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explorator 18.28 November 1, 2015 ===============================================================
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Don Buck, Hernan Astudillo, Rick Heli,
Bob Heuman, Kris Curry, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Latest 'common ancestor' candidate is Pliobates cataloniae:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1030/Was-the-common-ancestor-of-all-apes-actu
ally-petite-video
Hopes of finding more homo floresiensis remains:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28413-frodos-basement-secret-chamber-found-wh
ere-hobbit-humans-lived/
http://www.thedailystar.net/science/secret-crypt-found-where-hobbit-humans-lived-16474
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Podcast pondering the east African origins of humans:
http://www.theguardian.com/science/audio/2015/oct/26/anthropology
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AFRICA
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In Our Time this week discussed the empire of Mali (direct link to the audio):
http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-dow
nload/proto/http/vpid/p036jnft.mp3
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Not sure if we mentioned that a Polish team found a hitherto unknown temple of Hatshepsut:
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,407046,polish-archaeologists-discovered-an
-unknown-temple-of-hatshepsut.html
Three tombs in Luxor are being 'inaugurated':
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/antiquities-minister-inaugurate-3-tombs-luxor
http://www.thecairopost.com/news/174128/news/tomb-of-tutankhamens-viceroy-in-luxor-o
pens-after-renovation-completed
... and the Hibis Temple in the Kharga Oasis is too:
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/hibis-temple-be-reopened-thursday http://www.thecairopost.com/news/173944/news/tourism-minister-to-inaugurate-hibis-tem
ple
Preservation plans at Karanis:
http://www.thecairopost.com/news/173817/news/press-release-us-and-egypt-help-preser
ve-ancient-site-in-karanis
Laying blame in some vandalism in Heliopolis:
http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2015/10/egypt-heliopolis-city-vandalism-excav
ation-archaeology.html
We're getting more details on plans to 'scan' the pyramids:
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-experts-unravel-secrets-pyramids.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/pyramids-of-giza-technology-m
ay-unlock-secrets-of-egypt-s-wonder-of-the-ancient-world-a6708451.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/scientists-want-scan-egypts-pyramids-secr
ets-180957074/
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/161858/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/%E2%80%
98ScanPyramids%E2%80%99-project-hopes-to-decipher-ancient-s.aspx
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3290584/Cosmic-rays-unravel-Egypt-s-sec
rets-Advanced-imaging-discover-Queen-Nefertiti-s-tomb-finally-reveal-pyramids-built.htm
l?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2015/10/26/scientists-to-get-inside-4-pyramids-without-t
ouching-them.html
Dr Hawass revealed something interesting about 'Chasing Mummies':
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/style-blog/wp/2015/10/29/egypts-indiana-jones-co
mes-clean-about-zoe-peed-in-the-great-pyramid-episode-of-his-reality-show/
More on that oldest 'abc's primer':
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/oldest-abcs-primer-found-on-ancient-egyp
tian-pottery-151026.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1
A storm exposed a 1500 years b.p. wine press in Israel's Sharon Plain region:
http://www.jpost.com/Not-Just-News/Article.aspx?id=430087 http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2015/10/27/tools-flew-in-the-air-strong-storm-unearths-a
ncient-find-in-israel/
Folks are still trying to understand how a Judean seal ended up in a Sarmatian burial:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.682980
Nice feature on Tell es-Safi:
http://blogs.yu.edu/news/the-gates-of-gath/
Feature on cuneiform:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-heck-cuneiform-anyway-180956999/
The British Museum is training Iraqi archaeologists in reconstruction:
http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/29102015-bm-to-help-iraq-r
econstruct-archaeological-sites
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-34654633 http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/oct/28/british-museum-to-train-iraqi-curators-in-
heritage-protection
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/british-museum-to-train-iraqi-archaeologists-.aspx?pa
geID=238&nid=90540&NewsCatID=375
A couple of monasteries associated with St Photios:
http://orthodoxia.co/two-monasteries-associated-with-st-photios-recently-discovered/
Temple denial continues:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-mufti-denies-temple-mount-ever-housed-jewish-s
hrine/
cf: a very interesting photo essay:
http://jcpa.org/secrets-under-the-al-aqsa-mosque-a-photographic-essay/
Continued concerns for sites in Yemen:
http://www.historytoday.com/sarah-rijziger/yemen%E2%80%99s-endangered-treasures
Not sure where to put this one ... The Hobby Lobby/Museum of the Bible people are
being investigated ostensibly over the shipment of some cuneiform tablets back in 2011
(although that seems to be only part of the story):
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/26/exclusive-feds-investigate-hobby-lobb
y-boss-for-illicit-artifacts.html?via=twitter_page
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/27/hey-hobby-lobby-boss-thou-shalt-not-st
eal.html
http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2015/oct/28/hobby-lobby-investigated-ancient-artifa
cts-iraq
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/160473/ http://www.newser.com/story/215098/hobby-lobby-clan-suspected-of-looting-iraq-antiquiti
es.html
... and so now there's speculation that the Museum of the Bible may have funded ISIL
indirectly:
http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2015/10/hobby-lobby-ceo-antiquities-terrorism http://www.newrepublic.com/article/123262/between-hobby-lobby-and-isis-battle-iraqs-ant
iquities
Meanwhile, ISIL was blowing up columns in Palmyra with people attached:
http://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/1.682549 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3291217/ISIS-executes-three-people-binding-colu
mns-ancient-city-Palmyra-blowing-up.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign= 1490
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2015/10/27/ISIS-blows-up-ancient-colu
mns-in-Syria-s-Palmyra-monitor.html
http://www.mideasttime.com/islamic-state-blows-up-both-prisoners-and-antiquities/
587546/
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/oct/27/islamic-state-straps-prisoners-to-anci
ent-palmyra-/
http://www.cnn.com/2015/10/26/middleeast/isis-pillar-executions-palmyra-syria/ index.html
... and we read of Tess Davis' work trying to deal with ISIL's looting:
http://www.nola.com/crime/index.ssf/2015/10/stolen_artifacts_isis_money_and_a_new_
orleanian_on_the_case.html
... and the US Senate has a bill proposed related to ISIL's smuggling activities:
http://thehill.com/policy/defense/258559-senator-pushes-bill-targeting-isis-antiquities-sm
uggling
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
There were a couple of major finds this week ... the first was an intact (more or less)
3500 years b.p. burial from Pylos:
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-ancient-warrior-tomb-huge-treasure.html http://phys.org/news/2015-10-uc-team-rare-warrior-tomb.html http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/10/151026172105.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uoc-utd102615.php http://magazine.uc.edu/editors_picks/recent_features/warrior_tomb.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/greece/11958381/3500-year-old-warri
or-prince-tomb-is-most-exciting-Ancient-Greek-find-for-decades.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/science/a-warriors-grave-at-pylos-greece-could-be-a-
gateway-to-civilizations.html
http://www.livescience.com/52599-ancient-greek-warrior-tomb-discovered.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/treasure-filled-3500-year-old-warriors-gra
ve-found-151027.htm
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151027-pylos-greece-warrior-grave-mycena
ean-archaeology/
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/26/skeleton-ancient-warrior-treasure-found-gr
eece-tomb
http://www.dw.com/en/bronze-age-warriors-tomb-unearthed-in-spectacular-find-in-souther
n-greece/a-18807272
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/26/greece-archaeology-tomb-idUSL8N12Q3SZ201
51026?feedType=RSS&feedName=basicMaterialsSector
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1027/Archaeologists-in-Greece-unearth-magnific
ent-3-500-year-old-tomb
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/10/151027-pylos-greece-warrior-grave-mycena
ean-archaeology/
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/10/28/is-this-the-ancestor-of-a-homeric-hero.h
tml
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/heres-what-was-inside-griffin-warriors-grav
e-180957063/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3291134/Ancient-warrior-s-tomb-laid-untouched-3-
500-years-discovered-Greece-alongside-huge-hoard-treasure-including-gold-jewellery-si
gnet-rings.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/10/27/warrior-tomb-treasure-intact-for-3500-years-u
nearthed-in-greece/
http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/Unlooted-tomb-in-Pylos-a-stunning-discovery-griffin-war
rior
http://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/27/excavated-warrior-tom
b-with-unparalleled-riches-prompts-new-consideration-of-ancient-greek-history/
http://www.latimes.com/world/europe/la-fg-warriors-grave-greece-20151026-htmlstory.ht
ml
... and hot on the heels of that the announcement of the find of 22 ancient (for the most
part) shipwrecks off the coast of Fourni:
http://www.livescience.com/52604-22-ancient-shipwrecks-near-greek-island.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/22-shipwrecks-found-in-single-greek-locat
ion-in-greece-151028.htm
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/10/29/22-shipwrecks-discovered-in-greek-archipela
go/
http://news.yahoo.com/22-ancient-shipwrecks-discovered-near-greek-island-093121931.h
tml
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/shipwreck-graveyard-has-been-found-gr
eek-archipelago-180957091/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3298012/Now-S-hidden-treasure-ha
ul-22-shipwrecks-discovered-one-spot-coast-Greece.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2015/10/30/amazing-discovery-o
f-22-shipwrecks-off-greece-offers-wondrous-of-ancient-life/?tid=pm_national_pop_b
Roman/Byzantine warehouse remains at Dreamer's Bay (Cyprus):
http://cyprus-mail.com/2015/10/30/dreamers-bay-dig-finds-ancient-harbour-warehouse/
http://famagusta-gazette.com/team-of-archaeologists-work-at-ancient-harbour-in-cyprus-p
30501-69.htm
The Southwell 'Roman Villa' site was saved from development:
http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-34668362
What James Bradley Wells is up to:
http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/31995/
What Peter Meineck is up to:
http://thecollegevoice.org/2015/10/28/classics-scholar-brings-ancient-theater-forming-con
nections-between-neuroscience-history-and-theater/
What Debbie Felton is up to:
http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/article/spooks-monsters-killers-umass-amherst
What Joan Breton Connelly is up to:
http://samfordcrimson.com/?p=7459
Honours for Tara Welch:
http://news.ku.edu/2015/10/24/tara-welch-receives-hope-award
The Dallas Museum of Art acquired a Herakles head:
http://www.artfixdaily.com/artwire/release/5161-dallas-museum-of-art-acquires-1st-centur
y-roman-head-of-herakles
Lessons from some dead Romans:
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2015/10/27/ten-ancient-romans-we-co
uld-all-learn-from/ Pondering Plato:
http://addisonindependent.com/201509plato-justice-and-perfecting-soul
Grand Valley State University had a Homerathon:
http://www.lanthorn.com/article/2015/10/keeping-homer-alive
In case you missed ABBA songs in ancient Greek:
http://au.greekreporter.com/2015/10/28/new-zealand-students-sing-abba-in-ancient-greek
-video/
Reviews of Tom Holland, *Dynasty*:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/e9bea9ee-7c97-11e5-98fb-5a6d4728f74e.html http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/29/dynasty-tom-holland-rome-review
Reviews of Robert Harris, *Dictator*:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/29/dictator-by-robert-harris-review-finale
Interviewish with Mary Beard about SPQR:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/features/professor-mary-beard-tal
ks-about-her-new-history-of-ancient-rome-book-a6706337.html
... and review:
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2015/oct/28/spqr-history-ancient-rome-mary-beard
More on Pompeii needing some sort of spending push:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/11955699/Pompeii-in-race-again
st-time-to-spend-EU-funds-after-years-of-mismanagement.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/pompeii-must-spend-remainder-
of-105m-renovation-fund-by-end-of-year-or-lose-access-to-the-money-a6708331.html
http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/10/25/us-italy-pompeii-idUSKCN0SJ07B20151025?fe
edType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt
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http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
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http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A 6000 years b.p. 'eco home' near Stonehenge:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-34659000 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/prehistoric-eco-house-1300-yea
rs-older-than-stonehenge-discovered-by-archaeologists-a6712716.html
http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2015/oct/29/archaeologists-discover-mesolithic-eco
-home-near-stonehenge
... and they're still talking about the Stonehenge tunnel plan:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-34648523
... and I think we mentioned these Stonehenge 'barbecues':
http://www.livescience.com/52596-stonehenge-builders-hosted-barbecues.html
There was also some Neolithic feasting going on at Drumclog:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2015/ early-neolithic-feasting-rituals
Saxon finds from near Leighton Buzzard:
http://www.leightonbuzzardonline.co.uk/news/local-news/excavation-unearths-rare-saxon
-finds-1-7034455
A Danish metal detectorist came across some Viking items:
http://cphpost.dk/news/amateur-archaeologist-finds-viking-treasure-on-danish-island.html
http://theweek.com/speedreads/585999/amateur-archaeologist-discovers-viking-treasure
-buried-sand
A 700 years b.p. (maybe) ring find:
http://www.gazetteherald.co.uk/news/13900624.Gold_ring_discovered_in_Ryedale_coul
d_be_700_years_old/
Latest finds from Hereford Cathedral:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hereford-worcester-34641594
Feature on France's royal deaths:
http://www.dw.com/en/adieu-louis-frances-royal-deaths/g-18807590
Very interesting house for sale:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/conservation/11963955/Yours-for-2.1
m-9th-century-manor-house-that-is-fit-for-a-king-or-several.html
More on hikers finding a Viking sword in Norway:
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/160823/ http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/28/hiker-stumbles-upon-extraordinary-milleni
a-old-viking-sword
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Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Earthworks in Kazakhstan were back in the news (and very badly reported on ... expect
some better coverage next week):
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/03/science/nasa-adds-to-evidence-of-mysterious-ancien
t-earthworks.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3297282/Mystery-ancient-patterns-Kazakh
stan-Space-images-reveal-remarkable-structures-including-cross-swastika.html
http://www.popularmechanics.com/science/a18019/nasa-contributes-satellite-images-to-h
elp-study-ancient-earthworks/
Strange headline on a report of a 2500 years b.p. female warrior burial find in Siberia:
http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0175-2500-year-old-female-siberia
n-warrior-is-beheaded-by-excavator/
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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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Mississippian influence on the Fort Ancient culture:
http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2015/10/25/1-did-missionaries-influence
-earliest-ohioans.html
Very interesting structures from Homolovi State Park:
http://www.paysonroundup.com/news/2015/oct/28/mystery-wrapped-enigma/
Evidence of human sacrifice from Wisconsin (!):
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/in-wisconsin-evidence-of-huma
n-sacrifice/
A bison kill site in South Dakota:
http://www.capjournal.com/news/archaeologist-ree-heights-bone-site-marks-ancient-hunt
ers-bison-kill/article_ed36549c-7c5a-11e5-8c64-3bb058d7bab3.html
Also from South Dakota ... a rescue dig finds assorted Native American items:
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2015/nov/1/archaeologists-excavate-campground
-before-road-con/
Looking for Acadian sites in Grand Pre:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/acadian-church-1.3290859
Confederate graves in Kentucky:
http://www.newschannel5.com/news/local-news/archeological-dig-finds-dozens-of-confed
erate-graves
19th century remains from a dig in Fredericton:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/carleton-park-archeological-find-1.329493
3?cmp=rss
Talking about preserving/restoring the Alamo:
http://newsdaily.com/2015/10/remember-the-alamo-because-its-getting-a-facelift/
Interesting photo of Ulysses S. Grant:
http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/10/27/452089384/a-very-weird-photo-of
-ulysses-s-grant
Feature on the houses of 'other presidents':
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/arts/design/beyond-monticello-and-mount-vernon-the
-other-presidents-houses.html
A native American language (Chocktaw) project:
http://ygsna.sites.yale.edu/news/native-american-language-project-expands-indigenous-l
anguage-instruction
Review of Schiff, *Witches of Salem*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/books/review/the-witches-salem-1692-by-stacy-schiff
.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/books/stacy-schiffs-the-witches-shines-a-torch-on-sa
lem-trials.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
I think we mentioned this Inca child sacrifice site:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3289698/The-Inca-shrine-CHILDREN-sacrif
iced-Human-remains-caves-offerings-gods-times-extreme-weather.html
More Inca finds from Cuzco:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2015/10/27/archaeologists-make-new-disc
overies-at-site-in-peru/
What we're learning about the Maya working class:
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-temples-ancient-bones-reveal-mayan.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uof-btt102915.php http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/fossils_ruins/archaeology/~3/us01HbDdDp
Y/151029141225.htm
Amazonian natives had little impact on the land, apparently:
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-amazonian-natives-impact.html
Feature on the Nazca lines:
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-d-nazca-lines-main-20151101-story.html
... and Maria Reiche's work there:
http://www.latimes.com/travel/la-tr-d-nazca-lines-reiche-20151101-story.html
On Mexico's Day of the Dead:
http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2015/10/30/the-spirit-of-mexicos-day-of-the-dead/
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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 ================================================================
Now we're blaming megafauna (especially mammoth) extinction on a mineral deficiency:
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-mammoths-declined-due-mineral-starvation.html
... then again:
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-human-role-extinction-mammoths-mammals.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uow-rbh102315.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2015/humans-played-major-role-in
-demise-of-ancient-mammals
Rethinking the development of agriculture:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22830450-700-the-real-first-farmers-how-agricult
ure-was-a-global-invention/
On manipulative auction house strategies:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/arts/design/how-auction-houses-orchestrate-sales-fo
r-maximum-drama.html
On Strauss' mountain climb:
http://www.npr.org/sections/deceptivecadence/2015/10/28/452581472/richard-strauss-mu
sical-mountain-climb
Delaware's tax laws seem amenable to collectors:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/26/arts/design/art-collectors-find-safe-harbor-in-delawar
es-tax-laws.html
On the history of gossip:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/10/27/452051265/gossip-girls-tea-parties-and-th
e-sexist-slang-they-inspired
On hunter-gatherers:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/science/nothing-simple-about-hunter-gatherer-societi
es.html
... and eating red meat (response to the UN's thing last week):
http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/didnt-our-ancestors-eat-red-meat-151026.ht
m
Russia is now planning to exhume Nicholas:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/27/russia-to-exhume-murdered-tsars-father-to
-solve-riddle-of-slain-royal-children
Some 800 years b.p. seeds sprouted:
http://www.mnn.com/your-home/organic-farming-gardening/blogs/students-revive-extinct-
squash-800-year-old-seeds
On Dresden's Church of Our Lady:
http://www.dw.com/en/turbulent-history-dresdens-church-of-our-lady/a-18814528
Russian and the UK are going to do some portrait swapping:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3296341/Shakespeare-Dickens-Chekhov-Dostoev
sky-UK-Russia-swap-portraits-cultural-heavyweights-unprecedented-cultural-exchange.ht
ml
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/news/chekhov-and-dostoevsky-portr
aits-to-be-displayed-in-uk-in-unprecedented-cultural-exchange-with-a6714086.html
The place where the Black Death ended (maybe):
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151026-the-sleepy-village-that-stopped-the-black-deat
h
On evil old women in fairy tales:
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/28/450657717/why-are-old-women-often-the-face-of-evil-in-fair
y-tales-and-folklore
Assorted Hallowe'en related items:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/10/31/how-the-romans-gave-us-bones-
of-the-dead-cookies-for-halloween/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/guides/zpbq6fr http://www.livescience.com/52648-mythical-halloween-monsters-origins.html http://www.npr.org/sections/npr-history-dept/2015/10/30/453135085/halloweens-past-wac
ky-pranks-with-wagons
Interview with Stacy Schiff:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/25/books/review/stacy-schiff-by-the-book.html
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Faith After the Pharaohs:
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/27/egypt-faith-after-the-pharaohs-revi
ew-british-museum
http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2015/oct/30/ancient-egypt-faith-after-the-phara
ohs
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/egypt-faith-after-the-pharoahs--british-museum
-review/
http://www.artdaily.org/index. asp?int_sec=11&int_new=82506
http://news.yahoo.com/worlds-oldest-bible-show-british-museum-tracks-egypts-11555757
9.html
... nice backgrounder:
http://www.thenational.ae/arts-life/the-review/solomon-schechter-and-the-lost-years-of-eg
ypt
Ancient Egypt Transformed:
http://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-metropolitan-museum-wants-to-transform-our-view-o
f-ancient-egypt/
Mummymania:
http://theconversation.com/mummies-have-had-a-bad-wrap-its-time-for-a-reassessment-4
8729
Celts:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/arts/international/cultures-of-the-celts-revisited.html
http://blog.britishmuseum.org/2015/10/27/discovering-hidden-celtic-creatures/
Pozzuoli:
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2015/10/26/exhibition-bring
s-ancient-pozzuoli-near-naples-to-life_8489386f-7f3b-42c2-a095-086adfed3924.html
Ed-Dur:
https://en-maktoob.news.yahoo.com/two-ancient-uae-towns-linked-global-trade-04361311
4.html
Class Distinctions:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/arts/design/class-distinctions-a-boston-show-highlig
hts-social-divisions-in-17th-century-dutch-life.html
Food in the Middle Ages and Renaissance:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/arts/design/at-the-getty-museum-outrageous-menus-
of-centuries-past.html
Vermeer:
http://www.npr.org/2015/10/29/448890125/vermeers-woman-in-blue-returns-to-d-c-hoping-
for-better-luck-this-time
The British Museum is planning to charge foreign tourists:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3298813/Cash-strapped-British-Museum-plans-n
ew-entry-fee-foreign-tour-groups.html
They're renovating the Rodin Museum:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/31/arts/design/recasting-rodins-life-and-work.html
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THE TECHY SIDE
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The synchrotron looks like it will have positive applications:
http://eandt.theiet.org/news/2015/oct/synchrotron-archaeology.cfm
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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
DNA from some 11 500 years b.p. child burials from Alaska is revealing things about the
peopling of the Americas:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/science/dna-of-ancient-children-offers-clues-on-how-
people-settled-the-americas.html?_r=0
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1027/What-ancient-babies-reveal-about-ice-age-
Americans-travels
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2015/ancient-dna-from-alaskan-ba
bies-provides-clues-to-peopling-of-americas
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3290710/First-humans-Northern-North-Ame
rica-11-500-year-old-baby-fossils-humans-paused-spread-globe.html
http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/fossils_ruins/archaeology/~3/Fs71U-ZmSn
w/151026171748.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-10/uou-abb102015.php http://phys.org/news/2015-10-ancient-babies-boost-bering-bridge.html http://www.sltrib.com/home/3095008-155/utah-genetics-research-links-ancient-babies?ful
lpage=1
DNA suggests some interesting breeding of cattle by Neolithic farmer types:
http://phys.org/news/2015-10-ancient-wild-ox-genome-reveals.html
More on DNA telling us about the antiquity of the plague:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/23/science/in-ancient-dna-evidence-of-plague-much-earl
ier-than-previously-known.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/10/2015/ancestral-plague-predomina
ntly-spread-by-human-to-human-contact
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=82487
More on DNA and the Shroud of Turin:
http://www.livescience.com/52567-shroud-of-turin-dna.html
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:
http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Sedlec Ossuary:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151027-the-church-of-40000-corpses
Berlin cemeteries:
http://www.dw.com/en/rip-berlin-face-your-ghosts-and-tour-the-citys-cemeteries/ a-18758516
Ancient Ireland:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151026-discover-irelands-most-ancient-secrets
Roman sites:
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/travel/a/29891710/ancient-roman-empires-essence/
Hadrian's Wall:
http://www.cumbriacrack.com/2015/10/26/discover-hadrians-wall-this-winter/
================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/10/culture-crime-news-19-25-october-201
5.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/ ================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n43.html
... and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n44.html
------------------------
Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
Therese Raquin:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/theater/review-in-therese-raquin-keira-knightley-as-a-
baleful-adulteress.html
Heneral Luna:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/movies/review-heneral-luna-is-a-patriotic-biopic-that-
aspires-to-epicness.html
Witches of America:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/01/books/review/witches-of-america-by-alex-mar.html
Hamilton:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/theater/students-will-get-tickets-to-hamilton-with-its-h
ip-hop-infused-history.html
Heretical Angels:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/27/arts/music/review-katarina-livljanics-heretical-angel
s-contemplates-mortality.html
Art of Fugue:
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/10/30/arts/music/review-angela-hewitt-decodes-bachs-the-
art-of-fugue.html
================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Lisa Jardine:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/11955153/Lisa-Jardine-historian-obituary.htm
l
http://www.thesundaytimes.co.uk/sto/newsreview/theweek/obituaries/article1626459.ece
?CMP=OTH-gnws-standard-2015_10_31
J.K. Anderson:
http://www.classics.berkeley.edu/about/news/memoriam-j-k-anderson-jan-3-1924-oct-13-2
015
V.N. Misra:
http://indianexpress.com/article/cities/pune/world-renowned-archaeologist-prof-vn-misra-
passes-away/
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/other-states/archaeologist-virendra-nath-misra-p
asses-away/article7827537.ece
================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/news-from-tac/audio-news-from-archaeologica/ 2314-audio-news-from-archaeologica-18-oct-24-oct-2015
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