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explorator 24.46 March 6, 2022
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You can read explorator online at:

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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon, Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri, Hernan Astudillo,
Richard Campbell, Barbara Saylor Rodgers, Bob Heuman, David Critchley,
Richard Miller, Kris Curry, Rick Heli, Richard C. Griffiths, Frank MacKay,
Don Buck, mata kimasitayo, and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week
(as always hoping I have left no one out).

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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Feature on the evidence for head injuries among various early humans:

https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/02/early-humans-kept-getting-their-heads-knocked-in/
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AFRICA
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Evidence from a 80000-92000 years bp site in South Africa that humans were 'innovating':

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-tough-environment-evolution-human-creativity.html
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/03/did-tough-environment-shape-evolution.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/04/did-a-tough-environment-shape-the-evolution-of-human-creativity/

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41559-022-01667-5

A study of human impact on a settlement on the Zanzibar Archipelago in the first millennium or so CE:

https://theconversation.com/at-unguja-ukuu-human-activity-transformed-the-coast-of-zanzibar-more-than-1-000-years-ago-176035
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/02/220228114416.htm
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/was-zanzibars-ancient-shoreline-destroyed-by-international-trade-settlements/142924
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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Remains of First Intermediate Period silos and administrative structures from Kom Ombo:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/462100.aspx
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/113376/Administrative-center-dating-back-to-the-First-Transitional-Period-discovered
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/egypt/2022/03/02/archaeologists-find-20-ancient-grain-silos-at-aswan-temple/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/03/ancient-egyptian-silos-and-administrative-buildings-uncovered-at-kom-ombo/142940
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10392-220303-egypt-kom-ombo

Five 13th century BCE (maybe) water wells associated with the Horus Military Road from the North Sinai:

https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/egypt/2022/03/01/egypt-announces-discovery-of-five-ancient-water-wells-in-north-sinai/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/02/the-pharaohs-water-wells-along-the-ways-of-horus/

Plans for another muon scanning project for the Great Pyramid:

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-archeologists-scan-great-pyramid-giza.html

Feature on a group studying faunal remains from the Gaza Strip:

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/02/gaza-technicians-link-animal-bones-distant-past

More on the Roman-era furnace and other structures found in Luxor beneath a destroyed palace:

https://www.al-monitor.com/originals/2022/02/new-archaeological-find-unearthed-luxor-under-historic-palace

More on Tut's meteoric iron dagger originating in Syria:

https://www.livescience.com/king-tut-dagger-outer-space-origin
https://elpais.com/ciencia/2022-03-02/un-estudio-arroja-nueva-luz-sobre-la-misteriosa-daga-de-tutankamon-que-nacio-de-un-meteorito.html

More on the cache of mummification supplies from Abusir:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/archaeologists-unearth-ancient-egyptian-embalming-cache/142739
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/ancient-egyptian-cache-mummification-materials-uncovered-in-egyptian-burial-shafts-180979616/

An interesting feature comparing ancient Egypt and early China:

https://www.asor.org/anetoday/2022/03/civilizations-egypt-china

Feature on the 'lost city' of Aten:

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/travel/travel-news/3000-year-old-lost-city-unearthed-in-egypt/as89996130.cms

Excavations at the Iron Age site of Qareh Hasanlu (Iran) have resumed:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/470564/Archaeologists-resume-work-at-Iron-Age-site-northwest-Iran

A study of the construction of an Achaemenid-era dam:

https://www.tehrantimes.com/news/470610/Hidden-secrets-of-Achaemenid-dam-engineering-revealed

Feature on the ancient Persians:

https://www.livescience.com/who-were-the-persians

An overview of the past month's finds in Turkey:

https://turkisharchaeonews.net/article/february-2022-turkish-archaeology

We're hearing again of Turkish-backed 'factions' bulldozing sites in Afrin:

https://www.syriahr.com/en/241216/

Not sure this is news ... it seems to be about a possible site for Magdala:

https://www.jpost.com/opinion/article-700398

Searching for the home of Peter the Apostle:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/where-did-peter-the-apostle-disciple-of-christ-really-live-1.10638849

Feature/interview on Neolithic settlement patterns in Jordan:

https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/archaeologist-highlights-settlement-patterns-neolithic-period-jordan

Feature on an antiquities dealer in Israel:

https://www.haaretz.com/israel-news/.premium-how-bambino-the-magician-became-an-antiquities-trader-in-israel-1.10633114

More on the 9000 years bp shrine/religious structure from the Jordanian desert:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/archaeologists-discover-9-000-year-old-shrine-in-jordan-desert-1.10628745
https://www.biblicalarchaeology.org/daily/ancient-cultures/ancient-near-eastern-world/jordan-shrine-of-neolithic-people/?%20mqsc=E4142268&dk=ZE2130ZF0

Review of Guy MacLean Rogers, *For the Freedom of Zion*:

https://newcriterion.com/issues/2022/3/eyes-on-zion

A 6500 years bp pearl from a burial in Qatar:

https://ahmedabadmirror.com/archaeologists-find-over-6500-yr-old-pearl-bead-in-qatar-grave/81823710.html
https://www.siasat.com/archaeologists-find-over-6500-yr-old-pearl-bead-in-qatar-grave-2285913/
https://www.tribuneindia.com/news/schools/archaeologists-find-over-6-500-yr-old-pearl-bead-in-qatar-grave-375309

More on the 18th century shipwreck found in the Red Sea off the coast of Haql:

https://saudigazette.com.sa/article/617544
https://arkeonews.net/saudi-shipwreck-excavation-reveals-hundreds-of-18th-century-artifacts-on-sunken-ship-in-the-north-red-sea/
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This Week in the Ancient Near East Podcast:

https://thisweekintheancientneareast.podbean.com/

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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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A 1st century CE horse burial from Germany:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63505

Surveys suggest there's a major Roman villa site in Rutland where that mosaic was found a few weeks ago:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leicestershire-60603329
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/03/new-survey-reveals-extent-of-roman-villa-complex-found-at-rutland/142985

Study suggests that Roman emerald mines in the Eastern Desert were taken over by nomads in the4th-6th centuries CE:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/10393-220304-egypt-emerald-mines
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-roman-empire-emerald-fallen-nomads.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945007
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/03/roman-emerald-mines-may-have-remained-active-and-mined-by-nomads-as-early-as-the-4th-century-ad/142930
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/03/roman-empires-emerald-mines-in-egypts.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/02/roman-empires-emerald-mines-may-have-ended-in-hands-of-nomads/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10393-220304-egypt-emerald-mines

I think we mentioned a few weeks ago (maybe Italian coverage) this find of marble inlay slabs from Pompeii:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63455

Burials found at the site of a new football stadium in Gloucestershire are thought to be Roman:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-60591007
https://www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midlands-news/human-skeletons-found-near-m5-23287602
https://www.bristolpost.co.uk/news/local-news/human-remains-found-near-m5-6751982

A roman gold coin of Volusianus from a dig in Hungary:

https://www.livescience.com/rare-roman-gold-coin-hungary
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63462
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10385-220301-hungary-gold-coin

Evidence of furniture making, perhaps, from a 4th century Roman settlement site excavated a few years ago:

https://the-past.com/news/roman-furniture-making-in-rural-cambridgeshire/

A metal detectorist found a Roman fibula on a UK beach:

https://www.newsweek.com/treasure-hunter-2000-year-old-roman-jewelry-beach-ancient-1683178

Overviewish piece on recent Roman finds from Carlisle:

https://www.newsandstar.co.uk/news/19971828.treasures-ancient-rome---secrets-lie-ground-beneath-carlisle/

A study of the Fournoi shipwreck has revealed a pile of early Byzantine pottery:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1179014/fournoi-shipwreck-yields-early-byzantine-pottery/
https://greekreporter.com/2022/03/04/byzantine-shipwreck-greece-amphorae/

A Phoenician sarcophagus found at Rabat a couple decades ago is being restored:

https://www.maltatoday.com.mt/news/national/115361/rare_phoenician_sarcophagus_covered_by_rabat_trenching_works_excavated#.YiSzcRCvBhE
https://www.independent.com.mt/articles/2022-03-03/local-news/Phoenician-sarcophagus-discovered-in-Rabat-being-conserved-will-go-up-on-permanent-display-6736241130
https://lovinmalta.com/lifestyle/history/watch-archaeologists-uncover-600-b-c-sarcophagus-discovered-in-rabat/

A Roman fort in Holland is being linked to the Roman conquest of Britain (paywalled):

https://www.economist.com/europe/2022/03/05/a-roman-fort-in-holland-is-linked-to-the-conquest-of-britain

A remote-sensing survey of the submerged city of Baia:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/03/acoustic-remote-sensing-reveals-sunken-roman-city-of-baia/142934

Suggestion that a tsunami led to the abandonment of Belo Claudia in the 4th century:

https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-02-28/un-tsunami-con-olas-de-cinco-metros-destruyo-la-ciudad-romana-de-baelo-claudia-en-cadiz.html

Plans for a high-tech survey of the Trimontium Roman fort site:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-south-scotland-60602352

Plans to restore the Cirencester hare mosaic:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-60546538

Plans to resture assorted sites in northern Greece:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1178573/historic-monuments-in-northern-greece-to-undergo-restoration/

On plans to remove and relocate finds from the Venizelos Metro Station:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/04/yes-to-the-removal-and-relocation-of-antiquities-in-the-venizelos-metro-station/

More on the 6th century BCE helmets found at Velia:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/05/archaeologists-discover-weapon-parts-temple-in-ancient-greek-city-in-italy/?amp

More on the 4th century Roman coin hoard found at a Bristol construction site:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/28/a-roman-coin-hoard-from-hengrove-bristol/

More on evidence of large-scale Roman silver extraction at the Grange Farm site:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/archaeologists-find-evidence-of-large-scale-roman-silver-extraction-in-england/142885

More on that Southwark Roman mosaic find:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-698924
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2022/02/28/roman-mosaic-discovery-london-southwark/
https://www.nzherald.co.nz/travel/giant-roman-mosaic-found-at-london-bridge-shard/P73A3B5AVMQYU74PZKJ7EX27LU/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/mola-archaeologists-discover-major-roman-mosaic-in-london/142871

More on the 'feast' mosaic found at Germanicia a few weeks ago:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-698861

Latest addition to the replica of the Kyrenia shipwreck:

https://cyprus-mail.com/2022/03/02/forestry-dept-donates-tree-trunk-to-restore-replica-of-famous-wreck/

Review of Barry Strauss, *The War that Made the Roman Empire*:

https://www.nationalreview.com/magazine/2022/03/21/antonys-downfall/

Feature on a Roman bronze mask from Carlisle:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/898/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/898/pub/898/page/34/article/284541

Feature on a Roman-era copper figurine depicting a man in the native dress of Britons found in 2015:

http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63482

Feature on poor leadership in ancient Greece during plagues:

https://neoskosmos.com/en/2022/03/03/dialogue/ancient-greece/ancient-greeks-also-suffered-poor-leadership-during-plagues/

Feature on Roman lavatories/bathrooms/washrooms:

https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/roman-lavs-blog-post-mary-beard/

On ancient Greeks understanding the non-inevitability of war:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/opinion/article-war-is-not-inevitable-even-the-ancient-greeks-understood-that/

Feature on Aesop:

https://www.thedailybeast.com/does-anybody-really-know-who-aesop-was

Feature on the 'invention' of Socrates:

https://bigthink.com/the-past/socratic-problem-plato-socrates/

Feature on Kybele:

https://www.bbc.com/reel/video/p0bsfp1y/the-goddess-who-changed-the-course-of-roman-history

Feature on Medusa:

https://history.howstuffworks.com/history-vs-myth/medusa.htm

Feature on the Persians burning the Acropolis in 480 BCE:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/03/04/persian-desrtuction-athens-acropolis-burned/

Feature on the sound of ancient Greek:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/03/02/inscribed-gemstone-ancient-greek/

Feature on a votive Greek sculpture of an ear:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/03/02/ancient-greek-relief-ear-asclepius/

Feature on Greek myths popular in art history:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/03/03/common-greek-myths-found-throughout-art-history/

Feature on Eirene:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/03/03/eirene-ancient-greek-goddess-peace/

Feature on Pavlopetri:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/04/pavlopetri-oldest-submerged-city-wor/

There's an app/website for the entire Parthenon frieze:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1178802/the-entire-parthenon-frieze-presented-in-new-online-app/
https://www.thenationalherald.com/showing-whole-frieze-stolen-parthenon-marbles-restored-online/
https://greekreporter.com/2022/03/03/parthenon-frieze-online-website/

Comparing Putin and Agamemnon:

https://www.counterpunch.org/2022/02/28/putin-and-agamemnon/

Latest Pasts Imperfect newsletter:

https://pastsimperfect.substack.com/p/pasts-imperfect-3322?s=r

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Roman Archaeology Blog:

http://romanarc.blogspot.com/

Rogueclassicism:

http://rogueclassicism.com/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Study suggests the Venus of Willendorf originated in Italy:

https://medienportal.univie.ac.at/presse/aktuelle-pressemeldungen/detailansicht/artikel/mystery-solved-about-the-origin-of-the-30000-year-old-venus-of-willendorf/
https://phys.org/news/2022-02-year-old-venus-willendorf.html
https://www.livescience.com/venus-of-willendorf-origins-found
https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-699127
https://hyperallergic.com/714815/researchers-trace-the-origin-of-venus-of-willendorf-to-northern-italy/
http://www.thehistoryblog.com/archives/63467
https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/venus-of-willendorf-origins-study-1234620570/
https://cosmosmagazine.com/history/archaeology/venus-willendorf-hundreds-kilometres/
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/origins-of-the-30000-year-old-venus-of-willendo-solved/142920
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/mystery-solved-about-origin-of-30000.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/01/mystery-solved-about-the-origin-of-the-30000-year-old-venus-of-willendorf/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10387-220301-limestone-venus-willendorf

cf: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-022-06799-z

Evidence of hunter-gatherer mummification in 8000 years bp Portugal:

https://www.archaeology.org/news/10394-220304-europe-mesolithic-mummification
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-mummification-europe-older-previously.html
https://www.eurekalert.org/news-releases/945169
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220303095631.htm
https://www.sciencealert.com/europeans-may-have-been-mummifying-their-dead-8-000-years-ago
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/03/mummification-in-europe-may-be-older-than-previously-thought/142948
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10394-220304-europe-mesolithic-mummification

cf: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/european-journal-of-archaeology/article/mummification-in-the-mesolithic-new-approaches-to-old-photo-documentation-reveal-previously-unknown-mortuary-practices-in-the-sado-valley-portugal/AC0A6815BC0DC29BC85F1F89C37F3689

Grains found at the 7000 years bp pile dwellings site in Switzerland suggest links of some wort with Italy/the western Mediterranean:

https://www.unibas.ch/en/News-Events/News/Uni-Research/7000-year-old-grains-hints-at-origin-of-Swiss-pile-dwellings.html
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-year-old-grains-hints-swiss-pile.html
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/03/7000-year-old-grains-hints-at-origin-of.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/03/7000-year-old-grains-hints-at-origin-of-swiss-pile-dwellings/

cf: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352409X22000384

School children in Aylsham found a Bronze Age flint knife:

https://www.northnorfolknews.co.uk/news/aylsham-roman-project-dandelion-education-8720926

Suggestion that Stonehenge was an ancient solar calendar:

https://www.bournemouth.ac.uk/news/2022-03-02/stonehenge-served-ancient-solar-calendar-new-study-suggests
https://phys.org/news/2022-03-stonehenge-ancient-solar-calendar-analysis.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220301192407.htm
https://www.livescience.com/stonehenge-was-ancient-solar-calendar
https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-bristol-60573527
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/stonehenge-functioned-as-egyptian-calendar-jtm5rqrtb
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/stonehenge-solar-calendar-research-b2026791.html
http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/897/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/897/pub/897/page/28/article/278248
https://www.walesonline.co.uk/news/uk-news/expert-explains-how-stonehenge-works-23258947
https://www.sciencealert.com/new-analysis-reveals-how-stonehenge-functioned-as-a-solar-calendar
https://www.zmescience.com/science/news-science/stonehenge-may-be-a-giant-solar-calendar-whose-roots-may-extend-all-the-way-to-ancient-egypt/
https://www.cnn.com/style/article/stonehenge-calendar-study-scn/index.html
https://www.nbcnews.com/science/weird-science/stonehenge-may-ancient-solar-calendar-study-finds-rcna18020
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/03/stonehenge-served-as-ancient-solar.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/02/stonehenge-served-as-an-ancient-solar-calendar-new-study-suggests/
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10390-220303-stonehenge-solar-calendar

cf: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/keeping-time-at-stonehenge/792A5E8E091C8B7CB9C26B4A35A6B399

A shipwreck off Plymouth includes artifacts associated with the slave trade:

https://www.bbc.com/news/av/uk-england-devon-60406205

Feature on excavations of a Napoleonic War-era barracks at Weeley:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-essex-60603566

Feature on all the finds being made during HS2 construction:

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/feb/27/ticket-to-roman-britain-hs2s-route-to-ancient-history

Studying 90 Viking-age iron artifacts to determine their origin:

https://norwaytoday.info/culture/new-study-to-analyze-90-viking-age-iron-artifacts-to-uncover-the-secrets-of-their-origin/

More on 5300 years bp evidence of ear surgery from Spain:

https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/28/evidence-of-surgery-in-a-skull-from-el-pendon-site-spain/
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/earliest-evidence-of-ear-surgery-found.html

More on 5000 years bp ochre-tinted burials from Serbia:

https://www.newsweek.com/archaeologists-find-5000-year-old-bones-dyed-red-burial-mound-poland-ukraine-russia-1683199
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10388-220302-serbia-yamnaya-tombs

More on the Bronze Age burial mount found during the search for Oxford's 'lost college':

https://the-past.com/news/bronze-age-burial-mound-discovered-beneath-former-oxford-college/

More on medieval floor tiles from a friary in Gloucester:

https://the-past.com/news/friary-floor-tiles-revealed-in-gloucester/

Feature on using drones to survey sites in Westmeath:

https://www.westmeathexaminer.ie/2022/03/03/us-archaeology-team-using-drones-to-examine-historic-westmeath-sites/

Feature on the search for the submerged bits of medieval Dunwich:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220227-dunwich-the-british-town-lost-to-the-sea

Feature on an 18th century shipwreck visible twice a year near Hastings:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/901/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/901/pub/901/page/27/article/279070

Feature on assorted things found in the Thames:

https://londonist.com/london/history/thames-mudlarking-bed-treasure-history

I think we mentioned this study of a medieval Trondheim burial and what it tells us about how pandemics work:

https://partner.sciencenorway.no/archeology-epidemics-ntnu/what-medieval-skeletons-tell-us-about-modern-day-pandemics/1988148
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/what-medieval-skeletons-tell-us-about.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/02/28/what-medieval-skeletons-tell-us-about-modern-day-pandemics/
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Archaeology in Europe News:

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

Medievalists.net:

https://www.medievalists.net/category/news/

Viking Archaeology Blog:

http://viking-archaeology-blog.blogspot.com/

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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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Evidence of a 40 000 years bp 'innovative' hunter-gatherer culture in northern China:

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-archaeologists-year-old-culture-china.html
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2022/03/220302110555.htm
https://www.livescience.com/old-stone-age-site-discovered-china
http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0304/c90000-9965888.html
https://www.globaltimes.cn/page/202203/1253890.shtml
https://www.theguardian.com/science/2022/mar/03/a-new-culture-discovery-in-china-reveals-ochre-processing-in-east-asia-up-to-41000-years-ago
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/china-stone-age-culture-unearthed-b2027437.html
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-10572957/Remnants-innovative-Old-Stone-Age-culture-unearthed-China.html
https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/archaeologists-find-evidence-for-40-000-year-old-modern-culture-in-china-1.10646632
https://arstechnica.com/science/2022/03/a-40000-year-old-chinese-stone-tool-culture-unlike-any-other/
http://en.people.cn/n3/2022/0304/c90000-9965888.html
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/03/archaeologists-uncover-previously-unidentified-set-of-cultural-innovations-from-40000-years-ago/142958
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/03/archaeologists-discover-innovative.html
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/03/archaeologists-discover-innovative-40000-year-old-culture-in-china/
https://www.archaeology.org/news/10391-220303-china-ochre-workshop

cf: https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0258979

Paleolithic petroglyphs from a site in Hainan:

http://t.m.china.org.cn/convert/c_TJQDV8dO.html

Evidence of a Song Dynasty street market from Dengzhou City:

https://www.shine.cn/news/nation/2203032626/
http://www.news.cn/english/20220303/815eb1abcc494a3badbb54a438aef527/c.html

I think we mentioned this Shang Dynasty 'clan cemetery' find from Henan:

https://ukranews.com/en/news/836124-3-000-year-old-clan-cemetery-uncovered-in-central-china

More on that Buddhist temple excavation in Pakistan:

https://www.buddhistdoor.net/news/update-archeologists-detail-importance-of-buddhist-artifacts-found-in-pakistan/

Feature on the Kushans:

https://theprint.in/pageturner/excerpt/we-know-very-little-of-the-kushans-middlemen-of-silk-road-empire-that-gave-india-kanishka/858784/

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AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND
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19th century human remains from a Christchurch home site:

https://www.stuff.co.nz/national/127906112/human-remains-found-at-christchurch-home-date-back-to-19th-century
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NORTH AMERICA
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4000 years bp Native American shell ring villages in Georgia may have been abandoned because of climate change issues:

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-native-american-shell-villages-occupied.html
https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/03/climate-change-may-have-driven.html

Interesting glass plate photos from the SS Central America shipwreck:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/feb/27/doomed-ship-of-golds-ghostly-picture-gallery-is-plucked-from-the-seabed

A possible 19th century shipwreck off Bald Head Island (NC):

https://www.newsweek.com/1800s-shipwreck-discovered-north-carolina-coast-bald-head-island-king-tide-1684085

... and a very deep 19th century shipwreck in Lake Superior:

https://www.cnn.com/videos/travel/2022/03/04/shipwreck-atlanta-found-lake-superior-orig-llr.cnn

They're digging in the middle of winter at Colonial Williamsburg:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/weather/2022/02/26/archaeology-virginia-williamsburg/

More possible Tulsa Race Massacre victims found:

http://www.newson6.com/story/621d60fad11c9308250ad717/archaeologists-present-mass-grave-findings-to-tulsa-city-leaders
https://www.enidnews.com/news/state/archaeologists-will-continue-search-for-face-massacre-victims/article_ad3910fc-99cf-11ec-abb4-4f129008d1c3.html
https://www.reporter.net/news/archaeologists-to-return-to-tulsa-cemetery-to-continue-search-for-victims-of-race-massacre/article_86281559-f54c-5335-841c-86ae04a72c6d.html

Feature on how Buffalo Bill and General Sheridan saved Yellowstone national Park:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/03/07/buffalo-bill-sheridan-yellowstone/

Handy list of Ancient Americas zoom events:

https://mikeruggerisevents.tumblr.com/
https://mikeruggerisancientamericasevents.wordpress.com/
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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More on the pre-Inca sacrifical human burials from Cajamarquilla:

https://www.livescience.com/sacrificed-children-mummies-peru
https://www.reuters.com/world/americas/1200-year-old-remains-sacrificed-adults-kids-unearthed-peru-2022-02-22/
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smart-news/eight-mummified-children-may-have-been-sacrificed-in-peru-180979600/

More on the study of the Zapotec 'great frieze' at Azompa:

https://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/10910-inah-da-a-conocer-interpretacion-iconografica-del-gran-friso-hallado-en-la-zona-arqueologica-de-atzompa
https://www.heritagedaily.com/2022/02/iconographic-interpretation-of-zapotec-frieze-announced-by-inah/142890
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10383-220228-mexico-zapotec-frieze

More on that 5000 years bp burial of a drowning victim in the Atacama Desert:

https://www.livescience.com/stone-age-fisherman-skeleton-drowned

Feature on the Huaca Montegrande site:

https://andina.pe/Ingles/noticia-the-world-will-get-to-know-huaca-montegrande-where-historys-oldest-cacao-was-found-883266.aspx

The paper behind that story on hallucinogen use among the Wari:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/antiquity/article/hallucinogens-alcohol-and-shifting-leadership-strategies-in-the-ancient-peruvian-andes/15030A62A428B74805BADF7DB4137298

Latest Aztlander Magazine:

https://aztandler.tumblr.com/
https://aztlander.wordpress.com/
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Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas Breaking News:

http://goo.gl/1VdeA

Mike Ruggeri's Ancient Americas lecture channels on Youtube:

https://mikeruggerisyoutube.tumblr.com/

Ancient MesoAmerica News:

http://ancient-mesoamerica-news-updates.blogspot.com/
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OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
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Feature on Dickens and 'Bleak House':

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2022/03/07/the-crisis-that-nearly-cost-charles-dickens-his-career-robert-douglas-fairhursts-the-turning-point

Feature on tea and the Industrial Revolution:

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2022/feb/27/the-guardian-view-on-a-swill-idea-that-history-was-made-in-a-tea-break

... and on the transition from eating tea to drinking it:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/eating-tea

Feature on Neoclassicism as a response to Rococo:

https://mymodernmet.com/what-is-neoclassicism/

Latest on the Villa Aurora:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/world/europe/italy-princess-rita-boncompagni-ludovisi-jenrette.html

Latest update the the World Monuments Fund endangered list:

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1080917901/most-endangered-sites-world-monument-watch

On Henry VIII's 'type' and mixing up of portraits because of it:

http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/897/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/897/pub/897/page/25/article/278245

Edgar Allen Poe's pocketwatch was donated to the Poe museum:

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2022/feb/28/edgar-allan-poes-pocket-watch-among-donations-to-museum

Feature on Corbezzolo honey:

https://www.bbc.com/travel/article/20220228-italys-rare-surprisingly-bitter-honey

Pondering who invented the bicycle:

https://www.livescience.com/44765-who-invented-the-bicycle.html

Feature on 'earth ovens':

https://www.kamloopsthisweek.com/community/dig-it-the-archaeology-of-earth-ovens-5117036

Feature on shipwrecks:

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/history/article/why-theres-more-to-shipwrecks-than-just-sunken-treasure

Feature on Barbara Shermund:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/obituaries/barbara-shermund-overlooked.html

Folks are looking into one of those 'mummified mermaids':

https://www.independent.co.uk/asia/east-asia/mermaid-mummy-face-tail-japan-b2027742.html

On da Vinci's helicopter:

https://bigthink.com/the-past/da-vinci-helicopter/

The Telegraph seems to be promoting 'treasure hunting':

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/money/consumer-affairs/found-roman-ring-buried-2000-years-meet-mini-treasure-hunters/
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/family/life/unearth-buried-treasure-back-garden/

A clump of George Washington's hair (maybe) from Union College:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/02/14/a-college-says-it-found-an-old-clump-of-george-washingtons-hair-hurrah/

Review of Jack E. Davis, *The Bald Eagle*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/books/review/bald-eagle-jack-davis.html

Review of Ira Rutkow, *Empire of the Scalpel*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/04/books/review/empire-of-the-scalpel-ira-rutkow.html
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CURRENT EVENTS:
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Feature on Saint Olga of Kyiv:

https://theconversation.com/saint-olga-of-kyiv-is-ukraines-patron-saint-of-both-defiance-and-vengeance-178019

Feature on Ukraine as 'borderland':

https://theconversation.com/ukraine-as-a-borderland-a-brief-history-of-ukraines-place-between-europe-and-russia-178168

On the history of Ukraine:

https://www.vox.com/22950915/ukraine-history-timothy-snyder-today-explained

On protecting heritage at Ukraine's largest art museum:

https://apnews.com/article/russia-ukraine-travel-europe-art-museums-museums-768ce266673b85965edc8367c2257370

Concerns for various heritage sites in Ukraine:

https://www.lifesitenews.com/news/head-of-ukrainian-greek-catholic-church-warns-russia-may-destroy-1000-year-old-cathedral/
https://cruxnow.com/church-in-europe/2022/03/ukrainian-archbishop-calls-on-russia-not-to-bomb-historic-cathedral
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/mar/01/cultural-catastrophe-ukrainians-fear-for-art-and-monuments-amid-onslaught
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60603406
https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-03-02/jose-de-ribas-la-trepidante-vida-del-militar-espanol-que-fundo-la-tercera-ciudad-de-ucrania.html
https://www.dw.com/en/threatened-by-war-ukraines-unesco-world-heritage-sites/g-61011791
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/28/arts/design/maria-primachenko-paintings-destroyed-ukraine.html
https://elpais.com/internacional/2022-03-05/proteger-un-goya-en-un-bunker-de-ucrania.html
https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/03/04/unesco-gravely-concerned-about-damage-to-ukrainian-cultural-heritage
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/04/the-world-heritage-city-of-kyiv-is-in-imminent-danger/

... and wondering about Faberge eggs Russia loaned to the UK:

http://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/899/reader/reader.html?social#!preferred/0/package/899/pub/899/page/84/article/281540

Latest unmarked graves finds from a Canadian residential school:

https://www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-alberta-first-nation-discovers-169-potential-unmarked-graves-on/
https://www.trtworld.com/americas/more-potential-unmarked-graves-found-at-canada-indigenous-school-site-55201

Pondering the disappearance of a statue of Voltaire in Paris:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2022/feb/20/ou-est-voltaire-mystery-of-parisian-statue-solved

Some Presidents' Day items:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2022/02/21/george-washington-birthday-presidents-day/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2022/02/21/happy-birthday-george-washington/

OpEd on the need for new 'language' about race:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/03/opinion/sunday/talking-about-race.html
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ANIMAL AND PLANT DOMESTICATIONS
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Feature on tomato domestication:

https://phys.org/news/2022-03-tomato-domestication-involved-agricultural-societies.html

cf: https://academic.oup.com/hr/advance-article/doi/10.1093/hr/uhac030/6532226

A genetic link between Iberian and Israeli dogs:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-699257

More on Mesopotamian 'war donkeys':

https://modernsciences.org/these-mesopotamian-war-donkeys-may-have-been-one-of-humanitys-first-bioengineering-projects/

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LANGUAGE RELATED
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Review of Silvia Ferrara, *The Greatest Invention*:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/01/books/review/greatest-invention-nine-scripts-silvia-ferrera.html
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MUSEUM MATTERS
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Stonehenge:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/stonehenge-british-museum-druids-archaeology/
https://www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/arts-and-books/the-art-of-stonehenge

Holbein:

https://www.apollo-magazine.com/holbein-character-morgan-library-new-york-review/

Donatello:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2022/mar/03/donatello-bronzes-moved-in-italy-for-groundbreaking-exhibition

Dura Europos:

https://ism.yale.edu/event/exhibition-photographs-dura-europos-1922-2022-and-onward

The Galleria Archeologica of Turin's royal palace has reopened:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/28/one-of-europes-most-important-historic-collections-opens-to-the-public-again-in-turin

The Acropolis Museum is lending a nice Kore to the Royal Ontario Museum:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/02/28/acropolis-museum-toronto/

Feature on the Kotsanas Museum of Ancient Greek Technology:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/02/kotsanas-museum-of-ancient-greek-technology/

Interesting use of Virtual Reality in a National Gallery exhibition:

https://digitaleditions.telegraph.co.uk/data/899/reader/reader.html?#!preferred/0/package/899/pub/899/page/39/article/278675

A number of colossi were relocated to the GEM:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/461933.aspx
https://egyptindependent.com/the-grand-egyptian-museum-receives-13-huge-artifacts/
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/113346/13-huge-artifacts-transferred-from-Egyptian-Museum-in-Tahrir-to

... and we're being told it's 99% ready to open:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/03/01/grand-egyptian-museum-in-cairo-99percent-ready-as-designers-promise-theatrical-tutankhamun-gallery

An interview with Neil MacGregor:

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/art/what-to-see/neil-macgregor-interview-dont-have-museum-england/
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AUCTIONS AND SALES RELATED
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A medieval gold cross found by a metal detectorist in 2019 is coming to auction:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-norfolk-60622316

High expectations for a 'leopard' coin found by a Norfolk metal detectorist:

https://www.livescience.com/rare-gold-leopard-coin-auction-uk
https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2022/mar/02/rare-coin-unearthed-norfolk-reach-140000
https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/golden-chance-rare-14th-century-leopard-coin-n2hs6930j

A major result for a Magritte:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/arts/design/magritte-auction-sothebys.html

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ON THE DNA FRONT
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Studying DNA from a pair of 5000 years bp skeletons from Serbia:

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-698824

Finding genetic 'fingerpritns' of migrations to the UAE:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/researchers-find-genetic-fingerprints.html

Feature on Love Dalen's work with ancient DNA:

https://www.haaretz.com/archaeology/MAGAZINE-this-adventurous-ancient-dna-researcher-in-russia-rewrites-the-past-1.10640864
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THE TECHY SIDE
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Using dendrochronology to study medieval and early modern building activity:

https://the-past.com/news/representing-regions-in-dendrochronological-data/

Latest facial reconstruction is a 4000 years bp woman from Sweden (images seem different in these):

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/article-698923
https://www.egypttoday.com/Article/4/113398/Oscar-Nilsson-recreates-skull-of-4000-year-old-woman-from
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CLIMATE MATTERS
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Study suggests modern sea level rise began in 1863:

https://archaeologynewsnetwork.blogspot.com/2022/02/onset-of-modern-sea-level-rise-began-in.html
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ithaca:

https://www.theguardian.com/travel/2022/mar/01/hiking-climbing-on-the-trail-of-odysseus-in-ithaca-island-greece

Rome:

https://www.nationalgeographic.co.uk/travel/2022/03/when-in-rome-a-new-era-for-the-citys-ancient-sites
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PERFORMANCES AND MUSIC RELATED
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Marking the 100th anniversary of Nosferatu:

https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20220303-nosferatu-the-monster-who-still-terrifies-100-years-on

Casulana:

https://www.theguardian.com/music/2022/mar/05/maddalena-casulana-missing-renaissance-madrigals-rediscovered

Drumfolk:

https://www.washingtonpost.com/arts-entertainment/2022/03/04/step-afrika-drumfolk-strathmore/

Feature on Herbert Blomstedt:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/arts/music/ny-philharmonic-herbert-blomstedt.html

Wagner:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/arts/music/wagner-opera-classical-music.html

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TV/DOCUMENTARY HYPISH THINGS
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The Pirates:

https://www.scmp.com/lifestyle/k-pop/k-movies/article/3169077/netflix-movie-review-pirates-last-royal-treasure-sees-han
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CRIME BEAT
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Police in Turkey seized a relief portraying Eros:

https://www.dailysabah.com/turkey/investigations/police-seize-roman-era-baby-eros-relief-in-western-turkey

Ancient/Byzantine coins seized at the Cairo Airport:

https://english.ahram.org.eg/News/461979.aspx
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/egypt/2022/03/01/ancient-coins-and-coptic-cross-seized-by-antiquities-police-at-cairo-airport/
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conflict antiquities:

http://conflictantiquities.wordpress.com/

anonymous swiss collector:

http://www.anonymousswisscollector.com/

Portable Antiquity Collecting and Heritage Issues:

http://paul-barford.blogspot.ca/

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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REPATRIATION AND RECOVERY
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A Nazi-auctioned Kandinsky was returned to Jewish heirs:

https://www.npr.org/2022/03/01/1083647043/kandinsky-painting-that-was-auctioned-during-wwii-is-returned-to-jewish-heirs
https://elpais.com/cultura/2022-03-01/el-ayuntamiento-de-amsterdam-devuelve-un-kandinsky-a-los-descendientes-de-su-dueno-judio.html

The US returned assorted items (including a skull) to France:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220304-united-states-returns-pillaged-skull-golden-objects-to-france

... and some gold ingots:

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/03/02/arts/design/china-france-gold-ingots.html

Steinhardt-related returns to Jordan:

https://www.jordantimes.com/news/local/us-embassy-returns-9-trafficked-cultural-antiquities-jordan
https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20220302-us-returns-9-stolen-artefacts-to-jordan/
https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/us-returns-billionaires-plundered-artifacts-to-jordan/2022/03/02/4c7f1688-9a35-11ec-9987-9dceee62a3f6_story.html
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/us-returns-billionaires-plundered-artifacts-jordan-83203270
https://www.timesofisrael.com/us-returns-michael-steinhardts-looted-antiquities-to-jordan/
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/arts/u-s-returns-billionaires-plundered-artifacts-to-jordan
https://www.haaretz.com/middle-east-news/jordan/u-s-returns-billionaire-michael-steinhardt-s-plundered-artifacts-to-jordan-1.10647279

Palestinians seem to have been left out of the Steinhardt returns:

https://www.france24.com/en/live-news/20220228-palestinians-ignored-in-us-deal-on-stolen-antiquities
https://www.thenationalnews.com/mena/2022/02/28/palestinians-ignored-as-us-tycoon-ordered-to-return-stolen-antiquities-to-israel/
https://www.ynetnews.com/travel/article/ryh92lcg9

More on Steinhardt-related returns to Greece:

https://greekcitytimes.com/2022/03/02/the-parthenon-sculptures-and-the-day-of-their-return/
https://hyperallergic.com/714179/us-returns-55-looted-artifacts-to-greece/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/02/two-more-ancient-artefacts-have-been-repatriated-to-greece/
https://news.gtp.gr/2022/03/01/us-returns-55-antiquities-worth-more-than-20m-to-greece/

More on the return of a Moai to Easter Island from Chile:

https://www.elmostrador.cl/cultura/2022/03/01/cuando-un-familiar-vuelve-a-casa-despues-de-un-siglo-el-retorno-del-moai-tau-para-el-pueblo-rapa-nui/
https://www.archaeology.wiki/blog/2022/03/01/moai-statue-returns-to-easter-island/

More on returns to the Dominican from Puerto Rico:

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/2022/02/25/pre-columbian-stone-artefacts-smuggled-puerto-rico-repatriated-dominican-republic
http://www.archaeology.org/news/10386-220301-taino-artifacts-repatriated

An interview with Matthew Bogdanos:

https://www.ekathimerini.com/culture/1178445/tracking-down-looted-cultural-treasures/
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NUMISMATICA
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Feature on the Sestertius:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-roman-sestertius/

Feature on ancient coins and modern object biographies:

https://coinweek.com/ancient-coins/ancient-coins-and-modern-object-biographies/

Feature on the coins of Lydia:

https://greekreporter.com/2022/03/04/worlds-first-coins-greek/

Latest e-Sylum:

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n09.html

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

http://www.coinbooks.org/v25/club_nbs_esylum_v25n10.html
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Coin Week:

http://www.coinweek.com/

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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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Audio News from Archaeologica:

https://www.archaeologychannel.org/audio-guide/audio-news/3158-audio-news-from-archaeologica-february-20th-2022-through-february-26th-2022
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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/

Archaeology Briefs:

http://archaeologybriefs.blogspot.com/

Atlas Obscura:

https://www.atlasobscura.com/

Heritage Daily:

https://www.heritagedaily.com/

Sapiens Archaeology:

https://www.sapiens.org/category/archaeology/

Taygete Atlantis excavations blogs aggregator:

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

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

Archaeology Podcast Network:

http://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/
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