[continued from previous message]

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/apr/08/sicily-golden-years-british-museu
m-exhibition http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/norman-sicily-was-a-multicultural-paradise-but-it-didn
t-last-long/

Reliquary Project:

http://www.leicestermercury.co.uk/event/Reliquary-Project/event-28781580-detail/
whatson/event.html

Petroglyphs:

http://www.sunad.com/news/2016/03/rock-stars/

Oneiroi:

https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne/art-and-design/article/bill-hensons-oneiroi-im
agining-lost-past

National Poo Museum:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsround/35973024 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-hampshire-35957829 http://www.local10.com/news/poo-museum-opens-in-britain

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THE TECHY SIDE
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Optical carbon dating could be useful:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/tos-oao040116.php

A techy study of Egyptian funerary portraits:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/unlocking-the-secrets-of-ancient-egyptian-funerary-portraits-thr
ough-modern-technology/

Interesting use of bone weathering information:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-bone-weathering-death.html

3d printing a Rembrandt:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-35926705

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
On variations in precipitation over the past millennia:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160406133628.htm

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Istria:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/historic-istria-do-as-the-romans-do-in-croatia-
a6972751.html

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CRIME BEAT
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Not sure how smuggled antiquities fit into this one:

http://rapidcityjournal.com/news/local/eb--suspect-bollen-s-love-of-ancient-artifacts-part/
article_969001e2-aa17-59b7-91c8-1d9c299f2ef5.html

We'll probably hear more about this murder of an art dealer:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36005557

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/04/culture-crime-news-28-march-3-april-2
016.html

More on that gang busted in the UK:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-35941797

conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

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

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

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

SAFE:

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

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
Returning some Nazi-looted art:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vienna-museum-returns-two-works-of-art-st
olen-nazis-180958705/

... semi-related:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/10/arts/design/does-my-family-own-a-painting-looted-by
-nazis.html

Pondering repatriation of human remains:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160407-archaeology-religion-repatriation-bo
nes-skeletons/

... and 'the other side' of the repatriation argument:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/04/give-thanks-for-the-imperialist-tomb-raiders/

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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the Watlington Viking hoard:

http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/04/british-viking-coin-hoard-intrigues.ht
ml

Latest e-Sylum:


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

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n14.html

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n15.html

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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
A pile of musical scores for Leed Central Library:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-35977832

Preserving composers' voices at Yale:

http://news.yale.edu/2016/03/30/composers-voices-preserved-perpetuity-yale

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OBITUARIES
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Charles Thomas:

http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Cornwall-mourns-greatest-historian/ story-29077122-detail/story.html

Joe Medicine Crow:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/04/04/joe-medicine-crow-a-
war-chief-historian-and-the-last-link-to-the-battle-of-little-big-horn-dies-at-102/
http://billingsgazette.com/news/local/joe-medicine-crow-dies-in-billings-sunday-morning/
article_4463195c-d8c2-5a36-ae68-bf86f99b5d52.html http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-35956842

Rachel Johnson:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-35985243

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http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

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