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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan
Astudillo,
Hernan Astudillo, David Critchley, Towse Harrison, Rick Heli,
Richard Campbell, Richard C. Griffiths,and Ross W. Sargent for headses
upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).


... a bit of a slow week ...

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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First evidence of Neanderthal cannibalism in northern Europe:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-evidence-neanderthal-cannibalism-northern-europe.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160706092806.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uotb-tfe070716.php http://www.uni-tuebingen.de/newsfullview-landingpage/article/kannibalismus-unter-den-spaeten-neandertalern-im-noerdlichen-europa.html

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2016/neanderthal-bones-from-goyet-show-signs-of-butchering

http://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/06/belgian-neanderthals-were-eating-each-other-40000-years-ago?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


More on new dating for naledi:

https://www.sciencenews.org/article/new-dating-suggests-younger-age-homo-naledi

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AFRICA
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More on Somalia’s 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 ================================================================
Excavating a necropolis in the Temple of Hatshepsut:

http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,410366,polish-archaeologists-studied-a-unique-necropolis-in-egypt.html


Update on that 12 000 years bp female shaman burial from Galilee found a
few years ago … now focusing on evidence of a ritual meal:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-reconstruction-year-funeral-feast-ancient.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/thuo-ro1070516.php http://new.huji.ac.il/en/article/31675 http://www.livescience.com/55295-female-shaman-burial-reconstructed.html http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/344235/12-000-year-old-grave-of-female-shaman-uncovered-in-galilee/

http://www.timesofisrael.com/12000-year-old-grave-of-shaman-woman-unearthed-in-galilee/

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.728880 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3678881/Israeli-shaman-burial-reveals-lavish-funeral-practices-Natufian-period.html

https://www.yahoo.com/news/12-000-old-shamans-elaborate-funeral-had-6-151006656.html

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2016/reconstruction-of-12000-year-old-funeral-feast


Plenty of excitement over the find of a Philistine burial ground at
Ashkelon:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-israel-mystery-biblical-philistines.html http://www.timesofisrael.com/philistine-cemetery-find-offers-glimpse-of-deaths-and-lives-of-biblical-enemy/

http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Bones-unearthed-in-Ashkelon-at-only-known-Philistine-cemetery-may-reveal-ancient-mystery-459973

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/science/possible-philistine-cemetery-discovered.html?_r=0

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-archaeology-idUSKCN0ZQ0DG http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/bible-philistine-israelite-israel-ashkelon-discovery-burial-archaeology-sea-peoples/

http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/israel-find-solve-mystery-biblical-philistines-40469390

http://www.euronews.com/newswires/3218180-philistines-were-more-sophisticated-than-given-credit-for-say-archaeologists/


Remains of a 2700 years bp street from Yerevan:

http://arka.am/en/news/society/archaeologists_discover_oldest_street_in_yerevan/


They’ve found more interesting mosaics at Huqoq:

http://uncnews.unc.edu/2016/07/05/new-mosaics-discovered-synagogue-excavations-galilee-2/

http://www.timesofisrael.com/noahs-ark-splitting-of-red-sea-appear-in-newfound-mosaic-at-ancient-synagogue/

http://newswise.com/articles/baylor-university-scholar-and-students-help-unearth-ancient-mosaics-and-coins-in-synagogue-ruins-in-israel

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/mosaic-synagogue-huqoq-israel-magness-archaeology/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3681609/Ancient-mosaics-Red-Sea-parting-Noah-s-Ark-discovered-5th-century-synagogue-Israel.html


On some DSS research in Norway:

http://sciencenordic.com/dead-sea-scrolls-still-conceal-many-stories

An antiquities bust near Yeroham:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/363712

Robinson’s Arch and the Western Wall saga:

http://www.jpost.com/Magazine/Secrets-uncovered-near-Robinsons-Arch-456448

On the origins of the Star of David:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-did-the-six-pointed-star-become-associated-with-judaism-180959693/?no-ist


More on restoration work in the Church of the Nativity:

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/07/08/italians-restore-900-year-old-mosaics-at-bethlehem-church/


ISIL release a video about its activities in Palmyra:

https://www.rt.com/news/349806-isis-palmyra-antiquities-destruction-video/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
They’ve digitized the Vatican Vergil:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/innovations/wp/2016/07/08/the-vatican-just-digitized-this-1600-year-old-epic/


Interesting bronze Roman belt buckle from Leicester:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2016/decorated-roman-bronze-belt-found-in-leicester-excavations


Feature on Arthur Evans:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/only-in-britain/archaeologist-adventurer-arthur-evans-born/


Feature on that Roman gladiator school found in Austria:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/discovery-roman-gladiator-school-brings-famed-fighters-to-life-180959489/?no-ist


Interesting project looking at gladiator-fan graffiti:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2016/07/04/new-project-uncovers-ancient-games-and-gladiators-through-the-graffiti-of-the-fans/


A biologist weighs in on a scene on a Greek pot:

http://www.knox.edu/news/news-archive/knox-biology-professor-uses-her-expertise-to-explain-ancient-greek-art


On evidence of Rome’s trade links with Chennai:

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/chennai/chennais-ancient-trade-link-with-rome-unearthed/article8805464.ece


On the physics of Roman buildings:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/chadorzel/2016/07/07/what-ancient-roman-buildings-teach-us-about-science-and-engineering/


More restoration of the Colosseum is on the way:

http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=76688

Philippi is seeking UNESCO heritage status:

http://www.ekathimerini.com/210249/article/ekathimerini/life/philippi-hoping-for-unesco-listing



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Evidence of farming in Scotland some 10 000 years bp:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2016/archaeologists-uncover-earliest-farming-activity-recorded-in-scotland-so-far


A Neolithic flint axe found by a drain digger in Denmark:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-36736161

Digging has commenced at an ‘untouched’ Bronze Age burial in Lancashire:

http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36756107

Interesting human jawbone (and a whalebone) ‘burial’ in Orkney:

http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art558332-prehistoric-cairn-whalebone-teeth-orkney-island


2500 years bp axe fragments from a dig in Herefordshire:

http://www.herefordtimes.com/news/14602105.Axe_fragments_from_more_than_2_500_years_ago_discovered_at_south_Herefordshire_farmland/


What Viking burials from Ribe are revealing:

http://sciencenordic.com/danish-viking-grave-reveals-archaeological-mysteries


Possible evidence of the location of the Lindisfarne Monastery:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-tyne-36712209

Finds from various periods in a dig in Kilkenny:

http://www.kilkennypeople.ie/news/home/210657/in-vino-veri-cas--ancient.html


They’re fixing Big Ben:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160704-the-big-ben-renovation-and-how-the-clock-works


Rethinking how mobile knights were in medieval armour:

http://gizmodo.com/new-study-busts-the-myth-that-knights-couldnt-move-well-1783051334



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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================

Brief item on Iron/Megalithic Age finds from Peraiyur taluk :

http://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Madurai/antiquities-unearthed/article8817793.ece


Evidence that Bazira is the oldest settlement in Swat:

http://tribune.com.pk/story/1137203/ancient-relics-bazira-treasure-trove-antiquity/


A pair of 9th/10th century Buddha idols from a temple tank (?) from
Prakasam:

http://www.thehindu.com/todays-paper/tp-national/tp-andhrapradesh/buddha-idols-found-in-temple-tank-debris/article8830033.ece


Studying tattooing methods in the South Pacific:

http://www.livescience.com/55289-prehistoric-tattoos-made-with-glass-tools.html


Tracking Polynesian sailors’ movements:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-sailors-ancient-fingerprints-polynesia.html

Plenty of artifacts from a Melbourne pub site:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news/archaeological-dig-uncovers-250000-artefacts-at-mistletoe-hotel-site-former-melbourne-gold-rush-pub/news-story/7c25843e46d6ce3e2e579e0827c78e53

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3674501/Major-archaeological-dig-unearths-seedy-underbelly-Melbourne-150-years-ago.html


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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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Bison bones found in a cache pit being excavated at Prehistoric Indian
Village:

http://www.mitchellrepublic.com/news/local/4067204-1000-year-old-bison-skeleton-uncovered-prehistoric-indian-village


They’ve located the site of the Battle of Port Royal Island:

http://www.blufftontoday.com/beaufort/2016-07-05/lowcountry-battlefield-where-declaration-independence-signers-fought-discovered


Latest from the Alamo:

http://austin.blog.statesman.com/2016/07/07/heres-what-archaeologists-digging-around-the-alamo-are-hoping-to-find/


Trying to identify an 18th century shipwreck in the St Lawrence:

http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/it-s-like-a-puzzle-students-working-to-identify-ancient-shipwreck-found-off-quebec-1.2973039


A 1990 bone theft of Native American remains was more extensive than
previously thought, apparently:

http://minnesota.cbslocal.com/2016/07/04/iowa-bone-theft-park-service/

On Mary Todd Lincoln’s health issues:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/health/mary-todd-lincoln-pernicious-anemia/index.html


On Ben Franklin’s health ideas:

http://www.livescience.com/55279-benjamin-franklin-health-ideas.html http://theconversation.com/dr-franklin-i-presume-the-founder-who-could-have-been-our-founding-physician-60754


Feature on the Star Spangled Banner:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/jul/04/star-spangled-banner-national-anthem-british-origins


A Jefferson letter found in an attic has gone on sale:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/07/06/politics/thomas-jefferson-rare-letter-for-sale-discovered-attic/index.html


Review of a couple of books on the impact of the US Postal Service:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/books/review/neither-snow-nor-rain-and-how-the-post-office-created-america.html


More on things found in 300 years bp toilets in Philadelphia:

http://www.livescience.com/55301-toilets-from-old-philadelphia.html http://www.livescience.com/55288-photos-artifacts-from-philadelphia-toilets.html

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/07/07/treasures-from-american-history-found-covered-in-300-year-old-human-poop-in-an-old-brothel/

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tens-thousands-artifacts-recovered-colonial-philadelphia-toilets-180959687/


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Pre-Hispanic petroglyphs from near Machu Picchu:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-paintings-discovered-near-machu-picchu-109890


Interesting female burial featuring ‘stone encrusted teeth’ from
Teotihuacan:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-skeleton-stone-encrusted-teeth-mexico-ancient.html

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3680474/1-600-year-old-woman-jewels-teeth-discovered-ancient-Mexican-burial-ground.html


Evidence that the pit house dwellers of Brazil lived in the same houses
for
centuries:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-ancient-brazilians-occupied-homes-centuries.html

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uoe-abo070416.php http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2016/07/06/Ancient-Brazilians-occupied-the-same-houses-for-centuries/5031467834703/


On the Jewish pirates of Jamaica:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/forgotten-jewish-pirates-jamaica-180959252/


On Britain’s forgotten colony in Suriname:

http://www.historytoday.com/matthew-parker/britains-forgotten-south-american-colony


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http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
The D-PLACE database might be useful:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-massive-open-access-database-human-cultures.html


On lessons of history for the US (don’t quite get this one):

http://www.historytoday.com/peter-frankopan/victims-their-own-success

Recreating a 16th century Basque whaling boat:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/theres-lot-more-basque-boat-meets-eye-180959675/


Poking around Shakespeare documents finds some interesting things:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/researcher-unearths-trove-new-shakespeare-documents-180959673/


On the early history of the cannabis trade:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2096440-founders-of-western-civilisation-were-prehistoric-dope-dealers/


The New York Times reprinted the obit for Sir Arthur Conan Doyla:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/arthur-conan-doyle-sherlock-holmes

http://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1930/07/08/129130552.html

On what nearsighted people did before glasses were invented:

http://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2016/07/07/484835077/what-did-nearsighted-humans-do-before-glasses


Another Noah’s Ark replica … this time, in Kentucky:

http://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jul/06/noahs-ark-encounter-kentucky-replica-unveiled?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other


Feature on the Enlightenment:

http://www.livescience.com/55327-the-enlightenment.html

Marking the 100th anniversary of Dada:

http://mobile.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/arts/dada-100-years-later.html

Feature on the Tunguska meteorite impact:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160706-in-siberia-in-1908-a-huge-explosion-came-out-of-nowhere



Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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David Ligare:

http://www.metroactive.com/arts/David-Ligare-Exhibit-Triton-Museum-Santa-Clara-Classicism.html


The Ptolemaic Galleries at the Met got a bit of a facelift:

http://theartnewspaper.com/news/museums/ptolemaic-galleries-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of-art-get-a-facelift/



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THE TECHY SIDE
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They’ve figured out why the Codex purpereus is purple:

http://www.livescience.com/55310-urine-dye-found-in-ancient-gospel.html

Looking inside a Greek amphora with mass spectrometry:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-scientists-mass-spectrometry-ancient-greek.html

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160706174403.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/miop-sum070616.php http://eu.greekreporter.com/2016/07/07/scientists-use-mass-spectrometry-to-analyze-an-ancient-greek-amphora/


Using 3d scanning techniques to recreate the ‘brain’ of a 17 000 years bp
child from Italy:

http://www.thelocal.it/20160708/17000-year-old-italian-skull-reveals-hunter-gatherer-brain


Not sure where to put this one … tracking the human skeleton trade with instagram:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/07/06/this-archaeologist-uses-instagram-to-track-the-human-skeleton-trade/#c81ecdd30b10



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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
On the genetic history of Madagascar:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-island-history-human-genetic-ancestry.html

DNA from some Inca mummies is suggesting they had ‘antibiotic resistance’:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2096495-antibiotic-resistance-discovered-in-the-guts-of-ancient-mummies/



Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
On evidence for Arabia once being wetter:

https://www.insidescience.org/content/what-ancient-rock-art-reveals-about-wetter-arabia/4071


Archaeology suggests there’s no link between climate change and human innovation:

http://phys.org/news/2016-07-archaeology-link-climate-early-human.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/p-asn063016.php

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CRIME BEAT
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Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/07/culture-crime-news-27-june-3-july-2016.html



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 ================================================================
Italy recovered some important items from Denmark:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/arts/design/those-italian-artifacts-actually-were-looted-danish-museum-now-says.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

http://www.thelocal.it/20160706/italy-gets-back-stolen-gold-cart-of-etruscan-prince-from-denmark
http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/arcablog/~3/ktHZSelSDjc/mediation-over-litigation-looted.html

… which seems to have resulted in an important agreement:

http://artdaily.com/news/88605/Historic-agreement-between-Italy-and-the-Ny-Carlsberg-Glyptotek


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NUMISMATICA
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I think we mentioned this major Roman coin hoard find last year:

http://www.knutsfordguardian.co.uk/news/14604242.Almost_8_000_Roman_coins_were_unearthed_in_a_field_in_Peover_Superior/


More on those Roman coins found in a wreck off Caesarea:

http://www.numismaster.com/ta/numis/Article.jsp?ad=article&ArticleId=28277

Latest e-Sylum:

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

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n28.html


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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED ================================================================
Midsummer Night’s Dream:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/06/theater/review-a-midsummer-nights-dream-for-a-nimble-audience.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts


Taming of the Shrew:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/books/review/touch-up-your-shakespeare-anne-tyler-recasts-the-taming-of-the-shrew-for-our-time.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks


Richard III:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36707086

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

http://archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2442-audio-news-from-archaeologica-26-june-2016-2-july-2016

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OBITUARIES
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John Lindstrom:

http://www.gjsentinel.com/news/articles/renowned-gj-archaeologist-dies-at-age-67


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CONFERENCES
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6th Rye Medieval Academic Conference (October 22):

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Archaeology Magazine News Page:

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About.com Archaeology:

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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:

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