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

... the issue which was going to be early, then I hit all the
Shakespeare anniversary stuff ...

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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What Neanderthal teeth tell us (variation on the toothpick story):

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160419-what-neanderthals-teeth-tell-us-about-their-minds


They’re still trying to figure out how those naledi fossils ended up where
they did:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/pieces-homo-naledi-story-continue-puzzle

On the role of increasing brain size in hominid evolution:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-bigger-brains-bodies-ancestors.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/amon-bbl041816.php http://scienmag.com/bigger-brains-led-to-bigger-bodies-in-our-ancestors/

We’ve mentioned this ‘collagen fingerprinting’ technique for identifying
early hominid bones before:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160422120733.htm

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AFRICA
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More on Tibuktu’s ‘badass librarians’:

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/23/475420855/timbuktus-badass-librarians-checking-out-books-under-al-qaidas-nose


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Remains of a building associated with Hateshepsut’s early career as
pharaoh:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/201870/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Decorative-blocks-from-sacred-barques-way-station-.aspx

http://www.livescience.com/54476-building-for-queen-hatshepsut-discovered.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/a-new-discovery-sheds-light-on-ancient-egypts-most-successful-female-pharaoh/2016/04/23/946b7976-0983-11e6-a12f-ea5aed7958dc_story.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-discovery-tells-us-more-about-egypts-first-female-pharaoh/

http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/new-discovery-sheds-light-on-egypts-most-successful-female-pharaoh-who-was-almost-erased-from-history

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3545596/Carved-blocks-reveal-ancient-Egyptian-Pharaoh-Queen-Hatshepsut-looked-image-changed-man-s.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Oldest depiction of ancient Egyptian demons:

http://www.livescience.com/54482-oldest-depiction-of-ancient-egyptian-demons-found.html


Studying ‘sacred shrew’ mummies:

http://insider.si.edu/2016/04/sacred-shrew-mummies-reveal-species-distribution-ancient-egypt/


The French president was touring around Egypt:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/203944/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/French-president-visits-historical-sites-and-museu.aspx


5000 years bp kilns from Sistan:

http://www.payvand.com/news/16/apr/1063.html http://www.payvand.com/news/16/apr/1063.html

Revisiting some finds from a couple years ago from the Ophel excavations:

http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/66068/menorah-treasure-discovered-heart-jerusalem/


A 17th/18th century BCE scarab find from near Haifa:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/211349 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/A-timely-reminder-of-the-Exodus-Ancient-Egyptian-scarab-seal-found-near-Haifa-452158

Revisiting/followup to that find of a Thutmosis III amulet in the Temple
Mount Sifting Project:

http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/04/19/world/middleeast/ap-ml-israel-ancient-amulet.html?_r=0

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Rare-Egyptian-amulet-bearing-ancient-pharaohs-name-discovered-in-Jerusalem-451688

http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/egyptian-amulet-bearing-name-of-pharaoh-found-in-soil-from-temple-mount/2016/04/19/

http://m.jpost.com/Israel-News/Culture/Rare-Egyptian-amulet-bearing-ancient-pharaohs-name-discovered-in-Jerusalem-451688#article=10362N0E5NTBFOUE1QTE1MTBDRjJDN0MyMDc4MzY0NjA2QTI=

http://www.cityofdavid.org.il/en/news/rare-egyptian-amulet-bearing-name-ancient-pharaoh-found

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/19/a-12-year-old-kid-just-unearthed-an-ancient-egyptian-relic-in-israel/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3547591/12-year-old-Israeli-girl-discovers-ancient-Egyptian-amulet.html

https://templemount.wordpress.com/2016/04/19/rare-egyptian-amulet-bearing-name-of-ancient-pharaoh-found-in-earth-discarded-from-temple-mount/

Overviewish thing on what’s been found at Huqoq so far:

http://atlantajewishtimes.com/2016/04/ancient-shul-reveals-secrets/

It’s that time of year when folks ponder whether the Exodus did happen:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4795318,00.html http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-victory-of-the-Exodus-narrative-451884

The possible find of remains of the Acra in Jerusalem is making the rounds again:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/04/160422-israel-jerusalem-hellenistic-archaeology-passover-hanukkah/

http://www.pappaspost.com/photos-jerusalem-dig-uncovers-massive-ancient-greek-citadel/

I think we mentioned the search for Mimar Sinan’s skull:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/04/turkey-search-for-missing-skull-of-ottoman-architect.html


I think we also mentioned this digitizing of an early Qu’ran by the
British
Library:

http://hyperallergic.com/291436/british-library-digitizes-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-quran-manuscripts


On the Turkish origins of most modern-day Jewish people:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/scientists-reveal-jewish-historys-forgotten-turkish-roots-a6992076.html


A followup to that Biblical handwriting analysis story from last week:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Letters-to-the-Editor-No-fantasy-451520 http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2016/high-level-of-literacy-in-kingdom-of-judah-before-its-fall

Review of Tigay, *Lost Book of Moses*:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Books/Book-Reviews/2016/0422/The-Lost-Book-of-Moses-is-a-mystery-of-biblical-proportions


Feature on the OCHRE database:

https://rcc.uchicago.edu/ancient-civilizations-modern-computation

They’ve cleared all the mines from Palmyra, apparently:

http://www.dw.com/en/russia-declares-syrias-palmyra-free-of-landmines/a-19206756

A Polish team is working to restore the Lion statue:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/world/943597/polish-experts-return-to-syrias-palmyra-to-restore-famed-lion-statue


The politics associated with rebuilding monuments:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/04/20/the-problem-with-rebuilding-a-roman-ruin-destroyed-by-isis-does-it-simply-help-assad/


… but again, we’re reading optimistic spins:

http://tass.ru/en/world/870612

… and negative:

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/16/experts-give-new-details-of-is-destruction-of-syri/


A nice photo essay of what Palmyra is like now:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/bigpicture/2016/04/15/return-palmyra/tx7F30f9KA3dvppyshnDFI/story.html


More on the US ban on the import of Syrian antiquities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/14/world/middleeast/senate-votes-to-ban-imports-of-syrian-art-and-antiquities.html


More on Turkey’s intolerance for smuggling of items from Syria:

http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/04/18/turkish-culture-minister-no-tolerance-for-antiquity-smuggling-from-syria


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Much attention for a ‘skeleton mosaic’ find in Turkey:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-ancient-mosaic-featuring-skeleton-turkey.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/archaeologists-discover-ancient-mosaic-with-message-be-cheerful-enjoy-your-life-a6998346.html

http://www.dailysabah.com/nation/2016/04/22/2400-year-old-mosaic-found-in-southern-turkey-says-be-cheerful-enjoy-your-life

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/be-cheerful-live-your-life-ancient-mosaic-meme-found-in-turkeys-south.aspx?pageID=238&nid=98201&NewsCatID=375

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3553906/Ancient-mosaic-featuring-cheerful-skeleton-Turkey.html

Latest from the ongoing dig at Bath:

http://www.bathchronicle.co.uk/Roman-Baths-excavation-Archaeologists-seek/story-29136337-detail/story.html


Not sure if we’ve mentioned this Roman shipwreck in the Red Sea find:

http://www.arabnews.com/saudi-arabia/news/912136

Questioning how money is being spent at Pompeii:

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/apr/19/pompeii-restoration-is-the-best-they-can-do


I think we mentioned this research into who was making wine at Vagnari:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-roman-imperial-leaders-wine-empire.html

Remains of a Roman wall and finds from various periods from a site in
Bulgaria:

http://www.newhistorian.com/new-section-ancient-roman-wall-found-bulgaria/6342/


Feature on Varna:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/varna-bulgaria-gold-graves-social-hierarchy-prehistoric-archaelogy-smithsonian-journeys-travel-quarterly-180958733/?no-ist


The site of Serdica is open to the public:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2016/04/20/sofias-ancient-serdica-archaeological-complex-opens/

http://www.novinite.com/articles/174122/Sofia's+Restored+Ancient+Roman+Complex+to+be+Unveiled+on+Wednesday


Evidence that the Greeks were in Split long before Diocletian made the
place popular:

http://www.total-croatia-news.com/lifestyle/11470-new-archaeological-discovery-proves-greeks-were-in-split-long-before-diocletian


What AE Stallings is up to:

http://womensvoicesforchange.org/poetry-sunday-variations-on-an-old-standard-by-a-e-stallings.htm


What C.L. Max Nikias is up to:

http://www.latimes.com/local/education/la-me-nikias-class-20160419-story.html


Victor Nuovo’s latest look at Lucretius:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201604victory-nuovo-lucretius-dreaming-and-waking-doubt-and-certainty


More on what Emily Allen-Hornblower is up to:

http://www.dailytargum.com/article/2016/04/prisoners-study-classics-with-rutgers-professor


An unearthed, re-covered, then unearthed again bit of Hadrian’s wall is on display at Segedunum Roman fort:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-36120237

… along with things folks lost in the bath house:

http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/bathers-who-turned-out-losers-11224644


On wearing veils in the ancient Greek world:

http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/%CE%A0%CE%95%CE%A0%CE%9B%CE%9F%CE%9D-veil-symbol-west-east


On the origins of the Etruscans:

http://www.pri.org/stories/2016-04-15/where-did-etruscan-people-come-we-still-dont-know-linguistic-and-genetic-clues


In case you missed the lighting of the Olympic torch:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/79163625/olympics-torch-back-up-flame-for-rio-lit-in-ancient-greek-ceremony-at-olympia

http://www.cbc.ca/sports/olympics/summer/rio-olympics-flame-ceremony-rehearsal-1.3544487


… and the Hitler connection is brought up again:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/sport/other-sports/79069108/Nazi-dictator-Adolf-Hitlers-fingers-on-Olympic-torch-relay


Hype for the Eboracum Roman Festival:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14447202.Romans_gather_in_York_to_launch_big_new_festival/


Hype for a documentary about those Crossrail Skulls found a few years ago:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-3552433/The-Mystery-Crossrail-Skulls-TV-explores-human-remains-dug-London-building-work-new-train-line.html


More on that Roman villa find in Wiltshire:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/18/world/europe/under-english-garden-unparalleled-remains-of-roman-villa.html

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/man-accidentally-discovers-perfectly-preserved-roman-villa-in-his-backyard-a6987901.html

http://www.livescience.com/54466-ancient-roman-villa-unearthed-in-britain.html

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/massive-roman-villa-found-british-backyard-180958821/

http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/apr/17/amazing-find-roman-villa http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art552331-roman-villa-wiltshire-luke-irwin-rug
https://www.yahoo.com/news/extraordinary-ancient-roman-villa-unearthed-britain-140228878.html

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/14434111.Rug_designer_finds_Roman_villa_of__enormous_importance__underneath_Warminster_home/
http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/14434175.Roman_villa_found_as_home_owner_lays_electric_cables/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/41705

More on those Athenian burials possibly connected with Cylon:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/shackled-skeletons-unearthed-in-greece-could-be-remains-of-slaughtered-rebels-180958812/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3540584/Have-murdered-followers-Cylon-Skeletons-80-ancient-men-hands-bound-heads-belong-7th-Century-Greek-rebels.html


More on the Hannibal route thing:

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/04/18/on-the-trail-of-hannibal-barca

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A 5000 years bp burial from Prahova (Romania):

http://www.romania-insider.com/archaeologists-find-5000-year-old-tomb-in-romanias-prahova-county/169040/

http://www.antena3.ro/actualitate/trei-morminte-vechi-de-5000-de-ani-descoperite-in-prahova-352340.html


A Neolithic well from near Prague:

http://praguemonitor.com/2016/04/18/archaeologists-reveal-stone-age-well-near-prague


Suggestion that petroglyphs in Norway may have been practical rather than ‘artistic’:

http://sciencenordic.com/stone-age-artists-used-rock-art-billboard

Evidence for ‘high alpine dairying’ some 3000 years bp:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-high-alpine-dairying-begun-years.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/04/160421141507.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-04/p-had042216.php https://scienmag.com/high-alpine-dairying-may-have-begun-over-3000-years-ago/ http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2016/alpine-cheese-making-in-the-iron-age

They’re digging at Scotland’s oldest Pictish fort:

http://www.scotsman.com/heritage/people-places/dig-underway-at-dunnicaer-scotland-s-oldest-pictish-fort-1-4104970

Finds from various periods at a Magherafelt Bypass construction site:

http://www.midulstermail.co.uk/news/features/archaeology-dig-reveals-magherafelt-was-an-attractive-location-in-prehistoric-times-1-7339769


Finds from various periods at a dig in Irvine (Scotland):

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art551942-town-house-irvine-scotland-archaeology-rathmell


Fragments of an Anglo Saxon cross in a Louth rectory garden:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-36070551

Evidence of a 17th century Jewish ‘slum’ in Amsterdam:

http://www.jpost.com/Diaspora/17th-century-Jewish-slum-unearthed-in-Amsterdam-452161

http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/17th-century-jewish-slum-found-in-amsterdam/

http://www.mainejewish.org/jta/1180464

A 17th century dress (and other items) from a Dutch (?) shipwreck:

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/04/88823-2/ http://www.livescience.com/54511-royal-wardrobe-uncovered-in-shipwreck.html http://www.livescience.com/54512-photos-opulent-royal-booty-unearthed-from-a-17th-century-shipwreck.html

http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/fossils_ruins/archaeology/~3/cHqILbGbG4I/160418121155.htm

http://artdaily.com/news/86720/-Perfect--17th-century-dress-rescued-from-sea-on-view-at-the-Kaap-Skil-museum

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/21/400-year-old-dress-found-in-shipwreck-sheds-light-on-plot-to-pawn-crown-jewels
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/dutch-divers-discover-intact-silk-dress-forgotten-400-years-ago-on-the-bottom-of-the-ocean
http://www.sciencealert.com/this-royal-dress-is-one-of-the-most-significant-shipwreck-treasures-ever-found
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/dutch-divers-found-17th-century-dress-buried-under-the-sea-180958843/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3547510/Rags-bottom-North-Sea-belonged-member-Charles-s-household.html

Interesting study of the Great Orme copper mines (various periods):

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160420-the-ancient-copper-mines-dug-by-bronze-age-children


Studying a shaman costume from the Star Carr site:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2016/first-scientific-analysis-of-oldest-known-shamanic-costume-in-europe


I think we’ve mentioned this oldest Danish crucifix:

http://www.livescience.com/54485-oldest-danish-crucifix-found.html

Latest theory that Stonehenge was a ‘cemetery’:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3553530/Was-Stonehenge-CEMETERY-3-000-year-old-bones-suggest-site-used-cremating-burying-neolithic-dead.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3545796/The-Anglo-Saxon-cemetery-near-Stonehenge-Graves-reveal-curious-work-box-fertility-shells-site-used-5-000-years.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Cf: https://bonesdontlie.wordpress.com/2016/04/21/death-comes-to-stonehenge-the-burned-remains/


Feature on the St John’s Square site in Perth:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2016/brief-encounters-watching-medieval-archaeology-emerge-from-the-heart-of-perth


Arguing over relocating burials in Reykjavik:

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36110869

Hype for a dig at Furness Castle:

http://www.thewestmorlandgazette.co.uk/news/14446441.Team_aims_to_unearth_lost_secrets_at_Furness_castle/


… and one near King Alfred’s ‘last known resting place’:

http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/14436364.Archaeological_dig_at_site_of_King_Alfred_s_last_known_resting_place/


Suggestion the Vikings may have conquered more of England than previously thought:

https://theconversation.com/viking-invaders-struck-deep-into-the-west-of-england-and-may-have-stuck-around-57598


Gawthorpe Hall will soon reopen:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-36024128

More on high-tech approaches to studying the Battle of Culloden:

http://www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com/news/entertainment/new-hi-tech-survey-to-uncover-secrets-of-culloden-battle-1-4100207


More attention for that Bosnian sphere:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-archaeologist-bosnia-stone-sphere-massive.html

Review of Cesarani, *Disraeli*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/24/books/review/disraeli-the-novel-politician-by-david-cesarani.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks


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They’ve found some teeth in the Marquis of Haihun tomb:

http://europe.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2016-04/19/content_24667258.htm

I think we mentioned these 4500 years bp burials from Sichuan:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-04/17/c_135287267.htm

Searching for an Irish settlement in Australia:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2016/looking-for-an-irish-settlement-in-australia


Feature on Mongolian eagle hunters:

http://bust.com/feminism/16147-the-untold-history-of-the-eagle-huntress.html


Feature on William Kikuchi’s work:

http://thegardenisland.com/lifestyles/island_history/kauai-archaeologist-william-kenji-pila-kikuchi/article_04c2d0ec-7bdc-5875-b4d3-84b760619537.html


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Possible remains from deSoto’s cross in Arkansas:

http://www.texarkanagazette.com/news/arkansas/story/2016/apr/24/arkansas-wood-believed-be-spanish-explorers-cross/421708/

http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/story/0877612a394b422897196f8a35f12af0/AR--Spanish-Explorer-Arkansas
http://www.ccenterdispatch.com/news/state/article_d7d238fa-d17a-5d2b-ab4f-a08e633f2d29.html

Digging at Malcolm X’s childhood home has revealed a 1700s era settlement:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-malcolm-home-evidence-1700s-settlement.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/dig-at-malcolm-xs-boyhood-home-finds-suprising-artifacts--of-1700s-settlement/2016/04/21/3e1264da-0731-11e6-b283-e79d81c63c1b_story.html

http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/apr/20/dig-at-malcolm-x-home-turns-up-evidence-of-1700s-s/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3549081/Dig-Malcolm-X-home-turns-evidence-1700s-settlement.html

Looking for burials associated with Fort Larned:

http://navajotimes.com/wires-wp/index.php?id=1660713720&kid=mwYMIolVXgSWTcvb

http://www.hutchnews.com/news/local_state_news/archaeologists-search-for-location-of-fort-larned-graves/article_99b20204-acb9-5d42-bf01-a8e47133b6a7.html

http://cjonline.com/news/2016-04-19/archaeologists-search-location-fort-larned-graves-western-kansas
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/278df428b1c54c4696291b62bdc0cdb8/KS--Fort-Larned-Archaeological-Exploration

Finds from various periods from the Troup Factory site (GA):

http://lagrangenews.com/news/11296/archaeologists-unearth-troups-history http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/scientists-search-for-signs-of-georgia-s-earliest-settlers/article_15cb2dde-a816-5706-a511-2bb26902a349.html

http://www.ccenterdispatch.com/news/state/article_f73cad41-120d-57c0-a99c-1442ad569a54.html


On three possible new Viking sites in Canada:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/vikings-uncovered-3-possible-sites-found-in-canada/

http://www.livescience.com/54439-three-possible-viking-outposts-discovered.html

Pondering why the Dorset people made so many tiny polar bears:

http://ottawacitizen.com/news/local-news/ottawa-researcher-probes-tiny-polar-bear-mystery


… possibly related:

http://community.bowdoin.edu/news/2016/04/bowdoin-archaeologist-headed-to-greenland-to-investigate-ancient-arctic-mystery/


Feature on Napi figures:

http://billingsgazette.com/lifestyles/recreation/prehistoric-montana-stone-figures-related-to-others-blackfoot-legend/article_9edd0458-55d3-5448-a16d-b9b0c06e1ceb.html

http://elkodaily.com/lifestyles/prehistoric-stone-figures-related-to-blackfoot-legend/article_a43f259a-93bf-5444-8f2e-7a0e01a0a59d.html


Studying an ‘Eastern War Bonnet’:

http://www.penn.museum/blog/museum/eastern-turkey-feather-headdress/

… similar:

http://www.penn.museum/blog/museum/considering-the-feather-headdress/

Followup to that Oak Hill Plantation dig/treasure hunt:

http://www.martinsvillebulletin.com/news/lynchburg-firm-conducts-archaeological-work-on-plantation-deemed-a-threatened/article_38cc316c-7994-5eb1-9fff-ad76d6a08829.html


Plans to remove that corduroy road found in Waterloo:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/corduroy-road-found-under-king-street-in-waterloo-to-be-removed-1.3545309


Feature on someone’s arrowhead finds/collection:

http://www.pennlive.com/perry-county-times/index.ssf/2016/04/arrowhead_finds_set_hunters_a-.html


Finds from various periods found during a pre-construction dig in Tucson:

http://www.tucsonnewsnow.com/story/31800327/new-pacc-shelter-site-on-archaeological-land-archaeologists-already-finding-multiple-artifacts


Hype for potential finds at a Carolina Beach (NC) Park:

http://www.wect.com/story/31794735/park-coming-to-carolina-beach-holds-history


Construction at the University of Utah turned up some bones:

http://www.ksl.com/?sid=39437216&nid=148

What Bob Mierendorf is up to:

http://skyvalleychronicle.com/BREAKING-NEWS/THE-MAN-WHO-FOUND-THAT-PREHISTORIC-PEOPLE-WERE-HIKING-CASCADE-MOUNTAIN-PASSES-IN-WASH-STATE-10-000-YEARS-AGO-2472003


On Harriet Tubman:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/five-myths-about-harriet-tubman/2016/04/22/b9f3a270-07f0-11e6-b283-e79d81c63c1b_story.html


In case you were wondering why I was questioning use of the word ‘eskimo’
last week:

http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/04/24/475129558/why-you-probably-shouldnt-say-eskimo


Feature on James Garfield:

http://www.christianitytoday.com/local-church/2016/april/singular-humility-of-americas-only-ordained-president.html


… and Alexander Hamilton:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/22/opinion/in-hamiltons-debt.html

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A 4500 years bp female mummy find from Peru:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/23/peru-mummy-woman-ancient-civilization

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-peru-discovery-mummy-idUSKCN0XI2TZ?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt

http://www.reuters.com/video/2016/04/21/ancient-mummy-unearthed-in-peru?videoId=368220036&feedType=VideoRSS&feedName=LatestVideosUS&videoChannel=4

http://www.andina.com.pe/Ingles/noticia-high-status-female-found-buried-at-aspero-archaeological-site-in-peru-609012.aspx
http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/21/ciencia/1461254686_354398.html

Some 15th century burials may be the last remains of pre-Incan Chimu
people:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3554027/Are-survivors-pre-Incan-Chimu-culture-500-year-old-skeletons-unearthed-15-tombs-near-coast-Peru.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490


A pre-Hispanic cemetery in Trujillo:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-prehispanic-cemetery-excavated-in-trujillo-109367


Evidence of large-scale Maya child sacrifice from Belize:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/belize-cave-was-maya-child-sacrifice-site?tgt=nr


An Inca wall was destroyed in Cusco:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-cusco-sacsayhuaman-109354

Pondering puquios in Peru:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-uncovered-purpose-puquios-nasca.html http://www.space.com/32604-ancient-peruvian-mystery-solved-from-space.html http://www.thedailystar.net/science/space-science/the-ancient-peruvian-mystery-solved-space-1211098
http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/04/19/ciencia/1461050591_166201.html

Suggestion that an eruption of the El Chichon volcano in the 6th century
may have had some impact on the Maya:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36086096

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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/ ================================================================
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Feature on the ancient artifact market:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/business/the-dubious-market-for-ancient-artifacts-a-1086597.html


Pondering Cervantes’ capture by pirates (coverage of his 400th is clearly overshadowed by Shakespeare’s … see below):

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160421-when-cervantes-was-captured-by-pirates

http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/04/13/babelia/1460547672_146769.html

… and tweeting Don Quixote:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-spanish-classic-don-quixote-published.html

Charlotte Bronte gets a bit of attention on her 200th:

https://theconversation.com/why-charlotte-bronte-still-speaks-to-us-200-years-after-her-birth-57802


Audubon made up some stuff:

http://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/audubon-made-up-at-least-28-fake-species-to-prank-a-rival


On ballooning in Victorian times:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160419-the-victorians-who-flew-as-high-as-jets


A head of hair found in a coffin in Romsey Abbey has some folks scratching their heads:

http://www.bbc.com/news/magazine-36094897

… as has a mummified lung, the mystery of which has apparently been
solved:

http://www.livescience.com/54459-mystery-of-mummified-lung-solved.html http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/mystery-of-mummified-lung-solved.htm

Oldest message in a bottle ever found:

http://www.livescience.com/54503-oldest-message-in-a-bottle-found.html http://news.discovery.com/history/oldest-message-in-a-bottle-discovered-160420.htm#mkcpgn=rssnws1

http://www.dw.com/en/century-old-message-in-a-bottle-makes-guiness-world-records/a-19203189

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0420/108-year-old-message-in-a-bottle-oldest-ever-found


Interesting colour photos of pre-Revolution Russia:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/in-sight/wp/2016/04/19/what-russia-looked-like-before-1914-in-color/


Another one on why men grow beards:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160418-the-real-reason-men-grow-beards

The Palmyra Arch is recreated in London:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-syria-palmyra-arch-recreated-london.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/04/20/arts/international/replica-of-palmyra-arch-is-unveiled-in-trafalgar-square.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36070721 http://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/apr/19/palmyras-triumphal-arch-recreated-in-trafalgar-square

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/palmyra-arch-destroyed-isis-rises-again-central-london-180958848/


Interesting WWI graffiti in tunnels near the Somme:

http://www.riverinaleader.com.au/story/3867026/graffiti-in-test-of-time/

We’ve mentioned the 500th anniversary of the German beer purity law:

http://www.dw.com/en/a-hoppy-anniversary-for-the-reinheitsgebot/a-19202011 http://www.dw.com/en/merkel-toasts-500-years-of-beer-purity-law/a-19209236 http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/celebrating-500-years-germans-beer-purity-law-180958878/
http://www.spiegel.de/international/germany/german-reinheitsgebot-beer-purity-law-turns-500-a-1086681.html

… and on Germany as the ‘source’ for many drugs:

http://www.dw.com/en/germany-the-original-drug-lab/g-19183507

On the evolution of human speech:

http://www.wired.co.uk/magazine/archive/2016/05/rd/human-speech-evolved-walking-on-two-feet

http://www.npr.org/2016/04/18/474725527/ethiopian-monkey-study-offers-clues-into-how-human-speech-evolved?sc=17&f=1007


On the origin of Yiddish:

http://phys.org/news/2016-04-dna-sat-nav-uncovers-ancient.html

In Our Time on the eruption of Mount Tambora and its effects:

http://open.live.bbc.co.uk/mediaselector/5/redir/version/2.0/mediaset/audio-nondrm-download/proto/http/vpid/p03rq5bl.mp3


On the antiquity of some fairy tales:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/04/some-fairy-tales-may-be-6000-years-old


The anniversary of Shakespeare’s death spawned a pile of coverage,
including a feature on the first folio:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/literary-history/art552638-death-william-shakespeare-weston-library-oxford


… things you need to know about Shakespeare:

http://www.tri-cityherald.com/entertainment/celebrities/article73509567.html

http://www.sfgate.com/entertainment/article/Things-to-know-about-Shakespeare-400-years-after-7305239.php


… and his characters:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/robert-david-jaffee/shakespeares-heroes--hero_b_9743824.html


… and his influences:

http://theconversation.com/marx-freud-hitler-mandela-greer-shakespeare-influenced-them-all-57872


… an imagined obituary:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/04/23/arts/shakespeare-obituary.html


… on use of poison in his plays:

http://www.livescience.com/54520-shakespeare-poison-pen.html

… and hunger in Shakespeare’s day:


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