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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
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Richard C. Griffiths, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Early human burials were plain, apparently, compared to what went
before (this
study is being spun in different ways):

http://www.ucdenver.edu/about/newsroom/newsreleases/Pages/early-human-burials.aspx
http://phys.org/news/2013-02-early-human-burials-varied-widely.html
http://www.archaeology.org/news/593-human-burials-eurasia-neanderthals
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112789278/neanderthal-early-human-burial-funeral-practices-anthropology-022113/

An Ice Age fishing hook:

http://scinexx.de/wissen-aktuell-15593-2013-02-19.html(German)
http://derstandard.at/1360681869761/Schon-vor-dem-Ende-der-Eiszeit-ging-man-angeln
(German)
cf. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0305440313000198
(Abstract)

On changes to human brain structures over time:

http://scienceblog.com/60521/has-evolution-given-humans-unique-brain-structures/

OpEddish think on nostalgia for our paleo past:

http://chronicle.com/article/Misguided-Nostalgia-for-Our/137285/?cid=at&utm_source=at&utm_medium=en

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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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A pyramid of a vizier of Ramses II found at Luxor:

http://www.archaeology.org/news/595-khay-pyramid-vizier-ramses-ii-luxor

http://www.emirates247.com/news/region/pyramid-belonging-to-pharaoh-s-vizier-found-2013-02-21-1.495993

http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.de/2013/02/the-famous-viziers-tomb-is-now-found.htm
http://ansamed.ansa.it/ansamed/it/notizie/stati/egitto/2013/02/21/Archeologia-scoperta-piramide-vizir-Ramses-II_8286934.html
(Italian)
cf. http://www.ulb.ac.be/actulb/index.php?article=3617 (French)

A project to save a pair of colossal Amenhotep II statues at Luxor:

http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.co.at/2013/02/exclusive-footage-emergency-project-to.html
(fotos)
http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.co.at/2013/02/exclusive-video-of-work-to-save-two.html
(video)

More on those Greco-Roman tombs from Alexandria:

http://luxortimesmagazine.blogspot.de/2013/02/greco-roman-tombs-were-discovered-in.html

Some sort of Byzantine wine press operation (maybe) from Yafo:

http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1985&module_id=#as
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=60888
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/ancient-liquid-eztraction-installation-uncoverd-in-tel-aviv-yafo/2013/02/20/
http://www.haaretz.com/news/national/buried-under-a-jaffa-street-a-1-500-year-old-industrial-site.premium-1.504718
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/262640

A pile of stolen artifacts were recovered in Beit Jann:

http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/Flash.aspx/262422#.USoGjfKCWSo

Information on a secon Qeiyafa inscription coming soon, apparently:

http://lukechandler.wordpress.com/2013/02/20/information-on-the-second-qeiyafa-inscription-coming-later-this-year/

Syrian officials are warning of trafficking of antiquities:

http://www.miamiherald.com/2013/02/13/3231677/syria-official-warns-of-trafficking.html
http://connecticut.news12.com/news/nation-world/syria-official-warns-of-trafficking-in-antiquities-1.4638107
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/afp/130217/18-ancient-odyssey-mosaics-stolen-syria-minister

cf:
http://rogueclassicism.com/2013/02/18/not-recently-looted-odyssey-mosaics-followup/
http://phdiva.blogspot.ca/2013/02/syria-looting.html

� and they�ve put some things in storage:

http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/02/20/uk-syria-crisis-antiquities-idUSLNE91J01C20130220

Saudi Arabia is opening the cities of Saleh to the public:

http://www.laht.com/article.asp?ArticleId=688528&CategoryId=12395

Feature on the building stones of Herod�s temple:

http://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/biblical-sites-places/temple-at-jerusalem/the-stones-of-herod%E2%80%99s-temple-reveal-temple-mount-history/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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On the DNA front, apparently one million Britons can claim descent
from the Romans:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/uk/one-million-romans-in-britain-29090442.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/science/science-news/9888402/One-million-Brits-descended-from-Romans.html

Thermae from Sozopol:

http://www.novinite.com/view_news.php?id=147946

Recreating the Kithara:

http://www.uvm.edu/~uvmpr/?Page=news&storyID=15357&category=ucommtop

Concerns (maybe) for the Colosseum:

http://www.iol.co.za/news/world/colosseum-at-risk-of-collapsing-activists-1.1473305

Interview with Alice Oswald:

http://www.leftlion.co.uk/articles.cfm/title/alice-oswald/id/5698#.USoJX_KCWSo

Using 3d printing technology to recreate a Greek die:

http://www.geek.com/articles/games/ancient-icosahedron-3d-printing-ressurrects-the-worlds-oldest-die-20130219/

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

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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Interesting finds in a Bronze Age cist grave from Dartmoor:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-devon-21442474

A Bronze Age necropolis from Romania:

http://www.argophilia.com/news/bronze-age-necropolis/28350/

A Neolithic village from Derry is �of global significance�:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/derry-stone-age-village-sheds-new-light-on-life-6000-years-ago-29085534.html

A very interesting warrior burial from high in the Caucasus:

http://www.livescience.com/27275-ancient-treasure-warrior-grave.html
http://news.yahoo.com/treasure-filled-warriors-grave-found-russia-122952203.html
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/02/21/treasure-filled-warrior-grave-found-in-russia/
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/02/21/17046233-warriors-grave-and-his-treasures-found-in-russia?lite
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2282622/Warrior-buried-collection-weapons-treasures-Russian-mountain-grave.html?ito=feeds-newsxml

Road repairs brought to light some medieval bones from Reading:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-21510704
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-berkshire-21536737

A metal detectorist has found a pendant belonging to a noble killed by
Robert the Bruce:

http://www.scotsman.com/the-scotsman/scotland/pendant-of-noble-killed-by-robert-bruce-found-in-field-1-2801000

Folks were looking for Richard III back in 1935:

http://www.livescience.com/27019-richard-iii-1935-newspaper.html?cid=dlvr.it

� and plenty of folks are flocking to the exhibition now:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-21544283
http://travel.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/travel/royal-remains-draw-the-curious-to-leicester.html?ref=travel

Dutch archaeologists found an old shoe full of medieval cash:

http://www.dutchnews.nl/news/archives/2013/02/rotterdam_archaeologists_find.php

Archaeologists have concluded digging at the Jacobin monastery at
Rennes:

http://www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Communiques-de-presse/p-15648-Dernieres-semaines-de-fouille-au-couvent-des-Jacobins-a-Rennes-pres-d-un-millier-de-sepultures-recensees.htm
(French)
http://www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Actualites-des-decouvertes/p-15618-Le-couvent-des-Jacobins-a-Rennes-deja-un-an-de-fouille-.htm
(French)

A maiolica plate someone found in their house brought big bucks at
auction:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-somerset-21458616

A section of Ludlow�s town wall collapsed:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-21502955
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-shropshire-21530684

Suggestion that there are burials beneath Gloucester prison:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-21545150

A secret room beneath a Surrey house:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-surrey-21539879

Interesting website to explore Caithness through LiDAR:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-highlands-islands-21507061

They�re unlocking some interesting rooms at Warwick Castle:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/9880837/Richard-III-tower-amongst-secret-rooms-unlocked-by-Warwick-Castle.html

Review of John Darwin, *The Unfinished Empire*:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/books/review/unfinished-empire-by-john-darwin.html

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Archaeology in Europe Blog:

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

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Buddhist ruins from the Talikman desert:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/02/2013/buddhist-ruins-discovered-in-taklimakan-desert
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=3886

A very small temple from Damagou:
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=3898

Shang-zhou era tombs excavated at Chailingshan and Wugongshan

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=3892

Tang Dynasty porcelain from Qinglong:

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=3890

Overviewish of the Shenmu Shimao excavations over the past year:

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=3883

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East Asian Archaeology:

http://eastasiablog.wordpress.com/

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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Plans to study Northwestern�s founder�s ties to a massacre:

http://www.insidehighered.com/quicktakes/2013/02/22/northwestern-will-study-founders-tie-massacre-indians

Plans to build a replica of Canada�s oldest shipwreck:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/news/Canada+oldest+shipwreck+resurrected+replica+16th+century+Basque/7981207/story.html

Birds were at the heart of Beothuk religion:

http://www.canada.com/health/Newfoundland+birds+were+heart+extinct+Beothuk+nation+religion/7966875/story.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More (better) coverage of that pile of skulls found near Mexico City:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/video/2013/feb/23/human-skulls-mexico-archeologists-video

A prehistoric burial ground from San Andr�s Cholula:
http://noticias.terra.com.br/ciencia/descobertas-ossadas-de-800-anos-em-panteao-pre-hispanico-no-mexico,b81e1a1c181fc310VgnCLD2000000ec6eb0aRCRD.html
(Spanish)
http://www.focus.de/wissen/mensch/archaeologie/spektakulaerer-fund-in-mexiko-forscher-entdecken-praehistorischen-friedhof-_aid_923476.html
(German)
http://derstandard.at/1361240573021/Friedhof-aus-praekolumbischer-Zeit-freigelegt
(German)

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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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Did human language evolve from birds?:

http://scienceblog.com/60506/how-human-language-could-have-evolved-from-birdsong/

OpEd on waning demand for certain subjects (like archaeology):

http://www.guardian.co.uk/higher-education-network/blog/2013/feb/19/archaeology-funding-student-decline-future

Using bacteria from teeth to track evolution of disease:

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-ancient-teeth-bacteria-disease-evolution.html
http://www.hngn.com/articles/1322/20130217/ancient-teeth-bacteria-record-disease-evolution.htm

France is returning some Holocaust-looted art:

http://m.npr.org/news/front/171999784

� while the Jewish Museum in Vienna is being criticized for not:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/21/arts/design/jewish-museum-in-vienna-said-to-lag-in-restitution.html?ref=design

Not sure what�s going on in this Schneerson Collection dispute:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/russia-aims-to-defuse-conflict-over-schneerson-collection/?ref=books

Marking Copernicus� 540th:

http://www.csmonitor.com/Innovation/2013/0219/How-Nicolaus-Copernicus-moved-the-Earth

Feature on Daniel Wallace�s search for Biblical manuscripts:

http://www.christianpost.com/news/new-testament-scholar-chasing-biblical-manuscripts-is-nothing-like-indiana-jones-90175/

What Mike Sanders has learned about a Chartist hymn book:

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-landmark-hymn.html

The �death sandwich� in Genesis:

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-analysis-genesis-reveals-death-sandwich.html
http://www.livescience.com/27285-genesis-death-sandwich-discovered-in-bible.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2282270/The-secret-code-used-bury-bad-news-Bible-Researchers-discover-Genesis-death-sandwich.html

Latest on Egyptian Blue:

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-ancient-egyptian-blue-pigment-telecommunications.html

The Firesense project could be useful:

http://phys.org/news/2013-02-firesense-cultural-heritage-monuments-hazards.html

While the Sistine Chapel will be closed for a few weeks (for obvious
reasons), Julius II�s
Raphael-decorated apartment will open to the public:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/arts/design/30-year-restoration-of-raphaels-frescoes-in-vatican-is-done.html?ref=design

There�s a new Archaeology and Material Studies Institute at Cornell:

http://www.news.cornell.edu/stories/Feb13/ArchaeologyInstit.html

More on computers recreating ancient languages:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-21427896
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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_v16n07.html

� and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n08.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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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Lod Mosaic:

http://www.nj.com/indulge/index.ssf/2013/02/mosaic_floor_discovered_in_isr.html
http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20130219_Floored_by_third-century_Roman_mosaic.html

Eros:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/23/arts/23iht-melikian23.html?pagewanted=all&_r=0

Impressionism, Fashion, and Modernity:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/arts/design/impressionism-fashion-and-modernity-at-the-met.html?hp

Mesopotamia:

http://www.rom.on.ca/en/about-us/newsroom/press-releases/mesopotamia

Of Gods and Glamour:

http://www.news-gazette.com/news/arts-and-entertainment/miscellaneous/2013-02-21/treasures-loan-british-museum-art-institute-chi

Supper With Shakespeare:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/arts/design/culinary-exhibitions-add-life-to-museums-period-rooms.html?ref=arts

Photography and the American Civil War:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/arts/design/photographic-artifacts-of-black-civil-war-troops.html?ref=design

Degas, Miss La la:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/arts/design/degass-miss-la-la-at-the-cirque-fernando-at-the-morgan.html?ref=design

The Panoramic River:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/17/nyregion/a-review-of-the-panoramic-river-at-the-hudson-river-museum.html?ref=design

Hype for the Cyrus Cylinder coming to the US:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/on-the-middle-east/2013/feb/22/iran-cyrus-america

A major collection of Judaica is coming to auction:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/11/arts/design/judaica-ballets-russes-art-and-james-turrell-works.html
http://www.jta.org/news/article/2013/01/14/3116816/
http://www.sothebys.com/en/inside/services/press/news/news/2013/01/in_the_news_the_mic.html
http://www.jpost.com/JewishWorld/JewishNews/Article.aspx?id=304132

Feature on Yale�s renovated galleries:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/03/education/edlife/newly-renovated-gallery-spaces-at-yale-breach-the-gap-between-academia-and-art.html?pagewanted=all

There�s a new director at the Walters:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/02/20/baltimores-walters-art-museum-names-new-director/?ref=design

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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Vikings:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/arts/television/vikings-struggles-come-to-life-in-history-channels-series.html?ref=arts

Bach Variations:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/24/arts/music/new-york-philharmonics-bach-variations-festival.html?ref=arts

On Django Unchained and Wagner:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/arts/music/before-wagners-cycle-but-that-legend-has-a-familiar-ring.html?ref=music

Isaac�s Eye:

http://theater.nytimes.com/2013/02/22/theater/reviews/isaacs-eye-at-ensemble-studio-theater.html?ref=science

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OBITUARIES
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Andre et Etienne Bernand:

http://www.lemonde.fr/disparitions/article/2013/02/21/andre-et-etienne-bernand-jumeaux-egyptologues-et-morts-le-meme-jour_1836520_3382.html

Charles Babcock:

http://apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_blog_entry/in_memoriam_charles_l._babcock_1924-2012/

George H.B. Luck:

http://www.baltimoresun.com/news/obituaries/bs-md-ob-georg-luck-20130219,0,1583223.story?track=rss

Hector Catling:

http://www.hri.org/news/greek/ana/last/last.html#22

Joan Westenholz:

http://isaw.nyu.edu/people/alumni/2010-2011/joan-goodnick-westenholz

David Young:

http://apaclassics.org/index.php/apa_blog/apa_blog_entry/david_young_pindarist_and_olympic_historian/
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Video News from The Archaeology Channel:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/news-from-tac/video-news-from-tac/943-video-news-from-tac-february-2013

Audio news from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20130217.mp3

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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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PODCASTS/VODCASTS
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Archaeosoup:

http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch

The Book and the Spade:

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