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

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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800 000 years bp homo erectus footprints from Eritrea:

http://www.australianetworknews.com/800000-year-old-footprints-discovered-eritrea-afric
a/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3650497/That-really-tracking-prey-Footprin
ts-left-Homo-erectus-hunting-party-800-000-years-ago-discovered-Eritrean-desert.html

Overviewish features about Lucy:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201606250020.html http://www.news24.com/Green/News/meet-3-million-year-old-lucy-shell-tell-you-a-lot-abou
t-modern-african-heritage-20160622-2 https://theconversation.com/meet-3-million-year-old-lucy-shell-tell-you-a-lot-about-moder
n-african-heritage-61312

Pondering hobbits and homo floresiensis:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/insider/are-hobbits-real.html

Not sure where to put this one … early humans liked to eat elephant heads apparently:

http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160614-the-people-who-ate-elephant-heads


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AFRICA
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Tracking migrations in sub Saharan Africa over the past 4000 years:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-scientists-reveal-sub-saharan-africa-year.html

On use of poison arrow technology in Eastern Africa:

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160617113639.htm

Concerns for cave art in Somalia:

http://www.news24.com/Africa/News/rocky-future-for-somalias-ancient-cave-art-20160626
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/wires/afp/article-3660468/Rocky-future-Somalias-ancient-cave
-art.html

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
The base of the Great Pyramid isn’t as ‘exact’ as we’re often told:

http://www.livescience.com/55118-great-pyramid-giza-is-slightly-lopsided.html http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/yes-a-new-study-reveals-the-great-pyramid-of-g
iza-isnt-a-perfect-square-but-its-still-a-structural-marvel http://finance.yahoo.com/news/something-off-egypt-oldest-largest-141820381.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3650650/The-leaning-tower-Giza-Engineer
s-discover-Great-Pyramid-wonky.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2016/06/659-686098-9-investigadores-descu
bren-un-error-en-la-construccion-de-la-gran-piramide-de-giza.shtml

… and a feature on how pyramids were built:

http://www.livescience.com/32616-how-were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-.html

Latest from KV55:

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/new-clues-may-unmask-myster
y-pharaoh/news-story/99bd327424462415d4ce3469bc7b4002 http://www.cairnspost.com.au/news/world/new-clues-may-unmask-mystery-pharaoh/ news-story/99bd327424462415d4ce3469bc7b4002

Photos from the Valley of the Kings:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/africa/egypt/articles/ inside-the-valley-of-the-kings/

Book reviewish thing on urban planning in ancient Egypt:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-chronicles-urban-ancient-egypt.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uoc-bcr062016.php

Interesting finds from Iraqi Kurdistan relating to the evolution of cities in Mesopotamia:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-iraqi-kurdistan-site-reveals-evolution.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uadb-iks062116.php http://www.uab.cat/web/newsroom/news-detail/x-1345668003610.html?noticiaid=134570
6063964

A pair of Israeli researchers are trying to force a rethink of domestication of agriculture in
the area:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.725932

… while another study suggests farming was invented twice in the region:

http://www.nature.com/news/farming-invented-twice-in-middle-east-genomes-study-revea
ls-1.20119

The harbour of ancient Byblos may have been located … but it’s complicated:

http://www.al-fanarmedia.org/2016/06/new-battle-in-one-of-the-worlds-oldest-cities/

Latest from Gath suggests Canaanites were sacrificing animals from Egypt:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.726027 http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0157650

Plans to dig at Turkey’s ‘little Venice’ (Apollonia):

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-start-at-turkeys-little-venice.aspx?PageID
=238&NID=100684&NewsCatID=375

Suggestion that Izmit might become Turkey’s ‘Second Ephesus’:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/Default.aspx?pageID=238&nid=100683

Remains of a monastery have been found in that underground city from Cappadocia (which was found in 2014):

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/monastery-new-discovery-in-underground-city-in-capp
adocia.aspx?pageID=238&nID=100762&NewsCatID=375

Possible Roman-era burial from a dig in Yemiskapani:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/skeleton-pieces-found-in-yemiskapani-excavations-.as
px?pageID=238&nid=100846&NewsCatID=375

Plenty of coverage of the beginning of the restoration of the Church of the Holy
Sepulchre (focus varies in these):

http://www.dw.com/en/restoring-the-holy-sepulcher/g-19345259 http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/urgent-work-has-begun-to-stabl
ise-the-tomb-of-christ-inside-jerusalems-holy-sepulchre/news-story/1f253ff9af1c325e602
133df83642493 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/workers-will-soon-enter-the-tomb-of-j
esus--and-repair-the-holy-stone-with-titanium-bolts/2016/06/20/f945a0b8-309a-11e6-ab9d
-1da2b0f24f93_story.html http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/for-the-first-time-in-200-years-scientists-will-ent
er-jerusalems-holy-rock-said-to-be-christs-tomb http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/25/what-the-hell-is-going-on-in-jesus-tomb
.html http://www.stuff.co.nz/world/middle-east/81336386/The-tomb-of-Jesus-to-be-restored

Egypt and Saudi Arabia signed an agreement regarding antiquities:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/223385/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypt-to-si
gn-archaeological-cooperation-agreement.aspx http://www.sis.gov.eg/En/Templates/Articles/tmpArticleNews.aspx?ArtID=105430

Feature on Palmyra:

http://www.historytoday.com/raoul-mclaughlin/when-all-roads-led-palmyra

Feature on Geza Vermes:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/this-day-in-jewish-history/1.726221

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Excavation of a shop in Pompeii has revealed skeletons and coins:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-skeletons-coins-ancient-pompeii.html http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/06/24/four-human-skeletons-appear-in
-ancient-shop-near-pompeii/ http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/skeletons-coins-found-dig-ancient-pompeii-
shop-40109656 http://globalnews.ca/news/2785544/archaeologists-discover-skeletons-coins-in-ancient-p
ompeii-shop/

They’ve found more Roman-associated finds at a dig at Ipplepen which is causing a bit
of a rethink of the extent of Roman influence:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-devon-36596636 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/roman-coins-unearthed-in-devon-redraw-map-of-th
e-empire-a7097206.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3656485/Romans-powerful-Britain-thought-
Discovery-coins-pottery-Devon-redraws-map-empire.html http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/romans-gave-devon-a-taste-for-the-exotic-kkr6tll6r
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art557183-ipplepen-exeter-
roman-archaeology-mediterranean-diet https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/22/roman-coins-devon-map-empire-ipple
pen http://www.torquayheraldexpress.co.uk/new-archaeological-finds-uncovered-at-village-ro
man-settlement/story-29427016-detail/story.html http://www.plymouthherald.co.uk/what-did-the-romans-ever-do-for-devon-built-a-motorway
-2-000-years-ago/story-29427412-detail/story.html

A Roman cemetery, including child burials, is revealed in Lincoln:

http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/roman-cemetery-discovered-in-lincoln-remains-of-babi
es-an-adult-and-ashes-revealed-so-far/story-29430705-detail/story.html http://www.lincolnshireecho.co.uk/pictures-emerge-of-roman-burial-ground-finds-as-dig-co
uld-end-without-uncovering-hundreds/story-29432552-detail/story.html http://thelincolnite.co.uk/2016/06/roman-skeletons-discovered-university-lincoln-building-
site/ http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art557244-lincoln-roman-sk
eleton-cemetery-river-witham


More on what high tech scanning has revealed about the Antikythera Mechanism:

http://www.livescience.com/55168-antikythera-mechanism-had-user-manual.html http://www.livescience.com/55143-antikythera-mechanism-inscriptions-photos.html http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/24208/20160624/2000-year-old-computer-used-
tell-future.htm http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/isawnews/~3/Sc0OsgGrVsk/professor-alexander-jones-res
earch-on-the-antikythera-mechanism-published-in-journal-almagest

… and more on recent finds from the associated shipwreck:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-artifacts-antikythera-shipwreck.html http://www.newser.com/story/227026/among-antikythera-shipwreck-finds-an-odd-item.htm
l http://www.capecod.com/newscenter/whoi-researchers-help-to-uncover-more-artifacts-fro
m-ancient-shipwreck/

New concerns for the Villa of the Mysteries:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/19/pompeiis-villa-of-mysteries-at-risk-of-collap
se/

Feature on Hadrian and Antinous:

http://www.ebar.com/arts/art_article.php?sec=books&article=1047

What Frank Sear is up to:

http://neoskosmos.com/news/en/Professor-Frank-Sear-takes-us-back-to-the-glory-Greece-
was

A Latin Immersion weekend:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2016/06/21/living-in-latin/

Feature on the Sleeping Hermaphrodite:

http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/27/arts/design/statue-hermaphrodite.html?rr
ef=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts

On Britain’s first ‘Brexit’:

http://keranews.org/post/britain-s-first-brexit-286-ad

Feature on an ancient poetic device:

http://chronicle.com/blogs/linguafranca/2016/06/16/an-ancient-poetic-device-called/

On some Classical influence on the latest ‘Game of Thrones’ episode:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/21/game-of-thrones-the-
actual-historical-roots-of-the-enormous-battle-of-the-bastards/ http://www.telegraph.co.uk/tv/2016/06/21/game-of-thrones-battle-of-the-bastards-facts/
http://time.com/4374748/battle-of-cannae-game-of-thrones/ ?xid=time_socialflow_facebook

A model of a Roman burial from Watton is on display:

http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/model_of_roman_skeleton_discovered_on_watton_buildin
g_site_is_unveiled_1_4590376

More on naval bases in the Piraeus:

http://www.livescience.com/55142-ancient-greek-naval-base-found.html

More on that ‘bronze wing’:

http://www.livescience.com/55108-bronze-wing-roman-sculpture-found.html


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http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
A 1400 years bp ‘sledge’ from a Norwegian glacier:

http://glacierhub.org/2016/06/21/1400-year-old-sledge-thawed-out-of-norwegian-glacier/

Hype for an upcoming dig at a VIking/’Gaelic’ site in the Outer Hebrides:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/lu-dtg062216.php

A medieval hunting lodge from New Forest:

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-hampshire-36570647

Studying a 17th century Dutch shipwreck off Iceland:

http://icelandmonitor.mbl.is/news/culture_and_living/2016/06/19/divers_explore_17th_c
entury_dutch_shipwreck_in_icel/

Remains of a mosque-like structure near a shrine to Suleiman in Hungary:

http://aa.com.tr/en/culture-and-art/mosque-ruins-hint-at-sultan-suleiman-shrine-in-hungar
y-/595976 http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/06/22/hungarian-archaeologists-find-mosque-rui
ns-hinting-at-sultan-suleiman-shrine

Assorted metal detectorist finds:

http://www.keighleynews.co.uk/news/14575095.Another_rare_discovery_for_metal_detec
tor_enthusiast/

Plans for a survey at Old Scatness:

http://www.shetlandtimes.co.uk/2016/06/21/new-survey-could-reveal-more-about-ancient-
archaeological-sites

Strange one: Britain is running out of space to store archaeological finds:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/25/britain-may-lose-historical-heritage-as-archa
eologists-admit-the/

On kings and carparks in Reading:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/shortcuts/2016/jun/13/kings-and-carparks-is-readin
g-the-new-leicester

Restoration of a 17th century fire engine associated with the Great Fire of London
suggests it wasn’t very effective:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/21/crude-great-fire-of-london-engines-could-onl
y-squirt-six-pints-o/ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jun/21/17th-century-fire-engine-restored-for-gr
eat-fire-of-london-exhibition

Latest attempt at figuring out how Stonehenge was built:

http://www.livescience.com/55106-stonehenge-experiment-how-massive-stones-were-mo
ved.html http://www.livescience.com/55103-photos-investigating-how-stonehenge-was-built.html

Feature on the ‘dancing mania’ in Aachen some 642 years bp:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/strange-case-dancing-mania-struck-german
y-six-centuries-ago-today-180959549/?no-ist

Feature on Grace O’Malley:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160615-the-pirate-queen-of-county-mayo

Reburial for some 1400 years bp Bamburgh skeletons:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-36610112

More on the development of wine in Georgia:

http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/06/17/was-georgia-the-cradle-of-win
e-who-cares-lets-drink/ https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-europeans-may-have-been-first-wine-makers
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/wine-used-for-ceremonial-pu
rposes-in-georgia-5000-years-ago

More on that 5000 years bp figurine from Skara Brae:

http://www.livescience.com/55141-lost-neolithic-figurine-rediscovered-in-scotland.html
http://www.livescience.com/55132-photos-skara-brae-neolithic-figurine.html


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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Oldest evidence of domesticated rice dates to 9000 years bp:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-team-farmed-rice.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uot-uot062216.php

A 14th century hangi from Wairu Bar (NZ):

http://www.stuff.co.nz/national/81276771/Ancient-cooking-oven-re-excavated-at-early-capi
tal-city-in-Marlborough

A Silla culture burial’s ‘long head’ is getting some attention:

http://www.livescience.com/55137-ancient-woman-with-long-head-korea.html http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/06/22/bizarre-long-headed-woman-from-ancient-ki
ngdom-revealed.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3652698/Why-long-face-Bizarre-elongated-
skull-woman-ancient-Silla-culture-discovered-Korea.html

Studying Palawan burials:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-exploring-prehistory-palawan-island-human.html http://feeds.sciencedaily.com/~r/sciencedaily/fossils_ruins/archaeology/~3/YnLSOTHRn8
M/160624140609.htm

Remains of a possible Buddhist monastery at Vadnagar:

http://www.dnaindia.com/india/report-gujarat-likely-remains-of-buddhist-monastery-found-
in-vadnagar-2225741 http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/asi-unearths-remains-of-buddhist-
monastery-in-vadnagar-gujarat-2864317/

Pondering the antiquity of Chennai:

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/Whats-Chennais-true-age-Over-2000-year
s-say-records/articleshow/52894565.cms

China and Uzbekistan are cooperating on a dig:

http://english.cctv.com/2016/06/21/VIDEE3HKGf1EIckYfkE19wm8160621.shtml

The political side of Chinese archaeology:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-36562116

More on LiDAR at Angkor Wat:

http://www.businessinsider.com/angkor-wat-cambodia-archaeologists-lidar-2016-6

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http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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A 12 000 years bp campsite near a New Brunswick Highway:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/new-brunswick/route-8-artifacts-12000-years-1.3648907
http://www.ctvnews.ca/sci-tech/12-000-year-old-campsite-found-near-n-b-highway-1.2959
412 http://atlantic.ctvnews.ca/ancient-artifacts-discovered-in-new-brunswick-1.2959317
http://globalnews.ca/news/2782411/12000-year-old-marysville-artifacts-give-indigenous-
people-glimpse-of-the-past/

A pre-contact campsite near Kamloops:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/construction-site-near-kamloops-uncove
rs-proof-of-pre-contact-indigenous-habitation-1.3650111

Digging a portage site near the Lachine rapids:

http://publications.mcgill.ca/reporter/2016/06/mcgill-leading-archaeological-field-work-in-
verdun/

Digging a Mississipian culture site near Beardstown (IL):

http://myjournalcourier.com/news/96916/group-uncovering-the-past http://foxillinois.com/news/local/ancient-village-found-in-central-illinois-corn-field-06-24-2
016

Looking for the first farmers in the Red River Valley:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/anthropolgy-students-lockport-farmers-1.36442
47?cmp=rss

Latest artifacts with a possible connection to the Lost Colony:

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/06/23/small-artifacts-north-carolin
a-lost-colony/86277914/ http://www.nbc12.com/story/32290868/archaeologists-find-artifacts-of-lost-colony-in-nc
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3654132/Artifacts-linked-Lost-Colony.html?
ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490 http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/06/22/artifacts-found-in-north-carolina-may-have-li
nk-to-lost-colony.html http://www.cbsnews.com/news/north-carolina-artifacts-lost-colony/ http://www.richmond.com/news/latest-news-ap/article_c060e2ab-0b05-5c86-aa0a-de4249
4c29ee.html http://www.sfchronicle.com/news/us/article/Artifacts-found-that-could-be-linked-to-Lost-83
17074.php

Revolutionary War items near Sandy Hook lighthouse:

http://newjersey.news12.com/news/revolutionary-war-era-artifacts-found-by-sandy-hook-l
ighthouse-1.11948799

Hidden burials from one of Houston’s earliest cemeteries:

http://www.chron.com/news/houston-texas/article/UH-project-uncovers-hidden-burial-site
s-in-one-of-8311770.php#item-38488

Looking for secret tunnels beneath a South Bend church:

http://wsbt.com/news/local/secret-tunnels-under-a-south-bend-church-archaeology-studen
t-digs-into-studebaker-past http://wsbt.com/news/local/archaeology-student-looks-into-secret-tunnels-at-old-local-chu
rch

On reconstructing ancient houses:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2016/06/26/01-reconstructing-ancient-cu
ltures-houses-part-art-part-science.html

There’s a Huron village buried in the heart of Toronto:

http://torontoist.com/2016/06/the-buried-huron-village-in-the-heart-of-toronto/

Revisiting the Calcium site for Native American artifacts:

http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/news03/archaeologists-reviewing-calcium-site-for-n
ative-american-artifacts-20160621

Followup to the discovery of plenty of sites after floods in Alberta a few years ago:

http://www.highrivertimes.com/2016/06/20/post-flood-archaeological-discoveries-an-ironi
c-beauty-to-a-devastating-event

Studying middens and the like in the Pacific Northwest:

http://around.uoregon.edu/content/ancient-fish-bones-shed-light-early-pacific-northwest-lif
e

The slavery connection to Jack Daniels:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/26/dining/jack-daniels-whiskey-nearis-green-slave.html

Reburial of some slave remains:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-long-forgotten-slave-reburied-ny-ceremony.html

I think we had this story of ‘saving the squash’ a few months ago, but now there’s a bee
connection too: http://phys.org/news/2016-06-agriculture-bees-pre-columbian-north-america.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/ncsu-hsa061516.php http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/23/483147072/how-native-american-tribes-sa
ved-a-giant-ancient-squash-from-oblivion

Georgetown’s slave-owning history:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/inspired-life/wp/2016/06/17/georgetowns-priests-
sold-her-ancestors-into-slavery-heres-how-she-cracked-the-mystery/

Latest in that Iowa pipeline dispute:

http://kicdam.com/news/170071-pipeline-through-burial-site-approved/

More on Michigan petroglyphs:

http://navajotimes.com/wires-wp/index.php?id=1671931800&kid=K62bPR5w4QZ27rfq

More on that 17th century shipwreck conservation thing in Texas:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-vessel-sank-years.html http://www.livescience.com/55160-la-belle-shipwreck-restoration.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jun/21/la-belle-france-ship-restored-texas-col
ony


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Remains of a mammoth (butchered by humans) from Mexico:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-mammoth-uncovered-mexico.html

… and again, humans (plus other factors) are being blamed for the demise of megafauna
in South America:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ancient-dna-storm-felled-ice.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160617160350.htm http://blogs.scientificamerican.com/laelaps/what-killed-south-america-s-megamammals/
http://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2016/06/20/la-accion-humana-la-piedra-rosetta-de-la-m
uerte-de-especies-gigantes-en-la-edad-de-hielo/

A 200 years bp mikveh from Venezuela has been authenticated:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/venezuelan-jews-authenticate-19th-century-mikveh/ http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/343421/venezuela-jews-certify-200-year-old-mikv
eh/


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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 ================================================================
On the development of cubism:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/25/arts/design/two-views-of-cubism.html?rref=collection
%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/24/arts/design/before-he-was-a-cubist-picasso-was-an-i
nvertebrate.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

… while a Picasso fetched big bucks at auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/23/arts/design/picassos-femme-assise-sells-for-63-7-mi
llion-an-auction-high-for-cubism.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Some Bloomsday-associated items:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/16/travel/bloomsday-james-joyce-dublin-paris-london.ht
ml?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Ftravel http://www.npr.org/sections/codeswitch/2016/06/19/482509752/food-to-celebrate-freedom
-tea-cakes-for-juneteenth

… and Solstice:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0621/Summer-solstice-celebrated-this-year-with-
the-arrival-of-a-strawberry-moon

On Manet and Degas:

http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-when-manet-met-degas-61081

Love letters from the Somme:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-northern-ireland-36600646

Feature on Michelangelo’s ‘Creation of Adam’:

http://www.dw.com/en/a-masterpiece-the-creation-of-adam/a-19347559

… and Raphael’s Sistine Madonna:

http://www.dw.com/en/masterpieces-revisited-the-sistine-madonna/a-19344833

… and a Degas with a really long title:

http://theconversation.com/heres-looking-at-edgar-degas-woman-seated-on-the-edge-of-th
e-bath-sponging-her-neck-61196

On Henry VIII as a Brexit pioneer:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/21/world/europe/a-british-divorce-from-europe-henry-viii
-blazed-the-trail.html

All about Rosie the Riveter:

http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160602-the-truth-about-rosie-the-riveter

A ‘secret agent’ bought paintings to return them home:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-36584086

Feature on assorted sea monsters:

http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160620-the-monsters-hidden-beneath-the-sea

On the history of the university:

https://www.insidehighered.com/views/2016/06/20/historian-evaluates-universities-begin
ning-until-now-essay

On Emily Dickenson’s gardens:

http://www.npr.org/2016/06/18/482478311/nevermind-the-white-dress-turns-out-emily-dic
kinson-had-a-green-thumb

On Muhammad Ali’s original name:

http://news.yale.edu/2016/06/09/muhammad-ali-originally-named-ardent-abolitionist-and-
yale-alumnus-cassius-clay

More on maps with north pointing up:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160614-maps-have-north-at-the-top-but-it-couldve-been
-different


Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Dadaglobe Reconstructed:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/17/arts/design/a-plan-to-spread-dada-worldwide-revisite
d-at-moma.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign

Sicilian treasures:

http://artdaily.com/news/88354/-Storms--War-and-Shipwrecks--Treasures-from-the-Sicilia
n-Seas--on-view-at-the-Ashmolean-Museum http://www.bicesteradvertiser.net/news/bicester/14580703.Sunken_treasures_come_to_l
ight_at_the_Ashmolean/

Quran:

http://www.theintelligencer.net/news/national-news/2016/06/smithsonian-to-host-first-maj
or-u-s-quran-exhibit/ http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/2016/0621/Smithsonian-will-mount-first-ever-major-US-Qu
ran-exhibit

Japanese Masks:

http://www.firstpost.com/fwire/paris-exhibition-displays-chirac-like-18th-century-japanese
-masks-reuters-2846188.html

More indications of financial troubles at the Met:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/20/arts/design/3-leaders-at-the-metropolitan-museum-of
-art-step-down.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Fdesign


================================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
================================================================
Feature on some librarians’ skills at book restoration:

http://chronicle.com/article/3-Librarians-Bring-Skills-in/236835

Using LiDAR to map beer caves in Iowa:

http://clas.uiowa.edu/geography/resources/news/iowa-city-beer-caves-lidar-scanning-pro
ject http://www.press-citizen.com/story/news/local/2016/06/20/mapping-iowa-citys-beer-cave
s/86150532/ http://www.thegazette.com/subject/news/government/iowa-city-mapping-beer-caves-with-
new-technology-20160620

Xraying cat mummies:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/cat-mummies-egypt-scans-atomic-imaging-a
rchaeology-science/

Scanning some mummies in Spain:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3629432/Peering-beneath-bandages-3D-sc
ans-four-mummies-reveal-new-insights-lives-deaths.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&
ns_campaign=1490

Looking for sites with Cold War spy photos:

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2016/06/among-the-remnants/488279/

3d printing a 17th century shipwreck from Scotland:

http://www.livescience.com/55097-shipwrecks-recreated-with-3d-printing.html

More on LiDAR in Cambodia:

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/24093/20160623/lasers-reveal-ancient-hidden-
cities-in-cambodia.htm http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/19/mysterious-earth-mounds-discovered-by-las
ers-at-reveal-hidden-ca/

More on monumental platforms at Petra found with satellite technology:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/science/petra-platform-sarah-parcak.html?rref=collec
tion%2Fsectioncollection%2Fscience http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/19/did-this-ancient-site-just-get-more-myst
erious.html


================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
DNA reveals an East Asian origin for Himalayan popuolations:

http://phys.org/news/2016-06-highland-east-asian-prehistoric-himalayan.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/uoo-rfh062016.php

Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Koblenz:

http://www.dw.com/en/a-taste-of-riverside-culture-in-koblenz/a-19342512

Cervante’s Spain:

http://www.smithsonianmag.com/travel/explore-miguel-de-cervantes-spain-180959013/


================================================================
CRIME BEAT
================================================================
A major bust in Kerala:

http://www.newsgram.com/antiquity-theft-police-seizes-a-house-full-of-treasure-trove-in-k
erala/

… and Spain:

http://www.artsjournal.com/2016/06/police-in-spain-seize-10000-stolen-artworks-and-anti
quities.html

Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/06/culture-crime-news-13-19-june-2016.h
tml

Questioning the provenance of Bible Museum items (already):

http://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2016/06/23/provenance-christian-antiquities-questi
oned/85480398/

The BM seems to have tax problems:

http://www.museumsassociation.org/museums-journal/news/22062016-bm-legal-dispute-
720000-tax-bill


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/

================================================================
REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY ================================================================
Returning a long-lost war medal to a family:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-south-east-wales-36597103

Peru recovered a number of items from various countries this week:

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-peruvian-antiques-returned-109817 http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/first-nations-artifacts-1.3648570?cmp=rs
s http://www.timescolonist.com/opinion/editorials/editorial-artifacts-return-vital-to-cultures-
1.2285303

Bolivia recovered some items from Germany:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-06/22/c_135455568.htm

On the cost of returning First Nations heritage:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/first-nations-artifacts-1.3648570

Seeking the return of an Aboriginal shield:

http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/descendant-of-warrior-demands-
british-museum-return-shield/7538310

… and another auction halted related to a different shield:

http://www.fultonsun.com/news/national/story/2016/jun/22/tribes-hail-shields-halted-sale-
collectors-ask-whats-next/628505/

More on Israel returning sarcophagi lids to Egypt:


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