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explorator 19.10 July 4, 2016 ===============================================================
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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis, John McMahon,
Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo, David Critchley,Bob
Heuman, David Critchley, Frank MacKay, Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,and
Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).


... again, apologies for lateness ...

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Naledi might date to less than 1 million years b.p.:

http://www.livescience.com/55226-homo-naledi-lived-recently.html

The arrival of modern humans may have contributed to the demise of floresiensis:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-discovery-hobbit-demise.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160629165910.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uow-fds062716.php http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/humans-did-wipe-out-real-life-hobbits-say-sci
entists-a7111246.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3666215/Did-modern-humans-kill-Hobbits-
Remains-fires-Flores-suggests-Homo-sapiens-arrived-earlier-believed.html


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AFRICA
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Feature on the Khoisan:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-36649794

More on concerns for Somalit petroglyphs:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/rocky-future-for-somalia-s-ancient-cave-art-1.2962595


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
The Egyptian Museum’s ‘artifact of the month’:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/44/232240/Heritage/Museums/Childbirth-stel
ae-picked-as-Egyptian-Museums-July-.aspx

More on who was in KV55:

http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/16740/47/Tomb-mystery-solved-.aspx

An interesting mummy restoration:

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36545779

A 40 000 years bp ‘grinding stone’ (!) from a Western Galilee cave:

http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=34625

A pair of interesting structures have been found at the Usakli Mound:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/structures-at-usakli-mound-may-be-ancient-zippalanda
-.aspx?pageID=238&nid=100977

A cuneiform tablet shows ancient Mesopotamian workers may have been paid in beer:

https://ca.finance.yahoo.com/blogs/insight/5-000-year-old-tablet-shows-mesopotamian-w
orkers-paid-in-beer-165528011.html

On how Romans and Jews ‘invented’ trash collection:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.727585

Jogging on the beach has revealed a 900 years bp oil lamp:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/214303 http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/344002/lifeguard-discovers-900-year-old-oil-lamp
-on-israeli-beach/ http://www.jewishpress.com/news/israel/israeli-lifeguard-discovers-900-year-old-candle-
during-beach-run/2016/06/27/

A very nice mosaic was revealed at the Church of the Nativity:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36591434

Archaeology season has ‘opened’ in Antalya:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/archaeology-season-opens-in-antalya-.aspx?pageID=
238&nID=101096&NewsCatID=375

First call to prayer at Hagia Sophia in 85 or so years:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/first-call-to-prayer-inside-istanbuls-hagia-sophia-in-85-
years.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101161&NewsCatID=341

Concerns for the Lion of Babylon:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/iraq-babylon-culture-heritage.html

How ISIL’s ‘trap’ at Palmyra was foiled:

https://consortiumnews.com/2016/06/30/how-isiss-palmyra-erase-trap-was-foiled/

More on ISIL’s destruction of the Temple of Nabu:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/isil-rampage-continues-with-destruction-of-the-te
mple-of-nabu-in-northern-iraq/

Revisiting the suggestion that Palmyra was being looted by Russian and/or Syrian
troops:

http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/06/29/about-the-accusation-that-syrian-and-russian-tro
ops-are-looting-palmyra/

Documenting the ‘trail of destruction’ of antiquities in the Middle East:

http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2016/06/egypt-cultural-heritage-destruction-ant
iquities-digital-map.html

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Some gold coins are adding to the evidence of the site of Varus’ disaster:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3670663/Eight-gold-coins-discovered-Ger
many-mark-site-ancient-Roman-massacre-archaeologists-say.html

Remains of four more victims in a shop in Pompeii:

http://www.livescience.com/55212-ancient-vesuvius-victims-found-near-pompeii.html
http://www.thelocal.it/20160627/pompeii-digs-unearth-skeletons-of-fugitives-in-back-of-sh
op http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/24467/20160629/remains-vesuvius-eruption-vi
ctims-discovered-ancient-pompeii-shop.htm http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-skeletons-found-in-ransacked-shop-near-pompeii/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3658790/Skeletons-coins-dig-ancient-Pom
peii-shop.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

… in case you need a refresher on Pompeii:

http://www.livescience.com/27871-mount-vesuvius-pompeii.html

Followup to the find of a mask of Pan at Hippos a couple years ago:

http://www.livescience.com/55201-gateway-to-greek-god-sanctuary-discovered.html http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/06/29/ancient-sanctuary-of-greek-god-pan-unearthed-in-
northern-israel-discovery-sheds-light-on-other-major-finds-in-area/# http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/24461/20160629/ancient-sanctuary-greek-god-u
ncovered-israel.htm http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Roman-gate-discovered-in-ancient-city-of-Hippos-may-
solve-mystery-of-mask-of-Pan-457886 http://newswise.com/articles/a-gateway-to-pan-exposed-at-hippos http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3664906/Have-archaeologists-Pan-s-lair-R
oman-mask-hints-newly-room-sanctuary-god.html

A Roman mosaic from Kinkkale:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/roman-mosaic-unearthed-in-wheat-field-in-turkeys-kirik
kale.aspx?pageID=238&nid=101019&NewsCatID=375

I think we mentioned this Roman dig in Sheffield:

http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/forgotten-frontier-of-roman-empire-unearthed-in-sheffield-1-
7991388

Evidence of a ‘chariot cooling system’ at Carthage’s circus (hmmm):

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.727849

Not sure where to put this item on the discovery of an Indo-Greek city in Swat:

http://www.dawn.com/news/1267322/archaeologists-discover-layers-of-indo-greek-city-in-
swat http://www.plenglish.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=5011831&Itemi
d=1

The dig at Akrotiri has resumed:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/210027/article/ekathimerini/life/akrotiri-excavations-on-sant
orini-start-up-again-with-funding-injection-from-eugene-kaspersky

Vague item on Roman remains being found in Congresbury:

http://www.northsomersettimes.co.uk/news/roman_remains_found_in_congresbury_1_4 599168

Remains of a Roman building in Meonstoke:

http://www.hampshirechronicle.co.uk/news/14583834.Rare_Roman_building_revealed_i
n_dig_in_the_Meon_Valley/

Feature on the necropolis at Orthi Petra:

http://www.euronews.com/2016/06/28/the-necropolis-of-orthi-petra-opens-a-window-to-the-
homeric-world/

Rome was showing off the ‘Colosseum makeover’:

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-italy-art-colosseum-idUSKCN0ZH579 http://www.thelocal.it/20160701/romes-colosseum-gets-multi-million-euro-face-lift
http://www.euronews.com/2016/07/01/colosseum-makeover-gets-the-thumbs-up-from-itali
an-pm-renzi/ http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/romes-colosseum-cleaner-magnate-fund
ed-restoration-40271985 http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/europe/italy/81720071/Rome-shows-off-cleaned
-up-Colosseum

… and there are plans to include a floor:

http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2016/07/01/colosseum-to-ha
ve-floor-by-2018-franceschini_96519718-5614-46b9-9cf9-c13d67f31a22.html

Another pensioner busted with antiquities in Athens:

http://info-europa.com/uncategorized/police-arrest-athens-man-for-antiquities-smuggling/
374

On ancient fossil hunting:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2016/06/29/roman-emperors-monster-bones-an
d-the-early-history-of-fossil-hunting/#200defeb417a

Feature on ancient bathing:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg23130800-600-ancient-rome-the-empire-that-clea
ned-up/

Suggestion that the Antikythera Mechanism was a ‘STEM’ project:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/brucedorminey/2016/06/30/antikythera-mechanism-may-hav
e-been-worlds-first-stem-project/

More on that ‘dolphin’ weapon found in the Antikythera wreck:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/06/28/483115572/ancient-shipwreck-off-gre
ek-island-yields-a-different-sort-of-treasure

More Antikythera Mechanism coverage:

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-greek-computer-came-with-a-user-guide/

More on the possible find of the city of Rhapta:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3664442/Has-2-000-year-old-lost-city-Rhap
ta-Ancient-ruins-coast-Tanzania-Roman-market-town.html

Review of *Harry Mount’s Odyssey*:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jun/28/harry-mount-s-odyssey-review-homer


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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Suggestion that Neolithic tombs were used for calendrical/observational purposes
(overspinning galore):

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-prehistoric-tombs-astronomical-viewing.html http://www.livescience.com/55248-prehistoric-tombs-were-first-telescopes.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0701/How-did-ancient-people-peer-at-the-stars-b
efore-the-telescope http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/these-ancient-tombs-may-have-been-both-g
rave-observatory-180959668/ http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/stargazers-may-have-used-ancient-stone-tomb
s-to-set-calendars-thousands-of-years-before-galileo http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/2016/06/29/neolithic-tombs-were-telescopes-to-view-t
he-stars/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/30/the-prehistoric-tombs-that-may-have-b
een-used-as-telescopes https://www.newscientist.com/article/2095597-prehistoric-tombs-may-have-doubled-as-st
ar-gazing-observatories/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3666210/Were-ancient-tombs-telescopes-6
-000-year-old-structures-focused-light-clearer-view-stars-set-calenders.html?ITO=1490&n
s_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

A Viking burial from Denmark (found in 2012?):

http://sciencenordic.com/unique-viking-tomb-contains-remains-noble-couple http://arstechnica.co.uk/science/2016/07/rare-viking-death-house-discovered-in-denmark/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3669918/Rare-Viking-Death-House-unearth
ed-Couple-buried-1-000-years-ago-foreign-coins-reveal-Norse-nobles-travelled-world.htm
l?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

The fire at Harold Bluetooth’s castle may have been deliberately set:

http://cphpost.dk/news/danish-cops-now-on-a-1000-year-old-case.html

Some sixth century burials in Wales are being connected to St David:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-wales-south-west-wales-36682520 http://www.westerntelegraph.co.uk/news/14592895.Pembrokeshire_dig_uncovers_possi
ble_contemporaries_of_St_David/

On the popularity of infant corpses among 19th century anatomists:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-infant-bodies-prized-19th-century.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uoc-ibw062916.php http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/infant-bodies-were-prized-by-19th-century-anatomist
s-study-suggests http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/children-s-skulls-were-highly-prized-by-cambridge-univ
ersity-medics-new-study-reveals/story-29465844-detail/story.html http://www.livescience.com/55257-infant-cadavers-prized-by-anatomists.html http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/06/30/baby-cadavers-were-prized-by-vic
torian-anatomists/ https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/01/anatomy-specimens-reveal-story-of-inf
anticide-stillbirth-and-poverty

They looked for, but didn’t find, King Alfred’s Ditch:

http://www.thisiswiltshire.co.uk/news/headlines/14592579.Excavation_fails_to_find_King
_Alfred__39_s_ditch/

Feature on some medieval punishments:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36641921

… while one town in the UK wants to bring one back:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36638698

Plans to dig at Ipswich Cornhill:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-suffolk-36681949

We’ll put the coverage of the Gaulcross hoard here this week:

http://www.usatoday.com/picture-gallery/news/2016/06/28/ancient-trove-of-silver-unearth
ed-in-scotland/86474536/ http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2016/06/28/ancient-trove-silver-unearthed-scotland/
86454862/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3664282/Jewellery-crafted-Scottish-barbari
ans-unearthed-1500-year-old-trove-100-silver-pieces-discovered-Roman-era-stone-circle.
html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490


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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
A new study of Borneo’s ‘Deep Skull’:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ancient-deep-skull-borneo-full.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uons-as062416.php http://theconversation.com/ancient-deep-skull-still-holds-big-surprises-60-years-after-it-w
as-unearthed-61572 http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/analysis-of-borneo-skull-ove
rturns-long-held-views-on-early-history-of-region

A 3000 years bp mound from Azerbaijan:

http://news.az/articles/society/109567

Studying ancient baby teeth from Polynesia:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/06/27/ancient-baby-teeth-reveal-secret
s-of-a-polynesian-empire/

Interesting boat remains from Angkor Wat (don’t think we mentioned this):

http://www.startribune.com/cambodia-says-tests-confirm-angkor-boat-8-centuries-old/
384533041/

A medieval weapons-making foundry on the shores of Lake Baikal:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0686-medieval-weapon-making-found
ry-discovered-on-shore-of-lake-baikal/

An ancient shrine possibly containing a fragment of the Buddha’s skull:

http://www.livescience.com/55243-buddha-skull-bone-found-in-crypt.html http://www.livescience.com/55242-photos-model-stupa-holding-buddha.html https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-shrine-may-hold-buddhas-skull-bone-found-133135
045.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3670075/Have-archaeologists-discovered-
Buddha-s-remains-Skull-bone-1-000-year-old-shrine-belong-enlightened-one.html?ITO=1
490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

More on the origins of rice:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160622164324.htm

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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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Plenty of items dating back to the American Revolution found during a dig at some
Philadelphia toilets:

http://www.phillymag.com/news/2016/07/01/toilets-philadelphia-artifacts-archaeologists/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/america-revolution-independence-philadelp
hia-colony-archaeology-garbage-history/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3671833/Dirty-work-Archaeologists-unearth-87-00
0-artifacts-dating-American-Revolution-digging-250-year-old-toilets-Philadelphia.html

Digging a midden on Hilton Head:

http://www.wfxg.com/story/32357398/archaeological-dig-on-native-american-shell-ring-in-
hilton-head

A 19th century schooner from Lake Ontario:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ny-based-explorers-schooner-lake-ontario.html http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2016/06/upstate_ny_explorers_find_1868_scho
oner_wreck_in_lake_ontario.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/19th-century-old-sunken-schooner-uncover
ed-lake-ontario-180959657/ http://www.toledoblade.com/local/2016/06/30/Schooner-sunk-en-route-to-area-in-1868-is-f
ound.html http://www.thespec.com/news-story/6745652-explorers-find-1868-schooner-wreck-in-lake-
ontario/

Interesting feature on Central NY has a hub of wooden roads:

http://www.syracuse.com/empire/index.ssf/2016/06/central_ny_was_the_center_of_the_
wooden_roads_boom_in_the_us_until_they_rotted.html

Feature on Teddy Roosevelt:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/on-leadership/wp/2016/06/27/how-theodore-roose
velt-created-the-modern-american-presidency/

Feature on Mount Rushmore:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160704-mount-rushmore-at-75-how-did-it-come-to-be

On slavery in New England:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/books/review/new-england-bound-by-wendy-warren.
html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks

More on that 12 000 years bp campsite in New Brunswick:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/route-8-artifacts-12000-years-1.3648907


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Feature on trepanation amongst the Inca:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/what-is-trepanation-skull-surgery-peru-inca-
archaeology-science/

An Otomi religious site in Mexico was damaged:

http://madison-press.com/wire/national-wire/139637/ancient-temple-of-mexican-otomi-ind
ians-damaged-2 http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/ancient-temple-mexican-otomi-indians-da
maged-40192685

A German tourist fell to his death at Machu Picchu:

http://www.bostonglobe.com/news/world/2016/07/02/german-falls-death-posing-for-photo-
machu-picchu/1iwheNscLJeB6YihJhQR6J/story.html http://www.newsday.com/news/world/at-machu-picchu-man-falls-to-death-while-posing-for
-photo-peru-officials-say-1.11997306

More on those mammoth remains found near Mexico City:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-mammoth-uncovered-mexico.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-36631474


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http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
Plenty of items related to the centennial of the Battle of the Somme (all different):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-36680052 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-36690510 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36149839 http://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-36585199 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36652140 http://www.bbc.com/news/video_and_audio/headlines/36670644 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-36656300 http://www.bbc.co.uk/timelines/ztngxsg http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160630-images-from-the-battle-of-the-somme http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/opinion/sunday/how-jrr-tolkien-found-mordor-on-the-
western-front.html (for Tolkien fans) http://www.newsandstar.co.uk/Recalling-Britains-bloodiest-battle-1ff01ca8-b0cf-4569-b58
c-3dd61948c70e-ds http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-the-battle-of-the-somme-and-the-death-of-martial-
glory-61681 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/a-battle-that-continues-to-haun
t-europe/2016/06/29/51556a50-3d56-11e6-84e8-1580c7db5275_story.html

Franz Ferdinand’s obituary: (+)

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/archduke-franz-ferdin
and-world-war http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1914/06/29/100676432.html

Feature on the Sefer Ha Zohar:

https://www.bostonglobe.com/ideas/2016/06/25/glinter-kabbalah/cz5YaC9jDc3ZVwTB6L7
e7L/story.html

Interesting feature on the conservation of a ‘stone age’ arrowhead:

http://www.getreading.co.uk/news/reading-berkshire-news/watch-university-reading-archa
eologists-piece-11521261

Feature on some sunken cities:

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/24492/20160629/5-incredible-underwater-ancie
nt-cities-will-blow-away.htm

On social climbing Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/30/theater/shakespeare-coat-of-arms.html

Marking the bicentennial of the Brothers Grimm:

http://www.dw.com/en/grimms-german-legends/a-19364025

Big bucks for Churchill’s campaign car:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-36682562

On ancient wheat:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/27/483278049/nothing-says-hip-like-ancient-
wheat

Rethinking human pigmentation:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-paper-current-gain-loss-heavy.html

On the origins of assorted foods:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160624-the-unlikely-and-disgusting-origin-of-our-favou
rite-foods

On the history of going to the beach:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/inventing-beach-unnatural-history-natural-place-
180959538/ https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/07/03/the-weird-origins-of-going-to-
the-beach/

On the apple pie in history:

http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/03/482854462/as-chinese-iranian-and-indon
esian-as-apple-pie

On why the wealthy moved to cities in the 18th century:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2016/06/29/what-the-1880s-tell-us-about-
why-the-rich-are-moving-to-cities-today/

Feature on the first public historian:

http://www.historytoday.com/eleanor-parker/first-public-historian

Feature on the plague in various times:

http://www.livescience.com/55259-the-plague.html

Feature on the Renaissance:

http://www.livescience.com/55224-the-renaissance-the-rebirth-of-science-culture.html

Audio feature on Colin Renfrew:

http://blogs.getty.edu/iris/audio-colin-renfrew-on-a-life-in-archaeology/

On the effects of castration on a 19th century opera singer:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/06/28/how-castration-and-opera-chang
ed-the-skeleton-of-19th-century-singer-pacchierotti/#1be50c42c783

Plenty of coverage of the find of a Jewish escape tunnel near Vilnius:

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/30/484215874/archaeologists-discover-tunnel-dug-by-jews-to-
escape-nazis-in-lithuania http://www.livescience.com/55232-ponar-jewish-escape-tunnel-found.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-36664806 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/29/science/holocaust-ponar-tunnel-lithuania.html http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/secret-tunnel-second-world-war-nazi-m
assacre-lithuania-a7111561.html http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4821917,00.html http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=34663 http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.727829 http://www.timesofisrael.com/watch-jewish-prisoners-escaped-nazis-through-this-secret-t
unnel/ http://calgaryherald.com/news/local-news/calgary-geophysicists-help-uncover-world-war-
ii-escape-tunnel http://www.slate.com/blogs/future_tense/2016/06/30/archaeologists_used_technology_to
_uncover_a_tunnel_dug_by_jewish_prisoners.html http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/next/military/vilnius-tunnel/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3665779/Passage-hell-Tunnel-dug-using-s
poons-hands-Jewish-prisoners-escape-Nazi-death-squads-rediscovered.html

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Rembrandt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/02/arts/international/its-the-rijksmuseums-turn-to-host-r
embrandt-portraits.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

Chinese Emperors’ Treasures:

http://english.cctv.com/2016/07/02/VIDEdpyvUz6mJKOmQDumWekn160702.shtml

Alexander Hamilton:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/01/arts/design/the-many-faces-of-alexander-hamilton.ht
ml http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2016/06/alexander_hamiltons_ties_to_albany_
highlighted_in_tours_exhibit.html

Spain’s Golden Age;

http://www.dw.com/en/spains-golden-age-on-dw-news/a-19369819

Battle of the Somme:

http://www.sladmorecontemporary.com/zero-hour

William Merritt Chase:

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/28/483231216/meet-william-merritt-chase-the-man-who-taught
-americas-masters

Hubert Robert:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/a-painter-for-the-dont-go-there-
live-there-crowd/2016/06/27/d20b9f12-394f-11e6-8f7c-d4c723a2becb_story.html

Lewis Chessmen:

http://www.stornowaygazette.co.uk/news/local-headlines/chessmen-on-display-at-new-m
useum-in-july-1-4163578

Treasures from the Sicilian Sea:

http://www.oxfordtimes.co.uk/news/14580703.Sunken_treasures_come_to_light_at_the_
Ashmolean/

Greeks: Agamemnon to Alexander:

http://www.washingtoncitypaper.com/arts/museums-galleries/blog/20827012/the-greeks-
agamemnon-to-alexander-the-great-at-the-national-geographic-museum-reviewed https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/journey-through-5000-years-of
-greek-culture-at-national-geographic-museum/2016/06/30/3caa2a40-3c80-11e6-a66f-aa6
c1883b6b1_story.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/goingoutguide/museums/journey-through-5000-years-of
-greek-culture-at-national-geographic-museum/2016/06/30/3caa2a40-3c80-11e6-a66f-aa6
c1883b6b1_story.html

An Urartian museum is opening in Turkey:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/largest-urartian-museum-to-open-in-turkeys-east.aspx
?pageID=238&nid=100975&NewsCatID=375


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THE TECHY SIDE
================================================================
Hidden texts in the DSS:

http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.727615

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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
Latest genome to get press attention is the olive:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-decoding-genome-mediterranean-emblematic-treethe.html

DNA identifies the remains of an extinct species of tilapia in a 7th century shipwreck:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.726236


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Vermeer’s hometown:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/travel/vermeer-hometown-delft.html?rref=collection%
2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel

Mainland Greece:

http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/europe/greece-mainland-travel-guide-islands-beache
s-cheap-holidays-hiking-ancient-sites-tourist-attractions-a7113396.html

Herrenhausen Gardens:

http://www.dw.com/en/a-natural-jewel-the-herrenhausen-gardens/a-19359031


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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/06/culture-crime-news-20-26-june-2016.h
tml

On Germany’s new antiquities law:

http://theartnewspaper.com/market/art-market-news/what-germany-s-tough-new-law-could
-mean-for-the-antiquities-market-/


conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

Looting Matters:

http://lootingmatters.blogspot.com/

Illicit Cultural Property:

http://illicit-cultural-property.blogspot.com/

SAFE:

http://www.savingantiquities.org/blog/

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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
Australia’s National Gallery might have a couple more items to return to India:

http://www.canberratimes.com.au/act-news/canberra-life/two-more-antiquities-may-have-t
o-be-returned-by-the-national-gallery-of-australia-to-india-20160704-gpxyr4.html
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-04/national-gallery-sculptures-could-have-been-loot
ed/7566486

Egypt recovered a stela from France:

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egypt-retrieves-pharaonic-stone-tablet-france
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/232393/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/A-relief-of-
King-Nectanebo-II-recovered-to-Egypt-f.aspx

================================================================
NUMISMATICA
================================================================
A couple weeks’ worth of the e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n26.html http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n27.html


------------------------
Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
Il Trionfo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/04/arts/music/review-il-trionfo-and-pelleas-at-the-aix-en-
provence-festival.html

Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/nyregion/review-two-shakespeare-plays-but-with-few
er-deep-voices.html

================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2441-audio-news-fro
m-archaeologica-19-june-2016-25-june-2016 ================================================================
OBITUARIES
===============================================================
Fred C. Cook:

http://jacksonville.com/news/georgia/2016-07-01/story/brunswick-archaeologist-fred-c-co
ok-dead-74

Douglas Scwartz:

http://www.santafenewmexican.com/news/local_news/douglas-schwartz-a-towering-figur
e-in-archaeology-dies/article_e4c21653-07e7-5f16-9026-7ee7d75e1f2f.html


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CONFERENCES
================================================================

6th Rye Medieval Academic Conference (October 22):

https://sussexpast.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2016/03/Rye-conf-poster.pdf ================================================================
GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm ================================================================

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