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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
Wilfried Zankl, Bob Heuman, Wendy van Duivenvoorde, Richard Campbell,
David Critchley, Ken Stuart, John Hall, Jennifer Cosham,
Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

... closing out volume 15 with a huge issue ...

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Latest on a. sediba suggests it had a mixture of human and ape traits:

http://www.livescience.com/28656-closest-human-ancestor-was-pigeon-toed.html
http://www.livescience.com/28654-au-sediba-human-ancestor-gallery.html (images)
http://www.nature.com/news/ape-like-fossils-show-hints-of-human-ancestry-1.12788
http://www.lansingstatejournal.com/viewart/20130412/NEWS01/304120045/New-species-Creature-s-traits-mix-human-apelike
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22128959
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22108784
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-australopithecus-sediba-hominid-reveals-human.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-fossilized-teeth-insight-human-ancestor.html
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887324695104578416761750216482.html
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/12/mystery-fossil-creature-blends-human-apelike-traits-posing-an-evolutionary-quandary/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2307945/Pigeon-toed-unable-run-Researchers-shed-new-light-early-humans.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2013/04/12/3734941.htm?site=science/brokenstory
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349599/description/News_in_Brief_Possible_human_ancestor_in_Australopithecus_sediba
http://news.discovery.com/human/evolution/half-human-half-ape-ancestor-130411.htm
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/12/2-million-year-old-creature-had-mix-of-ape-human-traits
http://lightyears.blogs.cnn.com/2013/04/11/human-ancestor-candidate-a-weird-mosaic/

... related more general feature:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130411-homo-ancestor-hominin-skeleton-lucy-australopithecus-sediba-science/

... assorted related abstracts from a special issue of Science that likely prompted this:

http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/163
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/1233062 (abstract)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/1232997 (abstract)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/1233477 (abstract)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/1234598 (abstract)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/1232996 (abstract)
http://www.sciencemag.org/content/340/6129/1232999

Oetzi had bad teeth (possibly not surprising):

http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/04/scienceshot-iceman-had-bad-teeth.html?ref=hp
http://phys.org/news/2013-04-iceman-otzi-bad-teeth.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uoz-ih040913.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130409105903.htm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2306821/Otzi-iceman-terrible-teeth-bad-breath-researchers-reveal.html
http://www.dw.de/%C3%B6tzi-the-iceman-didnt-die-hungry-researchers-say/a-15192343-1

cf http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/eos.12037/abstract
http://www.mediadesk.uzh.ch/articles/2013/oetzi-hatte-schlechte-zaehn.html (German)
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of coverage of finds from Wadi el-Jarf (including some Old Kingdom papyri):

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/69024/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypts-King-Khufus-harbour-in-Suez-discovered.aspx
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-egypt/worlds-oldest-port-and-egyptian-papyrus-uncovered-130412.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-explorers-discover-ancient-port-hieroglyphic-writings-in-red-sea-area/2013/04/11/bf82907e-a2cd-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html
http://www.therecord.com/news/world/article/917294--egypt-explorers-discover-ancient-port-hieroglyphic-writings-in-red-sea-area
http://www.adnkronos.com/IGN/Aki/English/Security/Egypt-Archaeologists-uncover-worlds-oldest-port-hieroglyphic-papyri_3279038430.html
http://www.edmontonjournal.com/news/world/Egypt+explorers+discover+ancient+port+hieroglyphic+writings/8228568/story.html
http://www.nzherald.co.nz/world/news/article.cfm?c_id=2&objectid=10877242
http://zeenews.india.com/news/science/world-s-oldest-harbour-hieroglyphic-papyri-found_841789.html

cf: http://www.britishmuseum.org/research/publications/online_journals/bmsaes/issue_18/tallet.aspx

... and more on Heracleion:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130407150740.htm

I think we’ve mentioned this 3d reconstruction of Karnak:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/03/dimensions-of-ancient-egypt/

Latest CT scan of a mummy comes from Ohio:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/insight/2013/04/14/giving-up-secrets.html
http://www.dispatch.com/content/slideshows/2013/04/mummy-mystery.html

cf: http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.ca/2013/04/amunet-and-neskhonsupakhered.html

There’s a digital supplement to Shelley Wachsmann’s Gurob Ship-Cart tome which is available
online (free) with some interesting reconstructions:

http://www.vizin.org/Gurob/Gurob.html

A major (it seems) antiquities bust in Egypt:

http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/world/2013-04/14/c_124577434.htm

... and ongoing concerns about smuggling:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/04/14/egypts-priceless-artefacts-disappear-to-the-black-market/

A large, mysterious pile of stones in the Sea of Galilee is being labelled a structure:

http://www.livescience.com/28567-ancient-structure-under-sea-of-galilee.html
http://www.livescience.com/28535-mysterious-structure-beneath-sea-of-galilee.html
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/ancient-monument-underwater-in-the-kinneret/2013/04/12/?src=ataglance
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/stone-structure-beneath-sea-of-galilee-made-by-humans-archaeologists-say-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=44702&NewsCatID=375
http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-stone-structure-discovered-beneath-sea-galilee-111707097.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/mysterious-rock-pile-structure-found-beneath-sea-of-galilee-off-israeli-coast/story-fn5fsgyc-1226617794816
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/10/mysterious-stone-structure-discovered-beneath-sea-galilee/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166987#.UWapkDd9Cdwhttp://in.news.yahoo.com/ancient-monumental-stone-structure-discovered-beneath-sea-galilee-064224839.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-mystery-monument-found-on-the-sea-floor-20130412,0,2957527.story?track=rss
http://www.perthnow.com.au/technology/mysterious-rock-pile-structure-found-beneath-sea-of-galilee-off-israeli-coast/story-fnhod58u-1226617794816

An interesting Miqve from Jerusalem:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/about_eng.asp?Modul_id=14
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=61858
http://www.jpost.com/Jewish-World/Jewish-Features/Rare-mikve-from-Second-Temple-era-unearthed-in-Jlem-309338
http://www.timesofisrael.com/2000-year-old-ritual-bath-uncovered-in-jerusalem/
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2013/April/Second-Temple-Ritual-Bath-Uncovered-in-Jerusalem/
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1997&module_id=#as
http://www.google.com/hostednews/epa/article/ALeqM5i0l8OQsdpOOETu-TyfdpQPQBgYZw?docId=2011528 (Spanish ... different photo)
http://www.wnd.com/2013/04/2000-year-old-ritual-bath-uncovered-in-jerusalem/?cat_orig=diversions

Analysis of the ink from the Gospel of Judas suggests it dates from the third century A.D./C.E. or so:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-egyptian-certificate-key-authenticating-controversial.html
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/08/truth-behind-gospel-judas-revealed-in-ancient-inks/
http://news.discovery.com/history/religion/gospel-judas-ancient-text-1304081.htm
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130408122301.htm
http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1317302-scientists-trying-decipher-gospel-judas
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/archeological-chemists-authenticate-ancient-text-with-egyptian-wedding-certificate/2013/04/09/0/
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=222&content_id=CNBP_032555&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=044e7daa-e7cf-4c6f-b17c-ad7c70d44caa
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/acs-ewc031913.php

Not sure where to put this item on ancient tsunamis in the Mediterranean:

http://asorblog.org/?p=4344

Another feature on Herod:

http://www.catholicherald.co.uk/commentandblogs/2013/04/12/king-herod-is-undergoing-an-odd-reinvention/

Daniel Patte is retiring:

http://communities.washingtontimes.com/neighborhood/frank-kaufmann-way-forward/2013/apr/10/pioneering-bible-scholar-retires/

A Mellon grant for Anthony Barbieri-Low:

http://dailynexus.com/2013-04-08/professor-recieves-fellowship-from-academic-foundation-to-pursue-research-in-egyptology/

Plans for Alacahoyuk:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hittite-culture-survives-in-alacahoyuk-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=44418&NewsCatID=375

I think we mentioned the Iraq National Museum is still a long way from opening:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/10-years-after-looting-iraq-national-museum-long-way-from-public-opening-despite-renovations/2013/04/11/d1dbc88c-a271-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html

More conflicting reports about damage in Syria:

http://www.france24.com/en/20130409-jewish-sites-syria-latest-front-propaganda-war-haaretz

More on the winepress and lamp found near Ashkelon:

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00982.html

http://m.christianpost.com/news/1500-year-old-christian-lantern-wine-press-discovered-in-israel--93381/
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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Plenty of coverage of thousands of finds from London:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/uk/2013/apr/09/archaeologist-objects-roman-london-find
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-london-22084384
http://news.nationalpost.com/2013/04/10/archeological-dig-beneath-bloombergs-future-london-headquarters-reveals-ancient-roman-ruins-dubbed-pompeii-of-the-north/
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cbVLn5SDGjg
http://www.torontosun.com/2013/04/10/archeologists-find-gladiator-jewels-at-construction-site
http://www.wdam.com/story/21935932/roman-ruins-found-in-london-construction-site
http://www.cnn.com/2013/04/10/world/europe/uk-london-roman-remains/index.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/04/11/Archaeological-dig-unearths-wealth-of-artifacts-from-Roman-London/UPI-84601365716255/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/8000-artefacts-and-rising-city-dig-pronounced-the-most-important-ever-in-london-8566348.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306443/The-Bloomberg-Place-Construction-Site-Archaeological-dig-London-heralded-capitals-important-excavation.html
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20heritage/time/roman/art427987
http://www.museumoflondonarchaeology.org.uk/NewsProjects/Current-News/Pompeii+of+the+north.htm

... and special focus on a shoe:

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-04-09/gladiator-charm-1-900-year-shoe-revealed-in-london-dig.html

New theory that the temple of Quirinus is under the Palazzo Barberini

http://www.ilmessaggero.it/ROMA/CRONACA/tempio_quirino_palazzo_barberini_roma/notizie/263723.shtml (Italian)

Excavating a Roman fort site in Derby:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-22083320

Excavations at Pella will continue:

http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/04/08/pella-ancient-agora-excavations-to-continue/

A plum post for Mary Beard:

http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/mary-beard-named-as-royal-academy-of-arts-professor-of-ancient-literature-8567757.html

A marathon reading of the Odyssey:

http://www.dailycamera.com/cu-news/ci_22991448/dozens-take-part-12-hour-reading-odyssey-at

Folks might be interested in a project to restore the Olympias (again) in time for

the premiere of the sequel to 300:

http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1895671035/voyage-of-a-legend-trireme-olympias-restoration-fi

Feature on Fort Babylon:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/04/09/roman-ruins-in-old-cairo/

More on the Belgammel ram:

http://www.spacewar.com/reports/Bronze_warship_ram_reveals_secrets_999.html

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Pictish writing identified on some stones from Scotland:

http://termcoord.wordpress.com/2013/04/10/pictish-written-language-discovered-in-scotland/

A very interesting 4th/3rd century B.C. necropolis full of Gallic warriors with weapons

and more:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-iron-age-warriors-glories-gaul.html
http://www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Communiques-de-presse/p-15830-Les-guerriers-gaulois-sont-dans-la-plaine-de-Troyes.htm (French)
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/04/12/france-burial-site-gaul-warriors_n_3069978.html
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/iron-age-warriors-point-glories-gaul-045226356.html#SP5oO6o
http://www.newsdaily.com/environment/1f7f6fa8e843df94de525b9fb5cdf420/iron-age-warriors-point-to-glories-of-gaul

A livery badge from the site of the Battle of Flodden:

http://www.heraldscotland.com/news/home-news/unearthed-scots-find-gives-insight-into-battle-of-flodden.1365505311
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-tyne-22090380
http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/bid-to-find-body-of-james-iv-at-flodden-1-2884762
http://www.flodden1513.com/index.php/site/news/press_conference

... but the real focus is the search for James IV’s body:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/arts/bid-to-find-body-of-james-iv-at-flodden-1-2884762

A shipwreck associated with Sir Walter Raleigh (maybe) off the Isles of Scilly:

http://www.thisiscornwall.co.uk/Isles-Scilly-shipwreck-site-lost-ship-Sir-Walter/story-18694840-detail/story.html#axzz2QPCUZqI5

The Mary Rose apparently had armour-piercing cannonballs:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/9991936/Mary-Rose-reveals-armour-piercing-cannonball-secret.html

Archaeologists have located remains of Northampton’s medieval castle:

http://www.northamptonchron.co.uk/news/local/part-of-northampton-s-medieval-castle-unearthed-1-4978657

The Nigg cross-slab restoration has been completed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-22092634

Some Celtic crosses are on the move:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22113489

The Ackworth Hoard will be staying in Yorkshire:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-22109445

Feature on ‘execution site archaeology’ in Germany:

http://www.spiegel.de/international/zeitgeist/germany-sees-rising-interest-in-execution-site-archaeology-a-893747.html#ref=rss

More on those bog bodies from near Bremen:

http://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2013/04/14/general/ancient-roman-bones-reveal-brutal-history/#.UWqsRkotejg

More on that Tolkien ring:

http://www.dailyecho.co.uk/news/10354115.Is_this_the_Hampshire_ring_that_inspired_Lord_of_the_Rings_/
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Hunter-gatherers in Ice Age Japan had a taste for fish, apparently:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-pottery-reveals-ice-age-hunter-gatherers.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/uoy-pri040913.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130410131137.htm
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/environment/archaeology/9985604/Salmon-hot-pot-earliest-pottery-was-used-to-cook-fish.html
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17687754-earliest-fish-stews-were-cooked-in-japan-during-last-ice-age-experts-say?lite
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349564/description/Pottery_cooked_from_the_start
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/04/10/176762387/earliest-cookware-was-used-to-make-fish-soup
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/04/first-evidence-of-pottery-used-f.html
http://www.york.ac.uk/news-and-events/features/jomon/
http://www.nature.com/nature/jour

4000 years B.P. stone tools and other items from a riverbank near Bhopal:

http://indiatoday.intoday.in/story/stone-tools-earthenware-unearthed-from-banks-of-river-narmada-bhopal-india-today/1/261098.html

A 1st millennium B.C./B.C.E. settlement from Azerbaijan:

http://en.apa.az/news_ancient_settlement_found_in_azerbaijan_190709.html

A 1700 years b.p. tomb from Luijang:

http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/m/anhui/travel/2013-04/11/content_16393964.htm
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4017
http://english.anhuinews.com/system/2013/04/03/005570680.shtml

Finds from the Yujiabo necropolis:

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4004
http://www.cssn.cn/news/705431.htm
http://www.cssn.cn/news/702444.htm

China has come out (finally) with their top ten finds of 2012 (although I think

we had this before):

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4016
http://www.china.org.cn/arts/2013-04/09/content_28492118.htm
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/sci/2013-04/09/c_132295725.htm
http://www.globaltimes.cn/content/773698.shtml#.UWgtTkp9Cdw
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-04/09/content_16387573_2.htm
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/90874/8200891.html

Interesting finds from Harimau Cave (Sumatra):

http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/1423599/art-bodies-found-in-ancient-caves/?cs=300

Interesting feature on some Edo-period books:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2013/04/would-you-like-to-browse-an-edo-period-japanese-bookstore/

Feature on a successful smuggler of temple idols back in the 1970s:

http://m.timesofindia.com/city/chennai/American-art-collector-got-away-with-smuggling-bronze-idols-from-TN-temples-in-1974/articleshow/19487323.cms?intenttarget=no

OpEd on Afghanistan’s past:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/opinion/sunday/why-karzai-bites-the-hand-that-feeds-him.html?hp&_r=0

More on finds from Turkmenistan and plans for future digs:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=61758#.UWqv8kotejg
http://www.france24.com/en/20130406-ancient-mysteries-revealed-turkmen-desert-sands
http://news.ph.msn.com/lifestyle/ancient-mysteries-revealed-in-turkmen-desert-sands-3
http://www.timesofoman.com/News/Article-12638.aspx
http://uk.news.yahoo.com/ancient-mysteries-revealed-turkmen-desert-sands-140031142.html#eEf5OdN

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Rethinking the role of tinned food in the demise of the folks from the Franklin Expedition:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-acquit-tins-mysterious-franklin.html
http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/story/2013/04/08/north-franklin-lead-theory-study.html

On social networks in the pre-Hispanic Southwest:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/03/130325184018.htm

The search is on for the Gallatin in Charleston Harbor:

http://www.postandcourier.com/article/20130402/PC16/130409885

Plans to search for Le Griffon in June:

http://www.grandhaventribune.com/article/362446

Those Hopi masks were okayed for auction:

http://www.france24.com/en/20130411-arizona%E2%80%99-hopi-tribe-faces-off-against-paris-auction-house
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/paris-court-rules-to-allow-auction-of-native-american-artifacts-despite-us-call-for-delay/2013/04/12/ff7292ce-a359-11e2-bd52-614156372695_story.html
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/04/12/native-american-artifacts-paris-court/2076687/
http://news.yahoo.com/protesters-jeer-hopi-masks-sell-paris-173235256.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22119146
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/french-judge-rules-that-auction-of-hopi-masks-can-proceed/?ref=arts

... and fetched a good price:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-22119146

A picture of Boston is the oldest (so far) aerial photo:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/04/this-picture-of-boston-circa-1860-is-the-worlds-oldest-surviving-aerial-photo/

Hype for the Digital Public Library of America:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-digital-library-culture-history-online.html

More on that Buen Jesus ... shipwreck off Florida:

http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/shipwreck-off-florida-yields-treasures-centuries-after-spanish-galleon-sank/2013/04/08/42a606b8-9dfe-11e2-a2db-efc5298a95e1_story.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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What clamshells reveal about the decline of the Moche:

http://www.insidescience.org/content/clamshells-reveal-secrets-pre-columbian-societys-decline/974

A possible pre-Hispanic dock from Veracruz:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=61788#.UWq4TUotejh

On Maya reservoirs/water conservation in Belize:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-fascinating-revelations-ancient-society-purification.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130409111605.htm

Carbon dating has helped to sync the Mayan long-count calendar and the European one

(their term, not mine):

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-maya-calendar-european-linked-carbon-.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/maya/9987517/End-of-the-world-Mayan-calendar-pinpointed-by-carbon-dating.html
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/04/11/anthropologists-carbon-date-beam-from-temple-holding-mayan-calendar/

Folks have been studying the Easter Island statue in the BM:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130411075615.htm
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/6178/20130411/new-surprising-discoveries-mysterious-easter-island-statue-origin-birdman-cult.htm

http://www.sci-news.com/archaeology/article00998.html

Not sure if we mentioned this damage to some of the Nazca lines:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2013/several-lines-at-nazca-suffer-irreparable-damage

Nice photo of stars over Teotihuacan:

http://www.universetoday.com/101392/astrovideo-the-stars-over-teotihuacan-city-of-gods/

Review of Marie Arana, *Bolivar: American Liberator*:

http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-marie-arana-20130414,0,6156985.story

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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/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Interesting scanning technique applied to a restored Roman fresco:

http://www.livescience.com/28632-airport-scanning-fresco.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/04/130410154622.htm
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLEMAIN&node_id=222&content_id=CNBP_032582&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=region1&__uuid=18a3a201-7467-46c7-a090-d49997fd3c11
http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/04/airport-body-scanner-also-undresses-artwork
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22118926
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-the-technology-behind-airport-s-2013-04
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-04/acs-rha030713.php

cf. for some important missing details from the press coverage:

http://rogueclassicism.com/2013/04/13/ancient-roman-hidden-under-fresco-maybe-maybe-not/

A rather silly dispute with conservation overtones:

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/owners-bar-built-16th-century-shipwreck-told-paint-190423520.html

Analyzing old patent medicines:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-patent-medicine-remedies-museum.html

... and we’re still learning about scurvy, apparently:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-humanities-medicine-combine-reveal-secrets.html

Suggestion that Shakespeare may have been a ‘humble schoolmaster’ at one point:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/education-22064636

An image of John Keats is coming to auction:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=61834#.UWq9s0otejh

... as is a 17th century hymnal:

http://bigstory.ap.org/article/hymnal-dates-1640-could-fetch-30m

On the role of animals in societal evolution:

http://phys.org/news/2013-04-evolving-human-societies-overlook-role.html

On the role of the brain in art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/opinion/sunday/what-the-brain-can-tell-us-about-art.html?ref=science

Interview with Clive James:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/books/review/clive-james-by-the-book.html?ref=books

The changing focus of history in universities:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/education/in-history-departments-its-up-with-capitalism.html?ref=books

On lab-testing ancient inscriptions:

http://www.rollstonepigraphy.com/?p=552

Big bucks for a Picasso:

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2013/03/26/for-cohen-a-big-art-deal/?hp

A new word that is gaining currency: de-extinction:

http://cen.acs.org/articles/91/i14/Reviving-Dead.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Nabatean sites in Saudi Arabia:

http://arabnews.com/news/447393

Ghazni:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-22124146

Herculaneum/Oplontis:

http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/ruins-without-the-ruckus-20130411-2hn15.html

Masada:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/masada-tragic-fortress-in-the-sky/

Roman sites in the UK:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/apr/12/british-museum-rome-all-around-us
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CRIME BEAT
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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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NUMISMATICA
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Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n14.html

... and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n15.html

Replicas for sale:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/coin-model-copies-exported-to-abroad.aspx?pageID=238&nID=44717&NewsCatID=375

Folks might be interested in downloading some issues of Omni:

http://www.omni.wikimoneda.com/
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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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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Seuthes III:

http://sofiaglobe.com/2013/04/09/thracian-exhibit-at-archaeological-museum-in-sofia/

Nunalleq:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2013/nunalleq-the-yupiit-and-the-arctic-world

Land of the Pharaohs:

http://www.nhregister.com/articles/2013/04/11/entertainment/doc5167025746fd4915510640.txt?viewmode=fullstory

Pompeii/Herculaneum (BM):

http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2013/04/slideshow-life-and-death-pompeii-and-herculaneum

John Singer Sargent:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/arts/design/john-singer-sargent-watercolors-at-brooklyn-museum.html?ref=design

Ceramica de los Ancestros:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2013/03/photos-rarely-seen-central-american-ceramics-dating-from-1000-years-ago/

Constantine:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10348885.Emperor_returns_to_his_ancient_roots/

Cyrus Cylinder:

http://ultimatebellaire.com/stories/498172-the-cyrus-cylinder-and-ancient-persia-to-open-at-museum-of-fine-arts

The Hellenic Museum of Michigan has opened:

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130410/ENT01/304100315/New-Hellenic-Museum-of-Michigan-adds-a-bit-of-ancient-Hellas-to-Detroit

http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130413/METRO/304130362/1409/metro/The-Hellenic-Museum-Michigan-opens-today

On the reopening of the Rijksmuseum:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-features/9987733/The-Rijksmuseum-Seeing-Dutch-art-with-fresh-eyes.html

The Met will be getting a nice Cubist collection:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/arts/design/leonard-lauder-is-giving-his-cubist-collection-to-the-met.html?ref=design

I think we mentioned that Christie’s was opening a bureau in China:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/10/arts/design/christies-is-poised-to-auction-art-in-china.html?ref=design

Extreme Drawing:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/nyregion/a-review-of-extreme-drawing-at-the-aldrich-contemporary-art-museum.html?ref=design
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Teseo:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/13/arts/music/teseo-from-philharmonia-baroque-orchestra.html?ref=arts

Lincoln Poetry and Music by Long Islanders:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/nyregion/a-musical-view-of-abraham-lincoln.html?ref=music
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http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20130407.mp3

Archaeonews 229:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/04/2013/archaeology-podcast-229
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GENERAL ARCHAEOLOGY NEWS BLOGS
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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/
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http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

The Book and the Spade:

http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
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