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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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Homo erectus artifacts from Gia Lai (Viet Nam):

http://www.thanhniennews.com/arts-culture/traces-of-ancient-humans-found-in-vietnams-
biggest-archaeological-discovery-60898.html

On naledi's diet:

http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/by-land-or-by-sea-how-did-early-humans-acces
s-key-brain-building-nutrients/

Now they're saying there was a DNA 'breeding barrier' between Neanderthals and Sapiens (it's rather bizarre how there seems to be some sort of underlying 'romantic'
assumption):

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-modern-men-lack-chromosome-genes.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35992612 http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0407/Researchers-find-no-trace-of-Neanderthal-
Y-chromosomes-in-modern-humans http://www.france24.com/en/20160408-study-neanderthal-y-chromosome-hints-fertility-pr
oblems http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/modern-human-females-and-male-neandertals-
had-trouble-making-babies-here-s-why http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/humans-and-neanderthals-may-have-had-tr
ouble-making-male-babies-180958701/ http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/07/ciencia/1460038928_584158.html

More on floresiensis being older than previously thought (and vanishing earlier too):

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-hobbit-older-science-wiser.html http://www.asianpacificpost.com/article/7435-asian-hobbit-people-vanished-earlier-previo
usly-known.html http://www1.folha.uol.com.br/ciencia/2016/03/1755772-hobbits-foram-extintos-antes-do-q
ue-se-pensava-e-a-culpa-nao-e-do-homem.shtml http://theconversation.com/the-hobbit-gets-a-little-older-and-science-a-little-wiser-57268

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AFRICA
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On humans and the extinction of the dodo:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160408-how-humanity-first-killed-the-dodo-then-lost-it-a
s-well

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
I think we mentioned these rock-cut tombs from Gebel el-Silsila:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/04/07/42-tombs-and-shrine-discovered-in-egypt.ht
ml

Latest in the Sekhemka statue saga:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/say-goodbye-ancient-egyptian-statue-sekhemka
http://www.apollo-magazine.com/sekhemka-granted-export-licence/

Zahi Hawass wades in on the hidden room in Tut's tomb thing:

http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2016-04-05/egypts-indiana-jones-says-new-theory-
on-king-tuts-tomb-is-wrong http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/04/egypt-pyramids-archaeology-zahi-haw
was-king-tut-smuggling.html

More on the kerfuffle being raised over some star of David engravings on a Roman
temple in Aswan:

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Star-of-David-found-engraved-into-an-ancient-Temple-a
rouses-bustle-in-Egypt-450074#article=6017RjBENzhDNzhFMjk5ODE5NkQyRTREOERD NTdGQzZGNkQ= http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/65013/egypt-up-in-arms-after-star-of-david-engraving
-discovered-in-ancient-temple-middle-east/

Feature on Woolley's 11th season at Ur:

http://www.penn.museum/blog/museum/ancient-ur-and-historic-iraq-woolleys-11th-seaso
n/

Feature on Cuneiform:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/what-heck-cuneiform-anyway-180956999/?no-ist

Plenty of attention for a bronze incense shovel find (didn't we have this a month or so
ago) and other items from a synagogue site in Migdal:

http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Second-Temple-period-bronze-impl
ements-discovered-in-Magdala-excavations-5-April-2016.aspx http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4190 http://www.livescience.com/54315-bronze-shovel-for-jewish-rituals-discovered.html
http://www.livescience.com/54314-photos-ritual-bronze-shovel.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/rare-bronze-incense-shovel-found-in-isra
el-160406.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210361#.VwUq5KQrIz4 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4788196,00.html http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Jewish-settlement-synagogue-from-Second-Temple-era
-unearthed-on-Sea-of-Galilee-shore-450302#article=6017NDZDMjNFNTU4MjZFNzYxODN ERUZGM0E5MDM1NTVEQjU= http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2016/4/5/special-bronze-incense-shovel-uncovered-at-sec
ond-temple-era-site-in-galilee http://www.timesofisrael.com/2200-year-old-bronze-artifacts-found-at-biblical-site/
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.712879 http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/65094/2000-year-old-temple-artifacts-discovered-nea
r-sea-galilee-jewish-world/\ https://www.algemeiner.com/2016/04/06/special-bronze-incense-shovel-uncovered-at-se
cond-temple-era-site-in-galilee/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3524527/Biblical-incense-shovel-unearthe
d-shores-Sea-Galilee-2-000-year-old-tool-alongside-jug-birthplace-Mary-Magdalane.html?
ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Roman influence on Jewish ritual slaughter:

http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2016/4/5/unholy-cow-archaeologist-claims-romans-influen
ced-jewish-ritual-slaughter http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.712746

Remains of a Byzantine church in Gaza:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-gaza-workers-ancient-church.html http://www.timesofisrael.com/remains-of-1500-year-old-church-uncovered-in-gaza/ http://www.france24.com/en/20160405-ancient-church-unearthed-gaza-building-site http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/builders-find-remnants-from-byzantine-period-in-gaza.
aspx?pageID=238&nID=97330&NewsCatID=375 http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.712764 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3525101/Ancient-church-unearthed-Gaza-buil
ding-site.html

... which Hamas apparently wanted to bulldoze:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210387

... and archaeologists were protesting:

http://www.middleeasteye.net/news/gaza-church-archaeologists-616890669

... the story seems rather 'murky':

http://www.jpost.com/Middle-East/Palestinian-Christians-bitter-over-destruction-of-church-
ruins-in-Gaza-450521

Concerns for the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/07/world/middleeast/jerusalem-christians-jesus-tomb.ht
ml?_r=0 http://reinformation.tv/terre-sainte-restauration-tombeau-christ-le-luc-52897-2/

Possible evidence that Lawrence of Arabia wasn't exaggerating about an ambush:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-bullet-lawrence-arabia-liar.html http://www.livescience.com/54321-lawrence-of-arabia-bullet-found.html http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.713171

Pondering why hikers in Israel keep finding stuff:

http://www.israel21c.org/why-do-hikers-in-israel-keep-stumbling-upon-ancient-relics/

... and finds are up in Israel, apparently:

http://jpupdates.com/2016/04/06/israel-sees-boost-in-archaeological-discoveries/

Latest on proposed Kotel plans:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/210507

Interesting feature on Jesus as security risk:

http://asorblog.org/2016/04/07/jesus-as-a-security-risk-intelligence-and-repression-in-the
-roman-empire/

The Arab League drafted a resolution to protect antiquities:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/arab-league-draft-resolution-protect-arab-antiquit
ies-araby

More on Neolithic quarrying in Israel:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neolithic-people-were-also-strip-miners-180
958668/?no-ist

Review of Tigay, *The Lost Book of Moses*:

http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/77280/intrigue-aplenty-in-sfsu-profs-new-book-about-in
famous-biblical-forgery

The relics of St Elian were found amid the rubble of his ISIL-destroyed church:

http://news.discovery.com/history/religion/saints-bones-unearthed-in-isis-destroyed-mon
astery-160406.htm http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/04/05/bones-of-saint-found-in-ruins-of-monast
ery-destroyed-by-isis/ http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/04/06/discovery-of-relics-in-syria-confirmed-a
s-st-elians/

Other ISIL news focussed on how much money they were making from antiquities selling
them online and smuggling them through Turkey , according to a Russian politician:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/78732790/Isis-nets-millions-selling-plundered-antiquities-onl
ine http://www.smh.com.au/world/islamic-state-nets-millions-selling-plundered-antiquities-on
line-20160408-go1ebj.html http://www.newsweek.com/isis-syria-antiquities-millions-profit-money-russia-islamic-stat
e-palmyra-444805 https://www.rt.com/news/338705-turkey-syria-artifacts-trade-churkin/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3527244/Islamic-State-nets-millions-antiq
uities-Russia.html

... claims of which were deemed politically-motivated, and prompted investigation by
Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/turkey-probes-russias-politically-motivated-claims-on-
smuggled-syrian-antiquities.aspx?pageID=238&nID=97510&NewsCatID=510 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-antiquities-turkey-idUSKCN0X42K9
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/reuters/article-3528874/Turkey-investigating-Russian-cl
aims-smuggled-Syrian-antiquities.html

... and questioned in regards to value:

http://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2016/doubt-over-isis-sales-of-looted-items/

... although collectors were also blamed for the activity:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/04/syria-egypt-yemen-antiquities-smuggl
ing-illegal-collectors.html

... and a smuggler was interviewed by the press:

http://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/isis-terror/smuggler-stolen-artifacts-palmyra-speaks-o
ut-about-isis-illicit-operation-n551806

A somewhat more balanced look at the traffic:

http://www.livescience.com/54343-are-antiques-imported-from-syria-funding-terrorists.ht
ml

A strange opEd:

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/josh-freed-a-syrian-trip-grave-robbing-and-h
ow-i-could-have-saved-a-tiny-piece-of-history

Features on Palmyra after ISIL left:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/ng-interactive/2016/apr/08/palmyra-after-islamic-state-
isis-visual-guide http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/palmyra-archeaologists-tally-losses-after-isla
mic-state-retreats http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/world/middleeast/palmyra-syria-isis.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3521855/Smashed-sculptures-decapitated-statue
s-defaced-figures-Devastation-inside-Palmyra-s-national-museum-ISIS-destroyed-pricele
ss-artefacts.html

... and the Hermitage wants to help with the restoration:

http://artdaily.com/news/86304/Russia-s-Hermitage-Museum-offers-help-to-restore-ancie
nt-Syrian-city-of-Palmyra

On the importance of the Iraqi Museum in the wake of ISIL:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-iraqi-museum-refuge-relics.html

Again on recreating the Arch in London:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/08/why-the-arch-of-triumph-of-palmyra-is-being-
recreated-in-london/


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Lead curse tablets from an Athenian burial:

http://www.livescience.com/54285-curse-tablets-uncovered-in-greece.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/curse-tablets-discovered-in-2400-year-ol
d-grave-160405.htm http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2016/04/05/archaeology-cur
se-tablets-found-in-ancient-greek-tomb_e6707739-8868-49af-8b3c-0061cab1bd32.html

Possible evidence for Hannibal's route through the Alps:

http://www.qub.ac.uk/home/ceao/News/Title,631613,en.html http://phys.org/news/2016-04-ancient-horse-dung-bacteria-team-hannibal.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160404134205.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/qub-qum040416.php http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-35969107 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/03/where-muck-hannibals-elephants-alps-
italy-bill-mahaney-york-university-toronto http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hannibal-horse-poo-alps-1.3523863?cmp=rss http://www.forbes.com/sites/paulrodgers/2016/04/05/dung-points-to-hannibals-path-acros
s-the-alps/ http://scienmag.com/queens-university-microbiologists-unmask-the-hannibal-route-enig
ma/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0405/Where-did-Hannibal-cross-the-Alps-Ancient
-dung-may-hold-clues http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/horse-poo-helps-unravel-mystery-hannibal
s-route-through-alps-180958660/ http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/04/05/ancient-poop-helps-scientists-unlock-hannib
al-mystery.html?intcmp=hpffo&intcmp=obnetwork https://theconversation.com/how-ancient-horse-dung-bacteria-is-helping-our-team-locate-
where-hannibal-crossed-the-alps-57135

Roman remains from a York housing site:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14401025.Roman_remains_found_at_York_housing_si te/

On wealthy Romans' attraction to beachfront property:

http://www.hakaimagazine.com/article-long/how-ancient-romes-1-hijacked-beach

In case you missed it in the ANE section ... Roman influence on Jewish ritual slaughter:

http://www.jns.org/news-briefs/2016/4/5/unholy-cow-archaeologist-claims-romans-influen
ced-jewish-ritual-slaughter

On Socrates, Cynics, and other philosophical schools:

http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/of-socrates-cynics-and-flat-nailed-feathe
rless-bipeds/

Interesting 'penis pot' rediscovery:

http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/Cambridge-museum-talking-sex-ancient-Roman-Penis/
story-29077239-detail/story.html

On an ancient foot fetishist:

http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2016/04/who-was-the-first-foot-fetishist.html

Latest Homerathon:

http://onlineathens.com/mobile/2016-04-04/volunteers-reading-odyssey-aloud-homeratho
n-uga-main-library

How the Romans contributed to a multicultural Britain:

http://www.historytoday.com/garry-shaw/migration-roman-britain

What Emily Allen-Hornblower is up to:

http://news.rutgers.edu/feature/state-prison-rutgers-professor-teaches-classics-and-inspi
res-convicts/20160407

Remembering David Porter:

http://skidmorenews.com/new-blog/2016/4/8/remembering-david-h-porter

Honours for Mary Beard:

http://www.classics.cam.ac.uk/news/professor-mary-beard-awarded-bodley-medal

... and she's not concerned if tourists damage Pompeii:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/06/mary-beard-it-doesnt-really-matter-if-tourists
-damage-pompeii/

APSU's Classicists are getting assorted honours:

http://www.theallstate.org/2016/04/08/classics-department-reigns-in-awards/

On Lincoln and Euclid:

http://northernpublicradio.org/post/mathematical-secret-abe-lincolns-speeches

In case you've never checked out the Panoply Vase animation site:

http://panoplyclassicsandanimation.blogspot.com/2016/04/new-look-website.html

More on that slab with Etruscan writing on it:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/archaeologists-discover-2-500-year-old-stone-sla
b-in-italy-that-could-shed-light-on-the-etruscans/ http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/etruscan-secrets-found-on-ancient-slab-20
05885

Reviewish of Freeman, *How to Grow Old*:

https://www.luther.edu/headlines/?story_id=686352

Review of A Mayor, *Amazons*:

http://www.worldfinancialreview.com/?cat=24

Review of Taylor, *Antiochus the Great*:

http://www.strategypage.com/bookreviews/1307.asp

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Apparently humans brought deer to Scotland:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-stone-age-humans-brought-deer.html http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-35970195 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/04/05/stone-age-humans-brought-deer-to-scotland-
by-sea/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3526046/Stone-age-humans-transported-d
eer-sea-DNA-reveals-herbivores-Scottish-islands-introduced-boat-far-away.html?ITO=149
0&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Anglo Saxon burials at a Hildersham Church:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35984957

Storm Katie may have exposed a Dutch shipwreck in Dorset:

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/14401806.Shiver_me_timbers__Ancient_wreck_reveal
ed_by_Storm_Katie/

A dig at a museum turns up a medieval Arabic chess piece:

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/NEWS/14406792.Rare_chess_piece_found_in_back_yard_ of_museum/

Cremation pits at a Vale of Glamorgan site:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-35996934

Maybe the lost village of Cadzow is still lost:

http://www.motherwelltimes.co.uk/news/local-headlines/lost-village-of-cadzow-remains-lo
st-1-4090347

Plans to dig Shakespeare's Curtain Theatre before developers move in:

http://hackneycitizen.co.uk/2016/04/08/families-dig-shakespeares-curtain-theatre-develo
pers-move/

... and now they're talking where Shakespeare's skull might have been reburied:

http://www.eveshamjournal.co.uk/news/regional/14404634.Is_William_Shakespeare_s_
skull_buried_in_Redditch_/

On Iron Age jewellery choices:

http://sciencenordic.com/why-some-iron-age-women-chose-exotic-jewellery

Pondering the Battle of Culloden:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3528248/Battered-skull-gives-glimpse-brut
ality-Battle-Culloden-3D-model-soldier-s-remains-shows-shot-head-1745.html?ITO=1490
&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Plans (maybe) for Beverley Gate:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-humber-35959294

Renovations at the Queen's residences:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-35958283

Not only does Bosnia have pyramids (ahem) now it has spheres (ahem):

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3527997/Is-rock-proof-lost-European-civilis
ation-Archaeologist-claims-spherical-boulder-world-s-oldest-man-sphere-used-healing.ht
ml

More on that medieval self-flagellation whip:

http://www.livescience.com/54316-medieval-metal-whip-discovered.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/medieval-whip-used-by-self-flagellating-
monks-found160404.htm http://www.nottinghamshire.gov.uk/pressreleases/show/black-death-and-self-punishment
-remains-of-medieval-whip-found-at-rufford-abbey

That Bronze Age battle in Germany still has legs:

http://www.vancouversun.com/news/world/unearths+2c000+bones+battle+violent+that+b
ronze+participants/11834497/story.html

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
An Eastern Han dynasty burial from Guangxi Zhang:

http://www.nerve.in/news%3A2535002786498

A 1500 years bp mummy from Mongolia:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0638-archeologists-find-ancient-mum
my-approximately-1500-years-old-in-mongolia/

A 1000 years bp 'sunken town' off Tamil Nadu:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Millennium-old-sunken-town-found-off-Tamil-Nad
u/articleshow/51465600.cms

Evidence of ancient cannibalism in Cambodia:

https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/111059-111059/

On how dingoes got to Australia:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3527475/Archaeologists-reveal-research-answer-
question-dingoes-Australia.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Some ancient Thai manuscripts are being digitized:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-digital-library-ancient-thai-manuscripts.html http://lannamanuscripts.net/en

Those mysterious burials on the Plain of Jars continue to get attention:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-ancient-burials-revealed-mysterious-plain.html http://www.livescience.com/54319-burial-site-discovered-at-plain-of-jars.html http://www.livescience.com/54303-plain-of-jars-archaeology-photos.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0405/Researchers-begin-to-crack-the-mystery-of-
Laos-s-Plain-of-Jars http://www.scmp.com/news/asia/southeast-asia/article/1933555/ancient-human-remains-f
ound-plain-jars-laos-scientists http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3522526/Ancient-burials-revealed-mysteri
ous-Plain-Jars-Laos.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://artdaily.com/news/86301/Ancient-burials-revealed-at-mysterious-Plain-of-Jars-in-La
os http://www.thanhniennews.com/education-youth/ancient-burials-revealed-at-mysterious-p
lain-of-jars-in-laos-60913.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researchers-crack-open-mysterious-plain-ja
rs-180958675/

... as is the 'new' branch of the Silk Road:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3524713/Did-Silk-Road-stretch-thought-Clot
h-funerary-mask-Nepal-materials-India-China-1-600-years-ago.html

More on that frozen Siberian puppy:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/this-puppy-was-frozen-for-12400-years-and-it
s-body-is-nearly-intact-fur-and-all-a6965906.html

More on Japanese hunter/gatherers:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/03/30/jomon-origins-of-violence-warfare/

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http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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Interesting finds from a War of 1812 mass grave:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/04/04/mass-grave-from-war-of-1812-gi
ves-archaeologists-first-evidence-of-buckshot-injuries/#777074013986

Fire in Malta (Montana) has revealed plenty of Native American sites:

http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/fire-reveals-archaeological-sites-hundreds-of-years-o
ld/article_e631943f-117e-52ab-b222-3a0af13363fa.html http://www.deseretnews.com/article/765685503/Fire-reveals-archaeological-sites-hundre
ds-of-years-old.html?pg=all http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/archaeological-site-near-malta-broadens-u
nderstanding-of-ancient-people/article_bdf47b4f-8b10-5d4e-b8a2-53fbfe9621a5.html

Digging a Glidden Homestead barn site:

http://www.hastingstribune.com/archaeologist-excavating-barn-at-glidden-homestead/
article_cc33c9fc-7b73-5698-9fb7-f31570720784.html

They'll be digging at Lake George again this summer:

http://www.wcax.com/story/31664056/archaeology-dig-returning-to-ny-battlefield-this-sum
mer http://www.ctpost.com/news/article/Archaeology-dig-returning-to-NY-battlefield-this-72335
47.php

More details on first Americans arriving via the Channel Islands (maybe):

http://www.latimes.com/science/la-me-early-californians-20160406-story.html

On presidents and 'Southern Honor':

http://news.yale.edu/2016/04/06/us-presidents-south-more-likely-use-force-military-dispu
tes

On Adolph Ochs and Tennessee:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/04/insider/1878-adolph-ochss-first-times-the-one-in-chat
tanooga.html

Another Discovery Channel dig gone wrong ... this time in Virginia:

http://www.seattlepi.com/news/crime/article/Virginia-archaeologists-slam-plantation-dig-f
or-7239533.php http://pilotonline.com/news/nation-world/virginia/virginia-archaeologists-slam-plantation-
dig-for-tv-series/article_ed079b81-2df7-544b-8c87-ebe1d22b05fa.html http://www.hastingstribune.com/virginia-archaeologists-slam-plantation-dig-for-tv-series/
article_f6b53c62-8cbc-5f18-80a6-450ffc80725f.html

Something about tree rings and Pueblo populist uprisings:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-prehistoric-pueblo-populist-revolutions-presage.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2016/boom-and-bust-in-the-pre-his
panic-pueblo-southwest

On getting the youth vote in 19th century US:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/opinion/campaign-stops/virgins-booze-and-american
-elections.html

On the Wendels:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/realestate/before-the-trumps-there-were-the-wendels.
html?contentCollection=weekendreads

A copy of the US constitution is coming to auction:

http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20160408/historic-new-haven-newspaper-printin
g-of-us-constitution-up-for-auction

On the history of Muslims in the US:

https://sojo.net/articles/think-muslims-hate-us-heres-proof-they-are-us

Saving sites in Emery County:

http://www.ecprogress.com/index.php?tier=1&article_id=18806 http://trustlands.utah.gov/sitla-spirit-railroad-project/

Trying to save a Princeton battlefield:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/a-battle-to-save-the-princeton-battlefield/2016/
04/08/3d40e344-fce4-11e5-9140-e61d062438bb_story.html

More on the potential Viking site find in Newfoundland:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-viking-site-north-america.html http://cphpost.dk/news/vikings-may-have-been-to-north-america-much-earlier-than-believ
ed.html

More on the genetic evidence for the influx of Europeans:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/mummy-genomes-reveal-just-how-catastrophic
-european-contact-was-new-world http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/world-history/discovery-vikings-newfoundland-
canada-history-norse-point-rosee-l-anse-aux-meadows-a6965126.html http://popular-archaeology.com/issue/spring-2016/article/ancient-dna-sheds-new-light-on-
early-americans

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
LiDAR reveals Maya water conservation techniques:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-discoveries-ancient-civilization.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160408132503.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/uoc-ndi040816.php

Still pondering what really happened on Easter Island:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-easter-island.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/f-wrh040716.php

Early humans in South America were like 'an invasive species':

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-populations-early-human-settlers-grew.html

... this seems related:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3526723/Did-humans-conquer-South-Ameri
ca-waves-Prehistoric-settlers-spread-area-two-occasions-8-000-years-apart.html?ITO=14
90&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

On the battle between archaeology and development in the Yucatan:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-yucatan-archaeology.html http://www.theyucatantimes.com/2016/04/to-preserve-maya-sites-archaeologists-struggl
e-with-meridas-rapid-growth/ http://www.salon.com/2016/04/05/yucatan_archaeology_races_to_keep_up_with_develo
pment/

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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 ================================================================
On the history of subscription libraries in the UK:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-35831853

The Panama Papers thing might help settle a Modigliani ownership dispute:

http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-35986035

... and a history of 'leaks':

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-35998720

... and tax evasion:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-35997919

A Newton alchemy manuscript is being put online:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-newly-newton-alchemy-manuscript-online.html

Recreating the sound of ancient instruments:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/09/arts/international/bringing-ancient-sounds-back-to-lif
e.html

A Shakespeare first folio turns up on a Scottish island:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-35990101 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-copy-shakespeares-first-folio-was-foun
d-scottish-library-180958694/ http://www.cnbc.com/2016/04/07/one-of-worlds-most-valuable-books-found.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3527736/Extremely-rare-copy-Shakespeare-s-Foli
o-1623-discovered-stately-home-remote-Isle-Bute-languished-library-century.html

... while another is on tour:

https://news.brown.edu/articles/2016/04/first-folio

... and someone is suggesting that he was actually a dark-haired Jewish woman:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3521589/Book-claims-Bard-s-greatest-works-writt
en-Jewish-woman-family-Venetian-musicans-living-London.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchanne l=rss&ns_campaign=1490

... more conventional treatment:

https://www.poets.org/poetsorg/shakespeare-400

Pondering the connection between human sacrifice and social stratification:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-ritual-human-sacrifice-unequal-societies.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/05/science/ritual-human-sacrifice.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0404/Did-human-sacrifice-create-our-social-hiera
rchies http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/the-darker-link-between-ancient-human-sacrif
ice-and-our-modern-world-a6969846.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/05/the-darker-link-betwe
en-ancient-human-sacrifice-and-our-modern-world/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/apr/04/study-shows-human-sacrifice-was-les
s-likely-in-more-equal-societies

On the social context of ancient writing systems:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-easy-alep-gimel-cambridge-explores.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/uoc-eaa040416.php http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3525478/Easy-Alep-Bet-Gimel-Researcher
s-uncover-roots-English-alphabet.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=149 0 http://www.csah.cam.ac.uk/news/easy-as-alep-bet-gimel-cambridge-research-ancient-writ
ing

On reading Dante in the 21st century:

https://theamericanscholar.org/how-to-read-dante-in-the-21st-century/

On the history of lead:

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/06/473268312/before-it-was-dangerous-lead-was-the-miracle-
metal-that-we-loved http://kcur.org/post/lead-still-deadly-miracle-metal-ancients-now-better-contained

Poland and Russia are arguing about monuments:

http://www.ansa.it/nuova_europa/en/news/sections/news/2016/04/06/poland-dispute-with
-moscow-over-removal-of-soviet-monuments_6cd1fd41-52bf-4614-842f-a4fdbd211e49.ht
ml

Aboriginal star maps apparently influenced highway routes in Australia:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-ancient-aboriginal-star-australia-highway.html

On the development of wheat used in pasta:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-lesson-wheat-evolution-wild-spaghetti.html

Testing whether sperm whales could ram ships:

http://www.livescience.com/54302-could-sperm-whales-sink-ships.html http://phys.org/news/2016-04-hard-whale-shipsor.html

The medieval roots of the modern university:

http://www.npr.org/sections/ed/2016/04/05/472139919/wax-tablets-chicken-rustling-and-t
he-medieval-roots-of-the-modern-university

Pondering rats:

http://www.dw.com/en/rats-dangerous-vermin-or-useful-members-of-society/a-19161314


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Eagle Hunters:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=86379

Cf: http://www.ancient-origins.net/news-history-archaeology/eagle-huntress-ancient-tradit
ions-and-evidence-women-eagle-hunters-part-i-020797


Rembrandt:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-35963287

Moving Earth:

http://britishart.yale.edu/featured-story/31/3261

Sicily:


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