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and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one
out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Latest suggestion is that homo floresiensis isn't 'human':

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-mystery-hobbits-humans.html http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160217-ancient-hobbit-was-not-human http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/mystery-hobbits-not-human-study-says-1602
16.htm http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/researchers-say-they-now-kno
w-flores-man-was-not-homo-sapien/news-story/a8d620b49ad64eadc75320b94d8f8646 http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/02/16/hobbit_heads_arent_human_says_bone_boffin/
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-16/hobbits-on-flores-island-not-humans-like-us/
7172446

... related ... on the various species sharing the planet at one point:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-02-17/27planet-of-the-apes273a-human-species-one-of-
many/7175906

They're still obsessing over that sapiens-Neanderthal interbreeding thing ... now it
happened earlier than previously thought:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35595661 http://phys.org/news/2016-02-neanderthals-modern-humans-earlier-previously.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/snrc-nam021516.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160217140302.htm https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/02/17/humans-and-
neanderthals-may-have-interbred-50000-years-earlier-than-previously-thought/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0217/Interbreeding-Neanderthals-and-modern-hu
mans-mated-50-000-years-before-we-thought https://www.newscientist.com/article/2077805-our-first-sex-with-neanderthals-happened-
100000-years-ago/ http://www.nature.com/news/evidence-mounts-for-interbreeding-bonanza-in-ancient-huma
n-species-1.19394 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-may-have-had-romantic-rendezvou s-neanderthals-100000-years-ago-180958164/ http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/02/16/ciencia/1455633230_824000.html

... and possibly in the 'fertile crescent':

http://www.livescience.com/53750-neanderthals-and-humans-interbred-in-mideast.html

How that interbreeding may have affected Neanderthals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/23/science/ancient-humans-may-have-left-a-genetic-mar
k-on-neanderthals.html

... and more on the vice versa situation:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/bits-of-neanderthal-dna-may-rai
se-risk-of-depression-tobacco-addiction/2016/02/12/8fb88aa2-d0f5-11e5-88cd-753e80cd2
9ad_story.html

... and 'Caveman diet' related:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/17/what-actual-caveman-dna-sa
ys-about-the-paleo-movement/?tid=pm_business_pop_b

Recreating Otzi:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/artist-creates-detailed-replica-otzi-5300-
year-old-iceman-180958151/

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AFRICA
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Apparently 1000 years b.p. humans arrived on Madagascar and started a lot of fires:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/miot-hss021816.php https://scienmag.com/humans-settled-set-fire-to-madagascars-forests-1000-years-ago/

The annual 'Ark of Ethiopia' piece:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/features/1.703466

Pondering what Africa would have been like if European colonization never happened:

http://bigthink.com/strange-maps/africa-uncolonized

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A burial of a pre-Dyanstic infant shows signs of scurvy:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/15519/47/Ancient-scurvy-sufferer-found.aspx

That the Tarkhan Dress is the world's oldest dress has been confirmed:

https://www.ucl.ac.uk/news/news-articles/0216/150216-tarkhan-dress http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/oldest-known-dress-made-more-than-50
00-years-ago-160218.htm http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160218-oldest-dress-egypt-tarkhan-archaeol
ogy/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3453364.html http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2016/tarkhan-dress-is-worlds-olde
st-known-woven-garment

Some ancient Egyptian fingerprints found on an ancient Egyptian coffin:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35606137

... related item on Egyptians recycling coffins:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/feb/20/egyptians-were-buried-in-recycled-coffins-
research-reveals

Feature/podcast on Egyptian punishment:

http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheAsorBlog/~3/Vv8Ka8Pw4dk/

Hype for the latest Tut documentary:

http://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2016/feb/19/the-secrets-of-king-tuts-tomb-neferti
ti

More on mummy portraits:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-clues-illuminate-mysteries-ancient-egyptian-por
traits http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3447805/Secrets-2-000-year-old-Egyptian-
mummy-paintings-revealed-Forensic-experts-trace-pigments-spread-Europe.html?ITO=1
490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/fossils_ruins/archaeology/~3/nm5CUhSuB
Ho/160214201302.htm

Marking the jubilee of the Abu Simbel temple rescue:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/187762/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-cele
brates-golden-jubilee-of-Abu-Simbel-temp.aspx

A 12 000 years b.p. Natufian settlement in the Jordan Valley:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-prehistoric-village-links-stone-ages.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/thuo-pvl021816.php http://www.timesofisrael.com/12000-year-old-village-discovered-in-jordan-valley/
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.703820 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/208176 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0146647 http://new.huji.ac.il/en/taxonomy/term/134 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/jordan-valley-prehistoric-village-discovered/2016/02/
17/ http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/natufian-village-jordan-valley-03644.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3454359/Were-world-s-farmers-Stone-Age-
village-dating-12-000-years-uncovered-Sea-Galilee.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&n
s_campaign=1490 http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2016/village-in-the-jordan-valley-s
hows-characteristics-of-both-palaeolithic-and-neolithic

Evidence of human occupation of the site of Jerusalem some 7000 years b.p.:

http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Remains-of-fifth-millennium-BCE-s
ettlement-found-in-Jerusalem-17-February-2016.aspx http://phys.org/news/2016-02-israeli-archaeologists-year-old-settlement.html http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-was-inhabited-as-far-back-as-7000-years-ago-arc
haeologists-find/ http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2016/2/18/archaeological-evidence-of-7000-year-old-huma
n-village-found-in-jerusalem http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/208176 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Article.aspx?id=445206 http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.703852 http://www.dw.com/en/israeli-archaeologists-discover-7000-year-old-settlement-in-jerusal
em/a-19054932 https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/02/18/archaeological-evidence-of-7000-year-old-settle
ment-discovered-in-jerusalem/ http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4767837,00.html http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-archaeologists-discover-7-000-old-settlement-142900613.h
tml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3450801/Are-Jerusalem-s-homes-Ruins-un
earthed-Holy-City-thriving-settlement-7-000-years-ago.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss
&ns_campaign=1490


A mysterious 93-mile long wall (dating uncertain) in Jordan:

http://www.livescience.com/53762-ancient-wall-in-jordan-puzzles-archaeologists.html
http://www.livescience.com/53761-photos-ruins-of-mysterious-wall-jordan.html

Feature on the discovery of Cyrus' tomb:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/how-german-archaeologist-redis
covered-tomb-cyrus-180958142/

Pondering Persepolis:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/02/19/467205019/at-persepolis-irans-grand-p
ast-overshadows-its-frustrating-present

A 'centuries old' icon found in the Church of the Nativity:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/centuries-old-icon-uncovered-in-bethlehem-church/

What Owen Chesnut is up to:

http://www.petoskeynews.com/article_d965c2ba-432c-5e71-b3c2-9d8bdfbc3fee.html

Follow up on that 'oldest Torah Scroll' find from a few months ago:

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/oldest-torah-scroll-proves-yemenite-chabad-versions-r
ight/2016/02/13/

KU students are documenting damage to Syrian sites:

http://news.ku.edu/2016/02/09/ku-class-documents-destruction-ancient-syrian-sites

A map of ISIL's cultural destruction:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/features/2016/02/21/This-map-reveals-the-full
-extent-of-ISIS-s-cultural-destruction-.html

Racing to save antiquities in Syria:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/race-save-syrias-archaeological-treasures-1809
58097/?no-ist

On ISIL's roots ... in case you were wondering:

http://theconversation.com/understanding-islamic-state-where-does-it-come-from-and-wh
at-does-it-want-52155


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
A Roman 'restaurant' from France:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/world/1st-century-bar-archaeological-find-in-france-offer
s-glimpse-into-ancient-tavern/ar-BBpCZh8?srcref=rss http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/02/17/ancient-tavern-found-in-france/ 80506030/

Interesting 'Siberian' burial with all sorts of Herodotean connections:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3449075/The-mystery-murdered-Siberian-q
ueen-Woman-buried-ancient-ruler-poisoned-macabre-burial-ritual-2-600-years-ago.html

Some fishermen pulled up a huge pithos:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nid=95220&NewsCatID=37 5

Lead poisoning and the Fall of Rome just won't go away:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/to-your-health/wp/2016/02/17/lead-poisoning-and-
the-fall-of-rome/

Feature on Rome's lower classes:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/02/18/ancient-roman-lifestyles-of-the-p
oor-and-infamous/

On ancient technology (maybe):

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-ancients-modern-world.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3450959/Did-Romans-invent-washing-mac
hine-Illustrations-suggest-kitchen-appliances-computers-Nasa-invented-thousands-years
-ago.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 https://theconversation.com/from-washing-machines-to-computers-how-the-ancients-inve
nted-the-modern-world-53147

What Lee Fratantuono is up to:

https://www.owu.edu/news-media/details/ohio-wesleyan-classics-professor-releases-first
-book-in-new-trilogy/

What Sinclair Bell is up to:

http://www.niutoday.info/2016/02/16/art-history-professor-co-edits-new-book-on-ancient-et
ruscans/

What Philip Freeman is up to:

https://www.luther.edu/headlines/?story_id=678127

On Achilles as hero:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2016/feb/16/achilles-homer-iliad-brutal-vai
n-pitiless-hero

Meandering feature mostly about Sappho papyri from Oxyrhynchus:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/petros-koublis/the-bittersweet-oblivion-_b_9217196.html

Rome's Olympic bid includes uses for the Colosseum and Circus Maximus:

http://www.dw.com/en/rome-launches-bid-for-2024-summer-olympics/a-19054265 http://www.usnews.com/news/sports/articles/2016-02-17/rome-2024-bid-will-put-colosseu
m-circus-maximus-to-use

Reviews and commentary on Whitmarsh, *Battling the Gods*:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-disbelieve-ancient-history-atheism-natural.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/12157896/In-the-beginning...-was-atheism.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/battling-the-gods-atheis
m-in-the-ancient-world-by-tim-whitmarsh-book-review-a6881636.html http://news.nationalpost.com/news/religion/atheism-older-than-christianity http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2016/history-shows-that-atheism-i
s-as-natural-to-humans-as-religion

Review of Heaney's translation of Book VI of the Aeneid:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/aeneid-book-vi-by-seam
us-heaney-book-review-powers-of-the-underworld-a6881811.html

More on that Roman mural from London:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/rare-wall-mural-from-roman-era-uncovere
d-in-london-160216.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

More on that Greek silver mine:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/02/160210110630.htm http://www.kitco.com/news/2016-02-15/How-A-Greek-Silver-Mine-Discovery-Is-Rewriting-H
istory.html
http://www.mining.com/ancient-greek-silver-mine-discovered/

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An upright Mesolithic burial from Germany (we may have mentioned this):

http://www.livescience.com/53736-ancient-man-buried-upright.html

Much coverage of an intact (pretty much) Bronze Age wheel from that Must Farm in
Cambridgeshire:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35598578 http://phys.org/news/2016-02-bronze-age-wheel-date-farm.html http://www.livescience.com/53784-bronze-age-wooden-wheel-discovered.html http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art547377-archaeology-mu
st-farm-wheel-pompeii-peterborough http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0219/Remarkably-preserved-Bronze-Age-wheel-
discovered-in-Britain-s-Pompeii https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/feb/19/archaeologists-excavate-bronze-age-w
heel-cambridgeshire http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/12163234/First-complet
e-Bronze-Age-wheel-ever-found-in-Britain.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/prehistoric-britain-discovery-of-
bronze-age-wheel-archaeology-a6882671.html http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/British-Pompeii-reveals-hidden-treasures/ story-28763426-detail/story.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3453250/Britain-s-oldest-WHEEL-unearthe
d-Pompeii-Fens-reveals-clues-Bronze-Age-farmers-travelled-3-000-years-ago.html http://news.yahoo.com/the-3000-year-old-wheel-unearthed-atbritains-095244213.html
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/20067/20160219/ancient-bronze-age-wheel-dis
covered-uks-pompeii-near-peterborough.htm http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-uncovered-perfect-bronze-a
ge-wheel-180958179/

A 'mysterious' Anglo Saxon gold mount:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-35556202

Medieval burials from Aberdeen:

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/medieval-skeletons-found-during-aberd
een-art-gallery-revamp-1-4030883

Archaeologists have found the bones (maybe) of Martha Brown:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/feb/19/thomas-hardy-tess-of-the-durbervilles-bo
nes-found-at-prison http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/12165017/Tess-of-the-D
urbervilles-skeleton-at-centre-of-row-over-digging-up-prison-grave.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3454503/Remains-real-life-Tess-D-Urbevilles-unc
overed-160-years-young-Thomas-Hardy-saw-hanged-murder.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchan nel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Studying Tudor hygiene:

https://newrepublic.com/article/129828/getting-clean-tudor-way

Evidence of a toxic algae bloom in Poland in the 17th century:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-algal-blooms-reveal-poisonous.html

Evidence of the storms which destroyed 'Britain's Atlantis':

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-suffolk-35549952

Latest from Oswestry Hill Fort:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-35573856

Feature on the Vikings in Denmark:

http://www.radiotimes.com/offers/travel/news/2016-02-19/on-the-trail-of-vikings-in-denma
rk I think we've had this 'massacre at an Iron Age fort in Sweden' story before:

http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/02/remains-at-iron-age-fort-tell-a-story-of-a-horrible-
massacre/

Stonehenge bits on eBay:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/12164042/Stonehenge-tourist-bosses-demand-v
isitors-stop-chipping-stones-and-selling-them-on-eBay.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3452886/Stop-stealing-Stonehenge-rocks-T
ourist-bosses-plea-visitors-refrain-chipping-stones-selling-eBay.html?ITO=1490&ns_mc
hannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Big concerns for a Swabian castle in Sicily:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/12161407/Sicilys-Swabian-castl
e-seized-by-the-state-after-accusations-of-neglect.html

An historica Somerset prison is being used for weddings now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-35569592

More on a medieval ship being raised from a Dutch river:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/medieval-shipwreck-hauled-from-the-dee
p-160218.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.livescience.com/53734-dutch-shipwreck-hauled-from-water.html http://www.livescience.com/53744-photos-medieval-dutch-shipwreck.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/medieval-trading-ship-raised-to-surface
-almost-intact-after-500-years-on-riverbed-in-netherlands-a6870221.html http://www.cnn.com/videos/world/2016/02/14/shipwreck-netherlands-merchant-ship-orig-v
stan-dlewis.cnn

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Some Australian petroglyphs may be among the oldest in the world:

http://www.theage.com.au/national/australian-rock-may-be-among-the-oldest-in-the-world-
according-to-new-research-20160219-gmyaw1.html

Some prehistoric 'Venus figurines' from Siberia turn out not to be 'Venuses', on closer
examination:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0213-world-famous-ancient-siberia
n-venus-figurines-are-not-venuses-after-all/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3454786/Ancient-Siberian-venus-statues-n
aked-women-turn-clothed-actually-men.html

On the history of Christianity in India:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/how-christianity-came-to-india-kerala-180958117/

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NORTH AMERICA
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A 'lost' Spanish settlement found in Florida:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-sleuth-lost-spanish-settlement-florida.html http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/sleuth-finds-a-lost-spanish-settlement-in-florida-panhandl
e-1.2781268 http://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/02/17/spanish-pottery-shards-lead-amateur-arch
eologist-to-16th-century-florida-settlement.html http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=11591468 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3450709/Sleuth-finds-lost-Spanish-settlement-Flo
rida-Panhandle.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/02/17/amateur-archaeologist-discovers-lost-spani
sh-settlement-in-florida-panhandle.html

On the hunting/gathering behaviours of the Sanak Aleuts:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/sfi-hhp021716.php

Digging Farmville's past:

http://www.farmvilleherald.com/2016/02/drama-unfolds-beneath-theater-archaeologists-u
ncover-evidence-of-farmvilles-past/

Concerns for a North Fork Native American burial site:

http://www.newsday.com/long-island/suffolk/jamesport-residents-protect-indian-site-1.11
493873

On the history of the American family dinner:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/02/16/459693979/no-place-for-discontent-a-histo
ry-of-the-family-dinner-in-america

Arguing about revolutionary parks in Princeton:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/17/nyregion/in-princeton-a-campuss-future-clashes-with
-a-parks-revolutionary-war-past.html

On the origins of the word 'president':

http://www.npr.org/2016/02/15/466848438/why-president-how-the-u-s-named-its-leader

Coroner's inquests in South Carolina:

https://csidixie.org/

The aftermath of that Oregon 'standoff' or whatever it's called this week:

http://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/oregon-occupiers-apparently-dug-trenches-near-
artifact-sites-feds-say-n520431

Interesting feature on an African-American doctor:

http://www.ithacajournal.com/story/news/local/2016/02/18/african-american-medical-pion
eer-had-roots-danby/80561152/

The perpetual argument over the cause of megafaunal demise in North America:

http://discovermagazine.com/2016/march/6-what-killed-americas-behemoths

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Rethinking obsidian points and the demise of the Rapa Nui:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-easter-island-war-analysis-spear.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/bu-ein021116.php http://www.vancouversun.com/news/world/shards+glass+sign+enigmatic+easter+island
ers+their+demise/11730491/story.html http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/in-shards-of-glass-a-new-sign-of-how-the-enigm
atic-easter-islanders-met-their-demise http://www.theage.com.au/world/a-new-clue-in-the-mystery-of-how-easter-islanders-met-th
eir-demise-20160217-gmwy9t http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3448212/Easter-Islanders-NOT-wiped-warf
are-Spear-heads-used-farming-not-fighting-did-cause-population-collapse.html?ITO=1490
&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0217/Rapa-Nui-mystery-What-really-happened-o
n-Easter-Island https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/02/17/in-shards-of-glass-a-
new-sign-of-how-the-enigmatic-easter-islanders-met-their-demise/ ?tid=pm_national_pop_b http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2016/easter-islanders-did-not-indu
lge-in-interpersonal-violence-prior-to-collapse

Finds from the Red House site on Trinidad:

http://www.trinidadexpress.com/20160215/features/colonial-finds-recovered-from-red-hou
se-archaeological-site

The annual look at crystal skulls:

http://blog.chron.com/lavoz/2016/02/a-look-at-latin-americas-mysterious-crystal-skulls/

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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 ================================================================
Studying hunter/gather migration:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-hunter-gatherers-groups-migrate.html

On the origins of tipping:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/02/18/i-dare-you-to-read-this-and-st
ill-feel-ok-about-tipping-in-the-united-states/

On Coptic prayers on vellum:

http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/museum-departments/curatorial-departme
nts/islamic-art/ruminations/2016/coptic-prayers-on-venetian-paper

Rethinking some Bernini sculptures:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-bernini-animas-meant-mythological-religious.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-02/uog-bw021916.php

Studying ancient medical texts:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/what-secrets-do-ancient-medical-texts-hold-
1630771/#9i5DYg4mQAlrvLef.01

Italy (and UNESCO) is creating a Cultural Peacekeepers task force:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/arts/italy-unesco-task-force-cultural-protectors-1.3452239?cmp=r
ss http://theartnewspaper.com/news/italy-sets-up-taskforce-with-unesco-to-protect-antiquitie
s-in-conflict-areas/ http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/arcablog/~3/Io3Peu-_Hgc/the-uns-blue-helmets-for-culture.
html

Beatrix Potter's scientific side:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160215-beatrix-potter-pioneering-scientist-or-passionat
e-amateur

On some early female astronomers:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35413738

On the evolution of love in the animal kingdom:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160212-the-unexpected-origin-of-love

On the role of mosquitoes in history:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/15/health/mosquitoes-that-changed-history/index.html

Digitizing Van Gogh's bedroom:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35576268

On the history of sieges:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/sieges-used-throughout-history-by-warring-arm
ies/2016/02/17/67d75e72-d53d-11e5-a65b-587e721fb231_story.html

Interesting 'balloon' letter sent from 1870s Paris:

http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2016/feb/16/mystery-1870-letter-besieged-pa
ris-balloon

More on that 'earliest image of Mary' at Yale:

http://news.yale.edu/2016/02/12/yale-art-gallery-painting-might-be-oldest-known-image-vi
rgin-mary


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
A couple of exhibitions about ancient Egypt:

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-importance-of-death-in-everyday-egyptian-life/

Munch:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/19/arts/design/review-the-darkness-and-light-of-edvard-
munchs-work.html

Bosch:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/02/17/arts/hieronymus-bosch-exhibition-2016/index.html

Midas:

http://weeklypress.com/ancient-treasures-from-the-republic-of-turkey-p5820-95.htm

Hadrian:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Hadrian-returns-to-Jerusalem-444995

Mochica Culture:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/entertainment/2016/02/20/peru-exhibition-digs-deep-into-
myths-mochica-culture/

They were unboxing Terracotta Warriors at the Field Museum:

http://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/museums/ct-terracotta-warriors-unboxing-fi
eld-ent-0223-20160222-column.html

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THE TECHY SIDE
================================================================
Plenty of interest in what Sarah Parcak wants to do with her TED prize:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/02/16/sarah-parcak-to-use-ted-prize-money-for-cr
owdsourcing-on-archaeological-sites/ http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/british-columbia/space-archaeologist-aims-to-cro
wdsource-protection-of-heritage-sites/article28778225/?cmpid=rss1 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0217/Real-life-Indiana-Jones-recruits-you-to-help
-save-the-world-s-antiquities http://www.npr.org/sections/alltechconsidered/2016/02/17/467104127/space-archaeologi
st-wants-your-help-to-find-ancient-sites http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/02/160216-ted-prize-sarah-parcak-satellite-arch
aeology/ http://nhpr.org/post/space-archaeologist-wants-your-help-find-ancient-sites http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35591727#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_source=Publi
cRSS20-sa
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35591727 http://phys.org/news/2016-02-modern-indiana-jones-mission-antiquities.html

... because of what her research shows, of course:

http://www.livescience.com/53752-egypt-looting-satellite-archaeology.html


Generally, on tech in archaeology:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/02/19/21st-century-archaeology-is-so
mething-out-of-sci-fi/#426de4c9e65b

... and cyberarchaeology:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-cyber-archaeology-big-threatened-cultural-heritage.html

Project Mosul:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/heroic-effort-digitally-reconstruct-lost-monument
s-180958098/

On drone use in to monitor sites in Jordan:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/647998/?sc=rsla http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2016/monitoring-looting-in-jordan-
using-drones


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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Revising the study of genetic evidence for Eurasian migration to Africa:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-scientists-eurasian-migration-africa.html

The slave trade spread bilharzia to the Caribbean:

http://phys.org/news/2016-02-slavery-bilharzia-parasites-west-africa.html

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/

================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Latest Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/02/culture-crime-news-8-15-february-201
6.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/

================================================================
REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
Germany will be returning some items to Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/187566/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-to-re
cover-two-stolen-artefacts-from-Germany.aspx http://egyptianstreets.com/2016/02/15/egypt-to-receive-stolen-ancient-artifacts-seized-in-
germany/

================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A Chinese museum wants some help with coin inscriptions:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-35595138

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n07.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n08.html

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

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
A Mozart-Salieri collaboration:

http://www.dw.com/en/composition-by-mozart-and-rival-salieri-played-in-prague-after-200
-years/a-19052745

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

http://archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2361-audio-news-fro
m-archaeologica-7-feb-2016-13-feb-2016 ================================================================
UPCOMING CONFERENCES ================================================================
(send in your notices!) ================================================================
GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

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


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