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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Pondering whether Neanderthals were ‘religious’:
http://www.npr.org/sections/13.7/2016/12/07/504650215/were-neanderthals-religious
Of course they’re putting a ‘paleo diet’ spin on this study of Acheulian
diet from a site in northern Israel:
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-secrets-paleo-diet-discovery-reveals.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/thuo-sot120516.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161205164935.htm http://www.timesofisrael.com/traces-of-true-paleo-diet-emerge-from-muck-in-northern-israel/
https://www.newscientist.com/article/2115127-ancient-leftovers-show-the-real-paleo-diet-was-a-veggie-feast/
http://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/1.757109 http://www.archaeology.org/5068-161206-paleolithic-plant-diet
More on Lucy in the trees:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/science/lucy-bones-trees.html http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=92195
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AFRICA
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Review of McKenzie and Watson, *The Garima Gospels: Early Illuminated
Gospel Books from Ethiopia*:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/12/10/sacred-mysteries-ancient-ethiopian-echoes-roman-antiquity/
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT ================================================================
Some statues of Sekhmet from Luxor:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/251690/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Statues-of-lioness-goddess-Sekhmet-unearthed-in-Lu.aspx
http://www.archaeology.org/5081-lion-headed-goddess-statues-unearthed-in-luxor
Comparing Trump to Rameses II (!):
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/dec/05/ramesses-ii-victor-of-kadesh-a-kindred-spirit-of-trump
More on that boat from Abydos:
https://penncurrent.upenn.edu/news/penn-archaeologist-discovers-ancient-egyptian-boat-in-middle-of-desert
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-3905742/3-800-year-old-Egyptian-tableau-depict-funerary-boats-carried-Pharaoh-Senusret-III-tomb.html
http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/pharaonic-boat-burial-abydos-egypt-04350.html
More on Nefertari’s knees in Turin:
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-mummified-egyptian-queen-nefertari.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/uoy-mri120216.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161202094342.htm https://www.yahoo.com/news/mystery-mummy-legs-belonged-egyptian-145300400.html https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/02/mummified-knees-are-queen-nefertaris-archaeologists-conclude
http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/12/05/504449966/researchers-confident-mysterious-pair-of-mummified-knees-belonged-to-queen-nefer
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2016/1206/Queen-Nefertari-s-knees-Egyptologists-confirm-mysterious-find
http://www.ansa.it/english/news/lifestyle/arts/2016/12/06/queen-nefertari-mummy-found-at-turin-3_c22c8ff3-951f-461d-9049-f19f55db65d5.html
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2016/mummified-legs-may-belong-to-egyptian-queen-nefertari
More on that 2000 years bp ‘pet cemetery’:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/archeologists-discover-ancient-pet-cemetery-egypt-180961292/
More on the MOU between Egypt and the US:
http://www.nationalgeographic.com.au/people/us-egypt-sign-agreement-to-thwart-trade-in-illegal-antiquities.aspx
Last week we had this plant domestication story in the Asia section; it
also applies here:
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-prehistoric-highlight-diverse-cereal-domestication.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/uoc--ppr120116.php http://www.archaeology.org/5075-161207-neolithic-staple-crops
… while this week we’re hearing plant domestication began in Syria:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/snrc-nsw120216.php http://scienmag.com/neolithic-syrians-were-first-to-domesticate-cereals/ http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/12/05/ciencia/1480954076_447391.html
Stained glass from Bathonea:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/stained-glass-evidence-of-high-living-standards-in-ancient-bathonea.aspx?pageID=238&nID=106990&NewsCatID=375
Gobeklitepe is getting Heritage Status:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/gobeklitepe-to-soon-enter-unesco-list.aspx?pageID=238&nid=106917&NewsCatID=375
An item from the Safeguarding Endangered Cultural Heritage Summit in Abu Dhabi:
http://www.thenational.ae/opinion/editorial/cutting-the-lines-of-smugglers
Feature/interview on the black market in antiquities in Syria:
http://syriadirect.org/news/how-the-antiquities-black-market-thrives-on-syria-%E2%80%98we-have-the-collapse-of-state-institutions-and-the-society-holding-them-all-together%E2%80%99/
http://syriadirect.org/news/artifact-trafficking-and-the-battle-to-stop-it-its-open-season/
Some heritage sheep have returned to Israel:
http://www.timesofisrael.com/biblical-sheep-in-israel-for-first-time-in-millennia/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/baa-baa-biblical-sheep-have-you-an-israeli-passport/
Feature on Mesopotamia:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-ancient-chinese-surgeons-opened-skulls-and-minds-180961286/
More on Hebrew as the first alphabet:
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-archeologist-proof-hebrew-written-alphabet.html
,,, but cf:
http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=779
More on evidence of Bronze Age water pollution in Jordan:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/uow-rmh120216.php http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/kitchener-waterloo/polluted-river-southern-jordan-smelting-copper-waterloo-1.3882242
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2016/river-polluted-with-copper-in-late-neolithic-jordan
http://www.archaeology.org/5069-161206-wadi-faynan-pollution
More on vandalism at the Herodion at Sebastia:
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0,7340,L-4887488,00.html
Some sites have been recovered in the Mosul offensive:
http://www.livescience.com/57135-historic-iraq-sites-reclaimed-in-mosul-offensive.html
Some significant inscriptions survived at Nimrud:
http://www.livescience.com/57161-ancient-inscriptions-survive-isil-attacks.html
As the week ended, we heard that ISIL was back in Palmyra:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/isis-is-back-in-the-ancient-syrian-city-of-palmyra/2016/12/10/d60523b3-21c5-4db7-883c-6f89305c1b25_story.html
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38275905
… but this a.m. we get word that Russian bombing has driven them out
again:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/middle-east/isis-pulls-out-of-ancient-palmyra-after-heavy-russian-bombing-a7467996.html
http://www.dw.com/en/heavy-russian-air-raids-drive-islamic-state-out-of-syrias-palmyra-monitor/a-36725282
http://www.bbc.com/news/world-middle-east-38280283
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS) ================================================================
A Bronze Age burial featuring a crown from Pieria:
http://www.tornosnews.gr/en/greek-news/culture/21270-rare-late-bronze-age-crown-found-in-pieria-northern-greece.html
Interesting study of evidence for malaria in the Italian peninsula during
Roman times:
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-overwhelming-evidence-malaria-years.html https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/mu-rfo113016.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161206111728.htm http://www.livescience.com/57108-malaria-found-in-ancient-roman-skeletons.html http://www.archaeology.org/5066-161205-italy-malaria-parasite
Evidence of frankincense used in Roman burials:
http://phys.org/news/2014-12-dirt-insight-roman-burials.html
Erotic frescoes from Pompeii were in the news this week:
http://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-ideas/weird-and-wacky/raunchy-paintings-from-pompeii-show-2000-year-old-porn/news-story/9c49235169cd475f24916acacbe12c19
http://metro.co.uk/2016/12/08/up-pompeii-erotic-paintings-reveal-sex-lives-of-ancient-romans-6308999/
… as were some other villas that opened after restoration:
http://www.ansamed.info/ansamed/en/news/sections/culture/2016/12/09/pompeii-marvels-on-display-after-restoration_16355762-2a88-4fe0-8a4e-e101b69bc276.html
Feature on the Roman monetary system:
http://www.coinworld.com/news/world-coins/2016/12/sestertius-was-cornerstone-in-roman-monetary-system.all.html
On today’s version of Stoicism:
http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/stoicism-2016-ryan-holiday-how-the-2300-year-old-philosophy-has-been-re-branded-for-modern-life-a7461386.html
The Romans-had-perfect-teeth thing is back again:
http://www.sfgate.com/technology/businessinsider/article/Scientists-studied-ancient-Romans-and-found-that-10786173.php
A Roman tombstone -- lost in a fire -- turns up in New York:
http://www.fox5ny.com/news/222013725-story http://www.sciencealert.com/construction-workers-have-found-an-ancient-roman-tombstone-in-new-york
What Mary Beard was up to this week:
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/entry/ukip-arron-banks-mary-beard-rome_uk_5845c2d5e4b07ac7244927f6
http://www.express.co.uk/comment/columnists/jennifer-selway/741991/romans-twitter-row-Ukip-Arron-Banks-Mary-Beard-historian
What’s happening to Latin teachers:
http://www.stamfordadvocate.com/local/article/Latin-enthusiasts-lament-language-s-decline-10787810.php
More on the ‘gladiator’ ban in Rome:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/europe/rome-gladiators-ban-rickshaws-italy-tourist-photographs-a7455386.html
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A pair of burials from a neolithic/Bronze Age site in Anglesey are causing
a bit of a rethink of the origins of agriculture in North Wales:
http://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/wales-news/human-remains-found-internationally-important-12274261
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/12/2016/early-neolithic-houses-found-at-site-in-wales
http://www.archaeology.org/5065-161205-wales-llanfaethlu-remains
Reassessment of some Bronze Age remains excavated on the Isle of Man in
1947 have revealed assorted bone objects:
http://www.archaeology.org/5067-161205-bone-knife-pommel
A pile of 2000+ years bp bloomeries from Poland:
http://scienceinpoland.pap.pl/en/news/news,412267,mazowieckie-more-than-70-bloomeries-from-2-thousand-years-ago-discovered-in-kanie.html
Gleanings from an Iron Age site on Orkney:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-north-east-orkney-shetland-38207134 http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/homenews/14948934.Iron_age_man_gets_his_teeth_into_his_work/
http://www.archaeology.org/5071-161206-orkney-broch-jaw
Evidence of a deadly virus from pottery from an Iron Age hillfort in
Germany:
http://www.archaeology.org/5080-161209-pottery-organs-virus
Burials of monks at a site near Glastonbury are the oldest in the UK:
http://www.livescience.com/57114-earliest-monastery-in-britain.html https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/dec/05/somerset-skeletons-are-oldest-evidence-of-monks-found-in-uk
http://www.thisisthewestcountry.co.uk/news/14946279.Archaeologists_uncover_remains_of_Britain_s_oldest_monastery_in_Somerset/
http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/14948527.EARLIEST_KNOWN_MONKS_IN_BRITISH_ISLES_UNCOVERED_IN_SOMERSET/
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/oldest-community-monks-uk-discovered-180961327/
http://www.archaeology.org/5064-161205-england-earliest-monastery
… not sure why they’re bringing up an Arthur connection:
http://www.livescience.com/57114-earliest-monastery-in-britain.html
Plenty of horsebits from a 9th century (or so) site in Russia:
http://www.horsetalk.co.nz/2016/12/08/dozens-1300-year-old-horse-bits-russian-archaeological/#axzz4SXOsvpn9
Viking gold found in Denmark … live on TV:
http://www.thelocal.dk/20161205/viking-gold-discovered-in-denmark-on-live-tv
An ‘Odin amulet’ from Denmark:
http://www.thelocal.dk/20161209/rare-1500-year-old-odin-amulet-found-in-denmark
Finds from various periods during road construction in Cork:
https://www.irishexaminer.com/ireland/treasure-trove-of-artifacts-found-under-cork-street-434599.html
Studying a deserted 19th century village on Achill Island:
http://www.archaeology.org/news/5070-161206-ireland-deserted-village
A painting of Henry VIII’s Nonsuch Palace has been ‘saved’ from export:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-38274938
Looking closer at some of those Black Sea shipwrecks:
http://www.dailystar.co.uk/news/latest-news/569340/crimea-shipwreck-british-gold-barrels-divers-nazi-hitler-crimean-war
On Versailles:
http://theconversation.com/friday-essay-what-is-it-about-versailles-69559
More on that submerged Neolithic settlement off Sweden:
https://www.yahoo.com/news/underwater-stone-age-fishermans-paradise-145600502.html
More on that Viking toolbox find:
http://www.livescience.com/57063-viking-tools-found-at-mysterious-fortress.html
More on that ‘plague pit’:
http://www.livescience.com/57092-black-death-burial-pit-discovered.html http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-humber-38146468 http://www.independent.ie/world-news/europe/britain/skeletons-of-27-children-found-in-extremely-rare-black-death-burial-pit-35256408.html
http://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-death-plague-pit-with-48-skeletons-is-extremely-rare-find/
https://www.yahoo.com/news/black-death-plague-pit-48-183900740.html http://www.thestar.co.uk/news/rare-plague-pit-find-made-by-sheffield-archaeologists-1-8264816
More on the Lascaux replica:
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-france-lascaux-prehistoric-art-cave.html
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC ================================================================
Plans to excavate the tomb of the wife of Liu He:
http://usa.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-12/06/content_27576213.htm
Not sure if we mentioned the excavation of the Yongshan Blood Pool in
Shaanxi:
http://www.ecns.cn/2016/12-07/236745.shtml http://www.archaeology.org/5073-161207-china-imperial-sacrifice
Plenty of porcelain from various dynasties at a site in Qingdong:
http://www.archaeology.org/5078-161208-shanghai-silk-road
Archaeology and the future of nomads in Mongolia:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/blog/2016/dec/07/archaeology-sheds-light-on-mongolias-uncertain-nomadic-future
I think we mentioned these 110 sites (30 000 years bp) from Pakistan:
http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/30000-year-old-relics-discovered-in-pakistan/1/830357.html
https://www.thenews.com.pk/print/170761-110-archaeological-sites-discovered-in-Jamrud
http://tribune.com.pk/story/1257694/30000-year-old-rock-art-110-heritage-sites-discovered-khyber-agency/
http://www.newsnation.in/article/153550-archaeologists-discover-110-sites-in-pakistan-that-are-30000-year-old.html
1000 years bp temple remains from Raisen:
http://www.freepressjournal.in/bhopal/bhopal-1000-year-old-temples-discovered-in-raisen/985072
On trepanation in ancient China:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/science-nature/how-ancient-chinese-surgeons-opened-skulls-and-minds-180961286/
On Flinders’ encounters with the Aborigines:
http://theconversation.com/the-limits-of-empathy-matthew-flinders-encounters-with-indigenous-australians-69345
More on that 6000 years bp pentagon house from Shanxi:
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/culture/2016-11/30/content_27524061.htm
More on Han Dynasty (and earlier) burials from the suburbs of Beijing:
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/diggers-find-ancient-tombs-beijing-suburb-44078567
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2016/12/09/asia-pacific/science-health-asia-pacific/diggers-find-ancient-tombs-beijing-suburb/
More on that sculpture with a Ming dynasty banknote inside:
http://www.livescience.com/57026-ming-dynasty-banknote-found-inside-sculpture.html
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NORTH AMERICA
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Studying a 2200 years bp site on the Exploits River:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/archaeologists-uncover-artifacts-old-grand-falls-windsor-groswater-1.3884429?cmp=rss
Archaeology suggests a violent end at Arizona’s Montezuma Castle:
http://westerndigs.org/new-evidence-reveals-violent-final-days-at-arizonas-montezuma-castle/
http://www.archaeology.org/5082-161209-arizona-montezuma-castle
… while some clay figurines from Arizona may be fertility figures:
http://westerndigs.org/earliest-known-clay-figurines-in-the-southwest-may-be-fertility-symbols-study-says/
Lack of zinc is implicated in the death of a Franklin Expedition crew
member:
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/ottawa/franklin-expedition-toenail-research-1.3885268
http://www.nunatsiaqonline.ca/stories/article/65674fingernail-toenail_study_offers_insights_into_why_franklin_crew_died/
http://www.nature.com/news/fingernail-absolves-lead-poisoning-in-death-of-arctic-explorer-1.21128
http://www.archaeology.org/5079-161209-beechey-island-graves
Latest about Kennewick Man:
http://www.tri-cityherald.com/news/local/article119088553.html http://www.spokesman.com/stories/2016/dec/06/kennewick-man-skeleton-closer-to-tribal-return/
Studying a ‘tsunami of molasses’ in 1919:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/26/science/boston-molasses-flood-science.html
They’re rethinking the naming of Calhoun College at Yale:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/arts/design/yale-calhoun-college-slavery-debate-policy.html
http://www.nhregister.com/general-news/20161202/yale-to-consider-changing-calhoun-colleges-name-based-on-renaming-report
On the electoral college:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2016/12/11/the-electoral-college-is-a-medieval-relic-only-the-u-s-still-has-one/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA ================================================================
The ancient Maya brought shark teeth to the jungle, apparently:
http://arstechnica.com/science/2016/12/how-the-ancient-maya-brought-sharks-to-the-jungle/
Latest theory on the people of Easter Island:
http://www.elmostrador.cl/vida-en-linea/2016/12/05/expertos-presentan-renovadas-teorias-sobre-el-origen-de-la-poblacion-de-isla-de-pascua/
More on ancient funerary mutilation in Brazil:
http://www.livescience.com/57017-ancient-mutilated-skeletons-found-in-brazil.html
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ancient-americans-mutilated-corpses-funeral-150000626.html
More on that temple to the god of the winds:
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2016/12/06/actualidad/1481039126_026921.html
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST ================================================================
A copy of Isaac Newton’s Principia is coming to auction:
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2016/dec/05/principia-sir-isaac-newton-first-edition-auction-christies-new-york
Assorted Indiana Jonesish people:
http://www.neatorama.com/2016/12/09/5-People-Who-Were-Basically-Indiana-Jones/
On the origins of apple cider:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-origins-apple-cider-180960662/
The influence of maps on Shakespeare:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/how-maps-shaped-shakespeare-180961194/
The British Library has put a pile of Hebrew manuscripts online:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=92343
All about Krampus:
http://www.dw.com/en/krampus-santas-terrifying-companion/g-36637461
On zero:
http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20161206-we-couldnt-live-without-zero-but-we-once-had-to
This stolen Klimt story is interesting:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38242917 http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-38222277
The Belle Epoque wasn’t always so belle:
http://www.bbc.com/culture/story/20161207-the-dark-side-of-the-belle-epoque
An overview of the Arthurian legend:
http://theconversation.com/guide-to-the-classics-the-arthurian-legend-64289
I think we’ve mentioned this Swabian beer recreation:
http://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/iron-age-drink/
Review of Fine, *The Menorah*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/02/books/review/a-history-of-the-menorah.html?_r=0
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http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archyfantasies/ ================================================================
MUSEUM MATTERS
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Virtually unwrapped mummies:
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-egyptian-mummies-virtually-unwrapped-australia.html
http://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/breakfast/learning-what-lays-inside-the-wrappings-of-a-mummy/8102602
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-08/egyptian-mummies-laid-bare-by-21st-technology/8103526
http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/international/2016-12-08/egyptian-mummies-virtually-unwrapped-for-first-time-in-thousands-of-years/1638360
Hadrian’s Cavalry:
http://www.northumberlandgazette.co.uk/whats-on/arts/major-roman-cavalry-exhibition-announced-along-hadrian-s-wall-1-8275259
http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/hadrians-wall-world-heritage-site-12273223
Royal Treasures of the Nguyen Dynasty:
http://english.vietnamnet.vn/fms/what-s-on/168108/exhibition-on-royal-treasures-opens-in-hue.html
Terracotta Warriors:
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/07/chinas-terracotta-warriors-to-return-to-uk-for-first-time-in-nearly-a-decade
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-merseyside-38229560 http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/12/07/terracotta-warriors-return-britain/ http://www.apollo-magazine.com/chinas-terracotta-army-is-coming-to-liverpool/
The antiquities at the Getty are returning:
http://dallasartdealers.org/j-paul-getty-museum-begins-reinstallation-of-antiquities-collection-at-the-getty-villa/
Quran:
http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/exhibit-illuminates-divine-art-quran/
Time and Cosmos in Greco Roman Antiquity:
http://hyperallergic.com/331494/time-and-cosmos-institute-study-ancient-world/
A Virgin and Child sculpture is back on view at the BM:
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2016/dec/10/british-museum-medieval-virgin-child-statue
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Developments in dating aboriginal petroglyphs:
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-techniques-date-australian-aboriginal-art.html
We mentioned this map restoration last week … here’s the process:
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/watch-a-destroyed-17th-century-map-get-painstakingly-re-1789490980
Adjusting dating methods because of the impact of fossil fuel emissions:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/awih-iam120516.php http://www.awi.de/nc/en/about-us/service/press/press-release/identifying-age-measurements-distorted-by-fossil-fuel-emissions.html
Xraying a portrait at the Charles Dickens Museum:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=92267
Robert the Bruce got the facial reconstruction treatment:
http://phys.org/news/2016-12-digitally-reconstructed-skull-reveal-robert.html https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/dec/08/sprucing-up-robert-the-bruce-scottish-kings-face-gets-3d-treatment
http://www.archaeology.org/5076-161208-robert-the-bruce
… as did the Neolithic Jericho skull guy:
http://www.sciencealert.com/this-is-the-reconstructed-face-of-9-500-year-old-neolithic-man
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ON THE DNA FRONT ================================================================
What DNA reveals about freed slaves on St Helena:
http://www.nature.com/news/what-dna-reveals-about-st-helena-s-freed-slaves-1.21096
http://www.archaeology.org/5074-161207-genome-transatlantic-trade
The genome analysis of the Spirit Cave Mummy is done:
http://www.nature.com/news/what-dna-reveals-about-st-helena-s-freed-slaves-1.21096
DNA suggests smallpox may have emerged more recently than previously
thought:
https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2016-12/mu-sot120216.php https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/12/161208141635.htm http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-38243108 http://www.archaeology.org/5077-161208-lithuania-smallpox-virus http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/12/08/504618235/a-mummys-dna-may-help-solve-the-mystery-of-the-origins-of-smallpox
http://elpais.com/elpais/2016/12/08/ciencia/1481196001_087293.html
Dienekes' Anthropology Blog:
http://dienekes.blogspot.ca/================================================================
TOURISTY THINGS ================================================================
Assorted Roman sites:
http://elviajero.elpais.com/elviajero/2016/12/07/actualidad/1481122643_428300.html
Ostia:
http://www.italoamericano.org/story/2016-12-8/ostia-italy
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CRIME BEAT
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That gate stolen from Dachau a while back turned up in Norway:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=92196
More on antiquities from Palmyra turning up in Geneva:
http://theartnewspaper.com/news/news/palmyra-antiquities-seized-at-geneva-free-port-/
https://www.artforum.com/news/id=65155 http://www.timesofisrael.com/swiss-seize-artefacts-looted-from-syrias-palmyra/
Latest Anonymous Swiss Collector Culture Crime News:
http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/2016/12/culture-crime-news-28-november-4-december-2016.html
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 ================================================================
Returns to Egypt from various countries:
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egypt-recovers-7-artifacts-us-switzerland-and-uae
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/251519/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Fruitful-week-for-repatriation-of-Egyptian-antiqui.aspx
… and it’s been a good year for repatriation of Egyptian items:
http://www.egyptindependent.com/news/egypt-retrieved-over-500-smuggled-artifacts-2016official
Bolivia recovered some items from Argentina:
http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=2426874&CategoryId=14919
Remains of some Tasmanian Aborigines have been returned:
http://www.abc.net.au/pm/content/2016/s4587935.htm http://www.abc.net.au/news/2016-12-06/aboriginal-remains-return-to-tasmania/8095502
More on the return of that mummy hand:
http://www.livescience.com/57076-stolen-mummy-hand-returned-to-egypt.html
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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n49.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v19n50.html
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Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS ================================================================
Audio News from Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-main-menu-cat/audio-news-list/2524-audio-news-from-archaeologica-27-november-2016-3-december-2016
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OBITUARIES
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[it appears the rate of deaths among archaeologists is inversely
proportional to the rate of deaths among celebrities this year]
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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 ================================================================
Archaeosoup:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch
The Book and the Spade:
http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm ================================================================
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