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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Feature on the hominins from Dmanisi:

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2016/11/meet-frail-small-brained-people-who-first-trekked-out-africa


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AFRICA
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Evidence of a Slavic presence in Morocco in the Middle Ages:


http://www.thenews.pl/1/11/Artykul/281615,Slavs-lived-in-Morocco-in-Middle-Ages-archaeologists-say


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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Remains of a First Dynasty city and necropolis from Sohag:


http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/250686/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Metropolis-discovered-in-Abydos-in-the-Upper-Egypt.aspx

http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/ancient-residential-city-cemetery-discovered-abydos

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-38084391 http://egyptianstreets.com/2016/11/24/egyptian-archaeologists-unearth-ancient-egyptian-city-in-upper-egypt/

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/nov/23/egypt-unearths-lost-city-first-dynasty-sohag-province

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/africa/egypt-lost-city-found-luxor-a7435206.html

http://www.dw.com/en/archaeologists-find-previously-undiscovered-ancient-egyptian-city/a-36499226

http://www.news.com.au/technology/science/archaeology/ancient-egyptian-city-and-graveyard-dating-back-more-than-7000-years-uncovered-by-archaeologists/news-story/2b6bf593c84f2a9e1c6b2007b7f3f707

http://www.lemonde.fr/archeologie/article/2016/11/24/une-cite-et-une-necropole-vieilles-de-7-000-ans-decouvertes-en-egypte_5036855_1650751.html

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/32731/20161124/historic-discovery-archaeologists-unearth-secret-ancient-egyptian-city-cemetery.htm

https://www.yahoo.com/news/7-300-old-city-excavated-122737225.html http://www.newsweek.com/egypt-unearths-7000-year-old-city-524785 http://phys.org/news/2016-11-egyptian-archaeologists-uncover-pharaonic-village.html

http://www.lemonde.fr/archeologie/article/2016/11/24/une-cite-et-une-necropole-vieilles-de-7-000-ans-decouvertes-en-egypte_5036855_1650751.html

http://www.archaeology.org/5037-161123-egypt-abydos-cemetery


Evidence of a 4600 years bp harbour on the Red Sea:


http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.754616


Suggestion that glass-making may have started in Egypt before Mesopotamia:


https://www.sciencenews.org/article/glassmaking-may-have-begun-egypt-not-mesopotamia



More concerns for some Egyptian items coming to auction at Christie’s:


http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egyptian-antiquities-again-offered-sale-london



… haven’t heard anything about Bonham’s:


https://www.antiquestradegazette.com/news/2016/london-antiquities-sales-set-sail-with-bonhams-offering-ancient-egyptian-model-boat/



In case you missed the crocodile-mummy-full-of-baby-crocodiles story:


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/crocodile-mummy-found-packed-dozens-smaller-crocodile-mummies-180961172/

http://www.bbc.com/news/blogs-news-from-elsewhere-38026363 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/crocodile-mummy-ancient-egypt-discovery/
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/32641/20161123/surprise-dozens-mummified-baby-crocodiles-discovered-inside-ancient-egyptian-mummy.htm


What they’ve been learning from the Philistine cemetery at Ashkelon:


https://www.sciencenews.org/article/ancient-cemetery-provides-peek-philistines-lives-health



Searching for the original location of Byblos’ harbour:


http://www.ekathimerini.com/213862/article/ekathimerini/life/patra-university-experts-helping-establish-location-of-ancient-byblos-harbor



2000 years bp petroglyphs suggest Jordan’s Black Desert was once rather different:


http://www.livescience.com/56944-ancient-inscriptions-found-in-black-desert.html

http://www.cbsnews.com/news/ancient-inscriptions-show-life-once-flourished-in-jordans-black-desert/

http://www.archaeology.org/news/5030-161121-jordan-desert-rock-art


A 4000 years bp ‘Thinker’ figure from Yehud:


http://www.antiquities.org.il/Article_eng.aspx?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=4232

http://www.livescience.com/56986-ancient-thinker-sculpture-uncovered-in-israel.html

http://www.livescience.com/56982-photos-rare-figurine-israel.html http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38080041 http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Article.aspx?id=473441 http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4883342,00.html http://www.timesofisrael.com/clay-figurine-is-bronze-age-ancestor-of-rodins-thinker/

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish/archaeology/1.754822 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220720 http://forward.com/culture/355267/move-over-rodin-4-000-year-old-thinker-discovered-in-israel/

http://www.dw.com/en/archaeologists-hail-discovery-of-bronze-age-thinker-figurine-in-israel/a-36496499

http://www.reuters.com/article/us-israel-archaeology-idUSKBN13I14C?feedType=RSS&feedName=lifestyleMolt

http://passeurdesciences.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/11/24/un-penseur-de-4-000-ans-decouvert-en-israel/

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=91894 http://www.archaeology.org/news/5039-161123-israel-thinker-figurine http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2016/unique-3800-year-old-ceramic-vessel-discovered-in-israel
Pondering the evidence for the Kingdom of David:


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220583


Feature on Mesopotamia:


http://www.dw.com/overlay/media/en/mesopotamia-where-history-got-its-start/36483608/36496499



Feature on Arslantepe:


http://web.hurriyetdailynews.com/arslantepe-cradle-of-civilizations-in-anatolia-.aspx?PageID=238&NID=106412&NewsCatID=375



Feature on the Shapira strips:


http://forward.com/culture/355232/fascinating-archaeological-matter-reminds-us-that-archaeology-used-to-matte/



Latest in prayer-at-the-Western-Wall saga:


http://www.jpost.com/Israel-News/Article.aspx?id=473363 http://www.timesofisrael.com/archaeologists-say-pluralistic-western-wall-prayer-area-harms-historical-site/
http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/1.754679 http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220689


… and Israel digs on the West Bank:


http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/220723 http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.754934 http://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-1.754447


More on the goings on at the Church of the Holy Sepulchre:


http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/11/24/actualidad/1480003988_822260.html



More on that pharaonic boat burial:


http://archeo.blog.lemonde.fr/2016/11/26/le-bateau-du-pharaon-et-les-120-dessins/



More on Hebrew as the oldest alphabet:


https://www.sciencenews.org/article/oldest-alphabet-identified-hebrew


More on the digitization of the DSS:


http://www.jpost.com//International/Dead-Sea-Scrolls-Go-Digital-472292


More on the damage at Nimrud:


http://www.npr.org/2016/11/26/503275429 http://news.nationalgeographic.com/2016/11/iraq-mosul-isis-nimrud-khorsabad-archaeology/

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/nov/24/piecing-back-together-iraqi-archeological-gem-blown-sky-high-by-isis



… and elsewhere:


http://www.jpost.com/Christian-News/Christian-heritage-site-found-ransacked-after-monastery-retaken-from-ISIS-473320


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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
Not sure if we mentioned this Hellenistic tomb from Beit Ras (Jordan):


http://www.travelbizmonitor.com/Top-Stories/ancient-tomb-discovered-in-jordan-32040

http://www.breakingtravelnews.com/news/article/jordan-reveals-latest-archaeological-wonder-at-beit-ras/

http://www.financialexpress.com/lifestyle/travel-tourism/jordan-gets-newly-discovered-archaeological-attraction/452547/



… or if this one, which may have been lost in translation:


http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/burial-chamber-discovered-in-turkeys-kastamonu-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=106432&NewsCatID=375

http://www.dailysabah.com/history/2016/11/23/2400-year-old-burial-chamber-103-artifacts-unearthed-in-turkey
http://www.dailysabah.com/d/national/2016/11/24/archaeological-excavation-uncovers-cemetery


Illyrian burials from Korcula:


http://www.croatiaweek.com/archaeological-sensation-on-the-island-of-korcula/



A Roman-era cistern from Mardin:


http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/ancient-cistern-found-under-barn-in-turkeys-mardin.aspx?PageID=238&NID=106366&NewsCatID=375



Suggestion that there might be another monument buried at Amphipolis:


http://greece.greekreporter.com/2016/11/24/greek-archaeologist-another-monument-might-be-buried-at-amphipolis/



I think we mentioned these Roman finds from what was once Dalmatia:


http://www.archaeology.org/5031-161121-roman-road-dalmatia


What John Yardley is up to:


http://www.insidehalton.com/whatson-story/6978152-retired-university-professor-keeps-busy-translating-ancient-works/



What Jerry Toner is up to:


https://theconversation.com/profiles/jerry-toner-317456


On social mobility in Rome:


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-climb-social-ladder-ancient-rome.html http://theconversation.com/how-to-climb-the-social-ladder-in-ancient-rome-69166



Rethinking the throwing-Christians-to-the-lions thing:


https://theconversation.com/mythbusting-ancient-rome-throwing-christians-to-the-lions-67365



Feature on ostracism:


http://theconversation.com/lessons-from-ancient-athens-the-art-of-exiling-your-enemies-68983



Related to the Terracotta Army controversy (see more in the Asia section), there’s this backgrounder on Athens as the place where east and west met:


http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-11/11/c_135820578.htm


The myths behind Harry Potter:


http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161122-the-myths-and-folktales-behind-harry-potter



A call for Classicists to not allow their subject matter to be hijacked
for
political purposes:


https://eidolon.pub/how-to-be-a-good-classicist-under-a-bad-emperor-6b848df6e54a



On Socrates and Trump, fwiw:


http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/politics/what-socrates-aristotle-and-leo-strauss-can-teach-us-about-donald-trump-a7420546.html



In a similar vein:


http://www.commondreams.org/views/2016/11/22/dealing-emperor-trump-field-notes-ancient-rome



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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland) ================================================================
Finds from various periods found prior to road construction in Scotland:


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-38049966 http://www.archaeology.org/5035-161122-scotland-burnt-mound


The shrine for Olaf Haraldsson has been located:


http://www.livescience.com/56972-shrine-of-viking-king-discovered.html http://www.archaeology.org/5040-161123-norway-olaf-reburial


Restoration of some medieval murals covered over by Shakespeare’s father:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3964086/Stunning-medieval-murals-painted-Shakespeare-s-father-orders-Henry-VIII-revealed-time-450-years.html



Russian archaeologists have found a number of lead seals dating to 1812:


http://www.presstv.ir/Detail/2016/11/25/495082/Russian-archaeologists-discover-lead-seals



Metal detectorists have damaged the Cissbury Ring site:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-sussex-38101813 http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/rogue-metal-detectorists-raid-5000-9335128

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/25/illegal-treasure-hunters-damage-ancient-hill-fort-south-downs/



Latest from Pembroke Castle:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-38121852


On doing archaeology in Greenland:


http://science.sciencemag.org/content/354/6313/700?rss=1


… and I think we had this item on early whale hunting therefrom as well:


http://knpr.org/npr/2016-11/ancient-trash-heaps-whale-hunting-puzzle-emerges



Reburial for some Anglo Saxon remains from Redcar:


http://www.gazettelive.co.uk/news/teesside-news/anglo-saxon-christians-reburied-redcar-12218102



More on those Anglo Saxon burials from Norfolk:


http://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-archaeology-anglo-saxons-idUSKBN13I2GL



More on Viking raid motivations:


https://www.yahoo.com/news/real-reason-viking-raids-shortage-163100971.html


More on that ‘religious complex’ found near Stonehenge:


http://www.salisburyjournal.co.uk/news/14918697.Neolithic_structure_found_near_Stonehenge__transforms_our_understanding__of_prehistoric_Wiltshire/
http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/32515/20161122/stonehenge-mystery-solved-huge-religious-complex-found-near-prehistoric-monument.htm
http://newobserveronline.com/major-new-find-stonehenge/ http://www.archaeology.org/news/5034-161122-stonehenge-landscape-larkhill


More on that Danish bishop’s feces:


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-danish-bishop-year-old-poo-whiff.html


More on those Italian false teeth:


http://www.thelocal.it/20161117/italian-archaeologists-find-worlds-oldest-dentures-archaeology-history

http://www.livescience.com/56938-400-year-old-false-teeth-found-in-italian-burial.html

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/11/21/400-year-old-dentures-made-human-teeth-unearthed-archaeologists/


More on the Curtain Theatre dig:


http://www.archaeology.org/news/5007-161110-theater-money-box-finials


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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Rice farming in India is much older than previously thought (and possibly independent of China influence):


http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/rice-farming-in-india-much-older-than-thought-used-as-summer-crop-by-indus-civilisation

http://phys.org/news/2016-11-rice-farming-india-older-thought.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/uoc-rfi111816.php http://www.telegraphindia.com/1161121/jsp/nation/story_120452.jsp http://www.archaeology.org/5029-161121-indus-domesticated-rice http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2016/rice-farming-in-india-older-than-thought


An 80km long wall in India (!):


http://pragativadi.com/archaeologists-find-80-km-long-great-wall-india/


1000 years bp Chola temple in a paddy field:


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chennai/1000-year-old-Chola-temple-found-half-buried-in-paddy-field/articleshow/55532799.cms



1000 years bp structures from Haifeng:


http://www.thehindu.com/news/international/Archaeologists-unearth-1000-year-old-ruins-in-China/article16660626.ece

http://www.archaeology.org/5033-161122-china-porcelain-salt


The Greek-influence-on-the-Terracotta-Warriors story still has legs:


http://www.livescience.com/56939-china-terracotta-warriors-stir-controversy.html

http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/52924/20161126/terracotta-army-sparks-controversy-allegedly-inspired-greek-art.htm
http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/Why-there-s-so-much-backlash-to-the-theory-that-10622165.php


… possibly related:


http://spectator.sme.sk/c/20391879/slovak-archaeologists-want-to-research-on-terracotta-army-in-china.html



Plans to dig a Harrapan site in Fatehabad:


http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/chandigarh/Haryana-to-undertake-excavation-of-Harappan-era-heritage-site-in-Fatehabad/articleshow/55546919.cms


More on Australia’s oldest ‘ornament’ (or jewellery):


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-australia-oldest-ornament-kimberley-region.html
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More on that ‘stonehenge’ sort of thing from Kazakhstan:


http://bigthink.com/robby-berman/archeologists-have-a-huge-new-stonehenge-to-figure-out


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NORTH AMERICA
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Evidence of turkey domestication from Tennessee (cf the South America
section):


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-turkey-native-americans-classic-holiday.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/fsu-frt111816.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161121111328.htm http://www.forbes.com/sites/kristinakillgrove/2016/11/21/earliest-archaeological-evidence-of-turkey-domestication-found-in-tennessee/



… and the Pueblo people were apparently doing things with turkeys 200 BCE:


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-turkeys-major-ancestral-pueblo-life.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/wsu-twa112216.php


Evidence of the first 1620 settlement at Plymouth:


https://www.umb.edu/news/detail/umass_boston_researchers_find_evidence_of_original_1620_plymouth_settlement

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/11/161125083037.htm http://www.archaeology.org/5038-161123-plymouth-pilgrim-settlement http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/archaeologists-think-they-found-original-pilgrim-settlement/article_529db0bd-79f7-5418-a45b-c91a8e5b6d9f.html
http://www.pressherald.com/2016/11/23/archaeologists-believe-theyve-found-pilgrims-original-settlement/


… semi-related on New England’s first colonies:


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-men-derailed-england-colonies.html


On the first ‘immigrant Thanksgiving’:


https://www.bloomberg.com/view/articles/2016-11-24/the-first-immigrant-thanksgiving



… and what the Pilgrim’s would have heard:


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/documentary-theater-program-brings-back-sacred-sounds-pilgrims-and-native-americans-180961164/



They’ve located the site of Montreal’s first European settlement:


http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/montreal/fort-ville-marie-17th-century-found-1.3866996?cmp=rss

http://montrealgazette.com/news/local-news/montreal-museum-confirms-location-of-citys-first-european-settlement

http://globalnews.ca/news/3087190/fort-ville-marie-montreal-museum-confirms-location-of-citys-first-european-settlement/

http://www.timescolonist.com/montreal-museum-confirms-location-of-city-s-first-european-settlement-1.3175086



An 1872 shipwreck from Lake Ontario:


http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1126/Unusual-Lake-Ontario-1872-shipwreck-identified-as-Black-Duck

http://www.sfgate.com/news/article/NY-explorers-find-1872-shipwreck-of-rare-Great-10635390.php

http://www.toledoblade.com/Nation/2016/11/25/Great-Lakes-museum-funded-explorers-discover-1872-shipwreck.html

http://www.cleveland.com/metro/index.ssf/2016/11/lake_ontario_shipwreck_identif.html

http://www.syracuse.com/state/index.ssf/2016/11/ny_explorers_find_1872_shipwreck_of_rare_great_lakes_vessel.html


On Iroquois women and the vote:


https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2016/11/24/millions-of-women-voted-for-hillary-clinton-they-have-the-iroquois-to-thank/



More on the Dakota Access Pipeline archaeological review:


http://www.timesunion.com/news/article/How-the-archaeological-review-behind-the-Dakota-10626858.php



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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
First domestication of turkeys apparently was in Oaxaca some 1500 years
bp:


https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-11/fm-aeu112116.php http://www.livescience.com/56966-turkey-domestication-archaeological-evidence.html

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/science/turkey-domestication-mexico.html http://www.archaeology.org/5036-161122-mexico-zapotec-turkey http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/d-brief/2016/11/22/domesticated-turkeys-thanksgiving/

http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1123/Were-native-Americans-raising-turkeys-long-before-the-first-Thanksgiving

http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/32564/20161122/thanksgiving-2016-archeologists-unearth-evidence-turkey-domestication-mexico.htm


On potato origins in the Andes:


http://www.watertowndailytimes.com/national/who-first-farmed-potatoes-archaeologists-in-andes-find-new-evidence-20161120



… related:


http://www.smithsonianmag.com/history/how-the-potato-changed-the-world-108470605/



More on the pyramid at Chichen Itza:


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-mexican-experts-pyramid-chichen-itza.html http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/21/world/americas/22obs-pyramid.html


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On a bit of technology that spurred on Martin Luther:


http://www.npr.org/2016/11/20/502437123/how-technology-helped-martin-luther-change-christianity



On origins of some Thanksgiving-associated food:


http://www.cnn.com/2015/11/24/health/gourds-saved-by-ancient-ancestors/index.html



… and heritage turkeys:


http://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2016/11/23/502929415/heritage-turkeys-make-a-comeback-but-to-save-them-we-must-eat-them



I think we’ve had this 220 years bp beer recreation:


http://www.livescience.com/56814-oldest-beer-recreated-from-shipwreck-yeast.html
http://www.livescience.com/56773-photos-recreating-220-year-old-beer.html


Feature on some famous corpses:


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-body-politics-famous-corpses.html


On the spread of ragweed:


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-ragweeda-highly-allergenic-plantbeen-quickly.html



On traditional German rules of etiquette:


http://www.dw.com/en/traditional-german-rules-of-etiquette-to-survive-a-fancy-event/a-36505246



On theatres and political protest:


http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-38085908


Marking the 100th anniversary of Jack London’s death:


http://www.dw.com/en/100-years-after-his-death-a-new-look-at-author-jack-london/a-36469374

http://www.npr.org/2016/11/26/502608299/100-years-after-jack-londons-death-hearing-his-call


On the Victorian beard craze:


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-victorian-beard-craze-false-mechanical.html


A nice APOD over a Thai site:


http://apod.nasa.gov/apod/ap161121.html


Some revisionism in comic form:


http://maximumble.thebookofbiff.com/comics/2016-11-16-1446.png


Latest Victor Nuovo on Spinoza:


http://www.addisonindependent.com/201611spinoza-being-human


Overviewish of Italy’s earthquake zone:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/20/world/europe/italy-earthquake-zone.html


On the popularity of a certain bit of Indian literature:


http://www.economist.com/news/books-and-arts/21710781-how-indian-publishing-discovered-its-game-thrones-and-created-literary-phenomenon


In case you’re wondering how that dodo skeleton auction turned out:


http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-sussex-38068828 http://www.usatoday.com/videos/news/nation/2016/11/22/94289996/


A French heir found a pile of gold in a house he inherited:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-38072135


Possibly earliest evidence of C-section survival:


http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/world/what-in-the-world/a-breakthrough-in-c-section-history-beatrice-of-bourbons-survival-in-1337.html



Questioning a score purportedly by Beethoven and coming to auction:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-manchester-38084091


More on Neolithic ‘dairying’ along the Mediterranean:


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-widespread-evidence-prehistoric-dairying-mediterranean.html

http://www.livescience.com/56904-ancient-people-consumed-dairy.html http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2016/neolithic-dairying-widespread-on-the-mediterranean-coast



Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Chinese Scholars:


http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2016-11/21/c_135844672.htm


Egyptian Mummies:


http://www.dailytelegraph.com.au/newslocal/central-sydney/mummy-exhibition-at-powerhouse-museum-gives-insight-into-ancient-lives/news-story/0f99aa093959a3c6c0dc483332f850e5



Jerusalem 1000-1400:


http://www.blouinartinfo.com/news/story/1729343/jerusalem-1000-1400-every-people-under-heaven-at-the



South Africa: Art of a Nation:


http://uk.reuters.com/article/us-britain-art-safrica-idUKKBN13K1YT


Brides:


http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/11/26/historical-look-brides/


Feature on the David(s) Collection of Islamic art:


https://www.apollo-magazine.com/making-one-greatest-islamic-art-museums-world/



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THE TECHY SIDE
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I think we mentioned this tracking-movement-with-teeth story:


http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/11/2016/new-stories-from-old-teeth

http://phys.org/news/2016-11-teeth-stories-archaeologist-prehistoric-gps.html



The latest facial reconstruction:

http://www.asahi.com/ajw/articles/AJ201611250003.html



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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
More on DNA and maize domestication:


http://www.archaeology.org/5032-161121-mexico-domesticated-maize


Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:

http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/ ================================================================
CLIMATE MATTERS ================================================================
Some logbooks suggest summer sea ice around Antarctica really hasn’t
changed much:


http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38085147


… while Captain Cook’s records confirm warming in the Arctic:


http://phys.org/news/2016-11-captain-cook-global-today-arctic.html

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TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Anasazi ruins:


http://www.miamiherald.com/living/travel/article116142468.html http://www.bostonherald.com/lifestyle/travel/2016/11/ancient_anasazi_ruins_open_up_a_remarkable_endangered_landscape_in_southern



Etruscan sites:


http://www.dw.com/en/on-the-road-in-tuscia-italy/a-36483686

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CRIME BEAT
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Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:


http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/11/culture-crime-news-14-20-november-2016.html



A call to create a Culture Crime Prosecution team:


http://culturalheritagelawyer.blogspot.ca/2016/11/forming-cultural-heritage-crimes.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed:+blogspot/qFDyf+(Cultural+Heritage+Lawyer+Rick+St.+Hilaire)



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 ================================================================
A repatriation situation involving Tanzanian skulls in Berlin:


http://www.dw.com/en/over-1000-skulls-from-germanys-colonies-still-sitting-in-berlin/a-36488751

http://www.dw.com/overlay/media/en/racist-ruthless-cruel-germanys-colonial-history/36059930/36488751

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=91885


Cyprus continues its repatriation efforts:


http://cyprus-mail.com/2016/11/24/ancient-stolen-artefact-repatriated/

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NUMISMATICA
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A hoard of Islamic coins from Sweden:


http://irisharchaeology.ie/2016/11/hoard-of-islamic-silver-coins-found-in-sweden/



A couple of Viking coins from Northern Ireland:


http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3971912/How-did-Two-rare-Viking-coins-Northern-Ireland-time.html



Latest e-Sylum:


http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n47.html


… and the one which should appear later today:


http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n48.html


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Ancient Coin Collecting:

http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/

Ancient Coins:

http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/

Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/ ================================================================
AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2519-audio-news-from-archaeologica-13-november-2016-19-november-2016
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OBITUARIES
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Jackie Pigeaud:


http://medicineancientandmodern.com/in-memory-of-jackie-pigeaud-1937-2016/


Peter Huggins:


http://www.guardian-series.co.uk/news/14918706.Town_to_remember_archaeologist_and___39_pillar__39__of_historical_society/



Richard Hope-Simpson:


https://www.canadianobituaries.com/kingston/45297-richard-dick-hope-simpson-november-11-2016



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CONFERENCES
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS ================================================================
Archaeology Magazine News Page:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/

About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Past Horizons:

http://www.pasthorizons.com/

Stonepages:

http://www.stonepages.com/news/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

http://planet.atlantides.org/taygete/

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/ ================================================================ PODCASTS/VODCASTS ================================================================
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