle-between-time-and-tide-1-4514267


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A 2400 years bp ‘limousine’ from Henan:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2017-07/28/c_136480895.htm

A 2300 years bp carpenter’s tool from a site on Honshu:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201707280043.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5771-170728-iron-carpentry-tool


A medieval child burial from northern Russia:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/skull-of-1000-year-old-arctic -chieftains-infant-heir-found-encased-in-persian-bronze-cup/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5769-170728-arctic-persian-bowl

Park rangers just came across a pile of Aboriginal petroglyphs in West
Arnhem:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-30/aboriginal-rangers-discover-rock-art-si te-in-arnhem-land/8750046

Humans may be behind the extinction of New Zealand’s swans:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5765-170726-new-zealand-swans

Studying early settlers in New Zealand from an Otago cemetery:

http://www.scoop.co.nz/stories/CU1707/S00305/research-reveals-insights-into -lives-of-early-settlers.htm
http://www.otago.ac.nz/news/news/otago656624.html

A Chinese museum seeks help with some oracle bones:

http://mentalfloss.com/article/503069/chinese-museum-offering-cash-whoever -can-decipher-these-3000-year-old-inscriptions

Concerns for Goan antiquities:

http://www.navhindtimes.in/desecration-of-the-goan-antiquities-ii/

More on earlier human arrival to Australia:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2017/dated-artefacts-in- northern-australia-indicate-humans-arrived-there-about-65000-years-ago

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

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Evidence of diversification in points ca 12 500 year bp:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/s-toa072617.php https://phys.org/news/2017-07-cultural-diversification-early-north-american.ht ml

Mimbres culture items from a New Mexico dig:

http://www.lcsun-news.com/story/news/education/nmsu/2017/07/23/ nmsu-students-discover-artifacts-archaeological-dig/503028001/

An 18th century crucifix from Fort Michilimackinac:

http://www.mlive.com/news/grand-rapids/index.ssf/2017/07/18th-century_cruci fix_uncovere.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5761-170725-michigan-brass-crucifix

… and a related Day of Archaeology post:

http://www.dayofarchaeology.com/michilimackinac-2017/

Digging up pioneer burials in southern Indiana prior to road construction:

http://www.tribstar.com/archaeologists-dig-up-graves-at-indiana-pioneer-cemet ery/article_1153be9e-e3db-5206-828b-33f29d3ef10f.html

Human remains from a dig in a Prince George park:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/11-historical-human-remains- discovered-in-archaeological-dig-at-prince-george-park-1.4227857?cmp=rss

Digging an 18th century cemetery in Nova Scotia:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5770-170728-fortress-of-louisbourg

Plans to dig up a Baptist Church’s cemetery in Philadelphia:

http://www.bctv.org/special_reports/community/friends-of-hopewell-furnace-to- explore-the-first-baptist-church/article_2de4deb0-706e-11e7-b554-e73e94c424 6e.html

I think we’ve mentioned this John Brown Farm dig before:

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/curr/suny-potsdam-students-dig-up-artifa cts-at-john-brown-site-20170726

They’ve banned metal detectors from Rogers Island:

http://poststar.com/news/local/historic-site-bans-metal-detectors/article_b59c3 303-5955-5242-82bd-d4bf2bbc7d7a.html http://www.wcax.com/story/35954166/officials-ban-metal-detectors-from-upstat e-ny-historic-site https://www.usnews.com/news/best-states/new-york/articles/2017-07-24/ officials-ban-metal-detectors-from-upstate-ny-historic-site

… a related dig has commenced:

http://poststar.com/news/local/digging-it-major-archaeology-project-underway- on-rogers-island/article_6386f70e-0edd-5bd1-8c98-e5b7100a6f29.html

Hyping a dig in Sarnia:

http://www.theobserver.ca/2017/07/25/archaeological-report-from-sarnia-exca vation-expected-soon

Digging Underground Railroad sites in Albany:

http://www.timesunion.com/news/education/article/Dig-underway-at-Undergrou nd-Railroad-sites-in-11557572.php http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2017/07/excavating_sites_in_albany _neighborhood_with_link_to_underground_railroad.html http://www.timesunion.com/living/article/Refuse-yields-historical-gems-11439 234.php

Plans to survey the town site of Fort Macleod:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/fort-macleod-townsite-dig-1.4227532? cmp=rss

On the FBI’s ‘coming of age’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-40721016

Studying links between Fort Vancouver and Yellowstone:

http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/jul/23/researcher-traces-ties-between-fo rt-yellowstone/

Did Billy the Kid have a connection to upstate New York?:

http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2017/07/billy_the_kid_wild_west_out law_might_have_clinton_connection.html

More on the ‘moving the archaeological storage facilities’ thing in Canada:

http://www.macleans.ca/news/why-is-ottawa-trying-to-move-atlantic-canadas-a rtifacts-to-quebec/


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An Aztec structure of some sort at Plaza Pino Suarez in Mexico City:

http://mexiconewsdaily.com/news/another-pre-hispanic-find-in-mexico-city/ http://www.inah.gob.mx/es/boletines/6331-hallan-vestigio-ceremonial-de-un-c alpulli-mexica-en-la-plaza-pino-suarez

There’s more to Easter Island statues, apparently (we’ve seen this before):

https://www.forbes.com/sites/trevornace/2017/07/26/famous-easter-island-hea ds-have-hidden-bodies/

What Elizabeth Paris is up to:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/calgary/elizabeth-paris-archaeology-mayapan -1.4219671?cmp=rss

What Jon Henderson is up to:

https://nottstv.com/nottingham-archaeologist-uncovers-secrets-sunken-pirate- city-jamaica/


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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

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A history of citrus fruit:

https://www.livescience.com/59896-ancient-citrus-trade-routes.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5758-170724-archaeobotany-citrus-fruit

Big bucks for a Waterloo veteran’s medals:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-40716456

… and a Boer War ‘time capsule”:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-40715985

On the invention of the windshield wiper:

http://www.npr.org/2017/07/25/536835744/alabama-woman-stuck-in-nyc-traffic- in-1902-invented-the-windshield-wiper

On the ‘Perfumed Garden’:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20170725-the-ancient-arabic-kama-sutra

Feature on the Basque language:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20170719-the-mysterious-origins-of-europes- oldest-language

Latest photos from the Sistine Chapel:

http://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-40734899/sistine-chapel-like-you-ve- never-seen-it-before

Victor Nuovo is looking at Hobbes’ thoughts on religion:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201707victor-nuovo-hobbes-religion

Latest on Amelia Earhart:

http://kval.com/news/local/this-is-in-face-what-did-happen-to-amelia-earhart

Feature on human sacrifice:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/human-sacrifice-a-hobby-as-old-as-time

On the origins of Monopoly:

http://www.bbc.com/capital/story/20170728-monopoly-was-invented-to-demon strate-the-evils-of-capitalism

Studying millet:

http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/features/archaeology-shows-theres-more-to-mi llet-than-birdseed https://phys.org/news/2017-07-archaeology-millet-birdseed.html

Studying transitions in cultural evolution:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/07/170726132047.htm

More on that pair of bodies from a Swiss glacier:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/how-bodies-stayed-mummified-for-75-years-in- a-swiss-glacier/

Archaeology Podcast Network:

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Pompeii:

http://www.columbian.com/news/2017/jul/23/omsi-exhibit-shows-volcanic-dest ruction-of-pompeii-2000-years-ago/

Agon: Competition in Ancient Greece:

http://artdaily.com/news/97718/Exhibition-explores-the-competitive-spirit-that- was-a-powerful-element-in-Greek-society-#.WX37CYqQxn4

Vikings:

https://www.thestar.com/entertainment/2017/07/26/vikings-exhibit-to-land-at-ro m-in-november.html

Egypt Uncovered:

https://egyptianstreets.com/2017/07/27/egypt-uncovered-new-exhibition-at-sir- john-soanes-museum-in-london/

Hokusai:

http://blog.britishmuseum.org/hokusai-in-the-world-then-and-now/

A New Jersey Museum has discovered several cases of 200+ year old wine:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/news-and-advice/liberty-hall-museum-win e-madeira-collection-new-jersey-john-adams-president-usa-exhibition-a78566 31.html

Followup to that fakes-in-a-Mexican-museum story:

http://eltecolote.org/content/en/features/mexican-museum-defends-its-legitima cy-corrects-journalists-inaccurate-reporting/

The British Museum somehow managed to lose a large Cartier diamond and
kept it hush hush for quite a while:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-40738239 https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2017/jul/27/cartier-diamond-ring-worth-75 0000-lost-by-british-museum http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/million-dollar-diamond-ring-disappears-british-museu m-london-1632116 https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/british-museum-loses-750-000-ring-stcs3w5
jv

I think we’ll start putting Bible Museum/Hobby Lobby stuff in this category now:

http://www.pbs.org/newshour/art/hobby-lobby-thinks-bible-can-save-america-n ow-museum-convince-critics/


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Latest imaging technique finding hidden texts:

https://www.livescience.com/59925-imaging-reveals-medieval-text.html http://www.archaeology.org/news/5767-170727-combined-imaging-technique

Studying the grazing habits of Neolithic cattle using isotopes:

http://www.bristol.ac.uk/news/2017/july/isotopes-in-prehistoric-cattle-teeth.htm
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https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/p-iip072017.php https://phys.org/news/2017-07-isotopes-prehistoric-cattle-teeth-herding.html http://www.inverness-courier.co.uk/News/Extensive-prehistoric-remains-found -at-site-of-new-Inverness-prison-27072017.htm

Studying prehistoric social networks in the Balkans:

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-07/uoc-ait072717.php

On ground penetrating radar use:

https://magazine.du.edu/summer-2017/using-ground-penetrating-radar-anthro pology-professor-explores-world-underground/


More on the BM’s 3d scan of the Rosetta Stone:


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