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explorator 19.07 June 12, 2016 ===============================================================
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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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Latest finds related to homo floresiensis lead to the suggestion the species was actually
an isolated population of homo erectus:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-homo-floresiensis-tools-shrank-island.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/gu-nfs060816.php http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/09/science/hobbit-fossils-flores.html http://www.livescience.com/55014-miniature-hobbit-ancestors-discovered.html http://www.livescience.com/55012-photos-hobbit-ancestor-discovered.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-36463668 http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/08/481263190/fossils-suggest-that-islan
d-life-shrank-our-hobbit-relatives?sc=17&f=3
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/hobbit-flores-ancestor-1.3622484 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/09/bones-long-search-earliest-inhabitants
-hobbits-flores
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/06/08/return-to-flores-hobbit-homini
n-ancestor-discovered/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/08/ancient-teeth-
and-bone-point-to-the-origin-of-our-mysterious-hobbit-cousins/
http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-small-hominin-fossils-20160608-sn
ap-htmlstory.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0608/Who-were-those-mysterious-hobbits-700-0
00-year-old-fossils-hold-clues-video
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/31800211/discovery-provides-new-clues-on-hobbit/
http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/australianled-team-unlocked-n
ew-questions-about-human-evolution-and-the-history-of-thehobbit/news-story/805f0b17eb
49171294efd54ed2233e2e
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/hobbits-humans-older-ancestors-island-foss
ils-archaeology/
http://www.nature.com/news/hobbit-relatives-found-after-ten-year-hunt-1.20045?WT.ec_id
=NATURE-20160609&spMailingID=51562085&spUserID=MjA1NzQ4NDU4NwS2&spJobID =941139164&spReportId=OTQxMTM5MTY0S0
… and a couple of items focus on rejecting the ‘Down Syndrome’ theory that was poking
around a while back:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-counters-hobbit-syndrome.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608154037.htm
Feature on the Dmanisi site:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/06/10/visiting-dmanisi-earliest-hom
inin-site-beyond-africa/
General feature on human ancestry:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-humanity-roots.html
Grassland was an important aspect of human development (this seems similar to the
previous item):
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/teia-nsf060216.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/grasslands-a-key-element-in
-human-evolution
Feature on ‘Lucy’s neighbours’:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-lucy-neighbors-african-fossils.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160606154911.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/cmon-lhn060616.php http://scienmag.com/lucy-had-neighbors-a-review-of-african-fossils/
The ‘genetic burden’ of Neanderthals:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-inbred-neanderthals-left-humans-genetic.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/gsoa-inl060316.php
More on evidence of fire use in Europe some 800 000 years bp:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3627269/Spanish-cave-offers-earliest-evid
ence-fire-making-Europe-Charred-bone-rock-date-800-000-years-ago.html
More on the use of tech to map the ‘Dinaledi chamber’:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/space-age-exploration-for-pr
e-historic-bones
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AFRICA
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Plenty (more) attention for that shipwreck find in Namibia:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/miners-find-500-year-old-shipwreck-filled
-with-gold-coins-in-namibian-desert-a7072221.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0611/Shipwreck-miners-hit-gold-and-something-
more-exciting
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/details-emerge-about-discovery-of-long-lost-shi
pwreck-loaded-with-16-5-million-in-gold-coins
http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/06/10/500-year-old-shipwreck-loaded-with-gold-
worth-13-million-discovered-in-namibia
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/23525/20160609/miners-discover-500-year-old-
shipwreck-full-gold-namibian-desert.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3630429/Diamond-miners-500-year-old-shipwrec
k-loaded-9m-gold.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
The tombs of Nefertari and Seti I are reopening to the public:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/222595/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Tombs-of-
Nefertari-and-Seti-I-in-Egypts-Luxor-to-r.aspx
Some ICOM best practice awards for Egyptian projects:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/219311/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Khufu-boat
,-MIA,-Wadi-Hittan-museum-win-ICOM-Best-.aspx
More on Tut’s meteoric iron dagger:
http://www.csmonitor.com/World/2016/0601/King-Tut-s-dagger-may-have-come-from-oute
r-space-say-scientists
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/world/middleeast/king-tuts-dagger-made-of-iron-from-
the-sky-researchers-say.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience
Plenty of press coverage for a ‘massive monument’ at Petra using ‘space archaeology’
(although the thing appears to have been previously known?):
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-archaeologist-hidden-monument-jordan-petra.html http://www.al.com/news/birmingham/index.ssf/2016/06/sarah_parcak_uabs_space_arch
ae.html
http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologist-points-to-hidden-monument-in-jordans-petra/
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.724417 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36498234 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/09/petra-buried-monument-discovered-jorda
n
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/10/hiding-in-plain-sight-massive-monument-dis
covered-at-petra-by-mo/
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/rundown/researchers-find-hidden-site-in-the-ancient-jordani
an-city-of-petra/
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/10/481532275/massive-structure-found-
hiding-in-plain-sight-at-ancient-site-of-petra
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/10/481590386/drones-lead-archaeologists-to-new-discovery-i
n-petra-jordan
http://english.alarabiya.net/en/News/middle-east/2016/06/11/Archaeologist-points-to-hidd
en-monument-in-Jordan-s-Petra.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0610/New-technology-reveals-enormous-hidden-
monument-in-Petra-Jordan
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/archaeologist-points-hidden-monument-jord
ans-petra-39777109
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/09/travel/petra-jordan-massive-new-monument-discovery/
index.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3634008/Can-spot-massive-ceremonial-pla
tform-twice-wide-Olympic-swimming-pool-Incredible-structure-hidden-plain-sight-Petra.ht
ml?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/archaeologists-use-satellites-to-discover-enor
mous-monument-hidden-in-plain-sight-at-ancient-city-of-petra
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/space-archaeology-satellite-petra-ancient-ci
ty-discovery-jordan-monument/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-found-gigantic-ancient-monu
ment-jordan-180959368/
An interesting little hoard of Hasmonean era coins from Modi’in is also getting a lot of
attention:
http://mfa.gov.il/MFA/IsraelExperience/History/Pages/Rare-cache-of-Hasmonean-Period-c
oins-discovered-in-Modiin-7-June-2016.aspx
http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4202 http://www.livescience.com/55009-rare-silver-coins-photos.html http://www.dw.com/en/archaeologists-discover-rare-2000-year-old-silver-coins-in-central-i
srael/a-19312610
http://www.timesofisrael.com/cache-of-hasmonean-era-silver-coins-uncovered-in-modiin/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213378 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Rare-2000-year-old-silver-coins-discovered-in-central-I
srael-456158
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=34213 http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/69386/2100-year-old-coins-bearing-names-maccabe
an-kings-unearthed-israel/
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/rare-cache-of-silver-coins-dating-to-has
monean-period-discovered-in-modiin/2016/06/07/
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.723643 http://theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/427963/photos-a-rare-cache
-of-silver-coins-dating-to-the-hasmonean-period-was-discovered-in-modiin.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/2000-year-old-coin-collection-unearthed-in-israel/ http://artdaily.com/news/87953/A-rare-cache-of-silver-coins-dating-to-the-Hasmonean-Peri
od-was-discovered-in-Modi-in
On Griffins at Catal Huyuk:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/06/09/griffon-vultures-defleshed-corps
es-to-create-headless-burials-in-ancient-anatolia/#4e65c59c2705
Interesting feature on the Al Aqsa mosque with photos from 1927:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213261#.V1XIPpB4WK0
A driver for the Norwegian embassy was caught trying to smuggle antiquities from the
West Bank:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/norwegian-embassy-driver-busted-with-10-kilos-of-antiquiti
es/
http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Driver-for-Norwegian-Embassy-caught-smuggling-antiq
uities-456079
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/69242/customs-authorities-stop-apparent-attempt-sm
uggle-antiquities-country/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213323 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4813040,00.html
… and Norway is looking into it:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/norway-launches-probe-after-driver-busted-smuggling-artif
acts-from-jordan/
Honours for Rina Talgam:
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/thuo-eom060816.php
Latest in the Hagia Sophia saga:
http://www.pappaspost.com/turkey-responds-to-greek-protests-over-hagia-sophia-prayers
/
http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2016/06/06/turkish-govt-allows-koran-recitations-in-ha
gia-sophia-and-shocks-orthodox-christians/
… and the Temple Mount saga:
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213127
More on the ongoing renovations/restorations at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36464410 http://news.nationalpost.com/news/religion/christians-renovate-jesuss-tomb-together-ove
rcoming-centuries-old-religious-rivalries
http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/06/07/religious-rivalries-put-to-one-side-as-wo
rk-begins-to-renovate-christs-tomb/
More on the Cave of Skulls dig:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/222595/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Tombs-of-
Nefertari-and-Seti-I-in-Egypts-Luxor-to-r.aspx
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/israeli-archaeologists-rush-to-dig-at-
cave-of-skulls-before-looters-take-everything/2016/06/08/7f0e0e6a-281c-11e6-8329-6104
954928d2_story.html
http://blogs.reuters.com/faithworld/2016/06/06/archaeologists-vs-robbers-in-israels-race-
to-find-ancient-scrolls-the-wider-image/
More on what’s being dubbed the ‘glass road’ trade route between Mesopotamia and
Scandinavia:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/tracking-the-glass-road
ISIL appears to have blown up the Temple of Nabu in northern Iraq:
http://www.reuters.com/article/us-mideast-crisis-iraq-archaeology-idUSKCN0YV16O?feed
Type=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Punic burials from Malta:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160608/local/more-ancient-tombs-found-dur
ing-bahrija-road-works.614735
Some tourists found a Roman child burial in an Italian cave:
http://www.thelocal.it/20160608/tourists-find-skeleton-of-roman-child-inside-italian-cave
That guy who found a Roman Villa in his garden has written an interesting piece:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/property/news/the-day-i-stumbled-on-a-roman-villa-in-my-back
-garden/
Another spin on that ‘wing’ found in Gloucester:
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art556252-cotswold-glouce
ster-roman-wing-statuette-victory
They’ve found some more info on the Antikythera Mechanism:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/antikythera-mechanism-1.3628648 http://www.reuters.com/article/us-greece-archaeology-antikythera-mechan-idUSKCN0YW
0XQ
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/mapping-eclipses-worlds-first-computer-104147768.html
http://www.heraldnet.com/article/20160610/NEWS02/160619917/Ancient-Greek--astronom
y-computer-deciphered-
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/scientists-may-have-discovered-worlds-oldest-mechanica
l-computer/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab7e&linkId=25395916
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/worlds-first-computer-may-have-been-
used-tell-fortunes-180959335/
It was the 200th anniversary of the British Government’s acquisition of the Elgin
Marbles:
http://www.livescience.com/54990-who-owns-parthenon-elgin-marbles.html https://theconversation.com/britain-has-kept-the-elgin-marbles-for-200-years-now-its-time
-to-pass-them-on-55912
Latest on the dig from the Roman fort at Tibiscum in Romania:
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,409962,more-information-on-the-facilities-of-
the-roman-fort-tibiscum-in-romania.html
The Palace of Nestor is opening to the public:
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/16532-palace-of-nestor-in-pylos-pelopon
nese-reopens-after-3-years-of-restoration.html
They’re redoing the Nemean games again:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/06/11/ancient-nemean-games-revived-for-three-day
s-video/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/ahead-of-rio-runners-re-enact-ancient-gam
es/2016/06/11/27b5fb78-2fc9-11e6-b9d5-3c3063f8332c_story.html
http://www.ekathimerini.com/209524/article/ekathimerini/sports/athletes-from-around-the-
world-re-enact-ancient-games-in-nemea
Plans to rebury remains from three cremation urns found at Leintwardine:
http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/14540935.Remains_of_Roman_cremation_urns_to_ be_re_buried_in_Leintwardine_next_week/
For some reason, Ha’aretz was publishing some old finds as if they were new … first, an
oracle of Apollo well site in Athens:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.723632
… and naval bases in the Piraeus:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.723784
Plenty of Classcon in Montesquieu’s thinking:
http://www.wsj.com/articles/in-montesquieu-a-historian-blended-with-a-political-philosoph
er-1465578784
Pondering how the Romans would have solved London’s housing crisis:
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/efb7f574-2d83-11e6-bf8d-26294ad519fc.html
In case you haven’t heard about plans to eliminate ancient Greek in Greek schools:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/06/07/education-minister-on-a-mission-to-abolish-a
ncient-greek-lessons-in-greek-high-schools/
http://www.ekathimerini.com/209366/article/ekathimerini/news/ministers-bid-to-scrap-anc
ient-greek-in-schools-fuels-debate
An (ongoing?) Paphos antiquities bust:
http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/06/09/third-suspect-arrested-paphos-antiquities-case/
http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/06/07/remands-illegal-antiquities-seized/ http://in-cyprus.com/antiquities/
More on the purported find of Rhapta (not sure about this one):
http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/africas-atlantis-lost-roman-city-rhapta-discovered-off-tanzanias-
mafia-island-believes-1564843
Review of Heaney’s Aeneid VI:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/12/books/review/aeneid-book-vi-by-seamus-heaney.htm
l
More on those wooden tablets from London:
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-02/britains-oldest-hand-dated-document-found-in-ro
man-trove/7469254
http://www.timesofisrael.com/2000-year-old-roman-documents-found-in-london-mud/ 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
More on those ‘non-ruins’ off Zakynthos:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/lost-underwater-city-revealed-as-natural-geological-format
ion/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/science/ancient-civilization-of-microbes-not-greeks-b
uilt-lost-city.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience
More on the ‘Roman lifestyle’ near the Antonine Wall:
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art556223-porridge-pasta-w
orms-fleas-dumbartonshire-glasgow
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Evidence of a 6000 years bp massacre in France:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/07/french-archaeologists-unearth-bones-6000
-year-old-neolithic-massacre
http://artdaily.com/news/87889/French-archaeologists-unearth-bones-from-6-000-year-old
-massacre
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3629557/Amazing-discovery-mutilated-rem
ains-ten-people-6-000-year-old-Neolithic-massacre-grave-reveals-violent-past.html
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/08/ancient-french-warrio
rs-took-limbs-as-trophies-in-6000-year-old-massacre-researcher-believes/
5000 years bp livestock pens from Spain:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-livestock-pens-approximately-years-spain.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608112928.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uotb-lpa060816.php http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/researchers-study-prehistori
c-animal-enclosures-within-rock-shelters
Interesting defleshing practices in Neolithic burials on Orkney:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3633135/Grisly-Stone-Age-pits-Orkney-isla
nders-chopped-dead-relatives-mixing-mass-graves.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&n s_campaign=1490
Viking era (?) body in an abandoned well in Norway:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/body-in-well-confirms-viking-
saga
Not a heck of a lot found at a Viking fort site in Denmark:
http://sciencenordic.com/viking-fortress-denmark-stumps-archaeologists
Latest ‘bog butter’ find:
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/republic-of-ireland/turf-cutters-unearth-prehistoric
-lump-of-bog-butter-34786716.html
Searching for the Welsh burial ground whence Stonehenge stones came:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/archaeologists-dig-welsh-burial-ground-1
1438966
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/06/05/original-stonehenge-was-dismantled-in-w
ales-and-moved-to-wiltshi/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stonehenge-was-dismantled-in-wales-
and-moved-to-wiltshire-ucl-and-university-of-leicester-scientists-a7066456.html
Studying childhood diet in medieval Italy:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-link-diet-surviving-childhood-medieval.html
Searching for a lost Buchan monastery:
https://www.pressandjournal.co.uk/fp/news/north-east/938313/aden-dig/
Digging has resumed at Bradgate Park (‘Ice Age’ site):
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art556381-bradgate-park-lei
cester-ice-age-hunters
Concerns for the Heritage Status of Liverpool:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-common-ground-liverpool-palmyra-world.html
Suggestion that medieval armies didn’t use ‘fire arrows’:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3636014/Medieval-armies-DIDN-T-use-fire-
arrows-Researchers-claims-not-practical-open-battle.html
York Walls are being restored:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-36490734
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Neolithic sites in the Gobi Desert:
http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/256377,Polish-archeologists-uncover-Stone-Age-settle
ments-in-Gobi-desert
Foundations of a Ming Dynasty palace in Beijing:
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/photo/2016-06/12/c_135430417.htm http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-06/12/content_25678913.htm http://www.newser.com/story/226417/palace-marco-polo-called-greatest-ever-may-have-b
een-found.html
LiDAR reveals remains of medieval cities in Angkor:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-lasers-uncover-hidden-secrets-cambodia.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/asia/archaeologists-cambodia-medieval-cities-
hidden-rainforest-angkor-wat-lidar-laser-a7076326.html
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/11/lost-city-medieval-discovered-hidden-be
neath-cambodian-jungle?subid=16450490&CMP=EMCNEWEML6619I2
https://www.theguardian.com/world/video/2016/jun/11/new-technology-reveals-lost-cities-
in-the-angkor-region-video
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3636956/Secrets-lost-Cambodian-cities-revea
led-report.html
http://artdaily.com/news/88028/Secrets-of-lost-Cambodian-cities-to-be-revealed--report
https://au.news.yahoo.com/thewest/a/31818622/secrets-of-lost-cambodian-cities-to-be-re
vealed-report/
On what the guys who made the Terracotta Army were eating:
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1969934/craftsmen-who-built-chinas-terr
acotta-army-ate-dogs-study
On the British role in an Indian famine:
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36339524
Another case of vandalism to an Aboriginal petroglyph site:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/vandals-destroyed-8000-year-old-aborigina
l-artworks-in-tasmania-180959328/?utm_source=facebook.com&utm_medium=socialmed ia
More on that Siberian Ice Princess going on display:
http://siberiantimes.com/other/others/news/n0675-2500-year-old-tattooed-ice-princess-we
ars-fur-to-go-on-public-display-at-next-new-moon/
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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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Working out when the ‘ice free corridor’ was open with evidence of bison remains:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ice-age-bison-fossils-early.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uoc--iab060116.php http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/bison-fossils-people-1.3619065 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/06/bison-migration-ancient-america-archaeo
logy
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/ice-age-bison-fossils-shed-li
ght-on-early-human-migrations
http://gu.com/p/4k9dq?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/06/bison-migration-ancient-america-archaeol
ogy
http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/06/humans-didn-t-wait-melting-ice-settle-americas
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/07/how-did-the-fi
rst-people-migrate-to-the-americas-bison-fossils-could-help-settle-the-debate/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0608/What-can-bison-fossils-teach-us-about-the-
original-American-migrants
Evidence of Old World trade of metals with ‘Alaskans’ prior to European contact:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-world-metals-alaska-coast-hundreds.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608095556.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/pu-owm060716.php
Latest from the Camp Security dig:
http://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2016/06/07/artifacts-found-hunt-revolutionary-war-pri
son-camp-security/85321898/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=
http://www.ydr.com/videos/news/2016/06/06/85527298/?from=global&sessionKey=&auto
login=
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/picture-gallery/news/2016/06/08/photos-security-camp-dig/
85611282/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=
Utah’s building a nice archaeological database:
http://www.ksl.com/?sid=40078893&nid=1296&title=utah-archaeological-database-has-ne
arly-120k-records-online
http://www.deseretnews.com/article/865655985/Utah-archaeological-database-has-nearly
-120K-records-online.html?pg=all
http://www.thespectrum.com/story/news/2016/06/05/state-archaeology-records-go-digital/
85450076/
… while Ontario is messing up their archaeological heritage handling:
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/commentary/2016/06/10/ontarios-hidden-archaeological-
scandal.html
Plans for the Beaubassin Acadian Village site:
http://www.sackvilletribunepost.com/news/2016/6/9/parks-canada-to-put-park-at-beaubas
sin-acadian-village-site.html
That Iowa pipeline thing is turning into a saga:
http://www.kdlt.com/news/local-news/Iowa-Official-Says-Pipeline-Should-Avoid-Burial-Site
/39920068
http://bismarcktribune.com/bakken/dakota-access-disputes-archaeologist-over-tribal-land
/article_34672629-cdd5-5b4a-a0bf-e008052cd9e3.html
Interesting ‘hobo graffiti’:
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/11/481695146/anthropologist-discovers-100-year-old-graffiti-
by-americas-most-famous-hobo
Feature on the Brandeis court:
http://www.npr.org/2016/06/07/481076322/revisiting-the-tenure-of-supreme-court-justice-l
ouis-brandeis-the-jewish-jeffers?sc=17&f=1008
Plans to remove Confederate Flags from the Washington National Cathedral stained
glass:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/09/481360313/national-cathedral-will-re
move-confederate-flag-stained-glass-windows?sc=17&f=1001
Feature on Audrey Munson:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/08/opinions/audrey-munson-monument-model-opinion-jame
s-bone/index.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Feature on Hiram Bingham:
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-hiram-bingham-remembered-60-years-since-passing-
109688
More on those petroglyphs from Montserrat:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/03/montserrat-petroglyphs-ancient-stone-car
vings-hikers
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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 ================================================================
A Sistine Chapel replication in Mexico:
http://wdtprs.com/blog/2016/06/viva-cristo-rey-sistine-chapel-replicated-in-mexico-over-th
e-tomb-of-plutarco-elias-calles/
Assorted lost ‘underwater worlds’:
http://www.mnn.com/lifestyle/eco-tourism/stories/7-lost-underwater-worlds
Assorted meteoric iron artifacts:
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/from-king-tut-to-kitchen-knives-meteorite-made-relics-span
-centuries/
The Shlomo Moussaieff glass collection is coming to auction … here’s the catalog:
http://www.christies.com/zmags/?ZmagsPublishID=4cd752a3&SaleTitle=&SaleId=0&GUI D=&JumptoLot
The adventures of that Noah’s Ark recreation:
http://gu.com/p/4kqc2?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
A call for the burial of the Elephant Man’s remains:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/09/elephant-man-skeleton-should-be-give
n-christian-burial-say-campaigners
A database of human reproductive habits or something like that:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-centuries-old-database-reveals-clues-human.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608154505.htm
Latest identification of the strain of plague:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160608142540.htm
Mapping 6000 years of human settlements:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160607093505.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/ysof-yrm060316.php
Searching/finding property belonging to Holocaust victims:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-items-belonging-to-auschwitz-victims-newly-u
ncovered
http://www.newser.com/story/226338/16k-items-that-vanished-from-auschwitz-are-found.
html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3631444/Lost-possessions-Holocaust-victims-tak
en-sent-gas-chamber-Forgotten-items-snatched-Jews-Nazis-discovered-Poland.html?ITO
=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
Some humour:
http://assets.amuniversal.com/95290c700a91013463a7005056a9545d
Feature on restoring Da Vinci’s ‘Last Supper’:
http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/features/magazine-36466835/36466835
… and one on restoring Piombro’s ‘Adoration of the Shepherds’:
http://www.itv.com/news/anglia/2016-06-08/decade-long-restoration-of-masterpiece-is-co
mplete/
On cross dressing in Victorian England:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160608-the-cross-dressing-gents-of-victorian-england
Feature on how humans have affected the planet over the millennia:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160606154851.htm
On the history of antiquities collectors:
http://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2016/06/marble-mad-and-very-extravagant/
485666/
Xrays reveal hidden text in bookbindings:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/04/x-rays-reveal-medieval-manuscripts
http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/12/are-your-books-secretly-worth-millions.
html
On the decline of humanities jobs:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/06/new-study-documents-long-term-losse
s-new-humanities-faculty-jobs
https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/06/06/responding-state-humanities-today-es
say
Australia’s English sparrows didn’t come from England:
http://theconversation.com/city-sparrows-came-to-australia-via-india-59730
A Shakespearean twitter war:
https://www.insidehighered.com/news/2016/06/09/two-scholars-engage-debate-twitter-an
d-elsewhere-over-king-lear
Feature on Rembrandt’s first masterpiece:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/arts/design/rembrandts-first-masterpiece-a-portrait-o
f-a-biblical-betrayal.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign
Interesting ‘love letters’ coming to auction:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/arts/design/letters-from-a-secret-courtship-in-19th-ce
ntury-brooklyn-evoke-a-jane-austen-plot.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fde
sign&_r=0
Feature on ‘death photography’:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36389581
More on dog domestication:
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/06/10/481501974/did-man-make-his-best-friend-twi
ce
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/03/science/dogs-domestication-dna-study.html?rref=col
lection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience
Review of a bunch of books about Shakespeare:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/05/books/review/shakespeare-in-full.html?rref=collectio
n%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Sunken Cities:
http://theartnewspaper.com/comment/reviews/exhibitions/the-greeks-in-egypt-on-sunken-
cities-at-the-british-museum/
Odysseys:
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/16566-greek-national-archaeological-mu
seum-150th-anniversary-exhibition-odysseys-to-open-in-october.html
Black Shackle:
http://news.brown.edu/articles/2016/06/black-shackle
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