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explorator 19.08 June 19, 2016 ===============================================================
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Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping I have left no one out).
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Possible million year old (!) tools from Tarragona:
http://www.catalannewsagency.com/society-science/item/tools-that-may-be-a-million-yea
rs-old-discovered-near-tarragona
On the effect supernovae 2 million years ago may have had on human behaviour:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2093270-supernovae-2-million-years-ago-may-have
-changed-human-behaviour/
Earliest (so far) homo erectus footprints from Eritrea:
http://www.thelocal.it/20160615/italian-team-unearths-800k-year-old-homo-erectus-footpri
nt
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/science_tecnology/2016/06/15/homo-erectus-footprints-f
ound-3_6c1d22b8-4e95-4e9f-8ac5-c82c198beec3.html
Suggestion that homo floresiensis was ‘barbecuing mini elephants’:
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2016/06/14/hobbits-probably-barbecued-mini-
elephants-indonesian-island-globalpost/85857614/
Rethinking human evolution (sort of):
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-giant-mankind-weve-human-evolution.html
More on homo floresiensis ancestry:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/deadthings/2016/06/08/return-to-flores-hobbit-homini
n-ancestor-discovered/
http://artdaily.com/news/88034/Likely-ancestor-of-mystery--hobbit--found http://www.latercera.com/noticia/tendencias/2016/06/659-684202-9-descubren-restos-de-
supuestos-antepasados-del-hobbit-de-indonesia.shtml
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AFRICA
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Interesting feature on wartime archaeology in Libya:
http://blog.nationalarchives.gov.uk/blog/archaeology-libya-second-world-war/
More on that Namibian shipwreck:
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0611/Shipwreck-miners-hit-gold-and-something-
more-exciting
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
A study of KV55 is in the works:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/223041/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Study-aim
s-to-uncover-mystery-of-Luxors-tomb-KV-.aspx
Interesting photos of excavations in Egypt in the 1910s:
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2016/jun/15/sands-of-time-ancient-eg
ypt-excavated-in-pictures
What Alex Loktionov is up to with Egyptian legal texts:
http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/baboon-tax-collectors-phd-student-alex-loktionov/
story-29400908-detail/story.html
Feature on how the pyramids were built (sort of):
http://www.livescience.com/32616-how-were-the-egyptian-pyramids-built-.html
Plans to restore the Mohammed Ali Palace:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/222834/Heritage/Islamic/Egypts-Antiquitie
s-Minister-gives-goahead-for-Moha.aspx
Yigma Tepe might be the burial ground for Attalid royalty:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.725089
Recent finds from Tel Rumeida in Hebron:
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/70054/archaeologists-battle-historical-political-right-
excavate-hebron-neighborhood/
http://www.i24news.tv/en/news/israel/politics/116773-160615-science-meets-politics-as-
second-temple-era-artifacts-found-in-west-bank
Plenty of coverage of the bust of a shop in an upscale Jerusalem Mall which was selling
antiquities without the new permit:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/shop-in-upscale-jerusalem-mall-busted-for-antiquities-sale
s/
http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4205 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Hundreds-of-illegally-traded-artifacts-seized-by-Antiquit
ies-Authority-in-Jerusalem-456828
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/213665 http://www.ynet.co.il/articles/0,7340,L-4816014,00.html http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/illegal-antiquities-trader-busted-in-jeru
salem-raid/2016/06/15/
http://artdaily.com/news/88135/Hundreds-of-ancient-Artifacts-that-were-traded-without-a-li
cense-were-seized-during-a-raid
A very interesting followup to the Gospel of Jesus Wife story (it’s very long, but worth
reading):
http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2016/07/the-unbelievable-tale-of-jesus-wife/
485573/
… and Karen King’s response:
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/06/karen-king-responds-to-the-unbelieva
ble-tale-of-jesus-wife/487484/
… and summary and commentary pieces:
http://www.livescience.com/55110-gospel-of-jesus-wife-a-fake.html https://www.bostonglobe.com/metro/2016/06/17/the-gospel-jesus-wife-fake/qvl3Vf3EXY8c
J31pqTQoOJ/story.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3646515/Gospel-Jesus-historian-admits-s-probab
ly-forgery.html
St Mercurius underground city (Cappadocia) is opening to visitors:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/st-mercurius-underground-city-in-turkeys-cappadocia-r
eady-for-visitors.aspx?pageID=238&nID=100420&NewsCatID=375
… while Gobekli Tepe is closing:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gobeklitepe-to-be-closed-to-visitors-.aspx?pageID=238
&nID=100389&NewsCatID=375
Concerns for the Dead Sea:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-36477284
More on that find of a massive platform in Petra:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-archaeologist-hidden-monument-jordan-petra.html http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2016/06/19/did-this-ancient-site-just-get-more-myst
erious.html
http://www.livescience.com/55055-hidden-petra-structure-found.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/science/petra-platform-sarah-parcak.html http://www.stuff.co.nz/travel/destinations/middle-east/81171070/Huge-ancient-monument
-found-hiding-in-plain-sight-in-Petra-Jordan v
http://www.breakingisraelnews.com/69905/city-biblical-desolation-yields-one- mysterious-ancient-discovery/
http://www.cbc.ca/news/technology/petra-platform-satellites-1.3632606?cmp=rss http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archaeologists-found-gigantic-ancient-monu
ment-jordan-180959368/
More on ISIL’s destruction of the Temple of Nabu:
http://www.apollo-magazine.com/centre-learning-destroyed-isis/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Plenty of interest in Roman sling bullets found at a Scottish site which apparently would
whistle when hurled:
http://www.livescience.com/55050-whistling-sling-bullets-from-roman-battle-found.html
http://www.livescience.com/55049-photos-ancient-roman-battle-sling-bullets.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/whistling-sling-bullets-were-roman-troops-secre
t-weapon/
http://boingboing.net/2016/06/14/iron-age-sling-bullets-seem-de.html http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3642795/Roman-Empire-s-secret-terror-we
apon-revealed-Whistling-sling-bullets-used-wage-psychological-warefare-enemies.html
Also from Scotland … a hoard of Roman silver:
http://www.livescience.com/55058-gaulcross-hoard-scotland.html http://www.livescience.com/55060-photos-gaulcross-hoard.html http://www.thenational.scot/news/discovery-of-silver-hoard-opens-door-to-secrets-of-the-p
icts.18861
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4568-160613-scotland-silver-hoard
Claims of a Mycenean throne find:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-archaeologist-ancient-greek-kings-throne.html http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory/archaeologist-claims-found-ancient-greek-ki
ngs-throne-39848544
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/archaeologist-says-he-found-chunk-of-throne-fro
m-ancient-greece-officials-think-its-part-of-a-stone-basin
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/throne-of-homers-hero-is-unearthed-7dd0mn07j http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3643276/Is-lost-throne-Mycenae-Archaeolo
gist-claims-uncovered-stone-Trojan-War.html
Remains of a Roman temple in Izmit:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/stairs-from-roman-temple-found-in-turkeys-izmit.aspx?
pageID=238&nID=100584&NewsCatID=375
In case you missed it in the ANE section, a possible site for the burial of Attalid rulers:
http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.725089
Weapons bans in ancient Rome:
http://www.forbes.com/sites/drsarahbond/2016/06/16/even-the-ancient-romans-had-fierce
-debates-over-banning-assault-weapons/
Interesting reinterpretation of Laocoon:
http://www.wharf.co.uk/whats-on/arts-culture-news/how-robotics-re-interpreted-classic-11
476840
Interesting class task reconstructing ancient scrolls:
http://classics.dartmouth.edu/news/students-construct-ancient-scrolls-clst-10
Pompeii’s director wants refugees and asylum seekers working at sites:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/14/put-refugees-and-asylum-seekers-to-work-at-
italys-archaeological/
http://www.thelocal.it/20160613/let-asylum-seekers-look-after-pompeii-archaeologist-say
s
Why Classics is unique:
https://gazette.mun.ca/student-life/unique-discipline/
A Latin teacher in Ireland advises students to abandon the subject:
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/education/leaving-cert-latin-teacher-tells-students-to-aba
ndon-subject-1.2689538
First American to win the Certamen Ovidianum:
http://onlineathens.com/mobile/2016-06-15/athens-student-becomes-first-american-win-in
ternational-latin-competition
Victor Nuovo’s latest on Lucretius:
http://www.addisonindependent.com/201606victor-nuovo-lucretius-and-meaning-it-all
What Kay Gabriel is up to:
http://www.princeton.edu/main/news/archive/S46/54/87Q74/index.xml?section=featured
What Martha Nussbaum is up to:
https://news.uchicago.edu/article/2016/06/17/prof-martha-nussbaum-wins-kyoto-prize
Honours for Robin Lane Fox:
http://www.thebookseller.com/news/wachsmann-and-fox-win-30k-wolfson-history-prize-33
5561
Studying ancient brothels:
http://eriemedia.ca/brock-prof-pens-new-book-exploring-old-brothels/
On the revival of ancient Greek religion:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/06/13/more-greeks-turn-to-worship-of-ancient-gods/
Auction house feature on Roman glass:
http://www.christies.com/features/Roman-glass-an-expert-introduction-7512-3.aspx
Gladiator reenactments at Carnuntum:
http://uk.reuters.com/article/uk-austria-gladiator-idUKKCN0YY0IT http://www.reuters.com/article/us-austria-gladiator-idUSKCN0YY0J1?feedType=RSS&fee
dName=lifestyleMolt
On sexuality in Ancient Greece:
http://www.historyextra.com/article/ancient-greece/brief-history-sex-and-sexuality-ancien
t-greece
On Dylan and Plato:
http://daily.jstor.org/how-plato-anticipated-bob-dylan/
Funding for the Roman remains at Caistor St Edmund:
http://www.edp24.co.uk/news/funding_will_help_archaeologists_shed_light_on_roman_t
own_at_caistor_st_edmund_1_4583060
They’ve ‘fixed up’ the old Paphos Gate:
http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/06/12/light-shines-dark-paphos-gate/
More arguments about Hagia Sophia:
http://internacional.elpais.com/internacional/2016/06/14/actualidad/ 1465935524_559190.html
Reviews of Seamus Heaney’s Aeneid VI:
http://www.smh.com.au/entertainment/books/the-aeneid-review-seamus-heaneys-translat
ion-of-virgil-in-a-heroic-mode-20160609-gpfh2f.html
http://harvardmagazine.com/2016/07/with-seamus-heaney-in-elysium
More on (old) finds of a naval base at Athens:
http://cphpost.dk/news/danish-archaeologist-finds-remains-of-ancient-naval-base-in-athe
ns.html
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonianmag/archaeologists-uncover-massive-nava
l-bases-ancient-athenians-180959452/
More on the latest on the Antikythera Mechanism:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-greece-survey-ancient-cog.html http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/06/15/modern-technology-uncovers-new-findings-a
ncient-greek-analog-computer-was-a-textbook-of-astronomy/
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/06/16/return-to-antikythera-shipwreck-yields-anothe
r-60-treasures/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/technology/2016/06/13/worlds-oldest-computer-from-60bc-pre
dicted-future-new-study-says/
http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/2016/06/14/science/14obs-antikythera.html https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/14/the-worlds-ol
dest-computer-is-still-revealing-its-secrets/
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/06/15/modern-technology-uncovers-new-findings-a
ncient-greek-analog-computer-was-a-textbook-of-astronomy/
http://www.ekathimerini.com/209648/article/ekathimerini/news/wreck-survey-fails-to-find-
more-parts-of-ancient-cog
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/worlds-first-computer-may-have-been-us
ed-tell-fortunes-180959335/
More on the Nemean Games revival:
http://www.euronews.com/2016/06/14/ancient-sporting-values-are-revived-in-nemean-ga
mes-in-greece/
http://www.irishexaminer.com/video/sport/check-out-the-revival-of-the-ancient-nemean-ga
mes-404888.html
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http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Interesting 5000 years bp figurine from Skara Brae (sort of):
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/14559492.Historian_discovers_5_000_ year_old_whalebone_figurine_from_Skara_Brae_in_a_box/
http://www.orcadian.co.uk/2016/06/rediscovered-5000-year-old-human-figurine-skara-bra
e/
Evidence of ritual use of wine in Georgia, some 5000 years bp:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160614083839.htm
A Mesolithic site from Pembrokshire:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/went-looking-flemishand-found-evidence-
11466205
Archaeologists are returning to a submerged prehistoric site off the Isle of Wight:
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history-and-heritage/archaeology/art556558-gary-momber-di
gventures-isle-wight-solent
Not sure if we mentioned this 2000 years bp bog butter find last week:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/newsbeat/articles/36539065 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/14/man-finds-22-pound-
chunk-of-butter-estimated-to-be-more-than-2000-years-old-in-irish-bog/
http://mobile.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-15/butter-unearthed-in-bog-estimated-to-be-2000-y
ears-old/7514782
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/Science-Notebook/2016/0615/Why-ancient-butter-keep
s-turning-up-in-Irish-bogs
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/a-brief-history-of-bog-butter-180959384/
Amateur archaeologists found a huge hoard of VIking gold in Denmark:
http://cphpost.dk/news/amateur-archaeologists-find-historic-viking-treasure.html
http://www.enca.com/life/amateur-archaeologists-discover-viking-gold-in-denmark http://theweek.com/speedreads/630635/amateur-archaeologists-stumble-upon-largest-tro
ve-viking-gold-ever-found-denmark
Evidence of Nordic biological warfare:
https://grapevine.is/news/2016/06/15/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-nordic-biological-w
arfare/
Latest search for royalty in parking lots is Henry I:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-36510595 https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/jun/13/archaeologists-reading-garden-king-h
enry-i-remains-bones
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/12/archaeologists-begin-hunt-for-remains-of-he
nry-i/
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/14/world/europe/king-henry-i-buried-parking-richard-iii.h
tml
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3638563/Hunt-begins-SECOND-King-car-park-Ric
hard-III-surveyors-scan-signs-Henry-school-Reading.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&
ns_campaign=1490
Feature on beasties in medieval manuscripts:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/14/arts/medieval-subversive-art/index.html
Yorkshire had a lot of witches in 1600:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-witch-1600yorkshire.html
Feature on Sylvia Pankhurst:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-africa-36322972
Funding for Coniston Copper Mine:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-36510748
A medieval bridge in Rochdale is reopening:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-36520198
Feature on Potsdam’s Sanssouci Palace:
http://www.dw.com/en/sanssouci-a-palace-of-timeless-beautiful/av-19322719
Trying to figure out why a parish has two castles:
http://www.ledburyreporter.co.uk/news/14563513.Project_aims_to_unearth_the_mystery
_of_two_castles_in_one_parish/
The UK is launching a Marine Antiquities Scheme:
http://www.sportdiver.co.uk/News/Latest-News/Marine-Antiquities-Scheme-to-launch-on-2
1-July
Reconstructing Glastonbury Abbey church:
http://artdaily.com/news/88185/University-of-York-academics-reconstruct-Glastonbury-Ab
bey-church
More on that 6000 years bp massacre site in France:
http://artdaily.com/news/87889/French-archaeologists-unearth-bones-from-6-000-year-old
-massacre
More on the search for the Welsh burial ground that eventually became Stonehenge
(sort of):
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/archaeologists-dig-welsh-burial-ground-1
1438966
More on those 14 000 years bp petroglyphs from a Spanish cave:
http://latino.foxnews.com/latino/lifestyle/2016/06/14/archaeologists-discover-14000-year-
old-paintings-deep-down-in-spanish-cave/?intcmp=hpbt4
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Bronze Age petroglyphs from Russia:
https://www.rt.com/viral/347305-novosibirsk-archaeologists-alkin-petroglyph/
A 9th century Jain relief from Chennai:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/9th-century-Jain-bas-relief-found-near-Ch
ennai/articleshow/52755270.cms
More is being found in Cambodia by LiDAR … here’s one piece (more in the techy
section):
http://www.livescience.com/55068-mysterious-earthen-mounds-discovered-cambodia.ht
ml
Checking to see if some Tamil Nadu idols match stolen ones:
http://www.india.com/news/india/tamil-nadu-temple-officials-see-if-seized-idols-match-sto
len-ones-1268529/
What Julia Clark is up to:
http://theubpost.mn/2016/06/16/archaeologist-dr-julia-clark-discusses-decade-long-caree
r-in-mongolia/
Feature on William Barak:
http://theconversation.com/explainer-the-importance-of-william-baraks-ceremony-60846
More on remains of a Ming dynasty palace in the Forbidden City:
http://www.scmp.com/news/china/society/article/1973821/ruins-found-beijings-forbidden-
city-may-be-part-lost-ming-palace
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3639332/Ming-Dynasty-ruins-China-s-Forbi
dden-City-590-year-old-wooden-earth-foundations-lost-palace-uncovered.html?ITO=1490
&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
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NORTH AMERICA
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Petroglyphs from Minnesota:
http://www.postbulletin.com/news/local/petroglyphs-visible-at-historic-site/article_053bc1
86-02b7-52ba-a2d8-8dd0627a0262.html
I think we mentioned this evidence of pre-Columbian trade between Asia and North
America last week:
http://www.alaskapublic.org/2016/06/16/first-evidence-of-ancient-trade-with-asia-uncover
ed-in-northwest-alaska/
Amateur archaeologists find a 2000 years bp (or so) site in Iowa:
http://www.stormlakepilottribune.com/story/2314133.html
Latest from Camp Security (not sure there’s anything new here):
http://www.ydr.com/story/news/local/2016/06/07/artifacts-found-hunt-revolutionary-war-pri
son-camp-security/85321898/?from=global&sessionKey=&autologin=
A team from the University of Indiana were checking out ‘the grave in the road’:
http://www.dailyjournal.net/view/local_story/Seven-sets-of-bones-found-at-l_1465962994
Archaeologists have returned to an 18th century ‘homestead fort’ in Buffalo County
(California):
http://www.observer-reporter.com/20160614/cal_u_anthropologists_explore_buffalo_tow
nship_land
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2016/06/14/archaeologists-7-bodies-indi
anas-grave-middle-road/85876944/
They’re digging at the Don Tristan de Luna site (Florida) again (warning: page has one of
those embedded videos that starts very loudly):
http://www.pnj.com/story/news/local/2016/06/13/uwf-team-unearths-more-than-just-luna-a
rtifacts/85820466/
On the role of the mosquito in American independence:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-lowly-mosquito-helped-america-win-
independence-180959411/
Feature on the restoration of La Belle:
http://www.valleymorningstar.com/news/state/article_4c09409a-beff-5e60-8894-e863c86
0e392.html
http://www.ctvnews.ca/world/300-year-old-french-shipwreck-gets-a-facelift-1.2951444
Followup to that feature on Georgetown’s slave-owning past revelation a few weeks ago:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/us/moving-to-make-amends-georgetown-president-m
eets-with-descendant-of-slaves.html?hp&action=click&pgtype=Homepage&c
More on tracking the peopling of North America via bison fossils:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/speaking-of-science/wp/2016/06/07/how-did-the-fi
rst-people-migrate-to-the-americas-bison-fossils-could-help-settle-the-debate/
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Some ‘aesthetic’ work at Ventanilla:
http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-archaeological-site-gets-makeover-in-ventanilla-1097
44
More on secret tunnels at Teotihuacan:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/discovery-secret-tunnel-mexico-solve-mysteries
-teotihuacan-180959070/
More on recreating the Sistine Chapel in Mexico:
http://www.dw.com/en/sistine-chapel-recreated-in-mexico/a-19318489
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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 ================================================================
Interesting feature on the spread of cities over 5000 years or so:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/history-of-cities-urbanization-map_us_576433f3e4b
0fbbc8bea3eda?section
Feature on an antique guitar:
http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/theater-art/2016/06/17/after-three-centuries-precious-gui
tar-finally-visits-doctor/ipOCMnqoCEJIYF5qxWrYRN/story.html?s_campaign=email_BG_
TodaysHeadline&s_campaign=
Why maps have north at the top:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160614-maps-have-north-at-the-top-but-it-couldve-been
-different
A summer reading list for fans of archaeology:
http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2016/06/17/an-archaeology-summer-reading-list/
A sort of overviewish thing on archaeology:
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/crux/2016/06/16/where-are-all-the-prehistoric-women-
and-children/
Pondering when long hair for women became popular:
http://time.com/4348252/history-long-hair/
A comprehensive, digital edition of the Bible:
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=34347
On the history of the apricot:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/14/481932829/moon-of-the-faith-a-history-of-t
he-apricot-and-its-many-pleasures
… and celery:
http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/06/13/481617408/celery-why
… and Trappist cheese:
http://www.bbc.com/travel/story/20160608-the-elusive-cheese-with-no-recipe
Feature on death rituals:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-mummification-sky-burialswhy-deathrituals.html
Haven’t heard about the Amber Room in a while:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/11/world/what-in-the-world/could-long-lost-amber-room-b
e-stashed-under-a-nazi-bunker-in-poland.html
Latest shipwreck beer recreation (we may have had this one):
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-06-14/worlds-oldest-beer-brought-back-to-life-scientists-
claim/7496532
More on Auschwitz victims’ belongings:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/thousands-of-items-belonging-to-auschwitz-victims-newly-u
ncovered/
http://artdaily.com/news/87903/Auschwitz-museum-tracks-down-long-lost-inmate-belongi
ngs
Archaeology Podcast Network:
http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Theodore Rousseau:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/19/arts/design/theodore-rousseau-gets-his-due-at-the-g
etty-museum.html?src=recg
Made in Rome:
http://www.ottawacommunitynews.com/news-story/6726076-exhibit-explores-ancient-rom
an-designer-labels-trademarks/
http://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/exhibit-explores-ancient-roman-designer-
labels-trademarks-39897337
http://www.sfchronicle.com/entertainment/article/Exhibit-explores-ancient-Roman-design
er-labels-8230659.php
Treasures of Ancient Greece:
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/culture/2016/06/14/arts/openings-in-tokyo/journey-land-immo
rtals-treasures-ancient-greece/
Feature on Google’s ‘Digital Museum’:
http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-cultural-institute-art-museums
The Smithsonian and the V&A will be sharing exhibition space:
http://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-36521649 http://www.nytimes.com/2016/06/15/arts/international/smithsonian-institution-victoria-an
d-albert-olympicopolis.html
http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/6d35818c-3181-11e6-bda0-04585c31b153.html https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/jun/13/smithsonian-v-and-a-museum-london-2
012-olympics-site
The Louvre continued to top ‘most popular museum’ voting:
http://www.cnn.com/2016/06/15/travel/world-top-10-museums-2016/index.html
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Use of LiDAR to find Roman sites in Melford:
http://www.suffolkfreepress.co.uk/news/latest-news/melford-using-radar-to-find-roman-ho
mes-1-7434636
Digitally modelling Ireland’s Trim Castle:
http://www.ithaca.edu/news/releases/mapping-the-medieval:-professor-building-digital-m
odel-of-irish-castle-41766/#.V2LLb7srKUk
A feature on LiDAR:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-lidar-amazing-laser-technology-archaeologists.html http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/meet-lidar-the-amazing-laser-technology-that-s-
helping-archaeologists-discover-lost-cities/
http://theconversation.com/meet-lidar-the-amazing-laser-technology-thats-helping-archae
ologists-discover-lost-cities-60915
More on LiDAR finds in Cambodia:
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/jun/11/lost-city-medieval-discovered-hidden-be
neath-cambodian-jungle
http://www.livescience.com/55068-mysterious-earthen-mounds-discovered-cambodia.ht
ml
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/06/17/an-entirely-new-city-is-revealed-b
eneath-the-cambodian-jungle/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/laser-scans-reveal-massive-khmer-cities-hi
dden-cambodian-jungle-180959395/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0613/Archaeologists-uncover-hidden-medieval-c
ities-in-Cambodia
http://news.nationalpost.com/news/world/lasers-reveal-ancient-cambodian-cities-archaeo
logists-had-given-up-on-ever-finding
http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/world-news/ancient-urban-networks-around-angko
r-wat-discovered-34796361.html
https://www.apollo-magazine.com/lost-cities-discovered-beneath-cambodian-jungle/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2016/06/13/new-technology-reve
als-cities-hidden-in-cambodian-vegetation-for-thousands-of-years/
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0613/Archaeologists-uncover-hidden-medieval-c
ities-in-Cambodia
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3638649/The-vast-ancient-cities-hidden-Ca
mbodia-s-jungle-Lasers-reveal-1-400-year-old-buildings-Khmer-Empire.html?ITO=1490&n
s_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
https://www.cambodiadaily.com/news/research-may-alter-accepted-history-of-angkors-en
d-113999/
https://www.yahoo.com/tech/archaeologists-uncovered-lost-cambodian-city-121545975.ht
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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
DNA is shedding light on the origin of domestic goats:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ancient-dna-analysis-domestic-goats.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/06/160613090635.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-06/nu-ada061316.php http://www.livescience.com/55060-photos-gaulcross-hoard.html http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2016/tracing-goat-domestication-th
rough-ancient-dna
Not really sure how DNA is involved in this study of the demise of megafauna in Patagonia:
http://phys.org/news/2016-06-ancient-dna-storm-felled-ice.html http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0617/Ice-Age-mystery-What-killed-off-the-mastod
ons-mammoths-and-giant-sloths
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:
http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Another piece on concerns for sites when climate change is going on:
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2093905-race-to-save-hidden-treasures-under-threat
-from-climate-change/
… in a similar vein:
http://www.princegeorgecitizen.com/arctic-archaeologists-race-to-save-ancient-sites-from
-encroaching-ocean-1.2277524
http://www.metronews.ca/news/canada/2016/06/14/arctic-archaeologists-race-to-save-an
cient-sites-from-encroaching-ocean.html
http://thechronicleherald.ca/canada/1372244-arctic-archaeologists-race-to-save-ancient-s
ites-from-encroaching-ocean
================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Versailles:
http://www.themalaymailonline.com/travel/article/discover-versailles-home-to-marie-anto
inettes-fabulous-palace
Underground Rome:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/travel/destinations/europe/articles/ underground-secrets-of-rome/
Rome on a Vespa:
http://www.dw.com/en/touring-rome-on-a-vespa/av-19327853
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CRIME BEAT
================================================================
Criticism of the Cultural Property bill:
https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2016/vital-changes-needed-to-looted-art-bill-
as-dealers-says-definition-of-cultural-property-is-too-vague/
Assorted relics and fakes confiscated in Malaga:
http://spanishnewstoday.com/genuine-and-fake-archaeological-relics-confiscated-in-mala
ga_76075-a.html
Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/06/culture-crime-news-6-12-june-2016.ht
ml
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 ================================================================
Belgium returned a stolen head of Octavian to Italy:
https://www.sciencedaily.com/videos/5db924e842e2bbc79c8e8602fb65ab16.htm http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/06/14/stolen-marble-head-romes-first-emperor-returns-italy/
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