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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-specie
s-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-Resear
chers-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_Possibl
e_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-hum
an-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-skel
eton-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.htm
l?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-papyr
us-uncovered-130412.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-explorers-discover-ancient-po
rt-hieroglyphic-writings-in-red-sea-area/2013/04/11/bf82907e-a2cd-11e2-bd52-6141563
72695_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-w
orlds-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-foun
d_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-hu
mans-archaeologists-say-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=44702&NewsCatID=375
http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-stone-structure-discovered-beneath-sea-galilee-111
707097.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/mysterious-rock-pile-structure-found-bene
ath-sea-of-galilee-off-israeli-coast/story-fn5fsgyc-1226617794816
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/10/mysterious-stone-structure-discovered-be
neath-sea-galilee/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166987#.UWapkDd9Cdwhttp://
in.news.yahoo.com/ancient-monumental-stone-structure-discovered-beneath-sea-galile
e-064224839.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-mystery-monument-found-o
n-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-Unco
vered-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-TyfdpQPQ
BgYZw?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.htm
l
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/08/truth-behind-gospel-judas-revealed-in-anci
ent-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-a
ncient-text-with-egyptian-wedding-certificate/2013/04/09/0/
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLE
MAIN&node_id=222&content_id=CNBP_032555&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=regio
n1&__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-undergoin
g-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-founda
tion-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-h
aaretz
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-constructi
on-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-a
rtifacts-from-Roman-London/UPI-84601365716255/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/8000-artefacts-and-rising-city-dig-pr
onounced-the-most-important-ever-in-london-8566348.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306443/The-Bloomberg-Place-Construction-Si
te-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_rom
a/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-contin
ue/
A plum post for Mary Beard:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/mary-beard-named-as-ro
yal-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-o
dyssey-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-sco
tland/
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#SP5oO
6o
http://www.newsdaily.com/environment/1f7f6fa8e843df94de525b9fb5cdf420/iron-age-w
arriors-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-int
o-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-revea
ls-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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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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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-ea
rliest-pottery-was-used-to-cook-fish.html
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17687754-earliest-fish-stews-were-cook
ed-in-japan-during-last-ice-age-experts-say?lite
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349564/description/Pottery_cooked_from_t
he_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-riv
er-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-fee
ds-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-san
ds
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-14003114
2.html#eEf5OdN
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NORTH AMERICA
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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-again
st-paris-auction-house
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/paris-court-rules-to-allow-auction-of-nati
ve-american-artifacts-despite-us-call-for-delay/2013/04/12/ff7292ce-a359-11e2-bd52-6
14156372695_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-m
asks-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-tre
asures-centuries-after-spanish-galleon-sank/2013/04/08/42a606b8-9dfe-11e2-a2db-efc
5298a95e1_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-ca
lendar-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-suffe
r-irreparable-damage
Nice photo of stars over Teotihuacan:
http://www.universetoday.com/101392/astrovideo-the-stars-over-teotihuacan-city-of-go
ds/
Review of Marie Arana, *Bolivar: American Liberator*:
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-marie-arana-20130414,0,61
56985.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_ARTICLE
MAIN&node_id=222&content_id=CNBP_032582&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=regio
n1&__uuid=18a3a201-7467-46c7-a090-d49997fd3c11
http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/04/airport-body-scanner-also-undress
es-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-may
be-not/
A rather silly dispute with conservation overtones:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/owners-bar-built-16th-century-shipwreck-told-pa
int-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-ar
t.html?ref=science
Interview with Clive James:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/books/review/clive-james-by-the-book.html?ref=bo
oks
The changing focus of history in universities:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/education/in-history-departments-its-up-with-capita
lism.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/doc5167025746fd4915510
640.txt?viewmode=fullstory
Pompeii/Herculaneum (BM):
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2013/04/slideshow-life-and-death-pompeii-and-hercul
aneum
John Singer Sargent:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/arts/design/john-singer-sargent-watercolors-at-bro
oklyn-museum.html?ref=design
Ceramica de los Ancestros:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2013/03/photos-rarely-seen-central-a
merican-ceramics-dating-from-1000-years-ago/
Constantine:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10348885.Emperor_returns_to_his_ancient_ro
ots/
Cyrus Cylinder:
http://ultimatebellaire.com/stories/498172-the-cyrus-cylinder-and-ancient-persia-to-op
en-at-museum-of-fine-arts
The Hellenic Museum of Michigan has opened:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130410/ENT01/304100315/New-Hellenic-Museu
m-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-coll
ection-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-chi
na.html?ref=design
Extreme Drawing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/nyregion/a-review-of-extreme-drawing-at-the-aldri
ch-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-orche
stra.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?r
ef=music
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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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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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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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McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Wilfried Zankl, Bob
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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-specie
s-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-Resear
chers-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_Possibl
e_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-hum
an-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-skel
eton-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.htm
l?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-papyr
us-uncovered-130412.htm
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/egypt-explorers-discover-ancient-po
rt-hieroglyphic-writings-in-red-sea-area/2013/04/11/bf82907e-a2cd-11e2-bd52-6141563
72695_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-w
orlds-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-foun
d_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-hu
mans-archaeologists-say-.aspx?pageID=238&nID=44702&NewsCatID=375
http://news.yahoo.com/mysterious-stone-structure-discovered-beneath-sea-galilee-111
707097.html
http://www.news.com.au/technology/sci-tech/mysterious-rock-pile-structure-found-bene
ath-sea-of-galilee-off-israeli-coast/story-fn5fsgyc-1226617794816
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/10/mysterious-stone-structure-discovered-be
neath-sea-galilee/
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/166987#.UWapkDd9Cdwhttp://
in.news.yahoo.com/ancient-monumental-stone-structure-discovered-beneath-sea-galile
e-064224839.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-mystery-monument-found-o
n-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-Unco
vered-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-TyfdpQPQ
BgYZw?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.htm
l
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/04/08/truth-behind-gospel-judas-revealed-in-anci
ent-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-a
ncient-text-with-egyptian-wedding-certificate/2013/04/09/0/
http://portal.acs.org/portal/acs/corg/content?_nfpb=true&_pageLabel=PP_ARTICLE
MAIN&node_id=222&content_id=CNBP_032555&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=regio
n1&__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-undergoin
g-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-founda
tion-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-h
aaretz
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-constructi
on-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-a
rtifacts-from-Roman-London/UPI-84601365716255/
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/8000-artefacts-and-rising-city-dig-pr
onounced-the-most-important-ever-in-london-8566348.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2306443/The-Bloomberg-Place-Construction-Si
te-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_rom
a/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-contin
ue/
A plum post for Mary Beard:
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/news/mary-beard-named-as-ro
yal-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-o
dyssey-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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http://bmcr.brynmawr.edu/recent.html
Visit our blog:
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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-sco
tland/
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#SP5oO
6o
http://www.newsdaily.com/environment/1f7f6fa8e843df94de525b9fb5cdf420/iron-age-w
arriors-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-int
o-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-revea
ls-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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Archaeology in Europe Blog:
http://archaeology-in-europe.blogspot.com/
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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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-ea
rliest-pottery-was-used-to-cook-fish.html
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/04/10/17687754-earliest-fish-stews-were-cook
ed-in-japan-during-last-ice-age-experts-say?lite
http://www.sciencenews.org/view/generic/id/349564/description/Pottery_cooked_from_t
he_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-riv
er-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-fee
ds-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-san
ds
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-14003114
2.html#eEf5OdN
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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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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-again
st-paris-auction-house
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/paris-court-rules-to-allow-auction-of-nati
ve-american-artifacts-despite-us-call-for-delay/2013/04/12/ff7292ce-a359-11e2-bd52-6
14156372695_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-m
asks-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-tre
asures-centuries-after-spanish-galleon-sank/2013/04/08/42a606b8-9dfe-11e2-a2db-efc
5298a95e1_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-ca
lendar-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-suffe
r-irreparable-damage
Nice photo of stars over Teotihuacan:
http://www.universetoday.com/101392/astrovideo-the-stars-over-teotihuacan-city-of-go
ds/
Review of Marie Arana, *Bolivar: American Liberator*:
http://www.latimes.com/features/books/jacketcopy/la-ca-jc-marie-arana-20130414,0,61
56985.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_ARTICLE
MAIN&node_id=222&content_id=CNBP_032582&use_sec=true&sec_url_var=regio
n1&__uuid=18a3a201-7467-46c7-a090-d49997fd3c11
http://www.laboratoryequipment.com/news/2013/04/airport-body-scanner-also-undress
es-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-may
be-not/
A rather silly dispute with conservation overtones:
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow/owners-bar-built-16th-century-shipwreck-told-pa
int-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-ar
t.html?ref=science
Interview with Clive James:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/14/books/review/clive-james-by-the-book.html?ref=bo
oks
The changing focus of history in universities:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/education/in-history-departments-its-up-with-capita
lism.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/doc5167025746fd4915510
640.txt?viewmode=fullstory
Pompeii/Herculaneum (BM):
http://www.historytoday.com/blog/2013/04/slideshow-life-and-death-pompeii-and-hercul
aneum
John Singer Sargent:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/12/arts/design/john-singer-sargent-watercolors-at-bro
oklyn-museum.html?ref=design
Ceramica de los Ancestros:
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/aroundthemall/2013/03/photos-rarely-seen-central-a
merican-ceramics-dating-from-1000-years-ago/
Constantine:
http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10348885.Emperor_returns_to_his_ancient_ro
ots/
Cyrus Cylinder:
http://ultimatebellaire.com/stories/498172-the-cyrus-cylinder-and-ancient-persia-to-op
en-at-museum-of-fine-arts
The Hellenic Museum of Michigan has opened:
http://www.detroitnews.com/article/20130410/ENT01/304100315/New-Hellenic-Museu
m-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-coll
ection-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-chi
na.html?ref=design
Extreme Drawing:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/04/07/nyregion/a-review-of-extreme-drawing-at-the-aldri
ch-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-orche
stra.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?r
ef=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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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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