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explorator 19.06 June 5, 2016 ===============================================================
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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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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
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
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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
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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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