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always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Latest Australopithecine fossils are from Kenya:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-australopithecus-fossils-east-great-rift.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160324082828.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/ku-aff032316.php http://scienmag.com/australopithecus-fossils-found-east-of-the-great-rift-valley/
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/23/fossils-kenya-louis-leakey-1962


On early hominid nasal faculties:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-human-ancestors-explored-africa-impaired.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160324145330.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/p-hae031616.php

More on interbreeding and Denisovan DNA lurking in modern humans:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/22/science/neanderthals-interbred-with-humans-deniso
vans.html
http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/03/25/ciencia/1458906491_911456.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-study-details-interbreeding-ancient-hu
mans-evolutionary-cousins-180958486/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0317/Denisovans-Mysterious-ancient-humans-r
eveal-clues-to-our-history http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/03/18/ciencia/1458309148_984668.html

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AFRICA
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Production of shea butter goes back further than previously thought:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-production-butter-shea-trees-west.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/uoo-pob032116.php

Feature on a survey revealing potential sites in the Sudan:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,408929,when-vineyards-bloomed-in-sudan.h
tml

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Latest findings from that Abusir boat discovery a while back:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/15777/47/Boat-discovery-sheds-light.aspx

Latest examination of Ramses III's mummy suggests he was murdered by multiple assailants:

http://www.livescience.com/54100-pharaoh-ramesses-iii-killed-by-multiple-assailants-eg
yptologists-say.html http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/pharaoh-ramesses-iii-killed-by-multiple-
assailants-160322.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ct-scan-shows-pharoah-Ramesses-iii-was-
murdered-multiple-assassins-180958559/

Egypt's new antiquities minister was checking things out:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/195726/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Newly-app
ointed-Minister-of-Antiquities-Khaled-ElE.aspx http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/197931/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/ElEnany-in
spects-the-Giza-Plateau-project.aspx

A new visitors' centre in Minya:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/193451/Heritage/Museums/Tel-AlAmarna-
Visitors-Centre-in-Minya-opens.aspx

Feature on Bes:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/a-thirst-for-art-bes-the-egyptian-god-of-boozing/

Concerns for sites in Alexandria:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/alexandria-s-ancient-sites-face-extinction-due-st
alled-renovation

More Grand Egyptian Museum hype:

http://www.newser.com/story/222343/egypts-grand-museum-gets-influx-of-artifacts.html

More hype for Tut's tomb:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/18/world/middleeast/nefertiti-tutankhamen-tomb-egypt.h
tml https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/whats-hiding-in-the-sealed-up-s
pace-in-king-tuts-tomb/2016/03/18/452be262-ec62-11e5-b0fd-073d5930a7b7_story.html
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/queen-nefertiti-tomb-egypt-king-
tutankhamun-have-we-found-secret-lost-burial-a6942696.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-evidence-shows-king-tut-tomb-may-hav
e-its-own-chamber-secrets-180958470/

More on those statues of Sekhmet from near Luxor:

http://www.livescience.com/54108-lion-headed-goddess-statues-discovered.html

7500 years bp remains from Abu Dhabi:

http://www.thenational.ae/uae/heritage/ancient-house-for-the-dead-unearthed-on-uaes-ma
rawah-island http://www.khaleejtimes.com/nation/general/7500-year-old-house-skeleton-found-in-abu-d
habi

Protection for a Temple site on Mount Latmos:

http://www.christianpost.com/news/archaeology-ancient-zeus-temple-turkey-159798/

Trying to rescue (?) a Torah scroll from Yemen:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/209868

It's news when it rains in Petra:

http://english.alarabiya.net/en/perspective/2016/03/24/Serenity-Now-History-revealed-in-
Little-Petra-in-the-rain.html

UPenn has a nice digital image collection of Holy Land sites:

http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/holyland/index.html

More on that Vasco da Gama shipwreck:

http://www.livescience.com/54142-shipwreck-from-vasco-da-gama-fleet-discovered.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160321-vasco-da-gama-shipwreck-underwat
er-archaeology-video/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/found-500-year-old-protugese-shipwreck-fro
m-famed-explorers-fleet-180958425/ http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ciencia/2016/03/1750307-embaracao-do-seculo-16-encontra
da-pode-ter-sido-de-vasco-da-gama.shtml

More on those 'mini' weapons from Oman:

http://www.livescience.com/54118-mini-weapons-were-offerings-to-gods.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3504651/Ancient-mini-weapons-Gods-Tiny-
2-900-year-old-bows-arrows-daggers-Oman-shed-light-mysterious-religious-practices.ht
ml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Latest from Syria is that Palmyra has been retaken:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-palmyra-syrian-state-forces-dr
iven-out-of-retake-complete-control-of-ancient-city-a6954771.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35906568#sa-ns_mchannel=rss&ns_sourc
e=PublicRSS20-sa http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/03/27/syrian-government-forces-recapture-palmyra-f
rom-isis-activists-say.html

... although reports over the past couple of days have been somewhat inconsistent:

http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/syrian-army-retakes-palmyra-citadel-from-is
lamic-state/article29390879/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-35881571 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3506192/Regime-forces-descend-Palmyra-Sy
ria-peace-talks-final-push.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3507616/Syrian-army-enters-historic-city-Palmyr
a-ISIS-warned-crushed-feet-Assad-s-forces.html http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/03/syrian-army-close-capturing-isil-held-palmyra-16
0323162004011.html

We're getting some pictures of what remains:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3510336/Drone-footage-shows-blood-stained-ruin
s-Palmyra-Assad-s-Syrian-army-recaptures-ancient-Roman-city-ISIS.html

... and vows that it will be rebuilt:

https://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Middle-East/2016/Mar-25/343999-syria-antiquities-chi
ef-vows-to-rebuild-palmyra.ashx

Sites are feared to have been booby trapped:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/24/syrian-forces-enter-palmyra-isis-says-sta
te-tv

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
A very interesting 'apartment' on the Hadrian's Villa site:

http://www.livescience.com/54173-emperor-hadrian-villa-yields-posh-apartment.html

Plans to study the shackled burials of Phalero:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/03/24/archaeologists-to-study-shackle
d-skeletons-from-ancient-greece-to-understand-rise-of-athens/ http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/03/26/shackled-skeletons-might-tell-story-of-rise-of-
ancient-athens/

Interesting finds from a Thracian site in Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/northwestern-city-sheds-light-on-thracian-mystery-.asp
x?pageID=238&nID=96866&NewsCatID=375

Plans to excavate Bulgaria's largest Thracian mound:

http://www.novinite.com/articles/173679/Excavation+of+Bulgaria's+Largest+Thracian+M
ound+to+Begin+in+May

Much press coverage of the discovery of lead in the ink in Herculaneum papyri:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-ink-scrolls-eruption-mount-vesuvius.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160325132046.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35865470 http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/03/22/herculaneum-scroll-ancient-inks/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2081832-lead-ink-from-scrolls-may-unlock-library-de
stroyed-by-vesuvius/ http://www.rsc.org/chemistryworld/2016/03/ancient-scrolls-herculaneum-papyrus-x-ray-fl
uorescence-ink http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0322/Could-scholars-soon-be-reading-from-librar
ies-destroyed-by-Mt.-Vesuvius https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/21/herculaneum-scrolls-buried-by-vesuvi
us-yield-another-secret-metallic-ink http://www.karwansaraypublishers.com/pw/ancient-history-magazine/blog/ancient-ink-mo
dern-exaggeration/ http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/ancient-romans-wrote-metallic-ink http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3503046/Peeling-layers-Herculaneum-scro
lls-reveals-papyri-ink-contained-METAL-centuries-earlier-thought.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/metallic-ink-revealed-in-burned-vesuvius-
scrolls-160321.htm https://www.newscientist.com/article/2081832-lead-ink-from-scrolls-may-unlock-library-de
stroyed-by-vesuvius/

Efforts to save Pompeii from 'corruption':

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/12204491/Pompeii-seeking-arm
y-of-spies-in-Deep-Throat-operation-to-root-out-Mafia-crime-and-corruption.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/pompeii-recruits-army-of-spies-to-root-o
ut-mafia-corruption-and-shoddy-renovation-work-at-the-a6951071.html

... and restoration proceeds apace:

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2016/03/24/pompeii-restoration-moves-ahe
ad_26c42dad-1cc0-4949-bdfa-7bf210b8757d.html

Latest facial reconstruction is of Leasowe Man:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-35892795

The Fenwick Treasure/Hoard has gone on display:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3507594/Hoard-Roman-jewellery-hidden-cl
utches-queen-Boudicca-2-000-years-ago-goes-public-display-time.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/earth/environment/archaeology/12202566/Fenwick-Trea
sure-Hoard-of-Roman-jewellery-buried-to-save-it-from-Boudicca-goes-on-display-in-Colch
ester.html

Latin is alive and well:

http://news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/03/mortua-lingua-discipulorum-auxilio-reviviscit

Some Greek pottery has arrived at UNB:

http://thebruns.ca/2016/03/23/ancient-greek-pottery-makes-long-trip-to-unb/

An ongoing series on Lucretius:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201603lucretius-nature-things-religion-and-peace
http://www.addisonindependent.com/201603victor-nuovo-lucretius-how-and-why-things
http://www.addisonindependent.com/201603lucretius-what-it-means-say-nothing-comes-b
e-nothing

Feature on the symposium:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/artists/a-thirst-for-art-the-ancient-greece-symposium/

Reviews of Seamus Heaney's Aeneid VI:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/3215e4d2-ef7a-11e5-9f20-c3a047354386.html

More on Santa Maria Antiqua opening to the public:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/italy/12202354/Sistine-Chapel-of-the-
Early-Middle-Ages-buried-for-a-millenium-by-an-earthquake-reopens.html

More on that Dexippus palimpsest:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/03/22/ancient-text-reveals-epic-battle-between-gree
ks-and-goths-at-thermopylae/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3503550/The-SECOND-battle-Thermopylae
-Fragments-reveal-Roman-fight-against-invading-Goths-pass-Spartans-fought-300-battle.
html

More on the Torlonia Collection opening to the public:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/16/arts/design/statues-in-torlonia-collection-long-out-of-
sight-will-soon-be-on-public-display.html

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A bear bone from a cave is pushing back human presence in Ireland by 2500 years:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-bone-discovery-re-writes-human-history.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35863186 http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/mar/21/human-history-in-ireland-rewritten-as-sci
entists-get-down-to-bear-bones http://news.discovery.com/human/butchered-bear-bone-rewrites-human-history-in-ireland
-160321.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0321/When-did-humans-arrive-in-Ireland-Fossili
zed-bear-knee-resets-the-clock http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/news/bear-bone-stored-in-cardboard-box-for-over-a-
century-rewrites-irish-history-by-2500-years-34557727.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/butchered-bear-bone-reveals-human-hi
story-in-ireland-began-2500-years-earlier-than-thought-a6943986.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3502544/Bear-fossils-rewrite-Ireland-s-hist
ory-Butchered-remains-suggest-humans-arrived-isle-2-500-years-earlier-thought.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/ireland/irish-news/bear-bone-opens-new-chapter-in-irela
nd-s-archaeology-1.2581144 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/bear-bone-adds-2500-years-history-human
s-ireland-180958520/

Evidence of a major battle near the Baltic Sea some 3200 years bp:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/03/slaughter-bridge-uncovering-colossal-bronze-a
ge-battle

You have to squint a lot to see these as pyramids in Poland:

http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/501971/Megalithic-tombs-pyramids-Poland-f
ound-Bosnia-Europe-ancient-Egypt-discovery-archaeologist

Finds from various periods from a Bridlington pub site:

http://www.bridlingtonfreepress.co.uk/news/local/significant-remains-are-found-at-pub-1-7
813481

Similarly from the 'lost village of Cadzow', found during a road project:

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/what-s-on/lost-village-of-cadzow-under-m74-re
veals-its-secrets-1-4058525

A lost medieval castle (actually a pair of them) is found in Glasgow:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-glasgow-west-35866663 http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art549664-partick-castle-gl
asgow-archaeology-industrial-history http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/03/2016/discovering-the-lost-mediev
al-castle-of-partick http://www.scotsman.com/news/ancient-castles-unearthed-in-glasgow-during-waterworks-
project-1-4078995 http://www.thenational.scot/news/legendary-glasgow-castle-is-unearthed-by-archaeologis
ts.15397 http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14375838.800_year_old_castle_found_in_Partick/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3505922/Ruins-TWO-medieval-castles-unc
overed-Glasgow-Remains-mystery-13th-century-fort-17th-century-Partick-Castle-banks-Ri
ver-Clyde.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Interesting origins for a bronze belt buckle from a Danish burial:

http://www.thenational.scot/news/danish-buckle-may-have-scots-roots.15309 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3507646/A-product-plundering-Bronze-Viki
ng-buckle-originally-decoration-religious-box-UK-looted.html

Feature on the Galloway Hoard:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-35871538 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160323-vikings-galloway-hoard-treasure-sc
otland-archaeology/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3506320/A-potted-history-Brooches-beads-
gold-rings-stashed-Viking-vessel-1-000-years-ago-revealed-time.html http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14379492.In_pictures__Contents_of_Viking_hoard_
discovered_in_Galloway_revealed_for_first_time/

... and the Stewartry Hoard:

http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/local-news/stewartry-viking-hoard-containing-gold-761
9489

Feature on Crusaders from Norway:

http://sciencenordic.com/who-were-first-norwegian-crusaders

... and the first Muslims in England:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-35843991

Some recent metal detectorist finds:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/blokes-metal-detectors-uncover-pieces-briti
sh-history-180958462/

Plans for Venice's Jewish ghetto:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/conservation/project-will-preserve-venice-s-jewish-heri
tage/

Feature on St Petersburg:

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/23/story-of-cities-8-st-petersburg-city-built-o
n-bones-starting-to-crumble

Feature on Erik the Lawgiver:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/the-gruesome-legend-of-swedish-king-might-actuall
y-be-true

An export bar on a Robert the Bruce seal:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/scottish-independence/12201730/Export-bar-pla
ced-on-Robert-the-Bruce-seal-to-prevent-sale-to-a-foreign-buyer.html

... and they're arguing over a Joan of Arc ring:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/12200145/Come-and-get-it-Fre
nch-refuse-to-hand-Joan-of-Arcs-ring-back-to-Britain.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/french-theme-park-battles-british-keep-joan-
arcs-ring-180958556/ http://theartnewspaper.com/news/french-buyer-refuses-to-return-joan-of-arc-ring-to-uk/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/03/26/why-the-british-and-fre
nch-are-feuding-over-a-medieval-ring/

On paper use in medieval England:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35834249


Italy seems to be still having heritage issues:

http://www.thelocal.it/20160324/cash-before-culture-sees-italy-bury-its-archaeological-tre
asures

More on Arthur's grave being a hoax created for medieval fundraising:

http://boingboing.net/2016/03/26/king-arthurs-grave-was-a-hoa.html http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/03/medieval-monks-used-king-arthurs-grave-as-an-a
ttraction-to-raise-money/ http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/mar/23/king-arthur-tint
agel-english-heritage

More on that 11th century gold crucifix from Denmark:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crucifix-suggests-christianity-may-have-co
me-earlier-to-the-vikings-180958516/?no-ist

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
12 000 years bp frozen mother's milk (maybe)?:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0618-scientists-may-have-discovered
-12000-year-old-mothersmilk-frozen-in-permafrost/

Archaeologists in Pakistan want to excavate at Hund village:

http://www.thestatesman.com/news/world/excavation-sought-in-pak-s-hund-capital-of-hin
du-shahi-dynasty/132574.html http://www.dailytimes.com.pk/national/26-Mar-2016/hund-village-needs-more-excavation-
archeologists http://nation.com.pk/national/26-Mar-2016/hund-archaeological-site-needs-more-excavati
on

... related:

http://tribune.com.pk/story/1073407/heritage-students-briefed-on-significance-of-hund/

Interesting feature on an Angkor Wat precursor (maybe):

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/lost-city-cambodia-180958508/

A burial ground found at the Plain of Jars:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-ancient-burial-ground-plain-jars.html http://www.voanews.com/content/new-findings-on-lao-plain-of-jars-help-unravel-ancient-m
ysteries/3247010.html

We may have missed this item on village finds in the Sanxingdui ruins:

http://www.ecns.cn/visual/hd/2016/01-29/85933.shtml

More on new branches of the Silk Road being discovered in Tibet:

http://www.livescience.com/54180-archaeologists-uncover-another-branch-of-the-silk-roa
d.html

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NORTH AMERICA
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A bison kill site from Arizona:

http://westerndigs.org/unexpected-3000-year-old-bison-hunting-site-discovered-in-southe
rn-arizona/

On the origins of the cannons on display at Fort William Henry:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-ny-fort-guns-florida.html http://www.timesunion.com/local/article/9-Fort-William-Henry-cannons-came-from-Florida-
7083688.php

... while a 300 years bp cannon was dug up in Wilmington:

http://www.jdnews.com/news/20160323/expert-cannon-dug-up-in-wilmington-is-about-300
-years-old http://www.shorelinemedia.net/expert-cannon-dug-up-in-wilmington-is-about-years-old/
article_f95df7a8-b233-5dba-a84e-97a452354172.html http://www.wect.com/story/31540231/construction-crews-uncover-apparent-cannon-in-dow
ntown-wilmington

Remains of a corduroy road in Waterloo:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/waterloo-corduroy-road-found-king-str
eet-lrt-construction-1.3502375

A Civil War ship off North Carolina:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/house-divided/wp/2016/03/23/mystery-of-the-nort
h-carolina-civil-war-shipwreck-solved/ http://www.dailytarheel.com/article/2016/03/confederate-ship-wreckage-found

They've located the remains of the USS Conestoga:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-35887893 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/03/23/471659448/ship-that-vanished-95-ye
ars-ago-is-found http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/discovery-uss-conestoga-researchers-have-sol
ved-naval-mystery-was-nearly-100-years-old-180958538/ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/us/discovery-of-shipwreck-solves-95-year-old-myste
ry.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience

Concerns (a petition) for artifacts on San Nicolas island:

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-petition-artifacts-navy-20160324-st
ory.html

Latest from the Franklin Expedition 'dig':

http://globalnews.ca/news/2596635/watch-video-interactive-exhibit-takes-you-inside-doo
med-franklin-expedition-ship/ http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/franklin-exploration-exhibit-1.3504103

Studying trade history through beads:

http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/accent/studying-trade-history-through-beads/
article_4f73f2a6-e7d9-11e5-9e9f-6b14d728cf42.html

Feature on Anasazi houses:

http://newsok.com/anasazi-dwellings-defy-gravity-invaders/article/ 5486499?custom_click=rss

Why the Scots-Irish came to North America:

http://www.newenglandhistoricalsociety.com/how-the-scots-irish-came-to-america-and-wh
at-they-brought-with-them/

Review of Brinkley, *Rightful Heritage*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/27/books/review/rightful-heritage-franklin-d-roosevelt-an
d-the-land-of-america-by-douglas-brinkley.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fb
ooks

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
12 000 years bp sites from Costa Rica:

http://news.co.cr/ancient-12000-year-old-human-settlements-discovered-in-costa-rica-are-
regions-oldest/45598/

Overviewish thing on what we've learned about Caral:

http://www.andina.com.pe/ingles/noticia-twodecade-research-reveals-new-information-ab
out-caral-civilization-604481.aspx

Feature on Kingston (Jamaica):

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/mar/24/story-cities-9-kingston-jamaica-richest-wi
ckedest-city-world

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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 ================================================================
Much excitement over a scan suggesting Shakespeare's skull is missing from his grave:

http://artdaily.com/news/86040/Archaeologists-use-ground-penetrating-radar-scan-to-disc
over-signs-of-tampering-of-Shakespeare-s-tomb- http://news.discovery.com/history/art-history/radar-scan-stokes-mystery-over-shakespea
res-missing-skull-160324.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.syracuse.com/us-news/index.ssf/2016/03/shakespeare_skull_missing_yorick
.html http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/scientists-say-shakespeares-skull-may-be-
missing-from-grave/article29378008/?cmpid=rss1 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/03/24/shakespeares-tomb---review/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/03/23/shakespeares-skull-may-have-been-removed-fr
om-grave-documentary/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-35890730 http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/world/scientists-say-shakespeares-skull-may-be-
missing-from-grave/article29378008/?cmpid=rss1 http://www.npr.org/2016/03/25/471817302/is-shakespeares-skull-missing-or-no http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/theater/alas-poor-william-shakespeare-where-does-h
is-skull-rest.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-shakespeare-lose-his-head-180958572/

... and a Shakespearean 'book tour':

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/26/theater/shakespeare-the-book-tour.html

... other famous stolen body parts:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/160325-shakespeare-skull-stolen-missing-h
istory-mystery/

Pondering the increase in pottery production after the last Ice Age:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-insights-pottery-production-significantly-ice.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/uoy-wdw032116.php http://www.science20.com/news_articles/why_did_we_invent_pottery-168599

Newton's recipe for the 'philosopher's stone':

http://www.livescience.com/54162-newton-recipe-for-philosophers-stone-rediscovered.ht
ml

... a biography of him:

http://www.livescience.com/20296-isaac-newton.html

... and a proposed centotaph for him:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160318-the-memorial-to-newton-that-would-have-eclips
ed-the-pyramids

Barron's was giving tips on investing in antiquities(!):

http://blogs.barrons.com/penta/2016/03/26/antiquities-buying-tips/ http://www.barrons.com/articles/mixing-modern-art-with-antiquities-1458967055

Marking the Easter Rising:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-35898320 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/opinion/inventing-the-irish-easter-rising.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-35882166

On the date of Easter:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35880795

... assorted other Easter-related items:

http://news.discovery.com/history/religion/was-jesus-really-nailed-to-the-cross-160325.ht
m#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2016/03/22/biblical-scholar-wonders-was-jesus-really-n
ailed-to-the-cross/ http://news.discovery.com/history/religion/last-supper-menu-stew-lamb-wine-of-course-m
ore150402.htm http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160324-the-500-year-old-hidden-easter-egg http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160324-the-worlds-most-expensive-easter-egg-hunt

Plans to reopen Norton Conyers Jane Eyre house:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-35842601

Feature on the history of perfume:

http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/our-pungent-history/

Interesting Red Baron story:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35807062

On an ancient memory technique:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/24/upshot/an-ancient-and-proven-way-to-improve-memo
ry-go-ahead-and-try-it.html

On the origins of Okay:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/its-the-177th-birthday-of-okay

Sled dogs have been around for a while:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/03/20160318-ancient-sled-dogs-archaeology-Id
itarod-Arctic-Siberia/

More on marginalia in a Henry VIII-era Bible:

http://www.livescience.com/54137-hidden-text-in-oldest-printed-bible.html


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Strange New Beauty:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/arts/design/the-moderndegas-you-havent-seen.html

Bosch:

http://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/hieronymus-boschs-five-hundredth-anniv
ersary-homecoming

Gods and Immortals at Olympus:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/walk-among-olympic-gods-in-new-york/

Maya:

http://www.broadwayworld.com/bwwart/article/Traveling-Exhibition-About-Maya-Civilizati
on-Makes-Texas-Premiere-20160325

DaVinci:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35844347

Late Antiquity Textiles:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/15/science/roman-empire-textiles-archaeology-late-anti
quity.html

Interesting items at the new Harley Gallery in Nottinghamshire:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35830877

Renovation changes coming to the Frick:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/03/25/arts/design/frick-collection-will-revise-renovation-to-
preserve-garden.html

... while the British Museum has to do some renovations to accommodate some Egyptian statuary:

http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/mar/26/egyptian-statues-lost-city-tall-order-briti
sh-museum

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THE TECHY SIDE
================================================================
Plenty of hype for a 3d interactive reconstruction of Richard III's grave:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-archaeologists-d-interactive-digital-reconstruction.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160322082152.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-03/uol-ac3031816.php http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/king-richard-iiis-grave-recreated-in-3-d-16
0322.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.livescience.com/54117-new-3d-model-of-richard-iii-grave.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/mar/22/armchair-archaeologists-can-explore-
richard-iiis-grave-in-online-model http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/visit-richard-iii-gravesite-bone-chilling-3d-m
odel-180958531/ http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/a-new-3d-view-of-richard-iii-s-humble-grave/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3502752/Peer-inside-grave-Richard-III-Inte
ractive-3D-model-lets-virtually-climb-final-resting-place-Plantagenet-king-carelessly-buri
ed-1485.html

3d printing some Chinese oracle bones:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-year-old-chinese-oracle-bones-d.html

Nice overview of tech in archaeology:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-stonehenge-nefertitihow-high-tech-archaeology-view.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Overviewish sort of thing on how far we've come with DNA studies:

http://phys.org/news/2016-03-golden-age-ancient-dna-science.html

DNA from an 18th century Hungarian mummy points to colon cancer:

http://www.livescience.com/54177-colon-cancer-found-in-hungarian-mummy.html

Tracking dysentery:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/03/160321123654.htm

... and malaria:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160324-how-our-deadliest-disease-infected-us


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
How climate change is posing challenges for archaeologists:


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