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Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, Bob Heuman, Jan Bailey, Bruce Longnecker, Trevor Watkins, 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).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Evidence of fire making in Europe some 800 000 years bp:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/earliest-evidence-fire-making-europe-found http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/a-spanish-cave-guards-the-e
arliest-fire-of-stone-age-europe

I think we mentioned the mapping of naledi’s cave chamber:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-high-tech-3d-homo-naledi-dinaledi.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160531104221.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/space-age-exploration-for-pr
e-historic-bones

Linking the paleo diet to the demise of the Neanderthals:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/did-neanderthals-die-out-because-paleo-
diet-180959066/

More on those Neanderthal ring structures in a French cave:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160601083926.htm http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/31/science/neanderthals-cave-rings-france.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/neanderthals-built-cave-structures-and-no-one-
knows-why/ http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-neanderthals-cave-structures-2016
0525-snap-story.html http://blog.23andme.com/ancestry/neanderthals-were-more-advanced-than-once-believed
/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/neanderthals-built-mysterious-stalagmite-s
emicircles-180959257/ http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/a-cave-in-france-changes-what-we-thought-we-knew-abo
ut-neanderthals http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0525/Mysterious-cave-edifice-suggests-Neander
thals-were-complex-cavemen

More on Neanderthals being stocky from birth:

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


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AFRICA
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Quite a bit of attention for a piece on the peopling of Madagascar:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-ancient-crops-clue-madagascar.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/05/160530153254.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uob-arm060116.php https://www.uq.edu.au/news/article/2016/05/ancient-crops-provide-clue-madagascar%E2
%80%99s-past https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/01/signs-of-mad
agascars-first-settlers-discovered-and-they-came-from-3000-miles-away/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3616671/Did-humans-sail-3-700-miles-Asi
a-Madagascar-1-000-years-ago-Island-colonised-Austronesians.html http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/06/02/ciencia/1464861973_807993.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Major press attention for the suggestion that Tut’s dagger appears to be made of
meteoric iron:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-geochemical-analysis-reveals-meteoritic-tutankhamun.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36432635 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/tutankhuman-king-tut-dagger-meteor-space-ir
on-metal-earth-egypt-a7061751.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/01/dagger-king-tut-tomb-iron-meteorite-egypt-
mummy http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/01/tutankhamuns-blade-made-from-meteorite-st
udy-reveals/ http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/world/middleeast/king-tuts-dagger-made-of-iron-from-
the-sky-researchers-say.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/06/01/king-tut-dagger-space-meteor/
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/69082/scientists-look-heavens-solve-mystery-king-tu
ts-golden-dagger/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/extraterrestrial-dagger-found-in-king-tuts-tomb/ http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0601/King-Tut-s-dagger-may-have-come-from-oute
r-space-say-scientists http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0601/King-Tut-a-ruler-swathed-in-mystery-also-w
ielded-a-cosmic-dagger https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2016/06/02/king-tut-had-a-dagger-
made-from-metal-of-extraterrestrial-origin/ http://news.nationalpost.com/news/king-tuts-iron-dagger-long-puzzled-scientists-now-a-st
udy-says-its-metal-came-from-a-meteorite http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/king-tuts-dagger-was-made-meteorite-1809
59294/ http://www.nature.com/news/iron-in-egyptian-relics-came-from-space-1.13091 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3619841/Tutankhamun-space-dagger-Blad
e-ancient-Egyptian-boy-king-s-mummy-METEORITE.html http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/06/02/actualidad/1464853244_376762.html

Lots of attention for the scanning of the Great Pyramid too:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-egypt-world-famous-archaeologist-field.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0604/Peering-at-Great-Pyramid-How-high-tech-sc
anners-change-archaeology http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3623671/What-hiding-wonder-world-Scans-
using-cosmic-particles-reveal-secrets-Great-Pyramid-Giza.html

… and Zahi Hawass is part of the project now:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-egypt-world-famous-archaeologist-field.html http://www.businessinsider.com/ap-egypts-world-famous-archaeologist-back-in-the-field-
2016-6?IR=T http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/egypts-world-famous-archaeologist-back-fie
ld-39550673 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/ap/article-3621592/Egypts-world-famous-archaeologist-f
ield.html

More pyramid news:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/219142/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Giza-Pyra
mids-development-project-to-be-completed-.aspx

Egypt’s ‘Repatriation Committee’ is back at work:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/219055/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt%E2
%80%99s-National-Committee-for-the-Repatriation-of.aspx

More on the find of Sattjeni’s burial:

http://www.livescience.com/54955-sattjeni-tomb-reveals-ancient-egyptian-elite.html
http://www.livescience.com/54952-photos-egyptian-coffin-holds-lady-sattjeni.html

A Hittite stela found last March has gone missing:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nID=100010&NewsCatID=3 75

Some high school girls on a field trip in Galilee came across an Egyptian scarab:

http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4810406,00.html http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=34039 http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/68914/3300-year-old-egyptian-amulet-discovered-in-
galilee-06-16/

The press in Israel is on that story of ANE beads showing up in a Scandinavian burial:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.722765

More coverage of all the ‘rescue digging’ going on in and around the Cave of the Skulls:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/in-bar-kochba-rebels-caves-salvaging-what-the-thieves-left-
behind/ http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Archaeologists-vs-robbers-in-Israels-race-to-find-ancie
nt-scrolls-455871
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.721838 http://forward.com/news/341763/packing-pistols-israeli-archeologists-battle-dust-and-loot
ers-in-race-to-un/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/212763 http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/iaa-plans-to-excavate-judean-desert-ca
ves-save-scrolls-from-robbers/2016/05/25/ http://www.jewishjournal.com/israel/article/archaeologists_vs_robbers_in_israels_race_
to_find_ancient_scrolls http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-archaeology-idUSKCN0YO17J http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/israel-wards-off-antiquity-looters-high-above-the-dead-
sea-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=100053&NewsCatID=375 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3621617/Israel-wards-looters-antiquity-high-D
ead-Sea.html

Feature on Agrippa I:

http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/King-Agrippa-I-The-last-Maccabee-455481

What Michael Eisenberg is up to:

http://www.newswise.com/articles/view/654555/?sc=rsln

Toilet construction is the latest thing in the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Window-on-Israel/Again-the-Temple-Mount-455875 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213127 http://www.timesofisrael.com/jerusalem-city-hall-orders-halt-to-illegal-waqf-construction-o
n-temple-mount/

Other items associated with the Temple Mount saga:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213261

A digital Talmud app:

http://www.jpost.com/Business-and-Innovation/Tech/Digitized-Talmud-and-mobile-app-to-
be-launched-455357

Palmyra won’t be ‘disneyfied’:

http://www.dw.com/en/unescos-francesco-bandarin-palmyra-is-in-no-danger-of-disneyfica
tion/a-19304099

Again pondering how much ISIL is making off antiquities:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/06/03/how-much-money-has-is
is-made-selling-antiquities-more-than-enough-to-fund-its-attacks/ https://theconversation.com/how-much-money-is-isis-actually-making-from-looted-art-592
87

Another historic mosque damaged in Syria:

http://syriadirect.org/news/syria%E2%80%99s-third-oldest-mosque-damaged-by-airstrike-
%E2%80%98a-violation-of-historical-sites%E2%80%99/

Now we’re being told Syrian troops are looting in Palmyra:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/01/syrian-troops-looting-ancient-city-palmyra-
says-archaeologist http://artdaily.com/news/87732/Syrian-regime-troops-looting-Palmyra--Leading-German-c
ultural-heritage-expert


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Plenty of coverage of a pile of wooden writing tablets (found a couple of years ago) from
the London mud being ‘deciphered’:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-year-old-handwritten-documents-london-mud.html http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art555992-museum-london-
bloomberg-wax-tablets-nine http://www.london24.com/news/pictures_unearthed_ancient_wax_tablets_show_roman_l
ondoners_cared_about_alcohol_and_money_too_1_4559106 http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/14532278.Earliest_handwritten_documents_in_Britain
_deciphered__by_Oxford_University_expert/ http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36415563 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/ancient-roman-texts-first-london
ers-uk-most-important-ever-archaeological-discoveries-a7059271.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/01/britains-oldest-handwritten-documents-detail
-roman-life-in-londo/ http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/jun/03/the-guardian-view-on-roman-lond
ons-earliest-voices-postcards-from-the-edge https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/video/2016/jun/01/2000-year-old-handwritten-table
ts-go-on-display-in-london-video http://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/01/tablets-unearthed-city-glimpse-roman-l
ondon-bloomberg http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/2000-year-old-roman-tablet-found-london-1.3612563
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/oldest-handwritten-record-ever-f
ound-in-britain-is-revealed--and-its-an-iou/2016/06/03/1662da74-28d2-11e6-b989-4e5479
715b54_story.html http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/02/480407904/hello-from-londinium-olde
st-handwritten-documents-in-british-history-discovered https://www.thestar.com/news/world/2016/06/01/archeologists-find-2000-year-old-handwr
itten-roman-tablets-in-london.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/roman-writing-tablets-reveal-early-london-life-005948317.ht
ml http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3620788/The-City-s-IOU-2-000-year-old-lett
ers-reveal-daily-life-trade-debts-Roman-London.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_c
ampaign=1490 http://www.breitbart.com/news/handwritten-ancient-roman-letters-found-in-london-archaeo
logical-dig/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/05/ancient-rome-London-Londinum-Bloomberg-
archaeology-Boudicca-archaeology/ http://www.lepoint.fr/monde/des-tablettes-de-cire-de-l-ere-romaine-retrouvees-au-coeur-d
e-londres-01-06-2016-2043758_24.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/roman-waxed-writing-tablets-
research-published

Suggestions of a sunken city off Zakynthos has been laid to rest:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uoea-uc060216.php http://www.livescience.com/54965-zakynthos-underwater-city-formed-by-geology.html
http://www.livescience.com/54966-photos-underwater-lost-city-formed-by-geology.html
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/science/ancient-civilization-of-microbes-not-greeks-b
uilt-lost-city.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/02/greece-sunken-city-ruins-bacteria-colony-c
oncretion http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/lost-city-found-off-greek-coast-was-form
ed-by-natural-phenomenon-a7063296.html http://www.telegraph.co.uk/school-sport/2016/06/02/underwater-lost-city-in-greece-is-actu
ally-the-aftermath-of-a-ga/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0603/Underwater-Greek-city-isn-t-a-city-after-all
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3622148/The-lost-city-never-Ancient-under
water-Greek-ruins-created-bacteria-feeding-prehistoric-gas-leak.html?ITO=1490&ns_mch
annel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

A Greco-Roman period tomb from Paphos:

http://in-cyprus.com/ancient-tomb-unearthed-paphos/ http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/06/02/two-ancient-tombs-uncovered-kato-paphos/

Digging is almost done at Safranbolu and the mayor is saying silly things:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nid=99851&NewsCatID=37 5

Interesting study of life at the Roman fort at Bearsden:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/environment/glasgow-romans-ate-porridge-but-suffered-
worms-and-fleas-1-4145049 http://www.eveningtimes.co.uk/news/14533794.Pasta__braziers__poppies__figs__coria
nder_and_bread__How_the_Romans_lived_in_Bearsden__nearly_2000_years_ago/

More on the Roman fort from Lancaster:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lancashire-36424694 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36423937 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3622194/A-huge-Roman-fort-unearthed-Lan
caster-key-defences-Britain-s-west-coast.html

Honours for John Camp II:

http://www.rmc.edu/news-and-calendar/current-news/2016/06/01/classics-professor-john-
camp-ii-receives-athens-prize

Honours for Froma Zeitlin:

https://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S46/46/29Q40/?section=topstories

Pondering evidence of Christianity at Pompeii:

https://cruxsolablog.com/2016/06/02/interview-bruce-w-longenecker-on-pompeii-gupta/

Italy is seeking directors for some of its high profile ancient sites:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/05/30/italy-launches-global-search-for-new-director
s-to-revive-museums/

They’re finally putting a museum at Eleutherna:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/209260/article/ekathimerini/life/after-decades-of-excavation
s-finally-a-museum-for-the-site-of-eleutherna

On Rome and Brexit:

http://www.standard.co.uk/comment/comment/boris-johnson-loves-his-romans-but-they-re
-models-for-the-remain-camp-a3262321.html

… in a semi similar vein:

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

On Trump and Caligula:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/01/donald-trump-has-fascinating-parallels-
with-caligula-says-historian http://theweek.com/speedreads/627502/what-donald-trump-learned-from-caligula

Feature on Jugurtha:

http://www.jotdown.es/2016/06/la-guerra-yugurta-i-peor-amigo-roma/

An excellent talk on Heinrich Schliemann as archaeologist:

http://www.ascsa.edu.gr/index.php/news/newsDetails/videocast-was-heinrich-schlieman
n-a-good-archaeologist-what-his-books-revea

More skepticism about purported Aristotle tomb finds:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/209156/opinion/ekathimerini/comment/ so-its-true-aristotle-did-exist http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3619777/Aristotle-s-tomb-NOT-Archaeologi
sts-doubt-claims-philosopher-s-final-resting-place-discovered-Greec.html http://www.livescience.com/54923-archaeologists-doubt-aristotle-tomb-discovery.html

More on that lead pig from Somerset:

http://www.somersetlive.co.uk/Rare-Roman-artefact-worth-300K-farm-near-Wells/ story-29345822-detail/story.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3615213/Metal-detector-enthusiast-unearths-2-00
0-year-old-Roman-ingot-worth-250-000-Somerset-farm.html

More on finds on Rome’s Metro C line:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/rome-to-build-first-archaeological-station-after-artifacts-un
earthed-in-subway-construction-site/


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We’ve had this ‘flatpack’ interpretation of Stonehenge before:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3625888/Was-Stonehenge-really-flatpack-Profess
or-says-stone-circle-moved-Welsh-tribes-went-east-took-possessions-them.html

A followup of sorts … bones found a year ago on the Isle of Wight at 2000 years bp:

http://onthewight.com/2016/05/31/2000-year-old-body-of-woman-found-in-isle-of-wight-bay
/ http://www.iwcp.co.uk/news/news/remains-found-on-isle-of-wight-beach-belong-to-iron-ag
e-woman-95078.aspx http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3620951/Case-closed-Police-shut-investigation-m
ystery-skeleton-discovered-beach-brothers-tests-showed-bones-2-000-years-old.html

Latest ‘vampire’ burials:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/06/01/healthy-vampires-emerge-from-
graves-in-medieval-polish-cemetery/#9876e9249581

A 1000 years bp Danish fortress has ‘reopened’:

http://www.thelocal.dk/20160531/after-1000-years-forgotten-viking-fortress-unveiled-in-de
nmark

A 200 years bp canal barge from Devon:

http://www.exeterexpressandecho.co.uk/200-year-old-canal-barge-unearthed-archaeologi
sts/story-29337978-detail/story.html http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/200-year-old-canal-barge-unearthed-archaeologists/
story-29337727-detail/story.html

WWI training trenches found in Ballykinler:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-northern-ireland-36433333

Marking the centennial of the Battle of Jutland:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-36390168 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-36387603

Studying some Black Death burials:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-36346478

Studying Victorian garbage:

http://www.npr.org/sections/parallels/2016/06/01/480268469/digging-up-the-roots-of-mod
ern-waste-in-victorian-era-rubbish

Grant for a primary school to build a replica Iron Age roundhouse:

http://www.bournemouthecho.co.uk/news/14531623.Primary_school_wins___8_500_gra nt_to_build_replica_Iron_Age_roundhouse/

Henry VII was apparently a real clothes horse:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/06/01/miserly-henry-vii-was-actually-a-shopahol
ic-who-spent-3-million/

Pondering the ‘Dark Ages’ and Tintagel:

https://www.historytoday.com/edwin-hustwit/dark-ages-tintagel-problem

Feature on Pocahontas in England:

https://www.historytoday.com/jane-dismore/pocahontas-england

There’s a shortage of archaeologists in Scotland:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/14524073.Archaeologists_in_demand/ http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14524073.More_archaeologists__desperately_nee
ded__to_avoid_construction_delays_on_major_projects/ http://www.heraldscotland.com/opinion/14523889.Herald_View__Let__39_s_protect_the_
past_by_recruiting_more_archaeologists/

Oakham Castle has reopened after renovations:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-36389001

Some restoration work at the Old Vic:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-36392663

… and marking an anniversary:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-bristol-36370411

More on the Curtain Theatre dig:

http://londonist.com/2016/06/video-inside-the-archaeological-dig-at-the-curtain-theatre

More on those Abri Faravel petroglyphs:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3609202/Is-prehistoric-graffiti-art-Laser-sc
ans-shed-new-light-5-000-year-old-cave-paintings-hidden-high-French-Alps.html

More on those Atxurra cave paintings:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3607693/The-art-gallery-Archaeologists-di
scover-large-collection-14-500-year-old-animal-paintings-Spanish-cave.html

More on cave paintings and connections to writing:

https://heatherpringle.com/2016/06/03/could-mysterious-cave-markings-in-europe-offer-cl
ues-to-writing-origins/

More on the movement of Corded Ware women:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3609736/When-women-abandon-friends-tr
avel-hundreds-miles-marry-Graves-reveal-early-German-culture.html http://phys.org/news/2016-05-women-southern-germany-corded-ware.html

More on the devastation caused by the Black Death:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-unique-devastation-black-death-medieval.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/05/24/broken-potter
y-reveals-the-sheer-devastation-caused-by-the-black-death/ http://www.livescience.com/54940-archaeologists-map-black-death-impact.html

More on those fifty skeletons found on a Welsh beach:

http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/excavations-carried-out-after-50-1125959
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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
A guy in Kazakhstan found a 2200 years bp warrior burial in his basement:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3623644/The-man-really-DID-skeleton-clos
et-Home-owner-discovers-bones-2-200-year-old-warrior-basement.html

That tattooed ‘Ice Princess’ found ages ago is finally going on display:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3623874/Siberia-s-tattooed-princess-revea
led-2-500-year-old-mummy-public-display-draped-fur-hide-modesty.html

A 1400 years bp statue from Kashmir:

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-statue-dating-back-to-1400-years-found-in-kashmir-2
219731

Concerns for Aboriginal burial sites:

http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2016/s4474398.htm

Plenty of sites found during Kapiti highway construction:

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/80598103/Road-workers-on-the-Kapiti-expressway-discov
er-over-200-archaeological-sites

The political side of claims to Buddha’s childhood home:

http://www.ocregister.com/articles/buddha-717899-india-nepal.html

A followup of sorts … ages ago we mentioned a mammoth skeleton from Siberia with
spear marks:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f233-the-smoking-gun-proving-ancie
nt-man-killed-woolly-mammoth-45000-years-ago/

Not sure if we mentioned this 4000 years bp figurine netted by a Siberian fisherman:

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/siberian-fisherman-accidentally-nets-4-000-year
-old-pagan-god-article-1.1808627

Feature on Dogen and his philosophy:

http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/05/31/480110889/the-greatest-philosopher-you-ve-
never-heard-of

More on Irish horns in India:

http://www.livescience.com/54937-ancient-irish-horns-resemble-indian-instruments.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3621821/Did-Irish-bring-horns-India-2-000-
years-ago-Suprising-evidence-Bronze-Age-instruments-traditional-Indian-music.html

More on drought exposing an Angkor temple site:

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

More on the purported antiquity of the Indus Valley civilization:

http://swarajyamag.com/culture/indus-civilisation-site-in-tamil-naduthe-keeladi-discovery
-shouldnt-fall-prey-to-false-history http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/madurai/Harappa-like-site-surfaces-in-Tamil-Nadu
/articleshow/52495353.cms http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3621622/Indus-Valley-civilisation-pre-date-
Egypt-s-pharoahs-Ancient-society-2-500-years-older-thought.html

More on Chinese beer:

http://fox40.com/2016/05/31/5000-year-old-brewery-discovered-in-china/

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
================================================================
Mysterious horse skeleton from the Yukon’s Carcross Desert:

https://www.rt.com/viral/345167-horse-skeleton-head-stolen/

Latest finds from the dig at Malcolm X’s house:

http://www.livescience.com/54859-malcolm-x-home-dig-photos.html

Looking for artifacts during freeway construction in Arizona:

http://www.abc15.com/news/region-phoenix-metro/ahwatukee/crews-digging-for-artifacts-
near-future-south-mountain-freeway

Native American artifacts in the way of pipeline construction in Virginia:

http://navajotimes.com/wires-wp/index.php?id=1668274560&kid=8neK9hhADoXHLmr7 http://www.roanoke.com/news/local/franklin_county/archaeologists-uncover-artifacts-in-m
ountain-valley-pipeine-s-path/article_7e5590c4-fa42-52a3-96d3-603a1dcdcb88.html

Looting at a Virginia battlefield:

http://www.newsday.com/news/crime-scene-declared-after-looting-at-virginia-battlefield-1.
11852980

Pondering a well from Jamestown:

http://wydaily.com/2016/05/31/jamestown-unearthed-well-excavation-answers-some-que
stions-raises-others/

Rhode Island has claimed the Endeavour … if it has been found:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/05/31/captain-cook-ship-found-whose-rhode-isla
nd/1WdO8iNyTvDs6qQAfkdF5M/story.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/may/31/captain-cooks-ship-endeavour-claime
d-by-rhode-island-as-search-goes-on

A 19th century garden near the White House is aligned to the Solstice:

http://www.livescience.com/54951-white-house-garden-aligns-with-solstice-sun.html

What tree rings tell us about the demise of a pre-Columbian people in Illinois:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/videos/category/history/can-tree-rings-explain-demise-
of-lost-civilization/?no-ist

Another controversial auction on the way:

http://www.omaha.com/news/nation/planned-auction-of-items-from-reservations-raises-qu
estions/article_d27cc82b-a254-5986-a720-a9d037874f3c.html

Feature on Audrey Munson:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-36420700

On use of fire to reveal sites:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/why-archaeologists-are-setting-spirituall
y-important-early-american-sites-fire-180959259/?no-ist

More on those 12 000 years bp finds on the Channel Islands:

http://westerndigs.org/ancient-seafarers-tool-sites-up-to-12000-years-old-discovered-on-c
alifornia-island/

Review of Madley, *An American Genocide*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/29/books/review/an-american-genocide-by-benja.html?r
ref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
2000 years bp burials from Itaqui (Colombia):

http://artdaily.com/news/87817/Pre-Hispanic-tombs-found-in-Colombia-are-over-2-000-ye
ars-old https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/31763118/pre-hispanic-tombs-found-in-colombia-ar
e-over-2-000-years-old/ http://m.france24.com/en/20160603-pre-hispanic-tombs-found-colombia-are-over-2000-ye
ars-old

Hikers on Montserrat found some petroglyphs:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/03/montserrat-petroglyphs-ancient-stone-car
vings-hikers

Inca ruins from Choquequirao:

http://www.peruviantimes.com/03/new-inca-ruins-charted-near-choquequirao/26814/

The Maya observatory at Acanceh also tracked the movements of Venus:

http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2016/06/02/ancient-mayan-observatory-was-use
d-to-track-sun-and-venus-researchers-find/

On Wari imperialism:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160601151927.htm http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ancient-wari-empire-large-shifts.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/p-awe052716.php

On the Maya response to the eruption of Ilpango:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-southeastern-mayan-people-overcame-catastrophic.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/nu-hsm060116.php

Feature on the Maya:

http://www.economist.com/blogs/prospero/2016/06/archaeology-and-art?fsrc=rss

That Canadian teen who claimed to have discovered a lost Maya settlement appears to
be using up any goodwill he might have previously had about the unlikelihood of his
find:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/lost-maya-city-mexico-william-gadoury-satel
lite-discovery-archaeology/

Cf: http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160526-how-we-unravelled-mayan-secrets-from-the
-air

Lima isn’t going to guard historic sites any more (!):

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-municipality-of-lima-to-stop-monitoring-huacas-10963
6


More on Aztec skull masks:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3611545/Mystery-gruesome-Aztec-skull-m
asks-solved-Decorated-remains-outside-Mexican-temple-belong-slain-warriors.html


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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 ================================================================
Lots of attention for a study suggesting dogs were domesticated independently on two
occasions:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-dogs-domesticated-world.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uoo-dwd052516.php https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/02/dogs-are-twice-as-friendly-to-humankin
d-as-previously-thought-suggests-study http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/ancient-dog-dna-discovered-at-newgrange-leads-to-
new-theory-about-origins-of-mans-best-friend-34769130.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/science/dogs-domestication-dna-study.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0602/Were-there-two-first-Fidos-Researchers-pr
opose-a-new-origin-story-for-dogs http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-03/dogs-may-have-been-domesticated-in-both-eur
ope-and-asia/7475326 http://www.nbcnews.com/science/science-news/was-first-dog-domesticated-asia-or-europ
e-yes-n585006 http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-dogs-domesticated-twice-20160602
-snap-story.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3621957/Dogs-domesticated-TWICE-Canin
es-man-s-best-friend-Europe-Central-Asia-12-000-years-ago.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchann
el=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/research-suggests-dual-origi
n-of-domestic-dogs http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/mans-best-friend-may-have-been-domestic
ated-twice-180959297/

Agriculture apparently ‘saved’ males:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/scp-mws060316.php

Pondering the world wide effects of potato blight:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-potato-disease-world.html

A Viking ship recreation:

http://sciencenordic.com/replica-viking-ship-will-recreate-norse-voyages-greenland

The changing view of the universe:

http://phys.org/news/2016-05-copernicus-revolution-galileo-vision-view.html

On hidden messages in Alice in Wonderland:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160527-alice-in-wonderlands-hidden-messages

… while a rare copy of the story is coming to auction:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/05/31/rare-copy-of-alices-a
dventures-in-wonderland-expected-to-fetch-2-million-at-auction/


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