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http://www.today.az/news/society/153517.html

Bronze Age altar from Xinjiang:

http://www.china.org.cn/china/2016-08/09/content_39054985.htm

A Bronze Age burial from Siberia:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/4775-160819-siberia-bronze-age-burial

… and another with evidence of trepanation:

http://siberiantimes.com/science/casestudy/features/f0250-reconstructing-brain-surgery-
as-it-was-conducted-around-3000-years-ago/ https://www.rt.com/viral/356533-bronze-age-brain-surgery/

Some petroglyphs from Hawaii are getting a lot of attention:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-hawaiian-petroglyphs-revealed-shifting-sands.html http://www.livescience.com/55708-petroglyphs-revealed-hawaii-oahu-coastline.html
http://www.livescience.com/55704-petroglyphs-discovered-on-hawaii-coastline-photos.ht
ml http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0811/Tourists-in-Hawaii-surprised-to-discover-4
00-year-old-petroglyphs http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/tourists-hawaii-accidentally-discovered-anc
ient-petroglyphs-180960104/

They’re excavating at Bazira:

http://www.pakistantoday.com.pk/2016/08/18/entertainment/pakistan-unearths-the-city-de
feated-by-alexander-the-great/

1000 year bp frescoed tombs from Inner Mongolia:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-08/18/c_135611265.htm

Feature on the typhoon that sank Kublai Khan’s fleet:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/18/how-typhoon-sank-kublai-khan-weathe
rwatch

Feature on shell jewellery from East Asia:

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101485-oldest-jewellery-in-east-asia-is-crafted-370
00-year-old-shell/

Feature on some 1500 years bp jewellery found in a Chinese tomb a few years ago:

http://www.livescience.com/55790-ancient-bling-found-in-chinese-tomb.html http://www.livescience.com/55789-photos-ancient-tomb-of-chinese-woman.html

British shipwreck found in the Russian Arctic:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/aug/09/discovery-of-the-year-sunken-british-ste
amship-the-thames-found-on-edge-of-arctic-circle http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/08/10/british-steamship-found-beneath-russian-arc
tic-after-139-years/

Feature on Angkor:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/16/lost-cities-6-angkor-wat-nasa-technology
-khmer-megacity

Feature on Merv:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/12/lost-cities-merv-worlds-biggest-city-raze
d-turkmenistan

Feature on Muziris:

http://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/10/lost-cities-3-muziris-india-kerala-ancient-
port-black-pepper?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

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Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://nzarchaeology.blogspot.co.nz/index.html ================================================================
NORTH AMERICA
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Assorted stone tools found by an Oregon teacher:

http://theweek.com/speedreads/643649/oregon-teacher-discovers-14-prehistoric-tools-ba
ckyard

Native American artifacts from the Willamette Valley (same story as above, I think):

http://www.oregonlive.com/pacific-northwest-news/index.ssf/2016/08/archaeologists_find
_rare_nativ.html http://registerguard.com/rg/news/local/34693051-75/15-obsidian-pieces-found-in-willamet
te-valley-confirmed-to-be-native-american-artifacts.html.csp

Studying pre-European monument sites in Michigan:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-uncover-insights-great-lakes-monuments.html https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160809122721.htm http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/new-insights-on-great-lakes-l
ate-precontact-period-monuments

Assorted items of a Pike Place Market construction site:

http://www.king5.com/news/local/seattle/2000-artifacts-found-at-pike-place-marketfront-co
nstruction-site/291956877

Remains of a 16th century shipwreck off Florida:

http://www.livescience.com/55795-colonial-age-shipwrecks-found-off-florida-coast.html
http://www.livescience.com/55793-photos-colonial-age-shipwrecks-cape-canaveral.html
http://jacksonville.com/news/metro/2016-08-17/story/wreckage-found-cape-canaveral-link
ed-lost-french-colony-fort-caroline http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/08/19/16th-century-shipwrecks-found-amid-rocket-
debris-off-florida-coast.html

Evidence of earlier bits of Jefferson’s Mews:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-archaeologists-unearth-early-elements-mews.html

A dig has revealed a structure at Madison’s Montpelier:

http://www.dailyprogress.com/starexponent/news/foundation-of-last-slave-structure-unco
vered-at-montpelier/article_eb0a6474-17be-5e80-8e2e-172650720de0.html http://www.nbc29.com/story/32731424/archaeologists-uncover-structure-at-james-madiso
ns-montpelier

Plenty of coverage of a 19th century shipwreck find in Lake Ontario (the Washington):

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/0817/Second-oldest-Great-Lakes-shipwreck-offer
s-a-rare-window-into-the-past http://abcnews.go.com/Health/wireStory/explorers-find-2nd-oldest-confirmed-shipwreck-g
reat-lakes-41448483?cid=abcn_tco http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2016/08/upstate_ny_explorers_find_2nd-oldest
_confirmed_shipwreck_in_lake_ontario.html http://www.wsj.com/articles/retirees-find-second-oldest-confirmed-shipwreck-in-great-lake
s-1471512602 http://www.forbes.com/sites/shelbycarpenter/2016/08/18/200-year-old-shipwreck-found-b
ottom-lake-ontario/ http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/27041/20160818/over-200-year-old-shipwreck-f
ound-lake-ontario.htm http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/27177/20160820/rare-discovery-fast-facts-abou
t-the-lady-washington-shipwreck-found-on-lake-ontario.htm http://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2016/08/18/rare-18th-century-shipwreck-discovered-orig-v
stan-aa.cnn
http://www.archaeology.org/news/4771-160818-lake-ontario-shipwreck

There was excitement over the discovery of a sword tip at the Alamo:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/1800s-sword-tip-found-in-Alamo-Plaza-9
136600.php
http://www.star-telegram.com/news/state/texas/article95169787.html http://www.foxnews.com/science/2016/08/12/alamo-dig-archaeologists-unearth-tip-mexic
an-sword.html

Sort of a culminating piece on the Alamo dig:

http://www.mysanantonio.com/news/local/article/Digging-concluded-in-Alamo-Plaza-9173
314.php http://www.beaumontenterprise.com/news/local/article/Digging-concluded-in-Alamo-Plaza
-9173314.php

They’re digging at the Bush Prairie Farm:

http://www.theolympian.com/news/local/article96295802.html

… and Isle Royale:

http://www.sctimes.com/story/news/local/2016/08/15/scsu-archaeology-student-seeks-cl
ues-isle-royale/88630196/

The dig at Lake George has been extended:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-site-1750s-british-american-encampments.html http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2016/aug/12/dig-extended-at-upstate-ny-colonial-
american-milit/

… where they found remains of a possible officer’s camp:

http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/French-and-Indian-War-dig-reveals-possible-914
0188.php

Finds from Alexandria:

http://www.connectionnewspapers.com/news/2016/aug/08/alexandria-youths-uncover-his
toric-artifacts/

The Timbisha Shoshone are concerned about ‘artifact tampering’ (wrong description):

http://www.uniondemocrat.com/localnews/4589981-151/tribe-distressed-over-artifact-tam
pering

What a metal detectorist in PEI has found over the years:

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/prince-edward-island/rick-barton-find-artifact-european-1.
3725651?cmp=rss

Feature on Cahokia:

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2016/aug/17/lost-cities-8-mystery-ahokia-illinois-mis
sissippians-native-americans-vanish

… and another item on the status of women at Cahokia:

http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/priu-fla080516.php https://www.yahoo.com/news/women-held-important-role-americas-1st-city-burial-133538
533.html http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/beaded-burial-at-cahokia-not-
a-monument-to-male-power

Feature on the Cardiff Giant:

http://www.livescience.com/55787-cardiff-giant.html

Feature on the Boston molasses flood:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160817-the-killer-flood-made-of-molasses

Followup to the CNY plaque theft:

http://www.syracuse.com/crime/index.ssf/2016/08/pair_accused_of_stealing_scrapping_
plaque_honoring_civil_war_doctor.html


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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
6000 years bp human remains from Los Olivos (Peru):

http://www.peruthisweek.com/news-ancient-remains-found-in-olivos-110146

A Maya burial temple from Belize:

http://www.apollo-magazine.com/mayan-tomb-discovered-in-belize/ http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/rare-maya-burial-temple-discovered-belize-
180960054/

A Maya burial is giving hints about the Snake dynasty (same as above, I think):

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/aug/06/maya-snake-dynasty-tomb-belize-ruin
s http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/a-tomb-in-belize-offers-up-miss
ing-pieces-of-a-long-lost-staircase-and-the-story-of-the-snake-lords-who-built-it/
news-story/932155ae99046e57bdb2cd7e537092fd http://www.breakingbelizenews.com/2016/08/06/dr-jaime-awe-finds-clues-snake-dynasty-
xunantunich/

1000 years bp dog burials at at the Lima zoo:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/why-are-these-1000-year-old-dogs-buried-unde
r-lima-zoo?rss=1

Evidence of rabbit breeding at Teotihuacan:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-pre-hispanic-mexican-civilization-bred-rabbits.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/08/160817142539.htm http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/p-pmc081116.php https://www.newscientist.com/article/2101551-bunnies-helped-a-great-civilisation-in-anci
ent-mexico-thrive/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/4774-160818-mexico-teotihuacan-rabbits

Suggestion that Teotihuacan was a centre for water worship:

http://www.wsj.com/articles/teotihuacan-mexicos-pyramid-city-worshiped-water-scholar-s
ays-1470762228 http://www.newser.com/story/229586/archaeologist-says-shes-solved-the-mystery-of-me
xicos-teotihuacan.html

Pondering some Incan trepanation:

http://www.cnn.com/2016/08/15/health/holes-in-the-head/index.html

War didn’t destroy Easter Island:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-easter-island-war-analysis.html

Feature on the end of the Wari:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/08/waris-grisly-end-fall-south-american-empire

Rethinking the Venus Table of the Dresden Codex:

http://phys.org/news/2016-08-ancient-mayan-copernicus.html http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-08/uoc--aam081616.php http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/reinterpretation-of-dresden-cod
ex-produces-clues-of-unexpectedly-advanced-mayan-astronomy/news-story/4e2a446ea5
afecd0d956121d7eee219f http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/08/2016/hieroglyphic-texts-reveal-ma
ya-innovation-in-maths-and-astronomy

Feature on the pyramid at Cholula:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160812-the-giant-pyramid-hidden-inside-a-mountain

Feature on Chavin de Huantar:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20160808-a-lost-temple-holds-the-secrets-to-the-origins-
of-authority

Sarah Parcak is going to look for lost Incan sites:

http://altoday.com/archives/11953-uab-space-archaeologist-sarah-parcak-on-a-mission-to
-unearth-worlds-hidden-treasures

A tomb raider in Costa Rica is arrested:

http://news.co.cr/suspected-tomb-raider-gets-raided-costa-rica/50028/


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