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John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo,
Bob Heuman, Frank MacKay, Kris Curry, David Critchley,
Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Warrior Chef, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Ring structures possibly created by Neanderthals in Bruniquel Cave
(France)
are causing much excitement:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-scientists-underground-stone-neanderthals.html http://www.livescience.com/54906-neanderthals-built-bizarre-underground-ring-structures.html

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-neanderthals-cave-structures-20160525-snap-story.html
http://www.nature.com/news/neanderthals-built-cave-structures-and-no-one-knows-why-1.19975
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36381786 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/neanderthals-built-mysterious-structures-that-could-completely-change-understanding-of-humanity-s-a7050736.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/26/neanderthals-built-strange-round-enclosures-deep-in-caves-archae/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/26/170000-years-before-stonehenge-neanderthals-built-their-own-incredible-structure/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/26/479505786/mysterious-cave-rings-show-neanderthals-liked-to-build
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/25/neanderthals-built-mysterious-cave-structures-175000-years-ago
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/05/the-astonishing-age-of-a-neanderthal-cave-construction-site/484070/
http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/stalagmite-rings-made-neanderthals-study-finds-n580446
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/05/25/neanderthals-built-mysterious-rings/84911136/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/inventive-neanderthals-may-first-cave-dwellers-study-171435695.html
http://www.dw.com/en/stone-rings-found-in-french-cave-could-change-view-of-neanderthals/a-19283258
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neanderthals-built-cave-structures-and-no-one-knows-why/
http://m.france24.com/en/20160525-france-neanderthals-believed-have-built-stone-rings-cave
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/neanderthals-caves-rings-building-france-archaeology/

Suggestion that Neanderthals were stocky from birth:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-neanderthals-stocky-birth.html

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AFRICA
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The ‘lost city’ of Rhapta may have been found:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2016-05-26/the-lost-city-of-rhapta-may-have-been-discovered-near-thanda-island


More on the ‘back migration’ into Africa:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-migration-africa-palaeolithic.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/uotb-mbt052616.php https://www.sciencenews.org/blog/science-ticker/some-stone-age-humans-returned-africa

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2016/back-migration-to-africa-from-eurasia-at-start-of-upper-palaeolithic

More on the find of the Bom Jesus off Namibia:

http://www.wtsp.com/news/ancient-ship-found-in-desert-with-gold-aboard/213624502

http://blog.gainesvillecoins.com/2016/05/22/treasure-shipwreck-found-off-namibia/


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A 3800 years bp mummy of a ‘powerful woman’ from southeastern Egypt:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/mummy-of-egyptian-noblewoman-found-160524.htm

http://egyptianstreets.com/2016/05/25/3800-year-old-remains-of-noblewoman-unearthed-by-spanish-archaeologists-in-aswan/

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/spanish-mission-discovers-mummy-aswan-s-tombs-nobles

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3608648/3-800-year-old-mummy-Lady-Sattjeni-discovered-Egypt.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

https://news.artnet.com/art-world/3800-year-old-mummy-unearthed-necropolis-southeastern-egypt-505298


The pyramid of Unas has reopened to the public:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/217699/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/One-of-Egypts-oldest-pyramids-King-Unas-reopens-af.aspx


More on tattoos found on a 3000 year bp Egyptian mummy:

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/researchers-find-intricate-tattoos-3000-year-egyptian-woman/story?id=39396562

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/26/researchers-find-unprecedented-cow-tattoos-on-3000-year-old-remains-of-egyptian-woman/

Feature on Catal Huyuk:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/catalhoyuk-drawing-worlds-attention-to-anatolia.aspx?PageID=238&NID=99742&NewsCatID=375


Searching for more DSS in the Cave of the Skulls:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.721838

Related to the above is a renewed effort to save remaining scrolls from
the
Judean desert from looters:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4200

http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/National-plan-to-excavate-Judean-Desert-caves-25-May-2016.aspx

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4807846,00.html http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=33893 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/iaa-plans-to-excavate-judean-desert-caves-save-scrolls-from-robbers/2016/05/25/

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/212763 http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/05/25/israel-digs-against-clock-to-save-judean-desert-scrolls-from-looters/
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/68422/iaa-plans-to-excavate-judean-desert-caves-save-scrolls-from-robbers-05-16/


Restoration work on the Church of the Nativity revealed a nice mosaic:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/Greeks-Geographic-exhibit-ancient-treasure-Agamemnon-Alexander-archaeology-museum/church-of-nativity-bethlehem-restoration-mosaics-angel/


Feature/tour of assorted sites in Jerusalem:

http://www.haaretz.com/st/c/prod/eng/2016/05/jeruz/01/

Still arguing over the origins of Yiddish:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/why-scientists-are-fighting-about-the-origins-of-yiddish-and-the-jews


Feature on the Aleppo Codex:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.716368

The latest twist in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/israel-sues-waqf-over-restroom-built-at-archaeological-site/


A medieval hermitage in Egypt:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,409794,polish-archaeologists-discover-a-medieval-hermitage-in-egypt.html


Pondering Sultan Mehmet II:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/05/28/in-1453-this-ottoman-sultan-ended-christian-rule-in-constantinople-but-was-he-a-good-muslim/


… marking the conquest of Constantinople (and pressuring to turn Hagia
Sophia back into a mosque):

http://www.yenisafak.com/en/news/thousands-perform-conquest-prayer-in-front-of-hagia-sophia-2472687

http://www.straitstimes.com/world/middle-east/muslims-in-turkey-demand-right-to-pray-at-hagia-sophia


More on claims about World War Zero:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2087924-world-war-zero-brought-down-mystery-civilisation-of-sea-people/


More on that Natufian tortoise burial thing from a few weeks back:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160520-secrets-of-the-worlds-oldest-funeral-feast


France is helping Syrian archaeologists:

http://www.thestar.com.my/news/world/2016/05/26/france-helps-syrian-archaeologists-fill-in-the-cracks/


UNESCO keeps saying stuff:

http://www.newsweek.com/targeting-cultural-antiquities-destroys-heritage-464604


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
The press was all over claims suggesting the tomb of Aristotle had been
found:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/27/world/europe/greece-aristotle-tomb.html http://www.dw.com/en/archaeologist-claims-discovery-of-aristotles-tomb/a-19285326

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-greek-archaeologist-tomb-aristotle.html http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/greek-archaeologist-believes-he-unearthed-aristotles-ancient-tomb-as-certain-as-one-can-be

http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/27/europe/greece-aristotle-tomb/index.html http://www.dw.com/en/archaeologist-claims-discovery-of-aristotles-tomb/a-19285326

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/aristotles-tomb-discovered-by-archaeologist-a7051416.html
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/26/aristotle-burial-place-stagira-macedonia-greece
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/26/has-this-greek-archaeologist-found-the-tomb-of-aristotle/
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/05/26/how-archaeologists-found-the-tomb-of-greek-philosopher-aristotle-video/
http://www.newser.com/story/225727/aristotles-tomb-may-have-finally-been-discovered.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/greek-archaeologist-claims-hes-found-the-tomb-of-aristotle/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3610960/Have-archaeologists-discovered-tomb-Aristotle-2-400-year-old-tomb-ancient-Greek-philosopher-uncovered-Stagira.html

… but there was some skepticism:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/05/28/aristotle-s-tomb-or-just-a-tourist-site.html


A first century Roman necropolis from Croatia:

http://www.total-croatia-news.com/item/12037-private-construction-works-uncover-a-1st-century-roman-necropolis-in-trogir


Recent Roman finds from Derby:

http://www.derbytelegraph.co.uk/11-amazing-Roman-finds-Derby-month/story-29331705-detail/story.html


A very interesting Roman lead pig find from Somerset:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-36388781 http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/Plymouth-detectorist-causes-frenzy-rare-Roman/story-29319393-detail/story.html

A wing from a bronze Roman eagle in Gloucester:

http://www.gloucestercitizen.co.uk/Extremely-rare-wing-Roman-bronze-eagle-Gloucester/story-29324504-detail/story.html


Questionable claims about a ‘Hellenistic’ crown from beneath a pensioner’s
bed:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3610916/Incredibly-rare-2-300-year-old-Ancient-Greek-gold-crown-worth-100-000-kept-decades-tatty-box-old-newspapers-bed-owner-no-idea-was.html

http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/14522739.Found_in_a_tatty_box_under_a_bed_____the_Greek_crown_worth___100k/?commentSort=score

http://www.torontosun.com/2016/05/26/ancient-greek-gold-crown-found-in-ratty-box-at-english-cottage

Study of the lifespan and ailments of the ‘average Roman worker’:

http://www.thelocal.it/20160527/groundbreaking-study-reveals-brutal-realities-of-life-in-ancient-rome

http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2016/05/26/arthrosis-brought-romans-to-their-knees_0f0a7f72-692f-4344-8d5c-f868935d683c.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3613830/Grim-reality-life-ancient-Rome-revealed-Average-worker-DEAD-30-having-riddled-arthritis-crippled-broken-bones.html

Feature on Homer’s poetic legacy:

http://www.historyextra.com/article/culture/%E2%80%9Cwe-are-all-trojans%E2%80%A6%E2%80%9D-homer%E2%80%99s-poetic-legacy


Latin is alive and well in Loudoun schools:

http://loudounnow.com/2016/05/26/the-undead-language-latin-is-hot-in-loudoun-schools/


What Elizabeth Fisher is up to:

http://www.herald-progress.com/randolph-macon-professor-imparts-knowledge-from-ashland-to-aksum/


You can digitally explore the Pergamon Altar:

http://www.dw.com/en/pergamon-altar-makes-digital-debut/a-19281931

… or stay in a Trojan Horse Hotel:

http://www.dw.com/en/europes-quirkiest-hotels-staying-inside-a-trojan-horse/a-19281783


Interesting hype for York’s Roman Festival:

http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/14522080.This_is_what_happens_when_Egyptian_gods_meet_Roman_York___/


I think we’ve mentioned Italy’s campaign to get sponsors for its many monuments:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-friends-romans-rome-monuments.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/may/25/rome-calls-on-companies-and-the-rich-to-adopt-crumbling-ancient-sites

http://www.newsday.com/news/world/friends-romans-help-restore-rome-s-ruins-monuments-1.11834157
http://www.newsweek.com/rome-asks-money-restore-ancient-heritage-sites-463502 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3606805/Friends-Romans-help-restore-Romes-ruins-monuments.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Victor Nuovo’s latest Lucretius columns:

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201605nuovo-lucretius-and-epicurean-virtue

http://www.addisonindependent.com/201605nuovo-lucretius-plague-heart

A guide of sorts to Herodotus:

http://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-the-histories-by-herodotus-53748


On ‘anti trade nativism’ and the downfall of ‘the Greeks’:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/how-anti-trade-nativism-wrecked-the-ancient-greeks-1463950445


On Boudicca and Brexit:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/opinion/sunday/when-the-barbarous-brits-first-quit-europe.html


Another review of Heaney’s Aeneid VI:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/review/seamus-heaneys-virgil-aeneid-book-vi-brings-a-classic-to-life/news-story/27b1ac3e3a5674f452b0b4933d4f35cf


More on that shipwreck full of bronzes off Caesarea:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/may/17/roman-treasures-discovered-caesarea-israel-video


More on those finds at the Metro C station site in Rome:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/20/next-stop-on-romes-new-underground-hadrians-barracks


More criticism of the Sappho dating thing:

http://dhayton.haverford.edu/blog/2016/05/20/astronomers-do-not-date-sapphos-midnight-poem/#fn:26775



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Nice paleolithic cave art from Axturra Cave in Spain:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-spain-cave-art-trove-feet.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/27/spanish-archaeologists-discover-cave-art-axturra-paleolithic

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/27/spanish-archaeologists-discover-cave-art-axturra-paleolithic

http://www.thelocal.es/20160526/ancient-art-gallery-discovered-in-basque-country-atxurra-cave-paintings

… and high altitude cave art (and other finds from various periods) from
the Abri Faravel site in France:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-high-altitude-archaeology-prehistoric-revealed.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160525220033.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/uoy-haa052516.php http://www.livescience.com/54889-highest-altitude-prehistoric-rock-art-revealed.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3609202/Is-prehistoric-graffiti-art-Laser-scans-shed-new-light-5-000-year-old-cave-paintings-hidden-high-French-Alps.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2016/studying-abri-faravel-rock-shelter-paintings-in-the-southern-french-alps

On the mobility of German Corded Ware women (I think we first heard of
this
a few months back):

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-women-southern-germany-corded-ware.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-05/p-wis051916.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2016/study-indicates-corded-ware-culture-women-married-outside-social-group
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3609736/When-women-abandon-friends-travel-hundreds-miles-marry-Graves-reveal-early-German-culture.html

Latest finds from the Pontrefact Castle dig:

http://www.hemsworthandsouthelmsallexpress.co.uk/news/local-news/350-year-old-relics-unearthed-in-castle-dig-1-7933004


They’re digging at the Arthur-associated Beckery Chapel:

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/excavations-of-medieval-chapel-at-site-linked-to-king-arthur-a7042811.html

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-36344363

Mapping the impact of the Black Death on England:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160523131941.htm https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/23/eye-watering-scale-of-black-deaths-impact-on-england-revealed

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2016/14th-century-black-death-population-decline-revealed-through-test-pitting-project

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3608462/Pottery-used-estimate-Black-Death-effect-rural-populations-East-England.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/24/broken-pottery-reveals-the-sheer-devastation-caused-by-the-black-death/


… and the history of the British Isles in maps:

https://www.llgc.org.uk/blog/?p=11447
… and a map of sites in London:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2089210-explore-a-map-of-londons-extraordinary-archaeological-finds/


Damage to a statue of Merlin at Tintagel:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cornwall-36395640

Martha Brown’s remains have been saved from development threats:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3612610/Remains-hanged-woman-inspired-Thomas-Hardy-write-Tess-D-Urbervilles-saved-property-developer-s-diggers.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490


Plans to exhume human remains at Dorchester Prison:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-36377236

Moles are the latest threat to Stonehenge:

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/14520684.More_moles_threaten_Stonehenge__say_climate_change_experts/


… and Stonehenge apparently wasn’t so difficult to build after all:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/05/23/stonehenge-wasnt-so-hard-to-build-after-all-archaeologists-disco/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3605225/How-people-did-build-Stonehenge-Volunteers-drag-ONE-TONNE-concrete-slab-recreate-stone-age-effort.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Efforts being made to save the Armada Portrait of Elizabeth I:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/24/arts/design/campaign-underway-to-save-a-queen-elizabeth-portrait.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/23/britain-has-two-months-to-raise-10m-to-save-most-famous-armada-p/

They’re digging at Lancaster Castle Hill:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-36360176

In case you’re in the market for a Tudor Manor house:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/23/tudor-manor-house-once-home-to-man-who-helped-henry-viii-become/


Latest suggestion/effort to ‘save Venice’:

http://www.dw.com/en/saving-venice/av-19277948

Interesting feature on London’s ‘urban archaeology warehouse’:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2088968-behind-the-scenes-at-londons-urban-archaeology-warehouse/


The Bristol Old Vic is celebrating 250 years:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36401571

Marking the centennial of Verdun:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36407564

More on the excavation of the Curtain Theatre:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/may/17/curtain-excavation-early-shakespeare-theatre-rectangular-shoreditch


More on remains of prisoners from the Battle of Dunbar:

http://www.livescience.com/54828-mass-graves-battle-of-dunbar-prisoners.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/mysterious-mass-graves-hold-prisoners-of-17th-century-battle/



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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Plenty of attention for a 5000 years bp beer recipe/kit from China:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-ancient-chinese-pottery-reveals-yr-old.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/26/world/asia/china-beer-history.html http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-05/24/c_135382454.htm http://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/food-drink/article/1952450/ancient-chinese-pottery-shows-5000-year-old-beer-brew

http://www.livescience.com/54834-ancient-chinese-beer-recipe-reconstructed.html

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/23/cask-from-the-past-archaeologists-discover-5000-year-old-beer-recipe

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/05/23/479186257/5-000-year-old-chinese-beer-recipe-revealed?sc=17&f=1007

http://blogs.wsj.com/chinarealtime/2016/05/26/chinas-5000-year-old-beer-recipe-qa-with-archaeologist-jiajing-wang/
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-beer-ancient-china-20160525-snap-story.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/gan-bei-chinese-brewed-beer-5000-years-ago-180959218/
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/5000-year-old-chinese-beer-recipe-had-secret-ingredient
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2089633-5000-year-old-beer-brewing-kit-found-in-china/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3605153/You-ll-barley-believe-5-000-year-old-Chinese-funnels-pots-stoves-reveal-clues-world-s-oldest-BEER-recipe-flavoured-lilies-yam.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/05/23/one-of-the-worlds-oldest-beer-recipes-unearthed-in-china/

Drought has revealed an Angkorian Temple site:

http://www.phnompenhpost.com/national/drought-exposes-angkorian-temple-site

A 1500 years bp burial from Khon Kaen:

http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/general/984981/ancient-skeleton-found-in-khon-kaen


Evidence that the Indus Civilization might be 8000 years bp at least:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/Indus-era-8000-years-old-not-5500-ended-because-of-weaker-monsoon/articleshow/52485332.cms


Feature on using predictive modelling to locate likely Buddhist sites:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-archaeologists-geographers-team-ancient-buddhist.html


Feature on the Sungai Batu complex:

http://www.bernama.com/bernama/v8/newsindex.php?id=1248542

Insect poop is the latest threat to the Taj Mahal apparently:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-insects-pose-threat-india-taj.html http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36366733

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
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The latest from the Topper site is suggesting it’s really old:

http://www.postandcourier.com/20160521/160529887/topper-site-find-reveals-people-were-here-long-before-previously-thought


Plenty of excitement about a 19th century shipwreck find during
construction in Boston:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-shipwreck-1800s-uncovered-boston-seaport.html http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/26/century-shipwreck-discovered-seaport-construction-site/RZY8yTSyUWMIJIShqnpY0L/story.html?p1=BGMenu_Article

http://www.wsj.com/video/19th-century-shipwreck-found-at-boston-work-site/7E8AE6A1-CAA1-4A91-85EE-F45BC09FA898.html

http://abcnews.go.com/US/construction-workers-stumble-incredibly-rare-19th-century-shipwreck/story?id=39395385

http://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/may/26/boston-19th-century-ship-found-archaeologists

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/shipwreck-from-1800s-found-buried-in-boston/ http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/25/us/shipwreck-found-boston-irpt/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3610404/Construction-delayed-Boston-office-block-shipwreck-1800s-foundations.html

Plenty of finds from the Museum of the American Revolution construction
site:

http://philly.curbed.com/2016/5/24/11759822/museum-of-american-revolution-archeology-dig

http://philadelphia.cbslocal.com/2016/05/24/american-revolution-museum-construction-unearths-artifacts/

http://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/local/American-Revolution-Old-City-Archaeologist-380528721.html

I think we mentioned the find of the site of the Bear River Massacre:

http://www.charlotteobserver.com/news/science-technology/article79284517.html

http://www.idahostatesman.com/news/state/idaho/article79284517.html

Latest from the dig at Malcolm X’s childhood home:

http://www.livescience.com/54863-malcolm-x-home-archaeological-dig.html

A survey reveals some more sites in the Florida Keys:

http://keysnews.com/node/75192

Looting at Petersburg National Battlefield:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/28/an-affront-to-the-memory-of-people-who-fought-looters-dig-up-a-civil-war-battlefield/
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/05/27/park-service-probes-looting-civil-war-battlefield/85064658/


On the role of fire in the peopling of the Americas:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160523084058.htm

Feature on Yellowstone Park:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36362634

On the history of Memorial Day:

http://www.syracuse.com/vintage/2016/05/waterloo_celebrates_its_150th.html http://www.livescience.com/54919-true-story-behind-first-memorial-day.html

Alexander Hamilton warns today’s voters:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2016/05/22/the-modern-populist-mutiny/


More on earlier incarnations of the Alamo:

http://tpr.org/post/archaeologists-may-have-found-first-location-alamo

More on sites in Iowa delaying pipeline construction:

http://www.mercurynews.com/ci_29920269/possible-burial-site-delays-dig?source=rss

https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/energy-environment/iowa-indian-burial-site-claim-prompts-oil-pipeline-halt/2016/05/27/e7f129fe-244c-11e6-b944-52f7b1793dae_story.html

More on the Florida Page-Ladson site:

http://www.livescience.com/54735-mastodon-remains-in-underwater-site.html http://www.livescience.com/54737-mastodon-tusk-photos.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0513/Underwater-archeological-site-recasts-peopling-of-the-Americas-narrative

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/160513-first-americans-clovis-mastodon-florida-page-ladson/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3589074/Did-humans-conquer-America-1-500-YEARS-earlier-thought-Stone-tools-Florida-sinkhole-suggest-continent-s-settlers-arrived-12-500BC.html


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Pondering masked skulls from the Templo Mayor:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/05/26/mystery-of-morbid-aztec-skull-masks-solved-by-archaeologists/#61e203a50f1c

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3611545/Mystery-gruesome-Aztec-skull-masks-solved-Decorated-remains-outside-Mexican-temple-belong-slain-warriors.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490


Plans to study Senora de Cao:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-senora-cao-to-be-investigated-by-harvard-experts-109589


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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 ================================================================
Pondering the Anthropocene:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2016/05/22/01-is-it-time-for-human-era-to-be-named-maybe.html


On Shakespeare and Germaine Greer:

http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-how-shakespeare-helped-shape-germaine-greers-feminist-masterpiece-59880


On the history of walls:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/upshot/what-history-teaches-us-about-walls.html

On Lascaux and the origins of writing:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/cave-art-ice-age-paleolithic-writing-first-signs/


On humans and fire:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-crucial-interaction-mankind-explored.html

On the evolution of the ‘Victorian pastime’ of running:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/05/27/how-running-went-from-victorian-pastime-to-the-most-popular-activity-on-earth/


A ‘previously unrecorded’ Shakespeare First Folio fetches a good price:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=87555 http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/may/25/shakespeare-first-folio-fetches-275-million-at-auc/


Native Americans are protesting an auction in France:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/05/25/479455188/native-americans-protest-planned-auction-of-sacred-objects-in-france


A call for more diversity in archaeology:

https://www.theguardian.com/culture-professionals-network/2016/may/23/archaeology-must-open-up-become-more-diverse


Feature on assorted ‘cultural protection’ heroes:

http://www.neatorama.com/2016/05/24/Heroes-Who-Died-Protecting-Precious-Knowledge/


Training refugees to preserve antiquities:

http://www.worldcrunch.com/migrant-lives/in-italy-training-war-refugees-to-preserve-antiquities/c17s21146/


A bunch of looted WWII art has turned up in a Moscow Museum:

http://news.nationalpost.com/arts/antiquities-looted-during-world-war-ii-have-been-mysteriously-discovered-in-moscow


Trying to revive Irish storytelling:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160502-how-the-irish-lost-their-words

Toilet history:

http://www.nature.com/news/the-secret-history-of-ancient-toilets-1.19960

Interesting 200 year old anatomical models:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160526-why-these-anatomical-models-are-not-disgusting


Latest 19th century beer recreation:

http://www.livescience.com/54916-carlsberg-recreates-historic-beer.html http://www.livescience.com/54914-carlsberg-recreates-old-beer-recipe-photos.html


Pondering medieval murderous rabbits in manuscripts:

http://boingboing.net/2016/05/25/why-medieval-monks-filled-manu.html

Pondering the ban of women from Mount Athos:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-36378690

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
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HMS Namur:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/25/remains-of-legendary-18th-century-warship-hms-namur-revealed-to/


Sunken Cities:

http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v533/n7604/full/533466a.html https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/15/drowned-worlds-egypts-sunken-cities
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/17/british-museum-sunken-cities-review-archaeology-indiana-jones-hyperbole

Gertrude Bell:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/14516237.Life_and_times_of_Gertrude_Bell_brought_to_life_in_new_exhibition/


Greeks ~ Agamemnon to Alexander:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/Greeks-Geographic-exhibit-ancient-treasure-Agamemnon-Alexander-archaeology-museum/


Lives Bound Together:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2016/may/17/british-museum-sunken-cities-review-archaeology-indiana-jones-hyperbole


Nile in Pompeii:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2016/05/24/shows-1000-visitors-a-day-for-nile-in-pompeii_1de4f106-c5e7-4aec-9109-48f77446305a.html


More on the (empty) Palestinian Museum:

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/culture/.premium-1.721510

A cooperation deal between the Louvre and the Cairo Museums:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/louvre-and-cairo-museum-strike-antiquities-co-operation-deal/



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THE TECHY SIDE
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A pair of underwater shipwreck sites off Sutherland are being recreated
using 3d technology:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-36357542 https://3dprint.com/135652/wessex-archaeology-shipwreck/

Project to digitize Uffizi sculptures:


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