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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
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Wilfried Zankl, Kris Curry, Jamaica Joe, Rick Heli, Jennifer Cosham,
Nick Lowe, Frank Mackay, Bob Heuman, Richard Campbell,
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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On the possibility of Australopithecines chowing down on grass:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/31/187559098/grass-it-s-what-s-for-dinner-3-5-million-years-ago?sc=17&f=1007
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/human-ancestors-grazed-on-grass/
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-diet-game-hominids-million-years.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/caos-tpf053013.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130603163749.htm
http://www.livescience.com/37099-early-human-ancestors-diet-shifted.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/06/04/Study-Early-human-ancestors-changed-their-diet-35-million-years-ago/UPI-62711370392484/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22752937
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/article01127-diet-human-ancestors.html
http://www.sltrib.com/sltrib/entertainment2/56382052-223/ago-million-grasses-human.html.csp
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/03/18733535-survey-suggests-human-ancestors-transformed-diet-around-lucys-time?lite
http://www.nsf.gov/news/news_images.jsp?cntn_id=128106&org=NSF
http://unews.utah.edu/news_releases/a-grassy-trend-in-human-ancestors-diets/
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/31/1222571110 (abstract)

There’s a ‘new’ early primate to put on a branch somewhere:

http://www.npr.org/2013/06/05/188875000/tiny-ancient-tree-dweller-was-one-of-earths-earliest-primates?sc=17&f=1007
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/science/palm-size-fossil-resets-primates-clock-scientists-say.html
http://www.csmonitor.com/Science/2013/0605/How-did-human-cousin-look-55-million-years-ago-Fossil-offers-clue.-video?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+feeds%2Fscience+%28Christian+Science+Monitor+|+Science%29
http://www.theverge.com/2013/6/5/4391590/oldest-primate-fossil-55-million-years-old-tarsier

Plenty of coverage of the discovery of a bone tumour in some Neanderthal
remains:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22780717
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-year-old-bone-tumor-neandertal-specimen.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-06/plos-o1o053013.php
http://www.livescience.com/37194-neanderthal-oldest-tumor.html
http://discovermagazine.com/2013/julyaug/16-history-cancer-afflicted-people-since-prehistoric-times-fossils-show
http://www.theage.com.au/national/neanderthal-found-with-bone-tumour-20130608-2nx22.html
http://www.sci-news.com/othersciences/anthropology/article01137-neanderthal-tumor-cancer.html
http://www.ibtimes.com/worlds-oldest-tumor-discovered-neanderthal-bone-fibrous-dysplasia-found-120000-year-old-rib-1295241
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/06/neadertals-got-tumors-too.html?rss=1
http://www.kansascity.com/2013/06/06/4276920/ku-researchers-find-evidence-of.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2336750/Worlds-oldest-tumour-rib-Neanderthal-lived-130-000-YEARS-ago.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/06/05/Neanderthal-skeleton-shows-evidence-of-a-cancer-common-today/UPI-76311370475606/
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/06/130605-neandertal-neanderthal-bone-tumor-penn-croatia-science/
http://esciencenews.com/articles/2013/06/05/over.120000.year.old.bone.tumor.neandertal.specimen.found
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2013/120000-year-old-tumour-found-in-neanderthal-rib
http://news.yahoo.com/oldest-human-tumor-found-neanderthal-bone-210706095.html
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/06/evidence-for-the-oldest-ever-bone-tumor-was-just-found-in-a-neanderthal-fossil/

cf http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pone.0064539

On the possibility that a volcanic eruption near Naples killed off (some?)
Neanderthals:

http://www.gazzettadelsud.it/news/english/48995/Volcanic-eruption-near-Naples-may-have-killed-Neanderthals.html

Rethinking the suggestion that humans ate Neanderthals:

http://www.livescience.com/37130-did-humans-eat-neanderthals.html
http://news.yahoo.com/did-humans-really-eat-neanderthals-161418745.html

I think we had this ‘small brain’ doomed the Neanderthal thing a month or so ago
in a different form::

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2334637/Why-Homo-sapiens-won-battle-human-survival-Neanderthals-larger-eyes-brain-power-make-decisions.html
http://www.iol.co.za/scitech/science/discovery/how-small-brains-doomed-the-neanderthal-1.1526722
http://www.catholic.org/technology/story.php?id=51218

… much of this news reporting seems to be coming out of a conference:

http://www.ibtimes.co.uk/articles/473720/20130602/neanderthals-homo-sapiens-extinct-prehistoric.htm

A feature on homo floresiensis:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/feb/21/hobbit-rewriting-history-human-race

This ‘Tracking Caves’ project looks, er, interesting:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/06/130603113353.htm
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2013/tracking-in-caves-on-the-trail-of-pre-historic-man

More on Neanderthal weaning:

http://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2013/06/mouthful-of-clues/
http://www.voanews.com/content/teeth-may-hold-clues-about-weaning-habits-neanderthal-early-man/1676057.html
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On evidence for early homo sapiens in East Africa:

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-beachcombing-early-humans-africa.html

Nice feature on the saving of manuscripts in Timbuktu:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22704960

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A mummy is getting some cleaning/restoration/etc. in a Boston hospital:

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-boston-hospital-year-old-mummy.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337503/Hes-definitely-gathered-dust-2-500-year-old-Egyptian-mummy-undergoes-cleaning-Boston-hospital.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490
http://www.ajc.com/ap/ap/travel/boston-hospital-cleaning-2500-year-old-mummy/nYFBb/
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/boston-hospital-cleaning-2500-year-old-mummy

… while a mummy in a Scottish museum is going to get the CT scan treament:

http://www.scotsman.com/news/odd/ct-scan-to-solve-mystery-of-perth-museum-mummy-1-2957639
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-scotland-tayside-central-22785378
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/manchester-team-hope-to-reveal-perth-mummy-s-secrets-1.99813
http://blogs.coventrytelegraph.net/passtheremote/2013/06/secrets-of-the-mummy-to-be-rev.html

On evidence of flash flooding at Giza:

http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829204.200-egypts-city-of-bean-counters-suffered-flash-floods.html?cmpid=RSS|NSNS|2012-GLOBAL|magcontents

cf http://www.newscientist.com/article/mg21829204.200-egypts-city-of-bean-counters-suffered-flash-floods.html (abstract)

A pyramid built with hired labour?:

http://english.pravda.ru/science/mysteries/04-06-2013/124743-pyramids_giza-0/

Feature on the Temple of Dendur in the Met and the graffiti thereon:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/krulwich/2013/06/05/188968426/the-boomerang-graffito-or-bad-bad-luther-b?sc=17&f=1007

Zahi Hawass seems to be back on the hyping Egypt scene:

http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/07/18827741-pyramid-treasures-await-discovery-egypts-indiana-jones-says?lite

… while the head of the Repatriation of Antiquities department has resigned:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/40/73196/Heritage/Ancient-Egypt/Egypts-Repatriation-of-Antiquities-head-resigns-.aspx

Looting at Abu Sir al Maleq:

http://www.dailynewsegypt.com/2013/06/05/looting-egypt-abu-sir-al-maleq/

Labour strife closed down the Egyptian Museum this week:

http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/3/12/73143/Business/Economy/Egypt%E2%80%99s-archaeology-museum-closed-by-labour-protes.aspx

Plenty of coverage of Goddio’s finds at Heracleion again … we’ll put them in the ANE

category this week:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2336723/Ancient-Egyptian-city-lost-1-200-years-begins-reveal-secrets.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/news/world/sunken-city-of-heracleion-yields-its-treasures/story-fnb64oi6-1226658473154
http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/underwater_archaeologist_franck_goddio_finds_1600-year-old_city_that_vanished_1200_years_ago_25008.asp
http://news.ninemsn.com.au/world/2013/06/07/09/37/archaeologists-discover-ancient-underwater-city

Catch up with the dig at Tel Burna:

http://telburna.wordpress.com/

A Byzantine mosaic from Kibbutz Bet Qama:

http://www.heritagefl.com/story/2013/06/07/features/byzantine-era-mosaic-uncovered-in-kibbutz-fields/851.html

Sebastia is yet another site in Israel caught in ‘political crossfire’:

http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/06/03/holy-land-archaeological-sites-suffers/
http://news.yahoo.com/holy-land-archaeological-treasure-hurt-politics-180009960.html
http://www.nashuatelegraph.com/news/worldnation/1006794-469/holy-land-treasure-hurt-by-politics.html
http://www.israelhayom.com/site/newsletter_article.php?id=9709
http://www.timesofisrael.com/stuck-between-israel-and-pa-key-archaeological-site-neglected/
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/holy-land-archaeological-site-caught-in-political-crossfire-suffers-from-looting-neglect/2013/06/02/d5cc49b0-cbae-11e2-8573-3baeea6a2647_story.html

The DSS in tax court:

http://www.forbes.com/sites/peterjreilly/2013/06/03/a-bit-of-ancient-history-dead-sea-scrolls-in-tax-court/

… while Google has helped lead the way to a new DSS fragment reading:

http://www.haaretz.com/jewish-world/jewish-world-news/scholars-owe-new-dead-sea-scrolls-reading-to-google.premium-1.527210

That First Temple find outside Bethlehem is still being speculated about:

http://www.timesofisrael.com/bible-era-find-intrigues-scholars-despite-attempts-to-hush-it-up/

Some treasures found/held by Jerusalem’s Franciscan friars are going on display:

http://www.haaretz.com/weekend/in-jerusalem-s-old-city-a-sacred-treasure-trove-goes-on-display.premium-1.527032

On the Garden of Eden:

http://www.bibleinterp.com/articles/eden357918.shtml

Digging will resume at Catal Hoyuk soon:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/central-anatolian-catalhoyuk-houses-to-bring-past-back-to-life.aspx?pageID=238&nID=48403&NewsCatID=375

Byzantine remains from Boghazkale:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/eight-room-underground-city-unearthed-in-central-anatolian-province.aspx?pageID=238&nID=48404&NewsCatID=375

Latest on damage to sites in Syria:

http://www.khaleejtimes.com/displayarticle.asp?xfile=data/middleeast/2013/June/middleeast_June56.xml&section=middleeast&col=

Podcast on Zenobia:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b01snjpp/In_Our_Time_Queen_Zenobia/

A virtual tour of the Herod exhibition:

http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/2013/Herod/en/

The history museum in Sidon will be getting some renovations:

http://www.ameinfo.com/kfaed-renovate-lebanons-history-museum-sidon-344070

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Jun-03/219230-sidon-to-build-archaeological-museum.ashx
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The big news this week is evidence that the French wine industry has its roots
in the Etruscans:

http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/31/187578563/french-learned-to-make-wine-from-italians-2-400-years-ago?sc=17&f=1007
http://www.upenn.edu/pennnews/current/2013-06-06/features/french-wine-born-middle-east
http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/48516
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/smartnews/2013/06/the-first-french-winemakers-learned-everything-they-knew-from-etruscans/
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20130604_French_got_their_wine_from_Italians_.html
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-biomolecular-archaeological-evidence-viniculture-france.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10097365/Archaeologists-find-evidence-French-winemaking-had-roots-in-Italy.html
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22758119
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/03/18725409-the-first-french-wine-was-medicine-and-tasted-like-it?lite
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/europe/france/10097365/Archaeologists-find-evidence-French-winemaking-had-roots-in-Italy.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sn-french-winemaking-from-italy-study-20130531,0,7322478.story
http://www.livescience.com/37089-oldest-french-wine-press.html
http://www.nature.com/news/chemical-forensics-confirm-french-wine-had-early-roots-1.13119
http://www.startribune.com/lifestyle/taste/210464691.html
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory/study-sheds-light-origins-french-winemaking-19340714
http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23641-mon-dieu-french-wine-is-from-italy.html?cmpid=RSS%7CNSNS%7C2012-GLOBAL%7Conline-news
http://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/us-archaeologist-biomolecular-study-backs-up-etruscan-origin-of-early-winemaking-in-france/2013/06/06/0ba9026a-cec2-11e2-8573-3baeea6a2647_story.html
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/water-works/?p=134

Coming second would be a feature on how wonderful Roman concrete was/is:

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-roman-seawater-concrete-secret-carbon.html
http://www.usnews.com/news/articles/2013/06/04/the-ancient-romans-were-better-at-making-sustainable-concrete-than-we-are
http://frenchtribune.com/teneur/1318470-stability-roman-monuments-inspiration-modern-concrete
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/06/04/Ancient-Roman-concrete-better-than-todays/3571370365287/
http://www.technewsdaily.com/18252-what-ancient-roman-concrete-could-teach-modern-builders.html
http://www.scienceworldreport.com/articles/7321/20130605/mystery-ancient-roman-concrete-unraveled-discovering-applications-modern.htm

A brouhaha over some Ovid Amores showing up on an A-Level exam:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337325/Teenage-AS-level-pupils-asked-comment-sexual-intercourse-scenes-Latin-exam.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/jun/07/sexy-a-level-set-texts

A rookie metal detectorist finds a nice hoard of Roman coins that has

been declared treasure already:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/07/wesley-carrington-finds-roman-gold-coins_n_3404112.html?utm_hp_ref=world
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-22794839

Searching for a Roman fort in Derby:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-derbyshire-22778426

Feature on the Roman settlement at Lewes:

http://www.sussexexpress.co.uk/news/local/what-romans-did-near-lewes-1-5161379

Not sure what to make of these finds off Zakynthos:

http://www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/2013/06/06/impressive-sunken-building-discovered-in-zakynthos/

Digging is resuming at Sebastopolis after a couple of decades:

http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/excavations-to-begin-in-ancient-sebastapolis-after-two-decades.aspx?pageID=238&nID=48330&NewsCatID=375

What Joshua Sosin is up to:

http://chronicle.com/article/Duke-Puts-a-Classics-Scholar/139567/

Some Greek items purloined during WWII have been repatriated:

http://gbtimes.com/past-present/history/news/ancient-greek-artifacts-return-home

… and someone else is claiming the Greeks made it to the Americas:

http://usa.greekreporter.com/2013/06/02/did-ancient-greeks-discover-america/

… while a rather more sane approach is seen in a feature on modern interpretations
of ancient medicine:

http://www.anesthesiologynews.com/ViewArticle.aspx?d=Ad%2BLib&d_id=384&i=April+2013&i_id=945&a_id=22890&tab=MostEmailed

The Acropolis Educational Resources Repository is potentially useful:

http://www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/2013/06/06/everything-you-ever-need-to-know-about-acropolis/

Reviewish sort of thing on the effects of Hadrian’s wall on the ‘natives’:

http://www.thenorthernecho.co.uk/news/10464259._/

More on that Macedonian warrior with a bit of an arrow stuck in his remains:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2013/arrowhead-fragment-found-in-macedonian-warrior

More press attention for Alice Kober:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22782620
http://www1.cuny.edu/mu/podcasts/2013/05/28/alice-kober-and-the-riddle-of-the-labyrinth/ (podcast)
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Here’s your bizarre conspiracy theory for the year, I think, involving Elizabeth I:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337774/Is-proof-Virgin-Queen-imposter-drag-Shocking-new-theory-Elizabeth-I-unearthed-historic-manuscripts.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

On the DNA front, Southern Europeans have afinitities with Africans (don’t we all?):

http://www.livescience.com/37092-southern-europeans-have-african-genes.html

Very interesting finds (Bronze-Iron Age) from Cliff’s End Farm:

http://www.wessexarch.co.uk/blogs/news/2013/06/05/living-island?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+wessexarchaeology+%28Wessex+Archaeology%29
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/uknews/immigration/10100223/Britain-was-a-nation-of-immigrants-even-in-the-Bronze-Age.html

Some clumsy archaeologists have found a medieval incised stone of interest:

http://www.cambrian-news.co.uk/news/i/32479/

Those Bronze Age boats found a couple of years ago are going on display:

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04/eight-bronze-age-boats-britain-display_n_3386090.html?ir=World

… the previous story might be being conflated with this one (another eight Bronze Age boats):

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22760819
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-archeologists-unearth-bronze-age-boats.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/jun/04/eight-prehistoric-boats-bronze-age?google_editors_picks=true
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/dug-out-canoes-found-in-record-haul-in-cambridgeshire-were-bronze-age-britons-runabouts-of-choice-say-archaeologists-8643022.html
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/howaboutthat/10097418/Fleet-of-Bronze-age-boats-found-in-Cambridgeshire-quarry.html
http://www.culture24.org.uk/history%20%26%20heritage/archaeology/megaliths%20and%20prehistoric%20archaeology/art438008
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cambridgeshire-22764318
http://www.bedfordtoday.co.uk/news/regional/project-conserves-bronze-age-boats-1-5153309
http://www.peterboroughtoday.co.uk/news/local/news/video-work-starts-to-preserve-bronze-age-boats-1-5149810
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2335273/Eight-Bronze-Age-log-boats-important-Mary-Rose-emerge-silted-river-thousands-years-left-rot.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/06/04/eight-bronze-age-boats-britain-display_n_3386090.html
http://esciencenews.com/sources/the.guardian.science/2013/06/03/eight.prehistoric.boats.surface.fens.creek.record.bronze.age.find

Finds from various periods at Caernefon:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-north-west-wales-22750906

A Christian burial of undetermined date from Clare:

http://www.haverhillecho.co.uk/news/latest-news/burial-site-unearthed-in-clare-1-5159273

A ‘forgotten’ country mansion full of antiques:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2336354/Hundreds-antiquities-discovered-Northumberland-country-mansion-The-Hermitage.html

Finds from the Crannog site are going on display:

http://www.belfasttelegraph.co.uk/news/local-national/northern-ireland/artefacts-displayed-for-first-time-29325990.html
http://www.irishtimes.com/news/science/hoard-of-artefacts-from-enniskillen-crann%C3%B3g-go-on-display-1.1419257

More on the new Mary Rose Museum:

http://readingeagle.com/article.aspx?id=483640
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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A 3/4th century B.C. ‘Saka Princess’ burial from Kazakhstan:

http://en.tengrinews.kz/science/Kazakhstan-archaeologists-discover-Saka-princess-tomb-19862/
http://azh.kz/en/news/view/1632

… and a burial of some beheaded guy next to her:

http://en.tengrinews.kz/science/Beheaded-skeleton-discovered-next-to-Saka-princesss-tomb-19913/

2500 years b.p. burials from China’s Pamir Plateau suggest existence of sun-worshipping:

http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/06/04/2500-year-old-tombs-in-China-suggest-sun-worshiping-culture/UPI-73551370392102/
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90782/8270954.html
http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/china/2013-06/04/c_132430533.htm
http://english.sina.com/china/2013/0604/596230.html

More terracottas found near Qin’s tomb:

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4167

Plenty of 13th century items are being recovered from a shipwreck off

Vietnam:

http://tuoitrenews.vn/lifestyle/10359/700yearold-antiques-recovered-from-shipwreck

Four 3000 years b.p. dolmens from the Western Ghats:

http://newindianexpress.com/states/tamil_nadu/3000-year-old-dolmens-throw-light-on-last-rites/2013/06/03/article1617451.ece

Temple renovations in Lhasa reveal some interesting wall paintings:

http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4164

Concerns for a Buddhist site in the Swat Valley:

http://tribune.com.pk/story/557970/a-lost-nirvana-swats-window-into-the-past-closes-as-kanderai-slowly-disappears/

Plans/fighting to restore the walled city of Lahore:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2013/lahore-authorities-battle-to-restore-splendour-of-ancient-walled-city
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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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More evidence of a Viking voyage to North America:

http://www.livescience.com/37189-new-viking-voyage-discovered.html
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/06/06/18801691-new-viking-voyage-to-newfoundland-discovered
http://news.discovery.com/history/new-north-american-viking-voyage-discovered-130606.htm
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/north-america-viking-voyage-discovered-131333241.html?.tsrc=samsungwn

A major Anasazi site in Utah:

http://www.stgeorgeutah.com/news/archive/2013/05/31/isaacson-southern-parkway-road-construction-unearths-ancient-ruins-what-archaeologists-say/

Search for evidence of a Native presence at Fort Ouiatenon:

http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/feed/2103475
http://www.indystar.com/article/20130602/NEWS/306020043/Burnt-Indian-villages-focus-excavation-site-former-Indiana-fort?nclick_check=1

Excavating Fort Richmond:

http://www.mpbn.net/Home/tabid/36/ctl/ViewItem/mid/5347/ItemId/28332/Default.aspx?utm_medium=referral&utm_source=t.co

Lincoln may have been more educated than previously thought:

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-lincoln-math-pages.html
http://bigstory.ap.org/article/new-lincoln-math-pages-suggest-more-education

Plans to excavate a 17th century French shipwreck in Lake Michigan:

http://www.hollandsentinel.com/news/x90724231/Team-gets-Griffin-shipwreck-excavation-permit-in-Lake-Michigan
http://www.seattlepi.com/news/us/article/Team-to-excavate-Griffin-Lake-Michigan-shipwreck-4575449.php
http://wkzo.com/news/articles/2013/jun/06/excavation-of-17th-century-shipwreck-planned-near-traverse-city/
http://www.grandhaventribune.com/article/405926

A 19th century steamship off South Carolina may be full of gold:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/smugglers-shipwrecked-steamer-found-130602.htm
http://www.livescience.com/37144-shipwrecked-gunrunner-may-contain-bounty-in-gold.html
http://www.theepochtimes.com/n3/92713-shipwreck-gold-19th-century-ship-could-contain-valuables/
http://www.webpronews.com/shipwreck-gold-found-off-south-carolina-coast-2013-06

Review of a couple of books on the War of Independence:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/09/books/review/bunker-hill-and-our-lives-our-fortunes-and-our-sacred-honor.html?ref=books
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Searching for some 400 years b.p. Peruvian ships:

http://www.newsdaily.com/article/0ce2d125b97c23d8da898a5ef80e11c9/archaeologists-seek-ships-sunk-in-peruvian-battle-400-years-ago
http://www.reuters.com/article/2013/06/03/us-peru-culture-archaeology-idUSBRE95216V20130603

Mezcal and Olmec items from a cave site in Guerrero:

http://www.laprensasa.com/309_america-in-english/2080991_cave-in-southern-mexico-holds-remains-items-from-mezcala-and-olmec-cultures.html
http://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/14-hallazgos/6599-hallan-vestigios-de-culturas-mezcala-y-olmeca-en-una-cueva

Evidence of a hydraulic system at Chapultepec:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=63022#.UbRu7dj9X8l

Early 15th century colonial remains from Tula, Hidalgo:

http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62980#.UbRuAdj9X8k

A mural conservation project at Teotihuacan:

http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62989
http://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/13-conservacion/6595-realiza-inah-inventario-de-pintura-mural-de-teotihuacan (Spanish)

More on that Mexican ball player statue from Mexico:

http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/ancient-ball-player-statue-found-in-mexico-130604.htm
http://www.france24.com/en/20130521-villagers-discover-ancient-ball-game-statue-mexico
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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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Correlating weather from Irish records to volcanic eruptions:

http://www.livescience.com/37209-volcanoes-cold-weather-ireland.html?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Livesciencecom+%28LiveScience.com+Science+Headline+Feed%29
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-22786179
http://phys.org/news/2013-06-irish-chronicles-reveal-links-cold.html
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/06/05/Medieval-writings-link-volcanic-eruptions-cold-weather/UPI-22521370475528/

… and climate in the Peruvian Andes:

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-climate-peruvian-andes-early-humans.html

On the importance of cow dung to history:

http://www.bbc.com/future/story/20130607-the-accidental-role-of-cow-dung/all

Feature on the first ‘fashion book’:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/magazine-22766029

Taking human evolution a 100 000 years into the future:

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2337804/Huge-foreheads-flat-faces-saucer-like-eyes-How-human-face-look-100-000-years.html?ITO=1490&ns_mchannel=rss&ns_campaign=1490

Identifying a Tintoretto:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22813704

… this seems related:

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-hundreds-discoveries.html

Facial recognition software has an art history application too:

http://phys.org/news/2013-06-application-face-recognition-software-portrait-art.html

The Euopeana iPad app is possibly useful:

http://www.archaiologia.gr/en/blog/2013/06/04/europeana-releases-first-free-ipad-app/

A response to that ‘earliest zero’ thing from last week:

http://glossographia.wordpress.com/2013/06/02/not-the-earliest-zero-rediscovered/

What the AIA was up to in April:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fNeX4VqnAP8&feature=em-uploademail

New home for a Degas sculpture:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-wales-22773491

Another looted statue dispute:

http://www.theaustralian.com.au/arts/visual-arts/pressure-on-nga-over-looted-statue/story-fn9d3avm-1226658115584

Scandal (of sorts) at the American Academy of Arts and Sciences:

http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/leader-of-scholarly-society-to-step-aside-during-inquiry-into-her-credentials/

Feature on Orientalist art works:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/arts/design/orientalist-paintings-and-art-deco-antiques.html

Review of Oliver Darrigol, *A History of Optics*:

http://www.physicstoday.org/resource/1/phtoad/v66/i6/p52_s2?bypassSSO=1
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Egypt and Jordan:

http://www.heraldsun.com.au/travel/world/shock-and-awe-in-egypt-and-jordan/story-fni0biiz-1226659433856
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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_v16n23.html

… and the one which should appear later today:

http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n24.html

A useful Jewish coins site (text in Hebrew):

http://www.gmcoins.org/

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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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Sleeping Eros:

http://www.metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2013/sleeping-eros?utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=tweet&utm_content=20130601&utm_campaign=eros

Archimedes:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/Culture/Art/2013/Jun-04/219310-eureka-rome-exhibition-honors-archimedes.ashx

Manet:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/06/arts/06iht-manet06.html

Klee:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/arts/design/paul-klee-the-bauhaus-years.html

Reinhart:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/arts/design/the-thrill-of-the-ideal-richard-tuttle-the-reinhart-project.html

The Minneapolis IoA has acquired a major Japanese art collection:

http://nyti.ms/1b1v6Kj

There’s going to be a Munch Museum:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22795497

Plans for an archaeological museum in Sidon:

http://www.dailystar.com.lb/News/Local-News/2013/Jun-03/219230-sidon-to-build-archaeological-museum.ashx

A virtual tour of that Herod exhibition at the Israel Museum:

http://www.imj.org.il/exhibitions/2013/Herod/en/

Big bucks for a Persian rug:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-22801657

Feature on the new Museum of Civilizations in Marseille:

http://www.france24.com/en/20130604-marseille%E2%80%99-mucem-offers-bridge-between-mediterranean-europe
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Much Ado About Nothing (movie):

http://movies.nytimes.com/2013/06/07/movies/much-ado-about-nothing-directed-by-joss-whedon.html

Richard III and Twelfth Night:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22811014

Paris Opera:

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/05/arts/music/paris-opera-adds-humor-to-handel.html
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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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ArchaeoNews Podcast 231:

http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/06/2013/archaeo-news-podcast-231-archaeology-news-from-past-horizons

Audio News from Archaeologica:

http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20130602.mp3
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UPCOMING CONFERENCES
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Frontiers of the European Iron Age (September 20-22):

http://www.arch.cam.ac.uk/iron_age/2013/index.html

PaleoAmerican Odyssey (October 17-19):

http://www.paleoamericanodyssey.com/
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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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