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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Bob Heuman, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Hernan Astudillo, Mark Allen, Rick Heli, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths, and
Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

Happy Hanukkah to those celebrating ... ================================================================
EARLY HOMINIDS
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Pondering whether early humans killed a sabre-toothed feline:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-34944560

More on the age of homo naledi:

http://phys.org/news/2015-11-homo-naledi-million-years.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Natufians were making something akin to bread, apparently:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.689130

Latest mummy CT scan has found that a mummy had a head full of stuff:

http://www.livescience.com/52981-egyptian-mummy-has-dirt-in-skull.html http://www.livescience.com/52972-3200-year-old-egyptian-mummy-ct-scanned-by-radiolo
gists-video.html http://phys.org/news/2015-12-radiologists-woman-died-egypt-years.html

Still speculating about hidden chambers in Tut's tomb:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2015/dec/01/egyptian-explo
rers-discovered-new-treasures-tutankhamun-egypt http://www.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/world/middleeast/hope-for-nefertitis-tomb-and-egypts
-economy.html http://www.dw.com/en/hidden-chamber-in-the-valley-of-kings-queen-nefertitis-resting-plac
e/g-18884354

... while the newsies revisited the discovery of Tut's tomb:

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2015/dec/01/tutankhamun-valley-of-the-kings-egypt-h
oward-carter-1922 http://mashable.com/2015/11/30/king-tutankhamun-tomb-deconstruction/


Mapping trade routes between Bronze Age Iran and Mesopotamia:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2015/12/151203082704.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2015/archaeologists-uncover-bron
ze-age-trade-routes-between-iran-and-mesopotamia

Interesting lead 'wand' from Anatolia:

http://www.livescience.com/52984-oldest-lead-artifact-in-levant.html

They're still trying to figure out geometric structures in the Arabian desert:

http://www.livescience.com/52944-huge-geometric-shapes-in-middle-east-revealed.html
http://news.discovery.com/history/huge-shapes-in-middle-east-may-be-prehistoric-15120
2.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/12/02/1300-year-old-olive-press-unearthed-at-israeli-arc
haeological-park/

This seal impression, apparently of King Hezekiah, was actually found five years or so
ago but is back in the news:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-34988649 http://www.livescience.com/52969-biblical-king-royal-seal-unearthed.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/thuo-iok120215.php http://phys.org/news/2015-12-israelite-judean-king-exposed-situ.html http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/First-ever-seal-impression-of-an-Israelite-or-Ju
dean-king-exposed-near-Temple-Mount-436061 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/204294#.Vl8SRNirQhd http://www.timesofisrael.com/seal-bearing-name-of-judean-king-found-in-jerusalem/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/king-hezekiahs-seal-discovered-in-jeru
salem/2015/12/02/ http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-archaeology-jerusalem-idUSKBN0TL1AB201512
03 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3344295/A-mark-power-Tiny-2-700-year-old
-royal-seal-Judah-s-greatest-king-discovered-ancient-rubbish-dump-Jerusalem.html?ITO=
1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/12/02/israeli-archaeologists-uncover-seal-bearing-nam
e-of-judean-king-in-jerusalem-excavations/ http://english.alarabiya.net/en/life-style/art-and-culture/2015/12/02/Rare-mark-from-biblic
al-king-s-seal-found-in-Jerusalem.html http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.689594 http://www.westernjournalism.com/watch-israeli-archaeologists-bring-the-bible-to-life-with
-new-stunning-discovery/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/03/archaeologist-says-the-bible-s-king-he
zekiah-is-real.html http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_opinion.php?id=14545

Not sure if we mentioned this olive press find from Tel Shiloh:

http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/12/02/1300-year-old-olive-press-unearthed-at-israeli-arc
haeological-park/

Remembering, and plans growing out of, the Mount Carmel fire fives years ago:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/204138

Feature on Tiberius Julius Alexander:

http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Past-Imperfect-Confronting-Jewish-History/Tiberius-Julius-Ale
xander-The-Jew-Who-Destroyed-Jerusalem-436073

Plans to recreate ancient wines of Israel:

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/israel-middle-east/israel-aims-to-recreate-wine
s-drunk-by-king-david-and-jesus-and-the-latest-attempt-is-pleasant-and-easy-to-drink

Arguing over control of the Jerusalem Archaeology Center:

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/State-to-appeal-against-Elad-control-of-Jerusalem-arch
aeology-center-436418

One we missed (I think): interesting Byzantine gold medallion/Torah scroll ornament:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/exceptional-gold-medallion-goes-on-display-at-israel-muse
um/


ISIL is apparently selling antiquities to western collectors:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/12034421/Isil-antiques-sold-to
-western-collectors-warns-French-finance-minister.html

... while folks still try to calculate how much money they're making:

http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/the-real-value-of-the-isis-antiquities-trade

Syria's antiquities head says they need help:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2015/12/151201-syria-cultural-heritage-antiquities-is
is-palmyra-dgam-assad/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
An intact Etruscan tomb from near Perugia:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/intact-packed-etruscan-tomb-found-15120
4.htm

Overviewish sort of thing on the Ayios Giorgios Hill excavations in Nicosia:

http://cyprus-mail.com/2015/12/06/nicosia-excavagdom-of-ledroi/

Digging a Roman villa site at Otford:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art542382-kent-roman-villa-
otford-abandoned-river

Nice piece of Roman glass:

http://www.glassonweb.com/news/index/28020/

Suggestion that the temples in the Valley of the Temples were aligned to the moon:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-greek-temple-aligned-to-full-moon
-151130.htm

Work has started at that underwater basilica site in Lake Iznik:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/underwater-work-begins-in-ancient-basilica-.aspx?pag
eID=238&nID=92084&NewsCatID=375

Concerns for Gumushane:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/historical-city-in-gumushane-facing-landslide-threat.as
px?pageID=238&nid=92033

Nice slideshow of Pompeii casts:

http://www.archaeology.org/slideshow/3928-casts-of-pompeii-slideshow

Boris v Mary on Greece v Rome:

http://www.newstatesman.com/culture/observations/2015/12/clash-titans-when-boris-john
son-met-mary-beard

An app for the Appian Way:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-rome-history-comes-alive-with-ne
w-app-151203.htm

Trying to raise funds at the Colchester Circus:

http://www.gazette-news.co.uk/news/14122546.Public_appeal_to_help_Roman_circus/

A bunch of Greek sites and Museums are getting free wifi:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2015/12/04/free-wi-fi-in-19-major-greek-archaeological-sit
es-and-museums/

Feature on Epaminondas:

http://hellenicnews.com/epaminondas-savior-of-greece/

Questionable redirection of Classics funds at Yale:

http://yaledailynews.com/blog/2015/12/03/classics-dept-decries-admin-raid-on-funds/

What Verity Harte is up to:

http://news.yale.edu/2015/11/30/verity-harte-appointed-saden-professor-philosophy-and-
classics

Nice Latin course:

http://dailyprincetonian.com/street/2015/12/magic-school-trips-lat-333-in-italy/

On hip hop and epic:

http://news.sfsu.edu/news-story/infusing-ancient-lit-hip-hop-create-epic-mashup

We mentioned Rome banished the centurion poseurs:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rome-just-banned-centurions-180957410/

Reviewish/interviewish with Mary Beard about SPQR:

http://www.kunc.org/post/gladiator-duels-caesars-last-words-myths-ancient-rome

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Latest reviews from BMCR:

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

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/ ================================================================
EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Plenty of coverage of a 13 800 years b.p. petroglyph which might be a 'snapshot' of a
human habitation:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/p-ess112615.php http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/12028973/13000-year-ol
d-rock-art-shows-prehistoric-settlement-frozen-in-time.html http://news.discovery.com/history/prehistoric-home-sketch-found-photos-151202.htm#mk
cpgn=rssnws1 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/prehistoric-rock-carvings-were-
humanitys-first-ever-architectural-plans-a6759361.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1203/What-was-life-like-for-hunter-gatherers-13-
800-year-old-sketch-offers-clues http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-human-campsite-paleolithic-20151
202-story.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3342973/Is-world-s-oldest-picture-home-13
-800-year-old-drawing-prehistoric-campsite-discovered-carved-rock.html https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn28616-stone-age-picasso-made-oldest-known-dra
wing-of-human-settlement/

A significant Mesolithic site from Lincoln continues to get attention:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-35008564

Vikings were 'warned to avoid Scotland' apparently:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/travelnews/6212823/Vikings-were-warned-to-avoid-Scotl
and.html

Studying how Cromwell's men treated Scottish soldiers:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/durham-university-discover-how-sc
ottish-10530934

Nice way to incorporate recent finds into education:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-35009304

A major research project has figured out what a Celtic Carnyx sounded like:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/uoh-am120315.php

That latter-day Druid is bringing up the question of proper treatment of Stonehenge
remains again:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-34944768

The skeleton of a Viking woman has gone on display:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-34981566 http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2015/rare-wooden-coffin-and-skele
ton-from-time-of-king-canute-goes-on-display

Feature on MJ O'Kelly:

http://www.meathchronicle.ie/news/roundup/articles/2015/12/02/4110608-centenary-of-m
an-who-discovered-newgrange-light-box/

Feature on Notre Dame de Reims:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/travel/paris-notre-dame-reims.html

Plans for a footbridge at Tintagel Castle:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cornwall-34994617

Pondering assimilation in France:

http://theconversation.com/the-long-troubled-history-of-assimilation-in-france-51530

On the last king of Ireland:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151123-the-last-king-of-ireland

More on Glastonbury Abbey:

http://www.westerndailypress.co.uk/Exploring-myths-legends-historic-abbey/ story-28264499-detail/story.html http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/dec/03/a-myth-busting-study-of-glastonbury-ab
bey-that-should-not-be-dismissed

More on parchment:

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-skin-deepresearchers-mystery-parchment.html

More on Shakespeare's home:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturenews/12022298/Shakespeares-kitchen-discover
ed-in-dig.html http://playbill.com/news/article/archaeological-dig-unearths-new-parts-of-shakespeares-h
ome-373444

Review of Purnell, *Clementine*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/clementine-the-life-of-mrs-winston-chur
chill-by-sonia-purnell.html

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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
A Luhun kingdom tomb from China's Henan province:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/ancient-chinese-tomb-dating-back-2500-ye
ars-uncovered-to-shed-light-on-obscure-kingdom-a6762261.html http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2015-12/06/c_134889880.htm http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/peoplesdaily/article-3345983/Did-carriages-belong-Emp
eror-Chinese-experts-believe-2-500-year-old-tomb-horse-skeletons-chariots-hold-key-littl
e-known-ancient-kingdom.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

A 5000 years b.p. site along the Kousika River:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/ancient-habitation-sites-found/ article7943282.ece

Some Koryo-era metal from Kaesong:

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2015/12/01/2015120101417.html

A medieval Mongolian (maybe) burial:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0189-we-dug-up-a-medieval-mongo
lian-noblewoman-in-our-compost-pit/

Pondering how cats got to Australia:

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-australian-cats.html

Arguing about ownership of the Taj Mahal:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-34971759

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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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11 000 years b.p. tools at the University of Lincoln:

http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2015/12/151196/

As might be expected, drought in California is exposing sites:

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2015/dec/06/california-drought-exposes-relics-20151/
http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/02/us/receding-waters-in-california-expose-artifacts-to-p
lunder.html

They're digging at Minute Man Historical Park:

http://www.npr.org/2015/11/29/457756732/archaeologists-dig-to-complete-revolutionary-
war-history

Feature on the Battle of Wabash:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2015/11/29/01-scientists-work-to-tell-sto
ry-of-battle-of-wabash.html

Feature on the Ancient Ohio Trail:

http://www.daytondailynews.com/news/travel/ancient-ohio-trail-connects-american-indian
-sites/npWf5/

Feature on Chicago's stockyards:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2015/12/03/458314767/how-chicago-s-slaughterhous
e-spectacles-paved-the-way-for-big-meat

Studying ancient 'kitchens' in Arizona:

http://www.wildcat.arizona.edu/article/2015/12/ua-anthropologists-study-ancient-peoples-
through-their-kitchens

Concerns for a Red Paint burial site:

http://weeklypacket.com/news/2015/nov/30/fate-of-prehistoric-red-paint-burial-site-a-conc
er/

Searching for Civil War artifacts at Algiers Point:

http://www.nola.com/outdoors/index.ssf/2015/12/shane_mears_algiers_archaeolog.html

Trying to work out the Pea Ridge battle lines:

http://www.nwaonline.com/news/2015/dec/06/technology-to-help-pinpoint-1862-pea-ri/
http://www.arkansasonline.com/news/2015/dec/06/technology-to-help-pinpoint-1862-pea-r
i/?f=news-arkansas

Interesting 18th century obituary of a free black Philadelphian:

http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20151203_Newfound_obituary_revivifies_an_18th-cen
tury_free-black_Philadelphian.html

Suing over Queen Anne's Revenge videos:

http://www.newsobserver.com/news/local/article47647130.html http://www.fayobserver.com/news/local/fayetteville-company-sues-state-officials-over-bl
ackbeard-shipwreck-videos-and/article_bc9beb53-ce09-577d-b1d1-78b57f0464e2.html

How Jefferson learned architecture:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/arts/international/how-jefferson-learned-architecture.
html?_r=0

Review of Fraser, *The Washingtons*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/the-washingtons-by-flora-fraser.html

Review of Tipton-Martin, *The Jemima Code*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/the-jemima-code-by-toni-tipton-martin.
html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Plenty of coverage of the discovery of the wreck of the San Jose off Colombia:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-latin-america-35014600 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/colombias-president-juan-manuel-sa
ntos-claims-galleon-shipwreck-with-1bn-treasure-found-a6761471.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/05/spanish-galleon-with-rumoured-1bn-treas
ure-hoard-found-says-colombias-president http://news.yahoo.com/colombia-finds-treasure-galleon-ending-300-mystery-230419797.
html http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2015/12/05/458586878/wreck-of-legendary-spani
sh-galleon-is-found-colombia-says http://www.dw.com/en/spanish-galleon-san-jose-discovered-laden-with-treasure-off-colom
bia/a-18896955 http://newsdaily.com/2015/12/colombia-says-it-has-found-spanish-treasure-galleon-san-j
ose/

Hype for hidden chambers in Tut's tomb is being mirrored by the hype for hidden chambers in the Templo Mayor:

http://www.mexiconews.net/index.php/sid/239054055 http://www.inah.gob.mx/es/boletines/4948-revelan-hallazgos-durante-la-primera-mesa-re
donda-de-tenochtitlan http://www.usnews.com/news/science/news/articles/2015/12/01/mexico-experts-passage
way-may-lead-to-aztec-rulers-tomb http://phys.org/news/2015-12-mexico-experts-passageway-aztec-ruler.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/01/aztec-rulers-tombs-mexico-tenochtitlan-s
ealed-chambers http://www.statesman.com/ap/ap/top-news/mexico-experts-passageway-may-lead-to-azte
c-rulers/npZJ2/ http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2015/12/02/world/science-health-world/passageway-m
ay-lead-remains-aztec-rulers/ http://www.skynews.com.au/news/world/sthamerica/2015/12/02/underground-passage-co
uld-lead-to-aztec-kings.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3341290/Mexico-experts-passageway-lea
d-Aztec-rulers-tomb.html http://www.cp24.com/mobile/world/mexico-experts-find-passageway-that-may-lead-to-azt
ec-ruler-s-tomb-1.2682359

Tiwanaku artifacts along the La Paz:

http://www.telesurtv.net/english/news/Bolivian-Archaeologists-Dig-For-Rare-Artefacts-201
51130-0030.html

How pre-Colombian cultures adapted to El Nino:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-archaeologist-reveals-how-pre-colombian-cultures-ad
apted-to-nino-108274

Feature on some pre-Columbian statuary from Nicaragua:

http://insidecostarica.com/2015/11/30/precision-nicaraguas-pre-columbian-artifacts-surpr
ises-experts/

Machu Picchu is on Google Street View:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/visit-machu-picchu-google-street-view-1809
57445/

More on folks being in South America some 18 500 years b.p.:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/people-roamed-tip-south-america-18500-years-ago

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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 ================================================================
Out of our period of interest, but the antiquity of peaches might be of interest:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/ps-eap120115.php http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/oldest-peach-pits-found-in-china-151201.
htm http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2015/1202/Paleo-peach-Was-the-sweet-juicy-fruit-in-C
hina-before-humans http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3343073/World-s-oldest-peach-pit-reveals-
juicy-secrets-2-5-million-year-old-fruit-originated-China-arrival-humans.html http://www.livescience.com/52952-oldest-peach-fossils-discovered.html

Some Hanukkah-related items:

http://www.cjnews.com/perspectives/opinions/chanukah-hanukka-hanukkah-hows-that-ag
ain https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-hanukkah/2015/12/02/ 2ea6fc3c-93ae-11e5-8aa0-5d0946560a97_story.html

Latest Nazi-looted art story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/03/world/europe/germany-nazi-looted-art-cornelius-gurli
tt.html

On the math-art connection:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/alexs-adventures-in-numberland/2015/dec/02/ why-the-history-of-maths-is-also-the-history-of-art

Another Rembrandt at Queen's University:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/queens-university-in-canada-gets-a-third-re
mbrandt-from-alfred-and-isabel-bader/

A first edition King James Bible turned up at Drew University:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/rare-king-james-bible-first-edition-discover
ed-at-drew-university/

Studying facial hair:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/of-beards-and-men-and-true-style.html

Yale acquired some scattered medieval pages:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/arts/design/yale-buys-collection-of-scattered-mediev
al-pages.html

On increasing arguments over shipwreck ownership:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/01/us/with-shipwreck-treasure-easier-to-reach-a-duel-is-
on.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

On 'smoking' corpses:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20151130-one-of-most-bizarre-rituals-of-the-ancient-worl
d

Missed the sale of Michelangelo's Tuscan Villa:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/where-we-live/wp/2015/12/01/michelangelos-tusc
any-villa-lists-for-7-944-million/

What Alice Kelly is up to:

http://news.yale.edu/2015/11/19/recovering-lost-edith-wharton-story-qa-visiting-scholar-a
lice-kelly

Review of Hammer, *Map: Exploring the World*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/06/books/review/map-exploring-the-world-the-curious-m
ap-book-and-more.html

Archaeology Podcast Network:

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

http://artdaily.com/news/83415/-Hoards--The-Hidden-History-of-Ancient-Britain--opens-at-t
he-British-Museum-in-London

Lod Mosaic:

http://brusselstimes.com/art-culture/4636/roman-mosaic-floor-from-lod-on-view-in-venice

Bardo Treasures:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2015/12/03/bardo-treasures-to-go-on-show-i
n-italy_5397baf8-a6f0-4c98-ae17-97e22440fdb1.html

Prometheus Eternal:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/arts/design/prometheus-eternal-a-comic-book-anthol
ogy-in-the-company-of-masterpieces.html

Sunken Cities:

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/nov/30/british-museum-egpyt-sunken-treasure
s http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/12025843/PLS-PIC-and-PUB-S
ecrets-of-lost-cities-under-the-sea-revealed-from-tax-rules-to-goddesses.html http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-34963834 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3340730/Splendours-Egypt-s-Atlantis-Lost-treasu
res-sunken-cities-1-000-years-submerged-waters-Nile-delta.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/british-museum-underwater-pompeii-c
omes-to-london-as-egypt-s-sunken-cities-are-rediscovered-a6754926.html http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/dec/03/sunken-cities-british-museum-e
xhibition-climate-change-flood http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art542366-ancient-egypt-su
nken-cities-british-museum

Immortales:

http://www.oudaily.com/a_and_e/ou-s-temporary-roman-bust-exhibit-extending-its-stay/
article_354de08a-993c-11e5-b264-136f3f0e5ba9.html

Greeks:

http://chicagoist.com/2015/11/30/greeking_out_at_the_field_museum-_n.php

Philippine Gold:

http://etc.ancient.eu/2015/12/02/gold-artifacts-from-the-ancient-philippines/

Egypt is opening a museum at the Cairo airport:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/africaandindianocean/egypt/12032179/ Egypt-to-open-museum-at-Cairo-airport-to-boost-tourism.html

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THE TECHY SIDE
================================================================
Examining some preserved human hearts from Rennes reveals evidence of heart disease:

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-radiologists-woman-died-egypt-years.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2015-12/rson-iye112315.php http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3343408/Modern-science-detects-disease-
400-year-old-embalmed-hearts.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.reuters.com/article/2015/12/02/us-science-hearts-idUSKBN0TL2PN20151202?
feedType=RSS&feedName=healthNews http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2015/imaging-reveals-evidence-of
-disease-in-400-year-old-french-hearts

Feature on one archeologist's use of 3d laser imaging:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/taranaki-daily-news/news/74350703/new-plymouth-archaeologist-d
aniel-mccurdy-replaces-spade-with-laser

Laser mapping Lincoln cathedral:

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-laser-lincoln-cathedral-uncover-architectural.html

Interesting study of 19th century purple dye:

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-state-of-the-art-science-reveals-secrets-19th.html


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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Big coverage that the 'Siberian Ice Maiden' was actually a male, or transgender, or
something along those lines:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0506-female-amazon-warrior-buried-2
500-years-ago-in-altai-mountains-was-male/ http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2015/12/05/siberian-gender-bending-warrior-prince
ss.html

.... but the story was in haste:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2015/12/01/no-the-siberian-ice-maiden-is-no
t-a-man/

DNA suggests Europeans only started digesting dairy about 4000 years b.p.:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/europeans-only-started-digesting-dairy-400
0-years-ago-180957424/?no-ist

Viste Boy is being sent for DNA analysis:

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-year-old-viste-boy-dna-analysis.html

There's a 'grandparenting gene' apparently:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/science/science-news/12025521/Grandparent-genes-dis
covered-by-scientists.html


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Vikings apparently didn't leave Greenland because of climate change:

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-undercuts-idea-medieval-period-global.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2015/12/04/climate-chan
ge-may-not-have-driven-the-vikings-from-greenland-after-all/

Adding logs from whaling ships to the climate data:

http://phys.org/news/2015-12-citizen-science-climate-historic-arctic-whaling.html

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Korcula:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/korcula-venice-empire-italy-tradition-old-world-ch
arm-180956870/

Iran:

http://www.asianage.com/travel/iran-and-its-veiled-beauty-425

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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A stolen 1612 map has been recovered:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/boston-library-recovers-stolen-map-created-in-1612/

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2015/11/culture-crime-news-23-29-november-2
015.html

conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

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NUMISMATICA
================================================================
Big bucks for a Saxon coin from Wiltshire:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-34994318

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n48.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v18n49.html

------------------------
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
Already apologizing for 'Gods of Egypt':

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/11/30/gods-of-egypt-casting-prompts-apologies-fr
om-director-and-lionsgate/

Steel Hammer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/12/04/theater/review-in-steel-hammer-a-man-and-a-train-in-
a-race-and-a-legend.html

================================================================
OBITUARIES
================================================================
Paul Bernard:

http://www.aibl.fr/membres/academiciens-depuis-1663/article/bernard-paul?lang=fr

Fatima Mernissi:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-34968022

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

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2330-audio-ne
ws-from-archaeologica-22-nov-28-nov-2015 ================================================================
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http://www.archaeology.org/news/

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http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

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