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explorator 19.12 July 17, 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, Jona Lendering, Trevor
Watkins, Roger Gelder, 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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Footprints found back in 2009 suggest homo erectus walked just like us:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-homo-erectus.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160712110444.htm http://www.livescience.com/55388-homo-erectus-walked-like-humans.html http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/07/15/1-5-million-year-old-footprints-reveal-human
-ancestor-walked-like-us.html


http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/07/12/ciencia/1468321871_495105.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3687338/Homo-Erectus-walked-worked-An
alysis-1-5-million-year-old-footprints-reveal-human-like-gait-social-behaviours.html


… and another set of footprints is found in Tanzania:


http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-07/10/c_135502439.htm


How fossil finds from China are causing a rethink about human development:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-fossil-china-ideas-evolution-modern.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-china-is-rewriting-the-book-on-human-origi
ns/


http://www.nature.com/news/how-china-is-rewriting-the-book-on-human-origins-1.20231


Hype for a documentary about Neanderthals:


http://www.bbc.com/earth/story/20160711-the-last-neanderthal


More on evidence of Neanderthal cannibalism at Goyet:


http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/14/485682145/neanderthal-dinner-reindeer-w
ith-a-side-of-cannibalism




We don’t usually mention monkeys in Explorator, but this item on monkeys using stone
tools for some 700 years (in Brazil) is somewhat interesting:




http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/uoo-mib070116.php http://www.livescience.com/55350-monkeys-used-rocks-as-tools.html http://www.livescience.com/55298-stone-monkeys-gallery.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/36773966
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/36767373 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/monkeys-capuchins-cashew-nuts-stone-tools
-brazil-a7130881.html


https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/animalia/wp/2016/07/11/in-brazil-scientists-unear
th-a-trove-of-ancient-stone-tools-used-by-monkeys/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0711/These-monkeys-have-been-using-tools-for-
centuries-say-archaeologists


http://www.berkshireeagle.com/news/ci_30116029/scientists-unearth-trove-ancient-stone
-tools-used-by


http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/14612975.Monkeys_have_been_using_stone_tools_fo
r_centuries__Oxford_University_scientists_claim/


http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/capuchins-monkeys-stone-tools-archaeolog
y/


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3684616/Did-humans-learn-use-tools-MON
KEYS-Primates-Brazil-used-stones-crack-nuts-700-years-Americans-copied-them.html




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AFRICA
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Mud City in Mali has been added to UNESCO’s endangered sites list:


http://time.com/4405706/mali-unesco-site-endangered-instability/



… while Libya’s sites are the ‘most endangered’:


https://www.libyaherald.com/2016/07/14/libyas-archaeological-heritage-among-the-world
s-most-endangered/






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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Egypt has put some pyramid-builder era papyrus on display:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-egypt-oldest-papyrus-accounts-pyramid-builders.html


http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/07/14/world/middleeast/ ap-ml-egypt-antiquities.html


http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/jul/15/egypt-put-oldest-papyri-on-show/ http://www.timesofisrael.com/oldest-egyptian-writing-on-papyrus-displayed-for-first-time/


http://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/egypt-unveils-papyri-showing-daily-life-of-py
ramid-builders/
http://bigstory.ap.org/e0243fd7cecc43d38ab4a3034a5c1857


They’ve recreated the Great Pyramid’s ‘security system’:


http://www.livescience.com/55347-primitive-machine-in-great-pyramid-protected-pharaoh.
html




More on that mummified foetus first reported a few weeks back:


http://www.columbian.com/news/2016/jul/07/fetus-the-youngest-ancient-egyptian-mummy
-found/




Dendrochronology has fixed some ‘iffy’ parts of the Mesopotamian timeline:


http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/2016/07/cornell-led-research-resolves-long-debated-
mesopotamia-timeline


http://www.aina.org/ata/20160715161148.htm http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0157144


Brief/vague item on tombs found in a necropolis near Urfa Castle:


http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/worlds-largest-necropolis-in-turkeys-southeast.aspx?p
ageID=238&nID=101419&NewsCatID=375




Latest finds from Umm Al Quwain:


http://gulfnews.com/news/uae/government/new-archaeological-treasures-found-in-umm-a
l-quwain-1.1862748




The Mount Zion dig continues to find evidence of a priestly quarter in Jerusalem:


http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/.premium-1.730486


There’s more coverage of the Philistine necropolis at Ashkelon:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-israel-mystery-biblical-philistines.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/science/possible-philistine-cemetery-discovered.ht
ml


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-36759340 http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/ancient-philistine-cemetery-in-israel-could-s
olve-one-of-the-bible-s-biggest-mysteries-a7129601.html


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/10/first-philistine-cemetery-discovered-in-israel
-after-30-year-sea/


http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/07/10/485469088/long-buried-by-bad-reputa
tion-philistines-get-new-life-with-archaeological-find?sc=17&f=1007 http://www.npr.org/2016/07/14/485982293/archeological-dig-may-counter-bible-s-version-
of-the-philistines


http://www.euronews.com/2016/07/14/cultured-philistines-surprise-discovery-could-unloc
k-ancient-mysteries/ http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Bones-unearthed-in-Ashkelon-at-only-known-Philistine-
cemetery-may-reveal-ancient-mystery-459973


http://www.timesofisrael.com/philistine-cemetery-find-offers-glimpse-of-deaths-and-lives-
of-biblical-enemy/ http://forward.com/news/breaking-news/344635/philistines-were-more-sophisticated-than-
given-credit-for-say-archaeologist/


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/214741 http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.729879 http://www.algemeiner.com/2016/07/11/israeli-archaeologists-discover-ancient-philistine-
cemetery/


http://www.dw.com/en/who-were-goliaths-relatives-archaeologists-closer-to-uncovering-s
ecrets-of-the-philistines/a-19392151



http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/78009/big-archaeological-find-a-philistine-cemetery-in-
israel/ http://religionnews.com/2016/07/11/archaeologists-dig-up-philistine-artifacts-where-goliat
h-may-have-walked/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/philistines-werent-such-philistines-new-dig-
shows-180959757/ http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0711/The-Philistines-weren-t-such-philistines-aft
er-all-say-archaeologists http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2016/07/659-688271-9-a-tres-mil-anos-de-la-
pelea-con-david-excavan-la-ciudad-de-goliat.shtml


… and some scholarly reaction/criticism:


http://www.livescience.com/55402-first-philistine-cemetery-draws-criticism.html


… and some background pieces on the Philistines:



http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/07/17/in-defense-of-the-philistines.html


http://www.livescience.com/55429-philistines.html


More on the mosaics found at Huqoq:


http://www.livescience.com/55318-bible-mosaic-found-ancient-israel-synagogue.html




A bust at a Palestinian-owned shop in Jerusalem:


http://www.maannews.com/Content.aspx?id=772181


… and one in Istanbul:


http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/police-seize-priceless-2000-year-old-aphrodite-statue-i
n-istanbul.aspx?pageID=238&nID=101515&NewsCatID=509


http://vestnikkavkaza.net/news/2000-year-old-Aphrodite-statue-seized-in-Istanbul.html




Concerns for sites in Jordan:


http://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/looters-robbing-jordan%E2%80%99s-cultural-herit
age-expert-warns




Feature on Tell Gezer:


http://www.christianexaminer.com/article/50868.htm


Feature on Masada:


http://www.jpost.com/Blogs/Student-Life/Masada-the-history-the-legend-the-archaeology-
459944




On the DSS and origins of modern worship:


http://news.psu.edu/story/417058/2016/07/12/research/genesis-prayer


Feature on Manasseh:


http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/The-evil-king-Manasseh-Idolatry-and-politics-460115




Pondering how to deal with artifacts after the research is complete:


http://asorblog.org/2016/07/06/the-present-and-future-of-curating-the-past/


On (re)mapping the Ottoman Middle East:


http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/remapping-the-ottoman-middle-east.aspx?pageID=238
&nID=101559&NewsCatID=474




There’s a cuneiform conference type thing going on in Philadelphia:


http://www.newsworks.org/index.php/local/arts-culture/95304-experts-on-ancient-tablets-
gather-in-philly-with-a-mission




More on restoration at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-hidden-angel-mosaic-bethlehem-shrine.html


More on Jewish catacombs in Rome:


http://www.timesofisrael.com/inside-the-catacombs-buried-history-ties-jews-to-ancient-ro
me/




Polish archaeologists have returned to Palmyra:


http://www.warsawvoice.pl/WVpage/pages/article.php/28471/article


… and there’s an overviewish thing about what ISIL did there:


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-syria-palmrya-russia-forces-jo
urney-down-roman-road-to-barbarity-a7129406.html




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23 more ancient shipwrecks found off the Fourni archipelago:




https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160714100408.htm http://www.livescience.com/55375-45-shipwrecks-greek-island-fourni.html http://www.livescience.com/55372-photos-45-greek-shipwrecks-discovered.html http://www.lex18.com/story/32449493/transy-professor-studies-shipwrecks-in-the-medite
rranean-sea http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/new-discoveries-double-size-ancient-greek-
ship-graveyard-180959787/ http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/ancient-fourni-archipelago-ship
-graveyard-reveals-45-wrecks-spanning-thousands-of-years/news-story/fcba6829835b8e
b2e9b8609da02de3dc http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/07/12/23-ancient-shipwrecks-located-near-greek-isl
and-of-ikaria/ http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/07/greece-shipwrecks-discovery-fourni-ancient-
diving-archaeology/


Interesting Hercules mosaic from Larnaca (not sure if we mentioned this already):


http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/07/13/mosaic-sheds-important-light-roman-larnaca/


http://in-cyprus.com/invaluable-mosaic-discovered-in-larnaca/ http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-07-15/rare-roman-mosaic-uncovered-in-cyprus/7631368
http://www.usnews.com/news/entertainment/articles/2016-07-14/unique-roman-era-mosai
c-of-hercules-labors-to-go-to-museum


Roman baths and burials found during construction of an Orthodox church in Rome:


http://www.thelocal.it/20160711/ancient-roman-baths-and-tombs-found-as-rome-suburb-b
uilds-church




A Punic site in Zejtun:


http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20160712/local/uncovering-punic-remains-in-z
ejtun.618552




LiDAR reveals a missing Roman road in South Downs:



http://www.prnewswire.co.uk/news-releases/mysterious-prehistoric-farmers-and-missing-
roman-road-revealed-586419991.html




The Mamertine Prison has reopened to the public:


http://www.dw.com/en/roman-prison-with-holy-inmates-reopens/a-19399883 http://www.thelocal.it/20160714/ancient-prison-which-housed-st-peter-re-opens-in-rome
http://artdaily.com/news/88713/Roman-prison-with-holy-inmates-reopens-to-public https://www.yahoo.com/news/roman-prison-holy-inmates-reopens-public-185705870.html
http://m.france24.com/en/20160713-roman-prison-with-holy-inmates-reopens-public


First season that the ‘La Villa’ site in Castiglione del Lago:


http://www.depauw.edu/news-media/latest-news/details/32464/


Followup to the Colosseum restoration … there’s a new entrance:


http://www.thelocal.it/20160712/new-colosseum-door-to-offer-visitors-the-gladiator-experi
ence




UK MPs introduced a bill seeking the return of the Elgin/Parthenon Marbles to Greece:


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/elgin-marbles-parthenon-sculptures-at
hens-greece-mps-bill-return-reunification-british-museum-a7129801.html


http://www.ekathimerini.com/210316/article/ekathimerini/news/british-mps-to-unveil-bill-s
eeking-return-of-parthenon-marbles-to-greece


http://www.ekathimerini.com/210339/article/ekathimerini/news/uk-mps-back-bid-for-return
-of-parthenon-marbles


http://eu.greekreporter.com/2016/07/11/mps-introduce-bill-to-return-elgin-marbles-to-gree
ce-video/


http://observer.com/2016/07/uk-parliament-pushes-bill-to-return-elgin-marbles-to-greece/


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/britains-most-famous-plundered-art-could-fi
nally-go-home-180959792/


http://www.apollo-magazine.com/mps-call-return-elgin-marbles/


The folks at UMiss found an old Greek dictionary in their collection:


http://classics.olemiss.edu/historic-dictionary-discovered/


David Gilmour played Pompeii and it also spawned this really nice photo essay:


http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/ng-interactive/2016/jul/14/david-gilmour-live-at
-pompeii-a-photo-essay




A volcano near Rome is apparently going to erupt in the next 1000 years or so:


http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/25253/20160714/volcano-waking-up-beside-ro
me.htm


http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/07/13/dormant-volcano-poised-to-dest
roy-rome-in-1000-years/


http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0716/After-36-000-years-a-massive-volcano-near
-Rome-rumbles-to-life


… while they think they know what’s going on at the Phlegraean Fields:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-gas-ground-bay-naples-volcano.html


What Tim Winters is up to:


http://www.theleafchronicle.com/story/news/local/clarksville/2016/07/16/classics-profess
or-apsu-moonlights-deputy/87138926/




Academic Minute on gender in Rome:


https://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2016/07/12/academic-minute-gender-rome




A couple of items from the Pergamon exhibition at the Met will stick around for a while:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/arts/design/two-old-visitors-to-the-metropolitan-muse
um-will-stay-a-while.html http://www.broadwayworld.com/article/Two-Hellenistic-Treasures-from-Pergamon-Museu
m-Extend-Stay-at-The-Met-20160713


A visitor to the MMFA Pompeii exhibit damaged one of the plaster casts:


http://www.cjad.com/cjad-news-human-interest/2016/07/13/visitor-damaged-display-at-m
mfas-pompeii-exhibit




OpEd on using sites in Cyprus:


http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/07/16/view-state-consider-renting-archaeological-sites/




Review of Michael Scott, *Ancient Worlds*:


http://www.spectator.co.uk/2016/07/yes-classicists-ignore-the-east-this-books-shows-why
/






More on that late Roman burial featuring a very ornate belt:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-rare-discovery-late-roman-leicester.html http://www.livescience.com/55346-roman-solider-grave-found.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160707101031.htm




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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
An 11 000 years bp settlement in Cyprus:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-uncover-cyprus-year-old-village.html http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/07/12/remains-20-ancient-circular-buildings-uncovered-cypr
us-oldest-village/


http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/07/15/archaeologists-excavate-11000-year-old-settl
ement-in-cyprus/


http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/digs-uncover-buildings-cyprus-11000-year-
village-40517252




A flint arrowhead from Marden Henge:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3684605/A-deadly-beautiful-jigsaw-Delicat
e-5-000-year-old-flint-arrowhead-work-Stone-Age-master-craftsman.html?ITO=1490&ns_m
channel=rss&ns_campaign=1490





In addition to a Roman road, LiDAR revealed evidence of a ‘large scale pre Roman
farming collective’ at South Downs:


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-36771564 http://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-1308199/Laser-scans-reveal-extensive-far
ming-South-Downs-Romans.html



Nice account of the ‘Duropolis’ dig:


http://www.dorsetecho.co.uk/news/14603875.Skeletons_and_roundhouses__Dorset_slo wly_gives_up_its_prehistoric_secrets/




Nine Iron Age burials from Winterborne Kingston:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-36781509


Most of the press coverage this week was about what has been found at ‘Britain’s
Pompeii’ (the latest one, anyway)/Must Farm:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-latest-archaeological-farm-vivid-picture.html http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/latest-archaeological-finds-at-must-farm-provide-a-v
ivid-picture-of-everyday-life-in-the-bronze-age


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-36778820 https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/jul/14/uks-best-bronze-age-site-must-farm-dig
-ends-analyis-continue-years


http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/secrets-of-bronze-age-life-revealed-as-excavation-work
-ends-at-cambridgeshire-s-pompeii/story-29509918-detail/story.html


http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/dig-ends-as-history-making-bronze-age-finds-r
evealed-at-whittlesey-s-must-farm-1-7476663


http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/bronze_age_find_at_fenland_quarry_out_pompeiis_pompe
ii_1_4616891


https://inews.co.uk/essentials/news/uk/britains-pompeii-perfectly-preserved-bronze-age-
settlement-lifting-lid-3000-years-history/ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3688341/Was-Pompeii-Fens-hub-internatio
nal-trade-Finds-3-000-year-old-settlement-reveal-treasures-Middle-East.html


… and the site will be backfilled after a 10 month investigation:


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-36793052


… some of the coverage focused on the textiles found at the site:


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/vast-treasure-trove-of-fine-textil
es-shows-importance-of-fashion-to-bronze-age-britons-a7135786.html


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/14/treasure-trove-proves-we-have-been-keepin
g-up-with-the-joneses-s/


Evidence of the largest Anglo-Saxon building in Scotland:


http://www.eastlothiancourier.com/news/14620182.Archaeologists_find_evidence_of___
39_largest_Anglo_Saxon_building_in_Scotland__39__in_East_Lothian/




Rethinking the history of a Danish royal castle:


http://www.thelocal.dk/20160711/history-of-danish-royal-castle-to-be-rewritten




Some significant buildings found at Lindisfarne:


http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/lindisfarne-dig-reveals-evidence-sig
nificant-11617891




They’ve found St Cuthbert’s tower:


http://www.berwick-advertiser.co.uk/news/local-news/all-news/archaeologists-find-st-cuth
bert-s-tower-1-4175447


http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/news/local-news/archaeologists-hunt-for-st-cuth
bert-s-watchtower-on-holy-island-1-8009918




A major dig going on at the Wylfa Newydd site:


http://www.dailypost.co.uk/news/north-wales-news/massive-archaeology-operation-site-p
lanned-11618950


Hype for the upcoming dig at Tintagel:


http://www.westbriton.co.uk/archaeologists-get-set-for-new-excavations-at-tintagel-legend
ary-home-of-king-arthur/story-29512549-detail/story.html




I think we mentioned this oldest street in Yerewan:


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




The moved the marker marking (ouch) where King Harold is said to have died:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-36784485 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/13/king-harolds-death-place-moved-after-battle-
of-hastings-experts/


https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jul/14/battle-of-hastings-memorial-stone-move
d-1066




Catherine of Aragon’s home in Ludlow is up for sale:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-36768834


The Dig Diary at the Ness of Brodgar is interesting:


http://www.orkneyjar.com/archaeology/nessofbrodgar/




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Interesting 5 000 years bp ‘couple burial’ from near Lake Baikal:


http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/news/n0672-holding-hands-for-5000-years-a-
couple-with-mysterious-jade-rings-and-dagger/


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3687859/Hand-hand-5-000-years-Bronze-Age-dig
nitary-younger-concubine-discovered-buried-Siberia.html


2 000 years bp dog burials from Siberia:


http://www.livescience.com/55415-ancient-dog-graveyard-discovered.html http://www.livescience.com/55414-photos-prehistoric-dog-graveyard-siberia.html




Remains of Megalithic structures in Meghalaya:


http://indianexpress.com/article/india/india-news-india/megaliths-indicate-khasis-presen
ce-in-meghalaya-since-1200-bc-2906317/




A farmer’s find of Harrappan items has triggered a ‘gold rush’ in Bijnor:


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/meerut/Farmer-finds-Harappan-treasure-triggers-g
old-rush/articleshow/53244594.cms




Part of a 7th century padlock from a site in Nara:


http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201607140047.html


Interesting feature on a study of an 800 years bp child mummy from Siberia:


http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0240-up-close-laboratory-pictures-
of-ancient-mummy-as-scientists-recreate-his-life-and-times/


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3691745/Who-mysterious-child-mummy-Si
beria-Dissecting-ancient-organs-reveal-clues-800-year-old-boy-lived.html




More on Pacific islanders using obsidian tools for tattoo purposes:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-south-pacific-islanders-obsidian-years.html http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/did-ancient-pacific-islanders-use-obsidian-
make-their-tattoos-180959791/




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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
================================================================
Vandalism on a Civil War tombstone in Oswego:


http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/07/fort_ontario_cemetery_vandalized.ht
ml




Latest from the Bears Ears site:


http://www.cortezjournal.com/article/20160715/NEWS01/160719899/Archaeological-cente
r-calls-for-protection-for-Bears-Ears




Feature/obituary on Billy the Kid:


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/projects/cp/obituaries/archives/billy-the-kid




More on possible Lost Colony artifacts from Bertie County NC:


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/16/artifacts-possibly-from-lost-colony-fou
nd-in-berti/


http://www.thetimesnews.com/news/20160716/possible-lost-colony-artifacts-found-in-bert
ie-county


http://www.hickoryrecord.com/entertainment/artifacts-possibly-from-lost-colony-found-in-b
ertie-county/article_26914c16-4299-5cf4-a705-742563fe02f0.html




More on finds from toilets in Philadelphia:


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




More on what’s being found at the Alamo:


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


http://news4sanantonio.com/news/local/archaeologists-digging-for-evidence-of-alamos-w
est-wall-mapping-underneath-compound




More on Georgetown’s slavery connections:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/11/us/intent-on-a-reckoning-with-georgetowns-slavery-st
ained-past.html






================================================================
CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
Feature on Maya society:


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/laying-bare-the-bones-of-ancient-maya-society/




My Spanish isn’t working this morning but this seems to be about the Inca in pre-
conquest Chile:


http://www.latercera.com/noticia/cultura/2016/07/1453-688858-9-la-ciudad-inca-en-santia
go-que-pedro-de-valdivia-ignoro.shtml




More on that long-occupied Brazilian pit house:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-ancient-brazilian-pit-house-occupied.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/p-abp071416.php


More on that 1600 years bp female burial from Teotihuacan:


http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/07/15/actualidad/1468554286_006371.html






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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:


http://goo.gl/1VdeA


Ancient MesoAmerica News:


http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/ ================================================================
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
UNESCO has announced 9 (or maybe four) new heritage sites:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-unesco-world-heritage-sites.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/travel/travel_news/article-3691893/UNESCO-announces-4-new
-World-Heritage-Sites.html
http://whc.unesco.org/en/news/1524 http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54463 https://www.yahoo.com/news/unesco-adds-four-sites-world-heritage-list-131145475.html
http://www.thestandard.com.hk/breaking-news.php?id=77183


… and comments on cultural heritage destruction and threatened:


http://www.un.org/apps/news/story.asp?NewsID=54458 http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/attacks-on-world-heritage-sites-a-war-crime-unesco.as
px?pageID=238&nID=101469&NewsCatID=375


On chastity belts:


http://www.livescience.com/55390-what-are-chastity-belts.html


Interesting study of Rembrandt’s self portraits:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/14/science/rembrandt-old-master-optics-mirrors.html?rr
ef=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts&_r=0




Feature on Arthur Conan Doyle’s spiritualist side (obituary reprint):


http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/06/30/obituaries/nf-doyle.html?rref=collection%
2Fsectioncollection%2Fbooks




Pondering the origin of Biriyani:


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-36423412


Going along with the exhibition mentioned elsewhere, Van Gogh apparently sliced off his
whole ear:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-36772253 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/arts/international/van-gogh-ear-amsterdam.html


https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/jonathanjonesblog/2016/jul/12/vincent-van-go
gh-truth-about-ear-exhibition-on-verge-of-insanity-amsterdam


http://abcnews.go.com/Travel/wireStory/sketch-offers-evidence-van-gogh-cut-off-ear-4054
6823




… related animation project looks interesting:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/10/movies/animating-life-of-vincent-van-gogh-in-loving-
vincent.html


http://www.dw.com/en/painted-animation-loving-vincent/av-19387330 http://join.lovingvincent.com/


What happened on the original Bastille Day:


http://time.com/4402553/bastille-day-history-july-14/?xid=fbshare


A 100 years bp ‘jaws’ tale:


http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20160713-the-true-story-of-jaws


On ‘untranslatable’ words:


http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/the-magic-of-untranslatable-words/




On the history of clear sodas:


http://www.livescience.com/55354-crystal-pepsi-weird-history-of-clear-soda.html




Archaeology Podcast Network:


http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
================================================================
Charlotte Bronte:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/arts/design/a-bronte-exhibition-complete-with-a-jane-
eyre-manuscript.html




Divine Pleasures:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/arts/design/divine-pleasures-celebrates-the-colors-o
f-desire-in-indian-paintings.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts




Watteau:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/15/arts/design/watteaus-peacefully-bittersweet-war-sce
nes.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts




Buddhist Art Treasures from China:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/17/arts/design/replicas-illuminate-remote-buddhist-art-tr
easures-from-china.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts




Pergamon:


https://www.apollo-magazine.com/the-art-of-power-in-ancient-pergamon/


Matisse:


http://www.npr.org/2016/07/10/485432448/oklahoma-city-unveils-exclusive-north-america
n-matisse-exhibition




Van Gogh:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/arts/international/van-gogh-ear-amsterdam.html?rref
=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts


http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2016/07/9the-gun-used-by-van-gogh-to-kill-himse
lf-is-on-show-at-exhibition-about-his-madness/




The Louvre has a new app:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/13/arts/international/lost-at-the-louvre-theres-an-app-for-
that.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Farts






================================================================
THE TECHY SIDE
================================================================
Using 3d printing to recreate and date human ancestors:


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-student-d-printers-recreate-date.html


The turret of the USS Monitor is undergoing some 3d scanning:


http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/jul/16/uss-monitor-gun-turret-undergoes-3-d-
scanning/




Not sure if we mentioned this use of mass spectrometry on an ancient Greek vase:


http://www.spectroscopynow.com/details/news/155daa08ded/Mass-spectrometry-reveals
-contents-of-ancient-Greek-vase.html




================================================================
ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
DNA suggests a genetically diverse group was involved in spreading farming from the
Fertile Crescent (different spins on the varied genetics):


http://phys.org/news/2016-07-federal-stone-age-farming.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-07/jgum-gfz071416.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/07/160714151201.htm

http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-first-farmers-dna-20160714-snap-st
ory.html


http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-36788165 http://science.sciencemag.org/content/early/2016/07/13/science.aaf7943.full

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/07/2016/europeans-have-different-ne
olithic-ancestry-than-south-asians http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3690448/Does-farming-multiple-roots-DNA-
reveals-communities-began-growing-crops-10-000-years-ago-spreading.html?ITO=1490&
ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490


… related:


http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/07/15/485722228/where-did-agriculture-begin-o
h-boy-its-complicated




Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:


http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================

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