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Rick Heli, Dan Kiernan, A. Landreau, Richard Campbell,
Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
week (as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Apparently Lucy couldn’t walk very quickly:

http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/hominids/2012/11/did-lucy-walk-too-slow-for-her-taller-group-mates/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2229757/Catch-Lucy-The-famous-human-ancestor-difficulty-keeping-pace-peers.html

A site in South Africa suggests early humans were producing microliths earlier than
perviously thought:

http://news.discovery.com/human/early-human-tools-121107.html
http://phys.org/news/2012-11-small-lethal-tools-big-implications.html
http://www.nature.com/news/early-humans-tooled-up-1.11765
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-11/asu-slt110512.php
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/stoneage-humans-began-using-lethal-technology-71000-years-ago-employing-spears-and-arrows-to-triumph-over-neanderthals-8294599.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2012/1107/When-did-humans-get-smart-Maybe-a-lot-earlier-than-some-thought
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323894704578105004000070778.html?mod=googlen

Plenty of coverage of a mammoth kill site in France, which apparently has Neanderthal
connections:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=58801
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/video/2012/nov/09/mammoth-skeleton-paris-early-humans-video
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/news/a-mammoth-find-in-france-provides-evidence-of-a-savage-demise-8298524.html
http://www.salon.com/2012/11/08/impeccably_preserved_woolly_mammoth_excavated_in_france/
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/9665089/Helmut-the-mammoth-found-near-Paris.html
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8a7118-us-france-mammoth/

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2229493/Perfectly-preserved-skeleton-woolly-mammoth-near-Paris-hunted-cut-meat-20-000-years-ago.html
http://www.chron.com/news/article/Mammoth-skeleton-found-in-France-4016285.php

Latest DNA study on Oetzi suggests he looked a lot like a lot of European farmers:

http://news.discovery.com/history/iceman-relatives-121109.html
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Plenty of interest in a pair of 8500 years b.p. skeletons found in a well in
the Jezreel Valley:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1964&module_id=#as
http://www.mfa.gov.il/MFA/History/Early+History+-+Archaeology/Stone_Age_well_Jezreel_Valley_8-Nov-2012.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/ancient-murder-mystery-121109.html
http://news.yahoo.com/israeli-archaeologists-ponder-possible-whodunit-144634954--mma.html
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/11/09/ancient-murder-mystery-stone-age-bodies-discovered-in-well/
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2230441/Archaeologists-stumble-Neolithic-murder-mystery-finding-remains-teenage-girl-older-man-ancient-well.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/ancient-well-reveals-secrets-of-first-jezreel-valley-farmers.premium-1.476288
http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8a70x5-us-israel-skeletons/
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49744997/ns/technology_and_science-science/
http://www.jpost.com/Sci-Tech/Article.aspx?id=291031
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/161865#.UJvuemc5c5s
http://www.geo.tv/GeoDetail.aspx?ID=74665
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/israel-dig-uncovers-8500-year-old-well.aspx?pageID=238&nID=34230&NewsCatID=375

Latest from Temple Mount:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/wap/Item.aspx?type=0&item=161686

A feature on the Karkemish dig is making the rounds:

http://phys.org/news/2012-11-archaeologists-explore-site-syria-turkey-border.html
http://www.thetowntalk.com/viewart/20121110/LIFESTYLE/211100304/Archaeologists-explore-site-Syria-Turkey-border
http://www.miamiherald.com/2012/11/08/3087331/archaeologists-explore-site-on.html
http://amarillo.com/news/latest-news/2012-11-08/archaeologists-explore-site-syria-turkey-border

Evidence of a 3000 years b.p. dam at Alacahoyuk:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/hittites-ahead-of-their-time-in-dam-building.aspx?pageID=238&nID=33908&NewsCatID=375

OpEd on looting of antiquities in Egypt:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/opinion/looting-of-antiquities-in-egypt.html

Sites at Luxor apparently haven’t been damaged by recent rainfall:

http://allafrica.com/stories/201211071158.html

Feature on a private tutor for girls in 12th century Cairo:

http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/Judaism/Article.aspx?id=291018

Marking the 90th anniversary of the discovery of Tut’s tomb:

http://pastpreservers.blogspot.ca/2012/11/an-exact-replica-of-tomb-of.html

On the demise of Old Kingdom Egypt and climate change:

http://www.greenprophet.com/2012/11/egypt-pyramid-builders-succumbed-to-climate-change/

More on that Fifty Dynasty Egyptian princess tomb:

http://www.livescience.com/24603-ancient-egyptian-princess-tomb.html
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/world/built-dynasty-tomb-princess-shert-nebti-found-south-cairo-article-1.1198903

In case you’re wondering about those Jordan Codices:

http://maneypublishing.com/index.php/journal-of-the-month-peq-philip_davies
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A second century ‘giant’ from Rome:

http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/121102-gigantism-ancient-skeleton-archaeology-history-science-rome/

Plenty of coverage of a Thracian gold hoard find from northern Bulgaria:

http://phys.org/news/2012-11-archaeologists-thracian-golden-jewelry.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2012/11/pictures/121109-thracian-gold-hoard-treasure-bulgaria-science/ (photos)
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/11/08/uk-bulgaria-ancient-gold-idUSLNE8A701W20121108
http://www.boston.com/news/world/europe/2012/11/08/archaeologists-discover-thracian-golden-jewelry/iQpImyDynVG1V88JVlRzDI/story.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/nov/08/bulgarian-archaeologists-golden-treasures-thracian
http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j5LVmGh_-b8_p33C_Ji6CZ96uyYQ?docId=CNG.ac5dd23b4cb60fe50b9a88f18598f36b.7c1
http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=144948
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2012/11/08/bulgarian-archaeologists-discover-2400-year-old-golden-treasure/

Bazaar construction in Mersin has revealed a nice mosaic:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/mosaic-found-at-a-bazaar-construction.aspx

In case you missed the Roman cats story last week:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/world/europe/rome-drawn-into-tiff-between-preservationists-and-cat-shelter.html
http://www.alaskadispatch.com/article/roman-pride-under-assault-cats-sheltered-ancient-cultural-site

… and here’s the ‘other side’ of the story:

http://www.romancats.com/index_eng.php

What Alice Oswald is up to:

http://www.yaledailynews.com/news/2012/nov/02/homer-is-alive-and-well-and-living-in-alice-oswald/

They’re still talking about the Pope’s Latin Academy:

http://news.yahoo.com/pope-resurrects-latin-academy-boost-study-115021257.html

More on those ‘erotic’ finds mention in the latest PAS report:

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/49569288/ns/technology_and_science-science

Latest reviews from BMCR:

http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html

Visit our blog:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Our latest ‘vampire burial’:

http://www.catholic.org/international/international_story.php?id=48366
http://in.news.yahoo.com/-vampire--skeleton-with-spikes-discovered-in-britain.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2227701/Rare-skeleton-vampire-discovered-Britain-spikes-shoulders-heart-ankles.html

(Free) article on the transition to the Neolithic in Europe:

http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/10/25/1200662109.abstract

Studying an 8000 years b.p. hoard from Belica:

http://phys.org/news/2012-11-archeologists-oldest-hoards-europe.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2012/11/121106085132.htm

A medieval copper smelter from Norway:

http://sciencenordic.com/medieval-copper-smelter-find-norways-oldest

A 14th century Manx bishop’s seal is going on display:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-isle-of-man-20204111

A Bronze Age arrowhead from a medieval nunnery dig:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-oxfordshire-20265214

Naseby Battlefield’s visitors’ centre site could be sold:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-northamptonshire-20267895

Lochindorb Castle needs some conserving:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-19812520

Somewhat strange oped suggesting things looted from Vikings should be returned:

http://sciencenordic.com/should-we-keep-vikings%E2%80%99-stolen-goods

Archaeology in Europe Blog:

http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Interesting study on when humans arrived in Tonga:

http://phys.org/news/2012-11-coral-reveal-polynesian-settlements.html
http://www.livescience.com/24614-first-polynesians-settlement.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-11/plos-cfr110512.php

There aren’t enough archaeology labs in India to process all the finds:

http://articles.timesofindia.indiatimes.com/2012-11-06/pune/34947997_1_excavations-archaeology-evidences

More on Cambodia and Sotheby’s ongoing antiquities dispute:

http://www.npr.org/2012/10/23/163007250/cambodia-vs-sothebys-in-a-battle-over-antiquities

East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/2010/05/20/east-asian-archaeology-cultural-heritage-%E2%80%93-2052010/

Southeast Asian Archaeology Newsblog:

http://www.southeastasianarchaeology.com/

New Zealand Archaeology eNews:

http://www.nzarchaeology.org/netsubnews.htm
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NORTH AMERICA
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Three potentially-interesting burials from Alaska:

http://www.adn.com/2012/11/10/2688770/earky-tests-show-mcgrath-skeletons.html

Answering some questions about early Ohio history:

http://www.dispatch.com/content/stories/science/2012/11/11/some-ohio-history-difficult-to-pinpoint.html
http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.com/2012/11/some-hard-questions-may-be-wrong.html

On trees and US history:

http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/publications/news/201211/research-american-history-rutkow.html

An overviewish thing of US elections:

http://campaignstops.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/the-%E2%80%9980s-want-their-politics-back-%E2%80%93-the-1880s/

… and why they’re always on Tuesdays:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/itsallpolitics/2012/10/23/162484410/why-are-elections-on-tuesdays

Feature on the New York Historical Society:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/giving/roger-hertog-reviver-of-the-new-york-historical-society.html

Pondering the accuracy of the Lincoln docudrama:

http://www.slate.com/blogs/browbeat/2012/11/09/lincoln_historical_accuracy_sorting_fact_from_fiction_in_the_steven_spielberg.html

… and a review thereof:

http://movies.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/movies/lincoln-by-steven-spielberg-stars-daniel-day-lewis.html?ref=arts

Just in case you thought there weren’t any more academics chasing Bigfoot:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8a402g-us-usa-bigfoot-blimp/

Interesting gargoyle-festooned house in NYC:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/realestate/exclusive-3-riverside-drive-gargoyles-and-gaslight.html

Review of Jon Meacham, *Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/11/books/review/thomas-jefferson-the-art-of-power-by-jon-meacham.html

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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Again we’re hearing of climate change and the demise of the Maya:

http://phys.org/news/2012-11-linkages-climate-political-human-impacts.html
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/346350/title/An_ancient_civilizations_wet_ascent,_dry_demise
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2012-11/du-tco110512.php
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/13/science/for-maya-climate-change-may-have-been-blessing-and-curse.html
http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58865

More on Bolivia returning a mummy to Peru:

http://www.foxnews.com/world/2012/11/06/bolivia-returns-tiny-mummy-to-peru/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-20230282
http://www.starherald.com/news/nation_world/bolivia-returns-tiny-mummy-to-peru/image_01b3c0a8-2920-11e2-8a66-0019bb2963f4.html

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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Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20121104.mp3

ArchaeoNews Podcast:

http://www.stonepages.com/podcast/archaeo-news-2012-10-22.mp3

Anglo Saxon Poetry? There’s an app for that:

http://phys.org/news/2012-11-medieval-manuscripts-technological-makeover.html

Feature on notetaking over the ages (actually coverage of a conference):

http://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2012/11/duly-noted-the-past-present-and-future-of-note-taking/264533/
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/books/note-taking-seminars-at-radcliffe-institute-for-advanced-study.html?ref=books

Pondering the fate of paper:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/nov/09/can-paper-survive-digital-age

A 300 year old sign language manual:

http://www.livescience.com/24654-early-sign-language-manual.html

Feature on Acoustic Archaeology:

http://discovermagazine.com/2012/nov/03-our-ancestors-acoustical-engineers

Latest Whiting Fellows:

http://www.yale.edu/graduateschool/publications/news/201211/whiting-fellows.html

Study of climactic effects of a volcanic eruption some 74 000 years b.p.:

http://phys.org/news/2012-11-massive-volcanic-eruption-climate-people.html

Challenging some nutty claims:

http://ohio-archaeology.blogspot.ca/2012/11/help-im-being-followed-by-ancient-aliens.html

Ancient Digger:

http://www.ancientdigger.com/
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BLOGS
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About.com Archaeology:

http://archaeology.about.com/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

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

Time Machine:

http://heatherpringle.wordpress.com/
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CRIME BEAT
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The legal fate of a Stradivarius dealer:

http://www.newsdaily.com/stories/bre8a81fc-us-austria-stradivarius/

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_v15n46.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v15n47.html

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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Manet:

http://calitreview.com/31903

Francesco Guardi:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/arts/06iht-guardi06.html?pagewanted=2&ref=arts

Mughal Empire:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/culturepicturegalleries/9646891/The-British-Library-The-Mughal-Empire.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/9646841/What-did-the-Mughals-do-for-us.html

John Rogers:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/arts/design/john-rogers-american-stories-at-new-york-historical-society.html?ref=arts

Of Gods and Glamour:

http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/New-home-for-antiquities-at-Art-Institute-of-Chicago/28044

New (?) Titian:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-20251051

Lewis Chessmen:

http://www.isleofman.com/News/article.aspx?article=48802

African Presence in Renaissance Europe:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/arts/design/african-presence-in-renaissance-europe-at-walters-museum.html?ref=arts

DuChamp Siblings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/arts/design/duchamp-brothers-sister-works-of-art.html?ref=arts

The Met has acquired a de Ribera:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/arts/design/metropolitan-museum-buys-a-jusepe-de-ribera-painting.html?ref=arts

A museum in the making in New York:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/arts/design/the-salon-art-design-at-the-park-avenue-armory.html?ref=arts

Bonham’s has pulled some Chinese antiquities from auction:

http://artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58766#.UJ-wzGdqMWk

On the problem of ‘fake’ art:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/arts/design/murky-laws-give-fake-artworks-a-future-as-real-ones.html?ref=arts

Hype for Christie’s upcoming Antiquities/Old Masters sale:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=58741#.UJ-wf2dqMWk

Results from Christie’s Impressionist and Modern Art sale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/arts/design/picasso-stars-in-sothebys-auction-with-5-of-top-10-sales.html?ref=arts

… which were kind of disappointing, apparently:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/08/arts/design/art-gets-blame-for-an-anemic-sale-at-christies.html?ref=design
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/arts/09iht-melikian09.html?ref=arts

… and who’da thunk there would be an auction for corkscrews??:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/09/arts/design/corkscrews-for-sale-online-via-iccauctions.html?ref=arts
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Oliveo e Pasquale:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/06/arts/music/olivo-e-pasquale-from-amore-opera-at-connelly-theater.html?ref=music

Figaro:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/theater/reviews/sean-mcnall-in-charles-moreys-figaro-at-pearl-theater.html?ref=theater

Monteverdi’s Madrigals:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/05/arts/music/tenet-vocal-ensemble-at-italian-academy-columbia-university.html?ref=music

A ‘rare’ Gustav Holst composition is to be performed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-20190775

… as is Anacreon:

http://www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/10036303.Opera_to_be_performed_in_its_entirety_for_first_time_in_250_years/

… and music from a 12th century manuscript:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-20266043

Check out our Twitter hashtag for Ancient Drama reviews:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23ancientdrama

... and for Sword and Sandal flicks:

http://search.twitter.com/search?q=%23swordandsandal

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OBITUARIES
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Thomas McCraw:

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/11/07/business/thomas-k-mccraw-historian-who-enlivened-economics-dies-at-72.html
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PODCASTS
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The Book and the Spade:

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

Stone Pages Archaeology News:

http://news.stonepages.com/

Archaeologica Audio News:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/AudioNews.asp

Naked Archaeology Podcast:

http://www.thenakedscientists.com/HTML/podcasts/archaeology/
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