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Thanks to Arthur Shippee, Dave Sowdon,Edward Rockstein, Kurt Theis,
John McMahon, Barnea Selavan, Joseph Lauer, Mike Ruggeri,
David Perlmutter, Wilfried Zankl, Paul Remfry, Trevor Ogden,
Hernán Astudillo, Magnus Fiskesjo, Adrienne Mayor, Gary Kirkpatrick,
Richard Campbell, Bob Heuman, Richard C. Griffiths,
and Ross W. Sargent for headses upses this week (as always hoping
I have left no one out).
Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers and like-a-mothers out
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Earliest evidence of hominins hunting and scavenging:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-earliest-evidence-human-ancestors-scavenging.html
Not sure how old this one is … rethinking the Out of Africa thing:
http://www.edge.org/conversation/rethinking-out-of-africa
More on the ‘swimming apes’:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2322251/Is-man-descended-king-swimmers-Forget-swinging-trees-Experts-say-earliest-ancestors-apes-loved-monkey-water.html
More on right-handed Neanderthals:
http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/09/neanderthals-were-right-handed-new-research-finds-3734421/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/agencia-efe/130507/study-sheds-new-light-neanderthals-brain-development
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AFRICA
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Ongoing concerns for antiquities in Libya:
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.con&contentid=20130507164600
Marking 20 years of the Gdansk Archaeological Expedition in the Sudan:
http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid=222381
Feature on Nigeria’s Nok civilization:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201305061211.html?viewall=1
http://sundaytrust.com.ng/index.php/feature/12924-nok-a-visit-to-africa-s-ancient-civilisation
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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There’s a new antiquities minister in Egypt:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/71073/Heritage/Islamic/New-antiquities-minister-aims-to-preserve,-protect.aspx
Rethinking Egypt’s ‘collapsing pyramids’:
http://www.structuremag.org/article.aspx?articleID=1668
Palestinian smugglers caught in Egypt:
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=592726
OpEd on the ‘encroachment issue’ in Egypt:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/2525/47/From-rumour-to-bulldozer.aspx
Not sure I get this one, but an ostrich egg is causing someone to rethink the dating
of the pyramids:
http://www.sotterraneidiroma.it/notizie-sdr/item/un-uovo-di-struzzo-mette-in-discussione-la-datazione-delle-piramidi-di-giza?category_id=20 (Italian)
Evidence of a Second Temple Quarry (and related items) found during
highway construction:
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1999&module_id=#as
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62478
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132231#.UYv-qUpVa8A
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/second-temple-era-key-exposed-at-new-highway-site/2013/05/08/
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3453394%2C00.html
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2013/May/King-Herods-Quarry-Uncovered/
http://news.yahoo.com/jerusalems-ancient-city-quarries-reveals-city-building-rocks-135145344.html
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/09/jerusalem-ancient-city-quarries-reveals-city-building-rocks/?intcmp=features
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/09/18148123-ancient-quarry-used-to-build-jerusalem-found
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a7UxM9gYQoEE
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/07/07/Ancient-quarry-found-in-Jerusalem/UPI-86311246964322/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/23/us-israel-temple-idUSL2362809220070923
Focus on the key found during the same highway construction:
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/second-temple-era-key-exposed-at-new-highway-site/2013/05/08/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-quarry-key-unearthed-in-jerusalem/
A sort of overviewish thing on digs going on in and around the Old City:
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/05/08/while-jerusalem-day-is-celebrated-above-ground-archaeological-discoveries-reveal-city%E2%80%99s-layers/
Interesting feature on ancient ‘tchotchkes’ acquired by Jewish pilgrims:
http://forward.com/articles/175799/ancient-tchotchkes-deepen-our-understanding-of-jew/
Feature on demonizing of polytheistic religions during Second Temple period:
http://asorblog.org/?p=4379
Nice feature on a 3d reconstruction of Uruk:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2013/uruk-rises-again-in-digital-3d
http://artefacts-berlin.de/index.php?l=eng
Feature on Neolithic/Chalcolithic pottery workshops in the eastern Mediterranean:
http://asorblog.org/?p=4461
40 000 boxes of Neolithic finds from Marmaray are still in storage:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/40000-boxes-of-artifacts-unearthed-during-marmaray-excavations-locked-in-warehouse.aspx?pageID=238&nid=46209&NewsCatID=341
A study suggests views of the Near East are still shaped by Greek historiography:
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=130963&CultureCode=en
As was probably suspected, Syrian castles are being used in the ongoing conflict:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/ancient-syrian-castles-serve-again-as-fighting-positions/2013/05/04/5d2bb176-b3f8-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story_1.html
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/06/world/syrian-conflict-risks-ancient-heritage/
Plans for a world heritage centre in Cairo:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/World-heritage-centre-planned-for-Cairo/29493
More on the Hanging Gardens not being in Babylon:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/features/the-biggest-wonder-about-the-hanging-gardens-of-babylon-they-werent-in-babylon-8604649.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/05/babylon-hanging-garden-wonder-nineveh
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320086/The-Hanging-Gardens--Nineveh-Lost-Wonder-Ancient-World-actually-300-miles-Babylon.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
More on Heracleion:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Heracleion+Mediterranean+city+lost+beneath+waves+yields+secrets/8360670/story.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Elephant’s Tomb in Carmona (Spain) may have been a mithraeum:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-elephant-tomb-carmona-temple-god.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130510075521.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/f-sf-tet051013.php
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112844198/elephant-tomb-roman-carmona-seville-necropolis-god-mithras-temple-051113/
A Roman mosaic from Milas:
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=108096
All sorts of finds from a stream associated with ancient Londinium:
http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/06/pompeii-of-the-north-discovered-in-lost-stream-underneath-londons-streets-3714338/
Very brief item on 4th century burials from beneath a Milan church:
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2013/05/07/Ancient-Milan-church-yields-tombs-coins-4th-century_8666302.html
Plans to investigate the Roman naval base at Glannaventa:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-22277334
The DAI updates its activities at Albano Laziale:
http://www.dainst.org/de/project/albano-laziale?ft=all
Justinian’s plague has been confirmed as being caused by Yersina pestis:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130510075449.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/plague-helped-fall-of-roman-empire-130510.htm
cf: http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003349
Interesting feature on the necropolis at Roman Sanisera:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2013/necropolis-bioarchaeology-at-roman-sanisera
Recreating ancient Greek pottery techniques:
http://www.uanews.org/story/ua-students-study-ancient-greek-pottery-techniques
Feature on a wine-exporting business type thing at Oplontis:
http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/48389
Anticipation of Roman remains in Moat Lane:
http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Northamptonshire/Towcester/NN12/News/Local-News/247536-So-What-Did-The-Romans-Build-In-Moat-Lane
A metal detectorist found a Roman coin (Hadrian) near Rainford:
http://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/10409955.Did_Roman_ever_spend_a_penny_in_Rainford_/
Possible plans for the Gladiator Tomb (and other sites):
http://www.worldcrunch.com/food-travel/rome-wants-to-pump-new-life-into-a-gladiator-039-s-tomb-and-ancient-villa/via-flaminia-rome-octavian-livia-archeology/c6s11397/
Trying to make a big deal about a bad review:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/classical-battle-over-facebook-founders-sister-8595019.html
Really a sort of book review, but folks should know about Alice Kober and her work
with Linear B:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/sunday-review/alice-e-kober-43-lost-to-history-no-more.html
What Michael Mordine is up to:
http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/publications/chronicle/FeaturesNewsTopstories/2013/features/ancientathletics050913.html
The latest latin-is-alive-and-kicking item:
http://www.vnews.com/opinion/5874792-95/latins-lovers-the-dead-language-lives
On Roman toilet paper choices:
http://flavias.blogspot.be/2013/05/ten-things-romans-used-for-toilet-paper.html
Feature on Kierkegaard’s Antigone:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/kierkegaards-antigone/
Review of the catalog accompanying the Pompeii exhibition at the BM:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/books/10403275.Life_And_Death_In_Pompeii_And_Herculaneum_Paul_Roberts__British_Museum_Press____45_/
Review of a couple of books about Dr Johnson:
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1255863.ece
More on that Roman cemetery from Leicester:
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/05/06/Ancient-Roman-cemetery-found-under-British-parking-lot/UPI-53431367881528/
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-king-richard-iii-archaeological-discovery.html
More on saving ‘Thessaloniki’s Pompeii’:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/05/05/thessaloniki-metro-passes-ancient-finds/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Latest facial reconstruction thing is of a 5000 years b.p. woman from Malta:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130507/local/revealed-the-face-of-a-maltese-woman-5-600-years-ago.468752
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/combination-photo-shows-5600-old-skull-found-maltese-photo-220625467.html
http://gozonews.com/38434/face-of-maltese-woman-revealed-from-over-5000-year-ago/
Remains of ‘Bronze Age Beaker settlers’ from Duns Law:
http://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/local-headlines/duns-law-finally-gives-up-its-beaker-burial-ground-1-2923376
Some coverage of a study of Britain’s ‘Atlantis’ (medieval Dunwich):
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130509091118.htm
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-secret-streets-britain-atlantis-revealed.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2322087/The-streets-Britains-Atlantis-seen-time-3D-scans-reveal-lost-medieval-town-Dunwich.html
http://www.livescience.com/29519-england-atlantis-dunwich-mapped.html
http://www.livescience.com/29517-images-dunwich-england-atlantis.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/10/archaeologists-map-suffolk-dunwich-sea
http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2013-05-10/southampton-professor-uncovers-lost-medieval-town/
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2013/may/13_80.shtml
Searching for evidence of the lost Pictish kingdom of Fortiu:
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/new-excavations-to-find-lost-pictish-kingdom-1-2925006
… while excavations of a Pictish longhouse in Perthshire continue:
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/efforts-to-dig-up-perthshire-s-past-to-continue-1.90349
A pile of Longobard burials revealed during highway construction in Italy:
http://casoli.iobloggo.com/2438514/trovate-760-tombe-longobarde-durante-i-lavori-di-costruzione-dell-autostarda-asti-cuneo/ (Italian)
On the DNA front, Europeans are all pretty close, genetically-speaking:
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10557
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-genes-big-european-family.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/plos-obe050113.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130507195642.htm
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/05/my-big-fat-european-family-what-genomics-tell-us-about-shared-ancestors/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2013/05/europeans-share-common-ancestors-to-differing-extents/
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/genetics-reveal-europe-is-one-big-family/
http://www.nature.com/news/most-europeans-share-recent-ancestors-1.12950
cf: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001556;jsessionid=2F62A0DE82F3F4EDB8326CEFDD8612B6
Researching the rarity of finding children’s bones at funeral pyre sites:
http://sciencenordic.com/archeologists-burn-pigs-investigate-historical-mystery
Being bored on a Viking ship:
http://sciencenordic.com/dealing-doldrums-viking-voyage
They’ve set up a database of Ogham stones:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0508/391157-ogham-stones-website/?goback=%2Egde_690807_member_239262526
On the significance of some recent Viking jewellery finds in the UK:
http://blog.oup.com/2013/04/viking-jewellery-jane-kershaw/?utm_source=gplus&utm_medium=oupacademic&utm_campaign=oupblog
On persecution of homosexuals during the Inquisition:
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2013/05/04/actualidad/1367696954_992222.html (Spanish)
They’ve built some Neolithic huts at Old Sarum:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22424880
… while a Druid wants fake human remains to be displayed at Stonehenge:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22438232
Feature (video) on an item associated with Joan of Arc in the Smithsonian:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/videos/Why-is-a-Piece-of-Joan-of-Arcs-Dungeon-in-the-Smithsonian.html
A Southwell lad gets to keep the Civil War cannonball he found:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-22463607
Godwine Charter is going on display:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-22357728
An Iron Age shield has returned to Lincoln:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-22454770
Plans to search for the remains of Balderstone Hall:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/time-team-hope-dig-old-3417019
Trying to save Venice’s gondolas:
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/06/181663031/crowdfunding-effort-seeks-to-save-venices-everyday-gondolas
The Staffordshire Hoard will be staying together:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-22442558
Researching Harlech Castle:
http://www.castles99.ukprint.com/Essays/harlech1.html
They’re still arguing about Richard III’s tomb:
http://www.itv.com/news/central/update/2013-05-06/argument-over-richard-iiis-tomb-continues/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-22425470
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10398041._/
Digging has resumed at a Merovingian necropolis at Gonesse:
http://www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Actualites-des-decouvertes/p-15846-Reprise-des-fouilles-archeologiques-a-Gonesse-Val-d-Oise-.htm (French)
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ASIA AND THE SOUTH PACIFIC
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In China, Sago palms were prominent food source prior to rice cultivation:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-ancient-china-sago-palms-major.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130508172138.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/plos-iac050113.php
cf: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0063148
Paleolithic finds from China’s Henan province:
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4070
… and an aristocratic cemetery excavation from the same province:
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4079
Latest finds from the Maojiaping site:
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4075
Remains of a 1000 years b.p. water reservoir in Bangladesh:
http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/1000-year-old-water-reservoir/
Encroachment isn’t just an issue in Egypt:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Inspection-at-ASI-protected-site-shows-illegal-occupation/Article1-1054026.aspx
Damage to some Ming tombs in Beijing, possibly during a theft attempt:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/8230433.html
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4073
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-05/02/content_16468827.htm
13th-16th century coins and jewellery from a site in Kazakhstan:
http://www.inform.kz/eng/article/2556593
Humans are off the hook (again) for megafauna extinction in Australia:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-evidence-theory-humans-megafauna.html
Pondering some specific cases of antiquities theft/smuggling in India:
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/12-instances-of-antiquities-being-smuggled-or-stolen-out-113050700416_1.html
Some Rajasthan forts have received Heritage status:
http://news.yahoo.com/six-rajasthan-hill-forts-world-heritage-list-123819693.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news/story/17298/.html#.UYwTr0pVa8A
http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/world-heritage-tag-may-bolster-6-rajasthan-forts.html
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/world-heritage-sites-status-sought-for-6-rajasthan-forts-himalayan-park/article4693436.ece
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=95870
They’ve decided to postpone the excavation of a megalithic site in Indonesia:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/05/06/govt-team-postpones-search-megalithic-site-cianjur.html
Interesting account of the intrigue associated with the toppling of China’s last emperor:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10050528/Author-unravels-mystery-of-plot-that-toppled-Chinas-last-emperor.html
Colgate is returning some Aboriginal art:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-colgate-university-aboriginal-art-australia-20130507,0,3657401.story
More on the Met returning Cambodian statuary:
http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/65809/the-met-restores-two-cambodian-statues/
http://www.livescience.com/29325-met-to-return-ancient-statues-to-cambodia.html
http://laonews.la/2013/05/nycs-met-to-return-10th-century-stone-statues-to-cambodia/
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/news/2013/cambodian-returns
More on returning bronze heads to China:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/130429/french-billionaire-returns-disputed-statues-china-pr
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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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Some petroglyphs in British Columbia were damaged by hydro crews:
http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/929282--first-nations-group-outraged-at-destruction-of-ancient-rock-art-sites
Nice feature on the Calusa people:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20130505/ARTICLE/130509809/2055/NEWS?Title=Calusa-Indians-dominated-our-coast-in-1500
Studying the prehistoric campsites around Yellowstone Lake:
http://www.ravallirepublic.com/news/state-and-regional/article_900e7e64-50d6-5f24-b257-38d22a21075a.html
A group of medical types have determined that Stonewall Jackson likely died from
pneumonia:
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020957291_apuscivilwar150jacksonsdeath.html
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/05/10/general-stonewall-s-death-remains-a-mystery-150-years-later/
A site at Bandolier National Monument is open to the public again:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/feed/2095658
http://www.newsdaily.com/article/ac733ac5ecd03243b12ebcd9c4e9368e/bandelier-opens-iconic-archaeological-site
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/907dd14a1a284692b7d718d022f94f76/NM--Bandelier-Alcove-House
More on Jamestown cannibalism:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/01/180314773/bones-tell-tale-of-desperation-among-the-starving-at-jamestown?sc=17&f=1007
More on finding Carr’s Fort:
http://news.yahoo.com/frontier-fort-revolutionary-war-found-ga-145450206.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of coverage of the solstitial alignment of a Peruvian pyramid:
http://www.livescience.com/29335-astronomical-alignment-found-at-peru-pyramid.html
http://www.livescience.com/29334-peru-pyramid-shows-solstice-alignment.html (Slide show)
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/06/18087560-stunning-astronomical-alignment-found-at-peru-pyramid
http://news.yahoo.com/stunning-astronomical-alignment-found-peru-pyramid-172444248.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130509-brazilian-atlantis-lost-continents-geography-world/
Finds from various periods from Mexico City:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62381
Concerns for the Joya de Ceren site in San Salvador:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62479
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/director_general_on_official_visit_to_el_salvador
Prehispanic burials from Colima:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62476
http://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/14-hallazgos/6554-hallan-panteon-prehispanico-en-colima (Spanish)
http://www.telediario.mx/tendencias/hallan-nuevos-vestigios-prehispanicos-en-centro-historico#.UYk_S0pVa8A (Spanish)
http://www.novedadesacapulco.mx/pais/descubren-en-colima-cementerio-prehispanico-unico-en-su-tipo (Spanish)
http://diario.mx/Nacional/2013-05-06_f6f3bdf1/hallan-panteon-prehispanico-en-colima/ (Spanish)
http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/articulos-prensa/hallan-panteon-prehispanico-en-colima/ (Spanish)
The Vatican doesn’t like Santa Muerte, apparently:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22462181
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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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Plenty of coverage of the suggestion that English retains a pile of ‘Ice Age’ words:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130507074657.htm
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-linguist-core-group-words-survived.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/linguists-identify-15000-year-old-ultraconserved-words/2013/05/06/a02e3a14-b427-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/linguists-identify-words-that-have-changed-little-in-15000-years-20130507-2j506.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ice-age-language-ancestor-superfamily-eurasia-20130507,0,1515430.story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/06/european-asian-language-tongue-superfamily?INTCMP=SRCH
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/05/english-may-have-retained-words-.html?ref=hp
http://www.livescience.com/29342-ancient-mother-tongue-reconstructed.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/06/european-asian-language-tongue-superfamily
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/05/07/newser-oldest-words/2141257/
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/05/08/conversing-with-cavemen-mother-fire-worm-among-15000-year-old-words/
http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR503494.aspx
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/01/1218726110 (abstract)
Pondering assorted aspects of ancient civilizations:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/01/the-ancient-past-as-a-window-to-the-future-part-2-of-3/
Riffing on the Jamestown cannibalism story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/05/cannibalism-history-europe-famine-shipwreck
Interesting spin on one of Beethoven’s sonatas:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-unheard-beethoven.html
Another feature on Nazi loot and France’s efforts to return it:
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/08/180037498/in-france-a-renewed-push-to-return-art-looted-by-nazis?sc=17&f=1001
Nice account of Kagan’s last lecture:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323789704578446614144636002.html
On the effect of Shakespeare being a shareholder:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-shareholder-shakespeare.html
Feature on how technology is transforming archaeology:
http://www.wamc.org/post/how-technology-transforming-archaeology
A bit out of our period of purview, but they’ve finally broken a WWII code that POWs
were using:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/04/181104605/world-war-ii-code-is-broken-decades-after-pow-used-it?sc=17&f=1001
On Bollywood’s silent film roots:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/05/03/180810745/bollywoods-early-roots-in-a-silent-film?sc=17&f=1008
On the antiquity of Koumiss:
http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2013/05/drunk-on-horse-milk-fermented-koumiss.html
The Getty bought ‘Rembrandt Laughing’:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-getty-rembrandt-laughing-20130509,0,3699696.story
… and Madonna sold an item from her Cubist collection:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22447002
Review of Stacy Perman, *A Grand Complication*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/books/review/a-grand-complication-by-stacy-perman.html?ref=books
More on Native Americans in a Vatican painting:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/05/180860991/long-hidden-vatican-painting-linked-to-native-americans?sc=17&f=1001
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/early-images-of-american-indians-found-in-a-vatican-fresco/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ta Prohm Temple (Cambodia)
http://www.santapaulatimes.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/27161/Ta_Prohm_Temple,_Siem_Reap,_Cambodia.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-07/discovering-cambodia-s-lost-temples.html
Petra:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/activity/cruises/a-day-trip-to-petra-you-betcha-20130509-2jafb.html
Five heritage sites in Latin America:
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/top-5-most-beautiful-world-heritage-sites-in-latin-america/24364/
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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_v16n18.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n19.html
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Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece:
http://www.dallasartnews.com/2013/05/preview-of-the-body-beautiful-in-ancient-greece-at-the-dallas-museum-of-art/?goback=.gde_690807_member_238421691
http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/65873/greek-and-roman-art-at-the-dallas-museum-of-art/
Suggestion that Canada’s museums could learn from Greece:
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Opinion+Canada+museums+could+learn+from+Greece/8348010/story.html
Fact file sort of thing on the Louvre:
http://www.livescience.com/31935-louvre-museum.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Richard Goode plays Beethoven:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/music/richard-goode-at-carnegie-hall.html
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OBITUARIES
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Geza Vermes:
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/05/08/geza-vermes-scholar-of-christianity-and-judaism-1924-2013/
http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/sad-news-the-death-of-geza-vermes/
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/2013/05/geza-vermes-1924-2013.html
http://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/geza-vermes-1924-2013.html
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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ArchaeoNews Podcast 230:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2013/archaeo-news-podcast-230
Archaeology News from Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20130505.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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Archaeosoup:
http://www.youtube.com/user/Archaeos0up?feature=watch
The Book and the Spade:
http://www.radioscribe.com/bknspade.htm
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EARLY HOMINIDS
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Earliest evidence of hominins hunting and scavenging:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-earliest-evidence-human-ancestors-scavenging.html
Not sure how old this one is … rethinking the Out of Africa thing:
http://www.edge.org/conversation/rethinking-out-of-africa
More on the ‘swimming apes’:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2322251/Is-man-descended-king-swimmers-Forget-swinging-trees-Experts-say-earliest-ancestors-apes-loved-monkey-water.html
More on right-handed Neanderthals:
http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/09/neanderthals-were-right-handed-new-research-finds-3734421/
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/agencia-efe/130507/study-sheds-new-light-neanderthals-brain-development
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AFRICA
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Ongoing concerns for antiquities in Libya:
http://www.saudigazette.com.sa/index.cfm?method=home.con&contentid=20130507164600
Marking 20 years of the Gdansk Archaeological Expedition in the Sudan:
http://news.sudanvisiondaily.com/details.html?rsnpid=222381
Feature on Nigeria’s Nok civilization:
http://allafrica.com/stories/201305061211.html?viewall=1
http://sundaytrust.com.ng/index.php/feature/12924-nok-a-visit-to-africa-s-ancient-civilisation
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ANCIENT NEAR EAST AND EGYPT
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There’s a new antiquities minister in Egypt:
http://english.ahram.org.eg/NewsContent/9/43/71073/Heritage/Islamic/New-antiquities-minister-aims-to-preserve,-protect.aspx
Rethinking Egypt’s ‘collapsing pyramids’:
http://www.structuremag.org/article.aspx?articleID=1668
Palestinian smugglers caught in Egypt:
http://www.maannews.net/eng/ViewDetails.aspx?ID=592726
OpEd on the ‘encroachment issue’ in Egypt:
http://weekly.ahram.org.eg/News/2525/47/From-rumour-to-bulldozer.aspx
Not sure I get this one, but an ostrich egg is causing someone to rethink the dating
of the pyramids:
http://www.sotterraneidiroma.it/notizie-sdr/item/un-uovo-di-struzzo-mette-in-discussione-la-datazione-delle-piramidi-di-giza?category_id=20 (Italian)
Evidence of a Second Temple Quarry (and related items) found during
highway construction:
http://www.antiquities.org.il/article_Item_eng.asp?sec_id=25&subj_id=240&id=1999&module_id=#as
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62478
http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/132231#.UYv-qUpVa8A
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/second-temple-era-key-exposed-at-new-highway-site/2013/05/08/
http://www.ynetnews.com/articles/0%2C7340%2CL-3453394%2C00.html
http://www.cbn.com/cbnnews/insideisrael/2013/May/King-Herods-Quarry-Uncovered/
http://news.yahoo.com/jerusalems-ancient-city-quarries-reveals-city-building-rocks-135145344.html
http://www.foxnews.com/science/2013/05/09/jerusalem-ancient-city-quarries-reveals-city-building-rocks/?intcmp=features
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/09/18148123-ancient-quarry-used-to-build-jerusalem-found
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=a7UxM9gYQoEE
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2009/07/07/Ancient-quarry-found-in-Jerusalem/UPI-86311246964322/
http://www.reuters.com/article/2007/09/23/us-israel-temple-idUSL2362809220070923
Focus on the key found during the same highway construction:
http://www.jewishpress.com/news/breaking-news/second-temple-era-key-exposed-at-new-highway-site/2013/05/08/
http://www.timesofisrael.com/ancient-quarry-key-unearthed-in-jerusalem/
A sort of overviewish thing on digs going on in and around the Old City:
http://www.algemeiner.com/2013/05/08/while-jerusalem-day-is-celebrated-above-ground-archaeological-discoveries-reveal-city%E2%80%99s-layers/
Interesting feature on ancient ‘tchotchkes’ acquired by Jewish pilgrims:
http://forward.com/articles/175799/ancient-tchotchkes-deepen-our-understanding-of-jew/
Feature on demonizing of polytheistic religions during Second Temple period:
http://asorblog.org/?p=4379
Nice feature on a 3d reconstruction of Uruk:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2013/uruk-rises-again-in-digital-3d
http://artefacts-berlin.de/index.php?l=eng
Feature on Neolithic/Chalcolithic pottery workshops in the eastern Mediterranean:
http://asorblog.org/?p=4461
40 000 boxes of Neolithic finds from Marmaray are still in storage:
http://www.hurriyetdailynews.com/40000-boxes-of-artifacts-unearthed-during-marmaray-excavations-locked-in-warehouse.aspx?pageID=238&nid=46209&NewsCatID=341
A study suggests views of the Near East are still shaped by Greek historiography:
http://www.alphagalileo.org/ViewItem.aspx?ItemId=130963&CultureCode=en
As was probably suspected, Syrian castles are being used in the ongoing conflict:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/middle_east/ancient-syrian-castles-serve-again-as-fighting-positions/2013/05/04/5d2bb176-b3f8-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story_1.html
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/05/06/world/syrian-conflict-risks-ancient-heritage/
Plans for a world heritage centre in Cairo:
http://www.theartnewspaper.com/articles/World-heritage-centre-planned-for-Cairo/29493
More on the Hanging Gardens not being in Babylon:
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/science/archaeology/features/the-biggest-wonder-about-the-hanging-gardens-of-babylon-they-werent-in-babylon-8604649.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/05/babylon-hanging-garden-wonder-nineveh
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2320086/The-Hanging-Gardens--Nineveh-Lost-Wonder-Ancient-World-actually-300-miles-Babylon.html?ito=feeds-newsxml
More on Heracleion:
http://www.ottawacitizen.com/technology/Heracleion+Mediterranean+city+lost+beneath+waves+yields+secrets/8360670/story.html
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ANCIENT GREECE AND ROME (AND CLASSICS)
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The Elephant’s Tomb in Carmona (Spain) may have been a mithraeum:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-elephant-tomb-carmona-temple-god.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130510075521.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/f-sf-tet051013.php
http://www.redorbit.com/news/science/1112844198/elephant-tomb-roman-carmona-seville-necropolis-god-mithras-temple-051113/
A Roman mosaic from Milas:
http://www.worldbulletin.net/?aType=haber&ArticleID=108096
All sorts of finds from a stream associated with ancient Londinium:
http://metro.co.uk/2013/05/06/pompeii-of-the-north-discovered-in-lost-stream-underneath-londons-streets-3714338/
Very brief item on 4th century burials from beneath a Milan church:
http://www.ansa.it/web/notizie/rubriche/english/2013/05/07/Ancient-Milan-church-yields-tombs-coins-4th-century_8666302.html
Plans to investigate the Roman naval base at Glannaventa:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-cumbria-22277334
The DAI updates its activities at Albano Laziale:
http://www.dainst.org/de/project/albano-laziale?ft=all
Justinian’s plague has been confirmed as being caused by Yersina pestis:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130510075449.htm
http://news.discovery.com/history/archaeology/plague-helped-fall-of-roman-empire-130510.htm
cf: http://www.plospathogens.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003349
Interesting feature on the necropolis at Roman Sanisera:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2013/necropolis-bioarchaeology-at-roman-sanisera
Recreating ancient Greek pottery techniques:
http://www.uanews.org/story/ua-students-study-ancient-greek-pottery-techniques
Feature on a wine-exporting business type thing at Oplontis:
http://www.winespectator.com/webfeature/show/id/48389
Anticipation of Roman remains in Moat Lane:
http://www.aboutmyarea.co.uk/Northamptonshire/Towcester/NN12/News/Local-News/247536-So-What-Did-The-Romans-Build-In-Moat-Lane
A metal detectorist found a Roman coin (Hadrian) near Rainford:
http://www.sthelensstar.co.uk/news/10409955.Did_Roman_ever_spend_a_penny_in_Rainford_/
Possible plans for the Gladiator Tomb (and other sites):
http://www.worldcrunch.com/food-travel/rome-wants-to-pump-new-life-into-a-gladiator-039-s-tomb-and-ancient-villa/via-flaminia-rome-octavian-livia-archeology/c6s11397/
Trying to make a big deal about a bad review:
http://www.standard.co.uk/news/londoners-diary/classical-battle-over-facebook-founders-sister-8595019.html
Really a sort of book review, but folks should know about Alice Kober and her work
with Linear B:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/12/sunday-review/alice-e-kober-43-lost-to-history-no-more.html
What Michael Mordine is up to:
http://www.bc.edu/content/bc/publications/chronicle/FeaturesNewsTopstories/2013/features/ancientathletics050913.html
The latest latin-is-alive-and-kicking item:
http://www.vnews.com/opinion/5874792-95/latins-lovers-the-dead-language-lives
On Roman toilet paper choices:
http://flavias.blogspot.be/2013/05/ten-things-romans-used-for-toilet-paper.html
Feature on Kierkegaard’s Antigone:
http://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/kierkegaards-antigone/
Review of the catalog accompanying the Pompeii exhibition at the BM:
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/leisure/books/10403275.Life_And_Death_In_Pompeii_And_Herculaneum_Paul_Roberts__British_Museum_Press____45_/
Review of a couple of books about Dr Johnson:
http://www.the-tls.co.uk/tls/public/article1255863.ece
More on that Roman cemetery from Leicester:
http://www.upi.com/Science_News/2013/05/06/Ancient-Roman-cemetery-found-under-British-parking-lot/UPI-53431367881528/
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-king-richard-iii-archaeological-discovery.html
More on saving ‘Thessaloniki’s Pompeii’:
http://greece.greekreporter.com/2013/05/05/thessaloniki-metro-passes-ancient-finds/
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EUROPE AND THE UK (+ Ireland)
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Latest facial reconstruction thing is of a 5000 years b.p. woman from Malta:
http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20130507/local/revealed-the-face-of-a-maltese-woman-5-600-years-ago.468752
http://news.yahoo.com/photos/combination-photo-shows-5600-old-skull-found-maltese-photo-220625467.html
http://gozonews.com/38434/face-of-maltese-woman-revealed-from-over-5000-year-ago/
Remains of ‘Bronze Age Beaker settlers’ from Duns Law:
http://www.berwickshirenews.co.uk/news/local-headlines/duns-law-finally-gives-up-its-beaker-burial-ground-1-2923376
Some coverage of a study of Britain’s ‘Atlantis’ (medieval Dunwich):
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130509091118.htm
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-secret-streets-britain-atlantis-revealed.html
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/sciencetech/article-2322087/The-streets-Britains-Atlantis-seen-time-3D-scans-reveal-lost-medieval-town-Dunwich.html
http://www.livescience.com/29519-england-atlantis-dunwich-mapped.html
http://www.livescience.com/29517-images-dunwich-england-atlantis.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/10/archaeologists-map-suffolk-dunwich-sea
http://www.itv.com/news/meridian/update/2013-05-10/southampton-professor-uncovers-lost-medieval-town/
http://www.southampton.ac.uk/mediacentre/news/2013/may/13_80.shtml
Searching for evidence of the lost Pictish kingdom of Fortiu:
http://www.scotsman.com/lifestyle/heritage/new-excavations-to-find-lost-pictish-kingdom-1-2925006
… while excavations of a Pictish longhouse in Perthshire continue:
http://www.thecourier.co.uk/news/local/perth-kinross/efforts-to-dig-up-perthshire-s-past-to-continue-1.90349
A pile of Longobard burials revealed during highway construction in Italy:
http://casoli.iobloggo.com/2438514/trovate-760-tombe-longobarde-durante-i-lavori-di-costruzione-dell-autostarda-asti-cuneo/ (Italian)
On the DNA front, Europeans are all pretty close, genetically-speaking:
http://www.news.ucdavis.edu/search/news_detail.lasso?id=10557
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-genes-big-european-family.html
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/plos-obe050113.php
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130507195642.htm
http://blogs.smithsonianmag.com/science/2013/05/my-big-fat-european-family-what-genomics-tell-us-about-shared-ancestors/
http://blogs.discovermagazine.com/gnxp/2013/05/europeans-share-common-ancestors-to-differing-extents/
http://rendezvous.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/genetics-reveal-europe-is-one-big-family/
http://www.nature.com/news/most-europeans-share-recent-ancestors-1.12950
cf: http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3Adoi%2F10.1371%2Fjournal.pbio.1001556;jsessionid=2F62A0DE82F3F4EDB8326CEFDD8612B6
Researching the rarity of finding children’s bones at funeral pyre sites:
http://sciencenordic.com/archeologists-burn-pigs-investigate-historical-mystery
Being bored on a Viking ship:
http://sciencenordic.com/dealing-doldrums-viking-voyage
They’ve set up a database of Ogham stones:
http://www.rte.ie/news/2013/0508/391157-ogham-stones-website/?goback=%2Egde_690807_member_239262526
On the significance of some recent Viking jewellery finds in the UK:
http://blog.oup.com/2013/04/viking-jewellery-jane-kershaw/?utm_source=gplus&utm_medium=oupacademic&utm_campaign=oupblog
On persecution of homosexuals during the Inquisition:
http://cultura.elpais.com/cultura/2013/05/04/actualidad/1367696954_992222.html (Spanish)
They’ve built some Neolithic huts at Old Sarum:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22424880
… while a Druid wants fake human remains to be displayed at Stonehenge:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-22438232
Feature (video) on an item associated with Joan of Arc in the Smithsonian:
http://www.smithsonianmag.com/multimedia/videos/Why-is-a-Piece-of-Joan-of-Arcs-Dungeon-in-the-Smithsonian.html
A Southwell lad gets to keep the Civil War cannonball he found:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-nottinghamshire-22463607
Godwine Charter is going on display:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-kent-22357728
An Iron Age shield has returned to Lincoln:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-22454770
Plans to search for the remains of Balderstone Hall:
http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/local-news/time-team-hope-dig-old-3417019
Trying to save Venice’s gondolas:
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/06/181663031/crowdfunding-effort-seeks-to-save-venices-everyday-gondolas
The Staffordshire Hoard will be staying together:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-stoke-staffordshire-22442558
Researching Harlech Castle:
http://www.castles99.ukprint.com/Essays/harlech1.html
They’re still arguing about Richard III’s tomb:
http://www.itv.com/news/central/update/2013-05-06/argument-over-richard-iiis-tomb-continues/
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-york-north-yorkshire-22425470
http://www.yorkpress.co.uk/news/10398041._/
Digging has resumed at a Merovingian necropolis at Gonesse:
http://www.inrap.fr/archeologie-preventive/Actualites/Actualites-des-decouvertes/p-15846-Reprise-des-fouilles-archeologiques-a-Gonesse-Val-d-Oise-.htm (French)
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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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In China, Sago palms were prominent food source prior to rice cultivation:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-ancient-china-sago-palms-major.html
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130508172138.htm
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2013-05/plos-iac050113.php
cf: http://www.plosone.org/article/info:doi/10.1371/journal.pone.0063148
Paleolithic finds from China’s Henan province:
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4070
… and an aristocratic cemetery excavation from the same province:
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4079
Latest finds from the Maojiaping site:
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4075
Remains of a 1000 years b.p. water reservoir in Bangladesh:
http://www.thedailystar.net/beta2/news/1000-year-old-water-reservoir/
Encroachment isn’t just an issue in Egypt:
http://www.hindustantimes.com/India-news/NewDelhi/Inspection-at-ASI-protected-site-shows-illegal-occupation/Article1-1054026.aspx
Damage to some Ming tombs in Beijing, possibly during a theft attempt:
http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/90882/8230433.html
http://www.kaogu.cn/en/detail.asp?ProductID=4073
http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2013-05/02/content_16468827.htm
13th-16th century coins and jewellery from a site in Kazakhstan:
http://www.inform.kz/eng/article/2556593
Humans are off the hook (again) for megafauna extinction in Australia:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-evidence-theory-humans-megafauna.html
Pondering some specific cases of antiquities theft/smuggling in India:
http://www.business-standard.com/article/pti-stories/12-instances-of-antiquities-being-smuggled-or-stolen-out-113050700416_1.html
Some Rajasthan forts have received Heritage status:
http://news.yahoo.com/six-rajasthan-hill-forts-world-heritage-list-123819693.html
http://www.newkerala.com/news/story/17298/.html#.UYwTr0pVa8A
http://www.dailypioneer.com/nation/world-heritage-tag-may-bolster-6-rajasthan-forts.html
http://www.thehindu.com/news/national/world-heritage-sites-status-sought-for-6-rajasthan-forts-himalayan-park/article4693436.ece
http://pib.nic.in/newsite/erelease.aspx?relid=95870
They’ve decided to postpone the excavation of a megalithic site in Indonesia:
http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2013/05/06/govt-team-postpones-search-megalithic-site-cianjur.html
Interesting account of the intrigue associated with the toppling of China’s last emperor:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/asia/china/10050528/Author-unravels-mystery-of-plot-that-toppled-Chinas-last-emperor.html
Colgate is returning some Aboriginal art:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-colgate-university-aboriginal-art-australia-20130507,0,3657401.story
More on the Met returning Cambodian statuary:
http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/65809/the-met-restores-two-cambodian-statues/
http://www.livescience.com/29325-met-to-return-ancient-statues-to-cambodia.html
http://laonews.la/2013/05/nycs-met-to-return-10th-century-stone-statues-to-cambodia/
http://www.metmuseum.org/about-the-museum/press-room/news/2013/cambodian-returns
More on returning bronze heads to China:
http://www.globalpost.com/dispatch/news/regions/asia-pacific/china/130429/french-billionaire-returns-disputed-statues-china-pr
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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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Some petroglyphs in British Columbia were damaged by hydro crews:
http://www.therecord.com/news/canada/article/929282--first-nations-group-outraged-at-destruction-of-ancient-rock-art-sites
Nice feature on the Calusa people:
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20130505/ARTICLE/130509809/2055/NEWS?Title=Calusa-Indians-dominated-our-coast-in-1500
Studying the prehistoric campsites around Yellowstone Lake:
http://www.ravallirepublic.com/news/state-and-regional/article_900e7e64-50d6-5f24-b257-38d22a21075a.html
A group of medical types have determined that Stonewall Jackson likely died from
pneumonia:
http://seattletimes.com/html/businesstechnology/2020957291_apuscivilwar150jacksonsdeath.html
http://baltimore.cbslocal.com/2013/05/10/general-stonewall-s-death-remains-a-mystery-150-years-later/
A site at Bandolier National Monument is open to the public again:
http://washingtonexaminer.com/article/feed/2095658
http://www.newsdaily.com/article/ac733ac5ecd03243b12ebcd9c4e9368e/bandelier-opens-iconic-archaeological-site
http://www.therepublic.com/view/story/907dd14a1a284692b7d718d022f94f76/NM--Bandelier-Alcove-House
More on Jamestown cannibalism:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thesalt/2013/05/01/180314773/bones-tell-tale-of-desperation-among-the-starving-at-jamestown?sc=17&f=1007
More on finding Carr’s Fort:
http://news.yahoo.com/frontier-fort-revolutionary-war-found-ga-145450206.html
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CENTRAL AND SOUTH AMERICA
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Plenty of coverage of the solstitial alignment of a Peruvian pyramid:
http://www.livescience.com/29335-astronomical-alignment-found-at-peru-pyramid.html
http://www.livescience.com/29334-peru-pyramid-shows-solstice-alignment.html (Slide show)
http://science.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/05/06/18087560-stunning-astronomical-alignment-found-at-peru-pyramid
http://news.yahoo.com/stunning-astronomical-alignment-found-peru-pyramid-172444248.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2013/13/130509-brazilian-atlantis-lost-continents-geography-world/
Finds from various periods from Mexico City:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62381
Concerns for the Joya de Ceren site in San Salvador:
http://www.artdaily.com/index.asp?int_sec=2&int_new=62479
http://www.unesco.org/new/en/media-services/single-view/news/director_general_on_official_visit_to_el_salvador
Prehispanic burials from Colima:
http://www.artdaily.org/index.asp?int_sec=11&int_new=62476
http://www.inah.gob.mx/boletines/14-hallazgos/6554-hallan-panteon-prehispanico-en-colima (Spanish)
http://www.telediario.mx/tendencias/hallan-nuevos-vestigios-prehispanicos-en-centro-historico#.UYk_S0pVa8A (Spanish)
http://www.novedadesacapulco.mx/pais/descubren-en-colima-cementerio-prehispanico-unico-en-su-tipo (Spanish)
http://diario.mx/Nacional/2013-05-06_f6f3bdf1/hallan-panteon-prehispanico-en-colima/ (Spanish)
http://www.presidencia.gob.mx/articulos-prensa/hallan-panteon-prehispanico-en-colima/ (Spanish)
The Vatican doesn’t like Santa Muerte, apparently:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-latin-america-22462181
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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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Plenty of coverage of the suggestion that English retains a pile of ‘Ice Age’ words:
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/05/130507074657.htm
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-linguist-core-group-words-survived.html
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/linguists-identify-15000-year-old-ultraconserved-words/2013/05/06/a02e3a14-b427-11e2-9a98-4be1688d7d84_story.html
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/world/linguists-identify-words-that-have-changed-little-in-15000-years-20130507-2j506.html
http://www.latimes.com/news/science/sciencenow/la-sci-sn-ice-age-language-ancestor-superfamily-eurasia-20130507,0,1515430.story
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/06/european-asian-language-tongue-superfamily?INTCMP=SRCH
http://news.sciencemag.org/sciencenow/2013/05/english-may-have-retained-words-.html?ref=hp
http://www.livescience.com/29342-ancient-mother-tongue-reconstructed.html
http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2013/may/06/european-asian-language-tongue-superfamily
http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2013/05/07/newser-oldest-words/2141257/
http://arts.nationalpost.com/2013/05/08/conversing-with-cavemen-mother-fire-worm-among-15000-year-old-words/
http://www.reading.ac.uk/news-and-events/releases/PR503494.aspx
http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2013/05/01/1218726110 (abstract)
Pondering assorted aspects of ancient civilizations:
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2013/05/01/the-ancient-past-as-a-window-to-the-future-part-2-of-3/
Riffing on the Jamestown cannibalism story:
http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2013/may/05/cannibalism-history-europe-famine-shipwreck
Interesting spin on one of Beethoven’s sonatas:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-unheard-beethoven.html
Another feature on Nazi loot and France’s efforts to return it:
http://www.npr.org/2013/05/08/180037498/in-france-a-renewed-push-to-return-art-looted-by-nazis?sc=17&f=1001
Nice account of Kagan’s last lecture:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323789704578446614144636002.html
On the effect of Shakespeare being a shareholder:
http://phys.org/news/2013-05-shareholder-shakespeare.html
Feature on how technology is transforming archaeology:
http://www.wamc.org/post/how-technology-transforming-archaeology
A bit out of our period of purview, but they’ve finally broken a WWII code that POWs
were using:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/04/181104605/world-war-ii-code-is-broken-decades-after-pow-used-it?sc=17&f=1001
On Bollywood’s silent film roots:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/05/03/180810745/bollywoods-early-roots-in-a-silent-film?sc=17&f=1008
On the antiquity of Koumiss:
http://www.wondersandmarvels.com/2013/05/drunk-on-horse-milk-fermented-koumiss.html
The Getty bought ‘Rembrandt Laughing’:
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/culture/la-et-cm-getty-rembrandt-laughing-20130509,0,3699696.story
… and Madonna sold an item from her Cubist collection:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-22447002
Review of Stacy Perman, *A Grand Complication*:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/05/books/review/a-grand-complication-by-stacy-perman.html?ref=books
More on Native Americans in a Vatican painting:
http://www.npr.org/blogs/thetwo-way/2013/05/05/180860991/long-hidden-vatican-painting-linked-to-native-americans?sc=17&f=1001
http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2013/05/06/early-images-of-american-indians-found-in-a-vatican-fresco/
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TOURISTY THINGS
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Ta Prohm Temple (Cambodia)
http://www.santapaulatimes.com/news/fullstory.php/aid/27161/Ta_Prohm_Temple,_Siem_Reap,_Cambodia.html
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2013-05-07/discovering-cambodia-s-lost-temples.html
Petra:
http://www.brisbanetimes.com.au/travel/activity/cruises/a-day-trip-to-petra-you-betcha-20130509-2jafb.html
Five heritage sites in Latin America:
http://www.hispanicallyspeakingnews.com/latino-daily-news/details/top-5-most-beautiful-world-heritage-sites-in-latin-america/24364/
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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_v16n18.html
… and the one which should appear later today:
http://www.coinbooks.org/club_nbs_esylum_v16n19.html
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Ancient Coin Collecting:
http://ancientcoincollecting.blogspot.com/
Ancient Coins:
http://classicalcoins.blogspot.com/
Coin Week:
http://www.coinweek.com/
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EXHIBITIONS, AUCTIONS, AND MUSEUM-RELATED
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Body Beautiful in Ancient Greece:
http://www.dallasartnews.com/2013/05/preview-of-the-body-beautiful-in-ancient-greece-at-the-dallas-museum-of-art/?goback=.gde_690807_member_238421691
http://www.artmediaagency.com/en/65873/greek-and-roman-art-at-the-dallas-museum-of-art/
Suggestion that Canada’s museums could learn from Greece:
http://www.vancouversun.com/travel/Opinion+Canada+museums+could+learn+from+Greece/8348010/story.html
Fact file sort of thing on the Louvre:
http://www.livescience.com/31935-louvre-museum.html
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PERFORMANCES AND THEATRE-RELATED
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Richard Goode plays Beethoven:
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/04/arts/music/richard-goode-at-carnegie-hall.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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OBITUARIES
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Geza Vermes:
http://www.firstthings.com/blogs/firstthoughts/2013/05/08/geza-vermes-scholar-of-christianity-and-judaism-1924-2013/
http://zwingliusredivivus.wordpress.com/2013/05/08/sad-news-the-death-of-geza-vermes/
http://www.patheos.com/blogs/exploringourmatrix/2013/05/geza-vermes-1924-2013.html
http://ntweblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/geza-vermes-1924-2013.html
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AUDIO/VIDEO NEWS
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ArchaeoNews Podcast 230:
http://www.pasthorizonspr.com/index.php/archives/05/2013/archaeo-news-podcast-230
Archaeology News from Archaeologica:
http://www.archaeologychannel.org/content/MP3/audnews20130505.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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